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| 2006/2/14-15 [Reference/RealEstate, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:41831 Activity:moderate |
2/13 Rather than paying hotels and other expensive social programs
that people always need, why doesn't the government simply give
raw materials to the Katrina victims to build their own homes?
Doing so will promote self-reliance, free-market, small
government, and fiscal rectitude. I'm sick and tired of
giving my tax dollars to lazy bums and immigrants.
\_ That is what I don't understand neither. We are dumping
billions of dollars into this, can't we just divide those
billions of dollars to the number of victims and ask them to
relocate to somewhere else and prohibits flood zone to be developed?
Each of the victims will have close to a million dollars for it,
and I think that is good enough for most of them to get back on their
feet!
and I think that is good enough for most of them to get back on
their feet!
\_ Your fucking "Do everything yourself" cowboy gunho Republican
ideology doesn't work well for population that is either too
sick, too old, and too young. Go fuck yourself.
\_ It was a troll. YHBT. Go take a pill and relax.
\- how about we given them weapons and transport to conquor
another country.
\_ how about they give supplies and a no-bid emergency reconstruction
contract to Bechtel and Halliburton, and other politically
connected contractors?
\_ That will bypass the labor unions, good. But then most residents
don't have the skills to build a house that can survive a hurricane,
let alone following all the local codes and regulations, bad.
\_ Hell, I don't have the skills to build a house.
\_ Why are we still building houses from scratch in NOLA? Given the
scale of the rebuilding and the government funding, they should
just put up pre-fab houses that are pre-approved for hurricane
conditions. Pre-fab houses are cheaper and quicker to assemble,
more environment friendly, and I am guessing less prone to cost
inflation from corruption.
\_ There's no such thing as a broken-dam safe house when you're
down stream. Anyway, why would we put any houses up in an
area that is just going to get wiped out again anyway?
\_ Agreed. But given that we're putting up houses anyway,
why not do it in an efficient manner? -pp
\_ Because this isn't a command economy?
\_ Of course people can build whatever they wish. But
the government can have separate application processes
for pre-fab and bespoke houses, and the process for
pre-approved, pre-inspected, pre-negotiated, pre-fab
houses can quite reasonably be simpler.
\_ Are you kidding me? Your solution is *more*
government 'processes'?
\_ Do you get whiplash when your knee jerks that
hard?
\_ Think about your 'solution' realistically.
\_ Oh, I do. It's clear I'm too subtle for
you.
\_ It's ok. I understand you don't understand.
\_ Bureaucracy never solved anything. Are
you Chinese by any chance?
\_ Again the knee jerk. Now consider
your previous question
"why would we put any houses up?".
Perhaps my solution is one that
yields a favorable outcome whether
it achieves its stated goal or not.
\_ My last comment was "why would we".
Anyway, to your question: because
a solution that doesn't achieve
its stated goal is a failure? How
about restating your goal to be,
"create more government jobs and
raise taxes"? Then your solution
and outcome would match. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Computer/Companies/Google, Industry/Startup] UID:41832 Activity:high |
2/13 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/ap_on_bi_ge/google_fears Google to drop to $345. My prediction is coming true. I win the Motd Stock Prediction award. -stock guru \_ Are you the same guy who shorted Google at the IPO price? \_ You couldn't short it at the IPO price. \_ So you wanted to short it at $100, but couldn't, so you win the Motd Stock Prediction Award because it's $345 now? \_ I wanted to short it when all of the options expired and initial shareholders were able to sell. That was not when it IPOed. \_ so you mean, in February 2005, when it was below 200. Nice prediction! -tom \_ I'm not "stock guru" but I admit my prediction was wrong. I still think GOOG will fall below 200. It's just a matter of when. I'm sure your stock picks are always 100% correct, though, which is why you make the big bucks. \_ No, my picks are not 100% correct, but at least I give real thought to them. -tom \_ If you give "real thought" to them and they miss then who cares, right? I did a lot of research on GOOG and I still believe it's overvalued at even 200. You took one data point and concluded somehow that you give more "real thought" to stock picks than I do. That exhibits a lack of much "real thought". \_ Now I see why your login is "dim". -tom \_ How original. I guess you took 'tom' because 'twink' was taken. \_ tom makes lots of noise but he never bought goog, as he himself admitted. he does own berkshire which was 92000 two years ago, and 88000 now. His best stock seems to be logitech which ain't bad but recently dropped 20%. \_ I am up 26% on BRKB. For full disclosure: AAPL (+658%) ENN (+55% plus ~5% yearly dividends) APCC (+19%) PEP (+38%) PLCM (-6%) CSCO (-37%) PIXR (+79%) \_ Sorry, forgot I just sold my PIXR. -tom NAPS (16 shares due to spin-off, -70%) RNWK (-78%) AMZN (+175%) LOGI (+179%) FDRY (+15%) SAP (+30%) MAPTX (+23%) PHG (+32%) That's more or less the order I bought them. My time horizon is not two months or two years. -tom \_ Interesting but percentages w/ out knowing the raw dollar or at least relative value of each isn't meaningful. Down 6% on PLCM could wipe you out if you had 99% of your money in it. \_ Now you're reaching, man. \_ how long have you owned AAPL? \_ I first bought AAPL in 1995. I've purchased it several times since then. The above percentage is based on the combined cost basis. -tom \_ not bad, but nothing spectacular, especially given that without apple, your performance would be very ordinary, and while apple ain't bad, it took you 10 years. \_ I'm not looking for spectacular returns. -tom \_ why not? if you give it some real thought, as opposed to getting into silly arguments about a stock that you didn't even buy, you can have better returns, like me. \_ tom is *always* right. bow down to perfection. \_ Tom, should I buy DKDY? \_ I don't know; it depends on your goals, risk tolerance, and belief in the underlying company. I personally wouldn't buy it. -tom \_ Tom, what should my goals be? \_ How about "die with more twink points than any other sodan"? \_ start with "get a clue." -tom \_ Tom -> trolled |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:41833 Activity:moderate |
2/13 So, now that Hamas is in power, is it likely they're going to change
their military stance toward Israel?
\_ Um, since the election they've repeatedly said their goal continues
to be to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. Why would you
expect them to change anything?
\_ Wishful thinking?
\_ Because if they don't, they'll be broke and destitute. The
"Arab" community doesn't really like them, they just enjoy
using them as an excuse for poor behavior.
\_ I suppose after a while they might just emulate Araft by
saying nice things on the world stage, but supporting
terrorists at home.
\_ free democratic elections in the middle east!
http://tinyurl.com/cluk4
as long as the people elect who we want
\_ This is the whole thing about being responsible for your vote
and government in a democracy. If you elect fuckwits to office
who your foreign sponsors hate, they'll cut your fuckit people
off the free flow of cash. If your people are willing to forgoe
foreign aid in exchange for having fuckwit terrorists as your
government, then more power to you. I applaud the palestinian
people for finally standing up and telling the world how they
really feel and putting in people who best represent that
feeling, however I'm not required to help fund their newly
elected terrorist organization. The sooner the rest of the
middle east elects the same sort of terrorist psychos, the
sooner the rest of the world will "get it". Frankly, the
honesty of the palestinian people is refreshing.
\_ with all the enormous corruption in the palestinian government
I don't think the people even care; they probably barely
see a cent of it anyway.
\_ Fatah was corrupt. It remains to be seen how much Hamas
pockets, but they have "won the hearts and minds" of the
people with hospitals, etc that Fatah's greedy hands
weren't able to run. They're murderous scum but they're
not entirely stupid. Expect more hospitals, schools, etc
along with more EU and UN money going directly into more
terrorist acts.
\_ Ah, but with that political capital that Hamas has with
the man in the street, they could probably get far more
popular support for a peace agreement than Fatah.
I'm not saying they'll do it, just that if they suddenly
had a change of heart, they are in a better position to
do it than the previous leadership. Like Nixon in China.
\_ Dude, I don't really know what is the big deal with Hamas?
PLO was on Terrorist List, PKK of Iraq is *STILL*
on the Terrorist List and we are dumping millions of dollars to
aid their cause. What makes Hamas so special that just because
they are supposely a "terrorist organization" that we won't deal
with them any more different than PLO and PKK? *FURTHER*, what
is the big deal about democratically elected government? If we
don't like them, we can always topple them. We've done it in
Guatemala, Iran, and Chile, and we can always do that again anytime
we wanted.
\_ Standard big world politics. Our bastards vs. not-our bastards.
\_ didn't say anything about others. But I am just so sick of
hearing us having any principles.
\_ No, they don't have any reason to change their stance. They are
fighting for what they believe is a legitimate cause (i.e. why
should Palestine lose land for the creation of Israel when it
was the Germans that commited the atrocities of WWII). And
honestly, Bush should put himself on the terror list. Who else
but him could unilaterally attack a nation over false pretense?
Who else but him would torture others around the world? Does
any other nation around the world even do that anymore? I've
never seen anyone more morally bankrupt. It disgusts me.
\_ You were doing fine until you got to, "Bush should put...".
Then you fell into whacky nut ranter territory.
\_ Germany already lost a large amount of land which went
to Poland and Russia, while Russia kept half of the prewar
Poland that Stalin took in agreement with Hitler, which the
noble allies conveniently overlooked along with his invasion
of Finland and seizure of land there. They drove out all
the Poles from that area and all the Germans from the other
areas. So that land is what could have become Israel.
But anyway... the Jews would always want the Palestinian
Israel. Also Palestine wasn't and isn't a country so
technically it didn't lose land.
As for your Bush rant, it doesn't help your cause to spout
hyperbolic bullshit. |
| 2006/2/14 [Uncategorized] UID:41834 Activity:nil |
2/14 Hamlin Woman Dies After Crash
http://publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=878191 |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Reference/Military] UID:41835 Activity:moderate |
2/14 Laser guns to be deployed in Iraq:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002170.html
\_ "But 10 months later . and after a prototype destroyed about 90% of
the IEDs laid in its path during a battery of tests . not a single
JIN has been shipped to Iraq," the Times notes.
So, uh, I assume it doesn't magically find IEDs on its own (which
seems like the actual problem). Couldn't an M-16 barrage destroy
90% of known IEDs in one's path?
\_ We don't like to litter M-16 shells
\_ It would drive in front of convoys and detonate any IEDs
in the way, rather like a minesweeper of sorts. It "finds"
them by blowing them up if they exist.
\_ ? How does that work? Is it just shooting lightning all
over the place?
\_ "JIN would sweep dangerous areas clear of bombs before
U.S. troops entered."
\_ Reading more about it (in other articles) I think my
characterization is wrong. I wonder if they have
multiple products?
\_ Kind of. The idea is to saturate a volume of space with
very short bursts of lightning. That should be sufficient to
detonate or render useless any IEDs in the area.
\_ Watch this video: http://www.ionatron.net/default.aspx?id=105
Essentially, it has an extended arm that sweeps over an area.
The arm is shooting, straight down, the aforementioned
femto-second laser pulses. The end result is an explosion or
a shorting out of the IED. Yes, this could damage the unit.
a shorting out of the IED. Yes, this could damage the g-unit.
\_ In WW2, they had tanks with large horizontal rollers/bars
that had numerous heavy chains attached that spun around
the roller setting off mines. How is this any different
except that it requires hi-tek, a lot of cleaning and will
break more easily?
\_ Some IEDs are cell-phone operated. Beating the ground
with chains might set off mines, but it wouldn't
necessarily set off an IED or disable it. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:41836 Activity:nil |
2/14 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/6320/ard/misc/whatever.htm "Yes, Colleen and Candy, Colleen being the Atari 800 and Candy the 400 were 2 well endowed female employees. In fact almost all the original hardware projects were named after well endowed Atari female employees. The Atari 2600 was Stella, the Atari 3600 (never came out, a horrible 10-bit processor design) was Sylvia and the Atari 5200 was PAM, ..." How many original hardware projects did Atari have? Damn, it must have been a very pleasant place to work! I was born too late, too bad. \_ The background art in the Atari games Xenophobe and Rampage feature very busty females. \_ what video game art doesn't feature busty females?? \_ Try the Castro district in SF. \_ HAHAHAH! FAG JOKES ARE FUNNY! \_ Actually, I've noticed that a lot of the video game art featuring MEN often feature ludicriously oversized codpieces ... Either that's where sci fi soldiers store a second change of clothes or ... \_ Sci-fi soldiers are evolutionally superior to-- well--you. \_ Those are actually female soldiers on steroid wearing Maxi pads. \_ More importantly, no apparent shortage of busty females working there. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Finance/Banking] UID:41837 Activity:low |
2/14 I tried to get my free credit report from link:annualcreditreport.com After being transferred to a credit bureau and told that they found my file, the site tried to authenticate my identity by saying that I "may have opened a mortage loan" around a particular year and month and asked me to identify the lender and the terms of the credit. I never had that so I thought it was a trick question and selected none of the above. Then after asking me if I want to pay for credit score + extra stuff, it told me I cannot get my report online. It is not possible for me to request by mail right now. So does the question I was asked already indicate a problem? \_ Multiple people with the same name? \_ I got reports from all 3 credit agency. The question they ask varies. Have you tried the other ones? If you suspect there are problems, it may be worth the $ to get a full report. In my experience, I find Transunion's report most professional and complete. \_ http://myfico.com . I think it's 15 bucks but they jump through all the hoops for you. Worth it. |
| 2006/2/14 [Recreation/Dating] UID:41838 Activity:high |
2/14 Valentine's day must be celebrated differently south of the border:
http://csua.org/u/ez7
http://csua.org/u/ez8
\_ What about these stories indicates "south of the border"? There is
no mention of citizenship or country-of-origin in either. |
| 2006/2/14 [Health/Disease/General] UID:41839 Activity:high 57%like:41840 |
2/14 Happy VD Day!
\_ Happy Venereal Disease Day? Well, that's true. |
| 2006/2/14 [Uncategorized] UID:41840 Activity:high 57%like:41839 |
2/14 Happy VD Day! [I'll outlast you, deleter]
\_ Happy Venereal Disease Day? Well, that's true. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:41841 Activity:moderate |
2/14 Related to the gaming thread below. What made you/inspired you to
take CS? Computer gaming as a kid?
\_ Hott CS women. I was obviously misled.
\_ Isn't karen hot?
\_ Note that the comment is plural.
\_ If you're CS, yes.
\_ I liked computers and liked the idea of controlling them. I guess
I got started with LOGO and a toy robot that could be given simple
programs like "go forward, turn left, go forward, flash lights" etc.
\_ When I was 7 years old I used a Heathkit computer that my uncle had
bought. Just seeing some of the retarded games on it got me
interested.
\_ Anthro 193 survey form filled out by 200+ undergrads: all but a
trivial number said "money" or "parents made me for money".
\_ must have been during the boom years. I liked CS because it
was interesting.
\_ Early 90s. Definitely pre-boom. It was a recession.
\_ Writing really simple games in basic/pascal.
\_ Writing really simple but cool graphics code on an old Atari.
Pixels and sprites 4 life!
\_ Writing machine code on Apple II with no assembler to read some
hardware switches, and interfacing it with BASIC, was fun.
\_ Fuckin' a.
\_ Reminds me of when I wrote machine code to access the sectors of
a disk directly so I could read the Ultima IV map off the disks.
Then I remapped the character set of my dot-matrix printer to
match the game. The map was 256x256 squares. Ah, those were the
days of hand-assembled 6502.
\_ Just goes to show that practical application is a powerful
motivator; I learned ResEdit just so's I screw around with
hex code in Prince of Persia.
\_ We made our own maps on Ultima IV & III once we learned what
all the codes stood for.
\_ My mom was a ai researcher. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Uncategorized] UID:41842 Activity:nil |
2/14 Do you think you can restrict yourself to 80 columns? I know you can.
\_ I only see two lines in this >500-line motd that are longer than 80
columns.
\_ I fixed a few more before getting sick of it. |
| 2006/2/14 [Recreation/Dating, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:41843 Activity:high |
2/14 Boredcast Message from 'danh': Tue Feb 14 09:46:50 2006
I would so love to butt fuck her until she collapses into a puddle of
incoherent mush. what is it about ann coulter that elicits a desire
for ANAL sex over other kinds of sex? does she exude ass-hunger?
\_ No danh, it means you're a rapist.
\_ You realize he's quoting someone else, right?
\_ Is that you, ilyas? Anyway, he didn't say anything about it
being non-consensual.
\_ It's because she's a transvestite.
\_ She doesn't eat enough fiber.
\_ She's already a pile of incoherent mush. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Reference/Military] UID:41844 Activity:high |
2/14 Poll: Do you wish that Harry Whittington would die so that Dick Cheney
can get arrested and charged for involuntary manslaughter?
Yes: .
No:
You're insane: ..
No, and it's time for a change in your meds: ..
You're way fucking stupidly ridiculously madly beyond belief insane: ..
\_ No, because Whittington will suddently became a "terrorist suspect"
and die of "natural causes" in one of those secret detention center
somewhere in Egypt. Cheney will get out of jail.. free.
\_ What if he did die in the next few days?
\_ So what's gonna happen to Dick Cheney? Basically nothing right?
It's nice to be the vice president.
\_ It's good to be the king.
\_ What would happen if you accidentally shot an old friend while
hunting? If the victim or family refuses to press charges,
the worst that would happen is you'd lose your hunting license.
\_ Involuntary manslaughter, maybe reckless endagerment type
charges if you were a dumbass.
\_ Only if he dies. And reckless endangerment requires
witnesses and cooperation from the victim.
\_ Probably not if the victim contributed to his own death
by failing to use normal rules of hunting.
\_ Ah, the Swift Boating begins...
\_ Huh? All I'm saying is that if the victim didn't
use ordinary care and follow the common rules of
safety in hunting then the VP is not at fault.
If however, as the post below suggests, the victim
was using ordinary care, then the VP is at fault
and should be punished accordingly.
Personally I think hunting is leem and that one
assumes the risk that people will die whenever
one walks around w/ a loaded gun. But it is
entirely possible that I don't understand the
importance of hunting b/c of thousands of years
of cultural bias towards strict vegetarianism.
importance of hunting due to a strong historical
bias towards non-violence and vegetarianism.
\_ If someone is hit by a hunter, it is ALWAYS
the hunter's fault.
You are responsible for where and what you
shoot. Period.
\_ "Ultimately, I'm the guy who pulled the
trigger that fired the round that hit Harry,"\
"You can talk about all the other conditions
trigger that fired the round that hit Harry,"
"You can talk about all the other conditions
that existed at the time, but that's the
bottom line" "It was not Harry's fault,"
"You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy
who pulled the trigger and shot my friend.
It's a day I'll never forget."
-Dick Cheney, at a press conference today
Now close your eyes and try to imagine
George Bush ever taking responsibility for
his actions like this.
\_ I disagree. If you are hunting and some
guy jumps into the line of fire, that is
not your fault. The only thing you could
to was to NOT hunt. Even I think that
asking people to give up hunting is too
much.
Also think of the self defense case, if
the person is being attacked by a large
bear or bison or some such and fires his
gun at the animal but hits someone else
b/c he was flustered, it is not reasonable
to think that a person should not have
taken means to protect themselves on the
chance that someone might be hurt.
\_ The rules exist for a reason. If you don't follow
them and get shot... shrug.
\_ gee, I could have sworn that one of the rules
is "don't shoot people." -tom
\_ I don't know anything about quail hunting, and
I'm not ready to take a side here, but what
if they had been target shooting, and the
shooting victim had been hanging out behind the
target area? Wouldn't it be his fault then?
I think the claim the defenders are making
is that this is roughly equivalent. Personally,
it seems to me that their "safety rules" are
bunk and that quail hunting with shotguns
is simply a retarded activity.
shooting victim had been hanging out behind
the target area? Wouldn't it be his fault
then? I think the claim the defenders are
making is that this is roughly equivalent.
Personally, it seems to me that their
"safety rules" are bunk and that quail
hunting with shotguns is simply a retarded
activity.
\_ From CNN: Whittington shot a bird and went
to retrieve it in the tall grass, while
Cheney and the third hunter walked to
another spot and discovered a second covey.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice
president and the other hunter and didn't
signal them or indicate to them or announce
himself," Armstrong said. "The vice
president didn't see him," she continued.
"The covey flushed and the vice president
picked out a bird and was following it and
shot. And by God, Harry was in the line of
fire and got peppered pretty good."
--So it sounds like the VP turned around to
shoot the bird. That suggests that the
victim wasn't putting himself in the way of
fire.
\_ I think this supports my claim that
quail hunting with shotguns in this
manner is just retarded. The idea that
you're going out with a group of people
and shooting an animal that's going to
move a significant distance between the
time that you sight it in and the time
you pull the trigger, using a weapon
that sprays shot around seems destined
for accidents. This is supported by
the various other quail hunters who've
said that they've also gotten "peppered".
What the fuck? How many responsible deer
hunters do you think would talk casually
about getting "winged" by a riffle bullet
from one of their hunting buddies? None.
It seems to me that the VP is really just
guilty of participating in an assanine,
intrinsically dangerous sport.
\_ If you don't shoot quail with a
shotgun then what would you do
instead?
\_ What a strange question. Read
a book? Go for a bike ride?
Go shooting at a gun range?
Shooting quail is pretty near the
bottom of my list of things I'd
like to try. Particularly since
I hate the taste of bird meat.
\_ Not strange. I think you
misunderstood the question.
I suspect PP was asking "if you
don't use a shotgun, then what
*would* you use?".
\_ You miss the part about wandering around
in an area where his buddies are known
to be shooting and not announcing
himself? Weird how you can quote that
whole thing, cherry pick a line and then
flip the entire thing around to mean
something entirely different from what
you quoted. Do you wish he'd killed the
guy so Cheney could be up on charges?
\_ First: if the guy came up behind the
VP, that means the VP had to turn
180 to face and shoot him; also, it
is customary NOT to make noise when
approaching fellow hunters from behind
because you might spook the birds.
Second: your line about wondering
if I wanted Whittington to die reveals
that you're really not interested in
a serious, non-political discussion.
\_ I'm not a quaill hunter and suspect
you're not either, but from your
quote, it appears that making
noise in order to not get shot is
considered more important than your
buddies missing a kill. Since this
thread was started a poll asking
if we wanted the guy to die so
Cheney could face charges, it was
completely in context and
appropriate for me to ask if you
wanted him to die.
\_ I apologize for misunderstanding
I thought we'd moved passed that
silliness and were now on to
whether the VP or Whit were to
blame. From the way the story
has been reported, Whit acted
within reason for the activity.
The VP did not. The ultimate
responsibility for ANY hunting
accident rests with the person
who was holding the gun.
\_ np. Yes, pulling the trigger
is serious business but so is
going anywhere you know
triggers are being pulled. I
wouldn't walk out in a live
fire army shooting range and
expect to live or blame the
poor private who killed me.
\_ Which is why, if Whit
doesn't die, there will
likely be no charges filed
against the VP. If he
dies, however, this
could become negligent
homocide or even involun-
tary manslaughter.
\_ This is complete crap. The VP
fucked up. The number two rule
of firing a gun is to know
what you are shooting at and
what is behind it. This is a
clear cut case of bad judgement.
The fact that he had to turn
to shoot and did not know the
location of all members of the
hunting party is HIS fault.
This is especially important
when hunting game and birds like
quail which are low flyers.
blame. From the way the story
has been reported, Whit acted
within reason for the activity.
The VP did not. The ultimate
responsibility for ANY hunting
accident rests with the person
who was holding the gun.
\_ Put your shit in the right
place. You interrupted my
response to the more
reasonable person above.
So tell us how many times
you've been quail hunting?
\_ That might be a question
worth asking as a new
thread. Has anyone here
ever hunted quail? I know
a lot of hunters, but I
don't think I even know
anyone who's hunted quail.
Maybe it's just a southern
thing?
\_ Fixed.
\_ Why all the fuss? If Whittington was really pissed off, he would
have shot back. That's why everyone has guns.
\_ GUN DUEL!
\_ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_legal_4
Cheney could face charges. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Science/Electric, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:41845 Activity:nil |
2/14 PKD droid does a runner:
http://csua.org/u/ezf (Sydney Morning Herald)
\_ Of course, there's no proof it ever existed except in photoshop.
\_ I've seen video, so.. "except in photoshop and premiere" |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Health] UID:41846 Activity:nil 66%like:41853 |
2/14 I hate Valentine's Day
\_ Let's get drunk and screw
\_ Drinking doesn't seem to actually kill the pain or cause total
forgetfullnes. Can someone recommend a drug available on the
street that might be more effective?
\_ http://www.civanon.org
\_ When I had no SO, a bunch of us single geeks at work used to go out
and have a nice dinner this day every year.
\_ Beware the siren's song, it leads only to that unending nightmare
of suffering from which death will be your only relief.
\_ Wait, I thought that was birth. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Finance/Investment] UID:41847 Activity:moderate |
2/14 Poll: favorite stock that you own. Must have market cap > $200Mil:
(ETFs okay):
\_ GOOG: .
\_ CRXL: .
\_ MRVL, MSPD
\_ WAG: .
\_ EFII: .
\_ AAPL: .
\_ EWZ: .
\_ AMD: .
\_ CSCO: .
\_ Yay, its back to 1999. Can we at least wait for the housing bubble
to burst before ushering in the next stock one?
\_ if you hate bubbles, you can always do the hedge fund long short
market neutral thing.
\_ if you hate bubbles, you can always try the hedge fund long short
market neutral strategy. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:41848 Activity:nil |
2/14 Wiretapping, European-Style. http://www.slate.com/id/2136147 \_ The UK has one of the highest concentration of CCTV cameras in the world. Things that would be looked at as horrendous in the US are taken for granted there; there is very little concern for privacy in many initiatives ranging from collecting road tax and issuing speeding tickets to what the yellow press is allowed to get away with. This is done in the name of protecting children or preventing terrorism, and taken to incredible extremes. Interestingly enough, the UK actually has fairly strict privacy and data protection legislation, but I'm still trying to work out exactly how (and if) it really works. -John \_ Yeah, it's pretty crazy the amount of information many Western European governments know about the people that live within their borders and it certainly should not be a model for the US to imitate. |
| 2006/2/14 [Uncategorized/Profanity] UID:41849 Activity:high |
2/14 Fuck you. Do you want to fight? I'll totally fight you.
\_ Context-- Care to elaborate? -- motd-2
\_ Response to the I-want-to-get-my-ass-kicked fucking shithead
jive ass bastard cocksucker who keeps reposting the
"Happy V--------- day" shit. I vowed yesterday that if anyone
said anything like that to me today it would result in a
real, bloody fight, and I'm willing to buy a plane ticket to
California to live up to it. |
| 2006/2/14-15 [Recreation/Media] UID:41850 Activity:nil |
2/14 RIP, Andreas Katsulas. Goodbye G'Kar!
\_ http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=34628 |
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