Should Joe move out?

[Joe]

Oh. Oops.

[CrAz3D]

$300 a MONTH to transfer your phone service?  Wow, thats the dumbest thing I've never heard of.  If anything it'd be a one time cancelation fee, and just wait til your contract is up for the phone line & then change it

Nah. Aparently one company owns the right to provide me with phone service and in order to transfer that right to another company for one month they want $300. I would sue them for having a monopoly if I weren't so lazy, because they'd definately lose.

Until you took an economics class and realized that certain monopolies are allowed.

& that whatever he just spouted is wrong.

they arent going to charge you $300/month to transfer phone service

[iago]

I imagine it's a 1-time fee. 


His parents probably lied to him because they don't want to change

[CrAz3D]

I imagine it's a 1-time fee. 


His parents probably lied to him because they don't want to change

....or just to shut him up

[Joe]

In the technology field, my parents usually have no clue what's going on. I left World of Warcraft open, logged out, and my parents claimed it was causing my brother's computer to take ten minutes to load a single page in Internet Explorer. Anyone see flaws in that idea?

[CrAz3D]

In the technology field, my parents usually have no clue what's going on. I left World of Warcraft open, logged out, and my parents claimed it was causing my brother's computer to take ten minutes to load a single page in Internet Explorer. Anyone see flaws in that idea?

nope.

[Joe]

I do.

1. The program wasn't online, and then didn't use any bandwidth.
2. The people using that computer are in their fourties, plus a 13 year old son. Spyware and viruses galore.
3. They're using IE.

[Sidoh]

I do.

1. The program wasn't online, and then didn't use any bandwidth.
2. The people using that computer are in their fourties, plus a 13 year old son. Spyware and viruses galore.
3. They're using IE.

Is this seriously why you want to move out?

QQ, Joe.  QQ.

I suggest you take a step back and look at how fortunate your situation is relative to other people your age.  Your parents don't understand much about how computers work?  Big deal.  Educate them with a happy heart.

You're Christian, right?

4: Thou shalt obey thy father and thy mother.

[Joe]

Honor, not obey, IIRC. Also, the bible says to flee from temptation. Temptation to punch my brother in the face for being such a stupid person. My parents, I can't expect to know what's going on, but him..

But no, that's not why I want to move. It's nothing against my family, I just want DSL. =)

[zorm]

Honor, not obey, IIRC. Also, the bible says to flee from temptation. Temptation to punch my brother in the face for being such a stupid person. My parents, I can't expect to know what's going on, but him..

But no, that's not why I want to move. It's nothing against my family, I just want DSL. =)

Great reasoning. You'll have DSL now for maybe a year or two. But if your life takes a turn for the worse you could end up living in a box on the street with a hooker name Sherley. DSL would probably be your last concern then.

Perhaps you need to worry less about now and more about your future, IIRC you had a bunch of Fs. Shouldn't fixing that be higher on your todo list then ditching your parents for DSL?

[Joe]

I'm not ditching my parents. It's more of a prolonged summer sleepover.

[CrAz3D]

Honor, not obey, IIRC. Also, the bible says to flee from temptation. Temptation to punch my brother in the face for being such a stupid person.

Twisting the words of the Bible so you get what you want, cool.  Thats what everyone else does that starts holy wars.

[Newby]

IIRC you had a bunch of Fs. Shouldn't fixing that be higher on your todo list then ditching your parents for DSL?

If he keeps that up, he'll be on 56K the rest of his life, because he won't be able to afford DSL.

[Joe]

I passed all my classes thanks to exams, not that it matters nearly as much as you think it would for my college of choice (North Central University, Jesus school).

[rabbit]

Right, and also, abandoning your house for better internet is Greed, a deadly sin.  Let's not forget the Gluttony (free food from your friend?) and Wrath (punching your brother?).  Also, there's that Sloth you have.  Looks like you're pretty well fucked if you leave.