Posted on 08/03/2011 9:31:34 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
To qualify for $9.95 a month Internet service and a low-cost computer, your household must meet all these criteria:
Be located where Comcast offers Internet service Have at least one child receiving free school lunches through the National School Lunch Program Have not subscribed to Comcast Internet service within the last 90 days Not have an overdue Comcast bill or unreturned equipment
(Excerpt) Read more at internetessentials.com ...
“Not have an overdue Comcast bill or unreturned equipment”
Never going to be true. If they don’t, they will as soon as they find out they actually have to PAY that $9.95 bill. These people didn’t get to be poor by being good at paying for stuff.
At some point the “poor” are living better than those paying for all this stuff.
God Bless You!!!
Good points!
Good points!
Believe me the government has been trying to make this happen for a while. One of Obie Won's special projects and the FCC has been trying use the carrots and the sticks to get it done.
This is not a fair practice at all. I have to pay an ever growing bill for this service.
Why should some people get 10 dollars as a bill and others 50 dollars?
Oops, that is why my service price keeps rising. So schlubs can have theirs at 10 dollars.
Nevermind
Have to dig out that cartoon (Wizard of Id?) where the peasants are in the town square and the pol is guaranteeing free lunch, free TV, free food, free everything and his last frame has him saying “And there will be jobs for all”.
One of the downtrodden peasants says “If we are getting everything free, why do I need a job”?
That is wrong and wonder if it is truly legal. The only legitimate concern for anti-trust enforcement should be competition. Not enforcement of the social vision of the government of the day.
Comcast can’t sue, but I think a stockholder or customer could have standing to sue over this.
I have no problem with a private business offering a break to low income customers, indeed it’s laudable. I have a major problem with the US Government abusing it’s authority to compel charity.
but but but it’s for the Obama voters! Force Comcast paying customers to pay for the Obama voters who want nearly free internet
Every f*cking facet of our lives has parasites introduced in it that we have to pay for. I'm so sick of it!!!
xrmusn: Perfect! Can you post it?
Every f*cking facet of our lives has parasites introduced in it that we have to pay for. I'm so sick of it!!!
xrmusn: Perfect! Can you post it?
Thanks!
xrmusn: Perfect! Can you post it?
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Have to see if I can locate it...not sure if it was here or not. Will see what I can do...
When the Government forces Comcast to do it, and pass along the costs to those customers who are dumb enough to actually pay, what do you call that?
I picked up a cheap $29 RCA HD Antenna with a cheap $19 TV antenna rotor from Menards. Used a small left over 5' section of pipe to mount the mast to the fireplace chimney and stuck the rotor and antenna on top of that.
This thing is great! I point it at Chicago and I pick up more than 30 OTA stations (some of them duplicates.) I can turn the antenna towards Rockford Illinois, South Bend Indiana and Springfield Illinois and pick up dozens more.
Most are network stations, there's enough "Independent" or "Fox" stations in there to make it interesting enough that I can usually find something to watch. Thankfully I don't watch much TV.
Bottom line is that for less than $100 you can get a nice HD OTA antenna and a small TV rotor, cables and connectors and dump ComCRAP. I did it last year, won't look back.
Unfortunately, they're the only deal in town for high speed internet thus far (sigh, wish I could completely dump them...)
Build Your Own HDTV Antenna From Coathangers.
There's a ton of good video's on this topic on You Tube. I could've easily made mine (I'm a Ham Radio guy and build my own home-brew antenna's) but I was lazy so I bought mine..
As far as high speed intenet goes, have you looked into tethering your computer to your cell phone (assuming you have a data plan with your calling plan).
It's a one time $15.95 fee.
It's what I use at home: http://junefabrics.com/index.php
Call me a luddite, but I think cellphones are for making phone calls, not browsing the internet with. My eyes are too old and too bad to do that on such a small screen!
I pay for ONE data plan, and that's it. Unfortunately that's Comcast at the moment.....
You use your cell phone as a modem; you surf as usual on your computer. I connect via a USB cable. You can’t talk and surf at the same time though, that’s the one drawback.
I’ve been using it for a few months (on it now actually).
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