Posts from DakotaSurfer in thread „Pet Peeves“

Quote from SXViper

This may get me in trouble with you and Stumpy but here it goes.

I am assuming that both of you have not had the oppurtunity to watch HD TV in your home on a "big" screen TV, I am talking over 40 inches, flat screen and a nice surround system? If not then the rest of this post means that you are happy with what you see and the picture is not all that important to you.

Now, there is a HD-DVD and BluRay disc because there are 2 companies competing for what format will be excepted as the high defintion DVD format. Kind of like VHS and Beta. And with the 2 companies making differnet format DVD's you have some films come out on Blu-Ray and some on HD-DVD or sometimes on both formats. The problem is that you can only watch each on its respective player and most people are not going to buy 2 different players to watch these movies so we are in a holding pattern until they can get this resolved. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, LG has a dual format player out and there will be other manufacturers releasing there own versions later this year. Obviously they are quite expensive and the thing to do is wait.

As for the benefits of the 2 HD formats, think about this. Right now a normal DVD holds roughly 9 gig of data so you have to put 2 DVD's in a movie case because they cannot fit the feature film and all the extra's on 1 disc unless they compress the disc so bad that the movie looks like crap. HD-DVD holds roughly 25 gig of data and Blu-Ray holds 40-50 gigs of data. That's alot of data and there will be many new and exciting things that they can do with this much room on a disc as well as the players that use them.

As a techno kind of guy I know other people don't get into this stuff like I do but to me it is really exciting and a HD program is awesome. I mean, they had 3 Duke movies on HDNet last Sunday and they were simply amazing, like watching the movie for the first time all over again. I have a 50 inch plasma TV and a home theater sound setup and I said this from the time I first started posting on this board, 1 of the biggest reason's that I bought my TV and sound system was because I never got the see John Wayne movies or any of the other classics that I love in the theater. So now I get to enjoy them in my home.

HD is awesome and it is coming wether you want it to or not. I agree, buying all this equipment and stuff gets old and hard on the pocket book. Its just where you put your priorities at. If you guys are happy with the normal DVD, and I am for the most happy with it as well(it will just look even better in HD), then don't worry about it. They will not stop producing the regular DVD's anytime soon so just keep buying those and let the geeks(like me) buy those HD format DVD's(when the players and disc's get cheaper of course).

I didn't mean to offend anybody, I just like to watch my movies and make them the best they can be.

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I am a total techno guru... I love new technology, I may wait a bit for the bugs to get worked out but I go overboard with an excellent home theater system. And there is nothing like HDTV for supreme viewing... I finally went HD few months ago and got a beautiful Sony 46" Bravia LCD HDTV to go along with my Panasonic DMR EH-75V w/80 GB HD, a Panasonic DMR-E-80H w/80 GB HD, a Sony HDMI Precision Cinema Progressive 5 DVD/CD Changer and a DigiView HDMI 5-Port Hub. And all this is connected to my Motorola Dual Tuner DVR Digital Cable box. I had to get the hub since the HDTV's only have one HDMI input but the hub allows me to take up to 5 HDMI devices and channel them through the remote controlled hub so I can take advantage of all the HD programming without having tons of cables behind my HDTV.

HD is so awsome like you said, I actually stay up late many a night just to watch HD Discovery channel and the beautiful wildlife programming that makes you feel your right there. It's almost like the fancy theaters at Disney and Universal. The picture is like nothing you've ever seen before in your home. I was reluctant at first but the industry (all TV channels) is suppose to go 100% HDTV in the next two years. Non-HD programming will be unavailable just like analog is basically gone now. Now this doesn't mean you will have to get a new TV but you will be missing out on some very good television.

The John Wayne HD movies have been magnificent, McLintock, El Dorado, Red River and now The Shootist. You want to buy something nice for your family this Christmas, get an HDTV and HD cable or satellite.

Depends on your religion. For the most part he's breaking the 10th Commandment: "Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor's." Good point though... these blow hards should be fixing their own culture, cleaning up the music that comes from some of the rappers. News story about this subject brought out the fact that they think snitching is against their principles. It would ruin their street cred. So crimes go unsolved because of their own pride and stupidity.

I never have been, and never will be PC. I've never cared what people think about what I say. If certain races or cultures want their equality then maybe they should quit complaining about the past or making up new reasons to continue their problems. (i.e. Getting Imus fired was plain hypocritical with the statements that are made in certain music lyrics). Just call me the Archie Bunker of the 21st Century.

Most election turn-outs are pretty pathetic. Nobody bothers to vote these days. We had a election the other day for a few seats on the school board and little things... out of 20,000 voters only 1,400 people turned out to vote. That's horrible, and the school district is the biggest share of our property taxes. You'd think people would be concerned about who was elected to that board.

All I know is when I was in the military I always sent off for absentee ballots, no matter what the elections. I haven't missed voting in a primary or November election for 33 years. Everyone no matter what age should do their part.

The mere mention of the place makes me sick. That's the place that doesn't care about handicapped spaces. Unfortunately, with gas at $3.00 a gallon we're stuck going there instead of going out of town to lets say Lowes.

Quote from Lt. Brannigan

Yeah and don't me started about those who have like 30 checkouts and only 1 of them open when there's a whole lot of people in line....

Don't get me started... I too hate the place with 30 checkouts and maybe 3 - 4 are manned. Plus they have 8 self-checkouts that I would love to use but they never open them anymore, they said they were getting ripped off to much. So now we have 8 worthless lanes. I liked doing it myself. The idiot cashiers usually packed our stuff like morons. Laundry detergent inside a food sack or they would mix cold/frozen items with canned goods. And with the round turntable sacks area they would forget to give us all our bags.

I heard a place that has outlawed those plastic bags... paper or cloth bags are only allowed. I'm all for that. You ever catch an idiot putting a gall on milk in a flimsy plastic bags and half way out to the car it breaks open and out goes the milk all over the parking lot. Real brains there...

(Hope nobody works at Wxxxxxx on here)

They should give you one of those old style parking ticket scooters and go around Corpus and give out tickets. I think we used to call them Meter Maids.

That civil academy sounds like a good idea. I may have to talk to the Chief here and see what he thinks. We have a horrible problem with students running stop signs. We have a University here with 15,000 students and they are the rudest people I know. They run stop signs like there's nothing there. I'd run around town and write tickets.

Quote from Jay J. Foraker

Same here! Since I now have to get out and about using a cane, it doubly irks me to see the abuse of handicapped parking spaces. The law in Texas says that not only do you need the placard or handicapped licence plates, but the person (who is assigned the handicapped designation) needs to be in the car as well. I see way too many people who have the handicapped designation using the facilities who could in no way be considered handicapped .
Cheers - Jay

Same way in Illinois... I was just using a placard but I lost it twice because it kept blowing off the rear view mirror hanger. So I got plates for my truck and put the placard in the wife's car. It actually bothers my wife more since she's been a nurse for 24 years. She has marched up to the customer service counter numerous times at Wally World and complained and she comes away madder after the fact since they won't do anything.

The rules are the same here... for instance I would have to exit the vehicle to use the spaces. It's like if we went somewhere and I wasn't going to get out of the vehicle we couldn't use a designated spot since she is the only one getting out. We can only use it when I am getting out.

I've seen many people have the placard or plates and are perfectly fine. I even approached this old guy once that parked in the only space left around our square. My wife and I knew it was his wife that was handicapped not him and she wasn't even in the vehicle. I told him I was handicapped and needed the space, he said I have a plate too but I said your not the one handicapped and it's against the law. He uttered some un-repeatabled phrases and walked off. So I called the police and they came, and he got a really nice present... he got a ticket that could be worth $250. I went to his traffic court appearance because I knew he'd try to beat it. The judges asked him some things like how often does your wife come with you and he said, never. Judge asked, does your wife even live with you? He said no, she's in a nursing home now and can't get out (bad hip I think). Judge asked, then why do you still have the plate, he said to run errands for her. Judge said that was even a worse offense, perjury to a state official to get a handicapped plate. The judge changed the fine to $1,000 and ordered him to get a new plate in 7 days. And to surrender the old plates to the court.

If I had to list my pet peeves I would be here all night... but I agree with all the movie ones, especially the people with cell phones and crying babies. Neither one belongs in a movie theater. People that depend on cell phones that much are just self important.

Another major one is people who park in handicapped spaces and don't have the plates or placard. It's a $250 fine in our state now but places like Wally-World won't allow the police on the property to ticket the offenders.

I have many more but for some other time.