My wife and I have accounts at different banks. (Mine is at bank A because it started out as a joint account with my dad who used to work there and is therefore a special employee account. Hers is at bank B because that bank holds the mortgage note so the account has no fees.) Because they're different banks, direct transfers don't post on the same day.
I'd probably have to switch to a different city (as Comcast holds the franchise in my city). AT&T DSL or Clear Wi-Max might work at another address within the city, but they would only be barely sufficient at best. And this issue does piss me off, but not badly enough to move to the suburbs.
Of course, if I really were going to move just for internet access, I'd just head up I-75 to Chattanooga...
Just called Comcast today to cut TV. I'm paying $16+tax per month for over-the-air TV right now, and now they'll add $10/month to my Internet bill. Still better than throwing away $6/month.
I'm paying $40/month for Internet + basic cable (broadcast channels, same as you). For the same tier of Internet without basic cable, Comcrap wanted to charge me $45. It's entirely absurd. I'm not about to pay them a penny more than I absolutely have to, but I resent the fact that they're using me to inflate their TV subscriber numbers.
Not happy that Comcast bought off the FCC to encrypt over-the-air channels.
Not everyone who wants a pickup wants to use it to tow a boat or RV. I have had a pickup that only rarely towed things and it wasn't for a status symbol. I used it to haul my Mtn Bike around, or my Skis, or to sleep under the canopy... People use them to haul dogs, tools, parts, lumber, appliances, and to help their friends move.
Even an F-150 is overkill for that kind of thing; the Ranger would have been good enough.
I use paper checks to transfer funds between my and my wife's accounts. Using a cellphone to photograph and deposit a check actually makes the funds available faster than any of the various other transfer money mechanisms would. Ridiculous, but true.
And good luck with the FCC, they specifically allow encrypting basic cable channels now. The FTC, then, isn't going to care since the FCC specifically allows it.
That FCC decision was wrong and evil, and violates the precedent of the Hush-a-Phone and Carterphone decisions, as well as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It desperately needs to be overturned.
They are required to provide 2 free boxes to you for the first two years after they start encrypting basics
And that doesn't even slightly solve the real problems, which are that (A) the third-party device needs to be able to tune the channels itself, (B), it should be ILLEGAL for Comcast to charge extra for "graciously" choosing not to downsample the broadcast TV stations that are HD to begin with, and (C) it imposes extra cost (in terms of electricity and space), complexity, and fragility upon the user for no fucking reason at all.
The bottom line is that the "any lawful device" doctrine, by all rights, should apply to all telecommunications services (including cable TV, satellite TV and cellular phone service)!
No, they will force me to install an antenna, demand a bill credit for the fact that they're failing to render the service, and sue them in small claims court when they refuse to give the bill credit.
This shit they're pulling should literally be illegal (as in, against FCC rules -- namely, the ones that were done away with a little while ago due to regulatory capture).
I simply refused to install the damn cable box, and use the built-in QAM tuner instead. Of course, Comcrap* has started encrypting a couple of broadcast channels now, so I have angry letters to the franchisor, public service commission, BBB, FCC and FTC to write and an antenna to buy...
(*I only have cable TV to begin with against my will -- Comcast is the only high-speed ISP that works at my house, and internet+TV is cheaper than internet by itself. But if they're going to count me as a subscriber, then I damn well want to receive the service I'm subscribed to! And if it doesn't work with a standard QAM tuner, it shouldn't count as cable TV!)
I know Iceland is not yet part of the EU, but I thought Turkey was. It turns out I was wrong about the latter, so please substitute Istanbul with whatever the city with an international airport in Cyprus is.
Nope. Your body's "at rest" metabolism absolutely dominates. Even a high activity level only BARELY changes the number of calories you need. It takes something on the order of running marathons to significantly change your metabolism. The level of deviation from base metabolism is positively tiny, across a wide range of physical activity levels.
The difference between the "at rest" metabolism and "currently exercising" metabolism for the same person is small, but the difference between the "at rest" metabolism for someone who exercises regularly and the "at rest" metabolism for someone who doesn't is large. Changing the "at rest" metabolism is what the exercise is actually for.
If you don't think that having so many people agree with the idea that it made it into the UN charter is not sufficient to count it as "well established," then you're trolling and can go fuck off.
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The problem is, it doesn't go both ways.
No.
You need to provide a citation that proves it hasn't.
My wife and I have accounts at different banks. (Mine is at bank A because it started out as a joint account with my dad who used to work there and is therefore a special employee account. Hers is at bank B because that bank holds the mortgage note so the account has no fees.) Because they're different banks, direct transfers don't post on the same day.
I'd probably have to switch to a different city (as Comcast holds the franchise in my city). AT&T DSL or Clear Wi-Max might work at another address within the city, but they would only be barely sufficient at best. And this issue does piss me off, but not badly enough to move to the suburbs.
Of course, if I really were going to move just for internet access, I'd just head up I-75 to Chattanooga...
I'm paying $40/month for Internet + basic cable (broadcast channels, same as you). For the same tier of Internet without basic cable, Comcrap wanted to charge me $45. It's entirely absurd. I'm not about to pay them a penny more than I absolutely have to, but I resent the fact that they're using me to inflate their TV subscriber numbers.
Damn straight.
Even an F-150 is overkill for that kind of thing; the Ranger would have been good enough.
I use paper checks to transfer funds between my and my wife's accounts. Using a cellphone to photograph and deposit a check actually makes the funds available faster than any of the various other transfer money mechanisms would. Ridiculous, but true.
My credit card signature is "See Photo ID."
Occasionally, the cashiers even check it!
That FCC decision was wrong and evil, and violates the precedent of the Hush-a-Phone and Carterphone decisions, as well as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. It desperately needs to be overturned.
And that doesn't even slightly solve the real problems, which are that (A) the third-party device needs to be able to tune the channels itself, (B), it should be ILLEGAL for Comcast to charge extra for "graciously" choosing not to downsample the broadcast TV stations that are HD to begin with, and (C) it imposes extra cost (in terms of electricity and space), complexity, and fragility upon the user for no fucking reason at all.
The bottom line is that the "any lawful device" doctrine, by all rights, should apply to all telecommunications services (including cable TV, satellite TV and cellular phone service)!
I meant wireless transceivers.
No, they will force me to install an antenna, demand a bill credit for the fact that they're failing to render the service, and sue them in small claims court when they refuse to give the bill credit.
This shit they're pulling should literally be illegal (as in, against FCC rules -- namely, the ones that were done away with a little while ago due to regulatory capture).
They were already queued. You want to cue them.
Computers in cars are good. Transceivers in cars are bad.
I would guess that it's coming soon to a Nissan near you, and lots of people buy Nissans.
I simply refused to install the damn cable box, and use the built-in QAM tuner instead. Of course, Comcrap* has started encrypting a couple of broadcast channels now, so I have angry letters to the franchisor, public service commission, BBB, FCC and FTC to write and an antenna to buy...
(*I only have cable TV to begin with against my will -- Comcast is the only high-speed ISP that works at my house, and internet+TV is cheaper than internet by itself. But if they're going to count me as a subscriber, then I damn well want to receive the service I'm subscribed to! And if it doesn't work with a standard QAM tuner, it shouldn't count as cable TV!)
And this kind of BS is why I've just about decided never to buy a car built in this millennium.
I know Iceland is not yet part of the EU, but I thought Turkey was. It turns out I was wrong about the latter, so please substitute Istanbul with whatever the city with an international airport in Cyprus is.
Dublin to Istanbul?
Does it work if you use Google Voice over VoIP instead of the stock dialer and "voice minutes?"
I hope you realize that you just wrote EIGHT paragraphs to describe two naming conventions. It's kind of absurd that such a thing is required.
So how do artificial sweeteners fit into all this?
The difference between the "at rest" metabolism and "currently exercising" metabolism for the same person is small, but the difference between the "at rest" metabolism for someone who exercises regularly and the "at rest" metabolism for someone who doesn't is large. Changing the "at rest" metabolism is what the exercise is actually for.
Yeah, but now you need to get a different /. handle.
From the Wikipedia article about it: "The SSC cost was due largely to the massive civil engineering project of digging a huge tunnel underground."
If you don't think that having so many people agree with the idea that it made it into the UN charter is not sufficient to count it as "well established," then you're trolling and can go fuck off.