For the price, Time Warner Cable SUCKS

I've been watching cable since it first came to Kansas. In fact, nearly 25 years ago, you could get way more movies both on HBO and basic channels, instead of the tiresome handful that HBO repeats over and over and over and over again. Did I say they repeated a lot? How many times do we get HARRY POTTER?

And for what I'm paying, I shouldn't have to spend ten minutes pushing those dinky ass, buttons, waiting for their fancy Scientific American box's onscreen Guide to keep up with my fingers as i surf for something decent. Ya hafta wade through twenty channels of SHIT to find something appealing!

No wonder TV viewing is falling off nationally!!!!

And while I'm bitching, for the money I'm spending, I should be able to tell my fancy box to BAN CHANNELS I NEVER WANT TO SEE... including all arab channels, Mexican channels, sports channels, cars on demand, toddler channels, farm animal channels, fast food on demand, repeats of Queen for a Day, lonely pets on demand, all bullshit animal channels, all fake jewelry channels.... exhale... you get the idea!

And all the channels that actually show old movies I haven't seen... when I click THOSE, it says I hafta call my "Customer Service Department to GET them!

Technology's supposed to make life EASIER, not HARDER!

This is the new millenium, Jack! I'm really pissed that they are making THEIR PRODUCT inconvenient for me so I'll give up on the basics...and just pay ON DEMAND.

So I now have a couple high def TV's. Did they make it easier?? No, they just doubled the channels making me push even MORE buttons rather than screen out the duplicates. I have to remember even MORE channel numbers! Most of the HD channel numbers don't even match the analog channel numbers -- especially the local TV stations, and I'm JUST MAD AS HELL ABOUT IT.

Why don't cities which presumably still oversee franchise monopolies to cable look out for their citizens, and not roll over just for a little free city- channel service nobody watches?

Will someone please invent a cable box that lets me put in it MY viewing habits, rather than Time Warner's marketing objectives?

I know, I know. Everyone hates Bill Gates. But Windows after 3.11 has spoiled me. I expect software to be configurable!