"Unlike corporations such as IBM - with revenues of $22 billion in the first quarter of 2007 alone - our schools do not have the ability to generate new dollars to fund projects or pay for employees,the lawmakers wrote."
Oh, so that makes it OK to rip IBM off.
Well, "honorable" lawmakers, how many of your teacher's pensions are in IBM stock?
Or what about your investments?
Or some of your other constituents - many who are retired and are relying on IBM making an actual profit in order to make money on their retirement investments.
Not all stock investors are rich, fat, white, dudes who nobody has pity for.
Mental note: Do not give credit to the CA schools - cash only.
Inmate "Smiling" Bob will be "male enhancing" his cornhole.
you know, when I first saw those ads, I thought they were some promo for a new comedy show or something. But as time went on, it became apparent that they were actually selling a "product". Those ads are so over the top ludicrous, I don't know whether to be amused at that company's boldness to sell such a product or pity the folks who buy it thinking it will work. Then again, there may be folks who buy it for a joke or as a gag gift for someone else - that's the only reason that I think of where I would actually buy it.
I'm going on my own memory from PBS (I think) documentaries. And stupid me, I can't find anything to back up what I said. Of course, I'm sure everyone who moved there had their own reasons as well as those of the others.
*clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "inventory is full" x 1,000,000 The End.
On the DVD extras of Star Wars III, there's a segment on the pre-production of the movie. Lucas walks in with the script and one of his employees says something like, "That was fast!" Lucas then says something like, "It wasn't hard. It's line of dialog and then several pages of 'then they fight'."
The reason that Hollywood was set up in southern California is that Edison was unable to pursue his royalty and usage claims against movies there.
That's a new one. The history I've always heard basically says that the movie industry started there because of the sunshine. Don't forget, back then, hey didn't have these lights they have now. Of course, here's Wiki for more:
Bush, Rush, Coulter etc. vs Clinton, Moore, Franken, etc... it's the circus part of the bread and circus formula. Their goal is to really change very little but get you all worked up about it in the process.
And they're making millions of dollars in the process.
Apple is going to bundle Safari with iTunes and QuickTime in hope of massive market penetration, and in their vision, there is no room for alternative browsers.
I see that the Beta, anyway, is free. Do you think that Apple will charge for it? I don't get why Apple would want to or care about pushing the other browsers out of the market considering that it's a money losing business. You have an interesting perspective, though (i.e. Not "Trollish" at all). It could make sense if Apple is gunning for some sort of iPhone & internet & something else? combination that I can't foresee. What are you thinking?
And I'd like to add, why does this guy have a website dedicated to this person?
That in itself seams a bit obsessive and maybe seams that Salahi has some sort of vendetta or something against Kaplan. It's as if Salahi is out get Kaplan: not to show fraudulent journalism.
Why doesn't Salahi go after other journalists that do the same thing as Kaplan?
It does not really matter who is doing it as long as it gets done.
I agree from a humanitarian point of view/ But from a nationalistic point of view, I see it as a problem.
As other countries develop and develop their own comparative advantage in whatever it may be, what are we doing in the US? It seams that, as a country, we're distracted by really unimportant stuff, whether it be creationism vs evolution, some war, or whatever. In the meantime, what comparative advantage do we have? Marketing? Patent litigation? Being the CEOs of the World (the rest of us in the US are lawyers, doctors, salesmen, working at Walmart)? And/or are we going to be the shoppers of the World - everyone else creates, produces, builds, and we, the US, just consumes?
"He couldn't have been that bothered if he lived for another 100 years."
Every time it would rain, the poor whale can be heard for miles singing the complaining song of old whales. Roughly translated from whale song as he was talking to younger whales, "Aye! My neck is killing me! Years ago, some son of a bitch human shot me right in me neck! Yarrr. It 'urts every time a storm is ah brew'n. Yarrr. Take note young'ns"
One problem with that is the density of water varies w/ the temperature (it's this characteristic which makes life on earth possible --- water gets more dense as it approaches the freezing point, then less dense when it freezes), so the definition has to include a temperature &c.
That's why you use beer. I liter of cold beer will be one kilo. Actually you add one sip to compensate for the bubbles which as as a salt and therefore increase the density.
Or maybe they stop trying when they hear your "thick foreign accent":)
Exactly! You know, folks got so pissed at me when I did customer support in China. They couldn't understand a word I said - even though I speak perfect English! Go figure! I was hired as a support person by management. But nooooooooo, the Chinese are so racist they refuse to learn and take the time to understand me! After all, they're the customer and they should adjust to me because they are giving me!
Isn't that the attitude with a lot of companies these days?
Usually, u cannot solve your problems only with help from the service rep. you need to know some computer skill yourself.
I agree. But when it's activation codes and other nonsense that they the company force on me, that's their fault. I've learned - that's why I don't do business with them.
Those people already works hard.
So? Working hard doesn't give one license to treat the customer rudely. Otherwise, customers will leave, like me, and if enough customers get mad and leave, then those "customer service" people will be out of a job. Which is their problem. I vote with my money. I've given up a long time ago complaining and arguing with "customer service" people. Their job is to make me go away so that their management can keep their margins up.
Customer service reps located outside of the U.S. are rated lower on communication skills.
I was once on a service call with a company's service rep and he was giving me instructions rather quickly and with a thick accent. When I asked him to repeat what he said, sometimes more than once, he became very irate and somewhat rude.
I had to call in because because of their lame website wouldn't activate their damned product. I no longer do business with them nor will I ever.
I'd like to see a correlation between this data and the total numbers of people living in dense vs. scarcely populated areas.
Yeah, it's amazing how different things look when the numbers are presented one way from another. How's it go again? Figures don't lie but liars can figure?
Justice Department and FBI investigators are trying to determine if any FBI headquarters officials should be held accountable or punished for those abuses, and have begun advising agents of their due process rights during interviews.
Held accountable? "Punished for those abuses"? Exactly what would that be? Suspension with pay so these agents can sit around, drink beer, and watch Jerry Springer while getting paid?
They violated the Constitution and our Civil Rights while "protecting" our Freedom....Oh God! (To steal from Fark) - the irony tag assplodes!
Maybe if Verizon would get with the rest of the world and use GSM their customers might have a chance of getting products like this. How 'bout if you give them a call?
I wish I had that kind of power. But I don't. All I can do is vote with my dollars and I voted for Verizon because out of all of the (shit) cell services here in the US, they were better than the others. My purchasing criteria is service: customer and technical - period. I don't give a rats ass about the phones they offer. It would be nice, maybe, to be able to have the Apple, but it's not really important to me.
I'm not getting it because its a Cingular plan. And after reading consumer reports, Cingular/ATT is one of the worst plans you can get. And I don't buy the phone: I buy the plan.
So, until Apple cuts this shit of giving one provider exclusive sales rights and allows Verizon to sell it, Apple will not have me as a customer.
On an evening in August 1995, a 42-year-old called Geoffrey Peck attempted suicide by cutting his wrists with a kitchen knife while on Brentwood High Street in Essex, England. CCTV cameras caught the action, the council's CCTV operator alerted the police and the police intervened. Peck lived. But still images from the CCTV footage were sold by the local council to the media. Peck took his complaint as far as the European Court of Human Rights and won.
What was he doing in front of cameras while trying to commit suicide?
He sued because he wanted to sell the footage to Rupert Murdoch.
But in truth, it means that they are competing on the same level as Open Office (short their other apps) and still provide motivation to purchase a "features added suite" by offering the boxed version with templates and clipart, along with other apps, such as Power Point and Outlook.
Oh please, please, please let that come to pass! And please god, have MS charge an obscene amount of money for it so nobody buys or uses it ever again!
You want to worker productivity to really increase? No more long Power Point meeting putting your workforce to sleep and wasting their time.
I predict the lawyers will be the only winners here.
Blumenthal is using a tactic that another famous Connecticut Attorney General used to create a political career from a position (AG) that's not usually very visible. He went after the insurance companies, cut some half-assed deals that looked like they helped the consumer, made himself look like a hero to the little guy and then ran for Democratic Senator of CT and has never left - one close call last year. Yes, it's Joe Lieberman.
Blumenthal is just using the same tactic on a different industry (ies) 30 years later. I guarantee you, Blumenthal will be running for Governor, Senator, or something in the near future and these investigations are nothing but ways to raise his name recognition among the public.
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Oh, so that makes it OK to rip IBM off.
Well, "honorable" lawmakers, how many of your teacher's pensions are in IBM stock?
Or what about your investments?
Or some of your other constituents - many who are retired and are relying on IBM making an actual profit in order to make money on their retirement investments.
Not all stock investors are rich, fat, white, dudes who nobody has pity for.
Mental note: Do not give credit to the CA schools - cash only.
you know, when I first saw those ads, I thought they were some promo for a new comedy show or something. But as time went on, it became apparent that they were actually selling a "product". Those ads are so over the top ludicrous, I don't know whether to be amused at that company's boldness to sell such a product or pity the folks who buy it thinking it will work. Then again, there may be folks who buy it for a joke or as a gag gift for someone else - that's the only reason that I think of where I would actually buy it.
Your comment was very interesting, though.
On the DVD extras of Star Wars III, there's a segment on the pre-production of the movie. Lucas walks in with the script and one of his employees says something like, "That was fast!"
Lucas then says something like, "It wasn't hard. It's line of dialog and then several pages of 'then they fight'."
cha-ching! indeed!
That's a new one. The history I've always heard basically says that the movie industry started there because of the sunshine. Don't forget, back then, hey didn't have these lights they have now. Of course, here's Wiki for more:
After hearing about this wonderful place, in 1913 many movie-makers headed west.
And they're making millions of dollars in the process.
Great post though!
I see that the Beta, anyway, is free. Do you think that Apple will charge for it? I don't get why Apple would want to or care about pushing the other browsers out of the market considering that it's a money losing business. You have an interesting perspective, though (i.e. Not "Trollish" at all). It could make sense if Apple is gunning for some sort of iPhone & internet & something else? combination that I can't foresee. What are you thinking?
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That in itself seams a bit obsessive and maybe seams that Salahi has some sort of vendetta or something against Kaplan. It's as if Salahi is out get Kaplan: not to show fraudulent journalism.
Why doesn't Salahi go after other journalists that do the same thing as Kaplan?
My uncle is a transvestite you insensitive clod!
I agree from a humanitarian point of view/ But from a nationalistic point of view, I see it as a problem.
As other countries develop and develop their own comparative advantage in whatever it may be, what are we doing in the US? It seams that, as a country, we're distracted by really unimportant stuff, whether it be creationism vs evolution, some war, or whatever. In the meantime, what comparative advantage do we have? Marketing? Patent litigation? Being the CEOs of the World (the rest of us in the US are lawyers, doctors, salesmen, working at Walmart)? And/or are we going to be the shoppers of the World - everyone else creates, produces, builds, and we, the US, just consumes?
Every time it would rain, the poor whale can be heard for miles singing the complaining song of old whales. Roughly translated from whale song as he was talking to younger whales, "Aye! My neck is killing me! Years ago, some son of a bitch human shot me right in me neck! Yarrr. It 'urts every time a storm is ah brew'n. Yarrr. Take note young'ns"
That's why you use beer. I liter of cold beer will be one kilo. Actually you add one sip to compensate for the bubbles which as as a salt and therefore increase the density.
Exactly! You know, folks got so pissed at me when I did customer support in China. They couldn't understand a word I said - even though I speak perfect English! Go figure! I was hired as a support person by management. But nooooooooo, the Chinese are so racist they refuse to learn and take the time to understand me! After all, they're the customer and they should adjust to me because they are giving me!
Isn't that the attitude with a lot of companies these days?
I agree. But when it's activation codes and other nonsense that they the company force on me, that's their fault. I've learned - that's why I don't do business with them.
Those people already works hard.
So? Working hard doesn't give one license to treat the customer rudely. Otherwise, customers will leave, like me, and if enough customers get mad and leave, then those "customer service" people will be out of a job. Which is their problem. I vote with my money. I've given up a long time ago complaining and arguing with "customer service" people. Their job is to make me go away so that their management can keep their margins up.
I was once on a service call with a company's service rep and he was giving me instructions rather quickly and with a thick accent. When I asked him to repeat what he said, sometimes more than once, he became very irate and somewhat rude.
I had to call in because because of their lame website wouldn't activate their damned product. I no longer do business with them nor will I ever.
Yeah, it's amazing how different things look when the numbers are presented one way from another.
How's it go again? Figures don't lie but liars can figure?
Don't worry, he's getting his!
Held accountable? "Punished for those abuses"? Exactly what would that be? Suspension with pay so these agents can sit around, drink beer, and watch Jerry Springer while getting paid?
They violated the Constitution and our Civil Rights while "protecting" our Freedom....Oh God! (To steal from Fark) - the irony tag assplodes!
I wish I had that kind of power. But I don't. All I can do is vote with my dollars and I voted for Verizon because out of all of the (shit) cell services here in the US, they were better than the others. My purchasing criteria is service: customer and technical - period. I don't give a rats ass about the phones they offer. It would be nice, maybe, to be able to have the Apple, but it's not really important to me.
So, until Apple cuts this shit of giving one provider exclusive sales rights and allows Verizon to sell it, Apple will not have me as a customer.
What was he doing in front of cameras while trying to commit suicide?
He sued because he wanted to sell the footage to Rupert Murdoch.
Oh please, please, please let that come to pass! And please god, have MS charge an obscene amount of money for it so nobody buys or uses it ever again!
You want to worker productivity to really increase? No more long Power Point meeting putting your workforce to sleep and wasting their time.
Is that a problem? I would think the fs would be pretty damned solid by now.
Blumenthal is using a tactic that another famous Connecticut Attorney General used to create a political career from a position (AG) that's not usually very visible. He went after the insurance companies, cut some half-assed deals that looked like they helped the consumer, made himself look like a hero to the little guy and then ran for Democratic Senator of CT and has never left - one close call last year. Yes, it's Joe Lieberman.
Blumenthal is just using the same tactic on a different industry (ies) 30 years later. I guarantee you, Blumenthal will be running for Governor, Senator, or something in the near future and these investigations are nothing but ways to raise his name recognition among the public.