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Is it AT&T? I believe they will do DSL without a home phone. I would assume the building is wired for phone service if you wanted it. Checking TWC's website, they do have cheaper internet options which they didn't used to offer. The $29.99/month service is a pretty good speed, and depending upon what you use the internet for, the $19.99/month service may even work for you.

Not all new TVs have an ATSC tuner built-in. Actually, I'd say a majority still don't. They are HD ready (can display HD signals), but they cannot tune them, they rely on an external source to do the tuning and simply provide a video feed on one of the inputs (HDMI/component/etc). If your TV does have an ATSC tuner, then you will most likely need an antenna for over-the-air (OTA) channels.

I am not sure how this works with Time Warner as I don't have them anymore, but if your TV has an HD tuner, there's a slight chance they may be broadcasting HD locals over regular cable (QAM). If your TV doesn't have an HD (ATSC) you'll need digital cable. If not, you can get their extended basic package and let your TV do the tuning. There's a good chance that a lot of the digital channels they are sending out over regular (no digital set-top box) cable (which has to be digital very soon anyways) are in HD. Looking at their website, I'm not so sure they even offer a package anymore without the set-top box (digital cable option). You should call and ask them if they send out QAM channels which your TV can tune without a box and how much that package costs. If they don't offer it, they will charge you out the arse for HD. Since DirecTV is out of the question (they'll charge you a fair amount for HD as well, nothing below around $45/month), your best bet may be to get a good antenna to pick up the HD locals if you are able to.

If you have a phone line you have about a 99% chance of being able to get DSL.

Time Warner Cable is a ripoff. You could get their $14/month Basic package, but you'd be better off just using an antenna. For $55/month you can get Expanded Basic, which will give you ESPN, Comedy Central, etc., but then its $55 and you're still only getting about 70 channels, most of which are junk. Have you considered DirecTV? You could get a pretty good package for $35/month. Either way, your best bet is to go the DSL route for internet. They have plans for $20, $25, $30, and $35 per month depending on the speed you want (all of which are cheaper than Time Warner's internet service). You could easily come away with high speed internet and a pretty good TV package for under $60/month.

Darn. I wanted a 100% Rapid ride to Honey Hut! :)

I heard 54 and rain. Not much better, but...better, I guess.

You mean like the people who tell other people who can and can't get married?

?? At this point, we have to win out to guarantee home court all the way through. We lose the tie breaker with the Lakers and they are 1.5 games behind us right now, and winning by 13 over the Clippers at the moment.

My attitude on both of these situations is the same. Very simple. Your house was there before the railroad or freeway, you may have an argument. You built/bought the house after the railroad or freeway was already in place, too bad, shut up, you're either dumb or you were scheming. The taxpayers should not be raising these people's property value through sound barriers if they built/bought the house artificially cheap due to the sound at the time. They had the choice not to build/buy there.

I think pretty much everything about Arizona is depressing (even if it is sunny), but yeah, Camelback Ranch was pretty nice.

I doubt that, they most likely 12' wide, that requirement is as old as the Interstate system itself I remeasured. I-75 at Windy Hill Rd. north of I-285 is approximately 83.5 feet wide for 7 lanes by my measurement, so with the error in using the measuring tool, that could easily be precisely 12 feet per lane. I-75/I-85 downtown measures 78.9 feet for 7 lanes. It is impossible that these highways are the same width, even with measuring error, unless these satellite images are way off. To get to 83.5 feet even, you have to extend over half a lane into the outer median. My Google measuring tool skills aren't that far off. What's even more interesting is that I noticed that the left two lanes (leftmost regular lane and HOV lane) looked a little wider than the rest. I then measured the right 5 lanes and got almost exactly 55 feet, and measured the left 2 and got almost exactly 24 feet. My point is that these rules seem to not be set in stone if there is a compelling need to bend them. Interstate highway standards are bent in many other cases. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that it most likely *can* be done.

Any developments on this?

True, and the incentive to hide and still keep up a "good" appearance (donating money to the community, even if it came from drugs, etc.) helps maintain a higher standard of living in their neighborhoods, regardless of how questionable their personal choices may be. Of course it would be better if they weren't involved in drugs, but it doesn't destroy the nieghborhood like those who don't care who sees them, who they offend, or who they hurt.

I think this is where speed limits are a problem. First of all, they have to be "right" (or reasonable). Second of all, and I know there's not much that can be done about this, but they only make sense if they're dynamic. 60 or 65 on a freeway may be too slow on a straight, flat stretch with little traffic on a perfect weather ay, and will be too fast on curves in the rain or snow. And it may be just right in medium traffic with a drizzle. It all depends on the current conditions.

Yeah, Charles Barkley can kiss our collective a$$es for that comment on TNT a couple weeks ago.

Like when we came into the NBA Finals 2-0 against San Antonio and they downed us in 4 games?

Exactly. I get very excited when the Cavs/Browns/Indians win, and upset when they lose. But I'm back to normal after about 15 minutes. I think a winning team generates interest and excitement in the town and going to games, but I can't imagine being that upset when a team isn't winning. If they're bad, I'm just a little less hyped about watching the games. I still enjoy watching them, though.

Who is driving 16 mph on 480 but 25 mph on Carnegie? Have you ever driven 480 at rush hour? Luckily, I don't have to take any freeways to work, but on occasion I've been coming from somewhere else and had to take 480. 16 mph average would be pretty good at 7:30 in the morning. Carnegie moves better at rush hour than 480. As to the not passing in the left lane thing, it does drive me nuts, especially when I've on a rural 2-lane freeway late at night and you have the idiots that think they should just stay in that lane, even though there is nobody around to pass and they're going 55 in a 65. I usually pass them on the right then get over to the left and leave my right blinker on for about 15 seconds then get back to the right.

I know exactly what you mean, but remember that these are individuals. I, as well, am extremely annoyed by people that act like the wife in this story, but this surely doesn't apply to all wine aficionados, or all rich people. Additionally, some people that act this way are just pretending to be wine aficionados.

What does this have to do with the "urban community"? The fact that drug lords recruited troubled young men in urban communities to do their dirty work does not mean any of the blame should be placed on urban communities. Yes, some of it should be blamed on these troubled individuals drawn into a life of crime. However, these are individuals, and you have individuals making bad choices in EVERY community. It just so happened that the drug lords brought a new bad choice to urban areas which had an adverse affect on them. To blame the community is insane. Much of the community tries to rid itself of these problems. The rest simply ran from them and are no longer part of the community. So, yes, blame drug lords AND violent drug dealers, but don't blame the community as a whole. As far as the problems drugs have caused in the urban community, I believe they're the root cause of much more than people realize. Not only do they cause violence due to an unregulated underground market where street revenge is the only way to get back at somehow who has "wronged" you, but they have many other adverse effects. As I previously mentioned, they degrade education, by providing a "glorified" and relatively easy path to wealth without the need for formal education. Also, perhaps the largest problem is that, especially with our disproportionate criminal penalties on dealers as compared to users, it causes many people to go to prison, leaving behind children without role models who are much more likely to end up following the same path.

Carnegie is cake. 480 and 271 are what remind people that they hate driving. On that note, why are suburbanites OK with going 8 miles in a half hour on 480, but not going 3 miles in 7 minutes on Carnegie? Also, on Carnegie there are two cameras in each direction, and none of them are speed cameras. It's not very hard to (1) not run lights and (2) know where the cameras are. I can't help anyone that takes CHester. I see no logical reason to do that.

Definitely, a championship is (and very well should be) a lasting memory for many people, and just gives them a great memory and slightly more positive vibe about being downtown. It may not be a huge difference, but it's something.

Maybe, but she wouldn't know. She sure didn't hit any of the urban wine bars.

No, it would have to be "straight down Euclid". The BRTs could be used as floats. Maybe a huge papier mache of Lebron "throwing the hammer down" on Kobe.