CDTA Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4226 Posted May 5, 2012 Finally got to take home my jersey today! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDTA Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4227 Posted May 5, 2012 Today I saw a BMW with a Detroit Diesel as the engine, parallel park. All I can say is TOTAL WIN 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWM Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4228 Posted May 5, 2012 Finally got to take home my jersey today! what sport? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4229 Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) I currently have the DSL internet service. Speed is decent but I'm willing to try FIOS. That was the few things that I liked about Direct TV. The HD channels looked pretty good. Some even better than Cable. About that dish, The Direct TV guys did the same thing to me. I called about it and the response was "your landlord doesn't want to many dishes" I was upset. They eventually came with another dish for me after I told them constantly to get me my own dish. I really can't wait for FIOS though... You got to be careful on that roof bro. Oh I know... I went up the little ladder fine although I was thinking hmm this ladder shakes a bit (nothing out of the norm but basically we were screwed if something happened to that ladder) and it wasn't until I got on the roof and saw how high up I was and how squishy the roof material felt (I don't like feeling like what I'm standing on isn't stable, but that's how the roof should feel) that I started thinking sh*t what if the damn ladder gives way because we had to go down the ladder in an awkward position so I had to sit there for a minute. The Direct TV (Dominican guy) was like what's wrong? You afraid of heights papi? Then he starts going up and down the ladder talking to me in Spanish and such and I'm like dude don't bother doing that. It just irritated me more seeing the ladder shaking and me being 6'4" and thinking about that thing giving way as I try to go down it, but after a few minutes I'm like f*ck it, I gotta be somewhere and I can't miss my express bus so I got on that ladder with it vibrating or whatever from me and the wind and came down. Seriously though construction is so shabby these days and done by folks who have no experience with construction that you really can't assume that everything is okay. That was my main gripe, not the whole heights thing. As for DSL, it isn't terrible, but FiOS is like in a class of its own, so going back to DSL is like a kick in the face. I actually inquired about getting a 4G air card for my two laptops because I'm just not used to this speed. Edited May 5, 2012 by Via Garibaldi 8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCtrainfan01 Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4230 Posted May 5, 2012 I concur on the construction part. If you're planning to get those 4G cards, then FIOS must be really fast then. B) Can't wait to try that out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWM Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4231 Posted May 5, 2012 Had the iO guy at my house today... tried to persuade me to get back on Optimum from FiOS. Fat Chance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Up Front Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4232 Posted May 5, 2012 (edited) "Five times faster than Verizon's High Speed 3MBps internet." Dumbasses at CV: Basic FiOS is 25/25. 25 MPBs is over 8 times as fast as what I can get... on a good day. The Optimum app is unstable and crashes half the time, the "original" channels suck, and Madison Square Garden's teams suck. If I ever have to be around to watch them remove the boxes from my home, I'll just tell them "my parents can't afford it anymore." Edited May 5, 2012 by Joel Up Front 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4P3607 Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4233 Posted May 5, 2012 Weatherman: the only job where you can be wrong half of the time and still not get fired. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lance Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4234 Posted May 5, 2012 @4P3607: Just half the time? Puh-lease. That is some good job security though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDTA Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4235 Posted May 5, 2012 what sport? Lacrosse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDTA Posted May 5, 2012 Share #4236 Posted May 5, 2012 Testing..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Concourse Posted May 6, 2012 Share #4237 Posted May 6, 2012 @4P3607: Just half the time? Puh-lease. That is some good job security though. Flipping a coin would be more 'accurate' then them. Hell, the days they say it does NOT rain, bring the umbrella and vice versa on when they say it will rain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRT Bronx Express Posted May 6, 2012 Share #4238 Posted May 6, 2012 "Five times faster than Verizon's High Speed 3MBps internet." Dumbasses at CV: Basic FiOS is 25/25. 25 MPBs is over 8 times as fast as what I can get... on a good day. The Optimum app is unstable and crashes half the time, the "original" channels suck, and Madison Square Garden's teams suck. If I ever have to be around to watch them remove the boxes from my home, I'll just tell them "my parents can't afford it anymore." It's the same shyt for Time Warner Cable as well. The only pro I can think of for Optimum is their "exclusive" offers. All you have to do is spook them and they'll convince you to stay with their shytty service. The exclusive 2-year deal that my mom accepted expires this October, and instead of paying the regular price, $25 more is discounted from the monthly bill which is really neat imo. Their commercials are awful to be honest... paid actors "claiming" that they're "in love" with Cablevision's "high quality" services... smh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted May 6, 2012 Share #4239 Posted May 6, 2012 The only pro I can think of for Optimum is their "exclusive" offers. All you have to do is spook them and they'll convince you to stay with their shytty service. The exclusive 2-year deal that my mom accepted expires this October, and instead of paying the regular price, $25 more is discounted from the monthly bill which is really neat imo. Their commercials are awful to be honest... paid actors "claiming" that they're "in love" with Cablevision's "high quality" services... smh. I'm overall happy with Direct TV. I would just prefer faster Internet, and with no FiOS around, my only option would be a 4G data card, which would be comparable to the FiOS internet speed I had. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Up Front Posted May 8, 2012 Share #4240 Posted May 8, 2012 On top of them giving out ishtty speeds, they dare throttle my Internet during peak hours... just tried to play MW3 and joined one lobby. Two seconds in, I just slow down and then start slingshotting over the place and then stop. When the game catches up, I'm already dead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRT Bronx Express Posted May 8, 2012 Share #4241 Posted May 8, 2012 I noticed that Cinemax's standard definition channels (except for Action and MoreMax) are airing movies in widescreen. I find that change odd, considering that the HD feeds exist for a reason... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lance Posted May 9, 2012 Share #4242 Posted May 9, 2012 I don't think it has to do with HD, but rather original aspect ratio. Either that or CineMax is taking the same approach some local and lower-tier cable stations are doing now and taking the HD feed and simply down-converted that to standard def to save a buck. Yeah, it's probably the latter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trainfan22 Posted May 10, 2012 Share #4243 Posted May 10, 2012 Today I finally rode a M3A on Metro North, with that, I can say that been on every single railcar the MTA operates at least once! But it wasn't easy though, those mostly run during rush hours so I had to go out of my way to find one, venturing around GCT on Both levels checking for Harlem line trains to see if they was M3s, this song was mind in my mind the whole time.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDTA Posted May 11, 2012 Share #4244 Posted May 11, 2012 Utopia-An imaginary and indefinitely remote place. Why is this word, the word for ideal soceity? Why not create a new word for it? Why this word? Is this supposed to be some indication, that this is what we all want? That we want to be isolated, in our minds no less? Do we all want to be away? Away from the world? Or is the one thing we want to escape our mind? Our mind. The infinite tool. The center of the universe. The basic function of life. Are we just trying to escape this? Are we trying to escape out thoughts? Have we even been in there, and see what our thoughts truly are? There are so many things, that the brain can handle. Can know. Maybe just too many. When you start to overthink. When you start to know. When you start to really know. When you really start to know the in and outs of soceity. The in and outs of our universe. The ina ndo outs of life. Then when you think about it. You overthink. You overknow. Too much. You can't handle it any more, knowing these things. The problems overcome you. You continue to think, which will always lead to overthinking. You know. And you want other people too also. But that is not how it works. That what makes you overthink even more. The fact that well over 90% of soceity, will never know what you know. You want to tell them in some way. But you can't force them too. You just have to live with this fact. Which is unbearable. You want them to know. So they can prevent it. You keep thinking of some way, legal or not. But then you realize, this has already been told. It was just disregarded. So then, you turn and watch the countdown clock, knowing what will happen when it hits 0. On the way to graduation, we all die. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4P3607 Posted May 11, 2012 Share #4245 Posted May 11, 2012 uggh, my building is upgrading to key fobs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checkmatechamp13 Posted May 12, 2012 Share #4246 Posted May 12, 2012 I took the AP US History exam today (and I think I did pretty well). 1 down, 2 to go...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakenhamtrain Posted May 12, 2012 Share #4247 Posted May 12, 2012 I'm a bit stunned at the moment. The Greater Western Sydney Giants have actually won a game of football. Knocking off the Gold Coast by 27. No one picked them to win a game all year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checkmatechamp13 Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4248 Posted May 14, 2012 I took the AP Biology one today. Two down, one to go.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaica Line Posted May 14, 2012 Share #4249 Posted May 14, 2012 (edited) wow... So what's included in Obama's new health care bill? Every citizen is required to have RFID chips implanted in them. IBM even has a few commercials of this on YouTube (don't think it has officially aired thou). There goes our 'freedom'... Edited May 14, 2012 by Jamaica Line 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRT Bronx Express Posted May 15, 2012 Share #4250 Posted May 15, 2012 I'm feeling a little bit mixed about iO now. The new Samsung HD digital box is a hell lot better than I thought. The HD channels are sharp-looking (little pixelation, but better than the Scientific HD box) and is on par with the HD DVR. Two issues; it freezes too much if i use the menu/options and it takes forever to change a channel. Also, all of a sudden, they started offering 3 new packages (just found out about it recently... lol): iO Economy, iO Value, and iO Preferred, while altering the iO Gold and Silver packages. My mom will downgrade to Economy b/c I don't give a hoot about most of the channels at all. That's a $20-25 difference, and it's worth it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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