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[2004-04-22 15:31:00] - paul: Well, if you're interested in getting a new stereo for your car, I recommend Best Buy - i don't know, I got mine in my old car for like $140 including installation, and it was a nice stereo - aaron
[2004-04-22 15:28:00] - paul: unfortunately I don't think the manufacturers have decreed that the demand for line-in jacks for mp3 players is not enough to warrant their effort to put one in. - mig
[2004-04-22 15:20:00] - mig: Yeah, but now the big reason to have one (IMHO) is for MP3 players and the like. -Paul
[2004-04-22 15:20:00] - Aaron: I call it pound -Paul
[2004-04-22 15:19:00] - paul: well the rationale for now line-in jack with stereos now is that they would primiarly used for pluggin in cd players, but since most new stereos play cds already, the manufacturers see no real need to put one in. - mig
[2004-04-22 15:17:00] - quick quiz: # = "hash" or "pound"? - aaron
[2004-04-22 15:09:00] - Aaron: You wouldn't even need converter tapes if you had a line-in jack. -Paul
[2004-04-22 15:08:00] - Aaron: Same here. I can think of a bunch of useless features in my car that I would gladly trade for a line-in jack -Paul
[2004-04-22 15:07:00] - I'm surprised new cars still come with cassette players at all - the only cassettes I see anymore are "books on tape" and those CD-converter tapes - aaron
[2004-04-22 15:06:00] - wait - flip that. I'd rather have a line-in jack than a cassette player - aaron
[2004-04-22 15:05:00] - To be honest, I think i'd rather have a cassette player than a line-in jack - aaron
[2004-04-22 15:03:00] - Aaron: There you go. An excellent example. It's something that I can't imagine why they wouldn't have. -Paul
[2004-04-22 15:01:00] - paul: Oh okay - game boy advance SP - aaron
[2004-04-22 15:00:00] - Aaron: I thought the gameboy advance had a headphone jack. -Paul
[2004-04-22 14:57:00] - paul: You mean, like a game boy advance? - aaron
[2004-04-22 14:52:00] - It's like having speakers with no headphone jack. -Paul
[2004-04-22 14:51:00] - Aaron: It's just one of those things that bothered me. We invent all these awkward ways around it, like those tape devices and such, but nobody ever seems to have line-in jacks for their car stereos when it shouldn't cost all that much to add. -Paul
[2004-04-22 14:45:00] - paul: It would probably bother me if I had bought a portable MP3 player. - aaron
[2004-04-22 14:42:00] - yeah, they're essentially smaller WotC store. - mig
[2004-04-22 14:41:00] - Ok, so am I the only one here who is really bothered by the lack of a line-in jack for car stereos? -Paul
[2004-04-22 14:40:00] - Mig: I think WotC owns those stores too. I wonder if it would be worth visiting them to see if they have Settlers of Catan... -Paul
[2004-04-22 14:38:00] - there's also gamekeeper stores in fair oaks and tysons. they're going out of business though, so i'm not sure if they've sold out of the game yet. - mig
[2004-04-22 14:31:00] - Travis: They are all closing, so either all of them should be on the list or none. I'm pretty sure I could find the game at Toys'R'Us for immediate purchase, I just want to buy it cheaper.
-Paul[2004-04-22 14:19:00] - i'm assuming you want a store so you can get the game immediately, otherwise there's lots of places to order stuff like that online (e.g. amazon sells it) - travis
[2004-04-22 14:16:00] - Paul: well, shouldn't springfield not be on there since it's closing? - travis
[2004-04-22 14:15:00] - check my last comment on vinnie's journal for a very concise review of settlers from the wizards site - travis
[2004-04-22 14:15:00] - Travis: Yeah, I tried using that but I know that it's an incomplete list because there is no mention of the Springfield Mall store. -paul
[2004-04-22 14:11:00] - my guess is that only the results with the wizards logo next to it are actual WotC stores - travis
[2004-04-22 14:09:00] - Paul: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=company/locator just search for "VA" (don't bother with the other fields); first result is tysons corner - travis
[2004-04-22 14:08:00] - it got cancelled before it was ever published, although they used the same story/character and just changed her name, basically - travis
[2004-04-22 14:07:00] - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s896977.htm this was a while ago, but marvel was going to put princess di in an x-men comic - travis
[2004-04-22 14:00:00] - Anyone know if there are any other WotC stores in NOVA besides the Springfield Mall one? -Paul
[2004-04-22 13:19:00] - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001909527_coffin22m.html dammit stupid copy-paste fucking up - mig
[2004-04-22 13:18:00] - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20010909527_coffin22m.html - mig
[2004-04-22 13:17:00] - mig: only since 1991? Seems like something they would've insituted back in WWII or at least Vietnam. -- Xpovos
[2004-04-22 13:14:00] - and the military contractor she was working for fired her as a result. - mig
[2004-04-22 13:14:00] - Well according to the Pentagon, the press is forbidden to take photos of dead soldiers since 1991. - mig
[2004-04-22 13:04:00] - Paul: True, but one infringes on First Ammendment Rights a whole lot more -- Xpovos
[2004-04-22 12:58:00] - Xpovos: Neither seems particularly illegal. -Paul
[2004-04-22 12:52:00] - Punish her for photographing coffins, or for publishing them? -- Xpovos
[2004-04-22 12:49:00] - Mig: That's what she claims. Why exactly did she get fired? -Paul
[2004-04-22 12:44:00] - she also got fired from her job and the military is trying to figure out if they can meat out some sort of punishment to her. - mig
[2004-04-22 12:44:00] - Ironically the photographer who took that photo said it wasn't her intention to create any pro-war/anti-war sentiment. She said the photo was meant to give comfort to the families of the dead by showing how well the military was taking care of their bodies. - mig
[2004-04-22 12:39:00] - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&ncid=762&e=3&u=/ap/20040422/ap_en_tv/britain_diana_pictures CBS scandal story -- Xpovos
[2004-04-22 12:38:00] - http://www.drudgereport.com/dover.htm
[2004-04-22 12:25:00] - xpovos: i heard about that this morning but i wasn't sure what they actually showed that was causing the commotion. - mig
[2004-04-22 12:15:00] - Xpovos: Hadn't heard of that. -Paul
[2004-04-22 11:58:00] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1197288,00.html article says Al Jazeera actually has a record of accurate reporting. - mig
[2004-04-22 11:32:00] - Speaking of major network gaffes, how about CBS breaking the bounds of decency and airing photos of Lady Di's death? I mean, do they really need -more- controversy after Reagans, Super Boob, etc. -- Xpovos
[2004-04-22 10:45:00] - Mig: I'm sure his life is already a living hell anyway. -Paul
[2004-04-22 10:31:00] - well i didn't see but even if it didn't I can imagine it thrills Steve Bartman that nbc basically reminded all of chicago what he did again on national tv. - mig
[2004-04-22 08:24:00] - Mig: At least the episode didn't have much to do with somebody killing him because of the foul ball. -Paul
[2004-04-22 03:15:00] - Saw most of a L&O ep tonight. Woke up about 20 minutes in. I could never get into the show, 'cause I'm always rooting for the criminals to get off. -- Xpovos
[2004-04-21 22:30:00] - whoops that last one was me.... i should probably stop drinking now. - mig
[2004-04-21 21:56:00] - mig: well the beginning of the article starts with rumsfeld ranting about how al jazeera is telling outright lies, but the rest of the article just points to complaints that al jazeera is heavily biased (big surprise there). there's like one instance where someone accuses al jazeera of outright falsehoods but they don't point to anything specific
[2004-04-21 20:54:00] - mig: oh, was the al-jazeera thing true? I only skimmed the article, and I thought it was saying that the al-jazeera stories were outright falsehoods. - pierce
[2004-04-21 20:36:00] - ugh, nbc is showing a law and order episode based on the steve bartman incident, except someone actually kills the character based on bartman. way to give people ideas. - mig
[2004-04-21 20:19:00] - well i'm not too upset about the china thing either. but it rings rather hollow to cry about being censored when you go off and threaten to censor someone else. while al jazaeera is by no means a principled news source (then again, who is?) i've seen nothing to indicate they are outright making shit up. - mig
[2004-04-21 19:23:00] - mig: I'm not too upset about either of those; in china they were censoring the truth (not that what Cheney said was necessarily the truth, but the fact that he said it is), and in al jazeera they're publishing (ostensibly) lies. - pierce
[2004-04-21 18:41:00] - mig: couldn't read the nytimes article, but the jpost one didn't make it sound like a hissy fit. Could just be me tho -dave
[2004-04-21 17:33:00] - http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1081748012305&p=1078397702269 bush administration throws a hissy fit at al jazeera and threatens to censor them. - mig
[2004-04-21 17:33:00] - http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/international/asia/20CHEN.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1082551106-coufTJjAji1tKoeC/uPBmQ bush administration throws a hissy fit about cheney being censored in china. - mig
[2004-04-21 17:22:00] - pierce: yeah, not sure. noticed that too -dave
[2004-04-21 17:17:00] - I wonder why that text is hosted in Hong Kong, since it's an American study. - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:11:00] - the second post of the link worked, that is. - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:11:00] - it worked for me, and that's where the quote is from. - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:11:00] - "The odds of transmitting disease are cut nearly to zero if condoms are used consistently and correctly." - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:08:00] - well, the link doesn't work for me when i click on it -dave
[2004-04-21 17:07:00] - dave: adrian put that in so that people couldn't make the message board have horizontal scrollbars (and screwing up everyone else's multiline comments) by posting super-long words. The space allows the browser to break the line at that point, but the link will still work. - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:06:00] - ummm, just a lotta stats about condoms as far as I can see. no pics -dave
[2004-04-21 17:06:00] - Awww, this one is kind of funny but mostly sad: "Weird Al Honors Parents' Memory With 'Tears In Heaven' Parody" - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:06:00] - hmm, how weird, it doesn't want to paste for some reason, puts a space bewteen h and tml -dave
[2004-04-21 17:05:00] - oops, didn't paste right. http://sqzm14.ust.hk/condom-ratings-95.html -dave
[2004-04-21 17:04:00] - hehehe, the onion has a funny headline: "Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department". Good stuff. - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:04:00] - "safe for work" i.e. does it contain any nudity or obviously "offensive" content. - pierce
[2004-04-21 17:02:00] - pierce: what's sfw? -dave
[2004-04-21 16:58:00] - hmmm, how weird, dunno why it doesn't work from this page -dave
[2004-04-21 16:48:00] - dave: that link sfw? - pierce
[2004-04-21 16:39:00] - from http://sqzm14.ust.hk/condom-ratings-95.html. kinda have to browse a bit to find the statistics tho -dave
[2004-04-21 16:38:00] - An estimated 2% to 5% of condoms tear during use. Most of those failures are thought to stem from misuse, not inherent flaws. And misuse is common: When the British Consumers' Association asked some 300 English men to demonstrate putting a condom on a model penis, nearly one in five got it wrong. -dave
[2004-04-21 16:29:00] - Aaron: Yeah, I don't remember my sex ed at all. In fact, I think my number was from back in grade school. -Paul
[2004-04-21 16:28:00] - But I thought that condoms were more effective than that.... - pierce
[2004-04-21 16:27:00] - I vaguely remember hearing 33% for men, higher for women. So with condoms, it would ostensibly be about an 8.3% chance of transmission if all of the given numbers are correct. - pierce
[2004-04-21 16:26:00] - paul: I think "withdrawal" has a birth control rate of 75% if I remember my sex ed (which i don't) - aaron
[2004-04-21 16:25:00] - dave: important to note is that the probability of transmission from unprotected sex is not 1. - pierce
[2004-04-21 16:17:00] - paul: ewww 75% sucks -dave
[2004-04-21 16:13:00] - Dave: I vaguely remember hearing 75% sometime, but that could've included improper usage or something. -Paul
[2004-04-21 16:13:00] - mig: "mig: no, but why would that help? i've tried "php_value register_globals 1" and "php_flag register_globals on" . . . what else were you planning on trying? ~a" ~a
[2004-04-21 16:10:00] - pierce: wow, 90% def. higher than I thought. -dave
[2004-04-21 15:45:00] - Mig: I would say that any percentage greater than one would be relatively high, considering how often people have sex and how it's putting their lives in the hands of condoms in some cases. -Paul
[2004-04-21 15:44:00] - granted, I might understand how some people would consider that low. - mig
[2004-04-21 15:43:00] - wasn't it something like 90% effective? that's what i think i've heard. - mig
[2004-04-21 15:26:00] - Dave: I don't have any figures, but I had exactly the opposite understanding; that condoms are extremely effective at stopping HIV transmission if used properly. I think that last bit is what bungles the statistics sometimes, though. - pierce
[2004-04-21 15:20:00] - I like how Travis is our resident porn/condom/STD expert.
-Paul[2004-04-21 15:12:00] - travis: isn't the % chance of condoms stopping aids rather low anyways? -dave
[2004-04-21 14:28:00] - http://www.mensactivism.org/activism_files/what_are_mens_issues.pdf You can read the rest if you want, but the paragraph I am mostly concerned with is the 'Reproductive Rights' paragraph. Comes from a biased source, but maybe it can explain the issue better than I. -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:23:00] - no idea about what testing they do besides HIV, but i'd assume they have some sort of testing regime set up. there's talk now of condoms being mandatory, but i don't know who even regulates the porn industry besides itself (and the courts when obscenity charges come up) - travis
[2004-04-21 14:23:00] - Pierce: You're probably right, but I imagine that they could be handling this just as financially responsibly but less morally responsibly if they wanted to. -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:22:00] - pierce: not totally sure, and i don't really go looking for details while i'm at work, but i'd say she's bisexual leaning towards lesbian because i think she's said she feels more comfortable with a woman (of course, lots of the girls say that so they could just be fueling male fantasy) - travis
[2004-04-21 14:21:00] - Travis: does that industry have similar rules about lesser STDs? Syphilis? Hepatitis? Herpes? - pierce
[2004-04-21 14:20:00] - Paul: it's not necessarily moral responsibility as much as financial sense; STDs would spread like wildfire if left unchecked, and suddenly they'd have to pay a premium for people to work with those risks, as well as losing the most prolific - and therefore most popular - stars. - pierce
[2004-04-21 14:16:00] - Travis: I didn't know that (Jenna) and it's cool to see the porn industry being fairly responsible about this. -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:16:00] - travis: so is she officially bisexual, straight, or gay? does she just do the porn for the money, so it's not reflective of her sexual orientation? or is she just married for the legal benefits or something? or neither? - pierce
[2004-04-21 14:15:00] - Pierce: I know that at least some of your questions are addressed by the article but not all of them. Unreported violence/rape is one of the biggest question marks when it comes to statistics like this, though. -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:15:00] - so far, it's only been those people, but everyone in quarantine still can't work for 60 days - travis
[2004-04-21 14:14:00] - Paul: jenna hasn't had sex with a man in her movies for a long time, she's largely been a lesbian actress most of her career - travis
[2004-04-21 14:13:00] - Travis: So it was only those two people then? -paul
[2004-04-21 14:13:00] - Also, how does the increase in violence against men compare to the change in violence against women? How do the actual numbers compare? How much of that change is a change of frequency of reporting, rather than instance? - pierce
[2004-04-21 14:13:00] - Pierce: That's the media for you
-Paul[2004-04-21 14:13:00] - Paul: about people trying to get HIV, when there are people that seek out cannibals to eat them using personal ads, i don't put anything past people - travis
[2004-04-21 14:12:00] - Paul: both of those stories you posted lose most of their meaning without context; how many people are trying to get HIV? I'd bet it's not many, and that it's not associated with dating websites at all but rather with people with general self-preservation issues. - pierce
[2004-04-21 14:10:00] - Paul: that HIV porn scare is settling down a bit because four of the first generation tested negative after 30 days - travis
[2004-04-21 14:10:00] - I'm kinda surprised that Jenna Jameson now only has sex with her husband and other women on camera. -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:09:00] - Travis: I'm sure there was a lot of street crime associated with drugs back then, but I'm also fairly sure it was nowhere near as bad as it is now. -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:09:00] - Aaron: That's why it's not illegal
-Paul[2004-04-21 14:08:00] - that's supposedly how marijuana got lumped in with all the hard narcotics, because it had the same street crimes associated with it - travis
[2004-04-21 14:08:00] - http://www.nypost.com/gossip/19103.htm Jenna Jameson starts a fund to help idle porn stars -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:08:00] - paul: Nobody is directly harmed by HIV - aaron
[2004-04-21 14:06:00] - about the drugs == bad atmosphere, i don't know if it's true or not, but the reason i heard drugs were outlawed early in the 20th century was because of the street crime associated with them - travis
[2004-04-21 14:03:00] - http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/tm_objectid=14156598%26method=full%26siteid=86024%26headline=special%2dsunday%2dmail%2dreport%2d%2dthe%2dfist%2dwives%2dclub-name_pa Violence in the home against men soars by 81 per cent -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:01:00] - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=512497 Some people are trying to get HIV -Paul
[2004-04-21 14:00:00] - paul: "OK" - aaron
[2004-04-21 13:59:00] - Vinnie: That's a good point that I can't believe I missed.
-Paul[2004-04-21 13:59:00] - Aaron: Nobody is directly harmed by drunk driving -Paul
[2004-04-21 13:58:00] - http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/04/14/seiler.charged.ap/index.html College student charged in fake abduction -Paul
[2004-04-21 13:56:00] - mig: no, but why would that help? i've tried "php_value register_globals 1" and "php_flag register_globals on" . . . what else were you planning on trying? ~a
[2004-04-21 13:55:00] - vinnie: and, largely, drugs. and prohibition-era alcohol. - pierce
[2004-04-21 13:54:00] - paul: Your rationale - aaron
[2004-04-21 13:51:00] - haha, the harmful atmosphere is caused by the government's outlawing of it. just like prostitution - vinnie
[2004-04-21 13:50:00] - http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/19/national/19DNA.html?ei=5040&en=ee6384771c62b062&ex=1083038400&adxnnl=1&partner=MOREOVER&adxnnlx=1082569730 Study Suspects Thousands of False Convictions -Paul
[2004-04-21 13:46:00] - Aaron: Depends. By my rationale or by politicians' rationale? -Paul
[2004-04-21 13:32:00] - ~a: do you have 'AllowOverride Options' set for my htdocs directory? - mig
[2004-04-21 13:23:00] - aaron: well since those shoes were usually expensive you could probably just sell it to someone after stealing them. - mig
[2004-04-21 13:21:00] - aaron: then i guess they keeping shooting until they got the right size
- travis[2004-04-21 13:07:00] - travis: Shooting someone for their shoes? What if they're the wrong size? - aaron
[2004-04-21 13:06:00] - travis, i'm sure lots of people actually thought about doing just that ~a
[2004-04-21 13:03:00] - of course by that rationale, they should've outlawed starter jackets and air jordans when kids were shooting each other for them - travis
[2004-04-21 13:02:00] - Paul: i think outlawing gambling (or in this case, just high stakes gambling) probably follows the same logic they used to outlaw drugs, that is, they can create a harmful atmosphere even if the actual activity isn't that dangerous - travis
[2004-04-21 12:53:00] - paul: Who's harmed by drunk driving?
- aaron[2004-04-21 12:38:00] - Aaron: The shooting certainly has some potential victims, but I was more wondering who was harmed by the actual gambling. -Paul
[2004-04-21 12:37:00] - Mig: They might be forced to ride their bikes without the law guaranteeing that they wear a helmet. -Paul
[2004-04-21 12:36:00] - paul: Other people living in the area who have to deal with gambling-related violence/shootings, they could be perceived as victims - aaron
[2004-04-21 12:34:00] - paul: i know, think of the poor children who won't 'benefit' from that pork project. - mig
[2004-04-21 12:09:00] - Mig: That cold hearted bastard. Some politician is going to go without his new pork project because of that. -Paul
[2004-04-21 11:55:00] - paul: why the victim is the state of course. they're not getting their "cut" of the business that they have a god given right to extort. - mig
[2004-04-21 11:41:00] - or a real cicada - vinnie
[2004-04-21 11:32:00] - Travis: A better idea would be to leave a chocolate covered cicada.
-Paul[2004-04-21 11:19:00] - "leaving a chocolate shaped like a cicada on the pillow of guests who order turndown service" that just seems like a bad idea - travis
[2004-04-21 11:18:00] - http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-ravens-fuller-gambling&prov=ap&type=lgns I wonder, who is the victim here? -Paul
[2004-04-21 11:11:00] - Aaron: Yeah, I'm actually fairly excited. This kinda thing only happens once every seventeen years.
-Paul[2004-04-21 11:06:00] - oo neat. I vaguely remember cicadas doing their thing during elementary school. - aaron
[2004-04-21 10:45:00] - http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040419-095416-1257r.htm Are you ready for BroodX? -Paul
[2004-04-21 10:40:00] - slow day of the message board today. nothing to talk about? - mig
[2004-04-21 09:24:00] - http://www.henrymarkholzer.com/articles_f---_draft.shtml
[2004-04-21 09:20:00] - mig: but they can't ship you off if you don't even show up. - pierce
[2004-04-21 09:19:00] - In the event of draft: break bone. -- Xpovos
[2004-04-21 09:18:00] - Mel: aw, money train's not a hit? TNT shows it so much, though
- travis[2004-04-21 07:47:00] - pierce: i know that's a joke, but seriously i don't think that will work since they've been shipping off national guard people to iraq. - mig
[2004-04-21 00:24:00] - dammit, our = your for maximum punchlininess. - pierce
[2004-04-21 00:21:00] - don't worry, miguel. If they institute a draft, you can always just pretend to do our national guard duty instead. I assume you're the son of a prominent politician, right? </cynicism> - pierce
[2004-04-20 23:05:00] - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&u=/afp/20040420/pl_afp/us_iraq_military_draft&printer=1 somehow politican's arrogance continues to amazes me. - mig
[2004-04-20 18:18:00] - sorry, about the double post, I was having problmes with the message board. Anyway, she actually went dancer (fly girl, In Living Color, late 80's or early 90's) -> actress (first big hit was Selena, 1997) -> singer (first album was On the 6t, 1999). -Mel
[2004-04-20 18:16:00] - Pierce: definitely actress who became a singer -Mel
[2004-04-20 18:15:00] - Pierce: definitely actress who became a singer -Mel
[2004-04-20 17:57:00] - Travis: Jennifer Lopez has been in a lot of movies that I don't particularly remember her in. -Paul
[2004-04-20 17:51:00] - wow, checking imdb, i had no idea francis ford coppola directed jack or that jennifer lopez was in it, all i remembered was robin williams and the concept - travis
[2004-04-20 17:50:00] - Travis: And I'm not sure how the rape qualifies as a felony either. -Paul
[2004-04-20 17:47:00] - pierce: j.lo was an actress before a singer. even her first big movie predates her music career by several years - vinnie
[2004-04-20 17:44:00] - Travis: Heh, 'mum'. Those zany british. -Paul
[2004-04-20 17:43:00] - Travis: I guess so. Although I'm not sure how the death by rape charge applies. Sounds like the judge really has it out for this guy. -Paul
[2004-04-20 17:34:00] - http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004180367,00.html “The gentleman in question here wasn’t in character during the time of some of these occurrences.” - travis
[2004-04-20 17:23:00] - so it's possible to get charged with murdering the same person twice? - travis
[2004-04-20 17:22:00] - http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--studentsmurder0420apr20,0,4664838.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire "The first murder count charged Sigsbee with intentionally killing Reynolds. The second charged him with causing her death during a felony rape." - travis
[2004-04-20 17:19:00] - Xpovos: 3 pointers > goal every single time -Paul
[2004-04-20 17:17:00] - Hockey v. Basketball once more. Skating > Running every single time. -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 17:15:00] - I own Knee Deep in the Hoopla. How sad is that? -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 17:13:00] - Travis: that article annoyed me with all its failed attempts to rehash simpsons catch-phrases. Glad to see those actors standing up, though. I wish I made as much in a year as they do per episode *now*, but they still seem to make very little compared to other TV actors, considering their excellent voice work and the success of the show. - pierce
[2004-04-20 17:07:00] - Pierce: Yeah, I guess a four party system would be closer to ideal. I just worry that the authoritarian party would be too popular then.
-Paul[2004-04-20 17:06:00] - Paul: I wish we could have a four-party system that truly reflects the two dimensions of "more gov't vs. less gov't" and "gov't regulates social issues vs. gov't regulates economic issues". - pierce
[2004-04-20 17:04:00] - Paul: I've heard about it, though for an apocalypse movie it's been remarkably underpromoted. - pierce
[2004-04-20 17:02:00] - is j.lo an actress who became a singer, or a singer who became an actress? she rose to prominence in both careers at about the same time. - pierce
[2004-04-20 17:01:00] - Has anyone heard about 'The Day After Tomorrow'? Am I right in that it's a disaster movie about global warming? That has got to be the most boring disaster movie ever.
-Paul[2004-04-20 17:00:00] - Pierce: I'm hoping the Democratic party collapses and the green and libertarian parties rise from the ashes. That would make for some interesting debates.
-Paul[2004-04-20 16:59:00] - http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13932,00.html?tnews probably old news for some, but simpsons actors are refusing to work until they get paid more - travis
[2004-04-20 16:58:00] - I love "we built this city"! - vinnie
[2004-04-20 16:58:00] - Travis: Bah! There is nothing wrong with those songs. Clearly they've never heard the tripe you listen to.
-Paul[2004-04-20 16:58:00] - Which is really a foolish position for the democratic party to be in; any discovery resembling an Iraq-WMD link with any reasonable believability would result in a second term for W, pretty much guaranteed. The dems have allowed the economy, civil rights, the environment, and foreign policy to become "also-ran" issues. - pierce
[2004-04-20 16:56:00] - Pierce: It's tough to say. I'm betting more on the stupidity of the masses than the pride of the masses but I can see both sides quite clearly. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:55:00] - Dave: if they were, and by "traced back" you mean they validated the Bush admin's pre-war claims about Iraq, then I think it's a given that public opinion would go overwhelmingly in favor of Bush - pierce
[2004-04-20 16:55:00] - I've seen people write their user name AND password on a post-it note and stick it on the monitor of their computer.
-Paul[2004-04-20 16:55:00] - Travis: I think it's funny that being bribed by chocolate or a cheap pen is enough to convince a decent percentage of people to fork over their passwords. You would be shocked at some of the lax security in government buildings though. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:54:00] - http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4459,9344603%255E7484%255E%255Enbv,00.html worst...song...ever - travis
[2004-04-20 16:54:00] - Dave: Then Bush would be blamed for letting them get away, methinks.
-Paul[2004-04-20 16:52:00] - Travis: Steven Hawking is celebrating somewhere. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:52:00] - Paul: yeah, that's a good point that the Bush administration wouldn't be able to blame Clinton for a second attack, but I still think that people would tend to gravitate towards Bush more than away. - pierce
[2004-04-20 16:52:00] - http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3342871 chocolate for my password? brilliant! - travis
[2004-04-20 16:51:00] - An interesting thought. What if the terrorist attacks on the US were carried out using bio weapons that were traced back to Iraq? -dave
[2004-04-20 16:42:00] - paul/mig: yes they are easily influenced. I was just wondering which way? I would tend to agree that you are correct -dave
[2004-04-20 16:42:00] - http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~2093847,00.html getting closer to pierce's wish for mind control computers - travis
[2004-04-20 16:30:00] - I agree with Miguel. Elections are all about the swing voters in the middle and I think they could be very easily influenced by another attack. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:29:00] - Dave: Well, I think what you would see is that Kerry would immediately seize upon the attacks and say that Bush hasn't kept us safe and the intelligence failures are his fault etc -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:28:00] - pierce: yeah i really thidave/pierce: while the strong conservative base will still vote for him, i have a feeling all the swing voters are going to be a skeptical of a president who "let" (term used loosely) two terrorist attacks happen on his soil. - mig
[2004-04-20 16:24:00] - pierce: yeah, that was what I was thinking too. I honestly don't know which way it would go tho, which is why I brought it up ^_^ -dave
[2004-04-20 16:21:00] - Not my opinion, but how the public might look at it. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:21:00] - Dave/Pierce: I was thinking more along the lines of the fact that Bush wasn't able to keep us safe, that all the wars didn't do us any good, and maybe a little bit of getting rid of Bush in hopes they stop. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:18:00] - not saying that's an accurate perception, just that it's a likely perception for a lot of people. - pierce
[2004-04-20 16:18:00] - mig: you think? I think it might have the opposite effect; reminding people (who agreed with Bush's antiterrorist practices) that terrorism is still a threat, and making them think they wouldn't want a lily-livered democrat "wussing out" against bin Laden. - pierce
[2004-04-20 16:13:00] - paul: Yeah, I could see how it might be bad for Bush, but at the same time, polls seem to indicate that the public believes Bush is more capable of handling terrorism than Kerry. How much / if another attack would change this view is the problem -dave
[2004-04-20 16:13:00] - though, yes, if the a-rabs pulls something off between now and the election, bush will probably be ousted as a result. - mig
[2004-04-20 16:12:00] - the difference between spain and here, though is that the war in iraq wasn't very popular in spain to begin with (the only reason the government in spain went along with it because they were bribed by the us to do so). - mig
[2004-04-20 16:04:00] - pierce: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25457-2004Apr19.html -dave
[2004-04-20 16:02:00] - I'll bet it would be worse for Bush. -Paul
[2004-04-20 16:01:00] - dave: source? - pierce
[2004-04-20 15:55:00] - I wonder, What affect would this have on the elections? -dave
[2004-04-20 15:55:00] - "Osama bin Laden's terrorist network wants to launch a new phase of opportunistic operations [on the US] based on its apparent reading that the March 11 bombings of trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people, led Spanish voters days later to oust the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. His government had supported the war in Iraq. " -dave
[2004-04-20 15:32:00] - Travis: How come you didn't pick volleyball then? -Paul
[2004-04-20 15:29:00] - ~a: oh hold on that may not be necessary. is apache set up to allow me to use .htaccess for my directories? - mig
[2004-04-20 15:26:00] - ~a: is it asking too much for register_globals to be set on in /etc/php.ini? - mig
[2004-04-20 15:26:00] - field hockey in p.e. at tj was fun, but maybe that was because 75% of the people playing were girls (during the end of year choose-your-activity time)
- travis[2004-04-20 15:22:00] - a: Hockey? -Paul
[2004-04-20 15:14:00] - paul: hokey players make shots too. you should try hokey, it's lots of fun. ~a
[2004-04-20 15:08:00] - Dave: Yeah, but those guys are shooting the basketball. The guys with hockey sticks are just skating around.
-Paul[2004-04-20 14:59:00] - a: ahh, didn't read the link - thought he was actually asking a question -dave
[2004-04-20 14:58:00] - paul: "hockey is just watch some guys skating around with sticks" and basketball is guys running around without the sticks ^_^ -dave
[2004-04-20 14:55:00] - dave: paul already posted that ~a
[2004-04-20 14:53:00] - paul: I heard that netflix determines who gets high-demand dvd's partially based on past use. If you are high-use (return a dvd every other day) then you are less likely to be able to get the high-demand dvd's -dave
[2004-04-20 14:27:00] - http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa041204a_2.htm david carradine interview where he mentions the source of the superman speech in kill bill vol. 2 - travis
[2004-04-20 14:07:00] - - mig: well it still doesn't work. ~a
[2004-04-20 13:59:00] - a: Yeah, it's been 19 days since April Fool's Day... -Paul
[2004-04-20 13:58:00] - flag, variable, whateva, but i've looked at the php docs and that's supposed to be set on in order to access form variables the way it's done in the blog code. - mig
[2004-04-20 13:57:00] - oh, wow, i just now realized it's april 20th . . . *nostalgic* ~a
[2004-04-20 13:54:00] - - mig: i tried that already (it's a flag, not a value; but i tried that too). ~a
[2004-04-20 13:53:00] - oops i meant that it supposed to be set to 1. - mig
[2004-04-20 13:44:00] - - mig: register_globals (which is a flag, not a value) defaults to off so i don't know what you're trying to do. ~a
[2004-04-20 13:37:00] - - mig: done, but it doesn't look like it changed anything. ~a
[2004-04-20 13:07:00] - ~a: just add the line: 'php_value register_globals 0' to wherever my virtual host stuff is defined - mig
[2004-04-20 13:06:00] - ~a: can you try adding that my virtual host settings in apache conf files? - mig
[2004-04-20 12:59:00] - ~a: i've tried setting to set the php.ini variables from my scripts but it isn't working. - mig
[2004-04-20 12:05:00] - Maybe I'll get into hockey later, since I actually found myself enjoying some of the World Series last year (and I'm not a big fan of baseball either) but right now hockey is a lot lower on my interest level than basketball. -Paul
[2004-04-20 12:04:00] - Xpovos: There's a fine line between tension and boredom. To me, hockey is just watch some guys skating around with sticks and every once in a long while, one of the goals will light up, signifying a score. That's not terribly exciting to me. -Paul
[2004-04-20 12:03:00] - Paul: interesting link, have to send that one on to a few people... -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 12:00:00] - paul: not surprising at all that democrats won't be voting for nader after what happened in 2000. They are hell bent on getting rid of bush and they're convinced that voting for nader insures bush another term. - mig
[2004-04-20 11:56:00] - So the Flames/Canucks triple overtime 5-4 game is clearly not a hockey game, since they scored 9 goals, and had substantial and long-standing tension and excitement. -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 11:48:00] - http://dvd-rent-test.dreamhost.com/ How does Netflix determine who gets high-demand DVDs? -paul
[2004-04-20 11:24:00] - Xpovos: Too bad nothing happens in hockey 99% of the time. Even a 30-31 hockey game would be boring because a goal looks just as exciting as a timeout. In fact, hockey has to artificially raise excitement over goals by limiting them to one a game. -Paul
[2004-04-20 11:01:00] - A game like that would SUCK!!! -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 11:00:00] - shots on goal per game per team in hockey. If there were no goalie, those would all be goals, leading to scores akin to 30-31. Double the points, because basketball does for some reason 60-62. Add in a few penalty shots and give an extra point for shots outside the blue line and you're getting pretty close. Know what? (...) -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 10:59:00] - "We shall not discuss hockey while basketball is on" Eh? Sucks to be you then. Hockey ends before basketball does, plus it's about 1000x more intersting. This is becaue they actually play defense. I think basketball should revolutionize. Have Shaq start playing goalie. I calculated it, there's an average of 30 (...) -- Xpovos
[2004-04-20 10:14:00] - http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38124 "don't we work in order to live instead of living in order to work?" -Paul
[2004-04-20 10:08:00] - http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38119 If nothing else, he coins a cool term.
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