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@Dagbiker: Fairly certain that it's non static, not entirely sure.

Right, so I'm going to preface this by saying I'm pretty much tech illiterate. I know basic tech speak and am able to do what I need to and check what's wrong, but I'm not able to come up with workarounds or get into heavy tech talk. Any and all help that y'all could provide would be greatly appreciated.

About a month ago, I bought my first laptop. It's a Lenovo Z575 and these are the specs:

• AMD A4-330M Dual Core Processor
• 4GB DDR3 Memory
• 500GB HDD Storage
• 15.6" HD (1366 x 768 pixels) LED backlight, ATI Radeon HD 6480M Integrated Graphics and HDMI
• Windows® 7 Home Premium 64 bit

So, here's the issue. I keep getting this error message.

This happens an infuriatingly frequent amount of times. Anywhere from 5-20 times per day. It will sometimes take one refresh and be okay, but other times it will take up to fifteen or twenty minutes to fix itself. I have no idea why it's doing this, I've checked and everything seems to be in order and talked to a few tech friends (including having my extremely tech-savvy uncle look at it) and nothing's really changed. It's just driving me nuts, I've been having to restrain myself from throwing the laptop at a wall.

My sister has a similar laptop (Z560) and it has no issue like this. The desktop works fine, as do internet connectivity with my iPod, the WiFi on my phone and everything else internet connection-related.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

@Sparklykiss: You are an evil, evil woman.

I missed the eighties by a mere twenty-four days.

Sweet!

And the last is not so much a speech, as just a fucking epic moment.

Are we talking real life speeches or just any speech across media that has caught our fancy?

@DarkHuntressCV

Air Conditioner.

Will Uncle Moneybags also be paying any and all possible future health bills due to the possible repercussions from said pack a day smoking?

@AlisterCat said:

I tweeted this thread to Daniel. Best if you report it to them so that they can contact the ad agency. They can't control these things until they happen, and even then there isn't a great deal they can do.

Guys, I'm on this! Have no fear!

This comes down literally to me just flagging them in my browser with a tool the agency provided and saying "remove this shit" and they do it. The trick is, finding it.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE always email me with a screen cap directly at my email address daniel@whiskeymedia.com whenever you see these so I can address it immediately. This is seriously one of the most important aspects of what I do at Whiskey, and I take it very seriously. I hate shitty, nefarious ads as much as you guys, and I want to make sure they don't show up on our sites.

Thanks, and sorry if this has in any way tainted your view of our advertising practices. We're really doing the best we can. But that said, we can always do better. And that's my job.