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...as you approach c , the energy required increases (there's a sort of effective increase in mass, the rocketship gaining more and more mass as its speed approaches c , so it requires more and more force/energy to move it). Almost as though mass produces more drag as it's moved faster through the ...

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fliptw wrote:the thing is, the article uses photons, or light particles, they actually haven't broken the speed of light, as they haven't tried to move anything other than light faster than light.

It could still mean advancements for communications and data transfer?

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Very nice. That reminds me, hope you all have been patronizing your local farmers' markets!

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In 2003 I decided my Sprint was dropping too many calls so I switched to Cingular (now AT&T) and it's been MUCH more stable. The \"new\" phone still serves me well to this day.

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My short list of things I'm looking forward to: Within 1 month: -Bathroom Renovations -Enable, accessorize cheap bike -Set up Descent verbal taunts on programmable keyboard -Bike Bug Line Trail -Bike to lakefront -Find performance/restaurant to take Grandma to -Calculate/simulate debt payoff -Get ca...

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Strife wrote:You show up at a party and you are known by more than 2 people who you have either never met or haven't seen in 5+ years and know you as your Descent Nickname...

(This was a horrible experience that actually happened to me this weekend...)

Can you say why that was so horrible?

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Vista is nothing more than XP done up like ME. Remember when WinME was considered the "future"? Six months later, and hardly anyone was still using it. Microsoft cut support for it before they cut support for 98. :P To think I actually put up with that turd for 3 years. Of course, there's...

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I'm talking about the fact that there's no hatred, racism, or bigotry directed at anyone except those who make Muslims look bad--the ones who've perverted Islam through their public actions and sentiments. The author seriously wants to see Muslims as just like any other American, as the quote I echo...

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There is honestly a big part of me that does kinda wish global warming would come, fast, and change everything into a magical steampunk world - or take any sci-fi situation from someone's dreams. Or at least prove to the naysayers that it will in fact happen. Then we can lynch them for their stupid...

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I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. I think it's a great essay. He attacks the terrorists and lack of outrage/cooporation from the good Muslims. Why shouldn't a group of such prominence work harder to protect its good name and expose those who desecrate that...

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My life just isn't exciting enough to share with the world right now. I'll wait for when I can actually contribute something.

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I'm a social drinker, not a casual one. I'll have a beer if I'm out to dinner or with friends, but I'm never like, "Whoh, hard day at work. Gotta crack open a cold one!" I prefer dark beers, and when I order beer, I try to pick one I haven't tried yet. I've also been fortunate to travel to...

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Radman wrote:Koolbear isn't even returning my emails, but he must be on vaction or something. He hasn't posted here in over 2 weeks.

I'm pretty sure I saw Koolbear in VV Monday night...

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The stupidity is part of the charm; I can appreciate that. Loved when they thought the mushroom was a Goomba, or when they provide cover fire for the ducks! And how come Nintendo never came out with a game that utilized multiple Zappers?

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I actually have Mega Man II on 5.25\" floppies that I played on the Amstrad. In 4 colors at 1 frame a second!

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Crap! I meant Edit, not Quote! Mod: feel free to delete that and this.

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"Kids'" Shows I watched as a kid, in rough chronological order: Sesame Street Mister Rogers's Neighborhood Electric Company Muppet Babies Heathcliff CBS Storybreak Today's Special Superman: The Animated Series Hello Kitty's Furry-tale Theatre Garfield and Friends Tom & Jerry Square On...

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\"Kids'\" Shows I watched as a kid, in rough chronological order: Sesame Street Mister Rogers's Neighborhood Electric Company Muppet Babies Heathcliff CBS Storybreak Today's Special Superman: The Animated Series Hello Kitty's Furry-tale Theatre Garfield and Friends Tom & Jerry Square O...

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Some favorites, by category: Console: F-Zero (SNES) -- LOVED playing this at my friend's house. Even decorated a bulletin board (8th grade art project) in an F-Zero theme (\"Challenge is the fuel that drives the winner\"). Got Maximum Velocity for the GBA in 2002, became nostalgic, bought ...

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I have a pink-flowering hybiscus whose leaves look like this:

Makes me wonder if some passersby wondered what I was growing!

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- You stick your hand out in front with your thumb and pinky pointing out and down like the wings of a Pyro, whenever walking through large rooms or going downstairs.

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Yes they are, according to my Paint analysis...

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Do you really think a lot of people would want equipment permanently grafted into their skin? Especially if it became obsolete a couple years later... Hmmm...good point. Perhaps when upgradable firmware reached its limit, the user could ingest a pill containing nanobots to disassemble the applicati...

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The interface in Minority Report is starting to come true with some of Microsoft's efforts. I also read how they've been able to get lasers to heat air molecules to incandescence and produce simple images, so that kind of mid-air hologram is not impossible. Perhaps cars will come with HUDs that let ...

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Just to clarify--by \"charity landlord\", I never believed that the friend is an actual landlord; I merely referred to how he has to pay both his and his bum roommates' share of the rent. They get to live rent-free, out of his charity, and he lacks the cajones to put a stop to that. Just b...

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roid wrote:The hostages can't fit inside, so they must hang on desperately to the outside. After collecting enough hostages the Pyro must look like a giant hostage katamari

They must have thick armor for when you bump against the walls.

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Um, why do you \"need\" to support this charity landlord friend of yours? Sounds like he should have those guys evicted (or move out himself) and find some responsible roommates, and if he can't do that by a certain time, you should cut him off.

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Also fun is this demo pack my friend got, with 10 small games, including a Pong update, a tank battle, target shooting, and one involving the characters from Wii Sports, but with limbs. I also saw another friend manipulate photos off a SD card--very intuitive interface. Oh, and the best game: Rayman...

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The cancellations involved 1,000 to 1,200 customers who had called the company about 40,000 times a month in total. ...the cancellations involved customers who repeatedly asked for information about other people's accounts...Sprint waived final balances on canceled accounts and gave customers 30 da...

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<stuff about my budget /> <stuff about his internship in an accounting department /> <my offer to PM him my budget /> Are you using any vba? Like DCrazy said, not a lick. Just formulae. Truth be told, the budget probably didn't have too much complex formulae. Now the grade tracker, that let you ent...

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After taking accounting in high school, I set up a very detailed, debit/credit, multipage budget-tracking Excel spreadsheet that I used for many years. After doing an internship in an accounting department, I am willing to go out on a limb and say that your spreadsheet was nothing compared to the s...

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Krom wrote:Why is this in ethics?

I guess it's commentary? But yeah, I'd have put it in the Cafe myself.

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The solid waste becomes biofuel for the engines. The MD eats Mexican to charge the afterburners

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After taking accounting in high school, I set up a very detailed, debit/credit, multipage budget-tracking Excel spreadsheet that I used for many years. I also set up a grading system for my mother, a 4th-grade teacher. You can really accomplish lots of neat things with just the in-cell formulae, it'...

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I've heard Chinese can be a doozy as well. Apparently, depending on inflection, one word can mean either \"pig\" or \"mother-in-law\". I heard a priest who took up Chinese gave his Chinese-speaking congregation a few good laughs with this confusion.

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I'm sure the people at LL didn't have this potential exploitation in mind when they were designing sex acts and changing of avatars' ages. I believe one should be allowed to satisfy their fantasies virtually (so long as it leads to no harm in the real world), but I truly hope these \"mature are...

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The Moon just happens to apply a tremendous amount of torque to the Earth as the Earth spins relative to The Moon. It is the same reason The Moon has completely stopped its rotation relative to the Earth. (Meaning this is why one side of The Moon always faces the Earth. Torque from the Earth slowed...

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Something else to keep in mind--the Earth's rotation is slowing down. The day grows one second longer every 88 years. I bet all that accumulating mass likely has something to do with it, increasing the distribution of Earth's angular momentum. I've also heard that damming is affecting rotation speed...

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I once had a motherboard that played music for its thermal alarm. I went into the BIOS and lowered the threshold about 10 degrees. A few hours later, I heard a gentle little electronic ditty playing out the back of my tower. It would go away and come back a few minutes later. You'd think they'd give...

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Ah, my favorite secular holiday! My wife and I will have a pancake breakfast before watching Waukesha's downtown parade. Then I'll go to the party put on by my parents' next-door neighbors, where I hope to get in at least one game of lawn dice and maybe some ladderball. Then we'll go to the firework...

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