Showing posts with label Monopoly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monopoly. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 22, 2024
Elizabeth Warren Grills United Health CEO Months Before Luigi Mangione Murder
It turns out that United Healthcare is a major cause of the healthcare crisis in the country.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
DOJ launched probe into UnitedHealthcare before CEO shooting | Banfield
United Healthcare is my health insurance company. They lie to me quite regularly.
Friday, November 22, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Friday, October 15, 2021
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Thursday, February 13, 2014
"Experts predict price increases after cable merger"
From The Journal Times.com:
"RACINE COUNTY — The planned Time Warner-Comcast merger won’t impact Racine County customers right away, but changes will certainly be felt if and when the deal becomes final.
"What exactly those changes will be remains to be seen, experts say. A lot depends on whether Time Warner’s Milwaukee operations are consolidated with Comcast’s in Chicago, said Barry Orton, University of Wisconsin professor of telecommunications.
"Doing so could save the company money, but might not benefit consumers, he said.
“'Customer service is probably going to get worse' under that scenario, Orton said, though he added that Comcast and Time Warner generally get high customer-service marks compared to other cable companies.
"Orton and Marquette economics professor Abdur Chowdhury agreed that costs will likely go up. The merger will grow Comcast’s customer base from 22 million to 30 million, which gives it a higher national market share and will lead to a price increase locally, Chowdhury said.
“'In the long run, we will see an increase in price,' he said.
"Orton said the cost of Racine County residents’ cable will probably go up because, well, it always does. It has gone up consistently since Congressional action in 1992 dropped cable rates by 10 to 15 percent, he said.
"Orton has a saying about cable rates: 'You have to look at the natural order of how things go. Snow falls down, rates go up.'”
Read more: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/experts-predict-price-increases-after-cable-merger/article_2449d3f4-9513-11e3-b2e1-0019bb2963f4.html
"Snow falls down, rates go up." Wtf does that mean? Do rates go down when the sun shines?
Never forget, the "natural order" of cable companies is to gouge their customers as deeply as possible.
The video below is a re-post, but the message is important.
http://www.jtirregulars.com/2013/03/the-first-honest-cable-company.html
"RACINE COUNTY — The planned Time Warner-Comcast merger won’t impact Racine County customers right away, but changes will certainly be felt if and when the deal becomes final.
"What exactly those changes will be remains to be seen, experts say. A lot depends on whether Time Warner’s Milwaukee operations are consolidated with Comcast’s in Chicago, said Barry Orton, University of Wisconsin professor of telecommunications.
"Doing so could save the company money, but might not benefit consumers, he said.
“'Customer service is probably going to get worse' under that scenario, Orton said, though he added that Comcast and Time Warner generally get high customer-service marks compared to other cable companies.
"Orton and Marquette economics professor Abdur Chowdhury agreed that costs will likely go up. The merger will grow Comcast’s customer base from 22 million to 30 million, which gives it a higher national market share and will lead to a price increase locally, Chowdhury said.
“'In the long run, we will see an increase in price,' he said.
"Orton said the cost of Racine County residents’ cable will probably go up because, well, it always does. It has gone up consistently since Congressional action in 1992 dropped cable rates by 10 to 15 percent, he said.
"Orton has a saying about cable rates: 'You have to look at the natural order of how things go. Snow falls down, rates go up.'”
Read more: http://journaltimes.com/news/local/experts-predict-price-increases-after-cable-merger/article_2449d3f4-9513-11e3-b2e1-0019bb2963f4.html
"Snow falls down, rates go up." Wtf does that mean? Do rates go down when the sun shines?
Never forget, the "natural order" of cable companies is to gouge their customers as deeply as possible.
The video below is a re-post, but the message is important.
http://www.jtirregulars.com/2013/03/the-first-honest-cable-company.html
Thursday, March 28, 2013
"The First Honest Cable Company"
How refreshing to hear someone speak the truth about internet service providers. This describes Time Warner Cable exactly.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
World-Wide Monopoly Game Launched on Google Maps
"A massive multi-player version of the popular property game Monopoly has been launched online.
"Monopoly City Streets, developed by toymaker Hasbro, will go live on 9 September for four months.
"The free game uses Google Maps or the open source Open Street Map as the playing board.
"The toymaker claims it will be 'the biggest game of Monopoly of all time' and will allow players to purchase almost 'any street in the world.'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8245700.stm
I've been trying to log onto the site, http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/, this morning, but the servers are apparently overwhelmed. It loaded once, but conked out when I clicked the play button.
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Edit:
The creators have a blog for the game: http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/.
As of this writing (10:30 AM), they state:
"We ANTICIPATED an opening rush when we launched the Monopoly City Streets online game, but the first few hours have surpassed even our greatest EXPECTATIONS.
"Thanks for your patience as we work as fast as we can to resolve this and get everyone playing and trading on Monopoly City Streets."
"Monopoly City Streets, developed by toymaker Hasbro, will go live on 9 September for four months.
"The free game uses Google Maps or the open source Open Street Map as the playing board.
"The toymaker claims it will be 'the biggest game of Monopoly of all time' and will allow players to purchase almost 'any street in the world.'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8245700.stm
I've been trying to log onto the site, http://www.monopolycitystreets.com/, this morning, but the servers are apparently overwhelmed. It loaded once, but conked out when I clicked the play button.
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Edit:
The creators have a blog for the game: http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/.
As of this writing (10:30 AM), they state:
"We ANTICIPATED an opening rush when we launched the Monopoly City Streets online game, but the first few hours have surpassed even our greatest EXPECTATIONS.
"We are in the process of increasing our firepower and expect to be running more smoothly within the next several hours.
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