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mmrmnhrm

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  1. ...and can hide in the bushes at night with their lights off to get people. One of those things I didn't have to worry about as much in Ohio.

     

    Yeah, one of those things that doesn't make much sense to me... I've never seen OHP *not* in the center median with their lights on, but local boys are all over the place, usually with lights off :confused::confused:

  2. I started using Simplisafe last summer at the old house, then took it to the new. 100% wireless except for a wall socket to power the base station, which itself uses a cell connection to call out instead of a hard line. Setting it up was stupid easy, as was taking it down, then setting it back up in the new place. All the sensors stick to the walls using 3M Command strips, so there's no screwing up of your paint/paper/finish if you decide to rearrange things later.
  3. Weren't traffic cams deemed illegal in the state of Ohio?

    Possibly/probably, because one town up in Cleveland (Newburgh Heights, I think) has taken an interesting tact... they put a cop in a lawn chair on a bridge over I-77. Gets a photo of your car, laser speed reading, and a living-breathing officer running the whole show, not a robot.

  4. It also bothers me that the tech level makes it look like it should be post-Voyager, not pre-Kirk. The Klingon designs don't look like the right time period either. Hopefully they'll explain it.

     

    Agreed on both counts... This looks almost Kelvin-ish when it comes to sets and graphics, not TOS. Klingons of this era should have minimal cranial protrusions, and look more like dudes from bad B movies with Fu Manchu facial hair and bushy eyebrows. These guys, and their costumes, don't remind me at all of klingons.

  5. Are you looking to replace the entire thing (which is what all the suggestions so far have been), or just the glass inside (the frame is fine, but the double- or triple-pane seal is broken)?
  6. My entire argument for AMD at this point can be summarized in this little TL;DR...

     

    1. Intel CPU are better... if you don't care about "price per performance value"
    2. Intel CPU are better if you have the money to spend
    3. AMD CPU are better in the "price per performance value"
    4. AMD focused on "multi-core" performance over single core performance of Intel.
    5. AMD's FX line is a compelling choice for someone gaming on a budget
    6. AMD's Ryzen is compelling choice for someone rendering, streaming, etc. on a budget

     

    A little late to the game, I know, but pretty much this. The first computer I bought for myself was a i686. That lasted me about three years. The next rig I built myself using an Athlon XP. The build after that had an XP+. Not once did I ever have any sort of compatibility problem, and it really comes down to just one thing... letting others rush ahead to find the bugs for you. Sit back, wait a couple of months, or even an entire platform generation, and it'll all work out. My current build is an i3 (because I expected wifey to use it a lot longer than she did, but she decided a laptop better suited her needs, so I slapped an M.2 and GTX 960 in it), but honestly, the next build will probably be a Ryzen or its successor. EVE doesn't require stupid frame rates (anything beyond 60fps is wasted on slow human biology), and I the added cores are godsends when doing testing in virtual machines or CFD simulations.

  7. I would be willing to bet it is possible to come across them in every single state

     

    Pretty much this. I consider every bridge a hideout for motorcycle officers (particularly I-77 @150 in Cleveland... Broadview has been posting a guy there almost any time it's respectably warm and not raining since limits came up from 55), and anything that's not a snow plow and in the center median is a threat ;)

  8. Anyway...I don't get what all the fuss is about front plates. They have been around forever and they aren't hurting anyone.

     

    It's all about the visual aesthetics, which tbh, car companies could easily incorporate into their designs. I'm not sure if there's a federal reg/mandate behind it, but every state's license plates is the same size, so it's not like they'd have to design 37 (36 states w/ plates, plus one generic non-plate) different bumpers.

  9. You know...I leave you guys for a few hours to do some work and go do an office Christmas party at Pins, and you guys go full potato in this thread.

     

    Buncha dick-swinging, no-accounting blowhards up in hurr. Douches should be ashamed of yourselves.

     

    :fuckyeah:

     

    I'm finally getting around to CR after a stupid busy day myself, and it's the whole asset v liability war yet again.

     

    Which I'm not getting into :gabe:

     

    That said, and on the original topic, I wish my house had sold as stupid fast as people are carrying on about, but it took something like three (maybe even four) months. Part of that was aspirational pricing by my agent, but I also got a couple of really insulting offers that had they not had the potential for a bidding war, I wouldn't have even bothered responding to (except maybe to say 'get stuffed'). People these days are expecting not just "move-in ready," but just about every freaking upgrade under the sun (brand new appliances, granite or even quartz countertops, fully decked whole-body spraying showers, you get the idea).

     

    As others said before the thread went sideways, get yourself a realtor (interview a bunch so you find someone you think you'll enjoy working with), and be honest that right now, you're more interested in just seeing what's out there, at what price points, than you are in going into contract before the year's out. A LOT of houses will hit the market in March and April as the school year gets closer to ending, and so what you see now will give you ideas, and maybe come spring you'll see something that puts it all together at a price that you think is fair. Keep in mind that the list price is their ask. Your bid doesn't have to be anywhere near that. Just don't insult them (e.g. offering $75/sqft for move-in ready when the neighborhood's going rate is $105 for no updates, and $130 with).

  10. I know you pmed me once before with info about a similar job, but I deleted it. Could you pm me the pay please? Also, is this a first shift position?

    I'll send numbers separately, but as for the hours, it's flex 8-5. One of the guys in PGH who just left to start his own company worked pretty close to traditional electrician's hours (6-330 with a generous lunch), while I personally tend to go more 830-530. We do generator and UPS maintenance quarterly on Wednesday nights which typically run 1030-1ish, and sleep in Thursday morning, and you are on call 24x7x365 should something go wonky (roughly once every 18 months in the six years I've been in this position). There's no clock to punch, we're more concerned about getting your work done safely and on schedule.

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