toplevelpot
yes it is, no I don't share
join:2008-04-19
Los Angeles, CA | OUCH...
when a CORPORATION is saying your 'Intellectually Bankrupt'what did you DO! |
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R4M0N
Brazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA | "It can't get any worse"
I cringe every time I hear someone say those words. It can ALWAYS get worse. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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Jamestown, NC
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| said by R4M0N  :I cringe every time I hear someone say those words. It can ALWAYS get worse. You and me both brother. |
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
1 edit | Bankrupt
so his intelligence is going the way of the banks
He's just goin with the flow j/k
lol |
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA
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4 edits | Takes one to know one
Looks like Julian Brodsky fell down Roberts' 5th Ave Apple Store stairs and hit his head.
Big words coming from the company that lied about their traffic shaping practices »Comcast Responds To Traffic Shaping Accusations , engages in predatory pricing »'Discounted' Competition and regularly bribes »www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.···cle=2008 politicians to do favors for them.
I guess being a company of liars and crooks makes them better than the so-called dummy Martin. |
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DarkLogix
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
·Comcast Workplace
·Comcast
| Not better but as you said they're liars so you expect them to stop?
its a mess of lies and deceit expect nothing more or less |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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| reply to Dogfather
said by Dogfather :Looks like Julian Brodsky fell down Roberts' 5th Ave Apple Store stairs and hit her head. 
Julian Brodsky
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Dogfather
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | Just noticed that. |
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MyDogHsFleas
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join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
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| Quick Tip
"Quick tip: wait until after the key regulator who oversees your industry leaves office before very publicly calling him a moron."
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RRMAN
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join:2007-04-02
Cleveland, OH
| Investigations?
What a waste of money. Allowing any government funded investigation is only going to waste taxpayers money even more. Isn't our money wasted on enough stiff shirts pushing paper that is meaningless? How about funding for insurance for everyone and shutting down the greedy insurance companies that would make to much sense though lets complain about our stupid TV so we can sit on the couch and do nothing or surf the net and complain that it is to saturated instead. People are dieing and we worry about this crap. Please? |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
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join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL | Bail Out
If Martin is bankrupt, does he now qualify for government bail out? |
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funchords
Hello
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join:2001-03-11
Washington, DC
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| reply to Dogfather
Re: Takes one to know one
That's a different kind of bankrupt... morally bankrupt. (Is there such a thing as a 'moral bailout'?
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jsz0
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT
·Comcast
| High TV prices?
Did I miss the part in the Bill of Rights where the government guarantees cheap TV for all? Programmers clearly have a product many Americans are deeply addicted to. Providers have the means to deliver that product to homes. Why shouldn't they be making a healthy profit? It's basic capitalism... you want something, you pay. If you want something so badly that you cannot function with out it -- you pay a lot.
If consumers were truly upset about it they would simply cancel their service and read books, play video games, break out the old board games, get a NetFlix account, or socialize with other human beings in the real world. I can understand some basic level of price protection for a limited service that may classify as a life line in the event of an emergency but anything beyond that is clearly a free market product.
Also in all this talk of higher video rates I'm surprised no one has mentioned that the programmers are raising their rates too. There's a reason all video providers are raising rates on a yearly basis. It's all coming from the same source. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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|  While I'm not sure I'd say Comcast is right....
... I'm sure I haven't liked Kevin Martin's tenure. Even I can see that he seemed to heavily favor Telco interests over cable, and while I am not big on supporting either of the two big incumbents industries, he could of tried to be a little less biased.... Pro-corporate all the way, with a big edge to anything the the ILEC's wanted. In fact the only time he wasn't pro-corporate would be if it was something that threatened to create competition or harm the incumbent's self-interests.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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astiyosti1
@cherokeenc.tv | cable prices too high
Why don't the fcc go after direct tv or dishnetwork? Have you seen their prices? |
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Dogfather
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to funchords
Re: Takes one to know one
Unfortunately the gov't has no "moral currency" to use for such a bailout. |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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|  All Pay TV delivery companies carry the same programming.
 The consumer is actually being screwed by those wonderful program creators, they decide what they will charge for their programs. I am not happy with pay television pricing regardless of who delivers it. Satellite, Cable and Telephone Companies carry the same programming. Home Box Office is Home Box Office. The copyright owners control the pricing of their programming. That is not to say that the mark up by the companies delivering the programming is not excessive. One must realize that every program provider has a monopoly when it comes to establishing the price of their programming. |
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PoorMe
@comcast.net
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Re: Bail Out
said by Rob :If Martin is bankrupt, does he now qualify for government bail out? Good point....and maybe if the government gave Comcast a couple hundred billion bailout, Comcast could lower prices.
After all, I'm just a poor drunken slob. I know I can't afford the UltraMegaSuperEverythingPack and 3 DVRs but I want them. It goes well with my 3 terrabux mortgage payment and my 2 Toyota Sequoias. The bank owns my a$$, somebody please help me. |
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SD6
join:2005-03-26 | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Takes one to know one
He looks like, if you squeezed his nose, it would honk like a horn. |
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qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA | This is a perfect case of...
This is a perfect case of: Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber
I'll let you decide which is which.... (Comcast and martin) |
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