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In on my phone trying to win an argument over the internet here. Can anyone confirm that Sasktel is despised and charges higher rates for worse service than the telcos?
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I thought Sasktel was generally loved?
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Jun 5, 2015 00:03
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Thanks Ants posted:Having the licensing payments get to the artist via a different route is literally stealing food from the mouths of children. You are literally stealing food out of Ms. Turcke's 15 year old daughter's mouth, I hope you're happy 
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Jun 5, 2015 00:23
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Thanks Ants posted:Having the licensing payments get to the artist ... The what get to who? Those dollars belong to Bell too.
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Jun 5, 2015 00:28
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37th Chamber posted:You are literally stealing food out of Ms. Turcke's 15 year old daughter's mouth, I hope you're happy Depends on whether she's chewed it or not.
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Jun 5, 2015 00:40
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Yeah sasktel and saskatchewan telecomm (also health care, education and insurance) have been positive trendsetters in Canada for as long as I want to bother reading about saskatchewan history.
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Jun 5, 2015 00:41
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Mary Ann Turcke posted:“It has to become socially unacceptable to admit to another human being that you are VPNing into U.S. Netflix, like throwing garbage out your car window — you just don’t do it,”
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Jun 5, 2015 03:20
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"Mary Ann Turcke" posted:“It has to become socially unacceptable to admit to another human being that you are VPNing into U.S. Netflix, like throwing garbage out your car window — you just don’t do it,” I'd like to know how they plan to achieve this, really. Everyone I talk to hates these guys to some degree, far more than people ever hated music or movie producers. The well of sympathy has long been dry and is now full of putrid corpses.
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Jun 5, 2015 04:09
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They have a better chance of reattaching social stigma to marijuana. I'm only sort of kidding when I say Bell is probably going to try subliminal messaging on CP24 to get people to stop circumventing their attempts at total vertical integration. A wise man once said: "gently caress Rogers, but gently caress Bell."
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Jun 5, 2015 04:52
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Shumagorath posted:They have a better chance of reattaching social stigma to marijuana. I'm only sort of kidding when I say Bell is probably going to try subliminal messaging on CP24 to get people to stop circumventing their attempts at total vertical integration. Lord God Almighty, if You do exist, please link them with FIFA. I don't care how. I will take back every atheist thing I ever said.
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Jun 5, 2015 05:03
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I'm waiting for them to play the Canadian content angle
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Jun 5, 2015 07:45
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It has to become socially unacceptable to admit to another human being that you are paying Bell for service, like throwing money out your car window — you just don’t do it.
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Jun 5, 2015 07:45
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8ender posted:I'm waiting for them to play the Canadian content angle You probably won't have to wait too long.
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Jun 5, 2015 15:47
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I've watched more Canadian content on Netflix in the past year than I have on any of CTV's channels. That constitutes a single episode of that francophone Montreal cop drama, but whatever.
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Jun 5, 2015 16:00
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less than three posted:It has to become socially unacceptable to admit to another human being that you are paying Bell for service, like throwing money out your car window — you just don’t do it. It already is, for young people. At least, more than their dreamland. People who still have Bell or Rogers is like talking to addicts that can't quit, but recognize they should. It's never "I'm so proud of being a RoBoTel customer, and you should be too!". Never.
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Jun 5, 2015 16:28
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Rogers has decent plans for landline internet but they do shady things like traffic injection (and lied to me three times before I quit back in 2007). Their cell service is still preferable to Wind where it's usually "works at your house or office but never both". Bell's bad reputation started with their truly awful outsourced customer service and then really crashed and burned with the UBB fiasco. Even their jobs website is awful; it's the only time I decided I would rather not have the posted job than spend the required effort to complete the application.
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Jun 5, 2015 17:11
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Shumagorath posted:Rogers has decent plans for landline internet but they do shady things like traffic injection (and lied to me three times before I quit back in 2007). Their cell service is still preferable to Wind where it's usually "works at your house or office but never both". Wind works great at my house and at the office, but not at my in-laws'. On the other hand, the roaming charges on Wind are still less than the long distance charges on Rogers, and the way Rogers defines "long distance" meant that practically every call I made, including those within the same county, were "long distance", so Wind still comes out ahead even if I had to spend all of my time "roaming".
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Jun 5, 2015 17:31
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ToxicFrog posted:Wind works great at my house and at the office, but not at my in-laws'. Rogers has Canada wide calling though?
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Jun 5, 2015 21:09
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8ender posted:I'm waiting for them to play the Canadian content angle Ya, great Canadian content, like Corner Gas, Train 48 and
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Jun 5, 2015 21:21
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XYZ posted:Ya, great Canadian content, like Corner Gas, Train 48 and The only two good Canadian shows in the last twenty-five years were Forever Knight, and Little Mosque on the Prairie (S1-3 only). And anyone who so much as thinks the words "Littlest Hobo" or "DeGrassi" will be the first up against the wall.  Okay fine; I'll give you Mr. Dressup and Polka Dot Door, too. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Jun 5, 2015 21:24
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TPB but that goes without saying
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Jun 5, 2015 21:32
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Mister Macys posted:The only two good Canadian shows in the last twenty-five years were Forever Knight, and Little Mosque on the Prairie (S1-3 only). Street Cents.
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Jun 6, 2015 07:39
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Mederlock posted:TPB but that goes without saying Netflix exclusive 
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Jun 6, 2015 14:19
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For what it's worth, the SRC has quite a few good series under its belt. Which goes to say that good content doesn't
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Jun 6, 2015 14:40
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Stanley Pain posted:Rogers has Canada wide calling though? They didn't when I was on Rogers, or at least, the plan I was on didn't. This was a few years ago though. Calls between Guelph and Fergus (~20km) were definitely billed as long distance.
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Jun 6, 2015 17:01
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The Dark One posted:Street Cents. It was hit or miss for me. v  v The episode where they made a solar heating dog house was pretty awesome though.As long as we agree that all period shows Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jun 6, 2015 |
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Jun 6, 2015 18:07
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Don't Canadian production team titles count as well? poo poo like V and BSG....
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Jun 6, 2015 18:14
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As much as I'd like to add X-Files, I'm deliberately avoiding that category. Especially since they made Highlander: Raven. 
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Jun 6, 2015 18:36
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ToxicFrog posted:They didn't when I was on Rogers, or at least, the plan I was on didn't. This was a few years ago though. You really shouldn't comment about the state of things from a "few years ago". A lot has changed across most of the wireless landscape in that time frame.
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Jun 6, 2015 22:04
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Stanley Pain posted:You really shouldn't comment about the state of things from a "few years ago". A lot has changed across most of the wireless landscape in that time frame. Yes, no longer are we paying $25 for 4mb of data per month. Instead we're forced to pay for unlimited voice despite voice usage dropping year over year.
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Jun 6, 2015 22:11
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less than three posted:Yes, no longer are we paying $25 for 4mb of data per month. Instead we're forced to pay for unlimited voice despite voice usage dropping year over year. I'm paying $80/month for 10GB/month + unlimited voice and sms. That's not a bad deal. I pay a lot more for 250Mbit + Unlimited Internet though 
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Jun 7, 2015 00:15
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Who do you have those plans with? Are the prices the result of bundling? Voice usage dropping isn't even a pricing thing either. I might just be getting old but phone calls have managed to gain some incredibly privileged status where people act like it's a huge inconvenience to actually talk to someone who isn't their closest friend or a family member.
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Jun 7, 2015 00:24
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I'm with Rogers. I agree I barely talk on the phone anymore. I got in on a good deal. Looks like it's about $125 on BYOD.
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Jun 7, 2015 00:50
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The Koodo plans always seem to work better for me than the other carriers.
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Jun 7, 2015 01:44
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e: wtf was I doing quoting an old thread page?
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Jun 8, 2015 16:32
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Netflix has been kind to us (an ISP in Ontario). They have relaxed their rules for putting a cache in our data center (3.5 Gb/s instead of 5 peak) and we are getting one soon. We've been pestering them since we started hitting around 2 Gb/s. This is going to free up a lot of our transit bandwidth at peak times. The cache has A LOT of storage apparently. The cache server(s?) have ~160 TB of storage! I wonder how much of Netflix's library would fit on that.
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Jun 8, 2015 19:04
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Mister Macys posted:The only two good Canadian shows in the last twenty-five years were Forever Knight, and Little Mosque on the Prairie (S1-3 only). To be fair, Penny Dreadful is quite decent and should count.
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Jun 10, 2015 03:20
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Skandranon posted:To be fair, Penny Dreadful is quite decent and should count. Is that a Canadian production? Didn't know. Season 2 has started out really good.
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Jun 10, 2015 13:52
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Mister Macys posted:The only two good Canadian shows in the last twenty-five years were Forever Knight, and Little Mosque on the Prairie (S1-3 only). I'll stab you for not liking the Littlest Hobo. Corner Gas was also good for a while. Beachcombers was amazing. Reboot (cartoon, but amazing). There's a few others that I haven't had enough coffee to remember yet, but we have produced a lot of quality TV 
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Mainframe made Beast Wars too, that was pretty good. Also there's a million shows that are filmed in Vancouver.
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