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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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St. Clown said:
Outlook should have a function designed into where if you reply to a giant address list that it comes back with an estimated count, and asking if the user is certain of sending.
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Our version of Outlook does. When you select a distribution list, it pops up a message on top of the email saying how many people are going to get the email.

We also have "Ignore Conversation".
 
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The problem with "Ignore Conversation" is that it doesn't save your email servers from crashing due to excessive load because of everyone hitting that stupid Reply All button in the first place.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Please post instructions on how to use this in Outlook. :)
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It doesn't work that well. If you change anything about the e-mail chain, the feature doesn't work. Subject, some body content, recipient list.

It just dumps everything to Clutter. Which sucks because you still have an asston of crap to sort through in Clutter because it catches things that you might not want in there.
 
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jen said:
Our version of Outlook does. When you select a distribution list, it pops up a message on top of the email saying how many people are going to get the email.
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Oh yeah, it does. It doesn't quite work for all of my lists and it's capped at 1,000. The warning is pretty easy to miss and isn't something like a pop-up that says:
http://rs1182.pbsrc.com/albums/x457/LolPicturesthethird/moron.jpg~c200 (NSFW language on image)

Then ask them to confirm it.
 
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Maybe I should shoot an email to Hillary, cause my family is a walking political ad at the moment.

Officially found out my wife is a high-risk pregnancy due to a prior medical procedure. The medicine she was prescribed isn't covered by insurance because it's an off label use: It's normally prescribed for fertility. So if we were trying to get pregnant, it'd be covered, but since were already expecting, it's not.

A generic was in the works, but the FDA shot it down.

The manufacturer also jacked up the price by over double in the last five years, so instead of being a car payment each month it's the equivalent of a small mortgage payment. But if course it's our kid on the line, so we've got to get it.

So we're going through a Canadian pharmacy, where the cost is about 25% of what they charge here.

Greatest medical system in the world my ***. Thankfully we could afford it in any event, but I can only imagine how someone making the median income would handle it.
 
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Pennsylvania booze laws.... I'm in a downtown hotel and the closest place to buy booze is about hour round trip journey via public transport.... Totally not worth going past the 50+ bars on the way to said liquor store... I guess we're spoiled in the Midwest by being able to get booze at almost and gas station or grocery store....
 
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RaceBoarder said:
Pennsylvania booze laws.... I'm in a downtown hotel and the closest place to buy booze is about hour round trip journey via public transport.... Totally not worth going past the 50+ bars on the way to said liquor store... I guess we're spoiled in the Midwest by being able to get booze at almost and gas station or grocery store....
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Speak for yourself. In MN, you have to go to a liquor store to get anything that's not 3.2% or lower.
 
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St. Clown said:
Speak for yourself. In MN, you have to go to a liquor store to get anything that's not 3.2% or lower.
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Colorado is weird about that. Supermarket chains are allowed one store for the entire state that can carry liquor and full strength beer. All their other stores in the state can only carry 3.2. Independently run liquor stores are A-OK though. The line is that they're protecting the small craft brewers that would otherwise lose out on shelf space to Anheuser-Busch-Miller-Coors-whoever.

And the King Soopers (Kroger) that is the chosen one happens to be two miles from my house.

ETA: And as soon as I say that, literally minutes ago Hickenlooper signed this.

http://www.9news.com/news/local/governor-signs-bill-allowing-full-strength-beer-phase-in/239032389
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Colorado is weird about that. Supermarket chains are allowed one store for the entire state that can carry liquor and full strength beer. All their other stores in the state can only carry 3.2. Independently run liquor stores are A-OK though. The line is that they're protecting the small craft brewers that would otherwise lose out on shelf space to Anheuser-Busch-Miller-Coors-whoever.

And the King Soopers (Kroger) that is the chosen one happens to be two miles from my house.

ETA: And as soon as I say that, literally minutes ago Hickenlooper signed this.

http://www.9news.com/news/local/governor-signs-bill-allowing-full-strength-beer-phase-in/239032389
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Anything to protect small brewers from Inbev is a good thing.
 
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Alaska you have to go to a liquor store for anything including beer.
 
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St. Clown said:
Speak for yourself. In MN, you have to go to a liquor store to get anything that's not 3.2% or lower.
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I talked to a distributor about that once and they hinted (in a not so subtle way) that the stuff marked 3.2 is not actually 3.2 but is closer to full. Many beer companies (I guess) realized that the fine for "incorrect labeling" the beer was worth the sales they get. They also "hinted" that there is actually no 3.2 beer in MN at all.

Now, I never verified any of this because I dont drink beer but I have had others say similar stuff. Probably just an urban myth though.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Alaska you have to go to a liquor store for anything including beer.
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In Montgomery County, MD the liquor stores have to buy ALL their stuff from the County. The county decides on what to stock in the warehouse and if you clients want PBR and PBR is not in the warehouse, no PBR for them. The customers go over the county (or state) line and then buy PBR. Your store is out of the sale, depriving you of earnings and the county is out of it's share of the booze tax.

Here's a recent article
 
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I wish we would blow up all alcohol laws in this country and start over.
 
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Handyman said:
I talked to a distributor about that once and they hinted (in a not so subtle way) that the stuff marked 3.2 is not actually 3.2 but is closer to full. Many beer companies (I guess) realized that the fine for "incorrect labeling" the beer was worth the sales they get. They also "hinted" that there is actually no 3.2 beer in MN at all.

Now, I never verified any of this because I dont drink beer but I have had others say similar stuff. Probably just an urban myth though.
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I was friends with a guy who owned a pub that could only sell 3.2, and he said the same thing. The caveat is that most beers that are made in a 3.2 variety aren't really that much higher in their normal variety. The Mich lights, Bud lights, Miller lights etc. are all around 3.6, and the MGDs, Buds, etc are usually in the high 3's-low 4's.

He also said Guinness wouldn't distribute to him, because they didn't want it made so apparent to the public that their beer is only 3.2% alcohol.
 
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Handyman said:
I talked to a distributor about that once and they hinted (in a not so subtle way) that the stuff marked 3.2 is not actually 3.2 but is closer to full. Many beer companies (I guess) realized that the fine for "incorrect labeling" the beer was worth the sales they get. They also "hinted" that there is actually no 3.2 beer in MN at all.

Now, I never verified any of this because I dont drink beer but I have had others say similar stuff. Probably just an urban myth though.
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I think he's full of it. All one need to is try beer bought in a grocery store vs. a liquor store and the difference is immense and immediately noticeable.
 
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