From: andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart)
Subject: Re: Cablevision lies
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:27:58 GMT
Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX

In article <1992Sep2.170848.10491@mcc.com> amck@mcc.com (Alan McKendree) writes:
>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!

     Well, it's obvious from more than your address that YOU work in 
     the communications industry.
>>
>>   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.
>   

     Speaking of getting a life, how about you twisted fucks that live
     to send nasty, contentious replies over the net at every opportunity.

>>
>>   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?
>
    What you can't read?  As indicated in my message, the difference is      
    that I will have the choice of whom to give my business to.

>>
>>   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?

   You're full of it.  This doesn't fly any more than it did when Ma Bell
   wanted to charge us for every phone extension.  Sure, if I have them 
   come in and wire a cable extension, I should pay for it.  But, if the 
   plug is there or I do it myself it's none of their damn business.
>
>  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 have no response to this crap, except that I'd like to poke you 
  in the nose. 

>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.

  It's interesting that both of the nasty followups to my innocent little
  temper tantrum come from the same address.  

  I don't object to your disagreement with me.  Obviously, you have a     
  different bias.  What I DO object to is the disagreeable tone of your 
  message.  It seems there's alot of you pencil-necked geeks who sit 
  there in safety and say things to people you would probably never DARE
  to say face-to-face.  No doubt, it's the same syndrome one witnesses
  on the freeway with jerks who think that their cars insulate them from
  normal social behaviour. In fact, it seems there's more than one at
  your address.

  I'm not interested in starting a flame-war with you or your buddies. 
  Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass what you think.  You're going into
  the KILL file, buddy boy, so knock yourself out.  That's where all you
  losers who don't know how to keep a civil tongue in your pea-brained 
  heads end up.

  --  Andy

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