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  2. Legal question 2: another undetermined defendant

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    Yea, obviously the government was most likely not held responsible.

    I believe the original company/creator of the drug should be held liable, not the companies that actually produced it. All those companies really did was just assembly line those drugs, to their best knowledge the drugs were safe.

    In terms of who actually had to pay, I believe it was ruled in the fact that assuming certain preconditions were met, that all companies had to pay depending on their market share at the time the mother took the pill.

  7. This is how dumb Sears is...

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    wasn't there a movie where the employees did something similar?

    they just walked into the store where they used to work, grabbed an item that cost $48, and took it up to the counter and said they wanted to return it.

    "Sears policy is that you don't need a receipt for any item that costs less than $50, so just grab anything that costs under $50, take it to a cashier, and get your $40 from them. As long as you don't go to the same cashier again, and don't pull the stunt more than once a day, it's tough to get caught - and even if you do, you haven't removed anything from the store, so they can't convict you of shoplifting."

    i'm totally doing that!!

  8. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

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    We should try to organize an OR.net MW2 game night. We could get a bunch of people and just do ground war for a little while. Would anyone be interested? If so, we could start a poll for the date and time, and get the details worked out. I think it would be a lot of fun.

    i would be in for that shit

    we should also have a private match...you know...i would LOVE to blow some of you guys' heads off

  11. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

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    so i played a game last night with a few friends and the dudes game tag was something crazy! he was a level 10 prestige, and the gamer tag didnt show up on our recent friends list... maybe chachi can remember exactly how it went but it was something like.

    $#*!

    the gamer tag would have to be someone with microsoft to be able to get the symbols but to get the colors u would have to be someone with infanty ward for it to be able to show during the map selection screen. right????? anyone seen this?

    I don't remember the symbols but I remember that it was like green green red then blue

    It was weird, we assumed it was either some sort of crazy hacking or a microsoft person

    or someone who gave Bill Gates a blow job

  12. internet speeds

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    never thought of that but i figure they would have their own direct services

    they probably would have their own direct OC3 connection...not fiddling with cable connections...hospitals are too important to have shitty internet

  15. internet speeds

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    Home internet connections are a fickle bitch. There are several things you should keep in mind while dealing with them:

    1) Your contract states they will supply you with up to a certain amount of bandwidth. This is your ISP's way of saying "we'll do our best, but if you don't get the exact numbers you expect, tough shit".

    2) Your bandwidth will be greatly affected by how many other people are on your 'grid'. If you're the only guy in town with a given ISP, you'll have better speeds than someone who lives on a block where every house uses the same ISP. Also,

    3) Things fluctuate. A week ago, I was barely getting 5 megs down/1 meg up on a connection that is advertised as 16 down/2 up. I just ran a speed test and got 15.97 down/1.8 up...much better. If stuff is slow for a few days, no biggie...if it consistantly stays significantly below what you're paying for...proceed to part 4.

    4) ISP's are greedy bastards who won't hesitate to cheat you out of some bandwidth if they think they can get away with it...or at the very least, they aren't proactive about checking to see if you're being properly served. At my last place near campus, we had Time Warner and a supposed 12 down/2 up connection. It was painfully slow and I began to get suspicious, so I started running speed tests frequently and logging the results. We were consistently getting less than half of what we were paying for so I called TW and bitched. If you threaten to cancel your contract, an ISP will typically bend over backwards to keep you as a customer. I told them I had received a mailer from WOW internet with an amazing deal, and my shit got fixed really quick. It essentially amounted to the guy going "oh yeah it seems that you are getting slow speeds...here, lemmie try something. Is it faster now? You're welcome, we're sorry about that." Prior to me threatening changing/dropping my service, he was blaming the slow speeds on my router, my modem, my neighbors, my computer, my browser, the fact that I touch myself at night and God sees it and is angry with me...virtually saying anything to take the blame off of TW.

    If you are constantly getting speeds well below what the numbers on your plan suggest, get on the horn and demand some service...at worst you'll be out 30 minutes of your time and have a better understanding of your actual service.

    Also, for the record, when I called Time Warner about our roadrunner issues, the tech had me use http://speedtest.net/ for the speed tests. I did the test on that site and the speakeasy site linked earlier and the difference in speed between Chicago using http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and Cinci using http://speedtest.net/ were almost zero. Both of those sites should give you pretty accurate readings. (15.97down/1.8up on speedtest.net, 16.01down/1.81up on speakeasy)

    Yea, you covered everything I was gonna say next...:p

    All 4 points are extremely true too

  24. internet speeds

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    which provider are you using?

    the ISP's usually have an speedtest site that just tests the speed from your modem/router to their systems...if it's slow there THEN you can complain to your ISP about slow speeds...if it's normal there then your issue is with your computer(since you're getting varying speeds running the same speedtest). First try to make sure you don't have viruses/malware/spyware/trojans/etc.. Also, what browser are you using? if it's IE then IE sucks and that's your problem, if its FF then check to see your add-ons and such to see if there are things sucking the speed out of your internet, check this on your computer too, see if things are slowing down your speeds...if all that is clear, do a final check. Turn off anything that uses the internet except for what you use to play MW2 and play MW2, if you still have issues then maybe it's the system you're using or the server you're playing in. Always check your ping when you start lagging in MW2 see if you're the only one lagging. Sometimes almost everyone is lagging except the host cuz the host aint so great, but they're the best option for the game...that's all i have for now with the limited info you've given...

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