Bulldrek v3.0

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So the parental units finally got around to owning a computer and connecting it up to the internet a few years back, even going so far as to take some classes on using things on it. Good for me in that I don't now get phone calls asking for tech support on the most basic of things, not so great in t...

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Well technically he's a Marshal but same difference and a very good film.

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Tell me about it. Well it's worth $15 billion until the next latest and greatest site comes out and overtakes it, then watch its value slump like MySpace did with Facebook.

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The Civil Liberties Erode thread reminded me of something that I've been wondering about for a little while now, how is Bush considered by people on the right of the political spectrum in the US these days? How has his past seven years in office and the actions he's taken been received? I know that ...

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32, you should pick up the Song of Ice and Fire series, by George R. R. Martin, if you haven't already. First book is A Game of Thrones. It's exceptionally good, low-magic fantasy, and it strikes me as a reasonably accurate picture of what a fantasy world would actually be like. Less Tolkein, more ...

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3278 wrote:One example of relative success would be the crackdown on online gambling.

Although they could be about to be on the receiving end of a serious spanking courtesy of the government of Antigua and the WTO.

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Serious Paul wrote:Spy Museum

Cool place to spend a few hours.

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Someone better of had a camera there for those of us who weren't there.

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Old peoples home? Pillow time more like.

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For me it has to be the Japanese silk rank badge that clocks in at about 250 years old.

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I'm not sure it really is. Whilst the individual guy on the street just wants to get things back under control and how it was under Saddam but with democracy and capitalism, the religious nutters control the largest established political parties and roving armed goon squads which gives them a strang...

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You'll have to forgive me since I'm hopeless at remembering this kind of thing, but are you out there as part of the regular military or the National Guard?

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I've been using the Sony DVD RW DW-D22A drive that came with my computer for a few years and its served me faithfully but it's started to malfunction quite badly, wont recognise discs and can take two or three attempts whirring half in and out to eject a disc, so it's time to get a replacement. Whic...

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No place for The Third Man? Oh that's just wrong. Citizen Kane in the top 100 is the real crime. That movie is horribly overrated. It's a great example of film snobs ruling over places like AFI and the Academy. Oh agreed. I saw it a few years back and honestly couldn't see what all the fuss was about.

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Random curiosity, but what's the oldest thing that the posters around here own? The house/flat itself no counting if you're a home owner.

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Screw that, get one with a camera hooked up to it and record your surgery.

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He's pretty much there to protests corporations going into countries filled with poor brown people, employing them for $5 US a day, with just the barest of nods towards safety-standards or worker's rights. Which is part of what allows us to have the luxurious lives we have. Not necessarily a good p...

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What always gets me is the whole protesting and security hoopla that they go through every year. The Germans have built a twenty million US dollar fence around the current meeting site and that's not taking into account any other costs like police overtime etc. Why not just hire a cruise ship or gig...

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Yeah well the Kaczynski twins do come across as slightly... odd.

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I'm sorry, Star-what?

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Well for some reason I can't seem to get the link to work but whatever. The only two reasons why I can think of that this should be a major deal is if the owner of the Wi-Fi had a set ul-dl limit for the month which means that if you then use it you are then taking away something that they've paid f...

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Nah, but since Johnny is now an international financial leech he's been channeling most of his evil into his work.

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Sometimes I wish I'd have just joined the Marines - them and the Navy were begging for me out of highschool. At least then when I felt like murder I could take it out on some unsuspecting Arab and claim he was getting all insurrectionist at me. Could always go now if the current gig is as mind crus...

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Well he's killing lots of Burmese soldiers in it so it can't be all that bad of a film.

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Yeah? Well, I'd still punch Hitler's mama in the stomach. Hitler's a good choice, but I just think that he's a little... passé nowadays. Everyone seems to go after him when these things go up.I'd much rather go after someone like Mao Zedong - mass murdering pederast that fucked up the economy to su...

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But I suspect you're not looking for the peaceful tranquility of a burbling stream, so I truly have no suggestions. "Cities" and "attractions" are not my area of expertise. Those places have people, and I will have no truck with that. Oh not at all. Sorry, I wasn't being terribl...

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Somewhat related, there is a big push to get all of the Hitman books collected in TPB because it looks like Ennis has a new run of the book coming out. Uh, what the hell? Granted its been a while since I last read them, but didn't the last issue have a rather... ah, final ending to it? Although I s...

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If you're going for pure death delivering maniacs for the Avengers then I think you've got to seriously consider The Saint of Killers. [spoiler] This is the bastard whose hate was so great that it put out the fires of hell, who became the Angel of Death - nigh on unstoppable and able to kill with a ...

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Moo wont be, all those domino layers are dirty hippies.

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Cloudy Day.

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Jestyr wrote:Screw the US, come see Australia!

That's on the list of places to go later on when I've re-saved some of my cash reserves. That and South America, apart from the US I've been eyeing up some 3/4 week tours that hit most of the interesting spots although the US is currently winning.

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I'm getting the urge again to do a little wandering and since I came into a little money a while back thanks to a couple grandparents and the parental units I can actually afford to do so if I want to. Currently there's a plan floating about to go visit New York for a week or so with some people in ...

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One question for you, what's the the local age range going to be for Tampa and Florida? IIRC in the past its been mentioned that with all the retirees moving down there its made them into a fairly powerful political block, helping keep the average age of elected officials fairly high. That and I jus...

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Should have something up Sunday or Monday since currently playing host to visiting family. Well that is if I don't end up strangling one of them and get carted off to prison.

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Jim Butcher is, and has been for several months, my newest God of writing. The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera are two amazing series. What's the Codex Alera series like? As a devoted Dresden fan I've been meaning to have a look at the first one but lack of time, and to some extent past experienc...

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What the hell, count me in.

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I always have hope that the Prometheus Project will work but I can't see them putting reactors on these ships until they can be 100% sure the shuttles won't fall apart on the return. So you do what the Soviets did and launch them from some shite-hole that you don't give a fuck about. Witness Baikon...

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And that was me forewarned and trying like hell not to blink. Yet I did.

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Only if you put up another one to replace it. Besides, I'm sure someone or one of the web archive sites has a copy saved somewhere by now so it's not like you'll be able to escape it.

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That's going back a few years but I'd have to say yes. Even when it wasn't pointing at you but went off nearby it still fried your eyes.

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Oh good Christ yes, that thing was fucking evil.

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MooCow wrote:Now taking bets for the Instant Cash Death Pool! Given how old he is, prime picks are in the next 1-5 years.....

1-5 years? More like 1-5 months.

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Toryu wrote:Brine!

What the hell ever happened to him? Last I vaguely recall he left us to venture out into Real Life to work as a teacher, only to somehow wind up running a bar a bit later.

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So it was Adam that was spamming Deev's wRx forums with porn links then? Interesting.

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So when do you personally figure that these time periods move from one to the next? Going from nighttime to morning and morning to afternoon are easy enough since there is definite changing point at 12 o'clock. But when does the afternoon become the evening, and that become nighttime? This was the s...

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A lot of the IRC and other social groups have migrated since then. There were Monkies involved but I can't remember the details, give it a minute and someone with the current addresses should be along .

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Milk or usually water. On the odd occasion some smooth orange juice as well, none of that juicy bits bits crap. Ugh.

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Have a word with Earl or one of the more tech literate people round here and you can probably get them to do an animated version, mine doesn't have the smoke, and get it uploaded to the board properly.

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TLM wrote:We need an angry-smoking-smilie.

Best I could do in the 30 seconds I could be arsed. Direct linkage in case you want to re-use it.

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Fuck Simon, you're British...you get more Vacation and general time off than GOD. Five weeks bitches! :D The only real problem is sitting down with someone from personnel and trying to book some time off and actually getting it approved. Managerial organisation is not my place's strong point which ...

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