Mail-In Rebates
Attention companies of the world who utilize mail-in rebates: Fuck you.
Quagmire Explains the Situation
Everyone Knows Darth Vader is Awesome
Companies are always trying to find a way to differentiate their products, and lately viral marketing has started making even the most staunch consumer want to vomit on their netbook, TomTom nails how to execute a viral marketing campaign with this clip, an instant classic.
GOP’s Lamest Generation Encourages Domestic Terrorism
The so-called Greatest Generation is striving to become the Lamest Generation. Power-crazed conservatives in the GOP spearheaded by John McCain have thrown their lot in with extremist domestic terrorists and will leave a weakened legacy for future generations. A generation of people once regarded as heroes are risking their reputations and honor in order to play dirty politics and screw over the American people.
The GOP has ceased to be a party of patriots. They have been waylaid by extremist radicals that threaten the security of America.
Sarah Palin, John McCain and John Boehner are playing a dangerous game. They are encouraging violence, aggression and armed revolt over a domestic issue that should be a slam-dunk: healthcare for all Americans.
How did we get to this? How did the Greatest Generation turn into the Lamest Generation?
John McCain used to be an honorable war hero. He successfully portrayed himself as a maverick, populist figure. Seeing his behavior now, I thank God that he did not ascend to the Presidency.
Why does the Greatest Generation hate America?
Why does the Sarah Palin and the GOP encourage violence and domestic terrorism?
Why does the GOP want to derail the greatest piece of legislation to come out of Washington D.C. in fifty years?
There is an opportunity to create a lasting and meaningful legacy. Both houses of Congress can show future generations that a post 9/11 America can work together. Both houses of Congress worked together in the immediate months and years after 9/11, but once the Republicans lost power, then suddenly the time for America “working together” and bi-partisanship became a side note. A literal punch-line. Talk about sore losers.
The Republicans have incessantly stoked the fires of fear and hatred. It lost them an election in 2008, yet they continue to feed a reign of domestic terror, bigotry and hatred. The Republicans in the GOP is no longer the Grand Old Party, they have lost their way and as long as they advocate violence and rage all they will accomplish is driving people away from the Republican party.
Extremists of any type should be shunned, but for a group of people who mandated endless war to help foreigners - without a payment plan, it is ludicrous that anyone is AGAINST any plan that will help all Americans! There is no price too great to guarantee security for America. That’s just one of the stories they told the America to promote their underfunded war.
In this story in 2006, they couldn’t even account for $4 BILLION dollars but they’re afraid to spend a nickel to help you and your children.
This is wrong.
It is wrong for the Republican party to promote hatred.
It is wrong for the Republican party to stand by while fellow Americans are attacked.
It is wrong for the Republican party to attack the future of America.
The Republican party has lost their way. It’s time for America to, “Just Say NO!”
Republicans don’t love America anymore. Shame on John McCain, shame on Glenn Beck, shame on Sara Palin, shame on Michelle Bachmann, shame on John Boehner, shame on Rush Limbaugh…the list goes on.
Vote the Republicans out.
Vote them out now.
Cell Phone Prices
Cell phones are ubiquitous for most people in technologically current countries. Cell phones are almost as prolific as America Online disks, yet, unlike America Online disks, cell phones have not become free, rather, the price of a cell phone has sky-rocketed since inception.
Mobile carries push you to get a new phone every two years or more frequently, they cajole you into going for services that are pointless (TXT, mobile web, GPS), and they convince you that it’s OK to pay hundreds of dollars a month to subscribe to their phone service…yet they also want to rip you off by making you PAY for the phone!
Consider a cell phone bill of $25 a month for unlimited everything. This is far less that what most folks pay nowadays, but will serve for illustrative purposes nicely.
At the rate of $25 a month, a cell phone company will get $600 per year from a consumer. Over the course of two years, that’s $1200, yet they STILL would want to charge you for the privilege of PAYING them for a phone? AND they want to contractually FORCE you to pay them and only them for a period of two years?
Poppycock!
Cell phone companies are ripping off consumers. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, ad infinitum. They simply picked up in the digital age where the Ma Bell left off in the age of analog! Even if you don’t remember ever paying to make a long distance call, rest assured, the old phone companies made billions and billionsof dollars off of folks who just wanted to call their family who lived far away. They ripped us off then, and now cell phone companies are ripping us off now.
Similar price points across cell phone companies, coupled with two-year locked-down contracts are clear examples of industry-wide collusion.
So did the Telecommunications Act of 1996 work as intended? It depends.
If your bill for monthly phone service has increased, it’s a safe bet that the promise of more competition has failed miserably.
If, on the other hand, you are scoring record profits from every new gadget and price point your ram down the throats of your customers, then it’s a safe bet that you are reaping exactly what you expected and laughing all the way to the bank. Oh hell, you’re not even going to the bank, you’re doing free wire transfers to Switzerland over telecommunication lines you own! Enjoy the money while you can - you can’t take it with you.
Win-Win with Windows 7!
I wouldn’t say I download a lot of porn. I am not completely immune to any potential bugs or virii floating around the internet. But I am currently running a 64-bit version of Windows 7 without any anti-virus software installed. I have an Office suite, and I am reading e-mail and I download e-mail attachments that come from trustworthy sources…I just haven’t loaded anti-virus software.
I know I can clean it up if I am infected. I do have a backup solution in place. It would be possible for me to format my disk and start anew if conditions dictated…but for now I am debating the merits of installing anti-virus software at all.
Windows 7 is trucking right along on my computer system. It records movies and finds them on my hard drive. It features my pictures and changes my wallpaper every few minutes, and it is always there when I want it.
It really is the best operating system Microsoft has released, ever.
If you are a fan of Windows XP but hate Vista, then make the jump to Windows 7. Windows 7 has improved the feature that will allow you to transfer all your files and settings from your XP computer to your Windows 7 computer (Software is here. Instructions are here). If you are running Vista, do not hesitate to upgrade to Windows 7, and if you use another operating system, give Windows 7 a try, you may still return to your preferred operating system, but you will admit that this time, Microsoft got it right.
I am not here to sell you Windows, I am not here to tell you it’s better than anything else. I can say: it just works. It works better than any of its predecessors and it’s a worthy upgrade.
Windows 7 will be a big enough target that I will install anti-virus software, but I have been enjoying not having any external updaters running every time I touch my keyboard. See you at the party!
6 Reasons Why the Minnesota Twins can beat the New York Yankees
1. The top of the batting order will feature seven power hitters: Denard Span, Orlando Cabrera, Joe Mauer, Jason Kubel, Michael Cuddyer, Delmon Young, Jose Morales.
2. The bottom of the order features two scrappy gamers that have delivered clutch hits when needed: Matt Tolbert and Nick Punto.
3. The Twins have nothing to lose while the Yankees, well, they’re the Yankees and everyone expects them to win the World Series.
4. The Twins play stellar defense. Always have, always will.
5. Twins pitching is solid, the bullpen is rock-solid.
6. The Metrodome Curse. The Metrodome is very angry that the Twins are leaving for a newer, sexier outdoor stadium. The Metrodome has called down the forces of thunder and merged cosmic powers with denizens of the underworld. The Metrodome’s phantasmal horde will usurp the power and magic of all opposing teams and will lead Minnesota to a final World Series Championship before cursing the Twins and banishing them from playoff appearances until such time as they relocate to again play baseball on the Metrodome’s premises.
World at War
There is not exact formula for surviving an ambush. There are general guidelines for surviving an ambush, but that doesn’t mean they will work. Generally speaking, if you are not mounted and you are in a close-fire ambush, there is one way out: assault the ambush. You can take cover, pop smoke, toss grenades, etc. but the bottom line is you MUST go INTO the line of fire.
This formula is simple enough on paper, but it must be practiced repeatedly. When reacting to any ambush, most will not seek to close with the enemy.
Reacting to indirect warfare is more difficult. The unconventional warfare of silent killer is the enemy who never directly engages you. This enemy lays in wait. He may work behind the scenes with both your friendlies and your enemies in order to defeat you. This enemy cannot be directly engaged.
At the first sign of confrontation, this enemy disappears in order to continue the insurgency with unconventional and psychological warfare methods. Over time, the poison injected by indirect warfare can topple even the mightiest occupier.
My brother-in-law was ambushed on October 1st, 2009. None of these techniques would have helped him. The ambusher fired a single RPG, killing one of their high school buddies.
End this fucking war.
We’re not dead yet
Here watch this guy getting a botfly removed from his back!