>> ^MarineGunrock:

That's hilarious, but even experts can have lapses of judgement.>> ^xxovercastxx:
>> ^KnivesOut:
I'd love to know the sequence of events that ended with him using scissors inside his computer case.
It wasn't an extravagant story; he just didn't want the extra wires hanging down so he cut the unused ones off.



Yes They do have lapses in judgment... especially when they buy a pre-made cpu instead of building their own from scratch. "lapse"

That's hilarious, but even experts can have lapses of judgement.>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^KnivesOut:
I'd love to know the sequence of events that ended with him using scissors inside his computer case.
It wasn't an extravagant story; he just didn't want the extra wires hanging down so he cut the unused ones off.

>> ^KnivesOut:

I'd love to know the sequence of events that ended with him using scissors inside his computer case.

It wasn't an extravagant story; he just didn't want the extra wires hanging down so he cut the unused ones off.

I'd love to know the sequence of events that ended with him using scissors inside his computer case.>> ^xxovercastxx:

Newegg's "expert reviews" are quite a joke. People consistently overrate their knowledge level.
My favorite was a few years back when I was purchasing my current PSU. One of the reviewers, who rated himself a computer "expert", said the PSU I was looking was great. He went on to explain how he had to buy 2 of them but that was only because the first one stopped working after he cut the extra power cables off with a pair of scissors and it shorted out.
"Expert"

>> ^critical_d:

I'm confused. The article you linked to spoke directly about the same vid that I submitted to the Sift. How is my description not relevant?

>> ^marinara:
your description describes this
http://www.dailytech.com/EDITOR
IAL+Best+Buy+Delivers+Legal+Threat+to+Newegg+Over+Logo+Ad+Video/article21875.htm
not some newegg ad.



The description says the lawsuit is over the word "geek", but the letter from the lawyer focused more on the color scheme and style than anything.

I'm confused. The article you linked to spoke directly about the same vid that I submitted to the Sift. How is my description not relevant?


>> ^marinara:

your description describes this
http://www.dailytech.com/EDITOR
IAL+Best+Buy+Delivers+Legal+Threat+to+Newegg+Over+Logo+Ad+Video/article21875.htm
not some newegg ad.

your description describes this
http://www.dailytech.com/EDITORIAL+Best+Buy+Delivers+Legal+Threat+to+Newegg+Over+Logo+Ad+Video/article21875.htm
not some newegg ad.

Bestbuy can sue newegg for using the word geek only if thinkgeek.com, can sue best buy for the same reason. Pretty sure they were around way before the whole 'geek squad' thing.

And slightly off-topic; I love newegg, and while some of the reviews are helpful, it helps even more to be knowledgeable enough to pick out who is having problems with the technology because they're stupid, and what problems are caused from a bad product.

>> ^blankfist:

It would be very hard for businesses to get as large as corporations do today without the unfair support of government. This means more competition, and logically as a result more small businesses would sprout up, and therefore more jobs could be created.

I think taking away the liability limits ultimately raises the barrier for creating a new business, since it increases the potential downside risk of any new investment, and worse, makes predicting the worst case scenario nigh impossible.

The knock on effects of that would be that investors would be more reluctant to invest, meaning that interest rates would go up, and the tolerance for risk would go down.

In some sense I think we'd see companies that are larger, but also "flatter" in a sense. I'm thinking more McDonalds, Best Buy, and Amazon, and a lot less heavy industry with big, expensive, dangerous, illiquid capital investment.

I sorta say "so what, it's more fair, and restrains corporations' flagrant disregard for safety and the environment".

However, for people who want to see a bazillion small businesses, I think you want the limited liabilities there to help people simplify their risk assessments.
>> ^blankfist:

I don't see why we'd need regulatory requirements or unionization. Most of the responsibility would be held at the top levels, such as CEOs or COOs or supervisors or whomever. And this can all be decided by some form of conflict resolution whether that be the courts or arbitration.

Well, courts are guided by law in those sorts of determinations, arbitration is more guided by the relative strength of the bargaining positions of the participants (i.e. little people get reliably crushed).

Which is to say, we'd need to set some sort of standard on how accountability works, or it'll only be the guy following orders who gets the short end of the stick.

>> ^blankfist:
But my point was that people couldn't escape liability just because they're employed. If your boss told you to murder someone, for instance, you know that to be wrong and would hopefully not follow through. But if you did murder someone, obviously you'd be held accountable, right? kind of the same idea. Maybe not exactly, but it's close enough.

For something as serious and obvious as murder, sure.

But say my boss tells me not to order the scheduled maintenance for critical safety equipment because "it's not in the budget"? If things go wrong later, am I to be held responsible because my idiot boss didn't budget for proper maintenance? Do I really need to constantly present my boss with waivers from legal liability for every decision I think has a potential risk? Can he fire me for demanding them too often?

>> ^blankfist:
If a business spilled oil like BP did, then all the parties involved would be liable within reason. If you were hired to clean the toilets on the rig, then you're probably not going to be responsible in any direct or indirect way. But if you are hired as a professional to do a specific job like supervising the boom or drilling or whatever, and that contributed somehow to the spill, then you're probably going to inherit some substantial responsibility. And I think that's more than fair.


I agree with that, but in my experience as a technical professional, I have to say that unsafe shit is almost exclusively something that happens when management refuses to pony up the cash to do things the right way.

But let's look at the other side of the coin. For the sake of argument, let's pretend management didn't do anything obviously wrong on Deepwater Horizon, and it was just some guy out on the rig who just made a stupid mistake and caused the whole thing to happen.

Should that guy bear all of the financial liability alone, while the CEO's, shareholders, and the company itself are held blameless?

I say even in that case, the blame needs to go upward -- management hired the guy, and someone higher up approved the process that was susceptible to massive damage coming from one guy's human error. They're the ones who put the oil rig in his hands, they're the ones responsible for the damage he did with it.

>> ^lucky760:

Fry's Electronics is the only store I know of that's put the single-queue-to-many-cashiers scheme into actual use in large-scale form. They have literally dozens of cashiers and a single really long line (surrounded by last minute impulse-buy products, of course), and it definitely always seems to move along quickly.


Another store that I can think of that does this, is Best Buy.

Before you knock the film, read this:

"I think everyone here has missed what is the real story with this film. If it has any level of critical and in articular financial success it could be a major turning point in film making.

Even though D9 was done on a small budget that is small by standard SciFi movie budget standards. Compared to MONSTERS, D9 was a big budget film. MONSTERS was done with literally a handful of people and that includes the actors, director and behind the camera people including the sound guy.

HOW MONSTERS WAS MADE:

ACTORS: Only 2 actors were involved, all other persons are extras found at the time of filming.

SETTINGS: They went to several real world locations , no movie studio sets. Everything was a real place.

FILMING: The camera team consisted of 2 people, the guy holding the 1 camera they used (they only used 1 camera to do this movie). The camera guy was the director and he had 1 person assisting and that was the entire camera team. They did have 1 sound guy and that was the extent of the non-actor staff other then the editor.

EDITING/SPECIAL EFFECTS: The film was edited and all special effects done using a consumer laptop; something you can buy from BEST BUY.
They edited the movie using a consumer laptop.

So these 2 actors along with the director and 1 camera assistance plus a sound guy and an editor (6 people total) went on the road and filmed as they went. And now this thing is getting serious press via the trailer circulating and it is going to get a theatrical release.

How is this not something incredible in this day of multi-million dollar big budget productions that involved hundreds to thousands of people?" ~Screenrant.com

Seriously, how they did it alone is reason enough to watch the film. It won't be big budget, but you shouldn't expect it to be. And those two sites aren't the only places singing it's praise. I've yet to read a single negative review coming out of film festivals.

"Conan works for Best Buy"

No that's a shameless lie! I'm a professional greeter for WalMart.

Congratulations! Your video, Conan works for Best Buy, has reached the #1 spot in the current Top 15 New Videos listing. This is a very difficult thing to accomplish but you managed to pull it off. For your contribution you have been awarded 2 Power Points.

This achievement has earned you your "Golden One" Level 3 Badge!

>> ^Croccydile:

>> ^ant:
/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.

Those are Office 2007 actually
>> ^blackjackshellac:
I found myself with a monitor lacking a vga cable so I figured while driving by BestBuy that I'd pop in and see if I could get a replacement cable. Long story short: 45 !@#! dollars for a !@#! vga cable. I didn't even look at the HDMI cables lest my head explode.
Fuck Best Buy, stupid twats.
ps. Ordered one from newegg for 5$

I had a similar experience looking for HDMI stuffs only to come across 6' cables ranging from $50 to nearly $100 (?!) The sad part is I later found a Belkin 6' HDMI for $20 at Lowes. A hardware store. What the fuck Best Buy? (Guess which one I wound up buying)


Look at the end of the rack with yellow and black boxes.

>> ^ant:

/me wonders if 3:27+ had yellow Norton boxes.


Those are Office 2007 actually

>> ^blackjackshellac:

I found myself with a monitor lacking a vga cable so I figured while driving by BestBuy that I'd pop in and see if I could get a replacement cable. Long story short: 45 !@#! dollars for a !@#! vga cable. I didn't even look at the HDMI cables lest my head explode.
Fuck Best Buy, stupid twats.
ps. Ordered one from newegg for 5$


I had a similar experience looking for HDMI stuffs only to come across 6' cables ranging from $50 to nearly $100 (?!) The sad part is I later found a Belkin 6' HDMI for $20 at Lowes. A hardware store. What the fuck Best Buy? (Guess which one I wound up buying)