In reply to wae :
USB signals have a maximum distance of around 9-16ft depending on cable spec and connection type, there are longer cables with built-in repeaters but they often have power delivery issues because they use some power to run the repeater.
Just got our toll bill in the mail for using E470 to bypass Denver going to High Plains Raceway from I25 to I70. 20 miles each way... total of $83.80.
Guess we're finding a different route next time. I don't mind paying a toll for better roads and less traffic, but > $2/ mile is robbery, even for a motorhome pulling a trailer.
In reply to wae :
Would be interesting to see if it would work, but I am giving in and installing on the laptop now. I guess I was going to need to do it eventually once it got to field testing time.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
Works fine for my headset, FORScan, Xentry/DAS, and the laser engraver....
Rodan said:Just got our toll bill in the mail for using E470 to bypass Denver going to High Plains Raceway from I25 to I70. 20 miles each way... total of $83.80.
Guess we're finding a different route next time. I don't mind paying a toll for better roads and less traffic, but > $2/ mile is robbery, even for a motorhome pulling a trailer.
I'm going to have to look at my bill again! I don't think it was anywhere near that with my pickup and 24ft trailer.
In reply to NickD :
The NY State fairgrounds used to have one mile horse track, long gone now.
DarkMonohue said:I don't see a problem here. Your cost through a huge volume internet discount house is ten bucks plus shipping, cash and carry and best of luck. His cost through a regional distributor who has to stand by their stuff and probably bring it to them in person on a daily basis is higher than that, and he needs to make money on top of that as part of his profit. And the last few years of inflation have been pretty rough.
If you have room for a hydraulic press, it's not too bad a job to do yourself.
Nah. All you need is a C-clamp. 
volvoclearinghouse said:DarkMonohue said:I don't see a problem here. Your cost through a huge volume internet discount house is ten bucks plus shipping, cash and carry and best of luck. His cost through a regional distributor who has to stand by their stuff and probably bring it to them in person on a daily basis is higher than that, and he needs to make money on top of that as part of his profit. And the last few years of inflation have been pretty rough.
If you have room for a hydraulic press, it's not too bad a job to do yourself.
Nah. All you need is a C-clamp.
One of these in an air hammer works pretty well.
Or maybe one of these.
Mr_Asa said:Bathroom is across from my office.
The women that use it spray air freshener when they leave.
Sorry, did I say air freshener? I meant scented industrial strength, only-meant-for-half-second-sprays cans from uline.
They spray this E36 M3 for a good five seconds and then leave. Meanwhile I'm choking and getting a migraine
I've confiscated 5 cans already. They keep getting more. Im gonna get rude since they havent gotten the hint.
Sounds like that bathroom needs a big ass fan...
Related rant: we've been going to the pool a lot this summer. Our town has a great pool, recently remodeled, well-maintained, plenty of room. It's a steal at $400 for the family for the summer.
My rant is the families who show up to the pool and immediately start spraying themselves liberally with aerosol lotion. A) you're too lazy to use a normal, rub-it-on sunscreen, B) you didn't have the foresight to put it on before you left to go to the pool, so now your icky slimy E36 M3 is going to sloth off into the pool instead of being absorbed into your skin, and C) everyone within 50 feet of you now has to deal with your gaseous cloud of toxic chemicals in their eyes, nose, and mouth.
So, for your laziness, ignorance, lack of planning, and general inconsiderateness, berkeley you.
APEowner said:Rodan said:Just got our toll bill in the mail for using E470 to bypass Denver going to High Plains Raceway from I25 to I70. 20 miles each way... total of $83.80.
Guess we're finding a different route next time. I don't mind paying a toll for better roads and less traffic, but > $2/ mile is robbery, even for a motorhome pulling a trailer.
I'm going to have to look at my bill again! I don't think it was anywhere near that with my pickup and 24ft trailer.
5 axles with MH and trailer, plus the shiny happy people charged my trailer toad as an another axle...
3 axles is double the 2 axle rate, plus a fee equal to the 2 axle rate for each additional axle.
I hate going to the dentist.....
Rodan said:APEowner said:Rodan said:Just got our toll bill in the mail for using E470 to bypass Denver going to High Plains Raceway from I25 to I70. 20 miles each way... total of $83.80.
Guess we're finding a different route next time. I don't mind paying a toll for better roads and less traffic, but > $2/ mile is robbery, even for a motorhome pulling a trailer.
I'm going to have to look at my bill again! I don't think it was anywhere near that with my pickup and 24ft trailer.
5 axles with MH and trailer, plus the shiny happy people charged my trailer toad as an another axle...
3 axles is double the 2 axle rate, plus a fee equal to the 2 axle rate for each additional axle.
Dude you got berkeleyed with the concrete dildo of hate right there. Is there any appeal process?
Got a job that I liked everything about, 6 months later everything is changing. It hasn't gone to E36 M3 completely yet but it's looking like it will. Oh well, back to the job boards
Megacorp announced major changes to their employee stock plan, which may require major shifts in assets. Earnings call is tomorrow, the site that you can change allocations on is down. I would like to think it is a random occurrence but my faith is rapidly being eroded.
Lady, I come in here every 6 months for a checkup and med refills. What do you mean my account is 2 years past due? What do you mean it has been turned over to collections? You are about to make me extremely angry.
I walk up to the counter, you tell me how much my insurance doesn't cover. I hand you a berkeleying credit card to cover it every time I'm in here. How the berkeley can there be a past-due balance when you are the dumb berkeley who is telling me what is owed? Does your computer not tell you that there is a balance owed on the account when you enter my name? Why are you not collecting any due amount at the next visit? Would you like to explain why I'm just now hearing about this two berkeleying years later? I get a constant barrage of texts and emails from your office about appointments, are you incapable of emailing or texting an invoice?
I don't give a E36 M3 that you outsourced your invoicing. That's your stupidity, not mine. Contract labor is never as good as labor controlled directly. Does your invoicing company not send out notifications? I have received zero mail from your office in the 3 years I've been coming here. Your office had better figure out how to fix this or I will take my money elsewhere. For every phone call I receive from a collections company, your office will receive 10 calls from me to ask why you and your invoice company are incapable of doing your job. If you are too chicken-E36 M3 to inform someone of a balance due, you deserve to go out of business. I hope you do and every one of you ends up living under a bridge. There is no excuse for this kind of gross incompetence. I'd fire every one of you, starting with the idiot who thought outsourcing your invoicing was a good idea.
If I ran my business the way you run yours, I'd close my doors and put a bullet in my head for being a moron. Hopefully, you haven't reproduced and don't plan to. There are already enough idiots in this town. We can't stand more of them.
In reply to Toyman! :
^This
My youngest daughter dislocated her knee while at school and required an ambulance ride. The ambulance company didn't bill my insurance company until after their time limit had passed so now the ambulance company is coming after me for payment.
Ffffffff Uuuuu...I'm 60 and debt free so I'm just ignoring it.
In reply to RX Reven' :
If I was a broke berkeley, I wouldn't care. But my credit is tied into my business credit and if that gets berkeleyed up it causes me issues.
I don't have a problem with the bill. Insurance is a bit of a joke and apparently doesn't pay for extra labs while regulating some meds and such. But if I don't know about it, I can't pay it.
And it's not just one visit. There were amounts from 4 visits starting in February of 2022 through the present for a total of about $900. How do you not inform people of due balances? It's a stupid way to do business, not only from a business standpoint but from a customer service standpoint.
I was livid.
In reply to Toyman! :
My wife had the EXACT same conversation with one of our medical providers yesterday. We're all paid up according to the provider, received an $8000 bill yesterday for physical therapy she had 8 months ago. Outsourced biller, ongoing problem. Provider hates the biller, but the umbrella corporation won't do anything about it....
volvoclearinghouse said:So, for your laziness, ignorance, lack of planning, and general inconsiderateness, berkeley you.
I mean, doesn't that apply to at least 60% of your interactions with the general public?
I've been in this low-key fight with the new school my youngest is attending because their registration/forms-management site won't let me register. It keeps telling me that my domain is invalid when it asks for my email address. I own the damned domain so I know it's valid. We've been going back and forth trying to figure it out to no avail.
This morning, it occurred to me that I hadn't gotten the bill from the doctor for stitching up my finger. I logged into MyChart and it wanted to verify my phone and email with a code. Fine. I got the text message and verified that, but the email didn't come through. Check spam, check that I have that address created, everything looks okay. But no email from them.
Weird.
So I start going on a hunt to figure out what's up with that. In the process of trying to validate blacklists and connections I use nslookup to find my MX entry in DNS. It doesn't exist. Wait. What? Going back in the history of MyChart I used to get emails from them, but starting at about October of last year, there's a bunch of messages there that they should have sent via email but I never got. Somewhere in that timeframe of about 10 months ago something happened to my domain's MX record. It's just gone. So I recreated the entry and now the MyChart verification email starts working!
With that solved, I go back to the school's system, put my email address in, and it takes it immediately. So apparently, these guys are smart enough to do a DNS lookup of the email domain to make sure that it's valid before accepting it. Which is actually really smart.
I have no idea how I was receiving email from everybody else in the whole wide world without an MX entry for the domain. And I have no idea what happened to that entry. But at least it's solved now.
Shingles vaccine....I don't think I've felt this bad from actually being sick
Shot 2 was test afternoon, I started to feel "off"Around 11pm and by 1 am I was going from sweating to freezing hourly. Finally dragged my butt out of bed around 9:15.
Still have a temp of 100.3F (with an ear thermometer), and a splitting headache after 4 Advil.
Hopefully this passes soon.
Rodan said:In reply to Toyman! :
My wife had the EXACT same conversation with one of our medical providers yesterday. We're all paid up according to the provider, received an $8000 bill yesterday for physical therapy she had 8 months ago. Outsourced biller, ongoing problem. Provider hates the biller, but the umbrella corporation won't do anything about it....
Flipside of the coin: if they aren't telling you about bills, are they telling you when your account has a balance?
We prepaid on baby #1 because we didn't know any better. Ended up paying a bit more afterwards, but that was expected. Baby #2 is 15 months behind #1, so somehwere in the 2nd trimester, they start asking about the payment plan. My wife thinks it will be the same (1k), but it was ~1400... "Oh, well the prepay is now $2000 but you have a $600 account credit" My wife declined it then told me.
Thankfully, I was not there, because I was (and still am) livid about it. We asked for a refund and we have politely (okay, by #5 they stopped asking) declined the option on all of the subsequent kids.
Peabody said:Rodan said:County inspector just showed up to sign off on our new RV carport. 30 seconds start to finish, didn't even take a serious look at anything. If you're going to force me to apply and pay $$$ for a permit, and require an inspection, you could at least take it seriously.
Consider yourself lucky.
Back in the day we had to pay extra for that.
In cash
"First of all you're going to have to grease the local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always come up. Then there's the kickbacks to the carpenters, and if you plan on using any cement in this building I'm sure the teamsters would like to have a little chat with ya, and that'll cost ya. Oh and don't forget a little something for the building inspectors. Then there's long term costs such as waste disposal. I don't know if you're familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it's not the boyscouts."
I've purchased 5 shelving units for my garage from Wallyworld. All 5 were shipped via FedEx. 4 arrived in a few days and we're in good shape despite FedEx's efforts to destroy everything. The 5th shelf has been in shipping purgatory for 10 days now. Walmart says it has shipped but FedEx says that they haven't received the package, just the shipping info. Walmart won't refund my money because it has "shipped". FedEx is not in possession of the package.
Walmart's customer service:
Oh, it's in transit?
So does FedEx have the package or not?
Looks to me that you DON'T have the package.
Either ship me my damn shelves or give me my money back you berkeleyers 
Just found out our favorite road race track in Phoenix is for sale as 'land'.... guess the developers have finally won.
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