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Journal: Chronicle: Got a new job 2

Journal by Chacham

I was looking for a job and an interview required references. I decided to put down an erstwhile supervisor and coworker, but only after aksing their permission. They both agreed, and i never heard back from that (first) place. (Not because of bad reviews, the head hunter explained they were excellent.)

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Journal: Chronicle: Emailed Walmart about confusing item description 4

Journal by Chacham

Walmart has a Slinky for $3.00. The description says: Clearance! Was $1.86. That seemed backwards.

So, i sent an email from their website:

Metal Slinky http://www.walmart.com/ip/Metal-Slinky/882938#Q%26A+Exchange

says the price is $3.00. The description says "Clearance! Was $1.86" Isn't that backwards? Because it went to clearance the price went up?

Comment: Re:So long (Score 2, Interesting) 159

by Captain Splendid (#45515899) Attached to: BlackBerry's CFO, CMO, and COO Leave Company
Way to twist my argument. It's just gospel these days that there's nothing government can do that private enterprise can't do better.

Except that, if you'd been paying attention, it seems that plenty of businesses, big and small, fuck up spectacularly and/or go down in blaze of glory (or whimper of acquisition).

So it seems to me that large, goal-oriented groups all have an equal chance of failure, whether there's a profit motive or not.

Yet, the mantra still is "Private enterprise is better than public." Wonder why that is.
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Journal: Verbiage: I love Amazon reviews 2

Journal by Chacham

I love Amazon because of the product reviews. Even when Slashdot was promoting the Amazon boycott over the 1-click patent, i mentioned (can't find my comment, /. seems to stop comment history in 2007 :( ) that B&N was terrible in that they only have positive comments on their website. A negative comment i left on B&N was deleted shortly thereafter. Amazon, however, keeps even the bad reviews.

Comment: Moo (Score 1) 5

by Chacham (#45329677) Attached to: Windows 8.1 Nag Banner

If you can name the process that shows the banner, just kill it. That's what i did under XP when there was an annoying process running. A friend kindly wrote the script for me.

Option Explicit

Dim objWMIService, objProcess, colProcess
Dim strComputer, strProcessKill
strComputer = "."
strProcessKill = "'***filkename***.exe'"

while (true)
        Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
                & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
                & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

        Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
                ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = " & strProcessKill )

        For Each objProcess in colProcess
                objProcess.Terminate()
        Next

        WScript.sleep 20000
wend

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