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2006/2/13 [Recreation/Humor] UID:41812 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
2/12 http://dickhunt.ytmnd.com |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:41813 Activity:nil |
2/13 http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news1.shtml This is the problem with going to war with allies and coalitions. No imagination. There's bad apples in every army, but at least ours had the imagination to do panty-heads and human pyramids. The Brits are giving all rogue soldiers a bad name. \_ "A DIY grenade lands and explodes inside the compoundblasting out \_ "A DIY grenade lands and explodes inside the compound - blasting out shrapnel and a cloud of grey-white smoke." Yeah, they are just kids, yeah. \_ If you think that your example somehow justifies the abuse, please do us all a favor and go hunting with Dick Cheney. \_ I'm only suggesting something that counters what the article said about those people being just kids. \_ Well, given the source (News of the World), I'd say you're rarely going to go wrong accusing them of sensationalizing a story. |
2006/2/13-15 [Science/Electric, Reference/Military] UID:41814 Activity:nil |
2/13 How long until they build them 80 feet tall, with laser guns and a hot green-haired chick pilot with huge eyes? http://tinyurl.com/dhnbn -John \_ Same company's working on that, too: http://www.hsworks.co.jp/CB.html \_ Can't wait for their partnership with <DEAD>www.realdoll.com!<DEAD> \_ Well, that wins the creepy award. |
2006/2/13-15 [Uncategorized] UID:41815 Activity:nil |
2/13 Dick Cheney shoots wrong man in hunting "accident" http://www.conspiracyplanet.com \_ Old news, see below re pres is under arrest. \_ rather than dick cheney shooting the right man. \_ "We're off to hunt peasants" "You mean *pheasants*?" "Um, yeah" \_ On the positive side, at least someone in the White House has some combat experience now. \_ Figures that it would be a friendly fire incident. |
2006/2/13-15 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:41816 Activity:nil |
2/13 Adobe is looking for external study participants. If you are using Photoshop elements with minimal Photoshop experience (and are using a PC) and don't work in a creative field, please contact me via Email. -chaos |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Recreation/Dating] UID:41817 Activity:high |
2/13 "Marriage Brings Wealth, Divorce Steals It" http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060118_wealth_marriage.html It's more than about combining assets in a marriage and splitting the assets in a divorce. \_ What ever happened to BDG? \_ This matches my experiance. Division of labor is also a big win in my house. \_ ...from which it follows that gay marriage will increase the overall wealth of society, since more people will be getting married. \_ Unless many gay marriages end in divorce. [Disclaimer: Not a statement on gay marriages as such (and in fact I am pro-gay marriage), but just pointing out a logical flaw.] \_ That's a good point. I guess it depends on how much the positives of marriage and the negatives of divorce cancel eachother out based on the fraction who get divorced. Of course the same is true of straight couples. I'm guessing it comes out significantly ahead for marriage with some divorce vs. no marriage or divorce, both for straight and gay couples. Of course, there are much better reasons to be in favor of gay marriage, but I like to point out these things since it's the party of greed who is most strongly in opposition to gay marriage, in spite of the wealth it would generate for society at large. \_ This is easy to deal with: just don't let gay people get divorced. This will help build society's wealth, while also preserving the traditional heterosexual institution of divorce. \_ So that's how those Mormons get rich! \_ Well, is there research on the relationship between children and wealth? My guess is negative, and very. \_ Huh, another argument for gay-marriage. \_ Agreed. I'm happily married but unhappily parenting. \_ There's a conflating factor, which is that people often get divorced because of money. "For those who got divorced, wealth began to decline about four years before divorce and bottomed out the year prior to divorce." So it is probably not the divorce that causes the loss of wealth, but the loss of wealth causing the divorce. -tom \_ Maybe, I don't think there's a lot of evidence for that in the article though. It could also be that your wealth goes down when your marriage is on the rocks. -jrleek \_ Could be, but I think common sense would show Tom's scenario more likely. There's no real reason I can think of for wealth to decrease just because a marriage is going poorly. \_ Normally finances are the direct cause of marriage problems and lead to divorce. Want to know how a couple could get into financial problems? Take a young couple with a $30k wedding + honeymoon, so they start out life in debt. Then she quits her job when they having their first kid. You can all see where this leads. \_ Eating out alone more often because not wanting to eat with spouse at home? Cost of marriage counselling? Decrease in work performance because of bad mood, hence lower bonuses and raises and promotion? More impulse shopping? \_ Don't forget the cost of a mistress/beau. \_ "Wealth begins climbing again in the year of the divorce, but not by much." Then why does wealth begin to increase after divorce? \_ Throwing yourself into work to avoid depression/dealing \_ closure? \_ Divorce lawyers are expensive. \_ This is a stupid study. It's done on 21 to 28 years old who don't have much money to begin with: "After divorce, men had 2.5 times the wealth of women, but this seemingly large disparity worked out to only about $5,100, on average." At this stage, little things like paying a divorce lawyer can eat up the few thousands dollars of have much money to begin with: "After divorce, men had 2.5 times the wealth of women, but this seemingly large disparity worked out to only about $5,100, on average." At this stage, little things like paying a divorce lawyer can eat up the few thousands dollars of wealth. \_ 21-28 year olds shouldn't be marrying. Marriage shouldn't be allowed before 30. 35 would be even better. \_ You work in the fertility biz? \_ I didn't say "no kids before 30." I said "no marriage before 30." I don't want to hear anyone complain about high divorce rates when they're marrying off their 17 year old daughter. high divorce rates when they're marrying their 17 year old daughter. I am yet to be convinced that pregnancy out-of-wedlock is more dangerous than wedlock out-of- pregnancy. \_ Wow. That's not a point of view you hear every day. \_ Hahaha. What's "dangerous" about it? \_ I meant to say "harmful", not "dangerous", but the strains of marriage are not helped along by feelings of obligation and resentment over an unexpected pregnancy, not to mention financial strain. There is no reason other than social stigma for marriage to be the necessary response to a pregnancy. Outside of pregnancy, I posit that people are ill-equipped to make a life-without-end bargain in their 20s. \_ Well the kids -> marriage thing is about the kids and being responsible for them, and trying to provide a family. No pregnancy is truly 100% unexpected and people make choices when they decide to fuck each other (and not abort). Anyway since divorce exists, obviously it's not life-without-end now is it? Society doesn't seem to care that people regularly break these pledges. \_ I care. </skywalker> Divorce sucks for all involved. A breakup, if it must happen, is hard enough without legalities and such. We seem to be talking at cross purposes here. The dysfunction that can arise from entering marriage based on obligation is what I was talking about above re "harm". \_ Fertility is still very good in the early 30s. It is not until after 35 that it really starts to fall off. |
2006/2/13-15 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Display] UID:41818 Activity:nil |
2/13 Can anyone recommend a local computer maker in the East Bay? I want to upgrade our (circa 1998) home desktop system box and only the box and I don't have the time or fu to build one myself. \_ go to http://pricewatch.com and find an out of state system builder with the right price/system for you. try monarch or one of the other larger places that's been around for a while with a decent rep. \_ General Computing Systems, 3226 Grand Ave., Oakland: http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=21503093 \_ If you don't mind going across the bridge, check out Central Computers, 837 Howard St. @ 5th St in San Francisco: http://www.centralcomputer.com Central's prices are reasonable, but by no means the cheapest out there. Turnaround time in my experience is very fast. I don't always get someone with the best English when I call, but they've never screwed up an order. I'm told they are reasonable and prompt when it comes to returns. I think I heard about Central from jon@csua, you might inquire further with him. -dans \_ Why does it have to be local? |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion] UID:41819 Activity:nil |
2/13 Abortion could make Australia a Muslim nation http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/02/13/1139679540920.html \_ And yet their immigration policy remains ridiculously restrictive. \_ You forgot "...according to an evangelical crackpot." -tom \_ And the MP for the southern Sydney seat of Hughes. \_ Pauline Hansen was elected to Australian parliament. -John \_ Oh, where does it say "evangelical crackpot"? Or is that just from your personal crystal ball? \_ "Danna Vale became a juvenile justice lawyer after raising her four children and joined the Liberal Party when John Hewson lost the unloseable election in 1993. She urged two local men to stand for Hughes, then considered a safe Labor seat. They refused, and she says she woke up one morning convinced that God wanted her to stand." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/21/1069027321297.html \_ You're confusing between "religious" and "evangelical crackpot". \_ Hey, if the shoe fits.... \_ You also forgot, "And a wacky imam." |
2006/2/13-15 [Recreation/Dating] UID:41820 Activity:nil |
2/13 reviews of escorts http://sl-escort-ratings.blogspot.com \_ Where is this? \_ Err, wait, someone is PAYING to have cybersex? \_ Wait, Second Life escorts? Wtf? |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:41821 Activity:low |
2/13 Trailers for Katrina survivors going to waste. Our gov't dollars at work! http://csua.org/u/eyt \_ Are these the $60k a pop "trailers o' hope"? \_ More like $40k a pop. \_ A family member in Mississippi got one of these FEMA trailers. Their house is now in good enough condition to live in and yet the trailer still sits in the yard. No one has asked about picking it up or reassigning it and it's not clear what will happen to it. What a waste. \_ Hey, free trailer! -John \_ Yes, thousands of empty trailers while people sleep in the streets. This is sort of the opposite problem of Soviet Russia. \_ Mr. President, we must not allow...a trailer gap! -John |
2006/2/13-15 [Transportation/Car] UID:41822 Activity:nil |
2/13 How much does it typically cost for emergency medical transportation, ie. to fly an injured person from, say, China, back to the US? I'm shopping for travel insurance. Access America, which is recommended by AAA, provides coverage for $300K; while Travelex, which used to be recommended by AAA 3yrs ago, provides coverage for only $25k. It's a 12x difference. I'm just trying to get a ballpark number to see what dollar range at least makes sense. Thanks. |
2006/2/13-15 [Uncategorized] UID:41823 Activity:nil |
2/13 What humorless prick deleted this? http://dickhunt.ytmnd.com Cheney's got a gun. (Warning has sound) |
2006/2/13-20 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:41824 Activity:moderate |
2/13 What are your favorite old school computer games? \_ Recently rediscovered Pathways into Darkness http://pid.bungie.org \_ The skill levels for weapons was a cool innovation for a fps. \_ BEYOND CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN \_ Jumpman Jr. \_ The Pawn (C64 - 1985?), Conan (various 1986?) \_ The Prawn (C64 - 1985?), Conan (various 1986?) Impossible Mission (C64 - 1986?) Stay a while. Stay forever!!!!!!!!!!!! Pool Of Radiance. \_ Conan and Bruce Lee! Also, Black Magic for the Apple ][. \_ Leisure Suite Larry 1-3 (1986?), King's Quest 1-6 (1983-9?), Police Quest (lame lame lame), Manhunter (Bad bad bad), Space Quest 1-4. Faces/Facetris (1990?), Starcon (1991?), Montezuma's Revenge (1985?), EA's One-on-One (Larry vs Erving in the early 80s), Music Construction Set (ok it's not a game but it was like, WOW in the early 80s), Lemmings (1990s?), Ancient Art of War (loved archers), Ancient Art of War at Sea, Up-and-Down (1983?), Sopwith (cute little game). \_ Ultimate Wizard for C64 (1989 or so?) Burger Hut Of Apshai (see above) Jumpman Jr. (see above) Hardhat Mack (see above) Gemstone Warrior (apple IIe 1986 I think) Miner 2049'er (really really old Atari 800 game) Odyssey (apple IIe, near the epoch) \_ Is Odyssey the game where you explored an island building an army? I eventually bought some ships but had no clue what to do after that. \_ CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE PUT THE YEAR (2006) BY THE NAME OF THE GAME? \_ Geez look 'em up yourself if you care so much. Almost all of these are from the mid 80's. I doubt most people here really remember exactly what year a game came out. \_ Apple ][: Lemonade, Taipan, Lode Runner, Archon, Adv. Const. Set Macintosh: Shufflepuck Cafe, Robosport. On this topic, anyone know how to run b/w or 16 color games on OS X? \_ try vMac or Basilisk II: http://www.vmac.org http://basilisk.cebix.net \_ i am surprised that no one mentioned: "Captain Goodnight" \_ having to walk underneath the grenade arc of lots of robots and then restarting from the beginning of the level was not fun "Rescue Raiders" \_ http://www.the-underdogs.net \_ Lode Runner. I played on Apple II plus. \_ I 2nd that \_ heh, yeah -- that was pretty fun. (c64, baby) -mice \_ Yah, that was pretty fun. (c64, baby) -mice \_ how many levels did you finish? \_ I made like over 100+ levels and I remember getting to at least level 64 -- !ppp \_ Less than 10. I didn't play that much computer game, but Lode Runner is one of my favorites when I did play. \_ This was one of the best games on my Mac. I also remember the PowerPC version that was in color w/ nice backgrounds. Truly classic game. \_ Ultima III -- ended up editing the disk and removing the snake because I couldn't find the right dungeon to get the final mark. Of course right after I defeated Exodus I found the dungeon. Commodore 64. Also MULE on the commodore and Atari \_ Wizardry \_ anyone remember Archon? \_ Heh, yeah -- Archon rocked. The sequel wasn't nearly as fun. -mice \_ Got a little boring playing the computer after I figured out how to defeat it 100% of the time in 5 moves (I think it was: Manticore to top disk thing, Manticore to bottom, sword guy to Center, Teleport shapeshifter on top of character next to wizard/ sorceress, defeat wizard/sorceress) \_ Dude, at that point you had to start making personal challenges. When I won the game with only one soldier guy was when I knew the game was getting old. \_ I once defeated the sorceress with a knight in "Archon Ultra" (a new PC version that came out a while ago) My friend who was playing against me stormed off pissed and we never played that game again. \_ Sword of Aragon \_ Lady Tut on Apple II Plus. \_ Lady Tut on Apple II Plus. I especially like that the notes in its theme song somehow don't sound like square waves when it's played on the Apple speaker. How did they do that? \_ Fort Apocolypse on the Atari 800 \_ Temple of Apshai and the sequels \_ Paratrooper, robotron, spacewar (last was freeware on X). \_ Mail Order Monsters, Bard's Tale I-III, can't forget Might and Magic I where nothing really made any sense. -mice \_ Does netrek count? -tom \_ Does netrek count? (1986) -tom \_ yes, but why didn't they have PC or Mac clients? \_ At the time, there were very few PCs or Macs on the Internet, and the network stacks weren't up to the task. The first viable Windows client appeared in the early 90s. -tom \_ CGA SpaceWar \_ Bilestoad. \_ King's Quest \_ I completed this. \_ Summer/Winter/California Games from Epyx \_ Ancient Art of War \_ Ancient Art of War (1984) \_ you too? Did you create your own scenarios? What formation did you typically use? Hit and run with archers? \_ Hit and run with archers was the "money play". Archers in a line at the back... \_ I don't recall creating my own scenarios. yes, hit and run with archers wins the game. \_ Can someone put together a chronology of when the above games first appeared? \_ That's hard. Many games have different versions (arcade, Atari console, C64, Apple II, ...) that appeared in different times. \_ I'm guessing you are a recent grad or an undergrad? \_ Wasteland \_ Oh, man -- that brings back memories. I think wasteland is still in my top 10 favorites. -mice \_ I so want to replay wasteland to remember all the plot points. But I so can't get over the interface these days. -sax \_ I only played Wasteland after I'd already played Fallout. After getting into the old-game mentality it was good, but I enjoyed the Fallouts more. \_ No infocom games on this list?? \_ With the exception of H2G2, infocom was more endured than enjoyed. \_ NFL Challenge, Scorched Earth \_ NFL Challenge was good, but there was a play on defense that worked well. \_ Sopwith / Red Baron, and you can still get it for free! \_ Sopwith (1984)/ Red Baron, and you can still get it for free! \_ Railroad tycoon, colonization, civilization, anything by Sid Meirs \_ asteroids \_ Nethack \_ Lemmings \_ on the Amiga -- that was great. I liked Qix a and Boulderdash a lot too (C64). \_ Dark Castle! And Battletech, for the Infocom guy. -John \_ AutoDuel \_ AutoDuel. Secret of Monkey Island. Montezuma's Revenge. Donkey Kong. Choplifter. Bomberman. Donkey Kong. Choplifter. Bomberman. bz. Donkey Kong. Choplifter. Bomberman. bz. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. \_ AutoDuel was cool, but the laser deaths were l4m3. \_ M.U.L.E. Really though, I think I spent more time playing coin-op games. I think I pissed away more lunch money on Xevious than anything else. Also, I spent a lot of time typing in code from various magazines and books, like CIA Agent. -gabriel \_ Aztec, Taipan, Chivalry (written in PASCAL!) \_ Empire on the Vaxen. \_ Empire on the Vax. (Ordered by time: hunt, empire, dtrek, nettrek) \_ Empire \_ Simcity \_ Neuromancer and Nine Princes in Amber \_ Does anyone here remember a series of text-based games for the TRS-80, including Archipelago and some Dracula-like game? I'd love to reconnect with those. \_ Dungeons of Daggorath on the TRS-80 CoCo. \_ Found them! Located in the trs.zip file here: http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXtrs80.html \_ Double Dragon, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Street Fighter 2, Burgertime, Super Dodge Ball, Bards Tale(s), Ultima (3-6) \_ *sigh* I miss the days when ECA made good games. -mice \_ burgertime, nethack, lode runner, phantasie iii, lemmings \_ Lemonade Stand. Now available for MacOS X: http://www.codenautics.com/lemonade |
2006/2/13-14 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:41825 Activity:kinda low |
2/13 Soda undergraduates, I am too old to remember this, is English 1A/1B a requirement for CS in L&S? \_ I thought it was a requirement for every department in L&S. Relatively easy to test out of, though. \_ Yes, as the pp indicated, it is an L&S requirement, not a major/departmental requirement. A 4 on the AP English exam tests you out of 1A, a 5 tests you out of both. -dans \_ OTOH 1B was not required for EECS. \_ There is the 2 semester R&C requirement but you don't have to take it from the English department. \_ and frankly, I am not sure English 1A/1B helped.... as my messages on motd clearly illustrated. |
2006/2/13-15 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:41826 Activity:kinda low |
2/13 On http://www.bbb.com it lists Capital One and LexisNexis as its sponsors. Doesn't accepting sponsors cast doubt on its fairness? \_ BBB is fucking bullshit. \_ Yes. http://csua.com/?entry=39518 No. http://csua.com/?entry=11856 I am the op for both of these posts. \_ Maybe, but complaining to the BBB is a great way to get unscrupulous merchants to remove charges. \_ How does this work? What power do they have over a random unscrupulous business? \_ PR. Good businesses don't want a bad BBB record. Bad ones don't care. So before any large purchases check with the BBB. Bad record? They suck. Go elsewhere. If they're that bad someone will eventually sue them and the BBB record will work against them in court. True fly by night criminals don't care at all of course, buyer beware. \_ I honestly don't know, but twice rental car companies have tried to rip me off and charge me for a full tank of gas when I returned the car full and both times the BBB got the charges removed. The first time I tried all kinds of things before hitting on them, the second time I just went straight to them. Someone told me that the BBB has the power to fine its members, but I don't know if that is true or not. \_ Which rental car companies by the way? |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:41827 Activity:low |
2/13 Yes, Virginia, the United States does engage in torture: http://csua.org/u/eyz \_ Well, yes, we know that Al Qaeda is trained in trying to make wild accusations and so forth \_ "A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture." Your herring, sir, it is red. \_ Bullshit: "The report, compiled by five U.N. envoys who interviewed former prisoners, detainees' lawyers and families, and U.S. officials, is the product of an 18-month investigation ordered by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The team did not have access to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay." \_ Were these the UN Human Rights Commission envoys from Libya, the Sudan or Zimbabwe? \_ well, that was because they were invited for the official GTMO tour, but denied access to the prisoners, so the UN team declined to go at all \_ The reasons for the results being bogus don't change the fact that it's bogus. \_ so the bogosity comes from the fact that the UN team doesn't have damning proof, like videotape or high-ranking whistleblowers with an authentic log? \_ Well, unfortunately, it appears that the Bush Administration has the same propensity. So we really need to allow a nuetral third party in to make observations. Too bad the Congress is too spineless to do its job of oversight. Maybe it will get more fortitude after Nov 2006. |
2006/2/13 [Uncategorized] UID:41828 Activity:nil |
2/13 How do I tell mh that I am @sometherdomainthanitthinks.com and send out as a use with that identity? |
2006/2/13-15 [Computer/Networking] UID:41829 Activity:nil |
2/13 Do I really have to point my cisco pix at some cert. authority if I want to use keys (instead of "pre-shared secrets") ? I can't just self sign?? wtf? \_ Actually, why not just create a CA signing cert with OpenSSL (it's not that hard), sign a cert with that, and then import the CA public key into pix? Or use a static passphrase for phase I negotiation (I assume you're doing ipsec?) -John |
2006/2/13-15 [Politics/Domestic] UID:41830 Activity:low |
2/13 I miss jblack's Republican trolls \_ jblack isn't a Republican or a conservative. He's a freeper. \_ No, actually he is all three. But yeah, if you miss them so badly you could always go to The Free Republic yourself. \_ He is neither a Republican nor a conservative. Anyone who loves the freepers that much is a freeper and nothing else. \_ The freepers all believe they are conservatives. Most of them believe they are Republicans. Who are you to say otherwise? |
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