Comment: Re:Duh! It's Sony. (Score 1) 171
Evil incarnate. More evil than Oracle and MS combined.
But is it more evil if Microsoft and Sony accidentally conceived a child, after obtaining an expired prophylactic from Apple?
Comment: Re:Lost Channels (Score 1) 451
The local cable broadcaster here lost approx 10 channels after the test, including CNN, FOX, and DISCOVERY. They all switched to the NAT GEO channel without audio for upwards of an hour after the test ran.
In addition, the test video was jumpy, kept blacking out, audio kept dropping out, etc.
All in all, if it had been a real emergency, losing the 2 major news channels would have been real motivation to start loading ammo and supplies and gassing up the bug out mobile.
Wait... Discovery is a news channel now?
Comment: Re:DC Traffic sucks... (Score 0, Troll) 395
Earthquakes, hurricanes. It is abundantly clear god has chosen sides in the New York gay marriage debate.
I'm no scientist, but I'm fairly certain both the epicenter of said earthquake, and the projected landfall of Hurricane Irene, are both in red states.
Comment: Re:how to use best buy warranties (Score 1) 543
Lesson: if there is more than one thing wrong with the camera, do NOT mention anything else wrong. Gives you more leverage when they try to send it back saying that repair is not covered, and you can say, "What about this here thing wrong? Did you cause this?"
Maddening.
No, the lesson is if you're willing to make a spectacle of yourself inside their stores, most managers will replace your warrantied item with store stock, just to shut you up and get you out of the store. Works at Best Buy. Works at Apple stores. Worked in Circuit City. Squeaky wheel gets the greasing, and such.
Comment: Re:Wait a fricken' second. (Score 1) 157
Mod this guy up, please
Comment: Re:Relinquishing Internet? (Score 1) 462
Stage one, preparation. For this you will need one room which you will not leave. Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. Paracetamol, mouthwash, vitamins. Mineral water, Lucozade, pornography. One mattress. One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus. One television and one bottle of Valium.
That's a big list. Can you point me to a website that can offer a one-stop shopping experience for listed items?
Comment: Re:Future Shop does it too now (Score 1) 664
After Future Shop in Canada got bought up, they've dumped their non-monster cables and stuff. "Oh, you want an HDMI to go with that TV? That'll be $80. Do you want a fucking $400 god damn power bar? It cleans the power gremlins out of your filthy filthy wall socket. Without the filter the gremlins will take a hammer to the inside of your TV, and eat all your bags of chips. It also somehow makes the sound one hundred times crisper because resonance waves from your dirty power account for a huge portion of the signal noise from home amplifiers and receivers. It also has a display to show the current voltage, so you know just how dirty your power was before we made it sparkling fresh!"
Mock the $100-200 Monster surge protectors all you like, but at least educate yourself first.
All surge protectors they try to sell you as accessories when you buy TV have different numbers on the box. Some of the numbers are actual specifications, but the number most people want to see is the liability coverage. Liability. A monetary value. It's the reimbursement value the company will pay you if your equipment is damaged, and their surge protector didn't prevent it. Having quality surge protectors is basically a form of insurance.
Formers coworker at Circuit City went all out on his home theater, and that includes the cables. I'm willing to bet you've never seen what a Monster Cable surge protector looks like after lightning strikes a pole on your road. You may not be old enough, but the surge protector looked like over cooked Jiffy Pop; the non-microwavable kind. Charred, huge hole in the center, plastic curling away from the crater... It's XXXXing AWESOME. And nothing that was hooked up to those surge protectors took any damage. Worth every penny, even without employee discount.
Comment: Re:Life in Prison (Score 1) 359
Here is the list of charges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bradley_Manning#Listing_of_charges:_First_set
He won't spend another day as a free man.
Sure he will.
If he gets convicted, and has to serve time, I guarantee you he'll get a presidential pardon, from a Democrat leaving office with an incoming Republican.
Comment: Welcome! (Score 2) 121
I'd like to be the first to welcome out new robot overlords.
If there's anything I can do to make this transition easier on you, you need but ask. Oh, and that neighbor I don't like is part of the resistance.
If there's anything I can do to make this transition easier on you, you need but ask. Oh, and that neighbor I don't like is part of the resistance.
Comment: Re:Blue Water Comics (Score 1) 119
Oh, these comics don't sell because they are ridiculous and crap. There's no denying that. What I'm saying is that because these books are so bad, the only people who might buy them are members of the "Cult of Jobs." And I just don't see those people walking into comic stores often... well, at least not at the store I work at.