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  my dad... I don't actually know too many cb people, is it common? : land
  • I don't know, but I have some colorblindness. It can really suck in puzzle video games where it's import... : Chris Remo
• my Mom says CB peeps are hated by god. : drucifer
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  That'd be pretty cool to get if it said something clever instead. : DinK
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    WHAT DOES IT SAY I HATE YOU : BenMurphy
    • You can cheat and be color-enabled on the intarweb. Right click -> copy image. Open Paint, paste, inver... : DinK
    • looks like 'fuck the color blind'? : GeorgeB3DR
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  i am very color blind. red-green-brown-blue-purple wtf : wtf242
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    Does that cause any problems with your photography? : Nixx2004
    • yeah a lot : wtf242
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  I can't see what's supposed to be there. Last time I was at the optometrist to get glasses, she ran a fe... : AlexXdude
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    WTF? So what are you? : Nixx2004
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      Not colorblind, thankfully, I just can't see the pattern, but I see all the colors and identify them just... : AlexXdude
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        i think its called illiterate : Morgin
        • ^^i loled hard : SockMonkeh
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    What colors do you see in the picture then? If you can see all the colors than it should be impossible n... : trite
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      Yeah, what the hell. If you can't read it then the only other possible conditions are "dumb" and "illite... : JINKY
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        Yea, not quite. Mixed colours in a disjointed pattern is completely different than a simple solid-col... : Ebu
        • Well the point is to seperate the form of the letters from their color. So that you can test for being c... : trove
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          Well if he can see that there's red inside the green but can't read the words, I guess that's understanda... : JINKY
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            I can see the red and the green, I see all the colors, I just dont see what they form :( : AlexXdude
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              Yep, same here. : Chris Remo
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                phew, thank god im not the only one, I was I was insane :( : AlexXdude
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                  I thought I was insane.* damnit, there goes the neighborhood : AlexXdude
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                    You guys are probably seeing some of the red color and not seeing the lighter or darker circles. : trove
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                      http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html Try the test on the bottom. : trove
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                        Yep, I failed it as expected. : Chris Remo
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                          Failed as well. :( : AlexXdude
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                            So you saw the two? Perhaps the image from the t-shirt is flawed in some way then. : trove
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                              Maybe they lack some minor pattern recognition skill that they never needed and/or developed years ago. : DinK
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                                Nope. It doesn't just happen with patterns like this. In a video game, I'll frequently have trouble dif... : Chris Remo
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                                  Can you (or Alex) see this inverted one? http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/9003/cblind0fg.png or e... : DinK
                                  • I can sort of see the inverted one, but also I downloaded the picture earlier and messed with the colors,... : Chris Remo
                                  • Firefox can't find the server at img457.imageshack.us. I fail already! :P : AlexXdude
                                  • Hmm, links work now. I can kinda see the text now in both versions, a hell of alot better than before an... : AlexXdude
                                • hmm, I've never really had problems with differentiating to the extent that you seem to have Chris. This... : AlexXdude
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                                  Huh, that's interesting. I wonder if there's a market for color-blind QA. : sgtsanity
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                                    Well there certainly isn't any being done, or they suck at it! : Chris Remo
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                                      There might be some sort of "quick fix" like a post-processing filter they could use to shift/stretch/com... : sgtsanity
                                      • Yeah it's totally understandable with most games. Where I have a big problem with it is in games like Bu... : Chris Remo
                              • No, they're color blind. : freqq28
                      • I failed. :( : freshyk
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                        better one http://colorvisiontesting.com/what%20colorblind%20people%20see.htm : Ebu
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                          Can any colorblind shackers confirm that the "normal" actually looks (to them) like the adjusted pictures... : DinK
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                            they look pretty much all the same to me :\ : AlexXdude
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                              Even the world maps at the top? If so, that sucks big time. The middle two look almost monochrome next ... : DinK
                              • no, not the maps at the top, but the circles with the smaller circles inside, they pretty much all look a... : AlexXdude
                        • good lord, that SUCKS! glad im not colorblind : osiris_brad
                      • I see the 5 AND the 2 :) : sharkII
• I can't read it. : freshyk
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  i'm surprised so many people can't read it.. appears pretty clear to me. : lakren
  • It's somewhere around 10% IIRC. Higher among males. : trove
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  Most Shackers are color blind and afraid of spiders, apparently : Serpico74
  • SPIDERS!?!?!?! WHERE??!?!?! : trOmblyj
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    imagine if spiders were hidden within those colors, and the shackers couldn't make them out? holy crap : lakren
    • That would be awesome. Spiders in the same colors that a colorblind person can't see, I love it. : Serpico74
• I can read it just fine. Funny. : lightly inclined
• maybe most of your monitors just suck and don't have adequate contrast/color calibration/whatever : ttyRazor
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  who is "puck, the colorblind" o rly? : beastrabban
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    No, it's "Fuck the Color Bund" apparently a nazi reference. : trove
    • illinois Nazis? I hate Illinois Nazis.. : beastrabban
• I can read it... and it's kind of mean :(. amazingly I actually find most of their shirts funny, they' : Amnesty_intl2
• these have always been hella easy for me :( dont see the problem : moe6
• I had to enlarge it but I could read it. I know I have some color deficiency, though. I fucking hate : omnova
• haha, ok. this made me laugh. : Colleton
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  All this makes me wonder: color blind artists? What would their paintings end up looking like? Colors the... : kelerian
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    There probably wouldn't be a significant difference. It's hard to explain, but it doesn't really work th... : Chris Remo
    • Ah that's true, guess they'd be picking colors from every day experience, so all ends up being the same a... : kelerian
    • I'm not so sure. I do quite a bit of graphic design, and my boss is fairly colorblind. He once told me... : Conan
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    As a kid I ended up drawing quite a few purple skies :( The funny thing was, Crayola was pretty awesom... : crummynz
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      haha thats true, color names got insane, I wouldnt guess what half of them ment. The purple sky thing was... : kelerian
      • Especially with dumb teachers who either don't know or don't care to accomodate it. The colorblind an... : Ebu
  • I have a colorblind friend who is a professional lighting designer. You wouldn't be able to tell because... : slax0r
• Me neither :( I can see where the words are tho... just can't make them out. : crummynz
• I can't :( : dopeman
• I agree with the shirt. As a graphic designer, you guys are a pain. : Conan
• I CAN READ IT! woop : shackwack
• bwahahahahahaha : sKetchflow
• haha, brilliant! My father and both my brothers are colour blind, so my mom and I can have a laugh : moshman
• oh that's not cool at all :( : Clay
• Haha. I can read it just fine. It's kind of nuts how many of you guys can't read it. Weird. : takito92985
• If I couldn't read it I'd be a sad puppy. I can read it and it makes me a sad puppy. Lose-lose. : jrock

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• wow, congrats man. : busdriver3030
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  i'm going to call you everytime one of my extensions breaks : kbnerd
  • hahaha, me too : jugglinmike
  • I'd be like, "screw off, I don't work on those" : Zero|DPX
• Wow, that sounds like a sweet gig. : freshyk
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  Do you know what areas of the code you'd be working on, like Cairo-rendering for example? : sgtsanity
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    Doesn't he do support for google? not development? : thecray
    • yes, virus works at the help desk : kbnerd
  • Obviously I can't say details oh : sgtsanity
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    No, that's my job, but he's welcome to help! : vvuk
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      Actually Vlad, I may in fact try and take you up on that. I'm quite interested in that whole area. We'l... : Zero|DPX
      • Hot damn, got a live un' ;) Sadly, I think the Google team has their hands full with other stuff, but mo... : vvuk
• i need to move to CA : mr brown
• WOW, really cool! : TroZ
• I wonder if you will be working close to Virus... he's a shacker who also just started working at Google. : Maddog_Delphi97
• Congrats! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• omg hot! : askedrelic
• Wnowing what we do about google, is your current work condition that much better? Why wouldn't you accept... : boomstickah
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  Awesome! We can go to the DM concert happening in Mountain View this April. :D : mofo
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    Depeche Mode? Dave Matthews? Dumb Mofos? ...? : Zero|DPX
    • Its mofo, so its Depeche Mode without a doubt. : rasputinreborn
• No more green hills, huh! : crummynz
• sucky time to get your options set. : BulletPro
• Congrats dude. :) : omnova
• OH SHIT THIS IS AWESOME DUDE. Fucking Congratulations!!! Although this could mean no more SB shackmee... : rasputinreborn
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  wow that's pretty amazing. i didn't realize google works on firefox, though... weird. : feek
  • Its a great ace-in-the-hole considering MS owns MSN search and controls IE development. Not that they wo... : rasputinreborn
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    I believe Firefox's lead developer Ben Goodger is employed by Google. http://www.internetnews.com/dev... : lordmedikit
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      Who is the 13 or 16 year old kid that was working on firefox? : stgdz
      • Blake Ross http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Ross : sgtsanity
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      Yeah I just don't see why google would care to work on firefox, unless they're using it to fight MS or so... : feek
      • .......... : rasputinreborn
      • why re-invent the wheel? We don't need 18 different web browsers like we have with IM clients. It's easie... : armybob
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        I got a good answer as to why they're actually putting resources bwehind Firefox, and I think it makes se... : Zero|DPX
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          Yes, best that you not get * S K O L D ' D * before you even take the job... :P : rasputinreborn
          • *groan* : sgtsanity
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            despite the humor its prob best not to bring that up. the guy must be pretty hurt about the situation a... : Gaurav Sharma
            • Ahahaha... are you asking the internet/shack to actually show some sensitivity? : carnivore
            • We have no compassion for the banned. : zakk
    • Yes, Ben Goodger is employed there, and my recruiter is actually his fiancee :) I'm not sure whether I... : Zero|DPX
• Awesome! Congrats! : thejm4n
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  build shackcommentscollapse into firefox plz : CoRDS
  • whats wrong with greasemonkey? : cryptical
• Holy crap man! I'm so excited for you! Seriously that would be such a great move for you and the wife. Yo... : angrytaxman
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  that's really cool man. congratulations. see if they have any openings for java code monkeys for me :D : Clay
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    Actually they said for the Firefox team part of the problem was that all the applicants were Java people.... : Zero|DPX
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      I'd be interested to know what your background is, I imagine it's pretty impressive if you can bypass the... : -Panther-
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        "bypass their IQ tests"? Well I did have an initial phone screen and then a day of on-site interviews be... : Zero|DPX
        • pretty impressive, oh and the IQ test comment was just my (mistaken I guess) impression that they did the... : -Panther-
• well done and congrats! : Gaurav Sharma
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  congrats on getting into the evil empire : lord cecil
  • That "thermal exhaust duct" bug is serious business. : sgtsanity
• Congrats man! : loboca
• grats! : nico2
• FUCKING WORD. shackmessage me details - i want to know what and where you're going to be :) : virus
• I want a job there >:( I can bake stuff. Also, I'm good with stereo equipment. Congrats tho : khaosman
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  Welcome to the (Firefox) team. Mike : shvmoz
  • Thanks! Assuming I accept, I'm looking forward to meeting (in person or virtually) the rest of you guys ... : Zero|DPX
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  excellent. soon all shackers will work for Taco Bell Google : hirez
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    let's accumulate in google labs and launch Google NWS : Gaurav Sharma
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      HUUUH. this is the best idea ever. Lets do it to it. : ki11_viru5
      • dudes, http://nws.google.com if only, amirite? : timmie
  • I'm an english major so I could, um, mop the floors there. : slax0r
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    I'm probably going to apply for internship's there this summer! : askedrelic
    • I don't think I even meet their internship requirements yet. :/ : omnova
  • i applied for an associate level thing. in a couple years, when it's time to move on up in the world, i'l... : dahanese
• http://stoofoo.topoftheslide.net/chatty.x?id=1161766 : Luminair
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  for all the fanboys, from someone who turned the offer down, working at google is overrrated. : ra1n
  • I'd be honestly interested to know why, if you're able to share more either publicly or privately. : Zero|DPX
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    if you turned the offer down, how the fuck do you pretend to know what its like to be here? i just got... : virus
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      Honestly, after reading all of your posts about how awesome your job is at google, I really must have to ... : dopeman
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        Actually this is part of why I'm unsure -- Google is a great job as far as the "job" part of it goes, but... : Zero|DPX
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          Well, the way I see it is that programming is programming. Solving problems with all the added benefits ... : dopeman
          • Even challenging problems can be boring. Some people just have preferences in what types of things they a... : zakk
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            eh programming isn't programming. I mean, at its core I suppose it is, but I'd rather work on higher-lev... : mikecyb
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              Yeah, I agree that not all programming is created equal. This isn't just what's being done either, but... : Zero|DPX
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                Yeah, this is a great summation of the issues that face a lot of people when considering a job switch to ... : maddy
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                  To be fair, I really think it has nothing to do with Google's size, or even Google at all. I think Firef... : Zero|DPX
                  • Well, I think the nature of development is definitely different for something like Firefox and most other... : maddy
  • yeah, seriously if you turned it down how do you know what its like to work there?? : rasputinreborn
• congrats! and best luck : MikkleThePickle
• P.S. very nice TM:N track. : crummynz
• That would be some awesome work. : filtersweep
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  Mountain View is awesome, except for the rents and the places to rent and the traffic and everyone diving... : dognose
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    Is there some place that's cheaper that has a non-sucky commute? The rents in Mountain View are, if anyt... : Zero|DPX
    • Check Sunnyvale or Santa Clara. The rents are slightly lower, although there are no "nice" places there ... : dognose
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      Also I know an awesome Property Manager who can hook you up if you need, just lemme know what you are loo... : dognose
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        I have a 60 lb. dog (doesn't shed much, well-trained) and a cockatiel, plus some finches (which stay in t... : Zero|DPX
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          I know an area in Sunnyvale that has houses with yards in that price range, I can check for "for rent" si... : dognose
          • The hot tub's not necessary. The Sunnyvale possibility sounds interesting, if you happen to find anythin... : Zero|DPX
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    I ate Sushi in Mountain View for the first time. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      Dude you have been EVERYWHERE. And why didn't you look me up? And at which place did you consume said s... : dognose
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        Because it was in 1998 and you were busy playing Duke and I did not know the Shack at that time. >:( : Mad Brahmin Disease
        • Oh and I don't remember what the place was called. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    One day, we'll meet and eat sushi at that place in Mountain View. : brickmatt
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      Now that I have the map in front of me, I think the Sushi place was in Sunnyvile. The Asian guy who took ... : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • Sunnyvale, I mean. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        It probably is. It's in the little mini-mall-esque place in downtown Sunnyvale, right? There's a mexica... : brickmatt
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          Perhaps that's it, like I've said, that was 8 years ago. I don't remember it being in something like a ma... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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            It's like an outdoor mall of shops and restaurants. I'm thinking of Sushi Maru. : brickmatt
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              It was downtown, so you're probably right. However, it was awesome. : Mad Brahmin Disease
              • Yes. Much love. : brickmatt
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              In 1998, Sushi Maru ("Hanamaru") was a Chinese restaurant called Jade Garden :( : dognose
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                Damn it, where was that then? It was on our way from Palo Alto to San Jose and I'm pretty sure it was eit... : Mad Brahmin Disease
                • Was it good? That will help. That place brickmatt referenced is awesome; his praise is well-deserved, b... : dognose
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    majorly agreed, MV and sunnyvale and cupertino have some of the best chinese food on the west coast, save... : FenrisL0ki
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      Heh I tried stinky tofu at an excellent little place on Castro in MV called Queen's House (awesome)... ne... : dognose
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        nah used to be at stanford a few years ago, spent a few years in SF but now in Providence RI of all place... : FenrisL0ki
        • Yeah that's one reason I am hesitant to move. : dognose
• say hello to tons of millionaires. All you need is 2500 shares which I'm sure most people at least have. ... : peter
• awesome dude.. good luck! : Shadowdane