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You may well go down as the funniest Ihub member ever....if only someone would invent an Insane Person to English Translator.
Sorry, no.
I just provide comic relief, unsolicited advice or annoying buttinski-ing, depending upon your point of view.
From the sound of it, he must be a one lucky fella. Good luck with the fence!
Have a Nice Day,
Vern
ok, I'm trying to talk my husband into putting us up a cedar fence around back yard. Anyone got a site as to how to do it.
I don't know about a website, but I can tell you a surefire way to talk your husband into doing just about anything!
I didn't even remember that signatures existed until this recent discussion. I guess I turned them off years ago because they were so annoying.
While you are doing away them them, maybe you could also figure out a way to punish those that still manage to end every single post --no matter the subject-- with an annoying sign-off, like...
Have a Nice Day,
Vern
I appreciate your patience and understanding Phil.
I already did, and the coffee was great, and it still is!
Thanks again, Phil.
Sorry about that Phil.
It is a fairly common idiom, although I'm sure of the etymology.
I should have just said I'll stick with my original statement.
Thanks.
Thank you Phil.
I understand what you are saying.
I will stand pat.
The Answer is Now.
However, I forfeit my prize.
You can buy me a coffee some day....which is also Now.
If the agency is really supplying you with ads that install a known trojan, and you can identify the agency, how about if you just do the world a favor and refer the matter along with copies of the malicious code to the FBI.
Or am I missing part of the equation?
edit
Shall we chalk your last 14 messages on this board up to you going off your meds, or did that manic episode happen even while you were medicated?
Posted by: Ken Scordo
In reply to: grubmaster who wrote msg# 56135 Date: 7/1/2005 2:36:04 PM
Post # of 56145
I agree Bull, Grub, I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Our relationship might only be on paper "some co-marketing" but in reality it's much more than "some co-marketing" and I'm sure if you were here today seeing what's happening you personally would be much more interesting in "some co-marketing".
Still, I'm not sure of your point, did you just save me the money of making your Data Center bullet-proof is this some control issue beyond the best interest of IHUB?
I simply suggested IHUB move it's servers to the best of the best Data Center and I would pay because IHUB's recent Data Center problems are beginning to reflect on OCS.
Grub, are you interested in personally paying for a new data center or are you more interesting in describing problems and relationships than fixing them?
Posted by: Ken Scordo
In reply to: Susie924 who wrote msg# 56128 Date: 7/1/2005 2:02:10 PM
Post # of 56145
Susie the problem with IHUB is, and always has been, it's Data Center. Since the day IHUB moved their servers their problem has been their Data center.
IHUBs Data centers should be moved immediately, period, furthermore my dedication to the kid is unwavering, I will pick up most, if not all, the costs of the move. Personally I wouldn't accept writing checks to incompetent Data Centers or anyone else for that matter.
I have my opinions as to why the servers haven't been moved yet but I'll keep them to myself.
You really, really should have.
Can't believe I'm gonna be a Chevy truck owner.
I hope you were able to take advantage of this deal:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/01/Autos/gm_incentives/
http://www.gm.com/employeediscount.do?cmp=JB_Offline
Since it is a known fact that most of iHub's best members are from Rhode Island, I know that you all would want to know that yesterday I caught the first striper of the season from the Island Park shores of the the Sakonnet River, using a 2 ounce Atom popper.
Being outside of the warranty period now is no big deal. If you took the car back to him for the problem within the warranty period, and it sounds like you did, then you should be all set. Assuming it is the same or similar problem. By letting him know of the problem during the warranty period, and giving him multiple chances to fix it during the warranty period, you have preserved your rights. He knows it. He is counting on you not knowing it.
As for documentation, he has it. He is probably, by law, required to keep records of the service he performed during the warranty period. He is also required to give you copies of those records. Ask him for it.
Now you just apply it to what you think or hope or know the law to be.
You said earlier that you bought the car with 31K miles. Occams Razer posted a link, http://www.oag.state.ny.us/consumer/cars/usedqa.html that says that the lemon law in New York on a car sold with 18,001 to 36,000 miles lasts for 90 days or 4,000 miles. That's pretty good. You should really read everything in that link. It has all the info you need.
I notice that if you choose court rather than arbitration, you can recover reasonable attorneys fees. This is also good. If you have a really good case, with all the info already put down on paper (timeline, receipts, warranties, etc), you may be able to get an attorney to take the case on spec. Call your local bar association for a referral.
Question becomes, what did you do within those 90 days or 4,000 miles to alert the dealer to the problem. If you did anything to let the dealer know about the recurring problem within that period, then you should be fine.
You usually have to give the dealer the option of fixing the problem. I think you said you have been back five times. That's probably enough.
I guess you're right.
<insert clever, smiley emoticon here>
Scary that we are starting to think alike.
It is documented if you document it.
Start by making a timeline of every event from the day you bought the car. Indicate the date of each problem, each phone call to the dealer or other mechanic, each service visit, each new problem. It should look something like this:
02/10/05: Bought car. Told I had 60-day/6,000 Warranty.
02/24/05: Engine light went on. Bad acceleration.
02/25/05: Called Dealer. Spoke with Butch. He said no big deal, bring it in.
02/28/05: I took car in. They returned car 2 hours later, light out. Said O2 sensor bad.
You get the idea. Put this together, and you will be way ahead of the game. Plus, you will need it to get any legal advice.
Timelines. Never make a claim without one.
Dood, this car sounds like a major lemon, and you have been more than patient.
It is time to get medieval on their buttocks.
You wrote that the light first came on 2 weeks after buying the car. They "fixed" it, and it came back in two weeks later. Taken it back 5 times since then.
Sounds to me like you don't have to worry about the lemon law expiring. If you brought them the problem during the first 30 days, and it is pretty much the exact same problem that keeps coming back, you should be okay......or close enough to make them not want to spend money to argue the point.
You sound like a nice guy. Being tough may go against your character. You'll have to suck it up.
Just because you're normally a level headed guy doesn't mean you can't pretend to be insane. Your next call to the dealer should make you sound like Charlie Manson.
Demand that they take the car back. Tell them enough is enough. You've been ripped off. No, they don't get another chance to fix it. You want your money back. In fact, tell them you are coming over right now to drop the car off. Please have a check ready. Then go.
If they still stonewall you, tell them that the next time they hear from you will be through your attorney. He is just waiting to hear back from you as to whether the dealership will make good. Would they rather deal with you or him?
Let's face it, do you really care if you hurt their feelings at this point? Do you plan to ever buy anything from them ever again? Get mean. It might just be fun.
Hello.
All your base are belong to me.
Make your time.
I agree. I think he is totally money.
Yo yo Ken...on the serious tip....
Over and over I have seen you vaguely describing some kind of "participation" by iHub site members in OCS. Clearly, the impression you leave is something more than a client/brokerage relationship. It is great marketing, but is there substance?
Best I can tell, you want to offer free or discount shares as a marketing device, but you are worried that you can't do it without receiving some kind of consideration in return. So, you have come up with idea of a companion "news" site with 2-4 compiler/editors and however many news submitters show up to play. Will all of them be entitled to some participation in equity? What is the formula?
Are there other categories of people that can get shares, other than serially insolvent millionaires with a name synonymous school on a Sunday?
What about charter clients/members?
What about iHub members in general?
Just trying to figure it out.
Your big bivalve pal,
Quahog
Just remember, it was you who turned this into a conversation about testes.
And...actually, many state constitutions can be amended by voter initiative or Constitutional Convention, both outside of the normal legislative process. It isn't easy, but it can be done.
The people we want to test are the very people who'll write the law.
Don't let them write the law. You amend the Constitution to create a group that is independent of legislative influence and empowered to write the law in this area.
Maybe you're not the target client.
Overheard via wiretap on call initiated by undercover C.I. Codename PhatBoy:
http://www.moviewavs.com/cgi-bin/mp3s.cgi?Boiler_Room=wedontsell.mp3
Parental Guidance Suggested
Spirited Away
I give it 5/5 Clams.
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1808405164
Dear Mr. Trump.
My name is Kenneth Scordo. Right off the bat I feel that we have something in common, our cool names. Your name, Trump, needs no explanation. Mine, Scordo, takes a little longer to figure out ("Score-Dough," get it!!) B-), but then again it also has the added benefit of having four syllables and ending with the "oh" sound (compare Kenneth Scordo/Gordon Gekko). B-)
I am 42 years old but look a lot younger thanks to a super cool goatee and Just For Men #2. I'm 20 year stockbroker who worked in Manhattan during the first half of my career and spent the last half of my career working and living here in Orange County California. We call it The OC cause it sounds cooler. Way cooler.
About 5 months ago we began the process of creating a NASD stockbrokerage firm. Oh yeah baby! The process of creating a brokerage is a highly regulated process with takes multiple licenses and years of practical experiences with those licenses. But let's be honest here, to a guy like you this whole paragraph sounds like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Let me get your attention here:
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ That's what I'm talkin' about. B-)
What is money about this opportunity is OCS partnered with a 22 year old “whiz” kid named Phat Matt Brown. Although his name isn't nearly as money as ours, Matt Brown owns 2 of the largest 4 financial posting sites on the Internet. Matt created “Investors Hub” (IHUB) 6 years ago when he was 16 years old and bought “Silicon Investor ”(SI) 3 years ago. There is this other dude named Bob who sticks his nose where it don't belong from time to time, but I'm planning on having him bumped off. Ha ha. Just kidding!!! B-)
You may ask what is Silicon Investor and Investors Hub and who thinks these sites are good places to market a on-line brokerage? Well, I do. That's me Kenneth Score-Dough for one!!! And you can take that to the bank, baby! B-)
What’s going to be unique about this Broker/Dealer is we intend you take full advantage of the synergies of thousands of writers and their daily passion to write on finance in a way which has never been done to date. I don't even know what "synergies" are, but think of how cool that word will look in our prospectus. B-)
Now, it is true, there are a couple of bad apples there at iHub. But I have been ordering Matt to ban them and I expect he will come to his senses very shortly. B-)
The answer as to why you would wish to be involved in such a deal is simple. You made billions in real estate, the best game in town. True, you seem to end up in bankruptcy a lot, but hey, how is it your problem that some creditors were too stupid to get collateral? The second best game in town is the Kevin Bacon game. I can get from Vin Diesel to Kevin Bacon in two steps! The third best game in town is Wall Street and quite possibly the Internet and the twins episode of Fear Factor (can you say hot, blonde twins eating pig scrotums B-), and I believe you have little to no exposure to these areas (including, I hope, the pig scrotums!!!).
Why a deal with a start-up like OC? Because our structuring will allow you the best deal in town and a communal on-line deal like the one we are discussing on-line will give you the attention of a deal where hundreds of Joe Schmos can reap the rewards along with us. Plus, we're all just a bunch of pie in the sky rubes who think we can make a deal with the devil and win. Just kiddin' about that devil part, but you get the idea. B-) Can you say PHRESH PHISH? Again, just kidding.
Marketing is everything in business today. I'll bet you didn't know that so it is a good thing I told you. Plenty more gems where that came from baby!!! AmeriTrade and E-trade have multibillion dollar capitalizations and do little more than take trades. Bush leaguers. Matt, OCS and 200 IHUBers have the window and the passion to make this work fun. Plus, we have cool screen names. I already have ScoreDough$$$ reserved though, so don't get any ideas!!! You can be TrumpGuy$$$$ if you want.
I have a business opportunity which I would like to offer you. Can I have your phone number?
I'll start with the first paragraph:
Dear Mr. Trump,
Hi!! First, let me say that I think you are totally awesome. B-) Next, let me introduce myself. My name is Ken Scordo and you probably remember me from my audition tape for The Apprentice, season III. Don't worry, no hard feelings for not picking me! B-)
I am writing to invite you to participate in an opportunity of a lifetime. Not too long ago my buddies and I were chillin' at a super classy suite at the Bellagio (totally comped and one phone call was all it took, that's how money we are), getting ready to order some very expensive prime rib and french champagne, and putting all the suave moves on some hot court reporters we met up with B-), when we came up with this suh-weet idea about starting up an online brokerage.
Suddenly it hit me.....we've got to get the Donald in on this!!! B-)
Sorry, Howard Stern – Good-bye TIVO
by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers134.html
Over the next ten to twenty years there will be a revolution in broadcasting so drastic that I believe TV sets will virtually disappear in American homes within the next 25 years. The in-home AM/FM radio is already going the way of the 1950's short-wave, and within 15 years will become a curiosity.
After being slapped with several serious fines amounting to over $2.5 million dollars over the last ten years for profanity from the Nanny state under the guise of the FCC, Howard Stern is boasting that he will take his act to the future of radio broadcasting: Satellite radio and move to Sirius Satellite Radio beginning in January of 2006. Sirius is going to pay Howard Stern $500 million dollars over the span of five years. Great deal for Howard Stern? Most definitely. Good deal for Sirius Satellite Radio? Well, desperate people will do desperate things. But most of you folks already know this story. It's what Howard doesn't know (and that includes most people) that's going to hurt. The future of broadcasting is definitely not in satellites.
I'm guessing that most folks are completely unaware of a new product that is about to be sold on the Japanese market in April of 2005. It is called HDD DVD. That would translate into "Hard drive disk, digital video disk." At first glance, this might look a bit like TIVO – a popular hard disk recorder in use in the United States – but HDD DVD is much more – or much less – depending on how you look at it. HDD DVD will allow you to record programs, sports events, movies, etc., and cut your own re-write-able DVD’s for storage. Not only that, HDD DVD will not have a monthly charge like TIVO does and the units will sell for approximately the same price. With TIVO charging about $12 per month for use of their product, it is easy to see how TIVO will go the way of the Beta video once HDD DVD comes on the market.
Besides HDD DVD completely revolutionizing the mass media as we know it today, it most certainly will bankrupt many satellite broadcasters and possibly TIVO – unless those folks have something up their sleeves. And it doesn't matter if we are talking about satellite radio, satellite TV, cable, FM radio, or even multi-media TV and radio conglomerates such as Clear Channel. They all have a decidedly dim future. And there's not a thing they can do about it.
Besides wrecking the mass media, HDD DVD is a device that will also make games like Play-station obsolete. So most parents and intelligent people have more than one reason to cheer.
How does HDD DVD work? From what I have read and seen, the HDD DVD is basically a computer hard drive system coupled with a DVD RWR (Read, write, re-write) player. The unit is merely switched on in the morning – no programming necessary – when you are heading out for work. When you return home, an on-screen menu will show you exactly what was recorded and at what times. The menu listing will allow you to click a button to immediately view only what you want to view and in what order – as easily as choosing a track on a CD. Television and radio commercials, or entire sections of programs, can be automatically deleted. I'm not talking technology that will be outrageously expensive either. Through some investigation, I found that Wal-Mart will be offering units at $299 dollars by this Christmas in the United States. Perhaps $99 dollars by Christmas 2006?
In Japan, all the satellite TV stations – as well as FM stations – have all begun to hit the panic buttons. If the viewer can shuffle playback so easily, thereby cutting out all commercial time, then for what purpose would sponsors pay exorbitant amounts of money to run advertisements? They wouldn't would they? The higher-ups at the satellite TV stations I work at all see the writing on the wall as clear as day: Do something drastic now or go down on a sinking ship. I've been voting for drastic measures.
For the FM radio stations, things look even worse. Many new cars are coming out in Japan that do not even have FM radio tuners in them. And why should they? The cars are all equipped with GPS and are soon to be Internet compatible. Most can already plug into radio via cell-phone. And the cell-phone providers are not lining themselves up with FM radio providers. They are setting up themselves with Broad-band and Internet stations. The AM stations’ saving grace will be the traffic reports – but even that is "iffy" as GPS can do the same thing.
Recent surveys have shown that more and more people are gathering their news from the Internet. Younger people have no problem with this at all. The older generation who has the out-dated (and wasteful) habit of feeling like they need to read a newspaper or watch TV news will not change course. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. But, this older generation, unfortunately, will be gone soon enough. And when they are, and the subscription numbers of newspapers hit rock bottom; the TV news viewer-ship continues to erode (and it has been eroding for the last 20 years across the board); and the conglomerates are no longer capable of justifying to sponsors spending millions on ads that no one sees, the entire mass media set-up we have been used to for the last 50 years will come crashing down. This is the assumption that TIVO has been working on, somewhat successfully, over these last five years. The problem for TIVO now is: With HDD DVD coming on the market, who needs to pay a monthly subscription to TIVO? I suspect that if you own TIVO stock, you had better sell now. Heck, think about it, any stock in any Big Media is a sure loser.
We now have Internet radio. I work in the music business. It is common knowledge among everyone in my field, that young people who want to hear new music, listen to Internet radio. No one listens to FM anymore. FM radio is beyond repair to the younger crowd as it has a very unfashionable and worthless image. The Internet radio stations are exciting and they are booming. It's just a matter of time, before Internet radio destroys FM radio for music lovers, be they Classical, Jazz, or even Country music, Rock, or Hip Hop fans. And it won't matter if we are talking about in the home or in the car.
In Japan, just about all the cellular phone companies are launching their own Internet accessible radio networks. Who needs to buy a $500 to $1200 dollar AM/FM CD player for the car when you can just plug your cell phone into your in-car CD/DVD player and be able to access literally thousands crystal clear Internet stations as well as down-loadable music from the Internet?
And, from what I understand, Internet TV is just around the corner. In fact, several business associates of mine are contemplating starting the worlds first 24-hour-a-day Internet TV News Network. How do they make money from it? Now that's the $64 million dollar question. But I can see making more money from that in twenty years than I can from how the traditional TV stations do it. The traditional stations are dinosaurs and most of them don't even know it yet.
Very soon, people won't need an AM/FM radio receiver. They won't need a TV screen. Newspapers are already on their last legs. Everyone already has a computer – No, everyone needs a computer. The computer will be able to do them all in one place. And back to satellite radio? Are you kidding, Howard Stern? You don't think that people are going to go out and actually spend a few hundred dollars to buy a satellite dish and tuner, plus pay monthly subscription fees, when they can most likely get your show pirated over the Internet for free do you?
The Internet is the key. Internet news is destroying the newspapers, and helping Big Media TV news destroy itself. Internet radio is here. Internet TV is just around the corner. HDD DVD is coming this year. And the beautiful part? No sponsors, no fees, no commercials. Some smart person is going to come up with, in short order, a revolutionary way to advertise too, and then it will be game over for Big Media.
So, Howard Stern, congrats on the $500 million from Sirius Satellite Radio.... Try to get the money up-front. And if you can, run like hell and don't look back.
March 15, 2005
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers [send him mail] was born and raised in the USA and moved to Japan in 1984. He has worked as an independent writer, producer, and personality in the mass media for nearly 30 years.
It can't be, since I don't engage in idle chit chat.
So, don't worry.
And who is this Matt person anyway?
Vietnamese cannoli?
Well, it's okay.
You just need to use it right!
End your last sentence with proper punctuation, as in a period.
Then, skip a couple of lines before you add your smiley.
8^)
Oh yeah, and Happy St. Joseph's day.
Did you get any zeppoles?
And another thing, there, Ken....
For some reason, when you use this B-) emoticon at the end of your sentences without using a period, it always makes me think that you are referring to the writer as either,"B" or "Bitch."
Like, "Yo, how about that, B?"
or
"Make me some more waffles, bitch."
wow, look at that B-)