Category: rantings
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Want to help take a Canadian monopoly out at the knees?
Sadly, Canadian citizens only. But interested Canadian citizens can certainly voice their opinion.
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Not that I blame her or anything.
Pregnant inmate says she’ll never call police again. And, uh, why the hell would she? After telling toronto area police her boyfriend assaulted her, they placed her into custody to compell her testimony at his trial. And now she’s regretting saying anything. Smoothe, real smoothe. You have just confirmed the … Read the rest
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And it’s not illegal to smack someone upside the head?
Punked from octranspo. LIRR rider acquitted in cell phone fight. After smacking someone for giving someone else a business card. Never mind the whole giving folks shit for talking on a cell phone. Only in America does crap like that get tossed out of court. here’s the kicker. Mister … Read the rest
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I may be slightly sadistic.
As evidenced by the fact I am at work on no sleep, and in 20 minutes will be taking a qualifications exam of which I had 2 days notice. That, of course, necessitated that I take yesterday off to study for it; you try squeezing in studying for a test … Read the rest
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Yes, my LJ could contain profanity.
No, it will not be changed. And the next person who PM’s me about it is going to get a 50-page essay in response. And then be subsequently redirected here. If I don’t meet your standards, by all means either lower said standards or kindly fuck off. Thankyaverymuch. PS: You … Read the rest
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Why thank you, Bell.
In order to address my issues with not being able to keep a stable connection to Bell’s ever so craptastical intarwebz, they have graciously lowered my maximum connection speed in an attempt to stabilize things. Roughly translated: Don’t ask me to download anything for you until I switch ISPs. Now … Read the rest
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Must… survive… 25… minutes…
I have no idea if or how I’ll manage to do that, considering some of the calls I’ve been getting the last hour or so. Oh dear lord do I work in tech support or moron city? If I were a praying man, all I know is I wouldn’t get … Read the rest
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The people doing my old job are made entirely of suck.
I had to send a customer over to our software department–y’know, the department I *used* to work in–to have her system looked at for why the hell Windows wouldn’t accept the CD-ROM on her system was working, in spite of the fact I was able to confirm in about 6 … Read the rest
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A quick note on my randomly getting disconnected.
It’s still happening. Thanks for a whole wad-o-nothin’, moron of the year. Is it the 27th yet…?
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Observation at 3:00 AM: spambots are stupid.
Only explanation for why someone who doesn’t take any kind of medication at all (probably should, but that’s other people’s opinion, not mine) is getting offers for discounts on his medication. Yeah, yer brilliant. One of these days I’ll turn one of the linux servers I’m paying for into a … Read the rest