This country hasn't gone totally wrong. We still make good television.

Just flipped through 150 channels. We suck.

Only 150?! I think that direct TV thing my brother has gets like 350 channels. Always something great on, like The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, or NASCAR, or sports, or FOX News, or some TV evangelist, or some talking head blowhard from the BBC, or The Dukes of Hazzard, etc. The whole world and more is at your disposal with the press of a little button - The pinnacle of Civilization at your fingertips. Stop whining Jayhawk. You never had it so good.

and eventually you produced a good sitcom:

Sergeant Bilko or was it called The Phil Silvers show?

Taking umbrage at deforestation is fun.

In fairness, this is the GOAT sitcom.

I have only 80, but they are mainly channels of my choice. Science Discovery, National Geographic, History, lotta films, etc.

Have got some ****ty channels into the bargain too, sports etc, easy to skip. Guys showing off their asses in snooker etc.

I never met a tree I wouldn't cut down.

Umbrage is a cool and very sophisticated word. Worth at least $75. Sometimes it is discounted at Wal-Mart for $32.95 but they still can't sell any.

About the TV channel thing, I'm going to be a crybaby and whine. Those evil capitalist cable companies and direct channel companies should offer a Chinese menu for all their channels - Beyond say a minimum of 10 or 12 channels. It is really stupid that you have to buy a package of at least 40 channels with them or choose to purchase outrageous amounts of channels etc or those other package deals and add-ons etc.

I nuked my simplest TV package with Comcast after I argued with some dullard salesman about how it is all set up. They could simply have a rate per channel (after a set minimum) and give you a menu of all the bloody stupid TV that they offer and check off what you want. They have the technology to do this and setting up channels for each costumer can easily be computerized or even done by bots. Those vile twits, especially at Monstercable.Inc, make it seem as though setting up channels is some elaborate time consuming undertaking done by hand by some drunken, slave-wage Mexican - soldering wires together, pulling plugs and exchanging electrical connectors, and fiddling with junction boxes by hand at one o’clock in the morning. I could make billions by setting up my own cable company on completely different lines than those now established but I find money, like most people, rather boring.

Anyway, since I watch little TV the above rant is mostly moot but I’m on a mission to save the throbbing masses from anymore abuse by all the biggie no-noes of the world.

Or not.

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I'm trying to combine packages and being creative. But what do I get? Disney channel: very interesting.

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Aren't the UK'ers going to the polls today? Vote early, vote often, vote drunk.

The way I understand it it's not a matter of technology but securing programming rights.

Say you are a cable company and want to offer ESPN to your subscribers. So you go to Disney and ask for permission.

Well Disney knows that ESPN makes them money, but they also have all of these other channels that are marginally profitable or aren't profitable at all.

So Disney says 'Sure you can purchase airing rights for ESPN as part of the Disney bundle of programming channels' as a way of getting more of their channels on air meaning more advertising and merchandising revenue.

There's always some fly in the ointment.

No.

No. (I could have stated: incorrect, but that would have been too clear and used too many letters. I went cryptic)

And then Yes, again.

Because there's always someway around the fly in the ointment. Or you dissolve the fly in acid. And you arrange it so someone else has to clean up the mess.

Or not*.


*Best cryptic disclaimer in the universe**


**Or not.

Indeed. Should be excellent sport. I reached the conclusion that not voting Labour is childish.

The additional power required to send all the unneeded u's by people in the UK adds to global warming.

that's why labour doing so badly then.

Not many of us adults about

I did bet on a Conservative majority at 10/1, however.

That's a fun bet to see you through the night.

So what time did the polls close? Shouldnt you have had projected results already? Conservative tories/Cameron won right? Were you voting for Labour? They still have to form coalition thought right? What is the party that helps them fill the majority needed? Are they more left than the Labour or what?

For example right now in Greece they have a left government but its supported by a small right wing party that is more conservative than the main conservative party making the sum rather lol.

10pm (75 mins ago)

projected results (which are significant but not hugely reliable) show tories 10 short of majority and in coalition as now they would have a majority of 2

I voted labour happily as I have a high regard for the candidate. Would have struggled to vote for them otherwise but probably still would have.

Yeah, pleased with that one.

The silent majority. Nixon was right.