Quote Originally Posted by LEGION View Post
I swear it sucks living in the sticks at times. I love the solitude, but this b.s with satellites and phone service and taking 45 minutes to get to a store is maddening. It's raining with slight cloud cover, and yet again the dish is killing itself picking up a signal. I'm so sick of paying for this garbage that I just sent a nice, courteous e-mail to Dish Network. Can't wait to see what they send back to me.

"I don't have a question, I have an observation on your so called service.
It's amazing NASA can control a dune buggy a trillion miles away on Mars, but somehow it starts raining here with some slight cloud cover and your crappy dish won't pick up a signal. What a joke!!! It's mind numbing you actually expect people to pay for this garbage, lmao. Thankfully you aren't in charge of telephone service or if I ever needed to call 911 I'd be a skeletized mummy before the ambulance arrived. Great service, keep up the good work.
I won't hold my breath waiting for a response. I'll just put on some scuba tanks and take slow inhalations waiting for your charming reply I'm sure. Have a great day ninny heads."




Sometimes city life is better.
You ain't seen nothing yet. When I came here couple decades back, outside the housing areas, there were nothing but acres and acres of ricefields, and we can see nothing but ricefields all the way in the horizon. Electricity went out several times a the day with no definite schedule, telephones had to be shared as partylines, and water was pumped from the well, but at least they were clean. Not all were bad though. When it rained, thousands of frogs croaked together, particularly at night - I really loved them and still miss 'em. There were lots of fresh tropical fruits everywhere and things were really cheap then, and the tv stations here showed most of the popular American tv programs then in English and there were nearly hundred fm/am radio stations - that was one of the things that really amazed me here - that played at least 80% American songs - we used to be the only colony US ever had.

But few years later, they started to bulldoze most of the ricefields, and filled and paved them with concrete to give way to cheap-labor factory for foreign companies, chiefly Japanese and Koreans (we are only few of the families who kept some of our ricelands). They got a large Intel factory here where they make the pentium processessor, but the news is that they're planning to shift to Vietnam because of increasing cost here... The environmental effect of that land conversion was almost immediate. It started to get flooded here when the rains come, with rainwater coming inside many houses, including ours, so we turned our entire first floor into a warehouse with all our junks placed on an elevated platforms. The frogs started to disappear one by one and now they're almost silent except on some small isolated patches of lands here and there. But on the positive sides, no more blackouts and the place is much more developed. They even got Mcdonalds here now... But still, I somehow miss the old, non-globalized, rural Philippines.