dave blevins’s Comments

• Aug 3rd, 2019 @ 4:09am

  Who should pay on cable content

  on Cable Programming Blackouts Continue To Rise As Cord-Cutting Continues

  I've always wondered why the cable companies aren't paid by the content provider for the carriage rather than vice versa as now. After all if the content provider broadcasts its product it has paid the govt for the bandwidth.

• Aug 1st, 2019 @ 7:16am

  Pool's for fines STINK

  on The FTC's Settlement With Equifax Is Such A Joke, The FTC Is Now Begging You Not To Ask For A Cash Settlement

  In the future NO POOL to draw upon make it a per person fine: in this case, fine is $125 per person for ALL WHO WERE EFFECTED. 147,000,000 * $125 = $18.375 Billion

• Mar 5th, 2019 @ 12:13pm

  Re: Old AT&T

  on AT&T Begins Trying To Screw Up HBO In Earnest

  The current AT&T is nothing more than a re-named Cellular One, not the Bell system of your memory. And if you remember Cellular One wasn't the the fastest bit on the cell network either. The current "Cellular One" was the left-overs no-one wanted.

• Dec 6th, 2018 @ 7:35pm

  A "block" W -- take a look at Walgreens W

  on Cubs, Nationals Launch Another Trademark Opposition Over A 'W' Logo
  This is Walgreens https://goo.gl/mhJHYr
  This is Nats https://goo.gl/x4G2qG
  
  You gotta be kidding with the block W being close !!!
• Mar 9th, 2018 @ 5:19pm

  Forget it

  on Wikimedia's Transparency Report: Guys, We're A Wiki, Don't Demand We Take Stuff Down
  Let requester petition the EU court because you'll only consider an "erasure" if it comes from the court -- they passed the "law" let them enforce it. And if you get one, block the requester, i.e. forget them !
• Jan 12th, 2018 @ 11:27am

  Need this for Trumpie

  on For The Second Time In A Week, German Hate Speech Laws Results In Deletion Of Innocent Speech
  Too bad we can't tape the crude, rude, and down-right MEAN mouth of our Prez. He's now expanded his meanness from Puerto Rico hurricane, to the Dreamers, onto the 17 year Salvadorian refugees, and now to "half" of the world. Guess his PR for his "base" was running low.
• Jan 4th, 2018 @ 11:57am

  Those who don't know history ...

  on Donald Trump Hires Charles Harder To Threaten Steve Bannon With A Lawsuit, Block Publication Of New Book
  ... or in this case, are mostly totally ignorant, will do a "Streisand" (big time).
• Aug 30th, 2017 @ 1:06pm

  Removing Accounts ...

  on The Scale Of Moderating Facebook: It Turns Off 1 Million Accounts Every Single Day
  ... should have the same answer as Google's problem of removing "forget mes"
  and that is if a court decree or govt law "requires" such the court or govt should provide not just parameters but the EXACT account BY NAME or EXACT POST by URL in writing signed by THE JUDGE or an govt official.
• May 19th, 2017 @ 5:49am

  Ask the court to decide and then wait ...

  on New EU Lawsuit Claims Google Failed To Forget 'Sensitive' Information, Such As Their 'Political Affiliation'
  ... for their detailed order on each and every request.
  
  Oh yes, the charge idea is also great.
• Apr 19th, 2017 @ 5:43pm

  (untitled comment)

  on NYPD Finally Comes Up With A Body Camera Policy, And It's Terrible
  Might as well save the $$$ to pay the court awards
• May 16th, 2016 @ 7:04am

  Gosh, what original thoughts

  on Comcast Now Trying To Claim That Delivering Just TV To Third-Party Set Top Boxes 'Not Feasible'
  Same arguement AT&T (when it was Ma Bell, not the re-tred Cellular One) used about 3rd party Phone book covers -- calls wouldn't go thru, THE network would collapse, dogs and cats would live together.
• Apr 29th, 2016 @ 8:27am

  Those who forget the past ...

  on The Cable Industry Threatens To Sue If FCC Tries To Bring Competition To Cable Set Top Boxes
  Remember the Ma Bell and MCI. You couldn't put a cover on you AT&T provided phone book and that was the only phone book.
  
  BTW today's AT&T is just a new name for that wonderfully remembered Cellular One.
  
  Why is Comcast allowed to buy media providers and be a carrier? Very conflict of interest, very.
• Apr 1st, 2016 @ 4:58pm

  Re: Stupid and bizarre

  on Chase Freezes Guy's Bank Account For Paying His Dogwalker For Walking Dash The Dog
  This belongs to the "you can't make this stuff up" file.
• Mar 29th, 2016 @ 4:21pm

  Cable/content payment biz model is backwards

  on Yankees, Comcast Engage In Public Pissing Match Because They're Incapable Of Adult Negotiations
  I've always wondering why the cable transport company (Cable) pays the content "generator" (CG) and not the other way around since the CG gets an audience they wouldn't otherwise have, and they (CG) gets the increased ad revenue.
• Dec 11th, 2015 @ 8:47am

  CBS bluster

  on CBS Claims It Will Pull All Content Offline Unless It Can Be An Anti-Competitive Ass
  Does CBS still exist? When did they last have content anyone watched?
• Oct 19th, 2015 @ 11:16am

  close ...

  on Close Only Counts In Horseshoes, Hand Grenades... And (Apparently) Verizon's Fiber Optic Installs
  Horseshoes, hand grenades, and sometimes dancing. The latter is what Verizon is doing and getting well paid for it.
• Sep 18th, 2015 @ 1:53pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Time Warner Cable CEO: Cable TV Pricing Is So High Because We're The Mercedes Of Entertainment
  They and Comcast the rest of this gang are more like a Yugo.
• Sep 18th, 2015 @ 11:44am

  Texas

  on Texas Attorney General Sues Self To Stop Self From Releasing Documents He Says Can't Be Released
  You can't make this stuff up !
• Sep 16th, 2015 @ 6:30am

  The "weather" channel

  on The Weather Channel Finally Gets The Message: Announces Plan To Actually Cover...The Weather
  My Comcast version of the weather channel thinks my "local" area is about 30 miles from me. So my "Local on the 8s" is useless and there is NO WAY to contact anyone who might fix this, NO WAY, not Comcast, not NBC, not weather.com.
  
  Weather.com is slightly more useful but the amount of the page not taken up by ads or other non-weather items is very small. I've switched to weatherunderground.com for my weather.
• Aug 21st, 2015 @ 7:40am

  Re: FU to the EU

  on UK Orders Google To 'Forget' News Articles Discussing Previous Right To Be Forgotten Requests
  Best suggestion I've heard on this subject is for Google to submit each and every "forget" request to the court for a ruling on if it meets the court's approval and why. Wonder how long the court will continue this farce then.

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