Town Heretic

ha ha....

She interpreted it as a compliment, which is strange, as she interprets actual compliments and admonition as accusations.

Hello, friend of mine. I hope you and yours are well and happy.

You might try calling ATT with some veiled hint of leaving them for a better deal elsewhere and see if they will bump your monthly allotment. Many carriers do that nowadays to hold onto folks.

Checked mine and was happy to see Cox has upgraded me to 700GB per month from my earlier 300GB allocation. I recently upgraded to Premium internet level (one level below Ultra) at a princely sum of $70/mo. I write off the monthly fees as part of my consulting business so there is that. You should speak with your accountant about some business charges that you could leverage along these lines. A writer and/or attorney that works from home should be able to get some tax advantages here.

To date used 291GB. Viewing the usage chart, on days I binge watch I used 22GB with monthly averages being close to the 300GB. For Roku just make sure you return to the home screen before switching video inputs to make sure nothing continues to stream while you are watching antenna content. I even am judicious about not leaving streamed content on pause while breaking for dinner or what not just avoid housekeeping bandwidth control data continuing to stream and accumulating monthly GB allocations.

That could be your epilogue! lain: :noid:

do you like my 'dork' pic ?

i may be thinking of something else, i thought you were alluding to a poster named obediah, who i don't know anyway - never mind TH -

The recent AT&T debacle about bandwidth throttling of its "unlimited bandwidth" subscribers is soon to reach the cable operators that provide internet access. They are scrambling to recover cord cutter losses and will probably start being more strict on how much bandwidth they allocate to users that only have internet services. Google is bringing fiber to the home in Phoenix someday, and then my online life will be just swell.

The Roku out performs the TiVo in terms of streaming performance. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu apps seem poor add-ons with the TiVo. I added a micro-SDcard on my Roku for more memory to contain many gaming apps, mostly brain teasers and the like that help me pass the time and convince me I am not frittering away brain cells with too much television content.

I also think the Roku behaves correctly in that when you leave it to switch to another video input the content formerly being viewed stops streaming and saves bandwidth. The Amazon Fire Stick had that problem with some screen savers that ended up surprising users with nasty grams from their internet service providers about excessive bandwidth consumption. I get 300GB from Cox per month and it is surprising how fast that can be consumed. Cox seems to wink at this for premium internet speed subscribers like myself, but I usually confine binge viewing to the later part of the month just in case.

Have you visited my Forgiving and Forgiveness thread yet. It gets kind of interesting every so often.

Re your message, I reached that same conclusion long ago. ai do try to be... not nice, necessarily... but you know, un-confrontational if at all possible. Thanks for being my friend.

Well then thank you. You had a string of them that night.

How have you been doing?

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Yeah, that's a big plus. But God'sUNtruth is like a pesky fly that refuses to light long enough to be swatted.

Exactly. She is the only person I have ever put on ignore, and it is so peaceful I've decided to keep her there....maybe I'll even add b57. :chuckle:

Hey, I tried and tried and even got on her friends list....she was so happy to have a friend, but I "betrayed" her when I kept telling her that salvation is a gift we cannot earn by our blood sweat or tears. I really don't see her listening.....sadly.

Most say GT is a woman, well maybe, then I think she, or he is one of those oddballs who have little real life friends and in absence, sits around trying to frustrate people online. Maybe huh?

I would try it anyway. It virtually eliminated ads for me on news sites, and even before I got my TOL subscription, it blocked ALL of the non-sub ads. So even today I see nothing but forum. Which, come to think of it, might be a net loss. :think:

I was snooping the Ask Knight. You have ads as a subscriber?

If you're using Chrome, try the Adblock Plus extension. Works very well for me at most web destinations.

That's a deep subject, isn't it? lain: