what about the loverly US murderings of good movies such that all holiwood movies run from the same script and the concept is usually a remake of a french movie done to holiwood ending. Examples:
a) Desperado...El Mariachi
b) Truman Show...I cannot remember the name of the origional
c) The Magnificent Seven....The seven samuri
there are heaps more but I cannot be bothered looking them up.
and I would also like to look at 2 of the "good" movies you quoted faceoff and con air....corect me if im wrong but these are both John Woo films...very very US in a hong kong kinda way:-)
and finally..."Pracila Queen of the Desert" released a year later with Patric Swayze in "So long from wong fu" or something.
....dont get me started on the quality of the movies that the US produce.
If you want to see a prime example go to IRC and find a show called Junkyard wars...origionally english (it rocked) then baught by a US company at which point it sucked.
yeah I know im going to get flamed
according to this article on ZDnet telstra has offered to not charge for contract termination...I suggest you jump ship before the replace your cable modem with a carrier pigeon to courier your "e-mail".
>Telstra declined to divulge how many Freedom >Plan subscribers it has but said it anticipated >some would opt to change carriers on the back of >the announcement.
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>Users who chose to cancel their existing service >with Telstra will not incur termination fees, >according to the telco.
IMHO optus is currently WAY better. you can download about 600mb a day before you get kicked (so 4-500mb safe) over a 14day average. yes I am an optus user because telstra were being assholes to us when we wanted their cable...aswell they have a better police:
a)you CAN use a gateway
b)you can download more than your email without getting kicked
c)optus modem is an ISO standard where telstra uses its own standard so optuses modem can be used inother countries with other companies but telstra's modem cannot.
telstra is big on the really good management decisions...no wonder everyone is getting pissed at telstra.
...an other reason why optus is better. Telstra specifically forbids setting up the modem through a gateway to other computers in your house...when the optus istalation guy came round he downloaded a program which would share the connection for us...as we pleaded ignorance because "that would be a breach of contract wouldnt it?" as we quietly tried to hide the BSD box under a table
(as it turns out it isnt a breach of contract for optus but it is for telstra)
Actually there is competition Teltra provides cable and DSL and Optus (same company as the US, cable and wireless-optus) who also provide braod band cable which is uncapped but has an acceptable use policy of downloading less than 10 times the average usage on a rolling 14day average (this comes out to about 600mb a day sustained)or they kick you.
A couple of years ago it was a choice between telsta -capped but unlimitied downloads and optus -uncapped but download limit.
then telstra introduced a "black mark" system of if you did more than 800mb (or something)in one day you got a "black mark". more than 4 in a month then you got kicked for a month....and now telstra has capped the downloads aswell as the speed.
Way to go telstra....what a way to give your potential customers the "we dont really want you anyway"
We had a telstra cable modem and we tried to get it connected at our new house. Telstra would charge us the same whether we already owned the modem already or if we baught a new one off them so we told them to sod off and went to optus and jeeze im glad we did.
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Examples:
a) Desperado...El Mariachi
b) Truman Show...I cannot remember the name of the origional
c) The Magnificent Seven....The seven samuri
there are heaps more but I cannot be bothered looking them up.
and I would also like to look at 2 of the "good" movies you quoted faceoff and con air....corect me if im wrong but these are both John Woo films...very very US in a hong kong kinda way :-)
and finally..."Pracila Queen of the Desert" released a year later with Patric Swayze in "So long from wong fu" or something.
>Telstra declined to divulge how many Freedom >Plan subscribers it has but said it anticipated >some would opt to change carriers on the back of >the announcement.
> >Users who chose to cancel their existing service >with Telstra will not incur termination fees, >according to the telco.
IMHO optus is currently WAY better. you can download about 600mb a day before you get kicked (so 4-500mb safe) over a 14day average. yes I am an optus user because telstra were being assholes to us when we wanted their cable...aswell they have a better police:
a)you CAN use a gateway
b)you can download more than your email without getting kicked
c)optus modem is an ISO standard where telstra uses its own standard so optuses modem can be used inother countries with other companies but telstra's modem cannot.
telstra is big on the really good management decisions...no wonder everyone is getting pissed at telstra.
...an other reason why optus is better. Telstra specifically forbids setting up the modem through a gateway to other computers in your house...when the optus istalation guy came round he downloaded a program which would share the connection for us...as we pleaded ignorance because "that would be a breach of contract wouldnt it?" as we quietly tried to hide the BSD box under a table (as it turns out it isnt a breach of contract for optus but it is for telstra)
Actually there is competition Teltra provides cable and DSL and Optus (same company as the US, cable and wireless-optus) who also provide braod band cable which is uncapped but has an acceptable use policy of downloading less than 10 times the average usage on a rolling 14day average (this comes out to about 600mb a day sustained)or they kick you. A couple of years ago it was a choice between telsta -capped but unlimitied downloads and optus -uncapped but download limit. then telstra introduced a "black mark" system of if you did more than 800mb (or something)in one day you got a "black mark". more than 4 in a month then you got kicked for a month....and now telstra has capped the downloads aswell as the speed. Way to go telstra....what a way to give your potential customers the "we dont really want you anyway" We had a telstra cable modem and we tried to get it connected at our new house. Telstra would charge us the same whether we already owned the modem already or if we baught a new one off them so we told them to sod off and went to optus and jeeze im glad we did.