Fox Fx Fail

Is Fox Discriminating against its Dish Network viewers?  Magic 8-ball says "Signs Point To Yes"

Why has a conclusion been drawn on Fox discrimination against Dish customers?

There is simple tacit evidence. Today, I began the process of linking my Fox and FX Roku channels.  It is a process I was used to with HBOGO, History and others.  

The onscreen instructions were clear. First I went to the Fox activate web page, which in turn had me choose my "television provider" Dish. Dish in turn required me to log into my Dish account. Again, it was very routine.  The FXnow process was a near carbon copy of the Fox process right up until Dish was not an option for TV providers. I clicked not found and was unceremoniously informed that Dish subscribers are denied access to FXnow.

No explanation was given, but in an Engadget article cited in an adjacent blog post, the FX connection to the actual Fox News dispute was made.

So Fox is not blocking Dish customers from watching a channel they pay for, but the much touted app.End result for many is now some FX viewers can hate Fox News for reasons other than its programing. The censorship of unrelated content.

This blogger sees a TORRENT of viewer disapproval with FX networks.  I suspect iTunes and Google Play may get a windfall from viewers that miss the airings on FX. Will some angry users unfairly singled out due to greed, look to more creative interpretation of time shifting, to justify a no no under DMCA? Hard to tell.

Prohibition led to mom and pop buying booze from gangsters. Just saying #foxfail

Fox Bundle Strategy Fails Me

Dish Network's latest squabble turns off Fox News, Business channels

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/21/dish-networks-latest-squabble-turns-off-fox-news-business-chan/

Disclosure: I hate the editorial policy of Fox News.  I love Fox TV and the FX networks. 

FXNow is not available to Dish Subscribers.  I did not understand, I have FX in my Dish line up, and am eagerly looking forward to Archer next week.

The dispute apparently is FX is not up for renewal but 21st Century Fox (parent) company is greedy and wants to renegotiate its rates.  Fox can't pull the FX off dish. So they cripple THEIR viewers ability to access the app if their viewers use Dish Network.

Is this as big of a deal as Rosa Parks being tired after work, apartheid or separate but equal?  Probably not so much.  But in my mind, I was always able to separate that Fox News and Fx were corporate siblings, because each filled a niche in the market, however mutually exclusive. 

Now, we are forced to associate Fox News with FXNow and the FX channels.  I will still watch Archer, but I will not watch it on FX, I will not see the ads from companies that sponsor the show on FX.  If need be, I will buy the season on DVD or digital.

Foxfail 

New News is good news

For many years now I've been critical of local news and national news that seems to sensationalize trivial events. So I  stopped watching the news. To combat my cluelessness I started listening to radio news and radio podcasts and it's worked out pretty well I started doing it last summer while I was off grid camping. With the plethora of new shows from around the world on my satellite provider and being completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of news programs from around the world I've come up with a system of news rationing. What I do is search for news shows from different perspectives the BBC China today RussiaToday Aljazeera France and pull it there so many international news cast on a daily basis each day I set a DVR recording for one of the many just that day so Monday might be my Russia today headline news Tuesday might be my France 24 7 news etc have quite a variety coming up but I've never overwhelmed because I have the DVR set to save only one and record each show only once a week. I've been doing this for one week now and I'm quite happy with my overall knowledge of what's going on in the world if stories seem to filter from outlet outlet I can dream it somewhat important or least of interest but the sheer number of stories I never would have seen that are not started doing this is really opening my eyes literally. An example of stations that I watch are as follows: incidentally I have set up a group of recordings called News where these things go straight in there I can always just go to my DVR menu and click up my news folder here's an example I have BBC Newsnight taped from the PPS feed I have news update from China today I have gay USA from free speech TV have the Daily Show with Jon Stewart I have boom bust from Russia today and a few others I'm going to in real time here just page down a few I have Mario Lopez one on one from Nuvo biz China from CCTV espanol BBC Newsnight did I say that already euronews from hitn on the money from a local ABC affiliate American moments from news max no Steve Malzberg show also on Newsmax France 24 a.m. News Lakeland news which is a local public television news cast from the north central part of the state of Minnesota, America tonight on Al Jazeera America headline news from Russia today BBC World News from the local PBS affiliate OK!TV from real network on its on every day its celebrity gossip but I just tape it once per week Washington this week from c-span  Suzie Orman show on CNBC news from Al Jazeera America Israel now news Daystar Sports Center u from ESPNU Inside politics from CNN CNNI simulcast on CNN nothing but trailers from AXS I find when you watch movies you see previews I don't go to movies it's kind of a self denying prophecy and that's coming up my viewing habits for news.

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Customer Reviews most helpful

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B008G4W4NI/s=sd

My amazon review for the Verizon home phone box

Paper white not a paper weight

Yesterday at my long neglected campsite, a Kindle Paperwhite lay where it was left near three weeks ago.  During that time, it has rained and cooled many many days and nights.  Sitting on a stump, where it was last used,  it sat there in its folio case.

The screen was snow white. On it was a diagram of a usb power charger and perhaps an X.  It was damp, so it was dried.  The form fitting case was removed to find more moisture.

When it was brought back home and plugged in, the amber charging light did not come on.  Oh oh, was this now a hipster paperweight?

The screen changed from the diagram to something darker.  There was hope.  In an hour or so the amber charging indicator started to glow. Twelve hours later, that same inidcator was green,  indicating a full charge. 

Unplugged, wiped off, it synced up via whispersync and was just as good as when it was left behind.

This is one sturdy device.  It receives my whoie hearted endorsement as an out door technology tool, right up there with propane and propane accessories.  Or what not.

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Branding

In the 1970s a corporate form called conglomerates was popular.  Beatrice, ITT were a few well known examples.  Today Berkshire Hathaway is a good example.  Today I realized Ke7in is all over the place, both in real life and on the web.  Today a new tag is being born. #k7nwj for a Ke7in Web Joint.  This is both a nod to Spike Lee's preferred directorial credit, and my "spin off" Twitter account.  KE7IN is my twitter and Facebook, with the shorter @K7n serving as an automatic repository for. Cross posting apps.  There are blogs on blogger, tumblr. Listology, twitter, status.net, friend feed, Google+, LinkedIn, Myspace, Facebook plus many of those sites have multiple iterations of my writings. 

Today a favicon was created based on the attached image.  This image is from a block print made in a high school art class, as an attempt to inspire a student to create one for himself.  This past year, I was a substitute paraprofessional.  An ill defined helper of students that need a bit more encouragement and support to navigation the school system. 

The design was created last summer while camping.  Trying to make something, easy to carve, runic script was chosen.  For that and of course my own Nordic roots. My Paternal Grandfather had a glyph/monogram and it always intrigued me.  His initials HAF lent themselves for alignment.  KBF has the curves of a B to contend with.  That is how the straight line based carving system of runes was decided upon.  As a similar KBF to HAF was formed, a similar art project was remembered.  That of mirroring our own name. Kevin when rotated and mirrored became a fierce tribal mask.  It was treasured by a five year old me.

As mentioned previously the favicon is based on the black and white image, which in turn is based on an actual block print of the design, on orange and green 

The favicon will be attached to my blog array. The image will become a user icon too.

TOM Peters had a program called Brand. You

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WiFi, LAN, DLNA, 4G, LTE, 3G,, DSL Broadband

The process of starting a new blog almost got all of me.  THIS post started out as a primer for a much larger post.  Soon realizing it had stand alone value, I was made public ally accessible in a drop box public directory.

WiFi, Broadband, MoDem, LAN, WAN, DLNA, 4G, LTE, 3G,, DSL

WiFi: Wireless Fidelity, a form of radio that broadcasts digital information from machine to a router to another machine or WAN. (a nod to earlier audio days with HiFi being the term for High Fidelity )

Broadband: a term for faster connection, today  generally used to describe High Speed Internet,  compared to dial up MoDem technology.

MoDem: Modulator Demodulator, which modulates what you type in, and demodulates what it receives.

LAN: Local area network (Work groups, office printer network, & etc.) compare to

WAN: Wide area network. This is the INTERNET

DLNA: Digital Living Network Alliance, a series of interoperable protocols so our various WiFi enabled devices can communicate in the home . compare to

UPnP: Universal Plug and Play, the term for devices that operate with DLNA Protocols (including Playstation, XBox, Wii, BD players [Blu-Ray Discs], iPads, Surface Pros and etc)

4G: Fourth generation (of phone carrier internet service) not to be confused with Apples iPhone 4S, which was the fourth gen iPhone, but still using 3G when other manufacturers were selling LTE devices.

LTE: Long Term Evolution (of phone carrier service) a name for a present form of 4G that was used for same before it was "officially " 4G now tacked on
but it is really Tomaaaaaaaaaaato Tomahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhto.

3G: Third generation (of phone carrier internet service)

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line, from your POTS, RBOC or land line carrier, it is distinguished from an analog subscriber line, by relegated voice to part of the wire, and data to another part of the wire, using digital encoding. This allows your single land line to carry both voice calls and the WAN traffic you want from the wider internet.
||||| as long as I am here, most cable systems, have wired your neighborhoods into LANs.  were usually office networks which allowed file and printer sharing between computers dating back at least to Microsoft Windows 3.11 for Work Groups.  Apple's AppleTalk. Workgroup=LAN.  Broadband from cable is usually shared with your neighborhood, which has a single but possibly an array of "Pipes" to the WAN
||||[POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service, RBOC: Regional Bell Operating companies {the Baby Bells formerly 10 now 3]

Many of these terms are used interchangeably, correctly or incorrectly.  The distinction of which can be major.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnq1q8o62jor5c5/internetacrynyms.txt
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Chops

This photo has been altered to look real old.

Volunteering at a living history museum village as a school teacher, offers me incentive to get creative with my facial hair.

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Home Canning, I say home Cadillac

Finally, they've done to canning what they did to baking bread with the bread machine.

Admittedly,  i hoped to be able to dump, maters, jars, salt and vinegar into a hopper and have canned tomatoes come out on a conveyor belt. Nogo.

But this review seems positive.  For some reason, my dad gets the catalogue from chefscatalog.com It is in there with a bunch of other luxury home canning supplies.  Even high tech brine fermenting crocks.

http://www.cnet.com/products/ball-freshtech-automatic-home-canning-system/

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Amazing

Yesterday I went shopping.  

At checkout, the lady in front of me encountered some sort of delay, and open mouth apologized to me, in line behind her.  I assured her everything was OK.  

When the cashier was ringing in my sales, we were engaging in a tight but interesting unrelated conversation.  As my wallet was pulled out to pay, she exclaimed, "I have done this before, because I recognize that wallet".  I believed her immediately because I receive so many comments on my choice of credit card and currency container.  

I then mentioned how once I had been in line and the clerk was asking me about the wallet and a lady behind me was very impatient and extremely rude about it.  She was saying how much of a hurry she was in, and how .l.... yada yada       ... as she continued to berate the clerk, 

"You were amazing, we were doing this, checking and talking, and you said to her 'SHE  is being polite to me, her customer'"  "I am her customer too" she said.  And I corrected her with, "yes but she is serving me.  We have nothing to do with whatever is causing your urgency.  In fact this very tantrum is delaying you further".

She said I was "amazing" perhaps she is not used to people being calm under pressure.  The woman's crisis may have been real, self induced or not.  But I didn't let her infect me.  Because. According to some people. I am amazing.   I smiled as I walked out of store.
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Fwd: Close your email and head outside

Even pinterest.com wants me to go play in yhe rain

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Top the Tater

Why Target?

For the past three years since this returned to Minnesota, He's been able to find his ftavorite chip dip in your dairy section. Valentines  Eve, after choosing $200 worth of electronics, dvds, blurays and the favorite chip, rounded to where the dairy section formerly was. Just yogurt. No sour cream, no Top the Tater to be seen. Much time was spent looking for the product  bought at Tarrget more than any other store in Minnesota.  Sour cream was found at feet level a couple aisles over.  The red phone eas called, she looked for me and with me and asked up the chain of knowledge to learn it has been discontinued. 

There are no longer any refridgerated chip dips but the chip aisle is over flowing.  It is understood dairy is a perishable and under performing brands are routinely dropped by megastores for false economy. 

More than ten years ago WalMart and Kroger learned when they drop someone's tavorite brand they likely lose that customers regular grocery business.  Target famously uses consumer buying habits to infer when female shoppers may be pregnent. How can they fail to notice the complimentary relationship of chips and dip. Did they miss the chip/dip serving platters designed by some also ran in their boutique aisle.?

Loss leaders in the grocery business  a freshman in college Econ 101 topic. If a store does not sell bread, shoppers avoid it.

To demonstrate an economic loss to the bottom line, this Target shopper demonstratively chose to abandon half the items in my cart at the cashier. I wonder how much the chip dip was losing? Without mentioning the brand, the cashier was able to name the discontinued brand. ISo not the only one to mention it apparently.  But the metrics do not show what we do not buy. Which is why that action was used. For the lack of a $3 dip, Target lost around $100 bucks of doodads unneeded or wanted ezpecially. This might be the only one you know about. 

A quick trip to Target to get 50 blank DVDs. The dip was a maybe, but much higher in my wants than the bluetooth items I alao picked up.   Target is not a grodery store. The expanded grocery offerings was supposed to make it more convenient to shop at Target.   It was not very convient when a 30 minute trip doubled and a half, involved 4 team members two radios and the help phone.  CVS is not a grocery store but they sell refridgerated dips with far fewer choices for chips.

This blogger has a Master of Science degree in Economics from a southern research university. (UK 1992)

Please note, by calling Target designers "some also ran" I am not criticizing the designers.  Some of my best friends are designers.  Plus the "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" Ad stopped me in my tracks and could be the behinning of a new career choice for me. But really Target designers are very good. Their advertising agency is very good. But people fail. The guy that discontinued refridgerated dips but kept the chips has failed me. The tech guy that thinks an HVAC vender needs access to Target Customer payment data, should be sentenced to work behind locked doors ovetnight at a Wal-Mart.

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