Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Stop sending men into outer space
We need to stop sending men into outer space. Don't get me wrong, I would love to colonize Mars or build a fleet of starships to explore strange new worlds.
But first, we need to do a lot more things to get to that end.
What we need to do is send instruments and unmanned space labs to the moon. We also need to send solar panel drones that can fan across the surface of mars to create an energy grid. We then can send construction robots to the moon to prepare the surface for men to live there.
Only then should man head into space again. We're spending too much money and time on manned trips to outer space with retarded results.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
VERIZON ONLINE RIPS PEOPLE OFF
This is what I got from my DSL provider today:
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Dear Valued Verizon Online Customer,
Effective August 14, 2006, Verizon Online will stop charging the FUSF (Federal Universal Ser vice Fund) recovery fee. We will stop being assessed the fee by our DSL network suppliers. Therefore, we will no longer be recovering this fee from our customers. The impact of the FUSF fee is as follows: for customers of Verizon Online with service up to 768Kbps, the fee eliminated is $1.25 a month; for customers of Verizon Online with service up to 1.5 Mbps or 3Mbps, the fee eliminated is $2.83 a month (based on current FUSF surcharge amounts). On your bill that includes charges for August 14, 2006 you will see either a partial FUSF Recovery Fee or no FUSF line item at all, depending on your bill cycle.
Starting August 26, 2006, Verizon Online will begin charging a Supplier Surcharge for all new DSL customers, existing customers with a DSL monthly or bundle package, and existing DSL annual plan customers at the time their current annual plan expires. This surcharge is not a government imposed fee or a tax; however, it is intended to help offset costs we incur from our network supplier in providing Verizon Online DSL service. The Supplier Surcharge will initially be set at $1.20 a month for Verizon Online DSL customers with service up to 768Kbps and $2.70 per month for customers with DSL service at higher speeds.
On balance your total bill will remain about the same as it has been or slightly lower.
For more information, see the Announcement in the Help section of Verizon Central, located at http://central.verizon.net
We regret the need to add this Supplier Surcharge, but we thank you for choosing high speed Verizon Online DSL. We appreciate and value your business.
Sincerely,
Verizon Online
Broadband Customer Care Team
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This is such bullshit. Since they lost a revenue stream, they're making shit up to charge customers now? These assholes can't get enough of our money? I don't believe this. I think I'll switch to cable.
I'll bet these assholes were thinking, hmm...since FUSF fee was $2.83...and since we're losing that, let's make up a service charge and make them pay slightly less, making it seem as though we're helping them save some money.
I hope there is a God so these fuckers can burn in hell. May these corporate executives see their children suffer from horrible diseases. Remember Moses' plague and the death of the first born son from that movie? Yeah. That's right.
A POX ON THEE!
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Dear Valued Verizon Online Customer,
Effective August 14, 2006, Verizon Online will stop charging the FUSF (Federal Universal Ser vice Fund) recovery fee. We will stop being assessed the fee by our DSL network suppliers. Therefore, we will no longer be recovering this fee from our customers. The impact of the FUSF fee is as follows: for customers of Verizon Online with service up to 768Kbps, the fee eliminated is $1.25 a month; for customers of Verizon Online with service up to 1.5 Mbps or 3Mbps, the fee eliminated is $2.83 a month (based on current FUSF surcharge amounts). On your bill that includes charges for August 14, 2006 you will see either a partial FUSF Recovery Fee or no FUSF line item at all, depending on your bill cycle.
Starting August 26, 2006, Verizon Online will begin charging a Supplier Surcharge for all new DSL customers, existing customers with a DSL monthly or bundle package, and existing DSL annual plan customers at the time their current annual plan expires. This surcharge is not a government imposed fee or a tax; however, it is intended to help offset costs we incur from our network supplier in providing Verizon Online DSL service. The Supplier Surcharge will initially be set at $1.20 a month for Verizon Online DSL customers with service up to 768Kbps and $2.70 per month for customers with DSL service at higher speeds.
On balance your total bill will remain about the same as it has been or slightly lower.
For more information, see the Announcement in the Help section of Verizon Central, located at http://central.verizon.net
We regret the need to add this Supplier Surcharge, but we thank you for choosing high speed Verizon Online DSL. We appreciate and value your business.
Sincerely,
Verizon Online
Broadband Customer Care Team
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This is such bullshit. Since they lost a revenue stream, they're making shit up to charge customers now? These assholes can't get enough of our money? I don't believe this. I think I'll switch to cable.
I'll bet these assholes were thinking, hmm...since FUSF fee was $2.83...and since we're losing that, let's make up a service charge and make them pay slightly less, making it seem as though we're helping them save some money.
I hope there is a God so these fuckers can burn in hell. May these corporate executives see their children suffer from horrible diseases. Remember Moses' plague and the death of the first born son from that movie? Yeah. That's right.
A POX ON THEE!
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Japanese Gameshow
From the country that brought you Takeshi's Castle and the country that has become one of the world's biggest exporter of fetish porn comes another hilarious entertainment for all to enjoy.
It is called Gaki no tsukai ya Arahende, and this is "Silent Library".
It's a pretty funny show. Just watch.
Sure it's not as exciting as the other TV shows in Japan where a human being was placed in a sealed room for a year and given impossible tasks to carry out, or that other show where a person was given a million dollars for circling the globe with no money, friends, or help, or that other show where people were boiled alive, but I think this show is up there in terms of craziness.
It is called Gaki no tsukai ya Arahende, and this is "Silent Library".
It's a pretty funny show. Just watch.
Sure it's not as exciting as the other TV shows in Japan where a human being was placed in a sealed room for a year and given impossible tasks to carry out, or that other show where a person was given a million dollars for circling the globe with no money, friends, or help, or that other show where people were boiled alive, but I think this show is up there in terms of craziness.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
NEW I Love Lucy
There are new episodes of I Love Lucy on network TV!
Well...actually, they're not NEW episodes per se but rather they're re-edited versions of I Love Lucy with extra scenes added. You see, for 20 years or so, I Love Lucy episodes have been butchered on network TV so that they can sell more commercial time. Recently however, with the release of all seasons of I Love Lucy on DVD, networks have decided that the old edited version of I Love Lucy wasn't "cutting it". So, they re-cut and retooled the episodes so that more of the hilarious original scenes were included in each masterpiece.
In the 50s, Lucy fans were treated each week to half an hour of the best variety show man has ever known. In fact, I remember reading in the Bible that Jesus was a I Love Lucy fan. Now, with the re-edits, a new generation can experience I Love Lucy again. Though I have all the DVDs, I still enjoy watching the episodes on television and watching the antics of the red-headed genius with my fellow fans all over the United States and world.
I still hope that maybe within the next decade, network television will show the COMPLETE uncut episodes for all to enjoy. The original episodes have little nuances that made the show even better and if people discovered those gems too, I believe that there will be more fans than ever.
Next time, maybe I'll talk about why Star Trek: TNG should come back on the air as reruns on network television...
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