In Memphis, public housing residents filed suit to have their cable television provided for free. The government caved.
In many (most?) prison systems nationwide, prisoners have demanded and gotten cable.
And no, strangely enough, I'm in no hurry to go to prison or the projects. Frankly, I don't give a shit how the "other half" lives. I work for a living.
With the exception of the majority of drug crimes, the people in prison belong there.
As for people in public housing, I do feel sorry for them. If they are really unable to work, we should provide a decent place to live.
I have always thought the "turn off" date was total bullshit. Wait until Bubba finds out his TV gets turned off by the government next month, unless he buys a new multi hundred dollar box.
Congessional pages will be falling out of laps all over D.C.
Why did the pirate go to the movie? It was rated "arrrr".
Where do pirates eat? Arrrrby's.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his groin. The bartender asks what the deal is with the steering wheel. The pirate replys, "Arrr, it's driving me nuts!".
IBM could come out of this smelling like a rose. If they either stomp sco like a roach in court or buy the assholes off, then put the whole damn sco ip package under the GPL, hackers will love them forever.
If they make this gift to the community, then be careful in the future to not piss us off, IBM could make billions more than they already make.
"IBM, Savior of Linux", wow. That may be enough to get RMS to take a bath.
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In Memphis, public housing residents filed suit to have their cable television provided for free. The government caved.
In many (most?) prison systems nationwide, prisoners have demanded and gotten cable.
And no, strangely enough, I'm in no hurry to go to prison or the projects. Frankly, I don't give a shit how the "other half" lives. I work for a living.
With the exception of the majority of drug crimes, the people in prison belong there.
As for people in public housing, I do feel sorry for them. If they are really unable to work, we should provide a decent place to live.
BUT NO FREE CABLE.
I have always thought the "turn off" date was total bullshit. Wait until Bubba finds out his TV gets turned off by the government next month, unless he buys a new multi hundred dollar box.
Congessional pages will be falling out of laps all over D.C.
Never underestimate the excitement generated by gadgetry.
I'm gettin' a chub right now. No wait, that's my hernia...
I'm not poor, you insensitive clod!
is television a right?
If you live in prison or public housing in the US, not only is TV a right, *CABLE TV* is a right.
I don't care how much caffine that stuff has, it still tastes like shit.
the nice clean cuts trauma shears produce... makes repairing the amputation much easier, apparently.
I thought slightly jagged wounds tended to heal better. More surface area to bond.
Bones may be different.
BROAD BAND
Would that be Lifetime, WE or the Oxygen Channel?
like humans, basically..
So, they taste like pork?
mmmmmm, long pig...
Nanites. On the ceiling.
Why did the pirate go to the movie?
It was rated "arrrr".
Where do pirates eat?
Arrrrby's.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his groin. The bartender asks what the deal is with the steering wheel.
The pirate replys, "Arrr, it's driving me nuts!".
Born in America, tested in Japan, let's go nuke Afghanistan!
Make it Iran, Stan!
Yeah, but then your little red convertible falls off the jack, hurtles out the window and smashes into the ground below.
Damn! I hate when that happens...
That's brilliant! Sooner or later the state would catch on, though...
Filters in places of work tend to get their panties in a wad over the "P" word.
Huh. Am I the only one who uses Kazaa for pr0n? Or the only one dumb enough to admit it?
Is it the van that ran over him?
Really? How about flies...
Living in "MAAAM-FAS", I can tell you that the Big E is buried in the back yard of Graceland, like a dog...
Heh. Try having them agree to back off a charge, then cut off your phone service for "non-payment".
BELLSOUTH - BELLSOUTH - BEELZEBUB!
(breathe deeply...must...reach...pills...)
Look, they all suck. It's just a matter of degree of suckiness, like "chrome off a trailer hitch" or "golf ball through a garden hose".
Since I don't want to go back into therapy, I won't even get started on the year of hell I went through with bellsouth.
Now I have RoadRunner cable modem servcie. Yes, Time-Warner-AOL is Satan, but at least it works (most of the time).
An even better solution is a "foam thing" that contains that blue goo you see in freeze packs.
You put several of them in the freezer and rotate as needed.
I need to find a way to freeze them while camping (no freezer). Maybe dry ice...
They've already decided to completely drop AIX.
Thank jeebus! At work, we've decided AIX stands for: AIX Isn't UNIX.
IBM could come out of this smelling like a rose. If they either stomp sco like a roach in court or buy the assholes off, then put the whole damn sco ip package under the GPL, hackers will love them forever.
If they make this gift to the community, then be careful in the future to not piss us off, IBM could make billions more than they already make.
"IBM, Savior of Linux", wow. That may be enough to get RMS to take a bath.
Without publicity, they'll wither and die more quickly, so why don't we choke off their oxygen feed by ignoring them?
You are forgetting that this mess is being driven by lawyers. Since lawyers are a form of anaerobic bacteria, cutting off their oxygen won't help...