🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov5.182343.17568@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>In article <3977@eastman.UUCP> lsls00@iliad.Kodak.COM (Ilia Levi) writes:
>>
>>Actually you are not buying the whole spectrum of frequencies. Cable company
>>is offering you service with certain conditions attached. 
>
>I don't have cable TV here, so I'd have to take a look at my parents to
>see just what you sign with the cable company.  Someone I don't think they
>word it to the effect that "You are purchasing the reception of 4.5MHz of
>this line.  The center frequency of this may be altered at will."
>
>(And heck, even if this were true, in the mathematical sense where you
>could instantly change channels you could still sample the entire
>spectrum. :-) )
>
>>If you don't like
>>those conditions(more money for the extra extensions) you have a right to
>>refuse to buy the service. If you CHOOSE to buy their service, you must, morally
>>and legally, abide by their rules.
>
>I wholeheartedly agree.
>
>But I think this entire thread is really about just what the cable company
>contract meants _legally_.  If a contract says, "You must pay for more than
>one hookup," but doesn't specify that I can't receive more than one channel
>at a time, then using a distribution amp with that one hook up is a legally
>valid way to obtain _more_ hookups.
>
>> If you don't like their rules, get a dish,
>>don't watch TV, etc. This is a free country not only for the consumer, but for
>>the business as well.
>
>That last sentence doesn't make sense.  Consumers (living, breathing human
>beings) live by entirely different rules than businesses (non-sentient
>conceptual things), and therefore are "free" in totally different, non-
>analogical senses.
>
>As far as getting a dish goes... Be careful!  Pretty soon they may try to
>outlaw the reception of your over the air signals!  It's already illegal
>to eavesdrop on the celluar phone frequencies, you know.
>
>					---Joel Kolstad

Hookup to me means paying for them to hook up externally. If the give me
two wires, sure Ill pay. But if I split the signals inside with my
power, they dont deserve anything.

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