Friday, February 24, 2006

Welcome to Nads

Welcome to Nads

I'm sorry... This is just too funny not to post. Considering my usual type of post, I'll not go into details about this one, but this is the REAL reason people cruise the internet. A while back, I mentioned that elusive "nut o' fun." This is, without a doubt, one of the best. I rank it right up there with engrish.com. Go see it, and if you don't laugh until you chunder, you just don't have the same sense of humor I do.
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Thursday, February 09, 2006

USATODAY.com - FCC says a la carte cable would save consumers money

Back to the Blog! Al acarte cable - Public Boon or Boondoggle?

Well, I'm finally back to my blog. Actually, I forgot my password and finally got enough time to change it.

I came across this article today and thought it was worth mentioning:
USATODAY.com - FCC says a la carte cable would save consumers money.
Something I and, I'm sure, many others, have considered and would be interested in if it became available. Now I don't know about you readers (if indeed anyone other than scambots read this), but I would be very happy to be able to pick and choose my cable and satellite channels the same way I choose tomatoes at the market. In fact, if I could ditch all of the religious channels, foreign language channels, sales channels, music video channels and the rest of the cable flotsam out there, I might be more inclined to pay for more premium content such as HBO or another movie channel lineup. In all likelihood, I'd wind up spending at least the same amount I do now, though I'd probably watch TV a little more (that may not be a good thing). I might even be persuaded to opt for other features such as cable modem broadband since I can't get DSL service where I live. Cable broadband is too expensive where I live currently to have both it and television. If others feel the same way I do, switching to an al acarte lineup would probably make more money for the cable conglomerates rather than less. Unfortunately, cable companies don't see things the way I do, since they garner huge amounts of money not only from subscribers, but also from their myriad advertisers. Some of these are local or specialty-oriented, thus are more likely to hawk their wares on fringe or largely unwatched channels. My current channel lineup includes about 120 channels. My family and I watch only about 20 of these. When I mentioned this to my satellite provider a few years ago, I was informed that I get the rest of the channels whether I view them or not, but I can make my own programing using their channel lineup system. I asked if this were the case, why should I pay extra for channels I don't watch? I was told that all services are sold as bundles, so such an arrangement was not possible. If conservative members of Congress can produce legislation to allow an al acarte system, I say more power to them (note to self- isn't this kind of thing normally a liberal concern? Where do the Hollywood democrats stand on this issue? I'm so confused...)
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