shf happens on the road: Wisconsin’s Cheese Toll
July 24, 2010
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Beloit, WI (FASTLAUGH.com) — Note of thanks to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Dear WisDOT,
How refreshing and instantly pleasing it was to cross into your lovely green state after grinding through the repetitive landscape of sticky-fingered toll-booth plazas across Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
After grudgingly dropping about [...]
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Posted 24 July 2010
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Tagged: alignment, artery, cheese, cheese toll, cholesterol, crumbling infrastructure, curd, I-80, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, OhioDOT, sales tax, shf, tax, toll booth, traveler, Wisconsin, Wisconsin DOT
BP fesses to photo fraud
July 22, 2010
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Houston, TX (FASTLAUGH.com) — Beyond Pathetic now confirms what had already been widely suspected — that it intentionally posted photoshopped images of its Houston, TX Gulf of Mexico oil spill response crisis room, in a veiled attempt to portray competency and situational awareness.
Scott Dean, BP’s reluctant spokesperson, confessed [...]
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Posted 22 July 2010
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Tagged: Beyond Pathetic, BP, British Petroleum, confession, crisis room, fraud, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Houston, oil spill, pathetic, photographer, photoshop, shf, situational awareness, spokesperson, Texas, Tony Hayward
Windows 7 SP1 beta leaked, OS tweaks coming late 2010
April 8, 2010
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REDMOND, Wash. (FASTLAUGH.com) — With the launch of Windows 7 now several months old, and nearly one-third of users having reported problems with upgrading to Windows 7 claiming that the process is buggy, it’s time to get ready for a new fiasco from [...]
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Posted 08 April 2010
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Tagged: 62%, advanced degree, advanced settings, beta, bugs (computer), calculations, coding, compromised machine, computer science, computers, critical Windows 7 bugs, fixes, golden ratio, Graham's number, hack, hard drive, installation, inverse golden ratio, iPad envy, irrational mathematical constant, mathematics, mean derived value, Microsoft, operating systems, physics, Pi, registry hack, Service Packs, shf, software, software upgrades, Windows 7, Windows 7 SP1 beta, Windows 8, workarounds
Y2K redux, Sony’s PlayStation 3 units crippled by 8001050F error likely due to calendar rollover screw up
March 1, 2010
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) — Demonstrating a cautionary tale of the extraordinary power being ceded by humanity to advanced technology, and being wielded by seemingly innocuous calendar bugs to thoroughly disrupt daily life in our technology-dependant [...]
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Posted 01 March 2010
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Tagged: 2010 Prius, 8001050F error, 999, abacus, advanced technology, apoplectic, Attila the Hun, automobile recalls, beads, boredom, botch job, brake problems, brakes, calendar bugs, calendar error, calendar glitch, calendar reset, Calendar rollover problems, catapults, cautionary tale, complacency, computer programmer, corrupt data, crusader, dependency, derision, disruption, distribution errors, dolls, drawbridges, dumbass, edge of the world, electronics, embarrassing meltdown, expiration date, explorer, explorer’s ship, falling off the edge of the world, fat PS3, fiasco, firmware, firmware update, Flash Flood, frequent crusader miles, GPS, hacker, hacking, havoc, Heavy Rain, hysteria, internet, Japan Inc., knights, leap-year, leap-year calendar glitch, log on, logging in, malfunctions, mass hysteria, mead, Medieval Express cards, meltdown, merchants, missing data, moats, Mr. Barbarian, navigation, navigation systems, online gaming, parts shortages, party like it’s 1999, payroll error, peasant, pillories, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, prince, Prius, PS3, PS3-exclusive game, PSN, racks, recalls, redux, revolt, ritual sacrifice, robots, rollover, screw ups, seemingly innocuous calendar bugs, shf, shipping errors, shortages, singing, slim line PS3, slim PS3, songs, Sony, Sony's PlayStation 3, startup routine, sundial, synchronization problems, tech savvy, technicians, technologist, technology-dependant world, timers, toy stalls, Toyota, toys, trained technician, troll, trophy data, trophy-sync check, Twitter, user base, vehicle recalls, vulnerability, window of vulnerability, WTF, Y1K, Y2K, Y2K consultant
Toyota dealership unaware of recall
February 23, 2010
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TORRANCE, Calif. (FASTLAUGH.com) — Despite rabid media and congressional attention focused on the massive failures of Toyota Motor Corp. for a host of safety issues, at least one Toyota dealership in Southern California was in the dark regarding details of the recall of millions of vehicles, to the [...]
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Posted 23 February 2010
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Tagged: accelerator pedal, anger, auto dealership, automobile, car, Congress, congressional district, criminal investigation, defect, ethics, Fail Whale, failure, fiasco, General Motors, GM, jobs, lawmakers, lobbyist, media, Prius, profits, recall, safety, semantics, shf, Toyota, Twitter, vehicle, WTF
Clunkers for Toyotas
February 5, 2010
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WASHINGTON (FASTLAUGH.com) — The Obama administration smacked the smug off the corporate face of Japanese auto giant Toyota this afternoon, holding an emergency press conference to announce an unprecedented relief program for U.S. consumers stuck with defective Toyota vehicles.
U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary John D. Porcari, reading from a [...]
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Posted 05 February 2010
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Tagged: Accelerator Pedal Assembly Friction Devices, Auto industry, automobile, billion dollar, Bo (Obama's dog), cars, Cash for Clunkers, Clunkers for Toyotas, consumers, defective, Department of Transportation, Drill Baby Drill, emergency bailout, federal government, gas-guzzlers, government, Japan, John D. Porcari, muzzle, Obama administration, oil, Prius, Ray LaHood, right-wing, ritual suicide, shf, stimulus funds, stockpile, Toyota, Transportation Secretary, WTF
First Bank of Madoff issuing 79.9% interest credit card
December 17, 2009
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BUTNER, N.C. (FASTLAUGH.com) — The First Bank of Madoff skirted newly enacted credit card interest regulations today, introducing a 79.9 percent interest credit card. It had been widely believed that Bernie Madoff’s prison financial interests were limited solely to controlling the distribution of [...]
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Posted 17 December 2009
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Tagged: 79.9%, Bernie Madoff, credit, credit card, financial abuse, First Bank of Madoff, First Premier Bank, interest regulations, loopholes, Ponzi, prison, shf, subprime, Twitter, U.S. consumers, Zhu Zhu Pets
Britain checks cheques after three centuries
Dec 16, 2009
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LONDON (FASTLAUGH.com) – Three centuries on, but now bounced from a fourth, the unassuming yet versatile cheque was stamped void as of 2018 in Britain after getting the slip today by British banks advocating the return to a financial system based upon the peat moss standard from [...]
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Posted 16 December 2009
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Tagged: banking, Britain, budget cuts, century, check, cheque, chequebook (checkbook), currency, days of yore, financial system, government misspending, infestation, mattress, peat moss, Pied Piper, plague, quills, rodent, Royal Mail, Samuel Pepys, shf
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