Jeantet’s Blog

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Business without ethics
5. Science without humanity
6. Religion without sacrifice
7. Politics without Principle

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I saw this on Facebook today.  Had to grab it and keep it.

This makes it clear what’s wrong with the financial industry: lack of govt oversight has allowed the runaway consolidation of small banks, in favor of large corporations who off-shore customer service to call-centers and who charge usurious fees.  Add to that the undisciplined financial management that caused the initial recession two years ago and we can see what trusting industry to “police itself” has done.  It has screwed you and me, again and again.

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So if you’re a sysadmin and you use MAC OS, you might at some point need your machine to forget the current DNS info for a domain as you move it around, so it can refresh from … let’s say the DNS zone files you just edited.

MACpro:~ user$ dscacheutil -flushcache

And voila!  You’re done.  Go ahead and refresh that site.

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So yesterday my wife and I got onto the #6 train at Spring Street.  The train was very crowded (as seems to always be the case lately), and this little Chinese lady with gray hair exclaims: “You, close your legs so the pregnant lady can sit down…. Lady, you sit down there!”

Lately, I’ve been a little sour on NYC, but there are times when I love this city.

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So I got this direct mail today from Blockbuster Video, promoting some “New Deal”.

I think Blockbuster is horrible.

It’s not something they’ve ever done to me, I’ve probably rented videos from them less than 10 times in my life.  The reason I hate Blockbuster is because it’s a company whose annual cash flow has historically depended heavily on late fees and penalties.  In other words, this company’s business model is fundamentally predatory and dare I say usurious when you consider how a few days of late fees cost more than buying the damn movie.

I’m tickled silly that Netflix has beat the living snot out of blockbuster with an innovative and consumer friendly business model.  In fact, check it out OnLine: NFLX is soaring and Blockbuster is in the crapper.  Yes, it really stinks for the people who will be out of work once blockbuster takes its last gasp, but something tells me that working there doesn’t make for a career path with growth potential.  If only money could be made shorting the few pennies left in blockbuster stock.

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