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Here I was wondering why everyone was complaining about Vista so much, but it only took two weeks for me to find a serious error. I just bought an Acer 5720Z and somehow over the period of two weeks lost administrator privileges. I had to system restore to two weeks ago just to get them back. I will write in the comments whatever I find did this, but here are two major helpful things you should do on a Vista computer the first day you have it:

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Water, high fructose corn syrup, kiwi juice from concentrate, citric acid, natural mango flavor with other natural flavors, mango puree, vegetable juice and beta carotene. Less than 5% fruit juice.

I guess that’s what Snapple thinks of when they say “Made from the best stuff on Earth.”

Somehow I can think of better things.

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Ah yes, Delta Airlines, they are having difficult times …

High oil prices? Well, let’s not rule out their lousy service driving customers elsewhere! Let’s say I accidently booked a ticket for the wrong day, like 12:40 AM Wednesday morning instead of the Thanksgiving morning, and while booking the shuttle van, discovered the mistake. So I know I screwed up, and know it’s probably the single busiest day of the year for the ticket counter, so I’m exceedingly patient trying to get my tickets changed. I was on the phone for 4+ hours trying to work this out!

They said the flight is completely booked, and spent much of the time trying to find alternatives. Eventually for a $200 fee they could book me for leaving a day later, Friday morning, and said I wouldn’t land in Malaysia until Sunday … well … you see … I’m not the only one who gets confused when getting to the airport the night before taking off and landing 36 hours later after a 16 hour time difference and 20 hour flight … it turns out I would land on Saturday, not Sunday. I asked if I came down there a couple hours before the plane was to take off, could they put me on standby or find me a seat, and it went from “maybe” to “extremely unlikely, don’t bother” (more…)

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Some companies tend to push the limits of their customers’ patience. Real, the guys who make Rhapsody, is a good example. I signed up for their Unlimited service, which still has quite a few limits on it. They claim over a million songs, but I must be pretty versed in music if I can find quite a few they don’t have. On top of that, some songs you still have to pay for (on top of the subscription fee) and none of my three MP3 players are compatible with their DRM so I can’t take my music with me. Well, a lot of those complaints are because of RIAA restrictions, so screw the RIAA, it’s time to cancel. I run through their little maze to find the cancel button, fill out all their questionaire:

Finally I get to the Cancel screen!
Whoops, not so fast buster …. WHAT THE F? Call their service number to cancel? Very nice! Needless to say, I dropped a dozen F-bombs in their suggestion box, presto, I get a nice letter saying I’m cancelled! Welcome to The Internet, bozos!

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Sometimes there’s a song that seems like it would be OK if whoever wrote the lyrics spent more than 5 minutes at it. This one falls under “gangsta rapper tries to be romantic” with Bow Wow (obviously took a full couple milliseconds to come up with that name, and not to be confused with Bow Wow Wow) singing Let Me Hold You:

Cause I believe this was meant to be I just gotta work at it Like a crack addict up in rehab

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