i don't hate any companies per se. i do try to go with the more local or smaller company when i can. i didn't shop in wal mart at all until recently, when thomas freidman convinced me (via his book, the world is flat, which i can't reccomend higher) that it is ok,,, lol... i still only go there when i have to, and only buy what i have to there, as i still don't like em much, or some of their business practices and prefer the more local merchant.

i do think that we are being taken advantage of by big oil,,,but i still gotta get around. i have cut my travel by as much as possible and can't wait for the day i can afford a hybrid that my whole family (and our stuff) can fit in or someone comes up with the right alternative energy plan and builds a car that runs on hemp seed oil or runs on boideisel or runs on dirt,,,or runs on run-on sentences like this one, lol...i don't care, as long as it works.

i like my cable and haven't had much issue with comcast on a customer service level. they have been as responsive as anyone over the years with us and have dropped the ball a few times like most do too. i think the whole cell industry is a bunch of bs in the way they charge and treat their customers. and i think it's really wierd how we broke up at&t years back and now it seems to be reforming as the "baby bells" merge back. kinda like the blob, lol.

who's ameritech?

and bank of america is just one a bunch of ever merging banks we will probably have to deal with in the "global economy." i mostly deal with PNC, being an old pittsburgh company, which, i guess, relieves some of my guilt and makes me forget how big they are.

take care:)

I hate the major oil companies because they post massive profits every year and, pro-rata, do not do enough for Africa's poor.

Ameritech is SBC/AT&T.

thanks gid...i guess i'm behind in my mergers...i knew it rang a bell (pardon the pun) but i couldn't place it. and at&t is mergin with cingular, right? soon, we'll be back to "the phone company." i hope whoever takes lily tomlin's place is at least funny, lol.

Frontier communications.... they have a total monopoly here in Rio Vista, their service stinks, their customer service sucks, they charge 31.50 a month for local service, which means I get to call downtown, every where else is a toll charge.

That is why both Colleen and I have cell phones and no land lines.

I hate Dell because their customer service call center is in India, staffed by people who have accents so thick that I can barely understand them, and also because there is no 'onshore' representative to talk to when negotiations break down (usually due to the non-fluent English of the call center rep). I hate the now-defunct SBC for the same reason, although I will admit that they at least had an 'onshore' rep available to speak to. I detest AT&T because of their underhanded business practices and because they're coming (IMO) dangerously close to having a monopoly, and last but by no means least I hate Charter Communications because they too have underhanded business practices and make no apologies for that fact.

WAL-MART IS THE DEVIL

Ditto! And they brag and go on so that they're based in Texas, USA.

I know. It pisses me off, it really does, and it's led to me have to question whether I'll buy from Dell in the future. I have a hard enough time understanding directions when it comes to my laptop as it is, without having to deal with an Indian accent and a person who doesn't speak fluent English.

All the companies that just racially boycotted Don Imus (who in general I can't stand, but on principal is getting royally screwed).

I think I actually heard Jesse Jackson refer to "nappy" as "the n-word." And all the little advertisers run up and kiss his big, black hiney. "Please don't boycott us, we'll screw whitey for you, yes we will, mastuh Jackson."

They all deserve a reverse boycott for that B.S. as far as I'm concerned.

What's a reverse boycott? Don't you mean, we should boycott those advertisers?