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time to necro this thread.

So, according to Chris Matthews it looks like the score is now Romney/Ryan 1, Obama/Biden 0.

Wow, I agree with Chris; that's definitely the way I would call it too - only with less slobber.

On to the veep debate.

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Thanks Krom. Yeah, I later read through the discussion on ssd drives you had on the 2012 PC and Workstations thread and I started to understand better what what going on there. Thanks also for the equipment list - I'll be reading up on it. Sounds like it will easily blow past what I'm running on now.

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yeah, I think I can do something in the $500 $1K range. I'd probably opt for non-ssd drives, since it seems that ssd $/GB is still a fair bit higher than mechanical drives (?). So how many watts of a power supply is typical for this sort of application?

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Thanks Krom. I'd appreciate your and anyone else's input, as you guys know a lot more about this stuff than I do. I mostly use the computer for internet, Office apps and several other commercial software packages (e.g my family history program). I still mess around with my old Descent installs, but ...

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Thanks for the replies, all !! I just got back into town after a long weekend of vacationing. Went to the Black Hills. It was fun. Yeah, I was a bit spooked by the bad timing (for me) of the PSU (potentially) going bonkers just before I left for vacation. Frankly, I'd like to just junk my current de...

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Windows XP (still!!!) to be precise. I was screwing around with an sd card reader and when I plugged it into the USB port via an extension cable, my screen just went blank, then the light at the bottom started slowly blinking, like there was no signal. Held the power button down and restarted the th...

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The contract must have been up. So it was time for a strike. Obviously.

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http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/149987/

chair

more chair

and yet more chair

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http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/08/25 ... epage=true

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Balls of Steel ™ .

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... est-pliot/

Thy name is Neil Armstrong.

Godspeed.

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World Air Guitar Championships

Wow. Really? And to think of what I could have done with my life.

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keep drinking the kool-aid Dissent. Oh, an Biden will mop the floor with Ryan, especially in the eyes of working men and women. for the record, what I posted was not kool-aid drinking. This is kool-aid drinking. I guess we'll see on October 11 whether Biden is the mopper or the moppee. I wouldn't g...

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CobGobbler wrote:
dissent wrote:This might qualify as the funniest thing I've ever read. Mitt Romney has the new hotness...my god I'll be laughing at that for days.

Whatchyu sayin' bro'. You got somethin' against change. I thought change was what made the liberals all knee-wobbly and leg-tingly.

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I'm pumped. Ryan was a great pick. The point of this election is that it is about the economy, stupid. The liberal froth machine will go wild, but they were going to do that regardless of who Romney picked. The real question here is who picks up more pinocchios now in the dueling ad campaigns, the D...

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I probably should have coupled 'solid education' and 'critical thinking'. Those were the hallmarks of a real University degree at one time, ... So, what happened to the ability to obtain "a real University degree"? Are we talking a "classical Liberal" education? It has been inte...

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How This Guy Lied His Way Into MSNBC, ABC News, The New York Times and More Tools like this streamline the hectic process that is blogging — were the situation different, I could see easily myself swindled by someone like Holiday. With each story he was quoted in, there would have been an analog wa...

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Tilting? Dude...the only way you can read anything else into those two paragraphs by both candidates is if you're willfully trying to distort them. Apparently, that's exactly what Romney and his campaign are willing to do. I don't care how many people say otherwise: they're flat-out wrong. This is ...

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Yes, dissent, I fully assert that those two speeches are conveying pretty much the exact same message, as much as Romney seems to have deluded himself into thinking they're not. And I'm not sure what sort of crowd that Reason author hangs out with, but I've come across plenty of people (some on thi...

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I was a bit incorrect there. That statement from Romney wasn't a few years ago...he said it two weeks ago, immediately after repeating the distortion of Obama's quote in the same speech. You can't make this ★■◆● up. :D You're kidding me, right? You really want to look at these two speeches (see her...

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Fine. If you'd like to post a link to the Romney vid so we can compare your point, please be my guest.

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tunnelcat wrote:Guess we'd be lunch in less than a 100 meters.

I have no doubt that that happened more than a few times back in the day on the savannah.

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I guess when your totally inept Commander in Chief says to business owners that they didn't start their business...someone else did and then furiously has to back pedal to explain what he meant. It's funny how everyone with half a brain who listened to Obama's entire paragraph knew exactly what he ...

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AT least he was man enough to cop to it. It was a sort of nebulous incident that triggered the whole thing, and unless you are a black man, you or I will never truly understand the generations of history that complicates incidents like that one. We can only hope to be understanding of where the Pro...

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heh, I'm jealous. I've still got a few years to go; under ten if the winds are fair. Good luck Slick. Sounds like you won't have too much trouble keeping yourself busy, especially in the near term.

(not to pee in your pool or anything, but why is this in E&C?)

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had my chicken on CFA Day. It was delicious.

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because, at some point, almost any thread can benefit from a cute kitten video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk that, and the Kimwipe box is close to home for me. :) Yes, I leave the neighborhood from time to time too, but it's always nice to know I can come back to visit my dysfunctiona...

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tunnelcat wrote:Thought you'd pipe up dissent, and probably CUDA and ST and woodchip and...............................

I can resist anything . . . . except temptation. - Oscar Wilde

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YES!!

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heh. just wait til they evolve opposable thumbs. humans will be doomed.

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Here's an excellently informative video from the UN about the reality of Chernobyl and Fukushima, trying to dispel retarded myths created by a media who should know better. Good luck with that, UN !!! The present media can barely contain their contempt for actual journalism, as long as there are pl...

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Could be time to buy stock in air pollution controls companies that are doing business in China.

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Bah. These large bugs are simply time travellers.

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http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a0 ... index.html

h/t to the bad astronomer
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... /#comments

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lol, nice gif, roid!

Some nasty spiders down Aussie way - redbacks, funnelwebs, etc.

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The Ark Encounter is being brought to you by the same crazy Evangelical group that built the Creation Museum, so that picture is close enough (fixed it above). I believe I noted that AiG was involved in both projects in my post. They want massive tax breaks for their proposed Ark Museum when other ...

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Interesting, but I thought you were saying that the taxpayer dollars were being spent on the Creation Museum; is that not where the picture came from? The article you linked was in reference the the Ark Encounter theme park. As I understand it, both are associated with AiG, but they are separate pro...

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Yeah, and they got taxpayer dollars to help build it. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to critique the AiG's museum. I'm not sure that "taxpayer dollars" is one of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum The museum, which is said to have cost $27 million, is privately fun...

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yeah, that's about it, flip.

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I think the West finals should be pretty entertaining. I don't have a favorite; I'd just like to see some entertaining basketball. With the Bulls out of the picture, I don't have a favorite in the East either. I might lean Boston there, but only because I'm an old sentimentalist.

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.... the Lakers have gone down to defeat.

Now if somebody would just get rid of the Heat, then that would complete the season for me.

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