February 2009
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January 2009
186 posts
Official: U.S. will not renew Iraq contract with... →
At this pace, they’ll have to shut down Blackwater on a Friday afternoon, then open a new company in its place that next Monday, which happens to be owned by the same people and is ready to hire all of the people that got laid off when Blackwater was shut down.
Or they can sell it to Halliburton, rename it Halliburton Security Services and bid on all of the work that Blackwater is no longer...
Angry senator wants pay cap on Wall Street... →
Well look at that, the good senator has a brilliant idea: if you take bailout money, then none of your employees can make more than the President of the United States. This means that none of those corporate raiding sacks of shits that are paying themselves multi-million dollar bonuses at our expense can get paid more than $400,000 per year.
Still a lot of money, but a lot less than the millions...
$10 Check From Budget Secretly Signs You Up For... →
If you receive ANY check in the mail, read the damn thing, even the small print on the back. There are plenty of scams like that, they send you a check for $5-$10, then the endorsement line says that by cashing the check you agree to sign up to something else that costs money.
Subway: Subway Launches Text Message Ordering In... →
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This Is How Bad It Is: Part-Time Receptionist Help... →
This is just incredible. Just months ago we would post ads for senior positions that pay a hell of a lot of money, and we had to basically beg people to send us resumes.
Maybe it’s time to take advantage of this mess and get us two programmers for the price of one?
Iraq denies Blackwater an operating license →
Lookie that, Iraq finally figured out that they can kick Blackwater out of Iraq simply by not giving them a license.
If they have the authority to kick civilians out of the country, how long before they kick our military out of there too? I mean, since we are trying to keep this illusion that we have an Army of Liberation, not an Army of Occupation, shouldn’t this be a matter of, I...
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#lost - Twitter Trends Search →
This page allows you to see all Twitter traffic discussing tonight’s new episode of Lost.
Citi Saves $1M Per Year With Virtualization ·... →
These dumbasses are bragging about a one million per year savings on a company that lost close to $10 billion IN ONE FRICKIN QUARTER!
Starbucks to cut 6,700 jobs, close 300 stores →
This is the same company that was pissed off because McDonalds sells “premium” coffee for a lot less than $3/cup. Maybe because we are in a recession and $3 is a lot of money for just one cup of coffee?
House defeats bill to delay digital TV transition... →
Ouch. There goes the plan to keep stretching the DTV switchover panic a few months longer so big box stores can sell more HDTVs.
Focus on first 100 days is absurd →
It is absurd because it is a democrat president. It was OK when it was time to bitch about GW’s 100 days in office for each of his two terms.
Dumbass.
The aftermath
We got some frozen rain on top of yesterday’s micro blizzard, so everything is a mess. Even my brain is frozen.
This is why I hate people
Amazon Set to Rekindle Its E-Book Reader →
I hope they would just hurry the hell up so I can buy one for Ivette and finally recover mine. I miss my frickin Kindle.
Video Containers, Codecs. The anatomy of a Video... →
Very good read for those of us that can’t tell all of these formats apart.
Octuplets doing 'very well' one day after birth →
This is what I thought of when I read the headline, I swear I read OCTOPUS, not OCTUPLETS.
“The fact is, in the eyes of the media, Apple is the corporate equivalent of...”
– Lyons: The Media’s Rotten Reporting on Apple | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts | Newsweek.com
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist John Updike Dead... →
9 in 10 execs at bailout banks keep jobs →
Why is the government trusting these idiots to do a better job the second time around?
Like Cedric Daniels would say:
“Fuck me once? shame on you. Fuck me twice? shame on me.”
Fallout 3 Operation: Anchorage DLC is out →
Mine is downloading right now, too bad I won’t be able to play it until at least this evening.
Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch →
This reeks of a plot to allow more HDTV firesales at Walmart, Target and Best Buy.
Netflix: Blu-ray Subscribers Up 30% Since... →
Google GDrive and desktop virtualization →
Rumors are starting to pop about Google releasing a cloud computing storage product.
AT&T 3G MicroCell™ - Wireless freedom where it... →
I guess I won’t need to subject myself to a crackberry after all. The question is how much is the damn thing, and will I have to pay more?
UPDATE: The idiots took down the content and put the news page in maintenance mode.
Putting Merrill’s $4 billion in bonuses in... →
The $4 billion that these executives looted from us taxpayers is almost twice of what it costs to run the National Park Service for two years. Greenspun says loot, and I agree because this is money that came from the bailout (TARP) funds, not from company profits.
Jan. 26, 1983: Spreadsheet as Easy as 1-2-3 →
Back in the prehistoric days when *I* went to college, PCs reserved for student use at my university didn’t have hard disks. This means that each of us carried a box of floppy disks with the following:
DOS
Lotus 1-2-3
Harvard Graphics
PFS:Write or Wordperfect
Amazingly, these were completely adequate. We could go to any PC on campus and be able to get work done. Later, we got some...
Verizon Wireless Network Extender →
Ahem. AT&T? Where’s my femtocell? This is one of them deal breakers. We sure as hell love our iPhones, but coverage sucks.
Is great coverage with a Crackberry better than shitty coverage with an iPhone?
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Ebola may have passed from a pig to a human →
Unreturned library book leads to woman's arrest →
$13.95 book, repeated calls and letters, and they even sent a cop to talk to her in September. Now she had to pay a $250 bond, ouch.
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Scientists solve 'The Italian Job' cliffhanger →
At the end of the original The Italian Job, the gang is stuck in a bus hanging over a cliff, with the gold on the side of the bus over the cliff, and the gang at the opposite end keeping the bus in balance. The movie ends as the proverbial cliffhanger: you don’t know if they managed to escape with the gold.
THe idea of the competition described in the article is to find a way to get the...
