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Video Games Show First Signs of Dominating Entertainment Market

Saturday, January 24, 2009

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From cdfreaks.com: At least in terms of consumer spending, retail video games were more popular than DVD and Blu-ray discs in 2008, according to an international research group. Games accounted for 53 percent of entertainment software spending worldwide, Media Control GfK International said. These figures do not include movie or game rentals. The momentum is clearly in video [...]

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5th Underwater Internet Cable Faulting, Precursor to Iran War?

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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It started when the first 3 underwater internet cables were cut by “boat anchors” (even though that had never happened in the histories of the cables before… and now it happened 3x in 3 days) then reports came in about the 4th cable getting taken offline due to “power issues” and now Robert Heron sends [...]

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3rd Undersea Cable Cut in 3 Days

Friday, February 1, 2008

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… really? We are doing just fine for 20 years, a mistake here and there… and then woopsie… 3 cables cut in 3 days? Boat anchors! … seriously? Entire country economies, security and banking infrastructures rely on these things to stay intact, and you are telling me these fucking things aren’t marked on every maritime map in [...]

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Mass Lawsuit Against Cable Providers

Friday, September 21, 2007

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A huge lawsuit has been filed against every cable provider (satellite included) for forcing users into purchasing hugely expensive packages when they only want 1 or 2 channels from that package. The suit is seeking that users be able to piece-meal the channels they want instead of being controlled by the cartel created between the cable [...]

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