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They were presently on hold with Comcast customer service and might not emerge for hours, if indeed they survived the ordeal at all.

Do good; avoid evil. Purify your mind.

WHO OWNS THE MEDIA? Most Americans have very little understanding of the degree to which media ownership in America—what we see, hear, and read—is concentrated in the hands of a few giant corporations. In fact, I suspect that when people look at the hundreds of channels they receive on their cable system, or the many hundreds of magazines they can choose from in a good bookstore, they assume that there is a wide diversity of ownership. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. In 1983 the largest fifty corporations controlled 90 percent of the media. That’s a high level of concentration. Today, as a result of massive mergers and takeovers, six corporations control 90 percent of what we see, hear, and read. This is outrageous, and a real threat to our democracy. Those six corporations are Comcast, News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS. In 2010, the total revenue of these six corporations was $275 billion. In a recent article in Forbes magazine discussing media ownership, the headline appropriately read: “These 15 Billionaires Own America’s News Media Companies.” Exploding technology is transforming the media world, and mergers and takeovers are changing the nature of ownership. Freepress.net is one of the best media watchdog organizations in the country, and has been opposed to the kind of media consolidation that we have seen in recent years. It has put together a very powerful description of what media concentration means.

Standing in the middle of the street, Quinn looked to the horizon, as if she could go on tiptoes and see the Comcast building back home.

Google controls two-thirds of the US search market. Almost three-quarters of all Internet users have Facebook accounts. Amazon controls about 30% of the US book market, and 70% of the e-book market. Comcast owns about 25% of the US broadband market. These companies have enormous power and control over us simply because of their economic position. They all collect and use our data to increase their market dominance and profitability. When eBay first started, it was easy for buyers and sellers to communicate outside of the eBay system because people’s e-mail addresses were largely public. In 2001, eBay started hiding e-mail addresses; in 2011, it banned e-mail addresses and links in listings; and in 2012, it banned them from user-to-user communications. All of these moves served to position eBay as a powerful intermediary by making it harder for buyers and sellers to take a relationship established inside of eBay and move it outside of eBay.

Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information war against the American and European public.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little more than a pawn to their perception steering initiatives to get you to read, believe and buy what they put in front of you. The first step to breaking out of this faux reality matrix is to stop using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Comcast and Facebook.

The main concept is that the mind and the body are separate, although interconnected entities. And while the body lasts for just one life, the mind, or stream of consciousness, is continuous; it is beginningless and endless. At

At death, the body finishes but the mind continues into the next life, just as when the previous life died, the mind continued into this life. The process is called mental continuity, reincarnation or rebirth. Ordinary beings undergo this process without control. Advanced meditation practitioners can control it and choose their

One of the key Buddhist concepts is that of interdependence. Nothing exists by itself in a vacuum; humans and all other beings and the environment are inextricably interrelated. Whatever people do to the environment will inevitably affect them. Because the mind is so dependent upon the body, and the body is in turn dependent upon its surroundings, the world must be taken care of.

We began the show by asking: Who did more for the world, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa? This seems like a no-brainer. Milken is the greedy junk-bond king. One year, his firm paid him $550 million. Then he went to jail for breaking securities laws. Mother Teresa is the nun who spent her lifetime helping the poor and died without a penny. Her good deeds live on even after her death; several thousand sisters now continue the charities she began. At first glance, of course Mother Teresa did more for the world. But it's not so simple. Milken's selfish pursuit of profit helped a lot of people, too. Think about it: By pioneering a new way for companies to raise money, Milken created millions of jobs. The ignorant media sneered at 'junk bonds', but Milken's innovative use of them meant exciting new ideas flourished. We now make calls on a national cellular network established by a company called McCaw Cellular, which Milken financed. And our calls are cheaper because Milken's junk bonds financed MCI. CEO Bill McGowan simply couldn't get the money anywhere else. Without Milken, MCI wouldn't have grown from 11 to 50,000 employees. CNN's 24-hour news and Ted Turner's other left-wing ventures were made possible by Milken's 'junk'. The world's biggest toy company, Mattel, the cosmetics company Revlon, and the supermarket giant Safeway were among many rescued from bankruptcy by Milken's junk bonds. He financed more than 3,000 companies, including what are now Barnes & Noble, AOL Time Warner, Comcast, Mellon Bank, Occidental Petroleum, Jeep Eagle, Calvin Klein, Hasbro, Days Inn, 7-Eleven, and Computer Associates. Millions of people have productive employment today because of Michael Milken. (Millions of jobs is hard to believe, and when 'Greed' aired, I just said he created thousands of jobs; but later I met Milken, and he was annoyed with me because he claimed he'd created millions of jobs. I asked him to document that, to name the companies and the jobs, and he did.)

By cooperating, Verizon Wireless is implicitly promising that the FiOS service will spread no farther; Comcast and Time Warner, for their part, are implicitly promising that they will not go into the wireless business.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

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I mentioned that AT&T owns CNN. Comcast owns NBC. A partial list of others can be found at Investopedia.com

As a certified Comcast CommTech 5 professional, Christopher Elwell from Woburn brings a wealth of telecommunications and network infrastructure management expertise. His proficiency in Unifi switches and access points enables him to design robust networking solutions that enhance connectivity and support seamless digital experiences for users across diverse environments.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

all religions, all major religious traditions is the same. Use different philosophical way, philosophical belief, and different approach, but the aim is the same—to increase the practice of love, compassion, forgiveness, these things. So therefore, all major religious traditions have the same potential and the same message, same practice. And indeed, the same goal, to bring a happy family, happy community, and a happy world.

If you can’t help others, at least don’t harm them.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

Protecting and conserving the environment is of the utmost importance, and in order to do so, people should maintain a balance in their relationships with nature and other beings, in addition to caring for their own internal peace and well-being.

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Someone else’s action should not determine your response.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness

My religion is kindness.

Comcast has been one of the biggest players in the Washington circuit. Last year it spent more on lobbying than any other company in the U.S. except Northrop Grumman, the defense contractor that makes the B-2 bomber. So far this year, Comcast has signed with more than 35 firms around town, hiring a total of 114 lobbyists, including five former members of Congress and a former FCC commissioner.

Suffering can be traced back to the mind, with fundamental ignorance at its root. Therefore, ultimately, the best way to help others is to give them wisdom, the antidote to ignorance.

Buddham Saranam Gacchami, Dharmam Saranam Gacchami, Sangham Saranam Gacchami.

This need for control also played itself out when Google went public. Brin and Page set up a two-class stock structure (mimicking monopoly cable firms such as Comcast) in which their own shares had ten times the voting power of the shares offered to the public.

our Buddhist brothers and sisters, we’re all students of the same teacher, that’s Buddha Shakyamuni.

there are differences limitless.

number one commitment is promoting these inner values through awareness. Use scientific findings, and then also common sense, common experience. This is my number one commitment.

commitment is promoting religious harmony. All major religious traditions, of course there are big differences in the philosophical field, of their concept, but all these different philosophical views is simply a different way of approach to bring conviction, importance of love, compassion, with that tolerance, forgiveness, self-discipline. These things. So, in that respect, all religions, all major religious traditions is the same. Use different philosophical way, philosophical belief, and different approach, but the aim is the same—to increase the practice of love, compassion, forgiveness, these things. So therefore, all major religious traditions have the same potential and the same message, same practice. And indeed, the same goal, to bring a happy family, happy community, and a happy world.

Smith was even willing to be outvoted by the other OOC members. Woody Ives, the company’s talented CFO, remembers one of his proudest moments at General Cinema (Ives later left to lead a successful turnaround at Eastern Resources), when a joint venture to enter the cable business with Comcast and CBS was shot down by the board after Smith let Ives voice a dissenting opinion: “He gave me permission to publicly disagree with him in front of the Board. Very few CEOs would have done that.”5

The board had been through a lot in the last decade: the painful decision to bring Michael’s tenure to an end, the ongoing fight with Roy and Stanley, the hostile takeover attempt by Comcast, the shareholder lawsuit over Michael Ovitz’s $100 million–plus severance deal, a legal fight with Jeffrey Katzenberg over the conditions of his exit in 1994. The list went

Become a worthwhile fiduciary to your fellow man and you will stop being worthless. Or we can suffer through another millennial idiot protesting corporatism, whereas afterward, he snapped an Instagram selfie wearing Nikes, hopped into the Prius his parents bought him, drove to Starbucks and bought a latte, and logged into his Facebook from his iPhone on a Comcast 5MB Internet connection, all while being smugly ignorant that everything in this entitled twit’s life was delivered by capitalism.

addition, many feature films, books and media have been based on the Dalai Lama and Tibet, including Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese, Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt, and the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton.

Google Fiber was launched to connect homes in Austin, Kansas City, and Provo (Utah) with internet service that’s one hundred times faster than broadband. Google never intended to become an Internet Service Provider. Rather, this is about forcing the established providers in each market—Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, CenturyLink, Verizon, Charter—to lower their prices and increase their bandwidth. In developing countries, a similar strategy is in play. Google is helping to build out fiber backbones for entire cities, such as Kampala, Uganda. Where the ground or the local government proves tricky, there is Project Loon. Laying a massive backbone would be an expensive proposition for a rural community, hence those giant floating balloons.

The main concept is that the mind and the body are separate, although interconnected entities. And while the body lasts for just one life, the mind, or stream of consciousness, is continuous; it is beginningless and endless.

I think Fox was paying him about a million bucks a year, and he had created the Ice Age franchise for them, which was billions of dollars of value. I said, “Here’s how we’re going to negotiate with Fox. On a separate track, we’re going to create a company that you’re going to run. We’re going to get off-balance-sheet financing and we’re going to align you with another global distributor.” At the time we had at least three studios that would be great strategic fits. But he didn’t want to be an employee, he wanted real ownership. So we created parallel paths. On one track was the Fox negotiation, which I told him would take a year, and they would give him a 15 percent increase. They would grind it out and play hardball. I told him, “At the end of the day, they’re not going to pay you anywhere near what you’re worth. But on this other track, we’ll create this opportunity to change your life, for you to have something of your own.” I remember having a meeting with Mark Shmuger and David Linde, who were literally in the first day of their new jobs as co-chairmen of Universal Studios, and Bryan, Richard, Kevin, and I met with them in their first official meeting and I pitched them the idea of being in business with Chris, and they said, “Yes. We want you to do it.” It took probably well over a year, but ultimately we created Illumination. Universal came in and financed the company 100 percent. They wanted to clean up their balance sheet because they were about to sell to Comcast, so we got paid an investment banking fee for $ 4 or $ 5 million, and then on top of that we’ve commissioned every movie that Chris has done. Chris got a very, very, rich deal, probably the best producing deal there is. The truth is, on Minions he’ll probably make $ 80–$ 90 million. To date he’s probably made hundreds of millions. And he’s got Despicable Me 3, and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

Facebook and Google (now known as Alphabet) are together worth $1.3 trillion. You could merge the world’s top five advertising agencies (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG, and Dentsu) with five major media companies (Disney, Time Warner, 21st Century Fox, CBS, and Viacom) and you’d still need to add five major communications companies (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Charter, and Dish) to get only 90 percent of what Google and Facebook are worth together.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

If you can’t help others, at least don’t harm them.” This shows the basic practice is to not harm any living being and, if possible, on that basis to help others as much as possible and relieve suffering. Suffering can be traced back to the mind, with fundamental ignorance at its root. Therefore, ultimately, the best way to help others is to give them wisdom, the antidote to ignorance.

Cable companies still have a direct pipe into our living room, as well as huge infrastructures and employee bases (Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner employ more than two hundred thousand people). Smarter usage-based billing and cloud-based updates will make their video content services more responsive and valuable. They also have the opportunity to become the operating system of connected homes. In a few years we could be using our former “cable company” to upgrade an alarm service, schedule a new refrigerator installation, or discover we have some loose shingles on our roof.

Net neutrality proponents rightly focus on Internet service providers like Comcast, who provide and maintain the underlying technological infrastructure, as the biggest threat to a free and open Internet. And at an architectural level, the Internet is still a fairly level playing field. Anyone can start and build a business online. But as a practical matter, the open Internet is a myth. The Internet as we know it today is almost entirely dominated by platforms.

Therefore, we should try to have good conduct, good heart, good discipline; be honest, not deceiving nor lying to others.

As for the $38 price, I suspected that Comcast could possibly go higher than what they’d already bid, and that if we went to $35, they’d go to $36. If we went to $36, they’d go to $37, at each stage convincing themselves that it’s only a little more, until eventually we’d go up to $40 per share. Whereas if we started at $38, they’d have to think hard about going up at least $3 per share.

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