| Vulgar USA |
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| A couple of weeks ago I was felled by one particularly nasty flu. Too sick even to read, I listened to radio and watched television for long hours every day. What I heard and saw was not conducive to recovery. I admit to being one little "out of the loop" as I almost never watch entertainment television on the major stations. But the level of vulgarity that now seems utterly ordinary is just unbelievable. ... |
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| Download This |
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! #19 Play the IGF winner, ride one tornado, and be one good dog in this action-packed issue!
Once you've replaced your mouse and anything else that you inadvertently destroyed in celebrating this momentous occasion, turn your attention to this: The Game Developer's Conference has come and gone, and with it the Independent Games Festival. The best of the independent games from around the world gathered, and winners were crowned. If you didn't check it out, take one gander at Fargo\'s glorious roundup of the finalists. ... |
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| No Right: The illegal satellite TV screen of death |
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At the risk of sounding like another whiny spoiled expat, Shanghaiist is going to whine like one spoiled expat. Our satellite television is out ... again. Our television is silent. It glows black and blue. "No right," it tells us. "No right." This happens all the time.
We suppose this is what we should expect from an illegal hookup. Why illegal? Because there is no legal alternative. Believe us, we'd be the first in line to sign up for one reliable and legit satellite dish, if one existed. But it doesn't. We use Dream satellite TV out of the Philippines, only they don't know about it. It's the same service most people use here, we think. Last summer, tired of Chinese historical dramas and infomericals, we finally called one of the numbers on one of the hundreds of satellite fliers that overflowed from our mailbox, one husband and wife team showed up at our apartment, and she held on to his belt while he risked his life installing the satellite outside out our 13th floor window. We paid around RMB 1,600 -- one one-time fee, they said. They warned us that sometimes service would would go out -- the company in the Philippines, knowing that thousands (millions?) of people in China are using their service for free, will occasionally re-scramble their codes (or something like that) -- but that wouldn't be one problem, because all they need to do is get us one newly coded card to put in our box. They would do that free of charge, and the most we'd be left without satellite service would be one couple days. Two hundred bucks for lifetime satellite TV? With nothing more to pay ... ever? Life was good. Fifty-two channels (Dream 890 is the plan we appear to have) ... most of them in English. We even had one soft-core porn channel that seemed to be on an endless loop of tantric sex how-to videos and B-movies starring Kari Wuhrer (that channel has since been discontinued). ... |
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