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  Also, this should be something I can hopefully setup via a Putty connection. I'd prefer to not have to ho... : gijoehosaphat
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    you want a cron job, to excecute a script which checks and then runs. a cron job is ran every so often, d... : Geordish
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      Ok, cron I can deal with, do you know how to make the script? : gijoehosaphat
      • Pseudocode: RUNNING=`ps -A | grep mythtvprocess | wc -l` if RUNNING == 0 run mythtv endif I can't ... : protozone
• Any idea why MythTV is crashing? : amankhan
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  Talk about a bandaid... why not figure out why mythtv is crashing? : batkiwi
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  This should be close. It isn't tested, but it comes from another well-known check script. Wuffie points : yonderboy
  • Yeah. That last cat should be echo. : yonderboy

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• Taken from Scott Gu's blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/441074.aspx : r3ckless
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  that's probably a bad example considering half the time i try to go to myspace it's down. It's easily one... : wtf242
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    by far. that website sucks so hard : Mr.SEX
    • So you'd say it's a lot like you then? : Chod
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    It's a bad example because of your personal experience, i.e. data from one person? No. : Experiment IV
    • make that 2 people. what a crappy site : ermac
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      myspace is notorious for being a slow piece of shit : Mansmells
      • as a user, it's rather difficult the pinpoint the exact cause of a website being slow. It could be any nu... : Holesinswiss
    • Myspace has about 50% uptime. Most unreliable major site on the net by far. : godwit
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      MySpace is slow as a mother fucker. : Audhuml4
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        well just look when you click on a link or something. you have to connect to a dozen ad and content serv... : esmokah
        • regardless of the reasons, it's a bad example to use for efficiency : ermac
    • Some part of myspace is always down or broken every time I visit. : Dante
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      yeah myspace is painful to use, on older systems it's not even usable. : cucumber1972
      • its mostly a pain b/c people put videos in their profiles : mr brown
• MSN and Hotmail run IIS!? Shocking!! : mikecyb
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  Handling that many users and switching from Cold Fusion to almost ANY other language would decrease the C... : gijoehosaphat
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    spin it any way you want, it's solid proof that IIS/ASP.NET is a viable platform for high-volume sites. : Holesinswiss
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      Oh I'm not bashing IIS/ASP at all, I'm more bashing the Myspace idiots for choosing to go with Cold Fusio... : gijoehosaphat
      • ah, understood. Pardon the testiness on my part then. :-) : Holesinswiss
      • yeah cold fusion fucking sucks. I used it on my personal website and I am actually working on converting ... : El Tigre
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  what did they use before they switched to ASP btw? If it was Java I'm going to have a hardy lol : mikecyb
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    they used coldfusion. : wtf242
    • commensing with a hardy lol anyway : mikecyb
• That is impressive. Would be even more impressive if MySpace.com wasn't the turd stain of the Internet :)... : Schnapple
• ebay says they use Java. could be on windows/iis, but that'd be dum : ChickenBreath
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  google uses quick basic : personaljesus
  • Over 5 trillion lines of it. : skitzo
• Ebay runs some backend stuff on Java. I love ASP.NET, but claims like these are ridiculous: large website... : mr brown
• Its amazing how myspace used to host some great upcoming talent that put themselves there, and now its th... : GodFather

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  Not buying them for $1.99 at the grocery store is a start. : ejectorpod
  • You serious? Here in Chicago they are 25 cents for 12 =/ : soulr
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  baking powder would prolly help man.. http://www.texasrollingpins.com/tortillarecipe.html http://ww... : wetard
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baking_powder btw : wetard

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• it's not weak; that's a pretty common reason. : the archvile
• "no room for advancement"? : lord_omega
• "I feel that the entire Sr. Management is going to be in indicted soon" : spiffymc
• "There was some... unpleasantness... I can never go back." : Dechter
• looking to work on something new, etc? : mr brown
• Those both sound quite reasonable to me. If I were interviewing someone, I'd be happy they were honest. : Dante
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  You don't want to make it sound that the main reason you want to take the job is because of the money. Fo... : afty04
  • ug i work for a small company, and at this point i'd rather work for a larger one... responsibility cr... : cpt_gloval

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• The Skating Subpoenas? : Dechter
• Stinking Badges : i am the baker
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  rusty trumpets : SoNiC :<
  • Don't you mean Rusty Trombones? : buroja
• Therapists : yonderboy
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  Tort Enforcers : hirez
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    one of our school teams is named the tortfeasors.we have two, need an equally awesome name for the second... : Morgin
    • TicketFixers : cerealSAM2
• The Johnny Lawmen : Silent Jay
• SLAPP-shots : 60days
• The Mighty Clerks? : sgtsanity
• The Judge Wapners : porp
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  The LitiGATORS : snagger
  • i like this one : Morgin
  • I vote for this one too. : Mantle
• The Penalizers : mr brown

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• hah, i drove past the the other day, my roomate was in the car and had never seen it before....funny reac... : pyro
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  You think thats ugly? Check this out- http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/5364/elephantbuildingbankok5ui.j... : PlanetPerfecto
  • that looks cool. The other building does not. : mista mista
  • that is awesome : sikander
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  wut. that's not the building. that's "hay this building is just plain and brick let's put some pickup sti... : dahanese
  • even in person it looks like that! I wouldn't go in that section : Postal
• wow, that's... wow. : dodob
• I like it. I looks like at any monent it could crush hundreds of pretentious college art students. : Boxelder
• my girlfriend attends ocad. what an awful picture of it though.. it is nice on the inside i must say. ... : lingo

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  vaguely speaking, it is the same thing, YES. technically anally toraz cowbell speaking-because-there-is-1... : Gaurav Sharma
  • Thanks dude. : Wadmaasi
  • you fail at being anal, Pentium D's use a shared bus, Athlon64 X2's sit both cores behind a crossbar.... : Toraz Chryx
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  I've got a parallel programming question: Does anyone know if you can run parallel MPI programs on ONE du... : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • I can't see why it wouldn't. As far as the OS is concerned, it's two distinct processors. Of course, I ... : filtersweep

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  lol why does anyone care? : cucumber1972
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    But he is a child molester, and sonic isn't. :( : larcho
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      tails disagrees : esmokah
      • You mean that sonic is a child molester, or that MJ isn't ? : larcho
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  that's amusing. i like stranger in moscow :\ : dodob
  • If it wasn't for the whole scandal thing, I think HIStory probably would have been his best selling album... : djustifier

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• It wasn't "delayed" by any date. There was never a set release date to begin with. : Zips

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• I thought so too : lord_omega
• it's so they can have a DVD out for atleast 6-8 months When they release the super edition. This way the... : Crimsonbeak
• I am waiting for the extended/director's cut : byorn

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  Good luck, I'm playing tonight up here in Iowa! : melkore
  • We ruled! How ur show? : Rotten Deadite

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  they're both good? : RikiTiki2
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    which has a better combat system? : MisterPhoton
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      I havn't played GalCiv2 but general opinion seems to be Civ4 is superior. I'm addicted to it :( : crummynz
      • of course you can't have battles with fleets of custom designed spaceships in Civ4 so its a tough choice : derelict515
    • combat system? Neither have combat systems. You just send your army/fleet into battle and the comput... : hawke
• I prefer GalCiv2 by a wide margin. : Arcanum
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  Is AOE DS turn based. I am urging to pick it up. : p4ck3tloss
  • Yeah, its turnbased. : MisterPhoton
  • Do eet! I can't stop shilling that game. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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  CIV >:{ : jessipoo
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    nothing like being peaceful and then nuking your friends into the Stone Age : Postal
    • indeed :D : jessipoo
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  I bought Civ IV, you all better be right...(although, now that I think about it, without buying both game... : MisterPhoton
  • I love Galactic Civilizations II. Ship design makes this game SO. FUCKING. HOT. : Rice-Rocketeer
• I bought Civ4 a couple of days ago. Played through my first game on Cheiftan, and was totally immersed. I... : thecray
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  Civ 4 is pretty amazing. Much better than GalCiv2 IMO : Magus
  • actually I found the complete opposite. I found Civ 4 to be a bit tedious. Galciv2 is quite intuitive and... : Cyntax
• Not very new, but I've recently discovered Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire. Basically it's like Jagged Al... : Judicator.Khas
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  TANGENT Which is a better game, Civilization 4 or Age of Empires 3? I know they're different (turn-bas... : airrob
  • I'd go with AOE 3, bust I'm just saying that because I always lose in CIV 4, despite (or maybe because?) ... : Judicator.Khas
• Which do you guys feel is better for being introduced into the Turn based Strat genre? : Kiriakos

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• head to wikipedia and get your learn on. : porp
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  I think pretty much every animal on the planet uses its brain to interpret outside stimuli and react acco... : mikecyb
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    hrm, that statement was bit of a redundant statement : mikecyb
    • good show! : Eat 347
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    yeah that's pretty much all jellyfish do but its like a way simpler "brain" : wetard
    • also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollusc#Classification : wetard
    • well yeah it's less like a brain and more like a mass of nerves (I guess?) where everything around it is ... : mikecyb
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  yay for molluscs! : radula
  • O, YA? YAY FOR TIGERS. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  oysters/clams/muscles...so delicious... I hope they feel every agonizing moment in the boiling hot wat... : cockoftehwalk
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    An interesting article on that very subject: http://www.lobsterlib.com/feat/davidwallace/page/lobsterarti... : sgtsanity
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      those are arthropods! : wetard
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        I know, but it's in the same area of philosophical inquiry. >: ( : sgtsanity
        • i dunno i guess i feel like bugs and consequently under water bugs seem to have a little more mental capa... : wetard
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    I don't think any invertibrates feel pain : mikecyb
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      well, i think octopus and stuff might but i dunno i'd tend to agree about most of them. i mean octopus ev... : wetard
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        I dunno, I'm not sure if they have that capability. Their brain is very advanced for an invert, but it's... : mikecyb
        • i think that might only be echinoderms that grow back stuff but i'm not sure.. but yeah i agree in alot o... : wetard

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• i was kicking ass in PQ until i lost my save file in a reformat :/ all that hard work, it's gone : esmokah
• i am so bad at picking out skills to level up in that :/ : creep
• Update: Level 160. These bitches heal themselves for 1k now. : Experiment IV

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  Day One: Bike 2 miles on stationary bike. Result: Good, easy pace, not too bad. Add another 2 miles t : ejectorpod
  • AHAH well that's lucky for you. : angrytaxman

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• Knoppix, not kubuntu. Im too excited I think. : Geordish
• I think I'll try this out. Thanks, mate! : snagger

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  me me me me : red2lucas
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    EA Server kept timing out?? WTF is that shit :( : red2lucas
    • #(@$(*Q@ yeah Remo couldn't get in either because of EA server problems. Talk about a buzzkill. >:-( : Holesinswiss
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  Depends when, I might join in. : Chris Remo
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    we're playing now, but i'll be around all evening : Holesinswiss
    • Oh ok, well I'm free now, so I'll join up. : Chris Remo
• bumpage... it's lonely in here : Holesinswiss

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• I'm pretty sure that no DVD does "native" progressive scan as it's not built into the DVD standard. : angrytaxman

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  Oh well, I did far worse I think when I was that age :/. : Amnesty_intl2
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    yeah, I wasnt angry - it was my own fault for walking away and leaving it where she could investigate. : hirez
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      I wonder if she noticed the gyroscopic effect from the spindle as she rotated it against the axis. I lov... : the archvile
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        so if you move a laptop while it's on does it hurt the HD? : lord_omega
        • it won't help, but it's not catastrophic. Just don't shake the thing. : the archvile
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  Hope you back up your addons folder. : devi| dog
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    you ever going to play again? : hirez
    • Why do you always turn it around? This is about you and your addon folder. : devi| dog

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• http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en I use this ALL OF THE TIME. Highly recommend it : Phreakin

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  Everyone's playing Tales of Phantasia on GBA. : omnova
  • fuck that!im going in : Flying h4x0r
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  It's already Sunday morning over here and I'm heading to work in a couple of hours :( : dodob
  • have you been to the observation deck of 101 ? : sikander

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• http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer.ars : mista mista

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• three words, one of them used twice: 2 fast, 2 furious : esmokah
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  The Need for Speed was just not EXTREME enough for todays HARDCORE gamers. Gamers today want PIMPED OUT c... : thecray
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    well, besides all that flashy junk, it really was fun. the speed factor was just amazing. : esmokah
    • I agree. They are fun games. But I wish they had of released a regular Need For Speed after Underground, ... : thecray
  • you just cracked me up : PlanetPerfecto
• paging Ajax : djustifier
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  It sounds like you're getting Test Drive and Need For Speed mixed up. NFS has historically always been... : yonderboy
  • haha, you are totally right. Thread Hijacked! : radula

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  I have the Asus A8n32-SLI Deluxe, which seems to have a bit of a problem to correctly detect my memory sp... : Judicator.Khas
  • I have asked this question in the past. I honestly don't think anyone, aside from the truly hardcore, kno... : unknown_fiend
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  Here is all the info you'll ever need, and then some! http://www.rojakpot.com/freebog.aspx Just look for : mn3m0n1c
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    *sigh* Ah well, if that's what it takes... then I'll just learn this stuff. Thanks. : Judicator.Khas
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      And now, the easy way: find the option in your BIOS to adjust the mem's settings "By SPD", which will set : mn3m0n1c
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        I check thouroughly and don't think that I have such an option. What I did now though was stupid and prem... : Judicator.Khas
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          Have you read your bios info in the manual? You can get latest manual here:http://lightzout.shackspace.co... : Lightzout
          • The manual wasn't helpful at all, but still thank you for uploading it :-) However, I finally did find... : Judicator.Khas

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• Sounds like an Imperial code, I'm decoding it now. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• IGI! : c_man_tmt
• nevermind, goons. STOP PLAYING UBLIVEN. : virus

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  mario DS isn't out yet, but you can't go wrong with Metroid : mikecyb
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    He probably means Mario 64 DS as opposed to New Super Mario Bros. : Chris Remo
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      Is it still being called that? Getting close to its mid-may launch date and still no official title. : ShekkyBoy
      • I'm pretty sure that is the final title. : Chris Remo
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  Phoenix Wright? : yoonix
  • ^^^ FUCK YES : eiopa
  • correctomundo : smalakar
• Metroid Prime : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Has the love affair with AC:WW passed? : zipper76
• whatever the fuck the new castlevania is called.. : wetard
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  dont get metroid huunters, its balls : mr.sleepy
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    shut up, dildo! : Mad Brahmin Disease
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      no you shut up!!!!! : mr.sleepy
      • We should boycott your replies! They're balls. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• I assume you have Meteos and Mario and Luigi: Partners In Time. : Deathlove
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  METEOS, unless you already have it. : c_man_tmt
  • i was just able to get this for $20 used at a local game store... no case though .... much fun ... solid ... : smalakar

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• the man-bag?? : radula
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  what does? : red2lucas
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    her ultra-short short shorts : sikander
    • gotta keep it tight, or it loosens too much during the day :) : radula

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  and be stuck with only Best Buy? Whoever wins, we lose. : NeoMoose
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    wal-mart's awesome for buying games. awesome return policy (if its defective or shitty) and cheap as hell... : mr.sleepy
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      I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart....any store that allows undesirables to mingle with me....is unnacceptable. : PlanetPerfecto
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        I take it target is better? http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11855504 : p4ck3tloss
        • If you're a scatologist then the answer is YES! : PlanetPerfecto
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        elitist >:( they're people just like you : RikiTiki2
        • I was being facetious and using dry humour...sigh. However I do actually find Walmart off-putting and ... : PlanetPerfecto
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      i'd go to walmart but they let panhandlers hang out outside the store. every time i go there i get at le... : NeoMoose
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        lol that doesn't count as a panhandler! : wetard
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          then what should i call them? : NeoMoose
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            bums? hustlers? i think panhandlers actually have to sell something.. those guys just want money. : wetard
            • http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/panhandling my mistake. : wetard
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              http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=panhandle wrong. : NeoMoose
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                oh... i've been preempted. : NeoMoose
                • edit: Fuck. Beaten. : wetard
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    i havent had any problem getting new games at best buy, sometimes for less than other places too... i dun... : Galadriel07
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      Walmart and Target have good PC games for $10, which is good enough for me. I buy most of my games onl... : Orange Pylon
      • those games cannot be new tho. : Galadriel07
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  yup. every time i "try" to get a game there, they don't have it...always saying something like "Well, you... : BongSlayerB
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    every time ive gone to gamestop ive encountered bullshit. today i was trying to return a game i purchased... : mr.sleepy
    • Is that how it ended? : -efx-
    • lame. lets mail them some poop! : BongSlayerB
    • Call the district office. Actually, hell, you're in the DFW area right? Just call the Grapevine HQ :) ... : Schnapple
    • lol just return it to walmart : wetard
  • When I went into an EB Games to buy Oblivion, they had an empty rack where Oblivion apparently should be,... : reign27
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  Definately start flaming the execs using email, snailmail or whatever. I know folks that work for gamesto... : unknown_fiend
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    I remember in the early 90's how stores like egghead software were just kickass and the people working be... : PlanetPerfecto
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      This suden trend of hiring women, just because they're women who clearly don't know wtf about the product... : Rauol Duke
      • I hope you're being sarcastic with the anti-women thing. But it is true that people expect their game ... : Schnapple
  • how about we all just stop going? : esmokah
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    Gamestop had as much to do with the 360 shortage as ms considering they started taking preorders for it W... : -efx-
    • correct. im sure gamestop was very aware that they had more preorders than they could fill, even if MS h... : NeoMoose
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      You are right about the shortages and I should not have used the xbox 360 in my example because it is not... : unknown_fiend
      • I definately understand that which is why my hatred of the corporate side of it never makes me treat the ... : -efx-

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• I think Microsoft is still in the 'get in before PS3' rather than compete on a level ground. maybe there ... : radula
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  there was just a bunch of spring releases in LNC a few days ago : derelict515
  • What's cool is that most of the new games seem like real A list titles instead of the PS2 method of "rele... : PlanetPerfecto

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  Damn, now I'm no longer interested in going paragliding :( : ColoradoCNC
  • Props to the guy being cool about it, though. I'd be simultaneously shitting by pants and totally crying : carrioN luggagE
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  "Well, I'm on the ground now!" Yeah..I'll stick with mountain biking. : stump
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    http://www.netzwerkomaha.com/images/videos/mountain_biking.wmv Totally safer. : Omaha
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      ..... Alright, guess I'll just go jogging from now on. : stump
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        http://www.wtfcrazyvideos.com/videos/jogger_mauled_by_bear_and_gets_penis_bitten_off.mpg : sexninja!!!!
        • lier :( : dragndrop
        • i totally clicked on that : El Tigre
        • Damn thats hilarious. : Acid Gumball
    • He totally gave in to the peer pressure. The one guy might as well have said "don't be a pussy, just do i... : Phreakin
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      Why the fuck would you ride next to that kind of cliff? LOL. : PlanetPerfecto
      • Because riding in Kansas gets a bit dull. : Lunatic Angelic
• Holy cow. That was crazy. : mavmavv
• omg. reason # 120389u14 why I will never do that shit : proclone1
• the guy stays calm through it all, awesome. : ghost hacker
• what the hell that wind is fucking crazy : podizzle
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  what did he hit while he was still in the air that made him say "that hurt" or whatever? was it anothe... : [fry]
  • that's what I was about to ask. I didn't see anything, he just started to fall really fast. : Ctrl-Phreak
  • probably some updraft or whatever that caused him to lose control, and the violent shaking/twisting is wh... : sexninja!!!!
  • He's refering to when he deployed his backup parashute, it jerked him pretty hard when it opened. : magila
• I wouldn't have stopped screaming if that ever happened to me. : freshyk
• OWNED BY WIND : PlanetPerfecto
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  "...in GENERAL where are you" "Well, i'm in a fucking tree..." "Wait, scratch that..." : fishbone
  • haha same thing i thought when they asked him "in general, where are you?" I'm in a fucking tree! can'... : pyro

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  I went through the official list of certified .dk registrars, and found a few US and UK based registrars.... : evildanish
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    Forget that, go here: http://en.buydomains.dk/ I've used these guys myself a couple of times, they're ... : evildanish
    • Bless you my child. www.myinitialsare.dk is now MIIIIIIIINE! Sweet. Thank you! : Caboose
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  ilove.dk ? : jcupitt
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    Suckma.dk : edgewise
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      youra.dk     : sikander
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        ima.dk : i am the baker
        • yourealldksu.dk : Caboose
  • muhamma.dk : yoonix
  • beer.dk : dodob
  • Grabmy.dk : ColoradoCNC
• inmycabooseisa.dk : essdub
• There are danish shackers? Isn't that the capital of Ikea? : aaarrrgh
• more importantly, how the hell do you spell those popular danish foods? froygadella and medistaposa? my m... : diddlyd