Archive for November, 2006
I’ve talked about the USPS previously when I found out about their outsourcing (using Canadian-made boxes) and I’ve talked about the insurance scam of delivery services, but there is another thing about the Postal Service that really annoys me. This time, it’s something different.
According to CNN, Wikipedia has been unblocked for citizens. I guess their government finally realized they can just change the articles to say whatever they want. Ah yeah, the Tiananmen Square protests… wasn’t that when the government showed how much they support diversity and freedom of speech…?
When I was at Lackland AFB, I used a debit card to pay at an Internet access site (you might say “Internet Café,” but I feel like that implies that it was “hip” or at least looked modern). A complete stranger said something to the effect of “You shouldn’t use your credit card like [...]
If you have not learned by now, the world is unfair. It’s not just a little unfair, it’s like playing Pitfall on the Atari with a joystick that only works in one direction using only your feet—while blindfolded. And that’s the lead-in to why apartment deposits are one more way to rip off [...]
So many sayings exist that are just repeated and repeated by a huge chunk of the population, even when evidence to the contrary exists. “Sports cars are unsafe” is propagated by the media and by insurance companies continuously. Extreme cases that prove the point are cited and extremes that disprove it are ignored.
