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Where management drag a tech out to act as a service advisor and weeks later that person is in denial that they are now a service advisor. In the worst cases the new service advisor may be genuinly convinced that they will "go back into the workshop any day now".
Poor guy still thinks hes a mechanic. Epic case of service advisor denial.
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The bottom rung of UPS delivery options. Basically, it's delivery within 2 to 8 business days, not counting Saturday(which is usually an extra grand). This is what really happens: your package arrives on the 2nd or 3rd day to a location 3 to 4 miles away from you and just sits around (GROUNDED) till it's delivery on the 8th or 9th day. You hear a loud thud on your porch, then the doorbell rings and when you open the door you see a dented package and a brown truck peeling out.
Guy#1: Has your UPS Ground Service package arrived yet?
Guy#2: Nope, I'll be collecting social security or six feet under before that thing arrives.
Guy#1: Yeah, next time use USPS Priority. It'll get there ahead of schedule and in one piece.
Guy#2: Thanks, dude. I'll remember that.
Also known as SP2.
A software update for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.
A pitiful attempt by Microsoft to control the amount of circulating threats to their systems with basic, buggy applications. Utilizing their Windows Update service, the software is automatically downloaded and installed - an attempt to control the security market.
It contains basic software add-ons for their applications. These add-ons are very annoying, especially for the experienced computer users who already have better applications, but that are not recognized as proper programs as they are not authorized or owned by Microsoft.
Computers users with little experience are given a false sense of well being, and generally are taken advantage of.
SP2 contains a number of generally useless add-ons for their applications which although seem as if they will do your computer good, will affect perfectly working third party updates - such as registry updates or drivers. Once installed, SP2 will overwrite these, thus creating previously prevented problems.
SP2's threat preventing applications work alongside or conflict with similar yet more effective programs and continuously persist in annoying the user. For example, an effective popup blocker will show a message after successfully blocking a popup. However, SP2's popup blocker will either miss the popup, or appear over the third party popup blockers window, creating an annoyance for the user who has to close two windows. SP2's 'butting in' over other applications is probably fueled by Microsoft's desire to beat or own the competition - in this case, refusing to detect a more effective popular third party popup blocking application due to the fact that it is not owned or related to Microsoft.
In some cases, the user is forced to discard one of these applications, sometimes with SP2 Popup blocker prevailing.
Most components of SP2 are basically simple, yet annoying warnings regarding the download of suspicious files. If you hadn't ordered to download a program, what would make you download a program appearing from no-where?
Overall, SP2 is a trouble causing update that should be avoided if you already have applications that do the job that SP2 says it will. Rather that downloading a 70MB file, consult experienced computers for a better and smaller sized alternative.
1. I have installed Service Pack 2 and have been having all my old computer problems since.
2. It takes more than 20 minutes for SP2 to repair a wireless network connection, rather than a few seconds without it.
3. It took me 2 days to download Service Pack 2 on my Dial-up connection.
4. Service Pack 2 - All your previous computer problems in a 70MB file.
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(US GOVERNMENT) Agency of the US Department of the Interior. The name has since been changed to "Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement" (BOEMRE). The laws related to minerals management in the United States are possibly the most poorly thought-out in the developed world, and were largely designed as a strategy to launder money through crooked politicians. The MMS was created manage the oceanic coastal shelf (OCS) resources, and naturally it became one of the most notorious dens of corruption seen in the entire world.
The MMS is set up so that the temptation to be sleazy is almost impossible to resist; indeed, taking bribes is practically standard operating procedure in this agency. That's because the MMS was responsible for enforcing environmental and safety regulations on things like offshore drilling platforms, and yet made its income from revenues from the lessors it was regulating.
MMS officials would actually let oil company staff fill out inspection checklists in pencil, so that MMS inspectors would then fill them out as the operators wanted.
Given Minerals Management Service pencil whipping in the Gulf prospects*, it was a miracle that Transocean was ever cited for safety violations at all.
MMS is famous for parties in which executives of oil companies went drabbing with federal managers.
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*Here, a prospect is an area where oil prospecting occurs
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A common misconception is that the great rock and roll band KISS's name stands for Knights In Service of Satan. While a clever backronym, KISS is in fact put in all caps solely for emphasis.
Dude! KISS rocks! But it doesn't actually mean Knights In Service of Satan.
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(US GOVERNMENT) Former agency of the US government responsible for the enforcement of immigration law, and the processing of visa/permit requests. After the attacks of 11 September 2001, Congress passed a bill creating the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); the INS was split up into its enforcement functions (which became part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its processing functions (Citizenship and Immigration Services, or CIS).
Prior to its dissolution in 2003, the INS was part of the Department of Justice. The CIS and ICE are both part of the DHS.
Because of its extraordinary power over the lives of millions of US nationals and residents, the Immigration and Naturalization Service gained lasting notoriety. Seven years after it was superseded by the CIS, most people associated visa regulations with the INS.
"Brother from Another Planet" was a brilliant parody of INS agent behavior.
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One of the many popular ways for single men to meet single women and vice-versa. Becoming EXTREMELY popular and more and more people are trying it out. Can be used to just find people to be penpals, to meet people for friends, to meet people for serious relationships, and/or even to meet someone for the possibility of marriage.
Before you people (the ones that bad mounth these sites) criticize these personals, take a look around and look at the number of members and realize that more people are giving it a try. If you want, just try them out and you CAN meet someone that you may have never met otherwise. Some popular dating sites are: match.com, dreammates.com and yahoo! Persoanls.
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