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- The on-demand film service is often unavailable due to high demand, though if you try it again you usually get through after one or two more attempts.

- Clearly there is some kind of nightly data refresh at midnight, because if at that time you try to change a TV channel, forward a recorded programme, etc, nothing happens for a good 20- 30 seconds. And if you have been pressing various buttons of the remote control during that time, when it finally kicks in it executes all the commands in quick succession. It only lasts until 12.20 am or so, but it is annoying as fuck.

- They have fucked us over with our landline service numerous times. Keep crossing our wire with other users at the local junction box down the road, with the result that our given telephone number doesn't work anymore and we are allocated a random number. Trying to explain the problem to the customer service team was the biggest issue of them all, as the people who first answer the calls are operators with no apparent IT knowledge reading answers from a flowchart. One has to stay 20 minutes on the line and get passed on several times until finally making contact with an actual operator with some IT knowledge.

But as I said, the broadband itself works like a dream and we've never had an issue with it.
 
ash said:
Thanks for the quick response I think we will go for sky as sometimes I have 2 hours in the middle of the day offline. It's so bloody annoying when your working at home. I often go into work (Holborn) when i don't need to just to ensure I can work through the day.
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I have sky for working from home and have no problems. I'm using Skype extensively too so losing connectivity isn't an option for me. The router range doesn't appear great. That doesn't effect me so I haven't been arsed to do anything about it, but it might be a consideration for others.
 
Pickman's model said:
published by canongate... i think you're ok then
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While I realise it's hard to avoid every pie that murdoch has his grubby little fingers in, I can avoid the really obvious ones like his shitty newspapers and his broadband and subscription TV....

I'd struggle to avoid every film out of 20th Century Fox....
 
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What do we think?

Crowdfunding appeals looks to Razzle Dazzle public seating in central Brixton
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Have to say that this project has had a very cool reception from locals on Facebook.
 
Just noticing that the Blues Kitchen has hoiked its prices up to £10 for many of its weekend nights. Judging by the ultra Cla'am folks I saw lining up for entry, I guess the place is doing very good business.

I know a few of the people who play in their regular bands: they say it pays well but is an awful place to play. Has anyone been recently? Ever since they refused me the chance to go down and review the place because they insisted that I only use their own press photos, I've given it a miss,
 
ska invita said:
I'm surprised by this...do you think that really makes a difference? Id imagine the government of any state could pass such a law, no?
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It's my subjective view. From talking to Americans. Plus following news. There is more devolved power in States. Some cities for example have banned cops questioning people about there immigration status if they are stopped by police for traffic violation of other minor matters. There is a different political culture there. I'm not saying the US is perfect. But there is better sense of individual liberty. The Magna Carta is much better known there than here. Of course none of this applied to slaves or indegenous people in US history. A French friend of mine who has lived here and US said there is something different about being a citizen rather than a subject. An American I know here says the thing that most strikes her about UK is the class system. She puts it down to centuries of monarchy and aristocracy. Not that US doesn't have class inequalities. It's that here they are ingrained as fact of life.
 
Nanker Phelge said:
While I realise it's hard to avoid every pie that murdoch has his grubby little fingers in, I can avoid the really obvious ones like his shitty newspapers and his broadband and subscription TV....

I'd struggle to avoid every film out of 20th Century Fox....
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So you wouldn't line Murdoch's pockets except for those occasions when you do?
 
Mr Retro said:
So you wouldn't line Murdoch's pockets except for those occasions when you do?
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Yep, sometimes I find myself watching a film made by 20 Century Fox.

TBH I hadn't thought about that until I looked up all of Murdoch's businesses yesterday.

So this will inform my viewing choices in future.

I will now only steal 20th Century Fox films from the internet and publicly screen them for free on a big screen on the green at the back of my house.

It'll be like Robin Hood meets Cinema Paradiso!
 
Nanker Phelge said:
Yep, sometimes I find myself watching a film made by 20 Century Fox.

TBH I hadn't thought about that until I looked up all of Murdoch's businesses yesterday.

So this will inform my viewing choices in future.

I will now only steal 20th Century Fox films from the internet and publicly screen them for free on a big screen on the green at the back of my house.

It'll be like Robin Hood meets Cinema Paradiso!
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It's one thing inadvertently watching something from Murdoch's sprawling media empire and actually choosing to pay the fucker wads of cash every single month for a particular service. I'll continue to do my best to avoid giving him a single penny. I don't care how good their broadband deals are. This is the cunt that owns The Sun.
 
Gramsci said:
It's my subjective view. From talking to Americans. Plus following news. There is more devolved power in States. Some cities for example have banned cops questioning people about there immigration status if they are stopped by police for traffic violation of other minor matters. There is a different political culture there. I'm not saying the US is perfect. But there is better sense of individual liberty. The Magna Carta is much better known there than here. Of course none of this applied to slaves or indegenous people in US history. A French friend of mine who has lived here and US said there is something different about being a citizen rather than a subject. An American I know here says the thing that most strikes her about UK is the class system. She puts it down to centuries of monarchy and aristocracy. Not that US doesn't have class inequalities. It's that here they are ingrained as fact of life.
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I think this 'class system' Americans go on about is bollocks. Of course, Britain is a country with significant (and growing) social and economic inequalities, like a large proportion of 'developed' nations. However, it pales in comparison to the gargantuan inequalities of the USA.
 
Gramsci said:
I use the Phone Coop.

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You don't have to be a member to get there internet.

I've found customer service to be excellent. They don't outsource it.They pay living wage. Prices are comparable to other companies.
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I have my mobile contract with the Phone Co-op and they're excellent. I share my neighbour's broadband but he's moving, I'm looking at getting their Superfast Fibre, £31/month. Until 31 August they're offering a free untied router & no setup fee.
 
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