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Comment Re:Railway crossing? (Score 0) 423

I drive a manual trans, I rarely hold the brakes at a light.

If it does try to start my car on a green, who's to say I pulled my car out of gear. My car won't start, and I'll be holding up traffic until I DO start my car because I left it in gear.

What if someone's sh!tbox doesn't start. What if a car is disabled at a light? They can't even try to start it at a red.

I think there are far too many scenarios to figure out it will only take that one time someone dies to call the whole system a heretic.

Comment Re:I don't see what the big deal is (Score 0) 574

Our Corporate Policy is that you are only in trouble/punishable if it's sent BY you and not TO you.

It however mentions nothing about opening and viewing the material, or at least I saw no information on viewing. I would think you'd only be in trouble if it anyone else found it offensive or impaired your ability to perform your job (beyond the obvious sexual arousal).

Comment Re:Cockpit Boredom (Score 0) 342

I always wondered who kept getting my ass handed to me in PokeMon Diamond (for DS) and the Pilots giggled as I walked past them and off the plane.

I'm always bored as hell sitting on a plane. No movie, no food and the fat guy next to me taking up two seats who smalls awful. I need something to do, I can only imagine how boring and mundane that must be in the cockpit. At least find a way to get the flight stick to work with MechWarrior 3 for them!

Comment Re:And? (Score 0) 288

I don't watch the news anyways because it's mostly about who was murdered locally anyways.

Most companies recognize jury duty anyways so being caught up at work should not pose a danger to ones job. Unless the trial is lengthy and this impairs your company's ability to function normally without you. I'm not a lawyer and don't know the full details surrounding the process. If they wrongfully terminate you I suppose you could take your employer to court. Wouldn't that be a conundrum?

Comment Re:Opportunity (Score 0) 156

People like this also come into the store with $400 in their pocket looking to buy the $399 PC only to forget taxes and services like this. By the time they're done they bought 1/2 the PC they were looking at and all the services with it. What's a surge protector? OMG! I need paper with my printer? Should I buy ink? What's the warranty? Does it come with office? What is spyware/adware? Should I REALLY be afraid of Viruses? My Kid wants to play 3D games. Does this burn Discs? Where do I buy CD-R CDs? Most of the time, I gave them the information they needed and told them to come back when they could afford to buy the stuff "they needed" to make a better PC experience. Some of the time they got financing to do so. Some of the time they came back. Sometimes they had more money than sense. As a tech I did the services too and mostly got the same questions, and they were more apt to listen to me, likely because I was wearing a black shirt (later White) and not a salesman in a blue shirt.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 0) 926

I vote YOU pay for raising the quality of life in those countries. Stop send MY currency out of the country. I'm tired of Financing other countries progression while we choke ourselves saving others. Fix our problems FIRST. THEN help the others. Ironically, that's the same thing printed on the oxygen mask directions of ANY commercial airplane.

Comment I'm no expert... (Score 0) 135

...but I've seen water cooling for my short time on this earth as the superior cooling method. So much that I ran it myself. Sony even puts it in their system once but it was of a passive system than a pump/coolant system. Big name using it right out of the box. I don't know why leaks would be that big of an issue as this isn't a high pressure water system; being a closed loop it is going to be a very low pressure system unless you are trying to blow water as fast as you can through it. If it moves too fast, it will create a layer of stagnant coolant just off the surfaces and degrade cooling. Low (pressure)and slow (moving) should yield best cooling. No need to move 2000 Lph unless you are using one pump for many heat sources to maintain flow, but I wouldn't put that many devices on one pump.

Comment I finally fixed it once and for all... (Score 0) 932

I bought my Dad a Mac and then pointed him to my friend who's a Genius. In all seriousness (did the above) and I locked his PC out. He's a user with no rights. I did everything with an administrative account and did NOT give him the password this time. Last time everything was peachy until I gave it to him. Format/reload/lockout

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