I for one look forward to the day when robots take over and make humans their pets. Yup, that'll be the life... sleeping all day and pestering my robot overlord whenever it gets near the refrigerator.
I just hope I have luck and get a babe when they decide to breed me.
Well, that didn't happen to me two weeks ago. I never even got a message from anybody working there acknowledging the screwup... just thos canned marketing crappola responses. Heh, you can imagine how cheery I felt when I got their obnoxious little robo-sent "Did you get your CDs OK? Was everything perfect message?"
Uh, no... everthing WASN'T perfect, not that they showed any signs of caring any where along the line.
Any company can make a mistake, but it is outrageous to have to go to the artist to even get a CANNED response.
Yea, well I just had the problem with them and I didn't hear a damn word from them until the artist intervened. Even after that, it was nothing but those sugary canned emails. Service sucked IMO.
I just had a vey bad experience with CD Baby. I had bought a CD from them that was backordered. About nine months later it dawned on me I never got it. I contacted them via email about it and they did not respond. I had to contact the Artist (Paula Battaglia -- good CD when I got it) who contacted them before to get the issue resolved.
Heh, they'll send you cutsey email telling you you're their number on customer though. Well, they do take your money fast. I would prefer getting customer support myself.
And the music industry wonders why they're in trouble...
Heh, I was shocked my submission of the above article as a slashdot poll was rejected. Sure would have been better than that "gee, I wish I could think of a poll" crap they have running right now.
I can't wait to see a picture, snapped with their mobile phone, of the overpriced Starbuck's crapachino they just ordered. That'll be sweet!
Yup, thing just keep getting better... now we get to see pictures from peoples' monotonous lives as well as reading their whining. Don't the future sound grand?
Geezus, if they take your money and give you a ticket do you really think one of those brain-dead drones who tear it in half are going to stop you from entering?
The theaters enforce the ratings by NOT taking your money and giving you a ticket. If they took your money and then didn't honor your ticket you would have the force of the State on your side.
Lose the tinfoil hat. Licensing bars, clubs and public performances has been around forver. No city -- even the wonderful meccas on "the coasts" -- allow a person to promote a concert without getting permits.
If you're wondering why... think insurance. and if you want to dismiss that as a silly excuse, if you were at one of these venues where three hundred people got squished stampeding for a locked exit would you be one to blame the promoters for negligence?
Nah, you would likely be yet another libertarian calling some sleazey lawyer who's phone number you got off a TV ad.
The ironic thing about using horsepower as an exmple is the origin of the term. It was chosen to translate an idea about motive force into terms the horse users of the day could understand.
Maybe the internal combustion geeks understood something the byte geeks don't.
Uhh... aren't most criminal investigations confidential while they're being conducted? The "Secret Investigation" bit seems like a bit of over the top nonsense for a newspaper story lead.
Yea, let the FCC investigate then prosecute the scum. Fine by me.
No offense boss, but if the only job you and your fellow "programmers" could get was Radio Shack -- then your current employers could probably replace you with chimps and not miss a beat.
As an Adjunct Professor I can tell you computers don't last long at colleges.
In fact, it is downright amazing how many computer hard drives crash just before the end of the semester... and shucky darns the student didn't have a backup... so's they need more time to get the project in... yada, yada...
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Girdle of Storm Giant Strength? I wonder how many times I would have to bonk myself over the head with a baseball bat before I would ever type that in public?
Not to sound like I am picking on you, but Geeezus, it is a GAME. Ya pays your money and ya takes your chances. Nobody, nor no company, is required to attend to the health and welbeing of your IMAGINARY counterpart Dreamsmyth the killer elf.
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I know I'm hanging on every word you have to say. Calling everybody else stupid isn't a sign of introversion, it is a sign of arrogance.
That market is saturated pretty bad if you ask me.
I just hope I have luck and get a babe when they decide to breed me.
BTW, my mistake... it was Becky Barksdale, not Paula Battaglia who intervened. Sorry 'bout that.
Uh, no... everthing WASN'T perfect, not that they showed any signs of caring any where along the line.
Any company can make a mistake, but it is outrageous to have to go to the artist to even get a CANNED response.
Heh, they'll send you cutsey email telling you you're their number on customer though. Well, they do take your money fast. I would prefer getting customer support myself.
And the music industry wonders why they're in trouble...
Heh, I was shocked my submission of the above article as a slashdot poll was rejected. Sure would have been better than that "gee, I wish I could think of a poll" crap they have running right now.
Yup, thing just keep getting better... now we get to see pictures from peoples' monotonous lives as well as reading their whining. Don't the future sound grand?
The theaters enforce the ratings by NOT taking your money and giving you a ticket. If they took your money and then didn't honor your ticket you would have the force of the State on your side.
If you're wondering why... think insurance. and if you want to dismiss that as a silly excuse, if you were at one of these venues where three hundred people got squished stampeding for a locked exit would you be one to blame the promoters for negligence?
Nah, you would likely be yet another libertarian calling some sleazey lawyer who's phone number you got off a TV ad.
The ironic thing about using horsepower as an exmple is the origin of the term. It was chosen to translate an idea about motive force into terms the horse users of the day could understand. Maybe the internal combustion geeks understood something the byte geeks don't.
Yea, let the FCC investigate then prosecute the scum. Fine by me.
No offense boss, but if the only job you and your fellow "programmers" could get was Radio Shack -- then your current employers could probably replace you with chimps and not miss a beat.
As an Adjunct Professor I can tell you computers don't last long at colleges. In fact, it is downright amazing how many computer hard drives crash just before the end of the semester... and shucky darns the student didn't have a backup... so's they need more time to get the project in... yada, yada...
Girdle of Storm Giant Strength? I wonder how many times I would have to bonk myself over the head with a baseball bat before I would ever type that in public?
Not to sound like I am picking on you, but Geeezus, it is a GAME. Ya pays your money and ya takes your chances. Nobody, nor no company, is required to attend to the health and welbeing of your IMAGINARY counterpart Dreamsmyth the killer elf.