Comments on: The Press Releases of the Damned!

By: new orleans computer repair

new orleans computer repair — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:34:03 +0000

This was really sad for me. :(

As a technician, I am 100% ANTI-BEST BUY, and now there isn’t a single store for me that carries video cards.
Walmart didn’t have a single internal hard drive and had no idea what one was. Office Depot did, but they’re way over priced and their selection of hard drives was 1.
Now I order everything online.

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:39:55 +0000

Actually, AOL disks still exist, and they were free even when they first appeared (you still had to pay for the internet!). And, the idea DID make AOL Software able to look “cool” (of course there is all the stupid crap that nobody will ever think is good, like the “Teen People” keyword they mention, but Microsoft and every other generic corporation (generic =\= Comedy Central etc.) do all these stupid things as well); I recently went through all the settings options on the AOL that my dad (a Comcast subscriber) for some reason still purposely installs on his computer, and found I could do awesome things, like having Conan O’Brien say, “Greetings, Nerd!” instead of having AOL say, “Welcome!”. If dial-up was still remotely usable (and, the only reason it isn’t is because of the idiocy of most website designers who code things in “annoying” mode rather then in “normal internet”), and if AOL’s wasn’t horrendously expensive (almost $40/month I believe, when the rest are between $3 and $7), they would be who I’d pick because of the cool stuff they still do (for some reason… ). They still pretend to assume you want 15 other products, but most are only shortcuts, and every company will do that. They still slow down your computer slow as fuck… but if you were paying for the service, you’d be paying for the service… it doesn’t actually cause any errors it just crashes itself every so often. Of course that that always-been-horrendous browser, but you don’t have to it (unless you’re an idiot like my dad and step-mom????). Because of the software, they have the best system for bookmarking, the easiest way to read & write mail, etc., etc. (Although you’d have to open all the mail links by by c/p’ing I guess.)

So basically, the merger worked very well at it’s intended purpose… it’s just that AOL sucked so badly on it’s own that it didn’t do anything for the companies. Well that and of course that the majority implementation was either “exclusive” content that you can go to “keyword someshow” to see synopsis of the show in a flash-heavy environment!!… or you could just go to wwww.tvstation.com/someshow and see it in a non-flash-heavy environment since that was before everyone started screwing up the web with their retarded website “improvements”… [I forget the second half of my 'either'!]. When dial-up “died”, as you say, the majority of computer users still HAD dial-up at that time. Anything else was for businesses, libraries and schools. Dial-up ACTUALLY died a little bit after that.

And, seriously; 5.8 million subscribers?? Like, over 1,000,000??!?
Wow, “average”-intelligence people are stupider then I thought…

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By: JeffM

JeffM — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:04:01 +0000

I liked the pagination- this is formatted similiar to the Forbes top 10s- which worked for me.

I don’t think I’ll be coming back to this website- you have some vile readers!

By: nygenxer

nygenxer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:55:47 +0000

This is a great concept. Suggestions:

1) Merger of Travelers Insurance with Citigroup – repeal of Glass-Steagall Act
2) Enron – energy deregulation
3) Anything dot com & “the old rules don’t apply”
4) Airlines – benefits of airline deregulation
5) Telecommunication mergers & lower prices
6) Telecommunications – fiber optics & promised internet speeds
7) Press Releases from cigarette manufacturers
8) Fast food PR promoting “Healthy foods” of “Healthy children”
9) Clothing/sneaker manufacturers & 3rd world slave children labor
10) General Electric & clean water (easy)
11) General Motors/Ford & “Quality cars”
12) Any bank/investment firm promoting mortgage deregulation
13) Any HMO PR – “We care”
14) Any insurance company PR that failed to provide coverage after disaster (like State Farm & Hurricane Katrina)
15) Coal & “Clean air”
16) Exxon et. al. & “Green energy” & “Energy solutions”
17) Anything from a Major Pharmaceutical company

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