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by dissent
Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:26 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Computers as of 1964
Replies: 13
Views: 1135

Great sizzling vacuum tubes, Batman !! :P :P

Ah, the good ole days; switches and paper tape ...

Graphical user interfaces are for wimps 8)
by dissent
Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:11 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Gymnastics + Hotel balcony = Darwin award
Replies: 65
Views: 2979

Yeah, some people are probably irredeemable.
by dissent
Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:08 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: CNN Poll
Replies: 29
Views: 1886

Hah. Yeah, the headline says it all ...

tastes great.............less filling ..........

half full ...............half empty ............
by dissent
Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:05 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: the cave in at Harvard?
Replies: 52
Views: 3341

the cave in at Harvard?

Recently Harvard President Larry Summers suggested in the course of a prolonged informal discussion the idea that perhaps females were less represented in the sciences because of inherent differences in their brains. An uproar ensued; Summers felt the need to apologize (or at least clarify his remar...
by dissent
Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:38 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Gymnastics + Hotel balcony = Darwin award
Replies: 65
Views: 2979

Very sad, senseless, stupid. Why is it sad? I think it's hilarious. :lol: If someone's that dense, Mr. Darwin will catch up to them sooner or later. Because even morons have families and friends. We spend a lot of time at my workplace talking about assessing risk before doing anything. This person ...
by dissent
Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:46 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Gymnastics + Hotel balcony = Darwin award
Replies: 65
Views: 2979

Very sad, senseless, stupid.
by dissent
Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:13 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: shiny things
Replies: 17
Views: 1146

Focus, grasshopper ................ focus!
by dissent
Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:11 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: BattleStar
Replies: 38
Views: 2235

JUst watched the series pilot. Enjoyed it thoroughly. Characters with complexity and the action keeps moving along. I'll be back for seconds.

I watched the original series. This is better IMO.

And Katee is a good choice for Starbuck. Change is good.
by dissent
Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:36 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Proof that the US Military R&D is full of horny toads
Replies: 31
Views: 1900

Hah. Better living through chemistry.

Look for it to be a designer perfume before next Christmas. That would be making the military pay for itself. Hmm, I wonder what they'd call it ......
by dissent
Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:32 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: The Real Equation for Women
Replies: 10
Views: 752

Hey, I just did the algebra.

Wat do you think it means??? :P
by dissent
Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:16 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: The Real Equation for Women
Replies: 10
Views: 752

Ok, let's try this ... If the Love of Money is the root of evil, then Love x Money = evil^1/2 thus evil = love^2 x money^2 since women = money^2, then evil = love^2 x women and therefore love = (evil/women)^1/2, or in words love is the root of evil over women. Now this makes better sense if we reali...
by dissent
Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:48 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: of classes
Replies: 15
Views: 1028

Yeah, sure.

Some people have class, some people have no class, and some people are in-between.

But seriously, folks ...
by dissent
Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:45 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Almost Unanimous
Replies: 10
Views: 952

How about if we replace Hillary with 'hilarity'?? :P
by dissent
Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:07 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Finally, Someone said it
Replies: 10
Views: 977

Go Teddy !!

Go Howie !!

(increases the odds that Hillary will lose in 2008 ... YES!)
by dissent
Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:05 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Who has a degree in a science?
Replies: 28
Views: 1614

Have a BS in Physics and Math. Finished my degree courtesy of the educational assistance benefit at my employer. Have worked for 28 years in corporate chemistry research, mostly feedstocks and polymers. You know you might want to consider taking your love of sciences into your business career. Often...
by dissent
Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:52 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: How would you dance?
Replies: 19
Views: 1319

Dang! You mean that Stargate thing ain't real??

DANG!!

Guess I'll just have to stay home and eat pizza.

Perhaps if we're lucky, the northeast will secede before the next election ...
by dissent
Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:42 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Life After Divorce, What's Wrong With This?
Replies: 36
Views: 2294

Well, I've never been married so WTFDIK. It sounds to me, ICE, that you've got your head screwed on pretty straight, and you gotten some good advice from the above. Take it slow and best of luck to ya.
by dissent
Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:14 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Another lip sync??
Replies: 28
Views: 1488

As I've mentioned in another thread, it's all about making the video, for whatever markey segment they're trying to suck dry... .. if you want real creativity in your music, then you must be some kind of troglodyte ... OK, I'll make it easy for you; if you see the "artist" on E! or 'Entert...
by dissent
Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:04 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: What are your favorite old weapons?
Replies: 56
Views: 3248

Duh!!

A PEN !!
by dissent
Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:32 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Those "stingy" Americans
Replies: 56
Views: 4661

Talk is cheap. See who actually ponies up the moolah.
by dissent
Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:16 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Have a laugh at the expense of someone else
Replies: 9
Views: 752

Video. Sheesh.
IMHO the whole of popular music edged nearer to the crapper when making the video became more important than making the music.
by dissent
Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:04 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Dumb kids
Replies: 36
Views: 2770

Where do you get good judgement?

- Experience.

Where do you get experience?

- Bad judgement.

'nuff said?
by dissent
Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:03 pm
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: D3 noobie, L1 question
Replies: 10
Views: 2148

Thanks for the offer, TG ...

let me take a whack at it first and see if I can come up with something interesting.
by dissent
Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:22 am
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: D3 noobie, L1 question
Replies: 10
Views: 2148

Thanks for all the info, folks!

I appreciate all the feedback. I had been playing on my integrated extreme 2 graphics, but just installed a Radeon 9600XT last night, which has improved the graphics significantly. I'll keep poking around based on this input to see if there's anything else I missed. ultra-noobie question: how do I g...
by dissent
Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:21 pm
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: D3 noobie, L1 question
Replies: 10
Views: 2148

yeah, L2; sorry ....

D-oh!! Can't count I guess. Must be a math major (come to think of it, I WAS!) Acid caves huh. That would explain why I don't see any bots. Thanks for the heads up. At least with the hot lava in D2 you could get a clue that it might be a bad thing. Live and learn. ok, so I take it that, like in D2 (...
by dissent
Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:35 pm
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: D3 noobie, L1 question
Replies: 10
Views: 2148

D3 noobie, L1 question

OK, I'm a bit slow, but I just got around to loading D3 on some new hardware. On L1, after I clear out the perimeter defenses, I enter the complex and the guidebot takes me down into a cavern. About halfway between this point and the exit door from the cavern I get a reddish glow on my screen and ge...