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fjelltorsk posted:Havin a truck is awsome, i got 12 sacks of dirt for the garden, some tiles and 600kg of sand in the back today. Nicely done. I once put 2,056kg in my van. Sooooo about 800kg overloaded.  How you liking the truck so far in all aspects? Nice drive, interior and engine?
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Sigma X posted:One of the managers in a sister office is prepping to move from NoVA to Florida; he's got his private pilot's license and a small plane, and he's going to fly himself up every other week. He's going to get himself into serious trouble. Flying to work seems to give people a "must get there" attitude to flying, and enables risk-taking with weather...
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jammyozzy posted:On Saturday I paid for a pair of college courses for my other half. Just now he texted me that they've accidentally billed me 4 times(!) and that one of the courses was full anyway. He got there today and the other class had been cancelled with no notice due to low interest. 
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Apple's just trolling its customers now... a) the ipad PRO now supports the Apple Pencil for only $99 more... which the rest of the world has known as a "stylus" for decades. b) for only $32 per month, you can get a new iphone EVERY year. So, if you pay the price of a new iphone over a year, they'll give you a new iphone. 
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Mooseykins posted:Nicely done. It drives...ok. my referances latetly is the p85D and the transit connect at work. we also have a few hiluxes at the firehouse. it drives fairly nice on the highway, get a bit big and weird in narrow streets. it bounces a bit in the rear when empty. the interior is almost like a golf, seats are decent but could be better. the layout of the interior is very good, its kinda liberating not doing everything via the huge touchscreen in the tesla. the engine is...slow. but the gearbox works great so its not a big issue. i guess a year in a P85D kinda spoil everything else. so far i really love it, i have been listening to zz top in it since i got it to get used to driving a pickup quicker
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meatpimp posted:Apple's just trolling its customers now... 
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more than the price of a new iphone considering you can sell a year old iphone and take less than a $400 hit.
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CommieGIR posted:Some basic disaster preparedness could have been put in place, backup domain controllers, etc. You don't have to simulate a full on nothing works disaster to test disaster recovery. Losing a domain controller counts as a disaster recovery situation where you work? Wow. I sometimes forget the difference in scale between various organizations. We have hundreds of domain controllers so losing one is barely even worth reporting. Our regional data centers are high availability between themselves so losing one isn't even that bad. We have to lose two data centers in the same region to start the DR process.
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Galler posted:Losing a domain controller counts as a disaster recovery situation where you work? Wow. I sometimes forget the difference in scale between various organizations. We have hundreds of domain controllers so losing one is barely even worth reporting. Our regional data centers are high availability between themselves so losing one isn't even that bad. We have to lose two data centers in the same region to start the DR process. I've worked with companies who have hundreds of them, but my recent contracts have been small businesses. Generally, any infrastructure I've managed has been setup in such a way that the only way it'd be a disaster is if multiple items fail at once. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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The only movie you need to watch is Black Devil Doll.
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Also, watch Narcos, it's really good.
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Does anyone know a good online eyeglasses place? I just got a new prescription yesterday and Id like to get both sun and safety glasses in addition to the nice frames Im getting.
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Fart Pipe posted:Does anyone know a good online eyeglasses place? I just got a new prescription yesterday and Id like to get both sun and safety glasses in addition to the nice frames Im getting. http://www.zennioptical.com/ Slow, but cheap as gently caress for the same poo poo you'd get in the store.
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Powershift posted:Exactly, there's a reason bumpstops exist, and the transmission is supposed to smoke like that. Rollin coal with my tranny
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fjelltorsk posted:Havin a truck is awsome, i got 12 sacks of dirt for the garden, some tiles and 600kg of sand in the back today. This is the best reason to own a truck. I enjoy parking mine in places cars and lesser vehicles can't get into/out of. Also burning way more gas for no good reason (that being said, the Tundra did decent mileage for my 4000'ish km trip, if I hadn't of driven like an idiot on two tanks I would have been close to 23mpg/10ish litres/100km average)
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Please make note of the copyright date. This was made in 2012.
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So I finally got around to finishing the 6th season of COMMUNITY. There were definitely some bright spots, the second to last episode of the season had me bursting with laughter. I am really appreciating how Netflix, Amazon, etc are putting out their own original content and having creative freedoms to not follow "the form" that has been always set before. Whenever a series ends you get hit with a sense of nostalgia after following a show for a few years like that. Community had that same flair of Arrested Development in that it was a show probably too good for TV masses who are devouring the mindlessness of Big Bang Theory and 2 1/2 men and whatever other bullcrap is dominating the ratings.
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InitialDave posted:Also, watch Narcos, it's really good.
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Siochain posted:This is the best reason to own a truck. I enjoy parking mine in places cars and lesser vehicles can't get into/out of. Speak for yourself, my smallest car fits down ATV trails when I put it in 4x4  If I got a beat up one I would probably make the worlds smallest street legal (without 25 year rule / antique plates / similar shenanigans) pickup conversion.
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kastein posted:Speak for yourself, my smallest car fits down ATV trails when I put it in 4x4 I reject your pavement and substitute my own.
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CommieGIR posted:Some basic disaster preparedness could have been put in place, backup domain controllers, etc. You don't have to simulate a full on nothing works disaster to test disaster recovery. This is an exercise for "a meteor fell on the IS building and/or all of Dallas Ft. Worth is under 6' of water", i.e. total failure of the (single, only) IT facility. Network failures and power outages are tested monthly or so, as I recall. I'm Workstation, so I don't get to play with those. We're nationwide, but not really a very large company. About 15K employees. Galler posted:Losing a domain controller counts as a disaster recovery situation where you work? Wow. I sometimes forget the difference in scale between various organizations. We have hundreds of domain controllers so losing one is barely even worth reporting. Our regional data centers are high availability between themselves so losing one isn't even that bad. We have to lose two data centers in the same region to start the DR process. Yeah, we've got just the one. We've pretty much just gotten big enough for the company to really take IT seriously. It's tough for a 100+ year old retail company to take this new-fangled electronic stuff seriously.
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Friar Zucchini posted:I reject your pavement and substitute my own. This made me smile.
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2012. Goddamn he called that one well.
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kastein posted:Speak for yourself, my smallest car fits down ATV trails when I put it in 4x4
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Friar Zucchini posted:Wait, you stay on trails? Scrub. Ask me how I broke the taillight on my Suburban. Yeah, I stay on trails. I consider ledges under 2 feet tall and rocks less than a foot in diameter to be a paved road. If the rocks are less than 6" it is a racetrack to be lapped again and again until I can hit 70mph on it. Tail lights and turn signals I keep in stock because they are disposable. Used to break a front axleshaft or two every trip out until I got aftermarket alloy ones. Had to replace my bumpers with homemade ones made from 2x6 1/4" wall steel tube and still bent one on its third trip. Bent the axle tube of my front diff (2.75" diameter, 1/4" wall) racing it offroad, which was surprisingly easy. God I miss wheeling. Gotta armor the new MJ and build it soon.
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Ozmiander posted:http://www.zennioptical.com/ That's where I get mine as well. My eye doctor wasn't pleased that I wasn't gonna let him rape me on a pair of lovely Chinese frames.
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Today's one of those days. Broke a fuel rail on a crown vic trying to take a coil out because one loving hair of the socket was under the edge of it, and I used my little electric cordless to run the bolt out bending it up and popping the injectors out. Misdiagnosed a customers rear end noise on a Tahoe because I didn't know it was a locker style rear diff and it was in park so spinning the rear wheel and seeing the other side twist opposite till it would slam to a stop. Made me think it had a broken gear in an open diff, they sold the whole axle and had it dropped off from the recyclers. Noticed the error when I popped the diff open to drain it out then had to tell them back to back with the Vic. Then went on lunch and pulling my parking brake handle caused the tunnel to rip and now I don't have a handle that's attached to the car except for one tiny corner of metal.
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Man you should see what my dick looks like after 30 years of that sort of treatment
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Made this today: I've had to explain the joke to ~90% of my co-workers. I'm either esoteric as heck or really dull. Maybe both!
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scuz posted:Made this today: 
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Anybody here work at a VAG dealer? My manager tried to tell me that the dealers dont bother doing all the 50 steps to align VAG products such as fully full gas tank, full fluids, checking ride height and resetting the stability control etc. Just loving line it up he said when i asked if he told the customer our master tech would have to reset that poo poo with his Verus. The car had aftermarket suspension too. Toe and go it is! Glad we ripped off another customer.
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Preoptopus posted:Anybody here work at a VAG dealer? My manager tried to tell me that the dealers dont bother doing all the 50 steps to align VAG products such as fully full gas tank, full fluids, checking ride height and resetting the stability control etc. Just loving line it up he said when i asked if he told the customer our master tech would have to reset that poo poo with his Verus. The car had aftermarket suspension too. Toe and go it is! Glad we ripped off another customer. In my entire career I've never seen that whole bullshit checklist done and I'm pretty sure it's just to pad hours at the dealership. If the suspension is tight then make it drive straight and not burn the tires
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Apparently I single handily drank all the Guiness on tap at this bar.
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scuz posted:Made this today: I don't get it
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Darchangel posted:You've got the car way too far forward, particularly for a nose-heavy Scooby.Scootch it back so that the weight of the car is centered on the trailer's axles (I'd say about with the rear edge of the front tire at the front edge of the trailer's fenders), and that will reduce the tongue weight, making the truck a lot happier (and a lot less squirrelly. You're drat near picking the front wheels up off the ground there.) It was significantly further back initially, which was much better, then during the drive back elected to move itself forward after my co-driver's lovely knots at the rear came loose. The bumper ran into the winch box  good thing I'm getting a new bumper anyway.The pic was taken at our destination, and yeah, it was squirrely as gently caress. Made it, though. Should I just have been a normal sane and rational human being and paid for a flatbed truck to transport it for me? Probably! But we made it, and saved a couple hundred bucks in the process, so I'm OK with this. You Am I posted:I don't get it me either
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14 INCH DICK posted:In my entire career I've never seen that whole bullshit checklist done and I'm pretty sure it's just to pad hours at the dealership. If the suspension is tight then make it drive straight and not burn the tires Im pretty much in the same school of thought just wondering how the pros did it. Alignments are bullshit at our shop anyway since our rack is 30 years old and the rear hasn't slid for the last ten. Not to mention we just literally last month updated from a Windows 95 brain that only had cars up to 2006.
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literally a fish posted:It was significantly further back initially, which was much better, then during the drive back elected to move itself forward after my co-driver's lovely knots at the rear came loose. The bumper ran into the winch box Knots?! Oh, hell no. Ratcheting straps made for the job, son. Or chains with tensioners. Nothing else, ever. And now you know why.
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