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From: Michael A. Terrell on 20 Apr 2010 21:22 I guess they finally got tired of dimbulb? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dear Valued Customer: Effective June 30, 2010, Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet service to our subscribers. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: Jon Kirwan on 20 Apr 2010 22:45 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:22:04 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >Dear Valued Customer: > >Effective June 30, 2010, Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet >service to our subscribers. Join the club. All service offerings from all companies are continually undergoing review on methods to increase revenue without increasing costs or else decreasing expenses without decreasing revenue. Verizon did this a while back to me. The various cable, satellite TV, and FIOS services do the same thing. Offer "all the channels" for a premium package, then create a _new_ super-premium package that is more expensive and offers "all the channels" while the old "premium, but no longer super-premium" package now has fewer and fewer channels in the line-up as they move some over to the new one. Fancy way of saying "screw you." >Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to >have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. Better yet, go with Robert Heinlein's approach -- you can't even vote if you didn't do military service, honorably. I might even agree with that. Jon
From: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt on 20 Apr 2010 23:13 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:45:54 -0700, Jon Kirwan <jonk(a)infinitefactors.org> wrote: >On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:22:04 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" ><mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >>Dear Valued Customer: >> >>Effective June 30, 2010, Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet >>service to our subscribers. > >Join the club. All service offerings from all companies are >continually undergoing review on methods to increase revenue >without increasing costs or else decreasing expenses without >decreasing revenue. Verizon did this a while back to me. > >The various cable, satellite TV, and FIOS services do the >same thing. Offer "all the channels" for a premium package, >then create a _new_ super-premium package that is more >expensive and offers "all the channels" while the old >"premium, but no longer super-premium" package now has fewer >and fewer channels in the line-up as they move some over to >the new one. Fancy way of saying "screw you." > >>Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to >>have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. > >Better yet, go with Robert Heinlein's approach -- you can't >even vote if you didn't do military service, honorably. I >might even agree with that. > >Jon Everyone should call for a reduction in monthly rates then, as I was sold FULL Internet access, not "fool" Internet access.
From: AtTheEndofMyRope on 22 Apr 2010 09:45 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:46:39 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote: > >I paid them $7500 on April 15th. I can guess at your deductions and safely guess your salary from that number. No problem.
From: Jim Thompson on 22 Apr 2010 10:38
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:45:55 -0700 (PDT), Glenn Gundlach <stratus46(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Apr 21, 7:22�pm, AtTheEndofMyRope ><AtTheEndofMyR...(a)AtTheEndofMyRope.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:10:49 -0700, Jim Thompson > > > > <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > > >Isn't that 30Mbps (bits, not bytes :-) > > > > > � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �...Jim Thompson > > > > � Your hard drives don't even transfer between themselves at that >rate. > > > > � Use some common sense. �Larkin obviously doesn't. > >What kind of Model T computer do you use? Sounds like one of those >machines wit Same Day Boot. I routinely move 11Gig files across the >LAN in 3 minutes. Sound like more than 30 mega bits to me. Moving that >same file from drive 1 to drive 0 in the same machine goes at the same >rate and these are garden variety SATA drives from Frys. > >G� We're talking Cox/AT&T, not drives. ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy |