Usually when a company buys another company, they are obligated by law to assume company one's contractual obligations. For example Saturn Car Company may no longer exist but its parent GM must still provide warranty service & 20 years of stock parts under the law. (Ditto with Plymouth which does not exist but Chrysler... and later Daimler-Chrysler... must still continue warranty service & parts.)
BTW I wouldn't make a big deal about the refund. If the company refuses to refund $499, then negotiate a refund of half that, plus a free account on their current service. It's not worth the effort to goto small-claims court over a tiny $249. (Of course if they refuse to refund Any money then I'd file the claim.)
How do setting-up mesh networks help if the internet is down? As for food you should be taking-advantage of Alex Jones once-per-Christmas survival packs. 2 years of storable food for about $2000. (Made by an outside company not jones.)
>>>If that requires top down control, then that's a strong argument for top down control
Top-down control when taken to its logical conclusion also means having Congress order you to install thermostats in your home which they can turn-off at any point (like on a hot day when the power grid is overloading... goodbye A/C). Or ordering you to buy a Prius or similar hybrid. Or outlawing SUVs. Or ordering you to buy a Windows PC so you can do online voting/polling. And so on.
Personally I'd rather have State-level control like they do it in the European Union. That way if I don't like the state's policies I can pick-up and move to a better state. (Vice-versa if I DO like the state's policies, like if I'm Mormon and love Utah, then I can stay.) Freedom of choice between 27 EU states or 50 US states is preferable to being stuck with just one choice..... whatever the central government mandates.
As the Supreme Court stated a loooong time ago before the FCC even existed (It was called the National Radio Committee... or something). You can't have everybody in a room talking at the same time. Yes everybody has a right to free speech but you still need a moderator to bring order to the chaos by designating who will talk. The FCC is that moderator (for broadcast signals) (not limited-access cable signals).
>>>You aren't supporting them because, with the exception of royalties and a cut of BO revenue for the leading actors, they were already paid before the movie premiered.
The actors, producers (think JMS of Babylon5), and writers (Neil Geiman, Harlan Ellison, etc) are not entitled to get paid royalties (several thousand dollars) for the DVDs sold, rebroadcasts on television, et cetera??? You think you should just take their creation & deprive them of their pay? Interesting.
Movies are boring. Many times it's a plot I've seen before (done in the 1930s, then again in the 60s, and 90s, and now today) so I don't lose anything by watching at 2x speed.
Same with Sci-Fi shows which more and more rehash the same plots. The only shows I watch at 1x speed are comedies (timing matters) and foreign language (it's hard to understand the accent sometimes).
>>>haven't had the greatest luck in buying used media.
By the items that say "Like New" and if it arrives in new condition all is good, but if it arrives damaged/scratched then you can get a refund (or 50% off refund) and keep the disc. Paypal and Amazon Buyer protection are excellent & they have zero tolerance for sellers advertising "like new" goods and then selling damaged stuff.
>>>Apart from the fact that nothing good has come of 9/11
From the point of view of those who watched their parents die, or their kids blown up, or starved to death by American bombs/blockades then 9/11 event was a "good" thing. To them it was the equivalent of what the Hiroshima bombing was for our 1940s-era ancestors. A moment of triumph & revenge for the deaths that happened years earlier.
>>>>>Maybe after they transplant the brain in a brainless body, we'll find out why he was hanged in his time. >> >>Convicted of a crime he didn't commit, of course...
Good luck trying to understand his ancient Celtic language when he speaks. I can just imagine a bunch of language professors mumbling, "I don't know what he's saying. He's not pronouncing the words properly. It sounds like Hillbilly Celtic."
>>>Suppose we were to hit this old intact brain with a jolt of electricity - would it feel it? Would it be conscious at some level for a brief moment but completely unable to inform us?
The neurons disconnect from one another when they die. When you hold a dead brain, you are holding a blank slate. Which is why freezing people after they die is pointless. Even if you could revive the body, the brain has nothing in it. (No memory; the person would be a vegetable.)
I prefer Nick or Cartoon. I rarely put-on Disney. I admit I used to like watching Hannah Montana with the kids, but all the other shows are mediocre and since HM is gone the channel has nada that I'd watch.
Naturally. I've stayed in a lot of Indian-owned hotels over the years, and all of them had a satellite dish in order to watch their home channels. That's because in most areas of the U.S. cable systems don't carry foreign nations' channels..... for example my town's Comcast has none. In my experience that's the norm rather than the exception.
>>> that people in a supposedly 'capitalist' society do not see anything wrong with the very idea that government should at all under any circumstances be meddling with any private deals.
If it was free market I would agree, but Comcast is not a free market. It is a natural monopoly and just like the electric, natural gas, water, and sewer monopolies needs to be regulated. Else these monopolies could raise their prices skyhigh & the customers would have no choice but to pay. So the government steps-in to ensure that does not happen.
Of course an alternative solution is to open Comcast's market to outside Cable TV providers (Cox, Time-warner, Cablevision, etc), but so far local and state governments appear unwilling to let that happen. So the closed monopoly market needs to be regulated by the New York PUC.
>>>if you have kids its missing disney channel as well
They can watch it over at their grandparents' house, and at home watch Qubo or Nick or Cartoon instead. As for FOX and CBS isn't it a violation of must-carry rules not to carry the locals? Maybe they didn't demand to be added. (shrug)
>>>the TV part of google fiber is crapola. and a little with FIOS as well.
I'm surprised to hear that. I did a quick review of FiOS channel listing and it was hundreds..... more than I would ever watch. In fact I don't even have cable: Just an antenna and still barely watch the 40 channels I get.
Quick list: - ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, MyNetTV, Ion - ~10 independents (mostly showing talkshows & reruns of Xena,SG1, etc) - PBS, PBSkids, PBSinfo (documentaries), PBSart(live concerts), PBScreate - MindTV (shows like DemocracyNow) (also Italian/German/Korean dramas) - News: Fox24, France24, RT, and Japan's NHK - movies: ThisTV - shows: RetroTV, AntennaTV, FamilyTV - Qubo, SmileofaChild, TBN, ChurchChannel, Enlace'(spanish) - IonLife, ABClife - AccuWeather - traffic channel (kind of a waste; they should put something else there) All free.
30 seconds per ad. About 3-4 minutes per TV episode (on hulu). Not a big deal since I usually don't watch the ad anyway but instead flip to another tab, or glance at the magazine in my lap, or glance over at TV #2.
Exactly my thought. I would also include a note on the "block page" to send an email to admin@whatever if the user wants a site opened. That way brand-new sites like teenskissingtheirpussies will be blocked by default, but if someone requests a site like PBSkids.com you can whitelist it ASAP.
3.x seems to work fine on my laptop, and all it has is ~354 meg of RAM and a P3 processor. So does 2.2.1 support PirateBay's magnet links? Oh and can someone link me to the PirateBay file that holds all their magnet links?
>>>I've gotten to the point where I won't rely on anything offered for free because then you're just one corporate re-org, acquisition, etc away from being booted out in the cold.
(shrug). Not the first time I had to abandon ship for a different offering. Just looking at my online connection: First I had RUNterm (I had to type it from the magazine but it still cost $0.00). Then I had changed computers, and had to learn the commands for JRterm. Then AmigaMosaic in 93. Then Netscape in 95. Then Firefox in 2006 or so. And most recently Opera (because FF stopped looking/acting like FF).
Despite the headache I'd still rather have free then suck thousands of dollars from my wallet buying software (money that could be used for more-useful things like Christmas presents for the kids) (or more frequent flights home).
If I am spending money I will "donate" it to the DVD Store and support the artists, writers, cameramen, actors, engineers, and so forth that created the movie or show directly. Not utorrent or websites. (Yes I know I'll get modded down for that opinion... oh well. I don't change my mind just because of karma-threats.)
Unfortunately none of these places let me playback at 2x or 1.5x speed. Only a torrent download which I can play in MS-media player or VLC lets me do that. Plus finding torrents isn't hard. I've got a site that has every current movie and tv show, and what few items they don't have, you can request. (For example: Megaupload went down when I was watching One Tree Hill S1... so I requested the torrent and it was filled in a week).
I don't understand why people get all PMSey over advertising. It's easy enough to ignore (go get a drink, go pee, go update your facebook status, glance at your magazine, et cetera). I'd sooner ignore an ad then have to pay ~$250 a year per network (example: BBC) or per program (~$70 for LimeWire). Advertising gives me 40+ channels of freetoair TV, plus thousands of free websites and dozens of programs.
I don't see how they can patent something they didn't invent. Breast cancer's been around longer than this company. Oh well. At least a patent only last 7 years (or at least until some idiot Congressman like Sonny Bono extends it to 105).
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Usually when a company buys another company, they are obligated by law to assume company one's contractual obligations. For example Saturn Car Company may no longer exist but its parent GM must still provide warranty service & 20 years of stock parts under the law. (Ditto with Plymouth which does not exist but Chrysler... and later Daimler-Chrysler... must still continue warranty service & parts.)
BTW I wouldn't make a big deal about the refund. If the company refuses to refund $499, then negotiate a refund of half that, plus a free account on their current service. It's not worth the effort to goto small-claims court over a tiny $249. (Of course if they refuse to refund Any money then I'd file the claim.)
How do setting-up mesh networks help if the internet is down?
As for food you should be taking-advantage of Alex Jones once-per-Christmas survival packs. 2 years of storable food for about $2000. (Made by an outside company not jones.)
>>>If that requires top down control, then that's a strong argument for top down control
Top-down control when taken to its logical conclusion also means having Congress order you to install thermostats in your home which they can turn-off at any point (like on a hot day when the power grid is overloading... goodbye A/C). Or ordering you to buy a Prius or similar hybrid. Or outlawing SUVs. Or ordering you to buy a Windows PC so you can do online voting/polling. And so on.
Personally I'd rather have State-level control like they do it in the European Union. That way if I don't like the state's policies I can pick-up and move to a better state. (Vice-versa if I DO like the state's policies, like if I'm Mormon and love Utah, then I can stay.) Freedom of choice between 27 EU states or 50 US states is preferable to being stuck with just one choice..... whatever the central government mandates.
Peace.
As the Supreme Court stated a loooong time ago before the FCC even existed (It was called the National Radio Committee... or something). You can't have everybody in a room talking at the same time. Yes everybody has a right to free speech but you still need a moderator to bring order to the chaos by designating who will talk. The FCC is that moderator (for broadcast signals) (not limited-access cable signals).
>>>You aren't supporting them because, with the exception of royalties and a cut of BO revenue for the leading actors, they were already paid before the movie premiered.
The actors, producers (think JMS of Babylon5), and writers (Neil Geiman, Harlan Ellison, etc) are not entitled to get paid royalties (several thousand dollars) for the DVDs sold, rebroadcasts on television, et cetera??? You think you should just take their creation & deprive them of their pay? Interesting.
>>>Why do you play back at those speeds?
Movies are boring. Many times it's a plot I've seen before (done in the 1930s, then again in the 60s, and 90s, and now today) so I don't lose anything by watching at 2x speed.
Same with Sci-Fi shows which more and more rehash the same plots. The only shows I watch at 1x speed are comedies (timing matters) and foreign language (it's hard to understand the accent sometimes).
>>>haven't had the greatest luck in buying used media.
By the items that say "Like New" and if it arrives in new condition all is good, but if it arrives damaged/scratched then you can get a refund (or 50% off refund) and keep the disc. Paypal and Amazon Buyer protection are excellent & they have zero tolerance for sellers advertising "like new" goods and then selling damaged stuff.
>>>Apart from the fact that nothing good has come of 9/11
From the point of view of those who watched their parents die, or their kids blown up, or starved to death by American bombs/blockades then 9/11 event was a "good" thing. To them it was the equivalent of what the Hiroshima bombing was for our 1940s-era ancestors. A moment of triumph & revenge for the deaths that happened years earlier.
>>>>>Maybe after they transplant the brain in a brainless body, we'll find out why he was hanged in his time.
>>
>>Convicted of a crime he didn't commit, of course...
Good luck trying to understand his ancient Celtic language when he speaks. I can just imagine a bunch of language professors mumbling, "I don't know what he's saying. He's not pronouncing the words properly. It sounds like Hillbilly Celtic."
>>>Suppose we were to hit this old intact brain with a jolt of electricity - would it feel it? Would it be conscious at some level for a brief moment but completely unable to inform us?
The neurons disconnect from one another when they die. When you hold a dead brain, you are holding a blank slate. Which is why freezing people after they die is pointless. Even if you could revive the body, the brain has nothing in it. (No memory; the person would be a vegetable.)
I prefer Nick or Cartoon. I rarely put-on Disney. I admit I used to like watching Hannah Montana with the kids, but all the other shows are mediocre and since HM is gone the channel has nada that I'd watch.
Why? I don't see why splitting a single fiber off the main bundle (and to the home) is any more expensive than splitting Coax for Comcast TV?
Naturally.
I've stayed in a lot of Indian-owned hotels over the years, and all of them had a satellite dish in order to watch their home channels. That's because in most areas of the U.S. cable systems don't carry foreign nations' channels..... for example my town's Comcast has none. In my experience that's the norm rather than the exception.
>>> that people in a supposedly 'capitalist' society do not see anything wrong with the very idea that government should at all under any circumstances be meddling with any private deals.
If it was free market I would agree, but Comcast is not a free market. It is a natural monopoly and just like the electric, natural gas, water, and sewer monopolies needs to be regulated. Else these monopolies could raise their prices skyhigh & the customers would have no choice but to pay. So the government steps-in to ensure that does not happen.
Of course an alternative solution is to open Comcast's market to outside Cable TV providers (Cox, Time-warner, Cablevision, etc), but so far local and state governments appear unwilling to let that happen. So the closed monopoly market needs to be regulated by the New York PUC.
>>>if you have kids its missing disney channel as well
They can watch it over at their grandparents' house, and at home watch Qubo or Nick or Cartoon instead. As for FOX and CBS isn't it a violation of must-carry rules not to carry the locals? Maybe they didn't demand to be added. (shrug)
>>>the TV part of google fiber is crapola. and a little with FIOS as well.
I'm surprised to hear that. I did a quick review of FiOS channel listing and it was hundreds..... more than I would ever watch. In fact I don't even have cable: Just an antenna and still barely watch the 40 channels I get.
Quick list:
- ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, MyNetTV, Ion
- ~10 independents (mostly showing talkshows & reruns of Xena,SG1, etc)
- PBS, PBSkids, PBSinfo (documentaries), PBSart(live concerts), PBScreate
- MindTV (shows like DemocracyNow) (also Italian/German/Korean dramas)
- News: Fox24, France24, RT, and Japan's NHK
- movies: ThisTV
- shows: RetroTV, AntennaTV, FamilyTV
- Qubo, SmileofaChild, TBN, ChurchChannel, Enlace'(spanish)
- IonLife, ABClife
- AccuWeather
- traffic channel (kind of a waste; they should put something else there)
All free.
30 seconds per ad. About 3-4 minutes per TV episode (on hulu). Not a big deal since I usually don't watch the ad anyway but instead flip to another tab, or glance at the magazine in my lap, or glance over at TV #2.
Exactly my thought. I would also include a note on the "block page" to send an email to admin@whatever if the user wants a site opened. That way brand-new sites like teenskissingtheirpussies will be blocked by default, but if someone requests a site like PBSkids.com you can whitelist it ASAP.
3.x seems to work fine on my laptop, and all it has is ~354 meg of RAM and a P3 processor. So does 2.2.1 support PirateBay's magnet links?
Oh and can someone link me to the PirateBay file that holds all their magnet links?
>>>I've gotten to the point where I won't rely on anything offered for free because then you're just one corporate re-org, acquisition, etc away from being booted out in the cold.
(shrug). Not the first time I had to abandon ship for a different offering. Just looking at my online connection: First I had RUNterm (I had to type it from the magazine but it still cost $0.00). Then I had changed computers, and had to learn the commands for JRterm. Then AmigaMosaic in 93. Then Netscape in 95. Then Firefox in 2006 or so. And most recently Opera (because FF stopped looking/acting like FF).
Despite the headache I'd still rather have free then suck thousands of dollars from my wallet buying software (money that could be used for more-useful things like Christmas presents for the kids) (or more frequent flights home).
If I am spending money I will "donate" it to the DVD Store and support the artists, writers, cameramen, actors, engineers, and so forth that created the movie or show directly.
Not utorrent or websites. (Yes I know I'll get modded down for that opinion... oh well. I don't change my mind just because of karma-threats.)
Unfortunately none of these places let me playback at 2x or 1.5x speed. Only a torrent download which I can play in MS-media player or VLC lets me do that. Plus finding torrents isn't hard. I've got a site that has every current movie and tv show, and what few items they don't have, you can request. (For example: Megaupload went down when I was watching One Tree Hill S1... so I requested the torrent and it was filled in a week).
Link please. Penny Arcade didn't reach their funding goal?
I don't understand why people get all PMSey over advertising. It's easy enough to ignore (go get a drink, go pee, go update your facebook status, glance at your magazine, et cetera). I'd sooner ignore an ad then have to pay ~$250 a year per network (example: BBC) or per program (~$70 for LimeWire). Advertising gives me 40+ channels of freetoair TV, plus thousands of free websites and dozens of programs.
I don't see how they can patent something they didn't invent. Breast cancer's been around longer than this company. Oh well. At least a patent only last 7 years (or at least until some idiot Congressman like Sonny Bono extends it to 105).