I have successfully leased my very own apartment. This turned out to be quite a loathsome task once I realized what sort of place my meager budget would allot me.
Austin, being a college town, gets an influx of apartment renters at the end of summer, and to no surprise the local real estate hench-persons have caught on to this little nugget of information and have, probably against their own good human nature, decided to use this contrivance for their personal gain.
O.k.....so I picked a bad time to move.
So the predicament at hand is: Due to the fact that our local broadband provider has slyly set up what appears in every sense of the word to be a monopoly and can thus charge me, being a choiceless consumer, what it pleases for services rendered. I am forced to choose between cable t.v. and broadband Internet. Watching the Discovery\National Geo channels is a great way to spend an evening by yourself and not to mention the great tool the cartoon network can be in distracting children when your trying to get "important" business done. Life however, would not be the same without the endless trough of information that Wikipedia has so graciously laid at my fingertips.
Meanwhile .... children are starving in Darfur.
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Dude, that's a tough one, but I'd choose Broadband. You can watch tv shows and movies on the net (if you know the right places) and you can have wiki.
Net fo' sho. BTW I'm def gonna have to move by myself. My roommates suck.
Wikipedia is the best, I satisfy my inner nerd all the time there. And TV is also the best, althought I usually just watch the discovery channel, you know, mythbusters, dirty jobs, etc. along with satisfying my inner nerd on Heroes.
yeah tough desision.
Ok I'm gonna buck the tide here and say go for the TV. We don't have cable or broadband - we fine plenty to watch on the 7 channels we get and dial up suffices (although it can be painful when you can't do much of anything) but the one part of the net that works just fine on dial up is Wikipedia. You seem more like a cable TV person to me.
Cable all the way man! History Channel, Cartoon Network, ESPN, Spike, FX..God I'm jonesin' for it right now AAAGH!
Of course you all probably know how I feel about The Wikipedia.
Internet man, you can watch tv shows and movies on the net if you want to. If the internet is fast, go for it instead.
It's a much much more useful tool.
brodband for sure. Tv makes you fat and lazy. And besides you can always watch shows on youtube.
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