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Commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
If "funny or die" is a question, I vote die. This is terrible....
Commented on Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like an average 2008 manager
I think they adopted these methods of "Sabotage" based on experiences with commonplace bureaucratic groupthink, not vice versa... I'll add academia to the obvious breeding ground for most of these examples, unfortunately....
Commented on AfroCoffee's wine-box with radio
I couldn't find the wine box on the site. I don't have full Flash-ability, so I might be missing it. Did anybody else find it?...
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LORAN, FTW!...
Commented on mmk_kobayashi's funny photostream
I was wondering which FYI megaservice got that stream shut down... usually it's Fark or digg. That was an awesome collection that will definitely be missed. Thanks for bringing ice to the jungle, boingboing......
Commented on Guy overdubs his atrocious guitar playing over Clapton concert
Huge improvement of the usual Clapton snoozefest....
Commented on Scientology strikes back at "Anonymous" via YouTube
You have to give it up to scientology for bringing science fiction to new cultish heights. The other religions have pretty much used up all the dungeons and dragons material....
Commented on Hot rod painted using dressmaker's lace stencil
I don't know... I kind of appreciate the juxtaposition (yeah, I said it) of the faded Nazi SS hand tattoo and the pretty blue lace custom paint job. On the other hand, maybe he has "KI" (on the other hand)...
Commented on Stack of intriguing books from Feral House and Process Media
I can't recommend Struwwelpeter enough. I found it (as Slovenly Peter) at my grandmother's house when I was a kid and refer to it regularly. As I remember, the author came up with those stories for his own child because...
Commented on EFF proves Comcast is screwing with BitTorrent, releases instructions for testing your own ISP
"Utorrent uses encryption so you wont get throttled no mater who your provider is." Are you sure? I definitely noticed that uploads stopped a few months ago. Now the downloads are disabled for the most part. I can see plenty...
Commented on AskWiki answers your questions about almost anything
Found her. Answer to Your Question: "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" * For a while, a search on the Google search engine for "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego" resulted in the engine citing her location as...

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Rindan commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
No contract when comparing a Nationalized bank to something like Social Security? SS works and is efficient. Spoken as someone who as CLEARLY never in their entire life been to a social security office. They make the DMV look fast and efficient. My ex-girlfriend used to work for a non-prof that helped homeless people get various government entitlements. Her greatest dread was when she had to go to the social security office. She could wait half a day to get to an official only to be turned back with nothing because the office closed. I ran into the same problem...
mellon commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
There are lots of things governments do well, but customer service is not one of them. So, laugh. You can't legislate laughter. The thing that bothers me about this video is not that it's pro-corporate and anti-government. It's that it's propaganda that leads you to a false conclusion, and it's very slick and clearly paid for by someone who has an interest in getting you to believe, instead of to think. I'm just as down on pro-government propaganda as pro-corporate propaganda, and so, it would seem, are a lot of the people who criticized this hit piece. If you have...
Mark Jaquith commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
Have any of these people ever dealt with a cable company? Until recently, they haven't had a lot of competition. They'd get exclusive government contracts, giving them a local monopoly over local TV service. The basic premise here is that options are good. Choices are good. With government-sponsored monopolies and government initiatives, there generally is no competition, and thus no reason to get better. That's not really a political statement, that's just human nature....
GregLondon commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
we switched cable companies a couple months ago. The old comopany? They're still sending us bills and saying we're late on our payments. I don't know how many times we've called them to try to get them to understand that they already have our old cable boxes, their cable has been disconnected from the outside of our house, and we're with the other guys....
Brettspiel commented on Welcome to nationalized Citibank
greglondon - did you actually call them to disconnect the service? I don't think the cable cos have the same interconnection agreements that telcos have, and converting from one to another doesn't mean they handle the disconnect behind the scenes....

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