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Maybe you've got personal firewalls on one or more of the computers you're using? Could be you need to unblock the ports. Try to portscan the server.

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Klaymation told me once about a memory foam mattress he had. Said it was comfortable as hell until you tried to spend a whole night on it. Apparently they're very good insulators; so it became uncomfortably warm to sleep on. Would probably work for women, though, since they seem to run a little cool...

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda bs=512 This is what I would do. Knoppix is awesome: it's free, widely used, and a favorite for forensics work. Just google to download and burn it onto a CD. You can also google to find a ton of how-to's for getting started with Knoppix. Interesting side note: if you ...

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Get your fix here:

http://retro.vandegrift.net/

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I'll try to hit ones nobody else has yet: AC/DC: Back in Black Allman Bros: Melissa or Whipping Post? Asia: Heat of the Moment BTO: Taking care of Business Bad Co: Shooting Star Jackson Browne: Running on Empty Elvis Costello: Alison Cheap Trick: Surrender or I Want You to Want Me Def Leppard: Photo...

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Lots of cool movies at this site. Here's my favorite; I had no idea that vines did this:

twining vines

Also interesting are sleepytime and sensitive plant.

The movies are embedded Quicktime, btw.

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It's always easier to judge people and lack sympathy when you don't know them personally. Also, it's hard enough for a married woman with a house to care for three kids while working. Gotta be real tough for a divorced homeless woman to work and still keep the kids out of trouble. I'm just playing d...

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WarAdvocat wrote:I agree with couver.

Stick 'click' firing takes longer than mouse 'click' firing.

Ah, yet another reason the 3DPro is a great stick. Its trigger has no travel: it's like a mouse button.

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If you want to see fleets from various sci-fi series in the same battle, check out:

http://www.spacebattles.com/

These are fan-made shorts, some better than others. Kinda old now, though.

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Otherone's level DOHme is excellent MD practice. It's a training level designed to teach you to dodge missiles, but you use an MD to turn the missile launchers on and off. The best practice for MD is to hit the switch that turns on ALL missile launchers, then try to turn them off one by one using th...

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Thoroughly enjoyable. I liked the "Hudsucker Proxy" reference.

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I know we've got a lot of sci-fi and fantasy fans on this board. I found this on Slashdot:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb202277.htm

I agree that a lot of the pulp sci-fi and fantasy out there is crapolla, but this publisher put their foot in their mouth and got their just desserts!

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[/full derailment] Ah, serious it is. The mathematical limit of impossibility looks like it was pulled out of a hat. Scientists know you can't put a number on such a concept, and instead use the term "vanishinly small" or "near zero." As for the other numbers, let's assume they h...

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Heh, I can't tell if you're being funny on purpose or not! I do like those numbers, though. Particularly good is the "limit of mathematical impossibility." Although I can't make sense of the numbers unless you post 'em in scientific notation and provide some units and conditions on them.

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Wow, a lot has happened here in 48 hours! I'm sorry I can't possibly address it all, but Lothar and Drakona do a great job of explaining things. But I've been called out so I'll try to explain myself better, particularly regarding the "intent" and "context" of ID. Below I present...

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Drakona, good post. Lothar, now that you've defined what you meant by "creation" I understand the statement of yours I quoted. The problem I had (and was afraid others would have) is that using the standard definition of creation, the statement is very misleading. So I guess we're OK on th...

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"Designed" not "created". The actual creative process need not be particularly intelligent, so long as whatever designer is involved has the ability to shape the direction of the process intelligently. For example, a process like evolution could be the actual mechanism of creati...

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Just when we thought they FINALLY had a space mission that went as planned. Remember that Huygens was going to measure wind speeds on Titan? Since Titan is the first world we've sent a probe to with an atmosphere capable of even having wind in the first place, this was a hugely important experiment:...

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I dunno, Foil. For most of my life I've been in the nurture over nature camp. But in the last few years I've seen a lot of kids growing up, and I've seen a lot of examples of nature over nurture.

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Please tell me you know what sarcasm is... Of course I do! My statement was an excellent example of sarcasm. Why didn't you get it? Don't you know sarcasm when you see it? It's hard for some people to accept the fact that, while we all have equal worth, we sometimes have different functions and dif...

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Aha! So if we combine Woodchip's statement with Lothar's we get...Lothar is pro-Clinton! This recent bruhaha over this guy's statements reminds me of when the book "The Bell Curve" was published. It makes people's heads explode when they try to be both scientifically enlightened and politi...

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I'm very sorry for your brother, that sounds like a horrific accident. Best wishes to him, and to you and your family who share his pain.

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Battlestar Galactica is on right now.

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I like Boomer. She reminds me of a College girlfriend.

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Yay, perpetual motion machines!

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Yes, but a new bb app. doesn't mean you have to throw away all your old posts. When Citibank upgrades their accounting software somehow they manage to keep their customer info.

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Buy a $20 sound card and a $10 3DPro and you're good to go.

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All the changes in new miniseries that old fans were whining about before it was released are the exact things that made the new version better than the original. It's serious, it's adult, it's dark. Apples and oranges. You might enjoy this new one.

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I used to worry about how we're leaving the earth for future generations, but in reality I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns. Mobius, shut up. Nobody likes you. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one here that likes Mobius. Still, one > nobody! In the long run...

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You're right, the thread's gone! In fact, it looks like the DBB is only caching the past 1 year? If so, that sucks because I've been planning a lot of I-told-you-so posts referring to things people said years ago...

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I definitely had a different opinion. I thought it was some of the best made-for-TV scifi to come out in years.

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I'm confused; I thought the administration's line on this is that the CIA led them astray with bad evidence, thus huge shakeups and resignations at the CIA. Where did this new line come from? Are we now saying that the WMD's were in fact there but are now hidden or moved, and the CIA was right the w...

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Wait, you're watching reruns of the original series from the '80s or reruns of the 4-hour pilot/miniseries that first aired about a year ago?

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Who are you going to be working for? And don't say Microsoft!

An MBA never hurt anyone. It's a lot more benign than a law degree.

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Have they led millions to suffer horrendous deaths in the worst ways imaginable? That looks like a pretty major causal fallacy or maybe a non sequitur. http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm Either way, I don't think you want to base a religion's validity on it. Because if you do, you'd have...

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Accepting your premise, if only for the sake of debate, at least Gibson can claim ignorance since he's over 2000 years and a few translations removed from his subject material. What's Moore's excuse? Despite Lothar's excellent summary in the other ongoing thread about this, I can't shake your analo...

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Ah, two movies that are spun by their makers to promote anger and neither with a modicum of cinematic value. One takes favorite movie and the other favorite drama. The people have spoken. Let me guess; 51% voted for the religious zealot and 49% for the liberal wacko.

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Duh, I didn't think of that. I'll get right on it, thanks.

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What you say has some merit, if only to point out what kind of monster the fourth estate has mutated into during the past few decades.

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I've taken a few comp sci courses by your definition; an A+ certification course, programming courses etc.. But I also have to take these stupid courses... Who needs a course to tell them how to work M$ word, anyways? I couldn't agree more about those application use courses; can't you "place ...

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