From: amck@mcc.com (Alan McKendree)
Subject: Re: Cablevision lies
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:08:48 GMT

In article <Btxpp4.C98@cmptrc.lonestar.org> andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart) writes:
>   
>   So what did re-regulating the cable companies do for me?  I cheered it on
>   when I heard about it, but I don't know the details.
>
>   I have lived in my present location for 2 and a half years.  In that time 
>   my monthly cable bill ( for "extended" basic "regular" service ) has gone
>   from 13.95 to 25.35 a month!

And yet...and yet...he still continues to subscribe!  Amazing!  What
power the cable companies must wield over this helpless pawn of his
environment!
>
>   I hate them (cable companies) with a white-hot never-ending passion.
>
>   Why do I keep it?   Because I'm addicted to CNN.

Just say no, dude. And get a life.

>
>   I can't wait, can't wait for direct broadcast satellites.  I understand 
>   that I'll probably be paying comparable fees, but at least I can get
>   pissed off and take my business elsewhere.

'Scuse me, but what would be the difference if you were paying
comparable fees?

>
>   Do you KNOW that they would like to charge me an ADDITIONAL FIVE DOLLARS
>   for each TV set hooked up in the house?  No additional services, just
>   more extensions.

The fiends!

Your position is self-contradictory.  If having cable on more than one
TV _weren't_ an additional benefit (i.e., service), there would be no
reason for you to desire it.  And yet you complain about having to pay
for it.  Do you think you should get free rugs in all your rooms after
paying for the first one, too?

  Forget it!  If it comes into the house, it's MINE to 
>   do with as I please.  At last count, I had 4 sets in the house and garage.
>   Do you think I'm going to pay over $40.00 a month!

Why not?  You seem to have ramped up to $25+ pretty easily.  Perhaps
you forget you're a helpless puppet in the hands of your insatiable
craving for ever-greater doses of 24-hour news.  HAH HA HA HA HA HA .
THEY'VE GOT YOU NOW, YOU POOR SON OF A BITCH!!!!  It's only a matter
of time before you're reduced to sticking up 7-11s to scrounge up
enough to get your daily Entertainment Today, sports, and hourly
headlines.  I can almost hear the hands rubbing over the ill-gotten
checks bilked from the proletariat (oops, sorry, a little too much
Marx for breakfast) in the cable boardrooms.

Sheesh.

> 
> I hate them, hate them, hate them.....  <degenerating into incoherent rage 
> 
> 
> 
> -- Andy (My opinions are my
own, but if you'd like to borrow them...  >		hep yo self. )
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>| Andrew Hart | CompuTrac, Inc.  | >| (214) 234-4241 | 222 Municipal
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BTW, I don't have cable, but I'll soon be starting a bboard for
irritating whiners who are convinced the shoe industry wakes up every
day with the intention of screwing us poor customers (oops, make that
"Consumers"), and desperately needs a government board or six to set
prices for our wing-tips and Reeboks.

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