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  i had the same problem. are you using tbe? : captain hampton
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    what i did: opened up tbe's options, clicked on "Use Tab", then clicked "advanced options", then i turned... : captain hampton
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      <noob>What's TBE?</noob> : br3akn3ck1
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• It does that to me if the page isn't completely loaded yet. Is it intermittant, or does it happen every ... : enigmatic

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• water and lint free glasses cloth. : Luminair
• Micro fiber cloth? : amrbean
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  Glock 19C on full auto : Mr.Fusion
  • i LOLed. : biskits
• Vodka and used underwear : Spike Spiegel
• The micro fiber cloth that came with my 23" ACD works great. : ovrlrd
• I use this: http://www.clean-your-screen-for-free-now.com/ : goats ecx
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  H2O and a coffee filter : drucifer
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    coffee filters are great because they have no lint. : drucifer
    • good to know. : lonestar3
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    Awesome. You don't think your generic standard issue oxygen cleansed white ones would be too abrasive/coa... : My Documents
    • how much is your monitor worth again? I wouldn't use a coffee filter either unless I was desperate and... : Luminair
• Distilled water and a soft cloth. : mofo
• Slightly damp paper towel and then go over it with a microfiber cloth. : Helter Skelter
• NBW - nothin but water. anything else can dissolve the anti glare finish : Crimson
• i hear rubbing alcohol works good : dumbacid

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• absinth makes the fart go 'Honda' this is the punch line to a joke I haven't written yet : drucifer
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  I wouldn't waste your money. The only good Absinth is the stuff made of wormwood and if you are lucky eno... : smdever
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    Isn't it weird that it's illegal? I mean, why? Logically, why? : EvilDolemite
    • It's got THC, you will be turned into a raving lunatic monster if you imbibe it! : Paranoid Android
    • Because it's good, probably. All the good stuff is. : dognose
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      its a hallucinogen, iirc : mohmar
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        ?...and? I'm just wondering why...protecting people from themselves is never a justification in my book... : EvilDolemite
        • because the man doesn't want us thinking outside the box he puts us in : Mansmells
    • because it made van gogh cut his ear off : Mansmells
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    Illegal to sales in USA, legal to have shipped from Europe. Why is that? I do not know. : lord cecil
    • Oh I thought it was illegal to import it still also. I want to try a tincture of laudanum. : smdever
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    according to the FAQ on that site their absinthe has wormwood in it .. and they say they ship to the US ... : Mansmells
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      http://www.seborabsinth.com/faqs/legal_us.asp : lord cecil
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        ahh .. cool i missed that i might have to order me some! : Mansmells
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          $93 for 16.9 oz is steep. Its $56 or £30 to buy it in the UK though. Surely it doesn't cost $40 t... : lord cecil
          • well i didn't necessarily mean from that place : Mansmells
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  Do you WANT to go nuts? : Pacalon
  • yes! : lord cecil
• for those confused about absinth: first of all, the law of the states only outlaws the sale of absinth bu... : reverend~heresy
• sipping pipes!!! : vassili_zaitsev
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  http://www.seborabsinth.com/shop/productdetails.asp?ProductID=2 Had some of this in Spain, didn't get ... : omnova
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    Care to give a quick review? Worth getting shipped over here? : lord cecil
    • IAWTP I want to try some but only if it's actually good stuff and not some hype. : ArtilleryMarker
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      One of my buddies keeps a bottle around. The stuff tastes like absolut shit, do the sugar cube thing. Oth... : mojoald
      • How much does it take? I was thinking about splitting a bottle with a friend but 8.5 oz isn't very much ... : lord cecil
    • I got nothing more from it than what a shot of alcohol would give (slight buzz), though I probably didn't... : omnova
  • I thought the point of absinth was to get chased by spiders...? : derelict515
• mmm i need some more of this stuff : Senor PoopyPants

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• BTW Picasa 2 is extremely slick for importing pictures off cameras and quick and easy resizing for tasks ... : Carnivac
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  It is crazy here. There are bare spots on the ground and others which have 3+ ft snowdrifts. The snow i... : Crimsonbeak
  • I was real surprised the all the cars weren't entombed. The snow is just so light it's blowing everywher... : Carnivac
• My contribution from cape cod: http://home.comcast.net/~sw33ts/pix/blizzard05.jpg : tangles
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  This is old, but still funy: Moving to Wisconsin August 12 Moved to our new home in Wisconsin. It... : capt tripps
  • thats awsome, i enjoyed it : dumbacid

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• AMd socket 939 + nforce4 + 6800GT for the win. : moe6
• AMD64 + ATI (not the most expensive, high-mid range) : matthaeus
• AMD 64 with out question and i personally prefer nVidia over ATI just because its what i have used in the... : dumbacid

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• Hate those gills and that plastic rear window. : EvilDolemite
• what do you care? : carnivore
• And if you do it long enough he can give hell for weighing 400 pounds. : BrodieMan
• the kid with the pinto will show up : burningpantsman
• So you are gonna spend money just to make fun of a person? : Nighteyes
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  Probably someone that already has money, and just has the job for the hell of it. : suicidemachine
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    Nah, you can get an older Z3 for like $10K. : EvilDolemite
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      This is true, but the original poster never said what year it was. : suicidemachine
      • Well, they're onto the Z4 now, so I'm guessing it's at least a few years old. : EvilDolemite
• are you pissed because it's always there within a minute so you dont get a free meal? : jcutner
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  HOLD ON A MINUTE! are you fronting on the Deliverator? Snow Crash : esecasco
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    He's pissed because some jerk probably pooned his car and left a scratch. : d0gbert
    • ?? I don't get it. : esecasco
• how do you think he is paying for that car? : d0pamine
• You can only fit about 12 larges plus a few bottles of soda and a bag of ice in the car at one time, if y... : Zteve

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• Winamp 5 is nice. I use it without modern skins so its quick. : dltrem
• Or iTunes or foobar : lee majors
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  Unfortunatley, cause imo it's bloatware. : hosty1e
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    winamp bloatware? turn off all the plugins and it's back where it was in version 2.0 : Draugluin
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      Real men play mp3s via console commands. : AcesnEights
      • Real men decode mp3s by hand in a text editor and play them on a piano. : filtersweep
      • cubic player for life : Draugluin
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  I like winamp for mp3 play and the media library...although there is some stuff Id change iTunes is ni... : darklox
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    what do you mean by continuous play? : osiris_brad
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      well, in the iTunes media library (main screen) you select the song you wanna play, it will play it, but ... : darklox
      • winamp has an option for this, you have to select "manual advance" somewhere. then it will only play what... : osiris_brad
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  I know I'm a terrible terrible person, but WMP10 with the toolbar function on is what I use at work. : Rauol Duke
  • on a scale 1 to terrible, you're awful : esky
• cool, thanks all, I'll check a couple of these out. : -Panther-
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  whats wrong with xp? : Morgin
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    2 1337 4 XP!!!11! : dynokill
    • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9413764 word. : -Panther-
• Try fürdas langsame. It's what the cool people use, not that stuff that already comes with your op... : freqq28
• non-winamp users: is there anything that uses less memory than winamp, but still had a playlist and yo... : esky
• WINAMP 2.0 WORD : arizona bay
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  foobar 2000 anyone? : monohydrate
  • Yes. : Sacred Sperm
• against your wishes? hey, its not that bad. : virus
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  Why is it against your wishes? XP has been out for like, 4+ years. It's really not a bad platform. Unl... : EvilDolemite
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    no, an elitist linux dick actually :) : -Panther-
    • http://www.drucifer.shackspace.com/worksforme.jpg : drucifer

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• bump bump go team : thekidd
• you mean http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9415266 or ? : DoubleAught()

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• Jump it again in the morning, take it to Sears or AutoZone and get them to test the charging system for f... : Scrimbo Obeer
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  If its reading 13V then you're measuring too soon after turning the car off (atleast thats what I underst... : Judicus
  • it's not very cold... 43 degrees right now. no residue on the battery. I turned the car off at 1pm or s... : DoubleAught()
• With a hammer, tap a galvinized nail between the connecton clamp and battery post. This will make sure yo... : karlk79
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  Your starter is going bad. Get it looked at and hopefully you caught it soon enough that you can just ge... : boarder2
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    I'm not a wrench monkey, but I know you are waaaay off base. Re-read the symptoms. : tension
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      Oh, I didn't read that he got a jump and it worked. HOWEVER, the same thing happened to me when the star... : boarder2
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        Turn the key + clicking noise is the sound of a bad battery, too. It might have enough power to run the ... : timmie
        • the battery could be bad, go get it checked out at a part store around here we have canadian tire and th... : lingo
• You either have a bad battery or bad alternator. problably battery. get it checked out. : tension
• Could be a lot of issues at play here. The batt is probably bad, if this is the case and going to a new ... : pres589
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  hello car trouble buddy http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9407771 still havent worked my car issue ou... : eskimo spy
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    Weak batt. It cranked but didn't have enough to start the car. : pres589
    • thanks for the diagnosis :) I hope that's what it is - fer shitsake this truck has been unstoppable, othe... : eskimo spy
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  When you sparked the battery its likely that you blew your altinator : spector
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    ?? Terminals always spark when attaching them. Never EVER seen an alternator go bad due to connecting bat... : zyklonbee
    • accctually, i was just about to respond that if he didnt hook them up backwards then its very unlikely th... : spector
• Sounds more like the altinator to me, but a simple test: jump the car again and, once the engine is warm,... : pingoo
• Thanks everyone for your help. Took it down to AutoZone and they diagnosed the problem as a bad battery.... : DoubleAught()

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• winXP service pack2? : hosty1e
• I've heard really great things about Kerio's Personal Firewall; http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html ... : pres589

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  spoiler tag plz : skynet
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    I'm sorry if I spoiled something, but I thought everybody knew Doom 3 has some levels in hell, especially... : matthaeus
    • I got in trouble for this, too. Someone said not everyone reads previews and such. Better not to start a ... : theo20185
• Yeah I remember that, it looked awesome. : nomaad
• Yea that was quite amazing. : dltrem
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  well since i put off doom3 for a while ago, youve wasted the surprise. : acidravelamp
  • Lava and skulls in hell?! 0_o My day if ruined. : jahulio2
  • don't worry, Doom 3 has much better surprises! For example: Site 1, 2 and 3. Great leveldesign! : matthaeus
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  nope, it's that long walk down to the cyberdemon that did it for me. that single part was the fucking co... : vassili_zaitsev
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    Only to lead to the most anticlimactic experience ever. : kingdepork
    • I think the gtraphics there were amazing but I was so busy franticly running around I never got a chance ... : dltrem
• The one from memory that comes to mind, is the bit in Half Life, there're the three, beaked, blind monste... : WaterSign
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  Best scene for me was in deus ex where you escape from the prison and you realize that you were inside th... : Popedispencer
  • Indeed. I wish I could play that all over again for the first time. : dltrem
  • I have to replay Deus Ex. Such a great game! : matthaeus
• Unreal, lights go out, scary noises, skaarj or whatever it is jumps out Jedi Knight 1, ship is crashin... : lord cecil

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• the comic sucked, marvel knights. : Silent1
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  My hopes are with Sin City. http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/sin_city.html : Jeff Y
  • The good thing about sin city is that it's owned by Dark Horse. So they can't change anything without Fra... : Popedispencer
  • Holy crap that is the best trailer ever. The music is so perfect... : monohydrate
• haha A somehow stupider version of Mortal Kombat, Elektra contains fight sequences edited so poorly that : roushimsx
• My problem is that when I see a movie get so many bad reviews, I have to see the movie just to see how ba... : thekidd

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  They taste like really chocolately chocolate milk. : Snif DeCrac
  • for the price of 20 chocolate milks : RikiTiki2
  • Minus the milk. It's just straight up chocolate. : riptyde
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  Starbucks coffee etc. gives me the runs like you wouldn't believe. : bRAINsick
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    Thanks for sharing. : RookieCAF
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      i'd rather know that its possible to have dietary problems than to be 'pleasently surprised' : Crimson
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        Well, Coffee surely doesn't effect everyone that way, or it wouldn't be so popular at the office now woul... : RookieCAF
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          Unless the people at the office enjoy having the runs? Sometimes it can be quite enjoyable. : slip42o
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            Thats sick. Personally I don't like pinching off a loaf of any kind at work. There's no toilet like your ... : RookieCAF
            • Just think of the adrenaline rush you get while taking a huge dump on an unclean toilet seat! ...and t... : slip42o
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  Starbucks: Coffee For People Who Don't Like Coffee"™ : RatBastard
  • to be fair, their actual coffee (not espresso shit) is really pretty good as far as beans go. Certai... : Paranoid Android
• It tastes kinda like God coming in your mouth, if only God's cum was really good chocolate. : Vincent Grayson
• From what I hear it's basically like the ultimate hot chocolate you can think of. It's a melted bar of ch... : ovrlrd
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  Is there any coffee base in it at all? If not, then I'm there! : Rasnowl
  • yup, straight chocolat http://www.starbucks.com/retail/chanticolanding.asp : byorn
• The Vanilla Creme is the only thing I get. So good. ;) : lightly inclined
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  I am afraid I won't be able to order that cos I dont know how to pronounce it :( : personaljesus
  • "I want one of those chocolate thingys" : thekidd
  • I'd say shan tee koh. : cajuncook

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  http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/ go there, they have shoulders to cry on. Good luck : scottk52
  • crying starts now. lots of stuffs recorded that i havent seen yet :( : nurall
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  Have you tried power-cycling? : Deathlove
  • i accedently unplugged, when i was unplugging the dish unit (dish went out again). when i plug it bac... : nurall
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  I've seen Tivo restarts take a couple of hours after a crash. : baron calamity
  • oh ok i wont give up yet then. theyre not to expansive but ill cry if i lose my recorded stuff. : nurall
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  so ive tried everything at the tivo website with no results. are there any good deals on tivos this we... : nurall
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    Maybe get it repaired? : geedeck
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      its a series 1 that cant control my dish unit. i lose all recorded stuff if i send it in. i paid 130$ fo... : nurall
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        buy another hard drive and fix it yourself. You may still be able to transfer the recording over to a ne... : Prozium
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          thats what i was thinking, just have never done that. : nurall
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            im gonna let it try to restart for rest of today and it doenst start deside what to do tommorow. :( wi... : nurall
            • you can crack it open and check all the IDE/power connections. After the gray powering up screen it star... : Prozium
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  I think it's dead, Jim. : sevogajre
  • you just want to make me cry : nurall
• TIVO runs linux. On startup it runs FDISK which can take a LONG time if the system was not shut down prop... : seer

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• Is the server up now? : Hatta
• Yes! Server is up through the day! : RyDogg1
• I'll be there to BURNINATE you Mr Rydogg. : d0gbert
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  Come join in now! Test run the server with the new maps! : RyDogg1
  • BUMP. We're waiting for some peeps to join. : gunrock46
  • ill join after i d/l them all : maulla
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    wait you are running the new maps now? i thought they were for later : spector
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      I'm just checking them out. : RyDogg1
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        also im not sure if i'm retarded here.. but i downloaded the zipped maps and when i extract them instead ... : spector
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          do just need to rename the zips to .pak? : spector
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            i mean .pk3 : spector
            • yes : alexthegreat2
        • No just drop the .pk3 file into your etmain dir; no unzipping required. : RyDogg1
• already got 7 people playing, more come play! : alexthegreat2

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  6:30 EST on CBS I believe : Degenerate
  • right you are, its so far away :( : derelict515

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• Some of the LoTR screencap spoofs from the SA forums had a last frame like that. They were relatively sma... : Caboose
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  In Swedish movies there reads "Slut" not "Fin" or "The End". Will a pic of that do? :) : SlamDunk
  • tempting.. but no ;) : bamb
• By accident while searching for 'film fin' I came across a new poster for Peter Jackson's 'King King' Chr... : MatthewPhillips
• this is what google gave me :/ nws http://www.goddesschess.com/graphics/end.jpg : IcomeINpeace
• Do you have the Pink Panther boxed set? I believe they have it at the end of some of the cartoons (the o : capt tripps
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  It is in the kind is dead episode of family guy if you have that. : zeroprey
  • http://img176.exs.cx/img176/1155/fin9ly.jpg : IcomeINpeace
• found with la fin film http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:_543hm8HjyEJ:http://www.fintv.info/logo.gi... : capt tripps

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  ShackNFL Playoffs Edition Week 3 tldr version: TK-421 takes Eagles, Steelers. I take Falcons, Patriot : lordlobo
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    Lobo I agree with you on both picks. As much as I love the Eagles I just don't think they'll be able to ... : Horn
    • I think the Eagles are better than the Falcons. But I think mentally the Eagles are in trouble. After 3 i... : mc-fine
    • Man you missed the last time the Steelers and Patriots hooked up, but that 5 wide spread did nothing but ... : Alec Matias
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    I agree with Lobo on both aslo. I think TK-421 over simplified the Pats Steelers. Its much more then ju... : LucyLuBot
    • Good point. In the first game we lost Law which left Gay and Mooreland in to cover. Both of them are pl... : Horn
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      Secondary and Dillon don't matter in this game. Steelers will shut Dillon down. Steelers will be running ... : Alec Matias
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        Youre already drunk arent you? ;) : Degenerate
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          I am : lordlobo
          • excellent : Degenerate
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  It's going to be a couple of very cold games. I don't want to go outside. : StuMan1337
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    I'm in GA and dont want to go outside :( : Degenerate
    • I agree. Its so damn windy out there. wtf? : sabadog

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• I eat more snow than that. : r4wk
• BETTER - http://www.weather.com/activities/events/sports/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=78753 :P : biskits

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  Um, ok... : boarder2
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    Seriously, like 6 people cited it as why they "couldn't switch to firefox". : Zero|DPX
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      Oh, in that case, people have serious issues. : boarder2
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        My name is Thanatos, god of death, and I support this msg. : Magus
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          i thought your name was magus, guy in cool cape that casts black magic. : mindmann
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            Magus, chrono, frog, best party ever! : belal
            • IAWTP. damn I miss that game. it almost makes me want to get an emulator for it. : sabadog
• hal-a-fuckin-lewya... : g0nk
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  Is there a list somewhere of the standards that Firefox supports: HTML, CSS, etc? : Ride-My-Rocket
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    I'm not sure what you want exactly. There's lots of lists about what pieces of the different versions ... : Zero|DPX
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      I guess I wanted to know what version of CSS Firefox endeavors to fully support right now, bugs notwithst... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • Right now they're trying to get the gecko engine (which Firefox and the full Mozilla Suite use, amongst o... : sgtsanity

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• It's down here too. : chuk
• Yep. Lots of posts like this on other forums, too. : jwnin
• Down for me. : nomaad
• Weird mines up, bot only one other on my list is too. :/ : oldschoolbob-o
• been down since last night : evil-cow
• Working OK here, but there's very few people on my list online. : peanut-
• nope down here : Shadowdane
• Mine's been going up and down and my list is empty. : moogle
• just went down here. : inchwide
• okay, i thought it was just me : jcutner
• Yeah mine is down : ejectorpod
• get down... GET DOWN!! yes, msn is down :( : SlamDunk
• the end of the world is nigh! : johnsto
• yeah i'm having trouble connecting. : Silent1
• The .NET Messenger Service is temporarily experiencing difficulty. You may be unable to sign in. Please t : PoopStewart
• Yeh, mine said something like "Error: I just realized Bill Gates owns me, I can't live anymore." : slip42o
• back up for me. : Silent1

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• heh, I did the same thing yesterday.. it's a shame there's not really a mod scene. I was hoping to find a... : slip42o

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  Nevermind, I just noticed that everybody jumped ship from there : MrLonghair
  • Wait, what? Link? : PoopStewart

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• I can't think of anybody I'd rather play nintendo with! : Toraz Chryx
• IAWTP. Doesn't win an Oscar, but made me laugh. Good enough for me. : sergeon
• I caught this about a year ago and promptly bought the DVD. You said it, man. : Alec Matias
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  i realized this in the 7th grade. why did it take you THIS long???? : vassili_zaitsev
  • I had to watch it a few times first. :( : yoonix
• noooo its last action hero : alsey7
• Swingin' on a star... : brickmatt
• That movie is more random than any dream Ive ever had. I love it a whole lot. : Squirrely
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  I remember my dad taking me to see that in like...the 7th grade or something. I fucking loved it and at t... : roushimsx
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    isn't it rated R? : byorn
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      I bet that's why his dad was there! : zakk
      • My dad rocks : roushimsx
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  That dog cracks me up every time : tostador
  • BALL BALL!! /throws ball out the window : Maddog_Delphi97
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  First movie I ever walked out of. : MatthewPhillips
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    I walked out of that wizard of oz sequel. the woman with interchangeable heads scared me :( : ttyRazor
    • that movie was freaky as hell : roushimsx
• Absolutely 100% IAWTP. It's so bad, but for some reason, I can't stop watching it any time I come across... : Ride-My-Rocket

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• Congratulations! the world needs more pharmacists. : thekidd
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  Congratulations. My roommate wants to be a psychological pharmacist. I still am not entirely sure what ... : ejectorpod
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    What is that? "Tell me why you think you need hypertension medication." : Sarcastro
    • I think it has to do with the medications field of Psychology...like, what kind of meds do what, etc. If... : ejectorpod
• Pharmacy at my school is the hardest thing to get into in the world.... They take like 15 locals per year... : ob3ron
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  you going to become Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist? : Postal
  • best game ever. : thekidd
• Congrats! : Ride-My-Rocket

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  http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-24-70-14s.html : roushimsx
  • thank you "ordered" : Crimsonbeak

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9414918 survey says yes. : thekidd
• I can't log in. : Bakelite
• my main computer gets on fine, this computer i run whenever i play a game can't log in though o_O : moe6

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  Wondering the same thing myself. Was gonna go get a powerbook today but I dunno if I should just go to c... : gunrock46
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    im just really ready to try something new and seeing as this will be for school use only i dont really n... : krunkkrang
    • Exact same reasons as me. Guess if it doesn't work out Powerbooks and iBooks seem to retain all value fo... : gunrock46
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    WAIT UNTIL TUESDAY before getting a PowerBook, for goodness' sake - there's imminent updates to the line!... : Postal
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      well im waiting for tax refund but thanks for the heads up : krunkkrang
      • The 25th or Possibly the 2nd for the pbook updates (rumored) : not work safe
• get more ram, at least 512MB. If you're ordering from apple, get it 3rd party and install it yourself, m... : ttyRazor
• I've had an ibook for about 8 months, its freakin awesome. I really really want a desktop system and want... : not work safe
• A+++ would buy again. i work with a bunch of hardcore technology snobs and they all have apple ibooks/po... : snackula
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  Probably the main thing is to get the thing up to 512mb of ram, either when you order it or on your own w... : pres589
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    im wondering how bad 12inch would be apposed to 14 : krunkkrang
    • if you get an iBook, get the 12" and custom-order it from Apple with a 60 GB drive... the $300 premium fo... : Postal
    • they both have the same lcd resolution, so aside from the small difference in speed you'd just be getting... : ttyRazor
    • The 12" and 14" iBooks have the same resolution - 1024x768. The 12" model is a bit cheaper and a lot sma... : RatBastard
    • The screens are the same resolution, so the 12 just displays objects slightly smaller than a 14 would. I... : pres589
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  I have a 12" iBook and love it. Get 512mb ram for it and at least a DVD/CDRW combo drive but it's a grea... : Dechter
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    how dd you get it for 900? : krunkkrang
    • nm : krunkkrang
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  how do the ghz ratings compare to the pc. im assuming 1.33 ghz is not the same as a 1.33 ghz p4 : krunkkrang
  • they don't. at all. It's pointless to even begin to try to compare them : roushimsx
  • roughly 50% to 66% faster than a similarly-clocked P4, depending on the app. I don't know how they compa... : Postal