Actually a lot of service providers these days give you about 2-5 free 411 calls, at least that is how it goes here in Southern California. I only use 411 once or twice a month; but googles sms text service is pretty good if you know how to send it text messages right to get directions somewhere. No need for the GPS unit or Thomas Guide and it acts like a 411 service also but sends you all the info to your phone, although routes sometime are not as accurate or fast.
Actually Time Warner basically owns everything in California now. They bought out the last 2 remaining cable companies which were struggling anyways and just overloading their lines with too high frequency to get higher bandwidth.
I get the triple play package for $100 flat which includes 5/1 Bandwidth, Digital T.V.(120 channels) and Unlimited phone calls nationwide Or I can get each one seperately for about $39 not bundled
But of course you have to get the premiums and other goodies for about another $40, also you can get the boost in bandwidth to 15/2 for $10 more and get a DVR for $10 more. The OnDemand service is absolutely the best and makes having a DVR pointless when you can access the huge library OnDemand anytime you want. Thats why Satellite loses in the OnDemand area because they don't have that 2 way connection.
Too bad there is no point to using all that bandwidth besides getting all the Warez you can or sites just don't even offer enough speed to meet that.
Who will guard this in a million years? I figure either robots will guard it or space trash export will become very cheap to throw it at the Sun or elsewhere. That or I am hoping that sometime between now and than we will get our own Superman to do the job for us.
funny but there was some article that came out about Folding@HOME project
Apparently there has been about 650,000 registered PS3's for the project and for the first time they have achieved over 1 Petabyte of consistant processing(something like that). They were predicting that they wouldn't get to the petabyte for another decade or so but the PS3 sent them easily over it.
You should have just dual-booted and gone back every couple weeks to test out new drivers, but that might be a hassle and if you have patience than wait it out.
Nvidia has turned out some nice Vista drivers after fiasco toward the first couple weeks and even XP users are a little mad that Vista seems to be getting more updates now or atleast quicker. MS also turned out a couple performance patches and compatibility patches to make things run smoother; which that recent performance patch helped out with. No more slow file copying although that will be the new blue screen joke around here.
Really you only take a (high end)5%-20%(lower hardware) loss in FPS; but at the end of the day all you really need is those minimum 30 fps to get a smooth feel for the game.
WoW is a big game but lets not use it as the only game; there are hundreds of other games that now work on Vista and more are being made compatible everyday. Anybody who is a Windows user or visits friendly MS forums and doesn't get caught up in the fear mongering of the DRM screamers killing my performance knows where the real problems are and have been working to solve them for awhile. Such as punkbuster not working on Vista for awhile which would basically not allow you to play online by constantly kicking you; thankfully we didn't sit with our thumbs/heads up our asses like a lot do around here and worked to get the issue solved.
Nvidia was the problem in the chain and ATI already had solid/stable drivers the first 3 months, but Nvidia is on top of the game especially with their latest beta drivers to give you a decent performance boost on Bioshock and the Enemy Territory:Quake Wars demo as I play them on Vista.
I agree, I have never had a problem with their rebates and their return policy is one of the best around with the thousands of dollars I have spent their.
People on deal sites like Slickdeals.net/fatwallet.com loathe that we live by a Fry's for the insane deals we get on electronics. Also they are nice enough to print you out an extra receipt for the rebate which other stores normally make you go use your own copy machine to do the work.
MS will ship you a disk for a small shipping price also and I just recently did it to get a 64bit version of Vista for future use and also to have a nice pressed clean disc with a case.
For high school I had to do some career project and I choose to do a police ride along with the East Division in Long Beach,CA; right in the center of the stolen cars capital.
We mostly just spent time calling out liscense plates while the passenger officer types in the plates into the computer waiting for that certain color to pop up on the screen to identify if they are stolen. Takes a little time to process them so we would write down on the notepad in the middle some of the suspiciously parked vehicles or people in the car so that we would turn the corner to figure out if it is stolen than turn around and bust them.
This is such a useful tool and I don't see a problem with officers recording their activities like they do everyday the dashmount cam that records every single liscense plate, persons face and everything else in the public.
Ahhh pizzaman...*lots of fast forwarding*....oooh a fuck scene *play* ahhh that was nice *more fast forwarding* new scene but hotter chick so now I can settle down *ahh damnit he finished before I could finish* Total play time 6 minutes.
Dont you think it is kind of weird that you are watching the same exact thing that your neighbor next door is jacking off to. Why dont you guys just hold hands and have a circle jerkoff.
Another great example of a person getting freaked out by people not zooming in is my famous taking a washable red marker and putting a dot in the middle on your screen over my crosshair, that way I do not have to zoom in and I learned it from play Counter Strike.
BF2142 is a great game and there are still no ads in-game or your privacy being invaded by all the fear mongers that everybody got worked up over many months ago. Too bad a lot of people missed out on all the gadgets and new stuff invented in that game; it set an example of how the developers listened/communicated and implemented/tweaked ideas in the game to get everything working together. Much faster patch release as compared to BF2 so it was a better experience.
What always gets me is how everybody cheers the hackers/crackers for cracking it but really all they do is opens pandoras gates for all the scrip kiddies to do typical stuff of causing havok.
I have worked my way up from grunt work to foreman/supervisor; this line of work takes some words to get your ass moving and you haven't got time to be sitting around day dreaming. Construction is a stressful business majority of the time and a lot of people have no idea what it is like to have an inspector that cost $300/hr to just sit around because your crew couldn't get everything cleaned up. So you raise your voice and the next time they know to pick up the pace to get the project completed.
Where did it say anything about building contractors and trolls in that article anyways. I find my job very enjoying knowing that I usually can complete a several million dollar project in a week and get enjoyment at looking at a finished project. There are a lot of hot heads in all types of business it is just that when you work construction you usually have to raise your voice over all the other stuff going on and seem to express yourself more because it is a very busy environment with million dollar projects weekly that will fuck up your whole bidding schedule for other projects.
Now how a internet troll and a building contractor are comparable I have no fucking clue but the article described something completely different on people being teasers get enjoyment out of it and I usually don't tease my crew besides rolling up with a 24 pack in the back of my truck for them when they finish the days work.
Wait your neighbor is going to call you to tell you there is a fire and a prowler?
How fucking out of touch are you people around here and especially common sense thing. You don't sit across the street watching your neighbors house burn while you try to call them; fuck no you run across and start banging on their door trying to save them.
Anyways the babysitter is most likely to just be talking on the phone anyways with her boyfriend so she is not gonna know there is an incoming call, whats wrong with running to a neighbor next door to use the phone anyways or get some help.
Also if you are parents of a kid with no home line; than most likely majority of both parents will have cell phones and you can leave one behind for the babysitter. Anyways most babysittersA(teenagers) have cell phones these days and even than you would sometimes bring your kid to the person house to babysit.
Your whole argument is pointless and you are using examples that are like 1 in a 100.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/83801 CLECs Worry About FiOS 'Copper Retirement' But would FiOS customers really want to downgrade? Posted 2007-05-14 14:11:14 by Karl
As we've previously discussed, Verizon either pulls or just stops supporting last mile copper infrastructure when they install fiber at your home, making it "impossible" to switch back to Verizon DSL or competing services if you ask. That's a big deal to CLECs, who are concerned that the move strips them of potential customers as incumbents snag FTTH customers and lock those households in to FiOS (even with a change in owner).
How you got modded +5 insightfut I have no idea besides the copper nut huggers around here but it seems you do not have kids or any real world experiences with an emergency.
That would be true of some VoiP providers but since guys like TWC have their own frequency set aside on the lines they do not tap into the internet section and it doesn't affect your upload like those other shitty VoiP providers.
I would love to say that Landlines are staying but that is far from reality.
The fact is they have basically ripped out all the copper infrastructure at least here in Southern California and many other places NY,MA, etc... I work as a general contractor and every new building project I have come across recently residential/industrial there is no copper or landlines being layed as we used to as of 2-5 years ago. You have TWC coming out and doing all VOIP to the structure what was told to me by the foreman.
Every person who transits to work I know usually has to get a cell phone to survive out here and usually these days you get a cellphone number instead of a home line because nobody seems to manage their time right these days; remember how message machines used to be so popular well they are now collecting dust at the stores as you see that section usually gets smaller when you have a mobile message machine.
DSLreports.com usually follows this type of stuff and know more about it than anyone here most of the time. Specifically a recent article titled 'CLECs Worry About FiOS 'Copper Retirement' http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/83801 Quote from Verizon Verizon had this to say on the subject to CNET back in 2005: "Once we install fiber to a home, it stays there. We aren't going to take down the fiber and reinstall copper, but people can still get their single-line, no-frills Verizon phone service over the fiber network for the same amount as the folks still served by copper, if that's what they want. Our FTTP network is likely to be even more reliable than their already-reliable Verizon copper-based phone service."
More discussion at DSLreports to get an understanding of how copper is dying and even ask technicians who worked for companies, anyways the fiber is being laid and the copper is being torn out so you are going from basically copper to fiber(voip) back to copper. So as much as you argue that VOIP is not as reliable I believe the ones who actually operate this seem to know more than you 'most likely'.
Cheers though to all the old school guys who love copper, analog and commodore; but move to the side as the young ones or H1-B take over your jobs and carry the torch.
I will go back to the PC Gaming magazine article I believe it was where John Carmack everybody's favorite guy here around here said he was seriously disappointed on the sales of Doom 3 Linux and that would most likely affect future choices on development for games on Linux. Your weak arguments on DRM had nothing to do with the poor sales but rather a community who was once obsessed with the server market and shows up late to the desktop market expecting everybody to throw their hands up in a 'Halalu'. Reminds me of when the soldiers in Iraq were supposedly supposed to be greeted with flowers and cheers of finally being freed; sometimes people prefer the oppressive regime(Iraq, MS) because it works if that analogy works at all. So go ahead and tell John Carmack that he is wrong although it is nice to take into account also that they had no major retail shelf space; but even than he said he was still disappointed. Seems most of them just pirated the Linux Doom3 looking at the torrent count.
Every time some Linux person mentions that there are plenty of games for Linux I always get a laugh because they mention the same four games as they always do; come back to me when I can play CS/CS:Source, BF1942, BF2, BF2142,Test Drive Unlimited, Halo 2, Planescape, Call of Duty, Stalker, Spiderman 3, Crysis, Half-life 2, Jade Empre, Neverwinter Nights, Enemy Territory Quake Wars and the list goes on forever as it has been when the PC boom happened. Whats wrong you cant take the criticisim; well expect that as more people take to the Linux desktop that is exactly what the community is going to get and I am afraid of them having that power just to throw up their hands and say 'were done with you people because you are critical and just do it on your own'. Money doesn't grow on trees and there are actual human being developing these games that have children/family to support.
Another thing is that a lot of the Linux community cannot take criticisim of their stuff and they cannot accept that the developers of OSS had no serious 'interest' in developing for desktop/gaming for a very long time or not enough of them. OpenGL and OpenAL is there for everyone and yet developers are choosing DirectX more and more every year leaving OpenAL/GL in the dust to people like John Carmack who are firm believers in the Open Source community. OSS community seems to be obsessed with the Commodore style gaming and have constantly snugged their noses at 3d intensive games or the corporations that actually make the game.
Just kind of 'cold hard truth' that it is gonna take a hell of a lot of effort to get the gaming scene going especially since a lot of the legacy technology was developed in the 90's for PC gaming and there was little to no interest in the desktop or gaming scene during that time.
That was in Afghanistan and not Iraq before you get too many 'interesting' mod points for false info even though it says 'Life as a Grunt in Afghanistan'; besides it doesn't rain there like in the video and they have nowhere near the good weed/hash that Afghanistan has. I was over in Afghanistan and brought back an ounce of Afghan Hash after getting injured; one of the little Afghan kids tried to extort charges from me for more money and said if I didn't pay more he would go tell my Sarge.
The situation is different in Afghanistan and people are not as hostile as I hear it is in Iraq; although the situation has gotten a little more aggressive over there in the last few months especially in the Northeastern section.
We have one of these at like one of the 3rd busiest intersection in Orange County, CA. The problem is that when you turn left at the signal and have a big-rig in front of you while turning you cannot see the light; I would say not to tailgate but since we are at a stand still and than start to move forward to turn it does not become obvious that it is changing until your front tires are at the first line and by that time it is too late.
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Actually a lot of service providers these days give you about 2-5 free 411 calls, at least that is how it goes here in Southern California.
I only use 411 once or twice a month; but googles sms text service is pretty good if you know how to send it text messages right to get directions somewhere. No need for the GPS unit or Thomas Guide and it acts like a 411 service also but sends you all the info to your phone, although routes sometime are not as accurate or fast.
Vista implements the copy first when dragging a file to another folder, a little difference I have noticed since XP.
have they figured out how they get those small model ships in those glass bottles?
Actually Time Warner basically owns everything in California now.
They bought out the last 2 remaining cable companies which were struggling anyways and just overloading their lines with too high frequency to get higher bandwidth.
I get the triple play package for $100 flat which includes
5/1 Bandwidth, Digital T.V.(120 channels) and Unlimited phone calls nationwide
Or I can get each one seperately for about $39 not bundled
But of course you have to get the premiums and other goodies for about another $40, also you can get the boost in bandwidth to 15/2 for $10 more and get a DVR for $10 more.
The OnDemand service is absolutely the best and makes having a DVR pointless when you can access the huge library OnDemand anytime you want. Thats why Satellite loses in the OnDemand area because they don't have that 2 way connection.
Too bad there is no point to using all that bandwidth besides getting all the Warez you can or sites just don't even offer enough speed to meet that.
If you can't make a superior product, why not copy it than.
See it works both ways.
No if it were made in Japan it would have gone Kamikaze over a cliff a long time ago
Who will guard this in a million years?
I figure either robots will guard it or space trash export will become very cheap to throw it at the Sun or elsewhere.
That or I am hoping that sometime between now and than we will get our own Superman to do the job for us.
Where will we be in a million years?
funny but there was some article that came out about Folding@HOME project
Apparently there has been about 650,000 registered PS3's for the project and for the first time they have achieved over 1 Petabyte of consistant processing(something like that).
They were predicting that they wouldn't get to the petabyte for another decade or so but the PS3 sent them easily over it.
pointless fact..
You should have just dual-booted and gone back every couple weeks to test out new drivers, but that might be a hassle and if you have patience than wait it out.
Nvidia has turned out some nice Vista drivers after fiasco toward the first couple weeks and even XP users are a little mad that Vista seems to be getting more updates now or atleast quicker.
MS also turned out a couple performance patches and compatibility patches to make things run smoother; which that recent performance patch helped out with. No more slow file copying although that will be the new blue screen joke around here.
Really you only take a (high end)5%-20%(lower hardware) loss in FPS; but at the end of the day all you really need is those minimum 30 fps to get a smooth feel for the game.
WoW is a big game but lets not use it as the only game; there are hundreds of other games that now work on Vista and more are being made compatible everyday.
Anybody who is a Windows user or visits friendly MS forums and doesn't get caught up in the fear mongering of the DRM screamers killing my performance knows where the real problems are and have been working to solve them for awhile.
Such as punkbuster not working on Vista for awhile which would basically not allow you to play online by constantly kicking you; thankfully we didn't sit with our thumbs/heads up our asses like a lot do around here and worked to get the issue solved.
Nvidia was the problem in the chain and ATI already had solid/stable drivers the first 3 months, but Nvidia is on top of the game especially with their latest beta drivers to give you a decent performance boost on Bioshock and the Enemy Territory:Quake Wars demo as I play them on Vista.
You are being spied on by your speedometer
As your attorney I advise you to immediately destroy it.
I agree, I have never had a problem with their rebates and their return policy is one of the best around with the thousands of dollars I have spent their.
People on deal sites like Slickdeals.net/fatwallet.com loathe that we live by a Fry's for the insane deals we get on electronics.
Also they are nice enough to print you out an extra receipt for the rebate which other stores normally make you go use your own copy machine to do the work.
It worked perfectly fine and took all of 5 seconds of my life.
Article is a little late and it only really affect 1 in 100000.
"Thank you for validating your copy of Microsoft Windows.
Thank you for using the Windows Genuine Advantage program. You may now access resources for genuine Windows users."
MS will ship you a disk for a small shipping price also and I just recently did it to get a 64bit version of Vista for future use and also to have a nice pressed clean disc with a case.
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Order the Vista discs here and all you have to do is type in your CD-key with a small shipping fee.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/1033/orderm
4 of the top 10 hosts with the best reliablity are running W2k3
I don't see the big problem either.
For high school I had to do some career project and I choose to do a police ride along with the East Division in Long Beach,CA; right in the center of the stolen cars capital.
We mostly just spent time calling out liscense plates while the passenger officer types in the plates into the computer waiting for that certain color to pop up on the screen to identify if they are stolen.
Takes a little time to process them so we would write down on the notepad in the middle some of the suspiciously parked vehicles or people in the car so that we would turn the corner to figure out if it is stolen than turn around and bust them.
This is such a useful tool and I don't see a problem with officers recording their activities like they do everyday the dashmount cam that records every single liscense plate, persons face and everything else in the public.
Yes I could see the porn viewing now with you..
....oooh a fuck scene *play*
Ahhh pizzaman...*lots of fast forwarding*
ahhh that was nice *more fast forwarding*
new scene but hotter chick so now I can settle down
*ahh damnit he finished before I could finish*
Total play time 6 minutes.
Dont you think it is kind of weird that you are watching the same exact thing that your neighbor next door is jacking off to. Why dont you guys just hold hands and have a circle jerkoff.
Another great example of a person getting freaked out by people not zooming in is my famous taking a washable red marker and putting a dot in the middle on your screen over my crosshair, that way I do not have to zoom in and I learned it from play Counter Strike.
BF2142 is a great game and there are still no ads in-game or your privacy being invaded by all the fear mongers that everybody got worked up over many months ago. Too bad a lot of people missed out on all the gadgets and new stuff invented in that game; it set an example of how the developers listened/communicated and implemented/tweaked ideas in the game to get everything working together. Much faster patch release as compared to BF2 so it was a better experience.
What always gets me is how everybody cheers the hackers/crackers for cracking it but really all they do is opens pandoras gates for all the scrip kiddies to do typical stuff of causing havok.
I have worked my way up from grunt work to foreman/supervisor; this line of work takes some words to get your ass moving and you haven't got time to be sitting around day dreaming.
Construction is a stressful business majority of the time and a lot of people have no idea what it is like to have an inspector that cost $300/hr to just sit around because your crew couldn't get everything cleaned up. So you raise your voice and the next time they know to pick up the pace to get the project completed.
Where did it say anything about building contractors and trolls in that article anyways.
I find my job very enjoying knowing that I usually can complete a several million dollar project in a week and get enjoyment at looking at a finished project. There are a lot of hot heads in all types of business it is just that when you work construction you usually have to raise your voice over all the other stuff going on and seem to express yourself more because it is a very busy environment with million dollar projects weekly that will fuck up your whole bidding schedule for other projects.
Now how a internet troll and a building contractor are comparable I have no fucking clue but the article described something completely different on people being teasers get enjoyment out of it and I usually don't tease my crew besides rolling up with a 24 pack in the back of my truck for them when they finish the days work.
Wait your neighbor is going to call you to tell you there is a fire and a prowler?
How fucking out of touch are you people around here and especially common sense thing.
You don't sit across the street watching your neighbors house burn while you try to call them; fuck no you run across and start banging on their door trying to save them.
Anyways the babysitter is most likely to just be talking on the phone anyways with her boyfriend so she is not gonna know there is an incoming call, whats wrong with running to a neighbor next door to use the phone anyways or get some help.
Also if you are parents of a kid with no home line; than most likely majority of both parents will have cell phones and you can leave one behind for the babysitter. Anyways most babysittersA(teenagers) have cell phones these days and even than you would sometimes bring your kid to the person house to babysit.
Your whole argument is pointless and you are using examples that are like 1 in a 100.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/83801
CLECs Worry About FiOS 'Copper Retirement'
But would FiOS customers really want to downgrade?
Posted 2007-05-14 14:11:14 by Karl
As we've previously discussed, Verizon either pulls or just stops supporting last mile copper infrastructure when they install fiber at your home, making it "impossible" to switch back to Verizon DSL or competing services if you ask. That's a big deal to CLECs, who are concerned that the move strips them of potential customers as incumbents snag FTTH customers and lock those households in to FiOS (even with a change in owner).
How you got modded +5 insightfut I have no idea besides the copper nut huggers around here but it seems you do not have kids or any real world experiences with an emergency.
That would be true of some VoiP providers but since guys like TWC have their own frequency set aside on the lines they do not tap into the internet section and it doesn't affect your upload like those other shitty VoiP providers.
I would love to say that Landlines are staying but that is far from reality.
The fact is they have basically ripped out all the copper infrastructure at least here in Southern California and many other places NY,MA, etc...
I work as a general contractor and every new building project I have come across recently residential/industrial there is no copper or landlines being layed as we used to as of 2-5 years ago. You have TWC coming out and doing all VOIP to the structure what was told to me by the foreman.
Every person who transits to work I know usually has to get a cell phone to survive out here and usually these days you get a cellphone number instead of a home line because nobody seems to manage their time right these days; remember how message machines used to be so popular well they are now collecting dust at the stores as you see that section usually gets smaller when you have a mobile message machine.
DSLreports.com usually follows this type of stuff and know more about it than anyone here most of the time.
Specifically a recent article titled 'CLECs Worry About FiOS 'Copper Retirement'
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/83801
Quote from Verizon
Verizon had this to say on the subject to CNET back in 2005:
"Once we install fiber to a home, it stays there. We aren't going to take down the fiber and reinstall copper, but people can still get their single-line, no-frills Verizon phone service over the fiber network for the same amount as the folks still served by copper, if that's what they want. Our FTTP network is likely to be even more reliable than their already-reliable Verizon copper-based phone service."
More discussion at DSLreports to get an understanding of how copper is dying and even ask technicians who worked for companies, anyways the fiber is being laid and the copper is being torn out so you are going from basically copper to fiber(voip) back to copper. So as much as you argue that VOIP is not as reliable I believe the ones who actually operate this seem to know more than you 'most likely'.
Cheers though to all the old school guys who love copper, analog and commodore; but move to the side as the young ones or H1-B take over your jobs and carry the torch.
MS already recouped losses for development on Windows Vista in the 1st Quarter.
I will go back to the PC Gaming magazine article I believe it was where John Carmack everybody's favorite guy here around here said he was seriously disappointed on the sales of Doom 3 Linux and that would most likely affect future choices on development for games on Linux. Your weak arguments on DRM had nothing to do with the poor sales but rather a community who was once obsessed with the server market and shows up late to the desktop market expecting everybody to throw their hands up in a 'Halalu'. Reminds me of when the soldiers in Iraq were supposedly supposed to be greeted with flowers and cheers of finally being freed; sometimes people prefer the oppressive regime(Iraq, MS) because it works if that analogy works at all. So go ahead and tell John Carmack that he is wrong although it is nice to take into account also that they had no major retail shelf space; but even than he said he was still disappointed. Seems most of them just pirated the Linux Doom3 looking at the torrent count.
Every time some Linux person mentions that there are plenty of games for Linux I always get a laugh because they mention the same four games as they always do; come back to me when I can play CS/CS:Source, BF1942, BF2, BF2142,Test Drive Unlimited, Halo 2, Planescape, Call of Duty, Stalker, Spiderman 3, Crysis, Half-life 2, Jade Empre, Neverwinter Nights, Enemy Territory Quake Wars and the list goes on forever as it has been when the PC boom happened. Whats wrong you cant take the criticisim; well expect that as more people take to the Linux desktop that is exactly what the community is going to get and I am afraid of them having that power just to throw up their hands and say 'were done with you people because you are critical and just do it on your own'. Money doesn't grow on trees and there are actual human being developing these games that have children/family to support.
Another thing is that a lot of the Linux community cannot take criticisim of their stuff and they cannot accept that the developers of OSS had no serious 'interest' in developing for desktop/gaming for a very long time or not enough of them. OpenGL and OpenAL is there for everyone and yet developers are choosing DirectX more and more every year leaving OpenAL/GL in the dust to people like John Carmack who are firm believers in the Open Source community.
OSS community seems to be obsessed with the Commodore style gaming and have constantly snugged their noses at 3d intensive games or the corporations that actually make the game.
Just kind of 'cold hard truth' that it is gonna take a hell of a lot of effort to get the gaming scene going especially since a lot of the legacy technology was developed in the 90's for PC gaming and there was little to no interest in the desktop or gaming scene during that time.
That was in Afghanistan and not Iraq before you get too many 'interesting' mod points for false info even though it says 'Life as a Grunt in Afghanistan'; besides it doesn't rain there like in the video and they have nowhere near the good weed/hash that Afghanistan has. I was over in Afghanistan and brought back an ounce of Afghan Hash after getting injured; one of the little Afghan kids tried to extort charges from me for more money and said if I didn't pay more he would go tell my Sarge.
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The situation is different in Afghanistan and people are not as hostile as I hear it is in Iraq; although the situation has gotten a little more aggressive over there in the last few months especially in the Northeastern section.
While were on videos here is a nice one in Iraq of a cute little Kurdish Iraq girl; well she was cute until the Muslims got to her.
http://www.filecabi.net/video/horrific-stone.html
We would see this all the time though when the husband would literally beat the wife into a bloody mess or a punching blow right to her head stunning her not to talk to us; yeah that shit is intense over there and the least of my worries is a couple of soldiers telling some foreigners to say thing they don't understand.
More actual Iraq videos and not ones from Afghanistan; not propaganda but actual soldier shot footage
http://www.filecabi.net/video/executegen.html
http://www.filecabi.net/video/getting_rocked-fixe
http://www.filecabi.net/video/Hunt_For_Insurgents
We have one of these at like one of the 3rd busiest intersection in Orange County, CA. The problem is that when you turn left at the signal and have a big-rig in front of you while turning you cannot see the light; I would say not to tailgate but since we are at a stand still and than start to move forward to turn it does not become obvious that it is changing until your front tires are at the first line and by that time it is too late.