Only time I had an older car with a stuck throttle, the return spring on the carburetor had broke. Just pushed in the clutch, and pressed at the bottom of the throttle petal, so that the top popped back up. Going back to a throttle petal on a pivot might be the way to go.
It's not profitable to have flags raised as to the competence and ultimately, the actual need for the TSA. That could lead to doing away with the current form of the TSA and the lucrative management salaries and supplier contracts.
Our UPS guys are great. We've had the same 4 drivers for a couple years now. They leave dog treats for our dogs and one even helped my mom with shoveling the driveway a few years ago, when he stopped at her place. Of course, we give them nice tips on Christmas and 4th July but that's how things are done where I live (mountains of New Mexico).
Yup, and I'm not sure at this point in the evolution of sales what could be done. Maybe partner with Radio Shack with stores that are two to three times as big as RS stores but smaller than BB. Ditch the media sales and just concentrate on av/pc stuff and offer decent repair service.
Online sale is just so much easier for knowledgeable folks and Walmart is locking up the walking media sales now.
Gah! CompUSA really pissed me off one day when I ran in to get a clock battery. Was one of the purple 3.3v ones that a lot of boards used back then, as well as Macs. All I needed to know was which aisle are the clock batteries on. Just inside the door, I'm ambushed by Kid Hacker Sir Pimple Face (PFY) who steps in front of me, when I try to go around him.
"Where's the clock batteries?"
"What's it for?"
"Look, I just need to know where they're at."
"if you tell me what it's for, I can take you there."
"Is for a Mac; 3.3v, purple."
"Oh, we don't have those. You'll have to order one from Apple."
Really wanted to go all Airplane on the store, knocking down and end running these stupid yahoos. Finally managed to get away and find the damn things but 10 minutes of my life gone is still pissing me off.
Yup. It's a well known fact that everyone knows that Apple users are all handlebar mustachioed hipsters (even the women) who ride penny farthing bicycles and wear too much tweed and they don't even know that their Apple stuff is twice as bad as all the other gear out there yet costs three times as much but that's ok as they never actually open the boxes but just set them out on the coffee table so that people at their hipster parties will think they're cool and hip.
...And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with flabby white legs and diarrhoea trying to pick up hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel and once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman Remains to buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel and one evening you visit the so called typical restaurant with local colour and atmosphere and you sit next to a party from Rhyl who keep singing "Torremolinos, torremolinos" and complaining about the food - "It's so greasy isn't it?" - and you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic camera and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's Daily Express and he drones on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Pow ell can speak and then he throws up over the Cuba Libres.
Exactly! The world is black or it's write. There's no middle ground. If there's the slightest taint of... um... taint, then it's all tainted and as we all know, no one wants to be hanging around tainted taint.
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Only time I had an older car with a stuck throttle, the return spring on the carburetor had broke. Just pushed in the clutch, and pressed at the bottom of the throttle petal, so that the top popped back up. Going back to a throttle petal on a pivot might be the way to go.
And then there's the alien monkeys. Man, I hate alien monkeys.
I use the Sacagawea dollars for the kid when she loses a tooth. Shiny!
Look up Springfield, Organ on the map. They look identical.
Uh, Springfield has both mountains and a sea shore. I dont know what this "Portland" is but does it have such a cool geography? I think eat up Martha!
Who says it takes place on this Earth? Maybe it's on Earth Prime or Earth B?
John Scalzi has a good run down on this, with a letter from CEO of Macmillan regarding this issue. I good place to start on what's going on here.
You said "rent". You're funny.
Buy... disks for movies? How retro-chic.
*golf clap*
Seriously, I was wondering what year it was, reading about PS4' but then again, since I'm old, I'm frequently confused by living in the future now.
They should merge with Best Buy.
I bought a tv last year; floor model close out but that's about it. Have switched to Yamaha for my AV gear for last few years.
It's not profitable to have flags raised as to the competence and ultimately, the actual need for the TSA. That could lead to doing away with the current form of the TSA and the lucrative management salaries and supplier contracts.
Our UPS guys are great. We've had the same 4 drivers for a couple years now. They leave dog treats for our dogs and one even helped my mom with shoveling the driveway a few years ago, when he stopped at her place. Of course, we give them nice tips on Christmas and 4th July but that's how things are done where I live (mountains of New Mexico).
I hate it when my sink ships from nundereath me.
Yup, and I'm not sure at this point in the evolution of sales what could be done. Maybe partner with Radio Shack with stores that are two to three times as big as RS stores but smaller than BB. Ditch the media sales and just concentrate on av/pc stuff and offer decent repair service.
Online sale is just so much easier for knowledgeable folks and Walmart is locking up the walking media sales now.
Gah! CompUSA really pissed me off one day when I ran in to get a clock battery. Was one of the purple 3.3v ones that a lot of boards used back then, as well as Macs. All I needed to know was which aisle are the clock batteries on. Just inside the door, I'm ambushed by Kid Hacker Sir Pimple Face (PFY) who steps in front of me, when I try to go around him.
"Where's the clock batteries?"
"What's it for?"
"Look, I just need to know where they're at."
"if you tell me what it's for, I can take you there."
"Is for a Mac; 3.3v, purple."
"Oh, we don't have those. You'll have to order one from Apple."
Really wanted to go all Airplane on the store, knocking down and end running these stupid yahoos. Finally managed to get away and find the damn things but 10 minutes of my life gone is still pissing me off.
What, are you Doctor Evil's henchman, with a steam roller barreling down on you?
Yup. It's a well known fact that everyone knows that Apple users are all handlebar mustachioed hipsters (even the women) who ride penny farthing bicycles and wear too much tweed and they don't even know that their Apple stuff is twice as bad as all the other gear out there yet costs three times as much but that's ok as they never actually open the boxes but just set them out on the coffee table so that people at their hipster parties will think they're cool and hip.
Only if it's riding a bicycle.
...And then some adenoidal typists from Birmingham with flabby white legs and diarrhoea trying to pick up hairy bandy-legged wop waiters called Manuel and once a week there's an excursion to the local Roman Remains to buy cherryade and melted ice cream and bleeding Watney's Red Barrel and one evening you visit the so called typical restaurant with local colour and atmosphere and you sit next to a party from Rhyl who keep singing "Torremolinos, torremolinos" and complaining about the food - "It's so greasy isn't it?" - and you get cornered by some drunken greengrocer from Luton with an Instamatic camera and Dr. Scholl sandals and last Tuesday's Daily Express and he drones on and on about how Mr. Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Pow ell can speak and then he throws up over the Cuba Libres.
They had it upside down. World ends in 5105.
Red Cross is always a good example. And Florence Nightengale in the Crimean war.
Vietnam and Korea brought us air med evac as well.
Exactly! The world is black or it's write. There's no middle ground. If there's the slightest taint of... um... taint, then it's all tainted and as we all know, no one wants to be hanging around tainted taint.
You forget trauma medicine.