Entries from January 2003

An Iraqi Allegory

Date January 28, 2003

My good friend Mike sends this thing he wrote today. I think it expresses the anti-Gulf-War-Redux argument very effectively.
<Mike>
Let’s say you have some Joe GunDealer, a really mean and terrible guy, who has been put away in the past for dealing with guns and an assault with a gun. He’s out on probation, but [...] Read more »

Again, Jriver’s Media Jukebox

Date January 28, 2003

Update: as a response to the previous entries, I posted a short comment saying I found incremental upgrade charges preferable to thier current plan. And then I said I didn’t care what the hell they did, I wasn’t going to buy them again.
This morning I received email telling me my forum account had been deleted [...] Read more »

Part two: Media Jukebox

Date January 27, 2003

On their help forums I posted:
I too purchased version 7 and have been using version 8. I would have been willing to pay a fee to upgrade to 8, but ya’ll decided that you wanted to give us the upgrade for free, which I appreciate.
Your older customers are the ones who have been encouraging [...] Read more »

How to piss off your customers

Date January 27, 2003

You ever wish you could take back every kind word you’ve ever said about a product? I feel that way about Media Jukebox. I bought a license for this software a few years ago when I needed to manage a more and more enormous MP3 collection.
Later, they released a new version and those of [...] Read more »

That’s small government for you.

Date January 27, 2003

OK, I think it’s absolutely stupid for people to sue McDonald’s because they ate there alot and became fat. What I’m saying is there’s zero case.
But you know what’s even stupider? A federal law making such lawsuits illegal. That’s right. Our senators, who do not have enough to do despite Iraq, TIA, and the [...] Read more »