Television, can't live with it and can't live with out it. Or can you? I think yes. There are a boat load of sites out there that offer free movies and videos. All in all, having cable television and internet seem like a waste of money. Let me do the math for you. Say that you pay about $50 a month for cable and highspeed internet. That comes out to about $600 a year. But if you cut out the cable and just pay for internet your bill would probably come out to about $30 a month saving you $20 each month. So each year that comes out to $240 in savings per year. Not only does the internet give you convenience, it also offers a wider variety of entertainment. Extricating yourself from cable might sound like a painful process. After all, cable television has become a staple of the American household, regardless of income. But as for me I think I would be much happier with the extra $240 a year rather than a pair of re-runs and cartoons in hand. As a child my family never had cable, and it helped me to develop other hobbies like reading and sports. One thing that is not so good about the internet is that it is a little harder to control. So if there are children involved I would suggest to put some measures on there to make sure they don't watch porno. As mentioned in Lesson 5 and 6, there are a lot of things that you can get for free on the internet, the important point is to remember the meaning of free. Free means that there is no exchange of money for whatever received therefore there can be no exchange based on the quality of the item. A lot of people approach the Internet as if they are entitled to those "free" things because they pay for the monthly bill. However, the Internet seems to work much like a public school. You pay for the schools functions in taxes, but you really have no direct control over the teachers and how the school is run because it is headed by a very large organization the DOE. Complaints can be made, but they are not always taken seriously, because sadly, free education is seen as a privilege not a right. So for those who prefer total and complete control I suggest private school or to keep that cable (or to protest). Money is a way to buy greater control over many situations. Free services offered by a provider on the Internet is simply a way for the site to attract traffic so unless money is exchanged in the process, complaints about that particular site seem just as amusing as the entertainment offered there.
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