VoicesInMyHead

Oddly enough, I watched a documentary on (I think) PBS about 10 years ago that was talking about the successes of Wal Mart, and how they lower prices for their consumers. PBS was allowed into Wal Mart's offices to see how the negotiations between manufacturers and Wal Mart were handled. It was a very neat show, really. They had a segment with a toaster manufacturer (I don't remember the name... Oster, maybe) at their offices. They had two sales reps, two product engineers, and a manager of some sort. Wal Mart had two reps. They all meet in a room in an office building that had literal

Bought at Wal Mart. Wal Mart's pricing requirements allow so little profit margin on goods that manufacturers are forced to use less and cheaper materials. That next vacuum you want... buy it from some place other than Wal Mart. Even if it is the same model, it will be manufactured on a different line and won't be as cheaply made. You get what you pay for.

Dukes. I used to be a Hellman's guy, but I went looking for something that wasn't as "slippery" and had more "body" to it. I knew that the egg content was what gives mayonnaise it's body, so I went searching the ingredient lists. All of them but Dukes had oil, water, then eggs. Dukes is oil, eggs, then water. Tried it... loved it... never switching away from it.

Oh, wow... thank you for giving us permission to use our incandescent lamps. Typical liberal.

Maybe they got the last two doughnuts in the BP and, like seagulls, they were being surrounded by scavengers?

Clearly, you don't know me. I'm big... and highly motivated... and highly successful.

I mostly agree that it is more of an engineering issue than a labor issue, though I have experienced a fair share of just poor assembly with domestic cars, too.

You should consider signing up for Google Voice, a free service where they become your voicemail provider. It's phone-independent... you can route any phone's voicemails to them so when you switch phones or even providers, your voicemail is still in one place. You can listen to them on your phone or on your computer. Google Voice can be much more than just voicemail, but for starters, that's one thing you can easily take advantage of.

The Dodge Ram I owned was built in Mexico. Complete piece of junk. Left me stranded in the first two weeks of ownership, and backfired every single morning from Day 1. Junk. The Ford Taurus I owned was built right here in Atlanta. Another piece of junk. Cooling system leaks, multiple transmission failures. The Chevolet Venture van I owned was also built here in Atlanta. That was the biggest piece of junk I have ever seen. Seriously, it was so bad it was comical. At one point, windshield cleaning fluid even leaked through the interior roof lights!! It was like the episode of the

Thankfully, my Prius was 100% built in Japan, as was my wife's RAV4. We used to buy only American... not anymore. Too many breakdowns in too short of a time. Our Japan-built cars have been rock-solid and reliable, something our Chevrolets, Dodges, and Fords could never accomplish.

I love my Prius, but not because I am a tree-hugging, climate-changing, planet-saving hippie. I love it because it's reliable, the engineering is amazing and sound, the savings in gas is great, and it keeps 50% of my fuel-buying American cash out of the hands of foreigners that don't particularly like us. I couldn't care less about the environment... the planet is doing (and has done) just fine without me worrying about it.

Forget both netbook and tablet and get a Chromebook. I'm a certified technological junkie, and my Chromebook has been the best computing-like device I've ever owned. Yes, it's different... very different... but oh, so good.

I taught my 11 year old how to reason with permissions. He was interested in a game that was in the Android Market. I told him to follow these steps: 1. First, see how many times it has been downloaded. The number of downloads is right on the app's page in the Marketplace. If it is less than 10,000 or so, steer clear... it hasn't been vetted in the Android community very much, yet. 2. Read the reviews right there in the marketplace. Anyone that has bought or downloaded the app can make a short review, and many do! If it is unstable, broken, malicious, and such it WILL be in the

Unplug and re-plug the video connector on the back. We had a similar issue... turns out, the video connector was partly disconnected. Reseating it fixed it.

To get *anything* bad onto an Android device, you, the user, have to initiate it and make the poor choice to install something that asks for permissions that are beyond reasonable for the things the app does. I've been an Android user from the very beginning and am a fledgling Android developer. Android is a fantastically safe operating system if you use it wisely, like you should on ANY platform, be it Android, Windows, Linux, iOS, OS X, and so-on. If you install nefarious software... well, you will pay the price. As for interchanging the terms Virus and Malware, the ignorance of

There are no Android "viruses". Sheesh. Every application that runs on Android runs in a user context that exists only for that app, and each user context has zero access to any other context, including the system user context that the rest of the operating system runs in. In other words, Android apps can't talk to other apps, nor can they access the data of other apps, nor can they access any part of the operating system or storage (except for the SD card) without your specific approval. There *are* nefarious apps that can be downloaded. Just use common sense when installing apps. If

Every post I read about computer headaches makes me glad I bought a Chromebook more and more. I haven't used Windows in two weeks for my personal computing needs, and haven't looked back. No performance issues, no antivirus software, no pop-ups, no malware... just Web.

"I seen it yesterday." I seen?

No hard feelings, but I'm glad they're enforcing it. They're solid, yellow lines. That means "don't drive here". That's not too difficult to understand. I obey the laws, and I can't count how many times I've nearly been rear-ended by people flying down the gore when I (legally and orderly) merge into the turn lane *past* the gore. And, nearly every time, *I'm* the one who gets honked at. Screw that... glad they got what they were asking for.

Have you even used it in the past few years? It is nothing of the sort. Eh.... When it comes to protection, like most things in life, you get what you pay for. My data is worth more than a free download.

It was a hog 5 years ago. It is no longer a hog. It was rewritten from the ground up, and is extremely lightweight and effective. It affords protection that you can't get in any free package, such as behavioral-based protection (not just signature or heuristic scanning).

After creating the delightful treat that is Woman from a rib, God thought to himself, "Wow, that's good stuff... if only I had something just as delightful and tasty in portable form." And the McRib was born.

The judge that presides over Paulding County Probate Court is incompetent, at best, when it comes to Georgia traffic laws. I have sat in on a number of traffic cases in Paulding County Probate Court, and she rules on traffic laws that don't even exist. There are two phases of defending a traffic ticket. The first is our initial court appearance to plead guilty or not guilty. The second (should you request a court date) is your actual hearing. You can have a jury trial or a bench trial (the former being in front of a jury, the latter in front of only the incompetent judge). In order to

DirecTV for the win.

There's nothing to rebut. Yes, a lot of money is owned by a small percentage. What's your point? Why do you care so much about what other people have? I'm not a religious man... but i get the impression you are. So, allow me to give you some advice that you might find familiar: You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.