Not to mention that if you work near saltwater the nice new gold coins quickly turn green and fuzzy. I have never seen any other coin to that so they are quit easy to tell apart.
Just how many more languages am I supposed to learn? Japanese for Anime, Mandarin and Cantonese for Jackie Chan films, German and English for Combat! French for... Well I'm sure they have something... But anyways, learning Japanese does not solve all my problem, actually it makes them worse as I now have even less time to watch new stuff, work and go play. Nope, sorry, I'll stick to dub and pay someone to translate and remaster it for me.
You know I see this all the time the 'dub vs. sub' war. All I can say is that not everyone can read the sub's as they flash across the screen, especially those of us with dyslexia. So when I get Anime the first thing I do is look for is it dubbed and if it is not back to the shelf if goes. Before someone brings it up, yes the native language voice actors are usually better and the translated version usually has someone that their voice just doesn't fit the character, but for me it doesn't really matter as I would have to watch, hit pause, read, repeat until I had enough of the show memorized that I could tell what the dialog was at a glance to watch without pausing that it just isn't worth it.
Also has anyone else noticed that some companies always manage to pick a color for the subs that is the same as the most commonly used color in the show rendering it almost impossible to read the sub's?
I grew up on a farm and while we didn't spray our crops to kill them (unless we were paid to do so, but then we would just plow then under not spray,) we did regularly spray the sides of the fields between the access roads and the main road, or where the fire breaks were, or if a crop looked 'bad' and we decided to write it off and plant something else in its place so we could make a buck. Now knowing that we did spray in place if we found something that didn't die from the spray, guess what would be going into a seed crop next year. You guessed it, the spray resistant seed. Now where did it come from? Well maybe 'ol farmer Cooter that lives down the road a bit bought some and some of the seed bounced off the back of his truck and ended up next to my field, but on my property, maybe it was as a result of cross pollination. Who cares, it is on my land, I didn't sign a contract with anyone to not grow it unless I bought it from them. So my thought is that if they don't want me to grow their seed, that through no action of mine ended up on my land, they can pay me to stop using it. Now if they had come by and told me, "hay looks like we have contaminated your field, and the seed there needs to be destroyed." Fine, they pay me for the crop that is destroyed, but you don't wait for years to go by and then complain about it and demand I give you money to compensate you for damaging my seed crop. And that is how this Bubba sees it.
The real problem is not the single time you have to wait ten seconds for the FBI warning to clear the screen, the problem is in the aggregate, where you have to wait ten seconds for the FBI warning, two minutes for the previews of other movies they want you to buy, then the menu screen and then two more minutes for the previews and name-brand promotion that you have to watch before the movie will start. I wish I could remember the DVD Title that I returned for this very reason, it took/over/ five minutes to get to the movie and user interventions was required about half way through this to you can't just walk away and come back start the movie and start eating popcorn and enjoying your flick (and yes the fast forward was disabled.) Now picture if you will that you just want to show a friend a scene from the movie and you have to wait three to five minutes before you can do so. I can find the scene on a tape faster than that. I understand that they are trying to recreate the "theater experience," but I don't want to pay for adds at the movies, why would I want to pay for them at home and have no control over being able to skip them?
Well if this is real and not an April first joke, then all I can say is it is time to get that second account and makethe/. reader numbers look bigger so I can still do the AC post
I'm going to address a comment I see recurring here. It has been repeatedly pointed out that US citizens "don't see beyond their borders," well I would like to take a moment and explain why that is for some of them. I'll start by telling you about when I was in England, when I was there The people I stayed with (good blokes all,) would talk about local politics, things happening within 10-20 miles with great knowledge, About things at the national level, a few hundred with a good grasp of what was going on and of things of international interest, a few thousand miles with only interest of thing that would effect them. Now for the point I would like to make, Texas is larger than France (IIRC,) the largest country in Europe. So if we look at a similar American you will see that they follow local items like my British friends and have a comparable knowledge of things going on a few hundred miles from them and were following things at a distance of a few thousand miles with the same interest. From what I have seen most people really don't care about things that happen thousands of miles away from them and do not directly affect them regardless of their country. So when you look at America before you decry us for being "short sighted" and not "looking past our own backyard," please take a moment and remember just how far we have to look to see the next house.
As I recall you need both serial numbers to redeem it at a bank and if you have only one serial number you need +50% of the bill and the US Treasury Dept. will mark the bill of as destroyed and send you a new one. If the other half is ever submitted they will deny the claim.
Call your local TV station, they usually have some kind of consumer hotline/activist guy on staff that will call the offending company and tell them make good or get lots of bad PR. Worked for me when Jiffy Lube unbolted my shift linkage instead of the bolt to check the transmission fluid.
I think that would be a good time to take the box to a friends house and call the shipper and say it never arrived. Then have them look at the name/sig and ask them to provide you with a replacement.
The foam packing that we use here comes in an A/B mix, each plastic jug weighs in at 100lbs each, and this is the smallest size our vender sells, I'm sure that there are places that sell smaller quantities. To dispense it you tap each jug with a tap that either pressurizes the jug or sucks the goo out and sends it to the mixing gun. You then toss in a big piece of plastic into the box, shoot foam in and wait for it to start to rise, fold the plastic sheet back over it and add the equipment, press slightly to settle it then add a second sheet of plastic to cover and repeat closing the box to make it take the shape of the box, open it top if needed then seal it up and ship. We have found that a box that has about 6in of foam on all sides of a piece of 40lbs equipment will take most impacts (read that as a 3-4 foot fall) about 3-4 times before the foam gives out. This will not protect from forklift spearing or getting run over by a truck.
When I worked the docks at UPS I can say no-one had time to smash things because we didn't like X vendor. What would normally damage the boxes was when they went down the conveyor and got caught in a log jam, that is where you would see a lot of mangled boxes. But I will bet that a lot of the g-force damage came when we were loading the trucks. We would sling the boxes 15-20 feet to the guy in the truck, sometimes they would miss the catch, but it was on the truck and our boss with the stopwatch didn't care as long as the truck left on time. Things that were marked "fragile" were the last thing we slung onto the truck, so they would not get crushed at the bottom of the stacks, this was the only extra handling care they got.
The one time I do remember seeing one of our guys MUNG a box the supper pulled him, the union guy, myself and two other guys in for a talk. It ended with the super telling the guy he was fired and asking the rep if there was a problem with this. The reps response was "nope." That was the only time I ever saw someone destroy with intent in the three months I was there.
Speaking as a guy I can tell you why I have it on my desk at work and use it. Have you ever *seen* what people do then use their computers right after? So far I have seen spit used to remove spots on the keyboard and mouse, I have seen the nose picked then seen them go right back to typing, and the number one nasty, I have seen people walk out of a stall in the men's room, not wash their hands and return to work (this is where I usually complain that my wrists hurt and go get my eurgo-KB). That friend is the short list of reasons I keep, carry and use the stuff. Now with that in mind, have a better one.
IIRC the book is Kobayashi Maru and it does go in to how Scotty fail the test.
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According to the ones that I have meet unless you are listening on a 100k+ system you *are* living in hell and unless you upgrade you will be damned to stay there forever.
I understand the reasons that most people love the subtitled movies, but as a dyslexic I can tell you I don't really like watching a movie four or five times until I can remember the subtitles at a glance so I cna then watch the movie and follow along with what is going on. So for me give me dub any day of the week, just make sub an option so if I want to I can see just what they were saying in a particular scene. As to the lip-sync issue, I could really canre less after watching Jackie Chan movies and other poorly dubed movies for years I don't really notice it.
thank you I will now return to my regularly scheduled lurking...
I konw it is bad form to reply to your own post mut I ust make a correction... I forgot to use a 'nt... oops
What is my point you ask? Did I know that their was a risk / reward balance to what I was doing? Yes I did. Was the punishment in line wiht what I did? No, I got off to easy. Was the way that my Father handled the situation good? Yes, I did'nt (== the missing 'nt) do it again. He also bought a second computer for me so I could build and break security on it (two TSR-80's I was the envy of the block) was the way the school handled the second break in good? No, they went for the easy out and didn't do their investigation to see who the real perp was. Is the school staffed by people that are human and want to do the minimum that they have to do? Yes, just like most places I have worked as an adult. Are the schools to blame for this? No, it is not the job of the school to be a parent, it is the parents job to be a parent. It is the schools job to teach how to add, subtract, read, write and use our minds. Does that mean that they should not have rules that students have to live by? Hell no, why should it be different that the rest of the world?
In the way-back-when, 1981, I was suspended from jr-high for hacking into the school computer and changing the grades for my friends and myself. The result was that I was suspended for two weeks and my Father was called in to school for my disciplinary review. During the review I had to explain how I broke into the system. The high point of this was when the principal suggested that I be thrown out of the computer class I was in and my Father suggested that I be advanced to the next class as I had proven that I had skills in advance of the class I was in. On the way home my Father joked about my breaking into the school's system, made me feel like he was not going to kick my butt then explained to me that I was not allowed to do it again or he would kick my butt. The irritating part came three months later when after I had explained how I broke into the system to some of my friends and they did the same, using my exploit... not my fault that they didn't patch the hole or change passwords... The school in its wisdom chose to expel me from school. They would not believe me when I told them I did not do it, nor would they believe one of my friends when he came forward and admitted that he did. It was only after he broke into the system with a teacher watching that they would believe him. When I petitioned to be let back in the told me no, even after getting them to admit that I did not break in the second time. Their reason for not letting me back? I had told others how to do the same thing.
What is my point you ask? Did I know that their was a risk / reward balance to what I was doing? Yes I did. Was the punishment in line whit what I did? No, I got off to easy. Was the way that my Father handled the situation good? Yes, I did do it again. He also bought a second computer for me so I could build and break security on it (two TSR-80's I was the envy of the block) was the way the school handled the second break in good? No, they went for the easy out and didn't do their investigation to see who the real perp was. Is the school staffed by people that are human and want to do the minimum that they have to do? Yes, just like most places I have worked as an adult. Are the schools to blame for this? No, it is not the job of the school to be a parent, it is the parents job to be a parent. It is the schools job to teach how to add, subtract, read, write and use our minds. Does that mean that they should not have rules that students have to live by? Hell no, why should it be different that the rest of the world?
Do you mean like the Surgon that loves his trade so much he volenteeres at the free clinic on the weekend and after work? Spends all of his time reading trade papers? Works with the people pushing back the bounds of medicin? Yes, that is also what I would like to see in the poeson that takes care of my servers and mans the hell-desk.
time shifted (recorded) shows don't count in the ratings, so they don't count for advertising. So what they want is for you to watch somethig that will count towarsd the ratings so they get money for the shows that you are watching. You have to remember not all of the Nelison families use the magic box to monitor what they watch, some/most(?) still use pen and paper and (gasp) mail it in.
The point I was trying to make is that not all of the problems come from green-earth groups, sometimes it is other cities, and the residents of the city where the plat will end up. I went to some of the open debates and the thing that I heard most often from people against the plant was along the lines of "Well we want the power, but I just don't want the power plant in my backyard." That was the reason I used green in ""'s, so no you did not read it wrong.
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Not to mention that if you work near saltwater the nice new gold coins quickly turn green and fuzzy. I have never seen any other coin to that so they are quit easy to tell apart.
Just how many more languages am I supposed to learn? Japanese for Anime, Mandarin and Cantonese for Jackie Chan films, German and English for Combat! French for ... Well I'm sure they have something ... But anyways, learning Japanese does not solve all my problem, actually it makes them worse as I now have even less time to watch new stuff, work and go play. Nope, sorry, I'll stick to dub and pay someone to translate and remaster it for me.
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You know I see this all the time the 'dub vs. sub' war. All I can say is that not everyone can read the sub's as they flash across the screen, especially those of us with dyslexia. So when I get Anime the first thing I do is look for is it dubbed and if it is not back to the shelf if goes. Before someone brings it up, yes the native language voice actors are usually better and the translated version usually has someone that their voice just doesn't fit the character, but for me it doesn't really matter as I would have to watch, hit pause, read, repeat until I had enough of the show memorized that I could tell what the dialog was at a glance to watch without pausing that it just isn't worth it.
Also has anyone else noticed that some companies always manage to pick a color for the subs that is the same as the most commonly used color in the show rendering it almost impossible to read the sub's?
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I grew up on a farm and while we didn't spray our crops to kill them (unless we were paid to do so, but then we would just plow then under not spray,) we did regularly spray the sides of the fields between the access roads and the main road, or where the fire breaks were, or if a crop looked 'bad' and we decided to write it off and plant something else in its place so we could make a buck. Now knowing that we did spray in place if we found something that didn't die from the spray, guess what would be going into a seed crop next year. You guessed it, the spray resistant seed. Now where did it come from? Well maybe 'ol farmer Cooter that lives down the road a bit bought some and some of the seed bounced off the back of his truck and ended up next to my field, but on my property, maybe it was as a result of cross pollination. Who cares, it is on my land, I didn't sign a contract with anyone to not grow it unless I bought it from them. So my thought is that if they don't want me to grow their seed, that through no action of mine ended up on my land, they can pay me to stop using it. Now if they had come by and told me, "hay looks like we have contaminated your field, and the seed there needs to be destroyed." Fine, they pay me for the crop that is destroyed, but you don't wait for years to go by and then complain about it and demand I give you money to compensate you for damaging my seed crop. And that is how this Bubba sees it.
The real problem is not the single time you have to wait ten seconds for the FBI warning to clear the screen, the problem is in the aggregate, where you have to wait ten seconds for the FBI warning, two minutes for the previews of other movies they want you to buy, then the menu screen and then two more minutes for the previews and name-brand promotion that you have to watch before the movie will start. I wish I could remember the DVD Title that I returned for this very reason, it took /over/ five minutes to get to the movie and user interventions was required about half way through this to you can't just walk away and come back start the movie and start eating popcorn and enjoying your flick (and yes the fast forward was disabled.) Now picture if you will that you just want to show a friend a scene from the movie and you have to wait three to five minutes before you can do so. I can find the scene on a tape faster than that. I understand that they are trying to recreate the "theater experience," but I don't want to pay for adds at the movies, why would I want to pay for them at home and have no control over being able to skip them?
Well if this is real and not an April first joke, then all I can say is it is time to get that second account and makethe /. reader numbers look bigger so I can still do the AC post
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I'm going to address a comment I see recurring here. It has been repeatedly pointed out that US citizens "don't see beyond their borders," well I would like to take a moment and explain why that is for some of them. I'll start by telling you about when I was in England, when I was there The people I stayed with (good blokes all,) would talk about local politics, things happening within 10-20 miles with great knowledge, About things at the national level, a few hundred with a good grasp of what was going on and of things of international interest, a few thousand miles with only interest of thing that would effect them. Now for the point I would like to make, Texas is larger than France (IIRC,) the largest country in Europe. So if we look at a similar American you will see that they follow local items like my British friends and have a comparable knowledge of things going on a few hundred miles from them and were following things at a distance of a few thousand miles with the same interest. From what I have seen most people really don't care about things that happen thousands of miles away from them and do not directly affect them regardless of their country. So when you look at America before you decry us for being "short sighted" and not "looking past our own backyard," please take a moment and remember just how far we have to look to see the next house.
In vi? Sorry pal, I might have beleived you if you said MS Word.
As I recall you need both serial numbers to redeem it at a bank and if you have only one serial number you need +50% of the bill and the US Treasury Dept. will mark the bill of as destroyed and send you a new one. If the other half is ever submitted they will deny the claim.
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Call your local TV station, they usually have some kind of consumer hotline/activist guy on staff that will call the offending company and tell them make good or get lots of bad PR. Worked for me when Jiffy Lube unbolted my shift linkage instead of the bolt to check the transmission fluid.
I think that would be a good time to take the box to a friends house and call the shipper and say it never arrived. Then have them look at the name/sig and ask them to provide you with a replacement.
The foam packing that we use here comes in an A/B mix, each plastic jug weighs in at 100lbs each, and this is the smallest size our vender sells, I'm sure that there are places that sell smaller quantities. To dispense it you tap each jug with a tap that either pressurizes the jug or sucks the goo out and sends it to the mixing gun. You then toss in a big piece of plastic into the box, shoot foam in and wait for it to start to rise, fold the plastic sheet back over it and add the equipment, press slightly to settle it then add a second sheet of plastic to cover and repeat closing the box to make it take the shape of the box, open it top if needed then seal it up and ship. We have found that a box that has about 6in of foam on all sides of a piece of 40lbs equipment will take most impacts (read that as a 3-4 foot fall) about 3-4 times before the foam gives out. This will not protect from forklift spearing or getting run over by a truck.
When I worked the docks at UPS I can say no-one had time to smash things because we didn't like X vendor. What would normally damage the boxes was when they went down the conveyor and got caught in a log jam, that is where you would see a lot of mangled boxes. But I will bet that a lot of the g-force damage came when we were loading the trucks. We would sling the boxes 15-20 feet to the guy in the truck, sometimes they would miss the catch, but it was on the truck and our boss with the stopwatch didn't care as long as the truck left on time. Things that were marked "fragile" were the last thing we slung onto the truck, so they would not get crushed at the bottom of the stacks, this was the only extra handling care they got.
The one time I do remember seeing one of our guys MUNG a box the supper pulled him, the union guy, myself and two other guys in for a talk. It ended with the super telling the guy he was fired and asking the rep if there was a problem with this. The reps response was "nope." That was the only time I ever saw someone destroy with intent in the three months I was there.
Speaking as a guy I can tell you why I have it on my desk at work and use it. Have you ever *seen* what people do then use their computers right after? So far I have seen spit used to remove spots on the keyboard and mouse, I have seen the nose picked then seen them go right back to typing, and the number one nasty, I have seen people walk out of a stall in the men's room, not wash their hands and return to work (this is where I usually complain that my wrists hurt and go get my eurgo-KB). That friend is the short list of reasons I keep, carry and use the stuff. Now with that in mind, have a better one.
IIRC the book is Kobayashi Maru and it does go in to how Scotty fail the test.
According to the ones that I have meet unless you are listening on a 100k+ system you *are* living in hell and unless you upgrade you will be damned to stay there forever.
I understand the reasons that most people love the subtitled movies, but as a dyslexic I can tell you I don't really like watching a movie four or five times until I can remember the subtitles at a glance so I cna then watch the movie and follow along with what is going on. So for me give me dub any day of the week, just make sub an option so if I want to I can see just what they were saying in a particular scene. As to the lip-sync issue, I could really canre less after watching Jackie Chan movies and other poorly dubed movies for years I don't really notice it.
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thank you I will now return to my regularly scheduled lurking
I konw it is bad form to reply to your own post mut I ust make a correction ... I forgot to use a 'nt ... oops
What is my point you ask? Did I know that their was a risk / reward balance to what I was doing? Yes I did. Was the punishment in line wiht what I did? No, I got off to easy. Was the way that my Father handled the situation good? Yes, I did'nt (== the missing 'nt) do it again. He also bought a second computer for me so I could build and break security on it (two TSR-80's I was the envy of the block) was the way the school handled the second break in good? No, they went for the easy out and didn't do their investigation to see who the real perp was. Is the school staffed by people that are human and want to do the minimum that they have to do? Yes, just like most places I have worked as an adult. Are the schools to blame for this? No, it is not the job of the school to be a parent, it is the parents job to be a parent. It is the schools job to teach how to add, subtract, read, write and use our minds. Does that mean that they should not have rules that students have to live by? Hell no, why should it be different that the rest of the world?
In the way-back-when, 1981, I was suspended from jr-high for hacking into the school computer and changing the grades for my friends and myself. The result was that I was suspended for two weeks and my Father was called in to school for my disciplinary review. During the review I had to explain how I broke into the system. The high point of this was when the principal suggested that I be thrown out of the computer class I was in and my Father suggested that I be advanced to the next class as I had proven that I had skills in advance of the class I was in. On the way home my Father joked about my breaking into the school's system, made me feel like he was not going to kick my butt then explained to me that I was not allowed to do it again or he would kick my butt. The irritating part came three months later when after I had explained how I broke into the system to some of my friends and they did the same, using my exploit ... not my fault that they didn't patch the hole or change passwords ... The school in its wisdom chose to expel me from school. They would not believe me when I told them I did not do it, nor would they believe one of my friends when he came forward and admitted that he did. It was only after he broke into the system with a teacher watching that they would believe him. When I petitioned to be let back in the told me no, even after getting them to admit that I did not break in the second time. Their reason for not letting me back? I had told others how to do the same thing.
What is my point you ask? Did I know that their was a risk / reward balance to what I was doing? Yes I did. Was the punishment in line whit what I did? No, I got off to easy. Was the way that my Father handled the situation good? Yes, I did do it again. He also bought a second computer for me so I could build and break security on it (two TSR-80's I was the envy of the block) was the way the school handled the second break in good? No, they went for the easy out and didn't do their investigation to see who the real perp was. Is the school staffed by people that are human and want to do the minimum that they have to do? Yes, just like most places I have worked as an adult. Are the schools to blame for this? No, it is not the job of the school to be a parent, it is the parents job to be a parent. It is the schools job to teach how to add, subtract, read, write and use our minds. Does that mean that they should not have rules that students have to live by? Hell no, why should it be different that the rest of the world?
Do you mean like the Surgon that loves his trade so much he volenteeres at the free clinic on the weekend and after work? Spends all of his time reading trade papers? Works with the people pushing back the bounds of medicin? Yes, that is also what I would like to see in the poeson that takes care of my servers and mans the hell-desk.
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You're right he does need a better example
An old saying comes to mind, "remember all of your equipment was made by the lowest bidder."
time shifted (recorded) shows don't count in the ratings, so they don't count for advertising. So what they want is for you to watch somethig that will count towarsd the ratings so they get money for the shows that you are watching. You have to remember not all of the Nelison families use the magic box to monitor what they watch, some/most(?) still use pen and paper and (gasp) mail it in.
The point I was trying to make is that not all of the problems come from green-earth groups, sometimes it is other cities, and the residents of the city where the plat will end up. I went to some of the open debates and the thing that I heard most often from people against the plant was along the lines of "Well we want the power, but I just don't want the power plant in my backyard." That was the reason I used green in ""'s, so no you did not read it wrong.
Cisco wanted to build a new power plant in the Coyote valley area but keep running into "green" opposition. Look at THIS for more info.