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Because People Suck

Sure, I get crappy food at McD's and I can maybe complain and get my food replaced, or spit on, but if I'm a cop, I can arrest the minimum wage goober for it?!

Oversalted burger leads to charges

UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.

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Airline tells woman her outfit won't fly

SAN DIEGO - A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.

Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego's Lindbergh Field on July 3.

Ebbert, a student who was headed to Tucson for a doctor's appointment, said Friday on NBC's "Today" show that the employee told her she would have to catch a later flight.

"You're dressed inappropriately. This is a family airline. You're too provocative to fly on this plane," she quoted the employee as saying.

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My God... It's Full of Tards...

I do surveys every once in a while. Not because I'm desperate to talk to people or have them know my opinion. Or care. Or believe they really care what my opinion is beyond their ability to milk the last penny from me, but because I can get some pennies from them for a change.

In my travels through the tardosphere, I've noticed some things.

First, they usually want to know some standard profile stuff about you. Normal enough but in the last few years a trend has developed. We've all heard how hispanics are the fastest growing segment of society. Hooraaay. You got to wonder at the irony of being hispanic and finally being "noticed" by the man. Comes with some ironic twists I would say. On the one hand, companies and entertainment groups are now focused on pleasing you so your culture and heritage are on display and such. More TV shows, more products directed at you, more entertainment directed at you in general, but as the African Americans in this country found, this isn't always well-done, or well-intended. It's simply to try to get at your money. Most are slow to notice this in their pride and pleasure at being noticed.

So, back to my survey.

The form asks for my "ethnicity". From a very limited group of choices, I put white.

Then they ask for my "race".

My only choices are:

Hispanic/Latino (what's the difference?)
Other
Prefer Not to Say

How freakin blatant is that?!

Are you hispanic?! Yeah?! Woohoooo!! Here's a bunch of stuff we want to market to you in order to capitalize and monetize this, the most rapidly growing market in the US right now. The blacks let us down because we didn't realize that they don't all drink Malt Liquor and eat fried chicken (though we still try both avenues), but you guys totally eat up the hispanic thing as long as we pander to you.

Then...

I click through to the page that asks that you be truthful:

Before you begin, please make sure that you check off the appropriate option below:


- I agree to provide honest and thoughtful responses to all questions within this survey and to
take the time to read and respond accurately to all questions within this survey.


- I do not agree to provide honest and thoughtful responses to all questions within this survey or to
take the time to read and respond accurately to all questions within this survey.


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Huh? I'm going to really click the one that says I'm going to be dishonest? Why would you even offer that option?! If I click "I do not..." does that mean I'm lying about that too and WILL be honest?

The Death of the Internet

It seems the internet is in danger of becoming an owned commodity, a regulated for-profit business in much the same way newspaper, radio and television has. The villains? Who else, the government and big business. Namely, the phone companies.

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The good news is they also deliver just about anywhere else in the United States too. The site itself is laid out pretty well and is easy to navigate too. Everything you need to find is right on the front page, so there's no digging around to find something. From a graphic design point of view, the site is fairly easy on the eyes, though I myself have a pet peeve about sites that insist on being 800 x 600. I know this is the standard, but the idea that comapnies cannot take advantage of the internet and offer nice, large graphics because some old guy in Wisconsin still has a commadore 64 is annoying.
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