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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1000 on: November 26, 2015, 06:24:33 AM »
Any hope of Microsoft getting me to upgrade is now gone.

The increasingly large popup boxes for their shitty OS upgrade have made me actively begin sabotaging their efforts.  Seriously, fuck Microsoft.

I'm leaving this here in case it helps anyone else: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/get-rid-windows-10-upgrade-notification-windows-7-8/
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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1001 on: November 26, 2015, 07:58:23 AM »
Any hope of Microsoft getting me to upgrade is now gone.

The increasingly large popup boxes for their shitty OS upgrade have made me actively begin sabotaging their efforts.  Seriously, fuck Microsoft.

I'm leaving this here in case it helps anyone else: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/get-rid-windows-10-upgrade-notification-windows-7-8/

Reason #576 why I've been M$ free for years now (and Mac free my whole life).  On (a) lighter note(s), I'm likely building an iconic using your Trueblood Dragon, and you can likely disable -any- popup based on updates by finding it in the registry and changing the entry.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1002 on: November 26, 2015, 08:17:37 PM »
Thanksgiving went alright, but dang I don't like being around a lot of people...  Just a few at once.

The biggest part of the evening that hit me was when grandma got back to the van and started crying.  She knows full well this might be her last Thanksgiving due to her cancer stuff.  It's hard to see her cry when she's been the one who always kept her head up through everything.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1003 on: November 27, 2015, 12:51:42 AM »
Black Friday in Brazil is a fucking joke. As the saying goes "everything 50% OFF from double normal price".

What the stores do: they raise their prices by as much as 30 to 40% on the days preceding Black Friday, and then on the actual day, they sell the product at 20 to 50% OFF.

Worst case scenario, you're paying a 10% PREMIUM instead of getting a discount, and on BEST case scenario, they trick you into thinking you're getting 50% OFF, but instead, the real discount is closer to 5-20%.

The 20% best case scenario? It's easier to find a Unicorn than it is to actually find such a major discount.

In fact, following close examination of price trends over the last 30~90 days, i've found the best time to actually go and shop - at least for electronics - is 9~12 days PRIOR to Black Friday, as that's when i found the prices to be at their LOWEST.

Shit like that should be fucking illegal, stores that do this should be fined, and repeat offenders jailed.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1004 on: November 27, 2015, 09:33:42 AM »
They are! People do it anyway.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1005 on: November 27, 2015, 01:19:05 PM »
It's not just black Friday. Jacking up prices and then dropping them for a short time and calling it a "sale" is a year-round practice. Businesses exist for the sole purpose of making profit, it's only to be expected that they'll do whatever they can get away with to further that goal. :rolleyes
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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1006 on: November 27, 2015, 04:05:24 PM »
New thread time, if anyone's got a title.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1007 on: November 27, 2015, 04:43:06 PM »
New thread time, if anyone's got a title.

What Do you Want to Bitch About?

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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1008 on: November 27, 2015, 07:30:34 PM »
Who Let The Bitchin' Out?
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Re: The Small Rants Thread X: Turn Down for Bitchin'
« Reply #1009 on: November 27, 2015, 07:47:23 PM »
Small Rants Thread: Bitch, Please.
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