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* Just Canceled Cable TV - 3 messages, 2 authors
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* Gasoline "Boycott": The Next Generation - 2 messages, 2 authors
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* Tracfone - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Just Canceled Cable TV
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/6cd6ada4aaa4d5bc?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 8 2008 8:21 pm
From: Dennis
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:18:59 -0700, The Real Bev
<bashley101+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dennis wrote:
>> Lost episodes are available online at http://abc.go.com.
Quite good
>> video quality and you only have to put up with 3 or 4 30-second
>> comercials. You can even start/stop/pause/replay the video like a
>> PVR.
>
>Or you can record them onto the DVR's HD or DVD off the air and then
>watch them all at once skipping over the commercials. Much more
>enjoyable --
I do record Lost on my PVR (OTA in HDTV), but we watch them once a
week as the season progresses. Agreed, the skipping commercials part
does make a big difference in the enjoyment level. But I find that I
lose interest/overload after watching the second or third episode
back-to-back.
I didn't start watching until Season 2, so the ABC site has been nice
for me to catch up on the Season 1 details/backstories that I missed.
> you don't have to keep saying "Huh? Where did HE come from?"
>
>When continuity counts, watching one episode per week is unsatisfactory.
Not a problem for me, and my wife has me to fill her in for her "Huh?"
moments. ;-)
Dennis (evil)
--
I'm behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, riding the wave,
dodging the bullet and pushing the envelope. -George Carlin
== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 8 2008 9:37 pm
From: Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
Dennis wrote:
>
> Lost episodes are available online at http://abc.go.com.
Quite good
> video quality and you only have to put up with 3 or 4 30-second
> comercials.
It's only available to people in the US, though, but I agree, it was a
great move to put it on HD on the web.
== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 8 2008 9:38 pm
From: Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
Gordon wrote:
> Since then we have been finding that the internet is full
> of TV programming. The kids watch all the Squarebob they
> want over the internet, and Joost has enough on demand
> programing to add veriety.
You have found Hulu, right?
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TOPIC: Gasoline "Boycott": The Next Generation
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/7b5aa5d3dc9c38b8?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 8 2008 8:47 pm
From: don@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein)
In article <7OZ2k.91$Mk4.62@newsfe05.lga>, The Real Bev wrote:
>Shawn Hirn wrote:
>
>> Starrfleat@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Obviously, gasoline prices have gotten asinine.
>>
>> Not at all. The price of gas in the United States is still a bargain.
>> Most Americans have become spoiled by unrealistically low gas prices.
>
>Having the freedom to travel when and where we want is NOT being
>spoiled, it's the way EVERYBODY should be and until recently that's the
>way we were. Stuffing us into slow public transportation is a step
>backward, not forward.
Most Americans still have legs and feet and can afford bikes.
Freedom to travel in America appears to me to have historically been on
Americans' own nickels unless the travel is along subsidized routes via
subsidized vehicles. Please do consider vehicle codes of most of the 50
states giving preference to those whose vehicles are "The Two Cadillacs" -
as in their shoes.
Also consider that in most, possibly all of 50 of America's "states"
bicycles are legal vehicles with same rights and responsibilities as cars
unless "official traffic control devices" say otherwise (such as lane
restrictions, most of which exclude cars and trucks). As far as I know in
PA and in at least most of the other 49 USA "states", bicycles are
"street-legal vehicles" but exempted from requirements for insurance,
registration, title, inspection and tags, along with having a lower
standard to meet for lights should they be operated at nighttime.
My experience in/near Philadelphia is in addition that *mostly* (I
disclaim any guarantee) that police officers *mostly* do not stop and
ticket cyclists for running red lights as long as the cyclists stop and
yield to pedestrians and vehicles who have green lights.
(CAUTION - failure to stop for a red light and failure to come to a full
stop at a stop sign is ticketable in PA with 3 points on the vehicle
operator's license. My sense is that "culturally" in my region of PA that
stopping at stop signs mainly has to be done to the extent to avoid
at-fault crashes, and that cyclists "culturally" only need to stop for red
lights to yield to whoever has a green light.)
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 8 2008 9:57 pm
From: The Real Bev
Shawn Hirn wrote:
> In article <7OZ2k.91$Mk4.62@newsfe05.lga>,
> The Real Bev <bashley101+usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Shawn Hirn wrote:
>>
>> > Starrfleat@gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> Obviously, gasoline prices have gotten asinine.
>> >
>> > Not at all. The price of gas in the United States is still a bargain.
>> > Most Americans have become spoiled by unrealistically low gas prices.
>>
>> Having the freedom to travel when and where we want is NOT being
>> spoiled, it's the way EVERYBODY should be and until recently that's the
>> way we were. Stuffing us into slow public transportation is a step
>> backward, not forward.
>
> Wrong. Public transit is a viable means of transportation for millions
> of people in some of the world's greatest cities and it works better
> than private transportation.
As long as it goes where you want to go and when you want to go and lets
you take the stuff you want to take. I've used public transportation
maybe a dozen times in the last several years -- since we got a Metro
station a quarter of a mile away. I went to the Staples center to see
some friends become citizens and I've gone to Chinatown a number of
times because the grandspawn think riding trains is neat. Those trips
would have been faster by car, but they were done for recreational
rather than practical purposes.
I'm trying to figure out just what public transportation we and our
bicycles and our camping equipment could take to get to Moab by tomorrow
night. I don't think I'm gonna make it.
That's freedom to travel, and when we lose it it will be a BIG loss.
> The problem with the United States is that
> far too many urban and suburban areas are poorly served by public
> transportation. You have a right to travel where you want, but you also
> have a responsibility to pay the full cost of your travel expenses if
> you want the luxury of private transportation.
We've paid the standard taxes all our life. We've paid our dues along
with the dues of a lot of other people. I let the welfare recipients
use my roads, the least they could do is say thank you and not throw
trash on them.
--
Cheers, Bev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why should I be tarred with the epithet "loony" merely
because I have a pet halibut? --Monty Python
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TOPIC: Tracfone
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/56cc0a72df54a2f6?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Jun 8 2008 9:33 pm
From: Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply
GMTA!!!!
h wrote:
>
> What a total pain in the ass! I make less than one call a year, so having to
> dig the phone out and use it every two months would be a drag. If you forget
> to make the call does the phone stop working? How ridiculous.
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