Well, here it goes again. The is the new Daily Complaints thread, part N. For those new to this kind of thread, basically you just post anything that happened in your day that you'd like to complain about. Because really, everyone needs to vent at some time or another.

Here, I'll start.

My complaint is that for the past few days there's been a construction crew down the block working on renovating a building. The problem is, they're doing it mostly at night when there's not too many people around. That's all fine and dandy for the folks who don't live half a block away and have to listen to the noise of their machines while trying to get some sleep.  

My net connection has been going down frequently. This irks me greatly.

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My mother decided to try out Clearwire, and it worked great. Just as fast as Comcast for half the price. Except they started having trouble with Yahoo. So they had tech support check it out, and were told that their video card wasn't up to Yahoo's graphics-heavy standards, which I was skeptical about, even though their computer is a dinosaur.

Well, instead of consulting the resident expert (me), they go out and spend $60 bucks for a tech to tell them that their video card is just fine (they thought the other guy was telling them the card was broken ). Well, they go and get mad at the dealer for their own poor choices when it was clear to me that the problem was a combination of their own shitty equipment (don't get me started on the wi-fi router that has to be reset several times a day) and the natural limitations of current wireless technology.

The cherry on top was having to watch my mother's neanderthal husband try to pick a fight with the dealer over returning the receiver to Clearwire.

I'm seriously pissed. My phone line was disconnected only hours ago, despite all payments being up to date, so I called my phone company's hotline number to find out why. The automated system they had told me that my most recent payment (last Nov. 14) hasn't shown up on their system yet, for some reason, which I figured was the reason why it was disconnected — which wouldn't make sense even if I hadn't paid as the company had a 1 month grace period for late payments before disconnecting service. The icing on the cake was that it took me 30 minutes just to be able to get in touch with a customer service agent to fix things — and not because I had to wait on queue, which would have been understandable, but because I kept getting disconnected once I get past the automated voice response system and their phones started ringing. Simply unacceptable for a phone company! The sad part is that there's still time left on my contract with them, so I can't just cancel unless I want to be hit with an early termination fee.  

Don't get me wrong - I love my job.

What other job pays you to sit up all night in front of a computer connected to the internet in the vagued hope that once an hour then phone might wrong with a noise complaint / dog attack /' other emergnecy situation.

My only complaint is recently their Web Marshall blocking software has gotten militant on pages with "offensive language".

For F***** sake. I'm 32 years old. I _think_ I can stand some naughty words every now and again. Most of what's blocked isn't anywheer near offensive to the average person.

It even blocked this thread O_O. To view it I had to use a citrix session to a company that we answer calls for 's computers  running inside another citrix session.

Oddly enough it runs faster that way O_O

I got a ticket today for not wearing my seat belt. $100 to pay it off. I remember reading somewhere that it's one of many victimless crimes. I tend to agree, there, but the law seems insistent on protecting me from my self-destructive behavior. Or am I being fined because by not wearing my seatbelt, someone might have to clean up the mess if I'm throw from my car into an oncoming train?

Morbid thoughts aside, it sucks, because that's my first ticket in two years, maybe three. And today had been going so well, too. But that's for another thread.

I don't know about that "victimless crime" thing — never heard of it before — but here's irony for you: You must be registered to view this link. He was also the only person in the car not wearing a seatbelt, and yes, he was the only person who died. Everyone else apparently sustained non-life threatening injuries.

Hraefn wrote: [View Post]

I don't know about that "victimless crime" thing — never heard of it before — but here's irony for you: You must be registered to view this link. He was also the only person in the car not wearing a seatbelt, and yes, he was the only person who died. Everyone else apparently sustained non-life threatening injuries.

Victimless crimes are those actions which, while illegal, supposedly create no victim. For example, smoking marijuana could be considered a "victimless crime" in so far as, while smoking marijuana is illegal, it doesn't hurt you, or anyone else (this discounts what would happen if you got in an accident while high).

That said, I don't believe that is a sufficient justification for not wearing your seat belt. It's one thing to do XYZ that gets you thrown in jail so you can take it to court and appeal, and if you're lucky, get the supreme court to rule in your favor on it. It's another to essentially play Russian roulette to prove a point.

Sorry man, but as long as it's illegal, you shouldn't do it. There's other ways to fight this if you really don't believe in wearing your seat belt, but committing a crime isn't one of them.

It's like that guy on the ITIL forums who was bitching that the cops gave him an 1800 dollar ticket for doing 140 in a 40 (in Japan).  

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Oh, I wasn't trying to justify it in dispute of the ticket. I just wish people wouldn't try so hard to save me from myself. There was that woman who campaigned to have the motorcycle helmet law repealed and when it was, she died in an accident she would have survived had she worn her helmet. Suppose that makes her the victim of universal irony. That said, I just think I should have the freedom to make bad/dumb choices. I'll pay the fine. I'll try harder to remember to wear the belt. but moreso because it's safe, that it's the law shouldn't really matter.

Oh, and complaint: I hate when someone calls you up, asks you to run around the warehouse looking for computer equipment with a vague asset tag number that's always printed on the side that's against a wall or on the floor (and you can't just unplug/unbolt it, you have to find a mirror or lay down to peer under it without interrupting its functioning) and then they leave for the day. If it wasn't that important, why tell me to go "now?" I could have had an underling do it at two in the morning!

I like to occasionally play a flash game on my laptop. Just mindlessly clicking to relax a bit.

However my computer always slows down within the first minute or so.

If my computer was just plain old, I wouldn't have minded it much. However it's a 1,8 ghz dual core with a geforce 8400M G TurboCache™, 2GB DDR2, latest drivers, etc.

So the least it could do, is to just let me play my stupid flash game!

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I named myself Frost before the forum became Icy, so it's not like I'm unimaginative. :p

Frost wrote: [View Post]

I like to occasionally play a flash game on my laptop. Just mindlessly clicking to relax a bit.

However my computer always slows down within the first minute or so.

If my computer was just plain old, I wouldn't have minded it much. However it's a 1,8 ghz dual core with a geforce 8400M G TurboCache™, 2GB DDR2, latest drivers, etc.

So the least it could do, is to just let me play my stupid flash game!

OS or version of Windows?

Hard drive size, hard drive cache size and type (IDE/SCSI/SATA), rpm speed?.

Virtual Memory Size, and what all are you running in back and foreground when playing?

What using to play the Flash?

Is the Flash program local or streamed?

A *ton* of stuff would affect performance...  not just the raw system.

My complaint is my computer is too old and I can't afford a new one.

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Enigmatic Magus wrote: [View Post]

I got a ticket today for not wearing my seat belt. $100 to pay it off. I remember reading somewhere that it's one of many victimless crimes. I tend to agree, there, but the law seems insistent on protecting me from my self-destructive behavior. Or am I being fined because by not wearing my seatbelt, someone might have to clean up the mess if I'm throw from my car into an oncoming train?

Morbid thoughts aside, it sucks, because that's my first ticket in two years, maybe three. And today had been going so well, too. But that's for another thread.

Yeah last night I took my stepbrother to a friend's house, and got ticketed on the way home. I had nearly entered my "driving to work" mindset and missed my turn so I did a u-turn after spending a second or two stopped to see if anyone was coming.  Nobody was, but there was a cop in a nearby McDonalds parking lot that saw me and followed me home. Little mistake that is going to cost me a few hundred dollars.

As for the seat belt logic I think it goes that a driver that isn't wearing a seatbelt could hit their head and lose control of the vehicle or have their foot slam on the gas making accidents much worse.

I'm tired, depressed, angry, and a whole other range of emotions that I can't put into words right now. The day before yesterday two of my kittens died for reasons that I just didn't know, and now two other cats are deathly sick. I've taken them to the vet and he's prescribed some antibiotics and an oral solution and I'll also have to bring them in for check up again tomorrow. I'm stressed out trying to care for sick, uncooperative cats, I haven't had a decent night's sleep in 24 hours and I my wallet will be taking a hit, which is bad timing especially as Christmas is coming up.  

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I'm tired, depressed, angry, and a whole other range of emotions that I can't put into words right now. The day before yesterday two of my kittens died for reasons that I just didn't know, and now two other cats are deathly sick. I've taken them to the vet and he's prescribed some antibiotics and an oral solution and I'll also have to bring them in for check up again tomorrow. I'm stressed out trying to care for sick, uncooperative cats, I haven't had a decent night's sleep in 24 hours and I my wallet will be taking a hit, which is bad timing especially as Christmas is coming up.  

Sorry to hear about your cats, Hraefn. I hope the other two get well, soon.

We think that my bird died because he ate something off the floor that was likely some sort of poison that came off one of our shoes from outside (in Florida, you have you nuke your yard with chemicals to prevent weeds and fire-ants).

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