Nothing really new to bitch about, just that I can't fucking stand having to work in groups for school shit. I can't wait until I'm finished with this goddamned bullshit.
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Nothing really new to bitch about, just that I can't fucking stand having to work in groups for school shit. I can't wait until I'm finished with this goddamned bullshit.
I'm about |__________| close to quitting the whole full-time thing and becoming an independent contractor.
My housemate and his friends are nocturnal. Right now as I'm typing this at 12:50 AM, the phone is ringing. I am certain it's one of his friends calling, which is why I'm just letting it ring. Seriously...don't people know about cut offs? You don't call people past midnight unless they're living alone. What if not everyone is nocturnal? What if his housemate (i.e. me) is sleeping?
Fucking retards.
That's when you pick up the phone and tell them off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Board of Command
Do it man. More pay, no 'identifying with corporate values' bullshit and best of all, no one to actually respect as your boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by AssertnFailure
No can do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaitne
I used to be able to do 300 sit ups a day, stopped working out a few months ago and now I can only manage to get up to 150.
this week is my week from hell. too much work and school and socializing and not enough relaxing and sleeping. i'm having tons of fun with my coworkers and friends, but i'm also stressed and exhausted.
i've taken a long absense from my favorite thread....
this bitching is a day late.... got a (*#U%(@*& speeding ticket yesterday...
i've been working really hard and have been running a small computer business on the side thinking i was doing good making extra money just to have some bitch ass cop give me a $240 ticket when i wasn't even at the peak of my accelleration. i didn't even ask to see the radar or anything cause i was in a rush and didn't want to further delay it.
Well, it generally takes a lot to really truly annoy me, and Rogers is the company that consistently does it on a regular basis. I'm regretting my three year phone contract, because I still have a year and a half left of their terrible customer service.
Prime example: Their website.
Sure, it looks all high-tech, but it never works properly. I use online billing, so I have to log in to be able to see my bill. I WANT to pay my bill, but half the time I can't log in. So then I have to phone them, and go through their equally terrible speech recognition software until I finally get to a real person, all so that I can ask for my simple dollar amount that I need to pay.
Last night, I was getting a different error than usual when I attempted to log in, so I used the 'forgot your password' function, thinking it might be a password issue (I sometimes forget which passwords I use for what) and I get this email in my inbox:
And that was all. There was no temporary password. The email just ended. This morning I tried to log in again, and now my account has been suspended for 24 hours for my security protection, after 3 failed login attempts. Seriously Rogers, what the heck? I'm not the one failing here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogers
Maybe you should switch to the traditional paper bills. Who knows, they might manage to print them in an orderly fashion.
Why would someone commit suicide because of what someone else said on myspace. If you ask me that girl didn't deserve her life, sure I've contemplated committing suicide but that was only because life as a quadriplegic was something I looked forward to but damn. This story is incredibly mess up not to mention the fact that it was the parents of another girl who drove her to it and now there are questioning whether what they did was legal or not. If you ask me they or their daughter should be killed just to show them what it feels like but then again I don't value human life much. I was going to post this in the news thread but it just felt like it belongs here.
Even though I know what you're talking about, a source would be helpful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdula
Poorly written article about aforementioned suicide
It's pretty messed up that the parents of the other girl aggravated the situation, but I really think it would have happened sooner or later. The girl obviously had problems, as well as previous suicide attempts.
Yeah I know I should have had a source but I was in a hurry, as is evidenced by the mistakes I made, but I assumed everyone has at least heard of the story. I always wanted to know how someone could fail a suicide attempt, I mean mine was well planned out with absolutely no chance for failure, other than a completely unforeseeable interruption.
I don't see how someone could fail at committing suicide. Although most suicide attempts are just a cry for help and most people never intend to actually go through with it, I would imagine that if one becomes disheartened enough to attempt suicide and they fail at that, it would be the ultimate kick in the face.
Off topic but something I just always wanted to ask.
The girl probably did make the right choice for herself if she didn't have the fortitude to just ignore people on myspace. However she was young and might have grown out of it given time so I would also blame the parents some for letting her be alone when she was that vulnerable, but who would have expect their daughter to kill herself over myspace?
I have to give the girl props for hanging her self instead of doing something dumb like taking lots of over the counter pain killers though, if you're going to do something, do it right.
Pain killers work well, you just have to take them one at a time instead of trying to down the entire bottle at once.
If she always had such low self-esteem, struggled with her weight and didn't have any social skills you would think the parents would have kept a closer eye on her and her activities especially if she had talked about or attempted suicide in the past but most parents are completely oblivious anyways. She was a deeply troubled thirteen year old girl someone should have been looking out for her.
Did you read the article? The parents were completely controlling her ability to access her myspace profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdula
Earlier today it seemed like my 1TB external harddrive had died. Wouldn't respond when I connected it to a computer, tried all three of my computers without luck. I figured it was dead as I was sure I heard a clicking noise. Upon trying to connect it to a computer it would just hang the whole system, and it wouldn't even show up. Tried doing a chkdsk, took 10 min without anything happening so I thought it had hanged that too. So I started looking for ways of recovering the data. After being mad about this for 5 hours, + trying several different disk recovery programs(all shitty), I randomly try a chkdsk again. After 40 minutes it found out the file type on the drive, and 10 minutes later it fixed the whole drive. Said it had a lot of errors with the fat table etc etc. I guess I'm too impatient -.-
Of course I'm happy that it works again, but what I don't like is that I don't know what caused it, that I wasted so much time because I was impatient and that I don't know whether or not it's stable now. Half filled up so it would suck losing it. Took a backup of important files now though. I have a test tomorrow, but I ended up doing this instead. Oh well.
Yes they were, but she neglected to check the account before allowing her to sign on. Next thing that was wrong was that she saw she was upset yet she left her online, didn't make her immediately sign out, not only that she left the house without informing her husband of what was going on. Once that all happened they left her alone and went downstairs to have dinner although they thought that the problem was resolved.Quote:
Originally Posted by AssertnFailure
Anyway this could have all been avoided if she had just checked the messages before allowing her to go online. I understand that she was in a hurry, and everybody is human and makes mistakes. I guess she just never thought she would take it that far but whatever.
Suicide watch is a 24/7 thing trust me I know. I get that she wasn't under a "suicide watch" but they were obvious signs and I can tell you one thing for sure when you have a child that is that troubled, when they seem the slightest bit upset you never ever leave them alone.
fat32 is bad. 4 gig filesize limit. Lots of random issues. NTFS is a safer bet. Just for your future reference... next time, first thing you do when you get a new disk is format it ntfs, and you'll have better results.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrlderek
If the disk has failed once, it's very likely to fail again. Check your event log to see if it's generating some sort of failure event ("disk has a bad block" would be a common one). If the disk has bad blocks, don't rely on it anymore ... replace it asap.Quote:
I don't know what caused it, that I wasted so much time because I was impatient and that I don't know whether or not it's stable now. Half filled up so it would suck losing it. Took a backup of important files now though. I have a test tomorrow, but I ended up doing this instead. Oh well.
1tb disks are fairly new ... so that should probably still have a mfr's warranty. But you'll have to find someplace to store the data unless they'll cross-ship.
For my own bitching pleasure... because I'm a contractor, I don't get friday off even though there's going to be like two other people at my site. My desktop's too slow to play 720p movies even with coreavc, and my fileserver's too old to recognize my new 1tb sata disk. Also, AMD's lackluster product launch and Intel's ultra-high-end product announcements didn't bump down the midrange hardware prices at all on anything. Which is lame.
You like.....totally just jacked my bitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
In other bitching news, I think my boss is more than just a little bit queer. Its kinda weird....and creepy.
Whats will all the death references in spanish?Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
Todays bitch:
Its sucks when you prefer working late and at ungodly hours of the night instead of doing reports...
My current job requieres me to make reports and attend meetings once in a while... and Im seriously missing the previous job... even with all the extra work...
People who call/email in to Tech Support are dumb. That is all.
Nokia is teh suck. My dad's phone has been sent in 4th time today because the repair centre hasn't been fixing the goddamned side camera button. I originally sent it in JULY 30.
I got out and buy some nail polish with my own money, and then it gets used by someone else.
I'm sitting at the computer, and smell.. nail polish. I then turn around, and lo and behold, my brother did his nails.. with MY nailpolish, the one I actually went out to buy because I'm broke and can barely buy anything without my mom >.> Finally! Something of my own, and he uses it.. I mean, it was an unexpected use, but man.. grr.
My bitch. I can't believe she is bitching about nail polish.
Your Brother???? What???
aaah seventeen. such a carefree age.
my bitch is also kinda girly, actually. my dad bought me new nose studs from his latest trip to pakistan. they're 22k gold, and they're very pretty. the nicest one is a little one shaped like a flower with white and red gems in it. so of course i start trying to put it in as soon as i get it, and lo and behold, the backing of it falls out of my hands and onto the carpet. it's now been three days, and i still can't find the backing, so the stud is pretty much useless now. very disappointing.
It's not girly.. it's just the principal of things.
i didnt even know a thread aside from one piece and naruo manga existed.
My bitch is that it took me soo long to find a slightly positive outlet for my anger instead of bottling it! Awesome im going to be here everyday!
I did the drawing on the back of some notes from my Spanish Literature class. They were on some poem I didn't really understand it that well, but I ended up getting a 93 on the test so...Quote:
Originally Posted by RyougaZell
RE: Jaitne's brother - what the hell??
I know right, it perplexed me too. The only excuses would be if he is under 12, he is comedian or it was black nail polish and he is a goth but I never liked that anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
well, one of the guys from the army screws me over, again.
last week, he went home a day before everyone else, and left me with another watchpost duty (yep, I really like sleeping 4 hours a-night (01:30-03:00 & and 06:00-08:30)), now, he was asked by one of the NCOs to show up early to escort a shipping container.
now, he says he's not feeling well, and this hot potato falls onto me.
we are having a cultural\entertainment day tommorow, and now i'm going to miss it becuase of him. and he has done a similiar thing before.
In this situation you take a long sock, drop a piece of hard soap inside it, and demonstrate to him what being sick really means.Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
I know I'll regert asking:
What the hell do you mean?
It's a reference from the movie Full Metal Jacket. IT"S about a bunch of U.S. Marines in training together. One of them is very sub-standard and keeps getting the rest of the unit in trouble. So one night they give him a blanket party, which consists of everyone in the unit putting a bar of soap into a sock then taking turns hitting him with it as he's pinned to his bed by a blanket held across his chest. After they did this to the guy he became a model soldier...until he snapped, shot their DI in the face and then ate his rifle.
Sean Taylor got shot that is just wrong.
I tried to show off my handy man skills in front of this hot chick at work today and ended up looking like an idiot when I blew a circuit breaker and delayed her from finishing her project. Now she's waiting around for the electrician to come fix the problem and I ran from the scene because I'll probably get in trouble for messing with the electrical wiring when I'm not properly trained. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Lol, animeniax.
Sean Taylor
1983-2007
Some fuckstick broke one of the windows of my parents' store last night, most likely to steal. Thankfully nothing was taken but now my mom and I are incredibly paranoid and very suspicious....as if we weren't under enough stress.
They need to install that metal mesh thing that can be rolled down in the evening to protect the windows and prevent anyone from going in. Such are the times that you can't be too careful.
Well shit
I overslept for both my classes today. Instead of being up in time for my 8:00 am and 10:00 am classes, I woke up at 12:00. I don't know how or why that happened.
The thing is the store is listed for sale and we just counter-offered a potential buyer so it wouldn't make much sense to invest more money into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
My Phone was run over by a bus last night!!!!!!
Good Heavens!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmanj
I'm sorry for your loss. What kind of phone was it?
Got a lot on my mind right now which doesn't leave much room for anything else... was late for work, an 8.5 hour shift. My SP battery also died while I was on break at work... along with other things. Sounds lame I guess but meh.
bitching because i'm behind in school work and i can't read while i'm at work because too many people come and bother me for me to hold any small amount of concentration. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
I've been ebaying alot lately selling computers and have been using fixed price buy it now / best offer style which has been working great.
This guy sends me an offer for $300 for a computer and i just accepted but then he only paypals me $300 and doesn't include shipping so i'm like.. wtf
go back and look at it and in the comments section he has written that he wants wifi (nbd, i have few extra wifi cards) and then i see $300 shipped....
Well this douche bag should have made his offer the highest amount he was wanting to pay while taking into consideration the price i had set for shipping..
I ebay to make money... not to just trade stuff and what not, and selling something at $300 + means ebay / paypal fees totalling around $30 and then almost $30 to ship something that weighs 30-35 pounds. And this douche bag has not responded to any emails yet so i have his money in my paypal but i dont intend to come out of pocket $50 on something i'm trying to make money off of.
Ebay...
Several months ago I paid for a FFT game for gba. Item never arrived, and since I was out of date for a dispute with paypal I opened one on ebay.
Seller refused to refund, so I used the option "report to ebay".
Its been over 4 months already and fucking ebay hasn't done shit. I email daily and they keep saying they are 'throughly investigating' Yeah sure. Assholes.
Ahahaha....sorry...but after all your complaints about the difficulty in receiving a phone plan in the first place, I can't help but compare this to the bucket walrus.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockmanj
I has a phone plan.....Noooooooo they be takin my phone plan!
I'm in so much pain right now that I can barely move or see for that matter and there is nothing I can do about it short of taking enough Oxy to get higher than a kite or taking something else that has zombifying side effects.
I guess I'll just listen to Linkin Park until it passes and pray that nothing worse happens. I really don't want to have to deal with this shit again. Damn.
i like how you don't specify why you're in pain, just that you're in pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdula
I got this girl i work with to buy a book off of ebay... and she got ripped off like that too, no return emails or anything.. over $17. I've done $2500 on ebay in the past month and only problem is this douche i posted about this morning who doesn't want to bid correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by RyougaZell
Snort those Oxys. I used to love doing that shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdula
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Originally Posted by bbaucom
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Originally Posted by Abdula
You seem to have enjoyed it a bit too much. Why were you taking Oxy.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Heretic Azazel
drugs are bad mmk? a while ago i went to bed ( 7pm) because my headache was so bad... slept for 10-11 hours. I woke up and felt really hot and still had an intense headache and felt like I had a hang over or had only slept for an hour or so despite my long sleep. IDK what was wrong, i gave it 5-6 days before going to the doctor and she only gave me some kind of headach meds and an inhaler cause i was also having a little trouble breathing.
I dont know if this is a bitch or not... i mean i am at work being paid. but here it goes...
This mornings technical support?!?! thats right! shaking the vending machine to free the claims ladies much awanted danish that was just dangling.
everything is working so there is very little to do, and i get bored and/or sleepy very fast.
I gave up on doctors awhile ago and stopped taking any and all medications because they rarely treat any of my symptoms without having to take large doses and so I used to end up taking large doses of a bunch of different medications for every one of my symptoms. The medications rarely worked and the side effects were so bad that I just decided to stop taking all of them.
Yeah its not really a bitch, Having a job where you get paid and actually do very little is not something one can complain about. Someone I know used to work like that, if everything was working he had nothing to do, but he didn't complain, one because he was lazy any and two because the place was rather easy going, they had a big screen tv and plenty of other stuuf to do and once there wasn't anything to do no one would give up any heck about just wasting time.
He didn't even used to spend much time at work, if there was nothing to do he was just leave and they would call him if something came up but like I said the people there were rather lax. The funny thing is he left the job even though he wasn't really doing anything besides collecting a pay check or I suppose that was the reason.
Somewhere else in the world, someone is posting in a similar thread about vending machines:Quote:
Originally Posted by bbaucom
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This morning my fucking Danish got caught in the vending machine and the guy who was supposed to get it out took 15 minutes to do it! I had a horrible morning, spilled my coffee, was late to work, and I couldn't even have my morning Danish! ARRGGGH!!
I'm here to bitch... god damnit.
Login 'security' .... what the fuck? i got an email that i have an envoice ready for my insurance so i goto log in to the site and after entering my password it asks me 3 security questions.... of which it says i'm getting 1 / 3 of them wrong and then the only thing to do is click the forgot password... but i know my fucking password and typed it in correctly.
This is fucking bullshit... i want to access my account online but they have locked me out of it. This is almost as bad as one of my credit cards where each time i log in i have to have them either call me or email me w\ a one time login code.... its fucking rediculous.
I can login to my bank with one password but i can't log in to less crucial web sites because they're fucking idiots... and on top of that, statefarm has no support emails. you can email an agent... which i dont need... or you can have them send you the password you already fucking know but still have to answer 3 security questions .. dont know how i'm getting it wrong either its total bullshit
Man, why the fuck is it so difficult for so many people to actually LIFT their feet when they walk instead of dragging them? It's especially irritating when I'm studying in the library and some troglodyte walks by dragging their damned feet, making as much noise as possible.
What's with people that can't make up their mind, mean either you want something or you don't and being so damn indecisive about everything is just pissing me off. If she was going to be so damn distant from me what the hell is the point of contacting me at all, it just aggravates me even more. Need to stop caring about this crap
FUCK I HATE MY LIFE SOMETIMES!!
Anyways err where to start.. my bitch for today is that my friend ran up a 652 phone bill in my name that we share. Overall in this fucked up month ive had a friend whose been shot(philly is so fucked up now), this fucking girl wont stay outta my head, im moving out of my house due to complications at home and have completely taken it out on all my freinds unwillingly. thank god for work at the airport. I'll be finishin up my training to be a bomb appraisal officer soon. Anyways WOOSAAHH. thanks bitchin thread.
So.. the lady I work with was just on the phone w\ some guy they use as a consultant for server related issues. so she is on the phone for over 10 minutes w\ him while i am bored to death surfing the interweb...
I just finished my first 2003 server class and very well could have answered all of her questions she asked... grrrrrrr
another bitch.... I am getting married ! No that isn't theb itch... her parents dont want us to move in until we're married even though our lease starts in a couple days and we've had access to the condo we rented for over a week now. Driving her home and what not takes away a large portion of my free time that i have after work and what not... rawwwwwwwwwr
Congrats, man!Quote:
Originally Posted by bbaucom
Too bad about the stiff parents, though. Sounds like a waste with the apartment.
This is kinda like the story my roommate's friend told him a week ago....Quote:
Originally Posted by bbaucom
Except their excuse for getting married was so she could get treatment for her broken ankle under his health insurance.
Ah romance is in the air~~
Man, last night I was at this small concert, and I was standing just in front of the stage watching my favorite band of that evening, and this chubby bitch with too much makeup comes and stands in front of me to start talking to a friend. Then her meathead boyfriend pushes through and stands in front of me and they start talking. Bitch isn't even watching the show. Just wiggles her hips ever few minutes pretending to enjoy the music.
I know they had as much right to be there as I did, but I really wanted to injure them.
Heh, I have a rather embarassing yet funny one.
Tuesday afternoon, me and a couple of friends had been joking around in our usual school-day haunt, the school's media center, while waiting for the buses. Anyway, one of my friends knew about my plans to ask one of the girls out, so when we leave the media center for the bus 'circle' (even though it's more like a horseshoe), he pulls the two of us aside and tells her "(python) has something to ask you," and then walks away. So, naturally, that put me in a rather... shall we say, awkward position, while the girl is standing in front of me, and I'm babbling like a fool. Needless to say, I flucked up and didn't ask her. My bitch about the whole thing? Damned friends.
And, as a sidenote, I finally asked the girl out the next day, and so here we are. I just wanna give my friend a great 'ol "Jee, thanks much."
ok... currrent bitch...
Washington Mutual..
I spent alot of money last week and knew i was cutting it close in my checking account. so this weekend i was online checking my bank and realised i was a couple hundred in the hole and had a $27 overdraft fee. I know it was my fuck up so i just moved money from my sauvaings into the checking..
Today though, among my 8 bullshit pieces of junk mail is a letter from my bank listing 3 transactions that were put on my account with no balance... 2 of which were $4.xx this fucking pisses me off. $81 in overdraft fees and then it says "at the time of this mailing, you have "1600.XX in this checking account, please deposit money in the account to bring it into the posative...'' jesus christ... thats just fucking insane to me.
For one, when you buy something with a card it does the whole authorization process... why the fuck would it authorize if there is not enough or no money in the account? wtf.
secondly... i have 2 accounts with them, when i log into their web page it shows me both accounts at the same time... . so, if i have $4000 + in my savings account and none in my checking why the fuck would they not move the money so that it does not overdraft?
lastly, their website is currently down for maintanence and it is after hours so i have nobody to spam or bitch to aside from whoever is reading this.
no its not spam.. i just have alot of bitching to do !
i got ticket for speeding and no insurance in november... hired a lawyer and mailed in an insurance card w\ a copy of my license to the city....
today, i get 3 things in theh mil from the city... they returned the stuff i sent them saying that i needed to have sent them $103 with it.... to prove that i was insured when i got the ticket... why the fuck do they send the stuff back? are they trying to pretend they did not get it?
and also.. they sent me a notice that i've had a warrant for my arrest since the 13th... im like... wtf, what is this lawyer i paid doing? i am beyond pissed about this and really would like to do something realkly dirty to the city of dallas... like pay them with money that i've whiped a very dirty ass with.... maybe i'll do just that.
You certainly have posted in this thread alot lately. You should take that as a sign that your life is going to hell in a hand basket.:)
srsly, with all the bitching, you should start a blog :p
*begins contemplating implementation details of a hypothetical user-blog hosting architecture*
I want to bitch about my job, but I think my employer may be able to find out an association between my real name and my handle, so it may not be the best of ideas...
hmmmm..... He should have a blog.....Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
two weeks ago: I hung out with a friend, and we have a real good time.
last week: I call a her again (I used to date her a few months back) and she whispers that she's in a lecture and can't speak.
today: she sends me a msg from her ICQ account and says that her phone is down, and gives me her home number in case I want to call her. I wasn't planning on meeting her today, at first, but if she sends something like this, it's obvious that she wants to. so i try calling her, and all I get is the internet dialer tune. all the time. I didn't know those things still exsisted.
That dialer tune might be due to a fax machine, I think.
Hate nightclubs. I really do. If I wanted to listen to loud music I'd stay at home with headphones or go to a concert. Now I've got a sore through because I was shouting trying to talk to the people I was with. I honestly, genuinely don't see what people find so entertaining about it.
The nightclub scene is boring for me too....I guess it's more fun if you like to dance. Personally, I hate dancing.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
So do I, and that is why I hated the club. I was especially annoyed that we actually payed to get in there, having just left a much better, quieter place which had free admission.Quote:
Originally Posted by fahoumh
It's all about finding the right venue for your mood, preferences and group...
personally, I'm all about brewpubs. Usually low-key, quiet, relaxed, and the home of a variety of unusual and good beers...
My bitch for a long time. Here we go. I'm warning people in advance so that this doesn't get anyone offended or something.
Now on to my bitch.
I FUCKING HATE THE GOOGLE GUYS!!!!!!
Why is is that they get all the praise for starting something that is a fucking bar on a screen?!! And then get to become billionaires off the most asinine technology that serves no real purpose for building wealth whatsoever in any category. Online Advertising has the worst purpose for the common tool as wealth building. It doesn't serve any at all to anyone. Even the people looking for a particular product from a company. On top of that, they bombard the right side of the searches with useless online (hideous) texts ads. Then choke the ones that actually need to get their name out there to begin with. ie local businesses. Even more so, their business model is a hierarchy of "class" In other words they use a pointless bid model based on only getting the highest bidder and cutting off possible chances for other businesses to show who they are.
The most I hate about it however. They get the spotlight over companies that do provide something that don't have to worry about crashing, database work over night, or not loading at certain times. In other words, dot-com's.
Extreme envy is not very becoming, dude.
It's business. The first priority is to provide a means of living for the people involved. The second, subordinate, priority would be to fulfill any ideals.
heck, i'd rather see googles text ads rather than the flash pop-up noise included ads that my local poral uses...
but i can understand where your hate is coming from, I feel the same about Apple. Unexplainable hate towards the company, the die-hard fanticas and the genral asskissing mass media. stupid Ipod, which made it socially acceptable to walk in the street without paying attention to where your'e going, and stupid Iphone, which is plane stupid. and expensive.
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Originally Posted by Kraco
Oh I know. I'm about to get my business administration degree, so I know all about the business world. Plus, I'm my first corporation was started in contrast to Google. My company does online advertising for local (brick&mortar) and small businesses. But Google is getting into our game. It makes me feel like Apple back in the software days against Mr. Softy Gates. A week before my co-founder and I went live with our system,....we found out Google is using our exact technology for the local ads. Thats where some of the hate is coming from.
On top of that, I just don't like how everything has shifted from physical assets to non physical assets in gaining wealth. It's hard for me to accept someone being worth over $30+ billion in a dot-com. In a retail chain, ok. Software company (with actual physical software) ok. A manufacturing chain that makes steel, fine. But not a dot-com, sorry.
Another thing is, they aren't really businessmen, they're scientists who fell into a profitable business model. To business people, that isn't right. It's like they wanted to make the search engine first and almost only just to "help" the public and organize the worlds information in some way. I hate that. If you're going to make company, don't dual wield. Make one thing for extreme amounts of revenue and profit. Or something that helps the world. And on top of that, their system wouldn't even work without the engine to find and post those stupid ads.
Oh. If you had said that in the beginning, I wouldn't have said anything. That certainly explains why you could be majorly pissed off.Quote:
Originally Posted by conquistaDan
However, with this I totally disagree. For two things: Scientists need to eat as well, and nobody knows just how many scientists there have been that have worked their asses (or brains rather) off and then cheaply sold their inventions to some businessmen whose only effort was to see potential. And which one of these two ended up as the rich men? Thus, those researchers who happened to end up rich just following their passion get my utmost respect.Quote:
Originally Posted by conquistaDan
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Originally Posted by Kraco
Yeah I should have said that to begin with. Plus if Google does in fact take our business (which I won't let happen) They'll butcher the profits and balance sheet of the local people by charging them ridiculous amounts of fees with hardly any gain.
Google has a bid model for each keyword. On top of that, the starting rate bid is 25 cents. From there it only goes up and up. And I have friends using Google's system. They aren't happy with the results they're getting, and they would love a new business model. We have a flat, fixed rate fee of only 25 cents per click. Never higher, no matter what. That's why I didn't like that they were going into our turf using our technology. It's going to be like making an operating system for the computer trying to compete with Windows. Thats why I'm mad. I hate how veteran businessmen make it hard for newcomers with better ideas, and more potential for making money.
Unfortunately, that capitalism. Though I hate how fucked up patent squatting has gotten a whole lot more than big companies squeezing out the little guy. It's one thing to throw your weight around and be an asshole about it, but another to only leech off someone else's hard work while you waited for someone to "violate" your patent.Quote:
I hate how veteran businessmen make it hard for newcomers with better ideas, and more potential for making money.
The little tin-foil hat person within me thinks that Google is up to something huge, and has been developing it for several years. The downside is that whatever it is is not beneficial for consumers, perhaps even a huge invasion of privacy. Why else would they be hoarding so much capital?
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Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Well all I can do is keep growing my company up and up. That's all.
Google's world domination might not be as farfetched as it sounds in the near future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
Didn't people say the same thing about Enron and Microsoft. I agree with Dan though you have more than enough right to hate google whether they were messing with your business or not.
I agree with you too. I used to be a big Mac guy back in the day but that doesn't really mean much since everyone was but I've hated apple ever since they decided to start putting i's in front of everything and whats worse its now a popular trend.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Abdula
Yes, almost all of society was saying that about those two for their positions in the market place. Thank you very much for the support and agreeing with me. I very much appreciate it.
I was never a mac guy because I always considered it a cult following thing. And to add to your "I" point about mac, Google isn't exactly not following them. Trust me, Gmail, probably won't be the last product that has a "G" in front of it.
No need for the thanks you're welcome.
Yeah I know google is going to start using it too, one of the reasons why I said its becoming a trend. There is the rumored G phone for example but I highly doubt thats going to happen, certainly not anytime soon.
Well Mac has become somewhat of a cult following but in the early 90's it wasn't.
Maybe not. Google and Verizon have both reportedly started to bid for the UHF band that opens up when all of television switches to digital.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdula
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My complaint for the day:
Snow, and how it makes people drive.
Random complaint of the day... my cellphone's battery's almost shot. I'll charge it all night and when it comes time to use it, halfway through a 3 minute long call the phone dies on me.
For you, the cause is actually the quality of your phone calls. Since you can't see your man, DF, live, you must do everything on the phone, and no device can handle such intensity for very long!
Actually, I had been talking to my mom fast to let her know I managed to pick up what I was supposed to and that I was going to be quite late for work because of it. To talk to DF I use the home phone... free long distance!
One of my closest friends got into an accident on Friday, halfway through a 6 hour drive to come and chill with me over the weekend. A witness said his car flipped over 8 times, but my friend can't remember for sure. Not so much a bitch from me, but more of a "when shit happens" post. Dude could have died.
Picture of him and the car a day later, also me.
The car certainly got totaled. Good thing he only got a broken left arm. Could have been worse, for sure.
seatbelt ftw?
Brings back memories of when my sister totaled her car by flipping about five or so times. The officer that arrived first said it was the first time in twenty years on the force that he had seen a wreck so bad and the driver just walk away. My sister was lucky she didn't have a scratch.
The seatbelt did save his life, but it also gave him the only broken bone (collar bone) he got out of the whole thing. His arm isn't broken, just scratched to shit. Apparently his left thumb was severed to the muscle, but I didn't get to see it, fortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by complich8
Fucking damn it man! Fuck! I just got home from seeing Cloverfield, got on my comp and saw a cool picture. Rendered it and started making a sig. It had to have been the best Horo one i've made so far and I got a RANDOM Blue effing screen o Death without saving a copy! I didn't even save the render, I have to do it all over again. FUCK!:mad:
So, on Wednesday I backed into a truck with about 4 witnesses, then (despite being told by them to leave a note) drove off. After that I hit a curb and screwed up my already crappy car. Then, the next morning, my car ran out of gas thanks to a broken gas light and my battery died, while all these fluids leaked from the bottom of my car. So we had to push my car to a gas station and I barely made it back home.
Now I'm without a car and, despite the fact that I've driven all my friends in similar situations (or when they didn't have licenses), nobody wants to go through the trouble of driving me around. Gee, awesome.