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  I wouldnt' say she got away with it - she did serve 12 years. Now I would say she got off a bit light, b... : alexthegreat2
  • she got a sweetheart deal to turn on berbardo, under the assumption she was coerced. When the tapes came... : sweat
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    she's still horribly fucked up, if the letters to her prison penpal are representative of her mental stat... : Morgin
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      Alright without seeing all the evidence I would say she probably should have served 25-30 years. So I gu... : alexthegreat2
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        lotsa criminals hoping you come up as their next judge. : xvdl
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          I just don't believe in letting people rot in jail, seems more like revenge than anything else to me. : alexthegreat2
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            she raped her own sister, and her sister died because of what she did. She tortured teenage girls and kil... : xvdl
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              bad for society, I don't care about her. : alexthegreat2
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                taking people like this off the streets is not bad for society. Putting a dude smoking pot behind bars fo... : xvdl
                • I understand what you're saying - and remember I do think she should have been in jail for up to 30 years... : alexthegreat2
    • Don't forget that they sexually tortured those two girls before they murdered them, too. : riptyde
    • they tortured the little girls before killing them. They cut them up into pieces in their basement. Did a... : xvdl
  • she should have been in for life. She got away with it. : xvdl
  • she shoulda got the chair for what she did man. drugging her little sister so bernardo could rape her? an... : OverBurN
• I am furious at the amount of coverage the media has given this scum. Let her rot in obscurity, all this ... : Morgin
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  She actually decided to live IN Montreal ? It looked like she would be opting for a lesser known place. ... : MrLobo
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    She probably wants the anonymity that a large city like MTL offers - if she moves into a small town every... : alexthegreat2
    • Trust me, Montreal is not big enough for her to be anonymous. : MrLobo
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  People ask why people believe in the death penalty and this is my answer. If someone murdered my son/dau... : handofthrawn
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    I believe in putting the guilty in a laminated room for 24 hours with the murdered person's family. But t... : Megara9
    • Seriously, just give the family a 2x4 with a nail in it and let everyone take a swing. : riptyde
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    There's only a small minority that goes the pure pacifist route that these kind of people should not be g... : xvdl
    • I agree with you there. I would have no problems if one of the family members of the victims decided the... : alexthegreat2
    • That is my problem. When I heard the IN governer (or was it another state?) gave a pardon to everyone on... : handofthrawn
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  Montreal is the Hells Angels capital of Canada - do you really think her days aren't numbered? My only... : re-verse
  • as opposed to loudly ignored? : Postal
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    ah yes, those same guys who were blowing up restaurants because an enemy was in them. They're all about t... : xvdl
    • Read hunter thomspons book on them - they are sick fuckers, but they also do seem to have a sense of "jus... : re-verse
• holy shit that entire page is full of links to terrible news. : cpt_gloval
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  Michele Pilon-Santilli, a spokeswoman for the correctional service, confirmed the release of Homolka â : edgewise
  • They're giving us a head start. : felicia
  • She's required by law to tell the authorities, and I doubt they'll do much to keep it a secret. : P-Squid
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  Yeah, it's fucking horrible. One "funny" thing is when CNN got a hold of the news of her release and m... : grifter
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    urg as if the US doesn't have enough criminals on their own. Besides, I don't think anyone with a crim... : MrLobo
    • well the news networks are 'terror tv' now. and i mean honestly, for every one of her that would make ... : grifter
• NEWS FLASH: She didn't get away. Matter of fact she got caught and imprisoned. : spectr3

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  in before Install L00nix : drucifer
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10357618 : cam3lt0sis
• nLite? http://www.nliteos.com/index.html : grimiv
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  Windows media player stop working all together for me the other day. I tried reinstalling it and removing... : deeveee
  • It's odd because Media Player Classic works perfectly : cam3lt0sis
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  Why use WMP when you have MPC installed? Confusion abound. : Deathlove
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    i think he wants to get rid of WMP because he has MPC installed : grimiv
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      you'd think he'd just associate all his content with MPC : mallrice
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        I see no point in removing WMP - a lot of things call parts of it to do "stuff" - leave the damn thing on... : abrasion
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          Well, that's kinda the point. You can't remove WMP as it's embedded into everything. Hence, MS sucks. : cameljoe
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            I agree but really, who gives a shit? it takes 3 mb of disk space - it's in a logical location on the dis... : abrasion
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              Well, the EU cared enough to fine MS a couple million a day until MS could provide a version of Windows w... : cameljoe
              • All it took was the PC manufactures to say NO to the XPn. So all that bullshit happened for nothing. : ghost hacker
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            I can't remove this explorer.exe crap from windows, MS sucks. : mojoald
            • I know, rite? : chrisxtreme
            • And we all know explorer.exe and iexplore.exe are completely different. Right? : ghost hacker
          • Hmm, everything worked last night and doesn't today. I'm guessing the problem you are currently encounte... : jake
    • MCE 2k5 needs WMP installed, won't work if you could remove WMP anyway. : BongSlayerB
• why bother? Some things will require it, otherwise you can ignore it : derelict515
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  Reboot into safe mode (f8 before windows loads after your bios boot screen). rename C:\Program Files\Win... : *metal*
  • Honestly if you have to go through that much trouble to get it off your system... you probably shouldn't ... : scatti
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  add/remove programs, click windows components on the left and uncheck WMP, worked for me.... : cawcaw
  • this removes the icons for WMP not the actual files or associations. Same goes for IE and MSN IM. : *metal*
• sounds like as about as much fun as removing IE : thebigbeefsandwich
• from the Windows 2000 "starting" booklet: Installing Windows 2000 is a one-way process. They basically... : the archvile
• You can't. Even if you could would you want to? Then you probably wouldn't be able to stream web video ... : boolean
• You need WIN XP N !!!!! :D : ghost hacker
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  because deleting the icons and ignoring it is clearly not enough. : cpt_gloval
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    I just think it should be possible to remove a program if you'd like to. I'm fine with ignoring it, bu... : cam3lt0sis
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      I think Mark Cuban should get a haircut, but it will not happen either : byorn
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        For some reason I get the feeling this isn't very related. : cam3lt0sis
        • they are both things we wish were so, but will never be :( : byorn
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      Except if a good chunk of the program acts as middleware to the OS so that other apps can rely on it to h... : surround
      • Why would they use WMP when they could use the DirectShow framework? I don't get it. : vigilante
• WHY do you have to remove? Just associate all files with WPC or another program. : byorn
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  There is no reason to remove WMP, just like there was never any reason to remove IE. If you pretend th... : grendel
  • Never a reason to remove IE. Reason enough for me! : ghost hacker
• some programs assume you have it installed and use the SDK to play back movies. Actually a lot of games d... : wtf242

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  no love i guess. am i the only sHacker still playing this? Dragonfang, where are you?! : BongSlayerB
  • i was a beta tester once. decided that eve is not my kind of a game... : SlamDunk
  • on and off - my sub ran out today so i might buy another month to see what's new : grimiv
  • I played with a trial and it was quite fun. Lots to do. You don't HAVE to just mine or mine at all. Becom... : ghost hacker
• I love this game, except the tedious mining. Otherwise i'd still be playing it. : hobosapien
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  What IS Eve like? It kinda looks like a more complex version of Earth & Beyond (which was fun). If it is ... : algernoN8
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    its a big investment in time. if you dont mind being small-fry in a huge environment for a long long tim... : grimiv
    • it is a time killer, but it's also easy to "walk away from" as i like to say. Example: set a waypoint, wa... : BongSlayerB
• My raven sucks now, no more doing lvl4 missions for a while until good setups and skills are trained up :... : sanchez
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  any good forum (or otherwise) links for more details on this update? : Nighthavvk
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    http://myeve.eve-online.com/updates/patchnotes.asp?sid=314980889 : sanchez
    • er that might require a login...use this instead http://www.eve-i.com/home/dancer/page/page_fullnews.p... : sanchez
• The only popups I get here are for BluesNews. :( : RatBastard
• shit, I just downloaded the client four days ago. /me starts up BT : twostar
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  Man, if I could find a few people to play with, this would rock. I played for a bit, but was all alone. W... : Rampancy
  • Once the account page comes up I am in the game. Shackmsg me with your username. : myfasha
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    that really is the biggest hurdle to start with. It's really tempting to blow that ISK on cool lasers and... : BongSlayerB
    • I'd want to be the pirates. :D Yeah, my Kestrel and Merlin have both served me well. I have nothing to... : Rampancy
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  if I played a while ago in one of the betas, would my account (and the blackbird I worked so hard for) st... : Nighthavvk
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    errrrr, it wasn't a beta, it was a free trial about a year ago or so. : Nighthavvk
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      it should still be there then. Try just reactivating your account. : twostar
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        i'd like some confirmation before I did the actual reactivation. I'm not too keen on trying my luck with ... : Nighthavvk
        • My ships and all other items were still there after at LEAST 9 months. go in! : BongSlayerB
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          go to eve online and click on my account, see if you can log in and reactivate, if so you're stuff is sti... : twostar
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            fokkkkkkk, I can't recall what email address I used to register. GRRRR. : Nighthavvk
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              fokkkkk, I'm almost positive now that I remember the email addy I used, but the website doesn't recognize... : Nighthavvk
              • WOOT. retrieved account. : Nighthavvk
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  Who in this post is thinking about or is playing the game? I would like to hook up with some shackers onl... : myfasha
  • I'll be on in 30min. everyone else is coming with me. thats right, yer' all comin' w/ me. go. now. : BongSlayerB
  • only if my blackbird still exists. : Nighthavvk
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    I'll bite and reactivate. I just deactivated the sucker like 2 weeks ago after not playing. After seeing ... : Rampancy
    • Oh, and ONLY if you fuckers play and we group up to kick much intergalactic ass. : Rampancy
  • I've been strongly considering trying it for awhile. I don't know anybody who plays EVE though. : WombatFromHell
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  I play it once in awhile, patching now. : jayares
  • I am in the shacknews channel in the game, waiting for the account page to come up, thought i would mine ... : myfasha
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  seriously, fuck you guys. downloading client now. : Nighthavvk
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    I know really. I think I might have to try it out. : Reeves
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      Argh! I caved, so I'm going to try it under the 2 week trial. : WombatFromHell
      • Add me to your friends and join the shacknews channel in the game. : myfasha
• I haven't played since early Alpha, how are the controls now? Do you need a joystick or is M+K still ok? : mikage
• k my account is active again, add me to friends in game scoutgirl : myfasha

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  you might wanna mention what time it starts at :O : harkov
  • durrrrrr 10pm EST, 7pm PST : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  This is totally Xbox live right? : i-heart-chi
  • yep : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  and there's a ton of cars in B class you guys can choose from. even the most unlikely car can be competi... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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    Let me make sure I've got this right. Class B, no parts upgrade, just tuning with what's stock? : mancide
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      You can upgrade the parts as much as you want as long as it's B class, but NO parts swapping between race : Lunatic Angelic
      • Thanks, wanted to make sure I was clear on what that meant. : mancide
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  Limited to a class or is it all Enzo's? : mancide
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    B class. which means you can take any D, C, or B car and upgrade it to B1. that gives you a lot of opti... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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      Hopefully it doesn't turn into CRX central. I built one this weekend, but I'm not going to use it tonight... : Ajax
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        i was trying to tune my evo this weekend but it just doesn't run quick laps like those light cars. : FrayLo
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          I hear you. Personally, I've been screwing with the Audi S4 V8, and while I've love to run it tonight, I : Ajax
          • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10335746 It's like the perfect anti-Genjuro device, when he rams you, y : Lunatic Angelic
    • Seawolf forgot to add, CRXs and Tommys are forbidden. After Fraylo's league is over we might run a GT : Lunatic Angelic
• you guys do whatever track you want. i don't think i'll be able to make it, my friend is leaving for aus... : FrayLo
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  whoa, a tourney <shatner>WHY WASNT I NOTIFIED?!?!?</shatner> : zyklonbee
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    Official RSVP reply to this post State whether you plan to participate in the test tonight at 7pm paci : Lunatic Angelic
    • I'll test tonight. : Ajax
    • i think our best bet is to have multiple leagues...hopefully 16 people are interested, so we can have a "... : FrayLo
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      oh, i'll be there-I'm using tonight to test out my non-lotus car to see how competitive it is. : harkov
      • any of you guys on now playing before 10est? I am trying to add some of you to my list and get in the car... : Patch-e
    • i will be there unless, as i always say, someone my firewall doesn't like is there... hopefully we can... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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      I'll go all Days of Thunder on you bitches tonite. : genjuro
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        without your smack talking metaphors you dont' stand a chance : ^-SeaWolf-^
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          don't tempt me seawolf. don't tempt me. : genjuro
          • Oh please. The only thing that changes are your targets. : Ajax
          • you called me seawolf! you do know my name!!!! : ^-SeaWolf-^
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      I probably won't be on tonight, but I'm down for racing in the league. : cltcprd
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        I don't want you in my league : FrayLo (#2759) : armybob
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          You going to play some new Halo2 maps tonight? : CSParsons
          • maybe, I haven't purchased them yet. Not really into Halo2 so not sure if it's worth it : armybob
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        I don't want you in my league. : FrayLo
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          roofles. Hi FrayLo! : armybob
          • I hate you both. : cltcprd
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      i'll be there. with my mic even! : cpt_gloval
      • You, and your hornet's-nest-engined-car, are not welcome. : genjuro
    • I'll be in tonight. : acidnynex
    • ill test tonight : creep
    • I'd like to play, where do I join? : mancide
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      you guys should just race ATLANTA : FrayLo
      • you got it chief! 1 hour to go : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  ARGH! rx-7 or vx220? rx-7 or vx220? the indecision is killing me! : cpt_gloval
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    You have to ask yourself whci car you'd rather lose to Lunatic Angelic in. If you can't bear the thought : Ajax
    • so true :( : creep
• Oh yes, forgot to add, Firebone is in the car club now and is very fast, faster than Harkov and Broly. : Lunatic Angelic
• bump + request for tonights track? is atlanta out because of the cutting? is alpine in or is rio? ... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  was there a sign up for this or can anyone join up? : Patch-e
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    could someone give me an invite to the car club? shackmsg me please :) : Patch-e
    • i'll send you an invite later. shackmsg me your gamertag. i'd do it now but i've got my real life rac... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  where is the lotus elise 135 that i see a lot of people using? i look at the lotus dealer and they show o... : ^-SeaWolf-^
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    The Elise 135 is the plain Elise at the dealership. : Ajax
    • oic. interesting : ^-SeaWolf-^
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  oops misreply.. any of you guys on now playing before 10est? I am trying to add some of you to my list an... : Patch-e
  • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10358749 i should be home just before 10pm but im not sure about some ... : creep
• I'm online - TwitchyMocha. I haven't driven in a month or two so I'm gonna suck, but if anyone wants a ra... : TastyWheat
• crap! * O U T O F T O W N ' D * : burningtrees

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  Sprechen sie Deutch? : CRasterImage
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    I'm slowly attempting to Sprechen some Deutsche. Any good links? : pointingdevice
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      No, that is the only German I know. It was the title of my german language book in high school... : CRasterImage
      • Super awesome! Haha! That's hysterical. : pointingdevice
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        Although "Sie" should be capitalized and Deutsch is misspelled :P : Omaha
        • Well, I didn't pay too much attention in that class. : CRasterImage
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          * G R A M M A R N A Z I ' D * : jlavrenz
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            That's the first step towards speaking flawless German. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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              Als zweiter Schritt muss man warmes Bier trinken und kalte Hunde essen können. : Experiment IV
              • Man kann auch bevorzugt kalte Hunde in warmes Bier tunken und essen. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Learn french, the language of the future. : stump
• spanish. look into pimsleur language courses. : pupismyname
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  jive : qwpeoriu
  • I speak jive. : carazy
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    Oh stewardess I speak jive. : smdever
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      Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side. : qwpeoriu
      • You know wha' they say: See a broad to get that bodiac lay'er down an' smack 'em yack 'em. : smdever
    • That scene is classic gold. : Omaha
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  Rosetta Stone is supposed to be a pretty easy program to use. I've looked at it, but not gotten a chance ... : Vincent Grayson
  • I 2nd Rosetta Stone. I used it as a refresher course for my Spanish. : i-heart-chi
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    This got mentioned here a few weeks ago and now I can't stop hearing about it. They have a free demo here... : Deathlove
    • Damn, they won't let me demo Russian level 2. I don't want to pay 50 bucks just to find out that level 2 ... : yoonix
  • Totally 100% agree with this... I used Rosetta Stone to pound French verb conjugates into my head for 4 ... : redshift
• swedish motherfucker! hej, ska vi prata svenska! : needlez
• Sign language : retardhumper
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  If you want to learn something extremely useless, I'd recommend Icelandic! : nomaad
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    Or Esperanto! : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Don't forget Gazpacho soup is supposed to be served cold. : smdever
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  Chinese since they are probally gonna be the worlds next super power, and Asian girls are cute. : thedude
  • I agree. They are cute. : asylumn
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    Naw. The Chinese are too dependant on western economic powers. They may have a lot of people, but in 10... : i-heart-chi
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      they have nukes too : RikiTiki2
      • Yea, but if you're the new global power then everyone that has nukes has them directed at you. : i-heart-chi
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  Spanish, because it's the #2 spoken language in the US, and still growing. If you deal with the public... : ConfusedUs
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    Ppl speak cantonese where you live? : xphil
    • most chinese outside of China (including former/current/??? territories) speak cantonese. Hell, I went... : moe6
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  german. easy enough to be done independently. : Nighthavvk
  • How would I go about this independently? Pronounciation and such? I took 2 years of it in high school but... : Hello Kitty
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    <LOL> No need to learn German; Germans will automatically address you in English when they find out you ... : Experiment IV
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      Whut? : Hello Kitty
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        They want to practice their English on you as soon as they discover you're a native speaker. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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          My parents sent me to Quebec to an all french summer camp when I was 15 or so, for the sole purpose of br... : Chunks
          • That's how my exchange program to Germany went, except in German. My exchange mother didn't even know I s... : Deathlove
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  Easiest to learn is a language that you can be exposed to in person. : moe6
  • Truth. You do need some formal language classes (helps with culture, background, etc etc etc) but in the... : rosewood
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  Serious reply - If you want to learn a lot of languages, learn Spanish first. Once you have Spanish, : rosewood
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    Once you have Spanish, you can pick up Italian easily. That's bullshit. Might be true for Spanish -> P... : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Oh, what the hell would I know? Me and my BA in Spanish and my third language proficiency exam for my Ma... : rosewood
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  some thoughts with background east asia: do korean, its structure is very identical to japanese withou... : reverend~heresy
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    forgot something important. immersion. there's a website for penpals all around the world looking to brus... : reverend~heresy
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      so what happened to those tatoo girls? : xphil
      • taking time off sipping vodka? ;0 while listening to russian satelite radio i heard one of their songs. s... : reverend~heresy
    • ^^IAWTP. Immersion is VERY IMPORTANT. When I learned Korean on my own, I was limited to just a few onli... : Faluzure
• Definitely Spanish. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Icelandic, because it looks extremely awesome written, or French, because it sounds extremely awesome, sp... : aaarrrgh
• I am majoring in Russian at Uni, its familiar enough to not need a whole paradigm shift in the way you de... : MONGOLOID
• EBONICS !!!! Fo shizzle!!! : leiferick2000
• Klingon. And being online means you're already surrounded by native speakers (aka "nerds") so you're in a : Bold
• I can speak english and Italian - and Italian is very easy. :) : TastyWheat

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  oh my god what just happened here : Clay
  • The walls of your reality are crumbling down around you. Everything you know is wrong! : genjuro
• WHAT DID YOU DO WITH POLANSK?!! : r1cola
• OMG HIJACK! : slickdoody
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  http://byonabi.haru.gs/nko/data/jedi.jpg : drucifer
  • hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm : polansk
  • this picture is mad rooflecakes : Degenerate
  • Superb. : Entity
• i knew it was all a ruse! : cygnus
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  HELP!! Shack buddays! I saw other day on some site a PIC of saber from Star Wars the movie with hotness a... : mojoald
  • This post needs more love :) lol : whippy
  • hahaha... there we go. : iamgoat
  • that level of readability is far beyond polansk's usual posts. :) : rasputinreborn
• Babelfish has a Polansk translator now? : RatBastard
• impressive !! : qwpeoriu
• /head asplodes : twostar
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  EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG : electroly
  • Titor was right, things ARE really changing. : Amnesty_intl2
• rofl "this fine website establishment" sounds like something a bad loanshark would say. : Nighthavvk
• http://byonabi.haru.gs/nko/data/jedi.jpg : jayares
• ¿qué? : Ariakus
• Admit I'm gay >:( : dognose
• Boggle. I have seen everything. *ker-blammmo! : trove
• Does not compute!!! WTS ?!!! : ghost hacker
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  Damn it sexninja, stop feeding him lines. : Helter Skelter
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    sexninja not here.... : polansk
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      have you updated your site thingy : r1cola
      • not yet, have no time.... : polansk
    • Dude, you channel! You could be making megabucks on tour! : carrioN luggagE
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  * H E A D A S P L O D E * : cpt_gloval
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    dot com : rasputinreborn
    • that pretty much sums it up : cpt_gloval
    • HOLY SHIT http://headasplode.com/ : FrayLo
• THE END IS NIGH. MAKE HASTE : sikander
• I remember polansk doing this before. It is indeed scary. : WillingZombie
• r u 4 real? : acheron

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• Anyone? : fusionrx
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  HT is a bit of a gimmick; it takes advantage of the Netburst core's long pipeline. Once Intel starts pha... : the archvile
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    Didn't AMD manage to make HT for their chips in the end or no? : abrasion
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      no, because it would do nothing. Same reason Pentium Ms don't have it. HT is merely making up for the ins... : mojoald
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        Wasn't AMD's version HyperTransport? : Bantis
        • no...completely different stuff : TheTick
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          HyperTransport is their name for the connection between the CPU and the chipset. : the archvile
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            Ah, see I wasn't sure. I gave up on AMD after my Athlon 800 Tbird. Just so much shit to deal with back th... : Bantis
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              thats really sad :-( limiting yourself because of irrationality is no fun I buy what is best for me at... : TheTick
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                I'm not being irrational. A lot of my friends, myself, and a few members of my family all had trouble wit... : Bantis
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                  sorry. "my last amd was an 800 and I wont buy them" seems pretty irrational : TheTick
                  • I gave up on AMD after my Athlon 800 Tbird. Just so much shit to deal with back then; really funky incomp : Bantis
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                    "sorry. 'my last amd was an 800 and I wont buy them' seems pretty irrational'. ... "ati, nvidia, am... : okaria
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                      He got burnt by VIA or SIS. Not by AMD. I'm betting the CPU wasnt bad, it was the crap VIA or SIS chipset... : mojoald
                      • I agree there, and I tried to make that clear in my post. I have no doubt thats why I have had a lot of l... : Bantis
                      • Indeed. Intel has made shit chipsets in the past though. Someone who got one of those could easily dismis... : TheTick
                      • Right, that's what he said, and what I was agreeing with. :P : okaria
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                      I've been screwed by nearly every motherboard manufacturer, intel, amd, and most of the harddrive manufac... : TheTick
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                        I'm just going to stop talking, cause every time I admit the above case, you just turn it around. Have a ... : Bantis
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                          You too. Don't take what I say personally. I just don't understand is all. : TheTick
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                            Let me try and put it this way, cause maybe I just didn't explain this right. I gave up on AMD at that po... : Bantis
                            • i'm wioth you. i had bad athlon experiences and went to P4 with no problems. I would still buy an AMD sys... : lacker
                            • I didn't imply or say you were an idiot. Everyone is irrational about something or another. I don't consi... : TheTick
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        Wow - weird, I couldv'e sworn I saw taskmanager screenshots on AMD boxes with the 2 boxes representing th... : abrasion
        • AMD boxes wouldn't do that unless they're truly dual-core or dual cpu. : rasputinreborn
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  Nope. Intel doesnt currently make dual core Xenon chips. And when they do, you WON'T bet getting them in ... : mojoald
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    Need heavy math calc's on a single comp. Right now we throttle the CPU's of dual Xeon 3.2's with the 'mat... : fusionrx
    • Oh, well then, AMD will be releasing the X serise opertons soon. : mojoald
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  Just go dell and be ready to shell out serious cash. here is one example of a quad-capable line. http... : smacknca
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    doh sorry forgot about the dual-core stuff. : smacknca
    • You could go with quad xenon 3.33ghz with 8mb cache. I'd think a cache that large should make up some se... : smacknca
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  you're probably looking at opterons. But I believe they're either 1-way, 2-way or 8-way as far as dual-co... : rsustudent
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    The Opteron 800 Series Scales from 1 to 8 processors, why not go with a ThunderK8QSPro and 4 Opteron 86... : rsustudent
    • Yes for the lots of memory. NUMA. : StuMan1337
  • the Sun V40z comes with a dual-core 875 option: http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStor... : the archvile
• Why not go with an AMD system? Dual Core, Dual Processor Opteron system? : StuMan1337