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To the Denver Parking Violations bureau:

Who would be the proper group to speak to about a street sweeping problem.  I just paid a parking citation I received for being parked on the wrong side of the road during a street sweeping day.  However, Denver or its contracted subsidiary choose to not do street sweeping that day at all on the street.

While I certainly don’t have a problem with being held accountable for my parking injustice who do I hold accountable for the city not doing its job?

So as some of you know, I have an on going battle with Sony regarding my laptop.  A brief history in case you don’t know.

Last year, I purchased a Sony VGN-FW190, a new model of theirs with a 16 in screen, awesome construction, overall a good laptop.  Unfortunately, they lied to me when I purchased it saying that it was 64 bit compatible.  it is in fact 64 bit compatible, but they refuse to release/produce the drivers.  here is the rub, the later two modesl of the same damn machine have 64 bit drivers!!!  So I called for a few months asking when the drivers would be available, and they kept telling me the 64 bit drivers were still in development, but a bout a month out (always a month).  Finally I called to complain and after being on the phone for almost 2 hours and speaking to 9 different people, someone finally told me that those drivers are never going to be in production.  Needless to say i was pissed, I wanted a replacement laptop.  Newer model, same specs (FW290 or above).  Sony wouldn’t hear of it.  So I complained to the BBB and reported their sleazy sales tactics.  Sony calls me to tell me they don’t give a SH!T and will not be replacing my laptop.

So today, I got an email from the BBB with Sony’s response to my complaint:

Thank you for contacting Sony Electronics Inc. regarding the complaint your office received from Jason Wilcox concerning his Sony VAIO notebook computer.

There is no documentation to support Mr. Wilcox claim that Sonystyle told him that his notebook PC would be upgradeable to a 64 bit operating system or that there would be 64 bit drivers available for his model. Sony will not exchange his current model for a current model notebook with a 64 bit operating system.

At this point Sony would seem to have me in a pickle…unless of course I was a crazy bastard with trust issues in which case I might have recorded all of my conversations with Sony people and all of my email transcripts where they talk about the 64 bit drivers availability and it being in development.  Teeeeheeee.  So I have quickly responded to the Empires..<ACK> I mean Sony’s response with some yummy transcripts attached.  I even color highlighted for easier reading!  Here is my response below:

Better Business Bureau:

I have reviewed the response made by the business in reference to complaint ID 7884617, and have determined that this does not resolve my complaint.

To assist the BBB in bringing this matter to a close, please explain why this does not resolve your complaint:

As I informed the multiple people who I have had to contact regarding this situation, I was not provided with documentation during the sales process..  I was provided the 64 bit information over the phone when I spoke with there sales staff.  In addition, I had multiple conversations with multiple Sony tech support who instructed me that the drivers I require for my machine were in development.  Sony records these conversations and has them on file.  However, having the foresight I did, I also recorded the conversations where techs have informed me that the drivers were in production.

Logic would seem to dictate that Sony can’t both provide a unit with only 32 bit drivers and have 64 bit drivers for that same unit under development.

Sony’s response does not solve my complaint because my accusation is that their sales team provided false advertising on this laptop.  They can claim this never occurred in which case I have multiple Sony techs on record as telling me the 64 bit drivers were in production.  So either the Sales team is providing false advertising or the support team is providing false post sales.  Either way some part of Sony is lying to the customer.

As I wrote, I recorded several phone calls with Sony.  I also kept 1 of the transcripts from an email chat session where the support person apologizes that the drivers are not yet posted.  I have hightlighted the areas in red in the attachment.

So we shall see.  Oh, the coup de grace to this whole situation is that my company has completely blacklisted Sony product from our sales and I would estimate in the last few months since we did this they have lost easily 5 digits worth of revenue.  What’s the phrase??????  Oh yes, Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!

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Have any of you had the chance to do this?  This is truly…enlightening.  After watching a daily show from last week tonight I got into quite a tizzy after listening to Henry Waxman bash all non-democrats.  If I were a democrat or republican and heard someone who “represented” me speaking this way, I would be ashamed.

So I came upstairs to email my congressmen and all that.  I got to looking at gov documents and came across the Greenhouse gas inventory EPA document (ended up there after trying to understand some of the earkmarks Degette is trying to put through).  So I am reading through this document, looking at some tables and what not.  Interesting reading.  So I get to this point and I have to reread this a couple times just to make sure I am reading this correctly.  Now unlike our government representatives I will actually present sources, but here is what the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) wrote.  I listed the acronym so no one would read this and think Elephant Pension Allotment or other such nonsense…

It read, talking about contributing factors to why the percentage is higher: “cooler winters and warmer summer conditions in 2007 than in 2006 increased the demand for heating fuels and contributed to the demand in increase for electricity.”
http://epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads09/InventoryUSGhG1990-2007.pdf   bottom of page ES-3

So think about this for a second.  Greenhouse gases went up 1.4 percent supposedly.  Ok so this lead to it getting warmer…ok 1.4 percent must be a huge increase to change the temperature in such a measurable way, but I will give on the moment.  cooler winters and warmer summers increased the demand for heating fuels.  Ok so because the country was warmer we had to use more fuel to stay….warmer?!  Wait…what???

How does that work?  In what bizzarro world do warmer temperatures increase the need for heating elements?  What editor took of that day and who wrote this to begin with?  Thankfully the EPA is not burdened by that whole cause and effect situation.

“Johnson, get the numbers in the document and add these conclusions, On the double.”

“Uh, sir, these conclusions make no sense when they numbers are right before them.”

” HAH, sounds great Johnson, On the Double!”

Sometimes pointing out the stupidity of certain groups lacks of challenge….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503876.html

This is just a quickie, but if y’all get a chance you might take a look at this Washington Post article.  If any mainstream media are out there, this is WHY people think that the media are incompetent.  Here we have some one’s view of our President and they have the creativity to create a poster that they feel captures their disapproval in our current president.  Some people agree, some people don’t agree but it is the nature of our country, part of its beauty.  After all, freedom of speech is quite important.  This poster is very similar in ideal to the “Hope” poster that we couldn’t help but see anywhere we went during the elections.  It is in fact very similar to the posters that many people have put up that compare George W. Bush to a monkey and show various comparisons between monkey faces and Bush faces.

Guess which one the Washington Post thinks is racist….

I am like a vast majority of Americans.  We don’t really think about the color of a person’s skin.  We just don’t.  Then there are the people that want to make it an issue, not because it is, but because they can sensationalize it.  Most people do not like these people.  These are the people that have touted Obama’s Presidency as a “great stride” in racial equality.  I would have to disagree.  Now, I can no longer expound on the buffoonery of our President because I am then a racist.  Don’t like Obama’s Healthcare, your a racist.  Don’t like the stimulus, you must be a racist.  Think Obama is a closet socialist, you must be a racist.

Washington Post, this is why your paper is crap: “The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can’t be trusted, not because he is a politician, but because he’s black.”.  But at least it is an editorial….HOLY CRAP it is not an editorial!!!  This was written by a staff writer?!

I hope it turns out that the artist who did this is black.

Washington Post & no talent writer Philip Kennicott, consider your chops, busted!