6. 6. 6. The number of MyCokeRewards Points
Posted by Matthew on 28 September, 2008
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Comcast, truly the root of evil
Posted by Matthew on 31 March, 2008
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Most excellent article on SiliconValley.com on the suckage that is Comcast, “Vindu’s View: Our love-hate relationship with Comcast”
My favorite:
“Most industries and most companies have much lower rates,” said Claes Fornell, who oversees the American Customer Satisfaction Index at the University of Michigan. “There’s only one industry that I know of that has a failure rate [...]
Best Buy is a bunch of conscienceless motherfuckers
Posted by Matthew on 22 January, 2008
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So, I’m down in Florida, and apparently, the genius that I am, I left my USB/PDA cable in Chicago. Realizing I had no way to recharge my cell phone without it, I head over to BestBuy after work to pick one up. I get the Dynex 4′ USB A to mini B 5-pin doohicky…get to [...]
Pure, unadulterated evil.
Posted by Matthew on 11 November, 2007
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So, I was playing around with ProQuo, a cool new site that allows you to opt-out of all sorts of drek (credit card offers, charity solicitations, and direct mail). For many of the types of opt-out, the site can automatically process the action (I’m assuming it’s hitting a web service of whatever trade group you’re [...]
Boy, do we love those South American strongmen
Posted by Matthew on 14 May, 2006
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President Evo Morales sent in the army on May 1 to occupy oil and gas fields owned by British Gas, Total of France, Repsol of Spain and Petrobras of Brazil. He said there was no need to pay, since the companies had already recovered their investments plus profits.
-Bolivian Says He Won’t Pay Energy Companies
Yes, because [...]
A real war on drugs
Posted by Matthew on 30 November, 2005
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Some 420 people have been hanged in Singapore since 1991, mostly for drug trafficking, an Amnesty International 2004 report said. That gives the country of 4.4 million people the highest execution rate in the world relative to population.
—Australia says Singapore hanging “barbaric”
You may have one of the world’s finest airlines, but you are a cold-hearted [...]
The face of evil
Posted by Matthew on 24 November, 2005
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I’ve long felt, as have many other pro-life people I know, that the purpose of some on the other side of this issue is to gin up the number of abortions performed to as high of a number as possible. But I could never figure out why.
Yet, after reading this (inadvertly) honest piece on AlterNet, [...]