ChaimTime

This issue is addressed at least once a month, when someone gets mad at their cable company.  While the arguments are presented other places, this is my opinion.  Chaimtime has argued this before (sorry no link), but here are the facts.

You can get cable service for $30/month.  I know after the first year…. ($40 after that).  So you need to cut that bill to something more managable.  So let’s say you want the big networks (CBS, FOX, NBC, ABC, WB11), and let’s choose 8 cable channels (ESPN, TBS, TNT, Food Network, Bravo, CNN, and 2 more).  How much should that cost?  Well let’s figure on $3 a channel.  Just on those 8, that is $24, then we have to add for the piping in of the networks.  There is your $30.  At that point you might as well just pay for all 700 channels.  How much extra will HD cost?

The wholesale deal that the cable companies get is because they can guarantee millions of subscribers.  Now they won’t be able to.  So the bad networks like mtv4 will fail, but the good ones will start costing more.  Remember HBO is self sufficient at $20 dollars a month.

All this is simple math and economies of scale.  (I’m good at the math but not the economics).  The best way is to pressure @johnament to explain how his HTPC and external antennae works for watching TV.  For someone who has no cable he will see who will win the oscars tonight where I won’t.

Found at the wife’s office.  I just would like to say, thank you for clarifying what the mystery stuff on the carpet was.  I’m sure it took only a quarter of the time to fully attach the note onto the carpet than to clean it up (or call someone to clean it up).

Twitter has recently exploded with 3rd parties applications that post just about everything from where you are to how much you weight to, how popular you are in the virtual world.  Well I hate it, and if I hate it, then the world hates it. We all know that I know what the world wants.  Well I propose a solution, after the jump.

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Really, Support the Club

Steve formed a club based how high school clubs are pointless, and I became very interested and helped him plan the details. First off we are against the following people, groups, and organizations: Continue Reading

idea by Steve Sacks

The 99% rule is a way of life. It says that 99% of everything is bad, and so far it is true. Compare everything to the 99% rule, and you too will see that we are right. The definition of right is relative, but again 1% of everything is “good.”

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