Bigo81's Rant Page

This page is for me to rant on! Anything I choose to say, I will!

You wanna put your 2 cents worth in? E-mail me @: orangebowl81@yahoo.com

7-09-2000

'Fast Food': We have a local Popeye's restaurant nearby that serves up really good food. When they are not out. This place specializes in chicken and Creole food. But, almost every time I go there, they are out of something or I have to wait an extremely long time for something. Often times they are out of chicken. HEY, you main gig is chicken, how do you run out? Did you think no one was going to order chicken? So, consequently, I do not go there often. The management is to blame for this, in my opinion. But at least they usually get the order right. All too often, drive thru windows screw up your order. I cite Burger King, McDonald's and Hardee's as big offenders. Not all locations, just certain ones in my area. A friend picks up 3 Bacon and egg croissants from Burger King just to find they are bacon and cheese, even though the wrapper is marked bacon and egg. We order 2 large teas, 3 spicy chickens and one burger from Hardee's, we get 3 teas, 1 chicken sandwich and 3 hamburgers. And a McDonalds near I-20 in Aiken, SC, is notorious for screwing up your order any way it can. Wake up, owners/franchisees: your lack of management and sloppy service is driving your customers away. Are fast food restaurants like this in your area? E-mail me at the link at the bottom of this page and let me know!

6-07-2000

Augusta's water shortage: Every year in Augusta, Georgia, its the same old thing. Summer comes, the populace starts to water their lawns because of a lack of rain. Then, like clockwork, water restrictions are announced. One or two years would seem like no big deal. But, every year for as long as you can remember? What really makes this an interesting tale is the fact that Augusta has a fair size river running beside it (the Savannah), and a canal off of that which runs through the city. In other words, YOU HAVE PLENTY OF WATER! YOU'VE HAD YEARS TO FIGURE OUT THAT YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH WATER TREATED TO MEET DEMAND! So, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Since you have all the water you need, why can't you figure out how to clean enough of it to meet demand??? Year after year, we hear of odd/even restrictions and other measures that mask the true cause of the shortage. It's not the demand, it's your lack of planning! Face facts, you never have enough water and you can't figure out that all you got to do is clean what you already have! It's a river, people. And a canal that runs through the city giving you plenty of sites to build water purifying facilities. Not to mention the 2 reservoirs upstream. As Homer Simpson would say... DOH!

5-19-2000

Interstates: I don't know how the interstates and high speed highways are where you live, but here in South Carolina, it's time to widen them all. Cruise control is virtually useless thanks to heavy traffic and trucks having 'slow competitions' to see who can get up the hill the slowest, side by side. The interstates are simply too crowded, and extra lanes are needed, NOW!

It took an entire year to repave a 17 mile stretch of interstate here, and then only in the westbound lane (completed well over a year ago). The eastbound lane remains full of bumps. On another stretch of of the same interstate, a trailer hit a bump, wiggled over and tapped a car. This sent the car into the median, which, for some unknown reason, the state has seen fit to plow up. This car gets back in traffic, taps another car, which sends the second car down an embankment and into a crash that trapped the driver. Will bad roads have to cost lives before this state gets off it's collective ass and takes action on bad, crowded highways? Bad roads will surely drive businesses away and make them think twice about locating in the area, so, it's costing us jobs to. Lets wake up people, I'm sure this is not the only state that is suffering this way.

5-3-2000

Metallica Suing Napster: C'mon guys! Don't you have better things to do, like making music??? Check this out: In January 1984 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that private home video taping does not constitute copyright infringement. Summarizing the ruling, you can't hold a technology responsible for the way people use it (just as the gun control people hold the technology of firearms responsible for the abuse people do with it). And I don't want to hear about lost sales. CD sales were up for the first quarter of 2000 by 8%. And don't give me the crap about "we could have sold more if it weren't for Napster". How many of those Napster users do you think would have actually gone out and bought the CD's anyway? Many probably have your CD's but don't know how to rip it into mp3. Many people cannot afford the ridiculous prices overcharged for CD's anyway. Have you ever stopped to consider that now more people can here your music than ever before? Yes, people are getting your music without paying for it, but, if it weren't for mp3's, your music might be less popular. Don't you think it's flattering that so many people want your music, not someone else's? If they weren't listening to your music, they might be listening to Pat Boone's In A Metal Mood album. You don't want that on your conscience, do you?

Guys, there's been a paradigm shift, so get with the program. Maybe if the time and effort you are spending fighting a technology were put into coming up with an angle to make money and allow people to purchase mp3's legitimately at a good price, you would be laughing all the way to the bank. Or, at least getting back to what your supposed to be doing, making music. Master of Puppets indeed...