Cyber-Bullys?
How ridiculous can things get??
These clowns are truly pathetic.
I dumped AOL right after I learned what the left mouse button is used for! They tried for 2 1/2 years to get me to pay them for the three months it took them to block my access!
AOL is pure evil! I tried it once not knowing about 4 years ago. The program completely takes over your computer. A few days later I tried to cancel and the employee I was talking to about it would not take no for an answer!! I had to yell and scream at him before he understood! and even then it was extremely difficult to cancel,taking some 15-20 min on the phone. I burned the CD they sent me. I have probably gotten hundreds of their stupid CD’s in the mail over the years what a waste. Google “AOL sucks” and you will find millions more tales of woe. There are online lists people have made of hundreds of things you can do with AOL cds but none of them include inserting one into your computer. Things like: “Gather up 500 million AOL cds (you’ll have NO trouble finding that many) and strap them to the launch pad under the space shuttle engines!!!
Posted by Paul "No Fear" Weir
01/13/2006 at 09:51 AM
I was threatened once on BMEWS with a lawsuit when I said:
THE SKIPPER SWISHES WHEN HE WALKS
I hastened to explain that I meant he had six quarts of beer in an eight-quart stomach
Posted by Oink
01/13/2006 at 09:54 AM
Oh my ever loving GAWD!!! What a pathetic loser to go whining and crying to make the mean fellas quit poking fun. ASSWIPE!!!
There sure are lots of idiots in this country.
On another note, I don’t mean to put myself down, but math is totally not my strong area. So what does counting to 16 in hexadecimals mean anyway? Also, I don’t use AOL, and haven’t for a long time.
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F.
Don’t worry Lisa, girls aren’t expected to do well in math.
Hexadecimal is base 16, where our common numbering system is base 10.
e.g.
base ten numbers are: 0123456789
hex numbers are: 0123456789ABCDEFSo, hexadecimal F0 would equal 16 in our common base 10 numbering system
It has to do with computers preferring binary choices, like ON or OFF, and humans having ten fingers and toes. Any number of different based numbering systems are possible. Not terribly significant in everyday arithmatic, like making change.
P.S. what I said about girls & math is BS—I’m a natural math moron—every bit of my math was pounded in with a hammer
Posted by Oink
01/13/2006 at 01:29 PM
F = 16, F0 = 240, Oink.
I only know this because I pulled up the scientific calculator that comes with the wondoze box.
er… windoze box.
Wussie bastard. Probably has nuts the size BB’s.
Posted by MAJ Mike
01/13/2006 at 02:31 PM
OINK: Au contraire my porcine friend. 16 in decimal = 10 in hexadecimal. F is 15. Like so
D-H
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0-0
1-1
2-2
3-3
4-4
5-5
6-6
7-7
8-8
9-9
10-A
11-B
12-C
13-D
14-E
15-F
16-10
17=11etc.
Hexadecimal is simply a base 16 numbering system. It fits computers because a data WORD is 16 bits (2 bytes or 4 nybbles). Now, does anyone want to work with OCTAL numbers (base 8)?
Thanx, I knew that, and meant to say that 10 = 16. It was fun playing with my son’s scientific calculator, years ago, changing all sorts of numbers from 10 to octal to hex. I don’t think I really understood our numbering system until I played with another.
Posted by Oink
01/13/2006 at 05:26 PM
Skip, I’ve been working with octal numbers since elementary school days--that is, if you count tubes (6V6, 6L6, 6CA7 etc).
Four 7027A’s in a push-pull parallel quad! Now there is a mailed fist gloved in velvet! Firebottles forever!
The only firebottle I recall is the 4-400A. Quite a show when they go bad, they’ll light a room with a lovely cherry red.
Yep, I botched my hex too.
Shudda used the scientific calc for F as well.
AOL.COM—The New Kick Me Sign
Posted by MJS
01/13/2006 at 06:19 PM
Well, thank you very much everyone............I have been on AOL for 11 years.........and I intend to continue............Years ago I used to visit the chat rooms - haven’t for a long time..........Use it for e-mail & IMing with various friends & relatives, plus other interests.............I now have a (hee hee) senior citizen rate - costs me less than it did years ago..........
P.S. - I always know where my car keys are.........
Posted by Dottie
01/13/2006 at 11:23 PM
Funny. Both of my parents are buried in a little country cemetary in Fayette. Not that their resting place is relevant to this story, but Fayette is a small town, I know. I have been there. But if you think back in recent memory, there was a case where a young thug killed a police officer. True to victimhood, the perp blamed his long history of playing Grand Theft Auto.
Posted by yatalli
01/14/2006 at 01:53 AM
Valves? He tasks me with valves, old boy! How about two 6J7’s for pre-amp and two 6L6’s in output for classic push-pull amp. I worked on many of those in the 70’s. Transistors? We don’ need no steenkin’ transistors!
Skip, 6J7’s are the best audio pentodes ever made, as far as I am concerned. The only problem is finding shielded assemblies for the grid caps. The “final” on my synth processing stack is a mixer I built, using 6J7 inputs and 6SC7 cathode follower outputs. Smooth as silk, and with an outboard power supply and DC on the heaters, hum-free.
6L6GC’s are fine output tubes, no doubt about it, but not quite as tight as a 7027A to my ears.
Don’t remind me of the evil that is AOHell- my family had it for over FOUR YEARS!!! For a while, I liked it, but it started driving me crazy after a while, due to the fact that it kept it charged us $24.95 a month to kick us off continually while online. Now we have SBC Yahoo! Dial-Up (DSL is not available in our area- go figure), for which we only pay $9.95, and we hardly ever get kicked off. It’s great.
Stin- tell about it. I’ve had to do three tries of remedial Algebra II before I finally passed last semester, yet my mom is good at math. My dad sucks at it, so I guess I just inherited his math genes.
01/13/2006 at 08:45 AM
