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For those who ride

better not drive a car either then. Annual United States Road Crash Statistics Over 37,000 people die in road crashes each year An additional 2.35 million are injured or disabled Over 1,600 children under 15 years of age die each year Nearly 8,000 people are killed in crashes...
- Blintok
- Post #45
- Jul 13, 2016
- Forum: The Garage
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Is Win10 still free from 8 after sale ends?

so i assume all the data tracking and telemetry will be removed from Windows 10 once the free promotion period ends? And that those buying a boxed copy will gain full control of the PC THEY bought and choose when and if updates happen? yes. sarcasm.
- Blintok
- Post #6
- Jun 14, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Another teacher bites the dust

not sure if posters above saying the 13 yo would have to pay child support were joking or not. But it has actually happened. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/02/statutory-rape-victim-child-support/14953965/
- Blintok
- Post #38
- Jun 2, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Another teacher bites the dust

and the even more fun thing is if it was a 24yo male teacher and 13yo female student he would be hanging from the nearest lamppost by noon the next day. Everyone would be pouring sympathy on the poor raped victim of the evil monster child molester.
- Blintok
- Post #34
- Jun 2, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The final push to get users to convert to win 10 (for "free")?

That is what i have done. I unplugged all drives. installed a spare 120g SSD. Installed Win10 via ISO and activated with one of my 3 Win 8.1 keys. Looked around for a bit at Win10. Pulled the SSD and went back to Win 8.1 on my game only machine. The other 2 former Win 8.1 machines now run Ubuntu...
- Blintok
- Post #5
- May 5, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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I've destroyed 3 USB flash drives trying to image them with Windows ISOs. WTH?

I have had this happen on flash drives. Sometimes it shows 0 bytes available. Sometimes it shows like 2g available (on a 32g drive) Drive Manager does not fix it. Cannot delete partition and make new one. found out that the command "Diskpart" works great. Run diskpart list disk Note the disk...
- Blintok
- Post #26
- May 5, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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ubuntu 16.04

I DL and put 16.04 on a USB drive on Thursday. I backed up what i wanted to keep. Had been using older 1T drive with 15.10. Wanted to get a newer and larger drive for 16.04 so got a 2T on Friday. Thus i did a clean install onto a new HD. Installed on Friday and it went very well. I dont do...
- Blintok
- Post #3
- Apr 23, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Why maybe going vegan should be a reality for many people.

A vegetarian opened Auschwitz. Just sayin. (Hitler was a vegetarian)
- Blintok
- Post #68
- Jan 20, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Fallout 4 - it's official! Coming Nov 10, '15

Got this game mid October and am just loving it. Spent much of my time doing side quests and faction quests plus liberating and building new settlements. I just recently started in with the mod stuff. I am hooked. have about 5 mods running now. Mainly for settlement clean up. Lets me remove all...
- Blintok
- Post #2,634
- Jan 20, 2016
- Forum: PC Games
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Win10 reaction to turning things off

Video of what happens in Windows 10 when you start turning off privacy settings and removing default programs and apps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N72t7aScY
- Blintok
- Thread
- Jan 11, 2016
- Replies: 21
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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win10 win update - reboot when?

i see. so then does that mean that the default behavior of the update is to restart the system when it wants to? Even if you in the middle of playing a game?
- Blintok
- Post #3
- Jan 7, 2016
- Forum: Operating Systems
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win10 win update - reboot when?

so maybe silly question but In regards to Windows 10 and windows automatic updates. When / how does Windows restart your system after an update? I mean, if you in the middle of working on a spreadsheet or in the middle of playing a game, does the system just restart or does Windows wait...
- Blintok
- Thread
- Jan 7, 2016
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Fallout 4 - it's official! Coming Nov 10, '15

I read much of this thread. Wasnt going to get this game as i did not enjoy FO3 that much. It had fun parts but maybe because i was still deep in MMORPG mode the games felt empty. But after reading here and other reviews i decided to get the game. Been about 3wks now and i am loving every...
- Blintok
- Post #2,316
- Dec 29, 2015
- Forum: PC Games
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What do you think of Zorin OS?

Been using Linux full time now for a couple of months. I have tried several flavors in my search to see if i could do without a Microsoft OS. (i have Microsoft and Windows 10 to thank for the push to Linux) I have tried Mint (17.2 and 17.3 Cinnamon, Ubuntu 14.04, Open Suse, Debian and Zorin 9)...
- Blintok
- Post #9
- Dec 29, 2015
- Forum: Open Source
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Anyone else REFUSE to get Windows 10 upgrade?

Not only did i refuse W10 i also refused 2 copies of W8.1 I have 3 licenses of W8.1 on 2 desktops and one laptop. I switched 1 desktop and the laptop to Linux. Glad i did. I have W10 to thank in a way for this. It forced me to seriously look at Linux and i am very happy with it. The remaining...
- Blintok
- Post #21
- Dec 29, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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looking at getting new vid card but

Currently have a MSI GTX780 OC Twinfrozer. Was considering moving to a 980ti but so far cannot see if it would help much. Every time i l crunch the numbers and look at the cost i am not sure if a 980ti is worth the expense for (according to benchmarks) a 30% gain in something that i may not...
- Blintok
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- Dec 28, 2015
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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First cold front of the year - temperatures plummeting

wow. 81. that is pretty damn hot. Water boils at 100... oh wait. you are talking American. nm. what do USA - Liberia and Burma have in common. The only countries on the planet that arent on the metric system.
- Blintok
- Post #5
- Dec 7, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Moving Windows 7 from SSD C: Drive to D: Drive

why not just keep the SSD for just Windows 7 and use the traditional drive for games? That is what most have done when 120g SSD were still expensive. SSD for OS and traditional drive for everything else..
- Blintok
- Post #8
- Dec 3, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Giant Time Warner outage in midwest

i would not call that mid-west. Mid-west is more like a line north/south along the Dakotas, Montana border areas.
- Blintok
- Post #15
- Dec 1, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ubuntu Crashes

and the link you posted goes to *nix Software. Not operating system. If this is for Microsoft only why is there also a "software for Windows" forum? so you are saying that Linux is software and not an operating system?
- Blintok
- Post #11
- Nov 17, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Ubuntu Crashes

interesting. This forum is "Operating Systems" Linux is an operating system? Last i checked it was.
- Blintok
- Post #7
- Nov 16, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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A question for people who are anti-abortion/pro-life.

funny how it works. If a woman chooses to have an abortion it is not killing an unborn human. But if someone assaults a pregnant woman and that causes a miscarriage that person is charged with murder. So is it murder if in the second instance the woman was going to have an abortion but an...
- Blintok
- Post #30
- Nov 2, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Repubs say they want to end birthright citizenship - bye, bye, 2016 election

these are some of the laws that the USA should follow. law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are: in the country legally have the means to sustain themselves economically not destined to be burdens on society of economic and social benefit to society of good...
- Blintok
- Post #112
- Aug 19, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Ways to make Windows 10 stop sharing your information

My solution to all this is to dump Microsoft and Windows. I will still keep Win 8.1 on the game computer but the other one i will load up with Linux Mint 17.2. I mostly use this computer for web (Firefox) and email (Thunderbird) and that comes with Mint. Also Vlan for movies. And if it wasnt for...
- Blintok
- Post #25
- Aug 18, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What If Global Warming Turns Out To Be Real?

the poles have melted? North pole yes. South pole no, it is increasing. https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum
- Blintok
- Post #38
- Jul 23, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What if I told all you guys that I've seen God?

do me a favor. next time you speak to god ask him (him or her? and if him or her, why? does god have sex?) so the question. why did god make dinosaurs. why make the earth 4.5 billion years ago but wait until the last few million to make us in his image. or is the earth only 2000yrs old and...
- Blintok
- Post #33
- Jul 22, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What If Global Warming Turns Out To Be Real?

of course the earth is warming. 20k years ago most of the northern hemisphere was under a mile or 2 of ice. In the middle ages there was a mini ice age. Global cooling, harsher winters. There is talk of another mini ice age in coming. A scientist said it so it has to be true ;-) "A scientist who...
- Blintok
- Post #3
- Jul 22, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Post a "crappy" movie you liked

The Last Starfighter
- Blintok
- Post #27
- Jul 22, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What if I told all you guys that I've seen God?

I am an agnostic dyslexic and do not believe in dog
- Blintok
- Post #5
- Jul 22, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What an open marriage taught one man about feminism

(202)456-1111 ask for the bitch in charge of the house
- Blintok
- Post #87
- Jul 22, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I hate how Costco will stop carrying stuff i like

yes i hate that too. Some items i notice only appear for a few months then disappear. Sometimes come back the following year. Many times never to be seen again. And it seems some items they never stop selling or run out of and have had them since the last ice age. The last 2 years i noticed...
- Blintok
- Post #46
- Jul 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What book(s) are you reading right now?

second book of the Game of Thrones series and With the old Breed by Eugene Sledge
- Blintok
- Post #743
- Jun 18, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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win8.1 screensaver/energy saving

So for some unknown reason Win8.1 decides it wants to turn off my monitor at odd times. Does it on both my computers every so often. I have screensavers turned off and energy saving turned off but still turns off monitor. I recheck settings to be sure incase windows turned the setting on. but...
- Blintok
- Thread
- May 16, 2015
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Operating Systems
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60% TDP GTX 970 vs GTX 960 - Which one would run Faster,Cooler,w/Less Power?

I had a GTX560 in my non-gaming computer. The card recently died so was looking for a new one. Was going to get the GTX750 but saw that the GTX960 was out and cost was not that much more. So went with that and happy i did. Got the Asus STRIX 960. Really quiet card, in fact the fans wont even...
- Blintok
- Post #13
- Feb 11, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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printer does not print after a while

Windows 8.1. Got a new Samsung Multifuncton printer (SCX3400) several months ago and all installed and running fine. Followed all instructions and had it set up to run on wireless. Worked great for a while. could print over network and from both MacBook Air and Win8.1 machines. Then i got...
- Blintok
- Thread
- Oct 30, 2014
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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need some good hot sauce

Since you mention Ghost pepper you like things super hot (what is your Scouville tolerance level?) I find things with Habanero or Scotch Bonnet to have a good combination of heat and flavor. (scouville unit of around 500k) I used to like Matouks but too many artificial ingredients in it. Luckily...
- Blintok
- Post #16
- Oct 7, 2014
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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PS4 and SSD's

FYI i got the PS4 / The Last of Us remaster at Bestbuy Canada. I also traded in my old PS3 and some PS3 games.
- Blintok
- Post #22
- Oct 7, 2014
- Forum: Console Gaming
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PS4 and SSD's

cool, thanks So i am guessing the Samsung EVO drive will fall into the - its own - garbage collection. Now to decide if i want to get a 500g or 1T Evo. Cant see me having more than 6ish games installed at a time. So maybe the 500 be enough. It is also cheaper by about ½ compared to the 1T
- Blintok
- Post #17
- Oct 7, 2014
- Forum: Console Gaming
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PS4 and SSD's

Jumping into this thread instead of making a new one. I just got a PS4/The Last of Us bundle. Been looking at putting in a 1T evo SSD as i love the SSD in my computers. One thing that occured to me about the SSD. What about garbage collection? (TRIM) Does the ps4 support this? How will...
- Blintok
- Post #14
- Oct 7, 2014
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Apple TV bricked

So last night around 1730 the power went out for about 1 min. About 2h later decided to update the Apple TV. During the update the farging power goes out again same as above. So i now have a dead A-TV ... power light rapid blinking. Gen 3 i believe. checked online for solution and tried...
- Blintok
- Thread
- Sep 24, 2014
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Apple

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