Very similar to my experience with that type of store. I paid cash for next day delivery of an in-stock, on-the-shelf item there, and was guaranteed a specific delivery time. I wasn't able to take it home with me because it was too big to fit into my car, hence the delivery.
On delivery day, a no-show. Called the store, got nowhere. Went to the store, and found the true story: The item was resold to another customer some 30 minutes after I had paid for it and left for home.
Long story short, it took me threatening to call the police about theft before they would refund my cash money. I had paid them over $600 for that item, and they were telling me I had to wait another two weeks for delivery -or- wait 30 days for the refund check from the corporate HQ.
I gave the store manager a choice: my money back now, or he would get to find out how tight handcuffs are. As I explained to him, $600 makes this a felony...
Somehow, they'll try to add Jar Jar Binks as a comic relief alien. You know, as a formerly bad alien, who's very inept and finds these humans fascinating, even though they're really fugly.
And at the end of the movie, he's hailed by all as one of the heroes,
despite the fact that he arrived with the invaders and was a part of their world for many years.
Only then can we tell the perpetrators of this (I will not call it a movie) abomination.
I've already built my own micro sized UAV. I used a Walkera 5G6 miniature RC helicopter ($80)
and a wireless 2.4ghz ($25) camera with it's own (3x2032 coin cells!) power source. 100 meter range and 7 minute flight time.
It's so quiet that at 20 meters away you cannot hear it and you can bareley see it at 50 meters.
The inflight video is amazing, somewhat shaky but very watchable.
And no, I will not post it. Google youtube for other examples done by other users.
The Walkera tips the scales at about 90 grams loaded (3 ounces).
TOYS-R-US has all the toys, from the little desktop poseables to the full fledged remote control-bot.
Plus all the other merchandising associated with a major movie release.
It's there, I saw it over two weeks back when shopping for a new Chatty Cathy to replace the one I wore out..
Dont ask. It's personal, I tell you, PERSONAL.
A question I was asked: Do you know the difference between environmentalists and real estate developers?
Enviromentalists already own homes in the protected wildlife sanctuary areas...
Was it me or was there another "dead" zone recently spotted in a bay in western Australia? Something to do with bacterial growth created by overused fertilizer runoff and illegal sewage dumping? Well, Duh. Anybody ever seen a pond full of algae?. That's the end product to bacterial growth. The algae's there because it's pretty much the -only- plant life that can eat the bacteria. Sometimes it's not a fair fight, though. That bacteria's mean. It's got toxins. About 1300 of them. Some of them fatal to humans.
What, so now it's ok to pay premium prices for snake-oil?
If I told you that the caffiene in this drink will make you (questionably) "better", why would you believe me?
How about an alternative that has been found to be true: When you're tired, take a break and EAT something. I can get more energy out of a bowl of soup at midnight than three or four Bawls could give me. Any soup's fine, so long as it's a good soup... and I'm not talking Ramen, either.
I think you're setting yourself up if you honestly believe that these drinks are good for you. I can see where the geek factor applied in this, somehow, little nerd scientists/engineers have gotten some of the marketing yahoos to believe that all they need is **energy drink** and they (the imbibers of this crap) will soon be at the top of their form after they drink this substance. Gee, what cartoon show did you steal that idea from...talk about living in dreamland...
Of couse, I'm NOT going to ask you to give these drinks up. Eventually, most of the really stupid humans just die off.
Really.
I call shenanigans on the author. Everybody line up in two rows with your baseball bats ready and we'll start him running down between you. First one to knock him down gets his name here in the hall of fame. Remember, allow for swing room with your neighbor! (This is how we should take care of psuedo-scientists who post idiocy for the world to read)...
In other news today, the US Supreme Court overturned a car....
I am soooo glad I didn't buy one of these yet. I believe I'll go out and look at some other POS that I'll get conned into buying due to the huge amount of hype thrown at me.
It looks like a lot of the posters here DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE! What else is new.
The simple answer, "Don't wear your uniform while not at work. Go home and change before going out to party. It gives customers a really bad impression when they see you ****faced while still wearing your official meter reader uniform.
What, the NLRB doesn't think we can be trusted?
(This may be a cover-your-ass type situation. For all we know, some bum in a uniform got busted doing crack on the way home. When his company rightly dumped him, he filed a grievance with his union over being fired while not on company business.)
What next? You say you want to detonate this fissionable material? Simple. Just make two balls of highly refined uranium, take one in each hand, and slap them together with as much force as your failing musculature can provide. (I say failing because if you get to this stage, you're only a couple of minutes away from dying from terminal radiation poisoning) The mass needed is critical and so is the speed (of the collision) so I think approx 2-3 pounds in each hand would do fairly well for a start. Observe the reaction, if you are able.
If you do not see any Cherenkov radiation (eerie blue glow) you probably have not refined the uranium to a high enough purity. Go back to the centrifuge and continue that process. Re-refine until purity is at least 99.995% pure uranium.
So there it is, the secret to a successful device
activation........
Have fun with your new toy and remember to be responsible and pick up your toys out of the driveway so Dad will -not- back over them on the way to work.
Next week on the "kids answer pages", we discuss how to infiltrate the RIAA and the MPAA using well known KGB mind control procedures.
How does this relate to ME. Is it going to change my world? Will more lawyers be involved? Will I have to petition SCOTUS in order to prove that I didn't pirate the technology? Will they believe me, because I used that technology in the petition? Will I need to reveal my super-secret trademarked "chemical representation of symbolic
markings created by non-mechanical means" during that petition?
RTA!!!... and I really don't care to hear a "David and Goliath" type story about the "underdogs with $800 and a box of tampons" vs the AAAA science schools with unlimited budgets...
Didn't you people watch "Junkyard Wars"?
Hell, I could build a armored personnel carrier out
of a bathtub and a lawnmower. Oh wait, they did that already at Burning Man '04.
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Very similar to my experience with that type of store. I paid cash for next day delivery of an in-stock, on-the-shelf item there, and was guaranteed a specific delivery time. I wasn't able to take it home with me because it was too big to fit into my car, hence the delivery. On delivery day, a no-show. Called the store, got nowhere. Went to the store, and found the true story: The item was resold to another customer some 30 minutes after I had paid for it and left for home. Long story short, it took me threatening to call the police about theft before they would refund my cash money. I had paid them over $600 for that item, and they were telling me I had to wait another two weeks for delivery -or- wait 30 days for the refund check from the corporate HQ. I gave the store manager a choice: my money back now, or he would get to find out how tight handcuffs are. As I explained to him, $600 makes this a felony...
Same quality news organization that brought us this gem: "Diana was still alive HOURS before the accident!!!"
Somehow, they'll try to add Jar Jar Binks as a comic relief alien. You know, as a formerly bad alien, who's very inept and finds these humans fascinating, even though they're really fugly. And at the end of the movie, he's hailed by all as one of the heroes, despite the fact that he arrived with the invaders and was a part of their world for many years. Only then can we tell the perpetrators of this (I will not call it a movie) abomination.
As in Toyota?
Walmart? Mcdonalds??
I submitted this two days back and it's still in "pending". Somehow, I got on Cmdr Taco's s***list, and there I remain.
I've already built my own micro sized UAV. I used a Walkera 5G6 miniature RC helicopter ($80) and a wireless 2.4ghz ($25) camera with it's own (3x2032 coin cells!) power source. 100 meter range and 7 minute flight time. It's so quiet that at 20 meters away you cannot hear it and you can bareley see it at 50 meters. The inflight video is amazing, somewhat shaky but very watchable. And no, I will not post it. Google youtube for other examples done by other users. The Walkera tips the scales at about 90 grams loaded (3 ounces).
TOYS-R-US has all the toys, from the little desktop poseables to the full fledged remote control-bot. Plus all the other merchandising associated with a major movie release. It's there, I saw it over two weeks back when shopping for a new Chatty Cathy to replace the one I wore out.. Dont ask. It's personal, I tell you, PERSONAL.
A question I was asked: Do you know the difference between environmentalists and real estate developers? Enviromentalists already own homes in the protected wildlife sanctuary areas...
they were Cairn Terrierists.
It's up there. Current kits known as HID in the auto industry are around $150 for two bulb/ballast combos, and they run on 12V.
$75 each.
I know! I know! pick me. pick me. I know. Uhhhhh.... those little US Mail trucks? The little white ones?
Was it me or was there another "dead" zone recently spotted in a bay in western Australia? Something to do with bacterial growth created by overused fertilizer runoff and illegal sewage dumping? Well, Duh. Anybody ever seen a pond full of algae?. That's the end product to bacterial growth. The algae's there because it's pretty much the -only- plant life that can eat the bacteria. Sometimes it's not a fair fight, though. That bacteria's mean. It's got toxins. About 1300 of them.
Some of them fatal to humans.
I was going to say "the Virtual Pet Rock" but then you said "technical".
What, so now it's ok to pay premium prices for snake-oil? If I told you that the caffiene in this drink will make you (questionably) "better", why would you believe me? How about an alternative that has been found to be true: When you're tired, take a break and EAT something. I can get more energy out of a bowl of soup at midnight than three or four Bawls could give me. Any soup's fine, so long as it's a good soup... and I'm not talking Ramen, either. I think you're setting yourself up if you honestly believe that these drinks are good for you. I can see where the geek factor applied in this, somehow, little nerd scientists/engineers have gotten some of the marketing yahoos to believe that all they need is **energy drink** and they (the imbibers of this crap) will soon be at the top of their form after they drink this substance. Gee, what cartoon show did you steal that idea from...talk about living in dreamland... Of couse, I'm NOT going to ask you to give these drinks up. Eventually, most of the really stupid humans just die off. Really.
(1) Go to Wendy's, buy a large cup of chili..... (2) never mind.
Is it possible to slashdot Slashdot? If it is, should we? We now have a reason...
I call shenanigans on the author. Everybody line up in two rows with your baseball bats ready and we'll start him running down between you. First one to knock him down gets his name here in the hall of fame. Remember, allow for swing room with your neighbor! (This is how we should take care of psuedo-scientists who post idiocy for the world to read)... In other news today, the US Supreme Court overturned a car....
Great. I get to buy "The White Album" yet again.....
I am soooo glad I didn't buy one of these yet. I believe I'll go out and look at some other POS that I'll get conned into buying due to the huge amount of hype thrown at me.
It looks like a lot of the posters here DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE! What else is new. The simple answer, "Don't wear your uniform while not at work. Go home and change before going out to party. It gives customers a really bad impression when they see you ****faced while still wearing your official meter reader uniform. What, the NLRB doesn't think we can be trusted? (This may be a cover-your-ass type situation. For all we know, some bum in a uniform got busted doing crack on the way home. When his company rightly dumped him, he filed a grievance with his union over being fired while not on company business.)
What next? You say you want to detonate this fissionable material? Simple. Just make two balls of highly refined uranium, take one in each hand, and slap them together with as much force as your failing musculature can provide. (I say failing because if you get to this stage, you're only a couple of minutes away from dying from terminal radiation poisoning) The mass needed is critical and so is the speed (of the collision) so I think approx 2-3 pounds in each hand would do fairly well for a start. Observe the reaction, if you are able. If you do not see any Cherenkov radiation (eerie blue glow) you probably have not refined the uranium to a high enough purity. Go back to the centrifuge and continue that process. Re-refine until purity is at least 99.995% pure uranium. So there it is, the secret to a successful device activation........ Have fun with your new toy and remember to be responsible and pick up your toys out of the driveway so Dad will -not- back over them on the way to work. Next week on the "kids answer pages", we discuss how to infiltrate the RIAA and the MPAA using well known KGB mind control procedures.
How does this relate to ME. Is it going to change my world? Will more lawyers be involved? Will I have to petition SCOTUS in order to prove that I didn't pirate the technology? Will they believe me, because I used that technology in the petition? Will I need to reveal my super-secret trademarked "chemical representation of symbolic markings created by non-mechanical means" during that petition?
RTA!!!... and I really don't care to hear a "David and Goliath" type story about the "underdogs with $800 and a box of tampons" vs the AAAA science schools with unlimited budgets... Didn't you people watch "Junkyard Wars"? Hell, I could build a armored personnel carrier out of a bathtub and a lawnmower. Oh wait, they did that already at Burning Man '04.
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