{"id":254,"date":"2006-03-17T18:46:30","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T02:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:28:46","slug":"irony-supplement-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Irony Supplement, Part 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/irony09.jpg\" alt=\"Irony Supplement, Part 9\" border=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This was in my box at work and I just couldn&#8217;t pass it up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know which of the two commonly-known phrases composing the acronym POS came first; &#8220;Point of Sale&#8221; or &#8220;Piece of Shit&#8221;. But irrespective of the original title-holder, you&#8217;d think that the people whose livelihoods are dependent on the promotion and sale of point of sale equipment would wise up and find a new acronym. Front-End-Retail-Presence (FERP). Saleshuman Interface Terminal (SHIT). Something, anything but POS.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does Dell cop to selling a POS on this catalogue cover; they brazenly admit they&#8217;re selling a &#8220;complete POS&#8221;. Does nobody <em>proofread<\/em> these things?<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this catalogue happened across my path today at the office is of particularly delicious irony, as at the time I was heading out the door with another POS from Dell in my possession; an Optiplex minitower whose less-than-two-year-old power supply had just gone kaflooie. I had a spare high-quality <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enermax.com\/\">Enermax<\/a> PSU on me, but of course the non-standard Dell case design prevents one from installing a power supply that includes a rocker-type on\/off switch. Something present on almost every single after-market power supply. &#8220;Complete POS&#8221;, indeed. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was in my box at work and I just couldn&#8217;t pass it up. Now, I don&#8217;t know which of the two commonly-known phrases composing the acronym POS came first; &#8220;Point of Sale&#8221; or &#8220;Piece of Shit&#8221;. But irrespective of the original title-holder, you&#8217;d think that the people whose livelihoods are dependent on the promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irony-supplement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}