Been there, done that, still do that on occasion. If you get from places that let you inspect the CDs first, you're golden, let someone else pay the mark-up.
Ripping and trading CDs is still going on, just with less noise. Given the big music labels are only seem to be trying for the walletes of Boy Band and/or Blonde Girl of the Month buyers, why bother buying new release CDs at all?
With USA schools today being so wrapped up in socalizing children, following the "A is for Average" and the Politically Correct mantra, I'm not surprised to hear that student's don't know much about the First Amendmentm much less other important documents that are the cornerstone of the USA. Heck, schools today are re-writing US history to be overly zealous about being politically correct to the point the text has lost the original reason why a group of people moved from England to Holland to the land now called the United States of America.
The wise and informed people get pets with good lines and purebred papers from private breeders. These are also people who understand that this pet will be with them for the life of the pet. The impulse, cheap, or uninformed shopper gets their large pet (cat or bigger) from the local pet store, who in turn, often get their stock from a puppy mill. Granted a lot of puppymill pups get purebreed papers because the AKC doesn't enforce individual inspections, as long as the parents are registered, the babies can be registered, just pay the fees.
Take for instance some breeds of horses (warmbloods and sporthorses come to mind). There are still a handful of breeds that hold individual inspections on all animals that reach adulthood that the owners want to breed. If an individual animal is deemed not up to snuff, the animal is denied adult papers or breeding endorsements, meaning all of its offspring could be unregisterable if it is bred. The owners maybe warned to not breed a failed inspection animal by ways of fines or cancelation of foal papers (meaning the owner of the animal couldn't even say the animal was a purebred).
My point (if you've stayed this far) is that taking all the $$ used to buy clones and pouring it into pet shelters isn't going to fix the pet shelter problem. Pets that end up in shelters are often purchased buy people who didn't realize that Fido or Fluffy was going to be so big/aggessive/hairy/noisy/smelly/etc... What needs to be changed is the mentatliy that pets are a commidity, not a commitment. Of course, society as a whole is really thinking that everything can be tossed when not wanted.
No it's not. Obnoxious or obvlivios people will act however they wish in public. No amount of staring, "be quiet" cards or verbal reminders from others will really make a difference.
There are yappers out there who don't care how loud they yap...if not on a phone, then to a neighbor. Give them whatever excuse they want: nerves, bordom, hatred of non-private transportation (car, plane, etc), yadda, they'll be yapping. These are probably the same people who drive 1 mile over posted in the fast/passing lane and walk their shopping cart down the middle of the 2 cart wide isle.
Common sense and common courtsey are obviously dead.
I'll admit I wasn't keen on getting a jury summons...I wasted 3 days at the courthouse.
Anyway...if you don't like Jury Duty, go get citenzenship to somewhere else, like one of those 3rd world countries run by milita where everyone lives in fear, poverty and hunger.
I've noticed a trend that hold true here as is does in other hobbies. When a new and/or limited item first comes out, their are people who'll sell the item on eBay, often for great sums of money. After fir first "few" (relatively speaking) auctions end, people realize that the item isn't really worth the insane amount first being paid and prices drop to a more reasonable amount for several months after the release.
Then, when the exceitment cools to a more managable level, one or two items at a time will appear on eBay, for reasonable final bids, odd exceptions and shill bidding excluded.
I've seen this pattern over and over again in my collecting. Have patience, at some point, what you're looking for will be posted on Ebay for a honest, not gouging price.
I've noticed post SP2 that my ThinkPad has developed a small BSOD issue at boot time, requiring me to try Pervious Known Good configs. As far as I know, my ThinkPad didn't get new SW or drivers...so why would it not want to reboot correctly.
Personally, I an leary of SP2. I'm more annoyed I've got a update it now zealous hubby who blindly trusts the Windows Updater...ugh...
I don't blindly trust just about any auto-updater, I'm more of the hang back a bit, see what others stuble on first. I still think my ThinkPad would be better off w/o SP2.
While channel flipping the other day, stumbled onto "The Screen Savers" where the big topic was FPS. Whatever.
When it became G4 Tech TV, it was dead. Informative and useful shows were killed on if lieu of gaming shows (badly hosted, IMO). Good hosts were replaced w/ young, clueless wanna-bes.
Collectively, we can only hope the ratings finally hit the toilet and the station is killed off for good.
I've been down in the basement of the building, see a few of the towers 1/2 loaded (at that time), along with the massive cooling system that was added to the building to keep those racks workings. Lift up a raised floor panel and the 95 LBS of me will get lifted off the ground (or so it feels).
Sadly, all 64 racks will never be in Roch, just not enough space.
Actually, StarTribune has one (crappy) pic of some towers.
You mother seems better than mine at remembering interests. Last year, mine asked for a gift idea list for me and my hubby.
Then she turned to eBay...ugh...to say the least.
She got my hubby a pile of books, about 1/3 weren't on his list...same author, but not titles from the list. Guess where those will go (anyone looking for Andre Notron books?)...and for me...she knows I collect model horse figures, very specific ones, I've only so much shelf space and only certain ones appeal to me...I got two off the list (I was amazed, after 4 years of asking for a list, she actually got ones off the list)...and they rest...well, they were horse shaped objects that were quietly and prompty removed from my house.
Oh yes, she got DVDs from my list off eBay, 1/2 were loose/scratched up, at least the local blue and yellow box store let me exchange them for ones that weren't loose/scratched. One of the few perks of picking out DVDs yourself, you can give them the gentle shake test.
Other times, she has flat out given gifts that neither of us would have ever wanted. Maybe I can offload them on eBay...if I'm lucky.
The Two Sentance Rule: When any TV show can be summed up in 2 sentences, preferably short ones, it's time to kill the show.
While I watch TV on and off, time doesn't permit me to be glued to it. Deep down, I'm happy my local cable carrier dropped the channel that carried Enterprise. Judging by the first few episodes, I haven't missed a thing.
The Two Sentences for Enterprise: Spaceship crew beats down recycled plots from previous franchised series. Only this series is beating down its own franchise.
I worked a return desk for a little under 2 years at a discout department store. That pretty much killed off any compassion for my fellow human, after cranky, whining, obnoxious people trying to return blatently damaged by themselves stuff.
Holidays, ugh. Aside for the personnel staff saying no one was going to get time off holidays off was just lame. Then of course, in the season of guilt that happens every December, every shopper seems to become horribly cheap because the neighbor 3 blocks away that they never talk to just sent them a gift and now they feel guilty for not first sending a gift.
All working retail tought me do to was return stuff, hit the right buttons w/ the low paid person at the counter. Demon shopper, me, probably, and I'm fine w/ that.
Of course, customer service in general is dead. The larger markets, and bigger chains can afford to blow people/customers off because they'll draw in enough new people because they are who they are (BB are you listening?!?). I live in SE MN, pretty much middle of nowhere MN (I get told a lot of the chains that "our stores in the Twin Cities have it"). There are some chains, and yes, a BB, that I try to avoid (no I don't need your help, no I don't need you to install it, no I don't wan't the useless, waste of money PSP, I'll get CDs and DVDs there, that's about it). Anyway, for a few years just about every store had a "Help Wanted" sign, meaning all the overly paid burger flippers could go down the street to another job and abuse the customers if they didn't like the current gig. At this point, customer service didn't exists, no staff at any chain store cared. Now that there seems to be a low-paid lackey for hire surplus, things are slowing getting better at some locales.
Of course, once the department gets the sense to leave you alone, when you really do need there help, you can't find staff. There's a reason I'm a good store shelf climber, since I can't find staff when I want them.
I have learned that the mom and pop shops in the city where I live are quite useful, helpful, knowledgeable and non-nagging. They know they can't afford to blow people off, and it shows.
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data mining that is...I'm surprised it took humanity as a whole to realize this.
I don't have mod points our I'd give you -1, a saint indeed.
The fumes are getting to you.
Been there, done that, still do that on occasion. If you get from places that let you inspect the CDs first, you're golden, let someone else pay the mark-up.
Ripping and trading CDs is still going on, just with less noise. Given the big music labels are only seem to be trying for the walletes of Boy Band and/or Blonde Girl of the Month buyers, why bother buying new release CDs at all?
With USA schools today being so wrapped up in socalizing children, following the "A is for Average" and the Politically Correct mantra, I'm not surprised to hear that student's don't know much about the First Amendmentm much less other important documents that are the cornerstone of the USA. Heck, schools today are re-writing US history to be overly zealous about being politically correct to the point the text has lost the original reason why a group of people moved from England to Holland to the land now called the United States of America.
Talk to the right set of "scientists" and/or geologists, and they'll tell you that we're on the verge of another ice age.
The wise and informed people get pets with good lines and purebred papers from private breeders. These are also people who understand that this pet will be with them for the life of the pet. The impulse, cheap, or uninformed shopper gets their large pet (cat or bigger) from the local pet store, who in turn, often get their stock from a puppy mill. Granted a lot of puppymill pups get purebreed papers because the AKC doesn't enforce individual inspections, as long as the parents are registered, the babies can be registered, just pay the fees.
Take for instance some breeds of horses (warmbloods and sporthorses come to mind). There are still a handful of breeds that hold individual inspections on all animals that reach adulthood that the owners want to breed. If an individual animal is deemed not up to snuff, the animal is denied adult papers or breeding endorsements, meaning all of its offspring could be unregisterable if it is bred. The owners maybe warned to not breed a failed inspection animal by ways of fines or cancelation of foal papers (meaning the owner of the animal couldn't even say the animal was a purebred).
My point (if you've stayed this far) is that taking all the $$ used to buy clones and pouring it into pet shelters isn't going to fix the pet shelter problem. Pets that end up in shelters are often purchased buy people who didn't realize that Fido or Fluffy was going to be so big/aggessive/hairy/noisy/smelly/etc... What needs to be changed is the mentatliy that pets are a commidity, not a commitment. Of course, society as a whole is really thinking that everything can be tossed when not wanted.
No it's not. Obnoxious or obvlivios people will act however they wish in public. No amount of staring, "be quiet" cards or verbal reminders from others will really make a difference.
There are yappers out there who don't care how loud they yap...if not on a phone, then to a neighbor. Give them whatever excuse they want: nerves, bordom, hatred of non-private transportation (car, plane, etc), yadda, they'll be yapping. These are probably the same people who drive 1 mile over posted in the fast/passing lane and walk their shopping cart down the middle of the 2 cart wide isle.
Common sense and common courtsey are obviously dead.
I thought that job got shipped to India...like just about every other ship-able job, skilled and non-skilled.
I'll admit I wasn't keen on getting a jury summons...I wasted 3 days at the courthouse.
Anyway...if you don't like Jury Duty, go get citenzenship to somewhere else, like one of those 3rd world countries run by milita where everyone lives in fear, poverty and hunger.
I'm not looking to buy this particaulr game.
I've noticed a trend that hold true here as is does in other hobbies. When a new and/or limited item first comes out, their are people who'll sell the item on eBay, often for great sums of money. After fir first "few" (relatively speaking) auctions end, people realize that the item isn't really worth the insane amount first being paid and prices drop to a more reasonable amount for several months after the release.
Then, when the exceitment cools to a more managable level, one or two items at a time will appear on eBay, for reasonable final bids, odd exceptions and shill bidding excluded.
I've seen this pattern over and over again in my collecting. Have patience, at some point, what you're looking for will be posted on Ebay for a honest, not gouging price.
I've noticed post SP2 that my ThinkPad has developed a small BSOD issue at boot time, requiring me to try Pervious Known Good configs. As far as I know, my ThinkPad didn't get new SW or drivers...so why would it not want to reboot correctly.
Personally, I an leary of SP2. I'm more annoyed I've got a update it now zealous hubby who blindly trusts the Windows Updater...ugh...
I don't blindly trust just about any auto-updater, I'm more of the hang back a bit, see what others stuble on first. I still think my ThinkPad would be better off w/o SP2.
Is it me, or is it getting harder and harder to find fun buckets of just blocks. No themes, no final goal of build X, just blocks.
The buckets I've seen in my area don't as nifty as the buckets I remember as a kid, the piece count is less, the cost is more.
And as a plus, buckets of legos weren't geared toward any specific gender. Blocks were blocks. Open the lid and build away.
While channel flipping the other day, stumbled onto "The Screen Savers" where the big topic was FPS. Whatever.
When it became G4 Tech TV, it was dead. Informative and useful shows were killed on if lieu of gaming shows (badly hosted, IMO). Good hosts were replaced w/ young, clueless wanna-bes.
Collectively, we can only hope the ratings finally hit the toilet and the station is killed off for good.
I've been down in the basement of the building, see a few of the towers 1/2 loaded (at that time), along with the massive cooling system that was added to the building to keep those racks workings. Lift up a raised floor panel and the 95 LBS of me will get lifted off the ground (or so it feels).
Sadly, all 64 racks will never be in Roch, just not enough space.
Actually, StarTribune has one (crappy) pic of some towers.
You mother seems better than mine at remembering interests. Last year, mine asked for a gift idea list for me and my hubby.
Then she turned to eBay...ugh...to say the least.
She got my hubby a pile of books, about 1/3 weren't on his list...same author, but not titles from the list. Guess where those will go (anyone looking for Andre Notron books?)...and for me...she knows I collect model horse figures, very specific ones, I've only so much shelf space and only certain ones appeal to me...I got two off the list (I was amazed, after 4 years of asking for a list, she actually got ones off the list)...and they rest...well, they were horse shaped objects that were quietly and prompty removed from my house.
Oh yes, she got DVDs from my list off eBay, 1/2 were loose/scratched up, at least the local blue and yellow box store let me exchange them for ones that weren't loose/scratched. One of the few perks of picking out DVDs yourself, you can give them the gentle shake test.
Other times, she has flat out given gifts that neither of us would have ever wanted. Maybe I can offload them on eBay...if I'm lucky.
The Two Sentance Rule:
When any TV show can be summed up in 2 sentences, preferably short ones, it's time to kill the show.
While I watch TV on and off, time doesn't permit me to be glued to it. Deep down, I'm happy my local cable carrier dropped the channel that carried Enterprise. Judging by the first few episodes, I haven't missed a thing.
The Two Sentences for Enterprise:
Spaceship crew beats down recycled plots from previous franchised series. Only this series is beating down its own franchise.
Time to stop beating a dead horse.
I worked a return desk for a little under 2 years at a discout department store. That pretty much killed off any compassion for my fellow human, after cranky, whining, obnoxious people trying to return blatently damaged by themselves stuff.
Holidays, ugh. Aside for the personnel staff saying no one was going to get time off holidays off was just lame. Then of course, in the season of guilt that happens every December, every shopper seems to become horribly cheap because the neighbor 3 blocks away that they never talk to just sent them a gift and now they feel guilty for not first sending a gift.
All working retail tought me do to was return stuff, hit the right buttons w/ the low paid person at the counter. Demon shopper, me, probably, and I'm fine w/ that.
Of course, customer service in general is dead. The larger markets, and bigger chains can afford to blow people/customers off because they'll draw in enough new people because they are who they are (BB are you listening?!?). I live in SE MN, pretty much middle of nowhere MN (I get told a lot of the chains that "our stores in the Twin Cities have it"). There are some chains, and yes, a BB, that I try to avoid (no I don't need your help, no I don't need you to install it, no I don't wan't the useless, waste of money PSP, I'll get CDs and DVDs there, that's about it). Anyway, for a few years just about every store had a "Help Wanted" sign, meaning all the overly paid burger flippers could go down the street to another job and abuse the customers if they didn't like the current gig. At this point, customer service didn't exists, no staff at any chain store cared. Now that there seems to be a low-paid lackey for hire surplus, things are slowing getting better at some locales.
Of course, once the department gets the sense to leave you alone, when you really do need there help, you can't find staff. There's a reason I'm a good store shelf climber, since I can't find staff when I want them.
I have learned that the mom and pop shops in the city where I live are quite useful, helpful, knowledgeable and non-nagging. They know they can't afford to blow people off, and it shows.
And so was 32 kB of RAM to quote past thinking! I know someone who has almost filled a 75 GB drive of high quality mp3s.
One good sized CD collection, starting at about 100 CDs could fill 80 GB without a problem. Trust me.