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Entries Tagged as 'Corporate Greed'

Melamine - umm umm good!

September 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Oh we could add dirt and crap to the flour. No wait, how about some sort of chemical castoff. I have a cousin who can get it for us real cheap. You know some sort of chemical that could make the milk look richer but we would only have to sell water with a bit of whitening agent in it and a thickener.

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Corporate Greed · Food · Product Recalls · Rants · Utter Stupidity

Hey guess what? I’m rich!

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Seriously, I am. I just got a letter from Barclays Bank stating I may/or may not be related to someone who died in an air crash. I’m in stiches over this letter. It beggars belief that anyone will fall for this, but inevitably someone will. Not only is it ludicrously ungrammatical, it is just plain [...]

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Tags: Corporate Greed · Curiosities · Day in the Life · Illiterate · Rants · Silly Moments · Utter Stupidity

Facebook looses face - time for guerilla action

December 7th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Facebook has a big plate of eggs on its face after it came to light about their Beacon information collection. It has highlighted the current information gathering frenzy going on in the Internet.
It seems to be the vogue to collect streams of data and then claim it is part of a “technical checking process” as [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Corporate Greed · Dubious Marketing · Evils of Advertising · Internet · Rants

The good corporate citizen - antidote to unending greed

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments

City Hall was set to close the rinks - all of them - to cut costs. Not once did the greed hounds of public office look to their own perks and budgets to cut costs.

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Tags: Corporate Greed · Good Citizen · Good Corporate Citizen · Politics · Rants · Toronto