there’s a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.

if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you’re paying me 24/7–and providing the phone you want me to answer.

it’s basically a little grape juice, an abundance of corn syrup and hfcs, and just enough pectin to hold it together.

or onlyoffice

nothing wrong with being an unnamed background character.

you’d be surprised at how many people look for lowest price and fail to read even part of the rest of the item’s page below the item title at the top.

kindle. check.

lowest price. check.

buy now.

click-click-done.

(oops. they just got a ‘trial’ to prime, too. that takes actual reading of pages to find and click-through the cancel process before the payments start)

amazon still sells the ad-supported versions of kindles. and not just the fire tablets, but the readers, too.

aren’t icebergs the ‘icebergs of the sea’?

for every person that figures out how to disable this stuff, there are many thousands of others who don’t, don’t bother, or don’t even know it might be possible to… which is why they pull this shit in the first place–and (usually) get away with it.

i use private windows mainly so i don’t clutter up browser histories with useless stuff i won’t go back to (if i do run across something to save, it gets bookmarked or printed to pdf).

i had just looked that up on verizon here. you can configure it to be whatever you want (with some limits), and it’s what gets sent with your phone number for caller id to compatible mobile devices/plans and to landlines with name & number caller id capability.

they thought star trek would carry it… when that didn’t work, they shopped some of those titles around to play elsewhere and don’t even have their entire flagship franchise available anymore.

“a historic day in the court room today, as the court recessed for 15 minutes for a diaper change–interrupting the testimony from the very first witness called by the state.”

diaperbaby: here’s our new collateral for the appeal bond

ny ag: lol no

when i lived down in texas (and a couple other places), the stores had can-sized paper bags for the big cans and for regular 12oz ones. and i’d see guys having clerks at the store ‘bag’ their beer (even each can of an intact six-pack)…

then see them a few lights down the road chugging one at a red.

the flaw in their plan is that many people dgaf if they watch something the moment it’s released. they’ll just ‘catch up’ next time they sub to a service for a month.

the new york times is just now discovering this? trial jumping and service jumping have been a thing since netflix was the only game in town. before, even, as it was not uncommon for one to jump between directv and dish for tv, or telco and cable for home internets for the ‘new’ customer promos (which is why those companies like the 2 year contract with promo rates only good for the first year now).

i only do the prepaid cards. i won’t ever give a bank account or card number to a streamer… means no ‘trials’, but also a bit more security and privacy. no definitive identification ‘on file’ for them to match with other databases, and no personal/payment info to get stolen in a ‘security breach’

i’ve been on your step 3 for over a year now. don’t miss it. been watching ‘archived’ stuff mainly the last several years–and almost exclusively, now. i do ‘turn on’ a free service occasionally. don’t even know what the ‘new’ shows are, don’t care.

of course i learn of this today, a day after i just spent $10 each to ‘recycle’ a bunch of dead monitors.

it’s not just apple anymore. all the major ‘pc’ makers have non-upgradeable laptops now… just not across their entire line-up (yet).