• [News] Disney's Steaming Content with Ads

    From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 9 21:21:56 2025
    Slightly off-topic, but kind of not at the same time, as "Doctor
    Who" is currently streaming on Disney+...

    Disney disclosed an estimated 157 million global monthly active
    streaming users on its ad-supported plans, including 112 million
    domestically (Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+). This is the first time
    Disney has disclosed numbers tied to their advertising plans in
    this format. In Q3, Disney said that 37% of Disney+ subscribers
    in the US were on its ad-supported plan, and 60% of all new
    subscribers were choosing the AVOD (Advertising-based Video on
    Demand) plan.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/disney-monthly-active-users-ad-supported-content.html


    If there's one thing I hate... it's adverts!

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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Thu Jan 9 21:38:04 2025
    On 09/01/2025 21:21, Blueshirt wrote:
    Slightly off-topic, but kind of not at the same time, as "Doctor
    Who" is currently streaming on Disney+...

    Disney disclosed an estimated 157 million global monthly active
    streaming users on its ad-supported plans, including 112 million
    domestically (Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+). This is the first time
    Disney has disclosed numbers tied to their advertising plans in
    this format. In Q3, Disney said that 37% of Disney+ subscribers
    in the US were on its ad-supported plan, and 60% of all new
    subscribers were choosing the AVOD (Advertising-based Video on
    Demand) plan.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/disney-monthly-active-users-ad-supported-content.html


    If there's one thing I hate... it's adverts!


    Adverts and lies. Both amount to the same thing.

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month. It's the
    same people counted multiple times every time they watch the same show
    again or watch a different show just like it is with YouTube. Lets
    divide this figure by 1000 to get something that resembles the number of
    unique viewers per show more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on
    average watch each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even
    get 20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less than
    The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones who are
    still paying every month, not just past subscribers held on their
    records? Probably only 15 million.



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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Fri Jan 10 01:14:55 2025
    In article <xn0p0lzek7dxyz6000@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Slightly off-topic, but kind of not at the same time, as "Doctor
    Who" is currently streaming on Disney+...

    Disney disclosed an estimated 157 million global monthly active
    streaming users on its ad-supported plans, including 112 million
    domestically (Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+). This is the first time
    Disney has disclosed numbers tied to their advertising plans in
    this format. In Q3, Disney said that 37% of Disney+ subscribers
    in the US were on its ad-supported plan, and 60% of all new
    subscribers were choosing the AVOD (Advertising-based Video on
    Demand) plan.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/disney-monthly-active-users-ad-supported-content.html


    If there's one thing I hate... it's adverts!


    Saw that on Linkedin.
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Fri Jan 10 01:16:07 2025
    In article <vlpfjt$3hcr4$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 09/01/2025 21:21, Blueshirt wrote:
    Slightly off-topic, but kind of not at the same time, as "Doctor
    Who" is currently streaming on Disney+...

    Disney disclosed an estimated 157 million global monthly active
    streaming users on its ad-supported plans, including 112 million
    domestically (Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+). This is the first time
    Disney has disclosed numbers tied to their advertising plans in
    this format. In Q3, Disney said that 37% of Disney+ subscribers
    in the US were on its ad-supported plan, and 60% of all new
    subscribers were choosing the AVOD (Advertising-based Video on
    Demand) plan.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/disney-monthly-active-users-ad-supported-content.html


    If there's one thing I hate... it's adverts!


    Adverts and lies. Both amount to the same thing.

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month. It's the
    same people counted multiple times every time they watch the same show
    again or watch a different show just like it is with YouTube. Lets
    divide this figure by 1000 to get something that resembles the number of >unique viewers per show more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on >average watch each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even
    get 20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less than
    The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones who are
    still paying every month, not just past subscribers held on their
    records? Probably only 15 million.



    I wonder never touch Disney+ !


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    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The True Doctor on Fri Jan 10 16:19:21 2025
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business
    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there
    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -
    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Fri Jan 10 16:38:48 2025
    In article <xn0p0n60l8il4cx008@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business
    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there
    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -
    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    More reason why to avoid streming services.
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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Fri Jan 10 21:20:24 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0n60l8il4cx008@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
    not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
    quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
    un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
    that "quarter" - and included in that quarter's figures -
    even though I was only a subscriber for a part of it.
    (That's where the special offers play their part! We had one
    here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months.
    Boom! You're now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

    More reason why to avoid streming services.

    It gets harder and harder to avoid them... and for the younger
    generation they won't know any better.

    I don't see the streaming services going away anytime soon... I
    do think there will be less of them in time though, as nobody
    can pay monthly fees for all of them. So the strong will survive
    and the weak will perish... or as is most likely, the ones that
    don't make much money will be taken over by the ones that do!

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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Fri Jan 10 21:53:14 2025
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more
    well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely
    made up by unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
    shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
    tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account
    not just cancelled your subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
    they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
    properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Fri Jan 10 21:58:06 2025
    On 10/01/2025 21:20, Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0n60l8il4cx008@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
    not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
    quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
    un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
    that "quarter" - and included in that quarter's figures -
    even though I was only a subscriber for a part of it.
    (That's where the special offers play their part! We had one
    here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months.
    Boom! You're now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

    More reason why to avoid streming services.

    It gets harder and harder to avoid them... and for the younger
    generation they won't know any better.


    The adds were only amenable to kids when they sold them toys and fast
    food. Then the British government banned them from doing that as kids
    stopped watching Children’s ITV, so the ITV shut it down completely. The
    adds were usually better than the actual programmes. Most of the stuff
    on ITV is complete and utter garbage.

    I don't see the streaming services going away anytime soon... I
    do think there will be less of them in time though, as nobody
    can pay monthly fees for all of them. So the strong will survive
    and the weak will perish... or as is most likely, the ones that
    don't make much money will be taken over by the ones that do!


    There's only room for two streaming services. Netflix and Amazon. The
    Studios can make more money selling their content to one or the other or
    both than setting up rival streaming services.

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The True Doctor on Fri Jan 10 22:42:53 2025
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of
    people who watched each episode all the way through which only
    amounts to about 200.

    Subscriber figures have no relation to people watching something
    all the way through... I assume that term means people paying
    for a subscription. Once you have paid for the service I wouldn't
    think they'd care how long you watched something for... just
    keep that Direct Debit coming in!

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
    not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
    quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
    un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
    that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your
    account not just cancelled your subscription.

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a subscriber.

    I'm not saying the streaming services don't do that, as I don't
    know. But it wouldn't make any sense or be legally accurate.
    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have often
    said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3 etc... Much
    more easier to give people special offers that span "quarters"
    and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then you can
    legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those quarters, even
    though you might have only paid a few quid and then
    un-subscribed.

    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was
    only a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the
    special offers play their part! We had one here recently,
    Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months. Boom! You're
    now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a
    scam. If they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it
    can be annualized properly take everything to be a scam. Look
    at the Nvidia and AMD graphics card scam going on at CES even
    right now where Nvidia is claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast
    as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES
    between two genuine ones!

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still don't
    think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just pluck random
    figures out of the air for their subscriber figures. They might
    like to spin them in a positive way but they have to be based on
    something. You couldn't say you had one million subscribers and
    then have no income from those services in your accounts at the
    end of the year!

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Sat Jan 11 01:17:00 2025
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more
    well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely
    made up by unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
    shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
    tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who >watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account
    not just cancelled your subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
    they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized >properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE >INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sat Jan 11 01:19:20 2025
    In article <xn0p0ng2v8wacvr001@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of
    people who watched each episode all the way through which only
    amounts to about 200.

    Subscriber figures have no relation to people watching something
    all the way through... I assume that term means people paying
    for a subscription. Once you have paid for the service I wouldn't
    think they'd care how long you watched something for... just
    keep that Direct Debit coming in!

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
    not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
    quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
    un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
    that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your
    account not just cancelled your subscription.

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a subscriber.

    I'm not saying the streaming services don't do that, as I don't
    know. But it wouldn't make any sense or be legally accurate.
    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have often
    said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3 etc... Much
    more easier to give people special offers that span "quarters"
    and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then you can
    legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those quarters, even
    though you might have only paid a few quid and then
    un-subscribed.

    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was
    only a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the
    special offers play their part! We had one here recently,
    Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months. Boom! You're
    now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a
    scam. If they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it
    can be annualized properly take everything to be a scam. Look
    at the Nvidia and AMD graphics card scam going on at CES even
    right now where Nvidia is claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast
    as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES
    between two genuine ones!

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still don't
    think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just pluck random
    figures out of the air for their subscriber figures. They might
    like to spin them in a positive way but they have to be based on
    something. You couldn't say you had one million subscribers and
    then have no income from those services in your accounts at the
    end of the year!

    Any surprise?
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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sat Jan 11 02:34:58 2025
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of
    people who watched each episode all the way through which only
    amounts to about 200.

    Subscriber figures have no relation to people watching something
    all the way through... I assume that term means people paying
    for a subscription. Once you have paid for the service I wouldn't
    think they'd care how long you watched something for... just
    keep that Direct Debit coming in!

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
    not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
    quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
    un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
    that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your
    account not just cancelled your subscription.

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a subscriber.


    Just having an account with them means they can call you a subscriber
    even if you are not paying them anything or even watching anything.
    They're nothing more than a pack of deceiving liars.

    I'm not saying the streaming services don't do that, as I don't
    know. But it wouldn't make any sense or be legally accurate.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service, notifications, or show
    your support then you are a subscriber.

    Look at the button on YouTube which says subscribe. You don't pay
    anything to any of these channels you subscribe to unless you become a
    Member.

    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have often
    said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3 etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They still count
    you as a subscriber if your account is still extant.

    more easier to give people special offers that span "quarters"
    and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then you can
    legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those quarters, even
    though you might have only paid a few quid and then
    un-subscribed.

    See YouTube.


    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    So you've never used YouTube.


    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was
    only a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the
    special offers play their part! We had one here recently,
    Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months. Boom! You're
    now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a
    scam. If they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it
    can be annualized properly take everything to be a scam. Look
    at the Nvidia and AMD graphics card scam going on at CES even
    right now where Nvidia is claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast
    as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES
    between two genuine ones!

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still don't
    think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just pluck random
    figures out of the air for their subscriber figures. They might

    Well they do. They're psychopathic liars.

    like to spin them in a positive way but they have to be based on
    something. You couldn't say you had one million subscribers and
    then have no income from those services in your accounts at the
    end of the year!

    Except they don't publish their accounts. How much has Disney made from
    actual paying subscribers? They've never given a figure.


    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sat Jan 11 02:35:37 2025
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more
    well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely
    made up by unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
    shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
    tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who
    watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account
    not just cancelled your subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
    they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
    properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th Doctor.


    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Sat Jan 11 03:45:15 2025
    In article <vlslci$a8vm$5@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...

    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of
    people who watched each episode all the way through which only
    amounts to about 200.

    Subscriber figures have no relation to people watching something
    all the way through... I assume that term means people paying
    for a subscription. Once you have paid for the service I wouldn't
    think they'd care how long you watched something for... just
    keep that Direct Debit coming in!

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so
    not necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per
    quarter. So if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then
    un-subscribed, I would be classed as a paying subscriber for
    that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your
    account not just cancelled your subscription.

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a subscriber.


    Just having an account with them means they can call you a subscriber
    even if you are not paying them anything or even watching anything.
    They're nothing more than a pack of deceiving liars.

    I'm not saying the streaming services don't do that, as I don't
    know. But it wouldn't make any sense or be legally accurate.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service, notifications, or show
    your support then you are a subscriber.

    Look at the button on YouTube which says subscribe. You don't pay
    anything to any of these channels you subscribe to unless you become a >Member.

    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have often
    said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3 etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They still count
    you as a subscriber if your account is still extant.

    more easier to give people special offers that span "quarters"
    and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then you can
    legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those quarters, even
    though you might have only paid a few quid and then
    un-subscribed.

    See YouTube.


    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    So you've never used YouTube.


    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was
    only a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the
    special offers play their part! We had one here recently,
    Disney+ for €1.99 a month, for three months. Boom! You're
    now part of the quarterly subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a
    scam. If they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it
    can be annualized properly take everything to be a scam. Look
    at the Nvidia and AMD graphics card scam going on at CES even
    right now where Nvidia is claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast
    as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES
    between two genuine ones!

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still don't
    think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just pluck random
    figures out of the air for their subscriber figures. They might

    Well they do. They're psychopathic liars.

    like to spin them in a positive way but they have to be based on
    something. You couldn't say you had one million subscribers and
    then have no income from those services in your accounts at the
    end of the year!

    Except they don't publish their accounts. How much has Disney made from >actual paying subscribers? They've never given a figure.


    You wonder why.


    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


    --
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Sat Jan 11 03:46:08 2025
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more >>> well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely >>> made up by unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
    shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
    tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who >>> watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200. >>>
    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account
    not just cancelled your subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
    they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
    properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th Doctor.


    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!


    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sat Jan 11 04:03:48 2025
    On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more >>>> well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely >>>> made up by unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
    shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
    tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who >>>> watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200. >>>>
    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account >>>> not just cancelled your subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If >>>> they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
    properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th Doctor.


    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!


    Correct.

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Sat Jan 11 13:07:33 2025
    In article <vlsqj5$fe35$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every month.
    It's the same people counted multiple times every time they
    watch the same show again or watch a different show just like
    it is with YouTube. Lets divide this figure by 1000 to get
    something that resembles the number of unique viewers per show
    more closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't even get
    20,000 per episode even during the same period, 10 times less
    than The Acolyte as Doomcock reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper business
    journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not different and no more >>>>> well informed that Doomcock. Most of the stuff they report is completely >>>>> made up by unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even propaganda -
    whenever they release PR stuff like that, but I wouldn't think
    they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald Trump every day. >>>>>
    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier plans on
    the various Disney streaming services use ad-blockers and are
    only using the advert plans because they are cheaper, and
    they're gonna block most of the ads anyway?! So there are always
    nuances even if Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in terms. There
    shouldn't be a single advert on streaming services and I'm sick and
    tired of being advertised women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the adverts tiers
    on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they actually want to watch
    adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really have, ones
    who are still paying every month, not just past subscribers
    held on their records? Probably only 15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real figures of people who >>>>> watched each episode all the way through which only amounts to about 200. >>>>>
    My understanding is, (based on something I read online, so not
    necessarily a fact) is that everything is done per quarter. So
    if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month and then un-subscribed, I
    would be classed as a paying subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally deleted your account >>>>> not just cancelled your subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I was only
    a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where the special offers
    play their part! We had one here recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a
    month, for three months. Boom! You're now part of the quarterly
    subscriber figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If >>>>> they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized >>>>> properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE >>>>> INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th Doctor.


    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!


    Correct.


    Thank you for letting me calrify.

    Watch BS and SP go nuts!

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sat Jan 11 20:25:56 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <vlsqj5$fe35$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every
    month. >>>>>>> It's the same people counted multiple times
    every time they >>>>>>> watch the same show again or watch a
    different show just like >>>>>>> it is with YouTube. Lets
    divide this figure by 1000 to get >>>>>>> something that
    resembles the number of unique viewers per show >>>>>>> more
    closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't
    even get >>>>>>> 20,000 per episode even during the same
    period, 10 times less >>>>>>> than The Acolyte as Doomcock
    reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper
    business >>>>>> journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC
    are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not
    different and no more >>>>> well informed that Doomcock. Most
    of the stuff they report is completely >>>>> made up by
    unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like
    Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even
    propaganda - >>>>>> whenever they release PR stuff like that,
    but I wouldn't think >>>>>> they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald
    Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier
    plans on >>>>>> the various Disney streaming services use
    ad-blockers and are >>>>>> only using the advert plans because
    they are cheaper, and >>>>>> they're gonna block most of the
    ads anyway?! So there are always >>>>>> nuances even if
    Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in
    terms. There >>>>> shouldn't be a single advert on streaming
    services and I'm sick and >>>>> tired of being advertised
    women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the
    adverts tiers >>>>>> on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they
    actually want to watch >>>>>> adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really
    have, ones >>>>>>> who are still paying every month, not just
    past subscribers >>>>>>> held on their records? Probably only
    15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real
    figures of people who >>>>> watched each episode all the way
    through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online,
    so not >>>>>> necessarily a fact) is that everything is done
    per quarter. So >>>>>> if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month
    and then un-subscribed, I >>>>>> would be classed as a paying
    subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally
    deleted your account >>>>> not just cancelled your
    subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I
    was only >>>>>> a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where
    the special offers >>>>>> play their part! We had one here
    recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a >>>>>> month, for three months.
    Boom! You're now part of the quarterly >>>>>> subscriber
    figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's
    all a scam. If >>>>> they don't provide everyone with the raw
    data so it can be annualized >>>>> properly take everything to
    be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD >>>>> graphics card scam
    going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is >>>>> claiming
    a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th
    Doctor.

    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!

    Correct.

    Thank you for letting me clarify. [corrected]

    Watch BS and SP go nuts!

    There's no need for anyone to go nuts. If that's what yourself
    and Agamemnon believe, that's fine. Quite a lot of fans now
    believe that to be the case too.

    All I have ever done is point out what was intended by the
    production team at the time. And as you are both [supposedly]
    Doctor Who fans, neither of you can say I am wrong as you should
    both know the story... what is accepted now is a different thing
    altogether and it seems to work for a lot of people in fandom.

    The difference between myself and you two is I can handle people
    having a different opinion to me. Your head-canon is your own.
    If it makes "Doctor Who" a nice and comfy safe-space for you
    both, great.

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The True Doctor on Sat Jan 11 21:27:48 2025
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Have you tried to watch Disney+ without paying a monthly
    subscription fee? No? Go try it.

    Now go on to YouTube and try watching people's videos without
    paying anything to anyone.

    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have
    often said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3
    etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They
    still count you as a subscriber if your account is still
    extant.

    Let me guess, you saw this mentioned on YouTube by someone,
    right?

    Based on people I've spoken to, IRL. People [generally] don't
    delete their streaming accounts, they just stop paying when
    they've had enough... or their trial offer has run out. As they
    may want to re-subscribe at a later date if "something decent"
    comes out. So when Disney talk about "subscribers" to Disney+,
    ESPN or Hulu, I'd say they mean subscribers, not account
    holders, otherwise they would just say accounts!

    Do they manipulate those figures to suit their own propaganda?
    I'm sure they do. But again, their figures have to be based on
    something in the real world.

    more easier to give people special offers that span
    "quarters" and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then
    you can legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those
    quarters, even though you might have only paid a few quid
    and then un-subscribed.

    See YouTube.

    Disney+/Netflix etc. are not YouTube. The streaming services
    might have a beefed-up version of the analytics that YouTube
    give creators, but nobody needs to pay money to YouTube to watch
    anything. The streaming services know exactly who pays to watch
    their content... even if they only pay $1.99 a month... there's
    no need to make up anything. They money is coming in, which is
    the main thing from their POV.

    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    So you've never used YouTube.

    You keep comparing a big streaming service like Disney+ to
    YouTube. They are not the same thing. I can watch videos on
    YouTube without subscribing to anybody. You can't watch ANYTHING
    on Disney+ without a paid subscription. Nothing, nada! You have
    to have paid something to them to access their content. I can
    subscribe to your YouTube channel and watch something without
    paying you anything, or just visit your page and watch your
    videos without even clicking subscribe.

    Apples & Oranges

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still
    don't think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just
    pluck random figures out of the air for their subscriber
    figures.

    Well they do. They're psychopathic liars.

    In your opinion. Although I'm sure their PR Dept does like to
    spin a few yarns here and there like all the BIG companies do.

    But your viewpoint is not logical, as if Disney just made up
    subscription figures willy-nilly then they would never say that
    their subscription levels declined! They would just say their
    subscribers went up, and up and up... and that they were the
    biggest and best streaming service ever.

    Everyone can massage figures to suit their own point of view but
    when you are a corporation the size of Disney you can't pretend
    you have millions of people paying a subscription to a service
    and not have that reflected in your tax returns and annual
    accounts!

    They might like to spin them in a positive way but
    they have to be based on something. You couldn't
    say you had one million subscribers and then have no income
    from those services in your accounts at the end of the year!

    Except they don't publish their accounts. How much has Disney
    made from actual paying subscribers? They've never given a
    figure.

    Why would you expect a big corporation to show YOU their
    accounts? Do you show your bank account to just anyone? However,
    their accounts would certainly need to be audited and tax
    returns filed with the IRS, (etc.) Their accounts would not be a
    secret and their incomes from their various companies and
    business units. (The Walt Disney Company own more than just
    Disney+.) would be listed somewhere. Nobody can exist in a
    financial vacuum, but there's no reason why YOU would need to
    know about their income and expenditure.

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber and "Doctor Who" being
    streamed on Disney+ overseas has no relevance whatsoever to you,
    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was
    you I'd be getting more excited over how the BBC squander your
    licence fee money on wages for celebrity presenters!

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 12 04:20:07 2025
    In article <xn0p0or2oa6ufdy002@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <vlsqj5$fe35$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every
    month. >>>>>>> It's the same people counted multiple times
    every time they >>>>>>> watch the same show again or watch a
    different show just like >>>>>>> it is with YouTube. Lets
    divide this figure by 1000 to get >>>>>>> something that
    resembles the number of unique viewers per show >>>>>>> more
    closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't
    even get >>>>>>> 20,000 per episode even during the same
    period, 10 times less >>>>>>> than The Acolyte as Doomcock
    reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper
    business >>>>>> journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC
    are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not
    different and no more >>>>> well informed that Doomcock. Most
    of the stuff they report is completely >>>>> made up by
    unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like
    Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even
    propaganda - >>>>>> whenever they release PR stuff like that,
    but I wouldn't think >>>>>> they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald
    Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier
    plans on >>>>>> the various Disney streaming services use
    ad-blockers and are >>>>>> only using the advert plans because
    they are cheaper, and >>>>>> they're gonna block most of the
    ads anyway?! So there are always >>>>>> nuances even if
    Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in
    terms. There >>>>> shouldn't be a single advert on streaming
    services and I'm sick and >>>>> tired of being advertised
    women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the
    adverts tiers >>>>>> on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they
    actually want to watch >>>>>> adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really
    have, ones >>>>>>> who are still paying every month, not just
    past subscribers >>>>>>> held on their records? Probably only
    15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real
    figures of people who >>>>> watched each episode all the way
    through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online,
    so not >>>>>> necessarily a fact) is that everything is done
    per quarter. So >>>>>> if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month
    and then un-subscribed, I >>>>>> would be classed as a paying
    subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally
    deleted your account >>>>> not just cancelled your
    subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I
    was only >>>>>> a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where
    the special offers >>>>>> play their part! We had one here
    recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a >>>>>> month, for three months.
    Boom! You're now part of the quarterly >>>>>> subscriber
    figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's
    all a scam. If >>>>> they don't provide everyone with the raw
    data so it can be annualized >>>>> properly take everything to
    be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD >>>>> graphics card scam
    going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is >>>>> claiming
    a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th
    Doctor.

    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!

    Correct.

    Thank you for letting me clarify. [corrected]

    Watch BS and SP go nuts!

    There's no need for anyone to go nuts. If that's what yourself
    and Agamemnon believe, that's fine. Quite a lot of fans now
    believe that to be the case too.

    All I have ever done is point out what was intended by the
    production team at the time. And as you are both [supposedly]
    Doctor Who fans, neither of you can say I am wrong as you should
    both know the story... what is accepted now is a different thing
    altogether and it seems to work for a lot of people in fandom.

    The difference between myself and you two is I can handle people
    having a different opinion to me. Your head-canon is your own.
    If it makes "Doctor Who" a nice and comfy safe-space for you
    both, great.

    You can behave yourself.
    --
    Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca
    Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ;
    Birthdate - 29 January 1969 Redhill, Surrey, England, Uk

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 12 04:21:35 2025
    In article <xn0p0osjsa8u3qq004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Have you tried to watch Disney+ without paying a monthly
    subscription fee? No? Go try it.

    Now go on to YouTube and try watching people's videos without
    paying anything to anyone.

    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have
    often said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3
    etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They
    still count you as a subscriber if your account is still
    extant.

    Let me guess, you saw this mentioned on YouTube by someone,
    right?

    Based on people I've spoken to, IRL. People [generally] don't
    delete their streaming accounts, they just stop paying when
    they've had enough... or their trial offer has run out. As they
    may want to re-subscribe at a later date if "something decent"
    comes out. So when Disney talk about "subscribers" to Disney+,
    ESPN or Hulu, I'd say they mean subscribers, not account
    holders, otherwise they would just say accounts!

    Do they manipulate those figures to suit their own propaganda?
    I'm sure they do. But again, their figures have to be based on
    something in the real world.

    more easier to give people special offers that span
    "quarters" and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then
    you can legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those
    quarters, even though you might have only paid a few quid
    and then un-subscribed.

    See YouTube.

    Disney+/Netflix etc. are not YouTube. The streaming services
    might have a beefed-up version of the analytics that YouTube
    give creators, but nobody needs to pay money to YouTube to watch
    anything. The streaming services know exactly who pays to watch
    their content... even if they only pay $1.99 a month... there's
    no need to make up anything. They money is coming in, which is
    the main thing from their POV.

    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    So you've never used YouTube.

    You keep comparing a big streaming service like Disney+ to
    YouTube. They are not the same thing. I can watch videos on
    YouTube without subscribing to anybody. You can't watch ANYTHING
    on Disney+ without a paid subscription. Nothing, nada! You have
    to have paid something to them to access their content. I can
    subscribe to your YouTube channel and watch something without
    paying you anything, or just visit your page and watch your
    videos without even clicking subscribe.

    Apples & Oranges

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still
    don't think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just
    pluck random figures out of the air for their subscriber
    figures.

    Well they do. They're psychopathic liars.

    In your opinion. Although I'm sure their PR Dept does like to
    spin a few yarns here and there like all the BIG companies do.

    But your viewpoint is not logical, as if Disney just made up
    subscription figures willy-nilly then they would never say that
    their subscription levels declined! They would just say their
    subscribers went up, and up and up... and that they were the
    biggest and best streaming service ever.

    Everyone can massage figures to suit their own point of view but
    when you are a corporation the size of Disney you can't pretend
    you have millions of people paying a subscription to a service
    and not have that reflected in your tax returns and annual
    accounts!

    They might like to spin them in a positive way but
    they have to be based on something. You couldn't
    say you had one million subscribers and then have no income
    from those services in your accounts at the end of the year!

    Except they don't publish their accounts. How much has Disney
    made from actual paying subscribers? They've never given a
    figure.

    Why would you expect a big corporation to show YOU their
    accounts? Do you show your bank account to just anyone? However,
    their accounts would certainly need to be audited and tax
    returns filed with the IRS, (etc.) Their accounts would not be a
    secret and their incomes from their various companies and
    business units. (The Walt Disney Company own more than just
    Disney+.) would be listed somewhere. Nobody can exist in a
    financial vacuum, but there's no reason why YOU would need to
    know about their income and expenditure.

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber and "Doctor Who" being
    streamed on Disney+ overseas has no relevance whatsoever to you,
    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was
    you I'd be getting more excited over how the BBC squander your
    licence fee money on wages for celebrity presenters!

    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.
    --
    Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca
    Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ;
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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The True Doctor on Sun Jan 12 20:43:03 2025
    The True Doctor wrote on 11/01/2025 1:34 pm:

    <Snip>

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a subscriber
    even if you are not paying them anything or even watching anything.
    They're nothing more than a pack of deceiving liars.
    Many years ago (well 15-20, anyway) I was convinced to set up an account
    on LinkedIn (or whatever it's called) but, after maybe six months of
    inaction, I 'Closed' or 'Deleted' (whatever it's called) my account.

    Every couple of months though, I get an e-mail from LinkedIn telling me
    my (Closed/Deleted) account has been viewed!!
    --
    Daniel

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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sun Jan 12 20:51:29 2025
    The Doctor wrote on 11/01/2025 12:17 pm:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:

    <Snip>

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
    they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
    properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!

    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.

    YOU, Binky, include approx 90 lines of TOTALLY DISCONNECTED information (including Aggy's hughly informative information about Frame rates (....
    NOT)) .... just to add YOUR totally disconnected little factoid, Binky!!

    Well done!!
    --
    Daniel

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@nomail.afraid.org on Sun Jan 12 12:49:59 2025
    In article <vm02ra$13l2j$1@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote on 11/01/2025 1:34 pm:

    <Snip>

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a subscriber
    even if you are not paying them anything or even watching anything.
    They're nothing more than a pack of deceiving liars.
    Many years ago (well 15-20, anyway) I was convinced to set up an account
    on LinkedIn (or whatever it's called) but, after maybe six months of >inaction, I 'Closed' or 'Deleted' (whatever it's called) my account.

    Every couple of months though, I get an e-mail from LinkedIn telling me
    my (Closed/Deleted) account has been viewed!!

    PAradox.

    --
    Daniel


    --
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@nomail.afraid.org on Sun Jan 12 12:51:40 2025
    In article <vm03b5$13nje$1@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote on 11/01/2025 12:17 pm:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:

    <Snip>

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's all a scam. If
    they don't provide everyone with the raw data so it can be annualized
    properly take everything to be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD
    graphics card scam going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is
    claiming a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!

    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.

    YOU, Binky, include approx 90 lines of TOTALLY DISCONNECTED information
    ^^^^^<-paedophile talker noted
    (including Aggy's hughly informative information about Frame rates (.... >NOT)) .... just to add YOUR totally disconnected little factoid, Binky!!
    ^^^^^<-paedophile talker noted

    Well done!!

    Check AGA's response later on in the thread.

    --
    Daniel


    --
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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sun Jan 12 21:08:58 2025
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about. Nobody
    is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 12 21:29:36 2025
    In article <xn0p0q6u2bnvauz00b@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about. Nobody
    is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    Make a good guess.
    --
    Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca
    Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ;
    Birthdate - 29 January 1969 Redhill, Surrey, England, Uk

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sun Jan 12 22:40:45 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0q6u2bnvauz00b@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    Make a good guess.

    Erm... no, you don't?

    Am I close?!

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  • From Idlehands@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 12 15:55:45 2025
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about. Nobody
    is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy takes care of
    all those things for him.

    --
    "Do you make a habit of shitting in newsgroups? This is not
    rational behavior."

    pt
    (Binky failed to answer this question)

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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Mon Jan 13 01:05:06 2025
    On 11/01/2025 20:25, Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <vlsqj5$fe35$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every
    month. >>>>>>> It's the same people counted multiple times
    every time they >>>>>>> watch the same show again or watch a
    different show just like >>>>>>> it is with YouTube. Lets
    divide this figure by 1000 to get >>>>>>> something that
    resembles the number of unique viewers per show >>>>>>> more
    closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't
    even get >>>>>>> 20,000 per episode even during the same
    period, 10 times less >>>>>>> than The Acolyte as Doomcock
    reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper
    business >>>>>> journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC
    are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not
    different and no more >>>>> well informed that Doomcock. Most
    of the stuff they report is completely >>>>> made up by
    unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like
    Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even
    propaganda - >>>>>> whenever they release PR stuff like that,
    but I wouldn't think >>>>>> they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald
    Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier
    plans on >>>>>> the various Disney streaming services use
    ad-blockers and are >>>>>> only using the advert plans because
    they are cheaper, and >>>>>> they're gonna block most of the
    ads anyway?! So there are always >>>>>> nuances even if
    Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in
    terms. There >>>>> shouldn't be a single advert on streaming
    services and I'm sick and >>>>> tired of being advertised
    women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the
    adverts tiers >>>>>> on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they
    actually want to watch >>>>>> adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really
    have, ones >>>>>>> who are still paying every month, not just
    past subscribers >>>>>>> held on their records? Probably only
    15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real
    figures of people who >>>>> watched each episode all the way
    through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online,
    so not >>>>>> necessarily a fact) is that everything is done
    per quarter. So >>>>>> if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month
    and then un-subscribed, I >>>>>> would be classed as a paying
    subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally
    deleted your account >>>>> not just cancelled your
    subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I
    was only >>>>>> a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where
    the special offers >>>>>> play their part! We had one here
    recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a >>>>>> month, for three months.
    Boom! You're now part of the quarterly >>>>>> subscriber
    figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's
    all a scam. If >>>>> they don't provide everyone with the raw
    data so it can be annualized >>>>> properly take everything to
    be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD >>>>> graphics card scam
    going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is >>>>> claiming
    a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th
    Doctor.

    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!

    Correct.

    Thank you for letting me clarify. [corrected]

    Watch BS and SP go nuts!

    There's no need for anyone to go nuts. If that's what yourself
    and Agamemnon believe, that's fine. Quite a lot of fans now
    believe that to be the case too.

    All I have ever done is point out what was intended by the
    production team at the time. And as you are both [supposedly]
    Doctor Who fans, neither of you can say I am wrong as you should
    both know the story... what is accepted now is a different thing
    altogether and it seems to work for a lot of people in fandom.

    It fails to work period, since it contradicts the 11th Doctor's entire
    arc, The Five Doctors, The Three Doctors, The Two Doctors, The Deadly
    Assassin, The Keeper of Traken, Mawdrin Undead, The Name of the Doctor,
    The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor, Listen, and Twice Upon A
    Time.


    The difference between myself and you two is I can handle people
    having a different opinion to me. Your head-canon is your own.
    If it makes "Doctor Who" a nice and comfy safe-space for you
    both, great.

    Doctor Who ended in 2017! Everything after that year is degenerate fan
    fic. and therefore not canon.


    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Mon Jan 13 02:00:35 2025
    In article <xn0p0q931bqzatl000@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0q6u2bnvauz00b@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    Make a good guess.

    Erm... no, you don't?

    Am I close?!


    Yes! Go on!
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Mon Jan 13 02:02:36 2025
    In article <vm1os2$1frq9$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 20:25, Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <vlsqj5$fe35$1@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 03:46, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vlsldp$a8vm$6@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 01:17, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vls4sa$86ua$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 16:19, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    157 million people haven't been watching Disney+ every
    month. >>>>>>> It's the same people counted multiple times
    every time they >>>>>>> watch the same show again or watch a
    different show just like >>>>>>> it is with YouTube. Lets
    divide this figure by 1000 to get >>>>>>> something that
    resembles the number of unique viewers per show >>>>>>> more
    closely. About 157 thousand individuals on average watch
    each show on Disney+ every month. Doctor Whoke can't
    even get >>>>>>> 20,000 per episode even during the same
    period, 10 times less >>>>>>> than The Acolyte as Doomcock
    reported.

    I'm not sure I'd put Doomcock as a source above proper
    business >>>>>> journalists and industry specialists. (CNBC
    are a major business

    Thes so called journalists and specialists are not
    different and no more >>>>> well informed that Doomcock. Most
    of the stuff they report is completely >>>>> made up by
    unnamed sources.

    news outlet.) Clearly with big corporations like
    Disney, there

    CNBC are FAKE NEWS.

    will always be a bit of spin - and maybe even
    propaganda - >>>>>> whenever they release PR stuff like that,
    but I wouldn't think >>>>>> they'd tell outright lies.


    Yes they would and have. They tell them about Donald
    Trump every day.

    I wonder how many people that pay for the advert-tier
    plans on >>>>>> the various Disney streaming services use
    ad-blockers and are >>>>>> only using the advert plans because
    they are cheaper, and >>>>>> they're gonna block most of the
    ads anyway?! So there are always >>>>>> nuances even if
    Disney's numbers are correct.


    Advertising and video on demand are contradictions in
    terms. There >>>>> shouldn't be a single advert on streaming
    services and I'm sick and >>>>> tired of being advertised
    women’s sanitary products.

    I certainly don't believe that people pay for the
    adverts tiers >>>>>> on Disney+, ESPN+ or Hulu because they
    actually want to watch >>>>>> adverts!

    How many actual paying subscribers do they really
    have, ones >>>>>>> who are still paying every month, not just
    past subscribers >>>>>>> held on their records? Probably only
    15 million.

    In fairness, the article did say "estimated"...


    Made up and which bares no resemblance to the real
    figures of people who >>>>> watched each episode all the way
    through which only amounts to about 200.

    My understanding is, (based on something I read online,
    so not >>>>>> necessarily a fact) is that everything is done
    per quarter. So >>>>>> if I subscribed to Disney+ for a month
    and then un-subscribed, I >>>>>> would be classed as a paying
    subscriber for that "quarter" -

    You be classed as a subscribed unless you totally
    deleted your account >>>>> not just cancelled your
    subscription.

    and included in that quarter's figures - even though I
    was only >>>>>> a subscriber for a part of it. (That's where
    the special offers >>>>>> play their part! We had one here
    recently, Disney+ for €1.99 a >>>>>> month, for three months.
    Boom! You're now part of the quarterly >>>>>> subscriber
    figures!)

    Even if it cost you nothing you'd still be counted. It's
    all a scam. If >>>>> they don't provide everyone with the raw
    data so it can be annualized >>>>> properly take everything to
    be a scam. Look at the Nvidia and AMD >>>>> graphics card scam
    going on at CES even right now where Nvidia is >>>>> claiming
    a 12 GB RTX 5070 is as fast as an 24 GB RTX 4090. AFTER THE
    INSERTION OF 3 FAKE FRAMES between two genuine ones!


    The are 4 Doctors in the Brain of Morbius.


    There's only one Doctor and that is Tom Baker the 4th
    Doctor.

    I refer to Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee and Tbakers
    are the only 4 Doctors seen in Brain of Mrbius.

    The rest are Morbius's faces!

    Correct.

    Thank you for letting me clarify. [corrected]

    Watch BS and SP go nuts!

    There's no need for anyone to go nuts. If that's what yourself
    and Agamemnon believe, that's fine. Quite a lot of fans now
    believe that to be the case too.

    All I have ever done is point out what was intended by the
    production team at the time. And as you are both [supposedly]
    Doctor Who fans, neither of you can say I am wrong as you should
    both know the story... what is accepted now is a different thing
    altogether and it seems to work for a lot of people in fandom.

    It fails to work period, since it contradicts the 11th Doctor's entire
    arc, The Five Doctors, The Three Doctors, The Two Doctors, The Deadly >Assassin, The Keeper of Traken, Mawdrin Undead, The Name of the Doctor,
    The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor, Listen, and Twice Upon A
    Time.


    The difference between myself and you two is I can handle people
    having a different opinion to me. Your head-canon is your own.
    If it makes "Doctor Who" a nice and comfy safe-space for you
    both, great.

    Doctor Who ended in 2017! Everything after that year is degenerate fan
    fic. and therefore not canon.


    And then the Timeless Child contradictis everything doctor Who!


    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Mon Jan 13 16:03:12 2025
    Idlehands wrote:

    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Mon Jan 13 16:32:38 2025
    In article <xn0p0rdczcsdvsl004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Paedophile Idlehands wrote:

    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!


    Fubo is good. Tubi and PlutoTV are "Free"
    .
    We still have Doctor Who on both.
    --
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  • From Idlehands@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Mon Jan 13 17:11:48 2025
    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:

    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:


    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!


    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you need to pick
    and choose where you spend it.


    --
    "Do you make a habit of shitting in newsgroups? This is not
    rational behavior."

    pt
    (Binky failed to answer this question)

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Tue Jan 14 14:07:40 2025
    On 2025-01-14 00:11:48 +0000, Idlehands said:
    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you need to
    pick and choose where you spend it.

    Every sane person also has to pick and chooses where to spend their
    money, especially these days of prices going up and up and up. :-(

    It's only morons and rich idiots who don't care about their spending.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to YourName@YourISP.com on Tue Jan 14 01:18:48 2025
    In article <vm4dcr$240vb$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-14 00:11:48 +0000, Idlehands said:
    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about.
    Nobody is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming
    service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you need to
    pick and choose where you spend it.

    Every sane person also has to pick and chooses where to spend their
    money, especially these days of prices going up and up and up. :-(

    It's only morons and rich idiots who don't care about their spending.


    It is called economics!
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  • From The True Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 14 01:32:41 2025
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including
    if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they
    still count you as a subscriber.


    Have you tried to watch Disney+ without paying a monthly
    subscription fee? No? Go try it.

    People have done so for nothing legally because they subscribed to a
    special offer.


    Now go on to YouTube and try watching people's videos without
    paying anything to anyone.

    And you're still a subscriber when paying nothing.


    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have
    often said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3
    etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They
    still count you as a subscriber if your account is still
    extant.

    Let me guess, you saw this mentioned on YouTube by someone,
    right?

    I know a scam when I see one.


    Based on people I've spoken to, IRL. People [generally] don't
    delete their streaming accounts, they just stop paying when
    they've had enough... or their trial offer has run out. As they

    So they still count as subscribers for the statistics even when paying
    nothing for nothing.

    may want to re-subscribe at a later date if "something decent"
    comes out. So when Disney talk about "subscribers" to Disney+,
    ESPN or Hulu, I'd say they mean subscribers, not account
    holders, otherwise they would just say accounts!

    Nope. If you have an account with them then they count you as a
    subscriber. How do you think those free subscriptions work?


    Do they manipulate those figures to suit their own propaganda?
    I'm sure they do. But again, their figures have to be based on
    something in the real world.

    People who are registered with them and/or have given them their
    credit/payment card details, even if the card is no longer valid.


    more easier to give people special offers that span
    "quarters" and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then
    you can legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those
    quarters, even though you might have only paid a few quid
    and then un-subscribed.

    See YouTube.

    Disney+/Netflix etc. are not YouTube. The streaming services
    might have a beefed-up version of the analytics that YouTube
    give creators, but nobody needs to pay money to YouTube to watch
    anything. The streaming services know exactly who pays to watch
    their content... even if they only pay $1.99 a month... there's
    no need to make up anything. They money is coming in, which is
    the main thing from their POV.

    They're compulsive liars. They want to make it look like Disney+ has
    more 'subscribers' than any other service in order to get more people to
    sign up and pay, and con their shareholders that the service is growing.


    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    So you've never used YouTube.

    You keep comparing a big streaming service like Disney+ to
    YouTube. They are not the same thing. I can watch videos on
    YouTube without subscribing to anybody. You can't watch ANYTHING
    on Disney+ without a paid subscription. Nothing, nada! You have

    That makes no difference to Disney. You pay nothing to watch nothing.
    Just extend the line to the origin of the graph.

    to have paid something to them to access their content. I can

    Nope. Vodaphone gave away free 12 month subscriptions to Disney+. People
    only those subscriptions paid Disney+ nothing.

    subscribe to your YouTube channel and watch something without
    paying you anything, or just visit your page and watch your
    videos without even clicking subscribe.

    Apples & Oranges

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still
    don't think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just
    pluck random figures out of the air for their subscriber
    figures.

    Well they do. They're psychopathic liars.

    In your opinion. Although I'm sure their PR Dept does like to
    spin a few yarns here and there like all the BIG companies do.

    But your viewpoint is not logical, as if Disney just made up
    subscription figures willy-nilly then they would never say that
    their subscription levels declined! They would just say their

    Yes they would if someone deletes their account.

    subscribers went up, and up and up... and that they were the
    biggest and best streaming service ever.

    Everyone can massage figures to suit their own point of view but
    when you are a corporation the size of Disney you can't pretend
    you have millions of people paying a subscription to a service
    and not have that reflected in your tax returns and annual
    accounts!

    Tax returns do not require publication of subscriber numbers, accounts,
    or where any of the profits, if there are any, came from. All they
    require is a number declaring the profit or loss for a certain year and whatever tax credit or credits you want to claim.


    They might like to spin them in a positive way but
    they have to be based on something. You couldn't
    say you had one million subscribers and then have no income
    from those services in your accounts at the end of the year!

    Except they don't publish their accounts. How much has Disney
    made from actual paying subscribers? They've never given a
    figure.

    Why would you expect a big corporation to show YOU their
    accounts? Do you show your bank account to just anyone? However,

    Why would they show them to the tax man then? You've just discredited
    your previous paragraph.

    their accounts would certainly need to be audited and tax
    returns filed with the IRS, (etc.) Their accounts would not be a

    No they wouldn't. The IRS doesn't audit your accounts. An independent
    auditor does that for the benefit of shareholders so they don't get
    ripped off.

    secret and their incomes from their various companies and
    business units. (The Walt Disney Company own more than just

    They're a secret to the public and to the tax man. Obviously someone in
    the debt collecting department would know who is paying their bills, who
    is not paying their bills, and who doesn't have to pay anything.

    Disney+.) would be listed somewhere. Nobody can exist in a
    financial vacuum, but there's no reason why YOU would need to
    know about their income and expenditure.


    There's no reason for the tax man to know it either. All you put on your
    tax return is you profit deceleration for they year, and it doesn't even
    have to be the actual profit you make in that year since you can carry
    it over to the next year or even pass it back to the year before.

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber and "Doctor Who" being

    Why would I want to watch kiddie programmes?

    streamed on Disney+ overseas has no relevance whatsoever to you,

    Doctor Who ended in 2017 so of course the crap that Disney+ streams is
    of no relevance.

    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was

    It has brought about the continued destruction of Doctor Who, therefore
    it has interfered with my life.

    you I'd be getting more excited over how the BBC squander your
    licence fee money on wages for celebrity presenters!

    They've lost more money destroying Doctor Who than they pay celebrity presenters. Billions they've lost thanks to going woke.

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it
    stands for." -William Shatner

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM on Tue Jan 14 06:31:47 2025
    In article <vm4erq$247t0$2@dont-email.me>,
    The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including
    if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they
    still count you as a subscriber.


    Have you tried to watch Disney+ without paying a monthly
    subscription fee? No? Go try it.

    People have done so for nothing legally because they subscribed to a
    special offer.


    Now go on to YouTube and try watching people's videos without
    paying anything to anyone.

    And you're still a subscriber when paying nothing.


    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have
    often said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3
    etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They
    still count you as a subscriber if your account is still
    extant.

    Let me guess, you saw this mentioned on YouTube by someone,
    right?

    I know a scam when I see one.


    Based on people I've spoken to, IRL. People [generally] don't
    delete their streaming accounts, they just stop paying when
    they've had enough... or their trial offer has run out. As they

    So they still count as subscribers for the statistics even when paying >nothing for nothing.

    may want to re-subscribe at a later date if "something decent"
    comes out. So when Disney talk about "subscribers" to Disney+,
    ESPN or Hulu, I'd say they mean subscribers, not account
    holders, otherwise they would just say accounts!

    Nope. If you have an account with them then they count you as a
    subscriber. How do you think those free subscriptions work?


    Do they manipulate those figures to suit their own propaganda?
    I'm sure they do. But again, their figures have to be based on
    something in the real world.

    People who are registered with them and/or have given them their >credit/payment card details, even if the card is no longer valid.


    more easier to give people special offers that span
    "quarters" and get you subscribed, or re-subscribed. Then
    you can legitimately be classed as a subscriber for those
    quarters, even though you might have only paid a few quid
    and then un-subscribed.

    See YouTube.

    Disney+/Netflix etc. are not YouTube. The streaming services
    might have a beefed-up version of the analytics that YouTube
    give creators, but nobody needs to pay money to YouTube to watch
    anything. The streaming services know exactly who pays to watch
    their content... even if they only pay $1.99 a month... there's
    no need to make up anything. They money is coming in, which is
    the main thing from their POV.

    They're compulsive liars. They want to make it look like Disney+ has
    more 'subscribers' than any other service in order to get more people to
    sign up and pay, and con their shareholders that the service is growing.


    This is basically the gist of what I read a while ago anyway.
    It's not so much lies, more a case of manipulation.

    So you've never used YouTube.

    You keep comparing a big streaming service like Disney+ to
    YouTube. They are not the same thing. I can watch videos on
    YouTube without subscribing to anybody. You can't watch ANYTHING
    on Disney+ without a paid subscription. Nothing, nada! You have

    That makes no difference to Disney. You pay nothing to watch nothing.
    Just extend the line to the origin of the graph.

    to have paid something to them to access their content. I can

    Nope. Vodaphone gave away free 12 month subscriptions to Disney+. People
    only those subscriptions paid Disney+ nothing.

    subscribe to your YouTube channel and watch something without
    paying you anything, or just visit your page and watch your
    videos without even clicking subscribe.

    Apples & Oranges

    Most things are a scam or PR spin these days, but I still
    don't think the likes of Disney, Netflix and Amazon just
    pluck random figures out of the air for their subscriber
    figures.

    Well they do. They're psychopathic liars.

    In your opinion. Although I'm sure their PR Dept does like to
    spin a few yarns here and there like all the BIG companies do.

    But your viewpoint is not logical, as if Disney just made up
    subscription figures willy-nilly then they would never say that
    their subscription levels declined! They would just say their

    Yes they would if someone deletes their account.

    subscribers went up, and up and up... and that they were the
    biggest and best streaming service ever.

    Everyone can massage figures to suit their own point of view but
    when you are a corporation the size of Disney you can't pretend
    you have millions of people paying a subscription to a service
    and not have that reflected in your tax returns and annual
    accounts!

    Tax returns do not require publication of subscriber numbers, accounts,
    or where any of the profits, if there are any, came from. All they
    require is a number declaring the profit or loss for a certain year and >whatever tax credit or credits you want to claim.


    They might like to spin them in a positive way but
    they have to be based on something. You couldn't
    say you had one million subscribers and then have no income
    from those services in your accounts at the end of the year!

    Except they don't publish their accounts. How much has Disney
    made from actual paying subscribers? They've never given a
    figure.

    Why would you expect a big corporation to show YOU their
    accounts? Do you show your bank account to just anyone? However,

    Why would they show them to the tax man then? You've just discredited
    your previous paragraph.

    their accounts would certainly need to be audited and tax
    returns filed with the IRS, (etc.) Their accounts would not be a

    No they wouldn't. The IRS doesn't audit your accounts. An independent
    auditor does that for the benefit of shareholders so they don't get
    ripped off.

    secret and their incomes from their various companies and
    business units. (The Walt Disney Company own more than just

    They're a secret to the public and to the tax man. Obviously someone in
    the debt collecting department would know who is paying their bills, who
    is not paying their bills, and who doesn't have to pay anything.

    Disney+.) would be listed somewhere. Nobody can exist in a
    financial vacuum, but there's no reason why YOU would need to
    know about their income and expenditure.


    There's no reason for the tax man to know it either. All you put on your
    tax return is you profit deceleration for they year, and it doesn't even
    have to be the actual profit you make in that year since you can carry
    it over to the next year or even pass it back to the year before.

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber and "Doctor Who" being

    Why would I want to watch kiddie programmes?

    streamed on Disney+ overseas has no relevance whatsoever to you,

    Doctor Who ended in 2017 so of course the crap that Disney+ streams is
    of no relevance.

    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was

    It has brought about the continued destruction of Doctor Who, therefore
    it has interfered with my life.

    you I'd be getting more excited over how the BBC squander your
    licence fee money on wages for celebrity presenters!

    They've lost more money destroying Doctor Who than they pay celebrity >presenters. Billions they've lost thanks to going woke.


    Ad free please!

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it >stands for." -William Shatner


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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Tue Jan 14 11:41:55 2025
    Idlehands wrote:

    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up son
    who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and quite
    understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend all of
    their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with a bedroom
    full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

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  • From Idlehands@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 14 06:39:26 2025
    On 2025-01-14 4:41 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:

    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up son
    who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and quite understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend all of
    their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with a bedroom
    full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

    I think it's a case of never giving him any responsibility including
    managing his own money or going out and earning a job on his own and
    being responsible for all those adult things like rent/utilities/food/entertainment.

    His child like "mind" is the result of never having to grow up or being
    held responsible for his actions.


    --
    "Do you make a habit of shitting in newsgroups? This is not
    rational behavior."

    pt
    (Binky failed to answer this question)

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 14 15:01:07 2025
    In article <xn0p0skx1dyebn0003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:

    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe? Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up son
    who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and quite >understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend all of
    their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with a bedroom
    full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

    You warped bugger!
    --
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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The True Doctor on Tue Jan 14 15:47:29 2025
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber

    Why would I want to watch kiddie programmes?

    <rolls eyes> Like there's no films or proper TV shows on there
    too... they have Hulu content, Starz content, the MCU, plus the
    very enjoyable Star Wars stuff! Writing it all off as "kiddie"
    programmes just shows your ignorance.

    Oh, and "Welcome to Wrexham" too... that's very good. (Really!)
    One of the best behind-the-scenes football documentaries
    around... footie, with Deadpool. (!)

    ...and "Doctor Who" being streamed on Disney+ overseas has
    no relevance whatsoever to you

    Doctor Who ended in 2017 so of course the crap that Disney+
    streams is of no relevance.

    But you keep going on about them! It's like you're obsessed with
    Disney.

    I can understand those YouTube channels you watch having an
    issue with Disney if they are created by fans in the US, as they
    would have to use Disney+ to watch Doctor Who [legally]... you
    don't!

    So it seems to me you are fighting a war that has nothing to do
    with you.

    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was

    It has brought about the continued destruction of Doctor Who,
    therefore it has interfered with my life.

    According to you and your posts here over the years, Doctor Who
    was being destroyed long before Disney came on board. Take your
    cause back to the start of the show's destruction... be it Steven
    Moffat, the original RTD era, or back as far as JNT even!

    Also, I don't know how you think Disney are continuing the
    destruction of Doctor Who, as all they seem to have done is fund
    the show... I don't believe that they are inventing the
    story-lines or writing the scripts. RTD is the showrunner of
    Doctor Who, if you are unhappy with what you see in the episodes
    then it would seem to me that the buck stops with him and his
    production team.

    The anti-Disney cause is a strange bandwagon for you to jump on
    when you claim Doctor Who finished in 2017, yet Disney had
    nothing to do with Doctor Who back then. So how can Disney
    continue to destroy Doctor Who when the show "finished in
    2017"?! Ironically, it's quite possible that their funding kept
    the show alive!

    If I was you I'd be getting more excited over how the BBC
    squander your licence fee money on wages for celebrity
    presenters.

    They've lost more money destroying Doctor Who than they pay
    celebrity presenters. Billions they've lost thanks to going
    woke.

    Just as well people like you continue to fund the BBC when you
    pay for your TV Licence fee every year then... Plus, having
    overseas partners to invest money in to their shows probably
    comes in handy for the BBC too. Seems to me that's a win/win!

    As an aside, I don't think Gary Lineker is worth a salary of
    over a million quid a year to present Match of the Day.... and
    Zoe Ball on just under a million quid a year to present a RADIO
    show!

    Of course, I suppose there's not that many YouTube channels
    banging on about that, is there?

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Tue Jan 14 15:50:46 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0skx1dyebn0003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up
    son who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and
    quite understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend
    all of their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with
    a bedroom full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

    You warped bugger!

    Anyone who buys Seventh Doctor figures would be the warped ones!
    ;-)



    [Somebody is surely going to come along now and say they have
    some Seventh Doctor figures on their shelf.]

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 14 16:06:37 2025
    In article <xn0p0sqfse5tbky004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:

    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber

    Why would I want to watch kiddie programmes?

    <rolls eyes> Like there's no films or proper TV shows on there
    too... they have Hulu content, Starz content, the MCU, plus the
    very enjoyable Star Wars stuff! Writing it all off as "kiddie"
    programmes just shows your ignorance.

    Oh, and "Welcome to Wrexham" too... that's very good. (Really!)
    One of the best behind-the-scenes football documentaries
    around... footie, with Deadpool. (!)

    ...and "Doctor Who" being streamed on Disney+ overseas has
    no relevance whatsoever to you

    Doctor Who ended in 2017 so of course the crap that Disney+
    streams is of no relevance.

    But you keep going on about them! It's like you're obsessed with
    Disney.

    I can understand those YouTube channels you watch having an
    issue with Disney if they are created by fans in the US, as they
    would have to use Disney+ to watch Doctor Who [legally]... you
    don't!

    So it seems to me you are fighting a war that has nothing to do
    with you.

    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was

    It has brought about the continued destruction of Doctor Who,
    therefore it has interfered with my life.

    According to you and your posts here over the years, Doctor Who
    was being destroyed long before Disney came on board. Take your
    cause back to the start of the show's destruction... be it Steven
    Moffat, the original RTD era, or back as far as JNT even!

    Also, I don't know how you think Disney are continuing the
    destruction of Doctor Who, as all they seem to have done is fund
    the show... I don't believe that they are inventing the
    story-lines or writing the scripts. RTD is the showrunner of
    Doctor Who, if you are unhappy with what you see in the episodes
    then it would seem to me that the buck stops with him and his
    production team.

    The anti-Disney cause is a strange bandwagon for you to jump on
    when you claim Doctor Who finished in 2017, yet Disney had
    nothing to do with Doctor Who back then. So how can Disney
    continue to destroy Doctor Who when the show "finished in
    2017"?! Ironically, it's quite possible that their funding kept
    the show alive!

    If I was you I'd be getting more excited over how the BBC
    squander your licence fee money on wages for celebrity
    presenters.

    They've lost more money destroying Doctor Who than they pay
    celebrity presenters. Billions they've lost thanks to going
    woke.

    Just as well people like you continue to fund the BBC when you
    pay for your TV Licence fee every year then... Plus, having
    overseas partners to invest money in to their shows probably
    comes in handy for the BBC too. Seems to me that's a win/win!

    As an aside, I don't think Gary Lineker is worth a salary of
    over a million quid a year to present Match of the Day.... and
    Zoe Ball on just under a million quid a year to present a RADIO
    show!

    Of course, I suppose there's not that many YouTube channels
    banging on about that, is there?

    How do you fund RTE, BS?
    --
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 14 16:08:03 2025
    In article <xn0p0srime7dh07007@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0skx1dyebn0003@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up
    son who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and
    quite understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend
    all of their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with
    a bedroom full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

    You warped bugger!

    Anyone who buys Seventh Doctor figures would be the warped ones!
    ;-)



    [Somebody is surely going to come along now and say they have
    some Seventh Doctor figures on their shelf.]

    IYIO!
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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Tue Jan 14 16:13:41 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0sqfse5tbky004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    As an aside, I don't think Gary Lineker is worth a salary of
    over a million quid a year to present Match of the Day....
    and Zoe Ball on just under a million quid a year to present
    a RADIO show!

    Of course, I suppose there's not that many YouTube channels
    banging on about that, is there?

    How do you fund RTE, BS?

    RTE is funded by adverts and a TV licence fee.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Tue Jan 14 16:32:31 2025
    In article <xn0p0ss6me8726400a@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0sqfse5tbky004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    As an aside, I don't think Gary Lineker is worth a salary of
    over a million quid a year to present Match of the Day....
    and Zoe Ball on just under a million quid a year to present
    a RADIO show!

    Of course, I suppose there's not that many YouTube channels
    banging on about that, is there?

    How do you fund RTE, BS?

    RTE is funded by adverts and a TV licence fee.

    A different model.

    Here CBC is funded by taxes.
    --
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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Tue Jan 14 16:53:05 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0ss6me8726400a@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    How do you fund RTE, BS?

    RTE is funded by adverts and a TV licence fee.

    A different model.

    Here CBC is funded by taxes.

    Technically the TV licence is a tax of sorts, as it is a legal
    requirement. Probably an unjust tax though as the richest
    household in the country pays exactly the same as the poorest
    household... and regardless of whether they even watch RTE.

    There's always discussions going on over here about replacing
    the TV licence fee but nothing ever seems to come of the
    government commissions and reports...

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Wed Jan 15 00:54:21 2025
    In article <xn0p0st53e9kwx8000@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p0ss6me8726400a@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    How do you fund RTE, BS?

    RTE is funded by adverts and a TV licence fee.

    A different model.

    Here CBC is funded by taxes.

    Technically the TV licence is a tax of sorts, as it is a legal
    requirement. Probably an unjust tax though as the richest
    household in the country pays exactly the same as the poorest
    household... and regardless of whether they even watch RTE.

    There's always discussions going on over here about replacing
    the TV licence fee but nothing ever seems to come of the
    government commissions and reports...

    And our State TV is commercial.
    --
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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sat Jan 25 21:04:36 2025
    On 13/01/2025 8:29 am, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <xn0p0q6u2bnvauz00b@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about. Nobody
    is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    Make a good guess.

    Come on, Binky, would ANYBODY (YOU excluded) really try to make a BAD
    guess??
    --
    Daniel70

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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Sat Jan 25 21:10:19 2025
    On 15/01/2025 12:39 am, Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-14 4:41 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe?  Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up son
    who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and quite
    understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend all of
    their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with a bedroom
    full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

    I think it's a case of never giving him any responsibility including
    managing his own money or going out and earning a job on his own and
    being responsible for all those adult things like rent/utilities/food/entertainment.

    His child like "mind" is the result of never having to grow up or being
    held responsible for his actions.
    .... but he does have a University Degree or something, doesn't he??
    --
    Daniel70

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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The True Doctor on Sat Jan 25 21:55:35 2025
    On 14/01/2025 12:32 pm, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including
    if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they
    still count you as a subscriber.

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where "subscriber" means
    you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    <Snip>

    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have
    often said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3
    etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They
    still count you as a subscriber if your account is still
    extant.

    Hmm!! This would explain why I still get messages from some "Business"
    mob telling me people are looking at my Profile .... even though I
    closed the account many years ago!!

    Based on people I've spoken to, IRL. People [generally] don't
    delete their streaming accounts, they just stop paying when
    they've had enough... or their trial offer has run out. As they

    So they still count as subscribers for the statistics even when paying nothing for nothing.

    Lies .... Damned Lies .... and Statistics!!
    <Snip>

    Why would you expect a big corporation to show YOU their
    accounts? Do you show your bank account to just anyone? However,

    Why would they show them to the tax man then? You've just discredited
    your previous paragraph.

    their accounts would certainly need to be audited and tax
    returns filed with the IRS, (etc.) Their accounts would not be a

    No they wouldn't. The IRS doesn't audit your accounts. An independent
    auditor does that for the benefit of shareholders so they don't get
    ripped off.

    WHAT?? "An independent auditor" does the figures ..... and your IRS just accepts those figures!!

    Sure they do!!

    secret and their incomes from their various companies and
    business units. (The Walt Disney Company own more than just

    They're a secret to the public and to the tax man. Obviously someone in
    the debt collecting department would know who is paying their bills, who
    is not paying their bills, and who doesn't have to pay anything.

    Disney+.) would be listed somewhere. Nobody can exist in a
    financial vacuum, but there's no reason why YOU would need to
    know about their income and expenditure.

    There's no reason for the tax man to know it either. All you put on your
    tax return is you profit deceleration for they year, and it doesn't even
    have to be the actual profit you make in that year since you can carry
    it over to the next year or even pass it back to the year before.

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber and "Doctor Who" being

    Why would I want to watch kiddie programmes?

    Don't you mean "kiddie-Fiddler programs", Aggy??

    streamed on Disney+ overseas has no relevance whatsoever to you,

    Doctor Who ended in 2017 so of course the crap that Disney+ streams is
    of no relevance.

    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was

    It has brought about the continued destruction of Doctor Who, therefore
    it has interfered with my life.

    How could it do that, Aggy, I mean to quote some informed individuals
    "Doctor Who finished in 2017."!!
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@eternal-september.org on Sat Jan 25 14:02:39 2025
    In article <vn2cvl$2oh9s$1@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 13/01/2025 8:29 am, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <xn0p0q6u2bnvauz00b@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:

    i will never subscribe to Disney plus.

    Good for you Dave, that's what free choice is all about. Nobody
    is forcing you to pay for content on any streaming service.

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    Make a good guess.

    Come on, Binky, would ANYBODY (YOU excluded) really try to make a BAD
    ^^^^^<-Paedophile talker noted!
    guess??
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@eternal-september.org on Sat Jan 25 14:03:08 2025
    In article <vn2dab$2oh9s$2@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 15/01/2025 12:39 am, Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-14 4:41 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-13 9:03 a.m., Blueshirt wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2025-01-12 2:08 p.m., Blueshirt wrote:

    Do you actually subscribe to anything though?

    He doesn't even own a TV so why would he subscribe?  Daddy
    takes care of all those things for him.

    I'd say it's more a case of being too mean to pay for a
    subscription to anything!

    It's a case of when your parents control your allowance you
    need to pick and choose where you spend it.

    There is a serious issue here actually... I mean is it
    responsible parenting to manage the funds of your grown-up son
    who has the mind of a child? I'd say it's acceptable and quite
    understandable. I mean, if you let your man-boy spend all of
    their allowance willy-nilly, they'll just end up with a bedroom
    full of 7th Doctor figures and toy Daleks.

    I think it's a case of never giving him any responsibility including
    managing his own money or going out and earning a job on his own and
    being responsible for all those adult things like
    rent/utilities/food/entertainment.

    His child like "mind" is the result of never having to grow up or being
    held responsible for his actions.
    .... but he does have a University Degree or something, doesn't he??
    --
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    Idlehands alwys lies.
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@eternal-september.org on Sat Jan 25 14:11:36 2025
    In article <vn2fv7$2p295$2@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 14/01/2025 12:32 pm, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including
    if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they
    still count you as a subscriber.

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where "subscriber" means
    you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    <Snip>

    Plus, their figures would never go down, and Disney have
    often said their subscription numbers declined in Q1 or Q3
    etc... Much

    Those are because people have deleted their accounts. They
    still count you as a subscriber if your account is still
    extant.

    Hmm!! This would explain why I still get messages from some "Business"
    mob telling me people are looking at my Profile .... even though I
    closed the account many years ago!!

    Based on people I've spoken to, IRL. People [generally] don't
    delete their streaming accounts, they just stop paying when
    they've had enough... or their trial offer has run out. As they

    So they still count as subscribers for the statistics even when paying
    nothing for nothing.

    Lies .... Damned Lies .... and Statistics!!
    <Snip>

    Why would you expect a big corporation to show YOU their
    accounts? Do you show your bank account to just anyone? However,

    Why would they show them to the tax man then? You've just discredited
    your previous paragraph.

    their accounts would certainly need to be audited and tax
    returns filed with the IRS, (etc.) Their accounts would not be a

    No they wouldn't. The IRS doesn't audit your accounts. An independent
    auditor does that for the benefit of shareholders so they don't get
    ripped off.

    WHAT?? "An independent auditor" does the figures ..... and your IRS just >accepts those figures!!

    Sure they do!!

    secret and their incomes from their various companies and
    business units. (The Walt Disney Company own more than just

    They're a secret to the public and to the tax man. Obviously someone in
    the debt collecting department would know who is paying their bills, who
    is not paying their bills, and who doesn't have to pay anything.

    Disney+.) would be listed somewhere. Nobody can exist in a
    financial vacuum, but there's no reason why YOU would need to
    know about their income and expenditure.

    There's no reason for the tax man to know it either. All you put on your
    tax return is you profit deceleration for they year, and it doesn't even
    have to be the actual profit you make in that year since you can carry
    it over to the next year or even pass it back to the year before.

    You're not even a Disney+ subscriber and "Doctor Who" being

    Why would I want to watch kiddie programmes?

    Don't you mean "kiddie-Fiddler programs", Aggy??

    streamed on Disney+ overseas has no relevance whatsoever to you,

    Doctor Who ended in 2017 so of course the crap that Disney+ streams is
    of no relevance.

    as you are in the UK. Yet you seem obsessively fixated over a
    big company that doesn't interfere with your life... if I was

    It has brought about the continued destruction of Doctor Who, therefore
    it has interfered with my life.

    How could it do that, Aggy, I mean to quote some informed individuals
    "Doctor Who finished in 2017."!!
    --
    Daniel70

    Now you get it Dannyboy!
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 26 10:11:23 2025
    On 2025-01-25 10:55:35 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 14/01/2025 12:32 pm, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including
    if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they
    still count you as a subscriber.

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where "subscriber" means
    you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    You can easily subscribe to lots of free things, such as email
    newsletters, pod casts, etc.

    You can subscribe for a free quarterly printed kids' Lego magazine
    physically delivered to your house at <https://www.lego.com/magazine>
    (only available in a few countries though).

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sat Jan 25 21:53:30 2025
    Your Name wrote:

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Causing some people to ask, why would any sane person subscribe
    to RADW?! :-)

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to YourName@YourISP.com on Sun Jan 26 01:12:40 2025
    In article <vn3k1q$32ogg$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-25 10:55:35 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 14/01/2025 12:32 pm, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including
    if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they
    still count you as a subscriber.

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where "subscriber" means
    you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    You can easily subscribe to lots of free things, such as email
    newsletters, pod casts, etc.

    You can subscribe for a free quarterly printed kids' Lego magazine
    physically delivered to your house at <https://www.lego.com/magazine>
    (only available in a few countries though).

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.




    whatever.
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 26 01:13:22 2025
    In article <xn0p18hbf1pyfy2000@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Your Name wrote:

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Causing some people to ask, why would any sane person subscribe
    to RADW?! :-)

    LOL!
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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 26 15:18:27 2025
    On 2025-01-25 21:53:30 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Causing some people to ask, why would any sane person subscribe
    to RADW?! :-)

    Maybe, but it's also why you occasionally get some novice posting a
    message in a newsgroup simply saying "unsubscribe" ... as if that would
    do anything. :-)

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to YourName@YourISP.com on Sun Jan 26 03:10:30 2025
    In article <vn461j$385e0$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-25 21:53:30 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Causing some people to ask, why would any sane person subscribe
    to RADW?! :-)

    Maybe, but it's also why you occasionally get some novice posting a
    message in a newsgroup simply saying "unsubscribe" ... as if that would
    do anything. :-)


    LOL!
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to pursent100@gmail.com on Sun Jan 26 03:10:14 2025
    In article <-tOdnXO3YPVsEQj6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>,
    % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn3k1q$32ogg$1@dont-email.me>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-25 10:55:35 +0000, Daniel70 said:
    On 14/01/2025 12:32 pm, The True Doctor wrote:
    On 11/01/2025 21:27, Blueshirt wrote:
    The True Doctor wrote:
    On 10/01/2025 22:42, Blueshirt wrote:

    If you're not subscribed then you can't be called a
    subscriber.

    Just having an account with them means they can call you a
    subscriber even if you are not paying them anything or even
    watching anything. They're nothing more than a pack of
    deceiving liars.

    If you need to subscribe to obtain their service,
    notifications, or show your support then you are a subscriber.

    Yes, which for Disney+ means that you have to actually pay
    something to them (a subscription fee) as there is no free
    content!

    Nope. Once you've registered then you count as a subscriber, including >>>>> if you're on a free 12 month subscription given away by your mobile
    phone provider. Even if you never pay Disney anything every again they >>>>> still count you as a subscriber.

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where "subscriber" means >>>> you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    You can easily subscribe to lots of free things, such as email
    newsletters, pod casts, etc.

    You can subscribe for a free quarterly printed kids' Lego magazine
    physically delivered to your house at <https://www.lego.com/magazine>
    (only available in a few countries though).

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.




    whatever.

    who is this boner

    YN?
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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Sun Jan 26 21:39:35 2025
    On 26/01/2025 2:10 pm, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <-tOdnXO3YPVsEQj6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn3k1q$32ogg$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
    <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-25 10:55:35 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    <Snip>

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where
    "subscriber" means you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    You can easily subscribe to lots of free things, such as email
    newsletters, pod casts, etc.

    You can subscribe for a free quarterly printed kids' Lego
    magazine physically delivered to your house at
    <https://www.lego.com/magazine> (only available in a few
    countries though).

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    whatever.

    who is this boner

    YN?

    TD??
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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sun Jan 26 21:37:22 2025
    On 26/01/2025 8:11 am, Your Name wrote:

    <Snip>

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Oh!! O.K., shoot me down in flames, why don't you??
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@eternal-september.org on Sun Jan 26 12:58:16 2025
    In article <vn53d7$3lo2s$5@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 26/01/2025 2:10 pm, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <-tOdnXO3YPVsEQj6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>, %
    <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn3k1q$32ogg$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
    <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-25 10:55:35 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    <Snip>

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where
    "subscriber" means you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    You can easily subscribe to lots of free things, such as email
    newsletters, pod casts, etc.

    You can subscribe for a free quarterly printed kids' Lego
    magazine physically delivered to your house at
    <https://www.lego.com/magazine> (only available in a few
    countries though).

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    whatever.

    who is this boner

    YN?

    TD??

    I doubt you answered % correctly.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@eternal-september.org on Sun Jan 26 12:57:46 2025
    In article <vn5392$3lo2s$4@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 26/01/2025 8:11 am, Your Name wrote:

    <Snip>

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Oh!! O.K., shoot me down in flames, why don't you??

    Typical radw day.
    \
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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sun Jan 26 15:45:37 2025
    Your Name wrote:

    On 2025-01-25 21:53:30 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet
    newsreaders app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Causing some people to ask, why would any sane person
    subscribe to RADW?! :-)

    Maybe, but it's also why you occasionally get some novice
    posting a message in a newsgroup simply saying "unsubscribe"
    ... as if that would do anything. :-)

    Any Usenet novice coming here would soon be thinking twice about
    their choice! ;-)

    RADW is an acquired taste...

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  • From Blueshirt@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 26 15:46:10 2025
    Daniel70 wrote:

    On 26/01/2025 8:11 am, Your Name wrote:

    <Snip>

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Oh!! O.K., shoot me down in flames, why don't you??

    At least he didn't shoot you down in flams!

    :-)

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 26 19:08:32 2025
    In article <xn0p19m5l2s6e2d002@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Your Name wrote:

    On 2025-01-25 21:53:30 +0000, Blueshirt said:
    Your Name wrote:

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet
    newsreaders app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Causing some people to ask, why would any sane person
    subscribe to RADW?! :-)

    Maybe, but it's also why you occasionally get some novice
    posting a message in a newsgroup simply saying "unsubscribe"
    ... as if that would do anything. :-)

    Any Usenet novice coming here would soon be thinking twice about
    their choice! ;-)

    RADW is an acquired taste...

    Point well taken.
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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to Blueshirt on Sun Jan 26 19:09:06 2025
    In article <xn0p19m832s9zgd004@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
    Daniel70 wrote:

    On 26/01/2025 8:11 am, Your Name wrote:

    <Snip>

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Oh!! O.K., shoot me down in flames, why don't you??

    At least he didn't shoot you down in flams!

    :-)

    ;-)
    --
    Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca
    Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ;
    Birthdate - 29 January 1969 Redhill, Surrey, England, Uk

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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Mon Jan 27 22:10:59 2025
    On 26/01/2025 11:58 pm, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn53d7$3lo2s$5@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 26/01/2025 2:10 pm, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <-tOdnXO3YPVsEQj6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>, %
    <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote:
    The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn3k1q$32ogg$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
    <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2025-01-25 10:55:35 +0000, Daniel70 said:

    <Snip>

    Hmm!! Isn't English a wonderful language .... where
    "subscriber" means you don't have to pay a brass razzo!!

    You can easily subscribe to lots of free things, such as email
    newsletters, pod casts, etc.

    You can subscribe for a free quarterly printed kids' Lego
    magazine physically delivered to your house at
    <https://www.lego.com/magazine> (only available in a few
    countries though).

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders
    app, you could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    whatever.

    who is this boner

    YN?

    TD??

    I doubt you answered % correctly.

    Well, as I wasn't answering any question but asking a question instead
    (note the '??'), I'm CERTAIN I didn't answer % correctly, Binky!!
    --
    Daniel70

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  • From Daniel70@21:1/5 to The Doctor on Mon Jan 27 22:12:03 2025
    On 26/01/2025 11:57 pm, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn5392$3lo2s$4@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 26/01/2025 8:11 am, Your Name wrote:

    <Snip>

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Oh!! O.K., shoot me down in flames, why don't you??

    Typical radw day.

    You're still here, Binky, so YES!!
    --
    Daniel70

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to daniel47@eternal-september.org on Mon Jan 27 15:19:38 2025
    In article <vn7pm3$q85p$3@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 26/01/2025 11:57 pm, The Doctor wrote:
    In article <vn5392$3lo2s$4@dont-email.me>,
    Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
    On 26/01/2025 8:11 am, Your Name wrote:

    <Snip>

    Depending on the terminology used by your Usenet newsreaders app, you
    could be subscribed to this newsgroup.

    Oh!! O.K., shoot me down in flames, why don't you??

    Typical radw day.

    You're still here, Binky, so YES!!
    ^^^^^<-Paedophile talker noted!
    --
    Daniel70


    --
    Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca
    Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ;
    Birthdate - 29 January 1969 Redhill, Surrey, England, Uk

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