Category Archives: business

Ryanair v ASA?! Shit, who ya gonna choose?

January 30, 2008 – 10:49 pm

Geeklawyer has had the misfortune to fly Ruinair and it is a miserable painful experience eavened only by the realisation that sweet death is only a few short decades away. Not short enough alas.
Equally the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has become the poster child (rivaled only by the BBFC) for all the cretinous, incompetent […]

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Got £20,000,000 to spare?

May 13, 2007 – 7:49 pm

Geeklawyer was perusing legal businesses for sale yesterday on a website normally offering solicitors practices for £500k a pop or suchlike. Then he stumbled upon an absolute howler:

“Business description

Whistleblowing Agency
Initial caseload derived from United States based Corporate Criminal Payroll Under-reporting
Location: London
Asking price �20M
Current Caseload Value: �2Bn
Asking price includes:
Forecast revenues of circa �24,000M FY 2009
Exclusive case […]

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Is your banana active or inactive?

January 6, 2007 – 1:06 am

No, not Ruthie’s latest fetish, but a question put to office workers as part of a national 7 Million pound “Lean” project to encourage government office workers to keep their desks tidy. Office workers were given tape to mark out on their desks where they should keep their pens, computer keyboards and phones.
Ruthie wonders about […]

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New Labour: corporate bitch

August 9, 2006 – 12:34 pm

Nick Kent alerts Geeklawyer to laughable idiocy of Mr Kent’s Brighton MP Des Turner. Acting as promoter for a property developer who is looking to destroy the beauty of the local seaside, he omitted to excise his corporate masters biddings when pretending to offer independent advice. Reading the article it is interesting to infer that […]

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How did this idiot get a gong?

June 17, 2006 – 4:39 pm

No, Geeklawyer is not talking about Andy Hayman the cretinous Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan police recently rewarded for organising the arrest of innocent muslim ‘terror’ suspects and, incredibly, their neighbours all of whom were then given a brutal beating by arresting officers.
Rather Geeklawyer refers to his pet hate figure: fat greasy stupid cunt Stelios […]

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Unlimited data download plans: ‘unlimited’ means what exactly?

May 16, 2006 – 5:18 pm

Geeklawyer was perusing the Advertising Standards Authority web site, because he’s a bit of a saddo with nothing better to do, and tripped over the latest example of marketeers mangling the English language.
What do you think unlimited means?

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“shop your boss” rewards

May 3, 2006 – 8:10 pm

Out-law.com is saying that the Business Software Alliance (BSA), masquerading as independent but in fact Microsoft’s secret licensing police, has upped its rewards for people reporting business software infringement to a maximum of £20,000.

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Bush nominee Alito’s a boost to technologists?

November 2, 2005 – 7:17 pm

News.com reports that Alito may be tech industry friendly. The US Supreme Court has heard many pivotal tech cases in recent times: Sony Grokster etc. While it could have been better, the Grokster decision was not the disaster it could have been to the tech industry (even if the entertainment is painting it as such […]

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Blocking Skype p2p and instant messaging

September 21, 2005 – 11:33 am

Over at CoCo rik talks about a company called Vesco. They market a product to ISPs that “blocks bandwidth drains such as Skype, P2P messaging, streaming media and instant messaging”.

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