Bulldrek v3.0

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Reputable? It probably depends on whom you listen to. The MPAA sued over TV downloads I guess you can figure out their position. The case has yet to be settled. Personally thou I doubt it would matter much to the downloaders even if they came to the illegal conclusion. The culture consumption patte...

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Marius wrote:One down, 6.5 billion to go. Genocide is so hard when you're intent on killing of the whole species.

It also generally helps if you don't wait for them to off themselves. Be proactive, damnit.

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Damn. That's amazing CGI. Very cool topic too.

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I recently found this place:

http://www.agdinteractive.com

VGA remakes of the first two King's Quest games, and they're currently working on Quest For Glory 2. I believe Betrayal At Krondor is also floating around free, but that's old enough to need special software to play on modern computers.

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Nailgunning yourself in the back of the head is possible, albeit not likely. Full-auto nailguns fire a nail whenever the muzzle is impacted against something, no need to hold the trigger or even have the nailgun in your hand. All he had to do was fall onto the nailgun and bounce his head against it ...

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Panthers. Home team and all. I'm hoping for a titanic battle in Houston, based mostly on the fact that the best Superbowl I've seen was the Pats vs St. Louis. Also, I wouldn't call McNabb being injured "luck." Injuring the other team's QB is strategy, as I understand football.

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One possiblity... The American government (it's President) sends the United States of America military to remove Iraq's government, spending... let's say... 200 billion dollars, of tax-payer's money. The American government then decides that it will take bids for reconstructing Iraq, but only from ...

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Blood for oil is bullshit, and the sooner some people (Americans) understand it the better! American lives are being lost everyday also, perhaps that should mean something to the sooo many Arm-Chair Generals in America, sitting on the asses and not giving a crap about the people who have to kill so...

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Why is it that conservatives (or at least you) completely fail to grasp humor? Perhaps it's because you take things (especially /anything/ posted on a frickin blog) too seriously.

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If you haven't already gone out and bought/borrowed a copy of A History of Warfare by John Keegan, then Go. Now. This is an excellent book that conveys more about human nature and human history than simply what the title implies. It's very rare that I find anyone that I agree completely with, but Ke...

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Okay, the "Brilliant Idea is pure luck" bit so captured my attention that I skipped the rest of Cain's post. I"m going to rectify that now. Prove it. Show me once, in US History, where an entire ethnic group went from relative poverty to wealth, within a single generation, using their...

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Finding oil in your backyard, winning the lottery, and all of that involve luck, which is the ultimate outside influence. So are jobs and education-- if no one is hiring or if the good schools are full, you can't magically make them appear. Coming up with a brilliant idea is also pure luck. Okay. T...

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Or you can use another neat shower trick and use capilary action to stick the shower to the inside of the tub. Just make sure either the tub wall, the shower curtain or both are wet, and viola they stick together. Requires that you hang the shower on the inside of the tub and requires a shower/batht...

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You people actually got searched? Jeez. All we had to worry about was open containers in the halls, lit joints in the halls and maybe the RA giving you a nasty look if she didn't like you.

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"that thing while you're showering" is kind of vague...could you be a bit more specific for those of us who weren't involved in the initial conversation

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Enron anyone?

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Here's the problem. I'm asserting such cultures are a result of poverty, and you're asserting they're a cause. History demonstrates that similar cultures arise as a result of poverty, so that's my proof. Common sense tells us that it's a symptom, and not the disease. My common sense tells me that 3...

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Moo, what you don't seem to get through your thick skull is that while the end result of your work is a benefit to everyone in the area, the time you take to get to your result is damned inconvenient, especially if you take longer than you really have to. Perception is reality. No, reality is reali...

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It's important to note that I have neither said nor implied that poverty is a "black thing." But blacks are disproportionately more likely to live in poverty, despite the fact that opportunities are available to them that would allow them to get out of poverty, which blacks are disproport...

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background checks should be required no matter what the job. Was this a joke or a serious comment? Outside of the entire personal privacy issue, there are plenty of jobs and businesses where the /cost/ of running background checks on every potential employee out weighs the supposed benefit of not h...

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The government shouldn't have anything to do with respecting the marriage in any case; the government shouldn't even be /involved,/ or should let any two people who choose to marry do so. Why should the government have control over sanctioning unions? The union is personal and possibly spiritual; i...

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Trying to link blacks to an similar economic situation as Irish immigrents ignores the rather obvious fact that blacks aren't immigrants, and haven't been 'immigrants' for pretty much the entire life-span of the United States. Pointing out that the Irish were at an economic disadvantage until they w...

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You can fudge things around and find some peaceful times, sure. But for the most part, it's been a conflict ridden place since homo sapiens (presumably) migrated out of Africa.

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Not to get involved, I know my position and I know I don't have teh facts to back it up, but I did find a reference to an article on the subject of child abuse and poverty. If anyone gets the chance to hit their local university/research library, you may find it. I might check it out if I actually r...

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If simply rebuilding Iraq were our concern, then I think we would. However, I think establishing a pro-US government and a US military garrison in the middle of the Middle East is our real goal, and as such I doubt we'll be pulling out our troops in significant numbers anytime soon.

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Absolutely. We went into World War II, after all. We went into World War I. I don't think either one of them made us money, when all was said and done. World War II made us /shitloads/ of money. When the biggest industrial powers in the world are suddenly more or less crippled, and you step in and ...

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Or Why Capitalism Isn't the Problem and Socialim Isn't the Solution. [Caveat. This thread is at heart a philosophical discussion/rant. As such, I expect a lot of shibberjam and opinion; not so much web-research and presentation of hard facts. Perhaps this isn't the type of discussion 32 is clamorin...

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Some points I've been thinking of for a while now about this question. 1) War for re-election. If Bush's goal was to win a war to increase his chances of re-election, he clearly screwed up massively. I don't mean to say that he /won't/ be re-elected, but his timing of the war was completely wrong fo...

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Just got back in myself. As much as I hate 'me too' posts I do want to say I had a blast this year! Yay us! :roll I'd give out some specific thanks, but I know I'll miss someone important and feel lousy about it, so I'll just end with saying that the Bulldrek community is still the coolest group of ...

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I just got a message from paypal saying that my donation to winternighttech@paypal.com was unclaimed. Anything wrong with the email address I'm sending to, or have you just been busy, Wild?

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Cute. Though I found it funnier w/o the links. The last link was the only good one.

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32: You bring up some interesting points, some of which I did think of, some of which I didn't. All in all I think we're in agreement on the example being a poor comparision and that it's an interesting contrast :) Well, but: didn't that happen with the internet, too? Someone had to step forward and...

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Perhaps they're assuming you hit a stud </wry>

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That's not propoganda, that's selling newspapers/advertising. There is a difference. I'm not defending the media here, but calling this propoganda is, IMHO, inacurate and removes focus from the issues of news as entertainment and puts the focus on some conspiracy between the media and the government...

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See my post here about the strategic value of being in Iraq. The war wasn't about WMD, terrorism, helping Iraq or getting their oil, at least not exclusively or primarily. It was about fundamentally changing the political balance in the Middle East in favor of the United States and Western interests...

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TBH, if anyone is going to talk during a movie it'd better be the director

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The last I had heard was that the plan was to use Iraq's oil money to pay for rebuilding, but that some oil industry experts were prediciting that Iraq's oil infrastructure wouldn't be capable of supporting the costs in the short or medium term. This was on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer a few weeks ...

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Has anyone looked at a map recently? We've got nearly a quarter million highly trained troops with battle experience sitting right between Syria and Iran. You think they aren't aware of that? Taking out Saddam may or may not be a morraly defensible act, but from a strategic point of view we've put a...

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The man has an ability to ramble on about nothing and have you laughing hard enough pee that is worth your immortal soul, assuming you still have it.

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Well, I suppose we could, I just don't see how it helps since it's not the way radio frequencies work. Perhaps I'm not getting the jist of your argument. I see that you're comparing the internet (mostly unregulated except for what little is needed for the technology to work) with the radio (heavily ...

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I'm not certain that they have the infrastructure and expretise to rebuild their own country, Deev. And if we're paying for it with Iraqi money... so what? I mean, really. It's not like we're batering, and it's not as though we'd be taking /all/ oil profits to pay for our services. Think about it. ...

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Furthermore, it seems to me like the lack of government regulation of the internet is what has allowed for this decentralization. Imagine a country in which the government didn't legislate who could and could not have a radio or television station. Anyone with a camera and a Radio Shack could start...

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I would argue that the government has the be the one to solve the problem because the government isn't just there to ensure the survival of the state. That's merely one of its functions, though arguably the most important. Does the government not have a responsibility to protect the citizens from wh...

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On the other side are the two Democratic commissioners, Michael J. Copps and Jonathan S. Adelstein, several public-interest groups and organizations that say what is at stake is nothing less than the health of the democracy. More consolidation, they say, will lead to fewer voices, making it difficu...

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Of course, the bad end of this is China, whose implementation of population control is highly respectable, until one realizes the amount of infantcide, especially of girls, that ocurs. Mark my words, someday soon China's going to realize it's got 100 teenage males and 1 teenage female. Not to menti...

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You're so geeky you're cool :) Gee, thx :roll So, now that I've had some sleep and am looking things over, some items of interest... The United States is 40th out of 54 countries in terms of total numbers of homicides (6.9 per 100k) and somewhere in the middle in terms of suicides (10.4 per 100k). ...

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The thread on Michael Moore's Columbine documentary got me interested in the topic. Being the google fu master that I am, I went straight to the World Health Organization and downloaded their World Report on Violence and Health . Having done that I quickly coded up an HTML table so I could easily se...

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Ironically, I saw this on news.google.com the other day: A breathless scramble for shares in the world's first listed brothel Oh, and I think prostitution should be legal as well. Too much of what makes prostitution the horrible social problem that it is seems to me to be a result of it bieng crimin...

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It is being enforced. The wording says, "If you mention anything outside of these guidelines then your school gets no funding." I see. Have any schools actually lost funding for this? I'm thinking it would be all over the news if they did, so my guess is no - but if you prove me wrong, I'...

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Eclipse, I think I see something of what you're saying and I agree with your point: demand for gasoline is fairly constant regardless of price. Cars burn X amount of fuel every week and for the most part consumers will just fill up their tank regardless of price. Lower prices aren't necessarily goin...

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