"Uh, where in the USA and from which phone company can you get caller id by itself (i.e. not part of a package deal) for as little as $2 per month? Seriously. I'd like to move there. The last time I checked my phone bill it cost a bit more than that."
Agreed. I'm paying BellSouth $9.00/monthly for caller-ID service.
If you like a browser that sucks memory, and slow to load pages, then Firefox is the browser for you... if you like fast browsing, with less of a "footprint" on your hard drive, then Opera is the browser for you:-)
I have Dish Network, but also have a large antenna on a mast mounted on my roof for local channels. I can't see paying Dish to upgrade me to a SuperDish from my current Dish 500 (for $100), then having to pay them $5.99/month for the locals I can get for free with my antenna.
I've been using DSL since 2002 once it became available where I live. Only cable company here, Time-Warner, tried to screw me over after I cancelled their TV service a few years ago. I dropped them and switched to Dish Network because they kept raising their prices, and I had to "fight" with them for months afterward because they kept billing me for service after they disconnected me. Ended up contacting the Better Business Bureau after getting a bill from a collection agency sent by Time Warner. After that, Time Warner FINALLY stopped billing and cancelled the collection notice. For that reason, I will NEVER do any business with Time Warner Cable again. I would go back to dial-up first!
Where are you getting that nearly $40 price from for BellSouth DSL? Their 256K plan is only $24.95/month. The 1.5M plan is $32.95/month, and the 3M plan I have is $42.95/month. The plans are listed HERE.
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I got the first two DVDs of Beverly Hillbillies for $1 each at the grocery store a while back. I had never seen episodes that early, before, and they were all hilarious. We're talking several episodes before they even wrote the lyrics to the theme song. Good stuff.
"The Beverly Hillbillies" always had the lyrics. Those cheap DVD's are a few episodes that fell into public domain. The theme song "Ballad of Jed Clampett" however, ISN'T in the public domain, so the video companies had to change the opening/closing music, or pay royalties on the music. I have several early episodes I bought through Columbia House on VHS in the late 1980's, and the music is intact. You'll find the cheap DVD's of "The Andy Griffith Show" had the opening/closing music changed also, for the same reasons. To get "Andy Griffith" with the original theme, you'd need to buy the Paramount Video releases.
I haven't seen the inside of a movie theater since taking my son (who was 4 at the time) to see the first "Toy Story" film in 1995. After the divorce a year later, and the ex moving too far away for me to see my son, I've been perfectly content to wait for the movies to show up on HBO/Showtime/Starz... THEN if I like the movie enough, I'll go out and purchase the DVD. I'm also content to watch movies on my 7 year old 27" Sony Trinitron with my Radio Shack surround sound system.
But of course, the facts above could also just mean that I'm the biggest "cheapskate" on the planet....
"I don't know about visual media, but claims of remastering are already occurring with digital audio recordings. I've seen a number of classical music titles which were originally recorded as fully DDD in the early '80s, but which are now being rereleased with the claim of being remastered for better sound quality."
I've got a Telarc CD of the 1812 Overture I bought in the mid 1980's, those cannons will nearly knock you out of your seat!
I finally got around to buying Season 2 of "Rocky & Bullwinkle" (have owned season one for quite a while), lots of "cold war" humor in those shows I didn't pick up on while watching as a kid. Sure, the animation is "bargain basement", but the writing makes up for it.
I'm so much of a fan of the original radio series, the books, and the BBC-TV version, I find the motion picture version grossly mis-cast. Even Marvin looks wrong... he's supposed to be an android, not a freggin' oversized bowling ball on feet! I'll refuse to ever see the movie version, just from what I've seen and heard so far. Sure, Douglas Adams wrote most of the screenplay, but he had NOTHING to do with production of this fiasco!/from the bonus features on the DVD of the BBC series, I'd still "do" Sandra Dickinson (Trillian), but that is neither here nor there....
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"Uh, where in the USA and from which phone company can you get caller id by itself (i.e. not part of a package deal) for as little as $2 per month? Seriously. I'd like to move there. The last time I checked my phone bill it cost a bit more than that."
Agreed. I'm paying BellSouth $9.00/monthly for caller-ID service.
I'm an athiest, so p*ss off...
Say what you like about MSNBC, but Alison Stewart is a hottie!
If you like a browser that sucks memory, and slow to load pages, then Firefox is the browser for you... if you like fast browsing, with less of a "footprint" on your hard drive, then Opera is the browser for you :-)
I have Dish Network, but also have a large antenna on a mast mounted on my roof for local channels. I can't see paying Dish to upgrade me to a SuperDish from my current Dish 500 (for $100), then having to pay them $5.99/month for the locals I can get for free with my antenna.
I'm one of those that have never owned a mobile phone. Just don't have a use for one. My old-fashioned land line serves my needs just fine.
/already has a Gmail account though
I've been using DSL since 2002 once it became available where I live. Only cable company here, Time-Warner, tried to screw me over after I cancelled their TV service a few years ago. I dropped them and switched to Dish Network because they kept raising their prices, and I had to "fight" with them for months afterward because they kept billing me for service after they disconnected me. Ended up contacting the Better Business Bureau after getting a bill from a collection agency sent by Time Warner. After that, Time Warner FINALLY stopped billing and cancelled the collection notice. For that reason, I will NEVER do any business with Time Warner Cable again. I would go back to dial-up first!
Where are you getting that nearly $40 price from for BellSouth DSL? Their 256K plan is only $24.95/month. The 1.5M plan is $32.95/month, and the 3M plan I have is $42.95/month. The plans are listed HERE.
I got the first two DVDs of Beverly Hillbillies for $1 each at the grocery store a while back. I had never seen episodes that early, before, and they were all hilarious. We're talking several episodes before they even wrote the lyrics to the theme song. Good stuff.
"The Beverly Hillbillies" always had the lyrics. Those cheap DVD's are a few episodes that fell into public domain. The theme song "Ballad of Jed Clampett" however, ISN'T in the public domain, so the video companies had to change the opening/closing music, or pay royalties on the music. I have several early episodes I bought through Columbia House on VHS in the late 1980's, and the music is intact. You'll find the cheap DVD's of "The Andy Griffith Show" had the opening/closing music changed also, for the same reasons. To get "Andy Griffith" with the original theme, you'd need to buy the Paramount Video releases.
I haven't seen the inside of a movie theater since taking my son (who was 4 at the time) to see the first "Toy Story" film in 1995. After the divorce a year later, and the ex moving too far away for me to see my son, I've been perfectly content to wait for the movies to show up on HBO/Showtime/Starz... THEN if I like the movie enough, I'll go out and purchase the DVD. I'm also content to watch movies on my 7 year old 27" Sony Trinitron with my Radio Shack surround sound system. But of course, the facts above could also just mean that I'm the biggest "cheapskate" on the planet....
but not ok for Billy D. Williams to use a baseline from "I want a new drug" in "Ghostbusters". I believe you are thinking of Ray Parker,Jr.
"I don't know about visual media, but claims of remastering are already occurring with digital audio recordings. I've seen a number of classical music titles which were originally recorded as fully DDD in the early '80s, but which are now being rereleased with the claim of being remastered for better sound quality." I've got a Telarc CD of the 1812 Overture I bought in the mid 1980's, those cannons will nearly knock you out of your seat!
I finally got around to buying Season 2 of "Rocky & Bullwinkle" (have owned season one for quite a while), lots of "cold war" humor in those shows I didn't pick up on while watching as a kid. Sure, the animation is "bargain basement", but the writing makes up for it.
I'm so much of a fan of the original radio series, the books, and the BBC-TV version, I find the motion picture version grossly mis-cast. Even Marvin looks wrong... he's supposed to be an android, not a freggin' oversized bowling ball on feet! I'll refuse to ever see the movie version, just from what I've seen and heard so far. Sure, Douglas Adams wrote most of the screenplay, but he had NOTHING to do with production of this fiasco! /from the bonus features on the DVD of the BBC series, I'd still "do" Sandra Dickinson (Trillian), but that is neither here nor there....