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On the post: Can A Phone Service Provider Block Calls To Numbers It Doesn't Like?
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On the post: Can A Phone Service Provider Block Calls To Numbers It Doesn't Like?
Nick ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2009 @ 12:10amVonage
Vonage's very shiny happy television advertisements FAIL to disclose to consumers that they need high speed Internet service. Well, they do in the last five seconds of the commercial, and that is only with tiny white letters way down in the bottom left corner. I only caught it because I stopped my DVR and went frame-by-frame until it made its two-second appearance. Who are they kidding? I mean, aren't the people who cannot afford Internet access that call be really p*ssed off?
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On the post: Looking For The $0.69 Songs On iTunes
Nick ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2009 @ 02:19pmiTunes Blows Chunks
Last year I bought over a thousand dollars worth of aacs or whatever the hell they are from iTunes. I dutifully backed them up to my external drive. I was a GOOD BOY.
When I bought a CHAKA KHAN song that was CLEARLY torn from one of those 60 minutes of disco hell CDs, I let them know. They told me it was the original. I wrote back, it is not. The real version is from this album, from 1979..just listen. It certainly ran longer than 1:57.
I was told it was the original version. They credited me .99 and told me to shut up. Well, they didn't really tell me to shut up.
Then my external drive had "issues". I lost about 20% of my music. I told iTunes. They all had a good laugh I bet, but I figured, why not ask. It can't hurt. They provided me an URL regarding redownloading music. Essentially GFY. I understood their policies, but I took a shot.
No fkg way am I going to spend that much again to replace everything. I am a BAD BOY now. I do not feel any guilt getting an album for .98 from um, another store.
eMusic, which I also belong to, lets you re-download your songs as long as you are a subscriber. For some reason, eMusic thinks that those downloads are mine, even after I screw up and lose some of them, or get a new computer.
The RIAA and iTunes can SMA, especially with their invisible price tiering.
I remember when compact discs came out and you could not find one for less than $17.99. Remember when they came in those long boxes so people couldn't steal them? Yep, $17.99 for a disk that cost them 4 cents to manufacture. These days the Big 4 Record Companies don't have anyone to screw anymore, at least en masse - that's why they are so cranky.
Just my 2 cents.
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I failed to read far enough. Sorry, this is a magicJack issue.