5/1     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU

5/1     Why'd you remove my post about my girlfriend and her giant
        dildo Thor?

5/1     Any reason why the motd is turning into an episode of Howard Stern?

5/1     Is that how the vagina of a virgin should looks like?  I've never seen
        one.  Thx.
        http://www.internationalexotics.net/ex2-75/03.jpg (NSFW)
        \_ IMHO this is irrelevant. From my past experience, there is no
           correlation between vaginas that look clean vs. feeling good.
           You can't tell how tight they are until you try them.

5/1     I have roughly $500 to spend on a "toy". The finalists are PS3,TiVo,
        Sirius or an High Def TV. I am concerned though; that the technology
        is still too new and the prices may drop further. Which one of these
        is the safest bet to be a good deal? Thanks
        \_ Wii
        \_ second the Wii, get 2 controllers and 2 nunchucks and box it out
        \_ $500 isn't enough for an HDTV. PS3 will drop in price. Tivo is
           only good if you have analog cable (the HD Tivo is more than
           $500).
        \_ PS3 will drop about 100 dollars in a year, good games for it
           won't really exist for about 3-6 months.  Is that worth it to you?
           High def needs $1000 at least.  The other two seem stupid to me
           but then again I'm not big on radio and I get my tv online.
        \_ PS3 is $600 not $500. And anyway there don't seem to be any great
           games yet (or maybe one). New Xbox 360 Elite is $480 though and
           has more games. I guess you should first look into an HDTV so that
           you can get the benefit from the other things. I don't recommend the
           Wii because there are few good games. It's fun for a while though.
           The Nintendo DS is fun. A 360 with Guitar Hero 2 etc would be a
           better "investment". Another fun toy to consider: a Glock 19 (~$550)
        \_ is there any small (19" HDTV) for less than $500?
           \_ at that size, it would be much more economical to just put in a
              HDTV tuner in your computer.
           \_ Dell sells widescreen monitors for $400.

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5/2     Top secret memo from Paul Wolfowitz to World Bank Staff!
        http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3827
        \- ken rogoff is a chess grandmaster. for the somewhat nasty spat
           between rogoff and joseph stiglitz, see:
           http://home.lbl.gov:8080/~psb/Articles/Econ
           [also world bank related]

5/2     I would like to use my ipod at my work cubicle; but do not want to plug
        it into one of my work computers to keep it charged. I was told not to
        use the older firewire plugin chargers on the newer ipods. Is there
        such a thing as an AC adapter for the 80Gb ipod?
        \_ You can get a wall wart with a USB port for iPod charging from the
           Apple store for about $20.

5/2     RMS gets a katana:
        http://www.gnu.org/people/jag/rms-with-katana/100_0034.jpg
        http://www.gnu.org/people/jag/rms-with-katana/100_0035.jpg
        http://www.gnu.org/people/jag/rms-with-katana/100_0036.jpg
        \_ That's RMS?  He looks clean. I thought he would be filthy
           like a homeless guy.
           \- oh the stories i could tell you ...
              \_ oh, do tell!
                 \- search wall archive, e.g.
         ( cd /csua/lib/wall ; egrep -w -e '(rms .* bacon)|(bacon .* rms)' * )
         Also ^bacon^crenshaw.
                    \_ eww.
                    \_ Do you have a full stories written up anywhere?
                       I wanna read RMS vs Kahan.
                \_ ^bacon^crenshaw didn't come up with anything new?
                   \- there are even worse things than the melon episodes
                      ... worse than you can imagine. well actually, maybe
                      THE WORST thing you can imagine. let's just say
                      his west coast behavior was better than when he was
                      in his native habitat at mit-ai/lcs. the custodial
                      staff there was not amused. the best story was probably
                      when he was kicked off the airplane on the way to
                      the 1998 usenix technical conference in NOLA.
              <DEAD>www.monkey.org/~dugsong/1998/neworleans/neworleans16.html<DEAD>
                      i guess the episode where heb met my parent was pretty
                      i guess the episode where he met my parent was pretty
                      good too, but you'ld have to know my parent.
                      \_ What was bad about the crenshaw episode, aside from
                         the bacon in his hair?
           \_ Is one of his front teeth blacked out or something?
        \_ http://blag.xkcd.com explains why

5/2     Tonight on Glenn Beck's HNN show will be featuring the *other* side of
        the Global Warming debate.  He doesn't say it's the final answer, just
        presents those who don't agree with Al Gore's movie. -emarkp
        \_ Is this a followup on why Gore == Hitler?
        \_ I just saw him talk about that.  He sounded like a complete tool.
           Do you really respect Glenn Beck at all?
           \_ Yep.  Watch an episode and/or listen to his radio show, then tell
              me what you think. -emarkp
              \_ I've never heard his radio show.  I've seen his TV show.
                 This is why I am questioning your judgement, he appears to
                 be a complete idiot, one of those 'I can't imagine why
                 any left leaning element would think I am taunting them!'
                 types.  I guess at least he's not Hannity.

5/2     Is the CSUA office moving?
        \_ Yes.  Although the CSUA office appears to be located in a static
           position on the surface of the earth, the earth's surface is in
           constant motion as the very thin plate of rock the office rests on
           shifts across a giant ball of magma.  The earth itself is spinning
           at roughly 24 mph.  It is also moving around the nearest star, we
           call The Sun, at a rate of one revolution per approximately 365
           days.  At roughly 93 million miles in a slightly elliptical orbit
           we leave it to the reader (or google) to find out how fast that is.
           The Sun is moving through the Milky Way galaxy once per 64 million
           years while the galaxy itself is on a collision course with another
           nearby galaxy.  But don't worry about that.  Long before this
           galaxy collides with another thereby destroying the CSUA office,
           the molecules of the office itself will be reabsorbed into the
           Great Soup Of Stuff that the universe is made of and long forgotten
           by the survivors of any current species.
           \_ the one-liner below you was funnier.
              \_ a cheap follower.  and no, not really.  reading is hard.
                 let's go shopping!
        \_ you can always find a frame of reference in which the CSUA office
           is moving...
           \_ You can always find a CSUA office for which a frame of reference
              is moving.

5/2     Asian men are crazy:
        http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18442224/site/newsweek
        \_ That was about the most useless interview imaginable.
           \_ Was it Hoyt Sze?
              \_ I guess I don't get the reference.  I see from google
                 he's some kind of anti-whitey, but does he give crappy
                 interviews?
                 \_ He's a former Daily Cal reporter, and a legend in his
                    own mind.
                 \_ http://www.modelminority.com/article269.html
                    "Interracial dating between white men and Asian women
                    undermines the integrity of Asian America."
                    \_ http://urltea.com/hj7 (youtube.com)
                       \_ Quite funny, thanks.
        \_ Hello racist troller! Don't forget they are also good at math!
       http://nomorequo.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-asians-are-better-at-math.html
           http://urltea.com/hde (nomorequo.blogspot.com)

5/2     "A Chinese anti-satellite test in January increased the risk that a
        spacecraft could collide with debris by up to 40 percent in some
        orbits,"
        http://www.csua.org/u/ilm (Yahoo! News Photos)
        Wow.  Killing N birds with one stone.
        \_ err... it is not like China is the only country doing this.  Both
           USA and formal USSR has done something similar in the past.
           What made Chinese anti-satellite test anymore special again?
           \_ now the world knows better?
              \_ very funny.  This is again one of those "it is ok for US
                 to do it, but not everyone else" kind of thing.
                 \_ So what you're saying is, that because idiots in the
                    past didn't know how stupid what they were doing was,
                    even though everyone now knows, it's OK for you to
                    do it?
                    \_ Why did China test the missile in the first
                       place?  If you read up a bit on this, you could
                       see that the whole thing could've been avoided,
                       if the United States does what it asks the rest
                       of the world do. It's like, "You can't have
                       nuclear weapons, but I won't sign the nuclear
                       non-proliferation treaty".
                       \_ So, some asshole (the US) shoots itself in
                          the foot, incidently splattering blood over
                          everyone nearby and putting them at risk
                          of disease.  You do the same?  Blowing up
                          a satellite in LEO was a stupid thing to
                          do even if the US is being a fucking idiot.
                          China damaged their own interests as well
                          as everyone elses.  There's just no other
                          way to call it excpet that it is stupid.
                          The US is stupid, for sure, and hypocritical,
                          but why does that force China to be stupid?
                          \_ Why do you think this is stupid?  The
                             risk of debris or something else?
                             \_ That was covered.  When you blow shit up in
                                LEO it leaves debris that can take out other
                                satellites.  Thus, it is stupid unless your
                                goal is to make certain orbits useless.
           \_ Doing != done.

5/2     Conan on the bay area's transportation problems:
        http://tinyurl.com/39yd
        \_ URL doesn't work.

5/2     Add "tampering with witnesses" and violating Federal law to
        Gonzales' crimes. Do you really want to keep standing up for this guy?
        http://www.csua.org/u/ilo
        \_ "I pledge of allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America,
            one nation, under the Christian God, with liberty and justice for
            Republicans.  Everyone else gets the shaft."
        \_ "I pledge of allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of
            America, one nation, under the Christian God, with liberty and
            justice for Republicans.  Everyone else gets the shaft."
        \_ Who are you talking to?
           \_ This has been an ongoing conversation on the motd. See:
              http://csua.com/2007/03/12/#45944
              http://csua.com/2007/03/23/#46065
              Et al
              \_ Yes, I know, but I haven't seen anyone on motd defending
                 Gonzales.
                 \_ "It happens all the time." "...standard enough politics
                     to not be worth looking into.. The Dems are playing
                     lame-o gotcha games with Bush..." "I guess I don't
                     understand why this is a story.  Almost every
                     president fires all the attorneys and replaces them with
                     their own. W decides to just replace a few.  Therefore W
                     is bad? huh?"
                     \_ No no no.  Those are people saying that the firing of
                        US attorneys was okay, not people saying Gonzales
                        should stay.  Once he came out saying "duh, I wasn't
                        involved" he became indefensible.
                        \_ He should have said, "their hiring was a political
                           decision, they serve at the whim of the President,
                           their firing was a political decision, tough".  But
                           he was stupid and should get replaced now not
                           because he broke any laws or is unethical, etc, but
                           because he is stupid.