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First job out of high school the computer guy we contracted with every so often sold me a chip to unscramble all the pay per view and such. Best $20 I ever spent. It lasted about 2 years then they sent a signal that flipped it all off in a dramatic popping fashion.

Someone filling out a crossword puzzle ask you something you might know since you're "old" and you know the answer. Original DnD company. TSR duh. Got books on them that say TSR. Old.

Eventually you will. They already sell it boxed and keys for it. If you build a new computer you will.

Guess I remembered wrong. They are available in 23 states according to their wiki page, but they are the best selling ice cream brand in the US. I guess their competitors are regional, store brands etc...They are big in the south so maybe the south eats more ice cream since it's hot. Also on...

I think I remember reading they are available in 85% of the ice cream market or some such.

Thanks, no desire to learn SQL but they have others I may look at.

I guess my biggest issue is I pay for an OS to be an OS. Not to use me to make money by selling what I do at home for ads. Search engines do it, but I'm not paying for google. I also don't like them pulling it out of something I write locally like a letter etc...

I think insurance brought part of this on to themselves. I got hit while stopped about 20 years ago. Guy in front of me was making a left turn on a 2 lane road. Guy hit me going 70mph in a van (in a 55mph zone). Pretty much crushed my truck. Luckily there was a cop behind the guy turning who saw...

Both of the cars I mentioned above the ferrari and maserati had CA plates. About 1/3 of our office is recently from CA when they shut down that office. They are in the same boat. OMG I took a massive pay cut and can buy a 6 bedroom house now. They really freak when upper management gets...

Google is acting like safe search is enabled ALL THE TIME now even tho it's not checked to filter content nor is safe search enabled in settings. Doesn't matter if I'm signed in or out. Still does the same searches and everytihing is PG rated at most.

The original Monday Night Football crew is all dead now, Frank Gifford died.

Cousin posted a video on his faebook he took (as a passanger) behind a google self driving care in Austin yesterday. Good luck. They'll have to reprogram it since everyone knows "rules of the road" are just a suggestion in TX. I like it that way lol. Speed limit signs are really the minimum...

If you do, please record it.

I'm part redneck. Last hole I found in the yard full of them I poured gas down and let it soak it and repeat a few times. Then lit it on fire. Really didn't impact the yard but the flame coming out of the hole about the size of a coke can was pretty impressive. I didn't have any more yellow...

At the weekend job now. Not bad. I work for 10-30 seconds then have 2-4 minutes of do nothing time to cruise the net or whatever else.

Stopped in Lockhart, TX on the way back from the girlfriends house. Lockhart being the epicenter of brisket and BBQ in TX. So I'm having brisket and some ribs. Got enough brisket to make a few sandwiches later this week as well. Ummmm good.

I haven't delved into it, but from what I just glanced at Windows 10 now has the ability to collect stuff from your other applications like word and anything you type on the computer. They market it as collected data about the way you type to help you get ads and "experience" targeted to you...

And they complain about me being part of the 1% lol. I eat blue bell, it's sold damn near every where.

I guess I'm totally out of touch. No suprise. In the job I currently have they offered 3x salary to work in the bay area and 1.5 to move to Phoenix. Both were listed in this thread. No thanks. On the Austin deal. Money is flowing in left and right. The company put me up in an apartment for 2...

Across the road from a senator. I lived in BFE East, TX where dial up was tops. It was 20 miles from there to the nearest stop sign and 45 miles to wal-mart. Kay Bailey Hutchison bought the land across the road while still in office and they put a CO for DSL at the end of my driveway. This...

Give you the option to enter a valid license? Get one off reddit for a fraction of the cost. I had to get a new windows 7 license and upgrade on a dual boot. I got it from the company, but I looked around. A windows 7 pro key was $20 and a windows 10 I want to say $45.

Someone had a flat and 14 lanes of traffic have to slow down to look at it. Never been to CA but that seems to be modus operandi for most places.

My girlfriend lives in Austin. She hates it, but she's like me. More of a rural get the hell out of town type person. She makes almost as much as I do and she still complains about how much housing cost, and traffic. I live close enough I can run into town there if I need something or want to...

How have you never heard of it, it's one of the top movies for Chuck and I still hear references to it today. I see vanity plates referencing it at least once a year.

38, 39, whatever it takes 110, 111 whatever it takes

Love story. Meh. (1971). Starring Ali McGraw.

You don't charge with a 1 hour minimum? I thought that was pretty standard for any business. If I have to draw a base plate that is 12 inches square with 4 holes in it and takes less than 5 minutes I charge an hour. I just thought everyone did that.

You see a LOT of computers in manufacturing and even plants sites in the petro chemical field that are very old desktops controlling an entire process. You walk into a control room and they have state of the art displays for instrumentation. But the computer there controlling the actual process...

I admire you. I had enough just learning what I needed to pass a FCC test and it was aggravating enough.

Guess I do. I only deal with civil engineers mostly in the petro chemical or power plant industry. Most of them don't have to fill out a time "sheet" for billiable hours because they are getting paid to be at work and not billed per job. Very few of them are consulting engineers. They are...

I got no time for that lol. I was lucky the boss at my company was an engineer (we only had 40 people total and that included the shop) and we had the contract to provide all maintenance in reference to structural and plate work (non mechanical) at the Exxon refinery, chem plant, plastics plant...

I have zero patience for anything. I guess it works out in the end. I gravitated to the ultra quick turnaround work in this sectory for that reason I guess. Get it done now at any cost seems to be the motton. I can see it has a lot of pluses tho. For a lot of people I would guess it would be...

Mine do as well. When we approve the already filled in time sheet we also approve anything we charged on the company card and any reimbursements. But like I said 90% or more of the people who use it are on hourly pay and have to OK their time sheet. I like seeing ahead of time, just me but...

I think at one time I did more pipe supports than anyone in the nation. The shop next to ours was IPS (internatioanal piping supply) which did piping for the petro chemical and nuclear industry. All their pipe supports they farmed out to me. A subsidarary of Jacobs. which in itslef is huge...

We do the same thing, it takes 30 seconds. It could be set automatically but you see how much vacation time you have and personal time. Plus it shows you which week your insurance is taken out etc... Like I said for 30 seconds, whatever. Everyone in the company is on the same system and only...

Best part of our schedule is I get off at 11 on Fridays and we typically take an hour or more even tho we "technically" get 30 minutes. FIrst day on job the president and his son (VP of operations) took me to lunch and they said you get 30 minutes for lunch. Ok. We got back after an hour and I...

Same, mine says that and we get off at 11 on Fridays lol.

In my previous job we had to put hours on each job since we did multiple a day. The secretary did it for everyone and just made shit up. Nope never worked on contract with the government. I love doing contract for companies that literally when they say "Money is no object" they mean it. And...

I'm working at a part time job starting next Sunday for $10/hour. Moving up in the world. If things work out I might really be onto something lol.

Saw last week that Boston still had snow piled up in giant deals they had pushed up last winter.