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[2005-11-30 11:24:24] - paul: can you think of any other major things that people don't think parents should be notified about? -dave
[2005-11-30 11:05:45] - And I also think there is a difference between notifying your friends and notifying your family. -Paul
[2005-11-30 11:03:52] - I haven't read the article, but it sounds like there is a minor difference between what Dave and Aaron are talking about. With Aaron's examples, it sounds like somebody is prying into a person's private life without reason whereas with Dave, it sounds like the school is just notifying the parents of something that they helped the child with. -Paul
[2005-11-30 11:01:35] - Amy: Yeah, it seemed like a leap of logic to me too but it probably makes more sense in the context of the conversation. She probably thought I was supporting the law (which I suppose I was defending, in a way). -Paul
[2005-11-30 10:51:30] - aaron: i mean isn't the whole definition of a minor a person that isn't old enough to make decisions for themselves? -dave
[2005-11-30 10:50:54] - aaron: or what about something like prescription medication. should a minor be able to get it without letting their parents know? That seems somewhat dangerous if they don't -dave
[2005-11-30 10:49:54] - aaron: but it still seems a bit odd. I mean it's not like a full adult having to notify someone, we're talking about minors. Like principles notifying parents if kids act up at school -dave
[2005-11-30 10:48:09] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051129-5644.html Firefox 1.5 released -dave
[2005-11-30 10:45:08] - Paul: sounds a bit different from "a husband knew his wife was getting an abortion" ... -amy
[2005-11-30 10:38:13] - It just makes the doctor/therapist/meeting group a slightly less welcoming place, a less likely alternative. It might encourage teenagers/whomever to consult unlicensed abortion doctors - aaron
[2005-11-30 10:36:59] - Amy: Her response was that the husband could then refuse to sign some paper saying he had been notified and, in effect, prevent the wife from having an abortion. She was clearly not happy with my obvious "men should be able to control a woman's body" views.
-Paul[2005-11-30 10:36:37] - amy: I think it's just the whole idea of making it manditory for other people to hear about your lifestyle decisions.... Like if your parents were automatically notified because you went to an LGBTA meeting, or if your friends were automatically notified because you went to a therapist - aaron
[2005-11-30 10:35:48] - Amy: We were discussion a law which basically required a wife to notify her husband before she gets an abortion and I commented that it would be nice for the husband to know. -Paul
[2005-11-30 10:34:47] - Amy: It's a little complicated, but in the context of the conversation I think it made it sound like I was saying that women can't have an abortion without their husband's permission. -Paul
[2005-11-30 10:29:21] - Paul: why would this upset someone? -amy
[2005-11-30 10:02:22] - Dave: Surprisingly (to me at least), abortion notification is a very big deal to some pro-choice people. I was surprised by how upset somebody got when I said it would be nice if a husband new if his wife was going to get an abortion... -Paul
[2005-11-30 10:01:12] - mig: Well, there is also something to be said for conference champions not necessarily being the best team in their conference. If Colorado beats Texas in the Big XII championship game, I don't think that would suddenly make Colorado the best team in the Big XII. -Paul
[2005-11-30 09:42:34] - hell Nebraska didn't even win its own division and played in the NC game. - mig
[2005-11-30 09:41:56] - paul: which is one major flaw of the BCS, i don't know how you can be considered playing for the national championship if you aren't even the best team in your conference. - mig
[2005-11-30 09:41:38] - "You're not talking about parental consent, you're just talking about notification," he added. "In high school, a kid can't even have an aspirin without getting a parental slip, so the idea that they could have an abortion procedure without telling the parents that it's about to happen just seems to be outrageous." -dave
[2005-11-30 09:41:25] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/29/scotus.abortion/index.html supreme court abortion case -dave
[2005-11-30 09:35:44] - Sam: I'm not sure what you mean. The college football conferences only care about conference records but the BCS really only cares about overall record. Teams have played in the national championship without even winning their conference before. -Paul
[2005-11-30 09:33:48] - Sam: In this case, I imagine Arizona played some good teams so far while UNC didn't. Also, UNC might be the defending champ but like Miguel said, they lost nearly all their important players to the draft and so their team this year is vastly different. -Paul
[2005-11-30 09:33:00] - Sam: It's a little bit like how an undefeated team from a minor conference in football is often ranked behind a team with a couple losses from a major conference. -Paul
[2005-11-30 09:32:07] - Sam: College basketball has a lot more games than college football so a team can have a number of losses and still be considered good as long as those loses came to good teams while an undefeated team could still be bad if they played nobody good. -Paul
[2005-11-30 09:30:11] - Sam: I'm not sure exactly how tied together your SSN and credit history is. As long as the credit card and car loan and rental agreement is all in your name and not your parents' name, that should show up when people look up your credit history, though. -Paul
[2005-11-30 09:27:27] - a: your tree looks nice
- vinnie[2005-11-30 09:26:31] - aaron/mel: very cool. sorry I missed it then - vinnie
[2005-11-30 00:14:39] - sam: the reason that UNC was not ranked at the beginning of the season was that they lost practically all their team to the nba. - mig
[2005-11-30 00:12:21] - sam: ugh, how annoying, i just downloaded rc3 earlier today. - mig
[2005-11-29 19:37:55] - FireFox 1.5 is out! http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ -sam
[2005-11-29 19:31:56] - To help boost its stalled economy, hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is offering the nation's first free wireless Internet network owned and run by a major city. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_new_orleans;_ylt=AqH2Wr55xhwFALpuWs5e_7ojtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA-- -sam
[2005-11-29 19:20:13] - vinnie: I had a good time. I heard more people went last year but last year I didn't make it, so I can't compare. -mel
[2005-11-29 19:04:12] - how come NFL takes overal record over the division record but college football doesn't? -sam
[2005-11-29 19:01:15] - Arizona's college basketball team is 2-2 and they are ranked #13? the defending champ UNC is now 3-0 but not ranked?!? what is up with the college basketball rankings? -sam
[2005-11-29 18:05:24] - I had a credit card since college and I still use it. i also payback monthly on car loan. are these and my apt rental history automatically tied to my social security number? So with my SSN, can lenders easily look up my credit history? -sam
[2005-11-29 18:02:45] - thanks guys for the useful info! -sam
[2005-11-29 17:36:28] - vinnie: About 100 people came. It was pretty cool. A little mellower than last time (although it started to pick up around 11:00) - aaron
[2005-11-29 16:39:56] - so did you all like the reunion? how many people came? - vinnie
[2005-11-29 16:38:33] - pierce: damn, i guess i just missed you, but... let it be known i caught you quoting bash.org and pretending to be original! -amy
[2005-11-29 15:34:14] - and dammit, it should... ": - /" does not rotate into that smilie! - pierce
[2005-11-29 15:21:44] - heh... it's too bad the slanty-smile face doesn't slant the other way, it'd be very apropos. - pierce
[2005-11-29 15:18:39] - several Republican strategists said they are desperate to avoid irritating Latinos - time.com
[2005-11-29 15:06:16] - I seem to have had some catastrophic left-side-of-the-neck failure there...
- pierce[2005-11-29 15:00:43] - amy: hehe, that's pretty funny -dave
[2005-11-29 14:53:18] - http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1128teenbuzz-ON.html high-frequency teenager repellant! -amy
[2005-11-29 14:37:47] - mig/pierce: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stolenbyme/68311280/ - aba
[2005-11-29 14:25:47] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/29/vodka.baby.ap/index.html parents gave crying baby vodka -dave
[2005-11-29 13:43:03] - sam: avg age here is 30-35, i'd say. -amy
[2005-11-29 13:19:35] - Dave: Exactly. -Paul
[2005-11-29 13:07:55] - Paul: I suppose it didn't say how much the farmers were paying the illegal immigrants ^_^ -dave
[2005-11-29 12:54:18] - http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5119324 Senator says T.O. was treated unfairly -Paul
[2005-11-29 12:34:18] - Dave: I'm sure there is some kind of tasteless joke alluding to slavery that I can make here.
-Paul[2005-11-29 12:30:39] - it'd be interesting if somehow we could funnel people sitting on welfare into doing that labor -dave
[2005-11-29 12:30:02] - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134787-1,00.html article on Bush push on immigration. What I found interesting were the quotes from farmers etc who say that they can't find anyone to do the menial labor and have to compete for illegral immigrants -dave
[2005-11-29 10:36:45] - http://smartmoney.com/marketmap/ stock market map (java) ~a
[2005-11-29 10:05:14] - sam: the average age in my group is pretty young too. I'd say about 28. but about a year ago it was much older. it seems very random - vinnie
[2005-11-29 09:50:25] - Sam: My company is fairly young. I think the average age of my coworkers is probably around 26. -Paul
[2005-11-29 09:35:42] - sam: i've also heard what paul and A were saying about credit, why I got a credit card in college. I think paying rent on an apt also goes towards good credit, so if you do that, then that would help some -dave
[2005-11-29 09:34:24] - sam: not sure what the average age is, but we have a mass of people that are probably 50+ and then another mass of people 30-. If I had to give rough numbers, maybe 70-80% are in the 50+? -dave
[2005-11-29 09:25:21] - Sam: But even if you have no debt, you might have no credit history (which, like Adrian said, is almost as bad as having bad credit) if you haven't used a credit card or had a car loan or something like that. -Paul
[2005-11-29 09:24:13] - Sam: I pretty much agree with Adrian on the credit question. I have pretty decent credit because I have had a credit card since high school and had a car loan which I paid off early along with having no debt. -Paul
[2005-11-29 09:22:18] - Sam: And if you find a condo for $200k, that actually seems like a pretty good deal like Aaron said (depending, of course, on the location and other things). -Paul
[2005-11-29 09:21:35] - Sam: NOVA is very different from Blacksburg. $900 a month for an apartment doesn't seem very high to me at all considering the prices of places I was looking at when I was searching for an apartment. -Paul
[2005-11-29 07:50:48] - paying off your student loan doesn't count for much towards your credit either, apparently. - mig
[2005-11-28 21:05:14] - sam: 200k is a very very good price, I think there would really have to be a catch for that good of a price - aaron
[2005-11-28 20:20:48] - sam: things that mortgage people look for (in order of importance, and they need to be IN YOUR NAME to be valid): past rental agreements, car loans, NON COMPANY credit cards (even if you're the one that pays the bill they have to be non-company), utilities (although many utilities won't write you a letter of reccomendation because they're bastards) ~a
[2005-11-28 20:09:05] - sam: i found that out the hard way. if you don't ever borrow money, then you have NO credit (three options: bad credit, no credit, and good credit). sadly, no credit is almost as bad as bad credit. get a credit card and/or a car loan asap. ~a
[2005-11-28 20:07:50] - sam: average age is probably just under 40 (a bunch of my coworkers look a lot younger than they are for some reason. it seems like most of them are my age) ~a
[2005-11-28 20:07:01] - anyways, my mortgage was for $276k (the price of apt minus down payment) and that comes to about $1800/mo (for 30 years) and $1900/mo (for 25 years). that's WITH taxes. add on my condo fee of ~$300/mo and it's ~$2200/mo. ~a
[2005-11-28 20:06:09] - sam: 200k condos are very cheap unless you're talking about a ways away (like chantily/sterling/pwc). i'm guessing 200k is for the smallest apt they're selling and if you want anything with 1k+ sqft then it'll probably be a lot more. ~a
[2005-11-28 20:02:30] - all: what are the average age of your co-workers (just guestimate)? I think mine is 40. -sam
[2005-11-28 19:57:38] - what does it mean when people say you have a good credit history? does that mean you pay back the money you borrowed on time? what if you have never borrowed money? you have no credit? -sam
[2005-11-28 19:53:16] - aaron: i saw some condos around $200,000. with a low interest rate and large down payment, wouldn't it be around $1500 per month? -sam
[2005-11-28 19:11:28] - what kind of condo prices are you finding? - aaron
[2005-11-28 18:04:34] - man, apts in blacksburg were cheap... NOVA is like a totally different world... -sam
[2005-11-28 17:59:07] - I was looking for a 1b1b apt... I'm looking at your rent costs and they look pretty expensive... I think it might be better to buy a 1b1b condo... -sam
[2005-11-28 15:52:51] - aaron: click on him to see the answer. ~a
[2005-11-28 15:49:52] - I want to know who paid $400 to put waldo there - aaron
[2005-11-28 14:44:25] - apparently most of the drug reps (people convincing doctors to prescribe their drugs) are former cheerleaders -dave
[2005-11-28 14:30:52] - http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ It's the million dollar homepage! Careful, afaict it's sfw but it totally hurts my eyes/head to look at. Apparently this guy has made $700k from it? I guess you could estimate by looking at it. -amy
[2005-11-28 14:28:53] - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/business/28cheer.html?emc=eta1 "Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales " -dave
[2005-11-28 12:05:42] - Sam: Regarding that LCD, I don't know enough to make a recommendation either way. It sounds like a good price, but I still don't fully trust LCDs for computer gaming. -Paul
[2005-11-28 11:08:59] - sam: try craigslist? you could sublet or take over someone's lease, and potentially pay less money if people are desperate to have somebody move in. also, you might hear of places for rent that are not in the big well-known apartment complexes and those could be cheaper; i don't know if they exist in NOVA but if they do i bet craigslist is where you'd find them. -amy
[2005-11-28 10:56:36] - sam: My current place is around 900/mo (not near a metro, 1b1b) - aaron
[2005-11-28 09:54:36] - sam: what are you looking for size/wise? my first apartment (not near a metro, 2b2b) was 1400. my officemate's apartment (kingstowne is very near the end of the blue line, 2b1b) is around 1600. ~a
[2005-11-28 09:44:27] - Sam: Kinda sucks for Miami too since they have a better record than BC or FSU but are in the same conference as us so they're not going to the championship game. -Paul
[2005-11-28 09:43:04] - Sam: I don't know much about cheap apartments near metro stations. I mostly did my searching around the fair lakes and reston areas. Sorry. -Paul
[2005-11-28 09:34:52] - Sam: My rent is around $1100 a month. -paul
[2005-11-28 09:13:54] - man, i'm sorry i doubted you, java. ~a
[2005-11-28 09:12:51] - woah. you can play quake2 from your web browser (when downloading the 38mb of game data, i had to try a few different mirrors becfore it started downloading). http://www.bytonic.de/downloads/jake2_jogl11.jnlp ~a
[2005-11-28 09:06:37] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051123-5619.html browser developers agree on common security features -dave
[2005-11-26 23:39:53] - Wow... it's sucks for Boston College... BC and FSU have same conf record but BC has better overall record. But FSU beat BC, so FSU is going to the ACC championship game... -sam
[2005-11-26 12:51:41] - apparently, the madden curse struck again... this time to McNabb... -sam
[2005-11-26 12:50:45] - ignore the link below... use this http://www.gamespot.com/features/6140380/index.html -sam
[2005-11-26 12:50:27] - Video game cover athletes for 2005 and how they performed... http://www.gamespot.com/features/6140380/index.html-sam
[2005-11-26 11:30:36] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112500990.html R.I.P. Pat Morita. -Paul
[2005-11-24 20:46:25] - or springfield/kingstowne. or vienna. ~a
[2005-11-24 12:48:49] - if you want to stay in VA, your best bets are falls church/arlington and alexandria. http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm - aba
[2005-11-24 12:46:35] - sam: if you want to live near a metro station then fairfax (fair lakes/reston/herndon) is a really bad place to look for an apartment. - aba
[2005-11-24 02:16:50] - sam: i get thrusday but i have to burn vacation time for friday. - mig
[2005-11-23 21:37:37] - sam: always check their dead pixel policy. ~a
[2005-11-23 20:16:07] - I'm looking for an LCD monitor, and I think that's the best deal out there... -sam
[2005-11-23 20:14:44] - X2Gen MG19VT / 19" / 8ms / SXGA / 1280x1024 / Silver / LCD Monitor for $199 after rebates Should I buy it? -sam
[2005-11-23 20:11:02] - does anyone know any cheap apartments? preferably near a metro station. -sam
[2005-11-23 20:09:47] - paul: how much is the rent in your apt complex? -sam
[2005-11-23 20:07:46] - do you guys get thursday and friday off? -sam
[2005-11-23 20:07:22] - but i don't have to work on friday though.
-sam[2005-11-23 20:06:49] - i don't have to work on thanskgiving, but i need to... i got too much paper work to catch up... -sam
[2005-11-23 14:11:40] - Sam: Right now I don't have any big plans for the holidays other than spending some time with family. Why do you have to work tomorrow? -Paul
[2005-11-23 14:00:42] - sam: .( how come? -amy
[2005-11-23 13:57:51] - xpovos: i've done some with access too (jetsql and vb among other things). side note, you know you can use mysql without php, without a webserver, and without the internet, right? ~a
[2005-11-23 13:43:53] - Xpovos: I've done a little work with Access but nothing recently. I could try to help you but don't get your hopes up. -Paul
[2005-11-23 13:42:53] - a: Well, I was mostly referring to the panda tickets but I guess it also works for the re-selling of Xbox 360s. I wasn't talking about the thefts. -Paul
[2005-11-23 13:18:28] - I'm working tomorrow... -sam
[2005-11-23 13:18:18] - what's everyone doing for the holidays? -sam
[2005-11-23 12:13:30] - The link Miguel posted earlier was a guy trying to sell them for $6/$3K a piece on the off-chance they -might- get a second. Rat-logic again. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-23 12:10:22] - xpovos: "scam-related stuff"? - aaron
[2005-11-23 12:08:39] - Hmm, the X-box prices have settled to about $800 today, but it looks like that's an actual selling price rather than some of the scam-related stuff. -- Xpvos
[2005-11-23 12:05:12] - Anyone here familiar with Access? I can't do my normal tricks of setting up a mySQL server and using PHP here at work since 1) I don't have access to the webserver and 2) I can't put this data on the internet anyway... So a local Access db it is, and it's driving me nuts. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-23 12:02:20] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/23/bartender.tequila.ap/index.html bartender jailed for serving customer so much tequila (19 shots) that he went into a coma and died - aaron
[2005-11-23 11:58:18] - paul: i guess i should have asked to which stories you were referring. the ones where people were selling the xbox for $1k+ or the ones where people were stealing the xboxes? (or all of the above?) ~a
[2005-11-23 11:42:41] - a: Nah, my heart is really as cold as ice. -Paul
[2005-11-23 11:37:27] - paul: are you serious? ~a
[2005-11-23 09:36:54] - Dave: Those kind of stories warm my capitalist heart.
-paul[2005-11-23 09:36:31] - Sam: That's pretty crazy. -Paul
[2005-11-23 08:13:42] - http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=25321 armed robber steals two Xbox systems. Also, kid gets mugged as he leaves store with Xbox -dave
[2005-11-23 08:12:07] - http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Z0Y3SACVAJZQMQSNDBECKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=174400943 Google introduces new shopping tool to let you see if stores have in stock what you want. Seems like this will take a bit to get off the ground tho -dave
[2005-11-23 08:11:36] - paul: yeah, ebay people do that a lot. they are even reselling the free tickets to see the new baby panda since it was just opened for that. The zoo is saying they'll check IDs to match who they gave tickets to tho -dave
[2005-11-22 18:13:48] - paul: the most expensive xbox360 system is now $6,479.50 http://cgi.ebay.com/XBOX-360-Console-Bundle-Pack-NEW-SEALED_W0QQitemZ8236348468QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem -sam
[2005-11-22 15:34:59] - s/falgs/flags ... typos abound for me today, it seems. - mig
[2005-11-22 15:32:56] - if true, it certainly causes some red falgs about the "accidental" attacks on al jazeera offices in iraq and afghanistan. - mig
[2005-11-22 15:28:22] - http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-22-bush-al-jazeera_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA bush apparenlty wanted to bomb al-jazeera's headquarters in Qatar. - mig
[2005-11-22 14:27:38] - Aaron: Assuming I could've gotten my hands on any, which is a big assumption. -Paul
[2005-11-22 13:59:01] - paul: That would have been brilliant - aaron
[2005-11-22 13:25:59] - i don't thinke even the ps2 at its peak went for that... - mig
[2005-11-22 13:19:52] - Crap on a crutch! I knew there'd be some inflation, but wow. $1600? -- Xpovos
[2005-11-22 12:07:23] - http://search.ebay.com/xbox-360 Wow, looks like I should've ordered some xbox 360s just so I could resell them on ebay. -Paul
[2005-11-22 09:02:53] - interestingly, if you click into the article, the headline there says "Abramoff Partner Pleads Guilty" instead of that -dave
[2005-11-22 09:02:38] - Dave: Wow, I guess I'll hold onto that AMD stock now.
-Paul[2005-11-22 09:02:01] - on the media biasing stories - the frontpage of the washpost at present says "DeLay Ex-Aide Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy " Although the aide wasn't employed by Delay at the time of his "crime" -dave
[2005-11-22 09:01:19] - Sam: I actually liked the second one better because it seemed to be higher quality. -Paul
[2005-11-22 09:00:31] - Sam: Wow, that's kind of interesting that you started a defense that gave up that many points and you still got good production out of them. -Paul
[2005-11-22 09:00:16] - aaron: yeah, they don't get the most favored retailer status or whatever it's called -dave
[2005-11-22 08:37:17] - Unless I'm mistaken, that means they will have to charge more for their intel chips.... I think intel offers a deal to retailers like, we'll give you a %10 discount if you don't offer AMD - aaron
[2005-11-22 08:36:36] - dave: That was one big driving force for me wanting to build my own computer - that none of the major retailors offered AMD - aaron
[2005-11-22 08:07:30] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051121-5604.html Dell to sell AMD products -dave
[2005-11-21 19:38:40] - paul: the Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat was awesome! I liked the 2nd one better. the ending with the credits in the first one was pretty good. -sam
[2005-11-21 18:03:27] - i meant to say it's not that bad to have your fantasy team's DEF/ST giving up many point, because of the insuing kick returns... our league gives 1 point per 15 return yards -sam
[2005-11-21 18:02:03] - i had the bengals DEF/ST on my fantasy team. they gave up 45 points but had 181 return yards, 1 int, and 1 sack. i got 12.07 points from it.... so i guess it's not that bad to have you DEF/ST many points cuz then you will get more return yards... -sam
[2005-11-21 17:13:53] - pierce: what are you referring to? why are you locking up software? ~a
[2005-11-21 16:37:15] - I keep all my software in a locked drawer of my desk. I feel confident no one will be able to figure out my crack security of hiding the key to that drawer in the keyhole of the drawer above it. - pierce
[2005-11-21 15:04:58] - hee hee!! google in piglatin http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/ -amy
[2005-11-21 14:30:17] - http://uploads.ungrounded.net/239000/239473_SF_vs_MK.swf Here is another one. -Paul
[2005-11-21 14:14:24] - It starts off a little slow but the fight is pretty cool. -Paul
[2005-11-21 14:14:04] - http://uploads.ungrounded.net/276000/276650_MKvsSF2.swf Pretty cool Street Fighter 2 vs Mortal Kombat movie. -Paul
[2005-11-21 13:29:18] - caveat emptor
[2005-11-21 13:00:35] - Caveat Emptor: KFC's current ad campaign of $4 meals is a blatant lie. I just paid $6.30 for one because I decided to try it out instead of walking across the street to Subway. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-21 03:40:17] - I think the biggest omission in Burnout: Revenge is the ability to accidentally lock your keys in the car. - pierce
[2005-11-20 22:44:38] - Sam: It might be true that it's programmed to not make bad calls but that would seem to be taking a step backwards since bad calls and allowing the player to challenge them is considered to be a feature. -paul
[2005-11-20 22:43:54] - Sam: It's a little funny, although I don't think I would've noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out. -Paul
[2005-11-18 21:02:29] - "The biggest omission of all in Madden 06 (xbox360) gameplay is the ability to challenge plays." Maybe the game is programmed so that it won't make bad calls? So you wouldn't need to challenge? -sam
[2005-11-18 20:57:00] - wow... madden 06 on xbox360... look at the details... http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/321/reviews/927449_20051118_screen021.jpg -sam
[2005-11-18 19:22:58] - Does anyone think this is funny? need for speed most wanted black edition -sam
[2005-11-18 18:49:36] - a: My 'growth' mutual funds, which I assume interest you more (re: the debate on P/E) the ones they suggest (aka have large holdings in) are AMD, Exxon, Florida Rock (FRCK), Monster Worldwide (MNST) and Avid Tech (AVID). For my own 'shot in the dark' I like Creative Technologies (CREAF) which is around $8 right now, and which I think should be 10-15 within a year. -- Xpovo
[2005-11-18 17:33:50] - a: I've also been keeping my eye on stocks like SIRI, NFLX, and NVDA although I think they're all up a bunch right now so I'm less interested in buying those. -Paul
[2005-11-18 17:32:14] - a: I've been keeping my eye on VTSS and LU as stocks to consider buying if I had the money. I won't necessarily endorse them because I haven't looked into them enough but it's a place to start looking. -Paul
[2005-11-18 17:29:16] - a: Most of my money is currently in AMD, ATI and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. I'm not sure I would particularly recommend investing in any of those right now, though, because they are all up a bunch recently. -Paul
[2005-11-18 17:07:29] - which is why i need ideas on what to invest in! ~a
[2005-11-18 17:02:37] - notpaul: i just sold half of my google (10 shares). ~a
[2005-11-18 16:30:35] - mas y menos = more and less.
[2005-11-18 15:41:37] - Not Google - NotPaul
[2005-11-18 15:01:36] - paul: tell me what stocks to invest in. ~a
[2005-11-18 12:14:54] - 18 out of 20. Eat it.
- pierce[2005-11-18 11:47:42] - http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/Nov/assembly.html -- Xpovos
[2005-11-18 10:45:56] - I missed Goof-Off, Mr. Muscle, Mas y Menos (unfair, I speak not the Spainish) (yes, that's intentionally mis-spelled) and Swift. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-18 10:44:44] - Boo-yah, 16/20 -- Xpovos
[2005-11-18 10:43:23] - Amy: I was really torn about the Janitor in a drum. Sounds like such a good superhero.
-Paul[2005-11-18 10:30:16] - Paul: I really think they made some of those up, anyway ,) -Amy
[2005-11-18 10:23:20] - Amy: 12/20
-paul[2005-11-18 10:09:28] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5592.html Blu-Ray adds support for mandatory managed copy -dave
[2005-11-18 10:04:13] - http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/11/superhero_quiz.php quiz: superhero or cleaner? i scored 14/20 -amy
[2005-11-18 09:16:50] - http://www.4q.cc/vin/index.php?topthirty In homage to Pierce: Things you didn't know about Vin Diesel. -Paul
[2005-11-17 15:27:24] - a: he did not. of course, i also haven't seen him in forever (almost two weeks now, gasp) -amy
[2005-11-17 15:17:24] - vinnie/amy: did aaron tell you that there is an in the groove (2) at sfm? ~a
[2005-11-17 15:16:42] - Pierce: Hehehe, a lot of those are pretty good. I'm chuckling a lot while reading through that Chuck Norris thing. -Paul
[2005-11-17 15:14:40] - xpovos: gonna have to go with "crazy". obviously you subconsciously translated my name into "penis" (understandable, as they share three letters, but nonetheless disturbing). - pierce
[2005-11-17 15:08:54] - pierce: LOL "Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean." that site is great - vinnie
[2005-11-17 15:04:18] - a/pierce: although... this gives me an interesting idea about how i might teach myself to read the characters. brilliant, i hadn't thought of it. thanks! -amy
[2005-11-17 15:02:54] - Pierce: Why the hell did I read that link as "Thinks you didn't know about chuck norris' penis"? Are you guys playing with the links again, or am I just going really really crazy. (As opposed to my normal crazy) -- Xpovos
[2005-11-17 15:02:39] - a: a lot of things in chinese are like that. "east west" means thing. "many few" means amount. i guess "red green" isn't quite the same thing.... i felt like i should contribute to the discussion about a language i should in theory know .p -amy
[2005-11-17 14:53:31] - things you didn't know about chuck norris. - pierce
[2005-11-17 14:53:05] - hahaha.
- pierce[2005-11-17 14:52:08] - pierce: that's actually really funny. if you translate each of those separately, it's "red green light" ~a
[2005-11-17 14:47:30] - a: ich auch - vinnie
[2005-11-17 14:45:06] - 紅綠燈. - pierce
[2005-11-17 14:30:01] - 我无法讲您疯狂的语言! ~a
[2005-11-17 13:56:20] - a: cool. just checking - vinnie
[2005-11-17 13:20:24] - some links for technical-type people who may be sleepy today: The Old New Thing, The Daily WTF. - pierce
[2005-11-17 13:15:37] - vinnie: always. ~a
[2005-11-17 12:40:59] - aaron/a: er are you guys gonna be at DDR today? - vinnie
[2005-11-17 12:24:42] - pierce: i am sleepy also -_- -amy
[2005-11-17 12:00:06] - but I was more impressed that "I am sleepy" returned a page that was basically a conversational response to that statement. - pierce
[2005-11-17 11:59:42] - aaron: yeah, I do that too sometimes because some of my machines have "dict" for the dictionary keyword and some have "lu" (lookup). - pierce
[2005-11-17 11:57:05] - pierce: I did that once at work - i was pretty sure I had the "wiki" keyword defined on the particular workstation, so I typed something like "wiki sourceforge" into the address bar, and it took me somewhere random. I was really surprised at the time, I thought maybe someone had hacked the wiki - aaron
[2005-11-17 11:40:06] - I feel like I just had a conversation with my computer. - pierce
[2005-11-17 11:39:44] - hehehe... I typed "I am sleepy" into the firefox address bar and it took me here. I was surprised by this, so I typed "Where do malformed URLs go?" and it took me here.
- pierce[2005-11-17 11:35:58] - a: *Sigh* I know. I'm still flabbergasted by that. I seriously thought $100 was a little high and I was so sure that $300 was not sustainable. -Paul
[2005-11-17 11:34:37] - paul: google broke 400. wohoo. ~a
[2005-11-17 10:31:18] - http://www.google.com/search?q=2.718281828459045%5E3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510i from now on, this will be called "adrian's equation"
~a[2005-11-17 10:06:29] - "Contestants were chosen after being quizzed by psychologists to find out if they were easily fooled." hee hee -amy
[2005-11-17 10:06:18] - http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1614649.html?menu= New reality show tricks contestants into thinking they have been sent to space. -amy
[2005-11-17 09:42:39] - ddr_people: hey I should be coming today. we're taking a little album break (not sure we can but we're taking one dammit!)
- vinnie[2005-11-16 22:54:18] - "we were, however, unable to find a suitable port for our ham sandwich. this, in our opinion, is the critical failing of the 360's launch features"
[2005-11-16 20:11:10] - Below comments are from Gamespot about xbox360 -sam
[2005-11-16 20:10:09] - "we were able to plug in a USB keyboard, and we were able to use it to enter and modify text without a problem." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:06:47] - "Our preview system also included a VGA cable that let us connect the console to a computer monitor, an option many owners will appreciate since they'll be able to play games at high resolution on a monitor without buying an expensive HDTV." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:04:54] - "We were able to plug a Canon PowerShot digital camera to the 360, and the system photo viewer was able to display pictures stored on the camera's memory card. We ran a slide show and even set one of our favorite pictures as the background for our 360 Dashboard." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:03:56] - "Get used to ripping tracks from audio CDs because that's the only way we could get music onto the 360's HDD." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:03:37] - "The 360 can stream music from USB devices and data CDs, but it won't let you copy any songs from those sources." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:02:51] - "The console could recognize and play MP3 songs from USB devices like memory sticks and portable media players, but we couldn't transfer songs over to the HDD. Similarly, the system could play songs from a data CD that contained MP3s, but we couldn't transfer the music directly to the system's HDD." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:02:19] - "Ripping an entire album to the hard drive takes a few minutes, but you can edit the song name, artist, and genre tags attached to each song while you wait." -sam
[2005-11-16 20:01:56] - On xbox360: "We connected an iPod Shuffle to the system using a USB cable, and the 360 was able to recognize the Shuffle's name and play songs from the device without a problem. " -sam
[2005-11-16 16:37:27] - - aaron
[2005-11-16 16:37:20] - vinnie: heh heh
[2005-11-16 16:34:12] - aaron: http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8910/image0gq.jpg this is the Spider-Man picture I was talking about the other night (apologies if you've seen this a million times - it still cracks me up) - vinnie
[2005-11-16 16:07:11] - title: uhh, thanks - vinnie
[2005-11-16 15:54:38] - Amy: Very true. It's funny even if you're talking about a literal wand and not a metaphorical one. -Paul
[2005-11-16 15:44:47] - i think it's funny even before the s/wand/wang/g .) -amy
[2005-11-16 15:38:38] - Paul: I have, and I also thought that was funny. - pierce
[2005-11-16 15:20:24] - Pierce: Have you read the "replace wand with wang" thing on bash.org? -Paul
[2005-11-16 15:09:15] - paul: I saw that before, and I had the same filthy thought.
- pierce[2005-11-16 14:59:48] - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire/ "Harry isn't worried so much about learning how to use his wand to cast spells but how to use his wand against the biggest mystery of all, girls." Anybody else find that quote to be hilarious? -Paul
[2005-11-16 14:02:31] - Amy: I have to agree. I love the snow and hate the heat. Global warming sucks. Bring on global cooling! -Paul
[2005-11-16 13:25:20] - aba: personally i hate global warming any time of year. It's November and I wish it were snowing .p -amy
[2005-11-16 13:18:47] - people are always so happy with global warming when its around wintertime. come summer though.....
- aba[2005-11-16 12:16:47] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/16/sparrow.domino.ap/index.html Sparrow shot for downing domino record bid - aaron
[2005-11-16 11:58:41] - http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USVA0140.html today's high is 74 and the low is 34. 40-degree span, i am impressed, november! -amy
[2005-11-16 11:25:19] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4441544.stm US retains hold of internet -amy
[2005-11-16 10:38:32] - Xpovos: Sounds good. Thanks again. -paul
[2005-11-16 10:38:19] - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_fe_st/india_ant_attack Ants Reportedly Eat Woman's Eye in India -Paul
[2005-11-16 10:20:27] - sam: probably depends on what your facial expression is when you are making eye contact. also your coworker sounds annoying, sorry to hear it. -amy
[2005-11-16 10:13:44] - Paul: I'm not entirely sure. I only use the web registration, but I know they have other deals, including limited hosting, and help with static IPs on DHPS. They'll also let you set up your own DNS if you were so inclined. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-16 09:08:40] - Xpovos: Cool, thanks for the recommendation. What kind of services do they provide? -paul
[2005-11-15 22:19:20] - Paul: I registered with Registerfly at the recommendation of another friend. It's decent. Really, the most important issue is the price, and so GoDaddy might be better, since Register fly is about $10 for me. -- Xpovos
[2005-11-15 18:02:01] - Sam: Well, maybe they're upset because you caught them staring at you.
-Paul[2005-11-15 18:01:48] - Sam: So it's entirely possible that he's just trying to make things more exciting and fun. -Paul
[2005-11-15 18:01:21] - Sam: All I know is that for some people, trash talking is most of the fun in fantasy football and even I have to admit that having a good trash talker can sometimes make a league more exciting. -Paul
[2005-11-15 17:50:48] - paul: sometimes i look at them first, sometimes they look at me first. -sam
[2005-11-15 17:48:10] - paul: what you did on saturday was nothing compared to his arrogance and annoyance. -sam
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