Dickie Richards: Bigot Damage Control Kit

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Dickie Richards: Deaf

Dickie responds to demands that he apologize to the deaf:

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Ceding from Red Sox Nation

The Red Sox are 2007 World Champions. They swept the Rockies in the most boring World Series ever conceived by man.

Then the Red Sox came home to jam up traffic in Boston for half the day for a parade. Idiots are said have been reserving their spot on the parade route since 3:00 a.m.

The duck boats carrying the Red Sox rolled by blasting confetti. Who's going to clean that shit up, I thought. The Red Sox? No. I don't think so. More likely The City of Boston is outsourcing this to some cleaning outfit that pays poor foreigners minimun wage. Who's going to pay for the huge police presence? The Red Sox? Don't think so...

Some excited, grizzly old man in Boston tells a reporter, "We won!"

"We" didn't win shit, old man. They [The Red Sox] won. They are a privately owned team. You had nothing to do with their victory, and you will not reap any rewards from it. You had a lot to do with all the money the Red Sox raked in though.

A reporter talks about how great the Red Sox are and attributes it to the diversity of the team. He says now there are Latinos and African Americans. What planet has this guy been on? There have always been Latinos on the team. Does the name Louis Tiant ring a bell? While he's right about there always being a lack of African Americans on the team, there is currently no African Americans on the team! There hasn't been a single African American on the team for three years. He might be including Ortiz as an African American because of his dark skin. But Ortiz is from the Dominican Republican. Not the United States. He is not an African American. Is Ortiz even a naturalized American citizen? I don't know? Does the chucklehead reporter know? Doubt it. At a minimum, I think it is an incredible stretch to include Ortiz as an African American. While it's true that the team now has a greater representation from other religious/ethnic groups such as Jewish and Native American, they have less African Americans than they've ever had. The Red Sox always had one or two token African Americans. Now they have none, and NOBODY is talking about it. In fact we're pretending that there are African Americans on the team. It's amazing.

But look at all that the Red Sox are doing for kids. Poor inner city kids get to watch free Red Sox games in the "Dunkin' Donuts Dugout" section of the bleachers. They get to wear oversized Dunkin' Donuts tea-shirts, with a big stupid Dunkin' Donuts billboard over their head. And they get to be on TV too. They're live participants in the Dunkin' Donuts' advertising campaign. Dunkin' Donuts and the Red Sox really restore my faith in humanity.

I missed perhaps two or three Red Sox games in the 2007 season. Perhaps in 2008 I'll miss some more.

Evidence That Compustar Cheated Me

In the following, I will submit physical evidence in support of the fact that Compustar Inc., in Waltham, MA, cheated me. I will do this by showing two contradictory accounts of events given by Compustar. I have provided actual scans of Compustar's responses in the REFERENCES section at the bottom.

Computar Inc. has two locations:

Headquarter
565 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02154
Phone: 781-642-8827
Fax: 781-642-8871


Worcester Office
1280 Grafton Street
Worcester, MA 01608
Phone: 508-752-7001
Fax: 508-642-7203

Note that the website for Compustar is www.compustarpc.com, not compustar.com.

You can also get their website by googling "Compustarpc" or "Compustar pc"


WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:
I had an oral agreement with David Chang (one of the owners) for him to replace my computer's defective Asus 754 Socket motherboard for $195.00. Mr. Chang made several attempts to locate a compatible motherboard, yet ultimately told me that he was unable to locate the part, thus failing to live up to the terms of our agreement. When I went to pick up the computer, which was never repaired, Mr. Chang charged me a $45.00 diagnostic fee. At no point was I ever informed of this charge.


MR. CHANG'S FIRST FICTITIOUS ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED:
Mr. Chang's response below, dated 03/16/2007 is from the credit card chargeback reversal reason. (He was successful at reversing my chargeback):

"I spend hours Diagnose PC.(The $45 is us store diagnose Fee) [UNDISCLOSED NAME] been to us store before for other Service. This time [UNDISCLOSED NAME] don't want to pay for it. Because we do not want to fix and that why he don't want to pay anything.

Thank You

David Chang"

Mr. Chang is saying here that he doesn't want to fix the problem, and that's why I don't want to pay. It's puzzling to me why a computer repair service would say that they don't want to fix a problem. This changes later, as you will see. Also, I was never at the store for service beforehand, though I once bought a computer case from the store. I fail to see the relevance of this issue though.


MR. CHANG'S SECOND FICTITIOUS ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED:
Mr. Chang's response below, dated 06/13/3007 is from the Better Business Bureau complaint I filed:

"$45 is store diagnose fee. I have sign on the wall for my customers. I told him the motherboard may come 3 days. But it did not. He does not want to wait another day. There is nothing I can do."

Notice how a "sign on the wall" suddenly appears in this version of events. There may be a sign there now, but there was absolutely no sign then. This actually changes to a "giant" sign in a third fictitious account Compustar gave to the Attorney General. I did not include this account because there is no written record.

The main point here -- the real contradiction is that unlike the first version of events where Mr. Chang mysteriously declines to fix the problem, now Mr. Chang is prepared to fix the problem, yet I don't want to wait for a part. This version of events is actually closer to the truth in that Mr. Chang told me that there was a "two" day wait for a part that I in fact agreed to and waited for. After two days of my computer collecting dust in his store, Mr. Chang told me that he was unable to obtain the part, yet I had to pay $45.00 for zero services rendered, which he called a "Diagnostic Fee." This fee never came up at any time and was never part of our original agreement.

I believe Mr. Chang's two contradictory versions of events is strong evidence in support of the fact that Compustar cheated me and attempted to cover this up by lying. Liars cannot keep their stories straight because fiction is much harder to recall than reality. Police are well aware of this. That's how they got Susan Smith.

Buyer Beware!


REFERENCES
Credit card chargeback response:
http://talkwarrior.com/scans/compustarpc/compustarpc-chargeback-response.gif

Better Business Bureau Complaint
http://talkwarrior.com/scans/compustarpc/compustarpc-bbb-report-1-of-5.gif
http://talkwarrior.com/scans/compustarpc/compustarpc-bbb-report-2-of-5.gif
http://talkwarrior.com/scans/compustarpc/compustarpc-bbb-report-3-of-5.gif
http://talkwarrior.com/scans/compustarpc/compustarpc-bbb-report-4-of-5.gif
http://talkwarrior.com/scans/compustarpc/compustarpc-bbb-report-5-of-5.gif

Court order to remove material from this website

For the record, Bisney (See the e-mail sent to me by his lawyer below) didn't post an "article" at the below mentioned URL, he posted a comment to my article. And it was completely off-topic. I didn't understand at the time that he was just an asshole, exploiting my website to defame someone else. I initially thought it was just another crazy troll comment. The Court Order requiring me to remove the comment, also posted in this blog entry, is legitimate and I have removed Shit-For-Brains-Bisney's comment. I'm not so hot about the judge ordering me to remove Bisney's comment. I thought it violated my right to free expression. My stepfather the lawyer didn't see it that way.
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"Gondelman, Larry"
to dickie_richards@[UNDISCLOSED].com
date Jul 20, 2007 3:51 PM
subject Request regarding article posted on your website.

I am counsel for Mr. John F. Bisney. Mr. Bisney wrote and posted an article on your Internet site about Ms. Kathleen A. Benz, a former friend of his. The article written by Mr. Bisney contains false statements concerning Ms. Benz that Ms. Benz, in a lawsuit pending in federal court in the District of Columbia, claims are libelous. The article appears at http://talkwarrior.com/2005/06/mary-carey-republican.html


On behalf of Mr. Bisney and with the approval of the Court (see the Order of Judge Sullivan, attached hereto), I am contacting you to request that you immediately remove this story from your website and take all steps necessary to remove the article from your Internet site and to ensure that no one performing a search of any type can locate, access, or retrieve the article.


If you have any questions about this matter, please feel free to contact me. In addition, I would ask that you advise me of your response to my requests so that I can report back to the Court. Thank you for your attention to this matter.


Larry S. Gondelman
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, PC
1501 M Street, NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
202.872.6723

This message from the law firm of Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, P.C., contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, please destroy it and notify us immediately at 202-466-6550.



Case 1 :05-cv-01760-EGS-JMF Document 62 Filed 06/27/2007

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

KATHLEEN A. BENZ,

Plaintiff,

v. Civil Action No. 05-1760 (EGS)

THE WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER

PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC and

JOHN F. BISNEY,

Defendants.

ORDER

Upon consideration of the motion made by defendant John F.Bisney in open Court at the March 21, 2007 Status Conference for approval to communicate with Internet sites that continue to display or refer to articles that defendant Bisney authored concerning plaintiff Kathleen A. Benz for the purpose of seeking removal of such articles or references thereto from the Internet, and pursuant to the status hearing on June 21, 2007, it is by the Court hereby

ORDERED that defendant Bisney’s motion is GRANTED; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that defendant Bisney shall provide to counsel for plaintiff a list of all known Internet sites that continue to display or refer to the articles or portions thereof that defendant Bisney authored or disseminated that refer to plaintiff, Kathleen A. Benz, by name or by implication (hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Articles") by no later than June 29, 2007; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that, by no later than June 29, 2007, defendant Bisney shall submit to counsel for plaintiff the substance of the communication defendant Bisney intends to send to all Internet sites that display or refer to the Articles or portions thereof, requesting the removal of such Articles, which communication shall comply in all respects with the terms of this Order, along with a list of such Internet sites to which defendant Bisney proposes to send such communication; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that, by no later than July 9, 2007, counsel for plaintiff shall review and approve the substance of such communication by defendant Bisney to such Internet sites as well as the list of recipients of such communication, which approvals shall not be unreasonably withheld; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that, by July 19, 2007, and only upon certification from plaintiff that she has taken whatever measures she deems necessary to preserve evidence as discussed below, defendant Bisney shall send the approved communication to the approved recipients; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that prior to defendant Bisney contacting any Internet sites, plaintiff shall take whatever measures she deems necessary to preserve evidence regarding the above-referenced Articles for this litigation; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that upon completion of her preservation efforts, and by no later than July 16, 2007, plaintiff shall certify to the Court and to defendants that she has taken whatever efforts she deems necessary to preserve evidence; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that defendant Bisney shall provide all communications received from any Internet sites to counsel for plaintiff and counsel for defendant The Washington Newspaper Company, LLC upon receipt.

SO ORDERED.

Signed: Emmet G. Sullivan

United States District Judge

June 21, 2007

Perverted Justice, Pretty Perverted

Okay, for the TV illiterate out there who have never seen Dateline\to catch_a predator, in this show, they set up real sting operations to capture delusional, balding, middle-aged idiots who are thinking they are meeting up with underage teens for sex, whom they supposedly solicited online. This chucklehead who calls himself a journalist, named Chris Hansen first gives the unsuspecting sex pervs the third-degree, and then they walk outside, thinking they're home free, only to get busted by the cops. It is a full-fledged freak show. It is Cops on crack. Most of the sex-pervs caught in the sting are said to be convicted and given heavy prison sentences. What gets me is that none of these sex pervs would have committed these crimes unless they were tempted to do so. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems highly questionable to me how you could convict someone of intent to commit a crime against a minor, when the minor is really an adult pretending to be a minor. The whole thing reeks of entrapment, although they say that it is clearly not.

The main point is this: Wouldn't all this money being spent to entice people into committing crimes, arresting them, convicting them, and imprisoning them, be better spent on more teachers, or housing for the homeless, or health care for children? The answer is no. We don't care about using resources in a productive and humane manner. We prefer pissing it away on the freak show.

I know the lame counter-argument: If we didn't entice sex pervs into committing sex crimes with impostors, they would be out there committing them against real children. I'll put it bluntly. This is an argument that some type of incredible fucking moron would make. I don't know any teenage girls, but I'm willing to gamble that the percentage of teenage girls who would actually meet, in person, a balding, middle-aged idiot who solicits them for sex online, is approximately zero.

Dateline\to catch_a predator is associated with this organization called Perverted Justice:

http://www.perverted-justice.com/

Perverted Justice is a bizarre, anti-sex perv vigilante group that actively looks to entice sex pervs online with impostors posing as children for sex.

For an anti-sex perv organization, Perverted Justice is pretty damn perverted! They publicly post real-live convos they've had with sex pervs, and you can vote on which sex perv is more perverted. Here are your options:

1.) Not really Slimy
2. Somewhat Slimy
3. Just Plain Slimy
4. Really Slimy
5. Oozing, dripping with slimyness!

They also post the photos of sex pervs, but I don't think any of them look as creepy as the Perverted Justice volunteers themselves. Here is one of the Perverted Justice volunteers, Wendy O'Connell:




When I look at Wendy, all I can think of is Marlin Brando in Apocalypse Now, repeating, "The Horror. The Horror..."

The Perverted Justice volunteers also add their personal comments about the sex pervs they speak to online. Here's one:

"At this point I wanted to rip him a new asshole. I can't even begin to tell you how sick I felt"

Just to be clear, this was not said by a sex perv. It was said by a Perverted Justice volunteer about a sex perv.

Here's the full URL of the text:

http://www.perverted-justice.com/?archive=Tucsftcoach

The police, and the courts, and Dateline\to catch_a predator are working hand-in-hand with people who want to rip people new assholes. I'm not even sure how you rip a person a new asshole. Maybe Pervert Justice can explain exactly how this works.

Let's cut the crap, alright? Perverted Justice is nothing but a bunch of voyeurs seeking sadistic pleasure by creating a twisted, carnival sideshow of sex pervs on display. They're not helping children. If they were they would be volunteering their time promoting the cause of health care for children or decent housing for children.

Oh, I forgot to mention the official Perverted Justice Thong they're selling for $9.99



Jokers.

What ever happened to Dr. Ruth?

I haven't seen Dr. Ruth for what seems like decades. Is she even still alive? I have been thinking about seeing her once on Letterman, where she was talking about some woman who wanted to feel pleasure in her vagina, and Ruth suggested that this woman buy a cucumber... At this point Letterman pretended to freak out by the comment.

Now that I think about this, it was really bad advice. I'm about the farthest away from a sex expert that you could be, but I know enough to know that you don't want to put a fucking cucumber in your vagina. I mean, hasn't Dr. Ruth ever heard of Salmonella or Staphylococcus? This is some major league bacteria. There are now anti-biotic resistant strains of Staph. This is a super-bug. It will really fuck you up. Yes, I know you could wash the cucumber off, but still, you don't want to go there. Certainly there are some more sanitary phallus substitutes that a woman could use. Jesus.

Review: Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story

Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story is a novel in the form of a comic book, by Harvey Pekar, illustrated by Gary Dumm. Unlike other other Pekar novels that I've read, Pekar doesn't use himself as the central character. In fact, Pekar only makes a short appearance at the end. The hero of this novel is this guy named Michael Malice. Unlike the Pekar character, who is a likable, sort of Jewish Bukowski, Malice is an annoying, pompous asshole, who is completely unlikable. What's strange about the book is that Malice is not given a writing credit, which made may wonder if Malice is a fictional character. After reading the book, it was difficult to conceive that anyone could make this shit up. The Malice character written about in the book has a real life blog:

http://michaelmalice.com/

It is a somewhat pathetic blog, with lame, and sometimes bordering on inane sounding comments from someone who is self-described in Pekar's book as having a 160 I.Q. As early as page 4 of the book, Malice says:

"I Was A Brilliant Kid. People Think That It's Bragging to Say You're Brilliant. But If I were The Tallest Kid, It Would Be Regarded As a Mere Statement Of Fact. So I'm Not Sure Why It's Regarded As Arrogance When I say I Was Smarter Than Everyone."

Malice, who is under the mistaken impression that intelligence can be quantitatively measured like height, never lets you forget how fucking smart and superior he is. Malice tells you that his I.Q. is 4 standard deviations above the average I.Q. (this is really, really high), yet what he doesn't tell you is that whites, on average, score above average on the test. I recently looked at one source that claimed that blacks scored, on average, 15 points lower than whites in I.Q. 15 points is 1 standard deviation. I have not looked at enough sources to verify this 15 point difference, yet if blacks score lower than whites, I don't know how you can embrace the test without embracing the notion of white superiority. There is no physiological evidence to support this whatsoever. Even without the racial disparity, the I.Q. test is a bullshit, unreliable, unproven test, and most actual smart people, that aren't fucking megalomaniacs like Malice, understand that the I.Q. test is a useful instrument for maintaining the status quo, and nothing more!

Okay, enough about Malice's big I.Q. I made such a big deal about it because Malice does. It seems to be the basis of his feelings of superiority and perhaps even his backwards, anti-social political beliefs. I never got straight what Malice was: Republican, Libertarian, Anarchist? Whatever the case, they are all anti-social, "fuck-you" belief systems, that inherently favor the rich over the poor, no matter how they're rationalized. While Republicans and Libertarians tend to be far bigger assholes than anarchists, anarchism, is just such a flawed, screwed-up, backwards notion that it's hard to put it into words.

I'm giving Pekar a score of 9 out of 10 for this book. Why such a good score after going off on my disdain for Malice? Well, because Malice is the king of confrontation. The book is essentially a chronology of events where he confronts unscrupulous, power-lusting authority figures. And what Malice does is he puts the bastards in their place! As much as I hate Malice personally, you gotta respect the guy. He even makes a fairly profound comment about life that is worthy of a highly intelligent person. I am only knocking a point off my rating because Malice is such an aversive character. The truly brilliant person here is Pekar, for writing such an entertaining book about such an asshole.

And by the way, Malice. Do you really expect people to believe you gave up your promising career as a stand-up comedian because you didn't want to travel around on tour? Give me a break. How dumb do you think we inferior people really are?

28 Weeks Later Sucks Giant Elephant Cock

I never have time for this blog anymore. I just want to quickly say what a sucky let-down 28 Weeks Later was. Movie reviewers point out the movie's flaws, however, from reading many personal reviews of the movie, it's obvious that many people have no fucking taste whatsoever.

28 Days Later, one of my favorite horror movies, was gory, but it was not gore for the sake of gore. It had real characters that you could relate to, not the cliched, noble American soldier characters that looked like they came right out of a Hollywood action/adventure movie. Cookie-cutter bullshit like that makes me want to puke.

28 Weeks Later has vast plot holes, very little character development, its story is unrealized. It is nothing more than a cheap, exploitative gore fest, pretending to be artsy.

I liked the two kids in the movie. I liked their mother. They seemed real to me. The father seemed real to me until he turned into a zombie. Everything else in the movie seemed truly sucky and unreal. One other thing. I see movie reviewers talking about this movie as a metaphor for America's occupation of Iraq. Maybe, but it sure ain't a powerful one if it is. You want a good zombie metaphor for the occupation of Iraq, see Romero's Land of the Dead. This was not a great movie, but a far better sequel than 28 Weeks Later.

Better get ready. 28 Months Later will probably be coming out soon. Then 28 Years Later. Gas is expensive, and exploitative filmmakers have expensive cars, yachts and Cessnas to gas up. You must help them!

Go To Jail Paris, Go Directly To Jail!

For reasons of posterity I have saved the text of Paris Hilton's petition to Governor Gropenator that she not go to jail below. If it wasn't real I would think it was satire. (I mean, wow, what would our "mundane" lives be like without Paris Hilton's "beauty and excitement"!)

The petition is an example of writing written by and for the incredibly stupid. I'm willing to gamble that Paris wrote it herself. I encourage everyone reading this to sign Paris' petition as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck or Mao Zedong, or whatever...

Paris Hilton will have it much easier than us mundane folk in jail. The jailers will segregate her so that she doesn't get her ass kicked, though I suspect the women in the jail will be more interested in getting her autograph than kicking her ass.

Paris will live. She not only broke the law, she showed contempt for the law and absolutely no remorse whatsoever. Let her do her time like the mundane people.

To:
The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebrity and socialite. She is an heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as to the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. She provides hope for young people all over the U.S. and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives.

Hilton is notable for her leading roles on the FOX reality series The Simple Life and in the remake of the Vincent Price horror classic "House of Wax". In addition to her work as an actress, she has achieved some recognition as a model, celebrity spokesperson, singer, and writer.

As most of America now knows, Ms. Hilton was just charged in a Los Angeles court with DUI and sentenced to 45 days in Century Regional Detention Facility in California beginning on or before June 5, 2007.

We, the American public who support Paris, are shocked, dismayed and appalled by how Paris has been the person to be used as an example that Drunk Driving is wrong. We do not support drunk driving or DUI charges. Paris should have been sober. But she shouldn't go to jail, either.

As depicted on Friday night's episode "Nancy Grace" on Headline News (May 4, 2007), countless celebrities have been "slapped on the wrist" for similar incidents recently. Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, Tracy Morgan, Wynonna Judd, to name a few, were arrested and never did a day in jail after their initial arrests for drunk driving /DUI /DWI charges. Rappers Busta Rhymes and Eve still walk free after both being arrested for the same charges as Ms. Hilton just this past week. Brandy's California Highway accident, although no proof of DUI was evidenced in her accident, resulting in the death of a young wife and mother in California, yet Brandy walks free as of today, never doing any time and A WOMAN HAS BEEN KILLED most likely due to her reckless driving!

Yet, Paris Hilton did not hurt, injure, or kill anyone or anything, and yet she must do jail time.


This petition is to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon Paris Hilton for her mistake. Please allow her to her return to her career and life. Everyone makes mistakes. She didn't hurt or kill anyone, and she has learned her lesson. She is sincere, apologetic, and full of regret for her actions as she explained tearfully to the Judge handling her case in court yesterday.She is distraught and understandably afraid.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT to save our Paris from ending up at the Century Regional Detention Facility! Please sign to tell The Honorable Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of the State of California, to think about the welfare of this young woman who has made a mortal error and deserves a second chance like so many others in our great nation have been served with after a mistake they have made . If the late Former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late Former President Richard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake as well, and we hope and expect The Governor will understand and grant this unusual but important request in good faith to Ms. Paris Whitney Hilton.

Dickie Richards: Freedom and Liberation

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Patch Adams Make Me Homicidal

I watched the entire Patch Adams on TV a week or two ago. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I have never in my life seen such sickenly tear-jerky, putrid moviemaking. I wanted to ralph. I was really sick. I hate Patch Adams. I hate how he wears bed pans for shoes and puts that stupid fucking red thing on his nose. If I was ever dying of cancer like the guy in the movie, and Patch walked in my hospital room dressed as a fairy to try to make me feel better, I swear to God, I'd murder the bastard.

Patch Adams epitomizes the gigantic cock that American movies suck. Why does Hollywood insist on making people feel so fucking happy and okay about the universe. You don't see this in German movies. In fact, no other country that I know of can manufacture the drek of American film.

I remember seeing George Clooney talk with pride about story-boarding every single shot in one of his movies. When German filmaker Verner Herzog was asked whether he story-boarded one of his movies, he said he never story-boarded. He called story-boarding "the disease of Hollywood." Verner Herzog, in my opinion is the greatest living director.

In the 70's Hollywood churned out some really great movies. Now everything is formula, special effects, sap, and derivative. This is why I don't go to the movies anymore.

Hot and bald

All the armchair shrinks are out there saying that a bald Britney is crying for help. But do these whiny mofos ever stop to look at Britney without her hair? Britney is one hot baldy! Look how cute she looks. She's like a cute fuckin' explosion. She looks much better without her hair because being bald makes her big cute baby eyes even more pronounced.

You anti-bald Britney Spears bashers are just plain blind or completely lacking in the knowledge of female beauty. Fuck all of you anti-Britneys!

I say Britney Spears isn't making a cry for help. I say she's making a fuckin' fashion statement!

Screwed by Compustar

This is the story of being really screwed by a computer repair shop called Compustar.

Compustar Inc.
www.compustarpc.com
565 Moody St.
Waltham, MA 02453
781-642-6622

Note that the website for Compustar is compustarpc.com, not compustar.com.

I fried an Asus K8V SE motherboard installing a PC3200 DDR-400 DIMM into the third memory slot. This was not a "recommended" memory configuration according to the Asus manual. Asus does mention some problems which might result if you don't go with the recommended settings, but nothing about physically damaging the motherboard. It is not clear if that is why the motherboard fried. The reason will probably remain an elusive mystery to me. After being screwed by large computer companies like Gateway and small, generic computer stores alike, I started assembling my own computers and doing repairs myself. However, since I was going away in 3 days, I was in a mad rush to get the motherboard replaced so that I could access my data. I decided to bite the bullet and risk bringing it to a repair shop called Compustar. Compustar has 2 shops. I brought it to the one in Waltham, MA.

At the store, I spoke to a guy named David. This is probably the David Chang listed on the Compustarpc.com website as a co-owner. I left the computer with him. He called me a short while later and said that he could install a similar Asus 754 Socket motherboard for about $195.00. He said it would be under $200.00. I looked up the motherboard. It cost around $80.00. Even though he was charging me $115.00 in labor for replacing a motherboard, something he could probably do blindfolded in 20 minutes, and, even though he told me it would take 2 entire days to order the motherboard, I told him to go ahead a do it, as I was desperate and just wanted the problem dealt with.
By 4:00 o'clock, 2 days later, there is no word from David. I call David. David tells me he's having a problem obtaining the motherboard and that he will get back to me. At 5:30 he still hasn't called me. I decide to rush over to the store in hopes of getting my computer back before he closes.

At the store David makes some more calls and tells me he cannot obtain the motherboard but says he can get me another similar motherboard in one day. I say that I want to look at the specs of the motherboard, but if they are alright, I will agree to this if he puts it in writing that he will replace the motherboard in one day. After a huge amount of resistance on David's part, where he says, "what are you gonna do, sue me?" David says he will put this in writing.

I check out the specs for the motherboard at his shop, online. The incompetent fucking idiot had chosen a motherboard for the wrong socket set. David goes back on the phone to look for another motherboard, but eventually concedes that he cannot find a suitable replacement motherboard. I tell him that I am going to take my motherboard back.

David tells me that he will be charging me a $45.00 diagnostic fee. At no point had David informed me about any fee. He had also failed to live up to the terms of our verbal agreement. I am not a lawyer, but this charge was probably illegal. And if it was not illegal, it was certainly unethical. I did not put up any argument though, because I feared that he might try to sabotage my computer, as I knew it was in pieces in the back room.

David reassembled my computer in the back room, came back with it, and asked for my credit card. Had the slimy goddamn son-of-a-bitch not tried to solicit me to come back after royally fucking me up my ass by not doing the work, and on top of that, charging me for NOTHING, I would have just paid and walked out the door. But you see, David thought if I needed more help, I might be ignorant enough to come back to him. I don't like to get into arguments with sleazy merchants, but I did have a wiggy. David kept displacing blame on the distributer, telling me it was not his fault. And I just hate that kind of mickey mouse bullshit. I'm not a moron. I don't like being treated like one. HE made the fuck up, NOT the distributer. HE failed to live up to the terms of our verbal agreement, and I was completely fucked because now I didn't have time to order a motherboard and do it myself. It was HIS fucking problem. He had to accept responsibility for it and not charge me for doing absolutely NOTHING. He got wiggy too, he wanted to argue with me. We weren't swearing at each other, but it got really heated. I had to ask him at one point to stop arguing with me and give me the bill so that I could sign it and get the hell out of there.

I have not decided at this point whether I will file a report with the BBB or protest the credit card charge. While David or one of his cronies is free to respond to my charges on this blog, I just want to warn that my blog is not an appropriate place for a counter-response. If you want to counter-respond, do it on your own goddamn website. If anyone contaminates my blog with a counter-response, I will post this blog post as an Alexa review. You don't want that Compustar, I assure you. So a few words of wisdom: DON'T FUCK WITH ME!

While not all small computer shops are corrupt, enough are so that, even if you are bad with mechanical devices as I am, it still pays to build and repair your own computer, if you cannot afford a pre-assembled computer from a large company. Even some large computer companies such as Gateway, are sleazy, incompetent, and deliver a shit product. You will not be able to diagnose problems like the professionals because you don't have the equipment, however I have found that despite the wasted money and time you will have to put into computer assembly and repairs because of inexperience and lack of diagnostic equipment, it still doesn't pay to bring it to a so-called professional. If you must bring it to a professional, WALK AWAY IF THERE IS ANY RESISTANCE WHATSOEVER TOWARDS PUTTING THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT IN WRITING. Don't be an idiot like me and trust that someone will live up to the terms of a verbal contact. For an honorable business, it should be standard practice to put things in writing.

Dickie Richards: Suicide

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