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Theres nothing worse than losing an entire day to being sick. However Tylenol makes these little night and day candy coated pills that make life happy.

This post is driven by cold medication.

Am I the only one who thinks that the “privacy” service that most internet registrars is just a fucking scam? I mean they got themselves into this mess with people harvesting information from our whois info, and yet they have the balls to charge us to make that information “private”? This shit should of been private right from the get-go, and the registrars decided to cash in on it.

Lets make a huge problem that in 5 years we will be able to make a “fix” and rake in the cash. Sounds like a Microsoft product.

So I decide to get on chromehounds today to play (like I usually do every night) when I get a message that my Xbox LIVE account has been suspended. Hm, thats wierd, I dont remember pissing anyone off (or even playing anyone within the past few days or so). It says that I’m unbanned as of 3/13/08. I check my email and I recieve this:

Inappropriate Content

Do not respond to this email address. It is not monitored.

This email is to notify you that your Xbox Live account privileges have been suspended due to feedback received from other Xbox Live users about your inappropriate content on the service. Additionally, Xbox Live has deleted the content in question.

You have been sent a message in the Xbox Live Dashboard notifying you when your suspension will end. During this suspension time, you will not be able to log into Xbox Live. Your Xbox Live privileges will be automatically reinstated at the end of your suspension period. The length of a suspension is not announced by Xbox Customer Support and is subject to change without prior notice by Xbox Live.

Xbox Live expects that all customers abide by the Xbox Live Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct provides guidelines for appropriate behavior while playing on the Xbox Live service. You can view the Code of Conduct from the Xbox Live Dashboard under Xbox Live Policies in Account Management, or by visiting http://www.xbox.com/live/legal/legal-tou.htm. Your failure to abide by the Code of Conduct in the future may result in, among other things, longer suspension periods or cancellation of your account.

If you have any questions regarding the Xbox Live Code of Conduct, please contact Xbox Customer Support.

Thank you
Xbox Live Community Management team

What the fuck? What content did I have on there that was fucking inappropriate? So I call, and are promptly wait on hold for a bazillion years. Not even any fucking hold music. You would think that with 4.5 x 10^99 dollars Microsoft can sport a little hold music for us poor saps that need to call. So I wait, and wait, and wait and wait with only silence to keep me company on the phone.

Once the rep picked up (who was located in India, go figure) this is what happened.

So I’m walking around in my local gunstore looking at revolvers, and while I’m browsing the tons of overpriced Taurus’ I overhear a conversation between a store employee and a potential gun buyer.

This guy was either a cop or some sort of security guard.  He was obviously looking for something to carry concealed (since I doubt you’d strap a 3″ subnose revolver or Kimber 1911 to your hip).  He had not one clue about guns.  He was asking the most rudamentry and stupid questions (what caliber should I get, why does the 1911 have to be cocked and locked, SA vs DA triggers, etc).  Here is a guy who knows nothing about handguns who (unlike myself) has a license to carry a concealed weapon. 

Now am I the only one who find something wrong with that?  You have me who has been shooting handguns/rifles for a good part of 20+ years, handloads his own ammo, has more guns that you can shake a stick at, can recite the ballistics and reloading data of all of the major rifle/handgun calibers, and the wonderful city of Stockton denies my CCW permit even though I’ve been held up at gunpoint twice while at work.  Lets just ignore the fact that I have a doctorate, am educated, and have access to more narcotics than a Grateful Dead concert.

The some dipshit rent-a-cop gets a CCW who knows nothing about handguns, can barely tell the difference between a 1911 and a sig, and has the gall to completely blow me off when I tell him from a non-salesman standpoint that he is going to need a nice Galco leather IWB holster to make that subcompact Kimber comfortable to carry 9+ hours a day.  Hell, If I were looking for a new gun, and someone said “You know, I have that, and to get the most out of it you’ll need *real world advice here*” I would be fucking grateful and ask HIM questions, not the salesman.

I mean hell, what do I know, I’m obviously not some Rent-A-Cop who is looking for an automatic in 38 special (*sigh*).  I almost left when he asked how many bullets the clip held (A ‘clip’ refers to a M1-Garand en-bloc clip or a moonclip.  He wanted to know how many rounds the magazine held.  Bullets are the part that shoot out of the gun, a round is the unfired bullet + casing + powder).

I left at the part where he is arguing with the guy who works there about not needing moon-clips for a revolver chambered in 45-ACP (for those at home, 45ACP is rimless, and revolvers need a rim for proper headspacing, so a moonclip puts an artificial ‘rim’ on a rimless auto cartridge).  I could tell the salesman was starting to get annoyed, and an off-duty cop in there decided to set him straight and just told him what he needs for a backup gun.

I mean really, If you are going to have a CCW don’t be a dick to those who know more than you do.

So since my Fiance is out of town for the week (and I’m bored off of my ass), I decided to watch some of the American Idol episodes she has recorded.

If I hear “OMG I DID NOT MAKE IT, NOW WHAT WILL I DO WITH MY LIFE” I will vomit blood on an innocent puppy.  Who in the hell puts their future on competing on a stupid TV show?  Seriously, that ranks up there with having a retirement plan of “Winning the Lottery”.

People on TV are full of win.