The USB-A should be relocated between the Centronics and RS-232 ports. Save space by mounting it vertically!

bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.

they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).

They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.

>I'm hoping to see the first recycled reactor core! ;^)

c'mon, now.

*everyone* knows that reactor cores blow into a fireball of plasma when you eject them, as soon as they're far enough out that the writers think the ship can (almost) plausibly escape! :)

hawk

My CU offers a bit of reimbursement, which I don't use.

Fidelity, however, has "all fees reimbursed" for a number of accounts.

Then again, you're not likely to have a cash account there if you don't have significant other assets with them.

>Dawn Wells (Maryann on Gilligan's Island) did because her
>manager/husband asked for them and the studio thought it would
>flop so they said OK as they didn't expect to pay them.

this appears to be an urban legend, although oft repeated.

In the last years of her life, she was pretty much pleading for help for her medical bills.

The end game will be dismissal of the case for lack of standing.

It is well established that cows lack standing to sue, even if they can be in chk-a-fil ads! :)

hawk

>I can hit the mute button if need be.

the mute button was the most important technological advance in the second half of the twentieth century, even ahead of recording and fast forward.

It does, though, mean missing all those opportunities to by precious metals for a third their value, guaranteed acceptance insurance with a benefit of three months or so of premiums, and so forth. Oh, and all those products worth about the shipping cost, but with the opportunity to pay a few tines that plus shipping.

>Some of the antenna farms are 50 miles away.

you don't need that kind of distance go have a problem.

most of the transmitters in town are something like 5-7 miles from me. I can clearly see them with my naked eye from about half my front porch (a two story pool building across the street blocks the line form about half).

But they seem to have crammed two many sub-channels into too little bandwidth. Some days my wife's favorite western channel comes in perfectly clearly, but mild weather variation can cause it to collapse into non-watchable, with no sound and a half a frame every several seconds. All the while, the main .1 station would be coming in just fine.

over time, they allocate more and less bandwidth to the various little channels.

But the real question is: is he making this up?

hawk

more importantly, what happens to the cats that eat these mice?

>the de minimis being $800 dates to 1934, when you could
>probably buy a complete *house* from Sears for that price.

Nah, I keep seeing $1,092 for that.

*whew*. saved from cheap foreign houses!

however, they seem to have started as low as $360 in some earlier years.

>These are folk creatures with two legs shorter than the other two,
>optimized to spiral around mountains. There are therefore two
>sets of them, left spinning and right spinning, which can't breed.

I forget which kind, but there is a crab found off both North America and off of Europe. Each has one big claw, but it's on the opposite side from those across the ocean.

biologists bred them together--and got crabs with *two* large claws--that couldn't walk due to the weight!

> you now have to upgrade$$ your membership to 'gold star' or 'executive'

you're historically backwards.

the business membership is the base membership. they added the less expensive membership, but held back some hours for the business folks to partially placate them.

the business members' purchases are what keep the place going; the cheap membership is just a bit of gravy.

>if you ignore that number of animals they have that want to kill you.

so you're saying that the solution is to import hostile wildlife from Australia? :_)

hawks

That doesn't stop me for Pining for them, though.