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Posted by CaptDMO on August 2nd, 2006
Adelphia is now Time Warner?
My trusty Compaq laptops were “outmoded” by HP.
My bank (fifth owners) is now managed by Canadians.
The water that fills my toilet is for sale at a price higher than Gasoline.
When the Adelphia dude showed up for his (between 8:00 and 5:00-”our only type of service call”,and be glad we’re telling you which day) “appointment”, he opined that the reason that the service that has involved 3 systemwide reciever technology tradeouts by the company, and four swaps of failed ones by me, as well as routine channel info blackouts, glitches in the digital picture signal, an astounding amount of “paid programming” filling slots that I paid for entertainment on, five channels that inter-cycle the same short repitoire of “B” movies, and an apparently amazing amount of complexity to switch the (digital) public access channel on and off between towns to settle our own petty catfights over funding/pole rent income, subcontracted “maintenance” and installation crews clogging up re-construction efforts, (I could go on for a while)
is that “this area” has always had “problems” because we’re in the mountains.
(yes, one sentance)
I’d like to suggest that Time-Warner-Time.com-AOL-,with an astounding list of other ventures that Mssrs. Hadden and Luce never imagined, now owns Adelphia because their company sucked, and they were in BIG financial trouble due to years of mis-management.It was an easy buyout. I wonder what the golden showers parachutes for pissing on the consumer are THIS time?
And the NEXT time a communications company writes “we have to charge extra to accomodate older equiptment until the (2008?) manditory government switch to all digital service and equiptment.”, ask them who wrote and lobbied extensively for THAT to happen, despite protest and complaint from consumer and watchdog groups. I suspect it wasn’t wasn’t Zenith.
Surprisingly, town landfills have set up new pending fee structures for all those electronics that are doomed to obsolesence- well before the crush is on to jettison them as absolutely useless. This is based on State and Federal guidlines of course.
I’ve been investing in pump organs and learning to repair them. I’m SURE that will be a viable occupation once I get the State approved licence, but I’ll keep the lightning rod sales/installation/repair option on the back burner.
[/retro-grouch]
