Misleading

This is an open letter to every blogger right there. Yes, I'm goddamn talking to you.Do you know how many times I've been lured, with your misleading blog post title? I understand you're horny for tonnes of readership. Yes, you're a desperate................................... loserBut then, that isn't the right way to do it. If you want to increase your readership, start by blogging an interestin

I did a search on Google (blogs) to see if my blog was showing up...it is and so is a lot more.The first link after mine in the search results is this one.-pools-an-economic-and-environmentally-friendly-option/id-2141029/Looks like the site name is Today.com The title of the article is:Saltwater Pools - An Economic and Environmentally Friendly Option(We already know that's wrong.)They blow all the

President Bush Delivers Commencement Address at United States Air Force Academy Selected excerpts in block quotes interspersed with my comments. [Emphasis added.]And now, in the 21st century, our nation is once again contending with an ideology that seeks to sow anger and hatred and despair -- the ideology of Islamic extremism. In today's struggle, we are once again facing evil men who despis

The title of this article is as follows: Supplements a solution for B6 deficiency, says studyBut the study said nothing of the kind. This is a glaring example of the slippery slope of inferrance. Here is the opening line, which follows the misleading header:"Researchers at Tufts University have suggested inadequate vitamin B6 levels across large sections of the US population, which could be reduce

This photo was teken last week right I felt my first proverbial groin kick of a $60 tank of gas. I mumbled under my breath for a few minutes, then called my wife. I wasn't angry, mind you. Just mindful... Read the full post at

Many time when we go shopping in malls we will be thrill to see a shop on clearance sales becos we should be seeing at least a 20% to up to 80% discount on all items. However for office clearance sales the same does not apply and buyers or shoppers should take a step back and calculate the value before purchasing anything from such clearance sales as sometimes the office clearance can be rather mi

1. GDP measures National Output. GDP measures National output using official statistics. However, there are many discrepancies. Suppose you spend £1,000 a year on vegetables. But, then decide to convert your back garden into an allotment growing everything from seed. Your expenditure falls by £1,000 so National Output appears to fall, but you are still consuming the same amount of vegetables.

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Brussels, 8 May 2008 Consumers: 50% of misleading airline websites corrected EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva today published the mid term report on an EU wide enforcement investigation - involving 15 EU national authorities as well as Norway - against misleading advertising and unfair practices on airline ticket selling websites. The report shows that there are “serious [...]

We can’t help but notice that there was an annoying google adsense ad on HD DVD that appeared on ConsoleWatcher today. Just take a look at it. At least the landing page wasn’t so bad as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Other sources of informations in choosing a plastic surgeon may be useful or unreliable, depending on the individual situation. Estheticians and Hair Stylists, trainers and instructors, may or may not be a reliable sources. If they see a significant number of people who have had esthetic surgery, they will comment on such issues as scars, and patient satisfaction. However, all surgeons encounter

The son of former Board of Education President and current candidate for the Nutley Board of Commissioners Sal Olivo says statements that his dad was involved in an altercation with a 14-year-old boy are "misleading."Sal Olivo Jr. wrote a response on the popular message board at Nutley's njhometown.com Web site."My name is Salvatore Olivo, and I am Sal Olivo's son," he wrote. "For a long time, I have not wanted to respond to rumors pertaining to my father on this message board. However, comments that have been written this past week regarding the incident that occurred at his headquarters last Tuesday night are totally false and misleading. Anyone with questions should ask my father personally.I have created a rudimentary Web site for the campaign at , and you can e-mail him questions at o

This is a chart from RealtyTrac's Q1 2008 Foreclosure Report. It is misleading. A common conclusion that people make from charts like this is that foreclosures are the cause of falling home prices. That's false. There may be a relationship... Read the...

What is misleading domain name? For example, how do you read this: www.TherapistFinder.com or www.TheRapistFinder.com ?Now you get the idea. Although I occasionally see some misleading domain names, I don't take notes of them like this guy. He compiled a list of misleading domain names. In the future, do spend some times thinking about your domain name before registering it.

What is automated trading?  Automated trading can also be known as expert advisors (EA’s), or Robots.  EA’s are most commonly thought of as a system that once turned on will open and close trades by itself and make a fortune in the currency market.  Ideally, the EA would work 24/7 and require little or no [...]

By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today NEW YORK, April 3 — Much like investing on Wall Street, buying personalized genetic information can represent ownership of an expensive piece of paper with little or no value, researchers here warned. At least four companies make claims that understanding the variability of cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes will aid treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), according to researchers led by Kathy Hudson, Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins University Genetics and Public Policy Center here. More... © 2004-2008 MedPage Today, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The T-Series said that Allahabad High Court has only accepted Verma's application for quashing of the said FIR and has fixed July 1 as next date of hearing and in the interim has directed police not to take any coercive steps.

Craig Gregg, former counsel to Bill Clinton and now Obama supporter, sat down for an interview with National Journal. His comments reflected more strongly a memo he had penned last week, suggesting that Hillary's claims of experience were overblown.read more | digg story

I just saw this lady walking past me as I bought a soda from one of the street vendors near my building. When I saw her legs, I thought to myself “Poor woman…She must be some kind of burn victim or something.” Then, upon closer inspection, I saw that she was wearing pantyhose with these intricate [...]

It is easy to get exited when one is looking for homes and sees a 3400 sq/ft home in a new urban area like Gilbert, Arizona built in 2004 listed at $299,000 with a huge yard and pool.  Keep in mind, this house originally sold for $575k.  You read the description and think it sounds perfect...it's advertised as a short sale, but surely you can put up with a little extra work and inconvenience if it will net you a smoking deal right?  My Grandmother, and probably yours too, used to say, "If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is"....and once again my Grandmother is right.Some agents are advertising short sales well below what is reasonable and what a bank will accept trying to create a bidding atmosphere.  They have no intention of getting a

Earlier I posted about Mick Huckabee’s statement about hanging the Ten Commandments in the White House as I debunked his claim that they form the basis for our laws. During the same interview Huckabee justified hanging them in the White House by saying that the Ten Commandments are in the Supreme Court. Steve Benen both linked to my earlier post here and gave some important details about the Ten Commandments hanging in the Supreme Court. Steve noted that “there's a frieze just below the ceiling in the court's main chamber that depicts the evolution of the law over the past several centuries. As part of the decorative horizontal band, there's a depiction of Moses cradling two tablets, which is obviously meant to represent the Ten Commandments.” Moses is only one small part of the frieze: Also included are Confucius, Mohammad, the Old Testament's Solomon and Hammurabi, founder of the ancient Babylonian Empire. (Ironically, Hammurabi is depicted being given his f

Romney on Huckabee II From FactCheck.org December 19, 2007Romney attacks Huckabee again with false and misleading claims. SummaryRomney launched another negative ad in Iowa this week, where the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

/business/article/26388PHILADELPHIA, PA – Buyers beware - that so-called “Green” product is likely stretching the eco-truth according to the Six Sins of Greenwashing, a study released today by TerraChoice Environmental Marketing. The Six Sins of Greenwashing found that of 1,018 common consumer products ranging from toothpaste to caulking to shampoo to printers, randomly surveyed for the study, 99% were guilty of “greenwashing.”Read full article here.

/business/article/26388PHILADELPHIA, PA – Buyers beware - that so-called “Green” product is likely stretching the eco-truth according to the Six Sins of Greenwashing, a study released today by TerraChoice Environmental Marketing. The Six Sins of Greenwashing found that of 1,018 common consumer products ranging from toothpaste to caulking to shampoo to printers, randomly surveyed for the study, 99% were guilty of “greenwashing.”Read full article here.

Staff at the UK's biggest mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, have been caught misleading customers about Apple's popular iPhone handset. Undercover researchers from BBC One's Watchdog found staff made false claims about what would happen if a phone was stolen and hadn't been insured. This was in the hope customers would take out the store's own insurance. The firm said there could be "some element of confusion among an isolated number of sales consultants". But Carphone Warehouse added it did not believe that the "small number of complaints" were "a fair reflection of the experience of thousands of iPhone customers who have received insurance advice in our stores". The findings come just a year after Carphone Warehouse was fined £245,000 by the Financial Services Authority for breaking the rules on selling insurance. Commission Viewers complained to Watchdog that they'd been told if they lost their iPhone, they'd have to buy an e

U.K. buyers weren't thrilled with the iPhone's price before. They probably won't be happy with this. Employees at Carphone Warehouse, the United Kingdom's largest mobile phone retailer, have been caught misleading customers regarding insurance policies for the iPhone by undercover researchers from the BBC One's Watchdog program. The sales consultants were found to be pushing customers to take out the store's own insurance policies and making false claims as to what would happen if the handset was stolen and uninsured. read more

Before the age of highly refined and comprehensive search engines, people had to play the URL guessing game in order to find their favorite sites. How many times while looking for porn, for instance, have you been mislead to a boring corporate website instead? Here’s a list of the most misrepresented and poorly [...]

Omega-3 claims are popping up in everything from cereal to mayonnaise, but are those foods the panacea that marketers would have you believe? According to the cover story in the October issue of Nutrition Action Healthletter, certain omega-3s may reduce the risk of heart disease and might even help protect against cancer, Alzheimer’s, and vision problems. But many foods making claims have little or none of those omega-3s, and labels don’t have to reveal how much or which omega-3 fat the foods contain. DHA and EPA, the omega-3s found in salmon, trout, other fish, and algae, are linked to a lower risk of heart disease. Another omega-3, ALA, found in flaxseed and to a lesser extent, canola and soy, may not have the same benefits. But that doesn’t stop companies from loading products with ALA and bragging about their omega-3 content. Center for Science in the Public Interest October 1, 2007

Best Buys Press Release False Advertising? BestBuys.com Exposes the Misleading Marketing of Popular Services Consumers concerned about marketing messages disguised as product reviews can now get the real scoop on products and services with Best Buys new series of ‘Fine Print Revealed Reviews.” Frustrated by the lack of genuine reviews and accurate information published by marketers offering glowing reviews in hopes of selling products, Best Buys has published a bold new series of Fine Print Product Reviews. The reviews compare two leading industry services head to head and expose the fine print that marketers don’t necessarily want customers to know. “We want our customers to get the best buys, not what will earn us the most profit. Most consumers aren’t aware that a vast number of product review sites online today are created by marketers that are more interested in earning a profit than selling the best products,” says Best Buys cofounder Shane Atlas. Atlas says that whi

Ryan Nemwan and his #12 Alltel Dodge had a great run in NASCAR's Busch Series race. Newman started 11th in the Food City 250 and ran there or higher for most of the night.Nemwan last time taking fresh tires was on lap 78 and the team decided to go the rest of the race on those tires. Newman was looking to go 172 laps with out taking tires. And he was getting the job done.Newman ended up leading quite a few laps. Toward the end Kasey Kane was coming on srong along with Jason Leffler and David Reutimann.With about 10 or 12 to go Kane caught Nemwan. Kane was on alot newer tires than Newman. Newman was not about to let Kane get by him.Kane kept trying low while Newman was running high....that's right, running high at Bristol. That was also Kanes preffered line.Newman and Kane ended up beating and banging and Kane ended up in the wall for a little while but did not back down and got around Nemwan with 7 laps to go when Leffler and Kane had Newman in a sandwich with Kane high and Le

So... I'm reading the news and I AGAIN I see things like this; Police 11 and a 15 year old involved in a robbery? Bad police! Bad! 11 police help commit a robbery? Police Probe Woman Found Beat to Death? Oooo how rude! I mean, the poor woman is already dead and they want to probe her!? (Usually I just roll my eyes at the stupid mistakes but today I felt like bitching about it.)

Bapio is featured in the Hindu today.The truth is Bapio couldn't organise a P**** up in a brewery. They take the credit for asking the GMC to instigate research into the ethnic breakdown of doctors tried at the GMC.The facts of this though are that it was Sushant Varma's petition and our statistics that engaged the CRE into investigate the GMC. They in turn commissioned a number of studies on the issue.The issue about the GMC is this - for years they have not kept an ethnic breakdown of statistics of doctors through the conduct procedures. It is amazing that the investigations were ordered as soon as we raised this issue with the CRE. This therefore is the brain child of Dr Sushant Varma and no one else. This is his petition. It is very true that Bapio are very good at whinging and losing in court but on this occasion they needed a little help from those who know what they are doing.The credit for the above goes solely to Dr Sushant Varma who has campaigned with the correct informati

I finally watched the movie 300 last weekend. With a title like that, my brain thinks of two possibilities: a baseball flick (about a pitcher chasing 300 wins or a hitter chasing a .300 batting average) or a documentary about the average SAT score for America’s high schoolers. Still, as misleading movie titles go, 300 is pretty tame. For example: Those expecting a laugh-riot comedy filled with monkey hijinks when they watched the Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt film Twelve Monkeys were gravely disappointed. I’m sure that many a moviegoer was confused to see Rosie O’Donnell in the film Beautiful Girls. As a kid, I never thought I’d get over the disappointment of The Never Ending Story being only 102 minutes long. Words cannot express how I felt upon discovering Pauly Shore did not die in the 2003 “comedy” Pauly Shore is Dead. While not technically a misleading title, am I the only one who expected Kindergarten Cop to be about a 5-year old who figh

I finally watched the movie 300 last weekend. With a title like that, my brain thinks of two possibilities: a baseball flick (about a pitcher chasing 300 wins or a hitter chasing a .300 batting average) or a documentary about the average SAT score for America’s high schoolers. Still, as misleading movie titles go, 300 is pretty tame. For example: Those expecting a laugh-riot comedy filled with monkey hijinks when they watched the Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt film Twelve Monkeys were gravely disappointed. I’m sure that many a moviegoer was confused to see Rosie O’Donnell in the film Beautiful Girls. As a kid, I never thought I’d get over the disappointment of The Never Ending Story being only 102 minutes long. Words cannot express how I felt upon discovering Pauly Shore did not die in the 2003 “comedy” Pauly Shore is Dead. While not technically a misleading title, am I the only one who expected Kindergarten Cop to be about a 5-year old who figh

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said some of the world's largest energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., are funding research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global warming as part of a campaign to mislead the public.

In opinionated fashion, the USA Today opinion piece on the war in Iraq “report card” makes a good point: “The interim assessment, which Bush delivered Thursday, was revealing less for its content than for what it reflected about the dangerously simplistic nature of the Washington debate about Iraq. Bush latched on to the tentative progress on reducing violence to portray the glass as half full, urging more time to achieve victory and painting dire consequences for a withdrawal. Many Democrats, on the other hand, seized on the failure of the Iraqi government to achieve the benchmarks set for it. They pressed for a quick withdrawal, with little apparent concern for the consequences. The options just aren't so simple, and pretending that they are is particularly troubling because shallow thinking is what has turned Iraq into such an intractable mess.” So far so good, although in my opinion I question what is so bad about “half full” vs. “half empty” as a positive vi

I just had to find some time to write about this. This post is aimed to help anyone who feels elevated and impressed by the trendy benchmarks between programming languages and/or frameworks. Benchmarks are tools to help us judge. They have a purpose to serve. But using them to their lowest significance and publishing those [...]

I am utterly cynical and untrusting of just about every single company I do business with. It's the big companies that have ruined me. All their fine print, twisty service agreements, bundled restricted packages, and outright lies have left me scrambling to look for the asterisk. The asterisk on all "Free!*" deals that read in fine print on the bottom, "* free with annual contract, see form 293-D

I was reading David Bach’s book “The Automatic Millionaire” on the flight back home from our Philly/NY trip - except for some little excitement (for the wrong reasons) while reading his views on real estate, the book almost put me to sleep (sorry Bach fans). May be it’s not Bach’s fault here - there is a lot of stuff on personal finance (by various authors) that make me yawn with increasing frequency after a dozen pages or so. Anyways, back to the point of interest. In one particular section in the book (titled “Six Reasons Why Homes Make Great Investments“), Bach starts painting a very rosy picture of investing in real estate. While some of the reasons are OK, I was not comfortable with the manner in which a couple of them were explained. For example, in reason #2, he starts with explaining the concept of leverage and then jumps to calculating returns on investment. Here, he tries to show how real estate investment can yield handsome returns

Cuba's health care system is based on the neighbourhood doctors and nurse. Most often, one of them lives upstairs from the office. Photo by Sarah van Gelder. Cubans say they offer health care to the world’s poor because they have big hearts. But what do they get in return?They live longer than almost anyone in Latin America. Far fewer babies die. Almost everyone has been vaccinated, and such scourges of the poor as parasites, TB, malaria, even HIV/AIDS are rare or non-existent. Anyone can see a doctor, at low cost, right in the neighborhood. The Cuban health care system is producing a population that is as healthy as those of the world’s wealthiest countries at a fraction of the cost. And now Cuba has begun exporting its system to under-served communities around the world—including the United States.The story of Cuba’s health care ambitions is largely hidden from the people of the United States, where politics left over from the Cold War maintain an embargo on information

The UK Office of Fair Trading is to clamp down on misleading prices,  The OFT has warned travel companies that the prices in their brochures and websites should include all non optional costs such as fuel supplements, within 3 months. Companies which do not comply are likely to face enforcement action by the OFT. It will be interesting to see if all travel firms will toe the line or if it will take some hefty fines to ensure compliance.   I still think that there is an issue with supposedly optional costs on package holidays such as inflight meals and resort transfers as I thought that was the whole idea of a package holiday that it included all compenents of the holiday.

Microsoft has reported that they’ve had over 100 million downloads of the new Internet Explorer 7 browser. WebSideStory, the company Microsoft uses for measuring browser usage, is reporting that just over 25% of people are using IE7, second only to IE6. While I don’t doubt the numbers, I have serious doubts over what these numbers say. Just because 100 million downloads have been registered, are there really 100 million people using IE7? How many of these downloads (and how many subsequent users) of IE7 were forced on the users through Windows Update? How many were voluntary? How many of these downloads are only being used for testing website compatibility? Firefox usage (note: not downloads, usage) is at approximately 14%[ref] and still slowly climbing. To me, that says a lot more than Firefox having whatever number of downloads. It tells me that the stories of people asking friends to “fix the internet” after seeing what IE7 looks like (and my personal

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