Of course, if we did limit political donations to persons ONLY, that isn't going to stop (Insert Obscenely Rich CEO of HUGE Multi-National, or even US ONLY Company HERE) from donating "personally" *Wink Wink*
I don't know what the answer can be -- but I know political donations of *any* sort should be illegal. There simply has to be a better way.
I think you need to re-read my post. I chose Enermax OVER Antec, not the other way around. Plus, I never email first. I call first. I use email as a last resort.
I've got two dead Anted power supplies sitting in a box waiting to be shipped back to them. They won't take them because we can't find our proof of purchase even though they looked them up by their serial numbers and discovered they are well within the warranty period.
To even get that far took 1 1/2 months of calling the "support" line every day, twice a day, and leaving voice mail because no one ever picked up.
Then, I sent an email a day (just kept forwarding the same one over and over) to the support email address -- all were ignored.
So I decided to look at the contact info, and discovered a "Complaint" link. Odd. No other company I've delt with had a 'complaint' link. Must be a crappy company, then, if they *expect* complaints. So, I fire off an email describing in quite a bit of detail what happened, why I was contacting them, and that I received no responces from anyone. I wait another month and still nothing. So I send another email (noticing that the "complaint" address changed). I told them that they lost a customer - that I'd tell *everyone* I encounter of my problems and encourage them to *not* purchase any Antec products, and that I was going to just throw away the two supplies I have because they are taking up space that I could use for other purposes.
FINALLY! A REPLY! Started off nice enough at first, but ended in the "we won't take them back without the receipt" crap.
Since we started using Anted supplies about 2 years ago, all the 'high end' 400+ watt ones have come back broken. ALL of them. We have been selling some 350 watt supplies, unfortunatly. I refuse to even touch them. We'll just have to see how the ThermalTake and the Enermax's I've replaced the Antec supplies with hold up.
Odd thing with ThermalTake. I couldn't find *anyone* in the US (going through ThermalTake's list of distributers) that carried the 680w power supply they have. Oh well..:)
I live in a house that a person in a wheel chair used to live in. There is a phone jack right next to the toilet so that she didn't have to miss any calls (by worried family, doctors, etc)
Plus, if she got stuck somehow, she could call for help..
I don't have a phone mounted there at all. I only have one phone in my entire house and I don't even use it -- I use my cell phone. The ONLY reason I have it is that the phone company *forced* me into it just so I could have DSL (in a town of 1400 people, DSL and more expensive (and slower) wireless are all that are available. Our "cable TV" service isn't even local - it's sent in from Columbia, MO via some sort of microwave link (or something to that effect - the cable guy didn't explain it very well). We even have "digital" cable. Via Satellite! Why am I going to switch from Dish Network when the local cable offering is THE SAME (minus the Dolby Digital signal on most of the premium channels)?
Actually, they sent a 15 year old to prison. He was 12 when he knowingly killed his grandparents because they scolded him. He knew what he did was wrong and stole their car (after burning down the house) and tried to run away.
I think your idea for laws to punish parents is good. The mother won't be 'out on the street', she'd be in jail, or whatever. The kid should end up in Juvi (or however the short version of it is spelled). The remaining children can either go to family or be taken into custody by the state.
If this happens often enough, it will hurt some families, but I think it will curb some of the crime.
Screw time out! It doesn't work, or these kids wouldn't be out killing their parents. I don't recall, when I was a kid (back in the 80's) anything like this happening. ('course, I didn't pay attention to the news as much either, and if it did happen, I'll bet it wasn't anywhere *near* as often).
One of the idiots that worked at this store dumped a 5 gallon thing of Lemonaid on the main register. I did an emergency call to move it's HDD to the drivethrough register so they could still do business..
I also helped unpack and install the new bread oven when it came in. That was a chore, let me tell you..:)
There have been other minor things, but I like the free food, so..:)
Do not allow the government to expand simply because it convienences you. The more it convienences your the more control it will eventually exert over you. Pretty soon you will find you will only have to access to what they want you to and when they want you to.
No, I do not need tinfoil hat. I just believe in small and non-intrusive government. I also believe that they should only provide the services that are required. They are not here to provide luxuries.
I believe you DO need a tin foil hat.
There is one very simple way to fix the 'dire problem' with government you list above. It's one word. Quite the simple word, yet, *very* powerful. As a matter of fact, it turned this country for the worse, and will *hopefully* be corrected during the next Presidential elections.
That word?
VOTE
You don't like what your local government is pushing with the shiny new wireless access? Vote their asses out and vote someone IN who shares your views. If not enough people share your views, you've got three choices. Move away, or do whatever it is that you're not in agreement with on your own. You can also just deal with it.
Not letting the government do something simply because it *might* go in a direction you don't like is not a good excuse.
You are missing the point. They don't need to be selling hardware. They still sell music and Apple's iPod is not compatible with the MSN Music store. That being the case, Apple's iPod *IS* a competitor to what MS sells, regardless of whether MS sells MP3 hardware or not. Plus, MS, as I stated before, makes money by selling licenses to the.wma format to vendors that DO make MP3 hardware. Not purchasing one of those players is more money lost in MS's eyes.
I 'failed to recognize' those 'facts' because they don't matter. "Proper" typing *never* includes resting your wrists on the device on which you are typing. Never. The fact that people do it is not the fault of the touch pad developers.
And wasn't the touchpad the one that causes constant random pointer motion due to your palms naturaly pressing on it and thus requiring some weird and rarely working kludges such as "palm detection" software?
Decided I had to take exception to that. The "typist" position you speak of does not include you resting your palms on the keyboard while typing. You are supposed to keep your palms in the air whilst you type.
I took a typing class in 7'th, 8'th, and 9'th grade. Each teacher had the same lesson. Since I've become a computer tech, the various classrooms I've visited while typing classes were in session had the same lesson...
I've grown to accept the touch pad, though I didn't like it at first. I can use either fairly well but prefer a seperate mouse where possible.
Ummm.. No, it doesn't. Mike was sued because he had mikerowesoft.com. Wich, when pronounced out loud, sounds *exactly* like microsoft.com. He wasn't sued because he was posting Microsoft pre-release material/rumors/whatever on his web page.
In my humble, and somewhat learn-ed opinion, I think Bose is VERY over-rated.
I'll put my Onkyo receiver up against any Bose, any day...
Even the Onkyo was abit expensive, I think, but FAR less than a Bose system. Plus, with the way it's built, it should last a very long time.. Plus, it was a gift to me (I forget the model number, but I got it Christmas of 2003 and at that time, it was $499 at Circuit City if I remember correctly).
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Of course, if we did limit political donations to persons ONLY, that isn't going to stop (Insert Obscenely Rich CEO of HUGE Multi-National, or even US ONLY Company HERE) from donating "personally" *Wink Wink*
I don't know what the answer can be -- but I know political donations of *any* sort should be illegal. There simply has to be a better way.
Isn't Dry Ice just frozen CO2? If so, I'd say it's not the same as 'frozen ice' (in these terms, speaking of water that has been frozen)..
After less than 10 seconds of 'googling', I found: This.
I've never needed to contact Enermax -- Yet.
When I do need to, if I can't find a number on the web page, I'll use 800-information (1-800-555-1212 in the States - Dunno about anywhere else).
I think you need to re-read my post. I chose Enermax OVER Antec, not the other way around. Plus, I never email first. I call first. I use email as a last resort.
I like the Enermax supplies so far.
:)
I've got two dead Anted power supplies sitting in a box waiting to be shipped back to them. They won't take them because we can't find our proof of purchase even though they looked them up by their serial numbers and discovered they are well within the warranty period.
To even get that far took 1 1/2 months of calling the "support" line every day, twice a day, and leaving voice mail because no one ever picked up.
Then, I sent an email a day (just kept forwarding the same one over and over) to the support email address -- all were ignored.
So I decided to look at the contact info, and discovered a "Complaint" link. Odd. No other company I've delt with had a 'complaint' link. Must be a crappy company, then, if they *expect* complaints. So, I fire off an email describing in quite a bit of detail what happened, why I was contacting them, and that I received no responces from anyone. I wait another month and still nothing. So I send another email (noticing that the "complaint" address changed). I told them that they lost a customer - that I'd tell *everyone* I encounter of my problems and encourage them to *not* purchase any Antec products, and that I was going to just throw away the two supplies I have because they are taking up space that I could use for other purposes.
FINALLY! A REPLY! Started off nice enough at first, but ended in the "we won't take them back without the receipt" crap.
Since we started using Anted supplies about 2 years ago, all the 'high end' 400+ watt ones have come back broken. ALL of them. We have been selling some 350 watt supplies, unfortunatly. I refuse to even touch them. We'll just have to see how the ThermalTake and the Enermax's I've replaced the Antec supplies with hold up.
Odd thing with ThermalTake. I couldn't find *anyone* in the US (going through ThermalTake's list of distributers) that carried the 680w power supply they have. Oh well..
All you could find wrong with that post was "quited"? He also had "runned" in there.
No, I'm in La Plata.
There are serious applications to that..
I live in a house that a person in a wheel chair used to live in. There is a phone jack right next to the toilet so that she didn't have to miss any calls (by worried family, doctors, etc)
Plus, if she got stuck somehow, she could call for help..
I don't have a phone mounted there at all. I only have one phone in my entire house and I don't even use it -- I use my cell phone. The ONLY reason I have it is that the phone company *forced* me into it just so I could have DSL (in a town of 1400 people, DSL and more expensive (and slower) wireless are all that are available. Our "cable TV" service isn't even local - it's sent in from Columbia, MO via some sort of microwave link (or something to that effect - the cable guy didn't explain it very well). We even have "digital" cable. Via Satellite! Why am I going to switch from Dish Network when the local cable offering is THE SAME (minus the Dolby Digital signal on most of the premium channels)?
Ok.. I've rambled on enough now...
Actually, they sent a 15 year old to prison. He was 12 when he knowingly killed his grandparents because they scolded him. He knew what he did was wrong and stole their car (after burning down the house) and tried to run away.
I think your idea for laws to punish parents is good. The mother won't be 'out on the street', she'd be in jail, or whatever. The kid should end up in Juvi (or however the short version of it is spelled). The remaining children can either go to family or be taken into custody by the state.
If this happens often enough, it will hurt some families, but I think it will curb some of the crime.
Screw time out! It doesn't work, or these kids wouldn't be out killing their parents. I don't recall, when I was a kid (back in the 80's) anything like this happening. ('course, I didn't pay attention to the news as much either, and if it did happen, I'll bet it wasn't anywhere *near* as often).
It's irrelevant anyway. MS isn't doing this with Quicktime.
"What is this word "evidence" you speak of?"
Judge (in the voice of Inigo Montoya): "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
INCONCEEEEIVABLE!!
One of the idiots that worked at this store dumped a 5 gallon thing of Lemonaid on the main register. I did an emergency call to move it's HDD to the drivethrough register so they could still do business..
:)
:)
I also helped unpack and install the new bread oven when it came in. That was a chore, let me tell you..
There have been other minor things, but I like the free food, so..
As it is now, I get free Subway from the local Subway (duh) and my taxes are done by a CPA here in town.
:)
All I need to do now is get in good with a auto repair shop and all my major expenses are taken care of!
You don't deserve the +5 Insightful that you received at the time of my posting.
It was specifically stated that they were using an Atari 2600 right in the blurb.
Geez... Oh, and just because you think something is boring doesn't mean the rest of us have to..
Of course they also say people get 18.5 spam per day, and I'm tipping in at 20x that.
My SpamTaco(tm) campaign must be working, then! Muahahahaha!
Do not allow the government to expand simply because it convienences you. The more it convienences your the more control it will eventually exert over you. Pretty soon you will find you will only have to access to what they want you to and when they want you to.
No, I do not need tinfoil hat. I just believe in small and non-intrusive government. I also believe that they should only provide the services that are required. They are not here to provide luxuries.
I believe you DO need a tin foil hat.
There is one very simple way to fix the 'dire problem' with government you list above. It's one word. Quite the simple word, yet, *very* powerful. As a matter of fact, it turned this country for the worse, and will *hopefully* be corrected during the next Presidential elections.
That word?
VOTE
You don't like what your local government is pushing with the shiny new wireless access? Vote their asses out and vote someone IN who shares your views. If not enough people share your views, you've got three choices. Move away, or do whatever it is that you're not in agreement with on your own. You can also just deal with it.
Not letting the government do something simply because it *might* go in a direction you don't like is not a good excuse.
You are missing the point. They don't need to be selling hardware. They still sell music and Apple's iPod is not compatible with the MSN Music store. That being the case, Apple's iPod *IS* a competitor to what MS sells, regardless of whether MS sells MP3 hardware or not. Plus, MS, as I stated before, makes money by selling licenses to the .wma format to vendors that DO make MP3 hardware. Not purchasing one of those players is more money lost in MS's eyes.
I do not have perfect spelling, and I make mistakes. I post here searching for someone to discuss/debate with, yet all I run into is idiots.
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:)
:)
Judging by your ID, you must be fairly new here..
Slashdot is full of idiots. That is something you will have to get used to.
I have recently started using every mod point I can to mod negativly those who fall into the spelling/grammar nazi catagory.
There are a few of us available to debate. Problem is that number seems to be dwindling day by day...
Oh.. And to keep this on topic -- The only MP3 player I own is an Awia CD-based one.
It's a competing product becuase MS licenses the .wma stuff to third parties to put into their MP3 players.
It's also a competing product becuase MS has the MSN Music Store -- and guess what. It doesn't work with Apple's iPod.
I 'failed to recognize' those 'facts' because they don't matter. "Proper" typing *never* includes resting your wrists on the device on which you are typing. Never. The fact that people do it is not the fault of the touch pad developers.
And wasn't the touchpad the one that causes constant random pointer motion due to your palms naturaly pressing on it and thus requiring some weird and rarely working kludges such as "palm detection" software?
Decided I had to take exception to that. The "typist" position you speak of does not include you resting your palms on the keyboard while typing. You are supposed to keep your palms in the air whilst you type.
I took a typing class in 7'th, 8'th, and 9'th grade. Each teacher had the same lesson. Since I've become a computer tech, the various classrooms I've visited while typing classes were in session had the same lesson...
I've grown to accept the touch pad, though I didn't like it at first. I can use either fairly well but prefer a seperate mouse where possible.
I'm sure if we just circumcise, it'll be OK in the American eyes.
Sometimes, I wonder why I still live here...
Ummm.. No, it doesn't. Mike was sued because he had mikerowesoft.com. Wich, when pronounced out loud, sounds *exactly* like microsoft.com. He wasn't sued because he was posting Microsoft pre-release material/rumors/whatever on his web page.
These are totally different cases.
In my humble, and somewhat learn-ed opinion, I think Bose is VERY over-rated.
I'll put my Onkyo receiver up against any Bose, any day...
Even the Onkyo was abit expensive, I think, but FAR less than a Bose system. Plus, with the way it's built, it should last a very long time.. Plus, it was a gift to me (I forget the model number, but I got it Christmas of 2003 and at that time, it was $499 at Circuit City if I remember correctly).