Peter Griffin: A palette? Am-am I readin' this right? Y-You need a palette of chocolate-covered pretzels? Wh-wh-where the hell am i supposed to - a-an-an-and wh-what is this, a drum of grape jam? Is that - wh-what is that - is that like a drum like, they ship oil in? Is that - a-a-an-and wh-wh-wha - look at this one: A desk of Cheez-its. A desk - wh-where are you gettin' these units of measurements from?
Jackée Harry: Mary.
Peter Griffin: [laughs] That is still funny. Okay you stay right here, big funny gal, i'll be right back with...
[reads from the clipboard]
Peter Griffin: a hammock of cake.
The issue I have sometimes with giving a fake birthday is that it's usually a security question when you go to try the "forgot password" function. If I were to give a different birthday every time, I wouldn't remember which is for which. I suppose I could just give the same fake birthday every time, though.
Yea, I was kind of confused by his "no comedy in Quebec" comment as probably our biggest comedy festival in Canada is, I believe, the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.
I think Kijiji is bigger in Canada, but I have no stats to back up my claim. Just speaking with friends and family. Even my non-technical family have heard of Kijiji and not Craigslist.
I still don't see how using the line as advertised is being rude or not nice. If I'm not supposed to use the line to it's full potential, why advertise as such? I'm not saying you advertise this way, I have no idea what your business is named so I couldn't know, but this discussion is about businesses that do advertise like that and then throttle the people that actually do. It's false advertising plain and simple.
I'm glad you're happy with Rogers, on the other side, I've had nothing but bad experiences with them. Not the cable internet side, but cable TV. Nothing but billing errors and transferring me 5 times(Not exaggerating) to get to the right department. What could I have possibly done to them? Pay my bill every month?
Not so much reputation as livelihood. Who is going to hire someone if they know they were in the news being investigated as a potential sex offender? You and I both know that there will be plenty who won't, regardless of the laws against it.
So that sounds exactly like Rogers. That's fine if you want to settle for that. There are many of us who want to have true unlimited service and not pay through the nose for it. I still don't see how using the line as advertised is "not being nice to your supplier". If they leave no cap and you pay your bill every month, I see no violation of terms there.
"If there's a good business reason to refuse service to black people, then it isn't illegal."
You have no idea what you're talking about. If you're just refusing black people in a restaurant because they're black, you're violating civil rights laws. No matter how good of a business reason it is. I don't know how you figure "good business reason" means legal.
The speed at source is very different than the speed at your end. Your own router may be throttling it. Do you have a business-grade cisco router? I have two routers on my desk. One dlink one linksys, bothconsumer-grade. One throttles my speed by half.
*sigh* ok. My router is not throttling anything. We're talking about a hypothetical situation here. Obviously I'm not a customer of yours, nor am I a customer of any ISP that throttles. So I don't know why you're discussing hardware with me.
I'll just go to a supplier where they offer true unlimited. I don't know where you live, maybe the US, but in Canada we have lots of legitimate suppliers that offer 'true' unlimited internet at the advertised speeds. Such as my current, unlimited or capped at 200GB/month.
When I purchase something that is advertised at certain speeds, I use those speeds. If I'm throttled or cut off, you're going to lose my business. I don't know what you're talking about with waiting for suppliers, I've never had a problem with my ISP taking long to fix anything.
They will probably try to charge them for discrimination by not allowing them service.
They could also use a new slogan I made up for them.
"Italy. There's a law for that".
The first two suggestions you made are quite a bit more expensive than TV. The fact that I can get an "buffet" style service for $1 a day seems like a much better deal than paying for a one time event.
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I was half expecting an Onion article with the name Harry McCracken in the summary. Although I don't know that Fox News is any better.
Peter Griffin: A palette? Am-am I readin' this right? Y-You need a palette of chocolate-covered pretzels? Wh-wh-where the hell am i supposed to - a-an-an-and wh-what is this, a drum of grape jam? Is that - wh-what is that - is that like a drum like, they ship oil in? Is that - a-a-an-and wh-wh-wha - look at this one: A desk of Cheez-its. A desk - wh-where are you gettin' these units of measurements from? Jackée Harry: Mary. Peter Griffin: [laughs] That is still funny. Okay you stay right here, big funny gal, i'll be right back with... [reads from the clipboard] Peter Griffin: a hammock of cake.
Oh good, the site is down. Now we can all forget about what this moron's message was(whatever it was) and move on with our lives.
The issue I have sometimes with giving a fake birthday is that it's usually a security question when you go to try the "forgot password" function. If I were to give a different birthday every time, I wouldn't remember which is for which. I suppose I could just give the same fake birthday every time, though.
Yea, I was kind of confused by his "no comedy in Quebec" comment as probably our biggest comedy festival in Canada is, I believe, the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.
Here, just wear these fresh contact lenses instead of those clunky glasses: http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20090827ptan20090213459.php
So how exactly do you pronounce JooJoo? Is it like....... JewJew or something?
I think Kijiji is bigger in Canada, but I have no stats to back up my claim. Just speaking with friends and family. Even my non-technical family have heard of Kijiji and not Craigslist.
I always thought Kijiji was owned by Microsoft.
Kijiji is far from a huge failure. Many people who are power posters on Craigslist also post on Kijiji because Kijiji's user base is quite large.
I still don't see how using the line as advertised is being rude or not nice. If I'm not supposed to use the line to it's full potential, why advertise as such? I'm not saying you advertise this way, I have no idea what your business is named so I couldn't know, but this discussion is about businesses that do advertise like that and then throttle the people that actually do. It's false advertising plain and simple. I'm glad you're happy with Rogers, on the other side, I've had nothing but bad experiences with them. Not the cable internet side, but cable TV. Nothing but billing errors and transferring me 5 times(Not exaggerating) to get to the right department. What could I have possibly done to them? Pay my bill every month?
Not so much reputation as livelihood. Who is going to hire someone if they know they were in the news being investigated as a potential sex offender? You and I both know that there will be plenty who won't, regardless of the laws against it.
So that sounds exactly like Rogers. That's fine if you want to settle for that. There are many of us who want to have true unlimited service and not pay through the nose for it. I still don't see how using the line as advertised is "not being nice to your supplier". If they leave no cap and you pay your bill every month, I see no violation of terms there.
You're clearly limiting by how much bandwidth they can use, that's what your original post says at least.
"If there's a good business reason to refuse service to black people, then it isn't illegal." You have no idea what you're talking about. If you're just refusing black people in a restaurant because they're black, you're violating civil rights laws. No matter how good of a business reason it is. I don't know how you figure "good business reason" means legal.
The speed at source is very different than the speed at your end. Your own router may be throttling it. Do you have a business-grade cisco router? I have two routers on my desk. One dlink one linksys, bothconsumer-grade. One throttles my speed by half.
*sigh* ok. My router is not throttling anything. We're talking about a hypothetical situation here. Obviously I'm not a customer of yours, nor am I a customer of any ISP that throttles. So I don't know why you're discussing hardware with me.
I'll just go to a supplier where they offer true unlimited. I don't know where you live, maybe the US, but in Canada we have lots of legitimate suppliers that offer 'true' unlimited internet at the advertised speeds. Such as my current, unlimited or capped at 200GB/month.
Exactly, but do your advertisements say "Unlimited bandwidth, for 2 hours per day"?
When I purchase something that is advertised at certain speeds, I use those speeds. If I'm throttled or cut off, you're going to lose my business. I don't know what you're talking about with waiting for suppliers, I've never had a problem with my ISP taking long to fix anything.
Whats your company's name so I can never buy your service.
I think you'll find many businesses do though.
They will probably try to charge them for discrimination by not allowing them service. They could also use a new slogan I made up for them. "Italy. There's a law for that".
Sometimes I really wish that people actually did things like this.
I'll take that position. If one thing is ok to make jokes about, EVERYTHING should be ok. I don't care how offended you are.
The first two suggestions you made are quite a bit more expensive than TV. The fact that I can get an "buffet" style service for $1 a day seems like a much better deal than paying for a one time event.