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more about #ripoff more comments → closhedbb: My guess as to why they keep charging us more: We keep paying it. more » UGAdawg: I think a lot of the cost also comes from the fact that we get charged for incoming calls. In Europe you get charged for the calls you place and that... more » GlenTen: There is nothing wrong whatsoever with our nation's carrier services. I don't think itCALL FAILED more » FrankenPC: I did a study once of the BART system here in the Bay Area. The majority of the costs associated with extending their service lines was related to po... more » phunnyballs: well judging by the fact that we are about 230x bigger (US is 9,826,630 km and NDs is 41,526) then you can instantly see why. US phone providers have ... more » Loonie: The study was based on "flawed assumptions" that "just don't make sense." The study also clearly hates America and freedom. more » r0cketman22: I hate when carries stick ti to me. (typo in the post) more » unibrow4o9: I read somewhere that most of the reason we pay so much is that our carriers have to build their own towers, where as in Europe a company built by com... more » Dave J.: My first thought was that the US is so much larger than those other countries. I mean, you can drive across the Netherlands in a couple hours. Certain... more » Sir Gibler: my AT&T plan is like a rapist that comes every month, my iPhone is the reach-around! more » marcus1060: Canada is even more expensive than the US. more » discounteggroll: out of all the sports they could have used, they chose baseball? I'm not hating on baseball in any way, but when it comes to getting the most screen r... more » ZLevee: It's not just sports - all HD shows (late night talk shows, sitcoms, etc.) try to keep action out of the side areas. more » Serolf Divad: That's some pretty lame cherry-picking of images. I mean, seriously, when's the last time you've seen so few football players on screen at th same tim... more » qbrad: How else are you going to see the ruckus that's going on between two strangely coloured and painted humans that aren't on the actual game field? more » -
#cellphones
US Pays More For Cellphone Service, Carriers Insist That We Are Not Getting Screwed
A survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) revealed that the US, Canada and Spain pay considerably more for cellphone service than dozens of other nations. Of course, the carriers were quick to spin the findings. More » -
#hometheater
Why Sports on a Widescreen TV is a Ripoff...Sort Of
The folks at Blue Donut have a warning for anyone wishing to upgrade to a widescreen TV to watch sports: it's a ripoff because networks are not taking full advantage of the technology. More » -
#crapmodo
Pasen REI-16 UI Determined to Become Center of Apple Lawsuit
The UI in this video of the Pasen REI-16 is pretty slick, if not vaguely familiar. Oh that's right. Just like their other player, the "iTouch," this one is also a blatant ripoff of Apple. -
