gehringer_2

wonderful. Let' get the whole staff on the DL, they can throw themselves a Tupperware party.

2 hours ago, Hongbit said:

As is BP. They are always the most expensive.  

In a lot of places BP runs a loyalty program and discounts their list price to the same as the competition for card holders. I guess the theory is that non-regular customers are willing to pay more because maybe they are refueling at need? But that seems dumb when there is a station across the street at a dime less, which is the situation for at least a couple of the A^2 BPs. The corporate programming must tell them it works overall, but seems like a tough deal for those stations where that competitor is right across the street.

37 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

My Pet Peeve right now is Microsoft - who have included in their most recent FORCED update something they call Efficiency Mode.   It's designed to help save battery life in your laptop.   I'm not on a ****ing laptop.  I am on a PC and I don't need it and even if I WAS on a laptop, I wouldn't want this nonsense.   It's a total resource hog and it slows Google Chrome to a crawl.   You can only seem to disable it - one instance at a time, which is a total pain in the ass.  NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS !   GIVE US AN OPTION TO KILL IT !     If I go through battery life on my laptop it's because I did not plan ahead.  

try setting you default power mode to high performance. Of course that might keep your fans running. If you're brave you can go into 'Group Policy' or the registry for a fix but it not clear those work either, and have a good back-up first.

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Group Policy (Pro/Enterprise):

Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Power Throttling Settings.

Set Turn off Power Throttling to Enabled.

Registry Edit (GPO Preference):

Create a DWORD (32-bit) value named PowerThrottlingOff set to 1 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerThrottling. 

what adds to the confusion is that some reports are that after you do this, task manager still reports efficiency mode is applied even if it isn't.

I've been using a Mac more and more recently and the intel boxes run Linux for everything except Solidworks. I'd really like to be completely done with MS but I can't get off that and couple other critical equipment control application that are only available in Windows.

The stupid irony is that I'm only in Windows maybe 5% of the time I'm on a computer, but still spend at least 50% of my total system maintenance time  keeping up those windows shells I hardly use.

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

prep on the pool image too much to believe Trump did it himself, which means it's even weirder that he has some aide working late with him just to create troll fodder.

If you are Gage Workman this move should concentrate your mind on life after baseball.

Maddux would be the guy I probably must have seen but have no real recollection of as a player because I just never cared about the Braves other than to pay attention to Aaron.

Just now, monkeytargets39 said:

“Shoulder tightness”

Zimmermann V2.0

What are they doing to with Flaherty? I can see one more start, but if it goes like this again....

1 minute ago, Crazy Cat Gentleman said:

nice of WXYT to suddenly go to commercial in the middle of an inning.

Yeah, that was kinda cute. Tigers didn't do anything though.

The BP has given up one run in 6 IP. If they don't walk this off the BP is going to get the loss but it's not really theirs. 

3 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

We all know by now that Hinch is really stubborn. Use the back end of the bullpen? Why?

Vest apparently not available tonight.

he's faced three batters, you can go get him any time.

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

Burch Smith?

Needs to keep Texas barking up the wrong tree.

Not off to a great start

Burch Smith?

Needs to keep Texas barking up the wrong tree.

Lee picks 107mph.

With the game now close I wish someone else were pitching

Bah - was hoping for a tougher AB from Gleyber there.

1 minute ago, Motor City Sonics said:

What the hell happened to Flaherty?      Is he tipping his pitches?  

Dirks and Dickerson talking a lot about his mindset. I think it may be simpler, the FB is down enough ticks that he rightfully has no confidence in it.

1st of May and 2/5 of the opening day rotation is a loss. Who'd have thunk in Feb that the season would pivot on whether Melton can get back and be a top half rotation starter.

Tork failed to barrel up a middle middle FB but salvaged a walk.

2nd was a better inning from Jack but his FB velo sucks.

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

We briefly looked at a plug-in hybrid the last go round. The combination of difference in price plus the cost to set up our garage to accommodate the electric side. Also the battery size took a significant bite out of the storage area of the SUV (Tuscon).

That said, we're happy with getting about 45-50 mpg... 

I'm finding the EV is close to perfect as an around the town vehicle, but when we replace the other car it will likely be with a hybrid SUV that gives me a 48" wide floor that can carry larger cargo

17 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I’m a woke ****lib who drives an EV so have fun with your gas prices. 

definitely a good time the have an EV. I just hope Tesla sales aren't recovering as a result...

2 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I saw a AAA price map of Wisconsin yesterday, it was amusing how you could see the dividing line in terms of which counties get their gas from Chicagoland and which ones get their gas from Pine Bend (outside of St. Paul)

I've been inside the Pine Bend refinery. Marathon also has a refinery north and across the river from Pine bend but it's maybe 1/2 the size or less.

15 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I’m a woke ****lib who drives an EV so have fun with your gas prices. 

actually Whiting is also apparently in the middle of union lock-out. Management is trying to keep the plant running and that's usually a disaster waiting to happen. 

The bad part is that at this point this is hitting mostly areas that are mostly already trending blue. Some Whiting supply must also go to Ohio but I have no idea how much.