Talking to Comcast through the online chat thing is super annoying (sometimes they make you do that instead of on the phone). They basically just copy and paste a bunch of crap in there randomly, which makes it hard to get anywhere with them. I recently wanted to switch to a new cheaper package that was advertised on the website that said it was for existing customers (took awhile to convince them that it wasn't only for new customers, idiots, it was right there in plain text on the site). Anyway, they kept pasting in paragraphs in the chat about the stupid triple play package, and I kept having to say "NO I don't want that, I want "xyz" package. I don't need the phone stuff." Them: "but at $99 you are saving..." Me: "NO, in 6 months it will be crazy expensive anyway, I just want "xyz" package!" Finally got the package I wanted, but dang, that was annoying and took way too long.
I remember the cable company in Beacon snooping around our house on more than one occasion convinced that were were "stealing" cable. They literally couldn't imagine that we actually didn't want it, and only paid for Internet.
Back in the day, our local cable company (I think it was CableVision at the time) refused to believe that we still used exclusively broadcast television. It got to the point where the sales person at the door said to my dad at one point "Look, it's fine. Just tell us you've got a decoder box you're using in there, and we can work out a deal".
Back in the day, our local cable company (I think it was CableVision at the time) refused to believe that we still used exclusively broadcast television. It got to the point where the sales person at the door said to my dad at one point "Look, it's fine. Just tell us you've got a decoder box you're using in there, and we can work out a deal".
Wow. I would've asked him for a cancellation form right there. That kind of behaviour from one of those cunts is worst. Can you get a door sticker in the US that bars door-to-door salespeople from knocking at your door like we can here?
Yeah, but cable and other utility providers are exempt if you're purchasing a service from them, unfortunately. I'd definitely call the police on any guy that was on my property snooping, though; cable companies don't have meters, and that shit is trespassing in my book.
I wouldn't let them in the house unless I explicitly requested someone to come and fix shit. Which was the case when my modem broke. Otherwise you will not see more than the hallway.
Just got off the phone with a 60-ish-year-old guy who wanted us to write a story about him because he made his own web page for a wine enthusiast group using an Infoserve template. I had to explain to him why that wasn't news.
Just got off the phone with a 60-ish-year-old guy who wanted us to write a story about him because he made his own web page for a wine enthusiast group using an Infoserve template. I had to explain to him why that wasn't news.
Just got off the phone with a 60-ish-year-old guy who wanted us to write a story about him because he made his own web page for a wine enthusiast group using an Infoserve template. I had to explain to him why that wasn't news.
When things like this happen, and it seems like they happen often, you should write them anyway. Write it up as you would normally. Then send it to The Onion pretending it's not true.
Okay, this just popped into my head, I haven't thought it over too much.
Valve is going to sell music at some point through Steam or a similar service. The model is set up, it would be simple to add a browser for music, they already handle money constantly, they are a trusted name on the internet, and they deal with licensing all of the time.
A lot of artists have problems with that model of discounts like that, though, which is why something like the Steam model hasn't been done yet. Steam may have experience with licensing games, but the shitty record companies are a whole 'nother animal.
Would it be cliche now to remove my oldest daughter's bedroom door and replace it with a TARDIS/police box facade? I know it's been done, but it's her birthday in two weeks and I think she'd get a kick out of it...
Would rigging the Yale lock into a switch that activated the light and played the sound effect be overkill....?
Would it be cliche now to remove my oldest daughter's bedroom door and replace it with a TARDIS/police box facade? I know it's been done, but it's her birthday in two weeks and I think she'd get a kick out of it...
Would rigging the Yale lock into a switch that activated the light and played the sound effect be overkill....?
No, that would only mean that you are an awesome parent! I would recommend to have an easy deactivation switch if her inner child ever grows up though.
Amazon has discounts like that sometimes. They're not usually on a ton of artists, but there have been some decent digital albums on sale for under $3 in the past.
Also, some interesting new results seem to have come out on the Prisoner's Dilemma. I haven't looked into them in any detail, but this historical overview gives some interesting details.
I just wrote the following combat feat for my RPG.
"Grapple Master" "Requires 3 Fisticuffs" "Your mastery of mixed martial arts have unlocked the ultimate grappling technique, which is to say, repeated blows to the genitals. If you are unarmed in a grapple, you make a free melee attack every single round you are in the grapple, regardless of if you win or lose. This is separate from the free attack you can make if you win the grapple."
A player with this perk, and a fairly high Pluck skill, can turn a grapple into 2 guaranteed and 2 possible strikes per combat turn, which is 4 times the number of strikes you can do in the average combat turn!
A friend and I had a long and fruitful discussion about a starting Mentor build with 3 Fisticuff, 3 Pluck, 2 Daring-Doo (very high starting combat stats), Grapple Master, Fists of Steel (which makes you immune to self-damage from unarmed strikes) and Reckless Aggression (which gives you a longer charge range), and a suit of scrap armour (essentially immune to anything less than rifle rounds).
The build is called the Groin Blender and it's designed to do nothing but initiate combat, charge the first dude in the room, and rend his reproductive organs into jelly with an average of 3 six-damage punches per turn and can quickly cause lethal internal bleeding.
Of course this is completely silly mini-maxing which will result in a completely useless character for his actual role (He has no Smarts, Smoothness or Wealth and he is incredibly situational and finicky) but the reputation that would follow this man around would more than make up for it.
We imagined him to look a bit like a short, muscle-y space marine with an eggbeater for an arm.
I have a serious dilemma going on right now about my job path and want to get some of your input on it, because well I am stuck and need help.
So I have been working in IT for over eight years, lot of support, some management (project and personnel), some database work, web work, testing work, a "knowledgeable of all master of none" career. My last job let me go after fixing all the issues they had and never talked to me again, a few months past and I got a new job.
It is tier 2 help desk, I am making more here then I was making in all of my prior IT jobs. However only a week and a half in, I can see dead end written all over it. Employees never get raises, they look outside for new opportunities, the level of work is support and they are stopping all areas of IT support. This job has just become application support ala call center.
Now, part of me wants to wait a while and see where it goes, see if my assumptions are incorrect and reap the benefits of the higher pay, while being bored out of my mind with answering phone calls. However knowing what I know about the job world the other part of me wants to GTFO fast and get back into being aggressive in the market and find a job that won't strip out everything that I can use for future employment and make a new opportunity.
The third option is to stick around and pile some certs (looking at the MCITP for desktop and server administration) and then look while employed to the next step. The good news about the job is they gave me a later shift therefore I can sneak interviews in the morning and not have to make up excuses to go to them.
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I really like this one.
Valve is going to sell music at some point through Steam or a similar service. The model is set up, it would be simple to add a browser for music, they already handle money constantly, they are a trusted name on the internet, and they deal with licensing all of the time.
Thoughts?
Would rigging the Yale lock into a switch that activated the light and played the sound effect be overkill....?
I would recommend to have an easy deactivation switch if her inner child ever grows up though.
"Grapple Master"
"Requires 3 Fisticuffs"
"Your mastery of mixed martial arts have unlocked the ultimate grappling technique, which is to say, repeated blows to the genitals. If you are unarmed in a grapple, you make a free melee attack every single round you are in the grapple, regardless of if you win or lose. This is separate from the free attack you can make if you win the grapple."
A player with this perk, and a fairly high Pluck skill, can turn a grapple into 2 guaranteed and 2 possible strikes per combat turn, which is 4 times the number of strikes you can do in the average combat turn!
The build is called the Groin Blender and it's designed to do nothing but initiate combat, charge the first dude in the room, and rend his reproductive organs into jelly with an average of 3 six-damage punches per turn and can quickly cause lethal internal bleeding.
Of course this is completely silly mini-maxing which will result in a completely useless character for his actual role (He has no Smarts, Smoothness or Wealth and he is incredibly situational and finicky) but the reputation that would follow this man around would more than make up for it.
We imagined him to look a bit like a short, muscle-y space marine with an eggbeater for an arm.
So I have been working in IT for over eight years, lot of support, some management (project and personnel), some database work, web work, testing work, a "knowledgeable of all master of none" career. My last job let me go after fixing all the issues they had and never talked to me again, a few months past and I got a new job.
It is tier 2 help desk, I am making more here then I was making in all of my prior IT jobs. However only a week and a half in, I can see dead end written all over it. Employees never get raises, they look outside for new opportunities, the level of work is support and they are stopping all areas of IT support. This job has just become application support ala call center.
Now, part of me wants to wait a while and see where it goes, see if my assumptions are incorrect and reap the benefits of the higher pay, while being bored out of my mind with answering phone calls. However knowing what I know about the job world the other part of me wants to GTFO fast and get back into being aggressive in the market and find a job that won't strip out everything that I can use for future employment and make a new opportunity.
The third option is to stick around and pile some certs (looking at the MCITP for desktop and server administration) and then look while employed to the next step. The good news about the job is they gave me a later shift therefore I can sneak interviews in the morning and not have to make up excuses to go to them.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Advice?