It's only Champagne if it's bottled in Champagne, France. Otherwise, it's sparkling wine.
Unless of course your country was in the midst of prohibition and didn't sign the treaty with France agreeing not to call their sparkling wines
Champagne. So rejoice fellow Americans you can call sparkling wines in America Champagne! I realize, of course, that's like calling Budweiser or Miller beer. But hey it's America, and it can get you stinking drunk much cheaper.
Eat lots of cold turkey. Or is that eat lots of cold, turkey. Or is that... Oh never mind.
When I figured out I was addicted to caffeine as you described, I went cold turkey (stopped drinking caffeine) for about 3 or 4 days. All my symptons cleared up and I started drinking Dr. Pepper again just in lower amounts. I got addicted again next summer and went cold turkey again for a few days. Back to normal. It's not like being addicted to heroin or nicotine.
The MPAA is smart enough not to kill the goose that layed the golden egg. Still a threat is a threat, and it must be backed up by the use of force. I have no doubt the MPAA is capable and willing.
What's the difference between a murderer who said "Well I only used soft shoes when I stomped him to death." and a murderer who used an axe and chopped them to little bits.
Cartels are evil and that is what the MPAA and RIAA are. Both can reduce piracy by not making it worthwhile to pirate. Reduced DVD & CD prices = reduced piracy. It's that simple. The MPAA is doing a better job in that respect.
Human cloning, gene splicing. It's all gonna happen. I do have one question: Can we patent our own clone?
(sung to the tune Home on the Range)
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y-chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
(Chorus)
Clone, clone of my own,
With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
It's obvious those wacky New Zealanders and American meanies are in cahoots with the Great Old Ones. Well, not really in cahoots more like slavish minions theirof. Our intrepid Australian adventurer Jon Johanson is trying to expose this and they are holding him captive for he has the evidence on his plane to show how the Great Old Ones are trying to takeover the Earth. Well, not really takeover more like lay utter waste to the Earth.
Go to your nearest retina scan ATM and smear rim of scanning eyepiece with indelible black ink. The next person who goes to use it they'll scan it will go away with a big black ring around their eye
The problem I see with retina scan is that enterprising criminals may pop out your eyes with a grapefruit spoon.
My standard disclaimer is similar: All phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others
Anyway, I have had AT&T Wireless in three states over about the same period, 4 years. And they haven't done anything that really pissed me off. I work for a vendor call center for SprintPCS. The only difference between me and a prisoner is that I can leave anytime I want to, but the money keeps me there as surely as prison bars do. I used to have a real job. SprintPCS is ranked only slightly higher than Cingular in customer service and technical support. Something which I can attest to. I get people who call in five or six times and are surprised when I fix their problem. And I can only really fix 2/3 of them. The other third I do trouble tickets on and God only knows how many of them actually get fixed.
Hmmm...Nice to trade notes. I work for a vendor call center that SprintPCS outsources too. All I can say is their systems are almost as bad. Customer service is horrendous. Not as bad as Cingular though. I've been an AT&T Wireless customer for several years and I haven't been screwed over (yet), just some minor annoyances. I don't think I want a GSM phone. I've got an old Nokia that is slowly dying, and I'm not on a contract. I want to see what AT&T Wireless is going to do to keep me, otherwise I'll take my number to US Cellular or t-Mobile.
Getting good customer service or technical support seems to be a form of Russian roulette no matter which carrier you choose.
If Bush, Jr. turns out to be a one-termer like his dad, he needs to have a legacy besides completing the transformation of the US into a police state that started in 1947 and accelerated under Clinton.
Anyway, if Bush, Jr. really commits us to returning to the Moon and it's planned properly and funded generously, he'll get my vote in 2004. 2009 isn't that far away for the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing. Wouldn't that be feather in his cap?
Let's see how long this comment will take to get modded down to Troll.
All phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others.
I work in an outsourced call center for SprintPCS, and it's in the USA in the state equivalent of a third world country (No it's not Arkansas). I saw one account with a customer who successfully ported from AT&T to SprintPCS. I guess it's a choosing the devil you know and going to the the devil you don't. I have AT&T Wireless and do not plan on switching to SprintPCS. I was thinking about going to T-Mobile or US Cellular. We have no Verizon (but they use to be the ultra evil GTE).
I've not been disatisfied with AT&T, but then they haven't royally screwed me over, though getting a GSM phone gives me pause. I've heard the horror stories. I shan't go into the countless horror stories of SprintPCS that I deal with on a daily basis. And I do my best to fix the problems with the limited tools I have access to, but there is a few I know that I won't be able to resolve, so I get them off the phone as quickly as possible, because I know the odds of me talking to them again are nil. Now, I don't choose them because they don't have the coverage I need. Then there are people who actually like SprintPCS (I want some of those drugs), and some of them are friends and family.
So far I've taken very few calls regarding porting, but from what I've seen and heard it takes about a week for the porting to complete. You may be able to place calls, but no one can call you until the port is complete. And once the actual port out has started the carrier cannot attempt to save you or they get in big trouble with the FCC.
I'm sorry I never paid for SpamCop. Dunno if it would have helped, but of late (the last two months) the spamming has only gotten worse. I've had to implement the very hard to use AT&T Worldnet whitelist. It doesn't use your email address book. You have to enter each address one at a time. Nor does it bounce back to let you know your email is blocked (when testing the filter from another account). I guess it's time to check out SpamAssassin.
Let's play buzzword bingo today. Get out a scrap of paper and write down all the buzzwords you can think of. Try these on for size: leverage, startup, incubator, robust, enterprise, blah, blah, blah...
I worked for a now defunct non-dot-com company that tried to become a dot-com and it succeeded in the fact that it failed like so many other dot-coms. One of the more hare-brained ideas was for an incubator incubator. I think he meant a some kind of factory for minting startup companies.
crashing copies of this as-yet-unreleased product are sure to cause dilution of branding.
If crashing causes dilution of branding then no one would think Microsoft when whatever flavor of Windows they have crashes...
...hang on a second...I just remembered I patented software crashing. I'll have to get my lawyers to start them royalty lawsuits. Pretty soon even my lawyers will be richer than God, and I'll be richer than Bill Gates! Brilliant!
We've already gone through porting twice. Once for 800 numbers. And once for landline numbers.
To wireline and wireless companies November 24th is a day that will live in infamy. It only will be available for about the top 100 markets. Everyone else has to wait until May 2004. Consumers will be able to take their cellular numbers from one carrier to another. Say like from SprintPCS to Verizon, or from their landline to a cellular carrier like SBC to Cingular (they are really the same company), or from a cellular carrier to a landline like AT&T to Qwest. Keep in mind all phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others.
That being said, if you decide to take advantage of Wireless Local Number Portability remember the magic word 'port'. The carrier won't mention it unless you do. To start the process contact the company you want to port to. They will take care of the rest, or rather they are supposed to. Do not cancel the service with the other carrier you are leaving until after the number has successfully ported to the new one or you are screwed. You will have to buy a new handset. There may some instances where you can hack the phone and use it on the new carrier. Once the porting process has started, your old carrier cannot attempt to save or they face hefty FCC fines. Don't be suprised if you see new fees associated with porting. You may be able to place calls with your new carrier before the porting is complete. Don't be surprised if you are assigned a temporary number on the new carrier, before the porting process is completed . The time from starting the porting process till the time everything goes through could be measured in hours, days, or weeks. Don't expect to get any firm answers from the providers. Expect it to take at least one day and as much as one week.
If you plan on staying with your current provider, get the best deal you can to stay with them but be wary of the fine print. Lastly if you do plan on switching and your contract is alreay expired I'd wait a few weeks or months to let the pent up demand play itself out and more importanlty all the glitches to be worked out. Yes they are supposed to be ready for it, but when a new service or product is rolled out there are always unforseen problems when ramping up.
How do I know all of this? I work for a stateside vendor call center outsourced to from one of the carriers expected to lose a lot of customers.
The future ain't what it used to be. Alas we have no paper clothes, moving sidewalks, flying cars, or orgasmatrons. Yet no one could have predicted the spork. Look at how it revolutionized our fast food industry. NOT a day goes by when I think about all those sporks I got at Kentucky Fried Chicken (before they changed their name to KFC). Truly a failure of imagination on the part of our futurists and science fiction writers.
If there is one unpredicted technological gadget that we must all worship and bow before it is the beer widget. A miracle! Of the widgeted stouts I've had both Beamish and Guiness. And Boddington's is pretty tasty too.
I think they should rent time to male college students to look into female student dorm windows or to look down on nude or topless beaches. Imagine the resolution? They'd certainly raise enough cash to keep Hubble going for at least another decade. They could use paypal. Instead of calling it Hubble Space Telescope they could call it the Hubba Hubba Nudiescope!
Only the top 100 markets will be able to port on November 24th. Everyone else won't get to port till May 2004 I work for a vendor who is outsourced from a carrier whose ranked near the bottom, so we are going to lose a lot of customers. We are geared up for number portability. Remember the word 'port'. PORT is the magic word. Use it every chance you get. Do not cancel your old service until you are ported to the new service.Or you are SCREWED! Anyway, you can take your landline to to wireless or wireless to landline or wireless to wireless.
Retirees in Wisconsin can move their landline to a cell phone and move to Arizona. The downside is any local callers in AZ will be long distance but friends in WI will be local. And w/ LD included your calls are local.
They must feel terribly guilty in being overpaid. I'd be more than happy to replace them at their currently salary. Once I feel guilty (in about 19-20 years), I'll gladly hand it over to someone else to take up the burden of being overpaid.
After seeing that last picture of the destroyed Enterprise hit by space junk. I am reminded of the prelude to the fight scene in the classic Trek episode Trouble With Tribbles:
Korax: We like the Enterprise - we really do.....that sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow! Half the quadrant knows it - that's why they're learning to speak Klingonese!
Scotty: Laddy, don't you think you should rephrase that?
Korax: You're right - I should....I didn't mean that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage.....I meant it should be hauled away AS garbage.
Stop being such a racist demagouge trying to blame all your problems on "foreigners."
WTF! You must be a liberal, because that's usually the first thing they love to do is play the race card. You don't know anything about me. I am not a racist demogogue. If anyone is prejudiced, it's you. Who said I was the blaming the foreigners? I'm blaming the companies for getting laws created that hurt both immigrants (turns H1-B's into hi-tech coolies), and citizens (sets up an unfair system to exclude them.)
Not only that, if you are skilled, employers for unskilled jobs are reluctant to hire you for fear you'll leave them as soon as you find a better job (which is true). Unless of course they know you can't find a better one because the economy sucks so bad (which is also true).
Skilled tech workers are in a double bind. Their jobs are being replaced by H1-B's, or outsourced overseas. The problem is companies go too far in reducing labor costs. Everyone wants the best bang for the buck. I do to, but you still have to spend money. It should be about getting the most value for your dollar and not spending the least you can possibly get away with.
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It's only Champagne if it's bottled in Champagne, France. Otherwise, it's sparkling wine.
Unless of course your country was in the midst of prohibition and didn't sign the treaty with France agreeing not to call their sparkling wines Champagne. So rejoice fellow Americans you can call sparkling wines in America Champagne! I realize, of course, that's like calling Budweiser or Miller beer. But hey it's America, and it can get you stinking drunk much cheaper.
Eat lots of cold turkey. Or is that eat lots of cold, turkey. Or is that ... Oh never mind.
When I figured out I was addicted to caffeine as you described, I went cold turkey (stopped drinking caffeine) for about 3 or 4 days. All my symptons cleared up and I started drinking Dr. Pepper again just in lower amounts. I got addicted again next summer and went cold turkey again for a few days. Back to normal. It's not like being addicted to heroin or nicotine.
The MPAA is smart enough not to kill the goose that layed the golden egg. Still a threat is a threat, and it must be backed up by the use of force. I have no doubt the MPAA is capable and willing.
What's the difference between a murderer who said "Well I only used soft shoes when I stomped him to death." and a murderer who used an axe and chopped them to little bits.
Cartels are evil and that is what the MPAA and RIAA are. Both can reduce piracy by not making it worthwhile to pirate. Reduced DVD & CD prices = reduced piracy. It's that simple. The MPAA is doing a better job in that respect.
FYI. There is a game company called 2015
:
....
Anyway, try to sing this to the tune of Zager & Evans In the Year 2525
In the year 2015 If programming is still alive
if coding can survive
They may find
In the year 2025
Ain't gonna need to reboot
no retries
Everything you think do and say is in the chip you implanted today.
feel free to add your own stupid verses too. for 2035, 2045, etc.
Human cloning, gene splicing. It's all gonna happen. I do have one question: Can we patent our own clone?
(sung to the tune Home on the Range)
Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y-chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
(Chorus)
Clone, clone of my own,
With your Y-Chromosome changed to X
And when I'm alone
With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
It's obvious those wacky New Zealanders and American meanies are in cahoots with the Great Old Ones. Well, not really in cahoots more like slavish minions theirof. Our intrepid Australian adventurer Jon Johanson is trying to expose this and they are holding him captive for he has the evidence on his plane to show how the Great Old Ones are trying to takeover the Earth. Well, not really takeover more like lay utter waste to the Earth.
Go to your nearest retina scan ATM and smear rim of scanning eyepiece with indelible black ink. The next person who goes to use it they'll scan it will go away with a big black ring around their eye
The problem I see with retina scan is that enterprising criminals may pop out your eyes with a grapefruit spoon.
My standard disclaimer is similar: All phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others
Anyway, I have had AT&T Wireless in three states over about the same period, 4 years. And they haven't done anything that really pissed me off. I work for a vendor call center for SprintPCS. The only difference between me and a prisoner is that I can leave anytime I want to, but the money keeps me there as surely as prison bars do. I used to have a real job. SprintPCS is ranked only slightly higher than Cingular in customer service and technical support. Something which I can attest to. I get people who call in five or six times and are surprised when I fix their problem. And I can only really fix 2/3 of them. The other third I do trouble tickets on and God only knows how many of them actually get fixed.
Hmmm...Nice to trade notes. I work for a vendor call center that SprintPCS outsources too. All I can say is their systems are almost as bad. Customer service is horrendous. Not as bad as Cingular though. I've been an AT&T Wireless customer for several years and I haven't been screwed over (yet), just some minor annoyances. I don't think I want a GSM phone. I've got an old Nokia that is slowly dying, and I'm not on a contract. I want to see what AT&T Wireless is going to do to keep me, otherwise I'll take my number to US Cellular or t-Mobile.
Getting good customer service or technical support seems to be a form of Russian roulette no matter which carrier you choose.
Ha! Ha! Get it? M-O-o-N-e-y! $-h-o-w.
If Bush, Jr. turns out to be a one-termer like his dad, he needs to have a legacy besides completing the transformation of the US into a police state that started in 1947 and accelerated under Clinton.
Anyway, if Bush, Jr. really commits us to returning to the Moon and it's planned properly and funded generously, he'll get my vote in 2004. 2009 isn't that far away for the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing. Wouldn't that be feather in his cap?
Let's see how long this comment will take to get modded down to Troll.
All phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others.
I work in an outsourced call center for SprintPCS, and it's in the USA in the state equivalent of a third world country (No it's not Arkansas). I saw one account with a customer who successfully ported from AT&T to SprintPCS. I guess it's a choosing the devil you know and going to the the devil you don't. I have AT&T Wireless and do not plan on switching to SprintPCS. I was thinking about going to T-Mobile or US Cellular. We have no Verizon (but they use to be the ultra evil GTE).
I've not been disatisfied with AT&T, but then they haven't royally screwed me over, though getting a GSM phone gives me pause. I've heard the horror stories. I shan't go into the countless horror stories of SprintPCS that I deal with on a daily basis. And I do my best to fix the problems with the limited tools I have access to, but there is a few I know that I won't be able to resolve, so I get them off the phone as quickly as possible, because I know the odds of me talking to them again are nil. Now, I don't choose them because they don't have the coverage I need. Then there are people who actually like SprintPCS (I want some of those drugs), and some of them are friends and family.
So far I've taken very few calls regarding porting, but from what I've seen and heard it takes about a week for the porting to complete. You may be able to place calls, but no one can call you until the port is complete. And once the actual port out has started the carrier cannot attempt to save you or they get in big trouble with the FCC.
I'm sorry I never paid for SpamCop. Dunno if it would have helped, but of late (the last two months) the spamming has only gotten worse. I've had to implement the very hard to use AT&T Worldnet whitelist. It doesn't use your email address book. You have to enter each address one at a time. Nor does it bounce back to let you know your email is blocked (when testing the filter from another account). I guess it's time to check out SpamAssassin.
Let's play buzzword bingo today. Get out a scrap of paper and write down all the buzzwords you can think of. Try these on for size: leverage, startup, incubator, robust, enterprise, blah, blah, blah ...
I worked for a now defunct non-dot-com company that tried to become a dot-com and it succeeded in the fact that it failed like so many other dot-coms. One of the more hare-brained ideas was for an incubator incubator. I think he meant a some kind of factory for minting startup companies.
crashing copies of this as-yet-unreleased product are sure to cause dilution of branding.
If crashing causes dilution of branding then no one would think Microsoft when whatever flavor of Windows they have crashes...
...hang on a second...I just remembered I patented software crashing. I'll have to get my lawyers to start them royalty lawsuits. Pretty soon even my lawyers will be richer than God, and I'll be richer than Bill Gates! Brilliant!
Couch Potato: TiVo, what is good in life?
TiVo: To block commercials, delete them unseen, and hear the lamentation of their advertisers.
Couch Potato & TiVo: bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha! bwa-ha-hA-HA-HA!! BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
We've already gone through porting twice. Once for 800 numbers. And once for landline numbers.
To wireline and wireless companies November 24th is a day that will live in infamy. It only will be available for about the top 100 markets. Everyone else has to wait until May 2004. Consumers will be able to take their cellular numbers from one carrier to another. Say like from SprintPCS to Verizon, or from their landline to a cellular carrier like SBC to Cingular (they are really the same company), or from a cellular carrier to a landline like AT&T to Qwest. Keep in mind all phone companies are evil. Some are more evil than others.
That being said, if you decide to take advantage of Wireless Local Number Portability remember the magic word 'port'. The carrier won't mention it unless you do. To start the process contact the company you want to port to. They will take care of the rest, or rather they are supposed to. Do not cancel the service with the other carrier you are leaving until after the number has successfully ported to the new one or you are screwed. You will have to buy a new handset. There may some instances where you can hack the phone and use it on the new carrier. Once the porting process has started, your old carrier cannot attempt to save or they face hefty FCC fines. Don't be suprised if you see new fees associated with porting. You may be able to place calls with your new carrier before the porting is complete. Don't be surprised if you are assigned a temporary number on the new carrier, before the porting process is completed . The time from starting the porting process till the time everything goes through could be measured in hours, days, or weeks. Don't expect to get any firm answers from the providers. Expect it to take at least one day and as much as one week.
If you plan on staying with your current provider, get the best deal you can to stay with them but be wary of the fine print. Lastly if you do plan on switching and your contract is alreay expired I'd wait a few weeks or months to let the pent up demand play itself out and more importanlty all the glitches to be worked out. Yes they are supposed to be ready for it, but when a new service or product is rolled out there are always unforseen problems when ramping up.
How do I know all of this? I work for a stateside vendor call center outsourced to from one of the carriers expected to lose a lot of customers.
The future ain't what it used to be. Alas we have no paper clothes, moving sidewalks, flying cars, or orgasmatrons. Yet no one could have predicted the spork. Look at how it revolutionized our fast food industry. NOT a day goes by when I think about all those sporks I got at Kentucky Fried Chicken (before they changed their name to KFC). Truly a failure of imagination on the part of our futurists and science fiction writers.
If there is one unpredicted technological gadget that we must all worship and bow before it is the beer widget. A miracle! Of the widgeted stouts I've had both Beamish and Guiness. And Boddington's is pretty tasty too.
I think they should rent time to male college students to look into female student dorm windows or to look down on nude or topless beaches. Imagine the resolution? They'd certainly raise enough cash to keep Hubble going for at least another decade. They could use paypal. Instead of calling it Hubble Space Telescope they could call it the Hubba Hubba Nudiescope!
Only the top 100 markets will be able to port on November 24th. Everyone else won't get to port till May 2004
I work for a vendor who is outsourced from a carrier whose ranked near the bottom, so we are going to lose a lot of customers. We are geared up for number portability. Remember the word 'port'. PORT is the magic word. Use it every chance you get. Do not cancel your old service until you are ported to the new service. Or you are SCREWED! Anyway, you can take your landline to to wireless or wireless to landline or wireless to wireless.
Retirees in Wisconsin can move their landline to a cell phone and move to Arizona. The downside is any local callers in AZ will be long distance but friends in WI will be local. And w/ LD included your calls are local.
They must feel terribly guilty in being overpaid. I'd be more than happy to replace them at their currently salary. Once I feel guilty (in about 19-20 years), I'll gladly hand it over to someone else to take up the burden of being overpaid.
After seeing that last picture of the destroyed Enterprise hit by space junk. I am reminded of the prelude to the fight scene in the classic Trek episode Trouble With Tribbles:
Korax: We like the Enterprise - we really do.....that sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow! Half the quadrant knows it - that's why they're learning to speak Klingonese!
Scotty: Laddy, don't you think you should rephrase that?
Korax: You're right - I should....I didn't mean that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage.....I meant it should be hauled away AS garbage.
SMASH! BOOM! CRASH!
If somebody leaves a paper bag full of shit on your porch, rings the doorbell and runs away, ...
You forgot to set it on fire. How can you forget that? By the way, what's you address?
Stop being such a racist demagouge trying to blame all your problems on "foreigners."
WTF! You must be a liberal, because that's usually the first thing they love to do is play the race card. You don't know anything about me. I am not a racist demogogue. If anyone is prejudiced, it's you. Who said I was the blaming the foreigners? I'm blaming the companies for getting laws created that hurt both immigrants (turns H1-B's into hi-tech coolies), and citizens (sets up an unfair system to exclude them.)
Not only that, if you are skilled, employers for unskilled jobs are reluctant to hire you for fear you'll leave them as soon as you find a better job (which is true). Unless of course they know you can't find a better one because the economy sucks so bad (which is also true).
Skilled tech workers are in a double bind. Their jobs are being replaced by H1-B's, or outsourced overseas. The problem is companies go too far in reducing labor costs. Everyone wants the best bang for the buck. I do to, but you still have to spend money. It should be about getting the most value for your dollar and not spending the least you can possibly get away with.
I am entitled to my opinion. And my opinion is:
Gator is malicious spyware.
Gator is malicious spyware.
Gator is malicious spyware.
And did I say say that Gator is malicious spyware?
I addition I am also of the opinion that Xupiter is super-fucking malicious evil spyware.