Wife brought daughter there for Saturday lunch. Some dirtbag employee started stalking her. Every time she turned around he was 10 feet away staring at her. She couldn't wait to get out of there.
I took daughter there for lunch one day while wife was working. We were the only ones at the counter. It took 10 minutes for someone to wait on us while 3 employees stood around counting tokens and others wandered around like zombies. I ordered a beer and the drone asked for my ID. I was about 50 and didn't look close to being under age but he had to check with his manager. He disappeared for another 10 minutes with my license and finally came back with his manager. I grabbed my license, told him what i thought of their service and walked out.
I guess you can't work at CeC unless you're a pervert, idiot or slacker. I wouldn't go back if everything was free.
Many years ago, Grandpa got tired of dogs pissing on his garbage cans out by the garage. One Model A coil, an old car battery, some wire and a switch by the kitchen window gave Grandpa lots of entertainment during his retirement years. Most only got it once, a few twice. None ever did it a 3rd time.
Ironically, that's one of the problems that drives me nuts with Windows--resolution switching. Perhaps the Mac has solved it, but I switch resolutions a lot to deal with different projectors when I travel to give talks and I end up with the same problem--the stupid OK button is off the screen so you have to reboot into safe mode to fix things.
Not true. Alt+Space then "m" for move or "s" for resize then use the arrow keys. Standard Windows keyboard shortcuts for a window control menu. The mouse will work in place of the arrow keys if you can get to the corners/edges you need.
Most of the reviews I've seen so far rate the movie as mediocre, even fans. A couple of reviewers severely panned it, like Colin Covert of the Star Tribune - one star, contains the second worst sex scene in cinema (or something like that - maybe it was just this year...) followed by it also contains the worst (and others round out the top 5), quotes like "Who watches the watchmen? Nobody."
I'd never heard of it before the TV ads. Saw it at a matinee yesterday. $7.25 for the ticket and $5.50 for a Cherry Coke. The Coke was more satisfying. The movie wasn't totally terrible but I'll never watch it again. Visually appealing but overly long and convoluted. I thought Coverts review nailed it. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/40792717.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnc5PDiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr There's a not real obvious link to additional pages on the lower right before the comments.
About a year ago we bought an OEM version of Windows Server 2003. The store sold us a case screw for $.01 with it. Legal? Don't know, don't care. It worked just fine.
We were looking at a new Toshiba notebook for my wife and were wondering how this whole downgrade worked. Do you get a copy of both Vista and XP? If you downgrade to XP will you be able to reinstall Vista in the future? or will they require you to purchase another license?
I don't know how it works with Toshiba but I just bought a Dell Vostro 1510 on the 11th on a one day sale. That one came with XP Pro installed plus a Vista Business license and CD that you could install later. At that time their normal systems not on a sale came with Vista Home and you could get XP Pro instead for $55.
I see now that they are shipping Vista Home by default. Home Premium is $29, Business is $99 and Ultimate is $149. XP PRo with the Vista Business "downgrade" is $99 and XP with Ultimate is $149.
Guess I got in just under the wire but if you sign up at Dell SB for their email specials they have new deals every week.
Reminds me of a very old (probably late 70's or early 80's) Hustler cartoon.
Two guys are standing next to a table. Bolted to the table was an old fashioned crank style meat grinder. There's a pile of ground meat on the table and an arm sticking out of the top of the grinder with its hand on the crank. One guy says to the other "Worst case of suicide I've ever seen!"
But there are any number of reasons why an email may not get delivered. Email delivery is not guaranteed. And I never acknowlege read receipts. I guess my question still stands. How (or why) can an email be considered a way of serving legal notice?
I'll admit that mayby I missed something over the past years but when did send an email become a way to serve legal notice of anything? I would have thought that serving a legal notice would have to be done in person or at least via registered mail.
And while I'm at it...holy crap that thing is ugly! Maybe Gehry et al figured anybody gullible enough to buy a building that takes all of the worst design cues from the 1960's and combines that with the appearance of being in the act of falling down would be an easy target to screw over.
Speaking of ugly buildings, here in Minneapolis we have the Weisman Art Museum designed by this same guy. Ugliest damned thing you ever saw. Looks like a sheetmetal dome that has been ravaged by a hailstorm. Everytime I drive by it I wonder when they're going to file the insurance claim.
You mean he's just like every other well know architect. Frank Lloyd Wright pull the exact same crap. His roofs were notorious for leaks and yet he's still Americas best known architect.
I wish I had mod points. I cringe every time I hear FLW & great architect in the same sentence. FLW was an asshole that couldn't keep water out of a building in Death Valley if his life depended on it.
I can get 500 GB of local storage for $100, and I don't have to worry about what some corporation is going to do with my data.
I agree. I recently bought 5 Seagate 500GB drives for $495 shipped from Newegg. That's almost 2T RAID5 and it's local. Beats $500 for 250 GB from Google and have to suffer through upload/download wait times.
If you want offsite storage all you have to do is map a drive to a system in another location. No need for FTP or anything. A buddy and I did this for a while. We set up a share for each other (we both had static IPs) and set up mapped drives on our systems. Pick a work machine, family or friend and plop a 250 GB drive in their system for $50 or $60. And it's still available from anywhere. A one time cost 1/10th the price of one year of Google.
You want to take a man who rapes, murders and dismembers 3 KIDS, and let him lose on the streets when he's still fairly young and verile? Are you insane?
Anyone that messed up is guaranteed to be a repeat offender. The only solution is to either keep him locked up long enough that when he gets out he'll be no physical danger to ANYONE, or to just get it over with and execute the bastard.
Violent crimes against kids is one of my pet peeves and the punishment rarely fits the crime if they're convicted at all. Allow me to present my solution:
In northern Minnesota we have these HUGE holes in the ground called open pit mines, leftovers from iron mining and often filled with water. My solution is to wrap this scum with a bunch of chain and cinder blocks and kick them over the edge. If we fill one up, well, we've got lots more. Unfortunately the bleeding hearts will never allow this. All I need to do is become a benevolent dictator...
This thread is getting a little old but I thought I'd relate a story from my "yoot". For those that get the reference, it sets the mood.
Back in about 1971, a year or two out of high school, a friend opened up a small auto specialty parts store in a strip mall. There were few parking spots in front and a lot about a half block away for overflow. We had the metalflake Coke machine stocked with pop and beer and a stereo where we played music from cassettes and the radio. It became a hangout for a bunch of us.
One day a newer Caddy pulls up in front, a suit gets out and comes in the store. "I'm from (ASCAP/BMI, don't remember) and if you're playing music here you need to buy a license." My friend turned off the stereo and talked to the guy for a bit then he left. A few days later the suit came back and caught us with the stereo on. We turned it off again then my friend and the suit talked some more in the office then he left.
Another few days and the guy comes back again demanding that the store have a license to play music. While he was arguing with my friend, one of us snuck out the back, ran out to the parking lot and popped a valve stem on the guys car. He was back a few days later demanding we buy a license. My friend said he was going to consult with his lawyer and see what his options were. In the mean time, somehow, two valve stems got damaged on his car. One flat and you could use the spare, two required a call for a tow truck. This was before cell phones. The guy was steaming but there wasn't a thing he could prove.
Another couple of days and the ASCAP/BMI dude pulls up in front, gets out and comes in the store demanding payment for a license. Crazy Kevin, (a big Italian kid who wasn't called crazy for nothing) walked up to the front window, points and says to the guy, "Is that your car?" "Yup." "Nice car. It'd be a shame if sumptin' bad was to happen to it." Never saw him again. I guess he decided it wasn't worth the aggravation and a few measly bucks trying to shake down a bunch of kids just listening to the radio.
I doubt that someone would get away with this today but it was the 70s' and times were easy. These days they'd probably just sic the lawyers on you.
I think the "abuse" they're talking about is programs that are pre-configured to hit their service so that everyone on the Net who tries them out hammers their servers.
They've effectively doubled their server hammering from their web grid with the changes they made a few weeks ago. They changed the date and time dropdowns to some stupid java applets (or whatever they are). Now instead of selecting the time and date then hitting enter, the damned page reloads automatically after each selection. Double the hits and double the bandwidth for one page update. Not sure what moron thought that was "better".
Yes, I skip through many of the commericials during playback, but not all of them, and not if the commercial catches my eye, or is for a product I'm interested in. I even rewind to watch a commercial from the start (like if I skip into the middle of a Mac/PC ad I haven't already seen) etc.
I use Zap2It with 2 Myth boxes plus I always have the grid listing open in a browser. Sorry to see them go but... They recently redesigned the HTML grid list page and took it from fast, well designed and easy to use and turned it into a complete kludge that was slow and not at all user friendly. I wrote them 2 emails about it and got narry a response. I guess they just don't care anymore. Since it was free I guess that's their choice. I haven't found a replacement I like yet, the TV Guide and Yahoo grids both have a horrid UI. Oh well, something else will come along.
Thanks for your insightful response. Living in one of the aforementioned metro areas, the image of flyover country as trailer living with Uncle Daddy, slaving away at a low paying job "in-sourced" from a more expensive area, or living in a company town that's only a plant closing away from plunging into an uninhabitable hellhole is tough to shake if you haven't seen it first hand.
That's just what we tell everyone to keep the riff-raff out.
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My Chuck E. Cheese stories:
Wife brought daughter there for Saturday lunch. Some dirtbag employee started stalking her. Every time she turned around he was 10 feet away staring at her. She couldn't wait to get out of there.
I took daughter there for lunch one day while wife was working. We were the only ones at the counter. It took 10 minutes for someone to wait on us while 3 employees stood around counting tokens and others wandered around like zombies. I ordered a beer and the drone asked for my ID. I was about 50 and didn't look close to being under age but he had to check with his manager. He disappeared for another 10 minutes with my license and finally came back with his manager. I grabbed my license, told him what i thought of their service and walked out.
I guess you can't work at CeC unless you're a pervert, idiot or slacker. I wouldn't go back if everything was free.
Many years ago, Grandpa got tired of dogs pissing on his garbage cans out by the garage. One Model A coil, an old car battery, some wire and a switch by the kitchen window gave Grandpa lots of entertainment during his retirement years. Most only got it once, a few twice. None ever did it a 3rd time.
Not true. Alt+Space then "m" for move or "s" for resize then use the arrow keys. Standard Windows keyboard shortcuts for a window control menu. The mouse will work in place of the arrow keys if you can get to the corners/edges you need.
I'd never heard of it before the TV ads. Saw it at a matinee yesterday. $7.25 for the ticket and $5.50 for a Cherry Coke. The Coke was more satisfying. The movie wasn't totally terrible but I'll never watch it again. Visually appealing but overly long and convoluted. I thought Coverts review nailed it.
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/40792717.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnc5PDiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr
There's a not real obvious link to additional pages on the lower right before the comments.
About a year ago we bought an OEM version of Windows Server 2003. The store sold us a case screw for $.01 with it. Legal? Don't know, don't care. It worked just fine.
Reminds me of a very old (probably late 70's or early 80's) Hustler cartoon.
Two guys are standing next to a table. Bolted to the table was an old fashioned crank style meat grinder. There's a pile of ground meat on the table and an arm sticking out of the top of the grinder with its hand on the crank. One guy says to the other "Worst case of suicide I've ever seen!"
108" is for wimps. The new vaporware in big TVs is this.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/26/panasonic.150.inch.tv.soon/
Same thing here in Elbonia.
Sorry...
But there are any number of reasons why an email may not get delivered. Email delivery is not guaranteed. And I never acknowlege read receipts. I guess my question still stands. How (or why) can an email be considered a way of serving legal notice?
I'll admit that mayby I missed something over the past years but when did send an email become a way to serve legal notice of anything? I would have thought that serving a legal notice would have to be done in person or at least via registered mail.
Here you go, 1920x1080. Large enough to crop or take the earth from #2 and paste it over the one in number 1 for a cool wallpaper.
http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/image/communication/img_071114_01.jpg
http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/image/communication/img_071114_02.jpg
Speaking of ugly buildings, here in Minneapolis we have the Weisman Art Museum designed by this same guy. Ugliest damned thing you ever saw. Looks like a sheetmetal dome that has been ravaged by a hailstorm. Everytime I drive by it I wonder when they're going to file the insurance claim.
I wish I had mod points. I cringe every time I hear FLW & great architect in the same sentence. FLW was an asshole that couldn't keep water out of a building in Death Valley if his life depended on it.
I agree. I recently bought 5 Seagate 500GB drives for $495 shipped from Newegg. That's almost 2T RAID5 and it's local. Beats $500 for 250 GB from Google and have to suffer through upload/download wait times.
If you want offsite storage all you have to do is map a drive to a system in another location. No need for FTP or anything. A buddy and I did this for a while. We set up a share for each other (we both had static IPs) and set up mapped drives on our systems. Pick a work machine, family or friend and plop a 250 GB drive in their system for $50 or $60. And it's still available from anywhere. A one time cost 1/10th the price of one year of Google.
In northern Minnesota we have these HUGE holes in the ground called open pit mines, leftovers from iron mining and often filled with water. My solution is to wrap this scum with a bunch of chain and cinder blocks and kick them over the edge. If we fill one up, well, we've got lots more. Unfortunately the bleeding hearts will never allow this. All I need to do is become a benevolent dictator...
While I agree with you 100%, with a few exceptions he had great taste in cars.
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1337783.html
This thread is getting a little old but I thought I'd relate a story from my "yoot". For those that get the reference, it sets the mood.
Back in about 1971, a year or two out of high school, a friend opened up a small auto specialty parts store in a strip mall. There were few parking spots in front and a lot about a half block away for overflow. We had the metalflake Coke machine stocked with pop and beer and a stereo where we played music from cassettes and the radio. It became a hangout for a bunch of us.
One day a newer Caddy pulls up in front, a suit gets out and comes in the store. "I'm from (ASCAP/BMI, don't remember) and if you're playing music here you need to buy a license." My friend turned off the stereo and talked to the guy for a bit then he left. A few days later the suit came back and caught us with the stereo on. We turned it off again then my friend and the suit talked some more in the office then he left.
Another few days and the guy comes back again demanding that the store have a license to play music. While he was arguing with my friend, one of us snuck out the back, ran out to the parking lot and popped a valve stem on the guys car. He was back a few days later demanding we buy a license. My friend said he was going to consult with his lawyer and see what his options were. In the mean time, somehow, two valve stems got damaged on his car. One flat and you could use the spare, two required a call for a tow truck. This was before cell phones. The guy was steaming but there wasn't a thing he could prove.
Another couple of days and the ASCAP/BMI dude pulls up in front, gets out and comes in the store demanding payment for a license. Crazy Kevin, (a big Italian kid who wasn't called crazy for nothing) walked up to the front window, points and says to the guy, "Is that your car?" "Yup." "Nice car. It'd be a shame if sumptin' bad was to happen to it." Never saw him again. I guess he decided it wasn't worth the aggravation and a few measly bucks trying to shake down a bunch of kids just listening to the radio.
I doubt that someone would get away with this today but it was the 70s' and times were easy. These days they'd probably just sic the lawyers on you.
Looks promising. Thanks for the link.
They've effectively doubled their server hammering from their web grid with the changes they made a few weeks ago. They changed the date and time dropdowns to some stupid java applets (or whatever they are). Now instead of selecting the time and date then hitting enter, the damned page reloads automatically after each selection. Double the hits and double the bandwidth for one page update. Not sure what moron thought that was "better".
Funny, I rewind for the babes.
I use Zap2It with 2 Myth boxes plus I always have the grid listing open in a browser. Sorry to see them go but... They recently redesigned the HTML grid list page and took it from fast, well designed and easy to use and turned it into a complete kludge that was slow and not at all user friendly. I wrote them 2 emails about it and got narry a response. I guess they just don't care anymore. Since it was free I guess that's their choice. I haven't found a replacement I like yet, the TV Guide and Yahoo grids both have a horrid UI. Oh well, something else will come along.
Last Saturday. One MythDora DVD + 1 computer with blank HD + 20 minutes = One working MythTV install. It doesn't get any easier than that.
105xxx here. Mine's smaller than yours... uh, wait a minute...
That's just what we tell everyone to keep the riff-raff out.