The We Are All Prime Numbers Complaint Thread

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,116
    edited October 2015
    Tjohn said:

    Audio complaint!  Love the new BBC America show "The Last Kingdom", lots of ideas for pantyless Rangers, but my issue is: I have to turn on the closed captioning to understand what they say! Why is it that BBC shows think that they have to crank up the background music so that it drowns out the uber-fast mumble-mouth dialogue?  The new Dr. Who is the same way.  I even have to replay some scenes to try to re-read the captioning because the actors seem to feel that there is a deadly viper biting them in their groin and need to recite a three page dialog about its history in two seconds while competing with the upstaging orchestra. sad

    This. But it's not just the BBC. USA programs, the cast whispers? Time to turn up the "background" music! angry

    Yeah!  Whispering. angry  Why, oh why has whispering become the current fad?  It used to be the "four companions saunter arrogantly in a line toward the camera" as if that were somehow all enlightening.  I hate whispering.  angry  It's major disrepect to the audience.  Even in a movie theater with the volume causing the paint to peel from the walls you can't understand the whispering.  I believe that when an actor can't act, he/she resorts to whispering.  Similar to the trend for singers who can't sing resorting to wavering around a note as if it added class to a classless song.  It's an A-sharp, don't dance around it.  Sing it damn it.

     

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,116
    edited October 2015

    Snow has stopped falling, now it's sleetish rain and the temperature has risen to 40F.  But winterish thoughts are brought forth.  I dug around in my kitchen cupboards and found a chocolate cake mix that was only 4 months past its "best by" date.  House now smells like chocolate cake!  Yum.  Also, it's time to put cocoa on my shopping list.  Nothing like hot cocoa and hot oatmeal for breakfast on a cold, blustery, snowed-in winter day.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    edited October 2015

    First snow!  Wet & gloppy but real snow.  About an inch so far.  It's so pretty at first, but like kittens not so cute when fully grown.

    ...had a dream last night that it snowed where I was.

    Woke up to grey skies and drizzle.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Mr Scott was in a next generation episode.  they gave him a shuttlecraft.  is he still shuttling around the galaxy?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. South breeze lile an invisible hand stirring treetop and bright coloured banners left over from yesterdays marathon ironically exhorting glued together traffic you can make it if you really try :)

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,723

    Been snowing and raining off and on all day. I'm definitely not ready for this crap weather.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    frank0314 said:

    Been snowing and raining off and on all day. I'm definitely not ready for this crap weather.

     spring rains haven't come this year so far, everything is getting bone dry 

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    Mr Scott was in a next generation episode.  they gave him a shuttlecraft.  is he still shuttling around the galaxy?

    someone haz to panic about the warp drive ! :)

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,723

    We skipped fall and went into winter it seems. We shouldn't be getting snow till the very end of the month or beginning of Nov.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    First snow!  Wet & gloppy but real snow.  About an inch so far.  It's so pretty at first, but like kittens not so cute when fully grown.

    ...had a dream last night that it snowed where I was.

    Woke up to grey skies and drizzle.

    we haz pwnd all the sun so far this month :)

  • ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    Mr Scott was in a next generation episode.  they gave him a shuttlecraft.  is he still shuttling around the galaxy?

    someone haz to panic about the warp drive ! :)

    Shouldn't a shuttle have a weft drive?

  • ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:

    Mr Scott was in a next generation episode.  they gave him a shuttlecraft.  is he still shuttling around the galaxy?

    someone haz to panic about the warp drive ! :)

    Shouldn't a shuttle have a weft drive?

    Perhaps, but would flying carpets then have a pile drive?

  • SkirikiSkiriki Posts: 4,976
    edited October 2015

    Major complaint.

    Microsoft critical update to my Win7-Pro clobbered my list of previous updates.  Now it won't do any updates 'cause it doesn't know what's needed and can't connect properly. angry  Probably gonna have to rebuild. sad

    No you don't, you just need to clear this one directory from crap... or reboot/restart explorer.exe http://superuser.com/questions/601811/i-have-updates-to-install-but-i-cant-see-them-in-the-select-the-updates-to-ins and http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-update-not-working

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited October 2015

    ...hit the wrong button Oscar Mike Golf ! :)

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    edited October 2015

    ...hmm, nobody answered my question about Win Server 2008 R2. Would love to suport 512 GB memory without having to deal with the Win 8 UI.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    MistyMist said:

    Mr Scott was in a next generation episode.  they gave him a shuttlecraft.  is he still shuttling around the galaxy?

    Of course. laugh

    "May those who love us love us;
    And those that don’t love us,
    May God turn their hearts:
    And if He doesn’t turn their hearts
    May he turn their ankles,
    So we’ll know them by their limping."

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    cheers Mr Scott - for all the warp 8s you saved the day in episodes - 'oh me poor bairn'

    cheers Dr McCoy - for all those extra occupations  - 'i'm a doctor not a bricklayer'

    cheers Mr Spock - sobchoke

    cheers Ambassador Sarek - 'at the time seemed the logical thing to do'

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Complaint: 57 messages to read first thing on a Monday morning!! indecision I ran out of coffee, for Heavens sake!! *cry*

    Bleach, need to shop for groceries on the way home, need lunch makings.  

    Got a talk with a headhunter tomorrow afternoon about a job in Chandler, AZ. - working for a semiconductor manufacturer to support their products, basically writing drivers, application notes, things to make other engineers want to use their chips.  Sounds fun! smiley

    More cooooooooooooooffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeee...

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. South breeze lile an invisible hand stirring treetop and bright coloured banners left over from yesterdays marathon ironically exhorting glued together traffic you can make it if you really try :)

    Gooooooooooood morning! laugh

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,116
    edited October 2015

    Complaint:  This is the time of year (Oct/Nov/Dec) that us old folks in the US have the opportunity to change our government sponsored health insurance plans. I have assembled my recently received documents from Medicare, and my healthcare company.  Both are books the size of a moderate city's telephone book, and have examined them.  I've gone to the Medicare website and the healthcare company website and used their apps to help me decide which plan is best for me.  I've spent days perusing the options and plans, costs and coverages and assessing my risk of disasterous health problems in the coming year.  I've come to the conclusion that it's all an extremely well designed (read that as totally baffleing) shell game where the player will lose no matter which option he chooses unless he gets struck down by some unforseen calamity and has fortuitously applied more money than he could afford to into additional insurance premiums.

    Medicare is good, it pays a lot of the costs but doesn't cover everything so you are almost forced to buy additional insurance or alternative insurance with some of the cost of those premiums covered by Medicare.  The additional or alternative coverages do pay for some of the copays and coinsurances and deductions and other gobbledy-gook words but once you start comparing the various plans they're just pushing money from one bin to another extracting some into their pocket each time they give you more service but hoping you won't notice.  To get full protection from disasterous medical problems you end up paying through the nose. sad Bah Humbug!

     

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,342

    Complaint:  This is the time of year (Oct/Nov/Dec) that us old folks in the US have the opportunity to change our government sponsored health insurance plans. I have assembled my recently received documents from Medicare, and my healthcare company.  Both are books the size of a moderate city's telephone book, and have examined them.  I've gone to the Medicare website and the healthcare company website and used their apps to help me decide which plan is best for me.  I've spent days perusing the options and plans, costs and coverages and assesing my risk of disasterous health problems in the coming year.  I've come to the conclusion that it's all an extremely well desiged (read that as totally baffleing) shell game where the player will lose no matter which option he chooses unless he gets struck down by some unforseen calamity and has fortuitously applied more money than he could afford to into additional insurance premiums.

    Well, lets face it...the insurance business is actually the protection racket, made legal.

    Dana

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Grocery list: instant coffee, dry creamer, hot dogs, canned salmon, canned tuna, dill, lemon juice, pita/flatbread, popcorn for football. indecision

    Friday I'll buy a bottle of the cheap $20 vodka and more popcorn. indecision

    Two more weeks of work, three more paychecks, and that's it. indecision But I'll have over a months worth of living expenses, and at the rate I'm getting interviews, it shouldn't be an issue.

    Write, write writeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    DanaTA said:

    Complaint:  This is the time of year (Oct/Nov/Dec) that us old folks in the US have the opportunity to change our government sponsored health insurance plans. I have assembled my recently received documents from Medicare, and my healthcare company.  Both are books the size of a moderate city's telephone book, and have examined them.  I've gone to the Medicare website and the healthcare company website and used their apps to help me decide which plan is best for me.  I've spent days perusing the options and plans, costs and coverages and assesing my risk of disasterous health problems in the coming year.  I've come to the conclusion that it's all an extremely well desiged (read that as totally baffleing) shell game where the player will lose no matter which option he chooses unless he gets struck down by some unforseen calamity and has fortuitously applied more money than he could afford to into additional insurance premiums.

    Well, lets face it...the insurance business is actually the protection racket, made legal.

    Dana

    ...and in some cases like driving a car or having health coverage, made a requirement. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,925
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: 57 messages to read first thing on a Monday morning!! indecision I ran out of coffee, for Heavens sake!! *cry*

    Bleach, need to shop for groceries on the way home, need lunch makings.  

    Got a talk with a headhunter tomorrow afternoon about a job in Chandler, AZ. - working for a semiconductor manufacturer to support their products, basically writing drivers, application notes, things to make other engineers want to use their chips.  Sounds fun! smiley

    More cooooooooooooooffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeee...

     

    ...wow the Phoenix metro area.  Be prepared for really hot hot hot weather.

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: 57 messages to read first thing on a Monday morning!! indecision I ran out of coffee, for Heavens sake!! *cry*

    Bleach, need to shop for groceries on the way home, need lunch makings.  

    Got a talk with a headhunter tomorrow afternoon about a job in Chandler, AZ. - working for a semiconductor manufacturer to support their products, basically writing drivers, application notes, things to make other engineers want to use their chips.  Sounds fun! smiley

    More cooooooooooooooffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeee...

     

    ...wow the Phoenix metro area.  Be prepared for really hot hot hot weather.

    Having lived here for the better part of seventeen years, it's as bad as it sounds. The cost of living is pretty good, and I pay for AC what you pay in NYC for heat.  You quickly get used to 110 F, and we spend few days over that. Now is the time to move here. You'll have 3-4 months of very nice weather; then you will gradually get warmer. Though, you will marvel at us aclimated Phoenicians... we wear winter coats when it's 60 F. 

     

  • kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: 57 messages to read first thing on a Monday morning!! indecision I ran out of coffee, for Heavens sake!! *cry*

    Bleach, need to shop for groceries on the way home, need lunch makings.  

    Got a talk with a headhunter tomorrow afternoon about a job in Chandler, AZ. - working for a semiconductor manufacturer to support their products, basically writing drivers, application notes, things to make other engineers want to use their chips.  Sounds fun! smiley

    More cooooooooooooooffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeee...

     

    ...wow the Phoenix metro area.  Be prepared for really hot hot hot weather.

    I remember Phoenix.  I'd ridden motorcycle from California to Flagstaff, Arizona in September of '95.  Stayed in a motel.  Woke up the next morning and there was snow on the ground.  Rode my motorcycle down off the plateau into Phoenix and the temperature kept going up.  That afternoon, in Phoenix I was sweltering in my leathers in 110F temperature. no

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: 57 messages to read first thing on a Monday morning!! indecision I ran out of coffee, for Heavens sake!! *cry*

    Bleach, need to shop for groceries on the way home, need lunch makings.  

    Got a talk with a headhunter tomorrow afternoon about a job in Chandler, AZ. - working for a semiconductor manufacturer to support their products, basically writing drivers, application notes, things to make other engineers want to use their chips.  Sounds fun! smiley

    More cooooooooooooooffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeee...

     

    ...wow the Phoenix metro area.  Be prepared for really hot hot hot weather.

    I went to Scottsdale High School for my first high school... I know what the heat is like.. surprise But work is work.. indecision

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Cripes, just got a call from one headhunter, folks in Sheboygan want to talk to me in 1/2 an hour about.. something. indecision No job description, just "They really want to talk to you right away".. indecision There's SOME mass transit in the area, so it's not an immediate reject.. but.. wth do they want to talk to me ABOUT?? indecision

    Well, better lots of activity than dead air.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,723
    TroutFace said:
    kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaint: 57 messages to read first thing on a Monday morning!! indecision I ran out of coffee, for Heavens sake!! *cry*

    Bleach, need to shop for groceries on the way home, need lunch makings.  

    Got a talk with a headhunter tomorrow afternoon about a job in Chandler, AZ. - working for a semiconductor manufacturer to support their products, basically writing drivers, application notes, things to make other engineers want to use their chips.  Sounds fun! smiley

    More cooooooooooooooffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeee...

     

    ...wow the Phoenix metro area.  Be prepared for really hot hot hot weather.

    I went to Scottsdale High School for my first high school... I know what the heat is like.. surprise But work is work.. indecision

    From the time I get off at night till I come back on it the morning I usually have anywhere from 3-5 pages to read in this thread. It has to be the msot active thread on the forums.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,297

    I am in a foul mood thanks to my roommate's demand to keep the fan off.

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