As reported by The Raw Story, the U.S. is hemorhaging money into it's Middle East adventures. The numbers are staggering: The United States is spending about $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country to pursue wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to new estimates that show the wars…
It's not any of the huge problems we face. In other words, it's not peak oil. It's not the way deficit spending and the trade deficit are destroying the economy. It's not that so many young minds are being trashed by something that passes for "education" when it is actually…
How long should you let them string you along unproductively before hanging up and trying again?
The trick to using tech support over the phone is to quickly size up whether the alleged tech support expert on the other end of the line actually knows anything. If not, think of a reason to end the call. Any reason. Then call back and you’ll likely get another person. My recent experiences confirmed the wide disparity in competence among those who allegedly do tech support. I’ve learned my lesson, I think. I need to stop being too patient. I’ve renouced my willingness to sit there waiting for the “expert” to flip through endless knowledge base screens, for instance.
This weekend was a long weekend, tech-support-speaking. I needed to help my mother install a router and help her set up her new HP notebook computer. I assumed that these tasks would take about an hour, so I allowed myself three hours. As it turned out, it took about six hours. Plus, I had tech support issues of my own when I got back home. Things often aren’t what they purport to be when it comes to upgrading and improving one’s gadgetry.
The Linksys router came with lots of warnings: “Insert CD-ROM first.” So that’s what I did. I put the disk into my mom’s old desktop computer and followed the instructions meticulously until I came upon a screen that requested a lot of information I didn’t have or didn’t understand. By that point, …
Oh, and they're all named "Steve." It's all part of "Project Steve," begun in 2003. These Steves are mostly biologists and they are mostly PhDs. They are all highly qualified and the are each affiliated with highly reputable institutions. They've all publicly agreed to this statement, in honor of Stephen J.…
Bob Cesca reports on the President's attitude toward a war of mass destruction. These are the actual words and emotional expressions of President Bush: "But this -- we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested…