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I cut the cable TV cord 10 years ago. I do have Internet and use it for my entertainment. For movies, I tend to use putlocker and sports that isn't on network TV that I'm interested in I use stream2watch.
When I first cut the cord my goal was to stay out of debt and then invest. Even though I can afford cable today, I do not want it. I am much happier without it.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: FleaBag. Elephanting brilliant
Agreed.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Film called Blackout
Um, need a little more to go on.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Man in the High Castle
Facile pap. Any idiot could do stories based on the main premise -- in fact, hundreds have, and they're all full of similar "Wow! Woodn' that be kewl!!!" inconsistencies and incongruences, and plain, simple that-would-never-happen-in-a-million-years-but-it's-convenient-to-the-writer plot devices.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Um, need a little more to go on.
The Blackout (2014)[^]
Indeed; quite a few films with that title.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Facile pap.
You're overthinking it. It's entertainment, not a documentary.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: The Blackout (2014)[^]
Yup, the DVD is available, and I can get subtitles for it.
And if my missus doesn't like it, it's your fault.
I like avoiding stress. It makes me happy.
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: You're overthinking it. It's entertainment, not a documentary.
It's not special. There is no end of "entertainment" that is not special. It needs to be special.
Braindead was special. Strike Back was special. Special can happen, even in an industry that's dominated by untalented people (even more so than other industries).
You don't have to accept cr@p because it's all there is. If no-one ever says "This cr@p is not good enough!", the untalented will continue to thrive.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I like avoiding stress. It makes me happy.
Then don't watch this; if you are a nervous type, you will shite yourself. 
Mark_Wallace wrote: It's not special.
Didn't say it was. It's just mindless drivel that also happens to entertain.
Mark_Wallace wrote: an industry that's dominated by untalented people (even more so than other industries).
That is true.
Mark_Wallace wrote: You don't have to accept cr@p because it's all there is.
That is the other reason I got rid of cable.
Mark_Wallace wrote: If no-one ever says "This cr@p is not good enough!", the untalented will continue to thrive.
I think lots of people say this - makes no difference - show business is, essentially, the vanity business and whilst people's (make that the stars, producers and directors) vanities are being pandered to, crap will get made - look at Tom Cruise!
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This is a great reminder that I need to get a handle on my out of control DirecTV account. My wife set it up over 5 years ago, and the first couple of years weren't bad cost wise, however, when I last checked, my bill was up to USD $250 for a month! 
My wife is a sports fan, so Sunday Ticket is a big part. Also, though we rarely watch movies, we have all the movie channels...the logic is that the kids watch them when they're home, which is a total of about 5-6 days a year anymore. Also, we had to have additional boxes in the pool room, the sun room, and an upstairs bedroom...combined these may see zero usage for months at a time.  There's got to be a better/cheaper way! Good luck with your viewing! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Price was may rationale after TWC arbitrarily upped the price by around $40 a month. 
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Here in the states, ISPs are making it more and more difficult to cut the cord. In fact, to save money, the wife actually had to sign us up for one of those stupid combo deals for TV and internet, after they kept jacking up the price of just having internet. I don't really understand how that one works...
They're also starting to implement data caps in more and more markets, and we're getting one come the first. If any of the alternatives to Comcast in my area were faster than simply shouting 'one-zero-zero-one' over tin-cans-and-string and hand transcribing the bits, I'd have switched a long time ago.
What gets me about the situation, is that Comcast's TV and internet services are pushed over the exact same wire, using the exact same bandwidth. Yet, if I pay for TV, and watch TV over their cable service, those bits don't count against my data cap. But if I watch TV over the internet, say with Hulu or NetFlix, that does count against my cap...
What that amounts to, is traffic being treated preferentially based on source, which is against FCC regulations. How they keep getting away with this practice (claims of bribery and corporate lobbying aside) is beyond me.
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Free to air astra 2 where I live, and that means BBC, and all the ITVs, Channel4s, 5s and a few odds and sods.
Best TV on the planet, absoloutely free. 
--edit--
Actually, you poor sod, having to watch american TV. God its crap. Adverts that take up as much air time as the show, interminable low IQ, oooohh, aahhhhhh, bollocks dressed up as intellectual. God its desperate stuff.
modified 22-Oct-16 14:25pm.
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Was the person who proofread Hitler’s speeches a grammar nazi?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Simple Past -> Present Tense -> Future Conditional
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Stop raising Hail immediately Griff!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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He had to keep his concentration or start to camp out. It must have been a gas.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Umlaut to come up with better ones.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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No. He was a Nazi grammarian.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I have three pairs: One for walking around and driving, one for reading, and one for the computer (different strength to the readers so I'm at a comfortable distance from the displays).
For a couple of years, my computer glasses have been held together with tape, after one of the lens holder frames snapped .
For a year of so, my readers have been held together with wire after after a thread stripped and a lens fell out.
Now my "walk and drive" glasses are also taped together, as the bridge has snapped giving me two monocles... 
Gah! Is it just me or do glasses break, fall apart, or generally die damn quickly these days?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So now you carry the geek stereotype with you wherever you go.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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With two eyepatches you automatically get promoted to senior pirate.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Nagy hates glasses too, in fact the moment he sees one he drinks it 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Get some varifocals.
The huge advantage (apart from being able to see) is that if you wear one pair all day, you don't weaken them by constantly taking them on and off and they last an awful lot longer.
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I used to have varifocals, and they were great.
Until you tried to do anything above your head. At which point you had to tip your head so far back to focus on where the screwdriver (or spanner, or whatever) had to go that you couldn't do it.
I may go back to them, and keep a pair of readers for overhead jobs.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The only things I ever do that are over my head involve computers, so I've not really run into that one!
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Cars, motorcycles, lights, occasional cats.
And spiders. Gotta destroy the spiders ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's what I have. The readers are also good for reading in bed when the eyes are more tired. Although Kindle helps by allowing me to use big fonts.
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That is what I do , varifocals are much better these days but not too good for close up work
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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