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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 20, 2017 19:19:40 GMT -5
After about 6 years of having Direct TV my wife and I have decided to ditch it and save the 120 dollars a month. I installed an antenna that picks up satellite signals for a 50 mile radius. So far I have the major networks and it looks pretty good. I can live without the extra 400 channels that I wasn't watching.
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 21, 2017 0:51:31 GMT -5
I pay $ 89 for my 100 Mbps internet and extended cable package and use my son's Netflix and Hulu now and again.
Good enough for me.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 21, 2017 6:15:00 GMT -5
I did keep my fios internet and we subscribe to Netflix. The cable was expendable because of this.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 21, 2017 6:28:17 GMT -5
$65 per month for my 200 mbps internet through Comcast, $25 per month for Hulu and Netflix, and $0 to use my parents' log-in for Xfinity Streaming to watch live sports.
From where I was before with Verizon internet and Comcast cable, I'm ahead $140 per month right now from where I was at this time last year. Got to give yourself a raise when you can.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 21, 2017 14:25:50 GMT -5
I had this picture of Kirby and Steranko show up in my pintrest feed and thought I'd share it. Them are some sharp boots Steranko's got on. Damn I was really born too late. I would've rocked those boots.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 20:27:22 GMT -5
Very excited, just found out my friend Jesse who organizes Gem City Comic Con has added Chris Bachalo, P. Craig Russell, and Barry Kitson to a line up that already included Mike Grell and Kevin Nowlan, among others for this spring's show.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 20:53:12 GMT -5
Going to Jim & Dan's Comic & Toy Show a week from Sunday in the student center of Wright State University... -M
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 21:46:59 GMT -5
I would so watch this if it were real... -M
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Post by shaxper on Nov 21, 2017 21:50:51 GMT -5
I pay $65 a month for internet and $9 a month for Netflix. It amazes me what folks will pay for the privilege of channel surfing.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Nov 22, 2017 0:18:06 GMT -5
This entire net neutrality business is starting to get really disturbing. I don't live in the USA anymore, but policing internet is just wrong to me. As more and more time passes, being an expat is starting to showcase more pros than cons. At least for my situation.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Nov 22, 2017 0:47:33 GMT -5
By the way last night something strange occurred, yet not a completely unfamiliar scene for myself. I live about 14 floors up at my residence in Macau. It's by a casino and big cultural (basically outdoor walking/playing space) center. There is one new bar that just opened up across my building. At night there aren't that many people walking around. Macau doesn't have much of a nightlife vibe. However, sometimes late you can hear a few drunk people acting like bafoons below when leaving a bar. So at about midnight I heard some commotion. I stopped working, because it was starting to annoy me. I went to our balcony window and looked down. There were about 15 people loitering outside the new bar. A few clearly had too much to drink. I simply stared for a couple of minutes though. I don't speak Cantonese so I couldn't understand what was being said. That didn't matter to me as I looked on though. I started to feel envy. A bunch of people I'm guessing around my age seemingly enjoying themselves. Even if it was a group of people taking part in intoxicated buffoonery. I wanted to be one of those bafoons. That is what I was feeling as my hands pressed up against the glass. Yeah I obviously don't know any of those people on the street or what their lives entail. Perhaps I was just witnessing a highlight from a distance, like on someone's Instagram feed. Still, I felt what I felt. Not sure what I'm supposed to do with that though. This is the view I had of the bar: This is a view from ground level. I have a new son who my wife was trying to put to sleep in a room down the hall. We are still staying at my mother-in- law's place for now. It's been over a year. I love my son and wife of course, but I have to admit a big part of me just doesn't want to be responsible and just live life like an adventure with no set destination. Of course then I think about how few people are in the position to even do that for various reasons. Money usually the biggest one. And family. Errrmmm...guess I'm not looking for a sympathy vote. Just wanted to share what I was feeling/experiencing. Remnants of an introvert.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2017 14:46:02 GMT -5
I usually try to avoid a lot of the more political issues here, but this one has me concerned. I will put the bulk of it behind spoiler tags so those not interested can just scroll on by and skip it. For all those talking about cable pricing, Netflix, cutting the cord, etc. be prepared to start paying a lot more for access to streaming services if net neutrality is rescinded. It will be a price increase bonanza for all the internet access providers who will carve up and repackage into tiny bits each type of site/service you access and charge for each one separately, charging more for high demand access sites like Netflix, Hulu, youtube, ebay, Amazon, social media etc. You think cable pricing was bad, wait until net access pricing hits post net-neutrality when small businesses can be squeezed out by larger corporations using pricing to direct net traffic to them and making it cost-prohibitive for small businesses to compete online. You cut the cord to save money, without the protection of net neutrality it is very possible all those services you went to will cost you significantly more than cable used to and cable providers will start offering deals to get you back again. Smart phones will still have functionality, but data rates to use the internet will skyrocket most likely, as will accessing streaming services from devices. The biggest result of the end of net neutrality will be customers separated from more of their money or losing access to services they have taken for grated. All those things you used to do without thinking about how much it costs you to access them because you paid a flat fee or internet access, will have to be rethought to determine if it is worth the cost it will now entail. Modern society, from commerce to health care to job hunting and everything else about it has become dependent on access to the internet to function. Affordable and fair internet access is a necessary component of the way modern society has evolved. Rescinding net neutrality's only function is to allow businesses to further monetize that function to profit more on the way we live our day to day lives now. There certainly are things we can cut back on, but there are a lot of necessary functions that are now entirely net dependent that we cannot do without that will become monetized at our expense and to our detriment. -M
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 22, 2017 15:01:58 GMT -5
Chapter 3 is DOOOOOONNE!!!
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Just sayin'.
Cei-U! I summon the big ol' sigh of relief!
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Post by The Captain on Nov 22, 2017 17:07:09 GMT -5
I usually try to avoid a lot of the more political issues, but this one has me concerned. I will out the bulk of it behind spoiler tags so those not interested can just scroll on by and skip it. For all those talking about cable pricing, Netflix, cutting the cord, etc. be prepared to start paying a lot more for access to streaming services if net neutrality is rescinded. It will be a price increase bonanza for all the internet access providers who will carve up and repackage into tiny bits each type of site/service you access and charge for each one separately, charging more for high demand access sites like Netflix, Hulu, youtube, ebay, Amazon, social media etc. You think cable pricing was bad, wait until net access pricing hits post net-neutrality when small businesses can be squeezed out by larger corporations using pricing to direct net traffic to them and making it cost-prohibitive for small businesses to compete online. You cut the cord to save money, without the protection of net neutrality it is very possible all those services you went to will cost you significantly more than cable used to and cable providers will start offering deals to get you back again. Smart phones will still have functionality, but data rates to use the internet will skyrocket most likely, as will accessing streaming services from devices. The biggest result of the end of net neutrality will be customers separated from more of their money or losing access to services they have taken for grated. All those things you used to do without thinking about how much it costs you to access them because you paid a flat fee or internet access, will have to be rethought to determine if it is worth the cost it will now entail. Modern society, from commerce to health care to job hunting and everything else about it has become dependent on access to the internet to function. Affordable and fair internet access is a necessary component of the way modern society has evolved. Rescinding net neutrality's only function is to allow businesses to further monetize that function to profit more on the way we live our day to day lives now. There certainly are things we can cut back on, but there are a lot of necessary functions that are now entirely net dependent that we cannot do without that will become monetized at our expense and to our detriment. -M I've been worried about this for months, but what do you expect when a former Verizon executive is put in charge of the FCC? It's just another phase in Mayor McCheeto's goal to totally disassemble the United States of America as we know it and turn it completely over to corporate control, where everything is run and decided on by a small group of billionaires who have only their own interests in mind. We're screwed, plain and simple.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 23, 2017 7:47:19 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving everyone ! Remember to all wear your stretchy pants ...
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