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SirVtHondaGuy08

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You might as well admit it, you never got that Dick Tracy watch as a kid and you're making up for it now.:vino:
100% correct, grew up dirt poor. My mom didn’t really land a good paying job until we all grew up, I did however have a fake homemade one lol.

I'm not product loyal when it comes to phones, I do prefer the iphone over android, but in the end I get which ever one has the better deal at the time I buy a new phone.

I did have the 4s, then didnt have an iphone til the 6s, in between I had android phones.

The iphone X looks awesome, specs are awesome...but I still run iOS 9.3.3 Jailbroken when iOS 11.1 is active, even my old Ipad 2 is jailbroken on 8.4.1.

The one thing I hate about iOS is how they cram updates down your throat...with my phone Jailbroke, I set it so it doesn't check for updates...cause some of these updates are like 6-12g and that update is downloaded to your phone waiting for you to hit the "update button" additionally, they always push the new iOS and blanket it with false security updates and with my Tin Foil Hat, is just garbage code to slow the older phones down so you think you need a new phone.

My old Ipad 2 was on 9.3.5 and slow as hell, well a Jailbreak was recently released and I rolled it back to the latest still signed iOS ota which was 8.4.1 and the thing is snappy again.

I'll probably have this Iphone 6s for another 2 years honestly...Apples battery warranty ends on it in January, I'll probably take it in to apple care and be like, FOOS my battery sucks... and get a new one ( battery )

Only have 9% wear on a nearly 2 year old phone, plus I use a 4200mAh battery case with it.
I’m not brand loyal, just can’t stand android. I was a huge android fan for the longest time but got to the point in which I was getting a new phone every month.

What realistically keeps my with Apple is their customer service, I love being able to walk into a store and get a replacement phone instead of having to ship it out.

And I can’t jailbreak, my work email is on my phone and for security reasons it has to be up to date with updates.
 

houndb

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Wow that’s normally my luck Brew. I ordered mine the next day the preorder came out on FT. Mine shipped a couple of days, so only three more weeks to get across the ocean.

Hate waiting and the preorder for the pulse is still a couple of weeks out.
 

The Cromwell

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Now, how in the name of all that's good and decent (see folks, no profanity...today) did some of you receive notices of Therion 75C being shipped by FT and mine has changed to be shipped at the end of October?
Shh the rest of them are getting the defective first run.
You will get a fixed one.
 

JuicyLucy

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I F-ing know what you mean!

What the fuck were we talking about? Oh yeah, the fucked re-dated shipping on the fucking Therion squonker at FT

Which one did you fucking order? I notice some say in stock, others ships in 7 days, and some still on pre-order :confused:
 

JuicyLucy

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Yeah! mine is gonna be be the neutered one!
This is the fucking thing I ordered from these fuckers https://www.fasttech.com/p/8745302 since the bastards at Coval didn't even have the fucking wood ones!

True, at least wood with the fish pearl, lol

They do have the fish pearl in silver

They only have 28 combinations, not 30
 

JuicyLucy

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FT has the silver frame/wood combo but the pearl fish is black only.

I should have said black pearl fish, silver frame with carbon where yours from FT has wood
 

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Apple+Google+Microsoft = Skynet

I'm telling ya...

Well Google has admitted to having been & still being an adjunct of NSA. Microsoft has sold NT over to Russians not that, that matters terribly much. Apple's Darwin operating system is nothing but a fee version of Unix, skip being Linux, it's pure Unix and that was how Microsoft was finally able to start bribing, socially engineeering their way into getting hooks into Linux. Apple has too much of a socialist culture, all for the 'common good',

On order for me is a Gorge, 4 fresh LG HB6 18550 batteries, about 90 ft of 316L
stainless steel wire, a 100 pack of some nichrome coils. All in spent a little over $100 today. Had a run around and do nothing day. Whew. *yawn* y'all run 'er slow.
 

The Cromwell

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Well Google has admitted to having been & still being an adjunct of NSA. Microsoft has sold NT over to Russians not that, that matters terribly much. Apple's Darwin operating system is nothing but a fee version of Unix, skip being Linux, it's pure Unix and that was how Microsoft was finally able to start bribing, socially engineeering their way into getting hooks into Linux. Apple has too much of a socialist culture, all for the 'common good',

On order for me is a Gorge, 4 fresh LG HB6 18550 batteries, about 90 ft of 316L
stainless steel wire, a 100 pack of some nichrome coils. All in spent a little over $100 today. Had a run around and do nothing day. Whew. *yawn* y'all run 'er slow.
ALL net backbone traffic is screened/monitored by the govt.
Major data centers have a special room that only govt employees are allowed in.

Used to work in a major data center.

The system they use was called Carnivore but word got out and they renamed it to something less catchy like EL2500 or sumpthin. I forget the name.

If you think that ANYTHING transmitted on the net is secret you are just being silly.
 

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Last thing I'll say on phones, I buy the phones that are half the price but better specs and no bloat installed direct from the manufacturer and use a carrier with a low price and bring your own device program. My OnePlus 2 was $250 and still comparable to the phones coming out now. $90/month for 3 lines with all the bells and whistles.

I couldn't use iPhone if I wanted to though, the lack of true multi taking would kill my productivity. I use scripting to automate a lot of things I do with a phone
Or nationally mandated monopolies like the NBA and NFL?
who are exempt from antitrust laws.
You can start your own league if you've got the money. Just good luck convincing the stations to show your games!
Now, how in the name of all that's good and decent (see folks, no profanity...today) did some of you receive notices of Therion 75C being shipped by FT and mine has changed to be shipped at the end of October?
Thanks for the reminder, time to update the regulated squonk mod list to reflect it's in regular order, not pre-order.
 

AndriaD

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Last thing I'll say on phones, I buy the phones that are half the price but better specs and no bloat installed direct from the manufacturer and use a carrier with a low price and bring your own device program. My OnePlus 2 was $250 and still comparable to the phones coming out now. $90/month for 3 lines with all the bells and whistles.

This. I got a ZTE Zmax Pro, 6" "phablet" with 2GB, and it's FAST, not crammed with bloatware. $99 back in December, though I see they're now $79. Lots of folks were bellyachin about it on the ZTE forum, it won't do this, it won't do that... geezus pete, it's a $99 phone, not a $899 phone! No, I can't ever root it, but it works great, never given me any trouble at all. Got the cheapest $30/mo (1GB) plan from MetroPCS, and never use even a quarter of that, since I rarely go anywhere; I'm usually using my home wi-fi rather than the 4G/LTE.

Andria
 

MyMagicMist

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The system they use was called Carnivore but word got out and they renamed it to something less catchy like EL2500 or sumpthin. I forget the name.
If you think that ANYTHING transmitted on the net is secret you are just being silly.

Well, aside from making use of AES cryptography I knew nothing online could be securely 'secret'. Even Tor and Onion nodes are monitored. I do not necessarily have anything I feel needs concealed online. Got a simple policy about that, 'want it kept secret? Tell nobody and do not write it down in any form, ever."

Once you tell someone, if you ever figure it is something you require help to achieve, then you have created a conspiracy. That's all conspiracy theories are, guesses that John Doe told Tom Jones about his idea to inflate his car tires. John might hope Tom gets the message and goes out and jacks his car up to more readily facilitate tire inflation. Yep, big EVIL & OH SO SECRET conspiracy there. Fred Smith, he guessed 'something' was going on when John called over the fence to get Tom and said something to him real quiet like.

I actually am involved in a conspiracy currently. I am conspiring with my wife to attain a loan from the USDA to help us manifest realizing our own home with a small farm. They provide such lines under the auspices of rural development. So, yes I'm conspiring with my wife to live our lives. :) Frighteningly evil that I know.

Today, I had to cancel an order for Ready X wick midway through making it. First site I've run across what actually required 'carding' a customer. Wife says to me, ... "um, NO." I kind of understand her point too. If nothing else I'm sure we can trip up into OH and stop by up there to get some wick. I really do not 'need' it, might be useful but no great concern. If it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't I'm not going to be worried either way. It was just kind of funny to notice my wife now seeming to take up my 'bat shit insane' paranoia. *giggle*

Telle est la vie, laissez les bons moments rouler.
 

MyMagicMist

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I got a ZTE Zmax Pro, 6" "phablet" with 2GB, and it's FAST, not crammed with bloatware.

I got a hand me down tablet from my wife I use. About all I do with it is play Super 2048, Hexic 2048, 2048 Merge, plain old dumb old 2048. I got a few streaming apps on it, might figure out how to 'zap' what it streams over to our big tv but again, one of those things I'm not too worried over. :)

I am in the number 1 leader of all time in Super 2048. The main strategy is simply keeping your 2's in order. They like to attempt filling up your grid too much. I'm aiming to eventually get all the tiles into one tile. Been told that is impossible to do as the algorithm spawns a new tile each time you move. Well, we'll see. :)
 
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AndriaD

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Yay, 7 orders from FT have shipped. Just the Sentinel and Gorge delayed until the 10th and 14th. Woot!

I got a shipping notice on my Strike18 this morning! :) but nothing at all from FatDaddy????? WTF is up with that?????????

Andria
 

AndriaD

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Denis at fatdaddy was near death last I heard. His family was doing some of his work, but back logged

Oh! Well my goodness. I can see how that could definitely interfere! Maybe I shoujld have ordered those squonk pins from england after all.

Andria
 

AndriaD

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Hey @The Cromwell -- you said that squonk pin you included with the Tobeco Velocity is a 3mm... think it might work with the Magma?

Andria
 

The Cromwell

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Denis at fatdaddy was near death last I heard. His family was doing some of his work, but back logged
yeah serious stroke.

And Rick at Modmaker in the UK has long been tied to Dennis/Fat Daddy. Not sure of the details of that though. I am sure that Rick got some stuff from FDV for resale in the UK aside from that though I know nothing.
 

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Ordered rayon. Tried it years ago from a freebie sample, but I just treated it like cotton which wasn't great.
 

R3alJim Shady

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Ordered rayon. Tried it years ago from a freebie sample, but I just treated it like cotton which wasn't great.

Yeah you have to put a bit more of it in the coil than you would cotton. Also there can be a short break-in period. Usually no more than a squonk or two.


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SirVtHondaGuy08

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Ohh she will love a boat.
A hole in the water to throw money into.

She wants one since we have a decent size lake about 5 minutes from our house, it was actually once a Great Lake. We just haven’t been able to find one we both can agree one, I want a bass boat and she wants something with a cabin.
 

Train

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Well, then. Get two.
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She wants one since we have a decent size lake about 5 minutes from our house, it was actually once a Great Lake. We just haven’t been able to find one we both can agree one, I want a bass boat and she wants something with a cabin.
 

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