mikey_p said, "I have personally seen security at the Rock and Roll hall of fame threaten a photographer with a SLR and tripod that was standing on public property near the building."
I've heard of lots of times where photographers were threatened by security, even police. I've also heard of many cases where they were able to show that the photography WAS legal, and were left alone. Just because police/security says something is illegal, it doesn't make it wrong. That's why we have courts, although unfortunately going to court can be risky and expensive, even when you're right.
I nearly stopped - but it's the opinion of the blog writer. The video is not from the blog itself, and is definitely worth the watch.
But I agree - stupid things like 'Micro$oft' are a pet peeve of mine. I think people should use what they like and what works better for them. I personally use Windows and Linux, just for different things. And I've have a Mac box to play with if I wasn't broke.
So I suggest to anyone else who didn't watch the video - ignore the irritating blog author and check the video out. It's completely unrelated to the idiotic comment.
He missed an apostrophe that you didn't catch: "important person's cat", i.e. a cat owned by someone who would be vocally unhappy their pet was killed.
This assumes that the dosage of aspirin is fatal to cats, which is not something I'm sure of (or care about enough to research).
>Nothing about speaking to the specific small business owners that got it wrong by using groupon and what groupon has done to prevent other small business owners from failing in the same manner. How groupon has extended or enhanced their offering to protect against a bad experience for all parties involved?
Well, here's some things you apparently missed:
>Of course, we have heard from merchants who felt Groupon sent them too many customers. We responded to those concerns by creating merchant preparation materials, including this video featuring a Groupon merchant who sold 10,000 bagel Groupons in a day:
and
>Also, to clarify one important point: it has always been Groupon policy to allow merchants to cap deals. If a merchant sells too many Groupons, they’ll have a bad experience, the customer will have a bad experience, and therefore, Groupon loses. We’re longer-term thinkers than that. In fact, we have the opposite problem more often – where merchants protest a cap we recommend, convinced they can handle more customers than we think they can.
and
>Now that we know Posie’s had a problem, we have reached out to them so we can help.
So they didn't specifically mention talking to the 3% that didn't want to do it again, but they most certainly did address the other concerns you raised.
I'm Isaac Eiland-Hall - don't mind my name out there because I'm easily findable...
As I said over on WHT - received an email with a link to download a CSV - and sure enough, I find my information in there, along with more than 5000 others.
Not quite your point, I know, but it seems to apply here.