hmm one of my roommates freshman year was on ritalin. I never knew how it worked till then, but it was definitely like speed to him. When he took a pill, he'd run around like a madman for about 20min and then zone out like a zombie.
That said I think he was just a combination of stupid and nuts rather than a real ADD case. He had a tendency to run around with a fork threatening to stab people in the neck with it...
The bummer part is redirecting 11 billion of the current budget todo this. That means about 6-10 other missions will be canceled. Maybe it will be the Hubble space telescope replacement JWST.:(
Yeah, that does kinda suck. But I have to say, I think if getting a moon base means cutting a few programs, it'll be worth it in the end. It seems that rather than putting up a hubble replacement in LEO, if we do this we'll have the means to put up a nice observatory on the moon sometime...it'd certainly be one of the first things I'd want to do.
hmmm a set of shelves is nothing a little spackle and a touch of paint can't fix...
That said, I've never had many landlords who really cared about minor things like shelves as long as you don't trash the wall (and if you do, fix it!)
But for those oppressive landlords (I had one for a couple years in college) the key is blackmail.
I had a landlord (those of you who've lived in Isla Vista near UCSB no doubt have heard of Ron Wolfe - what a prick). He tried to stiff us on 2 years security deposits. He runs a pretty shoddy establishment, so we called the fire marshall and they did a surprise inspection on our dwelling. They found a *lot* of Really Bad violations (like stairs falling down on the only exit path...)
Landlord's goons came over *pissed*. We calmly told them that for every day they held our money, we'd report a violation from another unit. Got our money back the next day, an apology, a brand new carpet (this *never* happens in IV) and they never bothered us again. You've just gotta speak in terms they can understand;)
At first glance that's good, but check to make sure it's not covered by any of your insurance first.
I, as a happy USAA customer, have my laptop covered under my renter's insurance. I could "accidently" throw my laptop thru a window and get the laptop (and the window) replaced.
The added cost for it was a whole lot less than Dell's plan (this costs me about $10/year for that additional coverage...)
...and not a scientist, I've always wondered...Why do we feel like all life *needs* water? Who's to say the martians don't live on nitrogen or uranium or plaine old red rocks? Or that they don't thrive on some yet undiscovered stuff.
I know I don't have a clue what I'm talking about (hence posting to/.:), but it always seems silly to me when NASA keeps says "we need to find the water to find the life!" Says who?
Seriously. Just walk in some public place in a suit and it's weird how much more respectyou get. I noticed it when I was in my job search and out and about in my interview suit.
And my friend (who's now a commercial developer) saw the same thing, so now he's been out getting the $400 shoes and god-knows-how-expensive suits.
That said, I've never understood the engineer's distaste for suits. I mean for our xmas party we went to an ultra-fancy french place and one of the guys here just flat-out refused to wear a tie. I mean wtf? And my boss (35ish) had to buy his first ever tie for it.
What's the deal with that? It's not like you tie it so tight that it chokes you and if your suit's properly fit then it's not uncomfortable at all. I just don't get it.
I got the impression that he was at a meeting with a wide range of groups and a varied audience, not at a literary meeting (correct me if I misread something). So in this case it was the literary guys ignoring their half-engineering audience...
That said this whole thing reminds me of the god-awful Chicano Literature class I took in college ("Come on, lets take this one for our ethnicity requirement," my roommate said. Asshole. We should have taken the civil rights class like everyone else, at least it could be interesting.)
Worst class *ever*. That professor couldn't go three sentances without using the phrase "postmodern ethnic commodities". A phrase she coined and ooooh, was she proud of it. It was far and away the most incomprehensible class I've ever taken (worse than quantum mechanics, and I don't believe *anybody* really understands that...)
Lukcily, eventually I just stopped going to class, since I couldn't make heads or tails out of what she said anyway, I read the (*very* poorly-written) required book, read a couple of her papers, and wrote the most BS paper ever (the logical side of my brain still cringes to think about it). It was so bullshit that even *I* didn't really know what it meant, but I seem to recall I was asserting that the characters in "The House on Mango Street" were some bizarre metaphore to something I've since forgotten. And I added as many big words and phrases as I could find from her papers. Got it back with an "A" and comments about how profound it was. Sheesh.
But that was by far the worst of the humanities I took. History classes weren't nearly as bad (and at least the material was often interesting)
Well I doubt it'll happen soon, but I think he's referring to volunteers (and I don't doubt that there'd be *lots*). So we're not grabbing a bum off street and strapping a rocket to his ass and saying "have a nice life".
That said, I'm 23 now and *really* hope to see us set foot on another planet in my lifetime (whether it's under the Bush administration or anyone else). It doesn't get much cooler than that.
Um do I have to go drive over to Fremont and take a picture of it? It's *defintiely* an HP, I bought it for her when I interned for Agilent and got in on the HP employee purchase program.
And it *Definitely* has that sticker on it. I've never had to go into it, so it's still stuck right there on the back.
I also was working on a friend's ghetto old HP that we setup as a file server a month or so ago. Also had the sticker. I rember being disgusted as I tore it off. Both machines are from the 2001 timeframe.
I don't dispute that the gay packard bells had them. And I don't claim every HP has had them (I've only had the misfortune to deal with those two and I don't recall the model numbers). But I know beyond a doubt these two particular HPs are both HPs and both had that sticker.
Heh I *almost* fell into the CS trap. I was admitted into it when I got a letter about this new-fangled Comp Engr degrees. Hmm sounds interesting. So I switch. By far the best decision I made as a student.
My classes were split right down the middle between chip design and embedded software. Now I'm a software guy doing firmware at a chip design house. Now I program as well as any of the CS guys I knew, plus I know hardware well enough to easily communicate with the hardware guys when I'm writing driver code for prototype chips (and can follow the Verilog code when I need to clarify the chip's intended behavior).
Did the opposite when running the webserver for my high school. I was on a linux box, ssh'd into the server as root. Then I was doing something on my local machine and needed to reboot, so I hit a "shutdown -r now" and wondered why X was still running. Oops...
Yeah my friend's got a nice 1024x1024 fujitsu plasma. He had his computer on it for a bit (never managed to get the PC to display in widescreen though)
Looked great, but watch out for the burn-in. You'll be seing the task bar for a while when you switch back to TV.
This plasma's 3-4 years old so maybe things are somewhat better now, but be careful! I think he'd kill himself if he damaged it (the thought of watching non-HDTV programs is just barbaric to him now)
Well, I love my 48GX. And my brother just upgraded from a 48G to a 49G+ (or whatever their top of the line is now).
It's a bit frutier looking, bigger (and lighter, which doesn't seem right...) The buttons aren't quite like the olden days but *much* better than the rubber incident with the original 49.
And it's basically like a 48G on crack with metakern built in and better symbolic manipulation. Not a bad calculator.
And of course, if it's not RPN it's not a calculator. Every time I try to do even a simple calculation on an algebraic I screw it up and have to try 3 times before I put thing in the right order...my brain is definitely stack-based.
*BUT* all the claims in the world won't instantly reverse all the mistrust they've generated over *years* of ignoring complaints. Nothing but a lot of work on their part and a lot of time will fix their reputation and make me want to install their software again.
Can't speak for the parent, but with previous versions I'd guess his problems were....
1) System tray icons 2) Popup windows bugging you to go to Real's site 3) Steals associations with every friggin file type 4) Sucks up tons of CPU when not even open 5) Loads crap on bootup 6) Tries to force IE bars, etc. 7) Installs spyware
I've given Real plenty of chances. It's sure not going on any of my machines anymore, no matter how much they claim to have reformed. I just don't trust them anymore. And there are far too many alternatives out there now.
He could have been. Usually it'll just hurt a lot since the current'll only flow thru your fingertip or something.
But even our pussy 110 can fuck you up right good if it goes hand to hand thru your torso...it's all about what path the current decides to take.
It takes about 100mA in the right place to kill you. Different bodies have wildly different resistances, but it takes a lot less to kill you than a lot of people think. So go ahead and work on the 240, but best to do it with one hand...
Yeah. I can tolerate the music choices (on *some* channels - most are crap though).
But I won't seriously listen to the radio until all DJs are fired and replaced with CD changers. Most radio DJs aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer and when I'm commuting to work in the morning the last thing I want to hear is some idiot's plan on how to stop terrorists for 20 minutes while I wait for the 2 songs per 45min I can actually hear. If I want political discussions I'll got to NPR or to AM.
I can understand the point of commercials, but *why* did the stations decide we need to have retarded radio talk shows instead of music from 6am-noon??? Even the Britney fans I know don't listen to that crap and pop in a CD in the morning.
Well I had one that suddenly required rebooting every couple hours or it'd drop packets like a mofo. And several others I knew started seeing the same problem, all around the 1yr usage mark....maybe they're better now or we were all just unlucky, I dunno. In any case it left a pretty bad impression on me. I've got a netgear wireless now and have had no trouble (yet;).
Plus there have been things I wished I could control better via the software but things are getting friendlier (but probably less secure) with UPnP-capable software.
In any case, I'm probably just biased now. Maybe I'll look at them again whenever the netgear dies or I feel like upgrading to 802.11g, but for now I'm pretty suspicious of them.
On an unrelated note, why are they giving XP users a firewall? Any XP user that needs a firewall should be on 2000, if not Linux/Unix. XP is for media and third-graders.
It doesn't matter who uses it or what OS it is, if it's plugged into the net it needs to be behind a firewall.
Why? Because there are internal bugs (RPC + Blaster anyone?). Because the 3rd grader might run a trojan (BO/NetBus anyone?). Lots of reasons.
Yea, a seperate box (even a crappy linksys router) is a better bet, but for those with a single computer, the integrated firewall is *key*. Anyone who's accidently left their ethernet cable plugged in and had their RPC service exploited by the time Windows is installed knows that the OS *needs* to have a built-in firewall...
And the old one *really* sucked. I could never leave it on any machine because it always interfered with things like windows file sharing (since it didn't let you block things only from outside your subnet).
So I'm glad MS is taking steps to do these things. I'll be first in line to try out SP2 once I get my hands on a copy.
Yeah, Univ of California is a *damn* good deal for in-state students.
I still owe a lot in loans. I got a little bit of grant money (couple grand a year), but still owe $16k or so back to the feds. But the loans aren't a bad deal (although what they consider "cost of living" in Santa Barbara isn't only really enough if you to split a studio and live off $0.10 ramen packs.) Definitely had to do lots of summer work. But any tech person should do that anyway. Even limited experience in the corporate world is a huge plus on a recent grad's resume (working 4 summers for Northrop Grumman did more for me finding a job than my classes did). I got out in four years, but I'd definitely take 5 years and work summers over getting out in 3 years by doing summer school.
But I'm still with the OP - you can never go wrong with a big wad of free non-taxable income if someone's willing to give it to you:)
Well, I wouldn't want it to be my sole income, but sometimes you can get a nice bit of additional income dealing on ebay.
One of my roommates did that (our last 2 years of college) and made a *lot* of money without a whole lot of work. What'd he do? He bought Dells *from Dell* with whatever the gotapex deal of the day was and made a fancy looking page and put it up. And retards would pay *more than pre-discount retail* for the things.
Same with Apples. Scour ebay for the shitty-looking pages that aren't selling, buy it, make a fancy page with an insanely high BuyItNow (which most people used), and bang, people are paying more than retail for a used machine.
Volume was always pretty low, but at any give time he'd typically be working 5-10 machines and he made enough to pay his share of the rent and take a nice chunk out of his tuition...all thanks to the morons who think "If it's on ebay, it *must* be cheaper!" without ever shoppoing around.
That said, it's more of a hobby than a business...I'd never try to compete with a big guy.
Well...my guage of how much something infringes on my privacy is to ask myself, "Could this same information be collected by a cop sitting on public property?" For example, say it reports if you're speeding. That's nothing a motorcycle cop with a radar gun couldn't see.
You get tracked driving to your terrorist buddy's place to buy some illegal weapons. Nothing the FBI couldn't see by tailing you.
btw what's wrong with defibs in planes? And frankly I *want* GPS in my phone when I call 911. I did that once for a fire in the middle of nowhere and it took a good few miles before I hit an exit and could tell the dispatcher where I was (this was in California where they don't believe in mile markers...) And once again when there was an "incident" when I couldn't stay on the line long enough to say where I was. The situation diffused itself, but it *really* would've helped to have gotten a cop there.
Closed captioning pisses me off, but just because I don't feel like I should have to pay for it...
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hmm one of my roommates freshman year was on ritalin. I never knew how it worked till then, but it was definitely like speed to him. When he took a pill, he'd run around like a madman for about 20min and then zone out like a zombie.
That said I think he was just a combination of stupid and nuts rather than a real ADD case. He had a tendency to run around with a fork threatening to stab people in the neck with it...
The bummer part is redirecting 11 billion of the current budget todo this. That means about 6-10 other missions will be canceled. Maybe it will be the Hubble space telescope replacement JWST. :(
Yeah, that does kinda suck. But I have to say, I think if getting a moon base means cutting a few programs, it'll be worth it in the end. It seems that rather than putting up a hubble replacement in LEO, if we do this we'll have the means to put up a nice observatory on the moon sometime...it'd certainly be one of the first things I'd want to do.
The people I've known who worked on the shuttle program (my dad included) have all agreed that the shuttle was always ridiculously unsafe...
And nobody in the industry even wanted the ISS. What can it do that Skylab couldn't?
hmmm a set of shelves is nothing a little spackle and a touch of paint can't fix...
;)
That said, I've never had many landlords who really cared about minor things like shelves as long as you don't trash the wall (and if you do, fix it!)
But for those oppressive landlords (I had one for a couple years in college) the key is blackmail.
I had a landlord (those of you who've lived in Isla Vista near UCSB no doubt have heard of Ron Wolfe - what a prick). He tried to stiff us on 2 years security deposits. He runs a pretty shoddy establishment, so we called the fire marshall and they did a surprise inspection on our dwelling. They found a *lot* of Really Bad violations (like stairs falling down on the only exit path...)
Landlord's goons came over *pissed*. We calmly told them that for every day they held our money, we'd report a violation from another unit. Got our money back the next day, an apology, a brand new carpet (this *never* happens in IV) and they never bothered us again. You've just gotta speak in terms they can understand
At first glance that's good, but check to make sure it's not covered by any of your insurance first.
I, as a happy USAA customer, have my laptop covered under my renter's insurance. I could "accidently" throw my laptop thru a window and get the laptop (and the window) replaced.
The added cost for it was a whole lot less than Dell's plan (this costs me about $10/year for that additional coverage...)
...and not a scientist, I've always wondered...Why do we feel like all life *needs* water? Who's to say the martians don't live on nitrogen or uranium or plaine old red rocks? Or that they don't thrive on some yet undiscovered stuff.
/. :), but it always seems silly to me when NASA keeps says "we need to find the water to find the life!" Says who?
I know I don't have a clue what I'm talking about (hence posting to
Seriously. Just walk in some public place in a suit and it's weird how much more respectyou get. I noticed it when I was in my job search and out and about in my interview suit.
And my friend (who's now a commercial developer) saw the same thing, so now he's been out getting the $400 shoes and god-knows-how-expensive suits.
That said, I've never understood the engineer's distaste for suits. I mean for our xmas party we went to an ultra-fancy french place and one of the guys here just flat-out refused to wear a tie. I mean wtf? And my boss (35ish) had to buy his first ever tie for it.
What's the deal with that? It's not like you tie it so tight that it chokes you and if your suit's properly fit then it's not uncomfortable at all. I just don't get it.
I got the impression that he was at a meeting with a wide range of groups and a varied audience, not at a literary meeting (correct me if I misread something). So in this case it was the literary guys ignoring their half-engineering audience...
That said this whole thing reminds me of the god-awful Chicano Literature class I took in college ("Come on, lets take this one for our ethnicity requirement," my roommate said. Asshole. We should have taken the civil rights class like everyone else, at least it could be interesting.)
Worst class *ever*. That professor couldn't go three sentances without using the phrase "postmodern ethnic commodities". A phrase she coined and ooooh, was she proud of it. It was far and away the most incomprehensible class I've ever taken (worse than quantum mechanics, and I don't believe *anybody* really understands that...)
Lukcily, eventually I just stopped going to class, since I couldn't make heads or tails out of what she said anyway, I read the (*very* poorly-written) required book, read a couple of her papers, and wrote the most BS paper ever (the logical side of my brain still cringes to think about it). It was so bullshit that even *I* didn't really know what it meant, but I seem to recall I was asserting that the characters in "The House on Mango Street" were some bizarre metaphore to something I've since forgotten. And I added as many big words and phrases as I could find from her papers. Got it back with an "A" and comments about how profound it was. Sheesh.
But that was by far the worst of the humanities I took. History classes weren't nearly as bad (and at least the material was often interesting)
Well I doubt it'll happen soon, but I think he's referring to volunteers (and I don't doubt that there'd be *lots*). So we're not grabbing a bum off street and strapping a rocket to his ass and saying "have a nice life".
That said, I'm 23 now and *really* hope to see us set foot on another planet in my lifetime (whether it's under the Bush administration or anyone else). It doesn't get much cooler than that.
Um do I have to go drive over to Fremont and take a picture of it? It's *defintiely* an HP, I bought it for her when I interned for Agilent and got in on the HP employee purchase program.
And it *Definitely* has that sticker on it. I've never had to go into it, so it's still stuck right there on the back.
I also was working on a friend's ghetto old HP that we setup as a file server a month or so ago. Also had the sticker. I rember being disgusted as I tore it off. Both machines are from the 2001 timeframe.
I don't dispute that the gay packard bells had them. And I don't claim every HP has had them (I've only had the misfortune to deal with those two and I don't recall the model numbers). But I know beyond a doubt these two particular HPs are both HPs and both had that sticker.
Heh I *almost* fell into the CS trap. I was admitted into it when I got a letter about this new-fangled Comp Engr degrees. Hmm sounds interesting. So I switch. By far the best decision I made as a student.
My classes were split right down the middle between chip design and embedded software. Now I'm a software guy doing firmware at a chip design house. Now I program as well as any of the CS guys I knew, plus I know hardware well enough to easily communicate with the hardware guys when I'm writing driver code for prototype chips (and can follow the Verilog code when I need to clarify the chip's intended behavior).
Best of both worlds.
Did the opposite when running the webserver for my high school. I was on a linux box, ssh'd into the server as root. Then I was doing something on my local machine and needed to reboot, so I hit a "shutdown -r now" and wondered why X was still running. Oops...
I *always* use ctrl-alt-del now.
I've definitely seen that sticker on my mom's HP.
Yeah my friend's got a nice 1024x1024 fujitsu plasma. He had his computer on it for a bit (never managed to get the PC to display in widescreen though)
Looked great, but watch out for the burn-in. You'll be seing the task bar for a while when you switch back to TV.
This plasma's 3-4 years old so maybe things are somewhat better now, but be careful! I think he'd kill himself if he damaged it (the thought of watching non-HDTV programs is just barbaric to him now)
Well, I love my 48GX. And my brother just upgraded from a 48G to a 49G+ (or whatever their top of the line is now).
It's a bit frutier looking, bigger (and lighter, which doesn't seem right...) The buttons aren't quite like the olden days but *much* better than the rubber incident with the original 49.
And it's basically like a 48G on crack with metakern built in and better symbolic manipulation. Not a bad calculator.
And of course, if it's not RPN it's not a calculator. Every time I try to do even a simple calculation on an algebraic I screw it up and have to try 3 times before I put thing in the right order...my brain is definitely stack-based.
No, we shouldn't discourage improvement.
*BUT* all the claims in the world won't instantly reverse all the mistrust they've generated over *years* of ignoring complaints. Nothing but a lot of work on their part and a lot of time will fix their reputation and make me want to install their software again.
Can't speak for the parent, but with previous versions I'd guess his problems were....
1) System tray icons
2) Popup windows bugging you to go to Real's site
3) Steals associations with every friggin file type
4) Sucks up tons of CPU when not even open
5) Loads crap on bootup
6) Tries to force IE bars, etc.
7) Installs spyware
I've given Real plenty of chances. It's sure not going on any of my machines anymore, no matter how much they claim to have reformed. I just don't trust them anymore. And there are far too many alternatives out there now.
He could have been. Usually it'll just hurt a lot since the current'll only flow thru your fingertip or something.
But even our pussy 110 can fuck you up right good if it goes hand to hand thru your torso...it's all about what path the current decides to take.
It takes about 100mA in the right place to kill you. Different bodies have wildly different resistances, but it takes a lot less to kill you than a lot of people think. So go ahead and work on the 240, but best to do it with one hand...
Yeah. I can tolerate the music choices (on *some* channels - most are crap though).
But I won't seriously listen to the radio until all DJs are fired and replaced with CD changers. Most radio DJs aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer and when I'm commuting to work in the morning the last thing I want to hear is some idiot's plan on how to stop terrorists for 20 minutes while I wait for the 2 songs per 45min I can actually hear. If I want political discussions I'll got to NPR or to AM.
I can understand the point of commercials, but *why* did the stations decide we need to have retarded radio talk shows instead of music from 6am-noon??? Even the Britney fans I know don't listen to that crap and pop in a CD in the morning.
Well I had one that suddenly required rebooting every couple hours or it'd drop packets like a mofo. And several others I knew started seeing the same problem, all around the 1yr usage mark....maybe they're better now or we were all just unlucky, I dunno. In any case it left a pretty bad impression on me. I've got a netgear wireless now and have had no trouble (yet ;).
Plus there have been things I wished I could control better via the software but things are getting friendlier (but probably less secure) with UPnP-capable software.
In any case, I'm probably just biased now. Maybe I'll look at them again whenever the netgear dies or I feel like upgrading to 802.11g, but for now I'm pretty suspicious of them.
On an unrelated note, why are they giving XP users a firewall? Any XP user that needs a firewall should be on 2000, if not Linux/Unix. XP is for media and third-graders.
It doesn't matter who uses it or what OS it is, if it's plugged into the net it needs to be behind a firewall.
Why? Because there are internal bugs (RPC + Blaster anyone?). Because the 3rd grader might run a trojan (BO/NetBus anyone?). Lots of reasons.
Yea, a seperate box (even a crappy linksys router) is a better bet, but for those with a single computer, the integrated firewall is *key*. Anyone who's accidently left their ethernet cable plugged in and had their RPC service exploited by the time Windows is installed knows that the OS *needs* to have a built-in firewall...
And the old one *really* sucked. I could never leave it on any machine because it always interfered with things like windows file sharing (since it didn't let you block things only from outside your subnet).
So I'm glad MS is taking steps to do these things. I'll be first in line to try out SP2 once I get my hands on a copy.
Yeah, Univ of California is a *damn* good deal for in-state students.
:)
I still owe a lot in loans. I got a little bit of grant money (couple grand a year), but still owe $16k or so back to the feds. But the loans aren't a bad deal (although what they consider "cost of living" in Santa Barbara isn't only really enough if you to split a studio and live off $0.10 ramen packs.) Definitely had to do lots of summer work. But any tech person should do that anyway. Even limited experience in the corporate world is a huge plus on a recent grad's resume (working 4 summers for Northrop Grumman did more for me finding a job than my classes did). I got out in four years, but I'd definitely take 5 years and work summers over getting out in 3 years by doing summer school.
But I'm still with the OP - you can never go wrong with a big wad of free non-taxable income if someone's willing to give it to you
Well, I wouldn't want it to be my sole income, but sometimes you can get a nice bit of additional income dealing on ebay.
One of my roommates did that (our last 2 years of college) and made a *lot* of money without a whole lot of work. What'd he do? He bought Dells *from Dell* with whatever the gotapex deal of the day was and made a fancy looking page and put it up. And retards would pay *more than pre-discount retail* for the things.
Same with Apples. Scour ebay for the shitty-looking pages that aren't selling, buy it, make a fancy page with an insanely high BuyItNow (which most people used), and bang, people are paying more than retail for a used machine.
Volume was always pretty low, but at any give time he'd typically be working 5-10 machines and he made enough to pay his share of the rent and take a nice chunk out of his tuition...all thanks to the morons who think "If it's on ebay, it *must* be cheaper!" without ever shoppoing around.
That said, it's more of a hobby than a business...I'd never try to compete with a big guy.
You're thinking of Tehachapi, Altamont is on the edge of the bay area, around Livermore and thereabouts.
That said I've always been in favor of (well-maintained!) nukes, but I seem to be in the minority on that one here in CA....
Well...my guage of how much something infringes on my privacy is to ask myself, "Could this same information be collected by a cop sitting on public property?" For example, say it reports if you're speeding. That's nothing a motorcycle cop with a radar gun couldn't see.
You get tracked driving to your terrorist buddy's place to buy some illegal weapons. Nothing the FBI couldn't see by tailing you.
btw what's wrong with defibs in planes? And frankly I *want* GPS in my phone when I call 911. I did that once for a fire in the middle of nowhere and it took a good few miles before I hit an exit and could tell the dispatcher where I was (this was in California where they don't believe in mile markers...) And once again when there was an "incident" when I couldn't stay on the line long enough to say where I was. The situation diffused itself, but it *really* would've helped to have gotten a cop there.
Closed captioning pisses me off, but just because I don't feel like I should have to pay for it...