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That comment is way off the mark. These days electronic hobbyists are just called Makers and then there is Arduino. Radio Shack had a poor business model for retailing. They are agreat example of a company not able to adjust to the changes the internet made in how people shop for cheap electronics.
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When was that? Since they carried nothing but crap since I started going there about 1972, it must have been a real long time ago. In college we called Radio Shack diodes, 'monodes', since current went in one end and never came out. They were handy for CB radio supplies, but god help you if you had a question. I used to hang out just to listen to all the blatantly wrong information they gave out to folks even more ignorant than the employees. The I'd tell the customer what the correct answer was and get glared at by the moron who got paid to give wrong information. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I used to get mainly small parts and never really had a problem with them, but I'm not an RR just a wannabe.  They do sell crap though I won't argue with you there.
Roger Wright wrote: I used to hang out just to listen to all the blatantly wrong information they gave out to folks even more ignorant than the employees. The I'd tell the customer what the correct answer was and get glared at by the moron who got paid to give wrong information. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
You got that right, on the rare occasion I used to get roped into shopping at the mall with the ex I used to go in the RS there and just listen to their spiel. Don't know how they kept the floors so clear with the line of crap they layed down.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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At 94 years in business they started out selling light bulbs. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs Jim<</xml>
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No tears here. If you want some cheap entertainment, go to a Radio Shack and ask a question about radio.
I tried to get a job there once, years ago. They told me that they didn't want anyone who knows electronics; they only want people with audio & video sales experience. What a joke that place has been since they stopped selling vacuum tubes...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: They told me that they didn't want anyone who knows electronics; they only want people with audio & video sales experience.
Well that was just that particular store manager. When I was working on my hobby robots many years ago, and I used to go into Radio Shack to get parts, the manager there kept trying to hire me.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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They (as Tandy) disappeared from the UK in about 2001
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Chapter 11 doesn't mean the end of the company. It's a legal mechanism under which a company that's in financial difficulty can recover. The airlines and the automotive industry have been doing it regularly for years. On a smaller scale, the company I work for did it three years ago.
It's traumatic for the employees, customers, and creditors involved, but it's better than the Chapter 7 alternative: break the company up and sell off the parts. In that case the employees rarely get any kind of separation package, customers are left in the lurch for support, and the creditors get pennies on the dollar, if that.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Apparently Sprint is looking to buy Radio Shack, or at least thinking about it. The Shack would probably turn from what it has historically been to just another place hawking cell phones (not that it doesn't already). Strange that a somewhat failing cell phone company is looking to buy a failing electronics chain.
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The last time I went into our local Radio Shack, a couple of years ago, it seemed like all they had to sell were cell phones and cheesy knockoff electronic toys. They had a little bit in the way of home audio/video cabling stuff. There wasn't much in the way of hobbyist electronics supplies.
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I remember getting the new Radio Shack catalog every year and drooling over the goodies  .
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Online stores will gradually replace all traditional ones except groceries.
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: except groceries.
Amazon[^] begs to differ with that remark.
(I know. Really, Amazon?)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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On a beautiful summer's day, two English tourists were driving through Wales.
At Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, they stopped for lunch, and one of the tourists asked the waitress "Before we order, I wonder if you could settle an argument for us".
Can you pronounce where we are, very, very, very slowly?"
The girl leaned over and said "Burrr-Gurrr-King"
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I was taught how to pronounce that by someone Welsh many sheep moons ago. It is one of those utterly useless skills that people possess. 
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Being Welsh is a skill? Well I suppose there's all the phlegm to contend with.
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I guess it's the staying part that makes people despair. 
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I have never had trouble pronouncing Burger King. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Wow! Didn't know that was the actual name of a place. 
I believe PsuedoGriff lives in Ystradgynlais - something that I can't pronounce in the first attempt. So I think you could have used that in the joke just fine. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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This one occurred for my client:
This object file does not define any previously undefined public symbols, so it will not be used by any link operation that consumes this library (LNK4221)
I thought it amusing because of the triple negative: does not / undefined / will not.
Then I got to poke around and looked up the last of the fatal compiler errors, C1905:
Front end and back end not compatible
Yeah, I've experienced that. 
Marc
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I got the following error using a third-party collection once:
"Fatal rear-end insertion malfunction"
(I was getting an item from the collection)
Also (From a physics simulator):
"Fatal: double penetration == NaN!"
There are a lot of bizarre errors out there.
From Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Right after logging in):
"Fatal Error: Sh*t on a shingle!"
(Don't ask. I don't know.)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"All of the public symbols in this object file have been previously defined, so this object file will not be used by any link operation that includes this library."
Karnaugh maps to the grammatical rescue.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yeah, I've experienced that.
Personally?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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We won't go there. 
Marc
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1998 called, they want their BSOD jokes back (...etc)
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