The religious have always managed to adapt their pet mythologies to the evidence of the day. Scientists avoid sounding like creationists in front of their colleagues by following the evidence, rather than exclaiming "GODIDIT!", rolling around on the floor, and speaking in tongues. Nice try, tho.
Please - check Alamo's website before going off half-cocked - http://www.drafthouse.com/
These are the wonderful people who host:
- Mister Sinus Theater 3000: A live version of MST3K. Their Christmas special and treatment of Top Gun and Red Dawn have caused ladies to faint.
- Buzz Moran's Kung Fu Masterpiece Theater Live, dubbed classics of Hong Kong cinema
- Silent classics with live musical accompanyment
- Free childrens' matinees on weekends
- Low-cost classic film screenings (Fassbinder, Bergman,...) early in the week.
- Tarantino-fest (for those of you into him)
- Screenings of "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!" with complimetary 40oz of Schlitz Malt Liquor
- The infamous 24-hour "Butt-numb-a-thon"
I'm not sure why they think they need 802.11b access, but hey, Austin's cool that way. Texas' civilized 'concealed carry' law will keep distractions to a reasonable level.;)
I understand that AOL is intercepting all outbound port 25 traffic and rerouting it through their own mailservers. This has been wreaking havoc with people's mail filters but has the benefit of rate limitation and whatever other anti-spam heuristics AOL has put in place.
I beg to differ, but there's not much for the FCC to regulate here. If you don't like the deal you get with your cable modem provider, you always have the option of DSL or ISDN for high-speed internet access, provided the telcos have wired your area for those services. There's no way a smart telco is going to let @Home, RoadRunner, et al. wire an area without some competition. Look at the Bay Area where DSL prices dropped precipitously to equalize with cable modem prices once @Home moved in. Bad for consumers? I'm not convinced.
AOL has lost the Forced Access fight and they know it. The Portland and Broward County cases will be overturned because the FCC won't stand for balkanized regulation; they've said as much. So AOL is SOL unless they partner with a high-speed provider, be it a telco or cable provider. AOL has a substantial investment tied up in it's dialup infrastructure; the best way to preserve that investment is to spoil the deployment of cable modems via its bogus 'Open Access' campaign until it can cut a deal with a high-speed provider. Once that happens, watch how quickly the Open Access initiative evaporates.
Make no mistake, AOL has talked to AT&T/@Home before with no agreement and there's no reason to believe these talks will be any different. The ink is barely dry on the Excite merger; AOL would have to make a pretty compelling case to AT&T to undo it ('compelling case' == 'container ships filled with cash').
It looks like AT&T is holding all the cards - really, what does AOL have to offer?
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The religious have always managed to adapt their pet mythologies to the evidence of the day. Scientists avoid sounding like creationists in front of their colleagues by following the evidence, rather than exclaiming "GODIDIT!", rolling around on the floor, and speaking in tongues. Nice try, tho.
The mystery of The German Bomb is explained in its entirety here .
Please - check Alamo's website before going off half-cocked - http://www.drafthouse.com/
...) early in the week.
;)
These are the wonderful people who host:
- Mister Sinus Theater 3000: A live version of MST3K. Their Christmas special and treatment of Top Gun and Red Dawn have caused ladies to faint.
- Buzz Moran's Kung Fu Masterpiece Theater
Live, dubbed classics of Hong Kong cinema
- Silent classics with live musical accompanyment
- Free childrens' matinees on weekends
- Low-cost classic film screenings (Fassbinder, Bergman,
- Tarantino-fest (for those of you into him)
- Screenings of "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!" with complimetary 40oz of Schlitz Malt Liquor
- The infamous 24-hour "Butt-numb-a-thon"
I'm not sure why they think they need 802.11b access, but hey, Austin's cool that way. Texas' civilized 'concealed carry' law will keep distractions to a reasonable level.
Visit before it turns into Houston...
SxSW Recommendation: http://www.giganticfilm.com/
I understand that AOL is intercepting all outbound port 25 traffic and rerouting it through their own mailservers. This has been wreaking havoc with people's mail filters but has the benefit of rate limitation and whatever other anti-spam heuristics AOL has put in place.
I beg to differ, but there's not much for the FCC to regulate here. If you don't like the deal you get with your cable modem provider, you always have the option of DSL or ISDN for high-speed internet access, provided the telcos have wired your area for those services. There's no way a smart telco is going to let @Home, RoadRunner, et al. wire an area without some competition. Look at the Bay Area where DSL prices dropped precipitously to equalize with cable modem prices once @Home moved in. Bad for consumers? I'm not convinced.
AOL has lost the Forced Access fight and they know it. The Portland and Broward County cases will be overturned because the FCC won't stand for balkanized regulation; they've said as much. So AOL is SOL unless they partner with a high-speed provider, be it a telco or cable provider. AOL has a substantial investment tied up in it's dialup infrastructure; the best way to preserve that investment is to spoil the deployment of cable modems via its bogus 'Open Access' campaign until it can cut a deal with a high-speed provider. Once that happens, watch how quickly the Open Access initiative evaporates.
Make no mistake, AOL has talked to AT&T/@Home before with no agreement and there's no reason to believe these talks will be any different. The ink is barely dry on the Excite merger; AOL would have to make a pretty compelling case to AT&T to undo it ('compelling case' == 'container ships filled with cash').
It looks like AT&T is holding all the cards - really, what does AOL have to offer?