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    Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles

    Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It

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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    Hey Deus. What do those goggles do?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    it's going to be at least $200-something. night vision's gotten cheap, but not that cheap.



    regardless, i'm in, as long as we can get some specs on the goggles beforehand, or it turns out to be under $120.
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    Image of Gurrenorigamist Gurrenorigamist
    07/14/09

    @nutbastard: I believe the goggles are monocular in design (only one sensor, not one per eye), and are probably using older technology, hence the absolute hugeness. My prediction is that the goggles may be $70 by themselves, maybe even less, which leads to $120 to $130 for the final bundle.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/14/09

    @Gurrenorigamist:



    after some googling, i see no head-mounted monocular night vision goggles under $400...
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    Who doesn't love toy night vision goggles?



    I'm in!
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    Image of Titelheld Titelheld
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    commence the jigglin!
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    Image of LessthanZach LessthanZach
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    Oh....My......God....



    I have to have this. Sad to say though, I probably won't be able to afford it. :p

    On second thought, though, I don't know what the hell I might do with them.....

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    Image of Rhainor Rhainor
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    "Alternating modes" probably refers to the fact that you can have just the light amplification, or turn on the infrared LED array for even more visibility.



    Some surveillance cameras have similar IR LEDs. Since human eyes can't see near-IR light, but digital camera sensors can (and thus can translate it into the visible spectrum for playback), they make the perfect source of non-visible illumination.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    07/14/09

    @Rhainor: Yea, you can see the ir leds when he turns the front towards the camera. There's probably not much inside that big assed housing. Small cheap ass camera you can pick up for $12 on fleabay and a small display.
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    Image of paulrules paulrules
    07/14/09

    In reply to Modern Warfare 2 "Prestige Edition" Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles
    The way I'm going to be using those night vision goggles, I hope they can stand a beating from an angry woman.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    04/16/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    I once subscribed to a magazine and, as I usually do, chose not to pay the invoice till I'd actually gotten the magazine. The second time I got a bill but no magazines I called them and they insisted they'd been sending me the magazines. I explained that I'd pay as soon as I got the actual magazine.


    I never got one single issue of the magazine and eventualy called and canceled my subscription. I don't know whether someone along the line was stealing them or whether the magazine just didn't send them out, but I noticed that the magazine folded about three months later.

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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    UPS has left expensive parcels on my front doorstep several times. Then, they've also sent me threatening letters out of the blue that BROKERAGE FEES WERE OWED AND THIS IS THEIR LAST WARNING BEFORE SENDING A COLLECTIONS AGENCY AFTER ME SO PAY UP OR DIE! ...very professional considering that was my first notice.


    Couriers suck... plain mail or EMS FTW, but UPS and FedEx just gouge and gouge.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    mail men don't do this to steal. they do it cause they get backed up and then it snowballs. i think in a lot of cases the fault lies with those bums sending the pennysaver etc. why is it legal to mail something to everyone? regardless of the fact you paid postage it's still a plague on our pony express.
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    Image of MetaOrbit MetaOrbit
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    I refuse to use FedEx for this reason. Or at least Fedex Ground/Home Delivery. This shit always happens to me. The driver scans it into the system as attempted delivery but he NEVER came. I'm next to the door all day long. No doorbell, no hangtag, no person, nothing. But he just didn't feel like doing his job that day and I wasted a day hanging around for it to be delivered.


    That pisses me off. And what's more, FedEx really doesn't seem to care. Oh well. I use only USPS and UPS now.

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    Image of infmom infmom
    04/16/09

    @MetaOrbit: UPS has done that to me, too. I've rechecked the tracking number all day from my home and have discovered that somehow I magically was not home all day.
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    Image of FrancesTheMute FrancesTheMute
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    what possible gain do they get by hoarding mail?
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    Image of infmom infmom
    04/16/09

    @FrancesTheMute: The same gain people get from never deleting anything from their Gmail accounts.
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    Image of HeWhoAwaitsChuckFinale HeWhoAwaitsChuckFinale
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    Why is everything so dirty? Look at the mail boxes in the bottom right of the picture. If I was doing this, I would want to keep everything in good condition so I could sell it.
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    Image of markterry markterry
    04/15/09

    @HeWhoisYourNewBestFriend: Right... because junk mail, pre-approved credit card offers, holiday cards and circulars fetch quite a premium on craigslist...

    /sarcasm
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    Image of HeWhoAwaitsChuckFinale HeWhoAwaitsChuckFinale
    04/15/09

    @Mark Terry: Lots of expensive stuff gets sent in the mail like new cell phones, stuff off Ebay, etc.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    04/15/09

    @HeWhoisYourNewBestFriend: Uh, things that have tracking numbers and people would miss!
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    Image of Ellipsis marks are ... my friends Ellipsis marks are ... my friends
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    Wait, I'm not the only one who gets those 20% off Bed Bath and Beyond coupons? My world just crumbled around me.
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    Ellipsis marks are ... my friends was starred Ellipsis marks are ... my friends was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    04/15/09

    @riflehunter: well, you are Current Resident. you should feel honored.
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    Image of markterry markterry
    04/15/09

    @Nick: No, I'm current resident! Why the hell is he getting all my mail!?
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    markterry was starred markterry was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    04/15/09

    @Mark Terry: that'll teach you to not leave a forwarding address.
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    Image of Obed Cutaran Obed Cutaran
    04/15/09

    In reply to Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
    Ww, tht's smthng mbrrssng.


    [lfkd.cm]

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    Image of Papercutninja Papercutninja
    04/15/09

    @Obed Cutaran: Excellent. Comment just to get your blog noticed. Don't bother contributing anything, facebooker.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    04/15/09

    @Papercutninja: Even worse, most of the articles on his site ARE from Gizmodo!
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    Image of Steve Abbott Steve Abbott
    04/15/09

    @Obed Cutaran: + @Papercutninja: Maybe there should be a link to the "Commenting Rules" the first time a FB user connects, because so many just don't "get it"
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    04/15/09

    @Steve Abbott: Thus the "audition" rule people want for the FaceBookers. This stops a lot of the "I didn't know" excuses and eliminates the chaff from the wheat and keeps the baby and not the bathwater.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    04/15/09

    @UsingTheColbert_GitEmSteveDave: By "audition", do you mean "get a gawker account"? Because I'd be all for that.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    04/15/09

    @Gann: No, b/c then they whip out the "Remember two logins?! That's impossible. No brain could handle that much information!" argument. Of course, the Dutch have 4 logons, and smoke pot, but that's besides the point.


    I know we can't stop them from posting, so why not just subject them to the same audition. There ARE some good FBer's out there. But we could eliminate a lot of problems w/an audition for them. Comment threads like this, and then the general animosity people have for dealing with it. Many of the banned people only posted two or three times. I think if the FBer's knew they couldn't get automatically in, it would stop a lot of people from trying to do stupid things.

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    Image of Evodico Evodico
    04/15/09

    @SittingOnTheColbert_GitEmSteveDave:Was that an Eddie Izzard reference?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    04/15/09

    @Evodico: Yes. Just his expression when he goes off on how impossible it is to know more than one language, and how no one can live at that speed is awesome.
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