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So I'm staying in an Extended Stay hotel while I work on a project for client.
Last night at 11:30 I was awoken with "entertainment" from the adjacent room... bed banging the wall, loud expressions of... well you get the idea..
So half an hour into this I decide to call the front desk. It's midnight at this point and I have to work in the morning. So I explain what's going on and the woman at the front desk says, while laughing, "Well we won't charge you for the entertainment package. I'll go up and talk to them". She never did.
Eventually, since all good things must come to and end, they stopped.
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until 5:30 this morning when they woke me up AGAIN. Same thing.. bed banging the wall, woman going off.
This time I'm gonna raise hell.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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My worst: A night in a hotel "up north" before a big meeting the next morning.
Midnight and I'm woken up by a huge amount of noise - it sound like someone is running a bunch of Pneumatic drills[^] outside my room. I look out the door - the corridor is clear (but noisy).
I look out the window - nothing.
I call reception.
"Ah. We're remodelling the hotel."
At night?
"Oh yes! It's so we don't inconvenience the guests..." 
They moved me to a new room on the opposite side of the building, and I didn't get a bill...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: They moved me to a new room on the opposite side of the building, and I didn't get a bill...
Yeah! Good for you! You shouldn't have to suffer the consequences of their moronic decisions! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Had the same thing happen to me on a cruise, only there was a lot of yelling and furniture being tossed prior to the "rendezvous." After several hours of this, I went next door and banged loudly on their door. It got deathly quiet, and there was no more noise until the next morning, which was departure day. That cabin's occupants were being escorted off of the ship.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Were they wearing complementary stainless steel bracelets from the local police?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Bang on the wall, and yell at them to either stop, or let you in on it.
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Pic or it didn't happen!
(Well, I've been waiting for someone to say it, but you've all let me down!)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A pic of what?? The sound of someone's bed banging my wall?? 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I shouldn't be surprised if there's an app for that!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are they sure that the update will get over in an hour's time? My internet connection is sooooo slow 
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THEY'LL NEVER GET ME ALIVEEEE!!! TO BATTLE! YAAAAARGHHH!!!
*Ta-da*
"Windows has finished installing updates."
What the...? 
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Quote: An Offer You Can’t Refuse
I don't understand why you would want to refuse?
Windows 10 is working fine for me - and for the silent majority out there.
If you have issues with 10, my heart pumps chocolates for you [evil cackle!].
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Some people dual boot 8.1 and 10. They would not want the 8.1 OS updated to 10, since they already have 10.
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Some people run Windows 7. They would not want the 7 OS updated to 10, since they already have a better one installed... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh Griff! - Not you too! Of all people I was sure you would be happy with 10!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm still using it, but...
Win 7 was prettier - Win 10 is one ugly sucker.
Win 7 was more "together" - Win 10 is still schizophrenic between is desktop roots and the "metro" cr@p applications it's unsuccessfully trying to replace them with. (Look at "Settings" versus "Control Panel", and "Mail" versus "Live Mail" for example.)
Win 7 didn't try to shove ads at you - if "try Oriffice 365" appears as a new notification once more this week I shall not be responsible for my actions.
Win 7 didn't have Cortana and a search system tied to Bong (and seemingly designed by an engineer after a few too many hits on one).
Win 7 never disabled my network card with a "silent update".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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To respond to your points:
Quote: Win 10 is one ugly sucker
Granted. But you grow to love ugliness. My mother always said she loved me!
Quote: Win 7 was more "together" - Win 10 is still schizophrenic between is desktop roots and the "metro" cr@p applications it's unsuccessfully trying to replace them with. (Look at "Settings" versus "Control Panel", and "Mail" versus "Live Mail" for example.)
I only use Office Home & Business 2010. So this does not affect me.
Quote: Win 7 didn't try to shove ads at you
I use the HOSTS file to get rid of pop-ups and other pests. So it doesn't bother me: Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^]
Quote: Win 7 didn't have Cortana
Cortana? I disabled the b*tch when I installed 10. Never met her!
Quote: Win 7 never disabled my network card
10 installed the right driver for my network card from the get go. Never had any network issues.
Remember the grace period to get 10 for free expires next month. Good luck with 7!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It is not about working or not, but much more about to let us choose...Th OS, our privacy, our updates and on and on...
And it seems, that most of us do not think that 'the end justifies the means'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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One of my customer just informed me that the only PC that updated to W10 is now unreliable, failing to connect to network and corrupting databases.
They were happy when attempts to rollback to W7 failed to restore previous behavior, and they will have pay me 1 full day to reintall the PC and app as it was before.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Every time I upgraded from 7 or 8 to 10, I had a variety of issues. When I followed that up with a clean install, all the issues went away.
To get 10 to activate, you have two options:
1) Do a regular upgrade or update to 10. Make sure 10 is activated. This means your machine is registered with Microsoft as eligible for 10. Then do a clean install and 10 should activate without an activation code.
2) Some users say you can skip the upgrade and go straight for a clean install, provided you use the 10586 build disc. Then you have to manually activate it with the activation code of Windows 7 or 8 that used to be on the machine. However I have never tried this, so you do this at your own risk!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Funny this would be posted just now - not sure when it launched but nextdoor.com allows you to organize your communities, etc. Very useful for alerts, ideas, and suggestions, but this morning there was a very ribald rant against MS and forced Windows updates. Now this guy is apparently tech savvy and listed the 3 KB articles to remove and hide to avoid MS "helping" you. I won't bore you with all of the neighbors' comments.
So, MS has been pestering me to upgrade, and I'm just not going to do it to my dev machine. If it isn't broke don't elephant with it. So, I removed the three innocuous KB articles and proceeded to reboot. And went to:
"Configuration in process. DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR MACHINE"
got some coffee, drank it, still working...
went upstairs, brushed teeth, etc came back - still working...
about this time I'm thinking, "Oh #$#$%#, MS is doing something evil to me."
after 45 minutes, it finally shutdown and booted. Ai Ai Ai 
I'm not against Win10. I have it in a VM, but no, not my breadwinner.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Thank gawd the Rude Awakening arc is over, one can only take so much fourth wall.
veni bibi saltavi
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I've started keeping my small change in the freezer – I like cold, hard cash.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That one should go back from pence it came.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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