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Now, MD, would those be regular rocks or pet rocks?

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Nah... The Daily Show carries more of a leftward slant than you give it credit for, Hostile. They'll poke at everyone, but generally it's a poke in the eye when the right messes up and a poke in the belly when the left is in a similar situation. The Daily Show does, however, acknowledge that they ...

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Fusion is extra-badass against the Dragon boss. You can shoot basically anywhere in the Dragon's general direction, and the Fusion bolts will pass through the body, almost always scoring hits on the vulnerable center. You can get the same effect with the Hellion later on too, though you really ...

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The problem with cloning is that the clone will never be as good as the original.

You know, I really hate to have to ask this, but I must... Are you basing that on science or Star Trek? If science, please cite your source, as I would love to read it. I'm certainly no biologist, but I'll muddle ...

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Remarks like, "OH T3H NOES!! KIRRY IS TeH BAbAY KIELLAR!" aren't going to garner your posts a lot of respect around here, Kd. People tend to pay a little more attention to well-developed arguments, not bold, italic and/or red text with capitalized buzz words and excessive punctuation.

I'm actually ...

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Trying to sum up one's political ideology into a few soundbytes (or in this case, a forum post) is a major fallacy in modern democracies. You cannot effectively present a position, an explanation, and a plan to impliment said position in a political commercial or short/average-sized forum post ...

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Screw the name-change... Change his password.

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Do you really think they'd act on it?

Sorry for the late reply, but yes, I think that given adequate proof of a threat and a different diplomatic attitude (see below), Europe would act.

In case you hadn't noticed, telling the UN and EU that we don't need them and are perfectly willing to act ...

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While we're party-bashing, maybe Cheney has become so right-wing he can't stand the presense of swing-voters.

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...you just skim...looking for quotes...you can respond to...

Yeah, I hate those bastages.

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How many guys are ACTIVELY searching for osama right now? How many are busy policing Iraq?

Last figure I heard was in an ABC report, and it rang to the tune of 135,000 troops in Iraq, and 15,000 still in Afgahnistan.

I brought the point of logistics up in the previous thread about Iran, and ...

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I was looking up articles on NTFS a while back, and I seem to recall that maximum drive space is a function of the file allocation table, not the OS. FAT32 tops out at something like 128GB, while NTFS goes all the way up to 10+TB. You can do a quick search on Microsoft's website for NTFS if you want ...

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...wanted the U.S. to put water out in the desert so the poor illegals wouldn't die from thirst?

If you put a few on the American side of the border, you've got the flies-to-honey effect. Have INS hiding somewhere nearby, then send the buggers back. Of course, I suppose once you step into ...

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Kyouryuu has a good point that if the game is going to have mass appeal to the FPS audience, WADS+mouse will be an essential control scheme. Of course, if the game is going to retain much of a Descenter-following, the option to use a joystick has to remain. I believe it was Krom (and I don't feel ...

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I never could stand Instareap... I was one of the people who thought the Mass Driver was a hair too powerful from the onset (though I never voiced my opinion on the matter too much), and turning it into an instant-kill weapon certainly didn't change my opinion. At least when I get plastered by ...

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And this information should help me pick a better what? Who worked the system better?

Supposedly, the idea behind dredging up someone's military history is supposed to establish a candidate's character and willingness to serve the country. In more practical terms, though, it's a clever way of ...

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Something tells me that this was triggered by a bit that appeared on Countdown last night. The number three story was mostly about an upcoming (with about zero marketing budget) movie called Outfoxed , about Rupert Murdoch's hand in the news media. Keith Olberman (Countdown's host) hinted at some ...

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Same bug that I was complaining about a while back.

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Might I suggest the gauntlets going on the lower hands and the weapon and shield in the upper hands? It seems like an overhead swing with that axe (or blocking an overhead swing from someone else) might be a tad difficult. Of course, I say this having never been a four-armed uber-minotaur before ...

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I voted TeraSpace, but TeraBull could work too.

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...we know Bush has the cajones...

Yeah, yeah. Bush has balls (and you're obsessed with them), but he also lacks discretion and has an acute inability to think with anything but those balls, it seems.

5) Add your own question.

5) Do we have the troops to do it while maintaining a volunteer ...

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Too bad that article doesn't actually say too much about caring for your introvert.

<snip>

Second, when you see an introvert lost in thought, don't say "What's the matter?" or "Are you all right?"

Third, don't say anything else, either.

Thinking on my life as an introvert, that's really all ...

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I'm pretty liberal, and I've no real interest in seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 (not that any cinema in East Tennessee is going to show it anyway). Even from the advertising, it's quite apparent that a number of Moore's criticisms rely on half-truths and political spin-doctoring. Just because Moore admits ...

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Lothar wrote:Based on... what? His public speaking difficulties? The fact that you don't agree with his policies?

He was a 'C' student, Lothar. Usually the "best and brightest" at any particular university can pull a slightly higher GPA than Bush Jr. maintained.

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4) And last but certainly not least, if you use a router, thier tech guys call you up and threaten to disconnect you and press charges.

That depends entirely on who you get on the phone when you call tech support. I had some connectivity issues with Comcast a while ago, and one day, I got a ...

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You would prefer the Thought Police, FP?

I can see where the current system of arresting criminals after they've committed a crime can seem flawed, but there's a lot of problems with trying to institute a system where people get arrested before committing a crime.....like knowing if the person will ...

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Didn't seem like you actually changed anything, MD. The test site behaves exactly the same.

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I refer Woodchip to the Bush vs. Bush debate.

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So are you giving up the internet voluntarily, or is that being forced upon you?

Ouch... Caught me on that one, Lothar. It's rather silly of me too, since I'm not getting cable in my dorm room this semester, so I've been getting most all of my news from the internet.

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Both screenshots were taken with Mozilla 1.6 with zoom set at 100% (a.k.a. medium in IE).

The problem arises when setting it to something smaller/larger. Medium is going to appear the same since it's not scaling the font at all.

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Actually, Comcast was bought out by Viacomm, I believe. Certain Viacomm channels that were once pay channels (Disney Channel comes to mind) are being added to the basic cable lineup, while I'm guessing some of the competition is pulling out. Likewise, in my area at least, several satelite providers ...

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Tyr, do you browse with your font size set to "medium" or something else? If it's been set to medium the whole time, of course it looks the same. Try rotating through the size options and see if anything changes. Quoted text will scale properly, as I described earlier, but most everything else will ...

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And as Archaeloidic said, the template we're using consumes 150 pixels of the side ill-regardless.

Seriously... Narrow the name column a bit more. :P Limiting icon pixel sizes and then leaving the column a width that assumes 100+ pixel-wide icons is a silly oversight.

Actually, I wouldn't care ...

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Minority Report
Good Will Hunting
Shawshank Redemption
Fifth Element
Fellowship of the Ring

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Two closely related bugs, really...

First off, most of the text in posts and the forum indices does not conform to the browser size settings. I've always had it set to "smaller" since quite a few websites I browse, including the DBB, use an absurdly huge font size. Just to be sure the font size ...

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Oh, the Pointy-Haired Boss wins by a landslide. He's too stupid to die. Lumbergh is smart enough to know who he can con into working weekends, so surely he's got to know how to kick the bucket.

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<font face="Arial" size="3">I forsee a battalion of Pepe Le Pew marionettes wearing maple leaf-emblazoned, battle toques marching on Rockefeller Center.</font>

Just remember, the last time the Canadians marched against America, Washington DC got burned to the ground. http://www.descentbb.net/ubb ...

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You'll find some interesting stuff if you look through state laws about the death penalty. There's still one or two states that allow hanging and lethal injection. Texas only got rid of the firing squad a few years ago. I don't remember if Florida is still using the infamous "Sparky" or if they went ...

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Google comes up with some interesting reports when searching for various permutations of "bird-dinosaur missing links". The first few are about a find in Arizona during the late 1990's that was apparently <a href=http://www.arn.org/docs/pearcey/np_hespotlight0300.htm>a hoax</a>. In 2001, <a href ...

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Because of the nature of fusion, you really have to consider that it is the volume decreasing in direct proportion to time, and the radius change is a secondary effect. That said, I crunched some of the numbers given in this thread, using a couple of dates gotten from the geological timeline in ...

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