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Ummm...wat? How does this relate to the price of tea in China? How does this your post relate with the original topic of discussion? :huh: Sigma, the phrase, "What's that got to do with the price of [eggs / tea in China / etc.]?" is an English idiom used to respond to something irrelevant...

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The "bandwidth pigs" argument is fallacious. It's called double-dipping . The double dipping would have to be part of the paying for sending and receiving in the first place, not the just the examples given. Therefore the double dipping already exists. (the system is rigged from the begin...

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Okay, I've been seeing numerous thoughts like these lately: I'm concerned that people are re-writing history to suit the "all religions are essentially the same and dangerous" mantra. ... I'm concerned by evidence of the continued dismissal of differences between religions as inconsequenti...

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Just noticed this: And [Obamacare is] such a good program that: "The best-case scenario described by the CBO would result in ‘between 24 million and 27 million’ fewer Americans being uninsured in 2025, compared to the year before the Affordable Care Act took effect." I'm not following your...

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Guys: We recently moved to a new server. Some settings did not follow us to our new home. Everyone should be able to see the forums, but if you can't post, you need to join the Members usergroup. 1. Click on the User Control Panel in the top left corner, under the Interplay logo. 2. Click on the Use...

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vision wrote:I didn't say anything against him personally.

He called you a tool.
You took a shot at his education.

Not only those (which both qualify as personal attacks), you threw a "%^&* you" at a moderator.

Yep, we're done.

Foil

CUDA, vision, apparently you need me to say it yet again: Lose the personal shots.

You can debate and point out each other's weaknesses and fallacies without the crap.

Foil

There is no law granting the right to insult... Are you suggesting that because a right is not specifically legally enumerated, it does not exist? (If that is the case, I'd suggest looking up the 9th amendment.) Laws against hate speech restrict only certain types of speech. They do not restrict in...

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[mod] I cleaned up the junk (the international pot-shots, and the "who-started-it" blame-game) from this thread. Don't junk it again.[/mod]

Foil

When questioning someone's motives, I've always found it better / faster to simply ask, rather than speculate.

Foil

...a woman and her physician should be able to make the choice at any point, based solely upon medical threat to the mother first, with viability of the fetus coming second. Any plan that restricts that choice is wrong, both morally and medically. Any restriction is wrong? So your stance is that ab...

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Check with the folks over at the DCL. They're really active in D1/D2, so that might have been one of their games, and they might have been using a variant of the level that's not on the DMDB yet.

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...at 20 weeks, the nervous system is nowhere near complete, nor life-capable. Anyone with a physiology background knows that. Not quite true. It's rare, but children born at 20 weeks have survived. But more to the point: Let's move it out to 24 weeks, at which point it's roughly 50%-50% that a chi...

Foil

I assume those numbers are among those who watched the address? (That skews the resultant numbers, since more supporters than opponents tend to watch.)

Foil

Foil has the authority to lock a thread in E&C for any reason he deems necessary. Yes, but I only take action for particular cases: * I only lock threads which have gotten out of control (e.g. users are doing nothing but taking shots at each other). * I only split threads which have gotten way ...

Foil

Ah, true. Here's the relevant portion of that post:

Thunderbunny wrote:My family is from Iran/Syria/Lebanon. When they arrived in Mexico they didn't even speak Spanish.

Foil

...it looks like Foil said that 'there is probably some truth to the claims that there are areas that muslim rules are prevailing'. Not quite. I said that there is probably a bit of truth to both claims (that the Dearborn PD has ignored some actions by Muslims, and that they have targeted / discrim...

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Let's move on, folks. Back to the topic, over the last decade or so, I've seen a huge number of articles claiming Islam and/or Sharia law were gaining precedence over U.S. law. The thing is, none of them have ever turned out true; in the end, U.S. law has always been upheld. In the case in the origi...

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I've only come across one or two articles directly about the tragedy, but I've seen at least about four or five articles discussing why it wasn't well-covered in the media.

So, it seems to be getting more attention now... by virtue of not having gotten much attention before. Interesting phenomenon.

Foil

[mod] Personal-shot posts were removed. Keep it professional, folks. You can discuss a topic without taking shots at each other.[/mod]

Foil

Yep, we're done.

Foil

Get back on topic (canals), guys. This international-smack-talk serves no one.

Foil

The Merc / BP issues are because the registry is missing some entries which are normally placed by the Mercenary installer.

Check out this thread over at PlanetDescent, where TechPro got it figured out.

Foil

Lemon juice in milk makes it curdle, ewww! I guess milk is bad for you!

...Wait, maybe it's the lemon juice that's bad for you?

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(Maybe it's simply what happens when proteins meet acids.)

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Now I think about it :roll: Perhaps it would be interesting to edit, delete and move to other topics posts Americans. I'll do it for free, often and with pleasure If you're actually serious about applying for a moderator position, you are free to do so. (Note: Moderators do not make changes based o...

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Is it racism in that the boss sees a certain race as inferior so he won't hire the 'less than equal' applicant out of s hateful kind of motivation? Or is it [alternate explanations]? In the case I mentioned, it was a couple of things: The guy had grown up with some screwed-up beliefs about black pe...

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How exactly is it related?

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Spidey wrote:Hatred is always the fault of the hater.

To clarify, are you assigning 100% fault here? Or assigning a significant percentage? Or something else? I'm curious whether you allow for partial fault.

(Heh, perhaps this question is just coming from my work insurance claims so many years ago.

)

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Try getting a job at some of the local “ethnic” run businesses around here if you are white. (or any other ethnic group other than the owner) I know a (former) Wal-Mart store manager, who when he was hiring, made a practice of tossing aside every resumé with a black-sounding name. How do I know? Be...

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Responding to accusations of racism with counter-accusations of racism is pointless. Comparisons and arguments that one's side/race/culture/etc. is less racist (or that the other side is more racist) only perpetuates the divide. Can we simply agree that racism exists on all sides, it's evil, and mov...

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Split thread from the terrorism thread, as this is a separate topic.

Foil

I would, but I can't (I have no powers here, heh!). One of the Café mods or an admin would have to move it.

Foil

Okay, just now got home from work, server is up on the DRH.

Foil

Speaking frankly is encouraged, particularly in the E&C forum.

[ Note that it is possible to speak frankly, while still following forum rules about off-topic posts. As Jeff250 said above, if anyone has something off-topic to say, then they should start a new thread. ]

Foil

As of v1.17.0, D2X-XL supports it: [link]

As far as I know, D2X-Rebirth does not.

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here's a link to the largest one, sigma. http://www.aigenom.com/ Is that all? :lol: It would be funny if it weren't so sad. No, that's not all, sigma. I grew up in Oklahoma (a state which was once made up of reservations, known simply as "the Indian Territories"), where people are very, v...

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Sorry, I just now saw this, Thorne. I've been out of town for over a week.

Do you still want a U.S. server running Anguish?

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Merry Christmas, all!

Foil

Just for reference, that auto-kick is a feature of D3 AntiCheat, which helps prevent players from using low packets-per-second settings to make their ships "skippier" (and harder to hit).

Foil

It's an auto-kick due to your packets-per-second setting in D3, not your connection quality.

In the D3 launcher, set your connection settings in the Network tab to the highest possible, that will fix it.

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