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• Oh god. Why does this have to happen the same day i'm getting a large check in the mail? : Phreakin
• Those side connections are pretty sweet. I can take pictures and stick the memory card from my camera in... : romulan
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  so wait the lowered the contrast ratio? and added a 7-1 media hub? what the chump. : SYN5280
  • and dont forget HDCP >:( : creep
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    800:1 is lowered? : tunis5000
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      I starting to freak when I bought my 2005fpw I recall having 1000:1 contrast ratio advertised on dell sit... : SYN5280
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        all the LCD manufacturers lie about the contrast ratio anyway, same with the pixel response time. : electroly
        • It's not that they lie - it's just not a standardized measurement. This PRL is starting to piss me o : walker270
      • I wouldn't worry about it if your 2005FPW is the same as mine, I have the brightness all the way down to ... : tunis5000
      • God man, PUNCTUATION. : rudds
  • Wake up and realize that contrast ratios are bullshit and really non-scientific. There is no real reason ... : ovrlrd
• With some discounts that could be affordable deluxe. : mavmavv
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  If this drives down the 2005FPW I'm all over that. : EvilDolemite
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    How low would that have to be? : ahk-med
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      The lower the better, of course. Right now during their coupon sales It's normally around $380, approxim... : EvilDolemite
      • I only ask becauase I got one for $362 + tax w/ free shipping just about a month ago. I watched and wait... : ahk-med
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    I might do the same. It's obvious the 2405 will never get to the range that it would be affordable for m... : FormerHPB
    • I can't drive a 2405 anyway. A 2405 just means I have to spend another $1,000 on a new CPU, RAM, mobo, a... : EvilDolemite
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  damn, love the new look.....time to put the 2001FP up for sale : t0ad
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    why would you get rid of a 2001FP for a smaller 2007WFP? O_o : electroly
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      shit, youve summoned rosewood : maulla
      • oh shi : electroly
    • It's not smaller for 16:9 content. : EvilDolemite
  • How much? : EvilDolemite
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  What's the diff between the 2005 and the 2007? : DrZettl
  • primarily hdcp support. : mrspyral
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    better contrast ratio is all that i see so far, 800:1 vs 600:1, plus the new base : t0ad
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      When I bought mine it was 1000:1 contrast ratio : SYN5280
      • Dewd when I bought my 2005fpw I could swore it was 1000:1 and where does it list HDCP support. : SYN5280
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    nobody's answered this very well yet - Dell obsessed ppls? speak up! : eskimo spy
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      MrSpyral answered it. HDCP or whatever support. For HD playback in Vista. : FormerHPB
      • being that the site says nothing about that tho, WTF? are they just leaving that out even tho it's virtua... : eskimo spy
  • similar panel, slightly faster, nicer design, hdcp : Gaurav Sharma
  • http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1945224,00.asp : jrock

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• I had a friend that was low on cash and he used the card rotating thing to keep out of the hole. : mr.thing
• I'm getting married in less than three (3) weeks, and we're doing everything ourselves -- our parents are... : Ride-My-Rocket

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  Can't afford more than 128 MB ram? : BulletPro
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    I have 1gb but iTunes is still plenty sluggish (compared to say, winamp). Just like Firefox is sluggish. ... : derelict515
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      Weird I have no problems, since when does bloated and slow have anything to do with the memory it takes u... : ovrlrd
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        i'm laughing pretty hard at that one. thanks : mallrice
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          Well I am definitely right about windows and memory management, nobody can disagree with that. It does ce... : ovrlrd
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            How much memory does itunes use on your mac? : mallrice
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              50 megs, but my point wasn't about the amount of memory used, it was about how the OS manages that memory... : ovrlrd
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                It does certainly make people way more crazy about how much memory a single app takes up That is what ... : mallrice
                • I didn't mention how the memory is split up at all. A lot of it comes down to where the memory goes. Does... : ovrlrd
          • Why not? I've always heard that the NT based operating systems do a decent job of memory management. Cer... : Halen
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        well Firefox is sluggish for me, as is iTunes. They both also crash quite randomly (Firefox more so inclu... : derelict515
        • Yeah I agree that iTunes for windows needs a lot more optimization work. Just look at Quicktime if you wa... : ovrlrd

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  lol @ tigers! ;) : FormerHPB
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    skip bayless picks us for al wildcard : podizzle
    • He's insane! Sox Yankees. One will win the AL East, other will get wildcard. It's almost a given now e... : FormerHPB
    • another reason why skip bayless is worse than Jay Mariotti.. and that's saying something. : porp
• The roar of 84 is back baby! : scatti
• My prediction, 40 wins. GO TWINS! : soggybagel
• GO BIG D!!! : hirez
• Todd Jones, down with a hamstring injury yet again. 15DL. I hope I'm wrong, but they probably wasted thei... : byggdaddy
• I agree with PoD.....As long as the pitching comes around they could make a run this year. : Concrete
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  Tigers fans are almost as bad as Lions fans when it comes to false optimism : elosorojo
  • hahhaah. : FormerHPB
  • you could have said the same thing about the red wings in the early 90s and 80s! : scatti

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• ... keep going : Gauss
• I don't have time to bleed. Or blog. : tacocat
• I read http://www.3quarksdaily.com , but that's not a personal blog by any means. : sgtsanity
• they're only boring if they're poorly written (like anything else) : vaniah
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  Dude. The Shack IS a blog. For every man, woman, and genjuro here. And there's a little Shack inside each : Magus
  • Mood: Satisfied ^_^;; Today I ate the most awesome cheese sandwich ever. God I'm bored. I think I'm go... : deKaf
• Same with myspace...makes it really easy to be obsessed with someone...not that I'd know...or...anything.... : MisterPhoton
• There are some good pages out there. they are few and far between though. : wtf242
• i read one called fourfour that is funny if you like to watch trashy reality tv : Mansmells
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  yes.           à : sikander
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    whoah, you're in a long distance relationship with a korean chick and share the same blog? that is suc : Gaurav Sharma
    • yes that is what it is. we moved apart summer 2004 (good god.. too long ago), met three times (in indones... : sikander
• I have to read them for work :( : silly
• A blog isn't really any different from any other website. If you're reading someone's journal, then wheth... : maddy
• I subscribe to a lot of marketing newsletters and reports, and even though blogs are the "it" thing for e... : TwiLyght
• You just haven't found any good ones. I read ones from people who have something interesting to say, som... : Ecks
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  In my opinion, blogs about the intricacies of a person's life are rarely entertaining, much like reality ... : ieGod
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    ShackBlogNews dot... A COMMMMMMMMM : tomservo
    • Exactly. : ieGod
  • We seriously need a girlproblems filter. : Magus
• I read a number of blogs, for a variety of reasons. I bookmark and read blogs of some authors I enjoy, s... : Rhayne
• i've been keeping up with some food blogs. some that i like are about hot sauce, another about candy, and... : kingfish
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  reading serious blogs like what people are doing, projects, and other such accomplishments makes me want ... : dodob
  • then again, i don't really much care about gaming development so :\ : dodob

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  irony : rand04
  • oh : tomservo
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    i missed what he did there at first. : Magus
    • Haha oh I get it now. :D : tomservo
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  I'm surprised there was never an episode in which he discovered a fountain of youth. I think the closest ... : genjuro
  • That's a great episode. Yeah there seems like there could have been one where he "finds it and loses it" ... : tomservo

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  Hahahahaha, that is truly incredible : Chris Remo
  • Seriously you have to listen to it at least twice! : marmite
• Haha, I've never heard it with the backing piano. This is FANTASTIC. : sgtsanity
• hahaha, that is awesome : Magus

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• Ok I'm in. lets do this! : celerity
• woohoo! : sirkne
• I need him concious! (so I can knock him out again!) : celerity
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  Ohnos, BOB is gonna turn CTU into the BLACK LODGE! : celerity
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    ahaha, I love how Leland Palmer is a bad guy again! : aethyr
    • Kickass! I'm glad someone else got that reference. Twin Peaks FTW! Cheers : celerity
• Aarons gonna whoop some ass : jonin
• Huh. So it's not all about Jack after all? Interesting. : Rotten Deadite
• She's gonna tell the secret! She's gonna reveal that the people who killed everyone is the writers from s : celerity
• ohhh ok NOW it makes sense why no one has been willing to talk about what they know : the bad dudes have : jrock
• ohshi! BACKSLASH PROTOCOL\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ : celerity
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  What's the line on Audrey Raines sellin' out CTU? I'm going with nonexistant. : jrock
  • Boy people forget where there nuts are awful quick in this series. : Rotten Deadite
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  Jeeze finally the other shoe drops. : Rotten Deadite
  • I've enjoyed the lengthy fall it took to finally land. Also, what a cute kid. How could you kill that kid : jrock
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  How many more episodes do we have left? : jonin
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    8 and I wonder how many will be back-to-back... : celerity
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      I dunno but I'm wondering how they'll ever top this plot next season : jrock
      • I thought last season's Simultaneous meltdown of every nuke reactor in america couldn't be topped but fin... : celerity
      • Season 6: aliens are attempting to destroy the thermopermafrost coating of Jack Bauer's sister's wife's E : jrock
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  Take this thread to ER before I have to break my foot off in wtf242's ass. : Ajax
  • ATTN: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11913377 : celerity
• Chloe STFU and do as your told biatch! : jonin

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• lol oops forgot the links filename would show up in the spoiler text : Patch-e
• o.O thats insane : marmite
• great, we are getting further and further from anything that makes sense : pete brooks
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  Wow... I'd like to see a clean picture of the original map for comparison... that is some hardcore shit t... : Wheatloaf
  • Clean pic of original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DHARMA_Initiative#The_Map : celerity
• N'oice. Printing out in color for maximum lost party effectiveness. Thanks dood. : celerity
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  notice there a line that says "here be dragons" like it was taken straight from that stupid picture of th : creep
  • Apparently old time maps used to have that written on it for places undiscovered, dangerous, or unkown...... : stonedonkey
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    what stupid americans picture things? : pete brooks
    • http://www.shiar.org/info/worldusa.gif : ovrlrd

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  If you're lucky it'll be in the black and not the red, by the time I'm out of Undergrad I'll be $80,000+ ... : fry975
  • haha, not counting any loans : pete brooks
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  dude. having ANY savings is a huge, huge awesome deal. Most people are in debt into the double digits of ... : celerity
  • Oh and http://www.fool.com for all your financial info needs. : celerity
  • I'm saving up for a PS3 : Magus
  • p.s. there are money market accounts that pay higher rates than current CDs. for example, my bank pays ~ ... : mallrice
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  college grad..savings..lol : Maarten Goldstein
  • ^^even the dutchman knows whats up :( : creep
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  I think you're doing pretty well if you've broken even by 24. About $10k is a good amount to have by the... : jforman
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    Responsible and your parents paid for most of your education, I think I should add. : jforman
    • well i'm not really figuring my car or student loans into it...because i work and pay for that stuff........ : pete brooks
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  24 issues of Hustler and 18 empty Old English bottles. : jessipoo
  • This sounds about right for me :\ : fry975
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  My gf and I had about 30k saved alltogether @ 24 years old. : alexthegreat2
  • are you guys married now? : pete brooks
• two rolls of toilet paper and a snickers : buzzbat
• if you had all your loans paid you'd be far above average at 24. : peter
• at 24 i had about $10k. my GTI was paid off by then and i didn't really have debt. i also finished sch... : mallrice

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• IGI shoot me in the face plz : Patch-e
• k fine. not for long though because i cant stand CSS : AlexXdude
• terrorists are at b. go! go! go! : Flying h4x0r
• I'm totally there. : thekidd
• igi in a sec : Concrete
• I am going in. : Orange Pylon

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  http://www.radoisites.com/ ??? : sharkII
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    Already registered. : Phreakin
    • yeah, i just nabbed it. you can have it for $250 : suqur

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  http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11912559 : Ratsofatsorat
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    http://buzzbat.shackspace.com/christmaslights.wmv : buzzbat
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      http://www.ebaumsworld.com/starwarskid.html : atom519
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        http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml : dmason
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          http://www.juneconway.com/blog.html?id=100 : sikander
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            I didn't realize what was going on until half way through the first sentence : meesterbill
            • No Bub Rub love? the whistles go.. you know : sKetchflow
          • http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/28/obit.hope/index.html : kelerian

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• I don't want Tribes, but Half Price Books is so great it makes me weep : grasshoppah

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  http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ : theamazingrand0
  • cool, thanks! : sikander

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  What is the best Live shackbattle racing game? : Ajax
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    When you get home from work? *winces* : TastyWheat
    • Misread nvm. *gun* : TastyWheat
    • Too late tonight. That, and it's Monday night so I'm going straight from work to JBPH to the gym and then : Ajax

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  Seriously, these rednecks are fucking hilarious. : Rauol Duke
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    I thought Filtersweep was a hippy? : CrimsonHandHiro
    • I thought he was chick...*scratches head* : graceofdragons
    • The hippy/punkers are swapping with these Jesus'ed up rednecks. : Rauol Duke
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  I'll kill you. : filtersweep
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    He seems to be cool. For a dirty hippy. : Rauol Duke
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      Is this the one? http://abc.go.com/primetime/wifeswap/episode/206/rules_kestrel.html Regardless, lo... : filtersweep
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        Nah, that's not them. The dude seriously looks like you when you had the dreads, but with a few head pier... : Rauol Duke
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          http://abc.go.com/primetime/wifeswap/episode/110/gallery_aguirre.html?photo=3 : Mansmells
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            He looks more fucked up there than in the show. : Rauol Duke
            • yeah it looks like they told him to make himself as wild looking as possible for the photos .. same with ... : Mansmells
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  this show RULES. i think filtersweep tells off the the psychotic south carolina dude at the end. : Mansmells
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    That dude is such a stupid cracker. The mom seems ok, just uptight. These kids did need a some structure ... : Rauol Duke
    • I want to punch the little redneck so bad, right in the face. : Mansmells

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  Delayed April Fools'd : Ratsofatsorat
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    OMG. looolol. whew. : suqur
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      The Lite-only New Super Mario Bros. is currently slated for release on 21 March. I can't believe you g... : ovrlrd
      • I look at that, checked my calendar, and assumed they meant May 15th. lol I also noticed that there wa... : suqur

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• what does b/c mean? : kenmis
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  B/C = Backwards compatable? : guido anchovy
  • winnar : mista mista
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  I'm guessing their priority is going to AAA best selling games and engines that run a lot of games (since... : Prozium
  • I'm pretty sure Splinter Cell games are Unreal engine : reign27
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    A lot of Unreal powered games - EXCEPT FOR UNREAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2. Fucking MS. : CA Flynn
    • Or Brother in Arms : marmite
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  just keep your old xbox, geez. : RikiTiki2
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    Why? It is easier to blame MS. They know how to fuck up backwards compatiblity really nicely actually. Do... : ovrlrd
    • They currently have 211 working games with one having a possible audio issue. I think they are doing o... : sharkII

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• FYI, the two I'm questioning using are on the lower right of the mobo and in the middle of the mobo near ... : plunkymeadows
• One more question. Is it okay to have one standoff which is supporting a corner of the mobo, but doesn't... : plunkymeadows
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  use every hole that has a matching hole in your case. you can get away with only using four in the corner... : mallocated
  • ^^^ Winner : Zero|DPX
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  only use the metallic ringed holes. : peter
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    I used one that wasn't metallic because the board is damn heavy and it was the only one near the center. ... : plunkymeadows
    • you of course checked on bioth sides right. : peter

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• Now playing The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Shake Your Moneymaker ONE MORE TIME! next up is Te... : CrimsonHandHiro
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  okay, since no one was listening for the Earl Hooker song, I'm playing it again after Cream's Rollin and ... : CrimsonHandHiro
  • or accidently starting now. : CrimsonHandHiro
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  Okay, time for a u-turn, I'm through with the blues. : CrimsonHandHiro
  • ah, nothing like alienating your listeners, hahahaha : CrimsonHandHiro
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  Now playing: Just starting off a full hour of Deerhoof, lololol Deerhoof - Bungalow Bill from t... : CrimsonHandHiro
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    Er, I gave it a try, for like 15 seconds. Come See the Duck is not for me. : flox
    • I started off more gently... you got caught in the middle of a theme set... The What Did You Kill them... : CrimsonHandHiro
• gg deerhoof almost blew out my speakers just now... it was real quite for a min. after i tuned in... then... : nacatamale

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  Yes : idigporn.com
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    what do you mean yes : pete brooks
    • If you've been paying attention to the news, the government doesn't even need a warrant to wire tap your ... : not work safe
    • Yes. They can even get the color of your underwear if they really want to. : FiReaNG3L
    • How else can they track bribery, kickback, etc. : peter
• Legally, yes. Easily, yes if you're under investigation for a crime, otherwise, no. : trove

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• What happened to the interest? : dionex
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  On this for dionex justice. : tomservo
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    That was hot. : tomservo
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      srsly. I wish I had MP2. : ki11_viru5
      • It's really cheap now: http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin/GoGamer.storefront/SESSIONID/Product/View/001MAX... : PenicillinX57
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  Sweet! I'm going to reinstall MP2 just for this. Which reminds me, the Max Payne 2 engine was brilliant... : PenicillinX57
  • You are preaching to the choir here but yeah, I definitively do. I mean, look at it for crying out loud, ... : aavenr