My iPad has still not been registered in Turkey so i can only use it with wifi.
Congratulations America
Assholes.We are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into two separate plans to better reflect the costs of each. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan, or both.
Your current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:
Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming) for $7.99 a month
Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). You don't need to do anything to continue your memberships for both unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs.
These prices will start for charges on or after September 1, 2011.
You can easily change or cancel your unlimited streaming plan, unlimited DVD plan, or both, by going to the Plan Change page in Your Account.
We realize you have many choices for home entertainment, and we thank you for your business. As always, if you have questions, please feel free to call us at 1-888-357-1516.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Aww. 15$ is still cheap, though. Wish we had that.
I have complained about it before, and again: that fucking international train from amsterdam to brussels is ALWAYS delayed. This time I wasn't even in it, but it blocked the platform my train, giving me a 15 minute delay, missing my bus connection, so now I am waiting one hour on a gray, cold, rainy station in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do. Awesome.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Wow, what used to be a $10 plan is now a $15 plan. That sucks, and is a hell of a jump for a single increase. Their streaming selection still isn't what it should be compared to the physical DVD collection, I would have hoped they would have announced some new collections or something along side of this rate jack. This sounds like their continued push to get out of the DVD mailing business.
Oh well, its still free redboxes and blueboxes for me. Can't remember the last time I paid to watch a physical disc movie at home.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
We'll probably cancel our Blu-ray fee on Netflix, and decide if we want to keep DVD or just do streaming. If I didn't also have cable on top of Netflix, I'd cough up the extra cash, but I really don't want to. It pisses me off, though, that they couldn't give a discount rate for "bundling" the two items. As lolli says, assholes!
I'm cancelling the DVDs. I mean, I think I received my last one a couple of weeks ago, and I still haven't watched it. The kids have been using the streaming a lot this summer, I really haven't.
And yes, freebies from redbox is the way I'll have to go, too. Didn't know I could get them for the Blockbuster one, too - I'll have to look into that.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I'm probably just going to cancel my entire netflix account next month.
Voting with your wallet, then?
I would, but when school starts back it won't just be the kids who would be annoyed by the lack of Netflix - and I don't think Hulu Plus would work nearly as well for us (among other things, don't think its possible for me to stream it to the teevee).
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Pretty much, yeah. But it's not out of some sort of protest. I barely get my money's worth out of my subscription as it is. They're making it even harder to justify the expense, so I'm just not going to try.
I'm debating cancelling as well. I'd have been happy to switch to all-streaming if their streaming collection didn't suck ass, but it does. Since we cancelled our cable TV a while back, Netflix was a nice (and cheap) way to get our TV/movies (albeit after a delay). Now the price is starting to bother me, and it's far less convenient to choose between seeing two titles a week and a crappy selection whenever I want it.
Honestly, Netflix should have waited another year or so until they had a really robust streaming catalog, and then people would have been happy to switch entirely. *shrugs* Our new place has cheapo cable TV for the next 6 months anyways, might as well save the $100 in Netflix subscriptions for that time.
Ziggy was right. This place has become such a small gene pool, it's almost incestuous. Veteran members get tired of rinse/repeat and eventually bow out. We need new blood. A few new members sign up but don't post. What's up with that?
Spammers attempting to use their profiles to boost their google rankings. It doesn't work; google can't see their profiles.
No water and it s 32 C here.
Congratulations America
It's too hot to go out with the kid. We're stuck in the house and I'm bored!
I'd rather have a severe winter with lots of snow and bone-chilling temps than this shit. This heat "dome", and higher than normal summer temps from La Nina or El Nino (or whatever the hell) has been messing with my groove for months now.
Even the trees are blushing and crying, changing colors early and dropping crispy leaves in July instead of October.
I'm sure we'll have some brown-outs with everyone running their A/C and testing the electric grid. Getting cool isn't as easy as getting warm by the fireplace with sweaters and afghans and hot soup. I HATE this heat.
I hate it too. Just watering the yard for 10 min, and moving groceries into the house has wiped me out. I feel bad for the people working in this heat.
Just going outside, it feels like I'm drowning in the humidity.
Been 18 degrees here all week
Rained though
27 degrees from next week! Woo!
How do you expect to run with the wolves at night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?
- Omar Little
I don't even bother to water. If my grass, trees or plants die in this drought and heat....next year I'll just plant more of the native perennials that did survive. Less grass to mow.
I have sympathy for the road workers out there now, with their helmets and vests, a Playmate cooler at their ankles, sweating buckets on the asphalt that gets over 155 degrees, with machinery that turns it into more than 200 degrees....for $9/hour.
Heat's been nasty; I had to work in it earlier this week.
Also, smashed a window clean through. Got pissed and put my fist right through it. Hurts to use my dominant hand now.
Nearly three weeks after dropping a dresser drawer on my toe, the nail is working its way out. It doesn't really hurt but this is one of the grossest things I've dealt with! The thought of having no nail for a few months makes me want to barf!!!
3 patients dead in one morning. Now my mum's sick. I really don't like this Monday.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
and the quickest way to not become valedictorian in Arkansas?
be black
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AR) - A high school southeast of Little Rock would not let a black student be valedictorian though she had the highest grade-point average, and wouldn't let her mom speak to the school board about it until graduation had passed, the graduate claims in Federal Court.
Kymberly Wimberly, 18, got only a single B in her 4 years at McGehee Secondary School, and loaded up on Honors and Advanced Placement classes. She had the highest G.P.A. and says the school's refusal to let her be sole valedictorian was part of a pattern of discrimination against black students.
Wimberly says that despite earning the highest G.P.A. of the Class of 2011, and being informed of it by a school counselor, "school administrators and personnel treated two other white students as heir[s] apparent to the valedictorian and salutatorian spots."
Wimberly's mother is the school's "certified media specialist." She says in the federal discrimination complaint that after her daughter had been told she would be valedictorian, the mother heard "in the copy room that same day, other school personnel expressed concern that Wimberly's status as valedictorian might cause a 'big mess.'"
McGehee Secondary School is predominantly white, and 46 percent African-American, according to the complaint. Bratton says that the day after she heard the "big mess" comment, McGehee Principal Darrell Thompson, a defendant, told her "that he decided to name a white student as co-valedictorian," although the white student had a lower G.P.A.
Bratton says she tried to protest the decision to the school board, but defendant Superintendent Thomas Gathen would not let her speak, because she allegedly had "filled out the wrong form. Instead of 'public comments,' Gather [sic] said Bratton should have asked for 'public participation.'" The superintendent told her she could not appeal his decision until the June 28 school board meeting; graduation was May 13.
(The superintendent's name is spelled Gathen in the heading of the complaint, but is spelled Gather throughout the body of it.)
The last African-American valedictorian in McGehee School District was in 1989. Wimberly says the school discourages black students from taking honors and advanced placement classes, "by telling them, among other things, that the work was too hard."
"Because of defendants' continuous disparate treatment of African-American students, defendants' actions toward the plaintiff can properly be classed as intentional," the complaint states.
"Defendants did not support African-American students, and did not want to see Wimberly, an African-American young mother as valedictorian.
"But for Wimberly's race, defendants would not have selected a student with a lower G.P.A. than Wimberly to also be a valedictorian."
She seeks punitive damages for constitutional violations, and an injunction declaring her sole valedictorian of the school's Class of 2011. She is represented by John Walker of Little Rock.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
My house reeks of burned popcorn.
Oh, and I did it this time, not my daughter. Also, I burned it far more thoroughly than she did when she did it.
Just to make it complete, I have another Victorious song stuck in my head, because they watched the same episode twice tonight - once on the East coast Nick channel, and one on the West coast one. I suppose I should be glad that they didn't stream it on Netflix, too.
This one isn't quite as awful as the one from the video that they show repeatedly on the station, at least. I suppose I should be glad the kiddos aren't reality television fans yet.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.