Bulldrek v3.0

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Terminator looks to be getting cancelled. Heroes has lost me, I mean I have the finale Tivo'd but can't work up the interest to ask my daughter to pass me the remote and watch it. I've gotten into Chuck and that's nice fun for a guy that spent way too much time watching TV in the 80's/90's. I mean, ...

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Hmm...this screen is really easy on the eyes.

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It's certainly been eventful. I think he earnestly wants to improve things, and he seems to have defied the experts warnings about overreaching, at least in the short term.

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Jeff Hauze wrote:The world is obviously about to end in a screaming and fiery Armageddon.

Must be Thursday.

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Teen Charged for Sending Nude Photos of Herself . We had a similar thread a few years ago here, so I thought I'd throw this out for discussion. Not only is she charged with juvenile pornography for owning and sharing nude photos of herself, other students may be charged as well. Personally, I think...

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UncleJoseph wrote:Or an airplane.
Aeroplane! *petpeev*

Fuck it, just save the hassle and get an aluminium heliocopter.

*By the way, it's pet peeve.

I may be somewhat cranky this morning.

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Oddly enough, the Occupational Therapist just told us to start stocking up on the stuff to help strengthen my daughter's hands.

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Knight Rider just sounds way ghey to me, but Life is the awesome. I like it. Knight Rider suuuuuccckked, even when I account for first episode issues. I literally watched about 5 minutes of the show, paused it and went into the next room to rant at my wife for another 15 minutes. I'm pretty forgivi...

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And Heroes is certainly less boring than last season. Some of it is still badly thought out, and their only delaying the inevitable with Peter/Sylar, but I liked it and will check it out again next week. Knight Rider premiers Wednesday, and Life comes back next week. I'm checking out KR out of morbi...

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For anyone that still cares, Heroes premiers tonight.

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The allegation from the left is that the detainee's status was kept in limbo to avoid giving them what many consider to be human rights (access to legal representation, knowing what you're accused of, no cruel or unusual punishment, etc.). I mean, we're not being accused of harvesting prisoner's org...

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Everyone has the option to break the law. The state then has the option of punishing them for it. If you're willing to face that punishment, then you can be moral crusader against the law you feel is unjust. As for letting polygamists marry, I have to dust off (and it's a lot of dust, so I hope you ...

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Looking at the transcript, I think Lin means this: "Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights?" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94258995 I'm not up on everything Obama has said rega...

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Funny, I was just thinking about that after reading Marius' post about Hensley. Where I am at the moment is that if you're profiting by the breaking of said law, it's hard to say that you're some form of crusader giving the middle finger to a silly law. Usually you're just trying to get the edge on ...

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"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown w...

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I think Elf was referring to the "Sure, son/daughter, you can be President if you really want it and work real hard" Dream as opposed to the "Anyone can be a millionaire if they just pull hard enough on their bootstraps" Dream, Jeff. Statistically, they're both bullshit, but the ...

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That's true, there's a lot of Jesus in there (sort of appropriate). But there's a lot of general xmas stuff too that's kind of fun. I liked Frankenmuth in general the one time we were visiting my in-laws and took a side trip.

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Congratulations!

Should have made the reception at Bronner's, though.

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Right before my wife got pregnant with our third kid, yep.

Actually, we seem to not fit any statistics for these things. The failure rate is supposed to be 1/1000, but she thinks it wasn't put in properly.

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Try making a post at Animalball with the word "Veed" in it.

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The bits I've seen from 12 step programs always seemed to make sense to me. It looks like other forms of programming because thats the essence of what they're doing, programming you to overcome this addiction. Then again, my dad quit alcohol years ago on his own, as far as I could tell. (at least un...

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I just started a class here on base. I've got flexibility, I've got some upper body strength and the lower is fine except for my outer calf muscle. That should get better if I keep up with this. What I need is balance and rhythm. Any exercises for those?

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Just saw this on Diesel Sweeties.

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And a follow up. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/140

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I get the same thing on a few of my icons. I don't know why, but sometimes they cross over into other bookmarks.

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But you can save yourself the trip. ""Fuck that shit. Just drive dunebuggies!"

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I understand that it's a result of technology advancing faster than law, I'm just saying that the principles can still stand as new behaviors become possible. Stealing someone's bandwidth can be a very negligible thing, but it is a drain on the system that they pay for. It's mostly going to affect p...

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You can secure your wireless connection and you can set it to not broadcast. If you chose to do neither, that's the equivalent of leaving the keys in the car and the windows rolled down. Don't be surprised if someone is surfing your open, unsecure wireless connection if you make it stupid simple fo...

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Question: if someone steals your bandwidth and downloads a bunch of child pornography, or conducts some other form of mischief, would that be tracked to your house?

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Definitely a harsh punishment, but I would definitely think that there should be some penalty for stealing bandwidth. That should be handled like AH says.

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I think the thing coming out of the manhole cover was a cockroach like the one that was in Sylar's cell at the paper plant. Unless you mean something that I didn't see. I liked the ending. Not enough badass special effects, but it totally made sense withing the context of the other episodes except ...

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As much as I love commentary tracks, it really isn't necessary for most movies or shows and it really takes a different level of talent to do one well. Joss Whedon can get a bit long-winded, but I was fascinated by his comments on the Objects in Space episode of Firefly. I have no idea what there'd ...

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One theory that I heard was that Candice was pretending to be Ma Petrelli when she convinced Nathan to go through with the plan. She's definitely manipulative, but she seems to have a few redeeming qualities.

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So at work today I was struck with an idea so awesome that somebody with actual skill should do it. No one in their right mind would pay for it, but that's beside the point. Here it is: 8-bit version of Ghost Recon using the sprites from Super Mario Brothers. You can run your Team A as Mario, Luigi ...

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If you could modify Paul's avatar to replace the nail with that stack of burgers, think of the pure unadulterated ick-potential. edit: Forgot I was responding to the first page. It was this: The picture of the hamburger made me throw up a little. And people were complaining about Paul's avatar on AB...

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Kitt wrote:Why is 18 the legal age again?

It's the happy compromise between 30, where your parents want it to be, and 12, where your creepy neighbor wants it to be.

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Yeah, some of it is out there, but there are some good old facts mixed in, plus angles I had never considered (not that surprising, really. I live on military bases. I'm not allowed to plant a garden here, much less deal with farming) Edit: He does also say "lobby", not "group of peop...

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If that spoiler is shocking, just keep watching. It gets better still.

I kind of lost interest during that long ass hiatus, but I'm getting pretty decent ROI for my decision to stick with it.

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Ampere wrote:This is Wisconsin, not California. We'll still have half.

And the other half will all look up and say "what's that all aboot, eh?"

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No love for peanut butter?

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Weird. I'm traveling in that direction the same weekend. But to the thumb of Michigan.

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I know that, which is why I said Reality notwithstanding. The metaphor that I was thinking when I posted that is this: I'm not the particle that collides with the mass, maybe not even the guy that pushes the button that causes the particle to hit the mass. I was the intern that asked "Wow, I've...

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Since this did SO much the last time I did this, I found another thing elsewhere that caught my eye. It looks like a compelling argument to me, so I figured that I'd bring it here to where I know some of you know farmers and hate cities. Let's start with a simple fact: farmers are, hands down, the m...

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Reality notwithstanding, I feel kind of responsible for this. Which is really ironic, given how non-combative I am.

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You know, I recall that you made this distinction a while ago. My apologies.

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Two things: 1) I don't drink beer very often because I couldn't see forcing myself to adjust to something I couldn't stand the taste of for no good reason. Likewise with diet sodas, I'd have to drink it for a while before I stopped noticiing the difference. That said, I did used to drink my mom's di...

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It's the same problem I have with hiring laws: you can't not hire someone because they're black, but you can not hire someone because he's annoying. Why is "being black" protected, while "being annoying" isn't? Offhand, because there's a history of people being denied employment...

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Adam wrote:I think it is safe to say that nothing anyone here can say or do will cause Gareth to change his mind, have his ego dented, /or/ get him to engage in meaningful dialogue with you.

This too. I've never seen a satisfactory outcome from these things. Just no bang for the buck.

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The important thing is to exercise every day. It doesn't have to be a several mile run or 60 minutes of lifting weights. It can be anything above and beyond what you do in a normal day (walking for a mile, using a resistance band set at home, etc). These are the little things that will help start t...

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Cuz I'm OFC (Original Fertile Crescenter)

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Re: Here we go again: Charged for taking pictures of yoursel

For the MI and Chi-town folks...

Zero-dollar idea!

Farm subsidies