Let us define "Illegal"

OK, it's late, but I just read this before I was about to crash for the night. Apparently, US Immigration raided a plant in Mississippi and detained 600 people for being in the country illegally! Go immigration!

"Gov. Haley Barbour recently signed a law requiring Mississippi employers to use a U.S. Homeland Security system to check new workers' immigration status."

Uhoh.. guess some company is in some huge trouble. Not too good getting busted with 600 illegal immigrants on your payroll!

Now, the best part of this is a quote from the local pastor:

"We have kids without dads and pregnant mothers who got their husbands taken away," said Velez's son, Robert, youth pastor at the church. "It was like a horror story. They got handled like they were criminals."

Are you fucking kidding me?! Guess what, dumbass, they ARE criminals! They are in the United States ILLEGALLY! Illegal = criminal.. ooh, do you see it now?

It amazes me that we have individuals within our own country that feel illegals should get a pass on this. NO, sorry. If you break OUR laws, you need to pay. Think about it.. what a great way for these people who supposedly want to come here for a better life, than to start out by breaking this country's laws?

I am still waiting for the 12 foot high wall and mine field.

Your choice of seats awaits

So, the woman and I finally went to see Wall-e. Damn thing has been out in theaters for ages, but we simply did not have the time to go see it yet. I was glad it was still playing though, since we had waited so long.

We ended up going on a Tuesday at like 3pm. We walked in to the theater and there was NO ONE else! I was like, haha.. ok, this is sorta goofy, but cool. So we grabbed our seats dead center of the theater. Then, just before the movie was about to start, another patron walks in. Some older dude. Hmm, ok, well, that's sort of a bummer, thought it would be cool to have the show to ourselves.

But then what sorta freaks me out is, the dude sits almost right next to me! He takes a seat like 3 chairs over from me. I was like.. damn dude, cmon, you have the WHOLE theater to chose from! Why get all creepy uncle on us and sit so close to me and my woman!?

Well.. anyways... the flick was awesome. Doubley awesome when you think that the two main characters probably had about 15 words of dialogue between them. The interaction between them done mostly with non-verbal communication. Gotta love Pixar, they hit a home run almost every time with their movies.

So, anyone know about LCD HD TV's?

Sorry for the lack of postings this week. I had a new boss roll in town as well as some employees leaving and new ones coming on board. The word hectic springs to mind. All going good so far though, hopefully that will last.

So, I am finally in the big screen LCD owners club! I have acquired one of these!

A Sony Bravia 37" inch LCD TV! Woot!

First, the thing is friggin huge. Second, I don't know shit one about it! I am a whiz with computers, but HD TV and the like? I am fairly clueless...

So, if any readers or stumblers by happen to read this and are well learned in the school of HD TV, answer me this:

With this TV and a regular cable box (not high def) why do most cable channels look grainy and fuzzy! It's driving me nuts! When hooked up to play DVDs it looks good, but the regular cable channels are crap!

Someone mentioned that I need a high def cable box with HDMI outputs... not sure how that would fix things since I do not get high def channels. But, the damn graininess on some of these cable channels with the new TV is enough to drive me loopy.

Well, with 10 million, that's bound to happen...

Blizzard Entertainment, makers of the insanely popular World of Warcraft online game (which now touts 10 million players world wide! Yes, 10 MILLION) is about to have its annual BlizzCon Event in California. What do you do at BlizzCon? Well, many a things, but mostly, celebrate the greatness of Blizzard and their games at a huge convention.

So, today, tickets went on sale for BlizzCon at a cool $100.00 each. The crush of the demand on the website was so high that the site has crashed and has been down since. The crash was so immediate, that according to Blizzard, not a single soul has been able to buy tickets yet!

Guess that is bound to happen when thousands of people (at the least) try to access your website at once!

A story about bad customer service

I have never been fond of Hewlett Packard. Maybe it was working for Canon for so long back in the day, but HP always struck as the big bad company of do nothing. Separately from that, being a computer whiz that I am, I always sorta laugh at people who buy computers as opposed to building them. The majority of these brand name PCs are hacked up junk, in my opinion.

Anyways, I recently came into possession of a an HP tower. It's actually pretty new, so instead of parting it out, I figured I would transplant the whole thing out of the ugly ass case it came in and into something cool. I noticed right away that the motherboard was some odd HP type. First, they have zero information on what this motherboard is or who makes it for them. Second, the back connections are sorta wonky and do not match the typical motherboard back plate connections. (you see, if I want to put it into a new case, I need a back plate to match the motherboard layout).

So, I figured I would contact HP support and ask them what motherboard this is and if they could supply, or direct me toward, a back panel for this motherboard.

What did I get in response?

Thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard's Commercial Solutions Center. This is with reference to your e-mail regarding the I/O Shield. The serial number provided indicates that your warranty on software and hardware has expired on 04/05/2008. As a result, we will not be able to provide you with a free email-based or voice support.

LOL WOW? Really? No shit, HP? Because this unit is out of warranty you can not answer a simple question like what I/O shield this uses? Amazing!

I guess I could start saying, well, after this I will no longer buy HP products! But since I already don't touch anything HP, I guess I am already ahead of the curve.