I want my tivo back
I bought my first tivo a few months after they where first released. I absolutely love tivo.
By the time I bought an HDTV DirecTV and tivo's relationship had gone south. The only choice to stick with tivo was a series 3 using cable card. Unfortunately the only provider I could get at the time that worked with cable card would give me about 7 HD channels. Pathetic.
So, instead I have a DirecTV HD DVR. An HR20 to be exact.
On paper it is a decent machine. Dual tuners, plenty of space etc. Unfortunately it is a heaping pile of shite. I could go on for hours about it's horrible deficiencies but instead I'll just tell you about the one issue that is annoying me now.
I was sitting here enjoying a show, with 1 minute left in the recording and.... I'm suddenly prompted to enter a passcode. The show that followed my recorded show had a TV-MA rating and the schedule for ratings doesn't match the rating schedule. What the hell? It gets even more fun... while looking for the remote and entering my passcode the show kept playing. I couldn't see or hear anything but it didn't bother pausing it for me. Ok fine, I'll rewind a bit.... except that if you happen to pass the transition point then it makes you enter the passcode again, and once again it doesn't pause.
What a joke. I want my tivo back.
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peanut butter
Since I restarted this site I've probably had 3 visitors... and I'm sure that none of them actually read anything. If they had, I'm confident that they would be very offended. Ok, I understand. That is not my intent, but I can live with it.
Now, if I'm offending everybody (by which I mean nobody since nobody will read this) I might as well get it all out there. So here it goes. Peanut butter is absolutely disgusting. How could anyone eat that, let alone force their poor children to. Have you no heart?
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Why religion?
Anyone who knows me will have undoubtedly heard all of this. To all of you, I'm sorry. I probably should shut up, and you probably should leave a comment telling me as much. I'm not trying to offend. I'm trying to understand, and possibly give others something to think about.
I've been wondering a great deal lately.... Why do people cling to their religion? Seriously it doesn't make any sense to me.
The most obvious answer is of course the desire for a pleasant after life. If someone truly believes then the fear of spending eternity being punished must be absolutely terrifying. Of course the opposite is true as well. Even if you do believe though, doesn't motivation factor into it? Do you want to do what your religion tells you is right because of the possible punishment or reward? Does it not make more sense to do what you believe is right because you believe it is right, and damn the consequences?
I personally believe that there is no higher power, but I also accept that there is a great deal that I don't know, and that no human knows, so I could very well be wrong. If given new evidence I will reconsider my beliefs. If I die, and rather then simply ceasing to exist I am instead placed in front of some greater power asking me to account for my life then I am confident that I will not come up wanting. If, on the other hand I am right then I accept that and know that I lived my life in the way I felt I should.
Back to the original question. The second answer that I hear frequently is to give this life meaning. This answer truly baffles me though. If this life is all there is then we better damn well get it right. How can you possibly want more meaning than that?
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Health Care
There is something that has really been bothering me about the whole healthcare debate. Obviously everyone has an opinion about this, and very few people are afraid to speak their mind about it. I understand why everyone is worried. It is a very large task, and there is a lot to loose. I still have one nagging question though...
Why isn't basic health care considered a human right?
Ok, so there are some obvious issues with that statement.
First of all, who runs it? Even the most liberal recognize that there needs to be competition in the system to keep prices under control. It is also very clear though that the current system is heavily abused. The costs are completely out of control, and aside from a few people making a lot of money, no good comes out of that.
Next, how do you decide who gets covered. I think that everyone in the country should be covered, but again there needs to be control of abuse. If someone is living in the country illegally then we should not deny them coverage, but we should enforce our laws and get them the hell out as quickly as possible. If they are here for the sake of abusing the system then there needs to be criminal charges. For example, if a pregnant woman illegally enters the country in order to give birth to a US citizen then there isn't much we can do about that... except to put her in prison (and then extradite her to her home country - might as well let them pay for it).
So, people are asses and will abuse any system. Period. So, create and enforce strict rules, and then do the right thing and cover everyone. Seriously, we are the richest country in the world, and yet people get sick and don't get the attention they need because of money. We should be ashamed.
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