Back In The Saddle/From The Shadows (Again)

If, like us, you're a cretinous imbecile who effed up his devil-box because he knows just enough to be dangerous & you're SoCal local, you can not go wrong taking your wounded warrior to M.C. Computers in fabulous Silver Lake, (323)665-9022 (email: walter2500@yahoo.com).

Mr. Melendez fixed the self-inflicted problem, upgraded the box to Windows 7 from Vista (No laughing, Steve Jobs groupies!) & threw in a few snappy programs, for a mere US$75.00. (US$39.95 minimum charge, if you haven't really screwed things up. FREE SPEECH IS NOT FREE!)

Walter was recommended to us by two separate sources (Just like the real news biz!) one of whom said he'd considered taking his box into a geographically convenient-to-him scam shop in Sherman Oaks (Locals only! Valley dweebs get lost!!) whose minimum fee was US$200.00. Hah!

We'll be taking our desktop devil-box in come 4 January to have the probably dead hard drive replaced, & the most recent operating system that it will handle installed. For cheap. Even said he had a bunch of hard drives he isn't using lying around, so it wouldn't run us much. Once that's accomplished, world domination (or at least more interference w/ fascist websites) can only be days away!

We'll also note that TimeWarnerCable's Internet Service was functional on our return to the bunker (Would have been cause for WWIII to break out had it not been functional.) which is somewhat of a rarity. We mentioned the big outage of a couple of wks. ago a couple of wks. ago. On the subject of TWC, a column from yet another local institution, the Chicago Times, one of whose typists screeded about the unspeakable greed of TWC in a column we read because we had to buy the damn fish-wrap to see what was up in the world of hatred, pain & fear we all occupy while we were disconnected therefrom.

Read it & laugh.

Jim Gordon, a Time Warner spokesman, said the latest rate increase reflects higher programming costs as well as overall improvements to the company's service.

"Throughout 2010, every one of our products has continued to see enhancements," he said. "We've continued to invest in products that add value to subscribers."

Be that as it may, customers of Time Warner and all other telecom service providers wouldn't be remiss in wondering why their rates have to go up every year like clockwork, and why those rate increases routinely surpass the inflation rate.

Next year's Time Warner rate hike for basic cable: 5%. Projected 2011 inflation rate, according to the Congressional Budget Office: 1%.

We were especially amused by the "overall improvements" bit. Eat a bowl of fuck, Jim Gordon, if that's your real name. (We don't believe it for a minute.)  We can't figure why Lazarus didn't mention the recent outage. Wonder how many refunds TWC issued for that.

Just how much TWC sucks:

Finally, you get “wideband” Internet through DOCSIS 3.0-tier networking with 50Mbps down and 5Mbps up, an improvement from their current real-world service of about 1Mbps down and “Why Don’t You Send a Letter In The Mail, It Will Get There Faster”Mbps up.

But don't expect too much more yada from us today, we have to get Chrome on the devil-box & figure out what all is up w/ Windows 7.