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• holy shit. good luck! : dodob
• j00 seem in a wee bit o' trouble lad : Paranoid Android
• FUCK ME That's what that girl was saying. : RatBastard
• it would be keen to actually know all of that, but sadly, you'll forget 90% of what you learned soon afte... : vodor
• In Nelson's Voice: "HAW HAW!" : paladin
• Jesus Christ, you say the lord's name in vain a lot. : Portax
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  geography? can't you just use a map? It's these useless things that we teach our kids *sigh*.. memori : jaga
  • When I get done frying my brain Ill read what the prof wrote on this It actually makes sense so while ... : rosewood
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  Setup a map or globe, bust out the flashcards and locate everything as you pickup the flashcard. : Nighteyes
  • ^^ This man is correct : celerity
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  Just draw a map of America and label it America. Then draw a squiggledy circle around it and label that "... : Dreagon
  • don't forget to hang b-52 bombers over the small huts : jaga
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  Try making a song out of it all. : sludge vohaul
  • United States, Panama, Mexico, Canada, Haiti, Jamica, Peru... : Chod
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  Why test? http://members.cox.net/khipp/whytest.jpg : rosewood
  • that actually makes a good deal of sense : vodor
• Coffee. It is your friend. : LightningBoy
• telecourse? : swoopx
• ah, i have done this to many times. : Silent1
• May I suggest chilling a 6 pack of Shiner Bock for your return, post test. : Phil
• you know what you can do? make 20 more threads on shacknews.com : Saq Johnson
• I had to do this too. It's fun.. Right.. : airrob
• Ahaha. Had to do that for art history a few times. Memorize 50 paintings, artist's first/last names with ... : Ben Barker
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  MAKE SURE TO KEEP POSTING ON THE SHACK. IT REALLY FREES UP YOUR TIME SO YOU CAN STUDY WITH EASE : ventro
  • hahaha :) : monohydrate

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• dictionary.reference.com : boolean
• everytime I need the spelling of a word I just type it in google and it ussually knows what I mean. : vassili_zaitsev
• intregueing : Squirrely

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• hahaha : AMikaboshi
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  what the fuck? : mega man
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    I've sen it twice today and I'm still confused :( : ScoobySnack
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      i cant stop looking at it : mega man
      • its mysterious draw keeps pulling me in! : ScoobySnack
• I haven't yawned that hard in weeks. : seven
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  I so don't get that I like how you made my mouth look like it moved though, that's neato : hawkeye
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    I don't think I should explain these. I think the mysteriousness is fun. I promise it makes sense to no... : wunderbred
    • *me : wunderbred
    • Girls are invading the shack? : hawkeye
    • Is that the one with the chick whos a guy? : Squirrely
• less funny than penny arcade. : --Viscid--

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  "Attorneys for the songwriters arrived at the $17 billion damage figure by seeking the maximum statutory ... : mattfl
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    not like it matters, but 100,000 is a pretty small number for overall music sales : halfway
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      they're talking about 100 000 works, not 100 000 downloads or customers or whatever.... which is ridiculo... : esky
      • wonder how many people owned LP's or Cassettes of these two dipshits artists. RIAA seemingly forgets... : stgdz
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  What if you were a waitress. And you went to work like always expecting people to order food from you an... : mp7rox
  • PS. I'm not saying I don't agree with you - CAUSe I DO : mp7rox
  • Good anology : Tissen
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    They still rake in large boatloads of cash. I'm not saying that as an excuse for piracy, but the music in... : boughton supreme
    • Oh and that was a good analogy. I think what could be done is that the "waitresses" make their own "resta... : boughton supreme
  • The Waitress gets Fired, nothing bad about that. In this case the waitress sues the costumers for her ... : -TKF-
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    This analogy doesn't work. If you order your food, pay for it, and pick it up from the kitchen instead... : cap0rale
    • And this isn't even going into the fact that with the waitress example, the product is FOOD, a physical t... : cap0rale

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• www.education.ti.com/downloadticonnect sorry shack only likes the www : ansuble
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  Will this run on my TI-99/4A? : mrtony
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    is there even such a calculator? : ansuble
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      http://www.geocities.com/johnmcdonnell/ti/ : mrtony
      • haha, nice.. : awnknee
  • somewhere, in some closet at my parents' house, i actually have one of those. : jet-poop
• INFORMATIVE! MODERATORS LOVE CALCULATORS! : darweidu
• Damn. I read "TI has finally released WindowsXP for their TI Graphics Calculators" Yeah. : celerity
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  I love Texas Instruments. : Bull
  • Yeah, their dildos are quite big... : wykd

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• I'm amazed this didn't make the news right after the 2001 census....oh wait : halfway
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  As religions go there are a lot sillier choices.I don't think a Jedi would blow themselves up or shoot up... : TheDreamDragon
  • They might blow up a cloning lab under the belief that it was turning out stormtroopers tho' : Toraz Chryx
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  I know a "jedi" here in the Boston area.. He's pretty whacky ass. Uber-fan-boy... I consider myself a ... : beastrabban
  • i wonder what kind of floating holidays he gets :) its Force Day its Yoda Day its Lightsaber Awaren... : kanix
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  How did Jedi become a religion? It's not a belief system, it's just having the ability to use the Force ... : TwiLyght
  • I'm putting chef as religion on the next census : halfway
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    No, it's called "The Jedi Order" for a reason. Order, establishment, religion. They're all organized pe... : cap0rale
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      Eh? The Boy Scouts aren't a religion. Green Peace isn't a religion. The Shack Moderators aren't a reli... : Vantage
      • Vikings are though :( : redfive
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        This is going to turn into little more than semantic nonsense, but I'll clarify: The Jedis have a phil... : cap0rale
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          I wasn't objecting to your assertion that the Jedi Order was a religion. I was objecting to the definiti... : Vantage
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            A Catholic priest gave me that definition. :) And yes, you can call the Boy Scouts a religion. Chef d... : cap0rale
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              And if a Catholic Priest told you that there was a God, would you believe him? ;) : Vantage
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                one tells me that every sunday. : BulletPro
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                  don't listen to some guy on a stand telling you what to believe - decide what you want to believe on your... : tachck
                  • What if I choose to base my life around that belief? Does that make me a lemming? Or should I listen to y... : BulletPro
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                I'll put it this way: I'm more inclined to listen to people when they live in a field, know about a fi... : cap0rale
                • oooh, nicely said. I think you just explained the agnostic ideal perfectly :) : tachck
              • If you didn't believe in God, does that mean you won't believe anything a religeous person says? That'd ... : royaljester
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    I have decided to use cooking for good instead of evil. : Tissen
    • If you only realized the POWER of the dark side of the spatula! : tachck
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  this is pretty old. As explanation, if a certain amount of people put down something other than the "nor... : moshman
  • Bah, you beat me to it :) : koder
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  I thought the reason was the mistaken belief that if more than 10,000 people put it down as their religio... : koder
  • ^^^this is correct : moshman
  • I'm pretty sure I can organize 10,000 Satanists! : vassili_zaitsev
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  so is blair gonna send a jedi army to stop the axis of evil? : esky
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    That would be great if they were given a sash and a plastic light sabre then forced to be slaughtered in ... : kingdepork
    • deservedly so. : vassili_zaitsev
  • It would solve two problems at once. : royaljester

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  I dunno, I have seen a lot of oddness in records too, sounds like they have database syncing problems or ... : skynet
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    What a cluster fuck of a system they got goin there too! I try to click on a server to check out whose i... : bling1bling
    • BTW, that is pronounced cur-SOR-toe : bling1bling
    • Yes, their GUI eats cock as well. The game iss till damn fun MP though :) : skynet
• probably some simple haxing going on to make people join games that they think they can win. : moshman
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  dude the other night, me/scotty/thane beat a guy that was 24-0. are you down for some games tonight ... : jedi_27
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    bah, you guys are making me want to buy this game :( : moshman
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      are you going to get the game for multi or single player ? are you behind firewall/router you don't have... : jedi_27
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        For MP in the long run, I am behind a router I have control over. : moshman
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          cool. we hope they release a patch that will fix a great many of the .nat problems but there is no promi... : jedi_27
          • well, if it don't work I can take it back. I know the people in the store I buy the games from really wel... : moshman
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            how is generals different than any other game behind a router? you forward the ports, it works, no? : halfway
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              yea but if your at college behind a router you can't really do that : spector
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                I was just confused by jedi's patch post, whats actually wrong that a patch would fix? : halfway
                • Generals is kinda retarded with the whole NAT thing right now. It's funny though, because when it shows m... : Joseph
            • well, usually you only need to do that if you are hosting a server. Otherwise the packets are NAT'd just ... : moshman
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    I watched that entire replay last night. EXCELLENT work, fellas! Maybe I'll jump on and play a few rounds... : Flawless Cowboy
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      Where do I get the replay? : skynet
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        Scotty had it linked in his profile. Search it for "replay" and you should be golden. : Flawless Cowboy
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          Argh, not profile... his previous posts. /furiously drinks more coffee : Flawless Cowboy
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            what is scottys name here at shack? : bling1bling
            • nm i found it but the replay don't work. : bling1bling
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      dude! thanks! thats awesome that you took the time to watch the reply last night. very cool. I thi... : jedi_27
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        Hehe. I certainly will. I guess what I meant by frustrating is that none of it was due to any kind of poo... : Flawless Cowboy
        • it would have to be a slick gui system, no text. takes to long to type in most cases. and the general w... : jedi_27
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      Yes! I was watching and talking to my computer too. "No Jedi, watch out for the mines!" "SCUDs ready SCUD... : Joseph
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        dude you really should try and get in on a game with the shackers. after they kicked my ass thats how i l... : jedi_27
        • I want to get in on a game tonight. I need alot of practice. I got whooped on pretty bad last night on ... : quietb0y

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  http://www.ready.gov/nuclear.html : esky
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    In the visual guide, there is a picture of the blast point (ground zero) and you're possible escape route : turkeyspecial
    • sorry about the you're - meant your : turkeyspecial
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      i dont think there would be a 'two blocks away' after a nuclear blast : esky
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        my point, indeed : turkeyspecial
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          but you can always hide behind a thick door! : esky
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            or an xbox : esky
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              When I was a kid (and there were still Russian Soviets) growing up in a big city, I remember doing those : turkeyspecial
              • i still say, for nuclear blasts, there is no power huge'r lol greater than x. : esky
              • I think they are talking about small nuclear devices not hydrogen bombs. : koder
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                The difference msotly will be. Tne bomb is being detonated from street level, and will be a relativly sm... : Crimsonbeak
                • OK typos are horrendous I really need to proof read better :) I feel like I am a 12 year old. : Crimsonbeak
  • Well I see the part where I'm supposed to take cover, but where does it talk about ducking? This page is ... : owtwerd
• "The farther away from the blast and the fallout the lower your exposure." hehe, glad my tax dollars a... : vassili_zaitsev

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• I think I lol more often than I type it, I am a huge nerd. : jidar
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  lol : Degenerate
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    rofl : larcho
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      Roofles : tachck
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        lolerskates : matrix
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          ^^^favorite : captain hampton
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            http://www.secondsun.net/loller.jpg : Degenerate
            • wunderbred?!?! : matrix
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  that's why I type hehe, or haha. I actually say hehe : redfive
  • mentally or do you actally say "hehe" : larcho
• the hardest I've laughed was from that "Hatten Baby" flash. I dunno why, it just seemed really funny to ... : vassili_zaitsev
• Yeah, like when I saw "rejected" for the first time, I literally fell out of my chair I was laughing so h... : tachck
• read some of the goat se site's email and tell me you're not loling all over the place : barbs
• I've fallen out of a chair laughing once :) : bipolar
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  I'm a hardcore internet user yoh. If I say LOL, then I'm fucking laughing out loud, capiche? : geedeck
  • lol : boughton supreme
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6473542 : Vantage
• i'll at least smile when i write something along the lines of "haha" or "lol" however.. I did laugh m... : kidmikey
• this post makes me hihi : vestax

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  This is one solution they've tried with success, which is charging fixed royalties for certain hardware s... : royaljester
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    Interesting. That's one specific scenario, though. I have a feeling that video card companies and CPU c... : cap0rale
    • Well video cards and CPU's wouldn't apply because they're not directly used to break copyright laws. CD ... : royaljester
• I don't think I wanna pay $4000 for a video card or $200/month for broadband...kthxbye : vassili_zaitsev
• I think a new business model is going to have to emerge. What that model is, I don't know -- but whoever... : bipolar
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  worst idea evar :p right now you have 2 major video card manufacturers so now you've got games that... : halfway
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    Obviously it'd only work if you held to standards like Direct3D and OpenGL. I'm not talking about game... : cap0rale
    • Also, Nvidia and ATI could get into the ISP provider business, electrical company business, etc. These : cap0rale
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      what would be the incentive for nvidia to produce a card that worked with the same standards as ati's? ... : halfway
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        Because ATI and Nvidia would both probably be funding killer games. And everyone's going to want to be... : cap0rale
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          there's no incentive to make good games if its all standardized, all they have to do is make better hardw... : halfway
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            Well as I was suggesting, it'd require a lot of consolidation. For it to really work you'd have to have ... : cap0rale
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              you live in a fantasy world where companies care about their customers because its the right thing to do,... : halfway
              • Wait--I'm not discarding capitalism. There's still competition. The only difference is that the hardwar... : cap0rale
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      The main practical problem with applying this to video cards is basically, it prevents a free market. Yo... : royaljester
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        Well, if the computer hardware makers became ISPs, too, they could make money off games that are download... : cap0rale
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          Why would computer hardware makers necessarily become ISPs to make money off of games? It would be like ... : royaljester
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            I'm assuming that no one would even try this unless virtually everyone was downloading games and none of ... : cap0rale
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              I work in the video games industry. We're making TONS of money. Specifically, I'm in the console game i... : royaljester
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                Yeah, I can see where this is going: Lots of game companies already solved the problem by going to con... : cap0rale
                • Yup. : royaljester

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  Thanks! : *metal*
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    I wish they let me download them in 1 large file instead of 4 smaller ones. And I mean jesus it is going... : Crimsonbeak
    • Thats MS for you. :( : *metal*
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  so is there a shack game going down tonight ? : jedi_27
  • I'm game!!! Shall we try and organise something? : moshman
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  Those of us stuck at work, unable to enjoy the splendors of extra MA content want to know if its any good... : DKo5
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    yeah, and does it include CTF? : moshman
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      No CTF, just two new maps and the two flag carriers, I mean targets, I mean light mechs. : matrix
      • WHAT?!?! FOR FUCKS SAKE! what's so hard about making a CTF mode :( : moshman

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  A brunette goes into a doctors office and tells the doctor she's really sick. The doctor asks her what sh... : Phreakin
  • you must've got that in an email today or something. My wife came home and told me that same joke this af... : ghale
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  *coughkeepinonethreadcough* : cygnus
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    *coughthanksfortheadvicetherehallmonitorcough* : Phreakin
    • i'll write you up! thursday school! : cygnus
    • For those of you who are bored/annoyed (that should be ~90% of you): http://www.rathergood.com/swearot... : Tissen
• A married couple decided to spend their 40th anniversary at the same resort hotel that they went to durin... : Da Username J00 Want

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  Yeah, gettin' the girl, saving the day. Go Spiderman!! Gah. There is no commercial that makes me cringe m... : -efx-
  • exactly - that voice just never leaves your mind : turkeyspecial
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  that commericial is funny as hell : snuffed
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    negative. I wanna just barf all over that guy's face everytime I hear his voice. : vassili_zaitsev
    • and see his fat ass hanging upside down : turkeyspecial
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  Because that's a PC game we need to play. Fucking console mentality in all their ads. : Fyunch Click
  • Yeah, don't show anything with guns or whatever...bah. I want to nuke their marketing dept. : Halen

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  \m/ It's not a patch on OSX proper tho' and I wish they'd incorporate a few windowsisms into it to ... : Toraz Chryx
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    I never used OSX' menubars, I just looked over the shoulder of one of the designers here when he was usin... : timm
    • well, it replicates the OSX dock pretty closely actually. thing is, the OSX user interface is very dif... : Toraz Chryx
• oh hells yeah that's _WAAAAY_ faster than 0.86 There's no appreciable difference between Custom or GDI... : Toraz Chryx
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  ok i downloaded and installed it but it doesnt show anything thats in my systray! how do you configure th... : snuffed
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    Unfortunately, it won't show what's in your systray. That's why you'll have to keep the regular windows b... : timm
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      so this is essentially useless and just eye candy? : ghost in my shell
      • Yeah, no systray killed the coolness factor for me. :( : Flawless Cowboy
• may i ask where you got that theme + backgroup image in the 2nd and 3rd pics?? : Donnelly
• I looked through an entire site of XP themes and every single one of them was shit or looked like a Mac (... : nudel
• What theme are you using? : land

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  wow, what a stunning display of natural beauty. She looks like a cartoon character that has a circle fo... : vassili_zaitsev
  • bwahahahaha :) : moshman
• Damn, she looks like him. I miss Sam. : Fyunch Click

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  I've been using 2 Maxtor drives for the last 3 years. One's 3 years old, the other 2 and neither of them ... : emnii
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    my brother also had a maxtor which died too after a couple of months. but instead of a 40 gb maxtor they ... : JohnnyDanger
    • every manufacturer changed the warranties from 3 year to 1 year. In this day and age it's impossible to ... : redfive
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      I'm not saying what happened to your maxtors doesn't completely suck because it does. I'm just saying tha... : emnii
      • yeah i know. i am just really pissed right now. i had almost 10 gb mp3s, some movies etc on that disk. it... : JohnnyDanger
• you've got absurdly bad luck every hd manufacturer has had bad batches of drives, if you search the co... : halfway
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  I worked at a computer shop for a year and I personally built at least 100-150 computers ALL w/ Maxtor dr... : DKo5
  • No, IBM _can_ kill them that quick. I'm up to 30 bad 75gxp's :( : Toraz Chryx
  • hehe. i don`t think that my system kills them because i also have a western digital hdd which never made... : JohnnyDanger
• I just bought a 200gig Maxtor. Still, I've heard good and bad things about all the drive makes so, fuck i... : nudel
• i got a bunch of maxtor drives, some used in a server, and I never had any problems with them... sorry... : alcueso
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  like i said, i have a second drive in my pc which never made any problems... so i don`t think my pc or p... : JohnnyDanger
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    If you did a quick format "format c: /q" then you might be able to use a disk recovery program to get som... : DKo5
    • i formatted it with partition magic. don`t know exactly how it formats, but it`s 10 times faster than a n... : JohnnyDanger
• I've heard lots of intelligent and well thought out rants about how EVERY hdd maker sucks. Western Digit... : cap0rale
• I have a Maxtor and I wouldn't recommend it, nor would I buy again. It's painfully slow, and it crapped o... : jerkinisnice
• HD manufacturers are strange -- every couple of years, the *bad* HD company changes. In the mid to late ... : bipolar
• i dont know, i've had this 40 gig maxtor 7200 rpm ata 66 since junior year of high school, and now im' al... : barbs

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  carefully check to make sure nothing has jammed the teeth inside. I recommend kicking off the fuse/switch... : Joseph
  • Hey, somebody droped a diamond ring down me! : matrix
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    but when you flipped the switch it should have at least made a small noise when it tried to move. Right? : Degenerate
    • Mine didn't. I think mine has a little sensor on it that keeps it from trying to turn if it's stopped up.... : Joseph
• if the fuse is fine it probably just died. go get a new one and swap it out. : Degenerate
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  Just buy a new one, they are fairly cheap, can get a good one under $50. : bipolar
  • Easy to replace too. I did it in my old house... : Former_HPB
• Shove your hand in there and have a good feel around, I'm sure you'll find the problem. :D : Zeeliv
• Shacknews - It gets you garbage disposal tech support! : carnivore
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  someone please tell me what the hell those things are for? Why can't you just throw your garbage out in ... : vassili_zaitsev
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    ^I needs to know. : vassili_zaitsev
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      because its easy to say peel a bunch of potatoes into the sink and then just push them down the drain, tu... : halfway
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        wait, so it just goes down the drain??? I thought it emptied into a disposal basket under the sink somew... : vassili_zaitsev
        • nope. it turns it into mush and then goes out with the dirty water. : Degenerate
        • now that would indeed be silly : halfway
    • Some people don't like to put food leftovers and such in the garbage can because it stinks the place up o... : Joseph
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  It's all the kimchi you keep eating! : skynet
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    ha, my girlfriend knows a girl named kimchi. her parents didnt know what it meant when they named her. th... : captain hampton
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      lol are you serious? :) : skynet
      • yes, i am. and that girl my girlfriend tells me was total bitch, so it all works out in the end. :) : captain hampton
• Thank you shackers. What an informative board indeed. : integer
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  Check and see if there is a reset switch somewhere around the bottom. That'll usually get it going again. : rauol_duke
  • Now this is something i didn't try already. I didn't know disposals had a reset switch...will check tonig... : integer
• This happened to me once. Plug the disposal back into the outlet. : royaljester

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  SOON YOU WILL TASTE MANFLESH! : pinkeye
  • you had to get all ATTN: on me didn tyou : barbs

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  can i have one of those? : maulla
  • no me : boughton supreme

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  well, this is supposed to be a gaming website... : carnivore
  • gaming????....huh? : matrix
  • i see a post about garbage disposals and hair gel that have avoided the off topic label, yet a post about... : barbs
• Topic: Admins ownz j00 : boughton supreme
• it means off topic or Tangent, which is why threads that are uber-controversial are marked as such, becau... : Paranoid Android
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  what we need is some specific topic mods. Like POLITICAL for instance, so we can just filter out the spec... : tachck
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    I would push for a "Full of shit" filter myself... : ghost in my shell
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      i second this motion, with a vengeance : barbs
      • agreed! http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6736205 : halfway
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    i think the whole 'stupid' and 'off topic' tags are pretty silly... you cant tell the difference anyway u... : esky
    • those tags make me LOL when they're used properly : barbs

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  What an interesting question. I wish I had an answer. : UtilityMaximizer
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    Come on, maximize the utility of this system. I think in a utilitarian would say that greater good wou... : Odoyle
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      Well, at this point, only one life can be saved. The organs wasted on the first attempt are a sunk cost ... : UtilityMaximizer
      • You run an organ chop shop, don't you? In that case, I can understand why you wouldn't want to say too mu : Flawless Cowboy
      • I think it should be mandatory that after you die you have to donate whatever organs you have that might ... : tachck
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  Failing kidneys are a fairly manageable problem, also it's easier to find donor kidneys, since someone li... : zakk
  • Not always true. Blood typing and tissue matches don't always coincide within a family. My mother has bee... : Fyunch Click
• yes, he is worth : vassili_zaitsev
• Note that the new set of organs were donated in the girl's name. In this specific case, the worthiness i... : amankhan

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  that sounds a bit shady to me : patdoody
  • Maximum hilarity. "My office isn't using it. I might as well swap out my 1.8a P4 with this 3.06ghz." ... : cap0rale
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  I might be misunderstanding you, but isn't the 4600 the more desirable card? : ece_ssg
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    Exactly. I'm taking the Ti4600 home to my new system. My home computer will be the gaming system and m... : larcho
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      This is why all our systems are locked and set with annoying ass loud alarms if you open the case :-) : ghost in my shell
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        the office machine is mine, I payed for it. : larcho
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          self employed or does your company just suck? :p : halfway
          • company sucks. : larcho
        • oh sorry i didnt see your post down there... ^_^ : ghost in my shell
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  Yes you have to reinstall the drivers. : bipolar
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    If he has the latest Detonators installed, I'm pretty sure they'll recognize the difference in hardware a... : cap0rale
    • I'd redo the drivers anyway. Or at least uninstall the drivers, turn off system, and when system boots u... : bipolar
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  Remove the card within system properties, then shut down and do the swap. When you start it up again it s... : Zeeliv
  • According to the Moononites, it's not stealing if you need it. They are evil, though. : UtilityMaximizer
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    http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=6784018 : larcho
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      Oh ... and both computers are mine. : larcho
      • oh...right.... ;) : vassili_zaitsev

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  define performance. : vassili_zaitsev
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    car goes zoom zoom faster : Blackdawgg
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      you mean acceleration. : vassili_zaitsev
      • no, he put a lexus air filter in his mazda, it actually goes "zoom zoom" when he drives : halfway
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        Thats about all it can increase. My top speed is electronically limited =( : Blackdawgg
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          does it cap at 250 like BMWs and Mercs? : moshman
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            BMWs and Mercs cap at 150mph..I cap out at 135(ish)mph : Blackdawgg
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              i think hes referring to km/h : barbs
              • im no terrorist i dont use km/hr! i kid : Blackdawgg
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  Yes, after I bought my LS400 I changed out the filters and saw a small but noticeable difference. Helped ... : Joseph
  • My car drinks gas faster than a german drinks beer : Blackdawgg

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  You mean like remove the whitespace before every instance of "dog" or whatever. vi can do that. : Chicks Dig Me
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    i need a way to do in script : mr brown
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      a shell script, i meant to say : mr brown
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        have you considered using perl? 8O) : halfway
        • its for a homework assignment : mr brown
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      You can use vi in a script. Here's a chunk for a ksh script. All you have to do is find out how vi chomps... : BulletPro
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        "g/@00 1/s//@00 0/g"? whats that do? : mr brown
        • I think it's a global replace thing. It's out of one of the scripts that I didn't write that we use at wo... : BulletPro
    • Actually I'm pretty sure it can be done at the command line also which would mean it could be done in a k... : Chicks Dig Me
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  You might want to look at something called "awk".. It's probably the most powerful text "manipulator" in... : dn__
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    oy awk is super confusing : mr brown
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      shell scripting ain't VB : BulletPro
      • yea but awk scripting is even more confusing then normal shell scripts : mr brown
• Okay the best way I see to do it is to use sed which is a stream editor it would be along the lines of... : Chicks Dig Me

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• I realize it's way early and I haven't played it yet and it's not finished. However, I can tell you with... : cap0rale
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  I don't see how good it can be if it's console only. Call me elitist, but consoles have always sucked at ... : geedeck
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    Herzog Zwei, i never played it. but its the game that spawned so much goodness in our PC lives : jedi_27
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      yeah, the sequel, Herzog Zowie! was a classic. : Degenerate
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        Blasphemer. : geedeck
        • I never played Herzog Zwei. I'm not even sure what it is. :( : Degenerate

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• Jetfire should be on there too >:( : ttyRazor
• shortchanged... have we all forgot Grimlock? : bigdeezer
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  Grimlock ruled! : mr brown
  • ME GRIMLOCK KICK BUTT]b]i : andromeda
• I guess he just meant with the toys... i hope :( : pharoah mike
• They left you off because you won't spill your guts about getting fired. : matrix

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• ever hear of COOKING? : freakord

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  Great until Guadalcanal. Then half the Allies left because they were losing, and then the second round of... : Fyunch Click
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    That sucks. Do people really leave because they're losing? That's sad. :( : UtilityMaximizer
    • That's what it looked like. Perhaps it's because Guadalcanal is such a long boring map, but we (the allie... : Fyunch Click
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    Yes half of my team was a bunch of losers...well we were already losers cause we were losing already but ... : ghost in my shell
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      I stuck through to the bitter end of the second round. God that took for fucking ever to end. : Fyunch Click
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        I did too, you know were fucked when I have to resort to flying ;-) : ghost in my shell
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          Heh, that's how I feel too. If the other team is hammering us so much from the air that I have to forego... : UtilityMaximizer
          • thats pretty much the opposite of me :p if we're doing so bad on the ground that I have to get out of ... : halfway

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  Easier just to build light battlemechs. : Toraz Chryx
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    Light? Light is for pansies. IF you steal some old lady's purse, you can expect to be stomped into the ... : Vantage
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      I'm thinking that a Madcat would have difficulty hiding in an alleyway :) : Toraz Chryx
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        Hide schmide. Put 'em in the middle of the street. Then there ain't nobody gonna be stealing purses. :P : Vantage
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          if nobody steals anything, your mechwarriors don't get to shoot anyone >:( : Toraz Chryx
          • Sure they do. They get to shoot one person a month. : Fyunch Click
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            there is another good reason to have them hidden big monstar mechs would be expensive and you don't wa... : halfway
            • "Do you feel lucky, punk?" : teh snail
      • But robots make a lot of noise, and as crime usually happens at night, i want people who live nearby to s... : teh snail
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        why should it hide, the only reason for that is if you still want crime to happen and then be able to dea... : halfway
        • well, yeah. I mean, what's the point of having 75 ton battlemechs if you don't get to stomp on people ... : Toraz Chryx
  • Even just an elemental battlesuit would work, they have jets and everything : pharoah mike
• Sounds like Centurians from the X-Men. : Degenerate
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  Yes, but who will watch the watchmen? :) : cap0rale
  • When Watchmen go bad: next on Fox : Tissen
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  Why not just make them cops, allow cops to do this, or put cops that can do these things "on every second... : Odoyle
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    But only if we grow cops to be 5m tall. What's the point of having regular cops on streets? They're not s... : teh snail
    • They could be scary again if they could sit on you and poop on your head and throw rocks at you and stuff... : Odoyle
• You can't hide big men in small alleys! : bling1bling

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• Here is the one reason it sucks: http://www.shackspace.com/~nighteyes@shackmail.com/avexsucks.JPG : Nighteyes
• Yawn.. FUGLY'ED! : dn__
• What trillian skin is that? : skynet
• I think shoo had some surgery done on her eyes or something. : vassili_zaitsev
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  dont get it... : alky
  • I think he means divx. : chuk

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• IIRC Stefan (Zoesch) on squabble has an IBM laptop, ask him. : moshman

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  gotta love how TV is turning marriage into a joke : kanix
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    marriage has been a joke for quite some time. two people that love each other love each other, governm... : Toraz Chryx
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      bold statement, I certainly don't consider my vows to be a joke. I recall saying "'til death do us part",... : BulletPro
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        its easy for people that aren't married to say marriage is a joke : halfway
        • I didn't say marriage is a joke ... i said TV is turning it into one :\ : kanix
      • You love your partner.. right? THAT'S the important thing, and that's what should lead you to marriage... : Toraz Chryx
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  TV is a mirror. Smile. : freqq28
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    I like this quote. : king
    • Seriously. That quotation rocks me. : cap0rale
  • you are NOT your TV set you are NOT what is on ABC, CNN, MTV : kanix