Good point. People are such sheep that they haven't figured this out. But the current "Let's keep the people divided with all this fake "Democrats vs Republicans" bullshit so they don't realize America dies long ago and was replaced by a plutocracy."
I usually never just "sit and watch TV", TV tends to be more of a "background noise", or if it's something I'm more actively watching, if there are commercials and it's not DVR'd to allow FF past them, I tune out and surf the web, or hit the can, or grab a drink or something until the commercials are over. I recognize them, but mainly as "white noise" that are otherwise ignored.
Yeah, it's the nickle and diming people to death that pisses people off.
In the Metro Detroit area (for COmcast at least), even if you are paying for the big package with all the channels, if you want to receive those channels on every TV, you need the even more expensive per month box for each, or you only get the most basic channels for a lower monthly box fee.
And if you want to watch your DVR stuff in another room, that's another $8+ a month for each TV you want the capability on....
Joining that club when the current contract runs out. Get fast internet and drop the Phone and Cable TV. Way too expensive for the 8-12 channels we actually watch vs. all the channels we don't watch or want. Between Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Prime, + with HBO going to a streaming option next year where you don't need a cable HBO subscription, no reason to stay with cable TV....
They priced themselves out of lots of customers. Maybe of more cable channels had NO commercials they could justify the rates, but that's a thing of the past...
"Raise those wages, and what happens to everyone elses wages? They go up."
No they don't. Not for regular workers and non-upper management. The middle class lose ground when the Minimum wage goes up because prices go up to cover lost profits, and their wages don't budge, reducing their effective income.
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Good point. People are such sheep that they haven't figured this out. But the current "Let's keep the people divided with all this fake "Democrats vs Republicans" bullshit so they don't realize America dies long ago and was replaced by a plutocracy."
Seriously, do you KNOW how many laws there are at the Federal, State, County, and municipal level there are on the books now?
you may THINK you aren't breaking any, but you'd be surprised
I usually never just "sit and watch TV", TV tends to be more of a "background noise", or if it's something I'm more actively watching, if there are commercials and it's not DVR'd to allow FF past them, I tune out and surf the web, or hit the can, or grab a drink or something until the commercials are over. I recognize them, but mainly as "white noise" that are otherwise ignored.
Yeah, it's the nickle and diming people to death that pisses people off.
In the Metro Detroit area (for COmcast at least), even if you are paying for the big package with all the channels, if you want to receive those channels on every TV, you need the even more expensive per month box for each, or you only get the most basic channels for a lower monthly box fee.
And if you want to watch your DVR stuff in another room, that's another $8+ a month for each TV you want the capability on....
Joining that club when the current contract runs out. Get fast internet and drop the Phone and Cable TV. Way too expensive for the 8-12 channels we actually watch vs. all the channels we don't watch or want. Between Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Prime, + with HBO going to a streaming option next year where you don't need a cable HBO subscription, no reason to stay with cable TV....
They priced themselves out of lots of customers.
Maybe of more cable channels had NO commercials they could justify the rates, but that's a thing of the past...
If the the government isn't doing anything wrong, what do they have to hide?
Australia is trying to return to its roots as one big Penal Colony, with the citizens as the inmates?
You idealists are SOOOOOOOO cute with your ridiculous, not-working-in-the-real-world talk.
Really? Which candidates are going to throw out the current copyright mess and rebuild it from the ground up?
without the rights to the characters, Marvel Comics is worthless....
Another clarion call for the end of copyright as we know it and complete and total overhaul of the system
America does this to their own citizens AND to foreigners in their own homelands, why shouldn't we expect them to do it right back to the US?
They have a long way to go to match Comcast.....
SugarString.com is USELESS and should be ostracised as a propganda site, NOT a news site.
In fact, it should be legally barred from calling itself a "news" site.
Turnabout is fair play
Government should fear the citizens, NOT the other way around.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
And where do you think this money is going to come from to pay those ridiculous wages?
$25 Big Macs, $18 a gallon milk, 32.50 for a loaf of bread, etc etc etc.....
Burger-flipper or fryolator operator jobs were never intended to support a family.
"Raise those wages, and what happens to everyone elses wages? They go up."
No they don't. Not for regular workers and non-upper management.
The middle class lose ground when the Minimum wage goes up because prices go up to cover lost profits, and their wages don't budge, reducing their effective income.
Not when there are no jobs for the displaced workers.
Act II of the Tyranny Conversion begins.
Everyone is a criminal now as long as we come up with even a flimsy claim against them....
Attempted Censorship by any other name....
Anything computerized with a network connection can (and most likely WILL) be hacked...
Screw this stupid "Internet of Things"
In Michigan, around the Metro Detroit area, we have several 1-lane-each-way roads with 55 MPH limits and a stoplight every few miles.
Fuck Comcast, Time Warner, and AT&T
SHOULD BE doesn't meet reality very often, especially in cases like this.
Government is about having and gaining power, the government doesn't like freedom, it hurts their power and control.
Truth hurts, eh?
(Not that the US is doing any better)