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  1. Re: Cord-cutters are ruining TV on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    ESPN already owns enough NFL to make some playoff games 'cable only'. That will only get worse.

    Unless you die soon, you will see a pay per view super bowl. Karnak sees the future...

  2. Re: Cord-cutters are ruining TV on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    $10/month? The packages are more than that. But soon you won't have a choice anyhow as the sports will all try to fully monetize their fan base.

    The right solution is to have a circle of friends each get one sport, then stream the games/races between the group. Deciding which 'in car view' you want could be an issue but other than that, it's pretty bullet proof, until two teams are playing at the same time. Best to form the group between fans of the same team.

  3. Re:Pay me now or pay me later on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No DSL service at all? Sucks to be you. You are the exception, we don't set policy based on edge cases.

  4. Re:Pay me now or pay me later on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No.

    Comcast has real competition in most markets. And even at today's internet rates, new entrants are common. Calling Comcast a monopoly requires crazy mental gyrations.

    Comcast doesn't have pricing power on broadband in most markets. No amount of wishful thinking will change that.

    If they try what you suggest, they just accelerate their ultimate demise.

    The only thing stopping me from getting fiber is the high install cost and the low cost of 100mbit service from comcast. The monthly bills are already about the same. If I could cover the cost of the install with less than a years service cost difference Comcast would never see me again.

  5. Re:Death spiral cycle on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just a bunch of local monopolies breaking up. The open market price for a month of TV is the streaming rate. The cable subscriber rate is the 'chump rate'.

    Eventually most chumps will get smart and the cable company will have to drop its prices on TV.

    Data prices aren't going up, they are barely holding new market entrants out at today's broadband prices. If they try and raise them, all they will do is cause a stampede of new fiber providers, more cell data towers, neighborhood/HOA purchase of SLA bandwidth etc. The cable companies can't have broadband be that fat a target and expect to hold it. People aren't that stupid.

    Something will have to give, cable company profits and kickbacks to local governments from the cable companies are the big losers.

  6. Re: Cord-cutters are ruining TV on Cord-Cutters Are Ditching Their Cable Packages At the Fastest Rate Ever (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Soon you will be allowed to pay for your sport directly. Via a streaming subscription to NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, F1 etc etc

    Stop trying to freeload. Fuck you.

  7. Re: Skewed Statistics? on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you only know 'where to look' you are playing Russian roulette of sorts.

  8. Beer is food.

  9. You are invited.

  10. Nobody does any hunting during the 'Second week of deer camp.'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  11. Re:HIGHLY ILLEGAL on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Illegal, ishmegal.

  12. Did you bang her? You'd think her believing you were the dark lord would give you a leg up?

    I'd have thought Satan would have a lower ID (or post as AC).

  13. Re:cool on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The last place you take someone having a bad reaction to psychedelics is the ER. About the only places worse would be jail or the loony bin. You take them someplace they feel safe...ask them.

    So 'going to the ER' is the wrong criteria in the first place. % that needed 'babysitting' over freakout is the better question, could also apply to very drunk people.

    How would you even categorize: 'Convincing your tripping friend that climbing a tower crane is a bad idea.'

  14. Re:nothing is "safe" on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Never post anything on youtube/facebook, don't hang out with people that do. But party even harder...you're only young once.

    Nothing worth doing is 'safe'.

  15. Also: Beer puts more than 0.2% of users in the hospital? (per use or per year?)

    I bet beer and pot together are safer than shrooms. Beer, pot, rifles, 4x4s, woods and a few shrooms...now we're talking. I digress.

  16. Keep, 'turning that ship, 360 degrees'.

    When you see it, you will kick yourself as the moron that you are.

  17. '360 degree changes in viewpoint'...you are a moron...just for the record.

  18. Re:Which is all fine (mostly) on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, trucknutz that light up (usually with the turn signals) are illegal most places.

  19. Being the winners, they aren't as obsessed as the losers are.

    Do you count the minutes for the Drumpf shitposters?

  20. Even if you live in one of the largest tomato producing regions, the ones in the grocery store are still harvested underripe. The ripe ones go to sauce.

    You'd think they could send ripe fruit to the stores right around the corner while it was in season, but they don't.

    In northern CA, before the giant cannery outside Davis closed, the tomatoes on the side of the highway (lost in transport to the cannery) were better than those in the stores.

  21. Re:I've got a better idea for them: on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Not 'everyone' is a whiny bitch, so that won't happen.

  22. Re:Sure, Net gun should do the trick on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet the 'Anarchist's Cookbook' has killed at least 100 wanna be ricin makers. That was well done.

  23. Re:Are drones a problem for aircraft? on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Near misses default to 'drone' these days. Often the reports are revised a day or so later, and with no coverage, to be a near miss with a blowing plastic bag...

  24. Re:Which is all fine (mostly) on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ...right of the people...

    Halfwit.

  25. Go anywhere near the president when he is outdoors, with a RF spectrum analyzer. Then just turn on a remote control radio, of any kind. 'They' will have a bunch of questions based on the assumption you were testing the defenses. Don't expect to sleep at home that night.