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Anyone know if there's any coolant flushes better than the standard Prestone poo poo you get at Advance Auto and whatnot? I'm guessing it's all pretty much the same poo poo. Have a bit of a rust issue that I need to sort out before I replace a water pump.
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meatpimp posted:Don't become a lawyer. Truth. But really don't become a family lawyer.
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My wife has a good friend that's a lawyer and she's pretty miserable so yeah. Would suck to go through all that schooling, getting into massive debt and then realizing you hate your profession.
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I would say to not become a lawyer unless you're a bloodthirsty pit bull. Those are the ones that make the stereotype of 'wealthy lawyer dude'. And this thread moves at ridiculous pace once it turns into YosPos and I don't understand any of it.
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cursedshitbox posted:high 15s for quarter mile time. hahaha drat! Dude, 1979. I think Corvettes were doing like 17-18s, lol
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I would say to not become a lawyer unless you're a bloodthirsty pit bull. Those are the ones that make the stereotype of 'wealthy lawyer dude'. And this thread moves at ridiculous pace once it turns into YosPos and I don't understand any of it. 
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The happiest law school grads I know aren't lawyers. Some friends were getting together prior to that wedding tomorrow, and instead of just going and drinking at a goddamn bar, they had to go to a goddamn strip club, which was a bit puzzling since it's a group of 6 girls and one other guy. I haven't seen most of them in 10+ years, so I went along and I suddenly remembered how much I don't like strip clubs. I'm broke as gently caress right now, so I feel guilty as hell for not being able to tip. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm actually going through a divorce, so I'm generally glum and the one thing that should make me feel better, boobs in my face, is the last thing in the world that I want right now. gently caress me, why can't things just be loving cool again? Goddamn 
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I would say to not become a lawyer unless you're a bloodthirsty pit bull. Those are the ones that make the stereotype of 'wealthy lawyer dude'. And this thread moves at ridiculous pace once it turns into YosPos and I don't understand any of it. I've always been told that unless you have the marks to get into one of the top five law schools (in the US and/or Canada at least), don't bother because you're gonna end up in a soul-sucking family law practice, fighting over which of Billy-Bob or Bobby-Sue gets the double-wide and the Camaro.
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MrChips posted:I've always been told that unless you have the marks to get into one of the top five law schools (in the US and/or Canada at least), don't bother because you're gonna end up in a soul-sucking family law practice, fighting over which of Billy-Bob or Bobby-Sue gets the double-wide and the Camaro. Those people just make more. They're not less miserable.
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Darchangel posted:Thanks. I went back and looked - glasses for me are about $200 on O4L, and the others, really. $84 for the high index plastic lenses, plus a surcharge for the -10.5 sphere. Still reasonable, I guess. Round up to the next whole number on the PD if you're between two numbers. I sweat like a pig myself. And in fact, I had no loving clue how dehydrated I was today. I drank almost a gallon of water before the drug test I took today... then drove around awhile. Then when I thought I had to pee, I showed up at the testing place, and... nope, couldn't pee yet. Drank more water there, finally after about another 30 minutes I finally felt the urge to pee. And it wasn't a gallon's pee. Still haven't pissed again, and I've been drinking water all day. I could barely give enough of a sample for them to test, not even up to the minimum line. I didn't have to actually piss for a couple more hours. He said it was just enough for their machine to read, so that's good at least. I'm a little  about it not being diluted enough though, since I did have a few tokes of  last week (I bought an at-home instant marijuana drug test before going in though, and tested negative). I already spoke with the MRO's office to see what paperwork I'm gonna need to give them for my medications, and they did confirm that they'll be able to see exactly what drugs were in my system, instead of just the class of drug.I've done stocking before at Whole Foods, and this store is similar in size to the WFM I worked at (it's a former Albertsons). It's not difficult, just labor intensive, and they give raises as you learn to stock different departments. Also told them I'd be interested in cashiering overnight (this store has cashiers stocking as well, but if there's a customer, I could ring them up), which would also get me a pay raise. Another Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (the one right by my house) actually offered me $10.60 if I would work in the bakery and deli. I can handle deli fine (done it before), but I'd also be handling the rotisserie chicken.. which always grossed me out at Whole Foods. And no way in hell can I decorate a cake. My phone is still blowing the gently caress up every morning with every Wal-Mart around here calling me. I finally figured out the mumbling voicemail, it was for tire and lube (gently caress THAT). The HR person I interviewed with today told me she used to work in one of the SuperCenters, and much prefers the Neighborhood Markets - much less stress for everyone involved. I'm still gonna do Pizza Hut part time until at least the end of the year, if I don't drag the new GM out back and toss him on the roof first.
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Oct 25, 2014 05:13
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Man, is there a video player app for Kindle Fire HD that will actually play MKV?
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CommieGIR posted:Intel does make good stuff, and my i7 in my laptop is awesome, but my AMDs are still my favorite machines. VW avatar? Check. Still thinks AMD has made any remotely competitive chips in the past decade? Check. Hating on Slot 1 Celerons for no good reason? Check. It's like a posting trifecta of blind brand loyalty, masochism, and willful ignorance.  CommieGIR posted:Manual or GTFO for me. This is one thing you did get right though.  Fo3 posted:Ha, I jumped to AMD as soon as the athlon skt A came out (900, 1700+, 2600+, the skt 939 with the 4400+), my current desktop is a now very dated 1090T. Key word, were. AMD hasn't been competitive in CPUs (desktop or mobile) for the better part of a decade now, and anyone saying otherwise is straight up delusional. AMD's latest and greatest current 220w-sucking desktop chips are often outperformed by cheaper, lower wattage 35w intel ultrabook chips. The roles are well reversed from the glory days of the Athlon and shitshow of the P4. I used mostly AMDs from the original K6 (pre -2 era) up until well into the Athlon XP years and those were great chips in the day (and spanked the poo poo out of the garbage intel was making during the P4 era), but it's time to face it - they're a lot like 90's GM: used to be great a couple generations ago, but only really manage to scrape a few sales to prolong their death from the few people who buy solely on brand loyalty, mostly from people who've never bothered to read a review or do comparison shopping or who buy solely on price with no other considerations given. IOwnCalculus posted:Still have a soft spot for the old 300A. The last pre-built desktop we'd ever bought was a Pentium II 350, and shortly afterwards my dad decided he wanted to have a second desktop and heard how cheap / easy it was to put together something with the 300A and an Abit BH6. Put it together for about 1/4 of the cost of the prebuilt box and when we finished overclocking both of them, they ran neck and neck in any benchmark you'd throw at them. I had that exact same combo for many years (300a + BH6). The BH6 finally popped a cap and stop working eventually though; it was a sad day.
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some texas redneck posted:Another Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (the one right by my house) actually offered me $10.60 if I would work in the bakery and deli. I can handle deli fine (done it before), but I'd also be handling the rotisserie chicken.. which always grossed me out at Whole Foods. And no way in hell can I decorate a cake. Yeah, handling raw chicken everyday probably gets a bit gross. But decorating cakes sounds like a sweet (haha) job. I thought being good at decorating was A Gay Thing? HotCanadianChick posted:AMD hasn't been competitive in CPUs (desktop or mobile) for the better part of a decade now, and anyone saying otherwise is straight up delusional. AMD's latest and greatest current 220w-sucking desktop chips are often outperformed by cheaper, lower wattage 35w intel ultrabook chips. The roles are well reversed from the glory days of the Athlon and shitshow of the P4. The Phenom II really was the last good (or at least decent) AMD processor, but Intel buried it with the Core i3/5/7. Mine still keeps up with gaming etc. pretty well, but then again I have the absolute top-of-the-line hexacore space heater edition. My first PC that was actually mine was a 350MHz K6-2 with a blistering 64MB RAM, 12GB hard drive and a 16MB Riva TNT, so I kinda have a soft spot for AMD. They're pretty much not a player anymore, though  I think that K6-2 is still in service as a firewall, actually. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Oct 25, 2014 06:16
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I, too, have a Phenom II X6 1100T   Black Edition space heater.I regret not going with an Intel i5 immensely.
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CharlesM posted:Man, is there a video player app for Kindle Fire HD that will actually play MKV? If you have it rooted, MX Player. If you don't, VLC Player is on the Amazon Appstore.
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I haven't built a pc for 15 years, nothing I do taxes a cheap lovely laptop so that's one whole area of expense/time sink/mind space I don't have to bother with, feels good. It feel good to be able to cut something out of your life and simplify it, even simple things like not keeping up with certain threads can free up time and that's another bunch of poo poo you don't have to think about. I just wish someone would buy my house so I can move somewhere with separate rooms for the kids, and a garage.
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Oct 25, 2014 07:56
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I have learned that it takes one scotch and 1hr to fully strip the front part of a motor in a Miata just to get to the water pump. I am also immensely pissed that I'm doing this over a failed gasket on the new pump.
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Someone had asked about how much the hospital bill was. I had to go get a copy of my medication records today anyway - I had a pre-employment drug test today, with drugs that will show up on the test - both administered in the hospital and from a prescription I have. I wanted to have everything ready for when the MRO calls to ask why I'm testing positive for two kinds of benzos. Edited out most of what I think would let Bucephalus track me down again.  Medication/pharmacy charges alone were $5,789.76. I got charged $40 for a 10mg Celexa  and $65 for every Ativan injection  Insurance knocked it down by more than 50%, and is covering the rest. I'm also taking part in an experimental ADHD medication study starting on Monday. Maybe I can actually concentrate on something more than 2 minutes. Or maybe my heart will explode. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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HotCanadianChick posted:Key word, were. AMD hasn't been competitive in CPUs (desktop or mobile) for the better part of a decade now, and anyone saying otherwise is straight up delusional. AMD's latest and greatest current 220w-sucking desktop chips are often outperformed by cheaper, lower wattage 35w intel ultrabook chips. The roles are well reversed from the glory days of the Athlon and shitshow of the P4. Umm, yeah. There's no points to debate here, nothing contentious I said that needs to be rallied against. I played around with slot 1 and skt370 (with slotkets). Then I went skt A and skt 939. My laptop is a core 2 duo, and my desktop is an old 1090T. I purely don't have any i5/i7 systems because I haven't bought a laptop or built a PC for 4 years! Fo3 fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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Oct 25, 2014 09:45
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some texas redneck posted:Someone had asked about how much the hospital bill was. I had to go get a copy of my medication records today anyway - I had a pre-employment drug test today, with drugs that will show up on the test - both administered in the hospital and from a prescription I have. I wanted to have everything ready for when the MRO calls to ask why I'm testing positive for two kinds of benzos. so each banana bag would be a folvite, mvi, and thiamine in a liter of NS. no mag apparently.
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some texas redneck posted:If you have it rooted, MX Player. Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I uninstalled it before because it has full page ads or some poo poo and didn't work for other stuff, but it worked this time, so... problem solved?  I will try the APK for MX Player (free I presume?) later.
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So I've been out of the hospital for roughly 10 1/2 days. And I'm already back into my old habits. Not anywhere near as bad, but I can already see my habit getting worse again. I just checked my insurance company's website for behavioral health centers. There's one about 15 minutes away that takes my insurance; they do everything from inpatient detox to partial hospitalization to intensive outpatient to just basic medication management. I know there's medications that kill alcohol cravings in their tracks (there's also the hell known as antabuse, but I'd rather not go on that). Some IOP wouldn't hurt either. And frankly, since the end of the year is coming up, I may as well use my insurance as much as I can. A friend tried me into talking Kudzu for helping cravings. Didn't really do much except make me gassy. Just got off the phone with them (I was surprised to get an answer at 4:30am). Going to go see them after work on Sunday. Holdbrooks posted:so each banana bag would be a folvite, mvi, and thiamine in a liter of NS. no mag apparently. That's not the medication chart, just the billing. But I'd assume they'd charge for mag. I was surprised to see that the cheapest thing was insulin, but they gave me far more units than shown on the billing. Didn't want to post the medication chart publically, but I have it sitting here if you'd care to bust a gut laughing. It's scary how much they changed my meds around while I was in there, then for some reason couldn't figure out why my blood pressure kept spiking. e: looking at the chart again. Ketones are bad, right? They were 15 at admission. e2: huh, they didn't send a PDF version of the medication chart. Have it on paper though, and have a scanner. Gonna have to scan it for the MRO anyway. e3: too tired to scan 20 pages. I'll do it tomorrow. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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some texas redneck posted:Another Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (the one right by my house) actually offered me $10.60 if I would work in the bakery and deli. I can handle deli fine (done it before), but I'd also be handling the rotisserie chicken.. which always grossed me out at Whole Foods. And no way in hell can I decorate a cake. Get better and go the rehab route if it will help you get things straightened out. I think my brother went the antabuse route and it sucked terribly but worked for him. Awake at 4:30am on a Saturday, heading into work shortly to start tear-down of the system. Oh well tomorrow is mini goon meet and I have beer, fireball and movies for tonight. Brother and his girlfriend surprised me and are visiting so I'm not sitting at the house bored.
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Raw chicken absolutely grosses me out. No idea why, but I dry heaved every time I loaded the rotisserie at Whole Foods. Besides, the overnight hours work better for my sleep schedule.
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Oct 25, 2014 10:58
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Tusen Takk posted:I mostly only post in YOSPOS and AI now and even though I know what they're talking about over there sometimes it never ceases to amaze how much I have yet to learn God damnit, who are you and what have you done with the annoying, know-it-all prick that's the Tuksen Tagg I know?
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CharlesM posted:Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I uninstalled it before because it has full page ads or some poo poo and didn't work for other stuff, but it worked this time, so... problem solved? The basic MX Player is free with ads, and the ad-free Pro version isn't very expensive. The hardware-specific codecs (for better performance) work on both versions. It's the only video player I use on Android.
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T1g4h posted:Government agencies are loving awful and bureaucratic bullshit is the absolute worst.
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HotCanadianChick posted:VW avatar? Check. I'm going to say this in the politest way possible: gently caress. Off. You are literally the most offensive and vile person I have met in AI, and there still is no good reason for it. Where the hell do you get off? I know AMD isn't the strongest competitor, but my brand loyalty due to their being more Open Source friendly is none of your buisness, nor does the fact that I like VW products say anything about me. At all. I like their products, and as an adult I can do what I damned well please, and you can take your smug elitism and get the gently caress out. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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CommieGIR posted:I'm going to say this in the politest way possible: I think you're taking him a little too seriously, plus if you go elsewhere on the forums AMD enthusiasts are also typically categorised as buttcoiners and opensource is called open sores so yeah. I have AMD CPU and GPU in my rig and it's hot garbage, glad i learned to spend the extra cash and get something that works, but that's just my opinion
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http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/10/ttac-ama-catera-x-type/#more-930450 AMA from someone who has a Catera AND an X Type. Yessssssssss.
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Tusen Takk posted:I think you're taking him a little too seriously, plus if you go elsewhere on the forums AMD enthusiasts are also typically categorised as buttcoiners and opensource is called open sores so yeah. No. This is the second or third time he's popped up in a thread where we are discussing IT and he throws some smug rear end comment about how blind I am. Not only that, he drags my liking VW into my 'blind ignorance' We can discuss computer stuff without the smug rear end in a top hat elitist bullshit. Oh, and gently caress Bitcoins. It has nothing to do with open source, and everything to do with free market libtards. I like AMD. I also own a poo poo ton of Intel stuff, and my major workshorses are Intel. I still like AMD and VW, since that is apparently part of my 'blind ignorance' So he can kindly gently caress off. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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I know I'm late to the party but I just finished watching Firefly last night (haven't watched Serenity yet though). And now, over ten years later, I'm mad as hell that it got cancelled.
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Tusen Takk posted:I have AMD CPU and GPU in my rig and it's hot garbage, glad i learned to spend the extra cash and get something that works, but that's just my opinion I tried to explain this to my girlfriend's sister but she wouldn't listen and actually ended up paying more for a lovely AMD 8350 prebuilt over a lovely Intel i7 prebuilt because "it's good enough." I'm sure when her $900 machine can't play any games besides the Sims or she realizes how much better everything looks on my girlfriend's 3 year old computer she'll be crying about it and I won't know what to tell her. As much as I like AMD, they aren't as competitive as they used to be, not even in the budget market.
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I just pray that my computer turns on when ever I push the button. I think it might be an amd? It could be intel? Asked me the same question 10 years ago and I would have spouted off a ton of poo poo. Back in the day with slots and slockets. Of course back then 3DFX was still a contender when they weren't producing the lovely Banshee. Now it seems like its just 2 choices for anything. AMD or Intel. ATi or Nvidia. Etc. Now I just want the fucker to work.
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Honestly, that's just because there's only two relevant chipmakers for CPU's, and all the competitors that used to make their own graphics cards are just cranking out licensed GeForce clones these days. As far as performance goes in a desktop environment, Intel pretty solidly won the war.
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CornHolio posted:I know I'm late to the party but I just finished watching Firefly last night (haven't watched Serenity yet though). And now, over ten years later, I'm mad as hell that it got cancelled. Boy are you going to both love and hate Serenity.
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leica posted:Anyone know if there's any coolant flushes better than the standard Prestone poo poo you get at Advance Auto and whatnot? I'm guessing it's all pretty much the same poo poo. Have a bit of a rust issue that I need to sort out before I replace a water pump. If you use it, you need to flush the radiator several times and then fill it with a solution of water and like a whole box of baking soda to make drat sure you've removed or neutralized any remaining acid. Edit: changed acid type, don't know what I was thinking before. Not that phosphoric won't work, but oxalic is what used to be in "2 part" radiator flushes that don't seem to be available anymore. Motronic fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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CommieGIR posted:Not only that, he drags my liking VW into my 'blind ignorance' CommieGIR posted:We can discuss computer stuff without the smug rear end in a top hat elitist bullshit.  fun.CommieGIR posted:Oh, and gently caress Bitcoins. It has nothing to do with open source, and everything to do with free market libtards. Though if I were in charge of IT somewhere and could get away with generating "free" money for no effort/cost, gently caress it, if someone wants to give me actual, physical things exchange, I won't be in a rush to tell them they're stupid. CornHolio posted:(haven't watched Serenity yet though) 
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