I'm working through the same decision here now.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Cajungal
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Although I will say...sometimes those self-flushing toilets spray on the seat and appear to be pee-splash. But damnit, I clean that up as well. NO EXCUSES, ladies.
I just don't go. Public bathrooms are the worst.
Probably don't wanna click this.
Or just move back to the men's bathroom.
Also, I feel ya. Once the volume of jetsam exceeds what could realistically fit inside a human body even if you hollowed it out completely I just start rolling my eyes.
--Patrick
In about five minutes I have to take a trip to a client's office and tell them, in the most polite way possible, "You guys don't know anything about translation. We do. Please trust us when we say our translations are good, and don't leave us!"
I have to do this in a way that won't offend them, which is hard because (a) I don't usually deal with clients, certainly not face to face, so I'm inexperienced at this, and (b) I'm a pretty snarky guy.
I have to do this in a way that won't offend them, which is hard because (a) I don't usually deal with clients, certainly not face to face, so I'm inexperienced at this, and (b) I'm a pretty snarky guy.
"Oh yeah, our translations are sooooooooo good. No, really, you tooooooootally need us, guys, I mean it."
I hate when those things malfunction. We have one in the men's room at work that flushes if you so much as move, so you can be in there in another stall and hear it go off six times in a row while no one's in there.
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Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.X-Men: Wolverine?
You're right not to, he's in there but it's really a crappy version.
I'm already sitting in the corner, thanks to the awesome interior designer they hired to screw this room up. Only way to get more in the corner would be to crawl under my colleague's desk, and I don't think he'd approve.
One-strike with no warning? I thought most ISPs in the U.S. gave you at least one warning then 1-2 strikes before messing with the connection.
I recommend EarthVPN. I've been a user for years, and as long as you pay on time, their up-time is pretty great, and the end-point selection is pretty fantastic. $6/mo gets me SSTP/OpenVPN/Socks.
GasBandit
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Apparently it's changed. Now each "strike" suspends your internet access so you have to call them and get the whole schpiel over the phone, then they turn it back on. Third strike means they let HBO take legal action.
I'm actually leaning toward a seedbox. It costs a little more, but I like that it means I won't need to load software on the 15-year-old machine I've been using just to do torrents, and that I could potentially access it from anywhere I am, and that I can seed longer/more/faster without impacting my home bandwidth.
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That's harsh.
I forget why I didn't go with a SeedBox back in the day. Probably because I was on a lower budget back then, and also use the VPN for browsing, so I'd end up paying for both. If you end up getting a seedbox (and thus, I assume, somewhat researching the existing market), I look forward to hearing your product pick.
Or he might, and you've made a new friend!
*cough*USENET*cough*
GasBandit
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It'd be a lot more work to set up my automatic downloads in usenet :/*cough*USENET*cough*
*cough*binsearch.info*cough*
GasBandit
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What I mean by automatic is, my torrent client downloads stuff on my keyword list without any other input from me, using IPTorrent's RSS feed. I just find the files in the folder and watch them. I've basically already got it all set up... I'd have to figure out how to do that all over again with usenet/binsearch.
As a followup to this, the lady I ended up meeting with was an attractive woman who wore a really low-cut top, and as a result I couldn't string complete sentences together. That meeting did not go well.
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Your one weakness! How did they know?!
I'm not sure if I'm impressed or saddened to know a grown man couldn't do his job because boobs.
We know the truth. You are saddened because you did not get to see the boobs in question.
--Patrick
Thanks boss, for letting me find out you assigned a server to me by way of emergency.
It turned out that in the middle of a long chain of emails, someone discovered that I was the administrator of a server that nobody knew about.
Then some of the people in that chain came to me to ask if I had any idea when it became mine.
Then I found out my ID did not work on that server.
It turned out that in the middle of a long chain of emails, someone discovered that I was the administrator of a server that nobody knew about.
Then some of the people in that chain came to me to ask if I had any idea when it became mine.
Then I found out my ID did not work on that server.
They were, in fact, spectacular. Like, I was filled with a deep sense of unfairness, that a person could be so physically attractive, while also being highly intelligent and competent at her job.