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Remove Filter  | I have been otherwise occupied for the last 10 years or so - got a job with the IRS (boo, hiss) on a seasonal basis. Got back into making puddles of glass (casting) and bead-making. I started a project I call 'Ramdom act of art' where I walk up to … |
| | It blocks every attempt to modify any file anywhere. I give Steam and all its subsidiary .exes permission and then it says that there is no permission to modify 'Documents'. I just bought the darned machine to game with and it is freaking driving me nuts. Any suggestions on where …  |
| | Can you dig it! In the midst of the hostage situation in downtown Sydney, [Uber](http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/uber-criticized-charging-minimum-100-fare) was charging $100 to get to safety plus 4 times normal milage. I know - they claimed it was an accident of 'surge-pricing' but that was the 2nd or 3rd explanation not the first. One … |
| | Today is a sad day for South Africa, Africa, and the world; with the passing of Mandela there is an emptiness in the world that will be hard to fill. |
| | For some reason Windoze thinks that my USB port(s) is/are unknow devices when I try to update the drivers it tells me the drivers are current. I get a message "sfotware for this device has been installed; unknown device is ready to use. Most things 9except for my mouse and …  |
| | Well, I am starting to get bored with my current rotation and want to update my collection. I like [weird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VnF9NeuhUE) music and I am especiall fond of German Industrial like [Rammstein](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOAMKTj0hU), [Kraftwerk](http://www.sonar.es/en/2013/prg/ar/kraftwerk-%283d-show%29_134), and [Einstürzende Neubauten](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndK3BM77o5s) - at least for industrial I also like [California Guitar Trio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEAccE7BMs) (can you tell the …  |
| | **"No mention of guns or gun laws will be tolerated on this thread or I'll get a mod with non-lethal powers to remove your post, or at least have you publically pilloried for not reading this notice"**(*thank you diafol*) In another life, another thread - I tried to bring up …  |
| | I just ran across this [article](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/10/2275611/federal-judge-authorizes-chevrons-sweeping-subpoena-of-activists-internet-data/) about a judge's allowing a subpoena of over 100 accounts, for over 9 years - blanket from google, ms, and yahoo. Discuss |
| | On May 29, 1913, one hundred years ago, Igor stravinski premiered **[The Rite of Spring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZW3XGnbMvc)**. This was supposed to be the ballet concert of the year and all of the best of Paris society was in attendence; the music was so new and raw that after a couple minutes the … |
| | A goshawk [strike](http://youtu.be/qy61f1Mn0fk) at 5,000 frames per second; around 3 minutes, it is almost a POV of the strike (if you were a water baloon).  |
| | I just found the coolest new BOINC project (BOINC projects are distributed projects that use your spare computer cycles to solve HUGE computational questions from SETI to Malaria to climate research) - it is called Quake-Catcher out of Stanford University. They send you a sensor that you screw to your …  |
| | Today is the 150th birthday of the London Underground (the Raw Meat reference is to an early horror movie that takes place in the Underground). The people who took that first ride on this day were the big wigs; tomorrow celebrates the 30,000 brave souls who rode the Underground when … |
| | I was just on the bus, minding my own business when I heard a magical phrase "he knew 2 dozen languages and numerous dialects"; I just had to speak up because there is only one person in history who could fit that phrase: My hero, [B][U][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton"]Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton[/URL][/U][/B]. … |
| | I think I screwed up the installation of my NetGear WG602v2 wireless access point. I followed the installation guide (configured my pc with the ip address of the WG602, connected the wg602 to the ethernet port, connected to the wg602 and logged in) up to the step "click the IP … |
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| | [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HBfy_kjkt4I"]An army of ninja cats creeping up on you[/URL] |
| | The reason I ask is that the Cavendish banana is doomed. Bananapocalypse started in the same area where bananas evolved, southeast Asia; of course there is a correlation, the place where bananas evolved is where all its pathogens and parasites are there evolving right along with it. So [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_oxysporum_f.sp._cubense"]Fusarium oxysporum[/URL] … |
| | I did not even realize [URL="www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0"]it[/URL] was an MS ad until the end. I imagine that you will go over your 'minutes' pretty damn quickly. On a more pleasant note, I really, really want to see [URL="http://io9.com/5857537/5-clips-from-arthur-christmas-will-awaken-your-cold-black-heart"]this[/URL] movie. It has charm, thrills, and won't cause insulin spikes. |
| | [QUOTE]NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Handguns will soon be allowed in bars and restaurants in Tennessee under a new law passed by state legislators who voted to override the governor's veto. The legislation that takes effect July 14 retains an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a handgun, and restaurant owners …  |
| | Craig opened his show tonight with him being interviewed(??) by a zombie but was interrupted by bunny singing "There is a light over at the Frankenstein place" then zombies climbed out from behind the furniture for the chorus. Geof somehow made it to the middle of the stage for a … |
| | A [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSK4k3D-50"]drop of water at 2000 frames per second[/URL] dances to infinity (er, at least for average amounts of infinity they get smaller and smaller) |
| | I just bought 2 new games - EYE, which I recently started playing and am enjoying a great deal and the latest Deus Ex, which is the first game I paid full price for in years. I pre-ordered it months ago and then forgot about it. I generally only play …  |
| | [QUOTE]The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has …  |
| | I see that 20.5 inch screens are down to about $120.00 - what should I look for when buying? I will be using it for gaming.  |
| | This just in - they found Osama's body Ding Dong [URL="http://gawker.com/#!5797528/breaking-is-osama-bin-laden-dead"]the witch is dead[/URL] |
| | Here is a RL Fallout Vault from 8th to 7th centuries BCE in Turkey; later taken over by early Xtians around 500 - 1,000 CE. One of the cities could hold up to 35,000 people plus food storage, live animal storage, and wine making equipment. This city is [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_Underground_City"]Derinkuyu[/URL] and … |
| | I am not sure if this is the right location but I just noticed my favorite web-comic site is looking for someone interested in writing Android aps. [URL="http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/android-developer-request"]Check it out [/URL]  |
| | I am playing a PBeM game called Olympia-game 3, it seems many of the players use Perl scripts to automate some tasks. They happily share the code but I am hesitant to press for programming help in the gaming forum so I come here. I downloaded Strawberry Perl and am …  |
| | I just bought a new netgear wndr3700 router and am trying to get my g.f's laptop up on it. I can set the wireless pc card to full wpa2 protection but it can't seem to connect. It sees the router but the connection fails. I tried setting it up with … |
| | There is a new video editing system that allows you to remove stuff from the 'live' feed. Looks pretty freaky - like how the TeaBaggers view the world - [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgTq-AgYlTE"]take a look[/URL] |
| | The marshmallow test was the brain child (heh,heh double pun intended) of the father of 4 young girls around the age of 4 years old. He realized that his 4 y.o. could be convinced to put gratification now for something later. He developed a test where young children were told … |
| | I saw the news about the navy testing a rail gun that can hit targets 100 miles away (w/o all that big gun recoil) and was pretty impressed. Then I found [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5357776/diy-rail-gun-is-terrifying-comes-with-building-instructions"]this[/URL]. Unfortunately, it seems that the actual instructions are have been deleted by the 'authors'. If you go down …  |
| | For those of you who live '20 minutes in the future', it might be encouraging to know that the complete [B][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFFMRXGjfNI"]MAX[/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkB_x1-rXSE"]HEADROOM[/URL][/B] dvd set is out for xmas. It holds up pretty well and gets a lot of stuff right - and is over 20 years old (and has a … |
| | Those dudes over at TSA have put together a calendar - as they say in the old cartoons: Hubba hubba! |
| | [URL="http://www.ge.com/thegeshow/flight/index.html#ch1"]GE choreographs some flight plans[/URL]  |
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| | Heselden died testing his improved Segway; he was developing a [URL="http://www.chipchick.com/2010/09/segway-owner-dies.html"]cross country version[/URL]. Among his inventions are a text reader, a 'stair-climbing' wheelchair, and of course, Ginger later called Segway. When I last left Paris, there were Segway tours starting up (not something I was particularly fond of).  |
| | Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let … |
| | I was on another site talking about when I used to work with explosives on a seismograph crew and stole just a little of the 'goop' (I wanna say blasting powder but it was more like clay with seeds in it) from each of the 5 lb logs while I … |
| | I can now watch the Daily Show straight through w/o all those damnable glitches, hiccups, and pauses. In fact, I am listening now whenever Craig goes to commercial - pretty cool. Er, should have posted this last night |
| | These [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs"]guys[/URL] have way too much time on their hands - but I love 'em. |
| | [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0c5yClip4o"]The stupid hurts.[/URL] |
| | So, you hang out here - what other fora do you go to? I also visit [URL="http://www.savingadvice.com/forums/"]Personal Finance Forums[/URL] |
| | I just ran across this [URL="http://jalopnik.com/5610373/hackers-wirelessly-crash-cars-computer-at-highway-speeds"]hack[/URL] then I remembered a CSI: New York that revolved around a murder facilitated by hacking the gps then disabling the car in a 'bad' neighborhood, and setting off the alarms. Every device in your home that you can add to your network gives someone … |
| | The father of Gordon's love interest the HalfLife 2 series is in one of the picture phone adds (he is the grandfather seeing his grandchild for the first time). I was in the kitchen when I heard that voice - I have played so much HL2 that I could not …  |
| | I have some 'interesting' medical problems - someone told me to try homeopathy, that would cure me. Homeopathy is one of the worst scams with the most bizarre process I have ever run across (even more ridiculous than scientology): take a healthy adult and give them increasing doses of a …  |
| | I was riding the 'crazies' bus north out of Seattle (the 358, people shoot at the drivers, a couple of the buses almost went off the Aurora Bridge); anyway, the bus was packed and I was sitting in the bendy seats of an articulate bus when I spotted the typical …  |
| | EEGs and MEGs and MRIs take pictures of out brains (images in jagged lines overlaid onto regions of the brain) to diagnose problems in the hardware. But when used in conjunction with specific pictures across different individuals, it appears that the pictures cause similar enough responses that a computer can … |
| | I appear to be Gregory Benford - [URL="http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html"]take a look for yourself [/URL] [CODE]<table width='90%' border=1 cellpadding=8 align='center'><tr><td width='1%'><img src='http://paulkienitz.net/quizpix/skiffy_greg.jpg' width=200 height=200></td><td>I am:<blockquote><big><big><b>Gregory Benford</b></big></big></blockquote>A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.</td></tr></table> <center><p><br><b><a href='http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html'>Which science fiction writer are you?</a></b></p></center>[/CODE] Looks like the insert did not work, sigh! |
| | Most of the Norther Hemisphere water is stored in the Greenland glaciers and the release into the Atlantic will take about 50 years to finally pour into the Pacific. The water rise on the east coast of US will be about 30 times greater than in the Pacific and, due … |
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