Why is it that people who want business to operate in a state of anarchy call anyone who doesn't a communist or socialist? If the rule of law is a good thing everywhere else, it is good in business, too. It is high time people who "get it" that business needs to be regulated called the Enron conservatives what they are. Anarchists. Deregulation makes "might is right" the only law.
Yes, when your brother and his cronies fix the election for you in the one disputed state, you get more electoral votes. America sat idly by and allowed a coup. No wonder Bush, and "that general guy," Pervez Musharraf get along so well. They are both dictators.
If Al Gore were president, Tipper Gore would be First Lady, and the RIAA would have to answer to her all over again, only this time, she would be a lot more powerful. I wish Tipper Gore was First Lady. The recording industry deserves her. She would get Al to veto any Pro RIAA crap coming out of Congress. It is a shame we let Bush enter the White House when he did not win the election.
Piracy is a paper tiger. Those who have discovered new artists through file trading have spent more money than the "freeloaders," most of whom wouldn't have bought anyway, have held on to. I suggest having a look at this Life In Hell comic strip from 1988. It shows that the RIAA's whining about piracy was BS then, and is BS now. The music biz first said player piano reels were killing them, then said the radio giving away free music was killing them, and so on. It's the same old BS.
If the record labels weren't stupid, they would have offered Napster, Morpheus, and the like payola to make artists on their labels appear in searches first. Because downloading appeared to threaten their power over artists, they crushed Napster, and try to crush all file trading, damming up a huge potential revenue stream. When opportunity knocks, the stupid bar the door. The ultimate insult was calling us all theives by making "copy protected" disks that won't play in a computer. boycott the stupid recording industry.
The Recording industry calls its paying customers theives. No such industry deserves to have any customers. Boycott the recording industry. Kudos to Verizon and Yahoo for refusing to be their goon squad, and realizing that privacy is one of the things we pay our ISPs for each month.
Laws are made to disenfranchise and incarcerate the poor so Boom and Muffy Country Club will be safe from the likes of us. They don't apply to rich people like the Bushes. They can snort Coke all they want.
Violence and militancy are no exclusively Muslim. Look at the Christians in Northern Ireland. Nothing divides us into hostile groups of us and them more than religion. All the atrocities in human history have been committed in the name of a god or religion. Religion is poison. Everyone should listen to "Imagine" by John Lennon, and think about what he was trying to say with that song.
I tried a service like that called Intertainer from my broadband company, Zoomtown. The streaming video broke down, and became like a series of slides. There was just not enough bandwidth to make it work.
Movies streaming over the net could be a great alternative to cable and satellite TV if they could get it to work, but what I have seen so far was too poor in quality.
I got a free wireless audio/video transmitter to watch streaming video in the living on my TV for trying Intertainer. That at least was cool.
Dude, did you read it? Didn't think so. The end user had the Officejet G-85 less than one month. It was still in warranty. The end user had a lemon they had just paid $400 dollars for, and HP could not be bothered with them.
About the paragraphs; they went poof when I cut and pasted text from a word document. I didn't fix them, because I was in a hurry to post. Besides, slashdot is not a college English course.
I am an A+, and HP certified technician, and I feel people deserve to know what HP put one of my customers through. Maybe they will refrain from buying a Hewlett-Packard Bell, and be spared a lot of headaches. Your callous attitude reminds me of the tech support people at HP. Do you work for them?
Companies that take their customers money, and run don't deserve to have any customers. Customer service and customer satisfaction need to be more than buzzwords, as Packard Bell learned, and so many other defunct companies.
By the way, why did you post as anonymous coward, and then give your name and e-mail? You are going to get flamed by a lot of people who HP has screwed over.
HP's first mistake was by passing the buck to an ASP instead of helping the customer themselves. The people who answer the phones either don't know or don't care which products and ASP can repair, and which ones we may only "facilitate," but they seem to refer things tehy won't even let us fix all the time. When we have to call them, their tech support people just read info from the same screens we could have at their website, but the website can't give a case number or authorization. It's a mess.
I fix HP, and other brands. The following is a true story about an Officejet G-85 a customer brought in for repair that would not fax or receive fax. It gave an error message, and prompted to cycle power when either was attempted.
HP is a sinking ship.
Before the merger, HP had serious problems, all of which have been aggravated since the merger. They have lost market share, and are losing money and don't for a minute think it's because they give lousy customer service. I am a repair technician. Recently, a customer who bought an Officejet G-85, a single unit that prints, scans, faxes and copies. It failed in about a month, but more than 14 days, so the retailer wouldn't take it back. The end User called HP.
Lexmark, Brother, or just about any other manufacturer would have replaced the unit, but the customer was told to take their G-85 to an authorized service provider, so it came to me. My company was not able to repair the unit. Like all ASPs, we were only authorized to "facilitate repair" by sending it in to HP. They sent me a replacement with no automatic document feeder; with out which the unit was useless. When I complained, they said one was on it's way, but instead sent a manual and cable set. This whole process took three weeks.
At this point, I asked HP to just send the end user a new G-85, as they should have done in the first place. They refused, and sent me a document feeder, but the emblem that says HP Officejet G-85 was missing. Again, the unit was incomplete, and I could not return it to the user. By now, it had been one month.
I e-mailed Carly Fiorina, and called their headquarters, all they did was offer phony apologies, and pass the buck, blaming other people. Eventually, the end user, called HP, and was accused of wanting something for nothing by a man named Jim Williams. He told me at that point that he was going on vacation, but the problem would be handled. The end user would get a new unit. A week later, I heard from the end user, who still had nothing. I e-mailed and called again. Finally, they replaced the end user's unit with a new one. It had been nearly six weeks. They also kept sending me parts, including a second document feeder, worth $185.00 retail. When it was over, they asked me to return the G-85 base unit only, without either automatic document feeder, the accessories, or the manual and cable kit. They instructed me to just throw away more than $400 dollars worth of parts. How can a company that is losing money afford to just throw away four hundred dollars, when they couldn't afford to give an end user any customer service or customer satisfaction at the outset? I have not thrown away the parts, and hope I will have an opportunity to use them, but I don't have a lot of storage space. HP has angered a customer who will never buy their products again, and probably tell dozens of people why. They have also made a service technician, namely me, lose confidence in their products, and stop recommending them to anyone. HP is a sinking ship because Carly Fiorina, and the entire executive staff view their customers as a dirt-cheap commodity, and take them for granted. Based on the news, they must also think that their employees are a cheap commodity, too. People are starting to call them Hewlett Packard Bell all over again, and this time, it is not because they are confusing two companies.
For a while, it looked like HP had the balls to stand up to Microshaft, but they clearly don't. Dell does. The meek shall inherit the dirt. HP is circling the drain. Dude, you're getting a Dell.
If the selection of titles is good, the quality of the downloads is flawless, and they don't use spyware, this could be a big hit. CDs could be a big hit if they were $7.99 each, instead of nearly $20.00. Even when the economy recovers, no one is going to pay what CDs cost.
The US desparrately needs campaign finance reform. Unfortunately, the people who could ban legalized bribery wont because they are the ones taking the bribes.
Get your music onto mp3.com and other such outlets, get your indie band's website onto a server that can handle the slashdod effect, and tour constantly, selling CDs at the shows for five bucks. No one can or will pay 15 or 20. Also, find other places to play than bars. Providing background music for drunks to drink to won't get you very far.
Unless you want to spend 20 hours per week fixing this computer every time they hose it up, get them a typewriter. Never give a computer to or build a computer for reletives, unless you want them to call with technical questions while you try to eat, sleep, or make love to your wife. They will make you wish you had never heard of computers. Don't even get me started on all the virus hoaxes and sick kid letters they will email you by the dozen once they discover the net. Be afraid! Be very afraid!
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Why is it that people who want business to operate in a state of anarchy call anyone who doesn't a communist or socialist? If the rule of law is a good thing everywhere else, it is good in business, too. It is high time people who "get it" that business needs to be regulated called the Enron conservatives what they are. Anarchists. Deregulation makes "might is right" the only law.
Yes, when your brother and his cronies fix the election for you in the one disputed state, you get more electoral votes. America sat idly by and allowed a coup. No wonder Bush, and "that general guy," Pervez Musharraf get along so well. They are both dictators.
An illegitimate sound recording is one whose parents were not married before it was born, a bastard.
Will they change the url to www.napster.cum?
If Al Gore were president, Tipper Gore would be First Lady, and the RIAA would have to answer to her all over again, only this time, she would be a lot more powerful. I wish Tipper Gore was First Lady. The recording industry deserves her. She would get Al to veto any Pro RIAA crap coming out of Congress. It is a shame we let Bush enter the White House when he did not win the election.
I saw some math humor at Uncoveror.com.Something about tipping the maid. It's a word problem. I was never good at those.
Nobody wants to look at naked pictures of that fat ho! That could turn a man gay.
You left a space in that link. It's http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/ stupidwhitemen/onlinechapters/part01.php This one should work.
Piracy is a paper tiger. Those who have discovered new artists through file trading have spent more money than the "freeloaders," most of whom wouldn't have bought anyway, have held on to. I suggest having a look at this Life In Hell comic strip from 1988. It shows that the RIAA's whining about piracy was BS then, and is BS now. The music biz first said player piano reels were killing them, then said the radio giving away free music was killing them, and so on. It's the same old BS.
If the record labels weren't stupid, they would have offered Napster, Morpheus, and the like payola to make artists on their labels appear in searches first. Because downloading appeared to threaten their power over artists, they crushed Napster, and try to crush all file trading, damming up a huge potential revenue stream. When opportunity knocks, the stupid bar the door. The ultimate insult was calling us all theives by making "copy protected" disks that won't play in a computer. boycott the stupid recording industry.
The Recording industry calls its paying customers theives. No such industry deserves to have any customers. Boycott the recording industry. Kudos to Verizon and Yahoo for refusing to be their goon squad, and realizing that privacy is one of the things we pay our ISPs for each month.
Laws are made to disenfranchise and incarcerate the poor so Boom and Muffy Country Club will be safe from the likes of us. They don't apply to rich people like the Bushes. They can snort Coke all they want.
Violence and militancy are no exclusively Muslim. Look at the Christians in Northern Ireland. Nothing divides us into hostile groups of us and them more than religion. All the atrocities in human history have been committed in the name of a god or religion. Religion is poison. Everyone should listen to "Imagine" by John Lennon, and think about what he was trying to say with that song.
Florida is a banana republic. They want voting machines that allow them to easily fix elections. They don't want one that works.
That thing looks like a satellite dish on a surfboard. I almost expect to see Silver Surfer kicked back, watching the tube on it.
I tried a service like that called Intertainer from my broadband company, Zoomtown. The streaming video broke down, and became like a series of slides. There was just not enough bandwidth to make it work.
Movies streaming over the net could be a great alternative to cable and satellite TV if they could get it to work, but what I have seen so far was too poor in quality.
I got a free wireless audio/video transmitter to watch streaming video in the living on my TV for trying Intertainer. That at least was cool.
Dude, did you read it? Didn't think so. The end user had the Officejet G-85 less than one month. It was still in warranty. The end user had a lemon they had just paid $400 dollars for, and HP could not be bothered with them.
About the paragraphs; they went poof when I cut and pasted text from a word document. I didn't fix them, because I was in a hurry to post. Besides, slashdot is not a college English course.
I am an A+, and HP certified technician, and I feel people deserve to know what HP put one of my customers through. Maybe they will refrain from buying a Hewlett-Packard Bell, and be spared a lot of headaches. Your callous attitude reminds me of the tech support people at HP. Do you work for them?
Companies that take their customers money, and run don't deserve to have any customers. Customer service and customer satisfaction need to be more than buzzwords, as Packard Bell learned, and so many other defunct companies.
By the way, why did you post as anonymous coward, and then give your name and e-mail? You are going to get flamed by a lot of people who HP has screwed over.
HP's first mistake was by passing the buck to an ASP instead of helping the customer themselves. The people who answer the phones either don't know or don't care which products and ASP can repair, and which ones we may only "facilitate," but they seem to refer things tehy won't even let us fix all the time. When we have to call them, their tech support people just read info from the same screens we could have at their website, but the website can't give a case number or authorization. It's a mess.
I fix HP, and other brands. The following is a true story about an Officejet G-85 a customer brought in for repair that would not fax or receive fax. It gave an error message, and prompted to cycle power when either was attempted. HP is a sinking ship. Before the merger, HP had serious problems, all of which have been aggravated since the merger. They have lost market share, and are losing money and don't for a minute think it's because they give lousy customer service. I am a repair technician. Recently, a customer who bought an Officejet G-85, a single unit that prints, scans, faxes and copies. It failed in about a month, but more than 14 days, so the retailer wouldn't take it back. The end User called HP. Lexmark, Brother, or just about any other manufacturer would have replaced the unit, but the customer was told to take their G-85 to an authorized service provider, so it came to me. My company was not able to repair the unit. Like all ASPs, we were only authorized to "facilitate repair" by sending it in to HP. They sent me a replacement with no automatic document feeder; with out which the unit was useless. When I complained, they said one was on it's way, but instead sent a manual and cable set. This whole process took three weeks. At this point, I asked HP to just send the end user a new G-85, as they should have done in the first place. They refused, and sent me a document feeder, but the emblem that says HP Officejet G-85 was missing. Again, the unit was incomplete, and I could not return it to the user. By now, it had been one month. I e-mailed Carly Fiorina, and called their headquarters, all they did was offer phony apologies, and pass the buck, blaming other people. Eventually, the end user, called HP, and was accused of wanting something for nothing by a man named Jim Williams. He told me at that point that he was going on vacation, but the problem would be handled. The end user would get a new unit. A week later, I heard from the end user, who still had nothing. I e-mailed and called again. Finally, they replaced the end user's unit with a new one. It had been nearly six weeks. They also kept sending me parts, including a second document feeder, worth $185.00 retail. When it was over, they asked me to return the G-85 base unit only, without either automatic document feeder, the accessories, or the manual and cable kit. They instructed me to just throw away more than $400 dollars worth of parts. How can a company that is losing money afford to just throw away four hundred dollars, when they couldn't afford to give an end user any customer service or customer satisfaction at the outset? I have not thrown away the parts, and hope I will have an opportunity to use them, but I don't have a lot of storage space. HP has angered a customer who will never buy their products again, and probably tell dozens of people why. They have also made a service technician, namely me, lose confidence in their products, and stop recommending them to anyone. HP is a sinking ship because Carly Fiorina, and the entire executive staff view their customers as a dirt-cheap commodity, and take them for granted. Based on the news, they must also think that their employees are a cheap commodity, too. People are starting to call them Hewlett Packard Bell all over again, and this time, it is not because they are confusing two companies.
For a while, it looked like HP had the balls to stand up to Microshaft, but they clearly don't. Dell does. The meek shall inherit the dirt. HP is circling the drain. Dude, you're getting a Dell.
If the selection of titles is good, the quality of the downloads is flawless, and they don't use spyware, this could be a big hit. CDs could be a big hit if they were $7.99 each, instead of nearly $20.00. Even when the economy recovers, no one is going to pay what CDs cost.
The US desparrately needs campaign finance reform. Unfortunately, the people who could ban legalized bribery wont because they are the ones taking the bribes.
Get your music onto mp3.com and other such outlets, get your indie band's website onto a server that can handle the slashdod effect, and tour constantly, selling CDs at the shows for five bucks. No one can or will pay 15 or 20. Also, find other places to play than bars. Providing background music for drunks to drink to won't get you very far.
Unless you want to spend 20 hours per week fixing this computer every time they hose it up, get them a typewriter. Never give a computer to or build a computer for reletives, unless you want them to call with technical questions while you try to eat, sleep, or make love to your wife. They will make you wish you had never heard of computers. Don't even get me started on all the virus hoaxes and sick kid letters they will email you by the dozen once they discover the net. Be afraid! Be very afraid!