9/21    Have you dumped a girl in this way before? (Sep 18-19 entries)
        http://thexgirlfriend.blogspot.com
        \_ To be fair to the guy, he didn't dump her for cable. He
           dumped her for satellite.
                \_ It might have been Hi-Def for all we know.
        \_ It sounds like he wanted to dump her any way and was relieved
           when she finally got the hint.
        \_ No, I once refused to talk anymore to an ex who was verbally
           abusive and harrassing me with hourly phone calls all night,
           but nothing like that
        \_ I had a friend who took his gf to the movies - but she wanted
           to watch a Disney movie, he vehemently did not want to - they
           basically parted ways, and it was over.
           \_ So he gave up access to sex in favor of avoiding a Disney
              movie. The guy is a fricking genius.
                \_ Only in Seinfeld do people break up for stupid reasons
                   like that.  It's more like the episode made the guy
                   realize he didn't want to deal with her anymore.
              \_ actually, they just became friends with benefits.

9/21    Dear motd loser who posted "Female wants to keep last name, male
        wants her to take his, marriage this summer, what do you do" guy:
        http://csua.com/?entry=17194
        Did you ever resolve the issue and how?
        \- to the guy: she gets to keep the name ... since it is hers.
           but since you are buying the ring, you get to choose between
           DIAMOND and DIAMEL. --not debeers
           \_ if the man hyphenates his last name, then the kids can have
              the same hyphenated last name too!

emacs user was here
\- you may wish to use:
(defun next-line (arg)
  "Move cursor vertically down ARG lines.
   ... If at the end of the buffer, it will add up to
  next-line-max-inserted-newlines newline characters to
  allow moving to the next line."
  (interactive "p")
  (if (= arg 1)
      (let ((opoint (point)))
        (forward-line 1)
        (if (or (= opoint (point))
                (not (eq (preceding-char) ?\n)))
            (if (< (- (point)
                      (save-excursion
                        (skip-chars-backward "\n")
                        (point)))
                   next-line-max-inserted-newlines)
                (insert ?\n))
          (goto-char opoint)
          (next-line-internal arg)))
    (next-line-internal arg))
  nil)
\_ Just add (setq next-line-add-newlines nil) to your ~/.emacs.
   \- the above lets you pick how many blank-lines are ok. i set to 2.
      i find this more useful than the binary option.

9/21    "For a brief period of time, Dan [Holliman] was ruler of the CSUA."
        \_ It was a dark and fearsome period.  There was much gnashing of teeth
           and rending of clothes.  I particularly liked the rending of clothes.
           and rending of clothes.  I particularly liked the rending of
           clothes.

9/20    I'm reading the csua politburo minutes. Since when did CSUA become
        more HKN/UPE like? I don't ever remember the mentoring thing.
        CSUA was primarily a casual social club. We used to hang out
        for foodp, lunchp, SF trips, party at nweaver's place, vollyball,
        and such. We didn't attempt to mentor anyone or make CSUA
        serious and boring. That's what HKN and UPE's mentoring programs
        are for. What the hell happened?
        \_ Current politburo, with minor exception, is a bunch of n00bs who
           have only been at Berkeley a year and see that HKN/UPE have
           participation and immediately assume that the way to get us out
           of our little participation slump is to become HKN/UPE.  We need
           politburo members with clue and experience rather than "ooh, that's
           shiney" syndrome. - jvarga, bitter alumni
                               \_ This makes me feel ancient. -dans
           \_ The original charter of CSUA 3 decades ago, was NOT to be
              technically helpful. It was meant to be the OPPOSITE. You know,
              the protest, the fun, casual non-conformist club. You guys
              totally fucked up the original vision of CSUA. Please dismantle
              anything helpful and educational like the mentoring crap ASAP.
           \_ Why are you bitter? And alumni is plural. -anal English major
              \_ Anal English major should remember that bitter this bitter
                 alumnUS likes to sorry accounts at random (it comes with
                 being bitter... go figure).  Who are you to say that I
                 did not develop severe multiple personality disorder during
                 my torture^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htime at Berkeley? - jvarga
                 \_ Don't you have to graduate in order to be called an
                    alumnus?
                    \_ The Alumni Association defines "alumnus", for the
                       purpose of getting more money, as anyone who has
                       taken 12 units or more at Berkeley.  I think mconst
                       once pointed out that nothing says that you have to
                       have passed those 12 units.  I have the alumni
                       association piece of junk card to prove that I have
                       taken 12 units.  All it costs is $40 or so to be a
                       Berkeley alumni! - jvarga
           \_ What are you talking about?  The mentoring program is in,
              what, it's 3rd year?  I don't think anyone currently in
              politburo was even there. Hey! mrauser and awall aren't first
              years, I've been trolled! -jrleek
        \_ We realized that nerd-culture is dying and people are becoming
           way more introverted.  It also seemed silly to get $3-4k per year
           from ASUC and EECS and to just use it to eat food.  I didn't
           think adding mentoring-director to politburo, but its a great
           position that helps a lot of younger students.  It also
           helps our club to become more relevant to the dept.
                -mrauser
           \_ The "useful" stuff is cool, but do you guys still do the "fun"
              things?  (Risk tournament, v'ball, etc.?)  -John
        \_ nweaver graduated. -partied w/ nweaver

9/20    [deleted, just to irritate the jblack baiter] -emarkp
        \_ Wow, you've reach a new low, emarkp.     -different anon baitor
           \_ Hi anonymous troll!  At least I can spell "baiter".  -emarkp
              (And I sign my name.)
              \_ Yes holy one! I will! I will! And God Bless    -anon

9/21    UNLEASH THE CHIANG
        http://tinyurl.com/al8c3
        \_ That's CHANG, without the I. There is a ***big*** difference you
           fucking ignorant shit.
           \_ Of course there's a difference.  danh has a sense of humour and
              you don't.
           \_ I intentionally spelled it Chiang.  Apparently Jeb's dad
              used to chant 'UNLEASH CHIANG' during horseshoe competitions,
              it's sort of a family in joke, 'unleash chang' was the slogan
              of people who wanted the US to back Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalists
              to invade the chinese mainland and drive out the communists.
           \_ you are the ignorant shit....

9/21    In Perl how do I pass by reference a scalar variable?
        \_ \$foo  --dbushong

9/21    The company I work at has a pretty decent additional price drop on
        this phone: http://tinyurl.com/8ou8w
        Any general thoughts?  I am currently a Verzion customer and was
        wondering if anyone had any relevent thoughts on Sprint.  I currently
        have the option of extending my current contract with Verizon and
        getting another cheapo free phone or go to Sprint.  So my general
        questions are the following:
        1. Sprint... customer service?
        2. General nastiness and stupid clauseness of their plans?
        3. I'm not an active follower of the cell phone market.  How reasonable
           are their rates and plans?
        4. I know the phone is new, but any thoughts on that general type of
           device?  Will I end up just getting screwed by a plan that makes
           me pay to use the features of the phone?
        5. Anything else?
        - jvarga, actually asking for advice on the motd
        \_ my personal experience:
                customer service - good
                signal clarity and coverage - below average
        \_ I answered regarding t-mobile above.  I loved Sprint in all aspect
           except for its lack of reception in Berkeley and building
           penetration.  Coverage anywhere else have been great for me.

9/21    This reminds me of the motd
        http://www.malfunctionjunction.net/comics/09042005.gif
        \_ In that it's not funny?
           \_ More or less.

9/21    Why is the Chinese black egg black? Is it safe to eat? What chemical
        compound made it black? It looks like lead, but it's yummy.
        \_ You mean thousand year old egg? I think that's duck egg preserved
           in tea.
           \_ It's funny that the thousand year old egg was featured in Fear
              Factor.  When I saw that episode, I'm like "I'll eat it without
              a prize."
        \_ Koreans sometimes soak hard boiled eggs in watered down soy
           sause.  They turn brown.  Those are pretty tasty too.
           \_ The Japanese do something similar for oden. Cf. the egg in
              vinegar science trick. (The egg in oden is not as rubbery...)
        \_ Let me tell you something *REALLY* scary... *TRADITIONALLY* those
           'thousand year old egg' was made by marinating the egg in
           *HORSE PISS*.  No, I am not kidding.  We don't do it in horse
           piss anymore, if you are really interested in this, I can find out.
           It bothers me that how my ancestors one day came up with this idea
           "let me soak egg in this and see how's taste..."
           \_ Well it's not as bad as the famous Shit Eating German porn.
           \_ I have a guess as to why urine was pissed. A disgruntled
              chef in the Dynasty thought it'd be funny to serve the
              emperor egg that is dipped in urine. It turns out the
              emperor liked it so much that it's an official dish.
              Uh, seriously though, that's just an urban legend. Black
              eggs are black because of charcoal, tea, and other things.
              http://ask.yahoo.com/20011114.html <-- see?
           \_ Like how we grow mushrooms on cold horse shit?
           \_ No way, you're shitting me!!!
           \_ MOVE OVER GERMANY!!!!1!!
              \_ Nothing beats your Shit Eating German porn. How the hell
                 did you guys come up with that stuff. It is just sick.
           \_ I hate to sound like a freak, but piss in general has a lot of
              really useful properties (all that ammonia, etc.). Pre-Industrial
              really useful properties (all that urea, etc.). Pre-Industrial
              folks had a lot of uses for it, including medicine and laundry.
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine

9/21    Anyone have T-Mobile?  How's their coverage?  They look like a much
        better deal than, say, Verizon.
        \_ I have sprint, T-mobile, and AT&T/Cingular (don't ask), and
           T-mobile seems to be be the best of the 3, coverage wise. However
           T-mobile's internet/GPRS coverage appears to be the suck ; I can
           get online *maybe* 10% of the time time.
           \_ T-Mobile coverage is fine outdoors, but some areas, like
              inside buildings on Berkeley campus and parts of Daly City are
              non-existant.  T-mobile's GPRS does suck more than other Sprint
              or Cingular.
        \_ I had Verizon, then AT&T, then T-Mobile.  I found Verizon the best
           in terms of coverage.  AT&T is better at my workplace in Foster
           City, but T-Mobile is better at my home in Fremont.

9/21    They still refuse to leave New Orleans
        http://csua.org/u/dgh
        "Only one person showed up at the convention center early Wednesday to
        catch a bus out"

9/21    A clip of last night's Daily Show hurricane coverage.
        Extremely funny.
        Yes it is streaming, sorry.
        http://www.livejournal.com/users/dailyshow_video/82699.html
        \_ why watch that instead of http://comedycentral.com?
        \_ the lj page is in a much cleaner format.

9/21    I know this is a silly question but I'm just wondering what is the
        expected behavior of the hurricane when you detonate a nuclear
        weapon into the eye of the storm? Does it have any effect at all?
        \_ I am amazed by your sense of scale... for a Cal graduate.
        \_ Aside from adding energy to the whole storm system and giving
           any debris carried by the water heavy radioactive contamination,
           no.  Hurricanes are pretty large and energetic; I suspect a nuke
           large enough to dsirupt a hurricane would likely be so large, that
           large enough to disrupt a hurricane would likely be so large, that
           the nuke presented a greater threat than the hurricane.
           the nuke would present a greater threat than the hurricane.
        \_ The hurricane would spread the fallout over a larger area than
           if there wasn't a hurricane.
        \_ What would you expect to happen?  Why do you think a nuke would do
           anything?
        \_ it would open a stargate...
           \_ (another valuable contribution from an alumnus)
              \_ And this comment contributes SO MUCH more.  Relax man, you're
                 taking motd waaaay too seriously.
        \_ the pressure from the nuke would negate the low of the hurricane,
           causing the hurricane to dissipate peacefully.  make it so, #1!
           \_ the ensign from soda.CSUA needs to be fired out of a photon
              torpedo tube
        \_ http://haiku.shacknews.com/firecane.jpg
           \- we are saving the nukes to put out oil well fires.
              \_ We must pre-emptively nuke the arctic wildlife refuge. In this
                 post-9/11 world, we can't afford to wait until after an oil
                 well has been built and burns.
        \_ http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

9/21    Is there such a thing as a category 6/7 hurricane? Is it exponential?
        \_ cat 4  l35 mph winds, cat 5, 165 mph..
           \_ cat 5 is >=155mph.  There is no 6.
              \- NOAA has now standardized Cat 5e. --psb
                 \_ NOAA is yet another incompetent government agency. They
                    need to dismantle it and replace it with a much more
                    effective private corporation.
                    p.s. Since you always seem to need the reminder, Clinton
                    ain't presnit no more.
                    effective private corporation.
              \_ 6 is what you get after you drop a nuke in a cat 5
                                                                  \_ Three Sir!

9/21    Robert Kiosaki of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", a financial guru and a
        motivator of investment clubs that teach and guide people on
        making money fast, including flipping houses and condos, is now
        saying that real-estate is the thing of the past.
        \_ The next big thing: Live Organ Donation ...
        \_ "beanie babies" are next big thing.. especialy the retired ones
           \_ I have many of those after my then-gf made me eat Happy Meals for
              lunch for several weeks.
              \_ you have "teenie beanies".. not the real thing..
                 \_ Damm, and I ate all those Happy Meals.
                    \_ It could be worse. You could still be eating your ex.

9/21    Man, this is just fucked.  Amateur porn site offering free access to
        soldiers in exchange for photos of "fresh kills."
        http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/09/21/ntfu/index.html
        \_ Why is it fucked up? At least in Vietnam the soldiers had plenty
           of poon tang to satisfy their urges. In Iraq the soldiers feel
           bored and depressed. They need their poon tang.
           \_ Obviously you've never served.
           \_ Oh, they are meeting lots of local beauties according to my
              family that was there. The problem is that sometimes these
              girls have dads/brothers who are part of the insurgency. Is
              it worth getting killed for some poon tang?
           \_ You don't see anything fucked up about the proximity of graphic
              shots of a person's head destroyed by a 50 caliber machine gun
              and ads for a mother-daughter sex movie?  Ooooookaaaaay...
              \_ Yeah it's fucked up.  It should be brother-sister sex movie.
           \_ Maybe DoD could ship over some eager young republican girlies
              as comfort women.  -John
                \_ Finally a way for the Bush twins to serve their country,
                   and I'll bet they would excel at the task.
                   \_ Go for the Bushes' bushes!
                   \_ Isn't it hard to get booze & coke down there?  -John

9/21    What's the benefit of ECC RAM?
        \_ When the RAM has a bit error it alerts you about it and
           attempts to correct it. There is an extra 'parity bit' that
           works like such bits do in RAIDs. Without ECC RAM you have no
           idea if your data is corrupt or not. Always buy ECC RAM for
           data you care about. I recommend always buying it if your
           motherboard supports it.
           http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=3
           \_ Is there EC RAM which you still have an idea if your data is
              corrupt or not, although not being able to correct it?
              \_ That would be called parity.
              \_ There is. It's just called 'parity RAM' but I never see
                 it (or support for it). It seems ECC has rendered plain
                 old parity RAM obsolete.
                 \_ See, it works like this:  if you have only 8 bits
                    in your RAM line, (RAM stored by bytes), you can
                    add a chip and get 9 bits: 8 data, and parity.
                    If you have 32 bits in your RAM line, you can add 4
                    bits and do ECC on those 32 bits.  So ECC RAM is
                    party RAM, it's just stupid not to do ECC since you
                    have 4 bits per 32 instead of just 1 per 8.  All RAM
                    these days is at least 32 bits "wide", so everyone
                    just does ECC.... --PM
                    \_ Yes, but you can still just 'check' the data and
                       not correct it, but why do it when ECC is so much more
                       useful and can check 2 bits (and correct 1) instead of
                       just checking 1?
                       \_ the idea is that the more parity bits you have,
                          the higher you probability of catching the error.
                          with only 1 bit, you'll not catch anything. with
                          4 bits, you catch more. but with 4 bits, you
                          might as well correct as well.
                          \_ Why can't I catch 1-bit errors with 1-bit parity?

9/21    Gentle humming gives aircrafts a better lift:
        http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1574553,00.html
        \_ So I should hum the Koran loudly to make the plane fly better
        \_ "Hello honey. ...... Hey, what's that moaning in the background?"
           "Oh, the stewardess and I are just trying to help the plane fly."
           "Oh, the stewardess and I are humming to help the plane fly."

9/21    Upcoming air disaster in LAX in a moment:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050922/us_nm/airlines_jetblue_dc
        \_ Too late.  It just landed safely a few minutes ago.
        \_ Why do you hate Los Angeles?

9/21    Mozilla 1.0.7 is out (several security fixes):
        http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.7.html
        \_ It's Firefox 1.0.7.

9/21    Hurricanes?  Cut taxes on the rich!
        http://tinyurl.com/df76d (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ You could cut/raise taxes on the poor, but what would it
           matter? Any meaningful change in tax rates/revenues comes at
           the expense of/for the benefit of the rich. It's redundant to
           mention it.
           \_ Nobody would mention it when it's at the exepnse of the rich.
              \_ and nobody would mention it when it's banckrolled by China.
        \_ People seem to think that the Republicans are cutting taxes to
           do X Y and Z when it's just because they like cutting taxes.
           War in Iraq? Cut taxes. Record deficit? Cut taxes. Hurricanes?
           cut taxes. Energy crisis? Cut taxes!
           \_ Republicans are cutting taxes because they get most of their
              campaign contribution via the riches and corporations.
        \_ Maybe you youngins don't remember this but Reaganomics was the
           reason why the US economy boomed and kicked ass. The money from
           the rich are funneled down to the poor and everyone benefits.
           You guys want to go back to the fiscal irresponsible
           European, Clinton, Democrat, and whatever socialist programs
           that prove to be inefficient? Be my guest.
           \_ are you serious about this? How about FDR's New Deal?
              \_ Yeah SS worked out real well.
                 \_ Do you like your little dream world?
                 \_ SS is working so well now is because your
                    "reaganomics" used the SS surplus on starwars, my friend
                 \_ 70 years and counting of no more retirees in the
                    poor house or forced to eat cat food. I think it has
                    been the best anti-poverty program ever.
           \_ are you talking about the fiscally irresponsible clinton
              programs that resulted in a budget surplus? fuckwit.
              \_ The surplus was due to George H Bush's tax raise but for some
                 odd reason you Democrats keep taking credit for it. I can't
                 believe you guys are so blind that you actually praise
                 the duplicitious cock sucker even as Clintongate unfolds.
                 the duplicitious cock suckee even as Clintongate unfolds.
                 You say bad things about Bush yet you totally ignored
     I'm         believe you guys are so blind that you actually praise
    with ------> the duplicitious cock suckee even as Clintongate unfolds.
    stupid       You say bad things about Bush yet you totally ignored
                 Whitewater, Cattlegate, Nannygate, Helicoptergate, Travelgate,
                 Gennifer Flowersgate, Vince Fostergate, Buddhist Templegate,
                 Chinese commiegate, Lewinskygate, Willeygate, Pardongate,
                 and what not. Clinton has been nothing but a great
                 embarrasement to our nation.
                 \_ That's cock suckee, not cock sucker. Get it right!
                 \_ I can't tell if this is a troll or is coming out
                    from a real believer. What do you guys think?
                 \_ It's distractingate thatgate you usegate 'gate' on
                    every othergate wordgate.  It kind of undergatemines any
                    hopegate of taking yougate seriouslygate.  What, you some
                    kind of politicalgate smurf?
                 \_ Funny.  His approval rating was never as low as Bush's..
                    Also funny, the rest of the world liked us under Clinton.
                    And, really, pardongate?  Do you know who Bush I pardoned?
                    Your side persecuted Clinton for inconsequential mini-
                    scandals, mostly of your own making.  Bush is running us
                    into the fucking ground and all you do is wonder to your
                    navel how clinton made him do it.
                    p.s. Since you always seem to need the reminder, Clinton
                    ain't presnit no more.
                    p.p.s Are you so threatened in your philosophy that you
                    feel you must nuke other people's statements?
                    \_ I can see it now.  It's 2014, and Jeb Bush is in his
                       second term.  The U.S. has just defaulted on it's
                       loans, the dollar is worth less than the paper it's
                       printed on, people are walking down ruined highways
                       in mass exodous from unsustainable suburban
                       developements, a couple major cities have been taken out
                       by nukes Bush didn't want to help the Russians secure,
                       and jblack will be posting to the motd about how it's
                       STILL Clinton's fault.
                       \_ Stop the denial. It IS Clinton's fault.  !jblack
                 \_ Not to mention jblackgate.
                 \_ Thanks a lot for making me pine for the days when scandals
                    were just silly little embarassments unlike Bush's which
                    result in the deaths of thousands ... Vince Fostergate?
                    Someone commits suicide and it's a scandal? Or do you
                    believe like Rush Limbaugh if anyone dies within a radius
                    of 100 miles of either Clinton it's automatically their
                    fault unless proven otherwise?
                 \_ Yes, our standing in the world community was greatly
                    raised when we exchanged Clinton for Bush.  We used to
                    \_ BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha hehheh  heh.  *ahem*
                       Thanks, man, I needed that.
                    get no respect at all.
                    \_ Standing in the world community? Who cares what
                       a bunch of 2 bit cheese eating surrender monkeys
                       think? If we weren't around bombing the heathens
                       and keeping the peace the "world community" would
                       be praying to allah to keep their pansy asses from
                       getting burned at the stake.
                 \_ Troopergate? Didn't those guys admit they made the
                    whole thing up for $30k each from Scaife? It is pretty
                    funny and kind of sad that all you have left to keep
                    you going is hate for a guy who has been retired and
                    out of office for 5 years now. Let it go, man.
                        \_ Most of the Clinton scandals were either lies or
                           small potatoes dressed up by rightwing haters who
                           couldn't stand that Clinton was taking a lot of
                           conservative ideas (the good ones) and implementing
                           them properly.

9/21    http://tinyurl.com/7swro
        It's the dawn of the age of uninhibited file sharing! LionShare is
        creates a neat, private sheltered place where people could shop
        music and movies to their heart's content without entertainment
        companies ever knowing.

9/21    /csua/tmp is full.
        \_ Thanks phale!
           % ls -l /csua/tmp/phale/
           total 422256
           -rwx------  1 phale  wheel  432168960 Sep 21 22:43 earl.wmv*
           \_ Sorry.  Needed to transfer a file to a couple of people.  It's
              gone now. -phale
              \_ How was the first episode?
                 \_ Pretty dumb but funny.