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Ok, ok! I'll (try to) be helpful! ? Download the free version of Glary Utilities here: https://www.glarysoft.com/glary-utilities/download/ Install and feel free to run the 1-Click Maintenance scan if you'd like (it's pretty awesome!). Then, click on the Advanced Tools menu tab (on the right side). In the middle you'll see a grouping called System Control. You'll want to click on the Startup Items link under that (should be the first link). Take a look at everything that is set to automatically start upon boot-up (Startup Programs). You may find some things that are just wasting resources, but you should also find whatever is running to show you that upgrade annoyance. The second place to check is the next tab over called Scheduled Tasks. Whatever is constantly causing that upgrade pop-up has to be in one or both of those areas! Just disable it and you should be good to go! ??

Yes! Just send us $200 and we'll get it right out to you!!! ?

Since I haven't heard of this happening to anyone but you, I've gotta ask... Did you pi ss off Paulo lately? He might have sent you a virus... ?

(Found this fred wallowing on page 2 and had to do something about it! ? ) Here are the "average" women's face for a bunch of countries! (TBH, they all look better than the average girl I see around Portland lately! ?)

Looks more like a nightmare fish! LOL! ?

No study needed to conclude that guys who work in IT have more sugar than anyone else. (With coffee being a close second!) As for the what the sentence with the censorship is actually saying, well, there's this well-known joke about computer nerds! ? "S ex? Oh yeah! I have a LOT of s ex! Heck, I had s ex five times last night alone! But I do mean alone... ?"

I just realized that BTO was the first rock concert I ever went to! They were playing at Knott's Berry Farm when I was young... Wow. 1973! ?

Moore please. ?

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Was the word you're looking for "pros titute" Bob? ?

Good thing you figured it out yourself! If an IT nerd had to come out, he would have charged you $300 to do the same thing! ?

Hi Disconnected! ?

He has returned to stardust...

Ya! ?

Were you playing this album (Bauhaus - Crackle) maybe? ? ?

Apparently these are for an ad campaign for a jobsintown company created by designboom (the text translates to "Life is too short for the wrong job!"). Very creative! ??

Madness - One Step Beyond (Yeah, I did this one before. I recycle! ? )

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Not sure if I can see you doing that Bob! ?

Well, here's the "short" story there. Originally, I moved to the Pacific Northwest with the goal of buying land and building a custom house with a full studio that I could lease time out to others. Then a string of weirdness happened including my father passing (the day after I unpacked up here!?) which meant my Mom was all by herself (I'm an only child and she's 93 now). Weird stuff happened where I owned four resort properties which caused me to sell them before I wanted to then, while selling the house in San Diego with my Mom in it (which cost me tens of thousands more than it should to prepare) my apartment complex decided to go condo! Of course, out of over 200 units, my apartment had to be the first sold, so now I've got to get out quickly. Instead of taking the time I should have, I found a nice, already built, house for me and was able to soon after find one for my Mom as well. I put 35% down on both houses and then started some remodeling on mine. Next up: A big storm caused 82' of a tree to topple onto the fences for me and my neighbor! After trying to figure out who we should contact for reparations, we discovered that we actually owned all the land beyond the fence going down a dangerous slope to a major street. Now that we knew, we became liable for anyone who might get injured as well as for paying the initial damage (meaning tree maintenance, adding new fences and "Posted No Trespassing" signs). Add all that to some serious code violations I discovered while remodeling and, instead of spending under $10k on the improvements, it was over $92k of my backup cash lost. Then, while I was off working on a PhD (and, therefore, not working), the so-called Credit Crunch hit. Lots of illegal financial dealings I ended up losing both houses, my vehicle and over $890,000! This included my music studio gear which I had about $134k invested into. Because one of the tricks done by the banks was to not lend to anyone for any reason, I couldn't get to any of my equity. My primary house was appraised at $541k right before the B.S., but I could borrow anything on it even with a 811 FICO score (and having never had a late payment in my life). I ended up selling it six times, but they all fell through because the banks weren't lending (the final time was for only $229k, a bit more than I owed!). I now know all of this was planned so that the banks could end up with 1/3 of all residential properties cheaply which were mostly sold to rich investors ("You will own nothing and be happy!" - the chant from the World Economic Forum can be heard here!). They say you really find out who your real friends are and what's truly important once you've lost everything and this was definitely true! So I basically was forced to sell almost all my gear at pennies on the dollar. If I got 10%-13% of what something was worth I was lucky. From then on it's just been a matter of trying to recover and survive! And now you know!

REM - Camera

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This is the Focusrite I had: I never had the issues you were, but this unit did get so hot that I was seriously afraid it was going to catch fire and so I got rid of it.