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• I don't understand the con. What's the scam? : ezanga
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  Answer with "Hello Kevin. Thanks for calling Traveler Innovations. How can I help you?" : Prozium
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    then play the copy game and repeat everything he says. : Prozium
    • Hahaha I support this suggestion! : Chris Remo
    • And tape it! : Ebu
• Haha Don'chu be sassin' me boah! : yakz
• talk to him for a minute or two and then ask him what he's wearing. how tall he is, what he weighs and if... : edgewise
• "don't give them your credit card info" no shit. "hi this is some random person, credit card # plz"... : lakren
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  I keep getting them from 867-5309 asking for some stupid chick. : VegasX
  • haha, good one : Zyrrael
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    You get calls from Jenny? And she asks for a stupid chick? Whoa. Weird. : LeapingFool
    • No, not weird. HAWT. : Bold
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  This is fucked up. I've had calls from Florida (Tampa) on my call display as well and I don't know anyone... : Fred Garvin
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    i was just wanting to tell you that I <3 you, geez : Omning
    • Dude, one night stand means ONE NIGHT. I told you. : Fred Garvin
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    You guys really need phone networks which DON'T charge you for RECEIVED calls - insanity. : abrasion
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      What are you talking about? I don't pay for calls I recieve. : Fred Garvin
      • I thought that's why you were pissed. : abrasion
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  My wife's cell gets calls ALL DAY LONG from some number. We can't figure out what it is, and when you cal... : DKo5
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    have cingular change her # : bosst0ne
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      Which also sucks. Why won't they block numbers anymore? : Ebu
      • Phone companys don't do shit. Police don't do shit. Courts don't do shit. Unless you are royally fucke... : Chod
• Okay, I've got an idea in mind how the conversation will go. Hopefully he'll call back tonight. I'll : notd665
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  crazy. I just got a pyramid scheme in the mail. I gotta firgure out how they got my address. They also gi : twostar
  • Doesn't your spam blocker stop those from getting to your Inbox? j/k : 69shots
  • I have colour printouts of hello.jpg I mail back to companies if they include prepaid self-addressed enve... : TwiLyght
  • Send shit COD : ezkilla2
• Notd: I have recieved many calls from this number. The first few times I tried to answer it, I was hu : discord023

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  Make sure you know exactly what the requirements are if you have to break the lease. As well as their po... : Matto357
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    Make sure your neighbors isnt a meth freak who listens to deathmetal and wrenches all night. : Lightzout
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      I found out last night that my neighbor has a rock climbing wall built inside her apartment! : not work safe
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        is she hot? : Matto357
        • I don't remember. I just met her last night when I was getting the keys for my new place. Shes french, I ... : not work safe
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  When you move in, take pictures of every square inch of the apartment. You don't want them charging you : electroly
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    A better trick is to save the newspaper from the day you moved in, then put it in the pictures you take o... : gndagger
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      At my current place they had me fill out a form listing all the damage when I moved in. I listed a bunch : electroly
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        thats not very honest! : -meeks-
        • lol. okay, I didn't really, but I thought about it. :) : electroly
      • this is how it's been at the two different apartments I've had, including the current one. Both were run... : DinK
• check to make sure you have good water pressure. hardwood floors > carpet. ask about party and noise po... : wvuong
• Location, clean, check water pressure. Utilities included? Ask the landlord all sorts of questions about ... : ghost hacker
• go there in the evening and scope out the parking. some complexes will completely fuck you on the parking... : wtf242
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  Great suggestions. Thanks guys : wunderbred
  • Ask if there have been any breakins lately or why the space is open (why they left). : not work safe
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  Do a sex offender check in the area before you move in! : romulan
  • that way you don't skew the results : mrtony
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  Before cooking: do you have a can opener, salt, lighter for the gas stove and at least two pots. Cooking... : woddemandred
  • I went quite a few months without those things. Horrible :) : Optimus Prime
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  check the water pressure in the shower. : p4ck3tloss
  • Before and after flushing the toilet. : romulan
• Ask how many kids live in the complex. Come by on a friday night and check the noise level. Come by mid... : Omning
• Renter's insurance. No excuses. : festivalman
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  Too many things to go over in terms of 'noise' issues. Like living next to an elevator, being a resident... : Optimus Prime
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    Lol.. muther fuckers cuttin the grass makin the place look all nice an shit. Avoid nicely landscaped ap... : romulan
    • It's not that, they pick the LOUDEST machinery to do the job for small areas around the building & parkin... : Optimus Prime
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  Dont move in with sexninja :/ : bigginsmicginty
  • we agreed on man rape as payment for rent WELL IN ADVANCE : sexninja!!!!

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  x2 or x3? : -efx-
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    X2. With the combination of severe underemployment and the death of my 6800 GT, I've sworn off new games... : Caboose
    • I;ve been sucked into X3 for the past few weeks or so... One thing to learn is how to capture ships so... : soulr
• I tried playing it about a year ago, but the combat was just impossibly hard on the slow machine I had to... : Code RedBeard

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  I'm writing a script (python) that will maintain statistics of events generated by running simulations. I : BulletPro
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    You could probably keep the data in an XML file and then just apply stylesheet elements to it to format i... : Schnapple
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      That sounds like an awesome idea... thanks for the pointer. Perhaps something like: <?xml version="1. : BulletPro
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        yeah. I've not done it with tables but it is a pretty spiffy notion. : Schnapple
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          How would you approach it? : BulletPro
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            I'd learn more about style sheets :) : Schnapple
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              >:( : BulletPro
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                Sorry, just that I don't completely know how to do it, just that it's possible :) : Schnapple
                • UPDATE: Currently rocking XML using XSL style sheets. : BulletPro
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    http://sqlobject.org/ makes storing stuff in a database very simple if you want to try going that way. : vigilante
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      Only problem is I'd have to get a database instance created somewhere on the network, and then I'd need t... : BulletPro
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        Can you define what your overall goal is more clearly? Who is going to need to be able to read the raw d... : Arcanum
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          1) Script it run (cron or manually), opening statistics history file. 2) Script submits hundreds of jobs... : BulletPro
          • Hmm. In that case, you might take a look at Hsqldb. It's a Java-based relational database engine with s... : Arcanum
      • SQLite looks promising... all DBs are files on disk, not server processes in memory on some I/S supported... : BulletPro
  • if you're using python, you should take a look at pickle, creating a file out of an object - pretty handy... : Sabaki

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• you aint alone my friend. gag : porp
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  I dunno, I really like a lot of U2 songs. Of course I'm pretty meh about most of the rest. It's not lik... : SenorSpine
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    But do you consider them a cultural icon? : freqq28
    • It's like Madonna. There's just a big batch of very vocal/powerful fans in the music industry that think ... : SenorSpine
• I don't get how they're still around. Boy -> Joshua Tree are all awesome. Rattle and Hum has some... : ThomW
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  Opinion Time: I think their older stuff, like War, their self-titled album, that era of U2 was great stu... : pres589
  • yeah i liked some of their early stuff .. New Year's Day is a great song .. but i can't stand anything be... : Mansmells
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  I've never liked U2 whatsoeve. I liked Vertigo for a couple listens, but after three or four, it just sta... : mittense
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    UNO DOS TRES QUATTORZE : Postal
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      you fail burrito spelling class. : porp
      • so did Bono. : algernoN8
• Bono was a pioneer of the mullet back in the day. : DingoStoleMyBaby
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  Yeah. ONE TWO THREE FOURTEEN. We're too simple to understand Bono's depth. : mittense
  • That was to Postal's. Fuckcockmisreplyshit. : mittense
  • And I cringe when I hear that. Does he think he's saying four? Or is there some secret meaning to 14? : freqq28
• They 'used' to be really awesome back in the 80's, and very early 90's. : red2lucas
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  they were kind of marginal until the Joshua tree, which was amazing... then it was pretty much mediocre a... : steelsamurai
  • REM got mediocre with Green? A lot of people consider it to be their best album. : slax0r
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    Boy is one of the best debut albums of any rock album, period. I listen to it and still can't believe tha... : Serpico74
    • rock band, not album : Serpico74
• I love U2, have since high school, but I have a soft spot for the 70s and 80s (Bowie, The Cure, Blondie).... : Serpico74
• you too? lolomgroflpops : Gaurav Sharma

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  Shure E2c Sony MDR-EX71SL / MDR-EX81LP Etymotic ER-4S : Kentor
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    no more earbuds!! : mr brown
    • Hmmm... I don't really have any suggestions then. I pretty much only use earbuds and large supraural he... : Kentor
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    The Etys are WAY out of his price range... Since I own a pair, though, I'll note that the noise reductio... : Zero|DPX
    • That's why there were 3 suggestions. The Sony MDR-EX7/8 series is in his suggested price range with the ... : Kentor
• So you want something fairly cheap that will block/reduce noise and is not very large? That's a tough ... : Zero|DPX
• i read on an audiophile site a week or so ago that koss ksc75 are the best bang for the buck. http://w... : pupismyname
• Sennheiser PX range. EOT. : Gaurav Sharma

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• Happy Bday old man! : omnova
• I was gonna insult you, but happy birthday! : askedrelic
• Jesus Discombobulated Christ, I thought you were in your early twenties! Happy Older man than me day! : quietb0y
• Happy Birthday, Old Timer! : johnny skidmarks
• Go out and get laid! : AlexXdude
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11260346 : filtersweep
• Holy shit! Happy Birthday, man, we should blow out someone's BF2 candles later tonight to celebrate! : carrioN luggagE
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  HOW ARE YOU EVEN TYPING : c0bra
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    P.S. Happy Birthday :D : c0bra
    • Grampa Simpon voice: "I'M GONNA THROW MY WALKER AT YOUSE!!" : Maddog_Delphi97
• Happy birthday you 36 year old virgin! Go out and have fun! : shred.
• I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE : DonkeyPopsicle
• Happy Birthday you fun loving monkey!!! : midgetherder
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  OMG its my birthday too. We should go get some blow and whores together. : slicerd
  • Yeah!! :D : Maddog_Delphi97
• Haaaarppy birthday!! :D : mikecyb
• happy birthday, man! : Fredrik S
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  Happy Birthday Maddog! Check your shackmessages. : UtilityMaximizer
  • :D : Maddog_Delphi97
• Happy B-Day Maddog! : rasputinreborn
• 2006: Xbox turns 360, Maddog turns 36 im sad : Gaurav Sharma
• Great! We're the same fucking age. Nice going dipshit! ;) : Frosty3D
• happy birthday man! : Unleashed
• HAPPY BDAY MADDAWG!! im 20 in 3 hours. or about 9 hours, to be more accurate. : feek
• Happy birthday! Old-schoolers represent :D (I'm 37, ugh) : freezejeans
• Happy birthday, youngster! : Thresher
• Happy B-day, go get drunk >:) : Mr.SEX
• Happy birthday! Grandpa, tell us about ELVIS!!! : Deathlove

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• they did in Euro...it was cool. : graceofdragons
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  ID like to see godzilla perform live : rosewood
  • Mothra FTW!!! : broly1718
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  they did the whole cartoon thing on the grammys >:( : creep
  • That cartoon thing is them, they're a virtual band : red2lucas
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    Wait they already preformed????? : fry975
    • they opened the show : creep
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    Isnt it just 1 person? : broly1718
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      No it's two, one of the dude's is from blur I don't remeber where the other is from. : fry975
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        automator on the first album and danger mouse on the second. : pyide
        • + a cartoonist : pupismyname
      • I thought there was one or two others on the first album (at least fro a couple songs). : algernoN8
• i still love that feel good song : esmokah
• shackmessaged : jugglinmike
• THEY ARE ON THE GRAMMYS! TONIGHT!!!! they just showed that DelaSoul would be performing and showed a c... : byorn
• i'd like to see them perform dead : porp
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  the gorrillaz are terrible. my music is better than theirs. : mr.sleepy
  • lol. lol... aah. : Gaurav Sharma
  • lol, you're so funny : byorn
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  I always wanted to see nibblez live myself. : AcesnEights
  • meh, that show is so basic. : EqualsP
• back when del the funky one was with them yes, but not now. :( : virus

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  Hello, hellooooo!!!!!! : Patch-e
  • Hola! : virus
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  the video is cool though because a shacker was the dir. of photography : sigpro
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    Serpico74 FTW! \m/ \m/ I still hate U2. : Super Sparker
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      I like them upto Achtung Baby : sigpro
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        There are a number of musicians that have good old stuff, while they were poor and angsty. But after hitt... : Code RedBeard
        • no doubt gwen steffani. : thekidd
      • I think Zooropa and Pop are really underrated albums. : Serpico74
• hooray for paul mc doing helter skelter \m/ : creep

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  Nothin like some big black ass amirite? : deeveee
  • I LOLed : Zero|DPX
• lololol : Maddog_Delphi97

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• I'll drink to that, bitches. : Dante
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  I'll chime in with Degenerate check your SM yuo dirty hillbilly : sigpro
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    we already saw his S&M pic :[ : drucifer
    • well if the fucker wants to goto seattle with me on sat. he better check him shackmessages : sigpro

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• That's pretty fucking hardcore. : Chris Remo
• that's the best news item I've read in a long time : Supine
• Thats the perfect island to take over with an armed force. : Chod
• imagine if they'd brought guns! that would have been a mess : Postal
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  Wow... that is pure radge. They shot arrows at the helicopter?!? It's beyond hardcore. : carrioN luggagE
  • Kinda like Civ. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050104/050104_tribe_hlg_1p.hlarge.... : steelsamurai
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  sorry but fucking lol. - man i wish we could study these people : abrasion
  • As soon as we studyied them they would probably die off or be corupted by our evil ways within months. : deeveee
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    we already have. an anthropologist by the name of Pandit studied there many times from 1967 to 1989. ... : electroly
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      How did he survive if they totally aren't down with humanity? : abrasion
      • He probably took the finer Western approach, and brought whiskey and glas beads or something. : carrioN luggagE
• I see a movie based on this being made as we post. : eskimo spy
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  I would suggest a direct assault with tanks but if Civ4 has taught me anything, there heavily fortified a... : graceofdragons
  • It managed to ward off the helicopter, so no doubt tanks would be heavily raped. : deKaf
• lol they can't even make fire yet. I bet they would still be better at doing IT work than some of the pe... : abrasion
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  Obviously, we need to leave a book on organized crime of the 1920s with the tribe and come back in a hund... : algernoN8
  • How about a game of fizzbin? : Chod

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  delete all the songs in there and re-drag them in again. : red2lucas
  • ah HA. very good, thanks! however, it definitely nuked my playlists. oops. the g/f is going to be a l... : h4wk
• Delete the XML in the itunes folder. Re add. : freshyk

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• lol they also mention "shuga shack" in this song : Mr.SEX
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  this is it .. WHAT? luchini fallin from the sky... : Mansmells
  • or was it pourin from the sky? it's been a long time since i heard it : Mansmells
  • love that song : Toxy
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    yeah this is what i'm listening to, it's got a fantastic beat to it : Mr.SEX
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      yeah that's a good song .. they were a definite one hit wonder. they totally nailed that one hit though : Mansmells
      • That's unfortunate, i was hoping for more stuff like this : Mr.SEX
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        you know they had 2 albums since then and they were both splendid albums : creep
        • really? i only remember one follow up from a few years back and i didn't like it : Mansmells

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• iBook'd : Tawler
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  Personally I think I like my red one better Other than a the lite prolly being a little smaller how di... : godm0de
  • Actually, if they did the same style, but in a red or black shell, I'd consider replacing my bulky DS. : algernoN8
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    If you think the screen on a DS looks good you obviously haven't seen a PSP. And the screen on the lite h... : red2lucas
    • the PSP screen is too dim :( : orgcaptainnemo
• Your pussy lips reposting skills are loose though : rasputinreborn
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  I'm pretty sure this is Nintendo simply just making it look better and appeal to the iPod crowd just like... : manlyman
  • it's smaller and has manual backlight control. probably worth it for some people! : Postal
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    If they did anything additional to it other than looks (and size/weight), it would mean anyone who bought : jake2000
    • One of the main reasons I held off buying a DS was that it's way to big. That and I knew they'd revise it... : red2lucas

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  There was a "none" option for the first disk before? I've never heard of using Photoshop without a scratc... : jake2000
  • Oh, nevermind, then. It's just that my computer is acting weird after every few strokes. I thought it mig... : robingchyo
• Startup for your first and E for your second. third and fourth usually don't matter. : Frosty3D

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• books: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11574333 : sikander
• PSP? : RikiTiki2
• Help!! I'm not interested in a PSP. =( : brickmatt
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  Do you have Psychonauts? : cookblaze
  • I rented it. It was fun until the last level. The meat circus was horrible so I returned it. : brickmatt
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  If you haven't read any William Gibson do it. At least get Neromancer its my favorite book ever. Also C... : slicerd
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    I liked neuromancer, I can look up the other books. Thanks! : brickmatt
    • NP If you like those there is also another trilogy he wrote called the bridge trillogy. I didn't even... : slicerd
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  RE: Waterfalls. Don't go chasing them. : slax0r
  • Ahh, good to know. Thx. : brickmatt
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  Yeah, I am thinking WoW. : bargeld
  • You're the goddamn devil, sir. : brickmatt
• Got friends? Super Mario Strikers freakin' rocks. : crummynz

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  http://thomwetzel.com/greasemonkey/0-6-0/shackcollapsebutton.user.js : ThomW
  • bug: click on one of the child posts and then click on the root post again. collapse button disappears : moonbreaker
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  http://www.thomwetzel.com/greasemonkey/0-6-0/ : cryptical
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    I win! : ThomW
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      haha, I just tried the haiku_just_barfed script.. awesome! : cryptical
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        Here are a couple more "winners" http://thomwetzel.com/greasemonkey/rainbow/rainbows.user.js http://t... : ThomW
        • heh. I like the stars one for the shack, but only when it's not animated. : cryptical

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• lol, wtf? : nyranger66
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  obligatory "horns mounted on the front to add that special Honky Tonky Badonkadonk feel" post : ironmullet
  • superb!!! : ihya
• I want one. : rasputinreborn
• Is jabba in there? : judasen
• I wonder if could get a bank loan for this? : TheArtMan
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  They were actually driving one of those on Wild Boys on MTV2 one day. I had no idea it was real. : m0nkz
  • yah, it's actually really small. like size-of-a-golfcart small. : eskimo spy
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    http://www.naodesign.net/products.htm : m0nkz
    • Woah, they make some awesomely cool junk! :) : rasputinreborn
• hahaha awesome : virus
• oh yea i saw a show on the discovery channel that featured that thing : Patch-e

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  no one is totally sure. basically natives to the island. or people who were there before the plane crash : feek
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    From what I have watched so far (last weeks episode and the first two season one discs) it seems like a l... : Patch-e
    • yes, the people found are from the other part of the plane. not "the others". although, there could be pl : feek
• ITS ON!!!!!!! WEEEEEEEEE hopefully it doesn't suck balls like the last new episod : infiltrator`

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  My. That is a puny katamari. Much too small to be a star. Why not try again prince. : Prozium
  • i like this answer : Mr.SEX
• from Dues Ex? : sucko
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  Either from a museum in Dublin, or the Vatican : loboca
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    Oops, not a museum in Dublin, I think it was Trinity college. And the Vatican has a copy in one of it's... : loboca
    • There it is :) http://www.johnsodacrackers.com/Trinity%20college%20%20collage.jpg But it's not the ... : SlamDunk
• Crystal Castles 2 : rasputinreborn

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  try rightclicking the installer and running it in compatibility mode for 2000 or 98 : Draugluin
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    It worked! Hell yes! I will post screenies of this hot goodness later on tonight if all goes as planned ;... : Athlon7
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      i'm happy just because i know the answer to this question lol : Kn4w
      • And it is sad that I didn't :-P Switching compatibility modes has never helped in the past, though I have... : Athlon7

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• Be nice if Prey would. : Frosty3D

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  switch the monitor source to DVI? : maulla
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    Click on the source button, it shows analog and the desktop, then digital and nothing. It's entirely poss... : mmogger
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      dumb question but you did disconnect your VGA cable, right? : electroly
      • Yup, I did, and I'm stupid. I missed the setting in the GeForce drivers to set it to 'monitor 2'. I looke... : mmogger

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• yes, no, no, yes and only on thursdays. : hirez
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  1.) Weber's theory predicts that an industry that uses multiple pure resources will be market oriented. ... : manlyman
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    are these questions or homework : mr brown
    • questions on a practice exam for my exam tomorrow, finished all 100 questions buts these 2 and they are p... : manlyman