And to address those of you bitching about movie release dates varying across the world, get over it. That shit has been going on for a very long time, and isn't going to change anytime soon. Learn to find something called "patience" again and wait one more week. Patience IS a valuable asset.
Not as valuable as my money...which neither you nor your corporate masters are getting your claws on, shill.
the store's have made few, if any efforts to curb returns of heavily used items
This is because the store wants their customers to return things if they're dissatisfied with them. A customer is not wrong for returning an item he is dissatisfied with.
Buying it simply to borrow it and return it however is extremely fucking unethical. The store takes a loss each and every time, and therefore the borrower is living off another man's back.
Cut the excuses in 3...2... just save it. If your mama never taught you right from wrong then I ain't about to.
Sigh... What part of my post did you read as "I wasn't getting paid enough"? I already said, I was paid quite nicely there. But no amount of money can help when the problem is wanting to do more.
Wow, way to go completely misreading his post. When did he say anything about "you not getting paid enough"? I re-read his post twice and didn't find that phrase anywhere, or any other mention of your pay. What I did see was a suggestion that you take your obvious skills (you're able to consistently increase portfolios of rich people? clearly you must have some skills) and apply them towards solving whatever problem you think it actually worth solving.
There's a reason every Japanese car made in the last 30 years has separate turn-signal and wiper stalks.
Yes, and it's the same reason GM, Ford, etc has theirs on the same stalk: because that's the decision they made years ago, it works fine, there's nothing wrong with it, and 95% of people have no trouble with it.
On my 02 Mustang, I love having all the controls are integrated into one stalk. Everything can be operated without taking my hands off the steering wheel. This isn't the case with my 86 Mustang, which has separate controls for everything. Either arrangement works fine for me though.
I do agree, from a business perspective, that having separate controls would be beneficial for those with poor motor control skills or other issues which keep them from properly operating the integrated setup. If it were me and I built cars, I would have mostly separate controls for things, and no touchscreen controls whatsoever.
All they need to do is put on display one sample in a clamshell package, plus plastic cards with the product's barcode. You can examine the sample product and if you want to buy one, you take one card to the cashier and someone in the back brings you the actual product in a box. No chance of theft, no chance of the store's entire inventory being damaged by careless shoppers.
No chance of increased revenue, since sales would plummet 30%.
I think a sword would be more appropriate. Two big ass swords, one in each hand, both wrapped in the most obnoxious and impenetrable clamshells ever designed. Then we'll put him in the ring and let him fight a lion.
Fry's puts taped up clamshells packages back up on their shelves.
And all this is doing using a robot, built by other robots, and powered by a zero point energy device I assume? In other words, at zero cost to the company.
The assholes you are used to dealing with (customers and retail store owners/employees) are in no way representative of the average decent person.
In my experience, most people who label themselves and their buddies as "average, decent people" while calling a huge portion of the rest of us "assholes", are actually themselves some of the biggest assholes around.
No, asshole, the return policy doesn't "allow" this at all. The no hassle return policy is designed to make customers' lives easier, not to encourage them to have no ethics...though some people need no encouragement at all, it seems.
Why shouldn't I have a social network aggregator that lets me keep in touch with friends no matter which network they are part of?
You're on the right track.
Here's what's coming: a distributed social networking app.
I believe the main thing holding it back right now is the sore lack of good Web technologies. "Web 2.0" is a fucking joke. HTML5 is not much better. With a good "Web" standard (i.e. communications protocol) with the proper capabilities, someone can then create a social network which does not rely on a central authority.
Hell, maybe I'll even be the one to invent it myself, if nobody else gets around to it first.
I'm not really sure what facebook could do with a phone.
Perhaps to keep themselves afloat after someone develops a decentralized "Web 3.0" social networking app, thus destroying their monopoly practically overnight.
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Now any of us who would have liked to obtain and use one of these gets to fret about how much BETTER the holiday could have been, rather than actually having the gadget operating and ENJOYING it.
Boo hoo! I guess you'll have to do your OWN research next time....ASSHOLE!
To my fellow geeks, if you've never grilled now's the time to start! If you fail, don't worry. This is how you learn, like learning how much you hate java but don't mine C#. But the secret? The secret is to find a sauce,.... etc etc continuing on
LOL....some of the graffiti in the latrines over there was truly epic. I don't really remember any choice lines, but I do remember epic flame wars between Army, Air Force, Navy, etc. Lots of crossed out words with substitutions written in, criticism of grammar and spelling errors, and other toilet humor.... Hey, now I know where that phrase comes from.
As a military veteran with friends and family who also served in the military (some who have been in combat), I'd like to offer you the most sincere heartfelt sentiment I can think of: Fuck You.
As a military veteran with friends and family who also served in the military (some who have been in combat, myself included..), I'd like to offer you the most sincere heartfelt sentiment I can think of: Fuck You.
Get off your fucking high horse.
Memorial Day is about barbeques and yellow banners. Nothing more.
Sure, that's always how it starts. Then eventually they pile more and more and more and more fucking rules on everybody, until the whole goddamn thing collapses inward on itself from the weight of all the "know better than yous" and their "this is for your own good, I promise" "rules."
Fuck this bullshit. If I don't web sites tracking me, then I should not a) run insecure software which allows them to do so, or b) visit said web sites. More laws is NOT the answer.
Far better people than him die everyday and no one gives a shit about them.
Really? Founders of multi-billion dollar companies (who each touched the lives of everyone) die everyday in your country? Where is this land of milk and honey, so I can move there?
Thousands of people die every year and we only seem to care about the ones who are rich or on magazine covers.
Well fuck, man. You did know that life is a competition......right? We have too goddamn many people here already as it is, and things are only going to get worse the more who are born into it. Some people I care about, sure, but others simply aren't worth the effort to help. No, sorry, I don't give a fuck if some random hobo on the street, or some idiot elsewhere dies because he's too damn stupid or mentally ill to take care of himself. Go ahead and spend all your resources trying to save him if you want. I'm too busy contributing towards humanity's future.
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And to address those of you bitching about movie release dates varying across the world, get over it. That shit has been going on for a very long time, and isn't going to change anytime soon. Learn to find something called "patience" again and wait one more week. Patience IS a valuable asset.
Not as valuable as my money...which neither you nor your corporate masters are getting your claws on, shill.
Aww.... U MAD BRO?
the store's have made few, if any efforts to curb returns of heavily used items
This is because the store wants their customers to return things if they're dissatisfied with them. A customer is not wrong for returning an item he is dissatisfied with.
Buying it simply to borrow it and return it however is extremely fucking unethical. The store takes a loss each and every time, and therefore the borrower is living off another man's back.
Cut the excuses in 3...2... just save it. If your mama never taught you right from wrong then I ain't about to.
Sigh... What part of my post did you read as "I wasn't getting paid enough"? I already said, I was paid quite nicely there. But no amount of money can help when the problem is wanting to do more.
Wow, way to go completely misreading his post. When did he say anything about "you not getting paid enough"? I re-read his post twice and didn't find that phrase anywhere, or any other mention of your pay. What I did see was a suggestion that you take your obvious skills (you're able to consistently increase portfolios of rich people? clearly you must have some skills) and apply them towards solving whatever problem you think it actually worth solving.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
There's a reason every Japanese car made in the last 30 years has separate turn-signal and wiper stalks.
Yes, and it's the same reason GM, Ford, etc has theirs on the same stalk: because that's the decision they made years ago, it works fine, there's nothing wrong with it, and 95% of people have no trouble with it.
On my 02 Mustang, I love having all the controls are integrated into one stalk. Everything can be operated without taking my hands off the steering wheel. This isn't the case with my 86 Mustang, which has separate controls for everything. Either arrangement works fine for me though.
I do agree, from a business perspective, that having separate controls would be beneficial for those with poor motor control skills or other issues which keep them from properly operating the integrated setup. If it were me and I built cars, I would have mostly separate controls for things, and no touchscreen controls whatsoever.
All they need to do is put on display one sample in a clamshell package, plus plastic cards with the product's barcode. You can examine the sample product and if you want to buy one, you take one card to the cashier and someone in the back brings you the actual product in a box. No chance of theft, no chance of the store's entire inventory being damaged by careless shoppers.
No chance of increased revenue, since sales would plummet 30%.
Might want to rethink this idea, junior.
I think a sword would be more appropriate. Two big ass swords, one in each hand, both wrapped in the most obnoxious and impenetrable clamshells ever designed. Then we'll put him in the ring and let him fight a lion.
Fry's puts taped up clamshells packages back up on their shelves.
And all this is doing using a robot, built by other robots, and powered by a zero point energy device I assume? In other words, at zero cost to the company.
The assholes you are used to dealing with (customers and retail store owners/employees) are in no way representative of the average decent person.
In my experience, most people who label themselves and their buddies as "average, decent people" while calling a huge portion of the rest of us "assholes", are actually themselves some of the biggest assholes around.
I should know, because I'm one of them.
No, asshole, the return policy doesn't "allow" this at all. The no hassle return policy is designed to make customers' lives easier, not to encourage them to have no ethics...though some people need no encouragement at all, it seems.
Why shouldn't I have a social network aggregator that lets me keep in touch with friends no matter which network they are part of?
You're on the right track.
Here's what's coming: a distributed social networking app.
I believe the main thing holding it back right now is the sore lack of good Web technologies. "Web 2.0" is a fucking joke. HTML5 is not much better. With a good "Web" standard (i.e. communications protocol) with the proper capabilities, someone can then create a social network which does not rely on a central authority.
Hell, maybe I'll even be the one to invent it myself, if nobody else gets around to it first.
If even 90% of the people or organizations you call would have their number listed in Facebook ...
What if only 87% have their number in FB though?
I'm not really sure what facebook could do with a phone.
Perhaps to keep themselves afloat after someone develops a decentralized "Web 3.0" social networking app, thus destroying their monopoly practically overnight.
Facebook is terrible.
YW
Now any of us who would have liked to obtain and use one of these gets to fret about how much BETTER the holiday could have been, rather than actually having the gadget operating and ENJOYING it.
Boo hoo! I guess you'll have to do your OWN research next time....ASSHOLE!
To my fellow geeks, if you've never grilled now's the time to start! If you fail, don't worry. This is how you learn, like learning how much you hate java but don't mine C#. But the secret? The secret is to find a sauce, .... etc etc continuing on
I see what you did there.
The Civil War was "unavoidable"? Are you kidding me? The two nations going their separate ways peacefully wasn't an option?
LOL....some of the graffiti in the latrines over there was truly epic. I don't really remember any choice lines, but I do remember epic flame wars between Army, Air Force, Navy, etc. Lots of crossed out words with substitutions written in, criticism of grammar and spelling errors, and other toilet humor. ... Hey, now I know where that phrase comes from.
As a military veteran with friends and family who also served in the military (some who have been in combat), I'd like to offer you the most sincere heartfelt sentiment I can think of: Fuck You.
As a military veteran with friends and family who also served in the military (some who have been in combat, myself included..), I'd like to offer you the most sincere heartfelt sentiment I can think of: Fuck You.
Get off your fucking high horse.
Memorial Day is about barbeques and yellow banners. Nothing more.
It's not too hard to conform with the rules.
Sure, that's always how it starts. Then eventually they pile more and more and more and more fucking rules on everybody, until the whole goddamn thing collapses inward on itself from the weight of all the "know better than yous" and their "this is for your own good, I promise" "rules."
Fuck this bullshit. If I don't web sites tracking me, then I should not a) run insecure software which allows them to do so, or b) visit said web sites. More laws is NOT the answer.
No, you're a dumb ass who didn't learn from history. GP has it right
....is this a joke?
Far better people than him die everyday and no one gives a shit about them.
Really? Founders of multi-billion dollar companies (who each touched the lives of everyone) die everyday in your country? Where is this land of milk and honey, so I can move there?
Thousands of people die every year and we only seem to care about the ones who are rich or on magazine covers.
Well fuck, man. You did know that life is a competition......right? We have too goddamn many people here already as it is, and things are only going to get worse the more who are born into it. Some people I care about, sure, but others simply aren't worth the effort to help. No, sorry, I don't give a fuck if some random hobo on the street, or some idiot elsewhere dies because he's too damn stupid or mentally ill to take care of himself. Go ahead and spend all your resources trying to save him if you want. I'm too busy contributing towards humanity's future.
Are you mad that your schematics will never fetch a tenth of a fraction of that?