From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 06/02/2013 05:50 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 02 Jun 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , TJ wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> Windstream keeps telling me I should quit cable and take their   
   >> package deal for dish, phone, and dsl. I'm not buying, as they can't   
   >> possibly match the price I'm now paying for my present systems - free   
   >> OTA TV, fixed wireless Internet with a deal as a host for some of my   
   >> ISP's equipment, and basic, no long distance landline phone. Long   
   >> distance, on those rare times when I use it, is with my cell phone.   
   >   
   > Oh, but you are missing the 350 channels of crap television!!![1]  The   
   > local phone and cable companies are having a wonderful advertising   
   > war over services, with the phone company claiming "no price increase"   
   > for the 25 Mb/s DSL service for _five_ years (``$19.95'' per month,   
   > but as usual, that neglects the other fees and taxes and B/S), while   
   > the cable company is offering a combined phone tie-in with Verizon.   
   > While paying my phone bill last month, I see a small included notice   
   > that the base telephone charges are going up July 1st (about 10%). As   
   > the fees/taxes/BS combine to double the base phone charge, I wonder   
   > how much the total phone bill is going up.   
   >   
   My spell check needs to be educated. I was posting in another newsgroup   
   about operating an OTA TV during an extended power outage, and I used   
   the word "derecho." Spell check didn't like it. I thought maybe I had   
   misspelled it, but apparently it was the spell checker that didn't have   
   a clue. The only suggestion it could come up with was "chowder."   
      
   TJ   
      
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