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Retail stores that leave their doors open in the summer heat.
I've
got a problem when I see retail stores leaving their front doors wide
open on hot summer days with their cold air pouring out on to the
sidewalk. I assume the reason they do this is to entice window shoppers
to come in and enjoy their cool air and buy their products. Some say
there is an energy crisis in California. One could look at the problem
in California as a foreshadow of things to come. Consider the fact
that we have limited fossel fuel resources. These same resources are
what generate the power to cool off our apartments and stores. Why
should we dileberately waste the limited resources we have. It doesn't
seem wise when you think that someday they will be depleted. So all
I have to say on this is close the God damn doors and turn the thermostat
down to a reasonable level. When you think about these stores wasting
all this money on their power bill how do you think they offset these
costs? Do you think maybe they are passing these costs along to you
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Should
we demand the same level of quality from computers as we do our cars?
Your
car IS a computer, complete with processing chips and an OS. If every Or,
switch 'website' with 'tires' and 'browser' with 'road surface'. It And
say you get a new CD player for the car. It would never occur to you Alright,
here's a good one... Everything seems to be working fine, but You
could drive a piece of garbage Kia from here to California and Now,
sometimes you've been working for a while, and you've got a couple of If
you had no confidence that 'p' would safely secure your new car in park, Cars,
PCs. Both are complicated, expensive, ubiquitous products on which In
the sixties, Ralph Nader came along and told us that no matter what
GM The
closest we have to Ralph for PCs is Linus from Linux, but he wants us |
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Why
is there such a low level of quality control with software companies? WE LET THEM! Early on, we let THEM set the rules. And as I said, Ralph Nader did not wait until 95% of the automobile consumers were driving corvairs and pintos before he took a stand. Software and
hardware companies started out with the attitude of "we'll let MS
operating systems have always had problems, but they enjoyed By
the way, MACs suck too, but many of their users are elitist snobs who Usually
the market takes care of these cases, by NOT buying the product. We PEOPLE
ACTUALLY GIVE THE TECH SUPPORT DEPARTMENTS CREDIT CARD NUMBERS.. Sure
you can get patches for your software apps, if you can find them, after How
long would your company survive if you made defective, $300.00 baby Automobiles,
washing machines, building materials, these all have Windows
3.1 was problem-riddled OS. But no worry, in 1995, Microsoft LET us The
bottom line... it's all our own fault. We've dug a hole in which we
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Clear
Channel is one step away from Facism Read this article first... It seems Clear Channel is opening pandoras box of fears. Just by creating this list they are walking in the footsteps of the Nazi book burnings. The "Islamic" fundemental terrorists hate us because of our freedoms. By distributing this list of "bad" music Clear Channel is playing right into the terrorist hands. Art, film and music are mere reflections of todays world. Artists are trying to shine a light on some of the worlds atrocities. They are not the ones creating the problem. I say boycott Clear Channel stations! Jevou list of rants back |
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Holiday
lights in the trees I don't understand why every winter the City hires people to put lights in the trees and then every spring they spend more money to have them cut the lights out of the trees. This is not only a waste of materials, the lights, since they cut them instead of reusing them. It is also a terrible waste of man power. Why don't they just put the lights up once and leave them in the trees all year round? Jevou list of rants back |
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Bush's
advance knowledge of 9-11 Yesterday I gave our pres, W, a pass on the current controversy. I doubt that he would let 9-11 happen if he really had specific knowledge of the event in advance. If for no other reason, why would he want to start a war with our oil suppliers? But really I just think that W is an idiot, and not an evil fuck like his dad. It is semi-common knowledge that FDR probably looked the other way prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He needed a reason to get involved in the war, and the "America 1st" leaning public wouldn't let him do it unless we were personally attacked. But let's not fool ourselves into thinking that one can compare W to FDR. Then today, W's boss, Cheney, comes out and pulls the "how dare you question this administration" card once again! To paraphrase, he said something like this, "People should be very careful about calling for investigations..." He aimed his remarks towards the Democrats, though several Republicans are calling for an investigation as well. This is a party (the Republicans) that found it SO IMPORTANT to spend sixty million dollars to investigate an old, rinky-dink, Arkansas land deal that went bust, and then morphed that hunt into the whole dig into Clinton's personal life. Neither of which could hardly be described as affecting national security, or likely to cause the World Trade Towers to implode. Now there are valid questions regarding the communication breakdown between the CIA, the FBI, and W. And the administration's stand is that nobody should be questioning them! The difference here is that today's issue is actually an issue that affects everybody, and it is the kind of thing that we should be looking into, regardless of who is in office. LB list of rants back |
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The
News I was just watching one of the cable news channels (it doesn't really matter which one, they're all pretty much the same). The moderator was interviewing a two person panel. The topic was about how Starbucks Coffee chairman, Howard Schultz made some comments at his synagogue about how the fight for Palestinian statehood has undertones of antisemitism. I applaud him for having the courage for finally pointing that out (not that Statehood isn't a legitmate issue but there is a lot of Jewish hatred there) but that is not my rant. I have a real problem with this particular format on all but one channel, WTTW. The common problem with all of these are that the moderator is NOT doing his job of moderating. He's more like a referee at a fight (and not even a good ref). This phenomenon is not much unlike a Jerry Springer show. That's what all these programs are, a word fight. When it really gets going nobody hears anybody over all the yelling. A responsible journalist/moderator would not allow the parties to speak over one another when it is clearly someone's turn to speak.
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