The Rant Thread !!!

[racx_00]

its for XP and 2000

[Jeysie]

Rant #1:

I've come to the conclusion that all cars need a "back horn". This is essentially the same as a regular car horn, except that the "speakers" and sound are directed from the back of the car at the people behind you. This would serve several purposes, with the two main ones being:

A. When you're stopped in your car and unable to move because someone's crossing the street, or you're turning and there's no opening available, and people behind you are honking at you to move. You can then use your back horn to honk back at them, essentially saying "F*** off, buddy, I can't go anywhere without causing an accident, and then you'll be even more stuck."

There's been a few times where I was walking by such a spectacle, and was tempted to walk up to one of the cars honking and point out that the person they're honking at can't move, but things always cleared up before I got the chance.

B. When you're trying to back up and there's someone in your way... pedestrians or cars that are just "standing around" for no reason. You can then use your back horn to say, "Hi, move your ass, would you?!"

Rant #2: I was crossing an intersection today where the light was green for me and the cars moving in the same direction as me. I checked behind me, saw that none of the cars had their turn signals on, and started to cross the road. As I was halfway across, it ends up that one of the cars I had checked was indeed turning where I was after all, and leaned out of his window to yell at me for crossing. Well, buddy, if you had used your TURN SIGNAL and thus had let me known you were TURNING, I would have been happy to wait. As it is, you are free to pull over, get out of your car, and kiss my ass. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened, and it annoys the hell out of me. TURN SIGNALS, people, they put them on the cars for a reason!

Rant #2.5: This reminds me of the time a while back I was crossing an intersection where they were doing construction, and there was a police officer directing traffic. As I got to the curb, the officer was waving the cars going in the same direction as me, so I started to cross. Then, without bothering to look behind himself to check the area where I was, he starts waving through the cars that would be going through where I was crossing! It was only when he saw the cars weren't moving that he turned and saw me, and yelled at me that I should be paying attention, even though it was him that wasn't paying attention. Jerk. Nice to know we taxpayers are paying officers to let pedestrians get run over.

Rant #2.9: I think I'm just going to buy an airhorn and carry it with me. Then when some jerk claims I don't have the right of way when I do, or almost hits me because he ran a red light, or some crap like that, I can honk at him.

Me: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!  

Rant Summary: People who DON'T USE THEIR BRAINS piss me off. Especially when said people are riding around in 1+ ton metal contraptions and I'm 180 pounds of squishy stuff.

As my mom used to be fond of saying: "Use your brain for something other than a hat rack!"

Peace & Luv, Liz

[racx_00]

fine fine Jeysie is b.itch of the week because she puts effort into her complaints

very nice complaint by the way Jeysie

[Jeysie]

Heh, thanks.

Let's just say that almost running me over, then having the audacity to claim it's my fault, is a pretty good way to annoy the hell out of me.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Jeysie]

You know... after mulling over those experiences, as well as a multitude of experiences with Harrison and with my co-workers, I can't help but think that the reason my self-esteem and self-confidence are so lousy is because nobody ever EVER takes me seriously.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had this sort of conversation with Harrison:

Me: (makes some kind of commentary (usually negative) about something)

Harrison: You're just saying that because you haven't tried it/don't know about it.

Me: Actually, I have tried it/do know about it. (tells story of exactly how I tried it/know about it.)

Harrison: Oh.

Me thinking: Thanks for being condescending.

You'd think after 7 years he'd get a clue, but I guess not.

Then of course, there's my co-workers:

Co-worker: (tells me something I already know)
Me: Um, thanks.
Me thinking: Why the hell are you wasting my time telling me something I already know?

Is there just something about the way I look that screams "Clueless Idiot" or something? I gotta know. I mean, how am I supposed to feel good about myself when people keep treating me like I'm a kindergarderner?

Edit: Actually, now that I mull it over even more, yeah, I must have "Clueless Idiot" tattooed on my forehead. My ex-boyfriend used to also tell me stuff I already knew like he was doing me a big favor.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[copycat]

XP wont run on my system so its not possible to get it running , XP crashes , i now officially hate XP

Another member of the 'I hate XP'-club, !

[Louisiana Night]

It's not that bad. It might make me want to reformat my hardrive, and put another OS in it's place sometimes...

but it's not that bad.

So much for taking up for XP.

[racx_00]

Well this month im upgrading my computer so i will install XP but after installing XP im gonna install 98se

I could dual boot with XP and 3.11, lol , actually im going to buy a copy of 3.11 off of Ebay , its my favourite OS

But seriously with XP if you reinstall it you have to ring up and get another activation code or get them to send an email , its so annoying i mean with all the crap you can get off of the internet you would be ringing up for a new activation key every year , and safe mode is really crap in XP , my friend was trying to fix something through safe mode but it wasnt working cos safe mode was acting basically exactly the same as normal mode

[Jeysie]

Hey! And I thought you guys all said I didn't know what I was talking about when I complained about the idea of the activation code bit in XP.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[racx_00]

I never said that cos i have always hated the activation key along with XP , im on your side Jeysie

[Louisiana Night]

I know a way around it, but I can't post it(I couldn't stand it either).

[racx_00]

you like XP

[Louisiana Night]

you like XP

I don't like any Microsoft OS, compared to OSs like Linux. I mainly use Windows for compatibility.

proof=Windows hardrive=6gig

I need to upgrade the hardrive.

Compared to other versions of Windows, I think XP's okay(2000, and 98SE dualboot is better).

[Jeysie]

1. Why is it that I can spend 6 hours standing and walking all over an amusement park and not feel the least bit hungry, but when I spend a 6 hour shift doing nothing but sitting on my ass, I get hungry every 2 hours? So apparently, more work=less hungry & less work=more hungry. Uh, WTF?

2. Why is it that I can spend 3-4 days out of the week with almost nothing to do, yet the 1-2 days a week I have extra "regular" work to do (like more invoices), everyone *then* dumps a ton of projects onto my lap? Um, hello, why not give them to me to do on the days I'm sitting around with my thumbs up my ass?

Peace & Luv, Liz

[J-ROC]

1. Why is it that I can spend 6 hours standing and walking all over an amusement park and not feel the least bit hungry, but when I spend a 6 hour shift doing nothing but sitting on my ass, I get hungry every 2 hours? So apparently, more work=less hungry & less work=more hungry. Uh, WTF?

Easy.  When you're doing more, your mind is distracted by other things, such as the tiredness from your legs, feet, etc.  It's normal to not feel hungry when you're very busy, particularly when it's physical work.

2. Why is it that I can spend 3-4 days out of the week with almost nothing to do, yet the 1-2 days a week I have extra "regular" work to do (like more invoices), everyone *then* dumps a ton of projects onto my lap? Um, hello, why not give them to me to do on the days I'm sitting around with my thumbs up my ass?

Easy. Murphy's Law.  Seriously, things like that happen later in the week because they're being developed or planned early in the week.  It's not like people go home on the weekend and do their plans then.  So that's why it usually ends up ad the end of the week.


Dr. Jimmy Boi sez so.

[Jeysie]

I guess I can buy #1 answer, although I don't see why I didn't get hungry later while in the car. Actually, I don't see why my tummy can't just behave itself all the time.

As for #2... actually, my busy day is always Tuesday. Monday and Friday are usually slow, and Wednesday and Thursday are semi-slow. I hate Tuesdays... everything always gets dumped into my lap. Of course, with the holiday, today is virtual Tuesday.

Edit: Speaking of, my boss just poked her head in and asked if I have time to log and mail checks. Let's see... I still have 80+ invoices and 150+ statements to mail, and the office is only open for another hour. NO, I DON'T HAVE TIME!!

Peace & Luv, Liz

[J-ROC]

Well, #2 WAS complete bollocks.  Except the Murphy's Law bit.  Where I used to work, we would be quiet all week, and then when the weekends hit, we wouldn't have enough pepole for the work we had.

As for the continuation of #1, it could be your body still dealing with the exercise. I dunno.  My tummy doesn't behave.  But as they said to me at bootcamp manyt imes over:  "Mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it don't matter."

[copycat]

Well this month im upgrading my computer so i will install XP but after installing XP im gonna install 98se

You might want to reverse those two OS's, as I think Win98 doesn't have a boot-manager, whereas XP does, that is, as long as the other OS is a Windows-OS, 'cos it can't see squat of my Linux-partition. I just keep XP because some things just don't run that well in Linux (like certain games), including certain Javascript-online-games, like this one.

Hey! And I thought you guys all said I didn't know what I was talking about when I complained about the idea of the activation code bit in XP.

Actually, the activation keycode is not what bothers me the most. It's just the fact it reboots far too much, or I have to reboot it (now I turned off the automatic rebooting so I could finally see what the BSOD's were about). It's also managed to shutdown FireFox (in Windows), without any explanation whatsoever. And it's hell trying to get to your own documents when you re-install, whilst in SuSe Linux 9.1 it's kid's play.

Last weekend the ICT department at work moved the main switch to our new office building. We're in an office container and won't move to that same office building for another two weeks. I've had the last two days off, but my colleagues have been telling me they've been having trouble with network connections from Monday. I pinged a few servers today: It went something like this:

Answer from 10.101.100.23...
Answer from 10.101.100.23...
Time-out
Time-out
Answer from 10.101.100.23...

and so on...
So, M$-Outlook crashed several times, at one time I couldn't exit another application on a server, we got kicked out of our bookkeeping program (client/server based), and  when that happens someone has to manually 'kill' the connection because otherwise your connection remains active for a while. Other than that, at times it's also veeeeeery slow. And we probably wil have to endure that kind of behavior until we move the 21st, because ICT can't find the source of the disturbance.

1. Why is it that I can spend 6 hours standing and walking all over an amusement park and not feel the least bit hungry, but when I spend a 6 hour shift doing nothing but sitting on my ass, I get hungry every 2 hours? So apparently, more work=less hungry & less work=more hungry. Uh, WTF?

Maybe intellectual labour requires more energy than manual labour?

[copycat]

Part 2:
Today (actually yesterday, technically speaking, since it's past midnight) our network printers were offline most of the day We were also kicked out of the bookkeeping system twice, and we found out a report that was being corrected and was located on a network drive, suddenly lost all its make-up (?). Actually, it wasn't lost, but changed into (something like) 'Standard-indented'. We lost at least a whole hour trying to rectify that alteration as best as we could..

[racx_00]

Ok peoples calm down , actually dont , Yell scream and shout
I will announce the b.itch soon