The rant/blurb thread

[halon]

Exactlly what it says. Feel free to blow off some steam or just to comment about something other than tech (no politics).

Just watch the language....Alpha LOL

 

[halon]

i can't bring myself to play any games. this has been going on for like 2 weeks. well i did try a couple demos. i bought infamous the day of and haven't touched it yet. i have the uncharted demo and haven't touched it yet...what the hell is my problem?

 

[Horhay]

i can't bring myself to play any games. this has been going on for like 2 weeks. well i did try a couple demos. i bought infamous the day of and haven't touched it yet. i have the uncharted demo and haven't touched it yet...what the hell is my problem?

Not enough liquor in you? maybe?

 

[DaMexiRican]

Video game withdrawl. Some people go through it where you just don't feel like playing it for no apparent reason. Should wear off in a few days/weeks.

I kid you not. There was a thread here about it I think.

 

[Horhay]

Very true! I went through this last year I hardly played for like 4 weeks straight! happens no biggie!

 

[Illiciter]

Sometimes I just am too tired to bother with video games. My brain does not want to have to deal with the mental capacity required to operate a controller... Therefore I'll sit with my PS3 on, staring at the XMB or just scrolling around it for awhile until I decide I want to flip on hulu and catch up on all my favorite shows aka just watch TV instead.


But at least I'm using my PS3 to do it

 

[Kingjames56]

i can't bring myself to play any games. this has been going on for like 2 weeks. well i did try a couple demos. i bought infamous the day of and haven't touched it yet. i have the uncharted demo and haven't touched it yet...what the hell is my problem?

I went/going through that same thing. I did just play Killzone single player and I think I'm getting out of it.

 

[Illiciter]

My work's web filter just got smarter... I'm now officially blocked from viewing the failblog.org


The scariest part is they blocked it off while I was browsing the site. Went to go look at the next page and it gave me the blocked message. Closed and reopened the site and sure enough, it was officially blocked.


le sigh

 

[BlueCali]

Use a proxy...

 

[Illiciter]

The second largest company in the world recognizes that proxies bypass security and therefore blocked the use of proxies other than theirs.

 

[BlueCali]

The second largest company in the world recognizes that proxies bypass security and therefore blocked the use of proxies other than theirs.

even website proxies?

 

[halon]

The second largest company in the world recognizes that proxies bypass security and therefore blocked the use of proxies other than theirs.

Subway?

 

[Illiciter]

even website proxies?

Unless there's a brand new one that isn't recognizable by the filter, yep.

Even if you do go through one the security admins WILL come find you and pull you into a room and depending on what you were doing you can get issued a warning or being escorted out. They don't take kindly to circumventing their security filters.


It's best that if the website is blocked, you leave it alone. The only alternative I have found is using the cache on google search results - they can't seem to get their hands around that yet.

 

[Illiciter]

Subway?

Depends what list you check.


and apparently Company is different than Corporation and effects search results as well...

 

[halon]

i'm not going to bother. i was just d****** around.

 

[Illiciter]

i'm not going to bother. i was just d****** around.

Now that I double checked my facts, it was from 2000 and is no longer the case anymore anyways...

ho hum.

 

[BlueCali]

Unless there's a brand new one that isn't recognizable by the filter, yep.

Even if you do go through one the security admins WILL come find you and pull you into a room and depending on what you were doing you can get issued a warning or being escorted out. They don't take kindly to circumventing their security filters.


It's best that if the website is blocked, you leave it alone. The only alternative I have found is using the cache on google search results - they can't seem to get their hands around that yet.

that was my next suggestion..

 

[mobius387]

verizon wireless is trying to charge me $3 for two 411 calls i didnt not make. not only am i 100% sure i did not call 411, i was at my parents cabin the weekend they are saying i made the calls, and my phone was off the whole weekend. this is like the 3rd time they've tried to charge me small amounts for crap i didn't do, but im fed up now! id hate to be the CS rep answering the phones today!!!! :shoot:

 

[halon]

verizon wireless is trying to charge me $3 for two 411 calls i didnt not make. not only am i 100% sure i did not call 411, i was at my parents cabin the weekend they are saying i made the calls, and my phone was off the whole weekend. this is like the 3rd time they've tried to charge me small amounts for crap i didn't do, but im fed up now! id hate to be the CS rep answering the phones today!!!! :shoot:

if you ever need to call 411....1-800-GOOG-411, it's free

 

[mobius387]

if you ever need to call 411....1-800-GOOG-411, it's free

yup, thats the other thing about it. i know the free 411 numbers, so even if i ever would need to (which i think ive called 411 twice in my entire life) i wouldn't be calling the one which costs money.

after almost on hour on the phone tho i finally got them to waive the $3 fee. if they weren't willing to credit me $3 on a mistake they made, i was going to leave them in a heartbeat (ie when my contract ran out )

 

[Kingjames56]

Epic tax rant by Opie and Anthony with lil' Jimmy Norton. It is well worth the listen.

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=353313