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we sometimes get dinner at the applebee's near my sister when we drop her off for college. it's not amazing but my mom likes it there a lot and the people who work there are good  i wouldn't even place it in top 10 worst places i've eaten but then again i've never compiled such a list
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Aug 10, 2017 22:35
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Stone Cold executive now stone cold dead. What the gently caress was this guy up to?
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Aug 10, 2017 22:51
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Detective No. 27 posted:Stone Cold executive now stone cold dead. Sounds like a drug fueled rampage that stopped his heart. Hmmm...
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Aug 10, 2017 22:55
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I feel like they missed a great opportunity for a headline. Massage Envy Exec has Unhappy Ending
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Aug 10, 2017 23:23
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Haifisch posted:And instead of building more capacity, internet providers want to cap how much bandwidth we use instead. Canada is worse in every way as far as telecoms go.
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Aug 10, 2017 23:41
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I know nothing of Windstream or Frontier but I refuse to believe anyone is as bad as Time Warner. It cannot be so. Verizon is no paragon of anything but when I moved and made an appointment and they just showed up roughly when they said they would and everything worked the first time I was legitimately confused.
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Aug 10, 2017 23:58
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Professor Shark posted:Canada is worse in every way as far as telecoms go. Heh, Canadians were excited about the prospect of Verizon.
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Aug 11, 2017 00:04
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pangstrom posted:I know nothing of Windstream or Frontier but I refuse to believe anyone is as bad as Time Warner.
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Aug 11, 2017 00:44
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Aug 11, 2017 00:49
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Arsenic Lupin posted:*cough* Comcast *cough*. I had a good experience with Comcast in California, but it was their "business class" thing. They rolled competent techs on 24 hours notice, replaced hardware without argument, etc.
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Aug 11, 2017 00:53
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Time Warner is adequate if the alternative is getting locked into a contract with Frontier for half the speed at the same price. Edit: Guess who I chose.
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Aug 11, 2017 01:04
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Professor Shark posted:Canada is worse in every way as far as telecoms go. SaskTel is pretty good. It's just limited to one province.
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Aug 11, 2017 01:14
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Detective No. 27 posted:Stone Cold executive now stone cold dead. Has Vince McMahon gone too far?
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Aug 11, 2017 01:26
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Professor Shark posted:Canada is worse in every way as far as telecoms go. The Federal Government announced a few years ago an initiative to supply broadband in rural and northern areas. The minimum speed ( which means they won't make any effort to do any better, I'm sure) would be 5mb. Now I had a 5MB DSL about 3 or 4 years ago and it was enough to stream Netflix in HD but if someone else started downloading then things went bad really quick.
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Aug 11, 2017 01:41
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https://twitter.com/digitalmusicnws/status/895766957697511424 The headline is somewhat misleading, but basically if shareholders don't vote to give SoundCloud more money tomorrow the company is going to go into a death spiral very fast.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:30
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That's a weird thing to have shareholders vote on. I'd love a peek at that subscription agreement.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:33
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BexGu posted:Basically yes. For people younger then 30 I can't described how big Sears was for being able to buy anything and everything through the mail with the yearly Sears Catalog since 1883. From the cheapest toy to a full on house everything was in the Sear Catalog and all it took was a check in the mail and waiting 4 to 6 weeks. Sears had the infrastructure, the payroll system, and instead focused on the physical instead of going digital.
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Aug 11, 2017 02:50
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I'd like to submit the company I work for - a lovely telecom called Windstream - for your review: You must not be very high up to post about your company and bad mouth them. Sorry about ur career trajectory. 
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Aug 11, 2017 03:00
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I wonder if applebees went all health food or gourmet it would recover.
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Aug 11, 2017 03:49
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Jastiger posted:I wonder if applebees went all health food or gourmet it would recover. Nah. Once an establishment is known for catering to lowbrow meatheads, the elite(or wannabe elite) would never in a zillion years eat there no matter how much the food improved. That's why McDonalds continues to fumble and bumble its way along, trying to go upscale and endlessly failing.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:00
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JnnyThndrs posted:Nah. Once an establishment is known for catering to lowbrow meatheads, the elite(or wannabe elite) would never in a zillion years eat there no matter how much the food improved. That's why McDonalds continues to fumble and bumble its way along, trying to go upscale and endlessly failing. Its not so much attracting "elite" customers, its more about making it palatable at all. Right now if I want to take my family out I can spend about as much money at Red Robbin and get a decent burger with bottomless fries. Or I can even go to a local join that has nice tacos or whatever. Applebees just isn't unique or special or delicious enough to justify going there. But if it was a niche place where I knew I was getting something specific for that price instead of Generic_Chicken_Dish_01, I'd maybe consider going there since its relatively cheap and would have decent food at that point. They need to find a niche or die.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:07
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Jastiger posted:I wonder if applebees went all health food or gourmet it would recover. http://www.weightwatchers.com/shop/categoryshowcase3.aspx?pageid=1055431&navid=moreww
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Aug 11, 2017 04:08
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I sort of wondered for a while if Sears could have rebranded itself as a Home Depot/Lowe's style home improvement superstore, plus an auto department. It'd be in keeping with some of their stuff, but they could ditch jewelry, most electronics, clothing, home goods, etc. Focus on the home improvement/construction side of things, it sort of takes them out of competition with Amazon and Walmart. I guess a question might be if cutting out several departments that didn't matter in that model would have given them the floor space or the room to add on for larger lumber, plumbing, masonry, etc. materials.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:10
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JediTalentAgent posted:I sort of wondered for a while if Sears could have rebranded itself as a Home Depot/Lowe's style home improvement superstore, plus an auto department. It'd be in keeping with some of their stuff, but they could ditch jewelry, most electronics, clothing, home goods, etc. Focus on the home improvement/construction side of things, it sort of takes them out of competition with Amazon and Walmart. I guess a question might be if cutting out several departments that didn't matter in that model would have given them the floor space or the room to add on for larger lumber, plumbing, masonry, etc. materials. They have dedicated appliance stores. It's pretty weird.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I sort of wondered for a while if Sears could have rebranded itself as a Home Depot/Lowe's style home improvement superstore, plus an auto department. It'd be in keeping with some of their stuff, but they could ditch jewelry, most electronics, clothing, home goods, etc. Focus on the home improvement/construction side of things, it sort of takes them out of competition with Amazon and Walmart. I guess a question might be if cutting out several departments that didn't matter in that model would have given them the floor space or the room to add on for larger lumber, plumbing, masonry, etc. materials. I think they'd have a hard time because a lot of their stores are two-story, and escalators/elevators + heavy/bulky items don't really work. I guess they could try to segregate items and put small items upstairs, but that still screws up people with big lists of stuff.
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Aug 11, 2017 04:20
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Detective No. 27 posted:Anyone have any local places you're pretty sure are fronts? In NYC, there are still remnants of Mafia-connected businesses. There was a place in Queens that was busted, and the owner was arrested. My friend first moved to Staten Island when she moved to the city and she told me about an Italian restaurant there that got raided by the FBI just five minutes after she left. There are also mob-connected elements to a popular South Brooklyn pizzeria known for its Sicilian slices and a copycat place in Staten Island. It got ugly last summer when the Brooklyn owner was shot and killed outside his home. The arrested suspect is a Hispanic heroin addict living in a different part of the area, but he isn't talking, so it's not a stretch to think he was a hitman with a very convenient background. AlmightyBob posted:Century Link spent a lot of money buying the naming rights for the seahawks stadium and everyone just calls it the clink FlamingLiberal posted:https://twitter.com/digitalmusicnws/status/895766957697511424
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Aug 11, 2017 04:37
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I never understood how Soundcloud worked. Why not just post your music to Bandcamp?
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Aug 11, 2017 04:48
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GWBBQ posted:The only thing I remember from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is the bit about knowing what you're actually selling. The example given was that railroad companies thought they were selling travel by rail when they were actually selling fast and efficient movement of people and cargo, and if they had realized that they would own the major airlines. It seems to me like if Sears knew what the catalog really was, they would have crowded Amazon out of the market before Amazon branched out from books. Seems as good of a chance as any to remind everyone that back in 2000 Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster saw no value in offering customers a way to watch movies without visiting their stores. Years later, Netflix realized that they were not selling movie rentals by mail, they were selling the convenience of watching movies without leaving home. Netflix's streaming service was born and now other media companies are stumbling over themselves trying to keep up.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I sort of wondered for a while if Sears could have rebranded itself as a Home Depot/Lowe's style home improvement superstore, plus an auto department. It'd be in keeping with some of their stuff, but they could ditch jewelry, most electronics, clothing, home goods, etc. Focus on the home improvement/construction side of things, it sort of takes them out of competition with Amazon and Walmart. I guess a question might be if cutting out several departments that didn't matter in that model would have given them the floor space or the room to add on for larger lumber, plumbing, masonry, etc. materials. Sears owned the appliance business. Even though Kenmores were just rebranded models, they also had repair and installation services. I’m pretty sure that stupid Sears air conditioning commercial ran for 20 years. You can still find homes that have all Kenmore appliances. They dominated that market so much that their commercials in the 90’s tried to remind you that, “oh yeah, we sell soft stuff too.”
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get that OUT of my face posted:I already saved one song off of Soundcloud. Post stuff to save, there's a website where you can put in the URL and get it downloaded in an MP3 format. https://soundcloud.com/chestermoistmuffins/work-through-the-fire-and-the-flames E: They might as well be a butt, but that breaks the link. Double Punctuation has a new favorite as of 06:06 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Aug 11, 2017 06:03
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Double Punctuation posted:https://soundcloud.com/chestermoistmuffins/work-through-the-fire-and-the-flames How can you post that and not the most important one? 
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Doggles posted:Seems as good of a chance as any to remind everyone that back in 2000 Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. Blockbuster saw no value in offering customers a way to watch movies without visiting their stores. Given the name "Netflix" I sorta assumed that they'd always had plans for online streaming and that the mail subscriptions were just a stopgap.
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Aug 11, 2017 06:21
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At the time just about every e business had some sort of internet name to differentiate from brick and mortar.
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Aug 11, 2017 06:38
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Applebees isn't really that bad and they exist to provide a place to get half price appetizers after 11 when my group of friends are done with whatever that night
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Applebee's food isn't much to write home about, but their location in the part of Brooklyn that I used to live in had the best prices for drinks. You could get certain beers for $3 during happy hour, they came in pours that were larger than a pint, and happy hour on Sunday-Thursday lasted from 12pm to closing time. You can get better beer and booze at other places, but in terms of cheap drinking, that place is king.Detective No. 27 posted:I never understood how Soundcloud worked. Why not just post your music to Bandcamp? Haifisch posted:https://soundcloud.com/sudsmcfuddle/dmx-hair-club?in=queen-roger/sets/remixed-lisa-songs Here's the website, go nuts if it's official that Soundcloud is ready to eat it. But feel free to demand that I take this down if it breaks  rules.
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Aug 11, 2017 08:39
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How Rude posted:Applebees isn't really that bad and they exist to provide a place to get half price appetizers after 11 when my group of friends are done with whatever that night You know that poo poo is just the same frozen crap you buy in a grocery store right? I had a girlfriend in college that waitressed at an Applebees and even back then literally everything was microwaved. Even steaks and burgers were brought in frozen, microwaved, and then seared on a griddle (the only used kitchen appliance). Some dishes like the asian rice bowl just came all done up in a big frozen bag.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Sears owned the appliance business. Even though Kenmores were just rebranded models, they also had repair and installation services. I’m pretty sure that stupid Sears air conditioning commercial ran for 20 years. You can still find homes that have all Kenmore appliances. My grandparent's house has all Kenmore appliances. They were all bought in the last 5 years. With extended warranty plans. I am pretty sure they are why Sears is still alive today.
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[quote="“Progressive JPEG”" post="“475250991”"] Given the name “Netflix” I sorta assumed that they’d always had plans for online streaming and that the mail subscriptions were just a stopgap. [/quote] Everyone knew that was the eventual idea, but no one knew when it would happen. Blockbuster and Enron got together at one point to sell streaming video. I think Enron thought it would sell bandwidth in much the same way it sold energy. It involved lots of hype and grand plans that never did anything. There were other sites that tried making content and streaming it over the web, but no one wanted to watch TV on their desktop computers. And even though Netflix finally figured out the tech, it was mostly garbage content for the first couple of years.
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There was chat upthread about knowing what you're selling, and Enron's million different business ideas that never went anywhere like the broadband thing were 100% caused by not having a loving clue what they were selling.
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