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Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy
WillDraven is just one of many who writes to tell us that Circuit City, the United States' 2nd largest consumer electronics retailer, has filed for bankruptcy under chapter 11. This news comes as no surprise as the company has been in financial trouble, recently announcing that it will be closing over one fifth of its stores and laying off 17% of its US employees in the process. "Larger rival Best Buy, which is based in Minneapolis, has said it might take over stores that distressed rivals close. Yet a flood of discounted merchandise from liquidating Circuit City stores could hurt Best Buy during this holiday shopping season, said Jefferies & Co analyst Dan Binder."
Holy fuck, I just don't know what to say...other than only an AC would post something so intensely offensive.
I ask this only because I so rarely see something so offensive here: Doesn't /. have an abuse reporting mechanism? I would never advocate removing posts that were controversial, but this is not such a post. This is unrelated to the topic at hand, obviously intended to be inflammatory and really has no place here.
DISCLAIMER: This post was not checked for speling and grammar- if you complain- you're a whiner
I can think of several good reasons for using bits of twitter journal and the later reports. Twitter hater trolls and that the future is more important than the past.
Editors probably picked the story for an hour later than twitter's to avoid the usual "I hate twitter" first post trolls. The M$FT astroturfers would have to carry this thread far and wide to undo speculation that Circuit City's last five quarters of loss is is directly attributed to the Vista Failure. They would also have to laugh at connecting the 2004 Suse migration dots to firing of all competent employees last year.
These things can be looked at as secondary to the pain and suffering to come. I think the causes should be remembered so that the same mistakes are not made by others in the future, so it's a shame the first reports and attributions were skipped in the name of harmony, balance, professionalism and other forms of self censorship not practiced by enemies of free software.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Best Buy is headquartered in Richfield, MN at the intersection of 494 and 35W. I hate how everything that happens in or is from Minnesota is labeled as either in the "Twin Cities" or in "Minneapolis".
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