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  • On the post: How You Know USA Freedom Act Is A Bad Bill: Half Of Its Own Co-Sponsors Voted Against It

    Aaron ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 07:38am

    Re: Re: Don't Reform PATRIOT/FAA - REPEAL IT!

    One law to fuck us all over.
    One law to find another way to fuck you over.
    One law to bring all ways to fuck you over together and in Congress, fuck you over.

    Meanwhile in New Jersey, Chris Christie desperately trying to find his penis "Precious".

  • On the post: Harry Reid Bows Down To Trial Lawyers And Big Pharma In Killing Patent Reform

    Aaron ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 06:36am

    Re: Re: A Perfect Example

    That's basically what lobbying is if you think about it.

  • On the post: Harry Reid Bows Down To Trial Lawyers And Big Pharma In Killing Patent Reform

    Aaron ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 06:34am

    Re:

    But then how would we tell lawyer jokes or pretend to be rich lawyers to pick up women. Wait, are lawyers needed to do prenups? We can just put down 'MINE BITCH' right? Theres no miscommunication due to legalese.

  • On the post: How You Know USA Freedom Act Is A Bad Bill: Half Of Its Own Co-Sponsors Voted Against It

    Aaron ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 06:02am

    Response to: Anonymous Coward on May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:41am

    Only problem is, most likely, the feds 2nd amendment vote of Fuck You is more powerful with a much bigger magazine.

  • On the post: Google Fiber: You Know How Comcast Is Making Netflix Pay Extra? We Don't Do That Kind Of Crap

    Aaron ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 05:20am

    Re: Re: Re:

    Tagging fail : Mike, where's the edit button bro?

  • On the post: Google Fiber: You Know How Comcast Is Making Netflix Pay Extra? We Don't Do That Kind Of Crap

    Aaron ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 05:19am

    Re: Re:

    "- the beauty of true competition is that you don't personally have to do anything to get better service in the long run. If competition existing, you will reap the benefits"

    Which is exactly what happened in February I believe when TMobile (?) started rolling out some competitive data plans. In turn, at&t increased my mothers 1 gig mobile share plan to 2g for an additional $5 then another 2g for FREE in March, or April for a total of 4g for $5. Twice the dataz, where beforehand going from 1g tier to 2g tier was a $10-20 difference. Easy to guess why they didn't do it before. No? Because they COULD, they just didn't WANT to. So, because of competition my mothers data limit was increased to 4x the original for $5. Which when you think about it is funny because carriers tout mobile bandwidth as the nectar of the gods in low supply that shouldn't be given away willy nilly without milking all that money from that argument. But yes, when competition is there, so are the benefits. Which is why when her contract ends (she didn't know any better? man) she'll be switching to ST for the same amount of data and %50 better reception for almost a 1/3 of the price. Competition is the tits.

  • On the post: Google Fiber: You Know How Comcast Is Making Netflix Pay Extra? We Don't Do That Kind Of Crap

    Aaron ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 10:56pm

    Re: Re: some BS from AT&T on Google Fiber

    Note: I do not still have that service and haven't for a long time.

  • On the post: Google Fiber: You Know How Comcast Is Making Netflix Pay Extra? We Don't Do That Kind Of Crap

    Aaron ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 10:50pm

    Re: some BS from AT&T on Google Fiber

    That is strange to me. Mainly because a couple years back I was living in the town next over where I had AT&T DSL (Which was complete shit btw, the router kept kicking off. Uninsulated line wires and redneck ingenuity may have had a part to play, though...) which I had to cancel for a month or so. Now, apparently, between that time AT&T laid some FiOS in that town which was strange to me because it's only a town of ~4,100 people and county pop of ~41,000. Because I called them back wanting my service back on, same shitty service yada yada. "I'm sorry sir, but we're only offering AT&T U-Verse as we've laid fiber optics for this service and you won't be able to use the same router as you did previously." What? WHAT!? Who in their right mind would pay for some BS like that when I was fine with the service I DID have, I was at least able to play XBL and not want to put my controller where my tv screen used to be. Anyways, I told him do it and I lived unhappily ever after with the same fucking service I had the 2 months befire under a different name. Working 12 hour 5 day work weeks tends to not make you give a damn. So either you're fibbing or AT&T got some 'splainin to do.

  • On the post: Blizzard Still Twisting And Distorting Copyright To Go After Cheaters

    Aaron ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 10:05pm

    Re:

    Ox here. Forgot I made an account a few years back. My comment only goes so far as to pertain to ToUToSLicensing issues. It's 1 in the morning and cba to get into a copyright discussion.

  • On the post: HBO Go Craps The Bed During True Detective Finale

    Aaron ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2014 @ 08:13pm

    Response to: Anonymous Coward on Mar 11th, 2014 @ 8:53pm

    As well as Straight Talk. Straight Talk (Mobile Phone company, I'm sure you knew that) advertise "UNLIMITED TEXT! UNLIMITED DATA! UNLIMITED MINUTES! UNLIMITED EVERYTHING!!" for $45/Mo, which sounds pretty awesome at first because mobile carriers are greedy with Data,such as AT&T. However, after using 3-4 GB's you get throttled to Dial-Up Speeds, which I'm currently using unfortunately (I live 1Mi down the road from a major highway that provides DSL/Cable. Fucked up, eh?) which usually gave me 3 weeks to a month worth of online play with my XBox tethered to my phone, which is another big NO-NO with ST. I DGAF but I wasn't going to call them and ask 'em why the hell I was being throttled 'less they find out I was tethering. I tried explaining this to my brother because he also has a plan with ST and he loves watching Jim Jefferies on YouTube with his phone. He kept thinking his phone always fucked up because he watches so many YT videos and he gets throttled....He's not so tech savvy.

  • On the post: Some People Still Can't Seem To Question Their Car's GPS

    Aaron ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2013 @ 10:09pm

    Hm

    This strangely seems like something how the Terminator begins, only Skynet kills people with their own stupidity.

  • On the post: Study Shows That Piracy Has Not Resulted In A Decrease Of Quality New Music

    Aaron ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2011 @ 09:58pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Oh, how silly of me; I didn't notice the "BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SAY AS THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT" on the main page. Should I quit researching and start believing everything you said and research if people automatically believes's what Mike says? ...Oh..wait..

  • On the post: Study Shows That Piracy Has Not Resulted In A Decrease Of Quality New Music

    Aaron ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2011 @ 08:35pm

    Strange. I must have terrible taste in music if piracy has affected the quality of it.


    Anyways, when I buy a CD, I like to pay for the music, not to line the pockets of labels for promotionals, etc etc when the artist created it. $12+ for a CD when I only like a couple tracks on it and the record label bogarts most for itself? No thanks.

    Some years back, I worked for this fella who created his own music, did his own editing, y'know - the whole shebang. He was widely known amongst the younger gen in the city I lived in and the town next to it - around 17-28 year olds; I loved his music myself. 7-8, sometimes 10 tracks per CD was 5 bucks a pop. If he sold it for 15, Hell I'd still buy it. Because the music was good and he got a fair share of the profits, as he also laid down tracks with other people known around the area.

    Yeah, I could get iTunes and get them individually or whatever, but 1) Same scenario - label mooches most of the money. 2) I'm an old fashioned home stereo/CD player in the car guy where you play plastic CDs and tune it to your favorite radio station. I could "adapt", as Mike usually suggests for copyright trolls and such, and buy me an MP3 player or whatever platform to use iTunes, but I don't HAVE to live off of buying music. Labels do.

    So, until they get their claws out of the profits they won't get much, if any, of my money. I'll take the self-published artist path.