Usually, if you read the fine print, the 30 day trial 'offer' is only valid if you pay for at least one month of service. The fact that he could cancel his account before actually paying any money is what's unheard of. They're still dicks, but not as big dicks as they could be.
They have internet access in Afghanistan? And they use it to check to see who killed who in the village on the other side of the mountain they don't like? And then they use that info to target specific soldiers?
The afghans know that US soldiers accidentally (or otherwise) kill civilians on a regular basis. That cat is already out of the bag. The names don't matter TO ANYONE.
When the 17 year old Mountain Dew addicts get you down, switch to playing on servers with friendly fire==on. That shit is a whole other ballgame. You'll feel so much better when twitchy-McFastFingers can't tell red from blue.
It feels like 30 seconds when you have a badass computer at home with 4 cores, 8gb ram, and an SSD.... and then you go to work. 5 seconds of explorer refreshing seems like 5 minutes.
I'd rather work with someone who has a Facebook page full of comments, a selection of interests and some drunk pictures than the antisocial guy with no life.
I've seen just as many HPs with the same problem... and lets not even get started on the HP/Compaq laptops with the motherboard-no-worky problem.
customer: "My laptop turns on, the fan spins, the lights come on, but there's nothing on the screen..."
me: "Is it a Compaq V-series laptop?"
customer: "Yes! how did you know?"
me: "Nevermind that. Is it under warranty?"
customer: "No."
me: "You're screwed. Buy a new laptop that isn't an HP"
The worst part is I was convinced it was nVidia's fault until I stared seeing ATI based laptops with the same effing problem. Been seeing a few much more recent CQ-series laptops with the exact same problem as well.
Right, that's much less of a slippery-slope. Indefinite detention is indefinite detention, regardless of whether you call it punishment or treatment, and almost any crime could be considered the product of a diseased mind.
If you fucking hate us so much, stop eating our McDonalds, stop wearing our Levi's, stop watching our MTV (shit, we don't even watch it anymore), and while you're at it, you can stop using the global communication networks we've paid for. Summary: you hate us because you want to be us. You will stop hating us when you wake up and realize you are already us, and that the extravagant American lifestyle you envy does not exist anywhere except on your TVs.
If your console's cartridges don't have those idiotic tiny plastic teeth *cough*DS*cough*, use rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab instead. It's fairly close to the method used in the official NES cleaning kit.
true story: > Once upon a time when I was 14, I wanted to clean the connectors on my NES cartridges... reading the NES instruction booklet, and the booklets of the individual games, I learned that I shouldn't use water or alcohol to clean with, because these solvents may damage the circuit board. So instead of a $.99 bottle of alcohol, I paid $10 for a tiny bottle of cleaning solution with a crappy applicator, because it had the NINTENDO seal of approval. Ingredients contained in the cleaning solution: alcohol mixed with water. FUCK YOU NINTENDO.
I don't see why James Cameron's involvement is necessary. Stereoscopic imaging is pretty simple technology, and it's not like James Cameron invented it.
NASA is just name-dropping. NASA has been a PR-disaster-barely-avoided for its entire history. It used to be a military ICBM research project disguised as Flash Gordon, but the 21st century needs something new.... like Total Recall disguised as WALL-E's 3D adventure in space.
Does the preceding sentence make no sense to you? It'll make lots of sense to your grandchildren when they're serfs mining helium3 on the moon.
I offer SSDs as an option on my new builds, and even after explaining the speed benefits don't have any takers, why? Because folks want bigger more than they want faster, that's why.
I do the same, and 90% of the time, they want SSD. You're not explaining it right.
More like everyone wants a 2nd gen SSD, and distributors and retailers want to unload their stock of garbage-ass 1st gen drives. I know what MSRP is on some of these drives, and I can only come to the conclusion that retailers are trying to get consumers to pay for 1st gen shit that will never, EVER sell. Not me. I already paid the early adopter tax ($400 for 16GB), and got burned (drive controller chip has no cache, causing stuttering). A lot of people paid the early adopter tax, and got fucking burned. I'll be waiting for 2nd(or higher) gen drives with 80+GB for $100.
Right, Obama is completely different from Bush. He closed down Guantanamo Bay, ended the "War on Terror", ended the practice of shoveling billions of dollars into the gaping maw of Wall Street Leech Monster, and is fighting hard to repeal Patriot Acts I and II so that we can have our privacy and/or freedom back.
Your average blue-collar idiot is smart enough to detect circular logic. i.e. AGW is real because we see higher temperatures, and the temperatures numbers are fudged to show a warming trend because we know AWG is happening and we need to prove it to the idiot masses.
Your average blue-collar idiot is also smart enough to see a conflict of interest... such as it not being in Jiffy Lube's best interest to tell you that your car doesn't need an oil change. What do climatologist do for a living other than telling us the sky is falling? Do they study the changes in the Earth's climate over billions of years? No, geologists do that. When geologists start telling me its time to panic, I'll panic.
Since when do ads get loaded after the content? I can't count how many times I've stared for 10+ seconds at a white screen with "connecting to foo.ads.doubleclick.com" is in the status bar at the bottom. I really don't know if its the browser(s), or if the pages in question are designed to load ads first.... either way, its goddamn annoying.
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Usually, if you read the fine print, the 30 day trial 'offer' is only valid if you pay for at least one month of service. The fact that he could cancel his account before actually paying any money is what's unheard of. They're still dicks, but not as big dicks as they could be.
They have internet access in Afghanistan? And they use it to check to see who killed who in the village on the other side of the mountain they don't like? And then they use that info to target specific soldiers?
The afghans know that US soldiers accidentally (or otherwise) kill civilians on a regular basis. That cat is already out of the bag. The names don't matter TO ANYONE.
not if the list gets slash-dotted.... they can't watch us all (yet).
I've never heard a good explanation of WHAT, exactly, is contained in these documents that's going to get people killed.
Actually, what he said does make sense. Edu-tainment is a real trend, and one I also find disturbing.
When the 17 year old Mountain Dew addicts get you down, switch to playing on servers with friendly fire==on. That shit is a whole other ballgame. You'll feel so much better when twitchy-McFastFingers can't tell red from blue.
It feels like 30 seconds when you have a badass computer at home with 4 cores, 8gb ram, and an SSD.... and then you go to work. 5 seconds of explorer refreshing seems like 5 minutes.
I'll take the guy with no life.
you do realize that 7" is measured diagonally right?
I've seen just as many HPs with the same problem... and lets not even get started on the HP/Compaq laptops with the motherboard-no-worky problem.
customer: "My laptop turns on, the fan spins, the lights come on, but there's nothing on the screen..."
me: "Is it a Compaq V-series laptop?"
customer: "Yes! how did you know?"
me: "Nevermind that. Is it under warranty?"
customer: "No."
me: "You're screwed. Buy a new laptop that isn't an HP"
The worst part is I was convinced it was nVidia's fault until I stared seeing ATI based laptops with the same effing problem. Been seeing a few much more recent CQ-series laptops with the exact same problem as well.
You have a very limited understanding of the US constitution if you think the military is supposed to exist during peacetime.
I'd rather play a few hundred thousand games of tic-tac-toe.
Right, that's much less of a slippery-slope. Indefinite detention is indefinite detention, regardless of whether you call it punishment or treatment, and almost any crime could be considered the product of a diseased mind.
Same ole' crap. "Stop stealing," says the thief.
If you fucking hate us so much, stop eating our McDonalds, stop wearing our Levi's, stop watching our MTV (shit, we don't even watch it anymore), and while you're at it, you can stop using the global communication networks we've paid for. Summary: you hate us because you want to be us. You will stop hating us when you wake up and realize you are already us, and that the extravagant American lifestyle you envy does not exist anywhere except on your TVs.
Shower-sex is a novelty. You do it once so you can talk about it with your friends, then never again.
Why? Water gets EVERYWHERE, and it makes a piss-poor lube.
true story:
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Once upon a time when I was 14, I wanted to clean the connectors on my NES cartridges... reading the NES instruction booklet, and the booklets of the individual games, I learned that I shouldn't use water or alcohol to clean with, because these solvents may damage the circuit board. So instead of a $.99 bottle of alcohol, I paid $10 for a tiny bottle of cleaning solution with a crappy applicator, because it had the NINTENDO seal of approval. Ingredients contained in the cleaning solution: alcohol mixed with water. FUCK YOU NINTENDO.
NASA is just name-dropping. NASA has been a PR-disaster-barely-avoided for its entire history. It used to be a military ICBM research project disguised as Flash Gordon, but the 21st century needs something new.... like Total Recall disguised as WALL-E's 3D adventure in space.
Does the preceding sentence make no sense to you? It'll make lots of sense to your grandchildren when they're serfs mining helium3 on the moon.
Fuck, I already used the mod points I got today!!!!
If moderation could go over 5, this post would be OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!11one
I do the same, and 90% of the time, they want SSD. You're not explaining it right.
More like everyone wants a 2nd gen SSD, and distributors and retailers want to unload their stock of garbage-ass 1st gen drives. I know what MSRP is on some of these drives, and I can only come to the conclusion that retailers are trying to get consumers to pay for 1st gen shit that will never, EVER sell. Not me. I already paid the early adopter tax ($400 for 16GB), and got burned (drive controller chip has no cache, causing stuttering). A lot of people paid the early adopter tax, and got fucking burned. I'll be waiting for 2nd(or higher) gen drives with 80+GB for $100.
Right, Obama is completely different from Bush. He closed down Guantanamo Bay, ended the "War on Terror", ended the practice of shoveling billions of dollars into the gaping maw of Wall Street Leech Monster, and is fighting hard to repeal Patriot Acts I and II so that we can have our privacy and/or freedom back.
Your average blue-collar idiot is smart enough to detect circular logic. i.e. AGW is real because we see higher temperatures, and the temperatures numbers are fudged to show a warming trend because we know AWG is happening and we need to prove it to the idiot masses.
Your average blue-collar idiot is also smart enough to see a conflict of interest... such as it not being in Jiffy Lube's best interest to tell you that your car doesn't need an oil change. What do climatologist do for a living other than telling us the sky is falling? Do they study the changes in the Earth's climate over billions of years? No, geologists do that. When geologists start telling me its time to panic, I'll panic.
Since when do ads get loaded after the content? I can't count how many times I've stared for 10+ seconds at a white screen with "connecting to foo.ads.doubleclick.com" is in the status bar at the bottom. I really don't know if its the browser(s), or if the pages in question are designed to load ads first.... either way, its goddamn annoying.