I had one of those and took a day off, and the part where I chewed them out was almost identical to yours. The only difference was they scheduled the guy to come out in a four hour window, and after he never showed, I called and was told he did already came.
"The service technician was already there. Do you still have the problem?"
"No."
"Thanks for telling me I needed to be at home then. Vacation time isn't free!"
The guy fixed whatever was to be fixed without ever coming inside, and also without ever telling me he fixed anything.
This is one of the most informed comments here, and it's being modded down. Geeks are obviously not poker players. Surprising with the amount of math, probability and statistics involved.
Most important to any psychedelic trip are set and setting. If you lead a mostly positive life and don't carry emotional baggage, your psychedelic trips should be mostly beautiful and non-threatening. If you have a lot of negative baggage built up or are in an unfamiliar or potentially threatening setting, you are more likely to have a bad trip.
As an experienced ket tripper, I've been in a lot of mindsets going into a trip. I've had beautiful experiences that have changed me for the better, and I've had some trips to hell that have been ugly and scary. The connections to archetypes are always pretty pronounced on this drug. I've never had that happen consistently on other psychedelics like mushies.
I think the researchers should look specifically at 5-MeO-DMT, since that is actually produced by the body and is a potent psychedelic. I believe it has a direct connection to these NDEs.
Remember to back up twice (two drives) if going the hard drive route. I have seen too many people who backed their data up to a external drive that failed.
I'm sure this is the principal way documents are leaked from just about any organisation.
I had a coworker that forwarded our pricing worksheet to a customer once. It basically explained how we come up with our prices, and exactly where they could squeeze us. We're a pretty big company, and that would be a pretty damaging document to leak, especially if the customer wasn't honest and decided to leak it themselves.
I worked third shift, and walked in to see all of her personal items in a box. She wasn't allowed in the next day.
I didn't read the whole reply chain, but I'm surprised I didn't see digital distribution brought up as a competitor. I have a 61" HD-ILA HDTV in my livingroom, and no hardware capable of HD output except for my XBOX 360.
I rent a ton of HD movies on my 360 and watch them for what, $5? I do not plan on buying a Bluray player at all. My DVDs look hot as hell played off of the 360 as well. I think optical media is reaching a close.
I think that children want to immitate the life they were accustomed to as children. I grew up in a family of seven, from lower class to lower-middle class, because my parents tried their hearts out to not let us know we were poor. I remember the days of macaroni and cheese with hot dogs, up to the point my parents would spend $250 every paycheck on food while I bitched that I didn't have a Playstation.
I'm 23 now, and totally understand where my parents were coming from. There is only me and the woman, a combined income of $60k, an 840 sq ft apartment, and no money. I commend my parents, as they've set goals for me to live for. I grew up in a 2500 sq ft, 5 bedroom home, and never knew of anything worse. Now I live in worse, and strive for the status quo I was raised to know.
I think that people only try to achieve the better that they've known. Any better might be uncomfortable or wasteful.
You misinterpreted my message as well. I am speaking only of Dell and our whitebox offering. I am fully aware that other OEMs have these features.
Our current offering (and the span of my message) includes only Dell Intel, whitebox Intel, and whitebox AMD. We do have a few Sun boxes in there, but they are one-offs. I am only speaking in regards TO OUR OFFERINGS.
You misinterpreted my message. I'm far from a Dell fanboy, and anyone that knows me can tell you that. My message was that between our two offerings (Dell, and the whiteboxes) the Dell is the only of the TWO with those features available. I am fully aware that other manufacturers have those offerings, however we do not deal with those manufacturers.
I work for a fairly large managed hosting company, and we host Dell or 2U whitebox servers. If the customer has wanted AMD, they would have to get a whitebox. On the enterprise segment, our customers have extreme uptime demands and proactive monitoring with timely reaction is critical. Dell servers are much easier to support in that:
* MOM reports to our monitoring team any Dell alerts (including ALL hardware problems, and predictive failure notices), * The Dell Remote Access Cards allow us console access to the servers when they aren't otherwise accessible remotely, including the entire POST process.
Enterprise customers demanding AMD processors (or otherwise dodging the cost of Intel Dell servers) don't get these features, and their application availability is put at higher risk. With 12,000 servers, our company has been crying to Dell for a long time to offer AMD. I think this has a lot more to do with industry demand than a new fab plant opening.
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I had one of those and took a day off, and the part where I chewed them out was almost identical to yours. The only difference was they scheduled the guy to come out in a four hour window, and after he never showed, I called and was told he did already came.
"The service technician was already there. Do you still have the problem?"
"No."
"Thanks for telling me I needed to be at home then. Vacation time isn't free!"
The guy fixed whatever was to be fixed without ever coming inside, and also without ever telling me he fixed anything.
This is one of the most informed comments here, and it's being modded down. Geeks are obviously not poker players. Surprising with the amount of math, probability and statistics involved.
It's the k-hole. The easist way to find the k-hole is k + lots of booze .
The k-hole is a dose high enough to knock you unconscious. Combining k with booze is asking to not wake up again.
Most important to any psychedelic trip are set and setting. If you lead a mostly positive life and don't carry emotional baggage, your psychedelic trips should be mostly beautiful and non-threatening. If you have a lot of negative baggage built up or are in an unfamiliar or potentially threatening setting, you are more likely to have a bad trip.
As an experienced ket tripper, I've been in a lot of mindsets going into a trip. I've had beautiful experiences that have changed me for the better, and I've had some trips to hell that have been ugly and scary. The connections to archetypes are always pretty pronounced on this drug. I've never had that happen consistently on other psychedelics like mushies.
I think the researchers should look specifically at 5-MeO-DMT, since that is actually produced by the body and is a potent psychedelic. I believe it has a direct connection to these NDEs.
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Remember to back up twice (two drives) if going the hard drive route. I have seen too many people who backed their data up to a external drive that failed.
You've never seen a tape restore fail?
I understand your pain.... *tears... hugs*
Does that mean if I like kids I shouldn't watch pron?
*Filty amateur porn* Sexy porn stars don't have kids.
I'm sure this is the principal way documents are leaked from just about any organisation.
I had a coworker that forwarded our pricing worksheet to a customer once. It basically explained how we come up with our prices, and exactly where they could squeeze us. We're a pretty big company, and that would be a pretty damaging document to leak, especially if the customer wasn't honest and decided to leak it themselves. I worked third shift, and walked in to see all of her personal items in a box. She wasn't allowed in the next day.
And a .419 TLD for the scammers :-p
I didn't read the whole reply chain, but I'm surprised I didn't see digital distribution brought up as a competitor. I have a 61" HD-ILA HDTV in my livingroom, and no hardware capable of HD output except for my XBOX 360. I rent a ton of HD movies on my 360 and watch them for what, $5? I do not plan on buying a Bluray player at all. My DVDs look hot as hell played off of the 360 as well. I think optical media is reaching a close.
Yeah and what's up with your TPPS reports? Didn't you get the memo?
I think that children want to immitate the life they were accustomed to as children. I grew up in a family of seven, from lower class to lower-middle class, because my parents tried their hearts out to not let us know we were poor. I remember the days of macaroni and cheese with hot dogs, up to the point my parents would spend $250 every paycheck on food while I bitched that I didn't have a Playstation.
I'm 23 now, and totally understand where my parents were coming from. There is only me and the woman, a combined income of $60k, an 840 sq ft apartment, and no money. I commend my parents, as they've set goals for me to live for. I grew up in a 2500 sq ft, 5 bedroom home, and never knew of anything worse. Now I live in worse, and strive for the status quo I was raised to know.
I think that people only try to achieve the better that they've known. Any better might be uncomfortable or wasteful.
Come on... like you've never posted anything when hitting the sauce pretty hard ;)
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That should have been modded +6!
Again, not a Dell guy here. I'm an HP-fan if anything, but I have zero control over the fact that we're in bed with Dell.
:-p
How did a "thanks Dell" post turn into people thinking I'm a Dell fanboy that lives under a rock
You misinterpreted my message as well. I am speaking only of Dell and our whitebox offering. I am fully aware that other OEMs have these features.
Our current offering (and the span of my message) includes only Dell Intel, whitebox Intel, and whitebox AMD. We do have a few Sun boxes in there, but they are one-offs. I am only speaking in regards TO OUR OFFERINGS.
You misinterpreted my message. I'm far from a Dell fanboy, and anyone that knows me can tell you that. My message was that between our two offerings (Dell, and the whiteboxes) the Dell is the only of the TWO with those features available. I am fully aware that other manufacturers have those offerings, however we do not deal with those manufacturers.
I work for a fairly large managed hosting company, and we host Dell or 2U whitebox servers. If the customer has wanted AMD, they would have to get a whitebox. On the enterprise segment, our customers have extreme uptime demands and proactive monitoring with timely reaction is critical. Dell servers are much easier to support in that:
* MOM reports to our monitoring team any Dell alerts (including ALL hardware problems, and predictive failure notices),
* The Dell Remote Access Cards allow us console access to the servers when they aren't otherwise accessible remotely, including the entire POST process.
Enterprise customers demanding AMD processors (or otherwise dodging the cost of Intel Dell servers) don't get these features, and their application availability is put at higher risk. With 12,000 servers, our company has been crying to Dell for a long time to offer AMD. I think this has a lot more to do with industry demand than a new fab plant opening.
It sucks that your parents had to drop that bomb on you at what, 30 years of age?
Ahem... I moved out of my parents house at 18 in 2001. The only reason I had more than a SNES was that I bought my own PS2.
I thought that IP looked like it was from a familiar block. I work at Rackspace. And you just made someone work :-p