"Why should I stay with Comcast @Home, given
the current situation?"
Before you decide to make a switch, we ask that
you remember that your service has not been
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Pretty lame reasons if you ask me... If I had written that I
would have had only one line, "PPPoE" (I'm in Verizon
country - blech!)
It's not just that the "bond holders didn't think it was high enough"...It really *is* extortion -- what you're not hearing on the gnus is that AT&T is the largest shareholder of @Home and they certainly had a lot to gain by lowballing their bid. AT&T is on both sides and is trying to get itself a sweetheart deal.
I don't blame the bondholders for being upset!
BTW -- I'm not biased, I have @Home via Comcast and will likely get shut off if they don't come to an agreement.
10. Too damned LOUD (What you say?) 9. Show is more concerned with obnoxious video
effects than with food. 8. William Fatner is a pompous ass, not a dignified chairman. 7. Can't hear the commentary through the crowd noise. (What you say again?) 6. Commentary sucks anyway -- not enough substance about the food, but plenty of information about who cuts the chef's hair. Anthony Dias Blue should be ashamed of himself. 5. Judges are obviously two-bit no-name losers from failing UPN shows (no wait a minute -- all UPN shows are failing...) that are about to be
canceled. 4. No drama. No logic behind why the theme ingredient was chosen. Doesn't matter, nobody
seems to notice anyway. (Since when is Dungeness crab "unusual"? 3. Chefs are more concerned with playing to the camera than with cooking -- talking on the cell phone in an obviously set up call (you could hear both halves of the conversation!) and throwing caviar to the commentators? Puh-leeze! Escoffier would roll over in his grave.... 2. The three "Iron Chefs" watching the competition look like the Three (fat) Stooges. 1. Commentator's yellow blazers look like they were fished from a dumpster behind the local Century 21 office. 0. Sissy Biggers.
Maybe this was all just a bad Priceline ad. We can only hope. The show was so bad that it made Shatner's toupee look good.
Oh really? IMHO It's high time Micro$oft stopped providing Swiss-cheese sofware that can be
easily used as weapons because most users find
the constant patching impossible to keep up
with.
Gee -- NSI is *encouraging* registration in all the TLDs it controls. It makes them a LOT more money. Every week or two I get spam from them reminding me to register the.org and.net versions of my domains.
Of course, they can't even spam correctly. I know these variations have long-since been taken.
Gee -- I'd rather have a president with a clue, who can at least finish a complete sentence.
Gore's stance on the environment is "laudable but too extreme"??? How about Bush's stance which is essentially "fuck the environment." Seems to me the choice is pretty clear. Perhaps you need to go reread The Lorax.
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Go ahead -- read the Green Party Platformand you'll find nothing about a Maximum wage or the nationalization of large companines. Those are NOT what the Green Party stands for.
I found a VERY interesting page at the CPD web site. It seems that the criterea for selection to be in the debates changed between 1996 and 2000.
The major area for change was in "Indicators of Electoral Support.
For 2000, the criterea for this category was
The CPD's third criterion requires that the candidate have a level of support of at least 15% (fifteen percent) of the national
electorate as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations' most recent publicly reported results at the time of the determination.
For the 1996 election, however, this was the requirement:
The Commission's third criterion considers objective evidence of national public enthusiasm or concern. The factors considered in connection with this criterion are intended to assess public support for a candidate, which bears directly on the candidate's prospects for electoral success. The factors to be considered include:
The findings of significant public opinion polls conducted by national polling and news organizations.
Reported attendance at meetings and rallies across the country (locations as well as numbers) in comparison with the two major party candidates.
Note how they changed this when it became obvious that the Reform party candidate -- with over 5% of the vote in 1996 (and thereby lots of Federal matching funds in 2000) would likely qualify for the 2000 debates. Of course this was prior to the self destruction of the Reform party.
Under the 1996 rules, Ralph Nader definitely qualified to debate. Pat Buchanan might have qualified too.
Although he's on the ballot in a lot of states (49 or 50 I think) I doubt that Harry Browne would have qualified to debate under the 1996 rules. At least Nader and Buchanan are showing up in the polls.
The CPD is running scared. I hope Nader blows them out of the water and that their wreckage sinks the corporate rafts they've been floating on.
Nader does NOT support a "maximum wage." This is a FALSE rumor being spread by people who do not like Nader, probably because they know of no other way to slam what he says. Go read the Green Party Platform and try again.
That's not what I get from the link. I see that Nader wants companies to stop trying to go after kids just to get dollars. Heck -- even Gore agrees with this. We have ratings for violent movies, games, etc. to keep them from kids and then the companies that produce these things try to market them directly to kids. I'm not a fan of ratings, but marketing to kids really bothers me.
If I remember correctly, they used stuff from a junkyard to build the thing. Part of the capsule was the back of a cement mixer, and they used fire extinguishers to move around during space walks.
While I agree with your point about fscking up the solar system, tbe cards are to be mounted inside the spacecraft and not just sccattered on the lunar surface.
As far as the other advertising goes, didn't you hear about the Pizza Hut rocket that -- I think -- Russia launched a year or so ago? They sold ad space on the side of the thing. What's wrong with that?
Somehow an ad on the side of a private rocket sounds a LOT better to me than "3COM Park" "Nokia Sugar Bowl" or "Continental Airlines Arena."
In quantities of only a couple of thousand you can get music or data CDs pressed and inserted into jewel cases (with multi-color printed sleeves) for around $1.
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Same thing with my address here in NJ..
"Why should I stay with Comcast @Home, given the current situation?"
Before you decide to make a switch, we ask that you remember that your service has not been interrupted at this time. In addition, switching to another provider such as DSL could leave you with:
Pretty lame reasons if you ask me... If I had written that I would have had only one line, "PPPoE" (I'm in Verizon country - blech!)
It's not just that the "bond holders didn't think it was high enough" ...It really *is* extortion -- what you're not hearing on the gnus is that AT&T is the largest shareholder of @Home and they certainly had a lot to gain by lowballing their bid. AT&T is on both sides and is trying to get itself a sweetheart deal.
I don't blame the bondholders for being upset!
BTW -- I'm not biased, I have @Home via Comcast and will likely get shut off if they don't come to an agreement.
Besides, he's a pompous ass.
The sad thing is that Anthony Dias Blue is^W was a respected food critic ... until now.
9. Show is more concerned with obnoxious video effects than with food.
8. William Fatner is a pompous ass, not a dignified chairman.
7. Can't hear the commentary through the crowd noise. (What you say again?)
6. Commentary sucks anyway -- not enough substance about the food, but plenty of information about who cuts the chef's hair. Anthony Dias Blue should be ashamed of himself.
5. Judges are obviously two-bit no-name losers from failing UPN shows (no wait a minute -- all UPN shows are failing...) that are about to be canceled.
4. No drama. No logic behind why the theme ingredient was chosen. Doesn't matter, nobody seems to notice anyway. (Since when is Dungeness crab "unusual"?
3. Chefs are more concerned with playing to the camera than with cooking -- talking on the cell phone in an obviously set up call (you could hear both halves of the conversation!) and throwing caviar to the commentators? Puh-leeze! Escoffier would roll over in his grave....
2. The three "Iron Chefs" watching the competition look like the Three (fat) Stooges.
1. Commentator's yellow blazers look like they were fished from a dumpster behind the local Century 21 office.
0. Sissy Biggers.
Maybe this was all just a bad Priceline ad. We can only hope. The show was so bad that it made Shatner's toupee look good.
Of course, they can't even spam correctly. I know these variations have long-since been taken.
Vote Nader!
Gore's stance on the environment is "laudable but too extreme"??? How about Bush's stance which is essentially "fuck the environment." Seems to me the choice is pretty clear. Perhaps you need to go reread The Lorax.
- The CPD's third criterion requires that the candidate have a level of support of at least 15% (fifteen percent) of the national
electorate as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations' most recent publicly reported results at the time of the determination.
For the 1996 election, however, this was the requirement:- The Commission's third criterion considers objective evidence of national public enthusiasm or concern. The factors considered in connection with this criterion are intended to assess public support for a candidate, which bears directly on the candidate's prospects for electoral success. The factors to be considered include:
- The findings of significant public opinion polls conducted by national polling and news organizations.
- Reported attendance at meetings and rallies across the country (locations as well as numbers) in comparison with the two major party candidates.
Note how they changed this when it became obvious that the Reform party candidate -- with over 5% of the vote in 1996 (and thereby lots of Federal matching funds in 2000) would likely qualify for the 2000 debates. Of course this was prior to the self destruction of the Reform party.Under the 1996 rules, Ralph Nader definitely qualified to debate. Pat Buchanan might have qualified too. Although he's on the ballot in a lot of states (49 or 50 I think) I doubt that Harry Browne would have qualified to debate under the 1996 rules. At least Nader and Buchanan are showing up in the polls.
The CPD is running scared. I hope Nader blows them out of the water and that their wreckage sinks the corporate rafts they've been floating on.
By the way, last night Nader was again prevented from even going near the debate forum.
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Nader does NOT support a "maximum wage." This is a FALSE rumor being spread by people who do not like Nader, probably because they know of no other way to slam what he says. Go read the Green Party Platform and try again.
That's not what I get from the link. I see that Nader wants companies to stop trying to go after kids just to get dollars. Heck -- even Gore agrees with this. We have ratings for violent movies, games, etc. to keep them from kids and then the companies that produce these things try to market them directly to kids. I'm not a fan of ratings, but marketing to kids really bothers me.
Adding random events into the system? Hasn't Micro$oft already done that?
-- they both suck. Have you ever tried to actually *USE* one of these things?
*IF* they break? How about *WHEN*...
Andy Griffith the star of the show.
As far as the other advertising goes, didn't you hear about the Pizza Hut rocket that -- I think -- Russia launched a year or so ago? They sold ad space on the side of the thing. What's wrong with that?
Somehow an ad on the side of a private rocket sounds a LOT better to me than "3COM Park" "Nokia Sugar Bowl" or "Continental Airlines Arena."
In quantities of only a couple of thousand you can get music or data CDs pressed and inserted into jewel cases (with multi-color printed sleeves) for around $1.