[widebody911]

My g/f is moving in, and as such, I have to get cable TV so she can watch her shows; I've not had any sort of TV since everything went digital a year or so ago, and frankly, I don't miss it. For the record, I wouldn't be getting TV service if it weren't for the g/f. I didn't watch this schidt when it was free, and it rubs me like 24grit with salt to think I'll be paying for it.

They all seem to suck to varying degrees. She had previous bad experiences with ComCast, as have other friends of mine, so that's out. SureWest sez they don't have service in my area, despite watching them string fiber on the poles right outside my house, and seeing their service vans on my street, and their placing little advertising thingies on my doorknob from time to time. If they're too stupid to figure their own schidt out, too bad for them.

The g/f has AT&T U-Verse right now. I was going through the pricing stuff on their website, and I'm ready to poke someone in the eye with a sharp stick. I just want internet, phone, and some basic channels. WTF would I want to pay for QVC, HSN, jewelry channel, or any f*cking shopping channel? (looks like there's about 10 of them) or "Buzz" or Los Pendejos Grande or any of this crap? Looking through the listing, I see maybe 3 channels I'd actually want (discovery, history, comedy) - the rest of them can take a flying f*ck in a rolling donut.

Is there a way to get just the stuff I want, or do you have to suck it up and pay for it 300 channels of crap? If we had a la carte programming, 99% of these channels would die a flaming death within 2 weeks.

Then, on to the pricing. I can't figure out what the end cost will really be, as this part and that are 'introductory offers' for 6 months.

Then there's the installation and setup sodomy.

After going through all this, I don't feel the least bit bad for torrenting stuff at all.