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hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
m...


If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd
have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a lot
more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get
to the music on another card, well...


You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a PAL
286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very frugal
with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the hard
drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even though my
newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup drive. I
keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of
space.

Eisboch

My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on
an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it
was only 20megs...


Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?

Circuit City Kaput
 

Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
...

I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds in the
fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had employees who
had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best interest of
liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the lack of
quality of their service, products or internal culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway. The
economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the straw that broke
the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du jour'.
Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies losing money
or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so'
comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about companies going
out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going bankrupt
and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line. The people who
suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the unemployment line not the
executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing what the
public expected in that capacity, best described as consultation-based
sales. Do you think people who don't do their job should get paid for
it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have earned your
pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and keep my mouth shut I
can do it or quit. Your opinion of whether I am doing my job is
irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality are you
living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what my boss
tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss tells me to do I get
terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or someone else
in my company doesn't really matter to me as long as I am doing what my
boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as much as you
want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do I will still get
paid. If my boss wants me to do something differently he will tell me to
do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an opinion. When you
have successfully run a national retail chain for more than 70 years then
I will listen to your thoughts on manager and employee relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that might cause
injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.

Circuit City Kaput
 

BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
m...


If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd
have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a
lot more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get
to the music on another card, well...


You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a
PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very
frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the
hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even
though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup
drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of
space.

Eisboch

My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on
an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it
was only 20megs...


Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?


Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than
20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey
shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks.

Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box.

Circuit City Kaput
 

BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
...

I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds in
the fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had employees
who had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best interest of
liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the lack of
quality of their service, products or internal culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway. The
economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the straw that
broke the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du jour'.
Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies losing
money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so'
comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about companies
going out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going
bankrupt and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line. The
people who suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the
unemployment line not the executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing what
the public expected in that capacity, best described as
consultation-based sales. Do you think people who don't do their
job should get paid for it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have earned
your pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and keep my
mouth shut I can do it or quit. Your opinion of whether I am doing
my job is irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality are you
living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what my
boss tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss tells me
to do I get terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or someone
else in my company doesn't really matter to me as long as I am doing
what my boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as much as
you want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do I will still
get paid. If my boss wants me to do something differently he will
tell me to do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an opinion.
When you have successfully run a national retail chain for more than
70 years then I will listen to your thoughts on manager and employee
relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that might
cause injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.


Why would an ethical question trouble you?

Circuit City Kaput
 

hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
...

I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds in
the fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had employees
who had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best interest
of liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the lack
of quality of their service, products or internal culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway. The
economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the straw that
broke the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du jour'.
Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies losing
money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so'
comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about companies
going out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going
bankrupt and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line. The
people who suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the
unemployment line not the executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing what
the public expected in that capacity, best described as
consultation-based sales. Do you think people who don't do their
job should get paid for it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have earned
your pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and keep my
mouth shut I can do it or quit. Your opinion of whether I am doing
my job is irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality are
you living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what my
boss tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss tells me
to do I get terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or
someone else in my company doesn't really matter to me as long as I
am doing what my boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as much as
you want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do I will
still get paid. If my boss wants me to do something differently he
will tell me to do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an opinion.
When you have successfully run a national retail chain for more than
70 years then I will listen to your thoughts on manager and employee
relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that might
cause injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.


Why would an ethical question trouble you?

We know ethical questions don't trouble you.

Circuit City Kaput
 

BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
...

I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds in
the fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had
employees who had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best interest
of liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the lack
of quality of their service, products or internal culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway. The
economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the straw that
broke the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du
jour'. Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies losing
money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so'
comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about companies
going out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going
bankrupt and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line.
The people who suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the
unemployment line not the executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing what
the public expected in that capacity, best described as
consultation-based sales. Do you think people who don't do their
job should get paid for it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have earned
your pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and keep my
mouth shut I can do it or quit. Your opinion of whether I am
doing my job is irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality are
you living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what my
boss tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss tells me
to do I get terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or
someone else in my company doesn't really matter to me as long as I
am doing what my boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as much
as you want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do I will
still get paid. If my boss wants me to do something differently he
will tell me to do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an opinion.
When you have successfully run a national retail chain for more
than 70 years then I will listen to your thoughts on manager and
employee relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that might
cause injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.


Why would an ethical question trouble you?

We know ethical questions don't trouble you.


That's absurd. There are many ethical questions that trouble me. I can't
think of one that might trouble you. You are after all the epitome of
the "I've got mine, **** you" Republican mindset.

Circuit City Kaput
 

hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
m...


If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd
have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a
lot more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get
to the music on another card, well...


You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a
PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very
frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so
the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have,
even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional
backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really
don't need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of
space.

Eisboch

My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands
on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think
it was only 20megs...


Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?


Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than
20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey
shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks.

Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box.

What OS did you run on this Compupro '286?

Circuit City Kaput
 

hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
BAR wrote:
Don White wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
...
John H wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:40:10 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
...

I wish someone could explain the satisfaction Harry finds
in the fact that
companies are going out of business.

Is this good for liberals somehow? Circuit City had
employees who had jobs,
even if those folks did nothing. Is it in the best interest
of liberals
that the unemployed numbers grow larger?

I'm missing something somewhere.
Some companies deserve to go out of business due to the lack
of quality of their service, products or internal culture.

In the case of Circuit City, it was on the edge anyway. The
economic crisis and retail downturn was simply the straw
that broke the camel's back.

Eisboch
Agreed. Circuit City just happened to be the company 'du
jour'. Harry, or
other liberals, continuously post articles of companies
losing money or
going out of business. And then make gleeful 'I told you so'
comments.
That's what I can't understand. What is there about companies
going out of business that brings joy to the
heart of a liberal?

Is it just simply 'anti-corporation'?
It really baffles me why you would cheer a corporation going
bankrupt and putting 30,000 people on the unemployment line.
The people who suffer the most are the 30,000 people on the
unemployment line not the executives of the company.
The vast majority of CC's employees got paid for not doing what
the public expected in that capacity, best described as
consultation-based sales. Do you think people who don't do
their job should get paid for it?
If you do what your boss expects you to do then you have earned
your pay. If my boss wants me to sit in the corner and keep my
mouth shut I can do it or quit. Your opinion of whether I am
doing my job is irrelevant.

You just said customers' opinions don't matter. What reality are
you living in? The customers voted and Circuit City is gone.

What type of business are you in?
No, I did not say customers' opinions don't matter.

My boss determines whether I get paid or terminated. If do what my
boss tells me to do I get paid and I don't do what my boss tells
me to do I get terminated.

Your opinion of my work as a co-worker, peer of my manager or
someone else in my company doesn't really matter to me as long as
I am doing what my boss tells me to do.

You as a customer can come into any business and complain as much
as you want. But, if I am doing what my boss tells me to do I will
still get paid. If my boss wants me to do something differently he
will tell me to do it differently.

Your opinion about how a business is run is just that an opinion.
When you have successfully run a national retail chain for more
than 70 years then I will listen to your thoughts on manager and
employee relations.

So...if your 'boss' told you to ship a defective product that might
cause injury or death you'd do it...to hell with the customer eh?

That is an ethical decision.


Why would an ethical question trouble you?

We know ethical questions don't trouble you.


That's absurd. There are many ethical questions that trouble me. I can't
think of one that might trouble you. You are after all the epitome of
the "I've got mine, **** you" Republican mindset.


What is the ethical question you believe might trouble me?

Circuit City Kaput
 

I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is liquidating. Do
not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR explanation, business expert.

Circuit City Kaput
 

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I still don't see your explanation as to why Circuit City is liquidating. Do
not give me links to news stories. I want YOUR explanation, business expert.

Who are you to demand anything from me?