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coyo7e posted:it reads like a reggae song. "I ryan c, man, rule i an' i for all eternity!" jah love
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My fave was stillquote:“I, ryan c, man, am an idiot of the ‘Legal Society’; and; am an idiot (layman, outsider) of the ‘Bar Association’; and; i am incompetent; and; am not required by any law to be competent... I imagine some poor underpaid legal clerk reading through thousands of pages of SovCit drivel got to that line and completely lost their poo poo
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Xand_Man posted:My fave was still The Bundy trial has to be good for the economy, for all the legal work it is generating.
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LingcodKilla posted:I regret not going in debt to live right on the water. From what I saw, you can either A: be on the water, or B: have a good amount of land. Unless you want to buy like 3 or more waterfront properties to combine into one, I didn't really see any good sized ones for sale in any price range on the water. Option 2: buy a boat and pay for moorage and live inland. Best of both worlds. glowing-fish posted:The Bundy trial has to be good for the economy, for all the legal work it is generating. I'm waiting for the made-for-tv movie. Doccers fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Aug 1, 2016 |
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WA State AG Bob Ferguson is suing Comcast for $100 million: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/washington-state-to-sue-comcast-over-pattern-of-deceptive-practices/
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seiferguy posted:WA State AG Bob Ferguson is suing Comcast for $100 million:
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seiferguy posted:WA State AG Bob Ferguson is suing Comcast for $100 million: One of the best things about moving to this state was that I got to dump comcast. Wave may not be terribly great but in comparison to Comcast? We were paying for 20mbps business internet with comcast, and incredibly lucky to get 2mbs out of it. Now? I'm getting 100mbps with Wave, had some difficulty at first that boiled down to a bad seal on equipment at the node, but once that got sorted? Smooth freaking sailing. Love it. And now the state is suing comcast? I think I'm in love...
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I have CenturyLink fiber/DSL and the peace of mind of not having to deal with Comcast is worth it alone.
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For actual broadband here Comcast is pretty much my only option. CenturyLink has for some reason not upgraded their equipment over most of town, and even right near the middle of Eugene the best I could get from would be 3mbps down instead of the at least 20mbps that I get consistently from Comcast. Throughout way too much of their market they have a practical monopoly, and it shows.
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Outside of major metro areas the options are still Comcast or something of shittier quality, unfortunately. I like living in Tacoma because I can get broadband via two different local competitors, but their prices have gone up so much in the last few years that you are not saving a lot of money by going local, so that kind of sucks. Would like CenturyLink fiber to make their way down here but that probably won't happen until I'm in my fifties.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:For actual broadband here Comcast is pretty much my only option. CenturyLink has for some reason not upgraded their equipment over most of town, and even right near the middle of Eugene the best I could get from would be 3mbps down instead of the at least 20mbps that I get consistently from Comcast. Throughout way too much of their market they have a practical monopoly, and it shows. That's just a limitation of DSL technology, it's garbage, but it works over fairly long distances without needing to upgrade existing infrastructure (all you need is a POTS line). Cable technology just has more bandwidth available to it (RF spectrum vs audio spectrum) so even in remote areas as long as your signal to noise ratio is decent you can reach docsis 3 speeds. Personally I switched to gigabit fiber from centurylink, their support sucks but at least they don't try to milk me with their bundles constantly. I've just had too many issues with comcast, like having them tell me to go into the store only to get turned away saying I need to call, being charged for equipment I don't have, refusing to enable service in a new home until the old service is turned off (and then charging me for service in two locations), modems that I bought through their compatible devices page not working with their service, etc. etc. etc. If I were you, I'd move away from comcast if I had the option, though if the only option is DSL...
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ElCondemn posted:That's just a limitation of DSL technology, it's garbage, but it works over fairly long distances without needing to upgrade existing infrastructure (all you need is a POTS line). Cable technology just has more bandwidth available to it (RF spectrum vs audio spectrum) so even in remote areas as long as your signal to noise ratio is decent you can reach docsis 3 speeds. I used to prefer having DSL, and would happily have it again if the speeds were even close to competitive, but 3mbps is simply not sufficient to even consider. I just wish I had actual options.
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In North Seattle where I am, CenturyLink is something horrid like 5 MBPS down for $30 a month, Comcast at least has the full coverage. That being said, I never had issues with CenturyLink. We are pretty lucky out here as Comcast seems to be afraid of introducing bandwidth caps due to the competition.
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I get basic cable and 175Mbit down for like ~$100/mo, so I'm happy.
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Tim Eyman is doing the write up for the anti-ST 3 crowd and they are deeply unhappy about it because he is political poison. My normally anti-transit relatives are definitely giving them the side eye because he's attached go it at least but I don't know if it'll be like that in general.
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seiferguy posted:I'd love to dump Comcast, but the only other internet provider in my area is Frontier, and as far as I can tell, they have the same issues that I'd get with Comcast Frontier has been pretty good to me and I've used them since the verizon fios sale.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Tim Eyman is doing the write up for the anti-ST 3 crowd and they are deeply unhappy about it because he is political poison. My normally anti-transit relatives are definitely giving them the side eye because he's attached go it at least but I don't know if it'll be like that in general.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:In North Seattle where I am, CenturyLink is something horrid like 5 MBPS down for $30 a month, Comcast at least has the full coverage. That being said, I never had issues with CenturyLink. I live in north seattle as well and this is my experience. At least Comcast is giving me what I pay for now. I still have to tell them to take poo poo off our bill every month - like that bullshit service protection fee. gently caress them for that. But back when centurylink was still qwest i'd be lucky to go a day where my internet stayed up and wasn't complete poo poo.
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ElCondemn posted:That's just a limitation of DSL technology, it's garbage, but it works over fairly long distances without needing to upgrade existing infrastructure (all you need is a POTS line). Cable technology just has more bandwidth available to it (RF spectrum vs audio spectrum) so even in remote areas as long as your signal to noise ratio is decent you can reach docsis 3 speeds. So yeah, I went with Comcast.
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Freakazoid_ posted:Frontier has been pretty good to me and I've used them since the verizon fios sale. My issue is very specific. I'm a giant nerd that plays an MMO and both Comcast and Frontier use Level3 to route their packets, and for whatever reason, there's massive packet loss when it hits Level3. I'd probably switch to Centurylink if they covered the area, but I'm SOL.
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Helter Skelter posted:I'm hardly in a "remote" area (right near downtown Ballard) and CenturyLink only offers 7mbit DSL to my place despite advertising gigabit in the area. Turns out that's only available at a few recently-built apartment/condo buildings. I'm not saying being nearby is going to give you better speeds, just that DSL is still the only option for a lot of people due to the ability for it to be run on existing infrastructure. You should check every few months whether you have the option for fiber, centurylink has been rolling it out all over Seattle pretty heavily the past year. https://www.centurylink.com/fiber/plans-and-pricing/seattle-washington/. I live north of greenwood and got fiber last year, though if you're in an apartment that might affect your ability to get the service. ElCondemn fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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ElCondemn posted:I'm not saying being nearby is going to give you better speeds, just that DSL is still the only option for a lot of people due to the ability for it to be run on existing infrastructure. The Ballard rollout started in late 2014, I've been checking every few months since then (usually when they send me a flier). Even if I can't get fiber (because yeah, apartment), you'd think they'd at least offer ADSL2.
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Helter Skelter posted:Oh, for sure. I just found it a bit silly that buildings within 6 blocks of me have fiber and I have the choice of cable, or DSL that doesn't even meet the definition of broadband these days. I'm pretty sure their goal is to migrate entirely to fiber, they use their ONT to split the connection into 3 vlans (voice/voip, data, and iptv) so the old POTS infrastructure is totally unused. ADSL2+ gives you up to about 24Mbps and that's still slower than the slowest speed comcast offers, full 24Mbps ADSL2+ would require lots of infrastructure updates probably (a DSLAM ever square mile, which I'm certain they currently do not do). I think they're just looking to upgrade their whole network to fiber and only offer DSL in areas where fiber service is too costly to install. ElCondemn fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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I just checked Centurylink's site again, and it still shows my address as getting nothing more than 3mbps. I'm pretty sure I could just get a 4G modem setup and have better "broadband" than that.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I love Tim Eyman. Pretty sure this qualifies as fighting words FAU.
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Not that you guys care about the east side, but a fire just jumped Snake River into Whitman County. https://twitter.com/palousenews Thought enough of everything burned last year 
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Zantie posted:Not that you guys care about the east side, but a fire just jumped Snake River into Whitman County. Speaking of caring, am I the only one who gets the sense that the common Seattlite more or less ignores everything south of the International District and just aggressively pretends that Aurora is The Worst though?
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Speaking of caring, am I the only one who gets the sense that the common Seattlite more or less ignores everything south of the International District and just aggressively pretends that Aurora is The Worst though? If you live north of the canals, you ignore everything south of I-90. If you live south of I-90, you ignore everything north of the canals. If you somehow live vaguely equidistant between the two, you ignore both. My sister lived in Ballard for a while, and she may as well have been living on the moon. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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RuanGacho posted:Pretty sure this qualifies as fighting words FAU.
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Pramila Jayapal has a 17% lead in the primary as of now. There's going to be a socialist on the ballot for congress come November. Nice.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Speaking of caring, am I the only one who gets the sense that the common Seattlite more or less ignores everything south of the International District and just aggressively pretends that Aurora is The Worst though? I think it also depends on where you're talking about south of the ID. Columbia City is a thing for some folks north of it and if you had kids during the whole "lets bus teens who live in Greenwood/Ballard/Lake City/etc to Garfield/Franklin/Cleveland/Rainier Beach (and vice versa)" era you had to think of the south part of the city. Now that that's not a thing anymore it's probably one reason for people to care less. As for South King County as a whole it's pretty firmly rooted as where you go when all your hopes and dreams die.
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I absolutely do not pay attention to anything going on north of downtown unless its like a murder or a new Dick's location.
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Dick's is taking credit card and apple pay now! http://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/major-seattle-fast-food-news-dicks-drive-in-to-start-accepting-credit-cards/
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mod sassinator posted:Dick's is taking credit card and apple pay now! http://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/major-seattle-fast-food-news-dicks-drive-in-to-start-accepting-credit-cards/ It's too bad their burgers taste like dick. /ducks seriously though. gently caress onion relish on burgers.
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Uh, just scrape it off and give it to the guy asking for change. It's not hard.
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FactsAreUseless posted:The man has done more to put an unsympathetic face on the anti-tax movement than anything else I can think of. True enough, I just wish he was a little more toxic so anything he touches dies.
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Tigntink posted:It's too bad their burgers taste like dick. Or... buy the cheeseburger instead?
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Dick's is the resident incredibly overrated fast food, but every place has to have one.
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