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I find it funny that the only Punk or heavier rock I've ever heard on the radio has been CBC. But only for a short segment of time.
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KiteAuraan posted:Kenmore lol if you buy Kenmore. I bought a Kenmore fridge way back. The compressor went out within five years. The repairman came to change it out and told me it was a Frigidaire. I asked him if they were pieces of poo poo and he told me, "The compressor's on back order. What does that tell you?" You never know what you get when you buy a Kenmore. gently caress Sears.
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Mar 2, 2016 00:12
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I'm the 16 different radio stations programmed into your car stereo all playing commercials at the same time, ama
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I have Sirius in my car and use it pretty frequently, the only thing is I don't pay much for it. After the current period I've paid for ends, I just let it lapse and just listen to music off my usb drive for a while. Sirius will send me increasingly desperate sounding emails until they're finally like OK WE NEED YOUR BUSINESS HERES A CODE FOR $6/6 MONTHS. I'll sign up, go back online, cancel any kind of recurring sub it tried to put me in and still get the 6 months no problem. Then I just let it lapse, lather, rinse, repeat. Been working fine for 2 years, I don't think I've paid more than $25 for a year's worth of service yet
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I really like XM radio. The channels I listen to seem to have better curation than any terrestrial radio I've found. v v Some DJs get stuck on certain songs and play them too often, but the programming nowadays is much better than it was back when it merged with Sirius. gently caress listening to commercials on the radio, ugh.
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Mar 2, 2016 02:49
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Navin Johnson posted:lol if you buy Kenmore. I bought a Kenmore fridge way back. The compressor went out within five years. The repairman came to change it out and told me it was a Frigidaire. I asked him if they were pieces of poo poo and he told me, "The compressor's on back order. What does that tell you?" You never know what you get when you buy a Kenmore. gently caress Sears. But kenmore is whirlpool ?
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Iron Prince posted:I have Sirius in my car and use it pretty frequently, the only thing is I don't pay much for it. After the current period I've paid for ends, I just let it lapse and just listen to music off my usb drive for a while. Sirius will send me increasingly desperate sounding emails until they're finally like OK WE NEED YOUR BUSINESS HERES A CODE FOR $6/6 MONTHS. I'll sign up, go back online, cancel any kind of recurring sub it tried to put me in and still get the 6 months no problem. Then I just let it lapse, lather, rinse, repeat. Been working fine for 2 years, I don't think I've paid more than $25 for a year's worth of service yet I think $12-20/yr is more in line with reality. Something I'd be willing to pay to get rid of commercials forever despite living in a world where everyone just curates their own personal playlists, probably with torrented/mega'd/what.cd-sourced free music.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:05
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Mozi posted:IT'S JUST A PAIR OF SCISSORS. I can tell you why this happens. I have sold a lot of things on Amazon. Go look at any item that you can buy from any vendor other than amazon.com. Chances are, you'll take a quick peek at their rating as based upon reviews by other users. The only way to get those reviews is by sending out the emails like you quoted. See, I said I have sold a lot of things on Amazon, but I only have like 3 reviews. So what happens is I have to price things I sell much lower than the competition, because buyers will assume I'm less reliable because nobody has reviewed me. Furthermore, Amazon was holding funds for some TVs that I sold until the buyer verified that they received their TVs. When I asked why, it was because I didn't have enough reviews proving I was not a scammer. The customer service rep specifically told me that I should send emails like you quoted, basically harassing the buyer into giving me a review. I tried a couple times, never got reviews, and gave up on selling on Amazon. gently caress that model. Nobody wants to leave a review when they're being harassed to.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:13
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johnny sack posted:I can tell you why this happens. Why are you selling tvs on Amazon and not at work?
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Darth123123 posted:Why are you selling tvs on Amazon and not at work? Why would I sell TVs at work? edit: If that was supposed to be a sick burn because you think I work in retail, I don't 
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johnny sack posted:Why would I sell TVs at work? you should offer free drinks for 5-star Amazon reviews
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johnny sack posted:Why would I sell TVs at work? If you aren't guilt tripping coworkers into buying useless junk from you, you ain't living right.
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Mar 2, 2016 11:49
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Tossing Sports Authority into the bonfire.
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Mar 2, 2016 19:32
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CubanMissile posted:This has nothing to do with Yelp's actual power and everything to do with local bar owners not knowing what they're doing. A local bar owner is usually an average Joe who came into a little money at some point and say "Hey, I'll open a bar." Then through sheer luck that person hit the magical combination of location, staff, and pricing and the bar somehow managed to not fail right away. It leads that person to think they're a genius and they "know the business" and all aspects surrounding it, especially marketing. These people are very behind in technology and since they've never used traditional advertising before they think they don't need it. Jesus loving Christ gently caress stupid bar business models and desperate, delusional idiots who pay chicks just to exist and scheming Cool Guys and especially bar owners who don't realize opening a bar is a statistical nightmare.
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Mar 2, 2016 21:08
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Wicker Man posted:This is Austin, every radio station has zany morning hosts. I know because when I leave in the morning from my night shift, I gotta hear them chatter about poo poo while I drive home being half asleep at the wheel. 90.5 is probably the only decent FM station in Austin
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Mar 2, 2016 21:32
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bloodysabbath posted:Jesus loving Christ gently caress stupid bar business models and desperate, delusional idiots who pay chicks just to exist and scheming Cool Guys and especially bar owners who don't realize opening a bar is a statistical nightmare. Give away free booze to everyone and call yourself a nonprofit. Problem solved.
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Thanks to my preference for classical music, radio is commercial free listening using a patronage model and a wide variety that provides a nice way of discovering new pieces. So just get a better taste in music goons and your radio problems will be solved.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:14
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I listened to a CBC "As It Happens" interview with host Carol Off and the Turkish ambassador. This was back when they were killing protesters over that park or whatever a few years ago, and Carol Off called the ambassador a liar and hung up on him, saying there was no point in continuing the interview if he was just going to respond with government lies/ propaganda to everything she asked. CBC Radio is awesome, I cannot imagine any other news source doing that.
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Mar 3, 2016 11:17
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The local eternally-struggling volunteer hippie station here airs Democracy Now and it's great when the interview subjects who often aren't seasoned bullshit artists will be audibly confused and offended by the leading questions the hosts ask.
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Mar 3, 2016 11:31
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Navin Johnson posted:lol if you buy Kenmore. I bought a Kenmore fridge way back. The compressor went out within five years. The repairman came to change it out and told me it was a Frigidaire. I asked him if they were pieces of poo poo and he told me, "The compressor's on back order. What does that tell you?" You never know what you get when you buy a Kenmore. gently caress Sears. Hers is a low grade LG I believe. Same with the dishwasher. Both needed major service in under a year.
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Mar 3, 2016 11:44
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Professor Shark posted:I listened to a CBC "As It Happens" interview with host Carol Off and the Turkish ambassador. This was back when they were killing protesters over that park or whatever a few years ago, and Carol Off called the ambassador a liar and hung up on him, saying there was no point in continuing the interview if he was just going to respond with government lies/ propaganda to everything she asked. This owns.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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KiteAuraan posted:Hers is a low grade LG I believe. Same with the dishwasher. Both needed major service in under a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_label Company A making products for and to be sold under the name of company B is a really common thing in virtually every product and component market.
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Mar 3, 2016 15:33
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Professor Shark posted:I listened to a CBC "As It Happens" interview with host Carol Off and the Turkish ambassador. This was back when they were killing protesters over that park or whatever a few years ago, and Carol Off called the ambassador a liar and hung up on him, saying there was no point in continuing the interview if he was just going to respond with government lies/ propaganda to everything she asked. I get the CBC for ~an hour here every night on MPR and I really enjoy it.  Carol Off is good (is the show "as it happens"?)
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It is indeed "As it Happens" and Carol Off is great. It's so funny to watch American news that bills itself as "tough but fair, asking hard hitting questions" softball every interview and then listen to Carol Off give zero fucks while doing an interview.
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1500quidporsche posted:It is indeed "As it Happens" and Carol Off is great. It's so funny to watch American news that bills itself as "tough but fair, asking hard hitting questions" softball every interview and then listen to Carol Off give zero fucks while doing an interview. Carol Off and Rosemary Barton should just team up and completely revitalize the CBC. Peter Mansbridge can hang out too, he's a cool dude.
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1500quidporsche posted:It is indeed "As it Happens" and Carol Off is great. It's so funny to watch American news that bills itself as "tough but fair, asking hard hitting questions" softball every interview and then listen to Carol Off give zero fucks while doing an interview. they used to play it at 10/11 here (can't remember now) and it was pretty much the best way to relax when I was working evening shift...
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drunk asian neighbor posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_label This is happening to a high end camera company called Leica, and their flame out is pretty great to watch. Leica originally built their reputation on handmaking some of best cameras ever, used for some of the most iconic photographs ever. Those pictures of the beach on D-Day were taken by Leicas, for example. Fast forward to the modern era, and they are essentially a luxury brand used mostly by dentists to photograph their cats. So what's a hundred year old, reputable company to do? Rebadge Panasonic cameras to add a 'luxury' flair, and add the name to a Chinese cell phone. red19fire has a new favorite as of 18:37 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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red19fire posted:This is happening to a high end camera company called Leica, and their flame out is pretty great to watch. gently caress, that's painful. Leica had one hell of a good name, too. Darth123123 posted:But kenmore is whirlpool ? In case it isn't clear by now, Kenmore is a huge variety of brands all private labelled by Sears. I use them sometimes because they have a good distribution network in Canada and can ship to the middle of nowhere.
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I'm still mad that they remixed the opening theme for As It Happens.
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IBM is laying off a third of their US employees. However it seems that the jobs are just going to Indian and the Philippines. As someone who has worked in IT for 20 years I hate IBM contractors.
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red19fire posted:This is happening to a high end camera company called Leica, and their flame out is pretty great to watch. I'm not surprised. How could they match the R&D and production scale of the larger Japanese concerns once things went digital? You can't just make CCDs in house the same way you grind lenses or stamp bodies. I would assume Leica sources good components, but I am not shocked they have to buy the camera guts from someone else.
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David Corbett posted:
Are they a Polaroid type thing? I've seen tvs with that branding. I remember my fridge from the 80s being a Kenmore 'beige'
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Bonzo posted:IBM is laying off a third of their US employees. However it seems that the jobs are just going to Indian and the Philippines. I interned at IBM in Vermont many years ago. Even back then all of the engineers knew that their future was bad. The main conversation was guessing when they were going to get laid off. Now they are! And there are tons of old engineers looking for jobs who are useless out of the IBM context in which they've existed for decades.
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seriously though can someone explain how Sears still exists? i havent been in one in at least 10 years and its at my local mall
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BigBoss posted:I'm not surprised. How could they match the R&D and production scale of the larger Japanese concerns once things went digital? You can't just make CCDs in house the same way you grind lenses or stamp bodies. I would assume Leica sources good components, but I am not shocked they have to buy the camera guts from someone else. I worked in a camera shop (another company now circling the drain) back when the digital camera thing was taking off in a huge way. Both Panasonic and Sony realized that the only way they were going to compete against Canon and Nikon was to license a prestige lensmaker to slap their name on their cameras. Panasonic got Leica and Sony got Zeiss. Leica was making rumblings that this was just a stepping point to a comeback then but it was pretty clear they were never going to be able to compete in that market on their own. I'm shocked Panasonic didn't buy them outright at this point, or atleast their lens division.
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KiteAuraan posted:Hers is a low grade LG I believe. Same with the dishwasher. Both needed major service in under a year. I actually know quite a bit about appliances. I worked in appliances at the Home Scampot back in the mid OOs. That was when LG first came out. We used to get quite a few LG fridges back within a week or two of delivery from random and mysterious leaks. I also worked for a bag packer manufacturer in the 90s. We were trying to sell some to Lucky Goldstar and one of their reps came over from Korea. I still have his business card. Lucky Goldstar = LG. Remember Goldstar VCRs and TVs and poo poo? Same loving company. Worst electronics ever. Do NOT purchase Korean appliances. Overpriced pieces of poo poo..............
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The brief one day I worked at The Brick I was accosted by the LG sales rep, despite just wanting to look at what the gently caress I was supposed to be selling he insisted I waste loving 45 minutes going through one LG fridge model in detail. The thing seriously looked like you could break the side shelfs if you closed it to fast.
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Navin Johnson posted:Lucky Goldstar = LG. Remember Goldstar VCRs and TVs and poo poo? Same loving company. Worst electronics ever. Do NOT purchase Korean appliances. Overpriced pieces of poo poo.............. Things change. Once their cars were pretty crap too and now they are fine. Philips once made pretty good tv's and are now a badge for cheap chinese crap. So it goes.
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Chinatown posted:seriously though can someone explain how Sears still exists? i havent been in one in at least 10 years and its at my local mall The general consensus is that them holding on through 2014-2015 was something of a miracle, but they're not going to be holding on much longer.
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NihilismNow posted:Things change. Once their cars were pretty crap too and now they are fine. I dunno about what their cars now specifically are like but I generally won't buy a Korean car. A little part made by Bosch called an idle air valve broke on my VW Scirocco a while back. VW and Audi stopped using the part in 1990 and it was only used on a few models so it largely seemed like I was screwed, that was until a search using the Bosch parts number revealed that the exact same part was used by Hyundai/Kia starting in 1999. Now the part in question is fairly generic and something you could use out of a parts bin. But I do question Hyundai's design process when a part wasn't used by any manufacturer for close to a decade, Hyundai had no real tie to Bosch at that point, and then that part suddenly appears on their cars. Seems a little too much like they went door knocking to find the cheapest price possible.
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