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Qwikster to dumpster, DVDs shackled to Netflix.com

From: Netflix To: FastLaugh Subject: Qwikster to dumpster, DVDs shackled to Netflix.com Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 Dear Subscriber, Reed was way too fucking embarrassed to send you another email himself. And besides, after that last one when he announced Qwikster, the Netflix Board of Directors refused to even let him see this one before [...]

¶ Posted 10 October 2011 § ENTERTAINMENT § SCI/TECH § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: DVD, Netflix, Qwikster, Reed-Hastings, shf, streaming

An Explanation and Some Reflections from Netflix

From: Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix To: FastLaugh.com Subject: An Explanation and Some Reflections Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 Dear Netflix Subscriber, I fucked up. Big time. Now, with Netflix’s stock tanking and subscribers fleeing, I’m forced to do damage control since my board of directors and our PR folks told me I [...]

¶ Posted 19 September 2011 § ENTERTAINMENT § SCI/TECH § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: AOL, Borders, DVD, Elmo, investor, joint, Los-Gatos, mail, Netflix, postal-service, Qwikster, red-envelope, Reed-Hastings, Sesame-Street, Steve-Jobs, stockholder, streaming, Twitter, USPS, video-game

Gilbert Gottfried lands new voiceover gig in Japan following firing by Aflac over tasteless Japan tsunami jokes

Gilbert Gottfried lands new voiceover gig in Japan following firing by Aflac over tasteless Japan tsunami jokes March 14, 2011 by shf TOKYO (FastLaugh.com) — Hours after being abruptly fired by Aflac for his series of tasteless tweets about Japan’s tsunami crisis, Gottfried has already landed a new voiceover gig. Gottfried will provide the voice [...]

¶ Posted 14 March 2011 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Aflac, dolphin, Dolphin-Safe Tuna, drag fishing net, duck, ear-splitting, fishing net, Gilbert Gottfried, Japan, Japanese tuna fishing industry, spokesdolphin, tasteless, tsunami, tuna fishing, tweets, Twitter, voiceover

Ben & Jerry’s proceeds with plans to test market several flavors of breast milk ice cream in London

Ben & Jerry’s proceeds with plans to test market several flavors of breast milk ice cream in London March 2, 2011 by shf LONDON (FastLaugh.com) — Unilever PLC (ULVR.LN) confirmed today that despite overblown hepatitis fears from the Health Protection Agency and the Food Standards Agency that led to upstart ice cream maker Icecreamists Baby [...]

¶ Posted 02 March 2011 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Baby Gaga, Ben & Jerry’s, blood donor, breast milk, breast milk ice cream, butterscotch, caramel, chocolate, cinnamon, cleavage, coconut, dessert, frozen dessert, Halloween, hepatitis, ice cream, Icecreamists, lactating mother, London, peach, Peanut Butter, pecan, pumpkin, super premium ice cream, teat, Udderscotch, Unilever

shf happens on the road: Wisconsin’s Cheese Toll

shf happens on the road: Wisconsin’s Cheese Toll July 24, 2010 by shf 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, [...]

¶ Posted 24 July 2010 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: alignment, artery, cheese, cheese toll, cholesterol, crumbling infrastructure, curd, I-80, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, OhioDOT, sales tax, tax, toll booth, traveler, Wisconsin, Wisconsin DOT

BP fesses to photo fraud

BP fesses to photo fraud July 22, 2010 by shf 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, [...]

¶ Posted 22 July 2010 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Beyond Pathetic, BP, British Petroleum, confession, crisis room, fraud, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Houston, oil spill, pathetic, photographer, photoshop, situational awareness, spokesperson, Texas, Tony Hayward

Windows 7 SP1 beta leaked, OS tweaks coming late 2010

Windows 7 SP1 beta leaked, OS tweaks coming late 2010 April 8, 2010 by shf 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 [...]

¶ Posted 08 April 2010 § SCI/TECH § shf ‡ Comments Off ° 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, 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

Y2K redux, Sony’s PlayStation 3 units crippled by 8001050F error likely due to calendar rollover screw up March 1, 2010 by shf 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 [...]

¶ Posted 01 March 2010 § ENTERTAINMENT § SCI/TECH § shf § SOCIETY ‡ Comments Off ° 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, 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, Y1K, Y2K, Y2K consultant

Toyota dealership unaware of recall

Toyota dealership unaware of recall February 23, 2010 by shf 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 [...]

¶ Posted 23 February 2010 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° 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, Toyota, Twitter, vehicle

Clunkers for Toyotas

Clunkers for Toyotas February 5, 2010 by shf 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. [...]

¶ Posted 05 February 2010 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° 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, stimulus funds, stockpile, Toyota, Transportation Secretary

First Bank of Madoff issuing 79.9% interest credit card

First Bank of Madoff issuing 79.9% interest credit card December 17, 2009 by shf 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 [...]

¶ Posted 17 December 2009 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: 79.9%, Bernie Madoff, credit, credit card, financial abuse, First Bank of Madoff, First Premier Bank, interest regulations, loopholes, Ponzi, prison, subprime, Twitter, U.S. consumers, Zhu Zhu Pets

Britain checks cheques after three centuries

Britain checks cheques after three centuries Dec 16, 2009 by shf 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 [...]

¶ Posted 16 December 2009 § shf ‡ Comments Off ° 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

Category Archives: BUSINESS

Qwikster to dumpster, DVDs shackled to Netflix.com

An Explanation and Some Reflections from Netflix

Gilbert Gottfried lands new voiceover gig in Japan following firing by Aflac over tasteless Japan tsunami jokes

Ben & Jerry’s proceeds with plans to test market several flavors of breast milk ice cream in London

shf happens on the road: Wisconsin’s Cheese Toll

BP fesses to photo fraud

Windows 7 SP1 beta leaked, OS tweaks coming late 2010

Y2K redux, Sony’s PlayStation 3 units crippled by 8001050F error likely due to calendar rollover screw up

Toyota dealership unaware of recall

Clunkers for Toyotas

First Bank of Madoff issuing 79.9% interest credit card

Britain checks cheques after three centuries

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