Gun Counter ignorance is not just in the gun store. Name some other examples.

[Ronin13]

"Hi, could you tell me how much to change the brakes on my car?"
"Sure, what type of vehicle is it?"
"Um... it's blue..."

That's not plain old ignorance, that's just flat out retarded.

[Dingo]

I run into ignorance quite a bit in the medical field. Not as often as some of the industries mentioned here (thank God), but enough to be irritating. My personal favorite are the 50 year old diabetics who are coming in for a second amputation, have their family sneak in KFC nightly, and blame us for jacking up their insulin requirements. They'd literally prefer to have pieces of their body carved off each year, than to amend their lifestyle. Oh yeah, and they're all Medicaid too, so you and I are paying for it.

[HoneyBadger]

I run into ignorance quite a bit in the medical field. Not as often as some of the industries mentioned here (thank God), but enough to be irritating. My personal favorite are the 50 year old diabetics who are coming in for a second amputation, have their family sneak in KFC nightly, and blame us for jacking up their insulin requirements. They'd literally prefer to have pieces of their body carved off each year, than to amend their lifestyle. Oh yeah, and they're all Medicaid too, so you and I are paying for it.

[Rucker61]

Ever try to buy a snowboard from a shop???


HDMI cables are "digital". Traffic is protocol driven and there would not be shit for difference in either other than materials and quality control.

Speaker cable on the other hand in a big F'n difference. There is a reason some speaker wires cost $100 per foot. You can hear the difference if you are an audiophile and have the gear...

Which is why studios use Mogami and Canare at much less than $100 a foot.

[brutal]

This is why I buy all my digital cables from monoprice.com With a digital signal it is all 1s and 0s. There is no quality gradient here... Like you said: it either works or it doesn't. Bonus: Since you can buy a 12ft HDMI cable from monoprice for $3 plus about $3 shipping, you might as well buy 2 "just in case". That being said, I've ordered hundreds of dollars of cables, parts, speakers, etc from them and I've never received anything from them that didn't work as expected right out of the box.

Much like concealed=concealed, digital=digital. Build quality=durability does have some merit.

Granted there is a difference between a higher end HDMI cable and the basic Wal-mart brand, but it's really not huge at all... It's not like the difference between a $200 1911 and a Nighthawk Custom.

^^ see above. ^^ Costco cables are built by Audioquest. Definite hit.

Please explain the difference. Only conceivable difference I can think of is EM shielding between the strands, but everybody does that nowadays... even the $3 cable from monoprice.

Again, my response agrees.

F' the monster cable snobs!

Monster cable is a despicable company. Want a good read? Check out the Blue Jeans cable response to their lawsuit. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/

But the Monster cable is so pretty, and you're going to need that durability when you bug out with the Xbox!

I actually read a reputable study once where Monster speaker wire was compared with electrical wire (think wiring a table lamp) and the electrical wire came out on top in all categories.

Ever try to buy a snowboard from a shop???


HDMI cables are "digital". Traffic is protocol driven and there would not be shit for difference in either other than materials and quality control.

Speaker cable on the other hand in a big F'n difference. There is a reason some speaker wires cost $100 per foot. You can hear the difference if you are an audiophile and have the gear...

Which is why studios use Mogami and Canare at much less than $100 a foot.

For speaker wire, a coat hanger will beat just about anything at the same length. Zip cord > Monster. Check out DIY White Lightning Moonshine. That's my speaker cable of choice. I'd challenge anyone to tell the difference, double blind test, between one I built for $20 vs. any esoteric bullshit. I build my own interconnects using Canare cable.

My biggest gripe is listening to hound!!! blahahahahahaha macs suck!

SATA 10k rpm drives vs SSD.
IBM vs SUN
HP vs Dell
Ford vs chevy
Dodge vs everything else (for a farm truck)

And the worst one i've ever had to witness was International vs Case vs John Deere when all 3 reps where at my uncles farm right before harvest.

Whatever tool works best for the job at hand.

SSD > SAS>FC>SCSI>SATA for batch and OLTP workloads (enterprise) it's the algorithm that places hot data that matters.
IBM Power is > Sun
HP vs Dell - don't care, X/AMD is not a real processor ;-)
Dodge uber alles

Juan's Deer (Burro) trumps all.

[Rabid]

How about the media? That has to be the worst ignorance we see daily, however my ears perked up today when an MSNBC libtard ripped into Obama. I guess all it took was his 1st amendment rights to get trampled....

[ZERO THEORY]

I routinely have to link people to info on calculation macronutrient needs, utilizing compound exercises, and why taking a pre-workout, post-workout, boosters, and two different kinds of protein is pointless.

Me: "You can't even squat your own bodyweight. How exactly do you plan on having the strength to move sufficient weight to build yourself properly?"
Idiot: "Well, Joe told me I should be doing 3 sets of 12 to failure. I've been doing lots of leg press."
*Blood pressure rises*
Me: "You're wasting your time doing isolation exercises. I can personally guarantee you're going to plateau immediately, get frustrated, then give up. You need to build a strength base; you're putting the cart before the horse."
Idiot: "Yeah, but I read in Arnold Schwarzenegger's book that he used to do the same routine I'm doing. He said it's what got him so big."
Me: "Yes, and this was after Arnold had competed in powerlifting and Olympic-style weightlifting. He was squatting well over 600 pounds and deadlifted 800+. He had already built himself properly long before he was a bodybuilder. Furthermore, that routine and style of training was contingent on him running cycles year-round."
Idiot: "Well, I just wanna get jacked for summer."
Me: "You should understand that you'll be lucky to gain 10 pounds of LBM this year, assuming you stay consistent."
Idiot: "But Joe gained 30 pounds of PURE MUSCLE since January."
Me: "He may have gained 30 pounds, but it was not all lean mass, I assure you. It is physiologically impossible, even if he was juiced to the gills."
Idiot: "Well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to eat every hour."
Me: "Ummmm...don't?"
Idiot: "But Joe told me I have to eat every hour to get JACKED FIBRAZ."
Me: "Right. Listen, I'm going to give you some links that you should check out. Gotta go."

If I want a good laugh I ether stump the apple geeks or go into best guy's computer section and wait for the bs to start flying.

This.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I have a jeep Cherokee. eVERY time it's " is that a grand Cherokee?".

If it were a grand, I'd have said grand Cherokee.

I swapped In a ford explorer rear axle.

What year? Doesn't matter, pick one. What year is the vehicle it's going on? Doesn't matter, it's not a stock part, like I said. well lets just try.

When I had an XJ I had this happen all the time. Curiously, when I had a ZJ, I had the opposite happen. "So it is a Cherokee?"
I'm assuming you have an explorer 8.8 (or even cooler than I was and have a 9!), and that on my YJ caused similar problems. Drive to the parts shop in a jeep and ask for a ford part and they're staring through the window at the jeep.
I'd just lie and say I had an explorer at home.

I run into ignorance quite a bit in the medical field. Not as often as some of the industries mentioned here (thank God), but enough to be irritating. My personal favorite are the 50 year old diabetics who are coming in for a second amputation, have their family sneak in KFC nightly, and blame us for jacking up their insulin requirements. They'd literally prefer to have pieces of their body carved off each year, than to amend their lifestyle. Oh yeah, and they're all Medicaid too, so you and I are paying for it.

Obviously not legs, but the vascular surg department at Medical University of South Carolina just lets their diabetics autoamputate the toes, at least. First time I heard that I was -but after a while I really liked it. Look, this is what is going to happen? Don't believe me? Fine....

[Skully]

I just about pulled a guy at the local parts store across the counter and beat him one day. I didn't ask for your lame ass diagnosis of my vehicle. You're barely qualified to tie your own shows and struggle to look up the correct parts for my vehicle in the computer.

So violent Ray, got some stress you need to unload?

I have been there, I know my Jeep like the back of my hand and get guys telling me what is wrong or why it is not working.

[Byte Stryke]

I just about pulled a guy at the local parts store across the counter and beat him one day. I didn't ask for your lame ass diagnosis of my vehicle. You're barely qualified to tie your own shows and struggle to look up the correct parts for my vehicle in the computer.

how do you tie shows?


Ray... don't type angry.