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Excluding when I'm away from home and someone else's TV is on, never.
I pulled the plug on all things follyweird around a decade ago in all forms (broadcast, cable, optical disc and never bothered trying this new fangled streaming thing the kids on my lawn are going on about - it's still the same crap in a different package).
Nothing I've seen since then has made me regret doing so in the least.
Not giving an elephant about sportsball in any form definitely made doing so easier. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: Not giving an elephant about sportsball in any form
I never have.  I don't see the point in it.
Reality TV is unreal - so I've heard; I never have watched it.
News TV is unreal - so I've heard; I only used to watch the BBC and no longer even that since the 80's.
I can't sit through sitcoms since they are not com at all.
I could go on but my favourite show isn't on TV anymore.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I don't have a television and have't had one for over 11 years.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I haven't watched broadcast TV in some 20 years, at least. Not even sports (not into sports.)
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No TV, No Movies, No Serial.
Only Sports, That I pay & get it streamed to my phone.
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I watch broadcast TV all the time. I guess you're just better than me.
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It seems I'm the only old fashioned TV watcher here, a lot of Dutch television but that's more because the wife watches it, personally Dutch soaps and series always disgusted me 
During our vacation in Denmark we even watched some German television, yes no subtitles, everything dubbed in German !
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lopatir wrote: in particular free-to-air TV)
There is no such thing! 30% of air time is commercial therefore a 30 min. sitcom is 10 minutes of ads and if you got paid for the time that you sit through these mind numbing ads would it be worth your time. Not mine!
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I stopped watching broadcast TV 6 years ago. I occasionally will stream something, but I am usually busy doing other things.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Nope. We dumped our cable TV a year or so ago, reducing our monthly bill from $185 to $65 (Internet only now). Mrs. Wife still watches one broadcast channel occasionally. I watch Netflix or Blu-Ray/DVD.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nothing live - ever - unless, as others have pointed out, I'm at somebody else's place and the TV happens to be on. Even then, that's when I get re-acquainted with how horrible live TV has devolved into.
As if commercial breaks weren't bad enough - now you have in-your-face animated TV station logos, and promotions for other shows on network TV taking up the lower third.
My main source of TV shows to this day remains Usenet, and I have no moral qualms about that - I always end up purchasing those series I enjoy, and because of such posts, I've discovered (and purchased) more series than I ever would have otherwise.
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lopatir wrote: - don't watch any TV series "on TV" - rather watch on-demand (IF, when, where I want)
- don't watch any "reality shows" at all or ever - rather snort random baby projectile vomit
- don't watch any talk shows (Late Show, Jimmy Kibley, John Stevens, Clodburtt)
Not even news (who cares, 60% is useless, 10% sad news (i.e. a blind gay vegan dog got stuck up a tree)' and other 30% is tainted by broadcaster allegiance bullshhit - "Trump's gonna lose" - LOf*L)
I'm exactly the same!
Are you my long-lost twin brother, or something?lopatir wrote: the only thing I'll watch via broadcast media is: live sports
Well, so much for that idea.
Running around fields chasing balls is a job for dogs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bought my house in the US in 2006 and decided not to get cable. I used to study a lot; so no time for that nonsense.
Today, I do watch TV, but it's all through a HDMI cable from my laptop. I watch mostly YouTube, a little NFL Brady, and some of the NBA finals. I also download and watch movies from Putlocker.
The problem of not watching network television is I no longer feel part of the American culture. I do not understand why people cry victim, equal pay, racism, equality, and just out right hate speech, because I see the exact opposite in society.
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Hi All,
I think I have posted before on Jira, can't really remember what I said. On one side the test team I work in is a Jira advocate, certain project leaders in software dislike it, site management love it, hardware is a separate issue. The main thing is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, I think the issue is one of the software people who was told to use it found a way hacking it with some python scripts to get away from using the interface (which I can sympathise with, who came up with, three dots rather than the this is what you are about to choose!) 
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The problem with Jira is that it is trying to shoehorn so many different things into what was once, just bug tracking. Now it does Kanban boards, storyboards, plain projects, etc... This all sits together very uneasily.
This space for rent
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That is the point! I just got in to hot water for raising what was a bug as a software change...
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: This all sits together very uneasily.
The way Jira implements it, it's like four monopole magnets. They all want to run away from each other! 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Depends on who manages it, I find it quite good. It can ease management and tracking.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Any bugtracker/task management system needs a dedicated manager.
Jira is no different.
Let programmers program and managers manage.
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Luckily there are alternatives for Jira, so take your pick: jira-alternatives[^]
And also: project-management-tools[^] about Jira it says:
Quote: If you use Jira you are pretty much locked inside their ecosystem. For example, if you want to add a tool to your project management stack (like a wiki) more often than not you will have to buy one of Atlassian's tools
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I went from Fogbugz to Jira for issue tracking because I could cheaply use it on my server and Fogbugs for your server went out of sight cost wise when I wasn't looking.
Jira is slow and clunky but free, it's a wonderful toy.
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2 out of 3. Bad and waste of time. Granted, there are people here that like it. It may be that we're not using it correctly here, or that it's not set up right, etc. Regardless, my experience (and I've been forced to use it over the years at various companies) is that it's a pile of dung.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It depends on who's using it.
As Marc said, too many people are "I don't give a sh1t", and that goes especially for things like doing their bit with pride in Jira and documentation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Is there any specific sports event that broke you really hard?
I think the feeling I'm talking about can be related only by people who follow sports with some deeper involvement. 
Maybe a soccer match, rugby, basketball- can be anything.
I'm usually not inclined on "watching" sports. I consider it a bit of time-waster.
But what happened yesterday was a bit depressing that I almost applied for a half a day leave to get out of it.
It's a cricket match (Please don't boo! lol) between India & New Zealand. And It's a Semi-final.
We lost it by a whisker. The Kiwis just stole a win.
It's a 4 years wait. It all got spoiled with a few minutes of bad decisions on the field.
Now that India is gone, it's gonna be New Zeland vs (England Vs Aussies)
I'm rooting for England. Good Luck guys!
And yesterday's match was more emotional as one of our most fav. players were having his last game.
This turned into a national phenomenon.
Literally, it just sent people to roll over and cry.
https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/cricket/article/icc-world-cup-the-video-of-ms-dhoni-crying-on-being-run-out-has-got-entire-india-weeping/452039[^]
It went to the extent that the cameraman shooting the event, broke down. It's all shared on twitter.
If you had followed cricket ever, you should just check out this huge incident. It's dramatic.
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The CXIVth Galaxy Series Brockian Ultra-Cricket match Final.
Nobody knows which teams were playing (see The Rules[^]) but what a match!
Crying at a cricket result? Come on ... get a life!
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