It’s official, but it has been official for months. AT&T has pathetic cellular service. In fact, they’ve already been cited for it. They knew. They knew what they were doing wrong. They knew exactly how to fix their problems. What did they do? They hired a Hollywood face to go on television and claim they [...]
Archive for the ‘Scams’ Category
AT&T’s cellular strategy: Don’t fix anything, and hire Luke Wilson to claim everything works?
Posted in Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged AT&T, Cellular, Verizon on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apple illegally voids warranties?
Posted in Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged Apple, fraud, Smoking on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apple has voided at least two valid warranties for computer repair, claiming the reason is due to computer owners smoking near their computers. Now, I don’t personally smoke, and never have, but the last I heard, a health-related concern wasn’t a legal reason to void a repair warranty on a piece of hardware. Smoking hasn’t [...]
Nintendo commits fraud trying to promote games for DS?
Posted in Humor, Pop Culture, Relationships, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, Video Games, news, rant, tagged fraud, Love Plus, Nintendo, Virtual Dating, Virtual Girlfriend on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nintendo has this game, called “Love Plus”, for their DS handheld game console. It’s really nothing special. There have been ‘fake girlfriend’ games available for many years. There are flash-based dating sims online all over the place. There have been various levels of quality in PC-based virtual people and dating sims as well. Apparently Nintendo [...]
Dishonest climate researchers trying to save their reputation.
Posted in Environment, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Climate Change, Phil Jones, University of East Anglia on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all heard the hype. We’ve all seen the data. But, thanks to a group of hackers who raided British University of East Anglia’s ‘Climatic Research Unit’, there is a strong possibility that there are some dishonest people trying to elevate ‘climate change’ to a threat level beyond fact.
In the hacked data, which was subsequently [...]
The still-business-friendly truth behind Obama’s climate bill.
Posted in Policy-making, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, politics, rant, tagged Climate reform, Obama on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama wants people to believe he’s not a yes-man to big business. He’ll tout his words. He has to tout his words, because, in the big picture, he hasn’t *DONE* much. He’s claimed much, but the legwork, planning, and execution almost entirely falls on other people.
But, he can’t even talk his way out of [...]
“The Fourth Kind” is complete fraud, but it’ll draw an audience of ’suckers’.
Posted in Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged Alaska, Alien Abduction, Fake, Fourth Kind, fraud, NBC Universal, Nome Alaska, Universal Studios on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
They’ve been billing “The Fourth Kind”, a film featuring alien abduction, as a fact-based thriller type of film. Except for one problem. It isn’t anything of the sort. It’s another Blair Witch Project, which they had to trick you into the theaters with clever orchestrated bogus reports on the then Sci-Fi Channel. Unfortunately for people [...]
The Heene family’s stunt could have been planned with media help.
Posted in Humor, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged Colorado, Heene, Richard Heene on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There has been ’speculation’ (so far) that the “balloon boy” hoax could have also involved an unnamed media outlet. Sheriff Alderden wouldn’t name the media outlet, but hinted it was a show that “blurs the line between entertainment and news”, and that it had a deal of some kind with regard to the balloon incident. [...]
Richard Heene might have pulled it off, except..
Posted in Humor, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged Heene, Richard Heene on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That’s right. Richard Heene, ‘mastermind’ of an elaborately thought out scam involving his family faking a missing child emergency, might have actually gotten away without anyone having found out he planned it all out.
Except, he’s Richard Heene, and lacks the necessary mental ability. For one thing, if you’re a lying criminal scum, and you’re working [...]
Richard Heene, with luck, will be doing time now.
Posted in Humor, Pop Culture, Scams, TV & Film, Talk Soup, news, rant, tagged Balloon Boy, Colorado, Falcon Heene, Heene, Richard Heene on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yep, the Sheriff is pursuing criminal charges. It is official, although everyone already knew that the “balloon boy” story was a big hoax. Richard Heene, patriarch and criminal ‘mastermind’ of the Heene clan, apparently hatched this scam in an attempt at drawing exposure to his lifestyle as a kook inventor, storm-chaser, wannabe actor, script-writer, and [...]
