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re: drainage by house, maybe look into installing a french drain.

CheapyD, with that much water... there's no way you don't have some water damage.  You should really call your insurance and see if it's covered (which I think is unlikely).  Anything wooden that the water has touched will likely be trash, if it touched the drywall (if you have drywall) then...

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Shipwreck if it doesn't get sorted out, you should email Jeff Bezos [email protected], obviously he isn't answering your email, but you'll get a high level customer service person, I've done it when I've had problems.

Hey Cheapy,  I had issues with Racoons as well, I installed a big ass amazon motion sensing floodlight and it definitely helped.  Also be very careful disposing of Racoon poop, because it can contain Roundworm which can have pretty severe effects on humans.

I had a different E3 lineup experience to you guys getting into the show. I went on Tuesday and arrived at around 11am.  I went to the Figueroa entrance and the lineup was insane... almost reaching Venice blvd (I'd guess about a 90 minute wait based on how fast the line was moving, ie one or...

I have seem lego batman at legoland california before, you'd still probably want to call, they might not do each character every day

Yeah it looks like cheapy got the download link wrong, and forgot the dot before mp3, try this one or you can copy the link, add the dot yourself and when it starts up press ctrl+s

Glad you managed to get the mains turned off this time Cheapy.  If something like this happens again, once you turn off the mains then turn on a tap in the house (preferably at the lowest height in the house), otherwise the pipes will still be full of water (at pressure) and will slowly leak...

Sorry I thought about it a bit more and you probably don't need to turn off the hot water at the tank, you can probably test each faucet individually by locally shutting off the hot water, then turning on the hot water tap.  If cold water comes out that's your bad faucet.  Obviously this wont...

This is similar to what i was describing with the mixing valve it's called hot-cold water crossover (I googled it). It can happen either at the hot water heater itself, or at a fixture. If it's a fixture, you should be able to turn the shut off valve on your hot water tank, so that no hot...

Not sure about homes sold in Long Island, but in CA when you buy a home part of the closing process is to also get a "home warranty" for a year, they cover some of the stuff your insurance wont cover, including appliances and sometimes plumbing.  Usually they'll have a maximum payout for...

The other two replies are fairly likely to be correct, you are likely getting slow speeds on your PS4 because of interference on the 2.4GHz band, that could be because you have devices like a wireless phone or baby monitor that also use that band, or because you live in an apartment block with a...

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Since I know Cheapy loves Robocop collectibles... http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/ford/taurus/177343.html

I agree that Atari probably has stronger brand recognition with the older crowd but disagree that it's a problem, those 30+ gamers are now the parents who pay for the console and have considerable input (parents trust the Nintendo brand). Besides the question isn't should they use Atari as much...

So I've asked this question once before, but just in the Cag Bag where it got quickly lost. The question is "should Microsoft ditch the xbox brand name". Here's my reasoning, I don't feel like "Microsoft" or "Xbox" are very good brand names for the living room, I think they've done an...

Hey Cheapy and Wombat, So I heard your note about "what you you do to improve the next gen of consoles" I've always thought that Microsoft made a big mistake by creating the xbox brand in the first place ( xbox is just a terrible name, almost anything would be better ), but I think they should...

This is specifically a question for wombat (since he's both an uber comic book and video game nerd) but I'm curious as to other people's replies also... What comic book character/franchise you'd like to see made into a video game?