Best Buy has a long and sordid history of offense. News of false imprisonment, failed customer service, failed "Optimization" service for PCs and TVs. The offense today was another joint effort between Best Buy and Geek Squad ( Read more... )

So in the midst of the economic crisis, the senate passed the $25B bill to help fund the 3 US auto manufacturers. This is the funding from the 2007 energy bill. This is to "help" them accelerate the development of fuel-efficient vehicles ( Read more... )

In another OMGWTFBBQ moment, last night I learned that Minnesota's own Michelle Bachman blamed the current economic crisis on the non-whites. Ok, not directly, but she blamed it on the Clinton-era bill that told banks they could not discriminate lending based on race or neighborhood. But keep in mind, no one has ever told banks that they had to ( Read more... )

So, I call the CSRs at Comcast. Surprisingly, there appears to have been an outage earlier today. That makes four times in a row that I have called and there has been an outage in the area. Is their service really that shitty? However, during the time of the supposed outage, I was online VPN'd into corp and was running my softphone just fine, ( Read more... )

Anthem Blue Cross may be a fine organization, but their website is fucking horrid. To say it was built by retarded monkeys would be disparaging the web skills of retarded monkeys. Very slow. Creating a profile failed. Twice. Searching does not exist, at least in any useful context. The search (find provider) form does not populate, or give ( Read more... )

First it was nice, then it snowed, today is slushy.

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I have to go to Topeka, fucking Kansas. Proof that Kansas is hell - the zip for the Hotel and client site are 66604 and 66606 ( Read more... )

So, today SCOTUS said "No" to hearing the appeal of a German citizen who was kidnapped by the CIA in Morocco and sent to Afghanistan where he was confined and allegedly tortured. After the CIA figured out he was not a terrorist, he was dropped off in the woods in Albania. Next stop for him is likely the World Court. That is pretty fucked up. So ( Read more... )

And I'll say it again. Definity Health aka UHC sucks diseased donkey dick. I got the usual letter today telling me I need to call in to verify I do not have any other insurance. I call in. There are no instructions in the letter on how to navigate the pain that is their voice response system. I try Coverage. I am then asked to say my DOB and ( Read more... )

So, instead of impeaching Bush for his crimes against America, both the House and the Senate handed him a bill that legitimizes most of his illegal wiretapping, further eroding our civil liberties and slashing the 4th Amendment. And this is with the democrats in charge of the legislature ( Read more... )