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I was told my check was going to be delivered to the office today.

However someone in Payroll screwed up and it's not getting sent out until today.

So now instead of finishing up with work here at the office tomorrow, I get to sit at my apartment and wait until the check shows up, because it's being delivered next day certified and I have to sign for it.

This fucks me over because I have to finish ALL of my work today.
This fucks my team over because they will be down one person.

Just picture me screaming obscenities.

It would look something like this.

Skiltaire are usually much smaller than humans, so it's conceivable that they would live in left over spaces neglected by people as too cramped.

I buy a lot of stuff on eBay because it's usually cheaper even after shipping.

Unfortunately I've fallen victim three times to what I call "meat phishing."

It's where someone sells you stolen merchandise at an incredible price, then refuses to ship the item until you use their checkout system to pay for it.

Their checkout system, of course, collects all of your personal information and uses a script to log into and take over your eBay account, changing all of the account information so you can't recover your password.

It sucks, but hey, I still got a $450 track suit for 1 cent plus $20 shipping from Hong Kong and a $350 diagnostic computer for my car for $1 plus $30 shipping from Hong Kong and all I had to do was spend 15 minutes bickering with eBay's chat line to get all of my info fixed.

Oh hai I got my quarterly bonus of $720 and I only had to pay $739 in taxes on my paycheck.

Wow I almost broke even.

In case you didn't belive it, filing a complaint with the BBB really does get action taken when you use it as a last resort.

When I moved into my apartment I gave a nice organized list of maintenance requests that I wanted taken care of and I informed them that there was a statement in my leasing agreement that if my requests are not addressed in a timely manner I would be given a day of free rent for every day after 48 hours that my requests were not addressed. I made sure to get a signed photocopy of the requests I submitted.

Well, it took 23 days for them to address all of the requests they acknowledged with a signature. So for the entire time I've been living here I've been going back and forth with them over the phone and via email, particularly with the property manager.

The property manager decided she wanted to play the "keep sending canned messages until the customer shuts up and gives up" game with me, so I told her in email that if she didn't acknowledge my requests I was going to file a complaint with the BBB and mention her name in it.

So she sent back another canned response, and I immediately filed the complaint, then informed her of it in my reply email.

In addition, I mentioned in the complaint that the property manager had promised me a $50 gift card for my troubles that I never got.

When contacted by upper management for the property's corporate office, she lied to them too, telling them she gave me the gift card, then failed to produce a receipt for them showing she even purchased the card in the first place.

She also lied about fulfilling the maintenance requests, telling the corporate officer that the requests were filled the next day.

Lies, lies, lies.

Once I got their proverbial nuts fully into the wringer I dropped the bomb. After they presented their case every way they could think of that would make them come out shining after having lied to me twice resulting in material damage for me, they just outright asked me what they would have to do to resolve my complaint.

I told them I wanted a 'discount' on my lease settlement, which was going to cost me $600.

They agreed to discount $500. I agreed that this would resolve my complaint and that I would close the complaint and submit a statement in writing that I was satisfied once I got a copy of the statement that they would provide the discount from my lease settlement.

This would be the first time I've gotten out of an apartment lease where the apartment complex ended being the ones fucked over instead of me.

Today on the way home from work the MIL (check engine light) came on in my car.

When I got it home the first thing I did was call the dealership to ask them if they could look at it. Of course they told me they were closed today.

So I thought I'd have a shot at diagnosing it myself.

I got out my trusty ELM327 OBD II to USB adapter and plugged it into the diagnostic port, then started up scantool.net's scan tool software.

When I read the scan codes from the ECU I got a code of P0455 (Generic Evaporative Emission System Leak Detected [gross leak/no flow]), which I looked up on Google, where I located this article.

I knew I didn't have any of the testing tools but I read through the article anyways, which informed me that one of the first things I should check is "a loose, incorrect, missing or damaged fuel fill cap."

I checked the gas cap and found that it was loose, so I screwed it back in.

I knew from pervious research that the ECU would turn on that DTC code if the engine was started twice while the problem still existed, so I started and stopped the engine three times to verify the check engine light wouldn't come back on.

...or trying to rather.

The 25mph impact barely made a dent in the car and the Tridion safety cell was left entirely undamaged.

"During the filming of the safety advert, a stuntman sits in the car. After seeing how well the car performed under testing, he declined to wear a safety helmet and harness. After filming he was able to open both doors and the car could be driven away."

Source: easier.com

Can I get this with ESP?

It always happens.



Yes its sick, yes it's funny.

I'm not sure "leak" is the best way to label a video that makes its way to the Web without authorization.

I'm not talking about those "oops I paid an ad agency to to distribute my 'sex tape'" videos.

Maybe "stolen, re-encoded and uploaded" would be a better way to say it. Leaked makes it sound like someone accidently clicked the wrong button and the video "fell" onto the Net.

Consider the amount of work required in "leaking" a video to the web:

1. Someone has to steal the tape.
2. They have to find a video deck that will play the tape.
3. They have to connect the deck to a computer and transcode the video.
4. The video has to be encoded for upload.
5. They have to log into a video site and upload the video.
6. They have to avoid getting their account shut down due to releasing unauthorize material long enough for the video to circulate.

Here is an example "leaked" video.

Lenovo gets right to the point.

It's hot. In Topeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Because people in Japan are better at math.

They know that mortgage is not the only cost associated with buying a house.

The whole "foreclosure crisis" is just because people saw low mortgages on houses and thought "oh I'm suddenly elligable to buy a house." They didn't take into account that you have to pay for property taxes and upkeep.

So it's not a "crisis" as much as an epidemic of stupidity.

Maybe it's those tiny traces of thousands of different medications in the municipal water.

Someone has a nastier sense of humor than me...

...is why we're spending so much money making better televisions.

Why.