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Rhyno posted:I just got offered a job! A real person adult job! Congrats at making adulthood at 40!
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The Locator posted:Hopefully the monolithic beast that is Century Link can provide you much better service than they do here. My brother has them and gets 40mb, which is more than sufficient IMO, but he's ticked off at them for their billing. When he ordered he asked them a dozen times or more if the price they were quoting included all the taxes and fees, and would be the actual price he had to pay every month, and every time they said yes. His first bill arrives, and it's got a fee of some sort (one of those recovery charge things that's on every bill from Century Link) on top of the price they quoted. When he called them to complain they say that this isn't a tax or fee, it's a "recovery charge", which of course doesn't change the fact that they lied about the price being quoted being the exact price he would need to pay. It should be fun because their website doesn't even acknowledge that my house exists, even though one of their pedestals is literally in my front yard. Putting in my neighbor's address 50' north shows they offer 100mbps service for about $60ish, which is more than enough for me when Cox wants $105 for 300. My old man has them (a few miles away at a new development, so they have fiber available) and for pure internet-only service it's apparently no extra fees of any kind.
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Apr 13, 2018 02:19
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Im paying AU$110 a month for an unlimited 100/40 fiber service here in Aus, and im one of the lucky ones WITH fiber who can actually GET close to the 100mbit im paying for- we sit on around 98mbit most days. Brothers on the other side of the National Broadband Network- Fiber To The Node and hes paying for a 100mbit service that occasionally delivers 70mbit but usually sits on around 60mbit.
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Apr 13, 2018 02:26
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iwentdoodie posted:Also, anyone with Verizon lose service? Was at the bar earlier, and everyone with Verizon lost service at the exact same time. Figured it was just one tower, but now I'm 25 miles away at the house and it's the same. No one has anything above 1X. loving weird. Haha, everyone here on the beach with verizon is freaking out I wonder what happened.
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Apr 13, 2018 02:42
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Rhyno posted:I just got offered a job! A real person adult job! Congratulations Rhyno! Hopefully you won't have to deal with freaks like you did at the comic shop
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Apr 13, 2018 02:49
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Cox is the worst for bill creep. Started at 44.99 five years ago, crept up to 79 loving dollars without any plan changes. I call them every couple of years when whatever deal I am on runs out and say I'm cancelling because they are too expensive. I end up with a 'customer retention' person who sticks me on whatever best suits my demands (keep my internet under $60/month) and then I am fine for the next two years. It's a pain in the rear end, and it's stupid that I have to do it, but it works (at least so far.. going on 13 years in this house). My service varies because of this, sometimes I'll be on 50mb for two years, and then next time (and currently) I'll be on 100mb service, because at the time of my call, that was the best plan for the lowest amount of money. Just a stupid game I have to play. Rhyno posted:I just got offered a job! A real person adult job! Congrats! Hope you like it and it pays well. IOwnCalculus posted:It should be fun because their website doesn't even acknowledge that my house exists, even though one of their pedestals is literally in my front yard. Putting in my neighbor's address 50' north shows they offer 100mbps service for about $60ish, which is more than enough for me when Cox wants $105 for 300. I wish I could get fiber. One of the downsides of living way the gently caress out in rural-ville, that infrastructure isn't coming out here for a very long time (never). Good luck with CL, if they could provide me with that kind of speed, I would probably switch, even though changing my email address after 15+ years would be a pain. Oh - a note about email - apparently CL has poo poo for spam filters. When my brother switched he went from a couple of spam emails every few days to something like 25+ per day within a month of getting the email address from CL.
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Apr 13, 2018 02:58
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Ferremit posted:Im paying AU$110 a month for an unlimited 100/40 fiber service here in Aus, and im one of the lucky ones WITH fiber who can actually GET close to the 100mbit im paying for- we sit on around 98mbit most days. Brothers on the other side of the National Broadband Network- Fiber To The Node and hes paying for a 100mbit service that occasionally delivers 70mbit but usually sits on around 60mbit. Yeah the house I'm moving into tomorrow is STILL on ADSL2 and tops out at 12mbit. That'll be AU$69.99 for the privilege thanks. Meantime it turns out I can fit 80% of my life in the back of my Corolla. I bet the suspension and clutch hate me in 1000km's time.
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Apr 13, 2018 03:30
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Wow. I don't feel so terrible then. I have true FTTH 250/250 for $100/month in  dystopiaI could even have true megabit if I wanted for $150 but meh, I so rarely top this out it would go to waste. Same 1TB cap anyhow. 
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Apr 13, 2018 04:45
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Rhyno posted:I just got offered a job! A real person adult job! STR could learn from you.
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Apr 13, 2018 05:45
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So my wife is a community manager for an upscale apartment complex here in town. One of her best friends was just promoted to a similar position at another company They need service techs pretty badly. We were at dinner tonight and I mentioned my rotten interview and she said "Just come work for me" and I thought she was joking. She was not. Starting pay is comparable to the industrial positions I applied for, excellent benefits (DENTAL!), 9-5 work day mon-fri with on calls on sat-sun that are split among the staff. They'll fully train me in anything I don't know how to do. It will suck in winter but the only current exterior tasks they list is clearing sidewalks and salting. I have to do a formal interview monday and pass a piss test. She also stressed how much room there is for advancement as two of their in town properties are going to need new head service techs in the next year. And the best part, the property I would work at is 5 minutes from home. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 05:51
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Rhyno posted:So my wife is a community manager for an upscale apartment complex here in town. One of her best friends was just promoted to a similar position at another company Working with your SO can be a little rough, depending on your personalities. Especially if the power dynamic is disrupted. My fiance and I have been working together for about a year and if we both weren't so easy going, it would have been rather trying on our relationship Be prepared to take poo poo for each other's mistakes, day 1 E: pulled website The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 06:43
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STR got a job, posted details and got doxxed to the point that he didn't get the job.
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Apr 13, 2018 06:46
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The Door Frame posted:Working with your SO can be a little rough, depending on your personalities. Especially if the power dynamic is disrupted. My fiance and I have been working together for about a year and if we both weren't so easy going, it would have been rather trying on our relationship Good poo poo, Rhyno. Congrats.
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Apr 13, 2018 06:47
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ilkhan posted:Sounds like he's working for the friend's company, not the wife's. Ohhhh, reading comprehension is a tough skill
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Apr 13, 2018 06:53
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The Door Frame posted:Working with your SO can be a little rough, depending on your personalities. Especially if the power dynamic is disrupted. My fiance and I have been working together for about a year and if we both weren't so easy going, it would have been rather trying on our relationship It's my wife's friends company, I know better than to poo poo where I eat. nm posted:STR got a job, posted details and got doxxed to the point that he didn't get the job. Good point. A bit harder here since the person hiring me knows me personally. ilkhan posted:Sounds like he's working for the friend's company, not the wife's. Yup and thanks! Hopefully the formalities go quick. This of course means that all 6 other prospects will contact be by the end of next week.
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Apr 13, 2018 06:55
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nm posted:STR got a job, posted details and got doxxed to the point that he didn't get the job. The gently caress? Really? Movie chat: kid has been asking to see Deadpool. Kid is 11. 11 year old me wants him to see it because 11 year old me would have already seen it by twisting the tuner nobs on the tv / fake wood and black cable box in the middle of the night and watched it a dozen times: static and all. But he’s a whole lot more...responsible and mature than me at the same age.
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Apr 13, 2018 07:02
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Grats on the possible job Rhyno!Fermented Tinal posted:Can you swap the ion2 seat onto the 5 way's frame? I doubt it. I'll have to pull the upholstery off of at least one seat to check, and frankly, that's a lot more  than I want to put into this.FAT32 SHAMER posted:i have WOW! and get 150/50 with no data caps and 200 tv channels for $99/month  $40 a month, no caps, and they gave me a year of Amazon Prime.  But... you can tell they're running some pretty heavy QoS. Video streaming can be hit and miss (especially with DirecTV Now), web sites can take a long time to load. Torrents, file downloads, and speed tests (of course) are always full speed. Their customer service is a loving nightmare too. Back to Spectrum in August though... it's that or AT&T U-Verse VDSL at the new place.  At least Spectrum's lowest tier at the new place is 200/20 (it's 100/5 here).Applebees Appetizer posted:I thought data caps were only for phones lol.  , running a Plex server that a few people have access to, Amazon Prime, DirecTV Now, Netflix, and Hulu, in my case. My GF streams music and tv shows, with the occasional movie, from my Plex server to her home TV all the time, my parents stream tv shows from it, and I'm usually streaming music to my phone from it when I'm working (Google Play Music's Music Manager is a dick and often stops uploading new tracks for months at a time, I gave up on it).Rhyno posted:IT MIGHT BE FREE-CAR-O-CLOCK AGAIN. Is it a Ford Tempo? Let it be a Tempo. InitialDave posted:Is it a Saturn with a busted front end and saggy seat? Hey, if he wants to come down and haul it back to Methville, I'm more than happy to provide beer. ilkhan posted:STR could learn from you.  iwentdoodie posted:That's no way to talk about STR and Dave.  Looks like VZW has a major outage in FL, Tide posted:The gently caress? Yup.
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Apr 13, 2018 07:25
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:
Yeeerp... between my 30TB plex server with about 7 regular users, Motor trend, youtube, browsing, games, downloads etc we're averaging around 3TB a month of data traffic, Best to date was 5.6TB in a month.
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Apr 13, 2018 08:02
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My current ISP doesn't provide a meter. My router provides one, but it slows down overall speed, so I don't have it enabled.
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Apr 13, 2018 08:27
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So, grabbed the wrong shirt this morning to use as an undershirt, and since I went to the gym it was too late to change it. So now I'm wearing a white, striped polo with a normal white t shirt underneath instead of a real undershirt. Which is fine, except it's a Cockney rejects shirt, so if I stretch or move weird you see big red letters saying OI OI OI coming out. I have a meeting with our VP this morning Also, STR I sent you an email the other day, did you get it? iwentdoodie fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 12:28
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You're all spoiled internet brats! There's no infrastructure for high speed internet out here in the middle of rural michigan so I have to have a verizon data line that is 4G speed and limited to 24 gb/month for $110 per month. I can also tether from my phone at 4g but that's limited to 15 gb/month. I actually have to be careful how many videos i watch on youtube and its probably best I crank them down to 480p to be safe. Forget about any streaming services, I had to disconnect my PS3 from the internet because it would download the latest movie trailers in high def when I put in kids movies.
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Apr 13, 2018 12:38
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Rhyno posted:So my wife is a community manager for an upscale apartment complex here in town. One of her best friends was just promoted to a similar position at another company If do it, insist on being called Schnieder.
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Apr 13, 2018 14:16
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Rhyno posted:It's my wife's friends company, I know better than to poo poo where I eat. It's almost always about who you know, congrats dude!
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Apr 13, 2018 14:36
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Modus Man posted:You're all spoiled internet brats! There's no infrastructure for high speed internet out here in the middle of rural michigan so I have to have a verizon data line that is 4G speed and limited to 24 gb/month for $110 per month. I can also tether from my phone at 4g but that's limited to 15 gb/month. I actually have to be careful how many videos i watch on youtube and its probably best I crank them down to 480p to be safe. Forget about any streaming services, I had to disconnect my PS3 from the internet because it would download the latest movie trailers in high def when I put in kids movies. It's a drat shame about broadband in the US. Eisenhower saw the value of the inter-state highway and the US collectively reaped decades of reward from that, how the gently caress do we not see this with the inter-net.
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Apr 13, 2018 14:40
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trouser chili posted:It's a drat shame about broadband in the US. Eisenhower saw the value of the inter-state highway and the US collectively reaped decades of reward from that, how the gently caress do we not see this with the inter-net. There's money to be made
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Apr 13, 2018 14:45
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Drove ~700km today, we stopped to camp overnight and discovered we broke my pop up tent by having the kayak sit on top of it. It’s still usable, thankfully. Now copping some decent rain, wind and a serious lightning storm. Hope the lake we camped next to doesn’t rise too much
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Apr 13, 2018 15:06
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The Door Frame posted:There's money to be made There's money that's already been paid, and not delivered. And now we're charged more for it. 
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Apr 13, 2018 15:09
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Yeah, its whatever for me but man I am not looking forward to two days of bitching the household is gonna do. Tell them that they are welcome to contribute for the unlimited plan. Seminal Flu posted:There's money that's already been paid, and not delivered. And now we're charged more for it. Yeah, that's the part that steams me.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:46
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Calling back to the "way too young" discussion from earlier, I just rewatched Starship Troopers. I saw it first at 7 years old, I had nightmares for weeks and am still terrified of bugs to this day, but it's one of my favorite movies ever. Even if the 90210 parts feel like they drag on forever One of my favorite things about it is people who read the book and get all butthurt about it being ruined, but don't realize that Paul Verhoeven was born in Amsterdam in 1938. He might have a very different view of fascism and military fetishization than the American writer who sat out WWII due to Tuberculosis
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Apr 13, 2018 16:08
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Paul Verhoeven specifically said he basically wanted to take the piss out of fascists with the movie.
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Apr 13, 2018 16:29
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iwentdoodie posted:So, grabbed the wrong shirt this morning to use as an undershirt, and since I went to the gym it was too late to change it. Oooh - reminds me of a time (think late 80s/early 90s) when a friend and I decided to hit the community pool one summer. We didn't have swim trunks but were wearing shorts, so we emptied our pockets and jumped in. He was wearing white shorts and red underwear. Which were visible to everyone as soon as he got in the pool. It could have been worse -- he could have been wearing whitey tighties
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Apr 13, 2018 16:35
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slidebite posted:Prepare to be roped into jobs you might not particularly qualified for, plus being the go-to guy at 5 AM on Sunday as well. Yes, I know you said on call is split but that's something that is that no-one mysteriously seems to be available when its inconvenient for them. They'll train me to do pretty much everything required if I don't already know how to do it. Edit: HA! GM called. Group interviews start monday. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 16:59
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BigPaddy posted:Paul Verhoeven specifically said he basically wanted to take the piss out of fascists with the movie. But Robocop!
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Apr 13, 2018 17:11
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Darchangel posted:Tell them that they are welcome to contribute for the unlimited plan. 
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Apr 13, 2018 17:25
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trouser chili posted:It's a drat shame about broadband in the US. Eisenhower saw the value of the inter-state highway and the US collectively reaped decades of reward from that, how the gently caress do we not see this with the inter-net. Because most of our old government folks don't loving understand the internet. https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/mark-zuckerberg-congress-hearings-funny-stupid-questions.html Rhyno posted:Edit: HA! GM called. Group interviews start monday. I need to make some calls... Suburban Dad fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 20:16
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Rhyno posted:Edit: HA! GM called. Group interviews start monday. https://jalopnik.com/watch-gm-employees-in-south-korea-destroy-their-ceos-of-1825047037
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Apr 13, 2018 20:29
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Rhyno posted:They'll train me to do pretty much everything required if I don't already know how to do it. Best of luck, hope it works out for you.
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Apr 13, 2018 20:35
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slidebite posted:You're not going to be "trained" to be a plumber, electrician or any other trade. Property management companies/owners are notorious for making their general maintenance people do poo poo that they have no business touching. That's what I was trying to get at. Hopefully yours is different. If it's anything like where we live they call in professionals to do that sort of work.
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Apr 13, 2018 20:39
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Tonight's the night, boys.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Tonight's the night, boys. For what?
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