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• On the post: Charter Spectrum's Bullshit 'Broadcast TV' Fee Soars To $16.45 Per Month

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2020 @ 01:58pm

  After annual increases in all services (TV, Internet and Phone), including one year where there were two increase, and reduction and eventual elimination of bundling discounts, I dumped my TV, Internet and Phone provider and went with a local company providing FTTH.

  Do not regret that decision, especially after the CEO of my former provider stated at an AGM there is room for "reasonable" price increases. So all that talk about 'costs' from cable and broadband providers is complete and utter bullshit.

  I got way faster internet with no caps and saved over $110 a month. I subscribe to three services and I still come out about $65 ahead each month (and I can watch shows and movie anywhere). I eventually picked up a cheap indoor antenna and I'm able to get about 20 OTA channels (with no compression like my old provider). If I get a better antenna, I can probably get between 25 to 30 channels.

  So a big middle finger to the big cable and broadband providers.

• On the post: Court Dismisses Bogus Charges Brought Against Nevada Man Who Pissed Off Local Cops By Using The Crosswalk

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2018 @ 04:05am

  I'm more intrigued by the fact that a municipal police force used/needed federal dollars to conduct a sting at a crosswalk. What the?

• On the post: CBP Agrees To Hand Back Almost All Of The $58,000 It Stole From A 64-Year-Old Man At A Cleveland Airport

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2018 @ 05:50am

  Re: This is not what victory looks like

  Last I looked, flying from Cleveland to Newark is not an international flight. So how could taking money on a domestic flight be considered illegal?
  
  It's quite telling that instead of bringing paperwork so he could declare the money, that CBP chose to seize the money and humiliate the man. Because you know, everyone is a fucking criminal in the USA.

• On the post: CBP Using Fake Math To Greatly Inflate Number Of Assaults On Border Patrol Officers

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2018 @ 06:04am

  Does anyone get the idea that law enforcement officials in the US are, well, weak or cowardly. Holding a water bottle is an assault?

• On the post: Strong Crypto Is Not The Problem: Manchester And London Attackers Were Known To The Authorities

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 12:23pm

  The problem is that, despite all the supposed sharing of information between agencies, intelligence or security agencies hate being told by other intelligence or security agencies to watch or look into someone.

• On the post: British Human Rights Activist Faces Prison For Refusing To Hand Over Passwords At UK Border

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 May, 2017 @ 09:53am

  Re:

  I don't recall the government ever mentioning that they 'captured' a bona fide terrorist, so I'm going to say zero.

• On the post: Legislators, School Administrators Back Off Cellphone Search Bill After Running Into ACLU Opposition

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2017 @ 09:28am

  Isn't forcing someone to give you something the very definition of bullying?

• On the post: LA Chargers Already Face Trademark Opposition To Their Name Over The Term 'L.A.'

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2017 @ 12:22pm

  Re: The reason LA Gear won't win this thing

  Or the LA Kings. Or LA Tourist. Or UCLA. Or LA Care Health Plan.

• On the post: Google Hating Mississippi Attorney General Sues Company… With Ammo From EFF

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2017 @ 12:12pm

  Re: Google stopped....

  No, EFF says "it appeared" that Google was tracking or could track students based on the EFFs interpretation of their policy and privacy settings. That's much different from "Google was tracking".

• On the post: Google's Larry Page Got Bored Of Disrupting The Telecom Sector With Google Fiber

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2016 @ 07:01am

  Re: Re:

  The 'regulators' don't write the regulations on their own. They get help from the cable and phone companies.

• On the post: Police Union Joins Rights Groups In Criticizing Police Chief For Snooping On Journalists

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2016 @ 04:17am

  Re: Normal decent human beings eh?

  Exactly. Let's not confuse the police union protecting one of their own with them being normal, decent human beings.

• On the post: Albuquerque Police Seize Vehicle From Owner Whose Son Drove It While Drunk; Want $4,000 To Give It Back

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2016 @ 09:50am

  Re:

  A criminal steals your car. Said criminal drives the car to a store and then robs it. Criminal is caught in your car. The car was used in a crime. Based on your logic, you shouldn't get your car back, right?

• On the post: Intellectual Property Fun: Is Comedy Central Claiming It Owns The Character Stephen Colbert?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2016 @ 11:24am

  Re: If it would for the tedium and agony of going to court...

  Colbert vs Colbert

• On the post: Intellectual Property Fun: Is Comedy Central Claiming It Owns The Character Stephen Colbert?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2016 @ 11:23am

  Re: Wait A Minute

  Well not suing, but reminding. But still, both Viacom and CBS are controlled by National Amusements.

• On the post: Intellectual Property Fun: Is Comedy Central Claiming It Owns The Character Stephen Colbert?

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2016 @ 11:22am

  Wait A Minute

  Isn't this just Sumner Redstone suing, well, Sumner Redstone?

• On the post: Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack — In East Texas

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2016 @ 05:41am

  Re:

  So long as the patent lawsuits are filed, East Texas doesn't care where you are from. Is Samsung a local company?

• On the post: DHS Wants Travelers Entering The US To Include Their Social Media Handles… Just Because

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2016 @ 06:34am

  Re: Papers and logins please...

  Yet despite all this information and all these tools, the FBI still has to do much of the legwork in these 'terrorist' stings. They have to provide the 'sources' to buy materials, the sources that tell you how to use the materials and they even have to egg 'terrorists' to become terrorists.

• On the post: DHS Wants Travelers Entering The US To Include Their Social Media Handles… Just Because

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2016 @ 06:34am

  Re: Papers and logins please...

  Yet despite all this information and all these tools, the FBI still has to do much of the legwork in these 'terrorist' stings. They have to provide the 'sources' to buy materials, the sources that tell you how to use the materials and they even have to egg 'terrorists' to become terrorists.

• On the post: Trump Implicitly Suggests That His DOJ Would Take Down Amazon For Antitrust

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2016 @ 10:03am

  Re: Re: Yep...

  Do not feed the troll.

• On the post: Trump Implicitly Suggests That His DOJ Would Take Down Amazon For Antitrust

  

  Vincent Clement ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2016 @ 10:03am

  Re: Opening up libel laws

  How does one "remove" a Supreme Justice?

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