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[2005-12-14 12:19:42] - Paul: no i haven't. my comment was instigated by my trying to read an article on inverted yield curves and their prediction of recessions -dave
[2005-12-14 12:13:54] - Dave: Have you ever tried reading anything on mises.org? -Paul
[2005-12-14 12:13:04] - Dave: I suppose so. I guess the causes are completely different but the symptoms are the same. -Paul
[2005-12-14 12:12:36] - man, reading macro economics is confusing. makes me feel stupid -dave
[2005-12-14 12:11:51] - Paul: although from what you said it's comparing apples to oranges since one would be misperception and the other would be lack of understanding -dave
[2005-12-14 11:44:58] - Dave: Very important disctinction. She's imagining people being offended when there are none and I can never see why people are offended when there are tons.
-Paul[2005-12-14 11:25:52] - amy: except that I don't think anyone is offended by your post ^_^ -dave
[2005-12-14 11:25:31] - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051207/ap_on_fe_st/cheesy_plot_2 woman allegedly hires hit man for cheese -dave
[2005-12-14 11:24:43] - Paul: I'm glad someone understands me, then -_-; -amy
[2005-12-14 11:16:51] - Amy: Heh, you sound like me the day after writing up a journal entry which everybody got offended about.
-Paul[2005-12-14 11:10:34] - hmm looking back on my post i feel the compulsive need to point out that i was not trying to brag when i said "i think i am the only woman i know..." more like state my point of view with the caveat that most women may not agree. dear god i'm tired. -amy
[2005-12-14 11:03:19] - amy: yeah, I would think anyone would want it to be exchanged for the right size too. -dave
[2005-12-14 11:00:02] - ohhh sleep-deprived post filled with grammatical inconsistency -_-; -amy
[2005-12-14 10:57:49] - ...to those who regularly buy women's clothing), but I suppose it's possible other women might be. -amy
[2005-12-14 10:57:33] - ...then I would say err on the side of too small so as not to insult their size, I guess. I think I am the only woman I know who really does not care about my size and I would not be insulted if somebody got me an article of clothing that was too big for me (really, how is a guy supposed to know my exact size, esp. when girl clothing sizes are meaningless except... -amy
[2005-12-14 10:56:29] - Dave: I am not a typical girl, but for what it's worth, whether it's too small or too large, I'd probably want it to be exchanged for the right size. I mean, I'd still appreciate the gift and I'd want the same one, but I have a particular interest/attention to details in fashion and the things I wear. I don't know if most girls share my view on this, but if they do... -amy
[2005-12-14 10:45:37] - http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/13/news/fortune500/ftc_directv/index.htm?cnn=yes DirecTV to pay 5.3 million in 'Do Not Call' settlement - aaron
[2005-12-14 10:34:36] - paul: "I thought you were fatter" could be easier disguised as a compliment imho - aaron
[2005-12-14 10:14:57] - Dave: Exactly. I think they would be mad/upset either way, but I think it would be better to say "I thought you were skinnier" than "I thought you were fatter".
-paul[2005-12-14 10:09:17] - Paul: yeah, but then if you buy something too small, would they get depressed because they can't fit in it? I would guess buying too small would be better tho, since it's more an indicator of your impressions -dave
[2005-12-14 10:08:29] - paul: yeah, if you look at the apple website, they don't list the 60gb one as video, but they say you can watch video on it -dave
[2005-12-14 10:07:49] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/12/13/death.ban.ap/index.html "Die at your own risk, mayor proposes" -dave
[2005-12-14 10:05:13] - Aaron: I'm pretty sure. It's 60GB and has a pretty impressive looking screen. Although, it doesn't say it's an iPod video anywhere on the packaging. -Paul
[2005-12-14 10:03:31] - Dave: My reasoning would be to buy something too big because it could still be theoretically worn by the girl if it's too big. However, my guess is that women would rather have something too small be bought for them. -Paul
[2005-12-14 09:50:25] - The "album graphic" is a kind of cool feature where when you're listening to a song, the ipod can display, in the background, an image of the album cover.... (so you're not just looking at a blank screen all the time) - aaron
[2005-12-14 09:49:52] - paul: Oh cool it's an ipod video? One of the qualms one of my coworkers had with that is that ITunes (at least, back in the day) didn't automatically hook up the "album graphic" thing into the files it downloaded..... he had to hook it up himself. It's really stupid because the graphic info is stored in the CDDB, there's no reason apple couldn't load it for him - aaron
[2005-12-14 09:46:51] - I wonder, if you buy a piece of clothing for a girl, is it better to choose a size too large, or a size too small. I could see arguments for both sides -dave
[2005-12-14 09:46:20] - Paul: I think the video one's are even more obscenely expensive than the nano -dav
[2005-12-14 09:46:04] - Paul: well, i would probably go for a Nano if I got one -dave
[2005-12-14 09:43:49] - Dave: Well, I have to say that I've never really considered buying one (especially after I got my Muvo) but now that I've got one, it seems pretty nice. A coworker came by this morning to show me a movie she had placed on it and it looked pretty good. -Paul
[2005-12-14 09:42:10] - Paul: nice ^_^. I've thought of buying one for awhile, but haven't been able to justify it to myself yet -dave
[2005-12-14 09:41:33] - Paul: nm, hehe. stupid backlog of posts -dave
[2005-12-14 09:41:19] - Dave: Bought one what? A muvo or an iPod? I bought a muvo a while ago and I got an iPod as a sort of celebratory gift/bonus from Intwine. -Paul
[2005-12-14 09:40:28] - Paul: woah, you bought one? ^_^ -dave
[2005-12-14 09:38:19] - dave: yeah i've had no problems with it. doesn't hurt much that itunes is pretty good software for organizing your mp3s to begin with. -mig
[2005-12-14 09:37:35] - Mive: Thanks for the info. I guess I'll just have to play around with it some time and see what it can do. If it's flexible enough to do everything I want, then I guess I'm going to have to find something to do with my old Muvo. -Paul
[2005-12-14 09:34:38] - dave: well, to be honest, i don't believe that democrats are anti-death penalty per se, but i believe they do complain a lot that it seems to be handed out more against minorities than whites. - mig
[2005-12-14 09:34:06] - mig: at least i don't think I would x.0 -dave
[2005-12-14 09:33:52] - mig: ahh, yeah, that would explain it. I wouldn't really have a problem with that if I owned one. -dave
[2005-12-14 09:33:10] - paul: yeah, so I guess if you like copy music files over through just the file xfer interface? It doesn't seem to bad to me that it would do that. Maybe it's because its software finds it more difficult to do junk if random music files appear -dave
[2005-12-14 09:33:03] - paul: because the ipod requires that mp3s be uploaded in a certain way. It requires filenames in a sort of hash format so it can find the mp3s, and the itunes software does that while uploading. - mig
[2005-12-14 09:32:10] - mig: well i read on tookie williams being executed there, and it said that it was supported by most, and that even democrat politicans don't come out against it there - hence my comments -dave
[2005-12-14 09:30:55] - dave: may not be that CA is necessarily for it, just that they haven't repealed it. - mig
[2005-12-14 09:29:25] - Mig: So why do they insist that you go through iTunes? -Paul
[2005-12-14 09:27:47] - then you tell itunes to update your ipod with your library and then your done. - mig
[2005-12-14 09:27:01] - paul: itunes interfaces with your ipod and you just drag mp3s into your music library through that. - mig
[2005-12-14 09:15:24] - Dave: That's because their governor is the Terminator.
-Paul[2005-12-14 09:15:08] - Dave: Oh, ok. So the only reason that you would get stuff deleted from your iPod is if you forgot to upload it through iTunes or something? -Paul
[2005-12-14 09:08:28] - so I thought most democrats were against the death penalty, but apparently CA is for it -dave
[2005-12-14 08:15:02] - http://www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleid=1906&page=1 IE7 preview. Looks like the Vista version will be much improved. -dave
[2005-12-14 07:49:28] - paul: like you can probaby just tell it to search your computer and add all .mp3 files and it will. -dave
[2005-12-14 07:48:16] - paul: you just upload it to your itunes. Real also lets you do that with it's player, "loading" songs that is -dave
[2005-12-14 07:46:15] - http://asimo.honda.com/news_media_center.asp honda debuts new ASIMO (humanoid robot). Links to video of it running, etc -dave
[2005-12-14 01:00:29] - Mig: How does one accomplish that? -paul
[2005-12-13 22:54:07] - paul: that is incorrect. you can upload mp3s, but they have to be added to your itunes library. - mig
[2005-12-13 22:03:07] - Sam: Yikes, that sounds pretty rough. So I can't put anything on my iPod unless I buy it from iTunes? -Paul
[2005-12-13 19:42:36] - paul: but the best thing about iPod (IMHO) is the wide variety of 3rd party accessories.... there are so many accessories to choose from. -sam
[2005-12-13 19:39:07] - paul: ....if the songs don't match (i.e.; song name changed, playlist deleted, etc.), then those songs will be erased from the iPod. -sam
[2005-12-13 19:39:01] - paul: one bad thing about iPod.... you have to use iTunes to upload songs to your iPod... you make playlists in iTunes and upload to iPod. when the computer and the iPod are hooked up, iTunes tries to search and match the songs in the iPod and the iTunes playlists on your computer....
[2005-12-13 19:18:40] - Sam: I think the word I've heard that I think sums it up best is that (according to my interpretation of the nice guy syndrome) women want a challenge and somebody exciting. That could be a wussy metrosexual as much as a tough guy, I think. -Paul
[2005-12-13 19:15:44] - Sam: Well, the nice guy syndrome is probably more than a theory than anything else IMHO. I'm not even sure that the theory necessarily means women like tough and masculine guys though. -Paul
[2005-12-13 19:14:54] - Sam: I think we have around 20 employees right now. -Paul
[2005-12-13 19:14:25] - Sam: I think there very well could be a LINK between the two but I don't think a link necessarily means playing violent video games makes somebody more violent (kinda like what the article said). -Paul
[2005-12-13 19:13:39] - Sam: I was kinda hoping for something a little less biased. I'm actually more looking for the limitations of the iPod since I know it can't do some of the things that my Muvo can do. -Paul
[2005-12-13 19:06:51] - based on reading the "nice guy syndrome," it seems like women prefer tough and maculine guys. Is that right? -sam
[2005-12-13 18:18:18] - vinnie: is this an indian song? "Tunak Tunak Tun" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5995556455415798282&q=tunak+tunak+tun -sam
[2005-12-13 18:03:26] - paul: how many employees does your company have? -sam
[2005-12-13 18:01:03] - paul: do you think there is a link between violent movies/music and youth aggression? -sam
[2005-12-13 17:58:39] - paul: http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html -sam
[2005-12-13 17:31:50] - Wow, so Intwine just gave everybody a video iPod as a celebratory gift type thingy. I've not followed the iPod at all not being a fan of Apple so can anybody tell me exactly what it can and cannot do?
-Paul[2005-12-13 16:18:23] - aba: yeah I read it. I thought it was pretty good. More of the same basically, so I would say if you liked the one before it you'll like it. -dave
[2005-12-13 16:17:23] - Paul: No idea actually -dave
[2005-12-13 15:48:40] - dave: have you read the latest WoT book? is it good? i am trying to re-read the other books first and have just finished the first one. - aba
[2005-12-13 14:57:38] - Dave: Wouldn't there be regional encoding issues involved? -Paul
[2005-12-13 14:57:29] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121300100.html Fed raises interest rate but signals that the end is near for rate hikes. Stock market goin up -dave
[2005-12-13 14:52:21] - http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neel/051213 Twenty-two years ago, on Dec. 13, 1983, the Detroit Pistons beat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 in triple overtime. It was, and remains, the highest-scoring game in NBA history. -Paul
[2005-12-13 14:51:19] - everyone in japan should now buy them and sell them on ebay -dave
[2005-12-13 14:50:56] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051213-5755.html 60 to 80% of Xbox360s unsold in Japan -dave
[2005-12-13 14:29:22] - Dave: I can see me doing that as well.
-Paul[2005-12-13 14:27:04] - paul: what's funny is I've walked by his desk like 5 times to try to talk to him today -dave
[2005-12-13 14:24:34] - Dave: Heh, I'm almost always out of the loop at work too. I often feel like I'm the last person to learn things.
-Paul[2005-12-13 14:24:06] - aba: Oh, I guess so. I think it confuses me that a lot of those "myths" aren't really refuted at all. Just explained a bit more in detail. For instance, there IS a link between violent video games and youth agression and fewer girls do play video games. -paul
[2005-12-13 14:20:36] - man, i feel out of the loop. I didn't find out my lead called in sick today till just now -dave
[2005-12-13 14:19:02] - i dont see the contradiction? both say that the market started out predominantly male, but the female segment has begun to catch up in the past 10 years.... - aba
[2005-12-13 14:16:48] - aba: http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/girl_games.html Doesn't this seem to somewhat contradict the point the previous article was trying to make about girls not playing video games? -Paul
[2005-12-13 14:05:48] - paul: yah, it was a bit redundant, but still an interesting read.
nice to see real facts and citations to dispute the myths. - aba[2005-12-13 14:02:30] - aba: Is it just me, or were 4 of those myths just different takes on the "Video games make people more violent" theme?
-Paul[2005-12-13 13:58:49] - http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/impact/myths.html - aba
[2005-12-13 13:38:50] - amy: a schrödinger's compliment?
[2005-12-13 13:34:53] - Amy: I don't know about being nice, but I'll accept the "negative" comment.
-Paul[2005-12-13 13:29:41] - Paul: See there you go, being negative about yourself. You're such a "nice guy" ,) -amy
[2005-12-13 13:25:05] - maybe you should fix it. ~a
[2005-12-13 13:18:21] - a: That's kinda what I assumed but they really should define the term considering it doesn't seem to be a real term at all. -Paul
[2005-12-13 13:13:05] - i.e. instead of "dead" and "not-dead" (with schrödinger's cat). this would be a "date" and a "not-date" ~a
[2005-12-13 13:12:03] - paul: although it doesn't say (and should), i'm guessing a schrödinger's date isn't really considered a date by the female in question. ~a
[2005-12-13 13:02:47] - Amy: Well, I definitely think he might be on to something with the points he makes about the negatives of nice guys. Most of those apply to me, I think. -Paul
[2005-12-13 12:25:25] - "Unlike some self-described nice guys, he does not ascribe the supposed female rejection of "nice guys" to poor female taste." i like this book already .p -amy
[2005-12-13 12:20:49] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_guy_syndrome What the heck is a Schrödinger's Date? -Paul
[2005-12-13 12:07:33] - Because I can give you a binder if you need one - aaron
[2005-12-13 12:01:30] - aaron:
i have no idea. ~a[2005-12-13 11:55:58] - Title insurance binder? I hope that's not what it sounds like - aaron
[2005-12-13 11:30:08] - Dave: Nope, I wasn't thinking that far ahead. Of course, I do have a tendency to be excessively safe with stuff sometimes. -Paul
[2005-12-13 11:21:55] - Paul: but that 10% you figured wasn't including selling the house again? -dave
[2005-12-13 10:41:57] - a: thanks! -dave
[2005-12-13 10:39:10] - god almighty, title insurance was expensive. it accounted for 20% of my closing costs (and i didn't even get the delux version). ~a
[2005-12-13 10:38:08] - probably not worth it. ~a
[2005-12-13 10:38:03] - dave: i can't immagine that you wouldn't have had to pay for some of those fees anyways with a prepaid lawyer though. ~a
[2005-12-13 10:37:18] - dave: "settlement for closing fee" and "title examination" and "title insurance binder" and "delivery charge" come to $380. ~a
[2005-12-13 10:35:38] - *** a goes and looks for his closing paperwork.
[2005-12-13 10:24:16] - a: how much of that goes to a lawyer? any of it? my company has a pre-paid legal sorta thing that you can sign up for and they'll cover closing a house. how much would that be worth? -dave
[2005-12-13 10:22:24] - xpovos: woah, 6-14%? that seems really high. I thought it was generally in the low single digits -dave
[2005-12-13 10:13:37] - dave: sometimes when you sell you get taxes back. (don't forget to get a mortgage without a prepayment penalty, or you'll get fucked when you sell) ~a
[2005-12-13 10:13:05] - dave: closing costs varry greatly. for example, if i had bought at the end of a month, i would have had to prepay much less in taxes (and it would have been 3k-5k / 1%-2% in closing costs). as it ended up, i bought in the middle of the month, so i ended up paying 8k / 2%. selling costs are usually 3% for the selling agent and 3% for the buying agent. ~a
[2005-12-13 10:11:39] - Don't forget the real estate agent's commission, which is generally 6-14% -- Xpovos
[2005-12-13 09:55:49] - Dave: I remember closing costs always being more (in terms of dollar amount) than I expected but I think 8% sounds reasonable to me. I think for most of my calculations, I assumed that 10% of the cost of the house would be gone for whatever various reasons (closing costs, inspections, etc). -Paul
[2005-12-13 09:43:40] - so, on the subject of buying a house/condo, I read that closing costs are typically 3-4%. If you tack on another 3-4% for wiggle room and sellings costs (whatever those might be), is 8% a decent estimate of overhead for buying and then selling a place? -dave
[2005-12-13 09:41:50] - Paul: now AND later -dave
[2005-12-13 09:39:58] - So, should I buy the Serenity DVD that's coming out soon or should I wait for a possible special edition later on? Any suggestions? -Paul
[2005-12-12 17:23:16] - 66 is a magic number ~a
[2005-12-12 17:06:25] - a: okay, but I think we can all agree that 66 is no more or less important than other numbers... when you establish as many arbitrary rules and definitions as exist in mathematics, you're bound to get some confluence of them. That doesn't mean the confluence is magical, it means there are too many damn rules.
- pierce[2005-12-12 15:51:15] - 66 is a sphenic number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number, and a semi-meandric number. ~a
[2005-12-12 15:31:09] - were making their -dave
[2005-12-12 15:30:54] - a: ahh, nice. I got the wrong impression from the anand article actually. For some reason I thought that they were their TCP/IP stuff always us IPSec, which doesn't make much sense I suppose. After reading the linked article in that article it makes a bit more sense now -dave
[2005-12-12 15:26:17] - http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2256741 pacers will try to trade artest -dave
[2005-12-12 15:10:26] - heh "modifying an ipsec policy from an xp sp1 or win2000 client may corrupt the ipsec policy" ~a
[2005-12-12 15:07:53] - dave: reference: "Alexey Kuznetsov and David S. Miller wrote a kernel IPsec implementation from scratch for the Linux kernel around the end of 2002. This stack was subsequently released as part of Linux 2.6.". so it's been there for ~3 years. ~a
[2005-12-12 15:06:26] - actually, ignore that question. the answer is "yes" for linux2.6 (in ipv4 AND ipv6). linux2.4 has ipsec, but only as a patch. ~a
[2005-12-12 15:04:12] - dave: in ipv4 or ipv6? ~a
[2005-12-12 15:01:17] - does linux TCP\IP stack use ipsec? -dave
[2005-12-12 15:00:55] - http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=25425 Vista TCP\IP stack rebuilt to use IPSec -dave
[2005-12-12 14:10:11] - a: there. problem is, your "lj" link just looks like an aggregation of other journals; it's not obvious that you have one. for the record, I think I've added all or most of you as friends now, feel free to do the same (PierceH) - pierce
[2005-12-12 13:41:29] - "[about being a dad] I'm kicking myself for not keeping a running journal of this entire experience. Absolute comedy galore. It's like trying to deal with a completely bombed roommate in college, only if they were a 27-inch midget. Um, little person." -dave
[2005-12-12 13:38:54] - http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/051209 no comma at the end -dave
[2005-12-12 13:38:35] - from http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/051209, a commentary on the NFL sucking this year -dave
[2005-12-12 13:38:19] - "Everyone was so distracted by the unexpected Internet boon, as well as the copious amounts of suddenly free porn, that four or five years passed before we realized that the music industry was headed straight to hell" -dave
[2005-12-12 13:02:41] - yay! - aba
[2005-12-12 12:43:59] - aba: i'm cool, i'm cool! ~a
[2005-12-12 12:27:36] - a: dude, chill out. - aba
[2005-12-12 09:20:41] - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_heat_van_gundy_resigns;_ylt=AllmfKMXj5FzC5LY_XJJSiSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY- stan van gundy to resign ... pat riley to take his place? - mig
[2005-12-12 09:19:21] - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_fake_bio;_ylt=AudROyAB8qupT4p3itSIEEGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY- man who made false wikipedia entry apoligizes. - mig
[2005-12-12 09:11:35] - a: i did, and i did so a long while ago. - mig
[2005-12-12 02:25:47] - bah. what i hate about livejournal. everybody hates me on livejournal and never adds me as a "friend". i guess it's not livejournal's fault. so maybe this post should have started with "what i hate about me". ~a
[2005-12-12 02:13:34] - (i hope people watch the american the office and get that) - pierce
[2005-12-11 21:38:03] - ehhh, maybe we'll need his help when consumer electronics season comes around.
- pierce[2005-12-11 14:57:34] - An asian football player for the HOKIES! Ed Wang! http://hokiesports.com/football/players/2005/wang.html -sam
[2005-12-10 17:52:46] - for you DDR fans.. "DDR in counter-strike" http://www.drunkencat.com/media/1133083353/DDR_in_counter-strike -sam
[2005-12-10 16:52:51] - http://www.redpac.com/legality/ Countdown to legality. A useful website.
-paul[2005-12-10 16:13:50] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120902040.html Female, Agnostic and the Next Presidente? -Paul
[2005-12-10 16:12:36] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901938.html Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness. -Paul
[2005-12-09 16:51:21] - I remember one which was, how to stop a car which is rolling down a hill - that was in one of those "worst case scenarios" books - aaron
[2005-12-09 16:51:02] - a: Parking brakes? - aaron
[2005-12-09 15:25:50] - howto stop a car with no (working) breaks was a pretty good read too. ~a
[2005-12-09 15:24:02] - aaron: that only works if the strength of the barrier doesn't supercede the grip of your tires. If it does, then you can accelerate all you want from a stop and you will just leave black marks on the ground. Speeding into it gives you guaranteed momentum of a certain magnitude, hopefully enough to get you through. - pierce
[2005-12-09 15:22:23] - jump to/from a rooftop - aaron
[2005-12-09 15:20:35] - a: that goes against what i've heard for ramming a barricade - i've heard you should drive up to the barricade slowly, and then gradually press your gas to put more and more pressure on the barricade until it breaks.... it may have been restricted to mechanical barricades though - aaron
[2005-12-09 15:12:23] - dammit, how do I jump from/to a rooftop? - pierce
[2005-12-09 15:00:21] - howto: jump from/to a rooftop, navigate a minefield, ram a barracade ~a
[2005-12-09 13:38:01] - k ~a
[2005-12-09 13:37:47] - not 1
[2005-12-09 13:37:45] - err 7
[2005-12-09 13:37:38] - a: call me at 103-851-4761. Thanks! - lori
[2005-12-09 12:27:02] - i guess a lot of people didn't go to work. i left at like 9 and traffic was pretty light. - mig
[2005-12-09 11:33:35] - there was a decent amount of junk on most of the roads i had to drive, but i left at like 7 -dave
[2005-12-09 11:25:37] - Paul: I agree with you. I only thought about it because I had been planning on it and my coworkers yest said they weren't planning on coming in, and because I was already going to be so late, with scraping and slow roads and waking up late bc I thought I didn't have to drive in. But yeah, besides all that, I saw no reason why I wouldn't come in .p -amy
[2005-12-09 11:16:16] - Of course, I'm also really close to where I work. -Paul
[2005-12-09 11:16:04] - Amy: It doesn't even seem like there was that much snow. It was a little iced over at my place and the roads weren't terribly clear but the total snowfall didn't seem all that great. I didn't even consider not coming into work. -Paul
[2005-12-09 11:14:05] - mig: I really don't know. I'm with you, i don't think I've encountered them much, if at all, either. -dave
[2005-12-09 11:05:18] - yeah, i don't know what is wrong with my office. it is not just my project, nobody from the other groups was there, no receptionist, nobody. but i've definitely gone to work/school in much worse conditions in pittsburgh and long island, and i think even at my last job here in VA. and obv all of you went to work. So... it's just my weird office. -amy
[2005-12-09 10:59:38] - dave: odd, is the % of farmers really that high? i rarely encounter these farmers while I play. Maybe i just stay away from the supposed 'farming areas'. - mig
[2005-12-09 10:56:08] - we're all here, but that's because we have some semi-important people visiting today. - mig
[2005-12-09 10:50:29] - Amy: I'm at work and I think everybody else is here too. -paul
[2005-12-09 10:41:33] - everybody is here! we're not afraid of snow. I think we have like all sixteen people - aaron
[2005-12-09 10:31:29] - amy: yeah, i came into work and like maybe 50% of the people are here -dave
[2005-12-09 10:24:26] - literally there is no one in my office. well shit, i'm going home. -amy
[2005-12-09 10:21:43] - did everybody here go to work? are your coworkers/managers at work??? i feel SO stupid -amy
[2005-12-09 10:21:21] - i can't believe i came in to work today!!! there is nobody here!! augh!! -amy
[2005-12-09 08:52:40] - "They say that in some of these popular games, 40 or 50 percent of the players are actually Chinese farmers." -dave
[2005-12-09 08:52:27] - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/technology/09gaming.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=d5d225932e8ebecb&hp&ex=1134190800&partner=homepage Chinese online gaming factories -dave
[2005-12-09 08:10:40] - http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-12-07T224519Z_01_HAR778015_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-BALLMER.xml MS CEO has to shop for Xbox 360 -dave
[2005-12-09 08:03:06] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051208-5719.html intel researching moving rootkit detection into hardware -dave
[2005-12-09 07:58:18] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051208-5718.html numbers on piracy. US at 21%, China at 91%, Canada at 36%, etc -dave
[2005-12-08 23:05:03] - sam: they usually range from 100/month to 250/month. mine is really high (300/month) because gas/water/trash/sewage (comes to 70+/month) is included, there's a pool, and the grounds are well kept. ~a
[2005-12-08 22:58:43] - sam: a condo fee is kind of like home owners association fees except they usually cost much much more (because they cover more bases). it pays for the upkeep of the grounds (the groundskeeper at my apartment cleans up the area near me EVERY DAY). it often pays for gardeners, lawn mower people, and often covers some utilites. ~a
[2005-12-08 22:54:35] - sam: how much is the apt for? if the cost is ~1m, then it's probably 900/month. if the cost is ~150k, then it's probably 900/year. ~a
[2005-12-08 22:21:23] - vinnie: stop talking to yourself. - pierce
[2005-12-08 22:13:03] - a: When an ad for condo says total tax $900, does that mean $900 per year? Also, what's a condo fee? -sam
[2005-12-08 17:47:46] - New SImCity-like game: http://www.deepsilver.net/preview/goto/citylife_eng.html "City Life" -sam
[2005-12-08 16:23:34] - ddr_people: hm, I guess I will be not be going either, since ddr_people for today is solely me
- vinnie[2005-12-08 16:22:51] - dave: .p -amy
[2005-12-08 16:05:57] - ddr_people: i won't be at ddr today
~a[2005-12-08 15:48:28] - amy: yeah, I know, why shouldn't carter get to have his statue there? x.0 -dave
[2005-12-08 15:45:46] - dave: that is really, really sad ;_; -amy
[2005-12-08 15:33:13] - http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5150528 vince carter statue coming under fire -dave
[2005-12-08 15:13:36] - paul: honestly, i'm not positive why they do/did either. Maybe it was because they were being prosecuted so fiercely in so many other places -dave
[2005-12-08 15:12:46] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/08/brothers.killed.ap/index.html brothers die in traffic crashes minutes apart -dave
[2005-12-08 15:12:32] - Dave: I guess I can't really think of a better place in terms of it being someplace the Jews would want to be assuming they all had to live there. I guess I just don't see why they need to have their own state. -Paul
[2005-12-08 15:08:44] - paul: and i agree with you about the reparations thing -dave
[2005-12-08 15:07:41] - paul: no, i understand that viewpoint. But it's slightly different since the indians have their own sort of state now anwyays, the jews were just scattered and wanted their own state. I just think that, given the need for forming a jewist country, that the location made sense -dave
[2005-12-08 15:04:28] - Dave: Well, if they really wanted it back and had a legitimate claim to it then I might be, but the "legitimate claim" thing I think would be a problem. It's the same reason I'm against reparations. How do you figure out who should pay who for something that happened centuries ago? -Paul
[2005-12-08 15:00:34] - Paul: this is kinda funny, I would have thought you'd be on the idealistic side of letting the indians have their land back -dave
[2005-12-08 14:51:39] - I meant that it seems as silly as doing that. -Paul
[2005-12-08 14:51:05] - Whoops, that wasn't a complete thought... -Paul
[2005-12-08 14:50:55] - Dave: I dunno, it just seems like uprooting some native americans from their reservations and putting them back where their tribes used to be while displacing the people that live there now. -paul
[2005-12-08 14:26:55] - http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Japan-Mizuho-Securities.html jap securities company accidentally sold 610k shares at 1yen when they were supposed to sell 1 share at 610k yen. Loss of $225 mil -dave
[2005-12-08 13:58:25] - Paul: they probably prefer to be where they are anyways, considering the history -dave
[2005-12-08 13:57:44] - Paul: especially since i think the jews were from all over (not positive tho) so it's not like they were taking a group that was all in one location and moving them to another -dave
[2005-12-08 13:56:39] - Paul: <shrug> maybe true. I think the location is a lot more understandable than you do though. -dave
[2005-12-08 13:48:21] - Dave: I suppose, but I still think it's kinda like what we did with Liberia and doesn't make a lot of sense. Just because somebody is from a group that used to live somewhere doesn't make it a good idea to ship them back there. -Paul
[2005-12-08 13:43:13] - Paul: not that i don't still sympathize with the people who got their land "taken away" -dave
[2005-12-08 13:42:23] - Paul: true, but it was more reinstatement of a very old nation than a random taking of land from someone and making it a nation -dave
[2005-12-08 13:40:41] - Dave: I was referring the the Jews that were living in Europe at the time. I'm sure a lot of them didn't really have any connection to the Middle East any more than a lot of blacks in america have no real connection to africa. -Paul
[2005-12-08 13:38:35] - paul: not that i don't understand the guy's viewpoints about other people giving up land for it instead -dave
[2005-12-08 13:37:36] - Paul: other than their people lived there in their own nation for a long time? -dave
[2005-12-08 13:37:04] - Paul: no real connection there? -dave
[2005-12-08 13:33:30] - Dave: Not that, but a lot of everything else he says about why didn't they use German land and about uprooting people with a connection to the land to move people with no real connection there. -Paul
[2005-12-08 13:26:42] - paul: that the holocaust didn't happen? -dave
[2005-12-08 13:19:52] - "It's also a change going almost entirely unreported by U.S. news organizations. A Lexis-Nexis search for the terms 'Iraq' and 'school' or 'schools' in the last month in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle turns up 331 articles. None is about schools in Iraq." -dave
[2005-12-08 13:19:32] - ""Primary-school enrollment has jumped 20 percent over the Saddam years, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index. In a country where 22 percent of adults never attended school, according to the International Monetary Fund, this is a momentous change. " -dave
[2005-12-08 13:19:15] - "Wonder about all the "underreported" good news in Iraq? The Washington Times editorial page is starting a series:" -dave
[2005-12-08 13:15:54] - That was in reference to your Iranian president article. -paul
[2005-12-08 13:15:44] - "You don't have to be a partisan war hawk to see the difference in treatment of these two stories, from news reports to the talking-head shows."" -dave
[2005-12-08 13:15:32] - "Those who rely on traditional news sources other than The Wall Street Journal, which published an op-ed by the Connecticut senator, may not even have known that Lieberman recently returned from Iraq. Or that his conclusions were that the U.S. has to keep fighting the insurgency, and that two-thirds of Iraq is in 'pretty good shape.' " -dave
[2005-12-08 13:15:15] - Dave: Sounds like he makes a number of good points, actually. -Paul
[2005-12-08 13:14:34] - ""That's about how news coverage has gone the past several weeks concerning Rep. John Murtha's call to withdraw from Iraq versus Sen. Joe Lieberman's call to stand fast." -dave
[2005-12-08 13:14:19] - quote preceeded by "Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, Murtha, (Lieberman), Murtha, Murtha, Murtha." hehe -dave
[2005-12-08 13:13:45] - where murtha is saying that we should pullout of iraq and lieberman saying we should stay -dave
[2005-12-08 13:13:14] - quote from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html -dave
[2005-12-08 13:13:03] - And the media wonder why newspaper circulations are dropping and why Fox News dominates television ratings over the networks and other cable programs. It's not that Murtha doesn't deserve airtime to voice a point of view many Americans share. It's that Lieberman surely deserves at least equal time for a point of view that other Americans, as well as most Iraqis, share-dave
[2005-12-08 13:05:30] - ddr_people: I won't be making it to DDR today - dentist appointment!
- aaron[2005-12-08 12:45:50] - http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/08/iran.israel.reut/index.html Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed doubt that the Holocaust occurred and suggested Israel be moved to Europe -dave
[2005-12-08 11:29:04] - dave: my brother and i loved reading the cs lewis narnia books as kids, and i dont think either one of us realized the christian overtones until we were much much older. its really easy to just enjoy the story as some kids running around and doing cool things. - aba
[2005-12-08 10:27:42] - http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2005/12/7/2025 Larger brains, smaller testicles. -Paul
[2005-12-08 09:41:10] - Dave: Joking... this time. -Paul
[2005-12-08 09:40:58] - Dave: I don't know what the plot of the movie is so I can't say. -Paul
[2005-12-08 09:40:35] - Dave: Ah, the last I had heard it was still up in the air but leaning towards not making it a requirement that the game support it. I suppose it makes some sense for the console not to support it either. -Paul
[2005-12-08 09:39:40] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120701891.html Subsidies to get a digital TV? -Paul
[2005-12-08 09:38:36] - Paul: I hate it when I can't tell whether you're joking or not -dave
[2005-12-08 09:37:28] - Paul: yeah, practically i wouldn't think it should stop anyone from seeing the movie, since the story stands on its own just fine. I think the actress who plays the villain even thought that the movie was a metaphor for the Holocaust (no idea why tho) -dave
[2005-12-08 09:35:19] - Paul: i think they're saying the whole console won't support HDTV -dave
[2005-12-08 09:09:56] - Dave: So I wasn't supposed to look at your new picture?
-Paul[2005-12-08 09:09:38] - Dave: I admit that I'm a bit intrigued by the Nintendo Revolution but I'm afraid that since it won't have HDTV support for all it's games (if any) that it won't work well with my TV.
-Paul[2005-12-08 09:08:47] - Dave: Probably depends on what kind of religious overtones. I don't think I would mind something like Chronicles of Narnia but a movie aolely about somebody who finds God or something probably wouldn't appeal to me. -Paul
[2005-12-08 09:08:34] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120702511.html signs of political evolution in iraq -dave
[2005-12-08 08:41:57] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051207-5709.html New virus sends AIM msgs. I actually got sent a msg at 6am by someone i don't usually talk to. It said, look at my new picture! and had a link. Stupidly i clicked on the link and it started a DL dialog for a file. I didn't DL it, but if you get funny AIM msgs from me (more funny than normal) beware -dave
[2005-12-08 08:39:44] - dave: i don't believe it has that much of an effect my desire to see a movie. - mig
[2005-12-08 08:38:48] - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051207-5703.html rumors that Nintendo Revolution will launch before thanksgiving of next year, and cost $200 or less. No HDTV support -dave
[2005-12-08 08:28:59] - out of curiosity, do religious overtones, like for the Chronicles of Narnia, have a positive, negative, or no effect on making you want to see the movie? -dave
[2005-12-08 08:27:47] - sam: if you sell a house, you get the money all at once, to my knowledge. -dave
[2005-12-08 08:26:32] - a: interest rates going up has a downward pressure on house prices and interest rates going down has a upward pressure on housing prices, in general -dave
[2005-12-08 08:25:23] - higher interest rates usually come with a more robust economy though, and lower ones with a less-robust economy, so i suppose you could extrapolate and say that foreclosures might encouage lower interest rates -dave
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