That little fact is why after buying TF2, and being impressed with the fantastic graphics, I find myself going back to TFC for fun... The first few times I logged into TF2 servers, I wondered WTF!! nobody here....
I wonder if they don't ignore these opt-outs.. These corporations have absolutely no morals, and how are you going to *know* if they sell your info anyway, despite you having opted out?? I've never had a cellphone contract with any of these criminal companies.. I use a pay-as-you-go Virginmobile phone for the few calls I make/take.. But if I did have a contract with these imbiciles, I'd drop them like a hot potato....
Geez.. if you look at the imagery date in GE, it's March 13, 2003!!! Last time I heard, submarines move around a bit.. especially over 6 flippin' years!!
geez.. I recall my first pay in the Army back in Sept 1969 as a buck private in basic training. It was a whopping $114/mo AFTER taxes.. Right after basic and AIT, Congress passed a military raise and I got a promotion after advanced training.. Still wasnt much.. Of course, $114/mo went quite a ways when your rent and food and clothing was covered...
Everybody pissed and moaned about how bad Bush was.. Just you wait till we've had Comrade Obama and his ilk in Congress for a couple of years.. You aint seen NOTHING yet!! Before one of the many SlashLibs shouts me down as being a Republican, I'll admit that I *was*, for 98% of my life (I'm 58), but in the last couple of years, I've gotten absolutely fed up with the Republican party and am now an Independent.. Which means I'm disenfranchised.. Nobody to vote for.. In any event, I strongly suspect by the time I'm 65 in 2015, this country will finished, only the cleanup of what it once was left to complete.. Of course, perhaps John Titor actually WAS from the future, and the civil war he reports that happened in 2012 really happened, after all he did say we'd start seeing signs of it in 2008-2009... I *used* to have to put on a tight-fitting tinfoil hat when I read the accounts of John, but not so much anymore...
Nobody's forcing you to read this "whining".. I, as an IT professional WANT to know when a company is trying to pull these stunts.. If you don't like reading these articles, DON'T READ THEM!! I for one want to hear all I can about this type of activity by vendors.... STFU!!
I volunteer at the local Red Cross chapter, and I just got an email telling me they now have a presence on FaceBook, and all volunteers should "friend" the Red Cross account. Since I don't have and never intended to get a Facebook account, I was torn, but after reading this article, I'm no longer torn, I'll get a Facebook account, when hell freezes over...
Yeah.. Hindsight is always 20-20, huh, AC?.. Give Comrade Obama and his cronies a couple of years and you'll REALLY be wishing you (and a larger majority of the clueless voting public) had voted for Mr McCain.. I don't care much for McCain, but I care MUCH less for Comrade Obama...
I worked at a MARS (Military Affiliate Radio Station) station in Vietnam back in the 70s, and have been a ham since then, and I can tell you you're gonna have major difficulty doing any kind of HF phone patches from that part of the world.. HF propagation from there to the US is pretty spotty at the best of times. I've lost contact with the MARS program, and would guess that with all the better communications options today for deployed military morale traffic, that old-style HF phone patches have gone the way of the dodo bird...
yep.. I'll be sooooo glad when Amazon's mp3 collection has everything I want, so I can finally dump iTunes, since thats ALL I've ever used it for.. I just had to reinstall it on a new machine, and I'd forgotten all the crap it installs, since it *knows* you're gonna want to use your iPod... (hint: I don't have/and never will have an iPod! Sansa Fuze 8GB FTW!!) and WTF is "bonjour", other than a stupid french word...
My machines (three in all, one Ubuntu server, one Windows2003 server, and one XP/Vista/Ubuntu tripleboot are named mrbill, mrhands and sluggo... props to anybody who knows where those came from....
I just did that very thing.. Apparently the earlier poster who said you couldn't do it from the webpage is no longer correct. They now have a "cancel membership" page...
What's nice is when your friday off falls before a monday holiday... Like the upcoming MLK day, that since I work for a gov contractor, we get, and since the friday before is my friday off!!!! Can you say 4 DAY WEEKEND??? (I knew you could!!)
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I used to do that too, but now eBay in their infinite greed, is forcing everybody to take PayPal.. Which means the fact that you put "AS-IS" in your auction description, and the fact that there are NO returns, is ignored by PayPal, who cheerfully refunds the buyers money, and usually you are out your item AND your $$$. When I sold "as-is" electronics, I described the item extensively, took lots of pix, and took checks/mo's only... Worked fine, from 1998 to now... Now with the inmates running the asylum at eBay, I'm steering clear of it until/if the eBay Board of Directors finally say "enough" and can JD..
I did that too, but only after making floppy disk images of all of them.. Never know when MSDOS 3.0-3.2 and 6 might be useful.. not to mention you don't even need to write the images to a floppy disk, you just boot from the floppy image in either vmware or vbox...
I have about 6gb of irreplaceable stuff, that often changes (development source, financial stuff, pix), and I use Karens Replicator http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.aspto sync it nightly to my Windows2K3 server, then once a week it uploads an incremental to Amazon S3 via Jungledisk. The laptop has a copy of the 6gb of irreplaceable stuff, on a Truecrypt container on an 8gb SDcard. Everytime I use the laptop, I sync the SDcard via Truecrypt/Karens Replicator on the desktop machine... Works fantastic for me!!
What seems to work wonders with Dell (disclaimer: I deal with them quite a lot, as I support over 150 Dell desktop/laptops at work) is the "unresolved issues" link on the very bottom of the Dell front webpage. Just the other day, my hope system, an Optiplex GX620 decided to start getting weird on shutdown/hibernate, such that it would shut down ok, and power the system off, but then it would immediately power back up again on its own. I did all the obvious troubleshooting, including seeing if it could be a bent windows install by installing a clean copy of XP on another drive, and sure enough, same problem, it also occurred on an install of Ubuntu. This strongly pointed to the motherboard having problems, so I submitted a support ticket, telling the tier one drone the problem AND the steps I'd taken to isolate the issue.. Drone apparently couldn't read plain English, because he told to do all the things I'd already done.. I replied that I'd already done these things, and believe it or not, he wanted me to do them again.. I simply went to the "unresolved issues" link and filed a case there, referencing the case id I'd been given by the drone, and the very next day, I got an email telling me I'd get a replacement motherboard shipped to me... This link seems to connect to clueful people, and more importantly, ones who can take ownership of a problem and get it resolved... Give it a try.. BTW: Thank you for your service to the country, I salute you!!!
There are, though, two silver linings. First, at least the senate isn't a supermajority rubber stamp. Second, when he runs for re-election next time, it can finally involve looking at some sort of actual record of his - and a whole lot of people who were caught up the historical significance of skin color can come back to their senses and realize they're hiring someone for an actual executive job, not trying to win a high school debate on style points.
All I can say is "THANK GOD FOR THAT!!".. After his first term, I'll bet with my last dollar that even his supporters will be so fed up with him, that he'll be more reviled than Bush is now.... I just hope he, and the Congress hasn't ruined this wonderful country beyond repair....
If I'm still around here in 2 years or so, I'll check back in and see how all you Obama-lovers feel then... I'll bet you'll have changed your tune.. Obama by himself would be bad enough, but with socialist majority in Congress, it can't get much worse...
You people think Bush did a bad job, then you are REALLY gonna hate Obama, after the honeymoon is over... Or... maybe thats what you guys actually want.. A socialist state lead by Obama, that will trash industry, bring unemployment higher than its ever been. and tax you till you bleed.. Yes.. I know, he's only gonna increase taxes on incomes over 250K/yr.. yeah, right.. if you believe that, I have a bridge in NY I'll sell you cheap... He's gonna tell you WHATEVER it takes to get elected, and now that he's elected, gloves are off...
Mark my words.. In two years (or less) all you Obama-lovers will be singing a different tune.. Along with the rest of us who've been singing it all along....
yeah... Am seriously thinking about that.. but the ever-dwindling shortlist of places that *arent* totally screwed up already is woefully short.. no, actually its pretty much non-existant..
I usually don't reply to AC, but this AC has summed it up in a nutshell... With Comrade Obama in the Whitehouse, and a socialist majority in Congress, we are majorly screwed.. All you poor misguided people who voted for Obama, are celebrating now, but let me check back with you in a couple of years, and see how you feel then.... Its to cry..
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That little fact is why after buying TF2, and being impressed with the fantastic graphics, I find myself going back to TFC for fun... The first few times I logged into TF2 servers, I wondered WTF!! nobody here....
You can bet your life they don't notify you out of the goodness of their hearts.. they only notify you because their ass is in a sling by the FCC...
I wonder if they don't ignore these opt-outs.. These corporations have absolutely no morals, and how are you going to *know* if they sell your info anyway, despite you having opted out?? I've never had a cellphone contract with any of these criminal companies.. I use a pay-as-you-go Virginmobile phone for the few calls I make/take.. But if I did have a contract with these imbiciles, I'd drop them like a hot potato....
Geez.. if you look at the imagery date in GE, it's March 13, 2003!!! Last time I heard, submarines move around a bit.. especially over 6 flippin' years!!
geez.. I recall my first pay in the Army back in Sept 1969 as a buck private in basic training. It was a whopping $114/mo AFTER taxes.. Right after basic and AIT, Congress passed a military raise and I got a promotion after advanced training.. Still wasnt much.. Of course, $114/mo went quite a ways when your rent and food and clothing was covered...
Now THIS is the kind of stuff I like to hear!!! Thanks for the update Ray!!!
Everybody pissed and moaned about how bad Bush was.. Just you wait till we've had Comrade Obama and his ilk in Congress for a couple of years.. You aint seen NOTHING yet!! Before one of the many SlashLibs shouts me down as being a Republican, I'll admit that I *was*, for 98% of my life (I'm 58), but in the last couple of years, I've gotten absolutely fed up with the Republican party and am now an Independent.. Which means I'm disenfranchised.. Nobody to vote for.. In any event, I strongly suspect by the time I'm 65 in 2015, this country will finished, only the cleanup of what it once was left to complete.. Of course, perhaps John Titor actually WAS from the future, and the civil war he reports that happened in 2012 really happened, after all he did say we'd start seeing signs of it in 2008-2009... I *used* to have to put on a tight-fitting tinfoil hat when I read the accounts of John, but not so much anymore...
> By that account, we're half-way to socialism, and >little to show for it when compared to more >socialistic countries in Europe.
And with Comrade Obama and his Democrat... err Socialist friends in CONgress, we've gonna soon be ALL the way to socialism...
Nobody's forcing you to read this "whining".. I, as an IT professional WANT to know when a company is trying to pull these stunts.. If you don't like reading these articles, DON'T READ THEM!! I for one want to hear all I can about this type of activity by vendors.... STFU!!
I volunteer at the local Red Cross chapter, and I just got an email telling me they now have a presence on FaceBook, and all volunteers should "friend" the Red Cross account. Since I don't have and never intended to get a Facebook account, I was torn, but after reading this article, I'm no longer torn, I'll get a Facebook account, when hell freezes over...
Yeah.. Hindsight is always 20-20, huh, AC?.. Give Comrade Obama and his cronies a couple of years and you'll REALLY be wishing you (and a larger majority of the clueless voting public) had voted for Mr McCain.. I don't care much for McCain, but I care MUCH less for Comrade Obama...
I worked at a MARS (Military Affiliate Radio Station) station in Vietnam back in the 70s, and have been a ham since then, and I can tell you you're gonna have major difficulty doing any kind of HF phone patches from that part of the world.. HF propagation from there to the US is pretty spotty at the best of times. I've lost contact with the MARS program, and would guess that with all the better communications options today for deployed military morale traffic, that old-style HF phone patches have gone the way of the dodo bird...
yep.. I'll be sooooo glad when Amazon's mp3 collection has everything I want, so I can finally dump iTunes, since thats ALL I've ever used it for.. I just had to reinstall it on a new machine, and I'd forgotten all the crap it installs, since it *knows* you're gonna want to use your iPod... (hint: I don't have/and never will have an iPod! Sansa Fuze 8GB FTW!!) and WTF is "bonjour", other than a stupid french word...
My machines (three in all, one Ubuntu server, one Windows2003 server, and one XP/Vista/Ubuntu tripleboot are named mrbill, mrhands and sluggo... props to anybody who knows where those came from....
I just did that very thing.. Apparently the earlier poster who said you couldn't do it from the webpage is no longer correct. They now have a "cancel membership" page...
What's nice is when your friday off falls before a monday holiday... Like the upcoming MLK day, that since I work for a gov contractor, we get, and since the friday before is my friday off!!!! Can you say 4 DAY WEEKEND??? (I knew you could!!)
I used to do that too, but now eBay in their infinite greed, is forcing everybody to take PayPal.. Which means the fact that you put "AS-IS" in your auction description, and the fact that there are NO returns, is ignored by PayPal, who cheerfully refunds the buyers money, and usually you are out your item AND your $$$. When I sold "as-is" electronics, I described the item extensively, took lots of pix, and took checks/mo's only... Worked fine, from 1998 to now... Now with the inmates running the asylum at eBay, I'm steering clear of it until/if the eBay Board of Directors finally say "enough" and can JD..
I did that too, but only after making floppy disk images of all of them.. Never know when MSDOS 3.0-3.2 and 6 might be useful.. not to mention you don't even need to write the images to a floppy disk, you just boot from the floppy image in either vmware or vbox...
I have about 6gb of irreplaceable stuff, that often changes (development source, financial stuff, pix), and I use Karens Replicator http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.aspto sync it nightly to my Windows2K3 server, then once a week it uploads an incremental to Amazon S3 via Jungledisk. The laptop has a copy of the 6gb of irreplaceable stuff, on a Truecrypt container on an 8gb SDcard. Everytime I use the laptop, I sync the SDcard via Truecrypt/Karens Replicator on the desktop machine... Works fantastic for me!!
What seems to work wonders with Dell (disclaimer: I deal with them quite a lot, as I support over 150 Dell desktop/laptops at work) is the "unresolved issues" link on the very bottom of the Dell front webpage. Just the other day, my hope system, an Optiplex GX620 decided to start getting weird on shutdown/hibernate, such that it would shut down ok, and power the system off, but then it would immediately power back up again on its own. I did all the obvious troubleshooting, including seeing if it could be a bent windows install by installing a clean copy of XP on another drive, and sure enough, same problem, it also occurred on an install of Ubuntu. This strongly pointed to the motherboard having problems, so I submitted a support ticket, telling the tier one drone the problem AND the steps I'd taken to isolate the issue.. Drone apparently couldn't read plain English, because he told to do all the things I'd already done.. I replied that I'd already done these things, and believe it or not, he wanted me to do them again.. I simply went to the "unresolved issues" link and filed a case there, referencing the case id I'd been given by the drone, and the very next day, I got an email telling me I'd get a replacement motherboard shipped to me... This link seems to connect to clueful people, and more importantly, ones who can take ownership of a problem and get it resolved... Give it a try.. BTW: Thank you for your service to the country, I salute you!!!
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That was just a little taste of what Comrade Obama and his socialist pals in Congress have in store for you in the next four years...
There are, though, two silver linings. First, at least the senate isn't a supermajority rubber stamp. Second, when he runs for re-election next time, it can finally involve looking at some sort of actual record of his - and a whole lot of people who were caught up the historical significance of skin color can come back to their senses and realize they're hiring someone for an actual executive job, not trying to win a high school debate on style points.
All I can say is "THANK GOD FOR THAT!!".. After his first term, I'll bet with my last dollar that even his supporters will be so fed up with him, that he'll be more reviled than Bush is now....
I just hope he, and the Congress hasn't ruined this wonderful country beyond repair....
If I'm still around here in 2 years or so, I'll check back in and see how all you Obama-lovers feel then... I'll bet you'll have changed your tune.. Obama by himself would be bad enough, but with socialist majority in Congress, it can't get much worse...
You people think Bush did a bad job, then you are REALLY gonna hate Obama, after the honeymoon is over... Or ... maybe thats what you guys actually want.. A socialist state lead by Obama, that will trash industry, bring unemployment higher than its ever been. and tax you till you bleed.. Yes.. I know, he's only gonna increase taxes on incomes over 250K/yr.. yeah, right.. if you believe that, I have a bridge in NY I'll sell you cheap... He's gonna tell you WHATEVER it takes to get elected, and now that he's elected, gloves are off...
Mark my words.. In two years (or less) all you Obama-lovers will be singing a different tune.. Along with the rest of us who've been singing it all along....
yeah... Am seriously thinking about that.. but the ever-dwindling shortlist of places that *arent* totally screwed up already is woefully short.. no, actually its pretty much non-existant..
UK? nope...
Canada? nope...
Australia? nope..
What to do.. What to do..
I usually don't reply to AC, but this AC has summed it up in a nutshell... With Comrade Obama in the Whitehouse, and a socialist majority in Congress, we are majorly screwed.. All you poor misguided people who voted for Obama, are celebrating now, but let me check back with you in a couple of years, and see how you feel then.... Its to cry..