The admission of total technical incompetence on the part of the
refurb team is stunning.
Also: I wonder if the attorney's general would be interested in this.
The letter seems to be an admission that Newegg intends to simply take
this defective machine, restore the user partition to the OEM defau
The coverage of this issue in the broader realm of the innertubes has begun:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010021900935OSBZHW
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:30 AM, James Steiner wrote:
> The admission of total technical incompetence on the part of the
> refurb team is stunning.
>
> Also:
Thus spake Robert Holmes circa 02/17/2010 08:36 AM:
> http://econstories.tv/home.html
Oh great. First we analogize between keynesian economics with getting
drunk. Now we analogize between liberals and snorting coke!
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/cpac-obama-notion-snorting-cocaine/
Muddy thinkers
Jihad Doug -
I am sympathetic to your plight and I wish you well on your Jihad.
Until it plays out a little further, I will assume "NewEgg is a BadEgg".
That said, I have a few observations:
Bargains usually aren't. This trips me every time I
find/seek/indulge-in one. I think it is a
Thanks, Steve.
What was it we were discussing just last week? Oh, yeah, I remember! Low
average IQ in the US of A. Apparently I require some measure of pain to
keep myself reminded that "refurbished" merchandise is generally not a
bargain. Duh.
Newegg has at least one more surprise in store f
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 10:03 AM:
> and the clock is running on all time spent on
> this unnecessary time waster.
Dude. If you agree that this is a time waster, why are you posting
these messages to the mailing list?
--
glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-mode
Don't read them! You'll save yourself some time.
Best Regards,
--Doug
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:12 AM, glen e. p. ropella <
g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 10:03 AM:
> > and the clock is running on all time spent on
> > this unnecessary time w
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 10:17 AM:
> Don't read them! You'll save yourself some time.
Oh great. You follow one contradiction with another. First, you spend
all this energy on something you think is a waste of time, including
wasting others' resources.
THEN, you explicitly make
Chill, dude. You're destroying the karma of the list.
As well as wasting my time.
;-o
Re: The complexity tie-in -- it's complicated, but I don't have time to go
into it right now. I'll get back to you on that. In the mean time,
consider the complex social dynamics, as they interact, interface
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 10:42 AM:
> Chill, dude. You're destroying the karma of the list.
> As well as wasting my time.
Heh, that's rich. You regularly point out flaws in others' reasoning
and generally poo-poo many of the more interesting ideas on this list.
Then when someone
While Glen is off grumbling about something or the other, I thought I'd take
a moment to inform those of you who are interested in the Newegg interaction
[Glen, don't read this] that I just got a call from a very apologetic
customer service manager at Newegg. Summary of the phone call: "Sorry,
sor
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 11:11 AM:
> While Glen is off grumbling about something or the other, I thought I'd take
> a moment to inform those of you who are interested in the Newegg interaction
> [Glen, don't read this] that I just got a call from a very apologetic
> customer servic
glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 10:42 AM:
Chill, dude. You're destroying the karma of the list.
As well as wasting my time.
I thought *this* was the karma of the list!
I see Glen becoming as righteously indignant about Doug's rant as D
Priceless!
;-}
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> If only Pete Nanos had had the foresight to apologize to Doug and give him
> a $150 certificate for Nambe Ware 5 years ago.
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
FRIAM Applied Comple
Ok, so I fibbed a little bit when I indicated that I was done ranting about
this issue.
There actually is a complex social network component to the whole episode.
I just did a quick back-of-the-envelop addition: during the past 18 hours,
approx 500,000 individuals were exposed to the article tha
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 12:24 PM:
> There actually is a complex social network component to the whole episode.
> I just did a quick back-of-the-envelop addition: during the past 18 hours,
> approx 500,000 individuals were exposed to the article that I wrote about
> the Newegg in
Because, glen, many of us are taking a vicarious pleasure in it.
Sex and Beer are also a waste of time.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.or
Did you wake up on the wrong side of your bunker this morning?
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM, glen e. p. ropella <
g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 12:24 PM:
> > There actually is a complex social network component to the whole
> episode.
> > I
Interesting to have the connection spelled out.
n
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
- Original Message
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 12:47 PM:
> Did you wake up on the wrong side of your bunker this morning?
No. I just want to know why you sent this stuff to this list? I could
infer many relevant applied complexity points from this story. But I
would only be putting words in your mou
Now I'm wondering, has someone been been trolled here?
Anon (oh wait...)
On 2/19/10 2:00 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 12:47 PM:
Did you wake up on the wrong side of your bunker this morning?
No. I just want to know why you sent this stuff t
I know that Doug is always precise in his use of language, so the final line
in his linuxjournal.com update--"Kudus to Newegg for fixing this
problem"--probably means exactly what it says. Doug - what is the shipping
cost of small antelopes? Will your $150 voucher from Newegg cover it?
-- R
==
No, but I'm happy to spring for a larger envelop. After all, they met me
half-way to resolve this.
;-}
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> I know that Doug is always precise in his use of language, so the final
> line in his linuxjournal.com update--"Kudus to Newegg for fixi
Speaking only as a single member of the list, I was glad for the post
(certainly, at least, the original and the resolution update).
It was informative in its own right, and relevant to me as a somewhat frequent
online buyer of computer stuff and an occasional returner of computer stuff. It
was al
I read it all with amusement too. When the list gets too prolix, or
about something that doesn't interest me, I just use the delete key. I
mean, Nick and I got on about rutabagas for a while, and no one
accused us of having nothing to do with complexity.
Pamela
On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:09 PM
Pamela,
Everybody knows rutabagas are at the root of complexity!
--Doug
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
> I read it all with amusement too. When the list gets too prolix, or about
> something that doesn't interest me, I just use the delete key. I mean, Nick
> and I got
Thus spake Pamela McCorduck circa 10-02-19 02:43 PM:
> I read it all with amusement too. When the list gets too prolix, or
> about something that doesn't interest me, I just use the delete key. I
> mean, Nick and I got on about rutabagas for a while, and no one accused
> us of having nothing to do
Why thank you, Glen! For the record, I think you're pretty special
yourself.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, glen e. p. ropella <
g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Pamela McCorduck circa 10-02-19 02:43 PM:
> > I read it all with amusement too. When the list gets too prolix, or
fyi
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116369&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click
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