I’d like to lodge a formal complaint to whomever is in charge of determining the stupidity of Web 2.0 terminology, regarding “Bacn” which some retard has decided should be the name for “Email you want – But not right now.”
Bacn is a new problem now plaguing our email inboxes. Putting it simply, Bacn is email you receive that isn’t spam… And isn’t personal mail. It’s the middle class of email. It’s notifications of a new post to your Facebook wall or a new follower on Twitter. It’s the Google alert for your name and the newsletter from your favorite company.
This is preposterous! Bacon is something I want ALL THE TIME! It is not something that should be used in reference to anything negative.
Netizens! We must unite against this flagrant insult to everyone’s favorite meat product!
THIS. SHALL. NOT. STAND!
It’s nice to know I’m not alone!
Last night, and really for the past month I’ve had a lot of reason to wonder how it is possible that T-Mobile wins customer service awards.
The Backstory:
At the beginning of July, I bought an iPhone. I ported my number out from T-Mobile (rather begrudgingly I might add. I was happy there). I still had a contract, apparently. I did not realize this at the time, as I was explicitly told otherwise. At any rate I intended to remain a customer and planned transferring my plan to a hotspot-only account so that I can hop on wi-fi networks at Starbucks. This all seemed very possible to everyone and they were going to do a sim release on my old sim card and enable my account for hotspot only.
That was just over a month ago. Last Thursday, my bank account was billed for my last month of service, and a $200 early termination fee. I immediately called and re-explained what I wanted. However at this point, my account had been inactivated, and re-activating it has proven quite difficult.
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Why are the two “minor” candidates (Dennis Kucinich & Mike Gravel) the only candidates exhibiting any testicular fortitude and common sense instead of the same old rhetoric? I use “minor” because that’s the classification the media gives them. They aren’t given the same time or respect as the others, amongst the candidates or the media, much in the way Dean got hammered for his “Iowa Scream.”
For a long time I have been an Obama fan, and I think it is wonderful that an African-American and a woman are front-runners for the presidency (and hey, it only took 200 years), but to be honest… I’m losing interest in the “mainstream” candidates. I am not a Clinton fan because of the fact that she pushed for universal healthcare and is now in their pocket, and while I admire Obama not taking lobbyist money and being a great speaker and all the other reasons people like him… I don’t think one can stand up and say “I was against the war all along” when he wasn’t even in a position to vote one way or the other and therefore can’t be held to the fire on something he said in a speech. Perhaps when actually voting, his opinion would have been different.
None of the debates sound much like debates at all until Kucinich gets a turn to speak. They sound like a bunch of old rich folks repeating themselves and stroking their own egos and occasionally each-other’s.
I want a real change. We heard nothing but good news for the last mid-term elections. We were told the Democrats were going to shake things up. They were going to bring the troops home from this unnecessary war. We’re still there. They were going to protect our privacy while ensuring our national security. They just gave the Bush administration everything it wanted with regards to wiretapping. At every chance they get, they roll over to the neocon agenda, and frankly I’m disgusted by it.
FYE.com’s online support has been added to my shitlist. I have been trying to get the status of my order for almost a week. All I seem to be able to receive from them is canned responses directing me to the help section of their website, which is entirely useless for determining the status of my order.
The tracking number provided gives no results at USPS, and I get no response from FYE other than canned nonsense. I suppose I should attempt to cancel the order completely.
