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Had another letter from TWC inviting me to try cable TV again.
Then I read it through, one part made me laugh:
SPECTRUM INTERNET
Fastest Speeds
Unleash faster internet with 100Mbps starting speed.
Or, keep your current internet speed of 300Mbps for $40 a month more.
Yup, sign me up to upgrade me by downgrading me to a lower speed for the same money and then charge me $40 a month more to go back to where I started.
No wonder these morons are losing customers by the hundreds of thousands. 
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Thanks for that laugh   Oh TWC, you never learn.
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100, 300, it's all the same.
Just give them your money and hope for the worst.
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I get these things every few days...
On one side, there are the letters from TWC/Spectrum asking me to switch back (I ditched them for FIOS)... They pretty much amount to, "Pweeeeeeease come back! We wuv you wong time!"
On the other side, there are the equally-frequent letters from Verizon asking me to switch to FIOS... Which just proves that their spam is completely untargeted, because I switched to FIOS last year, and I'm still a customer.
Too bad the days of CDs-in-the-mail have ended... At least in those days, AOL mailers made great frisbees and coasters. These days it's just paper.
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Comcast is no better. I've been a customer for over 3 years and they continuously spam me with emails wanting me to switch. One of the spamails I actually read challenged me to compare my current internet speed to what I could get with their service. Their speed test showed what I could be getting versus what I was settling for. (their own service!)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Your TWC solicitation mail is in English?
Lucky.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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The Wise Men gave him Gold and Frankincense – but wait: there's Myrrh.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Choose your gate - 1, 2 or 3! Behind two of them will be one of our fabulous prizes, behind the other one...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Are you some kind of wise guys?[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I am about to give up, but I still have some faith in your puns.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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You are the voice of resin.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes. There's also a balm[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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gold, Frankenstein and mare[^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Really, now, I just plain incensed at where your scent this thread!
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You mean the game about the lint in your pocket? That was great. I beat it, but that was YEARS ago.
Love those old text adventures... I wrote a couple for IFComp... They weren't very good.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: I beat it, but that was YEARS ago.
Honestly, you had to be quite sharp to beat it. Way to go.
I'm only now able to get anywhere, because I remember bits and pieces, but I was never able to complete it.
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Nah, it just took a dozen or so playthroughs. It's one of those games where if you forget something near the beginning, you won't realize until the very end that you're in an unwinnable situation.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: if you forget something near the beginning, you won't realize until the very end that you're in an unwinnable situation
True...and painful. 
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raddevus wrote: All these youths and their confounded graphics. Who needs 'em?
Right. The best games were written on the Altair with no graphics whatsoever.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wait. Altair?
It only had switches and LEDs right?
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Absolutely. You can enjoy text adventures only when you see the text one character at a time in binary.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: You can enjoy text adventures only when you see the text one character at a time in binary.
I agree 100%. That's why I recently purchased a LED TV. I just watch das blinkenlights[^]!
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Too bad I'm not at home right now, else I would post a picture of das Blinkenlight incarnate.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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