Comment Re:I'll second that... (Score 1) 117
Understood. It's all relative. I could have quantified my last statement better.
Comment I'll second that... (Score 2) 117
With all of the looting that went on by my house, you'd better keep the shotguns. There are some real opportunistic bastards out there with no conscience.
Had loads of people driving through the neighborhood to see how bad we (East Rockaway) got hit. Problem was that you couldn't tell them apart from the savages that were looking for where they were going to "visit" later on that night. Generators stolen, aluminum siding, anything resembling a fuel can, just to name a few.
We as a society are doomed if we get hit with a disaster worse than Sandy.
Comment Exactly (Score 1) 391
what I was thinking. Relatively powerful Linux tablet on the cheap. I would be in for at least three of them.
Comment Re:Once in a Hundred-Year storm... (Score 1) 148
Irene dropped approximately 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours.
Sandy dropped approximately 2 inches of rain in less than 24 hours.
The full moon, high tide and meeting up with another storm system in the northeast is what killed us. A lot oif things went "right" for it to become a super storm
Comment Re:The problem with Probability... (Score 2, Insightful) 148
Wrong.
It was a Category 1 Hurricane with Category 2 damage. It hit at high tide with a full moon and it met up with another storm system that was already over the northeast. Take a ride around NJ or the south shore of Long Island or Staten Island and tell me again that it was weak. Also remember that most of the people affected JUST got their homes/lives straigthened out from Irene 13 months prior.
Comment Re:Can someone explain (Score 1) 89
Easy.
I have a MAC.
I needed a decent freely available anti-virus scanner and Sophos came highly recommended. On a side note, On my Win7 machine at home I do use MSE and recommend to to anyone using Windows. I'm kinda paranoid so I also keep MalwareBytes and CCCleaner on my machines.
Comment More importantly.... (Score 1) 1199
You'd almost certainly sow the seeds of a Black Market for tobacco products. Making it illegal is definitely not the answer.
(full disclosure, I'm an ex-smoker since 11/10/10)
Comment Re:Enough Already (Score 2) 171
Better phone?
That's definitely subjective.
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Comment Re:year of the? (Score 1) 530
Precisely! Wish I had a mod point for you.
Comment Re:NAT to the rescue... NOT (Score 1) 321
Brilliant explanation. Thank you for taking the time to write that up.
Comment LOL (Score 0, Offtopic) 436
Where's my mod points when I need them............
