On Tuesday 02 August 2005 23:27, Sami Samhuri wrote: > * On Tue Aug-02-2005 at 03:41:42 PM -0400, Matt Randolph said: > > You may be missing out on those few shows that are actually well > > written. On the other hand, it is probably better for your health to > > simply do without TV altogether. > > > > I find it extremely entertaining that you (apparently) have Cox cable > > internet, and yet you have no TV to speak of. More power to you. > > I haven't had cable TV in years. I too despise advertisements. Most of > them are insulting at best. My ISP is the local cable provider, Shaw, > and they called me up to offer me $10/month cable television service. > The lady was shocked I didn't have cable, and even more shocked when I > asked why I would want to pay for commercials. (radio is free is it > not? greedy cable companies!) If I had the money for a nice HTPC and > a fine selection of channels then I would probably get cable. However, I > have no desire to sit and channel surf through piles of ads. As you > said, we are missing out on the _few_ shows that are well written. Not > to mention movies.
Can always download them... (assuming they're legally downloadable, if you prefer the assumption ;) -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
