Oh, I see. A douchebag is someone who wishes to protect their family and the things they have worked for. While a burglar, I suppose, must be practically a saint. This society is really making me sick, always wanting to coddle the criminals while giving hard working people crap for trying to keep and enjoy what they have worked for. Why don't all you people who want to allow people to steal from each other without repercussions go start yourself a new country? I'll even come visit sometimes, but I won't bring my wallet.
On a side note, don't mount the cameras up high looking down. All you will get is an image of the robber's hoodies or baseball cap logo. Mount the cameras in a concealed location at eye level. This way you basically get a mug shot. If you want cameras for deterrent you can get fake cameras to mount up high. The only cameras you want up high are to capture the over all picture. I will tell you that you will be sorely disappointed if your security camera only provides enough evidence to say that a guy(race unknown) 5'4" to 5'10" wearing a Blue Molson hat, a grey sweatshirt, jeans, and black sneakers took all your stuff. Get a good enough picture at eye level and the police will drive right over to the halfway house and arrest him 20 minutes later.
That's a good point, but since they are cheap, I would recommend having the obvious ones up high as well. They don't even have to be turned on. 90% of the point of an alarm system is prevention. If you can catch somebody in the act, that is just a plus. If they see video cameras, they are not going to be thinking that it will only see their hoodie. They will be thinking of moving on to another house. You are correct that you should hide the ones at eye level, otherwise they will steal it.
You raise a good point. Also, the big name monitoring companies install junk, absolute junk. For the most part, it is hard-to-get junk, which means you have to source it from them when it breaks and they will want to charge to install it. Also, they will install it in the most inefficient method possible, and use methods which are more expensive for you in the long run. Instead of running wires to the central unit, they install battery powered components which require expensive specialty batteries. Their equipment registers false alarms at the rate of about one per month. After my three year minimum term, I turned mine off and didn't look back. I keep the sign in the yard, I think that is about 99% of the deterrent to thieves anyway.
So does mine. And so, I would conjecture, do all dogs.
Why do we insist on speculating that animals have all of these magical abilities, like the ability to tell which way is north, ability to tell when an earthquake is coming, ability to tell when a person has cancer, etc. Humans are animals too, and yet we can't do any of these things (without tools). Frankly, I think the people who say animals can do these things are just full of crap.
Finally, be aware that your chiclet keyboard is not actually made of Chiclets [wikipedia.org]. I say "be aware", because if you actually try to eat your keys, you may cause damage to your new laptop.
I've seen a few of these chiclet keyboards. Apparently they are the new fad. I guess I was just 30 years ahead of my time because my TRS-80 had chiclet keys and i thought it was awesome, but everybody looked down their noses at me.
I'm trying to decide if you are being sarcastic, because other than the Office comment, which there are pluses and minuses, everything single other thing I disagree with completely.
If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.
All major brands of AV eventually become bloated pigs that manage to bring your system to it's knees while also not being able to detect viruses. ESET is by far the worst in my experience. I literally am unable to work on my laptop while this pile of puke is thrashing my hard drive for about 25% of my day. I literally have my laptop running about 23 hours a day, and it spends about 6 hours a day running the virus scan (300 GB drive about 2/3 full). ESET is required by my work so I am stuck with it.
I found the free AVs to be better than the commercial ones, but even the free ones eventually become bloated pigs. I've given up on AVG. I am reasonably satisfied with Avast, but I'm sure it will become a pig in the next couple of years and will have to be replaced.
Also, never let someone else use your computer, period.
Exactly. My wife is complaining about her laptop being slow and popups and things telling her she needs to download something to fix her computer. I pointed out how I use MY computer probably 10 hours a day, including surfing the net. I literally have no AV running. I have had not one problem. Well, okay, I had one. My stepson used it for about 15 minutes one day, and then I had to spend about an hour uninstalling an unwanted browser toolbar that kept reinstalling itself.
She let's the kids use her computer, and so there is all kinds of crapware running on it.
Yes, because in that scenario I end up without a car. If I "steal" a movie by downloading and then go see it in theaters/buy the DVD because of that, the studio/theater ends up with my money, and still has the movie in any case.
Yes, you deprived them of income by taking the movie without paying for it. The fact that they still have it available to distribute to someone else is irrelevant. If you later buy a DVD of it legitimately, that is a separate transaction and next to impossible to trace back to a pirated original viewing and also irrelevant for them to have to justify.
It's a peculiarly American thing to feel sorry for the middle class. It's a bit like white folks feeling they've been hard done to because they don't have as much discrimination to benefit from these days.
It's gotten a lot worse in my lifetime. it used to be that middle class could pretty much hold their own. We knew the rich were rich and could afford whatever they wanted. That is fine. We knew the poor were given some subsidies for basic subsistence. But on the whole, if you worked hard, you could afford nicer things. But now it has gotten to a point where the definition of subsistence has become such that the poor have to have a cell phone and a $100 a month data plan. It used to be that a working middle class person would have nicer things than the someone living off of the government. But now the middle class is asked to do without so that people who don't work can have nicer things. It's not like this snuck up on us either. it has been changing for awhile. Back when I had first graduated college, I had student loans, a low paying entry level job, and a food budget of about $25 a month. My sister was on food stamps and got about $400 month for groceries. I was paying out of my taxes for her to have 8 times my food budget. It's only gotten worse since then. I was renting a house out, and one of the applicants drove up in a late model BMW 5 series. She asked if I took Section 8 (the local government assisted housing program). I can't afford a BMW, so how come people on government assistance can?
I can see a place for a 12.9" iPad. It'd be great for a couple snuggling up on a couch to watch a movie
What? So someone is going to have to hold it so it will be close enough to see. That would be extremely uncomfortable, and having a hand occupied defeats the purpose of snuggling together on the couch. Also, I have a 10 inch tablet and I find the screen too small to watch a movie on.
As a professor, I'd welcome a monoculture. I'd love for all my students to have the same machine with the same OS and the same apps. Otherwise, every class with a computer component becomes a class in teaching half the students how to change systems settings or whatever on different machines. The average student doesn't have any great computer competence, despite the "digital natives" hype. They can get on Facebook or use Google, but inserting a header in a document or hooking up to an external monitor is beyond them. I can really understand why other educators would want a "monoculture." (However, I think the emphasis on computers in education is misplaced and overhyped. My students, at the college level, would benefit much more from learning touch typing and a few basics than from whatever malarky they're being taught now.)
Well, this is because modern "computer" classes in High School don't teach anything useful. When I went to High School, you learned how to program in the computer class. Now, they apparently learn how to watch youtube and how to pirate media. My stepson took the computer class at school and got an A and did not know what software to use if he needed to write a report. However, he does know how to rip videos and audio.
You are overgeneralising. My youngest son goes to a school that uses iPads. The kids all take their iPad to school every day, and after one and a half year, his one is still in perfect condition, and I think the whole class had one 'accident' over that period. The school found a pretty simple solution to prevent this: the parents pay for the iPads themselves...
This is just stupid. An ipad is a specific device by a specific brand. They can tell you to bring a pencil or paper, and as long as it meets specifications, it doesn't matter what you bring. But to specify a certain brand of tablet is not right. First of all tablets are expensive. Only rich people or people who are bad with money can afford to have them for their children. I'm sure that Obama will buy them for the poor folks. But the middle class people are then left out. They can't afford to buy one because they are subsidizing them for the poor people. This is just corporate graft an d corruption to use our tax dollars to shore up an industry that is drowning in its own profits.
Oh, I agree with you there. I have a pickup for my rental home business, but I only drive it when I need to haul a bunch of tools or need to buy something big.
It's the people who say they want a pickup because they need one for their family or for safety or for ice and snow that I find perplexing.
I got the game for Christmas, but haven't played it yet. It looks interesting. I'm a strictly single player guy. I don't find it interesting to play against others on the internet, especially profane 13 year olds who have nothing better to do but play online games 24/7.
It looks like Russia and the U.S. are also in the game, and you can play as any of them, so will it also be banned in the U.S. and Russia? Nope? Didn't think so.
But if you have a bedliner, the bedliner might get scratched. You know what we need is a bedliner-liner. Call the venture capitalists, I think I have the next big idea.
I was told in science class that the reason aluminum doesn't rust (okay, OXIDIZE) is that it actually oxidizes almost immediately on the outer layer and forms a layer to thick for further oxidation to occur.
But, as GP said, a polished aluminum look would look sharp, and save the weight of paint too. Remember the old American Airlines polished aluminum planes? They looked awesome. Not sure why they changed. The paint on a plane can weigh half a ton, and on a plane, weight is much more a factor in fuel than it is for a car.
Well, they save 900 pounds of rolling weight, so the increase in gas mileage is probably...a rounding error. Besides they will probably add 100 pounds worth of more plastic crap, Corinthian leather, baubles, bangles, chiffon, cupholders, and now, introducing, a makeup station at every seat, complete with lipstick holders and a personal rearview mirror!
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Oh, I see. A douchebag is someone who wishes to protect their family and the things they have worked for. While a burglar, I suppose, must be practically a saint. This society is really making me sick, always wanting to coddle the criminals while giving hard working people crap for trying to keep and enjoy what they have worked for. Why don't all you people who want to allow people to steal from each other without repercussions go start yourself a new country? I'll even come visit sometimes, but I won't bring my wallet.
On a side note, don't mount the cameras up high looking down. All you will get is an image of the robber's hoodies or baseball cap logo. Mount the cameras in a concealed location at eye level. This way you basically get a mug shot. If you want cameras for deterrent you can get fake cameras to mount up high. The only cameras you want up high are to capture the over all picture. I will tell you that you will be sorely disappointed if your security camera only provides enough evidence to say that a guy(race unknown) 5'4" to 5'10" wearing a Blue Molson hat, a grey sweatshirt, jeans, and black sneakers took all your stuff. Get a good enough picture at eye level and the police will drive right over to the halfway house and arrest him 20 minutes later.
That's a good point, but since they are cheap, I would recommend having the obvious ones up high as well. They don't even have to be turned on. 90% of the point of an alarm system is prevention. If you can catch somebody in the act, that is just a plus. If they see video cameras, they are not going to be thinking that it will only see their hoodie. They will be thinking of moving on to another house. You are correct that you should hide the ones at eye level, otherwise they will steal it.
Fact is, this class of thieves is more likely to steal from, in, and around their own class of townfolk.
Or family.
You raise a good point. Also, the big name monitoring companies install junk, absolute junk. For the most part, it is hard-to-get junk, which means you have to source it from them when it breaks and they will want to charge to install it. Also, they will install it in the most inefficient method possible, and use methods which are more expensive for you in the long run. Instead of running wires to the central unit, they install battery powered components which require expensive specialty batteries. Their equipment registers false alarms at the rate of about one per month. After my three year minimum term, I turned mine off and didn't look back. I keep the sign in the yard, I think that is about 99% of the deterrent to thieves anyway.
So does mine. And so, I would conjecture, do all dogs.
Why do we insist on speculating that animals have all of these magical abilities, like the ability to tell which way is north, ability to tell when an earthquake is coming, ability to tell when a person has cancer, etc. Humans are animals too, and yet we can't do any of these things (without tools). Frankly, I think the people who say animals can do these things are just full of crap.
I would assume the insurance company of the expedition.
So what do you do when work calls you at 1 AM? Drive to work?
Finally, be aware that your chiclet keyboard is not actually made of Chiclets [wikipedia.org]. I say "be aware", because if you actually try to eat your keys, you may cause damage to your new laptop.
I've seen a few of these chiclet keyboards. Apparently they are the new fad. I guess I was just 30 years ahead of my time because my TRS-80 had chiclet keys and i thought it was awesome, but everybody looked down their noses at me.
I'm trying to decide if you are being sarcastic, because other than the Office comment, which there are pluses and minuses, everything single other thing I disagree with completely.
If you don't have antivirus, you shouldn't have a computer. Note that AVG works fine.
All major brands of AV eventually become bloated pigs that manage to bring your system to it's knees while also not being able to detect viruses. ESET is by far the worst in my experience. I literally am unable to work on my laptop while this pile of puke is thrashing my hard drive for about 25% of my day. I literally have my laptop running about 23 hours a day, and it spends about 6 hours a day running the virus scan (300 GB drive about 2/3 full). ESET is required by my work so I am stuck with it.
I found the free AVs to be better than the commercial ones, but even the free ones eventually become bloated pigs. I've given up on AVG. I am reasonably satisfied with Avast, but I'm sure it will become a pig in the next couple of years and will have to be replaced.
Also, never let someone else use your computer, period.
Exactly. My wife is complaining about her laptop being slow and popups and things telling her she needs to download something to fix her computer. I pointed out how I use MY computer probably 10 hours a day, including surfing the net. I literally have no AV running. I have had not one problem. Well, okay, I had one. My stepson used it for about 15 minutes one day, and then I had to spend about an hour uninstalling an unwanted browser toolbar that kept reinstalling itself.
She let's the kids use her computer, and so there is all kinds of crapware running on it.
Yes, because in that scenario I end up without a car. If I "steal" a movie by downloading and then go see it in theaters/buy the DVD because of that, the studio/theater ends up with my money, and still has the movie in any case.
Yes, you deprived them of income by taking the movie without paying for it. The fact that they still have it available to distribute to someone else is irrelevant. If you later buy a DVD of it legitimately, that is a separate transaction and next to impossible to trace back to a pirated original viewing and also irrelevant for them to have to justify.
If someone steals your car and then sends you $100,000 cash, you can still report your car stolen.
What is the big issue? The guy didn't even give away the location of the big shots new summer home.
It's a peculiarly American thing to feel sorry for the middle class. It's a bit like white folks feeling they've been hard done to because they don't have as much discrimination to benefit from these days.
It's gotten a lot worse in my lifetime. it used to be that middle class could pretty much hold their own. We knew the rich were rich and could afford whatever they wanted. That is fine. We knew the poor were given some subsidies for basic subsistence. But on the whole, if you worked hard, you could afford nicer things. But now it has gotten to a point where the definition of subsistence has become such that the poor have to have a cell phone and a $100 a month data plan. It used to be that a working middle class person would have nicer things than the someone living off of the government. But now the middle class is asked to do without so that people who don't work can have nicer things. It's not like this snuck up on us either. it has been changing for awhile. Back when I had first graduated college, I had student loans, a low paying entry level job, and a food budget of about $25 a month. My sister was on food stamps and got about $400 month for groceries. I was paying out of my taxes for her to have 8 times my food budget. It's only gotten worse since then. I was renting a house out, and one of the applicants drove up in a late model BMW 5 series. She asked if I took Section 8 (the local government assisted housing program). I can't afford a BMW, so how come people on government assistance can?
I can see a place for a 12.9" iPad. It'd be great for a couple snuggling up on a couch to watch a movie
What? So someone is going to have to hold it so it will be close enough to see. That would be extremely uncomfortable, and having a hand occupied defeats the purpose of snuggling together on the couch. Also, I have a 10 inch tablet and I find the screen too small to watch a movie on.
As a professor, I'd welcome a monoculture. I'd love for all my students to have the same machine with the same OS and the same apps. Otherwise, every class with a computer component becomes a class in teaching half the students how to change systems settings or whatever on different machines. The average student doesn't have any great computer competence, despite the "digital natives" hype. They can get on Facebook or use Google, but inserting a header in a document or hooking up to an external monitor is beyond them. I can really understand why other educators would want a "monoculture." (However, I think the emphasis on computers in education is misplaced and overhyped. My students, at the college level, would benefit much more from learning touch typing and a few basics than from whatever malarky they're being taught now.)
Well, this is because modern "computer" classes in High School don't teach anything useful. When I went to High School, you learned how to program in the computer class. Now, they apparently learn how to watch youtube and how to pirate media. My stepson took the computer class at school and got an A and did not know what software to use if he needed to write a report. However, he does know how to rip videos and audio.
You are overgeneralising. My youngest son goes to a school that uses iPads. The kids all take their iPad to school every day, and after one and a half year, his one is still in perfect condition, and I think the whole class had one 'accident' over that period. The school found a pretty simple solution to prevent this: the parents pay for the iPads themselves...
This is just stupid. An ipad is a specific device by a specific brand. They can tell you to bring a pencil or paper, and as long as it meets specifications, it doesn't matter what you bring. But to specify a certain brand of tablet is not right. First of all tablets are expensive. Only rich people or people who are bad with money can afford to have them for their children. I'm sure that Obama will buy them for the poor folks. But the middle class people are then left out. They can't afford to buy one because they are subsidizing them for the poor people. This is just corporate graft an d corruption to use our tax dollars to shore up an industry that is drowning in its own profits.
"Fosters. It's Australian for beer" ... brewed in Canada.
Oh, I agree with you there. I have a pickup for my rental home business, but I only drive it when I need to haul a bunch of tools or need to buy something big. It's the people who say they want a pickup because they need one for their family or for safety or for ice and snow that I find perplexing.
I got the game for Christmas, but haven't played it yet. It looks interesting. I'm a strictly single player guy. I don't find it interesting to play against others on the internet, especially profane 13 year olds who have nothing better to do but play online games 24/7.
It looks like Russia and the U.S. are also in the game, and you can play as any of them, so will it also be banned in the U.S. and Russia? Nope? Didn't think so.
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But if you have a bedliner, the bedliner might get scratched. You know what we need is a bedliner-liner. Call the venture capitalists, I think I have the next big idea.
I was told in science class that the reason aluminum doesn't rust (okay, OXIDIZE) is that it actually oxidizes almost immediately on the outer layer and forms a layer to thick for further oxidation to occur.
But, as GP said, a polished aluminum look would look sharp, and save the weight of paint too. Remember the old American Airlines polished aluminum planes? They looked awesome. Not sure why they changed. The paint on a plane can weigh half a ton, and on a plane, weight is much more a factor in fuel than it is for a car.
Well, they save 900 pounds of rolling weight, so the increase in gas mileage is probably...a rounding error. Besides they will probably add 100 pounds worth of more plastic crap, Corinthian leather, baubles, bangles, chiffon, cupholders, and now, introducing, a makeup station at every seat, complete with lipstick holders and a personal rearview mirror!