<div>Stuart Thiessen, are you related to Eldon and Anita Thiessen and Homer and Luanna Leichliter? Just wondering because I am also related to them.</div>
<div>Robert Miller<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 6, 2008 5:43 PM, Stuart Thiessen <<a href="mailto:sthiessen@passitonservices.org">sthiessen@passitonservices.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Ehhh ... I have never gotten cable or satellite because I never felt I should subsidize channels in which I have no interest.
<br><br>They are not entitled to my money to support their programming. That should be my decision, not theirs. An all or nothing choice means they get nothing from me. It's almost like pre-installing Windows and not giving me the option to have Linux or other OS pre-installed. :-)
<br><br>Now, if I want reruns, I just buy the DVD's.<br><br>Stuart<br>--------------------<br><font color="#888888">Stuart Thiessen<br>Voice: 800-919-8853<br>SVP-Work: 515-278-6382<br>Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Nathan Stien" <<a href="mailto:nathanism@gmail.com">nathanism@gmail.com</a>><br><br>Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:02:21<br>To:"Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <
<a href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</a>><br>Subject: [Cialug] OT: A la carte cable (was: no more UPS needed)<br><br><br>On Jan 5, 2008 2:49 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <<a href="mailto:barry@vonahsen.com">barry@vonahsen.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> I do like the PTC for one reason, they're pushing the hardest for a la<br>> carte cable, so they don't have to pay for the "smutty" channels<br><br>I used to be a believer in [mandatory] a la carte, but I have since
<br>changed my mind. I pretty much agree with this assessment about how<br>it would harm programming diversity:<br><br><a href="http://www.techliberation.com/archives/043010.php" target="_blank">http://www.techliberation.com/archives/043010.php
</a><br><br>And this is an interesting one about the conjunction between a la<br>carte and PTC-style efforts to censor television:<br><br><a href="http://www.techliberation.com/archives/042416.php" target="_blank">http://www.techliberation.com/archives/042416.php
</a><br><br>Tech Liberation Front is in general a pretty good tech law blog, if<br>you're into that sort of thing.<br><br>- Nathan<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">
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