On 2009-05-20, Ezekiel <nowhere-there@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "JEDIDIAH" <jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:slrnh161al.gso.jedi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On 2009-05-19, Ezekiel <nowhere-there@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Chris Ahlstrom" <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:FryQl.43329$v8.6952@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, cc belched out
>>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>>
>>>>> On May 19, 8:24 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> [deletia]
>>>>> reporters are needed to get actual facts and report the news to these
>>>>> sites. How is that going to work if they're not paid? Unless
>>>>> everything in the world was free all of a sudden, people aren't going
>>>>> to work for free.
>>>>
>>>> Good points, but you're forgetting about television.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, with free teevee you really do get what you pay for.
>>>> Mostly bread and circuses.
>>>
>>> Cable and satellite TV is not free. Part of the subscriber fees are paid
>>> to
>>
>> Sure they are.
>>
>> Now you are effectively being charged champaigne prices for tap water
>> but that's another matter. That basically boils down to monopoly
>> economics.
>>
>>> the network. If by "free" you mean getting 3 or 4 channels over the air
>>> then
>>> I'll pass on "free" and would rather pay a few dollars every month.
>>
>> It's a bit more than a few.
>>
>> If you want channels that don't have the same commercials you will see
>> with over the air broadcasts, that will cost you even more.
>>
>
> Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said 'There's no such
> thing as a free lunch' - and even published a book by that name. There is no
That still doesn't mean I'm not being double billed for TNT.
They have commercials while at the same time charging my cable provider
for the right of retransmission (which gets passed on to me).
The whole "no free lunch" bullshit would sound more compelling if you
were talking about HBO or even Sprout or Boomerang.
> such thing as a free-lunch. Everything is paid for somewhere in one form or
> another. There's some welfare junkie somewhere thinking how great it is to
> get free XYZ from the government. Well... it's not "free" because the rest
> of us are paying for it.
>
> Commercials rarely bother me. I have a DVR on each television and I'm able
If you are being charged money to be shown them, then you should be
bothered by them. Consumer apathy just encourages a heightened level of crap.
> to skip over commercials in almost all cases. But the ability to skip over
> commercials wasn't free either.
The ability to skip commercials is just a side effect of being able to
record and time shift recordings. It's not "what you're paying for". It's
just a nice bonus.
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