Sunday, May 22, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016
Fucking with telemarketers
I'm on the Do Not Call list and somehow they keep coming. My favorite part is when the supervisor she transfers me to says, "You're wasting my time!"
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Amazon's famed help dept finally fails
I really like Amazon. I've been a member since 2003. (Oy, that's a long time and a lot of purchases.)
I am an Amazon Prime member. I have an Amazon Fire HD. I pay for Kindle Unlimited. I have an Amazon Echo.
I like the Amazon infrastructure.
Oh wait. What's that? Amazon Echo?
It may be the one that finally turns me off a system I really enjoyed.
I got my Echo back in December. Magical. Much more responsive to voice control than my Moto X Pure phone which uses the Google Now system.
Ok, the Echo's search and intuitive responses weren't quite as good as Google's - how could it be - but the way you could speak to it and have it respond was much better.
I got a kick out of showing guests how I could just casually say, "Alexa, what's the weather for tomorrow" without having to speak like a robot or shout, and it would respond immediately.
But mostly I used my Echo for music playbacks.
And it was never a problem until now.
It has developed a strange bug and, although it seems easily corrected, there seems to be no way to fix it, and - this is the frustrating part - apparently no way to make the people at Amazon understand what the issue is.
After seven emails to the help desk at the Echo app over the last week trying to explain the issue, I tried one more time. I got passed around to three reps this time. I especially enjoy the snark from the rep at 10:48 PT saying he didn't want to waste my "precious time."
Below is my last online chat with them. And, again, this is my eighth time trying to get help with this issue.
(Jeff Bezos, maybe take a break from the space shuttle stuff and take care of your main business?)
I am an Amazon Prime member. I have an Amazon Fire HD. I pay for Kindle Unlimited. I have an Amazon Echo.
I like the Amazon infrastructure.
Oh wait. What's that? Amazon Echo?
It may be the one that finally turns me off a system I really enjoyed.
I got my Echo back in December. Magical. Much more responsive to voice control than my Moto X Pure phone which uses the Google Now system.
Ok, the Echo's search and intuitive responses weren't quite as good as Google's - how could it be - but the way you could speak to it and have it respond was much better.
I got a kick out of showing guests how I could just casually say, "Alexa, what's the weather for tomorrow" without having to speak like a robot or shout, and it would respond immediately.
But mostly I used my Echo for music playbacks.
And it was never a problem until now.
It has developed a strange bug and, although it seems easily corrected, there seems to be no way to fix it, and - this is the frustrating part - apparently no way to make the people at Amazon understand what the issue is.
After seven emails to the help desk at the Echo app over the last week trying to explain the issue, I tried one more time. I got passed around to three reps this time. I especially enjoy the snark from the rep at 10:48 PT saying he didn't want to waste my "precious time."
Below is my last online chat with them. And, again, this is my eighth time trying to get help with this issue.
(Jeff Bezos, maybe take a break from the space shuttle stuff and take care of your main business?)
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Reality? We don't need no stinkin' reality
As we have seen in issues ranging from climate change to evolution, Republicans do not let reality interfere with their chosen political message.
Even with that Texas Grand Jury refusing to indict Planned Parenthood and instead indicting the perpetrators of the video "sting," even after countless Republican-led Congressional and state investigations of PP finding no wrong-doing by the organization, the GOP candidates running for president continue to lie - there is no other word for it - about PP "harvesting" and "selling body parts."
They will not admit their horror stories are wrong. They will not admit PP is legally providing fetal tissue for much needed research and charging small fees to cover their expenses.
Reality does not matter to these people.
At the next GOP debate, Carly Fiorina should be asked why she continues to lie through her teeth about the "gruesome" Planned Parenthood videos she supposedly saw. Videos that DO. NOT. EXIST.
Sadly, I doubt she will be asked.
Even with that Texas Grand Jury refusing to indict Planned Parenthood and instead indicting the perpetrators of the video "sting," even after countless Republican-led Congressional and state investigations of PP finding no wrong-doing by the organization, the GOP candidates running for president continue to lie - there is no other word for it - about PP "harvesting" and "selling body parts."
They will not admit their horror stories are wrong. They will not admit PP is legally providing fetal tissue for much needed research and charging small fees to cover their expenses.
Reality does not matter to these people.
At the next GOP debate, Carly Fiorina should be asked why she continues to lie through her teeth about the "gruesome" Planned Parenthood videos she supposedly saw. Videos that DO. NOT. EXIST.
Sadly, I doubt she will be asked.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The differences in the guest list
If you ever want to see an example of the stark difference between the two political parties, sometimes you can find it in little things: just look at some of the guests invited to President Obama's State of the Union address last night.
The Democrats invited a Syrian refugee who has been taken in by the U.S. as he fled the carnage in his homeland. The Republicans invited Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who tried to stigmatize gay couples and treat them as second class citizens when they sought a marriage license in her county.
One represents kindness and mercy. One hate and bigotry.
And not just hate and bigotry, but proudly willing to announce it to a national tv audience.
The Democrats invited a Syrian refugee who has been taken in by the U.S. as he fled the carnage in his homeland. The Republicans invited Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who tried to stigmatize gay couples and treat them as second class citizens when they sought a marriage license in her county.
And not just hate and bigotry, but proudly willing to announce it to a national tv audience.
Friday, January 08, 2016
What the ACTUAL fuck
..is that Kars 4 Kids commercial selling?
And please stop it from coming onto my TV.
The song and those brats make me lunge for the remote almost as fast as I do with the PSA for those poor dogs and that mournful Sarah McLachlan song behind it.
And please stop it from coming onto my TV.
The song and those brats make me lunge for the remote almost as fast as I do with the PSA for those poor dogs and that mournful Sarah McLachlan song behind it.
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