Yes. Grow like a creeping, ancient, underground fungus, o slimy, inevitable Comcast!
My plot to grow rich selling silkscreened "FUCK COMCAST" shirts to frustrated midwestern college students trying to torrent indie rock/(indie?) porn at 3kbps is coming to fruition!
Is this what those Time Warner "roll over or get tough" ads are about? Are they making a pre-emptive strike against Comcast trying to rape them over USA & Bravo? Or is this just their own usual evil saber-rattling?
A regional cable player owning national entertainment properties? how is that synergistic? They still have to sell the shows to other cable companies and Verizon and AT&T in the rest of the country. Are those other companies going to want to pay top dollar for A&E or Bravo when they know that money is going to a competitor (granted, in the case of cable companies, not a territorial competitor, but a competitor in the potentional purchase of other cable franchises). How does a cable company support TV Anywhere, when it's a product that invariably will cause people to question the value of paying a cable and internet bill?
Personally I can't wait until the last Twilight book comes out as a movie. I will be watching it just for the epic lulz and WTF-factor.
I have to give Stephenie Meyer props, she may not be a good writer (she should be much chagrined at that chagrining notion) but she did manage to relate an experience of childbirth that it infinitely more disgusting and horrifying than actual childbirth (teeth and sparkles!!), which takes some talent in my opinion.
@Anne Boleyn: Oh my god, me too. I am embarrassed to say that the fourth book is totally my favorite, because shit gets real. Also the Stephen King–y birth sequence is just so gross and awesome. I cannot wait to see how they try and get that a PG-13.
@Anne Boleyn: I tried to work in some subliminal Mormon thing with that scene, but I was at a loss.
It was was just that fucked up for absolutely no reason.
@TheUptightMidwesterner: It exists! Part of the pro-life message. The mother is willing to undergo massive amounts of pain and potentially die for her freakish, stomach tearing offspring. She does whatever is needed to preserve the life of the baby! She knows it is going to kill her to give birth but she is totally pro-life.
But if you're specifically referring to the teeth gnawing through her stomach as some kind of metaphor, well yeah, you've got me there!
@Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Jeff Zucker is definitely not a nice guy. But having met with him, I have to say his bravado and arrogance can come off as rather charming, in a dickish older brother kind of way.
@John Cook: There's something to be said for the "dickish older brother" vibe. Maybe he stays afloat based on the hope that he'll get what's coming to him?
@Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: I used to work in corporate and met big Z a few times... he's a child working in the costume of an ugly, sad man. He hasn't been fired because he's a great puppet of the GE mafioso and delivers the $$ that they crave, session C after session C (GE Speak). CFO Lynn Calpeter really runs the show and big Z just vomits out the same sad message of his corporate puppet-masters. If you really want to have fun pointing fingers for the NBC spiral, look upwards to Don Immelt.
I'm sure Comcast would prefer people to use their subscription service (cable) and Murdoch has been making noise about charging fees. So if Comcast were to get a chunk of Hulu and become the source for a large segment of licensed online video content, it'd only be a matter of time until we're all paying a nickel, whenever we want to watch tee-vee.
A purchase would mean Comcast is doubling-down on it's bleak future - tv will be via the internet, internet will be wireless. revenues won't support big productions, etc.
@daveyjonesisdead: Comcast delivers the internet. If video goes away, they just charge more for broadband.
Internet will be wireless, but only as an add on to wireline. Capacity and throughput of wireless are simply not enough, even in 4G, to have 100 million households watching video. Wireless supplement, but not replace, wireline.
Ask ATT how the data usage from iPhones is treating their wireless network.
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My plot to grow rich selling silkscreened "FUCK COMCAST" shirts to frustrated midwestern college students trying to torrent indie rock/(indie?) porn at 3kbps is coming to fruition!
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I have to give Stephenie Meyer props, she may not be a good writer (she should be much chagrined at that chagrining notion) but she did manage to relate an experience of childbirth that it infinitely more disgusting and horrifying than actual childbirth (teeth and sparkles!!), which takes some talent in my opinion.
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It was was just that fucked up for absolutely no reason.
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I'm just looking forward to seeing them handle the hot werewolf falling in love with a newborn child. Gotta love the Christian values in this book.
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But if you're specifically referring to the teeth gnawing through her stomach as some kind of metaphor, well yeah, you've got me there!
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I'm sure Comcast would prefer people to use their subscription service (cable) and Murdoch has been making noise about charging fees. So if Comcast were to get a chunk of Hulu and become the source for a large segment of licensed online video content, it'd only be a matter of time until we're all paying a nickel, whenever we want to watch tee-vee.
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Internet will be wireless, but only as an add on to wireline. Capacity and throughput of wireless are simply not enough, even in 4G, to have 100 million households watching video. Wireless supplement, but not replace, wireline.
Ask ATT how the data usage from iPhones is treating their wireless network.