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March 20, 2010
Good Samaritan Or Idiot Driver?
Ok, you know what makes me sick? I love saying that. But, seriously, we have rules to follow on the road for a reason. Going around breaking the rules thinking you’re some kind of good Samaritan is still breaking the rules.
I just watched an accident happen and as far as I’m concerned it was the so called ‘good Samaritan‘s fault. Here’s what happened:
Someone was coming out of a parking lot onto a five lane road (two lanes going in each direction and a turning lane). The car was waiting for traffic to clear and some idiot decides to be nice and completely stops traffic in his lane to let the car come out and cross into the other lane. The idiot good Samaritan doesn’t control that lane and since he just blocked everyone’s view the car coming out of the parking lot was t-boned.
My feelings? Any guesses? Just because he had good intentions doesn’t help the fact that he caused the accident. Guess what the idiot driver did next? He drove around the accident and went on his way.
As a truck driver with over twenty years of driving experience and over a million accident free miles, please please please, if you have the right away gets your ass moving. Being nice on the road violates a system designed to protect everyone. If you need to feel good about your insecure self then go to Church or donate to the needy, just let someone else drive.
February 15, 2010
Does Southwest Airlines Hate Fat People?
Does Southwest Airlines hate fat people or do they just pick their victims at random? We all hear the stories of fat people being booted off the plane or being forced to buy two tickets but not both.
Have you seen the news: Kevin Smith Too Fat to Fly Southwest? That’s a stupid title because the man bought two tickets and then was moved to another flight that only had one seat available. It sounds to me like Southwest had the problem, not the passenger. Then as an apology they offer Smith a $100 voucher. Are you kidding? The man bought two tickets! Hey, I have an idea… Why don’t you have the captain bend down and kiss his fat ass. Everyone else has to pay for our stupid decisions, let him eat crow, I mean ass. Idiot. BTW, who the hell is Kevin Smith you ask? He’s an actor: ViewAskew.com
UPDATE: Wow, this is great. I just found this podcast, I mean a smodcast, where you can listen to Kevin Smith’s side of the story. Check it out; look for SMODCAST #106: Go Fuck Yourself, Southwest Airlines
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Was eBay’s Top Affiliates Indicted for Fraud?
I’m very reluctant to post on this issue because I cannot find a single legitimate news report about it. There are tons of blog and forum posts but is this even real? There are reports on sites like AuctionBytes.com and ReveNews but where are the main stream media reports?
Basically, the story is that eBay sued [allegedly] three of its top affiliates, including Shawn Hogan of Digital Point, for cookie stuffing fraud. The suit is on hold while federal charges take their course. After a FBI investigation, Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning were [allegedly] indicted by a California grand jury for various accounts of wire fraud.
I just finished reading Shawn Hogan’s blog post on DigitalPoint. First of all, I can’t believe his attorneys let him post that, if indeed he was the actual author. It seems like it could eventually backfire, or maybe it just doesn’t matter anymore.
Click To Read: Shawn Hogan’s Post On DigitalPoint
Anyway, the entire story smells wrong. Shawn would have everyone believe he was an innocent pawn of eBays and was trying to do the right thing. Little things like him paying $50,000 for an eBay employee’s car to get them to ‘stop complaining about a car’ seem a little ridiculous. And why would someone earning a million dollars a month need to point out they had ‘a crappy TV and crappy laptop‘? Everything doesn’t seem to add up. How does a grown man say he kept saying ‘no‘ and eBay wouldn’t accept no for an answer [paraphrased]. No one was forcing him to be an affiliate. I mean, unless eBay works like the mafia of something. I suspect it would be very difficult for anyone to turn away from that kind of money.
This is all speculation on my part and I’m in the dark as much as anyone but it seems like someone smart enough to build that much money would cover their own ass. If I’m being asked to break someone’s own terms, I’m getting that request in writing. Otherwise you’re jeopardizing future earnings when they suspend or revoke your affiliate status later. If they ask me to violate the law or illegally hurt another person/company, I’m walking away, period!
If you have found any legitimate news report on this issue please share it in a comment. Feel free to link to it.
What do you think? Is the story real? Does the post on DigitalPoint ring true? Who do you believe? Go ahead and have your say.
Special Thanks to Yan Susanto and Mitch Mitchell for their Facebook conversation that led to this post.