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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."

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  1. Guide To The Barack Obongo Presidency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.

    INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
    You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.

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    Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat

    HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
    Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.

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    MAKING YOUR NIGGER WORK.
    Niggers are very, very averse to work of any kind. The nigger's most

    1. Re:Guide To The Barack Obongo Presidency by halcyon1234 · · Score: 0, Troll

      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.

      You must be new here. Try browsing at a higher mod level. There's keyboard shortcuts to do that. ALT+Fn, where n is the level you want to browse at (use 10 and 11 for 0 and -1, UI flaw). I suggest browsing at "4". Go ahead and give it a try.

  2. Five of the last Six Quarters Were Losers. by twitter · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can you say Vista Failure? I can. So goes the M$ retail chain.

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    1. Re:Five of the last Six Quarters Were Losers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I guess we all see things with our own tinted glasses. Yours seem to be turd brown with a tinge of psychotic orange.

      But I'll give it a try: Have you ever set foot on a Circuit City before? They do sell more than computers. A great many other things than computers. In fact, on any random CC you'll see that computers are just a small component of their retail display. Much like their website.

      Bah, what am I doing anyway. Trying to beat some sense into you is like trying to squeeze water out of a rock.

  3. Bailout by whisper_jeff · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, as AIG gets its THIRD multi-billion dollar bailout in just a few months, I'm left wondering where Circuit City's bailout is. Or is it ok for a company their size to lay off 17% of their workforce but not ok for the financial sector to do the same? What's that? Circuit City doesn't help make politicians rich? Ah. I see... Pathetic.

  4. Re:I can't bring myself to have much pity for them by Spazztastic · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're expecting me to become familiar with Ohio law? I also suppose I should be experienced in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Roman Law. Should I also be fluent in legalese?

    I'd try to find a resource for where it's illegal to not carry ID on you, but any Google search for it is flooded by voter ID requirements.

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  5. Re:I can't bring myself to have much pity for them by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's what Hitler said though. You're a member of a club (Germany) that has rules (National Socialism, genocide).

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