If you have a cellular contract, simply insert your plan’s brand where I mention Sprint. They’re all confiscatory, and they’re all getting away with it.
Basically, it’s like this: They’ll put stuff on your bill, and you pay it. That’s all. Forget that it’s outrageous, and forget that all the other carriers have got you just as easily. (more…)
OK, let’s cover essentials:
DEFINITIONS:
‘Super Centers’ - Giant, 200,000+ sq ft building spaces with concrete floors, too-high ceilings, outta’ sight utility costs, and every item imaginable (and unimaginable) for modern and traditional hardware and builing needs. Add to that: giant parking lots and carts for customers to lug around the aisles; this retail concepts relies pretty much on customers knowing what they want and where it is. Employees aren’t particularly knowlegeble and/or completely unknowlegeable, and getting ‘in and out’ of these stores is a long shot. ‘Specialists’ roam their areas but usually can’t help their customers if the customer wants, say, a lamp cord if the ’specialist’ works in paint. Professional contractors purchasing 190 2″ x 4″ boards mingle with older ladies trying to select just the right lawn furniture. Prices are low, and carrying costs (inventory) is astronomical. (more…)
A rookie film director, Charles Ferguson, has proven he has balls. This is the first documentary in the World that takes up-close footage of advanced-stage occupied Iraq that show, without a Michael Moore-like-slant-at every-turn glimpse into that which is an infinitely more profound–yet amazingly non-judgemental debacle in Iraq. (more…)
Gosh. Where do we begin? How many contractors have we clothed and fed? How many mouths have eaten with our spoons? Many youngsters shall now have college education completely paid for, entirely because of our philanthropic gesture of the SHITTIEST luck the Western World’s inhabitants have ever been befalled.
This isn’t about the mocking that Ali gave Spinks when, in the last three rounds of the 1978 heavyweight title fight, ‘The Greatest’ had no arms or legs left.
It’s about mocking for the sake of mocking, designed to 1)make an opponent of the one being mocked, and 2)entitle the ‘mocker’ with a sense of power that he otherwise would never own. (more…)
To quote Pilate’s line in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’…
…you’re deep in trouble, friend..’
It doesn’t matter where in the country you live. Depending on how well you read the line items on your monthly bill, and no matter how you can’t do a thing about them, you’ll find, in various forms of disguise, a fuel surcharge bill.
It may be called ‘transportation fee’. It may be rolled into a ‘user fee’, as is the giant AmerenUE private conglomerate that services most of MO and the Midwest. In the two page, unusually well-documented ‘Ameren CIPS’ (I don’t have a clue what ‘CIPS’ stands for, and neither did the customer service rep I called) bill that Southern Illinois customers receive. (more…)