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| 2006/11/1-2 [Transportation/Car] UID:45064 Activity:high |
10/31 Halloween traffic was awful awful awful in LA. Over two hours on
I-10 for 35 miles. I heard that the 405 was even worse. How about
you guys?
\_ 12 minutes on 580W to go what usually take 15 minutes.
\_ I had to wait about 20 seconds at the intersection of Ashby and
College. -tom
\_ You are a moron. I didn't notice any "Halloween traffic" in
LA. Are you sure there wasn't an accident or something? BTW,
those numbers don't sound too much worse than traffic on
a usual day.
\_ i don't know about moron, but he was certainly unlucky.
last night i averaged 65mph on 405 North from LAX to the I-10,
but it was 7:45pm.
\_ I left around 4:00PM and arrived at 6ish -The op
\_ San Mateo bridge east-bound at 7pm was same as usual.
\_ My car never even left the garage yesterday =p
\_ Muni ran fine, though an annoying helicopter hovered
over The Castro until about midnight.
\_ Traffic out of San Francisco (Castro) was very light going home,
and as a bonus I left about 10 minutes before the shooting started. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Reference/Religion] UID:45065 Activity:nil |
11/01 hey emarkp, what does Mormon scripture say about our pro
waterboarding vice president?
\_ A republican must justify the opinions and actions of all
republicans. Fairness++. !emarkp
\_ Funny, I'm not even a Rebublican. -emarkp
\_ What kind of mormon are you? ;) !emarkp
\_ He's a Mormon Communist like OSC.
\_ I'm "Decline to State". -emarkp
\_ It's pretty clear about killing. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier
on the subject of kneecaps. -emarkp
\_ Cheney: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right,
we'd be in jail.
\_ Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right,
we'd be in jail. -cheney |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Transportation/Car, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:45066 Activity:low 6504%like:45049 |
11/01 So apparently the "Federal Protective Service" is tasked with
guarding federal buildings and as such a legitimate police force,
according to a cop I talked to last night. I still found it a bit
odd to see cars with an ominously undescriptive security force name
and a federal government (DHS) logo on the side pulling over and
questioning/fining people on Market St. last night. -John
\_ They can kill on sight at a hint of gay marraige or flag burning.
I certainly feel safer.
\_ so that was what those shootings in the Castro district were abt
\_ These guys are a bunch of assholes who ignore the law and
harass anyone they can. I work at a federal lab where there is
no classified research and where we are hundreds of miles from
anything that could realistically be considered a target, and
these guys all think they're the thin blubbery line between us
and the TERRORISTS. Presumably if people only come to a rolling
stop at stop signs in the parking lot or walk their dogs on the
property after dark, the terrorists have won. One of our federal
police pulled a gun on a visiting scientist right after 911.
They also used to like to come into the labs late at night when there
were two white guys and an asian guy working together and demand
to see the asian guy's ID but not the white guys. The asian guy
in question was born in the US and has been a federal employee
here for 10 years. A good rule of thumb is that if you think
these guys are ignoring the law and being neandrathal cowboys,
you're probably right. They recently arrested someone here for
refusing to give them their SSN, after they'd already shown their
drivers license and federal employee ID, and then had to let them
go when the local police basically told them to fuck off (because
they called the local PD to ask them to take the guy to jail.)
\_ Just curious, which lab do you work at? -jrleek
\_ NIST, Boulder, which is part of the Dept. of Commerce
\_ You went to Cal. Are you aware the UCPD has jurisdiction anywhere
within (IIRC) 5 miles of *any* UC Regent property? That's not just
Berkeley. *Any* Regent property which is most of the populated
areas of the state.
\_ So UCPD can make arrests anywhere in Downtown Oakland because
there is a UC building is in Chinatown?
\_ Yes. Exactly.
\_ Of course, same with BART police, no? I just found it odd to
see a police force that wasn't either local or state take an
active role. The SFPD cops I asked about it seemed a bit put
off by them. -John
\_ Yes, I believe the same with BART police but BART isn't
state wide. :-)
\_ I was told today that BART cops actually have statewide
jurisdiction, due to some sort of administrative
impossibility limiting it to just the BA. No clue if it's
true or not. -John
\_ Welcome to the New World Order. I can see you have been out of
the country for a while. If you think it is bad here, spend
some time in DC. -ausman |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:45067 Activity:nil |
11/01 Why can't I ssh to any of the office machines?
\_ They now dual boot ubuntu and windows xp (lan party styling).
Unfortunately they are spending most of thier time in windows mode
for increased distraction utility. martini.csua (the OSX box)
should be working (but isn't for some reason at this moment).
Also, in the future, there will be a permanent nix again in the
office. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:45068 Activity:nil |
11/01 ScummVM 0.9.1 is out:
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php#stable |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:45069 Activity:nil |
11/01 Maine lawyer arrested for dressing as Bin Laden and waving gun.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061031/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_maine_binladen |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Recreation/Travel/LasVegas] UID:45070 Activity:nil |
11/01 The Stardust Hotel in LV is shutting down for good. It's a sad sad day |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:45071 Activity:nil |
11/01 Level 3 robbery
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/01/level3_robbery |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:45072 Activity:kinda low |
11/01 http://piggington.com/bubble Evidence of a California Housing Bubble \_ Good analysis, but he's wasting his time. Of course there's a housing bubble. The question is what happens when it ends. His guess is it will be about 17 years to the next low. History says it will be about 7 years. Splitting the difference, let's say 12 years. Is that a big deal when most people stay in their homes for 7-10 years? \_ I don't think the question is what happens, but how it happens. A slow gradual decline to point X and date Y is no big deal while a quick snap to X on date Y is going to screw up all sorts of things. \_ It's always a slow, gradual decline with housing. His charts show that and he explains why housing prices are sticky. \_ When prices drop people who can afford not to sell are much less likely to sell thereby drying up the market, keeping prices from falling too fast. \_ Mostly I agree with this but there are enough locations such as Las Vegas where prices dropped by very large numbers almost over night to make it not entirely so. \_ The thing about Las Vegas is that there is a ton of almost undifferentiated housing. The far suburbs of the Bay Area are that way, too. Undifferentiated housing will always be more prone to lose value than houses with more intrinsic value (good location, charming/interesting appearance, good workmanship). -tom \_ More like San Diego Housing Bubble \_ Isn't this like, a year old. Even the Great Swami was predicting a housing bubble by then. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:45073 Activity:very high |
11/01 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/kerry.remarks/index.html John Kerry: "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended" \_ Too little, too late, damage done. Even the original joke was stupid. Resorting to personal attack for political gain shows the weakness in one's own ideas. Leno should be making jokes like that. Kerry is no Leno. \_ Ahh, so he should have apologized, unless he apologized, in which case apologies don't matter. \_ Try again. "Too little, too late". It's right there only a few lines up. At least *try* to respond to what was actually said instead of making something up to reply to. \_ this was a type of macaca or RAAAWWWRRR mistake - an inadequate level of appreciation of a flub getting amplified by your enemies even though you made the flub in a friendly environment or that it was innocently dumb. \_ Had he said this right away, this would be over now. \_ No it wouldn't. \_ yes it would. no it wouldn't. yes it would. whatever. \_ Had the clip been played in context, it never would have started. \_ It's politics. boo hoo. Don't make jokes if you're not funny. \_ It's attitudes like this that are why this country is fucked. \_ Yes the country was great and lollipops fell from trees prior to 1994. Kerry was stupid. He got caught being stupid no different than Allen's 'macaca' idiocy and he's paying the price. Were you around defending poor Allen on the false charges of racism a few weeks ago? No. Thanks for playing. \_ Allen's comment was given full context. And his meaning was very clear. He _is_ a racist fuck. Kerry's comment in context shows his meaning clearly as well. You think he was calling the troops "stupid". You're wrong. \_ I read Allen's full comment. There is no context beyond the one line and noting the guy has been following his campaign around. And? What is the context that makes it clear he is racist? \_ He's Republican. QED. -liberal \_ Sorry, I forgot that anyone who disagrees with your agenda is racist. \_ You are replying to a sarcastic troll. \_ It's the motd. There's no one else here. \_ Context or no, Allen's comment was racist. It's basically the French-african way of caling the opposition staffer 'nigger'. \_ That's basically the same as saying "Context or no, Kerry statement was insulting to the troops." \_ OK, you got me, I phrased that poorly. Read: The context of Allen's statement has no mitigating effect on the content of his statement. Using the word 'macaca' in a duscussion about racism is a mitigating context, using it to describe an Indian person is not. \_ I think the mitigating factor is that prior to this little incident many Indians didn't even know about this wacist even know about this racist slur. And after finding out, it is still a big whatever. -Indian \_ Racist! \_ Mitigating in what way? In that many Indians didn't realize he was using a racist slur? How does that mitigate the racist slur? I mean, I'd understand if that didn't rile anyone up in a bar, but at a political rally? \_ You are a flubarax!!!!!! Oh wait, flubarax doesn't mean a damned thing. Or maybe it is the most offensive racist slur possible in the Belgian Congo during the 1750s? Are you offended? \_ Of course not. Your made-up word has no cultural context as a racial slur, or, more to the point, no such context that you are aware of. "Macaca," however, is a racial slur in a cultural context that Allen was aware of. \_ Macaca meant nothing to anyone until someone found some obscure slang from the colonial era. You have absolutely no evidence Allen was aware of that meaning. I have yet to see a link showing what it meant and why he might have known that. The link from yesterday was about the Belgian Congo which Allen has absolutely no relation to. Flubarax! \_ Belgium, man, Belgium! \_ You didn't look very hard, if at all: http://www.csua.org/u/hcv \_ If a tree falls in the woods and no one cares I guess the tree huggers feelings still get hurt. Like I said this is a big Whatever. -Indian \_ Don't you think there are better things we could be spending time on? \_ Absolutely not. Start your own thread if you want. I'm entertained, sorry if you're not. \_ How are they false? I think Allen is guilty of thinking everyone is stupid. He happens to use the French Tunisian word for "nigger", his mother is from French Tunisia, and then he tells everyone he made the word up on the spot? - danh \_ The 'macaca' guy wasn't black. Oops. \_ Don't you think there are better things we could be spending time on? \_ The term refers to those with dark skin. \_ URL, please. I don't have my French Tunisian slang dictionary handy. \_ You don't need a dictionary to equate a French Tunisian word for "darkie" to anyone with dark skin. But hey, because _you_ probably do, here's a Wikipedia article on "macaca." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaca_%28slur%29 \_ See, I don't know if I buy this. I don't really care about Allen, maybe he is a racist, I don't know. But the argument that "X's mother probably knew Y, so X must know Y" is pretty weak. \_ Considering Allen's history I don't think it's a weak at all. The man is a racist prick. Not because he's a republican, but because he's a racist prick. \_ So, what's his history that suggests he's racist? -clueless \_ angry motd liberal said so. \_ He used to routinely called Blacks "n*ggers" in college, amongst other things. \_ Bzzzt. Sorry, Swift Boat style attacks aren't going to cut it. \_ I heard this first on John Ziegler's show out of KFI. He had \_ Actually, 2004 showed us that GOP style campaigning works. I am glad to see the Democrats embrace the Karl Rove style of smear politics. Have a little fire, scarecrow! http://salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/24/allen_football \_ I heard this first on John Ziegler's show of of KFI. He had heard only that soundbite on a local news station. It was in the context he heard. Given the number of groans from the audience, I don't think it was clarified by context. -emarkp \_ If Kerry was really insulting the intelligence of people in the military then he was insulting himself. \_ Kerry is in the military? Which branch and what unit? \_ hi idiot \_ hi humorless clown. \_ Kerry's Non-Apology Not Accepted (by Freepers) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730262/posts \_ That's because they're neanderthal cretins. \_ duh, they only quoted the first half of the compound sentence. It's two parts: (a) regret for being misinterpreted, and (b) apology to people who were offended \_ Jesus fucking christ, is there nothing more important on the electoral agenda than a non-candidate making a badly timed and ill-considered joke? That's like a shitbag like Mark Foley getting nailed over harassing pages rather than anything of substance, or starting a national crisis over a cigar dildo. Have American politics come to this? I think I'm leaving for Chile again. -John \_ This is important because only ~2 years ago this was the guy his party put up to represent them as their best candidate to run the entire country for the next 4-8 years. His 'flubbed joke' shows a lack of basic brain power and wisdom that reflects on his supporters and those like him. If it was a nobody like Murtha, who gets some press time but is otherwise nobody, then it would've had about 4 hours of news cycle time, if that. \_ I am pissed at John Kerry. He need to learn how to shut the fuck up. I will let Bill Clinton have another BJ over this guy anyday. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/Gay, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:45074 Activity:moderate |
11/01 Remember they aren't Brown Shirts, they are just Conservatives
trying to express their feelings:
http://www.csua.org/u/hcd
\_ How do you know they're "Conservatives"?
\_ They're probably conservatives in the same way Nazis
were liberals.
\_ This is just one of "hundreds" of warcrimes the Bush
Brown Shirts have committed nationwide. Its all part
of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. The Truth is Out
of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. The Tru7h is Out
There. -fmulder
\_ I think the Bush Brown Shirts egged my house last night.
\_ All part of our Grand Visionary Conspiracy to force you
to buy cleaning products from our VRWC cleaning products
companies to fund our illegal war in Seattle.
\_ Just a hunch. Liberals don't tend to lynch blacks or beat
up gays either.
\_ Hint: non-Liberals don't tend to lynch blacks or beat up
gays either.
\_ Really? So all those Blacks got lynched by nobody? Did
they lynch themselves, is that what you are trying to say?
And all the gay bashings never really actually happened?
\_ No one said any such thing. Read and try again.
Curious. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:45075 Activity:nil |
11/01 Firefox Session Saver, the best extension I've ever used.
\_ Firefox 2.XX has this "built in", kind of non intuitive to
find but it's there. you'll notice Session Saver doesn't
install in Firefox 2.XX
\_ Just FYI, that's Opera's default behavior, and has been for years.
\_ I know Opera is supposed to be fast as lightning, but
when I try to use it there's just too much crazy crap
going on and I go back to Firefox.
\_ I tried Opera when they released for free last year(?). No
tabbing feature that I could see. Deleted.
\_ The MDI interface has been there for years. Maybe you missed
the subtle distinction?
\_ Honestly, I have no idea. I looked through the whole
interface for something that looked like tabbing. It may
have been there in some form but if it requires above my
miniscule computer abilities to find it might as well not.
\_ It's not necessary anymore with Firefox 2.0. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:45076 Activity:kinda low |
11/01 Does WinXP provide good facilities for SATA+RAID? I'm thinking of
buying 2 SATA drives instead of something more expensive like
Infrant's ReadyNAS NV+, and I'm wondering if WinXP would provide
equivalently good SATA+RAID facilities. Ok thx.
\_ A lot of MoBos do on-board drive mirroring for SATA, I'd rather
trust that. -John
\_ Until that mother board dies and you have to get the exact same
board to get your data back if you were striping or doing raid5. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/President, Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan] UID:45077 Activity:low |
11/01 Just saw this on CNN:
Would Alex P. Keaton back Fox on stem cells?
\_ You could just put the URL:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/alexpkeaton/index.html
\_ Do you remember when CNN was 'the news network that didn't
suck'? What happened?
\_ CNN cable and CNN web are different animals |
| 2006/11/1 [Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:45078 Activity:nil |
11/1 PayPal got bombed. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:45079 Activity:high |
11/01 Good lord, the flubbed Kerry joke is the front page story on every
single news site. You'd think he was running for something.
\_ I think this video puts the whole matter in perspective:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/CD-SC-KerryJoke.mov
\_ October Surprise!!!
\_ well, except nytimes, cbsnews, and latimes
\_ obLIBERALMEDIA
\_ Did you actually check nytimes,latimes and cbsnews or do you just
\_ Did you actually check nytimes, latimes and cbsnews or do you just
like spreading lies?
\_ when it's "the" front page story, I interpreted this to
mean the lead story. washingtonpost, abcnews, msnbc all
had this as the lead. ok, I should have made this clear.
\_ Here is something I don't understand. What is so offensive about
this joke? It is a bit edgy because it has a lot of truth in it.
Further, you would think combat veteran like Kerry is immued from
this attack. Instead, those draft dogers are the one who is
launching the attack
\_ Some political pundit pointed out before the 2004 elections:
"By the time Karl Rove gets done with John Kerry, people won't
even know which side he fought on".
\_ What is the truth you think is in it?
\_ For one thing, no matter how patriotic or idealistic you
are, joining a military stuck in a murderous quagmire with
no clear mission, mounting casualties and farm-league
leadership verges on the suicidally insane. For another,
recruiters tend to focus on lower-income and less educated
individuals and frequently extol the military as a way to get
ahead--something that would appeal more to someone with less
chance of academic/professional success. Or to put it this
way, I don't think the army's attracting the intelligentsia
right now. And what below poster says. It's a non-issue,
albeit a poorly considered statement, and one that the
attack dogs can get their filthy teeth around to distract
from the real topics up for discussion. -John
\_ The military doesn't target lower intelligence morons.
They target smart people from lower income brackets who
can use the military to get ahead. Dumb people are not
going to get anything but 3 squares and a cot from a few
years of military service.
\_ link:tinyurl.com/ym5awa - danh
\_ what are you smoking? do you know almost 1/3 of
Army personnel didn't graduate from high school.
\_ duh. what are *you* smoking? _READ_ what I said.
Less educated != dumb! And from reading the motd it
is clear that educated != smart, too.
\_ The military actually won't take you if you score
too low on the IQ tests. They tend to target third
and fourth quartile (by IQ) individuals, but they
don't want actually stupid people, just average
ones that will follow orders. -a Vet
\_ That was then, this is now. With recruiting
efforts failing the army has drastically reduced
the testing requirements.
\_ Is this still the case in the face of more
agressive recruiting efforts ?
\_ Not really that much:
http://www.csua.org/u/hct
Even the Army will not take you if you
below the 26th percentile and they try
really hard to only take those above the
31st. They are taking more high school
droupout, but those actually have to
dropouts, but those actually have to
score above 50%.
\_ So despite the statistics that prove you wrong, you believe
the idea that you have to be a dumb-ass to be in the
military? I'm starting to think it wasn't a botched joke,
but what Kerry really believes.
\_ You're starting to believe this because of some motd
ramblings? You're a pretty easily led person.
\_ The conservative media can finally rally around something that takes
the heat off of the Republicans.
\_ Who is the conservative media? Would that be CD? DVD? 78s? |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:45080 Activity:nil |
11/1 Any Nintendo DS owners out there? Any must own games for it?
\_ the doctor game and the lawyer game
\_ I got one but I haven't played it in a long time. I thought
the New Super Mario game was pretty good, and the Castlevania
one. I was playing Brain Age for a while; it includes sudoku
puzzles. I haven't kept up with it. Advance Wars and Mario
Kart are pretty good.
\_ I really like Kirby's Canvas Curse, but YMMV.
\_ Bomberman! you need one cart for 8 players! it rules!
also Mario is good, which has a mini-game multiplayer and
sort of a duel multiplayer. Mario Kart is good too. -brain |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Finance/Investment] UID:45081 Activity:nil |
11/01 Trump could be fined $250/day for violating his HOA rules. Oh
I bet he's really scared! Not.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/01/trump.flag.ap |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:45082 Activity:kinda low |
11/01 How long are roofs supposed to last? My friend is buying a home w/
a 15 yr old roof and the inspector said it's got about 3 years to go
(it currently has no issues). I was wondering if that's about average
for a given roof (in SF). If it's not, it could be because it's a
shitty roof or the contractor just being overly conservative.
\_ That's about right for a cedar shake roof: they dry out, start
curling and cracking and that's all, folks. Asphalt shingles will
last a little longer; if it's asphalt that's still within the realm
of possibility, it probably just wasn't a great quality roof to
begin with. --dbushong
\_ Depends totally on the roofing material. 20 years is not unusual
for a cheap roof. -tom
\_ And in the early 90s there was a lot of cheap work being done
in the sf market. Prices were really low and people didn't want
to invest huge amounts into real estate.
\_ The roof is made out of iron and slate.
\_ A well-made slate roof should last 50+ years.
A crappily-made roof, your guess is as good as mine. -tom
\_ I agree. A slate roof should last forever. Are you
sure it is really slate and not some slate-like tile?
\_ it was damaged by the troll-like creature
living under the stone and iron roof.
http://csua.org/u/hcp |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Health] UID:45083 Activity:low |
11/01 Does anyone have any experience with nasal decongestants causing
an increase in blood pressure? Has this happened to anyone here?
\_ That's very common, and you're often warned not to take the stuff
when you've got blood pressure problems.
\_ They can interfere with oral contraceptives. Found that one out
the fun way....
\_ really? you got a kid because of a nasal decongestant?
\_ My coworker's having the same issue right now from Benedryl.
\_ What's going on with him, specifically? -a scared op
\_ She has a separate major health issue right now, so her
health is being monitored constantly. Since she started
taking Bendryl again for allergy, her blood pressure has
gone through the roof. She's currently taking a prescription
drug to lower it. For her case, it's most likely because
she's taking Benedryl with all her other medicines for her
health issue that's triggering it. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Uncategorized] UID:45084 Activity:low |
11/01 Besides the obvious; are there any differences between a 19 inch LCD
flat panel and the 20/21 inch? Why is there such a price
difference?
\_ 19" displays (widescreen) are generally 1440x900, while most 20"
and 21" displays are 1680x1050.
and 21" displays (widescreen) are 1680x1050.
\_ PP is oversimplifying a little. Standard 19" are 1280x1024 (5:4
aspect ratio) Standard 20 and 21" are 1600x1200. Wide aspect
screens as PP said. The price difference is for a few reasons:
Larger is more desirable, more pixel elements which could go bad,
needs a larger area of the wafer, more complex control electronics,
smaller pixels are more vulnerable to defects, need a larger area
to be relatively free of defects, etc...
If you don't care so much about resolution, 19" is the obvious
choice, but if you really do care about resolution, 20" often has
a better $/pixel cost.
\_ Then how come the difference between 17" and 19" is not as big?
--- !OP
\_ Because most 17", 18.1", and 19" have the same resolution,
1280x1024 5:4. Pixels are smaller on smaller screens, but
that's about it.
\_ I see. 17" needs a smaller wafer which is less likely to be
bad, but the pixels are smaller which is more likely to be
bad. So they compensate each other.
\_ This is not a difference in the panels, but not all video cards
can drive the larger resulutions properly. |
| 2006/11/1-2 [Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:45085 Activity:nil |
11/01 PayPal got bombed.
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_305004735.html
\_ Anyone surprised?
\_ obNegativeFeedbackJoke
\_ PayPal - Someone set up us the Bomb!
Google Checkout - All your bucks are belong to us! |
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