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04/11/2009 10:03 #48354

Is this for real? Time Warner you suck.
Category: web
I just want my FIOS account at my house now. Supposedly time warner is starting bandwidth limiting. With overage fees of $1/GB. That is seriously going to change the internet as I know it. It makes you think about doing things like listening to internet radio while playing a game or download all the different Linux ISOs for fun.

I guess Time Warner just wants to accelerate themselves going out of business as soon as there is any other choice.


uncutsaniflush - 04/17/09 21:12
I'm sure you have probably heard that Time Warner Cable has given up on metered billing for broadband internet for the moment.

:::link:::

I reckon the next time they try, the FUD will be probably much more effective because TMC will have re-educated their customers to believe that anyone who downloads or uploads anything over 640k is a Pinko Commie supporter of bin Laden.
uncutsaniflush - 04/11/09 18:18
Based on what I've read and heard, Time-Warner Cable is going to try "metered" billing in Rochester because it is not a Verizon FIOS area. Frontier is the only broadband alternative to Time-Warner Cable. And at one point, Frontier was also considering "metered" billing. See :::link::: and :::link:::
theli - 04/11/09 11:41
Yeah, heard about this.

I think I can get fios where I live right now. The second I know for sure that they're bringing that to Buffalo, (seems Rochester is one of the test cities even) I'm switching.

First dial up was $5 and limited. Then they pushed everybody to the $20 unlimited plan, because obviously they would make more money since the vast majority didn't/couldn't use it extensively. Then broadband came out, eventually was available for $50 each, then slowly came down to $30 due to some basic competition. And it was generally unlimited for as fast as you can get it. Then it slowly went back up. And then they gimped its speed and made you pay for this BS called "power boost" just to get it closer to how it was before. But now, they want to limit you while charging you more for actually using it extensively.

I know why they're doing it. You raise profits by reducing cost of business. But it's reached utility status by now. And just because you can get away with this kind of shit because of so few alternatives for broadband available... That's just not acceptable.
mrmike - 04/11/09 10:35
They do indeed, blow

04/10/2009 18:37 #48346

Hodown in 1988 @ Kenmore Middle
Category: school
The year before she was taken away at gun point.

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tinypliny - 04/10/09 18:57
Showing a sense of style since '88...(I mean look at all the other awful hairstyles on there).

Where are you?

04/10/2009 17:56 #48345

Chiropractic vs Massage Vs Both?
Category: body
Okay seriously hurt my neck which has now turned into neck/rib/spine/sternum drama and is making me crazy. It all started out just being a strained neck but then accommodating for the strained neck I managed to hurt everything else. It makes me not able to work out very much or worse still - not able to dance freely.

I made both a chiropractic and massage therapy appointment for tomorrow. Do you think it is bad to mix? And is there an order like, "beer after liquor, never been sicker."

I just want it to stop hurting and thanks to crohn's and can't take ibuprofin - that is if I even have crohn's. Knock on wood its been almost a year since I have had any chrohn's symptoms. Basically since my gangrenous appendix came out about one year ago (e:paul,44043) Frankly, I am still convinced it was the culprit all along.
jenks - 04/15/09 09:19
I wouldn't mess with the crohn's. I saw your scope. ;)

04/10/2009 16:28 #48344

My internet rock bottom - Thinspo
Category: web
So today I actually spent time watching youtube videos about girls with anorexia.

I learned that there is this thing called Thinspo which stands for thinspiration. Try searching it there is a ton of inspirational material to help girls stay thin.

When I was in high school I dated this one girl who was so anorexic but honestly, she had it easy compared to girls who have it now. There is a whole online support culture to feed the mania now.

Look what you get if you just start typing thinsp into youtube search
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I am slightly fascinated by people who die from not eating considering how hard I try to gain weight. They are like my anti-matter.

What is your internet rock bottom?

UPDATE:
Okay this is freakin redic. This is so wrong of me, but he looks like he just has aids.


How crazy is this CBS Anorexia's Living Face Her knees make me feel sick.



This is the ultimate in bad combo. Imagine being an exhibitionist, bullemic in the age of youtube


I am a public eating disorder artist, activist and educator. I am have done and am available for media/tv, magazine/print, photo/documentaries, research/projects and various educational interviews. If you would like my help on an educational or research project, contact me with more details. I use my You Tube account to reach out to people and deliver educational videos, as well as raw and honest video journals. I am not recovered nor do I claim to be. I am struggling, I am fighting. Recovery is a lifelong commitment. Get in it so you can win it!




tinypliny - 04/11/09 15:19
I think my whole internet is a rock bottom.
paul - 04/11/09 14:52
I find it hard to believe no one else has an "internet rock bottom" to share?

04/09/2009 17:07 #48335

Aloha From fedora Land
Category: computers
I decided to just give up on os x and go back to linux 100%. What a circular pattern I am in. I am not exactly even sure why I went mac to begin with. I feel like one of those straight guys that got drunk and hooked up with their buddy only to regret it later.

I guess the hardware is nice - when its not broken. I should have just stayed here in the first place. Maybe I was just lured by photoshop, flexbuilder gui and a reasonable flash player. COme to think of it, its really adobe's fault. I mean how can maya come out on every platform and somehow photoshop can't. Well I am down with the gimp again. I will just miss shapes and vectors. I guess there is always inkscape. I just wish they could be one like photoshop.

The first thing I noticed is that I can't believe how freakin snappy everything is. When I say logout or shutdown - it freakin logs out. None of this so and so canceled your restart bullshit. When I say open firefox, there it is. WIll I miss safari - a little bit? WIll it still exist in my dumb ass windows virtual machine for testing IE and safari - yes.

Also, the amount of time I will save not have to try an implement everything the way it is on the server, because it just is that way will be amazing. No more trying to compile some obscure library for osx because it doesn't exist.

To make sure I was serious, I just went ahead and deleted all my mac server stuff. No more macports, no more apache with mysql blah blah php, subversion. Its all in fedora now.

In fact the laptop is little more than a shell for projects I am working on at the moment. I check out with svn, do my work, commit and erase from disk. No more musik, no photos, no backup files, nothing. It all lives in the clouds. Either on the estrip server, the work server or the home server.

It makes me feel so much better that if someone kicked me in the laptop, I'd have nothing to lose.

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paul - 04/10/09 21:16
Thanks, it's nice to be back.
uncutsaniflush - 04/10/09 20:23
I know that I can't really say "welcome back to Linux" since you never left on the server side. But I'm going to say "welcome back" anyway.
tiburon1724 - 04/10/09 16:47
Interesting analogy, but I can't say I've ever hooked up with a buddy only to regret it later unless it was a female buddy :) And I'm sure if anyone I know has, it's kept under wraps hence why I wouldn't know about it..
tinypliny - 04/09/09 23:22
Hahaha I just realized that linux distribution names are a clever play on different types of hats. First, there was red hat. NOW, with super soft felt and posh padding... we present, FEDORA!!!
theli - 04/09/09 17:57
Cool shit.
paul - 04/09/09 17:49
Wow, it just works. Seriously, the flash multifile upload works, so does youtube. I am happy.
paul - 04/09/09 17:15
I am so cursious if the flash player upload will work with flash player 10 on linux or not, once I get it installed. Last time I checked it did not. I just used the mobile site to upload the pic.