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Why pay for cable when you can get it for free?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Stitch, Aug 13, 2010.

  1. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

    This guy doesn't feel anybody has a right to free cable.


     
  2. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    That's OK, Joe. Don't let facts interfere with your biases.
     
  3. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    It's not an inherent right of a cable company to enforce monthly billings
    for the dubious privilege of access to Yankee Emetic Scum -- better known as the YES Network.

    If the choice is between paying for cable and stealing it because you don't
    give a raging rat's ass about the Bronx Swastikas and refuse to enrich the
    dirtbags, give me the latter.
     
  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    It's not free. Per the original story in the Kalamazoo paper:

    Instead, Interfaith residents who subscribe to Charter service pay regular rates that Ransberger said range from $25 a month for basic television service to more than $100 for a full range of TV, Internet and telephone services.

    http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/08/cable_tv_stays_on_at_kalamazoo.html
     
  5. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

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    http://hijinksensue.com/2009/01/07/give-me-something-to-bitch-about/
     
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  6. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    Somewhere, Cosmo Kramer is laughing and he doesn't know why.
     
  7. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    There is just an almost universal acceptance that things beamed from satellites and/or transported by wires are free for the taking (if you can figure out how to take it).

    Now excuse me while I go study on my "free" Rosetta Stone program.
     
  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    wouldn't 50k buy cable for everyone in the building?
     
  9. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I'm going to do something I never do on here and shill for my employer. UVerse is not cable, it is delivered by your phone/dsl line. Access to it is not precluded by cable franchise agreements.
     
  10. Shoeless Joe

    Shoeless Joe Active Member

    If stealing cable is an option you chose, that's fine but don't complain if you get caught.

    I don't give a crap if everyone steals cable. I don't own Comcast or whatever, and neither does anyone kin to me.

    I just don't think the government should be shelling out for cable to people that live in the projects.
     
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