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• On the post: Wikimedia's Transparency Report: Guys, We're A Wiki, Don't Demand We Take Stuff Down

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2018 @ 10:37am

  Re: Re:

  "You also disregard the references?"
  
  Depends on the references, but sometimes absolutely.

• On the post: Wikimedia's Transparency Report: Guys, We're A Wiki, Don't Demand We Take Stuff Down

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2018 @ 10:34am

  Re: When Wikipedia (now Wikimedia) started...

  "If that edit is believable and verifiable it will be accepted."
  
  Clearly someone who hasn't tried to edit Wikipedia recently.

• On the post: Cryptocurrency Mining Company Coinhive Shocked To Learn Its Product Is Being Abused

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2018 @ 10:38am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I find the most brilliant developers are often the most socially naive.

• On the post: ESPN Still Isn't Quite Getting The Message Cord Cutters Are Sending

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 04:33pm

  Re: Re: Not everyone wants an app

  During college football season, I pay $20 a month for Sling. I can watch any game live or about 15-30 minutes after it ends, after the fact.

• On the post: ESPN Still Isn't Quite Getting The Message Cord Cutters Are Sending

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 04:29pm

  Re: Something other than football or basketball

  Have you tried NBCOlympics.com or the Roku app?
  
  You can watch any sport you want with any competitors live or after the fact.
  
  No need to VPN to Canada.
  
  If you don't have NBC, pay for 1 month of Sling ($25) or YouTubeTV ($35) or Vue ($39) or DirecTV Now ($35). Or get a 7-day trial of each of them and watch for free.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:39pm

  Re: Re: What about people outside OTA markets?

  I'm on the back side of a mountain between me and the tower, so I'll never get signal (my city was one of the first CATV setups in the country because of this).
  
  Not everyone can get antenna, but with Hulu and CBS I could see everything anyway for $15 a month. And CW is free with ads.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:36pm

  Re: Re:

  And for $1100, you can buy quite a few series on Amazon (≈22) if there was no other way.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:34pm

  Re: Re:

  You should get Philo. It's a sports-free streaming service.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:33pm

  Re:

  They may say that there are no savings, but I saved over $1000 last year, not including another $200+ on moving my internet from Time Warner to Earthlink before Spectrum took over (same exact service, just cheaper).

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: And they still miss the points we all try to make

  YouTube is adding ads after the show now. It's pretty annoying.
  
  But he has YouTube Red so he doesn't have to worry about that.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:28pm

  Re:

  Actually, we get a lot of young people on the cord cutters forum (cord nevers).
  
  They don't mind paying for good services without commercials. Streams are often junk and full of viruses and stuff. Paying a small amount is worth it.
  
  But they are never going to pay Comcast $200 a month.

• On the post: Another Day, Another Flimsy Report Claiming TV Cord Cutting Won't Save You Money

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 04:37pm

  Religious channels

  Even if you like the religious channels, they are all available on Roku for free. And thousands more.

• On the post: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2017 @ 03:36pm

  Re: Not to worry

  "This past April, the Energy and Policy Institute caught an FPL lobbyist straight-up drafting anti-solar laws for Fort Myers state Rep. Ray Rodrigues, who also took a $15,000 campaign contribution from FPL this year."

• On the post: After Previously Claiming the Economics Would Never Work, HBO Streaming Now A Major Windfall

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2017 @ 11:27am

  Re: Re:

  The buggy whip manufacturers did buy and shutter several automakers. They passed red flag laws to prevent driving and everything.
  
  But you don't remember them because they haven't been around in your lifetime.

• On the post: Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2017 @ 02:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Millennials Have Better Things To Do

  It depends if all your education is in gender studies and women's studies...

• On the post: Tech Journalists Keep Completely Missing The Point Of Cord Cutting

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2017 @ 02:55am

  Cord cutting

  I saved almost exactly $1000 on cord cutting last year. And I only subscibed to Sling during college football. The other 7 months I didn't.

• On the post: As A Streaming Future Looms, ESPN Is Damned If It Does, Damned If It Doesn't

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2017 @ 04:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: THE reason I cut the cord was ESPN

  Yes. ESPN charges cable providers $7.21 PER MONTH. And ESPN2 and ESPNU and ESPNews and so on are all on top of that. Total is over $8.

• On the post: Disney Feels The Heat As Children Lead The Cord Cutting Revolution

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2017 @ 12:53pm

  Re: Re: I just hope Musk doesn't get taken over

  "If there were an unlimited plan for $50/month with good performance"
  
  Expect to see something similar to this from Verizon and T-Mobile on their 5G "home wireless" plans.
  
  At least Verizon intends to compete strongly with cable for internet service.

• On the post: Cable Industry Lobbyist Proclaims Cable TV Industry 'Failing' While Advocating Against Broadband Consumer Rights

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2017 @ 07:23am

  Competition's coming anyway

  Verizon is talking about 5G and offering every home in their service area a box to get gigabit home internet wirelessly.
  
  T-Mobile isn't talking about this right now, but they have that shiny new 600MHz spectrum that they will compete with as soon as they get tired of their dumb VR crap they've been spouting.
  
  Plus you have Google's new direction and Elon Musk's low earth orbit satellite network. Once all of that comes into play, the current cable companies' days are numbered, unless they compete.

• On the post: The Rate Of TV Cord Cutting Is Actually Worse Than You Think

  

  PRMan ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2017 @ 11:43am

  Re: If it's this fast when the options are DRM-encumbered...

  Yeah, they would gain 1% (Linux users) of 1% (cord-cutters) or .01%.
  
  They better hurry and get right on that.

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