I do sometimes feel like that old guy Joe Btfsplk from the Li'l Abner
comic. I'm a fugitive from the law of averages.
But no, I think I just live where the internet options aren't that good.
Time Warner has a monopoly on cable in this area and my only
"alternative" would be AT&T (who have a monopoly on plain old telephone).
I won't repeat the story why AT&T is a no go, but I'm convinced that on
top of their basic incompetence, Time Warner is playing games with their
cable internet service.
They're making it crap so subscribers will be encouraged to buy "turbo"
internet at a much higher price. They can't just jack the rates up
because that would violate their contract with the city that gave them
the cable monopoly.
It's a marketing ploy to get you to pay twice as much in order to get
what you're already paying for.
The other part, the computer problems, is I don't fit in with the
disposable society.
It may be some form of OCD, but I can't bring myself to throw away
perfectly good hardware just because it's a few years old. Along with a
"pack-rat gene" I seem to have inherited an attitude to use it, mend it,
use it again and keep using it until it's all used up ... then pass it
along to someone else who can use it.
Except that there is no one else who can use it; nowhere to donate it.
So I keep nursing the old hardware along.
On 4/12/2014 6:14 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Quoting John Sessoms <[email protected]>:
Damn it! Here we go again
John - did you break a mirror while trying to avoid a black cat after
walking under a ladder?
You seem to have more computer/internet bad luck than one person should
have to put up with...
;-)>
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