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i like the judges ruling "the interruption doesnt justify the crime" - as if to say the guy should've just slapped her one then went about his day... Yeah, I saw that, too... as though he's saying, "Yes, she was wrong to try to pull you away from your sports, but not quite that wrong...

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Just means you're cool, I guess, KB.

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I run three routers! Two are hooked to a switch connected to the cable modem (I have two IPs), and are also hooked to each other LAN-side so I can talk to my desktop from the laptop without having to open ports. Router #3 is a 54g wireless router in the living room to connect my laptop to. This conn...

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I'd believe that that's all there is to it. Sounds like he was cuffed by SWT (oh sorry, TSU :roll: ) officers, and they probably had nothing better to do. San Marcos isn't that big of a town, gotta get your kicks in where you can. If this guy's the one that got the fences taken down and such, then w...

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I think we're probably saying the same thing here. Take this example: Say you're on your local network, and happen to be able to fully-utilize the network (impossible, I know, but let's pretend). You're copying a 100MB file to your machine, and copying a 10MB file from your machine. With a half-dupl...

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Also, Mobius' math is slightly flawed. "Full-duplex" simply means it can be transmitted in both directions at the same time. It doesn't magically double the overall potential bandwidth. I think that it sort of does, but only in "marketing" terms. Unless, that is, if you're sendi...

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hehe, that's great. Hate (jealousy) mail for Stress's "Bloo" station.

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Link to Moon's walkthrough for level 14: http://moon.descent-3.com/d3howto14.html As for "bump", it's like a light hit/push, something along those lines. All you'd need to do is touch it with your ship. My guess is the error you received was because you were low on energy, so you couldn't ...

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Awesome! So far it's only $22.50 for getting the rights to the Brooklyn Bridge in the case that the seller ever is given the bridge by NYC. Not a bad deal.

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Of course if that is the case I would think her racing mind would have been saying "let me die, let me die!" Most likely. I don't think anyone would really want to be trapped like that. It's like some sort of horrible nightmare. Aware yet unable to actually do anything. Besides, I see thi...

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Except that with IE and Microsoft documents that go with applications you've got installed, it actually doesn't (that I've seen) give you the opportunity to view the document in Word/Excel/whatever instead of within the IE window. Now, of course, there may be a preference somewhere, but I'm not sure...

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So that's what that tanker-truck convoy was the other day......

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For crying out loud, we've been hearing about this too long. Get it off the media. Agreed. Just because a jury found him innocent of this crime doesn't mean he's not a slimeball. Any parents that would send their kids to this whacko's house overnight ain't in their right minds. Whacko: yes. Slimeba...

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What legal reason did they have for detaining him? I don't think they'd necessarily need to detain him (though you'd think a quick check for anything outstanding on this heavily-armed guy trying to cross the border might be prudent), but perhaps telling him to try again without the chainsaw and swo...

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Oh, but it's okay, they confiscated his weapons at the border. "Hmm, this dude's coming in pretty well-armed. Well, we'll just confiscate his weapons and send him on his way in!"

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I thought it was just the x86 archetecture and that they named Intel as a platform because of brand recognition and not because it will run exclusively on Intel only. I would really like to see a Mac OS running on a PC. THat is if it was good. With all of the layers it uses to operate Windows may s...

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"w00tz0rs 4 u" or whatever the kids are saying these days.

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Since this was Hijacked, I figured I'd go ahead and start a new topic for what was important to ME :) But then the nazi mods can't mess with this one! Oh wait, yeah we can. :lol: Normally the method is to complain about all the hijacking, original thread's left behind, flamefest ensues, mods step i...

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The Raccoons are making final preparations for their hostile takeover.

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VonVulcan wrote:WooHoo, 4 work units... what, no fire works?

That's when you get a big WU and your computer explodes.

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Okay, okay, change it to "elitist moron" then, hehe. ;) In any case, assuming I'm thinking of the right type of game (which I would have to be, unless lander-type games are different than they used to be), it's seriously a different game from Descent. Descent could be called an arcade-styl...

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Sounds like that guy's got some self-esteem issues and tries to resolve them by bashing other games in a completely different segment. Maybe he's just annoyed that he missed the time when those sort of games were huge.

(That being like 10-15 years ago.)

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My Texas DL has my picture (duh, how would anyone know it's your DL?) and my address (exact reason for printing your address right on there I'm not 100% clear on, but I'm sure there's reasoning behind it that would be all too clear were I some crazed killer who got pulled over). Stuff like that I th...

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I've used both Acoustic Research and Monster. Haven't noticed a real difference between the two (other than price). What I get usually depends on if I'm feeling spendy and whether there's stock of the level and length of cable I'm looking for. Don't go with just any cables the store happens to have,...

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Saw the preview for this last night. Hard to tell whether it'll be good or not, but I was floored that at least from the little they showed, it looks along the lines of the original comics.

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That's a pretty big difference then. Guess Preludes must just be REALLY popular here.

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Well, for price, you'd have to run a "retail" price on it, which is $15-16K in my area (depending on whether it's a Type SH or not -- probably not). Which is still under the $16,999 I'm sure they were trying for there. Or who knows, maybe they love that Prelude and don't really want to sel...

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Testiculese wrote:I don't see a reason to micro-update every 15 hours

Because updating is fun, we should get to do it every hour or two! (But less than an hour would just be silly.)

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Yeah, different request, is that still technically amortization? (My wife's the CPA.) I'll see if I can get a total for savings. If I'm remembering the interest formulae properly, the total should be $5000 * (1.06 ^ 12), or ~$16036 . A savings calculator at my CU gives $16551 for monthly interest at...

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According to http://ray.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/amortize : Principal borrowed: $5000.00 Annual Payments: 12 Total Payments: 240 Annual interest rate: 6.00% Periodic interest rate: 0.5000% Regular Payment amount: $35.82 Final Balloon Payment: $0.00 The following results are estimates which do not account...

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Viralphrame wrote:I doubt some 4th grade kid will feel very pleasant when he brings home a paper with a purple-colored F.

Or maybe a nice, happy, sunny yellow F.

Your kid is a moron. Have a nice day!

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Well, assuming you're not talking about someone sending stuff to themselves (which defeats the purpose of BT), use of BT is pretty much just an evolution of the traditional download. Instead of pulling all of the file from the host server, you'll grab bits and pieces from anyone currently downloadin...

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Trackers are a bad idea, once the ria/mpaa shuts down a tracker, they demand a list of all the ip addresses that used the tracker, and unless youre going through a proxy, you will probably get a nice little letter in the mail either from your isp or from the ria/mpaa. So stick to your adware- and t...

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"Crime doesn't pay. But only if you're rich and famous. So keep those aspirations low!"

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And here I always thought that the red marks were so you could easily distinguish it from your own pen marks on the page (unlike using, say, blue or black). I was never traumatized by seeing red marks of either persuasion on my papers, and I could always tell what the teacher was trying tell me. But...

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woodchip wrote:There must be a contagion. There is now a ad with a "Quaker Oats" guy who looks eerily similar to the "Burger King".

He has too few Burger Subjects to pay Burger Taxes, so he's been moonlighting.

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I've pretty much just see the Bacon Cheddar one, but that's very very strange. Everytime I see it, I really wonder about the sanity of the people who envisioned it. (And yes, the King seems a bit evil.) I hate them almost as much as the stupid enzyte ads. Minor tangent, but does anyone else get the ...

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Carl's Jr & Hardee's have nothing in common but the star. And management and... well, not everything, but they should be kinda related by now, becoming two different tiers or something. But I wouldn't know, they don't give us Carl's Jr here, and when we were still in California, they were indep...

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I definitely agree, Ferno. Hell, apparently in first grade I'd roll around on the floor while the teacher would be reading. And aggravated her when I could answer any question she came up with. :lol: When teaching to the lowest common denominator, you're screwing everyone else, and being horribly bo...

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If it is meaningless, why is it forbidden? I believe what she meant is that it's not like it's simply meaningless, but instead is expressly forbidden. (First Commandment should cover it, as sorcerous powers would be obtained from some power other than God, and the First Commandment prohibits worshi...

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