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GSO1962 said:
I think Mr. Terrio and Bladite, perhaps without knowing it, have applied the basic System Engineering "V" (letter "v", not Roman numeral) to analyze and procure their home security solutions...
Kudos to JT and Bladite for "getting it!" ...if they are still awake after reading this.
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Cool; turns out I'm smarter than I thunk I were :p

P.S. please don't call me "Mr. Terrio"... I acknowledge and appreciate the gesture of courtesy, but it makes me feel like you're trying to screw me over somehow :D James or JT will do just fine... ;)
 
daizee said:
Oh, they mean that the sudden inertia from the impact racking all the components together couldn't POSSIBLY have done any damage if the outside case wasn't damaged? ha ha. they're fired.

-Daizee
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Fired nothing, they probably are gonna get a raise. That level of ineptitude seems to be promoted and endorsed in society these days. This is my thing... I've had this car for 3 years (as of this month) I've had the same insurance for those 3 years, paying 140 dollars a month. That is over 5,000 dollars and I've not had a single claim. You're telling me I'm such a worthless peon that I don't even warrant my car being taken care of without you trying to screw me over?!? Really? I realize it's your job to save money where you can... But by being a complete asshat?! Is that what society has come to expect? Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just angry and not thinking clearly but over the last week I've seen some real bullcrap that makes me not want to live on this planet anymore.

Yesterday I had to interpret for one of these "Sell this to your friends and get them to sell it too" type deals. 15 THOUSAND people payed $100 EACH to rent out the entire Edward Jones Dome for 4 days to listen to how to screw over their friends and their friends friends and make money off it. Now dealing with the insurance bull I really am just done. I'm ready to go move onto a boat out in the middle of the ocean some where and tell the whole world to "F off!"
 
Chameleonbear said:
Fired nothing, they probably are gonna get a raise. That level of ineptitude seems to be promoted and
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Yeah.
Well, I don't know with whom you dispute a decision like that, but I'd go right for it. "the tranny case isn't cracked therefore it's a coincidence" is absurd on its face and absurd in analysis. It's worth contesting because it's absurd. Next they'll tell you that you don't have whiplash because your skull isn't cracked.
 
anyone besides me seen the fake beckers on the river store even lists them as kabar/beckers I hate fakes!
 
Chameleonbear said:
Fired nothing, they probably are gonna get a raise. That level of ineptitude seems to be promoted and endorsed in society these days. This is my thing... I've had this car for 3 years (as of this month) I've had the same insurance for those 3 years, paying 140 dollars a month. That is over 5,000 dollars and I've not had a single claim. You're telling me I'm such a worthless peon that I don't even warrant my car being taken care of without you trying to screw me over?!? Really? I realize it's your job to save money where you can... But by being a complete asshat?! Is that what society has come to expect? Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just angry and not thinking clearly but over the last week I've seen some real bullcrap that makes me not want to live on this planet anymore.

Yesterday I had to interpret for one of these "Sell this to your friends and get them to sell it too" type deals. 15 THOUSAND people payed $100 EACH to rent out the entire Edward Jones Dome for 4 days to listen to how to screw over their friends and their friends friends and make money off it. Now dealing with the insurance bull I really am just done. I'm ready to go move onto a boat out in the middle of the ocean some where and tell the whole world to "F off!"
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Yes, I think insurance people get paid based on how many claims that they can avoid paying.

Every once in a while I think how great it would be to simplify my life and become Amish.... but then I realize how attached I am to my consumer electronics and firearms, and figure it wouldn't work out.
 
james terrio said:
Cool; turns out I'm smarter than I thunk I were :p

P.S. please don't call me "Mr. Terrio"... I acknowledge and appreciate the gesture of courtesy, but it makes me feel like you're trying to screw me over somehow :D James or JT will do just fine... ;)
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Yes, yes you are.

You will notice that I called you JT in the last line.

I also need to follow up with you on that Elmax boning knife we were discussing.... :)
 
stvpourciau said:
Can't we all just pick up some .357 rat shot and get along?
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I have the dogs, locks, alarms and open fields of fire handled. :D

When working around the farm, in addition to my knives, I carry a .357 in a LH holster small-of-back for Rh draw. First round is rat shot. The next 5 are HPs. I used to carry a Taurus .22 w/ 9 rds of rat. Until the day in the barn when I moved a bale of hay only to be confronted with an unhappy 5.5 ft rattler. 9 rounds and 8 hits later, I had an empty pistol and a very, very, very pissed off rattler. Fortunately, I also had a 6 ft 4 tine hay fork with which I commenced to flail away with like Conan the Barbarian on crack. I have only used the Taurus to shoot skunks in traps since.
 
GSO1962 said:
I think Mr. Terrio and Bladite, perhaps without knowing it, have applied the basic System Engineering "V" (letter "v", not Roman numeral) to analyze and procure their home security solutions.

In a nutshell, you start at the top left of the "V" by determining what your "operational requirements" are. In this case, a secure home. After that, you develop potential solutions to satisfy these requirements. It need not always be a material solution or a single material solution, but could be changes in procedure or multiple material solutions (dogs, alarms, lights, and/or guns). If a material solution(s) is called for, then technical specifications are developed for the item(s) that are required. This devolution of requirements is the bottom of the "V". Once the item(s) are procured (manufactured, purchased, etc), then they should be tested against the technical specification ("Was it built right?). This is where we go back up the right leg of the "V." If it meets the technical spec, then it should be tested against the operational requirement ("Did we build the right thing?"). This process if both iterative and recursive, and eventually you are able to answer "Yes, we did build the right thing." Then, and only then, you can state that your operational requirement is met.

Too many times, folks skip strait to the solution without really examining what the real requirement is and consider alternatives other than the obvious that might meet the requirement better and for less money. Kudos to JT and Bladite for "getting it!" ...if they are still awake after reading this.
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nicely mansplained :D
 
mountainmist said:
:eek: I just saw I picture of Bladite for the first time..... if he's going to the gathering, count me out! :eek:
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tell me every place you might think of going, and i'll see if i can get first :)

beat it kid, you're bugging me ;)
 
Real snark or imposter snark, I don't care because I have a bag of beer.

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Confusion......

open, closed, open

Bladite said:
nicely mansplained :D
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B.Mauser said:
All your chat are belong to BLADITE :boxing:
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But I'm not confused about dinner. Day 3 in the hotel of an over 6 week stay. Eating out gets old quick and the room only has a microwave and 2-burner range (no real oven), so I brought along a baby crock pot. Put a chuck roast, baby carrots, sweet Texas onions, and Yukon Gold taters with some mojito lime rub in the crock at 0730...dinner is ready when I get back to the room. Also cracked open one of those oatmeal stouts...I'm not a huge fan of stout, but it is tasty.



 
mountainmist said:
Only a mod can make stickys.
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You've never been to the room that doesn't get named apparently... Pretty much everyone that goes there makes a thread sticky.


TMHunt said:
Cbear, I knew you was in trouble as soon as you said the insurance company was great to work with. You have to understand adjusters are there to screw you out of the claim. Its there job (no matter how nice they can act to you) to find a way that there company can get out of the bill. You'll probably have to take it to court. Sorry to any insurance adjusters out there, but in my experience, Id rather knock one out as to deal with one.
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Yeah I kind of had a feeling. I took Angel to another shop, they are going to do the initial tear down of the transmission to see what is going on. They are also not charging me for the tear down, which apparently usually costs $500-700.

cbwoods67 said:
My dad buys beaters to drive to work. Last year, he hit a deer and the insurance company gave him $800 more than he paid for it a couple years before. He bought it back for the price of scrap and is still driving it today.
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That is what my cousin did before he had a family. He had 5 or 6 3-cyl Geo Metros that he bought for like $400 each. When they died he'd pull the insurance and registration from the one and put it onto the next.

Daizee said:
Well, I don't know with whom you dispute a decision like that, but I'd go right for it. "the tranny case isn't cracked therefore it's a coincidence" is absurd on its face and absurd in analysis. It's worth contesting because it's absurd. Next they'll tell you that you don't have whiplash because your skull isn't cracked.
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That is why it's at my shop not at the shop that is "in network" for the insurance company... I'm guessing it's like the "in network" doctors.

From the other snark, copy-pasta'ed.
 
I have one of these to keep the perimeter secure.

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I use to have a terminator T-800 but one of my neighbors was named Sarah Conner and, well...
 
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