RANT: … and I thought the Indian casinos were the only ones who abused us

Monday, November 12, 2007

http://wcbstv.com/local/yonkers.raceway.strip.2.565987.html

Great Grandmother Strip-Searched At N.Y. Casino
Woman, 65, Furious Over Treatment At Yonkers Raceway
Reporting John Slattery

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YONKERS (CBS) — A great-grandmother from Mount Vernon is filing suit for allegedly being strip searched at the Yonkers Raceway casino. As CBS 2 HD has learned, the angry woman says it was over a winner’s slip that was missing.

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This is unbelievable. For $80! Eighty thousand maybe. 80?

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TECH SERVICE: Purchased MLB Game Downloads ?

Monday, November 12, 2007

http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/11/mlb-game-downloads-still-inaccessible.html

11.06.2007
If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims “No Refunds”

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2nd Update: Baseball Think Factory has publicized the discussion.

Update: Just got off the phone with a MLB customer service supervisor.

“MLB no longer supports the DDS system” that it once used and so any CDs with downloaded games on them “are no good. They will not work with the current system.”

Great. Just effing great. … As I told the supervisor, this is right in line with how wrong-headed and stupid and ass backwards MLB does everything.

I was told there is absolutely nothing MLB can do about these lost games. Plus, they said my purchases were all “one-time sales” and thus “there are no refunds”.

No refunds? As Lee Elia would say: “My ******* ass!”

My info has been submitted to some other MLB department which will review things and see what they can do about either getting me the games I paid for or refunding my $280.45.

So if you have downloaded any games prior to 2006, get those discs out and try to watch them … then call MLB at 866-800-1275 and demand they refund your money.

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Hence, my policy, no drm ever. Period. No excuse. No way; no how!

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PRODUCTIVITY: have a life plan

Monday, November 12, 2007

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/110707-10-career-killers-to.html?t51hb

10 career killers to avoid
By Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld, 11/07/07

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1. Failing to have a life plan. “This is the No. 1 biggest mistake that I run into with my clients. I work with a number of clients in IT, many of whom are in C-level roles. A life plan is a business plan, in the same way that a company leader creates an annual business plan for what the future is going to bring from a corporate perspective. Three life aspects to focus on include one’s career, personal and family, and financial goals.

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Great advice.

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POLITICAL: Rudy Giuliani endorsed by Rev. Pat Robertson?

Monday, November 12, 2007

http://www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/034971.html

November 07, 2007
TV Evangelist Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani, Despite Abortion and Homosexual Stance

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WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani Wednesday morning won the endorsement of the Rev. Pat Robertson, one of the evangelical Christian movement’s most recognizable leaders, who said he put aside his differences with Giuliani over abortion because he believes the ex-mayor will appoint staunchly conservative judges. Robertson said he was willing to overlook Giulani’s pro-abortion stance because he takes him at his word that he will appoint “strict constructionist” judges to the Supreme Court and federal bench — a widely accepted term for judges likely to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling.

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Sort of shows them up for what they are … “hippo critics”!

On one hand, how important is abortion then? And, otoh, believe a politician? How naive! How quaint!

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