Six weeks now...

That`s right. It has officially been six weeks now since I applied to YahooBB for internet. The long end of their estimate has come, and there will be a reckoning! ...Or, more likely, they`ll tell me they are sold out of internet (WHAT?) and that I need to seek another provider and wait another six weeks, or something equally dumbtarded. Man, I really can`t believe how backwards things like this can be sometimes. Perhaps it is shortsightedly American of my to talk poorly about a system that I have not yet come to understand, but, seriously people, six weeks? For nothing? Man, no wonder you guys lost the war...
Okay, maybe that was a bit harsh. Definitely harsh. But, please understand where I`m coming from: specifically America. It`s hard to try to stay in touch with everyone back home. I`m not even indoctrinated by American media anymore!
On an equally frustrating level, yesterday I answered my door. Perhaps in any other country, this would not be a problem (save for the occassional Mormon or Jehovah`s witness), but in Japan I realized that this should`ve been on my list of things never to do. In Japan, simply owning a TV means that you have to pay the cable company for its services, regardless of whether or not you receive them. ...Think about how ridiculous that is. There is no free TV channels, and the fact that I moved into a house that already had a TV in it means that I complicitly agree to pay the associated fees. Well, I can see how that could make sense if everyone had to pay them, and the money went towards public broadcasting or some such thing. ...But everyone doesn`t have to pay them! And they don`t go to public broadcasting programs, they go to NHK, a private stallite provider!
Instead, only the idiots who answer their doors to the NHK people (for that`s what they are called) have to pay. Once you answer the door, you`re in the system and they just send bills to your house for your TV usage (I hardly even watch the damn thing, because I can`t understand it). But, if like the other ALT in town, Nigel, you refuse to ever open your door to these people, you never get in the system, they stop bothering you, and no harm no foul. Well, don`t I feel like a right ass?
Basically, my plan is this: I`m going to call next month and tell them that rather than pay their stupid fees for television programming that I can`t watch, I threw my TV away, and now I`m inelligible for the fee. I`ll never open my door for them to verify that my TV is gone, but neither will I pay the bills.
It`s hard, because in America I would know my rights forwards and backwards. I would say "You, sir, are a blackguard. I am not paying you money simply because I own a TV that I don`t watch. Now, get off my property before I let my dogs take a good, long look at you, sir." But, here, there`s little I can do. Sho ga nai, yet again...