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somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
My back, chest and neck are filled with pain today. Maybe it's the weather? Sucks :frown:
I called some friends in town as we were boarding at Sky Harbor to tell them the flight was on time and they can pick us up at Humphrey. The last thing he tells me as I go through the gate is "Well they filed for bankruptcy, so hopefully they have enough gas to get you home." :ooh: eek!
Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer:
Comcast is committed to providing you with the best online experience possible.
One of the ways we do that is by managing the leading fiber optic network in the nation to ensure it is fast, safe and reliable. As part of our ongoing efforts to continuously improve the quality of our service, we are switching to a new network congestion management technique by the end of the year. It is focused on managing network congestion only when and where it may occur. It will also replace the current technique and will help ensure that all of our customers receive their fair share of network resources.
What does this mean for you? Probably nothing. We ran five market trials of this technique over the summer and found that less than one percent of customers were affected. So, the vast majority of customers will not notice any change to their Internet experience as a result of this new technique. During the times of busiest network use (which could occur at any hour, depending on your neighborhood), those very few extraordinarily heavy users – who are doing things like conducting multiple and continuous large file transfers – may experience slightly longer response times for some online activities until the period of network congestion ends.
As we transition to this new technique, we have amended our Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") and posted it on the Comcast.net Web site. For links to the amended AUP, as well as answers to Frequently Asked Questions and more information about this new technique or our network management efforts in general, please visit our Network Management Policy page at: www.comcast.net/networkmanagement.
Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.
So much for high speed. I guess we can all join the slowskis.
Typically people using file sharing applications, tranferring large, probably copyright infringement, files.
However, these days, there's a lot more free data flowing around the internet. Thanks mostly to broadband connections being more readily available. Something has to give eventually I suppose. I do tend to laugh when ISPs like Comcast or Qwest tout high Mbps numbers. It doesn't really matter how fast your connection is at a certain point, it depends on the server or pc you're pulling a file from.
Might be time to read up again on Net Neutrality though...
blanket here I come
love you guys
NYC Zip Joe
Then they go to pay per use internet.
Then they don't charge you to go to their sites.
Then net neutrality is destroyed.
:barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:
Can I vote now to make them go away? => THAT's an election that will end in a landslide victory!
In as much political talk has been dedicated to the environment, there's been a helluva lot more pollution spread around - both in garbage campaign broadcasting and in actual litter from all the garbage on a stick in people's yards and street corners. How many million cubic yards of crap hit the dumpsters on Nov. 5th?
At least I can live with myself knowing I'm clean of any wrong-doing
Irritates - wind.
We have had two very very windy days here, like cold, gusty, whippy wind. My allergies are on overdrive, but worse yet - my short hair is constantly in my face, and even pulling it back doesn't seem to work. I constantly pulling strands out of my lipgloss.
I guess that would mean I would be Tiger...
What happen to the good old days where you would sleep in line the night before tickets when on sale and had a really good chance for good seats...
Logged in for AC/DC tix within 30 seconds of them on sale - was put into the "search cue" for 25 mins!!! Got tickets on upper level - but seriously... 25 minutes? :frown:
I am however enjoying the overtime
Eags, "Shoot the breeze with the Cooler Crew" #19529, 11 Oct 2008 10:32 am
 http://www.woodburytheatre.com/
$4 for matinee, $6 for evening, $1.50 each for popcorn and soda
The only thing cheaper is smuggling them in the trunk to the drive-in and bringing you own popcorn
This Woodbury theater is an independent - not part of a chain - I wish and hope more people would go there just to keep an "indie" still alive in the Twin Cities. They do decent business on Friday nights, but the rest of the week is pretty quiet.
A quick comparison - Carmike Oakdale Stadium 20 -about 3 miles away -
Can buy tickets on the internet with Fandango, has Stadium seating -
$9 for evening, $6.75 Matinee, $6 kids under 12
(I think the last time I was there small popcorn was $3.50, Soda $3.25)
Marcus Ultra Cinema Oakdale - by Fleet Farm
$9 evening, $6.25 kids n seniors, everybody's $6 matinee - extra charges for 3-D and the shows in the UltraScreen (I think its +$1 or more)
I've got beef with the guy that owns that place, going back a buncha years....
you'd be amazed at how he became the owner of that place.... not good stuff...
I'll dish out a buck once in a while at The Plaza.... but other than that, i wont frequent his theatres.... he also owns that Brookdale discount theatre too...
it's quite a ways away 3 mtn ranges at least - although close in total miles.
ugh...
people dont know how to keep their crap together anymore....
Happy birthday to Me...
Guess what I got for my birthday - a huge freakin' overdraft fee from TCF!
I have three accounts at TCF - Checking, Savings and an additional Checking account we use only for our mortgage payments. We started the mortgage account last May to use if for e-payments for the mortgage and nothing else. This account is in BOTH of our names. When we started the account, we were given a gold check card and a checkbook for transactions - the book went into safety deposit and the card was torn up - this was going to be online e-payments ONLY.
Last month "Here's your new TCF Check Card" came in the mail - addressed only to me. I tossed my old beat up ATM card and started using the new one.
Unbeknowst to me, this new card was only tied into the MORTGAGE account! Apparently the first gold ATM card (that we tore up) was strictly for my wife, and this was a duplicate for ME to use. By some miracle the October mortgage cleared, but I had a month's worth of purchases/withdrawals that should've been coming out of the OTHER two accounts. BTW: Apparently when you use a TCF ATM with only ONE account on it and withdraw from "savings" it pulls money from the "checking" side as well. Didn't take too long to drain it.
From my records I dug out the sheet of paper that this card was attached to when it came in the mail - in small print it says for Checking Account ending in #XXXXXXXXXXXXX5755 or something like that. That's the ONLY place to reconcile what account it came from. This card is also for a JOINT account, but the sheet only had MY name on it - the same as my ordinary TCF Checking.
The attendant on the phone said that card should've been issued in May, but wasn't activated until September - BECAUSE I DIDN'T GET IT UNTIL THEN! After 45 minutes of pissing and moaning on the phone, I got a manager to negate half of the $200+ overdraft charges. That was the "best" they could do.
The last straw: all my printed bank statements say $34 fee for insufficient funds. All of the new charges were listed at $35 each - apparently it changed as of October 7th and they started charging me on the 9th.
Twenty years I've used these guys for banking because I've always lived near a TCF or Cub Foods. The hell with that. By Christmas anything I have with TCF on it will be in a box marked "Burn in 2010".
My apologies to anyone in here that may work for them.
Here's a present for you...
tell them you are going to close all your accounts...
the should drop all the fees...you just need to get the right person on the phone...
edit...go to your bank ...and do it...make a stink in public at lunch time
however... I like Kitch's idea, about going in at a busy time, and making a big deal....
im not of fan of dealing with crap like this.... BUT.... I am a fan of yelling at people, who work at places, and piss me off.... especially if it causes a scene, and gets me escorted out of the building....
Believe me, the phone operators last night got an earful - and I think they were actually American!
I had an old college buddy that worked for TCF for years - the running joke is - as long as you have a pulse - you can have a TCF checking account. They would give a checking account to your dog if you wanted to. I've been procrastinating the big TCF dump for years. They make money by giving accounts to anyone and everyone and then charge fees for anything and everything. It's time to move on. We've got accounts elsewhere - its just my TCF checking has been around since I was 16 years old.
:eyeroll: :lipsealed: :coolfrown: