It was a sad day when Elvis died. It was a sad day when Michael Jackson died. Farrah, too.
The Internet has become such an important part of life for everybody today, especially REALTORS that we sort of become so used to have fast, perky screens open and close... that we have little tolerance for Internet hiccups or when the Internet just slows down.
Today, Amazon was off the air. So was Google. Not for a few minutes... a long long time.
If you suffered the same slowdown today at work... maybe you couldn't get your email. Or that one thing left on the contingency was being handled and you could envision closing tomorrow and getting a commission check on Friday.... all of these happy thoughts vaporized today thanks to CNN and Yahoo and the other idiots who decided to Webcast (stream) the Michael Jackson memorial service.
Don't get me wrong, I feel bad that the King of Pop is dead.
But I'm freaking pissed off that it webcasting the memorial service over the Internet cost me five hours of billable time today.
No Internet service, period.
Everybody was CRAMMED around computers watching everyone say good bye to Michael and enjoying some music at the same time.
Does your BROKER pay you for watching CNN or Yahoo webcasts of a memorial service? My guess is no.
Does any BOSS out there have rules that ask your employees to refrain from Twittering for no good reason, goofing off playing Internet games or watching the Michael Jackson memorial service?
This is why God made TiVo, people. Tape the show, and when you get home from work... THEN you watch the recorded event.
I'm sending a bill to CNN today for $670.90 -- the amount of time I should have been paid for consulting for a few brokers today, but was not able to DO my job thanks to 212,903,623 Americans who tuned in and watched the Jackson memorial service, taking away my Internet bandwidth.
I urge everyone to do the same. If you suffered any loss today, send your bills to Yahoo.com and CNN.com who were the two biggest morons who robbed all of us of your time today. Someone has to help me find Yahoo's mailing address, but CNN has two offices. One in NYC and the other is in Atlanta.
- Bart
CNN NY
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York NY 10005
1 C N N Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30348
When I get paid by CNN, I will be donating the entire check to anybody or any firm who is developing a Turnpike for the Internet. I'm dead serious.
If you don't like traveling the Information Super Highway for free, every highway has a Turnpike or the Diamond HOV lane allowing some of us who have BETTER THINGS to be doing with our time can get them done. Without being slowed down by a bunch of stupid looky-loos who want to slow down and piss off everybody who really has to get somewhere.
Why can't some firm build a Private Super Fast HOV version of the Internet so the morons, soccer moms and lolly gaggers who want to surf the web can do it for free?
This Members-Only Internet would be just for HOV business folks who don't have time to watch news broadcasts on our Internet when we are going to get the same information at home and on the 6 O' Clock news.
You show me a company developing that kind of Hi-Speed, Private, Members-Only Internet and I have a lot of checks I am willing to write and invest into that firm.
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