On 11/24/13, 8:20 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:50:29 -0500, KC wrote:



Ha, I remember when cable companies promised us the fees would pay for
the cable, and we would say goodbye to commercials

The fees do pay for the programming. It is all profit after that.
Comcast is a billion dollar company instead of a 50 million dollar
company for the same reason Google is a billion dollar company ...
advertising.
It is the cancer that makes everything from beer to political office
more expensive than they should be.

I think we have an advertising guy here ... oh he is the one bitching
about greed.


It isn't the advertising that makes the cable companies rip-off artists
compared to the European cable companies, it is greed and lack of
competition. Cell phone pricing is also a lot cheaper elsewhere in the
world. We've just been brainwashed for so many decades about the "free
enterprise/free market system," we believe that bull****, even though it
only these days benefits the wealthiest.

--
Religion: together we can find the cure.

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:51:03 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Cell phone pricing is also a lot cheaper elsewhere in the
world.

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In my experience (14 countries this year), that is not true.

On 11/24/2013 10:56 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:51:03 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Cell phone pricing is also a lot cheaper elsewhere in the
world.

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In my experience (14 countries this year), that is not true.


Consider the source.. I usually assume pretty much the opposite of
whatever harry says, is more in line with reality.