CNN.COM Just sucks

Read an interesting article today on cnn.com:

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It’s your typical rupuglican bs trying to revive the Hillary / obama strife and weaken the party.

So i try to post a comment that basically says:

If you want to talk about VP choices let’s talk palin, picking her was this years election world class pandering to the woman vote. Was she really the best possible GOP choice for a VP. I hardly think so.

Now i’m a smart guy (or so i’m told) aand i know that the VP pick usually is done to round off the ticket, but at least the selection has some merit in terms of filling the office if the pres dies.

Does anyone think the vetting process in the McCain camp cared about that. I don’t think so.

I also went on to say that i would think that the woman voter out their should be outraged at such an egregious pandering attempt. How stupid does McCain think they are anyway!!!

Well guess what, i must have submitted ten times and over the course of the whole day they would not post the comment.

This one might be as much me but BOA Sucks!!!!

I’ll admit it. Money is tight right now. I’m working very hard on a business venture and it was essentially a big cut in pay to get here.

Well I’ve learned a little about overdraft charges since then and Bank Of Arse-serica is doing it’s best to put me asunder. These guys have formulated their M.O. so craftily that it’s hard to believe. Here’s my two main observations/complaints:

• Re-Ordering deposits and charges so that they can maximize overdraft fee’s
• Approving debit card uses that should flatly be declined

My wife and i are out on the road and do a lot of trips through the D&D drive through (god love’m). One day Bank Of Ass-lappia approved 8 separate charges (4 of which were under $6 each). These all should have been declined since my overdraft account was maxed at the time, but hey it’s more profitable to charge me 4280 in one day then decline the charges.

Now rightly so some people will tell me that it’s my responsibility to make sure i have enough money before i go using the debit card.

I say no way Jose. Don’t approve a charge that i have mistakenly made just to charge me a overdraft fee!

Why comcast sucks

Have you been using comcast pay per view lately? Do you like to check out the the preview clip that is sometimes provided? I do. It’s nice to be able to check it out and decide if you want to spend the money on a movie…. isn’t it?

Well i happened to notice that comcast has made a little change in the menu structure used to navigate on-demand pay per view.

It seems that when ever your navigating the menus for a particular movie, or watching the preview clip and select “stop” or otherwise generally return, guess what….

The menu always ends up “buy movie” selection when it used to always return to the “last” selection (which you just always hit enter on to return to the list of movies). So now you hit enter as expected and you’ve just purchased yourself a movie you may not want.

Just like cingular’s little text scam, i’m sure the guy that fixes this problem will get fired also.

I’m just sick of calling comcast up to have them take the movie of the bill……..

It’s com-fuckin-tastic!

Why cingular sucks

I’ve recently solved a problem I’ve had with cingular text messaging services. The resolution was a wonderful one that only took about 8 months to get implemented. I only needed to push up the chain of command and speak with representatives of the presidents office (phone number to come).

More on the solution in a moment. On to the problem,

I was getting close to 75 spam emails a week on my cell phone and and getting charged ~$20.00 a month in text messaging charges. They were usually long messages split into 5 parts and routed through cingular’s sms gateway (leaving me no return info). After receiving some similar spam at home I realized even if I had return info it would have been spoofed email addresses and domains. IP addresses showed china, Poland and Russia were the originating localities of the spam.

Now cingular provided a web site called cingularme.com which their documentation showed had the tools for me tools for me to self manage spam via aliases and rejecting mutli part messages, great solution…. except the site has been down for almost a year….@$@#%@$%@#$@#$

I thought long and hard about why they were so slow to resolve an issue that was costing me ~$20.00 a month, so here it goes:

Cingular has 58 million subscribers. If 10% of 1/58th of their subscribers (100,000 subscribers) are getting spammed and paying ~$20 a month that adds about two million bucks a month to the bottom line. The guy that fixes that would probably get fired!

1/58th of 58 mill is 1,000,000 subscribers. times 10% is 100,000 subscribers. I think that’s a pretty liberal number of subscribers to base this on given the depth of spam issues.

So, I try to resolve a problem. When I talk to umpteen service reps I get resolutions like reply back to the spam with things like “NO”, “STOP”, etc. great, I’d be replying to their sms gateway which is like dropping the reply in a bucket of trash. The end result of that: my text usage goes up!!!!!!!!

I go through too many interim steps to mention but basically the final working resolution: I either change my phone number or loose text messaging service all together. yeah! it’s fixed, blah, blah, blah, fucking teleblah……. I’m so impressed with the service, all they need to do is turn cingularme.com back on and I can manage my own problems, but then that guy would get fired and cingular would loose ~2Mil a month (24 million a year!!!)

Next why companies suck topic: Comcast changes their on-demand cable menu so it’s almost impossible to not accidentally buy on demand movies!