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Oh man was Windows ME a turd.........three Blue Screens of Death per day was the magic number. Upgrading to XP Pro was like night and day, and as a matter of fact that computer is still working (fairly) smoothly to this day.
 
kz1000ps said:
Oh man was Windows ME a turd.........three Blue Screens of Death per day was the magic number. Upgrading to XP Pro was like night and day, and as a matter of fact that computer is still working (fairly) smoothly to this day.
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ME was unfortunately shipped with a defect on the disc itself (in the code) because it was a rushed release. It was doomed from the moment that you installed it. It was a highly unfortunate mistake, as it was a great home OS for the times. That was the last time Microsoft ever rushed an OS' release. To build XP, Microsoft went back to the highly-successful (and my personal favorite) Windows 2000 code.
 
Power-pocalypse 2012 Part II. Even Copley Place is in the dark.
 
BFD and NSTAR are on scene of the previous explosion. Apparently they were continuing work on the transformers and then the system shorted out.
 
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Hindenburg over Boston.
 
Good to know even Germans have embarrassing infrastructure fails. Most Berliners will be happy to keep using Tegel anyway.
 
czsz said:
Good to know even Germans have embarrassing infrastructure fails. Most Berliners will be happy to keep using Tegel anyway.
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Tegel, maybe yes because of the location, but Terminal C (literally a converted hangar that looks like a Home Depot) was designed to only be used for 4 years. Seeing how Terminal C is all AirBerlin, this is a huge blow for AirBerlin. The main terminal is cool though because of the shape and fact that where you enter the airport is literally where your plane gate is (behind a thin glass wall). The Berliners that paid hundreds of Euros to fly on the first A380 trip out of BER are not going to be happy.

Schoenefeld on the other hand is an absolute dump.
 
Right; my impression was that everyone loved it for the "drive to your gate" thing, although this was clearly more convenient before the age of security. Being trapped in the little gate areas with a full security line experience between you and reentry from any food/bathroom sprint is not pleasant and I never got why Berliners thought it was a worthwhile tradeoff. I was looking forward to making any future visit via BBI (got excited when I saw it pop up on Kayak at the idea that you could book a flight to an airport that wasn't even opened yet...a future airport, if you will).

I think, at least among former West Berliners, maybe nostalgia for the Cold War and not having to share infrastructure with the Ossis must play some role.

And I can actually see them liking the shitty Airberlin terminal because Germans can put up with literally any amount of bullshit (read: spending all day comparison shopping canned food prices at different supermarkets) to get a discount.
 
OMG I know! All the Berliners would rant and rave about how expensive Kaisers was, but the prices were literally AT LEAST HALF of Shaw's and Stop and Shop. The kicker is that Kaisers was around 20-50 Eurocents more than Lidl. ("Angebot" is the magic word in Germany) ;-)

I think the biggest plus for BER (btw, "BBI" was dropped) is that you don't have to get bussed to the damn plane. Those busses from Terminal C were horrible (I only flew AirBerlin when I traveled because it rocks except for Lufthansa home).
 
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Wow!

But at that price I'll have to wait for the Chinese knockoff.
 
Thought you all might like to hear some fun North End goings on. Evidently the guy who runs the Segway tours in the North End is running for neighborhood council. He's guaranteed a seat at the moment because they can't get enough candidates to run. For those not following, the council asked the city to ban Segways from sidewalks and parks, and now there's a pending lawsuit against the city.

There's a fun little flame war going on in the local news site
 
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