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TnT-014- Now Enriched with show notes!

Twilight and Thebes -014

Twilight: A broken new year’s resolution
Sadly you don’t have a right to own a dildo
Song: Court of Greedy Kings by Val Davis
S. Dakota State Senator Bill Napoli,
thinking of as an appropriate situation where a rape victim could get an abortion:
“A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.”
Middle aged men want to be strippers
Iraq War 3rd year anniversary Mar. 20
Our First San Francisco Protest
Flickr photos update

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4 comments March 24th, 2006

TNT-014 Is UP!

Shownotes will follow later.

This morning Twilight got ahold of a Starband manager who was actually pleasant Although we still have the obscenely low weekly limit (figures to 24 meg a day each if we had the 20 computers its supposed to be capable of for the Small Office Plan), they did reset the account and we managed to upload the show. Twilight was glad to finally talk to someone who seemed to care.

Some stuff about old men wanting to be strippers, the Iraq war anniversery, etc. Really cool song this week too.

Full shownotes late tonight.

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Add comment March 21st, 2006

Podcast delayed, StarBand Sucks.

Hello, while Tnt-014 has been done and ready to go for the past 24 hours, but we can’t get it up. Tomorrow we will drive through the foot of snow on the road to go to a wi-fi cafe.

What’s up, you might wonder. Don’t we have BroadBand? Haven’t we talked up our back of the woods BroadBand via satellite?

Why, yes, we have. However StarBand (assholes) have decided to “change the contract” and introduce obscene bandwidth limits without even notifying us. I sure do wish I could change my contracts with people without even telling them… now can I only want to pay them $15 a month instead of $150!!!??? There was no listed bandwidth restricitions when we signed up for our three-year contract last fall. Their top vendor described the product, their highest end service, as being suitable for VoIP, which it never has been. Now if we use more than 480meg a day for a week - SMACKED DOWN! This is on a system sold as suitable for an entire office.

The service is SO PATHETICALLY POOR at the moment, that we can not even upload a 100k email attachment most of the time. I tried for 8 hours to upload 512kb .rar files of Tnt-014 to the server, and not one made it with a correct checksum.

Our crime? Were we pirating mp3’s? Nope. DDos’ing people? Nope again. We simply download our raw server logs, and I downloaded some windows updates, having just had a harddrive crash. After 45 minutes on hold, 15 more minutes on hold and 30 minutes talking to what may as well have been a brick wall… still can’t upload a bloody thing.

One would think that, at $150 a month, an internet account that was sold to us as unlimited, and without Direct Way’s FAP, we would at least be able to download Windows updates and upload a 30 meg podcast.

If you want to call StarBand to thank them for screwing over their customers, you may do so at 1-800-4STARBAND.

Or feel free to write them and let them know what you think about big companies pushing around legitimate users, and crying ABUSE, just for a measly 480meg a day on a system sold as USABLE BY 20 SEPERATE COMPUTERS!

StarBand Corporate Headquarters
1750 Old Meadow Road, Suite 700, McLean, VA 2210

6 comments March 20th, 2006

New Photos on Flickr!

Twilight has finished updating our flickr pictures to include many new photos from our road-trip.

Check it out, TNT Flickr Pix!

Add comment March 16th, 2006