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OriginalGriff wrote: Do Klingon Romulan frogs hide themselves using a croaking device?
<PedanticMode>FTFY</PedanticMode>
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Quote: Do Klingon or Romulan frogs hide themselves using a croaking device?
FTFTFY: The Klingons got the cloaking technology from the Romulans - so they both had it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You out-pedantic'ed me.
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So did the Federation - the Defiant had a Romulan cloaking device (and originally a Romulan officer to use it). They were only allowed to use it in the Gamma Quadrant, but ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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You Trekkie, you!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Guilty! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I'm not a trekkie - but I did get hold of the first 7 or 8 of "StarTrek Continues"[^].
Faithful new stories by REAL fans - and, of course, those awesome skirts . . .
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Don't forget the USS Pegasus.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Who can forget the Pegasus?
I mean, other than me.
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A device undoubtedly held together with ribbits.
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Today is a good day to croak!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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To activate it you just have to rubbit, rubbit...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Nah - as it turns out, they were a Tad-pole - possibly French, too.
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I ordered a FireStick on amazon late in the day on friday.
It said it would be delivered Sunday.
Sunday I checked on the delivery and it said it as "out for delivery".
Was busy and didn't check again for a while.
The status said, "the package was left on your porch near your door".
I looked and it wasn't there.
I'd been outside (in the front) all day.
There was no reason for the post person to walk to the door. We have large mailboxes on our street that are accessible by mail truck.
We are way at the end of a court / dead-end so we had no traffic.
So, I guessed the Sunday delivery person left it at the wrong house.
I looked around, drove down our road and tried to check other people's porches.
Nothing.
The Failure of The WEB AGAIN!!!
(Note: I'm talking about individual web sites having crappy interfaces and functionality -- but it is because it is on purpose, because the sites don't want to provide functionality)
So I decided to report it.
I just wanted to let the us postal service know that, "hey, they delivered it to the wrong house, please do something".
The automated phone message goes on for about 15 minutes about the North Carolina flooding and why you may not have received a package and then after that it tells you " we are not open right now".
I go online to report it. Takes about 15 minutes on the us postal service web site to find out a way to report a missing package.
I put in the tracking number and it says,"The package did not have insurance on it so you cannot report this package."
What?!?
I cannot even tell you that you delivered it to the wrong address?!? I wish the US postal service would go out of business. This never would've happened with UPS or Fedex.
I reported it to Amazon but they didn't really understand either. They just said, "If you don't get it by October 1 then we'll send you another." I don't understand this at all.
I used to think (in my youthful naivete) that the postal service had gravitas and packages and letters sent through it were something very important. Now the attitude is, "well, you are lucky if you received it. If you didn't then well, it happens. Sorry about your luck." 
EDIT - CLOSING THE LOOP
I got home today after work and the package was in my mailbox.
It seems to just be the way the process works.
They mark the pkg as delivered, of course, even though it hasn't been delivered yet, it will be delivered in the future. 
modified 1-Oct-18 21:35pm.
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Lets see if this is what is delivered: Clickety click click
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No clicky on dodgy linky :P
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It'll arrive today.
I think you are correct. I think the "it was placed on the porch" was just a lie of some sort.
I don't understand it though. 
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Thanks for letting me know. Do you ever get the item you paid for?
Is this just how it goes? Mail service doesn't deliver and Amazon just ships out another?
Wow!!
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raddevus wrote: I think the "it was placed on the porch" was just a lie of some sort. I don't understand it though
This way, the carrier doesn't get dinged on their review for not delivering packages on time.
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patbob wrote: This way, the carrier doesn't get dinged on their review for not delivering packages on time.
Nailed it!!
I do believe that is exactly the reason for this. It is completely Evil and part of the terrible bureaucracy that is created by the terrible mail system.
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raddevus wrote: It is completely Evil and part of the terrible bureaucracy that is created by the terrible mail system
I agree it's evil, but not part of the mail system. If you create a metric and incentivize people to meet it, you get behavior change. Just maybe not the one you wanted  [Obligatory Dilbert[^]]
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patbob wrote: you get behavior change
You make a very good point and that is one of my all-time favorite Dilberts. 
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