The sales people at Sun are just as bad as HP. They don’t know the basics about configuring their systems, they only know what things have the best commission and want you to buy them, whether they fit or not.
HP got balkinized into competing and non-communicating divisions to the point that some of their products didn’t support their printers. I ran into that when I did some work for HP marketing. They were having to use “foreign” equipment at trade shows so they could demo some of the stuff from the printer division, a situation that really annoyed all HP shops.
As for e-Bay, for a while it was the number one “fencing of stolen goods” outlet in the US.
What wonderful people the Republicans go with – Florida’s new governor was CEO when his company was fined $1.7 Billion for Medicare fraud.
]]>So anyhow, I did the teaching bit, decided poverty sucks, so now I get to be a big kid amongst a lot of other big kids. Hey, if you gotta deal with children all the time, might as well be one, right? 😈
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
]]>Boxer was lucky in her opponent, as was Jerry Brown. Carly Fiorina is one of the most hated people in the Silicon Valley, and was fired for basically destroying HP as well as embroiling it in scandal. The fact that she even made a serious showing is remarkable, in normal election years Boxer gets re-elected with 65% of the vote. But in the end her own demons pulled her down, as happened to eMeg, who did the same thing to eBay that Carly did to HP (laid off tens of thousands of Americans while outsourcing to India, driving her company’s stock price way down, and giving herself huge bonuses) and eventually got called on it by Jerry. This wasn’t a year in which those kinds of shenanigans were going to win in California…
]]>Chamber’s Money Well Spent: 63 Percent of Races Won; 20 Incumbent Democrats Defeated
U.S. Chamber of Commerce – Campaign Cash
Luckily for you, the most extreme Tenther nutters were dumped. A few of the smarter ones who kept their extreme rhetoric down a bit, like Rand Paul & Mike Lee did win. *shrug*
]]>They have to do something about the ads because they never quit. There is just too much money sloshing around and it all seems to be spent on television. I have been listening to my Mother complain about it for months, especially the ones during Jeopardy.
Kryten, it’s too bad that Reid has never bothered to do that in the Senate, something might have gotten done. As Badtux noted, Obama was easy to spot as right-winger early on, but people ignored facts as they rushed “to make history”. Well, they’ve made it, and it isn’t pretty.
]]>As for Obama, I noted back in January 2008 that he was either a liar or a moron. I was talking about his health care “plan” at the time, which was either patently dishonest or utterly idiotic (it would have resulted in all Americans other than those on government programs being uninsured and thus lots of dead Americans) or both. That was enough for me to support another candidate in the primaries, because whether liar or idiot, clearly he wasn’t fit to be President. I voted for him in the finals, but to be fair, I would have voted for a footstool or for my brain-dead black cat for President if said individuals had been running against McCain. Besides, The Mighty Fang would have been historical in *two* ways — the first feline to hold the office of POTUS, and the first black to hold the office, while Obama only hit one of those checkboxes :twisted:.
I must say that Obama has governed exactly as I expected him to govern. Alas.
– Badtux the Unsurprised Penguin
]]>Urk. I just gave up on the presidential press conference. When Obama declared that Americans rejected Democrats in part because “We were in such a hurry to get things done that we didn’t change how things got done,” I checked out.
Seems Harry Reid won, by doing something the other Dem’s didn’t… he fought his insane moronic opponent Sharron Angle and called her out on being the nutter she is! I notice a couple of the other extremely insane Rethugs lost also! Maybe the Citizens have been paying attention after all. 😉
Harry Gave ‘Em Hell
Aha. I almost forgot to mention this, but one of the surprises of last night is that Harry Reid, supposedly a completely hopeless case, is still Senator.
How did that happen? Reid did something Democrats almost never do: instead of apologizing for his party, he ran against a person with a habit of making crazy statements by hitting hard, again and again, with ads calling her a crazy person. It was very rude and uncivil. And it worked.
Yeah. Really! 😆
]]>He came up in Chicago where the primary is the election. He and his inner circle thought they could do whatever they wanted and the “party” would back them, but that’s not how it works outside of Chicago.
He isn’t a leader and he doesn’t understand the real world of politics. In many ways he is a quieter, more polished version of Dubya… You know, a moron. 😈
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