Three Stars of Seinfeld boycott DVD deal

[Az]

Yeah, those that don't have those annoying hand-held noise makers

You're just jealous.

Seriously, it seems one thing that you people are kinda lagging behind Asia ( cellular paradise), and Europe ( Nokialand ). Always puzzled me.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

According to CNN television, Michael Richards has agreed to do the commentary.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

So if I get up during the commercials to make a sandwich I am stealing from them?

Crud, I can hear the tv police squad division of the Mattress Tag Police coming to get me..................

You forgot the *cough*.

[Imran Siddiqui]

it seems one thing that you people are kinda lagging behind Asia ( cellular paradise), and Europe ( Nokialand )

It's because all our local calls in land lines are so cheap. You pay a fee to your telephone company for hookup and a small flat rate everymonth (in total around $25), and you have UNLIMITED local calls.

Cell phones don't have that yet. There is no small flat rate for local call plan yet.

[The Mad Monk]

Seriously, I already said that the advertisers are paying for the shows you watch, so they are being paid for -- and advertisers are paying for the chance show a commercial they already know that you may or may not watch, so it's all good.

[JohnT]

You pay a fee to your telephone company for hookup and a small flat rate everymonth (in total around $25), and you have UNLIMITED local calls.

Except in parts of NJ (Princeton), which I found to my regret one vacation weekend.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Huh? What happened there?

[JohnT]

Walked away from a hotel room and was charged $.25/minute for all my internet use - over $300! I raised major hell, told these people that such crap-assed service wouldn't even be acceptable in Appalachia, and that they should be ashamed of themselves for bowing down and taking it up the ass that way. I was PISSED!

After I got the $300 written off the bill, I then (my wife loved this part - not really) went door-to-door in a neighborhood around the Days Inn, knocked on peoples front doors, and then asked them if they actually had to pay per minute for their local phone calls. I then proceeded to tell them they were getting screwed, that not even Mississippi thought so badly of their citizens as to charge them per minute on their phone use.

5 houses in, I was satisfied. I hope I started a minor rebellion.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Damn... that's freaking strange. I wonder who was their local phone service carrier... Princeton University?

[JohnT]

It was a local piss-ant company who was screwing the people with their government granted monopoly powers - the only true way to maintain a monopoly, as we all know.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

I see ATMs everywhere.

FREE ATMs... free is the operative word. The ones that don't charge you anything for taking money out.

My BoA ATM doesn't charge me a dime when I take money out of it. Neither did my RBC ATM...

[Imran Siddiqui]

My BoA ATM doesn't charge me a dime when I take money out of it. Neither did my RBC ATM...

Your own bank's ATM is different than those that will take every single bank card and not charge you extra based on that.

[KrazyHorse]

I've never heard of that, either here or down south

There is a difference, however:

Here, there is a single Interac fee for using one of the big-name ATMs (i.e. not some ****ty little private company's, but one of the major banks) which is 1.50$CAN

In the US there appear to be two fees: one from the bank whose machine you are using and one from your own bank. I ook out 40$ and it cost me 4.50$US. That's ****ing ridiculous.

[KrazyHorse]

Also, what the **** is up with the ****ing huge size of the phone bills in the US? Just to have a local line is costing me 22.50 plus some **** 7.50 "federal universal service charge".

What's up with that ****? Local service here costs like half that (when you take conversion into account).

[Imran Siddiqui]

I ook out 40$ and it cost me 4.50$US.

That is ridiculous! I hate it when the non-bank ATM charges $1.50+.

I've never heard of that, either here or down south

In the Northeast, Wawa convenience stores have ATMs that won't charge a fee (your bank's rules may vary). I think some Publix's ATMs don't charge a fee either.