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2 hours ago, richfaa said:

We never use auto pay on anything.

Me neither.  I've come close, there's a few things which that's the only way you can get a particular service.  Latest example is in my newer truck.  I'd like to have Sirius/XM, but they insist on a credit card autopay.  I've heard that it's really difficult to stop the service when you decide to.  So, I just listen to other music.

42 minutes ago, Kirk W said:

There are very few things that change for only 1 single reason. Yet time marches on and technology continues to change the way we live. Government actions may slow or speed up those changes, but change is inevitable. 

I agree Kirk.  However, your analogy was totally inaccurate.  Typewriters no longer are on retail stores because there is no longer a market for them.  The rapid development of computer technology made them obsolete.  To my knowledge, there is no government mandate nor prohibition of typewriters.

LED light has been around for 57 years, yet until government intervention some 10-15 years ago, LED lighting was a niche market.  Now, it is the mainstream.  I have no doubt that if the government hadn't stepped in, household incandescent bulbs would still dominate the market in the USA.

2 hours ago, Barbaraok said:

So you advocate going back to energy inefficient appliances, going back to leaded gasoline, going back to no seat belts,  going back to burning high sulfur coal in plants with no exhaust filtration?  

 

Barbara, I'm amazed at how you interpret my posts sometimes.  How the heck did you get that from what I posted?  I've replaced all my light fixtures and bulbs with LED's.  I love LED's.  I was simply pointing out to Kirk that it wasn't a consumer choice which stopped incandescent bulbs from being on the shelves at retail stores.  Consumers, like old people, don't particularly like change, so it sometimes has to be forced upon them.................as in this case and the ones you described.

8 minutes ago, noteven said:

They could have a go at making fake posts that are stupider than the real ones and get my user name kicked off the forum...noteven 

I guess.  Then, I'd have to sign up all over again with a new username and start making my own stupid posts again.  ☺️

38 minutes ago, Kirk W said:

Stores stop stocking products and companies stop making them when sales of that product become very slow.

Stores also quit stocking products and companies stop making them when the government effectively banned their production and sale, as they did by setting efficiency standards which normal incandescent bulbs could not meet.  This mostly applied to 100 watt to 40 watt household bulbs.

Lack of consumer demand for these items did not cause their demise, as you seem to suggest.

I'm trying to figure out why anyone would want my username and password and/or how I could be damaged if they had it.  Am I not getting the big picture here?

There are different definitions for "RV".  A "recreational vehicle" can be lot's of things to lot's of people.

Had a butcher tell me one time to use your nose to see if meat was safe to eat.  🙂

In my rv'ing travels around the country, I met lot's of folks who didn't like Texas or Texans.  Same is true of other States also.  We all have our biases.  Sometimes the bias comes from what we've heard, sometimes from our own experiences.  You could do worse than making Texas your domicile.

This article has an interesting perspective https://kfdm.com/news/nation-world/cannabis-stocks-up-in-smoke-even-as-congress-pushes-legalization

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30 minutes ago, remoandiris said:

Works for me!!

That's what counts.

20 minutes ago, docj said:

During the initial 6 months following a person's Medicare eligibility date this isn't true.  You can sign up for Medigap Supplemental plans (they cover more than Part B gaps) with no restrictions during that period.  Once you get past that 6 months or if you want to transfer from one carrier to another you might have to pay a higher premium or you could be rejected due to pre-existing conditions.

That's what I meant.

With reference to "electric" heat, I assume you're talking about a heat pump.  Once the outside temp gets in the low 40's F, heat pumps don't work so well.  There's not enough heat outside for them to transfer.

What kind of propane heater do you have that doesn't have a fan?

18 minutes ago, Dutch_12078 said:

The satellite spacing doesn't change with your location. I suspect it has more to do with the sidelobe rejection limits of the DPH LNB feedhorns.

Yes, I didn't have a technical reason for it, just thought maybe the sat signal might be stronger  or the deflection different at a more SE location.  It's not likely that a few hundred miles would make a difference when you consider the distance from the satellites.

55 minutes ago, hamrs_62 said:

I do not think everyone qualifies for the plan G or F, if you smoke or have a preexisting condition, they might reject you 

The same is true of all the Part B supplemental plans.  They don't have to accept your business.

Who's post made you so defensive?

I don't think anyone was throwing stones.  Someone brought up the legality point, so we were having a discussion about it.  I've been using a workaround of one sort or another for over 11 years for internet, all of them against the terms of service.  I connected my flip phone for years via PDANet to get 3G data. 

2 hours ago, remoandiris said:

If you're asking me, no, not anymore.  I left there 4 days ago after being back for about 2 months.  Currently in NOLA for a few days before heading to the Lake Charles area for 4 months.

Yes.  I thought maybe being able to hit all three sats like that with the wrong lnb might be related to being far east and south, like Miami.

Are you in Florida?

1 hour ago, Twotoes said:

No docj. I have Plan G and it pays the 20%. You don’t have to have Plan F. 

That's not what he said.  Plan G does not pay the deductible.

2 minutes ago, remoandiris said:

I have the small dish on a tripod.  The small dish is the 1000.2, right?

The clearest visible difference between the 1000.2 and 1000.4 dish is that the 1000.4 has a fine tuning adjustment for elevation.  You can see the two compared side by side on Zulu's website.

I thought it was possible to get the 61.5 and 72 on a WA lnb, though it wouldn't be ideal.  But, I don't know that.

7 minutes ago, Zulu said:

You have a triple LNB Eastern Arc.

I didn't know such an LNB existed for a 1000.2

Most people accept that the term "illegal" means a violation of law.  Generally, breaking conditions of a contract is not considered illegal.  HOWEVER, in the matter of which we are speaking, it could very well be considered illegal to take a service intended to be used in a certain manner and misappropriate it in another manner. 

Here is a similar example, which is filed from time to time.  You have a contract to rent an apartment.  One of the benefits of living in this apartment is a dumpster on site intended for the disposal of your household trash.  Sometimes, you dump your construction debris at the end of a day on your carpenter job in that dumpster.  You are using a service for which you are not paying.

If you're paying for service specifically designed for a phone and using it in a tablet, I would consider that theft of service by deception.  Similarly, knowingly using a service designed and intended for an iPad in a hotspot might be considered theft.  I doubt that any cellular provider would file such a charge, but it wouldn't surprise me.  It's pretty common for electric utilities to pursue such charges in response to people hot wiring their electric meter so that it gives a reduced usage.    However, I've never even heard of a cellular provider filing such charges.

Here is an excerpt from the theft of service statute in Texas, I'm sure other States have similar laws:

Sec. 31.04. THEFT OF SERVICE. (a) A person commits theft of service if, with intent to avoid payment for service that the actor knows is provided only for compensation:

(1) the actor intentionally or knowingly secures performance of the service by deception, threat, or false token;

Here's a link to the entire statute, in case anyone wants to read it.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.31.htm

Also, on the TV, it was referred to as Google Cast.

Okay, I know very little about this, so I'm not disputing anything anyone says.

I turned on my Android phone, a Motorola G5+ running Android 8.0.  I turned on my Android TV, a Sony Bravia of about a few months old.

On my phone, I went to settings and found a Connected Devices section with Bluetooth, Cast, Printing, USB, and Chromebook.  I clicked on Cast and it opened a section where I should see available devices.

I then went to my TV and found a section on casting.  It indicated I needed to turn on wifi on my phone.

After turning on wifi on my phone, the Cast section on the phone listed the Sony TV and I clicked on it.  After that, my phone screen was showing on the TV.  I went to Prime Video on the phone and played a movie.  The movie showed up on my TV in full screen mode with sound.

So, if my phone connecting to my TV on wifi is a network, then I misspoke earlier about not being on a network.  I was thinking home network, router, cellular, etc.

My question would be, if I am connected this way and viewing a movie, would the data used go against my hotspot allowance?  I never turned on my hotspot on the phone.

2 hours ago, trailertraveler said:

At least on my Samsung Galaxy J7 and Tab A, I can not cast from the device while streaming direct from the cellular connection without the TV being connected to the devices hotspot.. The phone and the TV must be connected to the same network which if a hotspot or a router that a cellular device is tethered to the cellular data counts as hotspot data.

Okay, I'm not understanding then.  I don't normally do casting, but have tried it on my TV.  Neither phone nor TV was connected to a network and I could cast photos directly to the TV.  In fact, the TV was showing whatever was showing on my phone at the time.

I'll try casting video and see how that works.