Planetarium

My employers Achilles heal seems to be payroll. You personally have to keep track of every minute you work and go over your paycheck because, more often than not, it’s going to be wrong.

Best part is, payroll got so sick of employees calling and bitching, they HAD THEIR PHONE DISCONNECTED, now all inquiries must be done through email. And if you don’t cc at least 2 levels of management above you, you’ll never hear back.

It’s either criminal or they’re borderline retarded.

USPS is a joke.

I’ve switched everything possible to online billing/online pay because I can’t trust the USPS to get a check from my mailbox to a town 10 miles away in less than 20 days.

The postmaster a couple towns over got arrested for theft, opening birthday cards to steal cash.

Been a couple of postal employees in the news for stealing Menards rebates lately.

No. They’ve pushed it so much, I don’t care if it’s the greatest thing ever, I’d never buy one.

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What’s wrong with this?


It's nonsense excuse for cops to stop people at 2 am

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Insert Jim Carey “Stop breaking the law, a-hole!”

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My question is, why can't they move the sensor that makes the arms come down farther down the track? The excuse I hear is the train goes faster than a normal freight train and the automobiles are not used to it.

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Short answer, the gates and lights will come down sooner the faster the train is traveling. They don’t need to move anything.

There’s a small DC voltage set out down the track, the train completes the circuit and feeds it back to the computer that controls the lights and gates, which will sense how fast the train is traveling and insure the crossing is protected ~10 seconds before the arrival of the train, whether the train is going 10 mph or 100 mph.

As far as people getting trapped on the crossing by the gates, the gates have a small shear bolt, if you push on them, they’ll swing out of the way.

The real reason you rarely see gates protecting both lanes on both sides of the crossing is MONEY. The municipality that owns the road, pays for the crossing. Lights and gates are expensive.

Nothing

My mailbox is in a group of 4 down on the corner. I get more of my neighbors mail than my own and on more than one occasion, all 4 addresses worth of mail have been stuffed in one box.

I’ll take urine on the floor over shite smeared on the walls

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Jurassic Park

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Best movie of it genre. Hands down

RedTiger F7N

Installed it myself. You do need an additional wiring harness for parking mode.

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The theory I subscribe to is that Fitz bounced off Six Fathom Shoal, cracked and then never fully emerged from the water. That explains the sudden death of the ship, no distress signal and not even a hint they tried to abandon ship. One minute, they're shouldering through the waves (however much water they had taken from bad hatches, big waves or both) and the next they're literally sitting on the bottom. If she had broken on the surface, I think there would have been survivors or at least guys found in jackets on the surface.

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Agreed. Pounding through the waves with a list, a hogged back, taking on water. The big waves that hit the Anderson were probably the final blow for the Fitz.