Count on it. You can't have it both ways. Every step you take to strip a company of revenue will just increase your bill. To bad few are smart enough to see it. Cable set top boxes use encryption and technology that is usually limited to a few types of set top boxes. Forcing cable to replace those systems will increase your bill. I don't think it will hold up in court since many industries have similar practices. Float the idea at whatever your job is of starting to give away what they have been charging for and see the response you get from the bean counters. I hope you don't get fired for suggesting it.
I find any public discussion of religion offensive. So can I get that banned? Seriously, trying to regulate someones speech is like trying to ban the illicit drug trade. Let those who are offended shun the offenders. I mostly ignore offensive speech. Sticks and stones and all that.
We, the ISP came up with the name. Not really, its what Cisco calls it in the the configs. It may make you mad you have to pay for data and the ISP has a meter just like the other utilities. I guess you wan't unlimited data,gas,electric and water to right. Since metering is evil.
Doubtful on all counts. H1B visas take jobs from Americans. Its only good for the lucky visa holders and the corporations who don't have to pay citizens of the country where they reside. Its a joke to think muslims will rise up against us. They kill each other more often than they kill us.
Its funny. How do you think you take part. I've always taken part by reading. Lately when I look at a list of top scifi its all low rent soap opera in some vague dimensionless settings. In other words weather our new interlopers who confuse dragons and fairy's for scifi realize it. They have made the hugos irrelevant. Its amazing you think the main part of 'taking part' is worrying about some decrepit award. I've felt ignored for years by the awards. The crap that got voted in has mostly been crap. In truth to me it looks like the SJW has poisoned it to spite another diversity.
As soon as you start ignoring your supporters you start losing all integrity. Science fiction is all about ray guns and aliens. How could these idiots think it was ever any other way. Was it because star trek used the stripped guys to lash out at the stupidity racial differences? Maybe. But more than likely its this new need for many writers to tell the story of some lame social fantasy and call it Scifi.
They aren't losing. It isn't costing them. The public chooses not to participate. The web companies can make pages not load at all if the ads are gone but they don't cause they know the public will leave them like rats leaving a sinking ship.
Lets face it all of this crap comes from big media. They are using every tactic, even illegal ones to convince governments that the garbage they create is worth any price to protect. The average citizen of the western world doesn't give two cardinal shits about this. So who else is pushing for it?
Its business. It is the pathological version of business but that is who is in charge at all these corps. I've said it before on here: they are not going to operate at a loss.
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Count on it. You can't have it both ways. Every step you take to strip a company of revenue will just increase your bill. To bad few are smart enough to see it. Cable set top boxes use encryption and technology that is usually limited to a few types of set top boxes. Forcing cable to replace those systems will increase your bill. I don't think it will hold up in court since many industries have similar practices. Float the idea at whatever your job is of starting to give away what they have been charging for and see the response you get from the bean counters. I hope you don't get fired for suggesting it.
I find any public discussion of religion offensive. So can I get that banned? Seriously, trying to regulate someones speech is like trying to ban the illicit drug trade. Let those who are offended shun the offenders. I mostly ignore offensive speech. Sticks and stones and all that.
We, the ISP came up with the name. Not really, its what Cisco calls it in the the configs. It may make you mad you have to pay for data and the ISP has a meter just like the other utilities. I guess you wan't unlimited data,gas,electric and water to right. Since metering is evil.
Doubtful on all counts. H1B visas take jobs from Americans. Its only good for the lucky visa holders and the corporations who don't have to pay citizens of the country where they reside. Its a joke to think muslims will rise up against us. They kill each other more often than they kill us.
Its what I feel when I see these Europeans griping about what most of them deride the US for. It may be wrong but it is funny.
Since it achieves goals for their $upporters.
Would make it harder for them to exploit.
Thus it has always been such that if you can't think of anything smart or funny, you troll.
DOOMED!!!!!
Its funny. How do you think you take part. I've always taken part by reading. Lately when I look at a list of top scifi its all low rent soap opera in some vague dimensionless settings. In other words weather our new interlopers who confuse dragons and fairy's for scifi realize it. They have made the hugos irrelevant. Its amazing you think the main part of 'taking part' is worrying about some decrepit award. I've felt ignored for years by the awards. The crap that got voted in has mostly been crap. In truth to me it looks like the SJW has poisoned it to spite another diversity.
As soon as you start ignoring your supporters you start losing all integrity. Science fiction is all about ray guns and aliens. How could these idiots think it was ever any other way. Was it because star trek used the stripped guys to lash out at the stupidity racial differences? Maybe. But more than likely its this new need for many writers to tell the story of some lame social fantasy and call it Scifi.
I call the SJW 'Social Justice Whores'.
Sounds like a someone with absolutely no ethics thought up some of that.
Of course you guys won't miss cable until its gone.
You went to get your cheese somewhere else?
They aren't losing. It isn't costing them. The public chooses not to participate. The web companies can make pages not load at all if the ads are gone but they don't cause they know the public will leave them like rats leaving a sinking ship.
The media pushes that crap so people won't worry about the real threats to their freedom.
Jade helm is gonna take our freedoms.
Lets face it all of this crap comes from big media. They are using every tactic, even illegal ones to convince governments that the garbage they create is worth any price to protect. The average citizen of the western world doesn't give two cardinal shits about this. So who else is pushing for it?
If it bothers you that much.
The answer is always no.
Nothing of value was lost.
So Jane says no thanks to phoenix.
Slightly more evil all the time.
Just imagine all those games get that free advertising. "Banned in Australia" could become the new measure of how cool a game is.
Its business. It is the pathological version of business but that is who is in charge at all these corps. I've said it before on here: they are not going to operate at a loss.