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Despite strong criticism from the opposition the Uruguayan government said it is prepared to receive Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on an official visit, and there is a 99% chance that this could occur next Thursday, said foreign minister Luis Almagro.
US Vice-president Biden expected to address Venezuelan situation while in Chile
US Vice President Joe Biden will hold talks with Latin American leaders about protest-hit Venezuela during his trip to Chile from Sunday for the inauguration of President Michelle Bachelet scheduled for Tuesday and which is expected to convene regional leaders.
Unasur meets to address the Venezuelan situation next Tuesday in Chile
Latin American foreign ministers and most probably presidents, will meet next week to discuss the unrest in Venezuela that has left at least 21 dead and hundreds injured and arrested following weeks of protests and clashes, according to the Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa.
OAS agrees on declaration calling for peace and an end to violence in Venezuela
The Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council approved late Friday night after a whole day of discussions and by an ample majority, a statement in support of peace and an end to violence in Venezuela, where street protests and clashes have left at least 22 dead and hundreds injured and arrested.
With an eye on Argentina and Venezuela, Brazil private sector wants Mercosur trade in local currencies
Brazil's private sector concerned with harsh times ahead, particularly with exports to Argentina and Venezuela are proposing that Mercosur trade should be done with local currencies leaving aside the US dollar. The initiative was launched by the president of the Brazil-Argentina Commerce Chamber.
Two more dead in Venezuelan streets as protests continue
A Venezuelan soldier and a motor cyclist were killed in a standoff with opposition demonstrators who had set up a barricade along an avenue of Caracas, the vice president of the ruling Socialist Party said on Thursday.
UN human rights experts ask to visit Venezuela to check in situ allegations of abuses
A group of UN-appointed human rights experts has asked Venezuela for prompt clarification of allegations of abuse against anti-government protesters. The six independent experts said that they were deeply disturbed by allegations of cases of arbitrary detention of protesters.
Thousands of followers of the late Chavez flooded the streets of Venezuela
Followers of Venezuela's late populist leader Hugo Chavez flooded the streets on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of his death, a sad but welcome distraction for his successor who has faced a month of violent protests.
Boudou and Timerman represent Argentina at Chavez anniversary
Vice president Amado Boudou and Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman represented Argentina at Wednesday's ceremonies in honor of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on his death first anniversary, which was followed by huge crowds in Caracas.
Maduro cuts diplomatic relations with Panama for sponsoring an OAS meeting on Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday his government was breaking diplomatic relations with Panama after the country called a special meeting of the Organization of American States, OAS, to address the current state of protests in Caracas.


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Post subject: Receiving magazines I never asked for and worried.
Without explanation I have been receiving a sports magazine and some sort of a business advice magazine since about early september. I have bad no idea why. I mean, I haven't been subscribed to any magazines since Anime Insider and Otaku USA. I don't understand why I am receiving magazines about topics I am clearly not interested in and have not made any payments for.
Last night I received a call from the "credit" department of a so-called "Magazine Inc." He asked me if I was a minor. The guy told me that I am behind on payments and that he wanted to negotiate a payment schedule "with lower payments" for these two magazines. I told him I never ordered these magazines, and he replied "Yes, you did!" I kept insisting and asked where he had gotten his information from and he said "my computer screen!" I asked him if I could speak to his supervisor, he gave me a phone number to call. Upon calling I was prompted to give a code and upon dialing the code in, I was told the "PIN" was invalid.
I had another incident about 2-3 years ago with another magazine company where I got sweet-talked into providing my debit card number to the folks on the other end, and when I realized the mistake, I told the guy I was not interested and he told me, I couldn't pull out. I told him I revoked my payment, and he replied telling me if I persisted, he was going to charge any amout to my debit card. I had to go to the bank and ask if any money was being withdrawn from my account by this company and to stop the withdrawals by this company. When I received a bill in the mail from this company, I found that they had contracted me for a couple of years and that I had a balance of 1,060.00. The company called and I told them I was not interested and wanted to withdraw from the contract, and they said "Sorry, no deal." In desparation, I handed the phone to my dad and he said, "I'm his guardian and he is disabled, and if you persist, I will call the Better Business Bureau and law enforcement on your asses." Apparently, that resolved the issue, and I never heard anything from them since. I just hope it is not them again, I never gave them anything to indicate where I lived.
Now, this comes up, and I am worried that they are going to try and ruin my credit score, and I wont be able to get any kind of loans from anybody (especially important to me to be able to have credit since I am wanting to go to graduate school eventually and Vocational Rehab. doesn't help with anything past a bachelor's degree. Also, I would like to get some money to pay for finding an apartment). My dad suggested I write "Refused. Not Ordered" on the mailing labels, and send them back to the publishers. However, the issues with this company are still hanging over my head. How do I handle it with them if they call again.
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Be careful what you click on.
I see sucker bait ads for things like that from time to time on certain websites - I've especially noticed them on FaceBook, in connection with so-called 'polls' and various quizzes. Some of them will try to trick you into okaying permission for them to switch your cell phone carrier, which gives them access to all sorts of other personal info.
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I think it sounds like a scam to get you to give your credit card number to the scammers. The good news is, they don't have your credit card number. Don't ever give it to them. Your credit rating can't be ruined because you haven't actually bought anything using your credit card.
Ignore the "credit department" of "Magazine, Inc.". It sounds like a bunch of phishers hoping you would give them your credit card number over the phone. If you had actually ordered anything using your card, it would have been automatically charged to your card. I doubt these people have anything except your telephone number and address, information they probably were able to get online. They
don't have any actual evidence of you ordering anything.
Sometimes legitimate magazine companies will send free issues of magazines to people they hope will become subscribers. I have gotten several of these. They obviously have bought subscription lists from other companies and are attempting to get new customers. But when a legitimate company does this, they include a form with the magazine (or a few days later) saying they hope you enjoyed it and if you want to subscribe, just fill out the form and send a check or give them your credit card number. They
attempt to charge you for the un-asked-for magazines because that is illegal. Nobody may be charged for unsolicited merchandise. They may only give you unsolicited merchandise for free and hope that entices you into becoming a customer.
But this doesn't sound like that. This just sounds like a scam. I'm glad you didn't give them your credit card number.
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I've been there before... my own fault for filling out surveys I guess.
A few years ago, I got a call from something called Delta International, apparently a stock broker firm... As I was sitting with my computer at the time, I just kept the salesman occupied while searching the company on google. Turned out a lot of scammer warnings had been given out about them and that they also were denied from doing business in many countries, including Denmark. I told them so and that the line was being traced.... they never called me back
The Refused, not ordered tactic is the best I can think of. Eventually they probably will stop sending you mail. Also, check out the company on google to see if there are other tactics to outscam the scammers. As a rule, never give out your credit card info on the phone or in chats and e-mails. Legit companies will not ask for credit card numbers in this manner, but will give you a form by mail or on a secure webpage.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- The Green Bay Packers will be out to prove Sunday that their 2-0 start is the real deal - while the San Diego Chargers want to show their 1-1 uninspiring start isn't.
The Chargers were a fashionable Super Bowl pick heading into the season, but have stumbled out of the gate under new coach Norv Turner.
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If you have clicked on all the other previous exhibits and resources in the building, you have visited almost all the places in the Mesa Lab that our visitors on foot can see. As these visitors purchase a memento of their visit here at our new Science Store before they leave, they often like to toss a coin into the Gravity Well near the front door. We use their contributions to help us purchase more exhibits; we also like to think of the gravity well as the coin-toss for good luck that will bring them back to visit us again.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Police say a University of New Mexico football player's saggy pants led to his arrest at San Francisco International Airport.
Sgt. Michael Rodriguez says 20-year-old Deshon Marman was boarding a flight Wednesday to Albuquerque, N.M., when a U.S. Airways employee noticed his pants were "below his buttocks, but above the knees, and his boxer shorts were showing."
Rodriguez tells the San Francisco Chronicle that the employee asked Marman to pull up his pants, but he refused. She then asked him to leave the plane.
The officer says that after 15 minutes, Marman got off the plane and was cited for trespassing.
Marman's mother, Donna Doyle, tells the paper that her son had attended a friend's funeral and he was still in an emotionally raw state.
US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder says the airline's dress code forbids "indecent exposure or inappropriate" attire.
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I fully support their decision. Pull your friggin pants up!
Apparently an airplane is the last venue on earth where a reasonable standard of do-what-you're-told decency applies. I applaud this, along with the situation where the so-called children's author said the F word loudly several times and was escorted from the plane. Flight stewards should not have to be distracted, nor should the publlic who are flying have to put up with this inappropriate behavior in both cases. (Note that one is probably white, one black; one young, one old, It makes no difference, IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE!) Now if we could extend this sovereignty of decorum to public school classrooms,
I noticed Justin Bieber on the country music awards was sporting the same look. At least his drawers were a dark color. It looked like he was trying to pull his shirt down around his butt to cover it. I wonder if his promoters have him dress that way. Stupid.
Now when those cute little vixens trying to give us old farts a heart attack sporting those halter tops, daisy dukes and short SHORT tight skirts are arrested I might agree with y'all.
The story of someone using a cinder block to crush his newborn baby to death gets no comments, but the story of someone arrested for sporting saggy pants at an airport and the comment nazis zoom in like flies on rotten meat. Americans and their sense of priorities and values never cease to amaze the rest of the world.
I agree with brokentoe. It is a tragedy as to what happened to that baby and I hope that those parents pay for what they did because they could have place that baby up for adoption and a loving family would have a child. But, I also want to applaud the dress code. I do not want to to see either the saggy pants and the female dressing trashy.
"DALLAS — Southwest Airlines says it is apologizing to a young California woman who was told her outfit was too skimpy to fly, and it's using the brouhaha as a marketing ploy — announcing a "miniskirt fare sale.""
55620, how many women boarding airlines have gotten arrested for dressing "trashy?" The only one which comes even remotely close was the female with a short skirt who asked to leave the flight after boarding a Southwest Airline. Southwest later apologized to the woman after the issue caught national and international headlines. Simply amazing, but not surprising, human reaction tends to be based on who's who rather than what's considered right verses wrong, appropiate verses inappropiate.
I think the clothing style of young men wearing their pants below their butts is abominable, but who is it really hurting, and how is it indecent? When I was growing up in the 80s the big issue was long hair and earrings on men. Now the guys wear low, baggy pants. He wasn't showing his butt, just his underwear. We all have things we don't like but still put up with. That is the result of living in a free society. And with the pitiful customer service skills of most airlines (US Air included), I don't think any of them should be dictating dress codes.
Sorry, indian. I have to agree with Legend. The saggy pants style I find disgusting, but when American citizens start to get arrested for something as asinine as saggy pants, then I find even more deplorable, disgusting and disturbing. What next?
So it's OK for a woman to board a plane wearing a skirt so short that her crotch is showing and a top so skimpy that her boobs are spilling over, but a man showing is boxer shorts warrants a charge of trespassing, leading to an arrest and an 11,000.00 bond? But of course, the chick showing her crotch and spilling boobs was white and cute as her belly button.
Hopefully, this will be challenge. Lest we FREE Americans lose even more of our freedoms than we already have.


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Needless to say, I'm not having a I love New York moment AT ALL. This apartment hunt has taken over my life. Until I find something, I will be taking a break from the blog (unfortunately). I am really trying to tie something down by this weekend, so if you happen to think about it - please send some good thoughts up to the apartment gods - I really need every bit of help I can get. Bah-humbug!


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Greenland ice SIMPLY WOULD NOT MELT in baking +8°C era 120k years ago
Re: Odd, I'm beginning to think Lewis has an agenda...
'The point of trying to do something about it is because the fallout will cost more money than we have.'
'Remember there is enough food to feed everyone on the planet but people starve because they can't afford it.'
As Mervyn King and Ben Bernanke have proven, there is no limit to the amount of money available (it is a bit like there being no limit to the amount of runs a cricketer can make in a test innings)
The reason some people starve despite a surplus is because some other people would rather artificially restrict the supply in order to make a personal profit.
If there is enough food to feed everyone then its value is negligible (like air) and everyone gets to eat. (effectively free)
You demonstrate you have absolutely no idea how basic economics works, I may not be alone in doubting you have any idea how climate works.
Re: "so the models are evidently wrong"
'(but by what mechanism?) '
Funnily enough (A)GCC will be the least of our problems, the thing that made the humans so successful (the selfish gene) will be our downfall.
Human population will breach 9bn but will struggle to reach 10, lowered child mortality (the 3 D's) means population ageing followed by drawn out crash.
You, as an average parent will always be better off personally and can give a better start to your progeny if
a) you know they will outlive you
b) you restrict yourself to 2 or less
There is nothing anybody can do about this (we were only following our genes sir)
The tipping point in the west is when they can no longer attract fecund immigrants.
(hint: this will happen on our watch)
Forget 3D: 13,000 UK homes still watch TV in black and white
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As you could probably tell from the John Cooper Clarke references, I haven't been to Manchester since the early 80's. Have they got it in colour now ?
500 Shades of Grey
B&W TV is reality TV in Manchester, grey council blocks shrouded in grey drizzle for months on end whilst the grey people shuffle to and from their grey jobs eking out a miserable existence in a dreary grey environment.*
Colour TV is just taunting them.
(*I went there once)
This is Manchester (NSFW)
Pint icon, hmm Boddingtons (the only thing worth getting out of bed for in Manchester)
Tablets to out-sell notebooks this year, reckons tech prophet
7 inch tablet is the PC of the future
the 7 inch tablet is the perfect form factor for most common usage of a desktop/laptop/notebook/netbook PC.
I have a big TV and keyboard/mouse in my living room, a little keyboard/mouse in the case when I'm out on business and touchscreen when I'm gaming/surfing/navigating/phoning.
The Nexus 7 moves seamlessly between all these environments and never leaves my side.
Ever had to register to buy online - and been PELTED with SPAM?
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The Bankers and Pension Fund managers in effect holding up signs saying "I'm a criminal and I will rob you." Doesn't it seem bizarre that their business models are still working so well? Not when you consider they have the balls of the Government in their hands. TFIFY.
Spammed from a 'reputable' company, forward it with covering complaint to the CEO (Google is your friend).
Make a note of CEO's name.
If the problem is fixed then all is hunky dory
Never buy any product from any business that employs that person (LinkedIn is your friend) and if asked, say why.
Re: couldn't care less, you bought from them so might do again...
was that 'Hoseasons' by any chance. The worst thing is they censor comments on their website so no bad reviews of the accommodation (I have the photos) appear, and they still have the cheek to send both soft and hard copy spam.
Ubuntu for smartphones aims to replace today's mobes, laptops
Re: Anything but Unity
I appreciate the article is about Ubuntu (with Unity) on Android phones, my use of Android has been with tablets (2 x Nexus 7's running JellyBean and a cheap clone running ICS for the kids), the missus has an S2 which she uses for FB. My phone is a pink Sony W200I :)
I want a tablet to act as a handheld computer when I'm out and about but when I'm at home I want it to be either my desktop (ie TV as monitor and proper keyboard/mouse) or as a wireless games controller (again using the TV as display, you could overlay all the controls you have for a PC game onto the tablet, much better than the limited PS3 type controller)
The 7inch form factor is brilliant for a PC
(a phone is just an app that runs on my mobile PC, Skype started on the desktop)
Anything but Unity
I've been thinking of this for a while, I've got a Nexus 7 that works fine with an ancient full sized Trust wireless keyboard and mouse, I've got a nice piece of marble that would make a great docking station, all I'm waiting for is a cheap Push2TV clone so I can plug it into the 40 inch tv in the living room. When I come in I could drop the Nexus into the dock and use the keyboard/mouse on the coffee table, when I go I just pick up the Nexus and it's a charged up standalone tablet again.
I won't be using Unity though (it's awful), I'm in the process of moving the family computers away from Ubuntu, I haven't yet decided on Mint or Bodhi (Bodhi is looking good cuz it still fits on a CD)
Little spider makes big-spider-puppet CLONE of itself out of dirt
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explanation here
There is a link to Spiders on Acid
The early days of PCs as seen through DEAD TREES
.EXE magazine
I used to have a subscription to .EXE mag which featured the (now) infamous Robert Schifreen and the Reg's very own Verity Stob. It was a proper mag for programmers with hardly any ads.
Asus: we ship a million Google's Nexus 7s monthly
Re: I've got two 7's and no fruit
When No.1 took his nexus to school on the first day back, one of the kids said 'is it an apple ?', just as he was about to reply, one of the older (and much cooler) kids said 'no. it's a Nexus 7, it's newer and better, can I have a go ?'.
No.1 was well chuffed that his old man reads The Reg. and picked up on the gadget of the year. The iPad mini is for seriously uncool late comers (sorry)
Eircom to block Pirate Bay
Stop buying products from these companies
So they think that we are all pirates and can censor my internet. I don't actually use torrent sites , download movies or any of that stuff but I don't see why large corporates think they can dictate to me so I will not be buying any products from any of these companies or any of their parents/subsiduaries. EMI, Sony-BMG, Universal and Warner. I won't be buying a stereo, PS3, movies on dvd, watching movies at the cinema, cds from these companies. The only freedom that I as a consumer have is the withdrawal of my business (see how that fits into their business model)
Jacqui Smith cracks down on gangs via computers, closets
Nothing to do with 'Gangs'
'More bizarrely, perhaps, injunctions could be used to prevent individuals using the internet to encourage or facilitate violence. Lastly, courts would be able to prevent individuals wearing "particular items of clothing such as gang colours or balaclavas which prevent identification".'
This has nothing to do with 'gangs' but has everything to do with freedom of association of ordinary people.
Supposing you didn't agree with the employment policy of a company who was employing foreign contractors
Supposing you set up a website to publicise said companies actions.
Supposing you set up a blog on the site to encourage fair and open debate.
Supposing someone posts 'why don't we go down there and show them the strength of our feelings'
When are you people going to get off your hairy a#### and do something about the drip drip of freedoms being taken away from you.
Tuh, tecchy's, what are they good for.
PS. when this becomes law, allowing this post will get El Reg shutdown, you have been warned
Amazon expands as etail shrinks
Amazon - worse than Nike
Just discovered something called Amazon Turks, jeez this is something like out of one of those sci-fi dystopian futures. All those descriptions of nice shiny things in the internet shopping mall were created by an army of slave wage labour toiling away for a real pittance in the virtual world, feeding the monster that has become online trading.
The current banking crisis was caused by global bankers having no responsibilities and no accountabilities.
This is worse, a huge number of isolated workers with no representation and no rights have been enslaved by the machine.
This is an outrageous use of what is supposed to be an enabling technology, it seems to me to only be enabling the superrich corporations to make even more obscene profits for their fat cat directors and shareholders.
If I need a book I'll go to my library (where they pay at least minimum wage)
Judges grant McKinnon extradition review
So you walk into a carpark, next to your car there is another car with its door wide open, on the seat is a wallet with a load of cash and a switched on laptop.
Do you
a. ignore it, it's not my problem or
b. have a shufty to see if you can identify the owner and inform him of his potential loss
As a normal person you might think risking 5 years hard in a foreign jail is not worth the hassle, let someone else do it but if you have aspergers the only thought is b. not for one moment do you think that some deviant t**t will call the cops on you for doing what is the the right thing.
He could very well have been trying to be helpful. When you or I try to be helpful, we do it for the selfish inner glow we get, basking in the thanks we get, if we get no thanks we just shrug it off with a 'miserable...'.
Aspergers people try to be helpful because they have been conditioned to believe that that is what others want, when their help is rebuffed they take it heart and believe that they have done something wrong (which is why he admitted it)
You and me can suss out when someone is trying to pull the wool over our eyes, people with this condition have no concept that anybody would even try.
Just take his computer off him and give him something useful to do with his time.
hacking...walked in through the open door more like
McKinnon admitted (allegedly) to breaking into US Mil and Nasa sites by going in through an open door, rooted around looking for ufo stuff and apparently did loads of damage (like telling them that their security was shite) and brought down 300 computers.
I think that since there is now a new guy in charge at the top who believes in openness for the good of the people and not to cover the hairy arses of some incompetant sysadmins, and publicity seeking DA's.
McKinnons lawyers should be asking for the whole truth as to how he managed this feat.
If McKinnon has got aspergers then he will be eaten alive by the american judicial system.
they are the archtypal weird kid, there is just something about them read this guys first comment http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/darrenforster99/comments
he most certainly has it.
If Barack allows this to go ahead the all that talk of inclusivaty, non-discrimination etc. will be shown up as just another load of tosh by some party politician.
In my misspent youth we were into loads of systems, mainly to see if it could be done (it could) we never caused any damage (covered by criminal damage laws) and never stole any propriety information (covered by other existing legislation).
Emma Nicholson (anybody remember her...no I thought not) brought in some hysterical ott anti-hacking laws (my god she has been reincarnated as waki jaki) and put an end to our exploits. But there again I don't have aspergers and could read between the lines.
Google AdWords: 11 herbs and spices revealed
A Better Way ?
Ok so google is only in it for the money, is there a better search engine that serves up comparable links ?
Canada's biggest stock exchange back after day-long shutdown
Completely nothing to do with this story whatever it is
Hi Reg and Reggers
Experian/Equifax and other credit reference agencies.
My credit history is mine and mine alone, I mean I'm the one creating it (mostly a sad list of increasing debts interspersed with the occasional payment to keep the wolves and bailiffs from the door:) so I must have some kind of IP or copyright over it, now I don't mind other people having access to it and using for commercial gain as long as the respective licenses have been agreed and paid for
Can your armchair lawyers shed light on this (these companies make loads of cash and I would like some of the action:)
Back to the story..
France liberates Jesus Phone from Orange
French phones unlocked
As far as I was aware, all phones in france are unlocked, the apple thingy is a phone so it has to be unlocked. simple oui.
ArseASA rules 'Feck' non-offensive
what is or isn't a swear word ?
I always thought that words that were part of normal average persons speech pattern were not swear words. In the UK, b####r, b######s, f##k etc were considered swear words as they weren't part of normal evryday speech.
I've been to Eire, sitting in the pub or queueing in the post office, every other word I heard from the youngest person to the oldest was what I (being english) would consider to be a swear word but that is just how they speak.
To ban another race from speaking in their natural language would surely be racist.
Banning me from speaking or writing in another persons language must also be racist.
so feck the lot of them, they're all shite anyway
Abbey IT upgrade 'chaos' hits small biz banking
Just Change Banks
I was with Abbey, well Abbey National as it was, service got progressively worse, then they got taken over by Santander and they went down the pan.
Changed banks, dead easy these days, I even got paid for doing so.
Check out GreasyPalm for the best deal.
You could even make me some money by using my referral code.
I wouldn't recommend Alliance and Leicester despite the 100 quid they are offering as they are now owned by Santander as well.
Government grants itself even more data sharing power
write to them
Hi Reg,
can you put a permanent link on your site to mysociety.org, theyworkforyou.com and writetothem.com on your site, it's all very well just complaining to each other about what they are doing but if a few of us 'grumpy old men/women' actually got of our collective arses and told them what we think it might actually help.
I know that the links won't make you any money but look at it as a bit of community service (as opposed to the actual community service we will all be doing when they have criminalised us all :)
Customs warns of killer consoles
not counterfeit
if you turn it on and it says DS then it is the real thing, counterfeiting the silicon would cost far more than buying the real thing. (scanning, tunnelling electron microscope to reveal each layer of the chip, time spent working out the layer interconnects, 8 billionUSD fabrication plant to make the chips etc.)
These will be asian market consoles which retail at a lot less than we have to pay.
Refuse to buy any **ntendo or **aystation console (uk market or not) and complain to the companies concerned until they stop ripping us off.
The power supplies might not be CE marked, a process by which someone declares that the item in question conforms to standard (and any idiot can do that, google CE marking) which would make the whole thing, PSU and console illegal as they are intended to be used together.
That is where Customs and Excise come in.
The things bursting into flames/electricuting your offspring is a Trading Standards issue.
If I were to buy one of these things, I would tell the retailer to ditch the packaging and PSU and just send me the console. (as for instructions, if you need them then perhaps a games console is not what you need)
Gov beta test for grid-friendly, carbon-saving smart fridges
Brushless motors
STMicroelectronics make microcontrollers that control brushless AC and DC motors (ST9xx and ST7xx). The idea is that the fridge motor runs all the time (no brushes to wear out as in conventional motors) spinning faster and slower as demand requires. Ally this to proper 3 term temperature control and the sudden spikes would largely be ironed out. (fridge temperature rises quicker if there is no food in it creating the random speedup time). It is programmable (8 bit just like the old IBM PC) so there is the IT angle.
What is wrong with hydroelectric generation, it's always bloody raining round here in Wales and a dam on the river behind my house would have stopped the two and a half feet of water that came rushing into my living room a month ago.
Can I have a new fridge please as mine is now broken due to the above mentioned flood
Mine's the one dripping wet and covered in mud
Smut pop-up teacher case finally resolved with misdemeanor plea
What Planet is the Judge from
Why did the judge accept her guilty plea ? she plainly had evidence of wrong doing planted on her computer by others unknown. This sets a Very Very dangerous precedent. Anybody who doesn't like you or want to discredit you can and will do the same. What happened to due process ?
DVLA under scrutiny over penalty notice dating game
SORN scam
I recently received a fixed penalty for not declaring SORN on a vehicle despite having done so on the DVLA website.
Normally I just tick the box and send it back in the post, but lured by the chance of winning a brand new SEAT car, I used their site.
£82 in road tax and fixed penalty later, never again.
(presumably there wasn't even a car to win either)
Phisher-besieged PayPal sends users faux log-in page
@Daniel B
I see only squares.
They aren't Spaniard Spanish sites, they are simply orphaned pages from the arpanet circa 1968 requested by a 2K modem and finally finding a computer of similar vintage to display them on.
I've always wondered what happened to the pages I requested when IE hangs and I press cntrl/alt/del, no doubt they will turn up in 2030
Plods say it's OK for them give out your DNA
My Jeans Made Me Do It
When they identify the "criminal gene", the genuinely criminal population will be able to claim that they were not responsible for their own actions, ingenius eh! this wishy washy lefty government wants to empty the prisons of career crims to make way for you recalcitrants, unless they can identify the "troublemaker gene" as well.
(it's not my fault, I have the troublemaker gene in abundance)
Is green storage a dead end?
Just spend more money
the storage industry just needs to get with the program.
Spend more money on new kit. It will be smaller,faster and cheaper.
It will be less wasteful (that's stockholders money you are wasting)
You will provide a better/cheaper service to your customers and so outcompeting your competitors.
There will be a period of consolidation amongst suppliers as those companies who have invested wisely reap the benefits and gain market share
The cost of energy is pretty level across all storage suppliers and is not a significant differenciating factor.
Jeremy Clarkson tilts at windmills
Revenue Generation and Data Capture
Whatever the argument for or against speed limits, fixed speed cameras are for revenue generation and average speed cameras with anpr are for data capture.
How do you get round it..
Leave your posh motor at home but make sure your insurance says you can drive any car not belonging to you.
Pick up a car on e-bay for less than a hundred quid, don't send in the V5 and sell it two weeks later on e-bay (for a profit if you are lucky)
Buy another one (chances are the seller will have washed it for you as well :)
Paris, cuz she's never seen in the same car twice
Smut pop-up teacher retrial stuck in delay loop
what is it with you people
this is a gross infringement of a persons right to liberty, decency and due process. What if this happened to you, your wife, child, parent. 4 years waiting for a result, any kind of result from the legal process is just not on.
Send a letter complaining (not a petition or email or any other kind of easily dismissed junk) to
Michael Regan state attorney
Donald E. Williams state senator
in Connecticut marking the outside of the letter "cheque enclosed"
obviously don't enclose a cheque (check in US?)
Getty dips into Flickr to beef up photo stock
T&C - Unfair Contract Terms
terms printed on ticket are unlikely to stand up as you only see the T&C after you have bought the ticket (and entered into the terms)
Ok to print them just no basis in law
Mayor Boris to cover Porsche costs in CO2 tax brouhaha
Lets get this straight :)
poor people drive old cars (I know, I'm one of them).
Big gas guzzlers are cheap cuz middle class people can afford to take the hit on getting rid of them so poor people buy them as that is all they can afford (me)
Car Tax used to be called "road fund license" ie. to pay for roads, it is now called Vehicle Excise Duty and is just another HMG tax.
Congestion Charge is designed to allow rich people to drive around London on quiet roads.
Price of petrol/diesel is too low, I work in a petrol station and my forecourt is full for most of the day, increase price/lower demand, simple (its the economy stupid)
Scrap road tax and put it on petrol, in fact crank it up a bit and give the surplus to subsidise buses.
Because my MOT is due and I will probably be walking from now on
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Last year, in response to this campaign, the Ullapool based artist Peter White made some small paintings and drawings which he sent to those on the list that Amnesty provided.
Since then he has continued to make these small pieces of work and there will be an exhibition of them at Kilmorack Gallery over December 2014.
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walend wrote:The Monster wrote:toto wrote:http://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-marshall-mathers-lp-2/9200000020952256/
its true..ordered now
Still confuzzle.
It doesn't say 2 disk.
yhea it only says 1 disc, but Bol.com i think is a source you can trust, a few weeks ago i pre ordered my nirvana in utero super deluxe there..... i even got it 4 days before official release, i also think the treu release date of MMLP2 is around november 1, maby earlier, explains why tracks now start to leak i think
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Haha, that's hysterical!
Didn't Dennis Leary do a skit about that on his standup album?
[QUOTE]MORRISVILLE, Vt. Apr 11, 2005 A 17-year-old Morrisville youth was being held on $100,000 bail after police said he raided a tomb in a cemetery and removed a head from a corpse.
"We had a person voice their concerns about information they had heard on the street," said Chief Richard Keith of the Morristown Police Department.
Keith said police at first could not believe what they had heard. But when they went to Morrisville Cemetery and investigated, they found that someone had broken into a tomb, broken open the casket and removed a man's head.
We had the funeral director come to the scene and we pulled the casket out. Yes, indeed, we found remains and they had been disturbed," Keith said.
Nickolas Buckalew, 17, later was arrested and charged with unauthorized removal of a dead body. He pleaded innocent to the crime.
Police believe they have a strong case against Buckalew because remains and evidence were found in a silo near the suspect's home outside the village and 2/10ths of a mile from the cemetery.
"Within minutes we found the duffle bag with the remains in it and tools that were used to enter the tomb and the casket," Keith said.
The victim's widow, the only family member in the area, was told of the vandalism.
"The widow was in shock," the chief said. "She did not want any information. She did not want to know any details."
Authorities are not sure of the motive of the crime. [B]Court documents said the suspect allegedly talked of using the man's head as a bong or a pipe for smoking marijuana[/B].[/QUOTE]
Was it too much trouble for him to actually go to a head-shop? :confused:
Haha, that's hysterical!
Didn't Dennis Leary do a skit about that on his standup album?
Atleast this kid is creative. I've used a paintball gun barrel and a bunch of 2 liter soda bottles before but never dreamed of using a dead mans head.
Was it too much trouble for him to actually go to a head-shop? :confused:[/QUOTE]
Thats sick and disgraceful!
Roll dem bones.
get me an avocado, a snorkle and a pack of chewing gum - dammit, hurry up dude! i've made bongs with less!


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Chris Colfer's Glee writing debut brought us a sweet and cohesive episode, a palate cleanser if you will before next week's finale. If an episode with a flying Kurt, pretty girls falling and puppies doesn't make you smile, then nothing will. Here are our favorite #GaySharks tweets from Old Dogs, New Tricks."
Chris wrote a throwaway line about Dani being on a roller-derby team. At least someone cared enough to wrap up her storyline! #Gaysharks
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Been waiting for someone to bring up this one. Mothballs has long been a diy additive for mileage. Found this website searching additives and thought I'd post it here:
My person experience goes back 25 years when I was but a youngster. One of first mileage tricks I tried. Used off and on for years. Have found it usually improves mileage and economy. However I also believe it caused the filter to plug and took out the pump on one vehicle I tried it on.
Anyone else played with this?
I have read about it in one of George's books, but never tried it myself.
Holy son of a.... good frickin grief! :shock: FIVE MOTH BALLS PER GALLON OF GAS?!?!? At that rate it would clog fuel lines! My experience with moth balls is that they dissolve too slowly to be used at that extreme rate. After about 2 months of driving the rate I drive I'd have a tank full of moth balls. Gauge would never read empty because the float would get hung up on moth balls. Run out of gas, go fill it up and it only takes 2.5 gallons on a 16 gallon tank! That is if the gas pump nozzle would fit into the filler neck.
I have played with moth balls containing naphtalene (sp?) but at a rate of one ball every other tank or so. Can't say that at that rate it has caused any mechanical problems for me.
How much would 150 moth balls cost? It'd take an hour just to poke them in that little restricter in the filler neck!
Here some info I've collected:
"Get a bag of Mothballs. It will increase the Octane and
Better Gas Mileage than all the Additives, They sell. I learned from my Great GrandFather. Good for All Carburators only.
Do not use it for Fuel Injectors. Use a Old Socking and Put
the two Monthballs in the Socking and Down in the Gas tank Funnel a little ways. Mothballs should not be droped into the tank."
"I've done something like this. I read somewhere that you
use 1 mothball per every three (3) gallons of gas. Make
sure they are the 99.9% napthalyene ones otherwise you
will have problems. I didn't use the stocking method though.
I crushed mine up and completely dissolved them in gasoline before pouring them into the tank. Only gave me 2 -3 mpg improvements though."
"You purchase white solid mothballs. Be careful, here it
difficult to find real Naphtaline. Supermarkets sell Paradichlorobenzene to repell insects and that's not
good for engines. You place several balls in the air box,
before or after the filter as you can and let them sublimate. They will change directly from solid to gaseous releasing
very small amount of naphtalene gas (what you can smell).
This gas acts as a catalysator, I mean that the reaction between gasoline and oxygen is better and more complete
when this third gas is present.
You immediately can measure and neat decrease on CO,
HC and NOx and a better CO² showing a better reaction.
You also can feel better torque/power and in several
cases will note a better mileage by 15%. (Fifteen !)
This is also convenient for diesel engines. They also emit
far less black smoke.
During WW2 we had to drive with pure naphtaline but
at present it's not economically realist.
As long as you use the 99.9% napthylene mothballs, no
damage will occur. I've been using them 1 mothball per
gallon for years with no problems what-so-ever. I always
crush them up and disolve them in gas first before putting
in my tank. Gets me a couple of mpg more."
I tried putting some in a mesh bag and in an air cleaner housing...they eventually sublimed or whatever and were gone...lasted quite a while...didn't see an mpg gain though.
As long as you use the 99.9% napthylene mothballs, no
damage will occur. I've been using them 1 mothball per
gallon for years with no problems what-so-ever. I always
crush them up and disolve them in gas first before putting
in my tank. Gets me a couple of mpg more."
I think this would be the best way to use mothballs. I also tried putting mothballs in my air cleaner and didn't notice any mpg increase. If anyone tries this method, make sure you put them before the air cleaner. I had them after the air cleaner at first in a sock and they ended up getting sucked into the the throttle body after they had shrunk a little. Unfortunately this happened right after I had floored it to get across a busy road. I'm sure glad I have a stick so I could just shove the clutch in and shut the engine off. Then it took a couple of minutes to dig the mothballs out. :shock:
PS: I forgot to mention that I bought the pure napthalene mothballs from my local Meijer.
"Originally, I was getting 240 miles on a tank, and now, by doing
nothing other than adding 1 moth ball per 4 gallons, I got 440 as of yesterday. My vehicle runs better than ever (a 2003 Town and Country) and where my fuel pump was diagnosed near failure at the beginning of my three-month trial, it is now in better shape than ever. This alone will save me over 600 in repairs."
Beleive it or not....
Trying out mothballs
OK, here goes.
I've got a 1993 Toyota pickup with a 2.4L 4cylinder 22RE engine. This truck was sold in California. Other than it passing the Texas smog test with flying colors and me having to get exhaust parts from California, I don't see what makes this truck any more special than any other sold elsewhere in the states but supposedly it is more fuel efficient and has lower emissions.
Right now I'm getting anywhere from 20-22 MPG. Much of it depends on my driving methods, which have mellowed with age, and whether or not my bedcover is on.
This truck only goes back and forth to work. Without my bedcover I can typically go a week between fillups. With the bedcover, I get about 6.5 weekdays.
Well, I filled the truck up and then remembered I wanted to do this. So I got the 99% Napthalene moth balls and went with the 1 mothball to 5 gallons ratio. I've never been able to put more than 15 gallons in the tank, so three balls it was. Nothing fancy, just popped them into the tank when I got them home.
I plan to leave the truck sit for the weekend and see what kind of performance/mileage I get next week. I'd love to get two weeks or at least a couple more days from a tank of gas.
I'm not being as scientific as I want to be, but for now I just want to see if I notice anything different and play it by ear.
If this works well enough, I'll probably try adding more but dissolving them in a gas can first.
Wish me luck!
Day One
Well, I took the truck to work and it threw a rod! :shock: Now I get as many miles to the gallon as I care to walk with the can.
Just kidding :lol:
I've had some problems with overheating in the past couple of months, which I think the recent radiator flush fixed. While reading some posts I was still kinda' concerned about heat. However my fears were all for not. My "dummy" factory temp guage never got above normal. Either it is running cooler than ever :D or the guage has finally died :roll:.
Anyhow it *seems* like I didn't have to push the pedal down so much today, but then I might just be thinking about it too much and it just *feels* like it.
Since today turned out to be an atypical day, I've decided to go ahead and count mileage after all. So much for my plans to be totally sloppy about it.
I'll post my figures once I fill up again. Hopefully that will be in a week and a half.
BTW.............. diesel Tacoma or Tundra is coming in 07. Thats a rumor I've heard at 6 different Toyota dealerships, and a few word of mouth things in RL and internet.
I think that the main issue with the stocking would be it plugging the in-tank filter. Mesh would just add up tank after tank unless you fished it out. A straight drop might be the best thought? As long as your tank has one of those simple mesh in-tank filters.
I'll have to try that on my moms 96 TDI Passat.... It smokes like a demon at startup. Its more efficient than a Hollywood smog-machine lol.......
So what are potential repercussions? Similar to acetone? i.e. natural rubber damage, older seal damage, etc? Does it chew on soft aluminum at all? How about copper?
O2 sensor affected at all? What about the cat or other emissions things?
You are supposed to put them IN the tank...no sniffing allowed! :lol:
I remember long long ago...my mother hanging up an apple with a bunch of cloves stuck in it in place of mothballs in a closet because they weren't too healthy outside of an enclosed area...like a plastic bag.
It worked...I couldn't stand to be in that closet very long...and I'm not a moth. I think...
She did it as much to keep us kids out of the walk in type closet as for the moths....worked.
So maybe we could load up small chunks of apples with cloves and drop them in the tank. Should probably try it on the lawn mower first before ruining the car's engine :rolleyes:
I just did some rough calculations and came up with 15 MPG! :x
Then I realized that I have bigger tires than I should. :roll: The local Discount Tire didn't have the 195R14s that I needed and talked me into 205R14s. I agreed, knowing the difference it makes with my speedo and my odometer, but didn't care or remember until now.
Does anyone know how to recalculate my mileage based on the larger sized tires? I'm on day 4 and still have a little over half a tank. I can't possibly be getting 15 MPG.
According to Yahoo Maps, my round trip to work and back is about 40 miles, but I'm only adding about 33 miles per day to my odometer. I recalculated using the ratio of the difference and still only came out with 19 MPG.
I guess the bright side is that my sloppy method of guestimation based on days between fillups is looking pretty good right now. :) However, if I'm only getting 5 days per tankful, I'm only getting 13 MPG. :(
Man, do I need a baseline! And perhaps a more fuel efficient vehicle.
Hit an interstate that has the mile markers. Travel at least 30 or 40 miles and check the sticks against your odometer. Figure out how many miles you must add or subtract to get actual. Then figure out the percentage difference.
For example, if your odometer says you traveled 28 miles, but the mile markers say you traveled 29, then you have to add 1 mile per 28 recorded on your odometer. So if you travel 355 odometer miles, 355/28=12.67. So add 355+12.67=367.67. Then divide your gallons into that new number.
Did I sufficiently confuse you and make things worse than you ever imagined?
No, I work with numbers all day. That makes a helluva lot of sense. 8)
Sometimes you need to step back and take another look. Thanks.
OK, here's what I've figured out.
I went here http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=7 to determine the diameter of each of the tires.
195/75R14 tires are 20" in diameter and ~62.83" in circumference. The slightly over sized 205/75R14 are 20.4" in diameter and ~64.088" in circumference. So the formula should be:
Mo X 20.4/20 = Mr or Mo X 1.02 = Mr
Where Mo is the odometer mileage and Mr is the actual milage. Which really isn't that much of a difference.
So I'm getting about 16 MPG in a 2.4L 4-cylinder minitruck. YEESH!
I think I need to concern myself with other more basic tasks on this truck before trying to get more miles out of mothballs. :oops: I'm certain I've probably gotten better milage than I have without them, but I need to look into why it sucks so much gas in the first place.
Part of it may be the slightly increased load from the leverage of taller tires and perhaps more rubber on the road, but I doubt that's the main culprit.
The truck has over 130k on it. Is it unreasonable to expect better gas mileage than this from a 14 year old, 4 cylinder/auto truck with that kind of milage?
Time to do some more research.
You could try here...
I get +2.31%.
I been hanging around some Toyota 4X4 lists...they say that these trucks lose mpg with bigger tires...but then they are talking REALLY BIG tires...don't think the upgrade you did should cause a problem.
You do need to add about 2.3% to your indicated miles though.
Here's something I happened across...
"I've been making the same effort with my '88 Toyota
4wd 5speed with 222K miles and I manage between 27.5 and 29.7mpg. This includes some city driving, perhaps 25%, and some hauling, perhaps 15% of the time and up to ~ 3/4 ton in the back: truck weighs ~3,800 unwashed, rust bucket and lots of tools behind the seat."
An '88 is not a '93...but I'd say you should be able to do at least as well?
That's still 16 MPG. That's shameful. My 5.9L Dodge got better milage.
I'd love to get 27-29 MPG. Now I have a base target goal.
Thanks for the tip.
AmirBukfifti wrote:
That's still 16 MPG. That's shameful. My 5.9L Dodge got better milage.
I'd love to get 27-29 MPG. Now I have a base target goal.
Thanks for the tip.
I used to drive a 95 Nissan 4wd pickup and it, too, got about 17mpg. Must be a poor design...
So what about using mothballs with water injection? Crush the mothballs and mix them in the water, let it evaporate into the vacuum??
Re: 1 mothball in 4 gallons?? 4 gallons of WHAT?
E=mc2 wrote:
"Originally, I was getting 240 miles on a tank, and now, by doing
nothing other than adding 1 moth ball per 4 gallons, I got 440 as of yesterday. My vehicle runs better than ever (a 2003 Town and Country) and where my fuel pump was diagnosed near failure at the beginning of my three-month trial, it is now in better shape than ever. This alone will save me over 600 in repairs."
Beleive it or not....
Really? This is Bad Science (BS) at its worst! I'll not.... #-o
Re: Mothballs...
hey all im going to get some moth balls tonight and try them in the air filter box on my 4.7 dodge ram, mpg at the moment is a stunning 14.2 around town I will keep an eye on it for two tanks and post results here.
Re: Mothballs...
I use naphtalene flakes instead of mothballs and I dissolve them in acetone that I add to my fuel. acetone ratio is 2ml for every liter ie 50 liter tank add 100ml acetone and 10gms of mothballs. Small amount but so far no issue with filters or fuel pump. Not so with BA that clogged my fuel filter!
Re: Mothballs...
I'm currently testing 1/4 oz MBs per 10 gallons (with iso)...which is near what a patent recommended. Said that any more caused black smoke.
Re: Mothballs...
As I know, mothballs act by dissolving carbon deposits. It's the effect of the moth poison they contain : the para-dichlorobenzen*. But this product is carcinogenic, and consequently, it's now replaced by another moth poison that does not dissolve carbon deposits. I searched mothballs with paradichlorobenzen but I don't find them.
I used old mothballs (the carcinogenic ones) every 30.000Km to clean engine and injectors. It was working well, with ~10 in the diesel tank.
Now , with mothballs without para dichlorobenzen, I have heard it doesn't work :-(
* paradichlorobenzen is also present in injectors cleaning products (but in lower concentrations)
Re: Mothballs...
Chlorinated hydrocarbons are present in some brake cleaners, and also in some typists whiteout thinners. Actually, one of the snakeoils has them in, forgot which one, either MMO or Seafoam.
Re: Mothballs...
So i tried about half a box of the good moth balls in the aircleaner of my dodge ram and it made no noticable change in mpg or percieved power. So i thought i would try it in my omni as I seem to have an ideal set up i had replaced the carb with a weber 38dges carb and installed an airpan and hood scoop so i poured a whole box of the mothballs into the air pan and drove like that for a month. Power seemed up but it could have been wishfull thinking but the mpg gain from 27 to and from work to 31 is something i can prove. One thing i noticed is that since the airpan is directly over the intake/exhaust the mothballs seem to melt and dont seem to last even half as long as they did in the truck, I belive that the heat helps a great deal in getting enough naphthalene into the air.
Re: Mothballs...
Where can I buy naphathlene moth flakes? The balls don't seem to dissolve.
Also has anyone tested e85 with moth balls? If so did they dissolve better?


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Babbo - terrible experience!
I hadn't been back to Babbo in a while, but have had great experiences there, and have been dreaming about the ravioli so thought I'd give it another try - it was one of the worst experiences I've ever had!
Food and service was poor all around, and dining on a Sunday should not be an excuse for a second rate meal, and third rate service.
Upon arriving, we were treated wonderfully, and felt right at home; but that was short lived. Our waiter was technically good (with ingredients, explanations etc), but brusque - I kept on thinking of used car salesmen.
We asked to speak to a sommelier, as the extensive wine list was a lot to contemplate, and we needed some help navigating it - anyway, that's the sommelier's job. We also ordered at that time (asparagus, sardines, goose liver ravioli, king salmon, sweetbreads). The first course was brought out BEFORE the sommelier even showed!
Sorry, but I think that's so unprofessional and sloppy! We complained and the waiter came over and said, "I guess he's too busy, or forgot," and then corrected my pronunciation of "sommelier!" We were shocked at the rudeness, and sloppiness. The waiter did find us a nice bottle (as i said, technically he was knowledgeable, but of course, our food had already arrived), and service was non-existent after that: water glasses were left empty, wine wasn't poured, plates weren't cleared, and the waiter made one cursory stop to ask how things were, but did not stick around for an answer - perhaps he saw our half-eaten plates, and decided it was better not to have an answer.
Perhaps we should have spoken to the manager immediately, but waited until we exited and then had a short discussion with him.
Regarding the food: the ravioli was underdone, the sweetbreads were lifeless and runny, the salmon was average.
ive been saying for years that batali can't cook...he's just a great salesman.
babbo has never impressed me and ive given them 3 opportunities over 7 years.
re: sam1
In the great city of New York, the choices for great dining are almost endless. It is time to UNITE against overpriced, pretentious, absentee run "celebrity" restaurants. I vote with my wallet and appreciate the owners that actual are IN the kitchen and COOKING in their restaurants (often 7 days a week due to pride and passion about their food and the desire to make sure their guests have a great experience every time).
When the rude waiter corrected your pronuncitaion of sommelier you could have said, "Oh, perhaps my pronunciation is the reason why he never showed up at my #$%^ table you snooty %&^$^&* " !
re: TonyO
I don't mind it if the celeb cooks aren't there, as long as the staff is well-trained, with oversight - something sorely lacking at Babbo; they're just coasting. Perhaps an easy example of a well-trained staff/kitchen is Les Halles? I've always found that restaurant reliable, personable and consistent.
Some years back I went to Daniel, and when a waiter brought out a dish before we had finished with the plates we had, someone in charge ran over (chef? maitre d?), told the waiter in no strong terms to go back to kitchen and wait until we're done, and apologized to us - that's just common sense and manners, and showed they cared about quality and our experience there.
re: peckslip
I fully agree that a staff should be trained so a guest can't tell (and shouldn't care!) if the Greay Clogged One is in the house. However, in my many years in the restaurant business (and as a customer) there seems to be difference in performance between places that have the owner (assuming they are hands on and competent) and those left to a manager / staff. Granted, there are exceptions and it is unfortunate that when the "cat is away......" . I find that this holds true on many levels of dining from casual through fine dining. Places like Les Halles and the maitre d' at Daniel should be applauded. Maybe someday more establishments / employees will act in such a manner and employees like the overcompensated/spoiled waiter at Babbo will be unemployed (or at least out of the restaurant industry).
re: peckslip
I can't say I agree with you regarding Les Halles. I think they have an incredibly poorly trained staff. Even when its empty, I find it hard to locate my waiter/waitress to get another drink or place my order.
I've never had anything but great food and service at Babbo and I'm sorry they let you down. There is no excuse for being treated like that.
re: ESNY
I guess I've been lucky at Les Halles - but I've also gotten to know people there so maybe that smooths things.
This morning I spoke to the manager at Babbo, and he was very concerned took my complaints very very seriously - i relayed only my feelings about the (lack of) service, and not about food. He did want to know whether this tainted any possibility about my returning, and I said that it did.
re: sam1
I'd say almost the opposite. What he CAN do is cook--although it's clear he hasn't been in the kitchen in a heck of a long time. What he can't do is come up with a restaurant that is anywhere near commensurate with his cooking talent. He manages to find people who can cook, but the rest of the operation is sadly uneven at every one of his restaurants. Anyone who would design a restaurant like Babbo (cramped, noisy, dark) obviously doesn't think that anything matters but the food, which is an opinion I'm willing to go along with at a taco truck, but not a place with much higher prices.
re: jasmurph
I completely disagree with sending a meal back to the kitchen to wait. It will sit on the counter and get cold and they will either nuke it when you are ready or throw it back on the fire and it will be over cooked. Just eat it when it comes because thats when it was meant to be eaten!! I would rather have 2 dishes served together and bee good then spaced out perfectly and be flat.
re: sam1
this babbo ripping is absurd. i think the hyperbole on chowhound is laughable at times. you may not like a place, but to indict a very accomplished chef as a hack is very silly and smacks of one's own general negativity.. i love batali.. even if he is famous and babbo is enamored with itself ( which i have never encountered for the record). babbo (two visits) was a top five meal in 13 years of serious manhattan eating....
I had an experience at Babbo with waiter like this once. He continually saw fit to correct the pronunciation of the person who was treating us all to dinner there, because English was not his first language and he had an accent (although he and his wife understand the language fine, and have lived in NYC, Europe, and various places in Asia for over 35 years). He continued to serve us with an air of being put upon and treating every interaction with obvious exasperation, at one point looking right past my friends and asking me what "they" wanted for dessert. And finally he saw fit to be both personally and ethnically insulting when presenting the check, using a mock accent to remind my friend to tip him properly, and then turning it into a completely tasteless ethnic joke. I was floored! When I complained to the restaurant's (deeply snooty) host, and asked to see the manager, I was told that the manager didn't have time to talk to us, and anyway that people of my friend's ethnicity needed to learn to tip better so that waiters wouldn't act that way towards them.
The food may have been OK, but the experience was one of the worst I have ever had in a restaurant anywhere in the world. Needless to say I have never darkened their door again.
re: Woodside Al
You were much too kind. The obnoxious jackass that somehow felt he (and the jackass host) were better because they worked at Babbo needed to be read the riot act, on the spot, without mercy. Maybe then, the all too busy manager would have been able to have been pulled away from Lindsay Lohan's table.
Babbo is a rip. I don't need an acne-faced waiter to tell me the significance of different wines and cheeses after growing up in Italy. There are many places I'd prefer to eat with better food and half the attitude. I think they get so many tourists for whom Italian food is a whole new adventure, and for them I think Babbo is probably a great night out.
re: sing me a bar
just curious - what are the places you prefer to go for good italian food than babbo? i know there are lots of threads on italian food, but probably none that directly compare themselves to places with lots of hype such as babbo. i myself have not been there. but i'd love to hear your pics!
re: shirlotta
I like Perbacco in the east village, but more for their pastas and starters; not crazy about their entrees. I've also had real good experiences at the Italian restaurant at the corner of White and Church - forget the name, but it's in the location of the old Baby Doll Lounge.
I haven't been to Babbo in about a year: i went twice last summer: the first time was excellent all around, the second was uneven at best...but given a recent bad experience at Lupa (and dozens of other Lupa troubles reported here), i'm not surprised at all by your Babbo story...my gf and i were just discussing this evening whether we wanted to hit any of the Batali joints this summer, and my vote was to look elsewhere...
sidenote: my current fav upscalish Italian in the city is Il Giglio...totally different food from Babbo but the Caesar salad and the Shrimp Fra Diavolo are great and i'll take their old-school Italian faux-formality over Lupa/Babbo/Otto faux-hip snottiness any day...
re: Simon
That's too bad to hear about Babbo. I went there for the first time last fall with my boyfriend and my parents. I had been a little worried that we average folks might not get treated too well at such a high end restaurant, but our waiter was charming and attentive (and it's not like we ordered a ton of wine) and we were mesmerized with the food.
I have to say that I'm really surprised to hear these Babbo stories. With the exception of one slightly snotty waiter, I have had nothing but great experiences there. I have found the food to be remarkably consistent over the course of dozens of visits. I also enjoy the lack of stuffiness. I remember a dinner at Cru a couple years ago where I was seated next to a woman who barely touched her food. Course after course she poked at the food and then put her fork down. It was clear she just didn't eat. The annoying part was that all night, waiters and managers would come over to see if they could bring her something she might like more and asking her if the dishes were to her liking. At a certain point, it's the diner's problem if he/she just doesn't like the food.
I think Babbo truly believes that they serve good food (and I agree). If it's not your thing, don't waste your money there. It's not for everyone and you should never have to tolerate prententious or innattentive service. But they serve their food, and provide you with simple, reasonable, service and that's it. If you like it go, if not, you're not going to get a staff of people crowding around you wondering how they can make your night better.
re: JeremyEG
You shouldn't be surprised to hear these stories at all on this board. It is instead a reflection of what it's become, Not a celebration of wonderful food, but a place where people can complain about their experiences and feel superior of their "knowledge" of food and the industry. All of Mario's places have between good and amazing food. They are well run, and he has NEVER made any assertion that you will find him in the kitchen. In fact, what well known, top chef will you find regularly in their kitchens. And if he did, which one would he be in? Otto? Lupa? Babbo?
I have had wonderful experiences in every one of his places. The food is unique, of high quality and more than makes up for service that can sometimes be lacking.
Bottom line is, don't be discouraged to enjoy Otto and make an opinion of your own!
re: MrNubbins
With respect to JeremyEG and MrNubbins, my issue was with the service, not the food (tho that was mentioned - perhaps the service tainted our entire experience?). When I spoke to the manager, I said not one word about the food, as that is subjective (to a point); the issue was with protocal, rudeness, sloppiness, and no oversite (the manager having to come over on his own to fill our wine glasses because the wait staff is absent??) - diners can forgive an evening of food being off, but managers can never forgive a poorly run establishment; he even said that it was unacceptable, and this wasnt the first time that he's heard this.
I go out to eat to enjoy myself, to try something new - I am certainly not above any restaurant, and no restaurant is above me, and have no desire to trade off terrible service for good food - if anyone wants to pay to be treated like dirt, be my guest.
And yes, I've heard good things about Otto, and yes I have had good experiences at Babbo in the past. But this was beyond the pale.
Sorry to hear about your bad experience. Conversely, I was there last Thursday night with my wife and 18 year old daughter and, I must say, my experience was just the opposite. We were given respectful and constant attention from numerous waiters and assistants. The food (we all had the pasta tasting with the wine pairings for my wife and I) was absolutely flawless and showed amazing creativity.
My only complaint (if you can call it that) is that it was really just way too much food (8 courses). If I could suggest one change to them, it would be to offer the pasta tasting in a 6 course option as well as the usual 8 course option.
re: JPAub
That sounds really great! The way it ought to be.
The wait staff works the entire upstairs or downstairs rooms, not just individual tables, so I'm wondering if on Sundays, or other off days, all supervision is out the window? Probably why the general manager was upset, but not surprised.
I'm really glad you had a good time.
BTW, anyone have any good recommendations for sweatbreads? I've had them at Prune (not recently), and thought they were wonderful there.
re: peckslip
it was a while ago that i had them there, but casa mono's sweetbreads were really good. and the langostine. mmm.
re: shirlotta
I had those sweetbreads (again) on Thursday night - simple and fantastic!!!
We were there 3 weeks ago on a Friday for dinner. Very busy night, but just like the previous times that we were there, our dishes were very good ( as close to the presentation, flavors and ingredients of very good restaurants that we've been to in Italy), our waiters were courteous, attentive and not overbearing; the sommelier was very helpful ... and he poured for us whenever he sensed that our wait staff were busy.
Based on our experiences, we're excited to go again.
re: RCC
We had a lousy experience at Babbo that was the result of the staff, not the food, which was good. I'd made a reservation online, which was confirmed via telephone. When we got there, we were told our reservation was for an hour later, which was not true. The host/mgr. whatever he was, was rude about it. Unfortunately, I did not bring my cell phone, on which I had the voice mail confirmation. So we stood there by the bar, figuring we would roll with it. I ordered a Bellini and the bartender said they had a pitcher of rhubarb Bellinis all ready to go, did i want to try that; I said yes. The rhubarb Bellini was super-sweet. I've had Bellinis before and this was overly sugary, so I told him I didn't care for it, that it was too sweet; he looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "It's a Bellini." Like: it's supposed to taste like that.
We waited for over an hour for our table, standing, since when the seats at the bar open up, they go to people who want to eat at the bar. Once we were at our table, the food was good, but then they cranked up the music, which was Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti -- an album I really like, but don't want to shout over at dinner.
I wouldn't go there again b/c it was just an atmosphere of ungracious arrogance.
re: exiledcal
My few visits to Babbo have been generally happy ones, but I did have one episode that makes me laugh. The waitress asked if we were ready to order, I said yes, and nodded to my partner to order first. He ordered, and the waitress turned and disappeared. It took nearly ten minutes to get someone's attention to tell them I had not yet ordered. The waitress then took my order. In 2 minutes the first course was brought to the table (the one my partner ordered). We had to tell the clueless person who delivered it that we were both eating and to please bring the courses at the same time. No apologies, no acknowledgement of error. Otherwise no problems.
re: rrems
My husband and I had dinner at Babbo this past Wednesday. It was our second time there. The food was superb as was the wine service and waitstaff. The pasta dishes, especially, were incredible. Battali was cooking on Wednesday, maybe that made a difference, maybe not. We love the room, the energy and yes, the music, in addition to the well-executed food.
re: exiledcal
I never had issues with the volume of the music at Babbo. Lucky you that you were dining while having one of the best double-album of all time, i.e. Physical Graffiti, playing.
My experience there was similiar, food was incredibly bland and sweetbreads came out cold. I was especially underwhelmed by the pasta--it tasted like bad red sauce pasta and there was too much sugar in it. The overall ambiance was not good and our meal was very disappointing. Not sure why there's so much hype around this place.