I happen to give out bologna. I'm odd, no doubt. This would work out great for me, just get a bunch of those 2 CD cases, cut a hole in the middle of the bologna slices and give it out. Each case would hove a CD and a delicious treat!
Sinister power indeed! Why, some sneaky M$ monkey could try to crowbar NetBIOS names onto the Internet by aliasing all their underscored UNC names to real names.
Thank God the FBI is protecting us from those informative O'Reilly texts! Without them, someone may learn to actually USE the tools of the technological trade.
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@Home could just take some responsibility and admit it sucks too. Amen to that.
I had to spend 7-8 hours on the phone with Comcast@Home in Indy to get things moving. They sent me three, count 'em three modems before they got one that worked.
Seems that when you call the Tech Support # they give you, you get Customer Service. The girl that answered my call refused to listen to what I was saying, and could only accept a problem of, "The power light isn't on." Once you convice Customer Support that you need to talk to a tech, they give you a different # to call, and open a ticket stating, "The power light isn't on." Once you talk to a tech and tell them what the real symptoms are, (Which the guy I spoke with understood, since I described them in American English exactly has I had told Customer Support. He cancelled Customer Support's resolution visit by someone who only knew how to plug it in.), my problem was addressed. (My modem had a broken jack as delivered, and I had some old POS cable that was no good, several bad connectors, and a bad ground.) After that, it was only a few more hours to convince them that my service should be turned on beyond just provisioning of the modem, and assigning an IP through DHCP.
I admit that I was a little slow on the up take when 2nd tier tech asked what I was near. Foolishly, I thought she meant a major intersection. The conversation, frustrating at the time, but amusing, saddening and revealing in hindsight, went something like this:
@Home: "What are you near?"
Me: "71st & Merdian St."
@Home: "No, what city are you near?"
Me: "I'm in Indianapolis."
@Home: "What is that near?"
Me: "It's not near anything, it's a city. You provide me service inside it."
@Home: "I need to know what that is near!"
Me: "IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF INDIANA."
@Home: "But what is that near?"
Me: "It's in that middle of the state!?!?"
@Home: "But what is nearby to Indiana?"
Me: ".............................."
Me: "Take your pick, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois."
@Home: "Well, we don't actually have facilities in Indiana, you need to be set up in Illinois. We'll have them complete setting up you account. This may take a few hours."
I guess I had trouble thinking that a supposedly intelligent person would know where the states that their customers are in are. Hell, I knew where all the states were in 1st grade! Too much to ask for, geography.
Mine did, after I glued them to my suction-cup-hopping-toys. Anybody remember the offical name for those suckers? They had a spring inside suction cup, and a large flat foot on the end of the spring. Stick the cup down, and after a few seconds, boing! Man, those were great!
Excuse me, I have to go rummage in the closet, just might have some left.
No, it's a feature provided by the joint Microsoft/NYT Windows 2010 Newsrag Edition for Non-Daytime Use w/Internet Explorer 7.92.4533.22567.11245676.0a Beta 1 RC7 currently available on a 10 DVD set for a special beta-testers price of only $3479.95 upon acceptance of the beta-tester NDR, and subsequent surrender of any and all vital organs if and when needed by MS or NYT executives. (Daytime Use capabilities will be included in Service Pack 1, scheduled to be released no more than 2 hours after Windows 2010 Newsrag Edition for Non-Daytime Use w/Internet Explorer 7.92.4533.22567.11245676.0a ships, available for only $967.84.)
Unless, of course, the jump coordinates are calculated in metric units, and the "be careful not to land on" coordinates are calculated in Imperial units.
Hopefully there is no beryllium on Pioneer. Travolta and his Scientology buddies will be laughing all the way to the grave when the Psychlos attack if there is.
And a good sized mailbox. Take the junk mail and dump it back into the corner mailbox. Probably 95%+ of the time, it is metered mail, charged against their account every time it is sent (I think. Can't swear to it.), and never postmarked. With stamped mail, the USPS puts a big red stamp across the postage stamp so that it can't be used again. Junk mail is not postmarked. I've had the same piece of shit in my mailbox dozens of times. Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone did this? If they really are charged every time their crap is delivered, it shouldn't take long to remail them out of business.
Very, very true. Our daughter was born in August. We had planned on waiting another year or two before having children, so that we were more settled in with our lives together, in our new home and careers, but we made just such a "mistake."
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This'll be great!!!. We'll be able to send all sorts of stuff around places, starting with oranges, until the MCP gets his hooks into it. Just hope that Flynn and TRON are up to the challenge again.
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Mail it postage due, though. Why should you have to pay to dispose of, or return their property?
Cue flaming posts about choosing your packages, it's choice dammit, I can choose which packages I want, choose another distro, neither Windows OR Linux are as lean as Natalie Portman, 1 Windows CD or 2 Linux distro CDs mixed with hot grits and poured into your pants cause the same amount of discomfort when sat on.
Gee, my sarcasm filter really poked my spew button that time.
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I was thinking more along the lines of:
"What the hell are you doing in the bathroom 22 hours a day!?!? Why don't you come out of there, give someone else a chance!?!?"
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I happen to give out bologna. I'm odd, no doubt. This would work out great for me, just get a bunch of those 2 CD cases, cut a hole in the middle of the bologna slices and give it out. Each case would hove a CD and a delicious treat!
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Sinister power indeed! Why, some sneaky M$ monkey could try to crowbar NetBIOS names onto the Internet by aliasing all their underscored UNC names to real names.
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Thank God the FBI is protecting us from those informative O'Reilly texts! Without them, someone may learn to actually USE the tools of the technological trade.
</sarcasm>
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Don't forget the books!
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It seems that everything's gone wrong, Since Canada came along!
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If UTICA gets passed
What does a smallish city in New York have to do with this?
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@Home could just take some responsibility and admit it sucks too. Amen to that.
I had to spend 7-8 hours on the phone with Comcast@Home in Indy to get things moving. They sent me three, count 'em three modems before they got one that worked.
Seems that when you call the Tech Support # they give you, you get Customer Service. The girl that answered my call refused to listen to what I was saying, and could only accept a problem of, "The power light isn't on." Once you convice Customer Support that you need to talk to a tech, they give you a different # to call, and open a ticket stating, "The power light isn't on." Once you talk to a tech and tell them what the real symptoms are, (Which the guy I spoke with understood, since I described them in American English exactly has I had told Customer Support. He cancelled Customer Support's resolution visit by someone who only knew how to plug it in.), my problem was addressed. (My modem had a broken jack as delivered, and I had some old POS cable that was no good, several bad connectors, and a bad ground.) After that, it was only a few more hours to convince them that my service should be turned on beyond just provisioning of the modem, and assigning an IP through DHCP.
I admit that I was a little slow on the up take when 2nd tier tech asked what I was near. Foolishly, I thought she meant a major intersection. The conversation, frustrating at the time, but amusing, saddening and revealing in hindsight, went something like this:
@Home: "What are you near?"
Me: "71st & Merdian St."
@Home: "No, what city are you near?"
Me: "I'm in Indianapolis."
@Home: "What is that near?"
Me: "It's not near anything, it's a city. You provide me service inside it."
@Home: "I need to know what that is near!"
Me: "IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF INDIANA."
@Home: "But what is that near?"
Me: "It's in that middle of the state!?!?"
@Home: "But what is nearby to Indiana?"
Me: ".............................."
Me: "Take your pick, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois."
@Home: "Well, we don't actually have facilities in Indiana, you need to be set up in Illinois. We'll have them complete setting up you account. This may take a few hours."
I guess I had trouble thinking that a supposedly intelligent person would know where the states that their customers are in are. Hell, I knew where all the states were in 1st grade! Too much to ask for, geography.
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Speaks he Yoda like?
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Mine did, after I glued them to my suction-cup-hopping-toys. Anybody remember the offical name for those suckers? They had a spring inside suction cup, and a large flat foot on the end of the spring. Stick the cup down, and after a few seconds, boing! Man, those were great!
Excuse me, I have to go rummage in the closet, just might have some left.
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No, it's a feature provided by the joint Microsoft/NYT Windows 2010 Newsrag Edition for Non-Daytime Use w/Internet Explorer 7.92.4533.22567.11245676.0a Beta 1 RC7 currently available on a 10 DVD set for a special beta-testers price of only $3479.95 upon acceptance of the beta-tester NDR, and subsequent surrender of any and all vital organs if and when needed by MS or NYT executives. (Daytime Use capabilities will be included in Service Pack 1, scheduled to be released no more than 2 hours after Windows 2010 Newsrag Edition for Non-Daytime Use w/Internet Explorer 7.92.4533.22567.11245676.0a ships, available for only $967.84.)
In other words, your browser is too old.
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We don't need to kill animals to eat
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How do you eat the animals if you don't kill them? They will really sit still for you that long? tee-hee
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Unless, of course, the jump coordinates are calculated in metric units, and the "be careful not to land on" coordinates are calculated in Imperial units.
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On landing, the hopper's egglike shape allows it to pop back upright before reassessing its position, ready for the next leap.
Weebles Wobble But They DON'T FALL DOWN!!!
Neato!
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Now Amazon can sue all ISP for their "1-click" porno checks.
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Hopefully there is no beryllium on Pioneer. Travolta and his Scientology buddies will be laughing all the way to the grave when the Psychlos attack if there is.
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They also made firearms (M1 Carbines) for the US during WWII.
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And a good sized mailbox. Take the junk mail and dump it back into the corner mailbox. Probably 95%+ of the time, it is metered mail, charged against their account every time it is sent (I think. Can't swear to it.), and never postmarked. With stamped mail, the USPS puts a big red stamp across the postage stamp so that it can't be used again. Junk mail is not postmarked. I've had the same piece of shit in my mailbox dozens of times. Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone did this? If they really are charged every time their crap is delivered, it shouldn't take long to remail them out of business.
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You'd think serious journalists (ha, I crack myself up!) could afford a spellchecker:
With the new pricing plan, AT&T would be able to mine a booming new market.
They misspelled gouge.
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Very, very true. Our daughter was born in August. We had planned on waiting another year or two before having children, so that we were more settled in with our lives together, in our new home and careers, but we made just such a "mistake."
It was the best mistake we EVER made.
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Volume=file size?!?! My God, you'd need a nuclear plant just to view your Win2000 %systemroot%.
C:>cd winnt
(lights dim)
"Alert! Meltdown condition! Alert!"
C:\winnt>cd system32
(lights out)
"Core Explosion! Repent Sins."
This'll be great!!!. We'll be able to send all sorts of stuff around places, starting with oranges, until the MCP gets his hooks into it. Just hope that Flynn and TRON are up to the challenge again.
Mail it postage due, though. Why should you have to pay to dispose of, or return their property?
Actually, $100,000 big ones is $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars). A "big one" is $1000.
Cue flaming posts about choosing your packages, it's choice dammit, I can choose which packages I want, choose another distro, neither Windows OR Linux are as lean as Natalie Portman, 1 Windows CD or 2 Linux distro CDs mixed with hot grits and poured into your pants cause the same amount of discomfort when sat on.
Gee, my sarcasm filter really poked my spew button that time.