Google+ trying to capture the lucrative stalker market

Caught this ad last night on TV.



Its message seems to be that Google+ is the preferred social networking site for stalkers and their materialistic prey.

Google titled this advert "Google+: Circles Love Story".

Love?! Those are some warped folks out there if this is love to them.

It would have been better if the creeper got dumped into circle creeper, never to escape there from. Some other fella should have been the one to advance through the ranks, probably without the circle that qualified boys based on their automotive ownership status.

Those small changes would have shown how easy it is to isolate creeps on Google+, made the female mouse-driver seem less money (car?) grubbing, and left the viewer with the idea that Google+ and its circles gave you power that other sites don't.

Instead I'm left feeling like I wouldn't want to interact with any of the weirdo, stalking and/or materialistic mouse-jockeys hanging out at Google+.

My previous employer relearned this bit of history first hand

Jerry Pournelle on traditional Chinese business practices.

It is a traditional Chinese business practice to establish relations with a customer, then slowly over time degrade the product delivered until the customer complains. This is described in stories out of China dating back hundreds of years, involving both British and Japanese customers. It was not considered unethical by Chinese merchants.

So, combine a low cost country outsourcing program with underfunded inspection and quality departments and you have hundreds if not thousands of companies setting themselves up as easy marks.

We need to stop promoting from within...

Like the score of a cricket game...

From

Courant.com.

To be fair they do cover geographically and climatically different parts of the state, but I thought the juxtaposition of the two was dramatic.

Sometimes paying Net90 bites you in the ass!

Connecticut Light & Power paying out of state emergency crews at Net 90 +?.

Usually not a problem, but Hurricane Irene wasn't so long ago, so now out of state crewed may have been slow to respond because CL&P has been running emergency operations using other peoples' money.

(fwiw, got my power back about 97 hours after it went out on Saturday. Post Irene I was out of power for about 24 hours.)

Like a tornado hit every tree in town

That's how my town looks as of today.

Saturday into Sunday we had Octsnowber 100 (+?) year storm.

Leaves were still on trees, so now the trees are all on the ground.

As one of my friends put it "That huge tree that was in my backyard is now my backyard."

No power, won't likely have power likely until next week. Running heat off of an inverter (oil heat doesn't take too much juice to run).

I'll upload some pictures if I find the time to take them.

The Thomas M. Cooley School of Law Stil Sucks

About 5 1/2 years ago I blogged about how much The Thomas M. Cooley School of Law Sucks.

Luckily I stuck to opinion and a few basic facts.

If you go past that, it seems, then Cooley isn't above suing bloggers for libel.