Yeah, I'm eligible for either the upgrade pricing OR the discount on service, but they won't combine them.
Still, if I switched to a CableCard, I'd still be saving money in the long run by switching to Tivo. Plus I'd have Tivo again...
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Sep 01, 2009 9:46:52 am PDT #6471 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
StuntHusband - Sep 01, 2009 9:48:58 am PDT #6472 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
As a quick FYI: Referendum 71 made it onto the fall ballot here in Washington.
On the surface, this seems to be a good thing - extend to all domestic partnerships all the rights and responsibilities of marriage.
However, it also EXPRESSLY forbids marriage to be anything except between one man and one woman.
The wording is extremely confusing (so much so that TWICE I've actually voiced my support for it...until a lawyer said, "That's not all it does..." and clarified things for me).
WA-istas, and other political activists: encourage people to educate themselves on this issue. I obviously have a stake in the outcome - but my emphasis here is education not persuasion towards a specific goal.
SuziQ - Sep 01, 2009 10:01:43 am PDT #6473 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Looks like the clown car fits 19 now. Yikes.
Barb - Sep 01, 2009 10:04:35 am PDT #6474 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Get out of my HEAD, Suzi. I was about to say the same exact thing. Down to the "yikes."
Typo Boy - Sep 01, 2009 10:05:11 am PDT #6475 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of comparing natural disaster to 911. The natural disaster may not be human caused but quite often the deaths are. In Katrina the neglect was at least careless, and in my personal opinion deliberate. Rove was heavily involved in decision making. And I assume that he was thinking "we can drive out and kill a lot of the black people who live in a purple state, on that can go either red or blue, and make it more reliably red." A lot of the Bush very White House Katrina choices can be explained on that basis. And in general how many people a disaster kills depends on a lot on preparation and government response. So if a natural disaster results in a lot of deaths, most of the time it means the public authorities did not do what they should have. And most of the time much of this neglect is done in the face of warnings that they are asking for trouble.
Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 10:16:02 am PDT #6476 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
The impression I got from the Bush administration's handling of Katrina was more of incompetence rather than malice.
Trudy Booth - Sep 01, 2009 10:19:17 am PDT #6477 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The impression I got from the Bush administration's handling of Katrina was more of incompetence rather than malice.
At the very least, I can't help feeling like they'd have gotten competent if it were a population they cared about.
Of course, in my darker hours I think the neglect/gutting of the public schools is a deliberate effort to create/maintain an easily manipulated underclass.
SuziQ - Sep 01, 2009 10:21:10 am PDT #6478 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Get out of my HEAD, Suzi.
Ya know, I think Barb's head would be a real spicy place to hang out.
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2009 10:24:28 am PDT #6479 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
The impression I got from the Bush administration's handling of Katrina was more of incompetence rather than malice.
Either way, if there was one instant when the last administration reached the Point of No Return in the public's eyes, it was, "Heck of a job, Brownie."
Gudanov - Sep 01, 2009 10:29:03 am PDT #6480 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Of course, in my darker hours I think the neglect/gutting of the public schools is a deliberate effort to create/maintain an easily manipulated underclass.
Some public schools are great though. I think there is a really tough problem with schools. In general, where there is a good tax base there are good schools. It would be hard to fix that.