Spoken like a true businessman! It shouldn’t be allowed. Sky are a bunch of incompetent wankers and I need to tell them this. They need to change their policy from “Please tell us how we did.” to “Please tell us how we did (but only if it’s good).”
The weird thing about business is that incompetence and wanker-dom don't really matter. They should, but the alternate reality is more real than the real reality. If all they talk about is verifiable customer satisfaction through a selective rating system, it isn't that hard to write your own reality by controlling your sample group.
Interactive voice menu systems that don't allow you to skip the messages, and force you to listen to the whole damn thing before you can select an option.
And nowadays, how people expect a 5 star (top) rating for doing their job adequately. Yes Uber, you got me to where I wanted to go without killing me. 5 stars!
I am looking for a landscape background for my desktop and most pictures have strange manipulated light to create moods. I just want a normal picture of the outdoors . . .
I found a strange thing on a booktuber site. They don't write and they aren't an editor either, but starting at $500 for 20k words and goes up substantially from there. They will critique your book. So, now people pay 1/2 a grand (or up to 3K for really long books) to have some body just read and tell you your book is good or not? That doesn't really sound like it's worth the prices your asking honey. That is extortion for a job where all you do is read a document and then write a few pages of your thoughts on it. The part that gets me, is that they are overbooked for like a year out, so how can this odd investment in something that will in no way help you get your book published, or even edited, be of any benefit at those extreme rates? I guess it makes sense if you really feel the need to blow those kind of dollands for one person to tell you there thoughts about your book.
This place [edit for clarity: "this place" as in the county that I live in] is so afraid of rap that they will literally cut out a chunk of a song that has rap in it. Like, im not a fan of Katy Perry's "Dark Horse".... So it doesnt bother me either way wether or not its played.... But they made it SO obvious that they cut that part out. Forget censoring a word here or there, Any pop song with a hip hop or rap element gets that part cut out completely. Ugh... -turns on Pandora Radio-
That Alannis Morissette song that has the gap in it? "Why are you so petrified of silence? Here, can ya handle this? <silent pause>" The Chicago deejays always used to play a bell or whistle sound effect in the pause....
guess they are petrified of silence... like the people who were freaking out during the big dramatic silence in the star wars movie when the ship warp speeded (sped?) into the other one.
Audible. They're taking public domain content freely available from Librivox and charging people for it. https://librivox.org/
there was this news segment about it, and then in the movie theaters in my area put signs up on the doors to the theaters showing it that said something like "audience will experience a period of extended silence. this is not a production error or equipment malfunction"
I was going to make a snarky comment about the average idiot not knowing that sound doesn't transmit in space, then I realized George Lucas and the Star Wars series were the ones at fault for filling the average idiot's head with the misinformation that it does. Oh well.
The person who uploads blog posts to my job's blog keeps changing the title of my blog posts... So i leave them "Untitled" because clearly she likes to be in control. But when i submit the "Untitled" ones to her to post (so she can call it whatever she wants), she writes back about them not having a title... YET SHE CHANGES THE TITLE WHEN THEY HAVE TITLES
As far as I know 2001 is just about the only space movie that gets that right. I know there were a couple of others, but only a handful, and much less well-known. I think in recent years there have been a few.
Being at my night job at the big DIY store, straightening out things on the shelves in the department, or maybe I'm actually behind the Paint desk doing tasks there, and having customers come up to me and say, "Do you work in this department?" Bloody heck, don't you see me doing just that? Would I be hanging out here if I didn't?
Maybe they're just surprised to see an actual staff member on the job and wonder if you're doing some odd sort of cosplay. My recent experiences at big DIY stores have not been terribly positive; if yours works to a higher standard you have my compliments.