Things Best Said

Don’t you just wish it were that easy?
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Finally, someone at the FCC has the bawls to stand up, or sit but with great authority in this case, and say that consumers want-what-they-want-how-they-want-it.

I’ve had different cable packages on and off over the last couple of years. Sometimes the package/pricing is good…sometimes I feel that I’m paying too much for programs/channels I don’t watch. It’s been a pet pieve of mine to get stuck with 40+ channels on from my local cable provider that are just, well, not up my alley.

Now, I’m not a big fan of the cooking/food/raquetball/midget wrestling/cod liver sipping networks and I’d likely never watch them. Does that mean they shouldn’t exist? No, I just don’t want to pay for them.

If the cable providers would make it possible for me to set up an a la carte program/network package…I’m in!

Combining an a la carte cable program with on-demand movies is the best of all worlds for consumers. Oh think of the possibilities.
Read the C/Net FCC story for yourself.
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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Vicki C.
DATE: 11/30/2005 02:41:34 PM
My sentiments exactly. I actually called Dish Network one day about this and they thought I was nuts.

Now I had 90+ music channels in which I could only listen to one at a time but didn’t want them. I wanted something else. No add/delete possibilities.

If the TCM or Spike channels are too expensive(their reasoning for packaging it)then the cost will come down if no one orders it or they will fall in line.

Can’t wait to get what I the consumer wants!!!
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What geeks do for fun…M.A.M.E

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17.76
Originally uploaded by digitalhooligan.

for some reason this struck me as interesting this morning…

two things: gas was $1.98/gallon (yipee!! — never thought I’d say that about gas prices being almost $2, but, oh well.)

…and the pump stopped on $17.76

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My find of the week was at a little bookstore in Watertown, Tennessee.

“We” is an account of his early flying days and of the historic trans-atlantic flight of 1927. For a book that’s been on sale since it’s first publication in July of 1927, this 78 year old book is remarkable. It’s filled with stories of the early days of barnstorming through the creation, engineering and flight of “The Spirit of St. Louis”.

The edition I found was published in 1929 at the thirty-first printing. It’s in remarkable condition. Spine is intact with only marginal cracks. The pages have yellowed a bit with time. Two amazing things stand out are the many great black & white photographs throughout and the price I was able to purchase it for… $20!

This will look great on either my nightstand or in the study of the house Sheila and I are looking at purchasing.

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COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Vicki C.
DATE: 11/29/2005 02:44:04 PM
So glad you found the book.

I found the town remarkable as well as the scenery.

keeping the fingers crossed.
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