No, what I am saying is that if you dont pay for Prime they will ship your stuff when they feel like it. Prime orders ship first, in fact if you pay for uber expensive next day air, a prime package ships BEFORE your next day air does.
I live 1 day shipping away from one of their distribution even the cheap USPS will get to me the next morning if they ship it after 4pm. So they let my order sit for 5 days and then ship it. when I had prime, the did not ship 2 day UPS like they claim. They would ship it cheap USPS because they know it will get to me in 24 hours.
Because right now SHARP tv's are the best you can buy. They are better quality than Anyone else and honestly far larger than anyone else. Where else can you pick up an 80" LED backlight LCD for under $3500.00
LG is crap recently. their redesign has all plugs coming straight out the back.... DUH, no wall mounting unles you want a 3" gap. Panasonic is still plagued with failed power supply boards. Sony is overpriced rebranded LG. Samsung sets are junk. Just like how their projectors are junk. Control protocols for samsung are random at best, and not reliable to even turn the sets on or off.
I really hope they can turn it around. They were suposed to have 120" sets out early 1st Q of 2013 and I have at least 15 clients wanting them for the board room instead of a projector and screen.
But if you dont do it the y PUNISH you by delaying when your package ships. I have had orders sit unshipped for 5 days with them, when I ask about it I was told that "to avoid this get a prime membership"
I would trust them IF the politicians out there had any balls at all and DEMAND that the source code be 100% open. That way they can hire a 3rd party to compile the source code and test, then seal the units. But Diebold refuses to release the source code because they are hiding something.
If the company that makes the machine will not release the source code, you must assume they are crooked and hiding something.
Grand cherokee, 240,000 miles and still runs like new. Last jeep went over 350,000 miles before and accident claimed it's life. if your car will not go over 200,000 miles without major problems.... it's crap. And that means ANY GM vehicle is utter crap.
NOTE: I do not trust any of the newer Jeeps to go that far. the current Grand cherokee is not a jeep but a dressed up on road only SUV. Quality of the current line up of jeeps is suspect to many. Except the Rubicon that one has already proved it's self to be a real jeep.
Honda recently has lost it's stellar reputation. Many of the cars eating up rear tires because of crap suspension parts, engine mounts coming apart, and electrical issues.
Toyota... well they are not really toyota anymore..
Suzuki still makes killer engines and drivetrains, they just cant figure out how to keep the rest of it from rusting away.
I bring my scanguage II. plug it in so I can read codes and on the t est drive see REAL gas mileage numbers. Not the overly optimistic dashboard economy number.
I find that almost ALL cars are 2-6 mpg off from reality.
Yup. unless you are a homesteader. Then you are the one who trades with the farmers that did not think of everything. Most farmers dont know how to do some advanced tasks like frontier dential work.
WEll I live in michigan and we still had sunlight. enough for my permanent solar panels to generate power for 4 hours each day. Do you know anything about solar?
"Or what if your kids has a gun and shoots you by accident while secured?"
My kids and grandkids are all trained properly in firearms handling and use. That wont happen. I don't have a home where I am a retard and own guns and never train my kids how to use or handle one. My daughter was 8 when I took her to the range to fire a.22 pistol and a rifle. Before then she was taught about them, to not touch them, and all guns are in safes or with trigger locks ANYWAYS.
What kind of scumbag loser leaves a loaded handgun laying around? Maybe a drug dealer or coke head might....
It is amazing! New Jersey had 100% voter turnout and that ALL voted for Romney! It is awesome to see that this state in the face of disaster can turn out a voting percentage that no other state has EVER turned out!
Pundits point at this as an effect of how the TV show Jersey Shore has given NJ residents that the new president will pass a law to get it taken off the air and the cast exiled.
Problem solving doesnt get better, you take less stupid risks at 50.
20 year old - Server is down? let's try jump starting it with a pair of jumper cables from the other server!
50 year old - Server is down? Fine, I'll go grab the spare from the closet, you get the backup tapes just in case. I told you the spare should be online all the time as a hot failover...
and yes I have jump started a server back to life again. the power supply had failed and could not recover from a power outage. jumping the 12V from another one gave it enough guts to spin up the hard drives and it came back to life to boot up and run. and it was a stupid move. I could have damaged 2 servers, and all I did was encourage corporate to NOT replace the server in a timely manner.
Switching between languages takes time. Programming Java, then C, then Assembler... It takes me a solid 4 hours to switch between languages if I have to do anything complex. If I have been coding in C for months and then Oh here's a new embedded project we need done in assembler... My brain doesn't have the drivers loaded for assembler and it has to search the tape backup archives for that driver and load it into operating memory.
Then I hit the ground running full speed.
Back in my 20's I was able to switch language sets at random within a moment's notice. In fact I was at one point writing in 3 languages at once. 4GL for the accounting system, C writing printer drivers for that Xenix 386 OS we were running at the office, and assembler for my 68hc11 wyse terminal multiplexer. I figured out how to get 16 text terminals to communicate uber fast speeds over a single pair of dry copper wires from the main store to the second store location. But then I also did not need coffee and drank an epic amount of beer and rum every day...
Do you know how to cut off a leg and sew up the stump properly? Pull teeth? how about remove an eye and deal with the socket? How about what plants have natural antibiotics and how do you extract and concentrate it for storage?
Most "preppers" will be dead in 4 weeks. Then I get their supplies.
Only to idiots that dont know anything at all.. To real people Geodesic domes sell 80% faster than a traditional home and sell for more. I had a dome home, it literally sold the WEEK I had the realtor list it during the worst part of the housing bubble crash, The traditional homes in the same area are still not sold 3 years later. Geodesic dome homes are a very hot commodity, none of them that go up for sale stay on the market very long.
If you live in beachfront you have so much money that it does not matter you lost everything. Yeah I have no tears shed for the people that have $1.2million dollar homes on the beach that had them damaged or destroyed.
Why buy water? why not buy 5-6 5 gallon food grade clean buckets and fill them yourself, saves a lot of money and gives you far more water. go fancy and the the 7 gallon pails with a spigot at the bottom from your local beer brewing store. I would rather have the pails as I can get my water supply set from a faucet 1 hour before the world ends instead of having to fight my neighbors who are in panic mode at the store.
Also a kerosene heater is also safe to use inside with venting. better choice for those that don't have a fireplace. 1, 5 gallon can of kerosene can heat the living space for over 1 week if used properly. And kerosene stores for years without degrading.
Lastly, CASH is important to have in your pantry. About $200-$500 in all small bills. NYC residents are discovering that ATM machines and credit card terminals dont work and cash is king.
Why? store in the basement 800 watts of solar panels you can drag out and put in the sun. that is only 4 200 watt panels that are about 5 feet tall. run them inside to a bank of 6 deep cycle batteries that should have been kept charged up from the AC when no storms were happening. a small 1000 watt inverter will keep the important stuff running. maybe get a small gas generator as well. you only need to change out the batteries every 8 years.
Yup. I can build a home that can withstand a Category 6 storm easily. And it can look like most other homes. Step 1 is to beat the shit out of the contractor and tell him that using crap quality materials that saves him money are not acceptable. 3/4" 7 ply plywood on ALL exterior surfaces, not this chip board crap that is not even useful to hold up a wet bag. real siding and real bricks not this fake crap you see on most all homes built. 6 inch and 8 inch thick outside walls on 16" stud centers.. not the new 24" centers that are allowed. REAL storm shutters and not the plastic fake crap. etc...
It is not hard to build this stuff, what is hard is finding a contractor that is not an incompetent tool to build it.
Then they can think outside the box and use the glass windows as entry points. Statistically, the chances of them having to put out a fire in my home while I am away are 90,500,324,115,000 to 1 there is a far higher chance that I will be home when there is a fire and the front door will be wide open.
Got another impossible example? Like what if the Department of homeland security chased a band of terrorists into my home and they locked the door behind them and I am away at my vacation home in Fiji?
Ohh, what if a meteorite that contained a space based virus crashed into my home and CDC could not get in to contain it, thus it spread and killed off the human race while I was out to get ice cream at Ben and Jerrys!
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No, what I am saying is that if you dont pay for Prime they will ship your stuff when they feel like it. Prime orders ship first, in fact if you pay for uber expensive next day air, a prime package ships BEFORE your next day air does.
I live 1 day shipping away from one of their distribution even the cheap USPS will get to me the next morning if they ship it after 4pm. So they let my order sit for 5 days and then ship it. when I had prime, the did not ship 2 day UPS like they claim. They would ship it cheap USPS because they know it will get to me in 24 hours.
Because right now SHARP tv's are the best you can buy. They are better quality than Anyone else and honestly far larger than anyone else. Where else can you pick up an 80" LED backlight LCD for under $3500.00
LG is crap recently. their redesign has all plugs coming straight out the back.... DUH, no wall mounting unles you want a 3" gap.
Panasonic is still plagued with failed power supply boards.
Sony is overpriced rebranded LG.
Samsung sets are junk. Just like how their projectors are junk. Control protocols for samsung are random at best, and not reliable to even turn the sets on or off.
I really hope they can turn it around. They were suposed to have 120" sets out early 1st Q of 2013 and I have at least 15 clients wanting them for the board room instead of a projector and screen.
Mostly because Slashot's green color is lead paint, and all these screen lickers are getting lead poisoning.
But if you dont do it the y PUNISH you by delaying when your package ships. I have had orders sit unshipped for 5 days with them, when I ask about it I was told that "to avoid this get a prime membership"
Sounds like a plan, now how about you explain away the fact that Google, Samsung, LG, Dell, HTC, IBM, Motorola, and Nokia ALL do the exact same thing.
Oh wait... that's not anti apple.... How rude of me.
I would trust them IF the politicians out there had any balls at all and DEMAND that the source code be 100% open. That way they can hire a 3rd party to compile the source code and test, then seal the units. But Diebold refuses to release the source code because they are hiding something.
If the company that makes the machine will not release the source code, you must assume they are crooked and hiding something.
Grand cherokee, 240,000 miles and still runs like new. Last jeep went over 350,000 miles before and accident claimed it's life. if your car will not go over 200,000 miles without major problems.... it's crap. And that means ANY GM vehicle is utter crap.
NOTE: I do not trust any of the newer Jeeps to go that far. the current Grand cherokee is not a jeep but a dressed up on road only SUV. Quality of the current line up of jeeps is suspect to many. Except the Rubicon that one has already proved it's self to be a real jeep.
Honda recently has lost it's stellar reputation. Many of the cars eating up rear tires because of crap suspension parts, engine mounts coming apart, and electrical issues.
Toyota... well they are not really toyota anymore..
Suzuki still makes killer engines and drivetrains, they just cant figure out how to keep the rest of it from rusting away.
I bring my scanguage II. plug it in so I can read codes and on the t est drive see REAL gas mileage numbers. Not the overly optimistic dashboard economy number.
I find that almost ALL cars are 2-6 mpg off from reality.
Yup. unless you are a homesteader. Then you are the one who trades with the farmers that did not think of everything. Most farmers dont know how to do some advanced tasks like frontier dential work.
WEll I live in michigan and we still had sunlight. enough for my permanent solar panels to generate power for 4 hours each day. Do you know anything about solar?
"Or what if your kids has a gun and shoots you by accident while secured?"
My kids and grandkids are all trained properly in firearms handling and use. That wont happen. I don't have a home where I am a retard and own guns and never train my kids how to use or handle one. My daughter was 8 when I took her to the range to fire a .22 pistol and a rifle. Before then she was taught about them, to not touch them, and all guns are in safes or with trigger locks ANYWAYS.
What kind of scumbag loser leaves a loaded handgun laying around? Maybe a drug dealer or coke head might....
It is amazing! New Jersey had 100% voter turnout and that ALL voted for Romney! It is awesome to see that this state in the face of disaster can turn out a voting percentage that no other state has EVER turned out!
Pundits point at this as an effect of how the TV show Jersey Shore has given NJ residents that the new president will pass a law to get it taken off the air and the cast exiled.
You seem to not be able to tell people apart without name tags.. I on the other hand, as well as others, can tell from writing style.
Give him a break. He codes in Visual Basic and C#
Problem solving doesnt get better, you take less stupid risks at 50.
20 year old - Server is down? let's try jump starting it with a pair of jumper cables from the other server!
50 year old - Server is down? Fine, I'll go grab the spare from the closet, you get the backup tapes just in case. I told you the spare should be online all the time as a hot failover...
and yes I have jump started a server back to life again. the power supply had failed and could not recover from a power outage. jumping the 12V from another one gave it enough guts to spin up the hard drives and it came back to life to boot up and run. and it was a stupid move. I could have damaged 2 servers, and all I did was encourage corporate to NOT replace the server in a timely manner.
Switching between languages takes time. Programming Java, then C, then Assembler... It takes me a solid 4 hours to switch between languages if I have to do anything complex. If I have been coding in C for months and then Oh here's a new embedded project we need done in assembler... My brain doesn't have the drivers loaded for assembler and it has to search the tape backup archives for that driver and load it into operating memory.
Then I hit the ground running full speed.
Back in my 20's I was able to switch language sets at random within a moment's notice. In fact I was at one point writing in 3 languages at once. 4GL for the accounting system, C writing printer drivers for that Xenix 386 OS we were running at the office, and assembler for my 68hc11 wyse terminal multiplexer. I figured out how to get 16 text terminals to communicate uber fast speeds over a single pair of dry copper wires from the main store to the second store location. But then I also did not need coffee and drank an epic amount of beer and rum every day...
Yeah, and you said nobody would buy the iPad Mini... and we all see how completely wrong you were on that one.
Do you know how to cut off a leg and sew up the stump properly? Pull teeth? how about remove an eye and deal with the socket? How about what plants have natural antibiotics and how do you extract and concentrate it for storage?
Most "preppers" will be dead in 4 weeks. Then I get their supplies.
Only to idiots that dont know anything at all.. To real people Geodesic domes sell 80% faster than a traditional home and sell for more. I had a dome home, it literally sold the WEEK I had the realtor list it during the worst part of the housing bubble crash, The traditional homes in the same area are still not sold 3 years later. Geodesic dome homes are a very hot commodity, none of them that go up for sale stay on the market very long.
If you live in beachfront you have so much money that it does not matter you lost everything. Yeah I have no tears shed for the people that have $1.2million dollar homes on the beach that had them damaged or destroyed.
Why buy water? why not buy 5-6 5 gallon food grade clean buckets and fill them yourself, saves a lot of money and gives you far more water. go fancy and the the 7 gallon pails with a spigot at the bottom from your local beer brewing store. I would rather have the pails as I can get my water supply set from a faucet 1 hour before the world ends instead of having to fight my neighbors who are in panic mode at the store.
Also a kerosene heater is also safe to use inside with venting. better choice for those that don't have a fireplace. 1, 5 gallon can of kerosene can heat the living space for over 1 week if used properly. And kerosene stores for years without degrading.
Lastly, CASH is important to have in your pantry. About $200-$500 in all small bills. NYC residents are discovering that ATM machines and credit card terminals dont work and cash is king.
Why? store in the basement 800 watts of solar panels you can drag out and put in the sun. that is only 4 200 watt panels that are about 5 feet tall. run them inside to a bank of 6 deep cycle batteries that should have been kept charged up from the AC when no storms were happening. a small 1000 watt inverter will keep the important stuff running. maybe get a small gas generator as well. you only need to change out the batteries every 8 years.
Yup. I can build a home that can withstand a Category 6 storm easily. And it can look like most other homes. Step 1 is to beat the shit out of the contractor and tell him that using crap quality materials that saves him money are not acceptable. 3/4" 7 ply plywood on ALL exterior surfaces, not this chip board crap that is not even useful to hold up a wet bag. real siding and real bricks not this fake crap you see on most all homes built. 6 inch and 8 inch thick outside walls on 16" stud centers.. not the new 24" centers that are allowed. REAL storm shutters and not the plastic fake crap. etc...
It is not hard to build this stuff, what is hard is finding a contractor that is not an incompetent tool to build it.
Then they can think outside the box and use the glass windows as entry points. Statistically, the chances of them having to put out a fire in my home while I am away are 90,500,324,115,000 to 1 there is a far higher chance that I will be home when there is a fire and the front door will be wide open.
Got another impossible example? Like what if the Department of homeland security chased a band of terrorists into my home and they locked the door behind them and I am away at my vacation home in Fiji?
Ohh, what if a meteorite that contained a space based virus crashed into my home and CDC could not get in to contain it, thus it spread and killed off the human race while I was out to get ice cream at Ben and Jerrys!
I do have the keys, it is the contents of /dev/null they simply need to copy it completely to their server system drives.