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14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - \'Barefoot Bandit\' pl... · 0 replies · +2 points

6 yr is too little. The problem is it is NOT he does not know what he did was wrong. He obviously knew what he did was wrong and he was proud of doing it at the expense of the others and kept doing it. I worked hard everyday for my living so does everybody else. Why should we give such a light penalty to people to ruin others life for fun? And what if the plane / boat he stole ended up crashing into someone's house and killed someone? At that point, will we still agree 6 to 7 years of prison is the correct amount of sentence?

14 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Cars set on fire in Va... · 0 replies · +5 points

Vancouver, shame on you. Is that all sports is about?

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Seattle News, Weather,... · 1 reply · -4 points

Try out the Issaquah Costco and the Kirkland Costco - Kirkland one is the worst. If you do a search in internet on "costco membership upgrade", you will see many people have gone through the same hassle at checkout. Costco probably have a quota/commission system going on so if the employee needs to move up, he/she needs to upsell this membership thing.. Each upsell help them to bring in extra $50.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Seattle News, Weather,... · 1 reply · +5 points

So I don't know what is more annoying. Having someone blocking you in the shopping isle unintentionally vs having a specific person who keep bothering you like those poor kids asking for candys in the poor countries. BTW, for those who get pissed off at these aggressive upgrade tactics, you can call up the Costco head office and asked them to put a note on don't bother you on executive membership upgrade at chkout.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Seattle News, Weather,... · 8 replies · -7 points

Yes indeed. How many items you bought in Costco you really ended up using all of them before they expired / turned bad? And you know what was the most annoying thing about shopping at Costco? It was the "Beggar" tactics that they tried to get you sign up for the executive membership.

So you thought you did well because you bypass all your fellow shoppers from blocking you...then at the checkout counter, a sale person will come up to you and keep forcing you to upgrade to executive membership. "If you don't sign up, you are like throwing money away"...."Since the beginning of this year, you already spent this much..if you would have executive membership, you will be earning this extra $"... "I cannot believe you don't want this, it is guranteed. We are trying to give u money for free... You don;t want extra money to spend?"

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Gates Foundation gives... · 0 replies · +2 points

Yes and No. Bill did donate $ to our foodbank already. I think the $ is good for the next few yrs.

Compare to the standards of living, I think we are quite well off compare to lots of other people in other countries. Most of the initiatives of the foundation is more on curing the cause rather than fixing it with a patch. If we can prevent this disease, the benefits goes to the whole world, the number of people we can save is going to be endless.

Think of it this way, you are at a village where lots of people are staving, do you think you want to be the one who is going to fish for them and provide them the food for the rest of their life, or you want to be the one who teach them how to fish so they can look after themselves without you keep sticking around. Once the village no longer relies on you, you can walk to the next village and solve the next village's problem. The foundation is really mostly focsing on issues that once the ball is rolling, the ball can take care of itself.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - A $280 car seat for $4... · 1 reply · +5 points

People do make mistakes and Target is being generous in giving out a $25 card for their mistakes. Tried out some other online store and some may not even refund your $ unless you started sending email to them to ask for the $ back. Among all the places I shop, I personally think Target is a very fair and affordable place to shop.

Company needs to make a profit to live on. Consider it is not Target but it is your own company. Do you think it is fair for you to make a mistake (forgeting to put a extra 0 in a price , so $43 instead of the correct price of $430) and ends up coughing up close to $400 for every order that came in? Target needs to pay for the warehouse, staff, utlity bills, shipping charges all these expenses!! Honestly if Target honours every mistakes that they made, you will not get the kind of price you are gettting now from Target. Don't be greedy, they give you $25 gift card which they don't have to. When is the last time you get a $25 gift card from someone who made a mistake and had caused nothing to you besides a few minute of your internet time?

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Local car dealers stru... · 0 replies · -1 points

I have no pity on these dealers either. What bothers me the most is even if you know the invoice price and there are big rebates behind the scene, the dealer will do whatver to make sure you pay wihtout taking these into considerations. If I want to buy a car now, I would not even bother to visit the shop. I will just go to online site and ask for a bid and starts from there.

I recalled one time I talked about these discount at a dealer (rebate/invoice/volume discount etc) and the saleman was getting mad and told me "this is none of your business. Whoever sell you at this price with these considerations needed to be fired right away" When all else fails, they will start breaking down the $ into daily rate to try to sneak the $ in behind you. Very professional indeed.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Property worth million... · 2 replies · +2 points

Are you implied you are underpaid? Do you know how many people are jobless now out there? These are our money, not yours. I am sure your answer will not be like that if your kid is the unfortunate one who cannot go to a computer class because the class is short by computers being stolen/misplaced by irresponsible employees.

17 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Bellevue School Distri... · 5 replies · +2 points

Time to go back to work teachers. I have seen discussion on civil lawsuits among coworkers already. Patience among parents are running out.

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