Writing by burn on Monday, 6 of November , 2006 at 1:09 am
Desperate Republicans across the country are using robo-calls (automated dialing systems that play recorded messages) to harass voters. Your phone rings, there’s a brief recorded intro that makes it appear the call is from a Democratic campaign or related group, and then a pause, and then a recorded message. If you hang up it calls you back six or seven times or more. The goal is to make people think they are being harassed by the Democrats, and piss them off enough to change their votes. It works well enough to potentially flip some close races.
This is clearly illegal under some statutes & regulations, arguably illegal under others. It appears to be going on across the US, using the same format and methods. If we pursue this nationally, we could bankrupt the GOP.
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Writing by burn on Sunday, 5 of November , 2006 at 6:53 am
so here are the events of the past few weeks
a week or so ago my father rented a car and came up to help me with some home repairs. we werre going to
#1 install a breaker box
#2 level some flooring
we ended up installing a breaker box, rewiring the ass end of my house, we ripped out and reinstalled a ceiling, and built a new storage room
if my father were to bill me for parts and labor…. it would be well into several thousand dollars
i re-calibrated my projector…. a daunting task for someone like me
installed 6 new shelves, a washer and dryer, and repaired a street fighter arcade machine
over the course of the last few months i have had my step brother’s computer sitting in peices around my house
here is why it was in peices
the power supply had a faulty kill switch, when the switch was thrown a surge of power was sent into the motherboard
this in turn blew the motherboard, created errors in the ram and hard drive, it also burnt out a fan.
we finally figured out what was wrong after a second motherboard was hooked to the power supply, and the second motherboard was fried.
the motherboard and cpu were sent to a shop in town to be tested
i repaired the ram and hard drive using different operational machines
once the hard drive was repaired i uploaded my music collection as well as some other media onto it for my step brother.
during the months that followed different parts of the machine eventually found their way into diffrent parts of the house.
at the last minute of my fathers stay we realized we had to send my step brothers computer back with him.
so in a frenzy i found all the parts of the computer, placed them in the tower and sent it on its way.
so i thought…
it now seems i have missed some peices, which in and of itself shouldnt be a big deal.
it shouldnt… but it seems it is.
joe said he was missing his ram and hard drive, and parts of his machine were replaced with older parts.
his computer came with a 200 gig slave and a 10 gig master (if i am remembering correctly). it seems i didnt send him back his 10 gig master
his ram is sitting on my desk
i replaced his burnt out fan with two brand new fans
i replaced his generic cpu fan with a nice coolermaster
he had a gateway 56k modem, i couldnt find it…. so i gave him a v92 56k modem of my own.
i also couldnt find his original ide cables, so i gave him a new set still in packaging
he had a shitty ultra exaust port, which fits into a cd-rom bay. i switched the fans around… installed two switches and turned it into a hard drive cooler as well as a central fan control unit.
i rewired his fan setup so that no wires were visible at all.
i replaced all of his case screws and self tapping screws with a matching chrome set
i put many many hours into this case setup, if his motherboard and processor needed to be replaced i at least wanted him proud of the box the new one would be going in.
did anyone say thanks?
no.
instead i am getting the feeling that i am being set up
i think this because of a phrase my father said.
he said:
“joe said that alot of his parts were replaced with old parts”
as you can see above… that is not the case
you may be asking yourself if im just going to keep his stuff
of course i am not…
anything my stepbrother says i didn’t send back will be returned to him
if he says he didn’t receive a piece of hardware i will go out of my way to find it and get it back to him
even if i know the hardware wasn’t in his system originally
I’ve had problems with joe in the past
he is not someone i wanted to have anything to do with
i agreed to work on his computer as a sort of “peace offering” between myself and his side of the family.
had marilyn not asked me to do this i would not have
in this situation i will do everything in my power to keep my father from encountering any problems
and the next time i am asked to do something for joe… i will use my better judgment
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