But I think we can brave the perils of untested ink, we will chart for you the untested waters of that dangerous substance that mortal men (and HP engineers, obviously) don't dare to touch, we shall make it our mission to ensure that these nefarious cartridges and ink tanks shall not remain on the shelves, for we will drain them, use and abuse them, test them to the limit, so no longer you have to endure the dangers of untested ink in your printers.
No, there is no need to thank us. That's our gift to you, our beloved maker of printer hardware. This is brand loyalty!
(tl;dr: HP, don't try to out-bullshit internet users, we are better at this than even your marketing department)
Prime is offering me something I either cannot use or isn't available in my country, or artificially lowers the quality of a service that I could "get back" by paying for Prime. So yes, I can't help but feel fleeced.
OK, then please explain how they could miraculously deliver in 2-3 days, and often the next day, before the invention of Prime, but now that there is Prime, normal deliveries take 6-7 days. From the same warehouse.
It's coming from exactly the same warehouse all the time. We're also not talking about "sometimes" or "often" but of "always". It ALWAYS took 2-3 days and now it ALWAYS takes 6-7 days. From the same warehouse.
You know, back in the Soviet Union you at least only got locked up and shot if your father was a crook, but in the free world it's already enough to know one.
The logical counter-troll would be to take nazi-pepe and ridicule him.
Laughter is a powerful weapon against repressive organizations and movements. The very last thing they can deal with is not being taken serious, mostly because they're usually so full of insecurities and dependence on outside validation that ridiculing them is a powerful blow to their ego.
We're not talking to going to the back of the queue, which is what I could absolutely understand. If you're at the back of the queue, your stuff would arrive somewhere between 2 and 10 days. But that's not what happens. It arrives no earlier than 6 days after ordering. They deliberately delay the delivery.
That doesn't work for our system. At least not yet. But how about this one. And since I don't want to play favorites, I'll tell it with the original names. You can replace Trump and Hillary with them, along with your favorite "slandering" news outlet.
Message in glorious newspaper Prawda In a comparison competition between the imperialist Kennedy and our beloved leader Leonid Brezhnev, dear Leonid Brezhnev came in at the great second place while Mr. Kennedy only came in second to last.
Also in the news Our glorious energy power plant at the Chernobyl site reports that they manage to complete the five year plan in power production in a mere five nanoseconds.
Prime is mostly a scam anyway. For the longest time, delivery times from Amazon for nearly everything was 2-3 days (in Europe), with some deliveries actually happening the next day. As soon as Prime came into play, the usual shipping time jumped to 5-10 days (with ZERO chance for it to be any lower than 6 days), but with prime of course you can get it in 2-3 days.
So the end of the communism did not end the shortage of toilet paper?
For our non-Soviet friends: TP was in notorious short supply during the final days of the communist rule, which led to a lot of amusing anecdotes and jokes like:
Party Speaker: Comrades! In 5 years, everyone will have a car! Listener: And when are we going to get toilet paper? PS: And comrades! In 10 years, everyone will have his own little house! L: But... the toilet paper? PS (outraged): KISS MY ASS! (literally: lick me in the asshole) L: As usual. For themselves, the party has a solution, but for us...
Well, due to a mishap in bureaucracy, accidentally two different offices ordered a license. The responsible official has been relocated to Sibiria for extended education.
I would. Law enforcement is notorious for having crappy security themselves, twice so on their snooping devices. You can learn so many interesting things from them.
Not from law enforcement, from their toys! You thought "if you don't know who controls your device, it ain't you" only applies to Windows 10?
Nah, just put it on the back of the ticket, should be enough. If they buy a ticket and then find out they cannot comply with the rules, sucks to be them.
The whole mess reminds me of a joke from the East Bloc (it's kinda telling when old Soviet jokes start to work in the alleged "free" world...) where they actually allowed "free" elections where you got to choose between candidates the communist party offered. Of course it was bullshit because, well, two candidates of the same party, what kind of choice is that? So the following joke surfaced
A man goes into a shop to buy a new vase. He finds the vase section with a lot of lovely red (in the US it would be red and blue) vases. He takes a look at one and notices it has a hole, rendering it worthless. He picks up the next, only to find that it, too, is leaking. He goes from one to the next and all of them are defective. He asks the clerk what kind of mockery this is. Surprised the clerk says "But sir, why do you complain, you have the free choice!"
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But I think we can brave the perils of untested ink, we will chart for you the untested waters of that dangerous substance that mortal men (and HP engineers, obviously) don't dare to touch, we shall make it our mission to ensure that these nefarious cartridges and ink tanks shall not remain on the shelves, for we will drain them, use and abuse them, test them to the limit, so no longer you have to endure the dangers of untested ink in your printers.
No, there is no need to thank us. That's our gift to you, our beloved maker of printer hardware. This is brand loyalty!
(tl;dr: HP, don't try to out-bullshit internet users, we are better at this than even your marketing department)
Can't be, we don't turn the jammers on by default, that must be a mista... I mean, I have no idea what you mean.
Power without oversight is being abused? For real? That must be a first in human history!
Prime is offering me something I either cannot use or isn't available in my country, or artificially lowers the quality of a service that I could "get back" by paying for Prime. So yes, I can't help but feel fleeced.
OK, then please explain how they could miraculously deliver in 2-3 days, and often the next day, before the invention of Prime, but now that there is Prime, normal deliveries take 6-7 days. From the same warehouse.
Since when do you have prime and since when was it offered in your area?
Again, I used to get the Prime delivery times. Until they came up with Prime.
It's coming from exactly the same warehouse all the time. We're also not talking about "sometimes" or "often" but of "always". It ALWAYS took 2-3 days and now it ALWAYS takes 6-7 days. From the same warehouse.
You know, back in the Soviet Union you at least only got locked up and shot if your father was a crook, but in the free world it's already enough to know one.
The logical counter-troll would be to take nazi-pepe and ridicule him.
Laughter is a powerful weapon against repressive organizations and movements. The very last thing they can deal with is not being taken serious, mostly because they're usually so full of insecurities and dependence on outside validation that ridiculing them is a powerful blow to their ego.
We're not talking to going to the back of the queue, which is what I could absolutely understand. If you're at the back of the queue, your stuff would arrive somewhere between 2 and 10 days. But that's not what happens. It arrives no earlier than 6 days after ordering. They deliberately delay the delivery.
That doesn't work for our system. At least not yet. But how about this one. And since I don't want to play favorites, I'll tell it with the original names. You can replace Trump and Hillary with them, along with your favorite "slandering" news outlet.
Message in glorious newspaper Prawda
In a comparison competition between the imperialist Kennedy and our beloved leader Leonid Brezhnev, dear Leonid Brezhnev came in at the great second place while Mr. Kennedy only came in second to last.
Also in the news
Our glorious energy power plant at the Chernobyl site reports that they manage to complete the five year plan in power production in a mere five nanoseconds.
Prime is mostly a scam anyway. For the longest time, delivery times from Amazon for nearly everything was 2-3 days (in Europe), with some deliveries actually happening the next day. As soon as Prime came into play, the usual shipping time jumped to 5-10 days (with ZERO chance for it to be any lower than 6 days), but with prime of course you can get it in 2-3 days.
So, in Russia, software spies on YOU?
Uh... where exactly is the reversal?
Pffft. Amateur. Just imagine what Dear Leader could have done in half the time!
So the end of the communism did not end the shortage of toilet paper?
For our non-Soviet friends: TP was in notorious short supply during the final days of the communist rule, which led to a lot of amusing anecdotes and jokes like:
Party Speaker: Comrades! In 5 years, everyone will have a car! ... the toilet paper?
Listener: And when are we going to get toilet paper?
PS: And comrades! In 10 years, everyone will have his own little house!
L: But
PS (outraged): KISS MY ASS! (literally: lick me in the asshole)
L: As usual. For themselves, the party has a solution, but for us...
Only in the Russian Reversal. In the free world, Windows 10 IS the gulag.
Well, due to a mishap in bureaucracy, accidentally two different offices ordered a license. The responsible official has been relocated to Sibiria for extended education.
Me. In accordance with part 15, because my device obviously causes interference. And until it does, stfu.
Apparently free press is increasingly becoming a threat to national security.
You think students wouldn't want to go online with their cell phones? Actually, PRIMARILY with their cell phone?
What luddite university did you go to?
The Founding Fathers were not only fighting the system but they were actually fighting a system propping up corporations?
They were *gasp* socialists?
I would. Law enforcement is notorious for having crappy security themselves, twice so on their snooping devices. You can learn so many interesting things from them.
Not from law enforcement, from their toys! You thought "if you don't know who controls your device, it ain't you" only applies to Windows 10?
Nah, just put it on the back of the ticket, should be enough. If they buy a ticket and then find out they cannot comply with the rules, sucks to be them.
The whole mess reminds me of a joke from the East Bloc (it's kinda telling when old Soviet jokes start to work in the alleged "free" world...) where they actually allowed "free" elections where you got to choose between candidates the communist party offered. Of course it was bullshit because, well, two candidates of the same party, what kind of choice is that? So the following joke surfaced
A man goes into a shop to buy a new vase. He finds the vase section with a lot of lovely red (in the US it would be red and blue) vases. He takes a look at one and notices it has a hole, rendering it worthless. He picks up the next, only to find that it, too, is leaking. He goes from one to the next and all of them are defective. He asks the clerk what kind of mockery this is. Surprised the clerk says "But sir, why do you complain, you have the free choice!"
At least someone got the joke.