Shamayim
I already have a Messiah.
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join:2002-09-23
1 edit | Optimus Prime?
What's that? |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
| Reactionary Response
Verizon has already won in making fiber look like "a good thing."
Comcast does the same thing here. Their ads explain how your TV, voice and data all go through Comcast's "enhanced fiber optic network."
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This isn't fair! I was only supposed to hate just ONE presidential candidate! |
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA | reply to Shamayim
Re: Optimus Prime?
one of the transformers AFAIK. |
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bcronin
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join:2004-03-27
Hyde Park, NY | Can't get it
Great, glitzy ads hawking something I can't get. Yeah, that'll really make me feel good about Verizon. Sigh ... |
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anyimousss
@dtcc.edu | MOAR
I love the commercial lol and they finally show off their upload with it! You go verizon! Just wish you would come to my are lol. |
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dogo88
join:2001-09-24
Old Bridge, NJ | Cable lies
I love the Cable ad. Especially when they say they have their entire network on fiber. Gee, last time I looked my neighborhood have coax drop lines to every home. |
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fatmanskinny
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Wandering
 ·Comcast Digital Vo..
·Comcast
| When you are doing something right, haters come out!
Verizon is obviously on to something that is making cable companies a little nervous.
If Ma Bell completely merge back together, I would hope it is Verizon's technology leadership that is implemented and not AT&T's.
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KCrimson
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join:2001-02-25
Brooklyn, NY
·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FIOS
1 edit | Downloaded the Ad - Why Distribute Via Skinney Pipe?
I've got FiOS, and I just tried to download the video (instead of streaming it). I filled out the brief form (no problem), and commenced the download. Why provide the file on a server/pipe that shows obvious bandwidth limitations? My transfer topped out at about 1 MB/sec. Not a smart method of distribution. IMHO. |
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MooJohn
join:2005-12-18
Milledgeville, GA
 ·Windstream
| Yeah, he's a game changer
I don't see how rehashing 80s cartoons into CGI-driven movies makes anyone a game changer, any more so than taking the name Knight Rider and changing everything else about it makes it new & fresh. It takes zero talent to redo what has already been done. The design of today's "retro" vehicles shows that too - no imagination, just regurgitation of what was new 30 years ago. One look at abomination that was called the Dukes of Hazzard movie is enough proof of how bad it is.
This guy can plan his entire career just by watching the Boomerang Network during the day. It won't be long until we see live-action Jabberjaw starring today's hottest comedians. They've already warned us CGI-animated Smurfs are coming, not to mention a sad take on the neglected Thundercats franchise. Need we remind Hollywood that nobody has done an A-Team movie yet? They could use a cast of unknowns, tie in the marketing with a GM SUV, and it's make millions.
Michael Bay is a disgrace to my avatar -- which I've used for far longer than the latest movie's craze.
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Gogo1
join:2004-05-27
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to Shamayim
Re: Optimus Prime?
said by Shamayim  :What's that? It is a Transformer: a robot in disguise. |
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koolkid1563
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join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs: | reply to pnh102
Re: Reactionary Response
Those same commercials for Comcast also air here in Houston. |
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Gogo1
join:2004-05-27
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to MooJohn
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer
He is not stupid though. He observes that the majority of movie go-ers have no taste, imagination, or desire to think; then he devises a movie making model to encourage them to throw as much money at him as is humanly possible.
Or maybe Im being too optimistic and he just happens to *be* one of those movie go-ers that stepped onto the other side of the camera  |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | reply to MooJohn
Dude, where have you been? Hollywood loves to recycle stuff.
I Am Legend = The Omega Man
All the Marvel Comics characters are coming back to life.
Even Indiana Jones is coming out with another movie. |
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Gogo1
join:2004-05-27
Brooklyn, NY | reply to fatmanskinny
Re: When you are doing something right, haters come out!
Yep. What a pathetic, mis-leading ad by TWC. Talk about playing on the ignorance of the average user. |
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Gogo1
join:2004-05-27
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to moonpuppy
Re: Yeah, he's a game changer
I think the movie industry in recent years is at the lowest point of all time. Rambo 7; Rocky 15; Mission Impossible 3; Die Hard whatever number; terrible Supermans; Batman. Is there a new Terminator coming? Im sure there will be soon.
I get excited over about three movies a year these days. And I end up at least mildly let down by one or two. |
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travisc
join:2001-11-09
Port Perry, ON | Terminator 4 is coming (with Christian Bale as John Connor) and an A-Team movie to boot. |
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fatmanskinny
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Wandering
·Comcast Digital Vo..
·Comcast
| reply to Gogo1
Re: When you are doing something right, haters come out!
I just watched the TWC ad. ROFLMAO!!!! That is a sham. Yeah, they have been using fiber for years but not to your home. Last time I used a Road Runner internet connection (in Jan 2008), it was coaxial to the home. I prefer FTTH and not CTTH.
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cableties
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join:2005-01-27
·Verizon FIOS
| Dumb
Hmm, I recall Michael Bay professing how HD-DVD will be the ultimate delivery for movies, yet somehow Blu-Ray is winning out.
A movie-director is a bad choice for a role model. Matter of fact ANYONE from Hollywood is a bad choice. Well, except for James Earl Jones...that voice is perfect (for an empire). |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
·Verizon FIOS
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to bcronin
Re: Can't get it
Yeah, it would be awesome.
If Verizon would get off their collective asses and string some fiber.
Two years ago, my town signed a franchise agreement with Verizon. Half the town is wired, the other half isn't.
It's bullshit. I see half the ghettos of Wilmington set up for Fios, and I can't get Fios surrounded by half million dollar houses.
I say Verizon is redlining us on time bill paying, nice home owning people.
Blatant discrimination....
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plencnerb
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join:2000-09-25
Franksville, WI
clubs: | One Word
Awesome!
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