HBO is screwing it's subscribers, they're the next Netflix

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Thursday July 05, 2012 · 2:44 PM PDT

2012/07/05 · 14:44

It's not bad enough that I am sick as a dog with a cold that is messing with my brain with so much sinus pressure that all i can do is watch tv with an ice pack on my face; but, when i turned on my directv this morning i found that HBO is not working. instead, there is an error message that tells me my $50 gold plated HDMI cable will no longer work and i need to buy an inferior "component cable", which will mean whenever i watch HBO i will be watching an inferior resolution (this is only one of the issues, the guy at radioshack told me that i'd have issues with recording HBO on the DVR because of the separate input). the supposed justification they give for punishing their subscribers is that they are trying to stop piracy. well they need to call seal team 6 or something because the closest i've ever come to piracy is when i dubbed my friend's led zeppelin cassettes in the '80's.

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will you be cancelling your HBO after today?

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will you be cancelling your HBO after today?

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Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte needs to go!

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Thursday March 22, 2012 · 11:55 AM PDT

2012/03/22 · 11:55

One of the more frustrating aspects of this whole sad story is listening to this Bonaparte character speak his bureaucrat-ease all over the TV machine. I feel like i just want to throw my computer through the screen. He refuses to answer any of the most obvious of questions with anything other than the most rambling of vagaries. When Lawrence O'Donnell eviscerated Chief Lee's report on last night's show, bringing up glaring screwups (at best) or cover ups such as not taking the gun so that they could run it through forensics, among other examples of basic police work this freek just stands there and pretty much replies, yep, them are questions all-righty. There is no sense of even the slightest concern from Bonaparte, let alone urgency!

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Thursday May 21, 2009 · 8:57 PM PDT

2009/05/21 · 20:57

Needless to say I’m pretty pissed off right now. My mortgage is $1,400, plus about $300 in taxes and insurance, for a total of $1,700. My income fell from about $70,000 two years ago to $31,000 last year, which puts my house payment at about 2/3 of my income.. yet, they said I make too much money to qualify. But the rules as spelled out here http://www.callalms.com/... say this

Debt To Income Goal is 31%: President Obama's plan requires participating loan servicers to reduce monthly mortgage payments to less than 38% of the borrower's gross monthly income. The government would then assist in lowering the mortgage payments to no more than 31% of the borrower's monthly income

And i got this rejection letter on the same day that I read this

Treasury To Lend GMAC At Least $7 Billion more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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Saturday February 03, 2007 · 11:55 AM PST

2007/02/03 · 11:55

ok, so when my friend sent me this link i thought this was a joke or a satire Update [2007-2-3 15:46:12 by mindtrafficcontrol]: and it turns out it was. but it's so funny i'm leaving it up anyway[/UPDATE] watch this video from the world's most homophobic "christian" band. i'm not going to print their name because i don't want them getting any publicity, but they're so ridiculous i just had to share. this is what happens when you let morons play with instruments. and check out the rest of their website where they list "safe" bands and "gay" bands. how in the hell did cole porter and ravi shankar get on anyone's list of gay bands?!

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Monday January 29, 2007 · 5:29 PM PST

2007/01/29 · 17:29

when this hits the internets i think it will do a lot of damage to john mccain's incredibly shrinking image as a "maverick"

In a dim Culver City editing room, two video snippets of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain fill the monitors. In the first, he says same-sex marriage should be allowed. In the second, he says it should be illegal.

The clips are part of the payoff of a weeks-long hunt by filmmaker Robert Greenwald and his production team for damaging Internet video of the Arizona senator.

Greenwald, the producerdirector of scathing documentaries about Fox News and Wal-Mart, hopes to shatter McCain's image as a straight-talking maverick. But instead of creating a full-length film, he is assembling clips of McCain for a series of two-minute Web videos. The idea is to turn McCain's own words against him, spreading the videos through e-mail, blogs and websites.

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 6:40 PM PST

2007/01/26 · 18:40

i'm not an economics major or anything, but i am extremely interested in the relationship of interest rates and taxes on the economy. the following idea occurred to me a long time ago when i first started paying attention to economic issues in an attempt to better understand class politics:

Point#1) my understanding of he Fed is that one of its main purposes is to raise interest rates when the economy is getting too "hot" (and vice versa.)

Point #2) the standard argument against raising taxes on the rich is that it will hurt the economy.

well, it seems to me that if the economy were getting too hot, ie., growing at too fast a pace, then instead of raising interest rates to cool it, maybe we could accomplish the same thing for the economy by raising income taxes on the rich, and in so doing also balance the budget.

what's the best way to cool an economy?

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what's the best way to cool an economy?

raise taxes

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raise interest rates

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elect a republican

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The Power of The Purse

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 8:20 PM PST

2007/01/25 · 20:20

last week Hillary Clinton called for a cessation of funding for Iraq's Maliki government until certain conditions are met.

"I think putting leverage on them and saying, 'You know what, we provide security for the members of this government. We're cutting funding for that. We're not going to fund an army that doesn't show up half the time, that is more aligned with their sectarian position than with the national identity.'"

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Tuesday January 09, 2007 · 12:10 AM PST

2007/01/09 · 00:10

i don't think so, assuming it is even possible to end the war through such tactics. it would be exactly what karl rove wants if they did. this whole surge thing is bullshit. no one thinks it is going to work, including bush. it is just a way to look like he is reacting to the election and to paint the dems, who were elected to stop the war, into a corner. if they de-fund his escalation rove will crucify them in the media and put the blame for losing the war on them; and if they go along with the escalation they alienate their base who voted them into power and look weak and unprincipled to boot.

the smart thing for the dems to do in this situation is to say "ok mr. bush, we'll let you have your way, but in order to get the 20,000 troops you are going to have to get up in front of the congress (and the cameras) and ensure the american people that this is going to work and that if it doesn't that you will be the one to blame."

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Wednesday February 22, 2006 · 5:26 PM PST

2006/02/22 · 17:26

my girlfriend got called in and has to show up in court tomorrow. she is enrolled in school, a course that cannot be repeated for a year. we will have moved out of town by then. we have already paid thousands of dollars in tuition. is there anything we can say to the judge at this late date to postpone service for a couple months? Update [2006-2-22 21:36:12 by mindtrafficcontrol]: i changed the title from "get out of" to postponed. i didn't mean to suggest that i want to avoid any civic duty, just to push it forward, within the rules!

Blair admits global warming larger problem than previously thought

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 7:51 PM PST

2006/01/29 · 19:51

from the independent

Tony Blair has admitted that the risks of climate change may be more serious than previously thought.

The Prime Minister's concern is revealed today in a book that contains compelling evidence from some of the world's leading scientists of the growing threat to the planet.

Reassessments of major risks to the Earth, such as the melting of the great land-based ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, which would raise sea levels disastrously, or the slowing down of the Gulf Stream, which would plunge Britain into a new ice age, show that they may be triggered by temperature rises well within those already predicted for the coming century.

The fresh appraisals indicate that the situation is far more dangerous than that set out in the last report of the main scientific body monitoring global warming, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Dems Need to Get Out in Front of Immigration Before Slime Machine Gets Going

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Monday December 05, 2005 · 10:40 AM PST

2005/12/05 · 10:40

democrats know what's coming. with no possible hope of a civil debate on the issues going their way, the republican slime machine is gearing up for a total scorched earth attack on immigration. hey, forget the fact that they've had all the power the last five years -- it's slimein' time!
instead of being the predictable party of catch-up the democrats really need to get out in front of this one. how about pre-empting the whole thing and making the point that the only way to discourage illegal immigration is to go after the employers. obviously, if there was no one willing to hire them they wouldn't risk death crossing the desert to come here. existing law already allows for a five year prison term for knowingly hiring an illegal alien. how about enforcing that one instead of emotive attacks on "mexican welfare queens and the democratic congressmen who love them!"
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ROBOTS!! ROBOTS EVERYWHERE!!! Diebold's play for Cahhlifornyahh

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Friday November 18, 2005 · 4:35 PM PST

2005/11/18 · 16:35

when ahhhnold used terminator imagry to campaign for governor, who knew he meant it literally!? link

On Monday, November 21st, California's Voting System Panel (VSP) was slated to hold public hearings on whether to recertify Diebold TSX touchscreen machines. The California Election Protection Network (CEPN) issued a press release inviting concerned citizens to speak at the 10 a.m. hearing and attend a rally at Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's office to encourage state officials to "send Diebold packing before Turkey Day."

But when CEPN spokesperson Sherry Healy called to verify the hearing date and time, she received startling news.

"I asked Bruce McDannold in the Secretary of State's office if the hearing is still on for Monday," she told Raw Story. "He said, 'You're half right. The VSP has been disbanded.' I asked why. He said, 'I can't speak for the Secretary of State.'"

HBO is screwing it's subscribers, they're the next Netflix

Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte needs to go!

GMAC denied my loan modification application on the same day they got $7billion from the government

insane christian band website

the squiggly talk express

why not raise taxes to slow a "hot" economy rather than interest rates?

The Power of The Purse

should the democrats defund the escalation?

does anybody know how to postpone jury duty?

Blair admits global warming larger problem than previously thought

Dems Need to Get Out in Front of Immigration Before Slime Machine Gets Going

ROBOTS!! ROBOTS EVERYWHERE!!! Diebold's play for Cahhlifornyahh