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darrencp22

Last reply Feb 13, 2008 · posted in DIRECTV General Forum

Wow, Direct was not interested in my business!

Here's the scoop.

I am a Dish customer and former D* customer. I am interested in switching back. I'm even interested in swallowing the $160 termination fee from E.

However, I subscribe to center ice, which I paid $160. I was willing to eat E*s cost on this, but asked if D* can prorate the package for me as the season is close to 2/3rd over (i'm not going to pay another $160 for 30 games).

They refused to do it. There's only so much money I can justify losing making this switch, but that is just the breaking point. I guess they dont want me as a customer!

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geoffinak

Feb 12, 2008

So direct is changing ownership, when do you anticipate this may happen and what is the pedigree on the new owner ?
Geoff

harshness

Feb 12, 2008

geoffinak said:
So direct is changing ownership, when do you anticipate this may happen and what is the pedigree on the new owner ?

Liberty Media's acquisition of News Corp's DIRECTV holdings is a well documented deal. It has been going on for quite a while now.

Here's a report of an imminent completion of the deal from December 2006: News Corp-Liberty Media DIRECTV Share Swap Nearly Complete - Seeking Alpha

The deal is doubly enticing for News Corp as it allows them to get back Liberty's $11 billion holding (19%) in News Corp and Rupert gets rid of his "turd bird".

tds4182

Feb 12, 2008

harshness said:
Liberty Media's acquisition of News Corp's DIRECTV holdings is a well documented deal. It has been going on for quite a while now.

Here's a report of an imminent completion of the deal from December 2006: News Corp-Liberty Media DIRECTV Share Swap Nearly Complete - Seeking Alpha

The deal is doubly enticing for News Corp as it allows them to get back Liberty's $11 billion holding (19%) in News Corp and Rupert gets rid of his "turd bird".

Here we go again on one of my many pet peeves.

Harshness, I defy you to find one "reputable source" for your turd bird quote.

It first appeared in an article by Jill Goldsmith in Variety (not exactly the Wall Street Journal in terms of accuracy if you know what I mean). Since then, the phrase has been repeated fairly frequently, but never in any reputable publication of which I am aware.

I don't believe Rupert ever said (or wrote) it. He's too good a businessman to do something like that.

The more often things like this get repeated, the more seeming validity they seem to have

Prove me wrong!

harshness

Feb 12, 2008

tds4182 said:
Harshness, I defy you to find one "reputable source" for your turd bird quote.

Such a source has not come forward.

I don't believe Rupert ever said (or wrote) it. He's too good a businessman to do something like that.

I'm not saying that he did, but do you think that a writer for Variety would have come up with that expression on her own? The terminology that Ms. Goldsmith used was "supposedly dubbed" as opposed to "called" or "labeled", so she wasn't making a direct quote anyway.

In the final analysis, does it really matter whether he said it or not?

I guess the question is whether or not this is a win-win for News Corporation or just a simple buy-back. I'm inclined to believe that DIRECTV didn't really fit in with News Corp's future plans.

tds4182

Feb 12, 2008

harshness said:
Such a source has not come forward.I'm not saying that he did, but do you think that a writer for Variety would have come up with that expression on her own? . . . .

Of course I do, you don't believe everything that you read in print (or see & hear on TV or hear over the radio) do you?

You (and others like you) have promulgated this crap for quite a while now without even bothering to check the truthfulness of it.

Variety, and other publications of it's ilk, are in the business of selling their product and sensational comments sell, whether they are true or not.

Ask Dan Rather if you don't believe me!

harshness

Feb 13, 2008

tds4182 said:
Ask Dan Rather if you don't believe me!

Ah, another pillar of journalistic integrity.

tds4182

Feb 13, 2008

harshness said:
Ah, another pillar of journalistic integrity.

That's exactly my point, glad you finally got it.

Now stop the turd bird comments since we both seem to agree that it's probably not true!

vurbano

Feb 13, 2008

Wait for next season

Van

Feb 13, 2008

Give it a year before they try to get you back, when I cancelled service with E on an account that was always paid early it took them a year before I started getting fliers in the mail offering $240 in savings to come back, I'd go back if it wasnt so expensive to get what I want and they had been in the att/bellsouth bundle that I signed up for last week.

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Last reply Today at 7:05 PM · posted in The Phone & Tablet Zone

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Can't remember if I've posted this yet..

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Yesterday at 11:47 AM

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Yesterday at 11:56 AM

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No fingernails, no dust, sand, dirt, or other particulate matter

And definitely no medieval chain armor!

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comfortably_numb said:
medieval chain armor

Aka "mail" or "maille".

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IFixIt has published their Teardown and they had some positive things to say about the iPhone Duo. It still showed some dust ingress into the hinge assembly but seemed otherwise well-sealed.

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Last reply Today at 4:48 PM · posted in TV Shows

Brutal review of Netflix's series Below

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KAB

Today at 8:16 AM

What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.

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Yespage

Today at 4:48 PM

KAB said:
What a "pile of slop" review! I liked the show.

If the review is like the article, oi! Eighteen paragraphs into the review and... all they've done is not really talk at all about the actual thing they are reviewing.

Halfway into the "written" review, I know more about how the writer "thinks" than I do about what they are writing about. I understand their politics, their self-overestimated understanding of film, their inability to be funny.

Takes about 22 paragraphs to get to one that starts "Anyway, the story kicks off...". Talk about Slop!

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Last reply Today at 3:35 PM · posted in TV Shows

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Season 2 order already in hand:

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2, Tatiana Maslany to Guest Star in Season 1

I've not been optimistic about this show based on what I've read so far. Seems to be aimed at a younger audience. Interesting though that Tatiana Maslany will have some sort of role.

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klang

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

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MikeD-C05

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.

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harshness

Oct 13, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.

Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

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MikeD-C05

Oct 18, 2026

harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.

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harshness

Oct 18, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.

Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

MikeD-C05

Monday at 1:35 PM

harshness said:
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

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osu1991

Monday at 1:59 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping

MikeD-C05

Yesterday at 12:25 PM

osu1991 said:
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though

Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 4:30 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin

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long_time_Dish

Yesterday at 4:38 PM

Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...

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primestar31

Yesterday at 11:00 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

Just sayin...

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MikeD-C05

Today at 11:17 AM

Jimbo said:
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...

For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Today at 11:53 AM

Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.

long_time_Dish

Today at 3:35 PM

harshness said:
Females wearing any clothing is unthinkable on Ferenginar.

Was never a huge of the Ferengi-centric episodes in Trek...

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