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• Also, I'm only two more daily Grand Stair runs away from my fourth armor piece! : trOmblyj
• i like how the trees look in LOTRO. the cherry blossom tree behind you looks cool : electroly
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  that's a really fgt outfit there trombles :( : moe6
  • takes a fgt to know a fgt i guess : trOmblyj
• MAYBE I'll hop on this weekend. God what a busy week this was >:| : ateam311
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  not enough beard in that shot : Degenerate
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    for you http://pics.notforjeff.com/gallery.php?entry=Images/LOTRO/moarbeard.jpg : trOmblyj
    • Someone should make a Minstrel named Billy Gibbons with a beard like that. :D : GrimmyD
    • excellent : Degenerate
• that's a nice hat : Clay
• LOL that outfit kills me : jonin
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  looks like they have seriously reworked how legendary weapons work. more legacies, of a hier tier than I ... : Supine
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    I have dumped a few Scrolls of Lesser Empowerment into them already, and will be doing that a lot more to... : trOmblyj
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      hah, I don't even know what those scrolls are. Still glad I got out when I did. The endgame was so disapp... : Supine
      • Well, I certainly don't think Moria felt tacked on. I think Mirkwood is really well imagined and realize... : trOmblyj
• Those two Rubies are pretty much sex. : ]aratex[
• These are your legendary weapons. There are many like them, but those are yours. Your legendary weapon... : cerealSAM2
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  Do weapons gain levels or something in LotRO? What are those blue bars on your weapons? O_o : code-e255
  • A legendary weapon in LOTRO gains XP as you do... : MurrayTheSkull
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  I hate my schedule :( I almost hit lvl 39 last night... : MisterPhoton
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    I'll have a Level 60 Reforged Loremaster's Staff of the Second Age waiting for you. : trOmblyj
    • I'll be happy to accept it in 2.5 years : MisterPhoton
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  is there a trial for LOTRO? I might try it : grandmasterlee
  • its an MMO, of course there. www.lotro.com : trOmblyj
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  Wow, you must really hate Orcs. : Haxim
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    We hates them! : trOmblyj
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      Seriously. Orc-Hewer on Orc-Foe? Isn't that just a little racist? : Haxim
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        I will come up with a better name to replace Orc-Foe at some point. It is hard for me to name my legenda... : trOmblyj
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          The fact you get to name your weapons is pretty sweet. : Entity
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            It is very stressful for me. I do a ton of research before naming one - I want it to at least be lore ap... : trOmblyj
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              Mine would be hilarities like 'Bane of Fat Chicks' and 'Po Tay Toes' : Entity
              • Stone seeker of the taint! : hashd
            • I've been a fan of Warbreaker. Translate that to elvish and it looks pretty sexy. : LoioshDwaggie
            • don't spend much time on it. you'll just replace them sooner or later : jonin
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  Anyone here have any tips on traiting my Loremaster? I think I need to rearrange my traits, but I don'... : MisterPhoton
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    Virtue-wise, or class traits? Virtues, I'd focus on Will/Fate/Morale/Power bonuses. Not sure class-... : trOmblyj
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      Both, really. I've been reading the forums and read this: For Virtues, trait any that will increase : MisterPhoton
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        I don't disagree. : trOmblyj
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          I just read another post that advocates almost the same build, but Loyalty instead of Innocence: Loyal... : MisterPhoton
          • loyalty is one of the traits I use on all my characters, no matter the class, and one I try to get to max... : trOmblyj
  • sorry, I dont' know jack about loremasters : jonin
• AWESOME! I was a winner in the Gold Token Lottery yesterday! That's 10 or 15 gold tokens, woot. : MisterPhoton
• paging rustblade pls : Downforce
• I don't have much this time: Moria - Sense Of Scale: (first 2 are same location, just diff angle) http... : AxeMan808
• I love your hat and stache man. : node
• I love your hat and stache man. : node

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• That's pretty awesome. : Ride-My-Rocket
• I like how he draws the design right on the surface of his bench. : rick
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  yeah, that is incredibly cool. I'm not sure about a single 120mm fan for that many drives. I bought an ... : dextius
  • looks like it owuld run hot to me : boring gegtik
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    thats what i want to know. i love the home built design, but that seems really unlikely to be sufficient... : smacknca
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      the guy that put this together clearly knows wtf. He responds in the youtube comments as well, indicatin... : slickdoody
      • Maybe if the drives were sideways, and there was a fan in the front and the back I would believe that, bu... : dextius
  • They are WD greens, they are so cool and quiet, honestly. : abrasion
• Impressive highly productive use of hobby time. Makes me feel bad about my gaming time :( : Old8Leg
• I'm pretty sure that dude made a whole desk like that. where the computer components are under the desk g... : RogerDandy
• i fucking love videos of people building shit. i can't get enough of them. I blame New Yankee Workshop :... : GloriousCow
• I watched these videos earlier. They are amazing. Great presentation in addition to great build quality... : slickdoody
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  Need. : virus
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    Damn that guy has skills. : virus
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      he's a fuckin rock star : aurealis
      • Yeah after watching both videos fully, I'm pretty amazed. That is some SICK work. : virus
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  I'd take that puppy over some of the NASs I have been considering. : ghost hacker
  • the videos showing the build are amazingly done as well. : ghost hacker
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  "nearly fast as an SSD" FAIL. The write speed isn't that fantastic, and both read and write speeds ... : Freon
  • Also, I've been considering getting one of those eSATA port multipliers, but obviously something more rea... : Freon
  • I was going to post this. It's awesome for the cost/volume ratio, but random seeks in a RAID 5 aren't go... : hussdelrio
• that is... magnificent. : Clay
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  Not adequate cooling. : DJ Clipdat
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    i was wondering about this. seems like itd get awfully stuffy in there : aurealis
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      A few people commented on that over there. They're 5400rpm drives if that helps, but with all of them to... : hussdelrio
      • I have SIX of these drives, they get HOT. And I have sheesh, six fans in my case (Antec 900 V2) - 1 r... : dextius
  • It's probably fine. http://dansdata.com/gz101.htm : Arctic Fox
  • Should have put the fan in the bottom blowing up between the drives. : swimteampie
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  im more at awe of his workshop than what he builds :( : papaskot
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    Yeah seriously. Every tool imaginable ... I'm kinda jealous. :) : virus
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      im very jealous. would kill to have that shit. : papaskot
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        by "kinda" i meant "insanely" : virus
        • How much would all of those tools cost? : hussdelrio
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    this and the camerawork in the video. : ultramega
    • How do they do that time lapse slow moving video? is it a pulley system and or pre-programmed slow zoom m... : abrasion
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  http://willudesign.com : d0pamine
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    Holy shit, that desk mod is awesome! : hussdelrio
    • yeah i want that : riptyde
• I want to be as smart as the people who come up with this stuff : Entity
• slow : sanchez
• So much effort... for building a death trap for the poor drives :/ : vx2o
• This guy is hella fucking skilled. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  That doesn't actually look all that hard to build... Hmm... : boarder2
  • Must. Resist. Have too many projects to finish already. >:( : boarder2
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  Who is paying this guy? No way he is doing all that work just for for shits and giggles. : quazar
  • It looks like he got some parts donated. As far as the build, I know a couple people that make shit like ... : Arctic Fox
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    Why do you say that? I'm not as good but we do stuff like that (random metalwork fabrication and electron... : batkiwi
    • Indeed, I have been doing stuff like that for years now. Some of my recent projects are quite sophisticat... : pwnjoo
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  Be a bitch to replace a drive though. : Fred Garvin
  • ^^^ this. i would rather it connected to a WHS box via esata : CoRDS
  • I was thinking that too. He should have used a similar design with hotswap bays. : batkiwi
• Same guy that did the OSX Box: http://www.youtube.com/user/UnknownLobster#p/u/9/TggHtINGIyc : Fred Garvin
• Man that is so amazing and yet so disapointing the drives aren't at least easy release - even if they are... : abrasion
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  pretty terrible design, but neat craftsmanship. replacing a drive would be an annoyance. : mwasher
  • I bet it would take all of 30 minutes, course you'd have to power the thing off, so ya, there would be so... : Old8Leg

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• so pissed i sold mine :( : mankeroo
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  I remember that thing. The boxes were massive. Do they plan to do a sequel? : Godhatesfatpeople
  • I wish, a sequel on 360 would be amazing. Too bad you'd need the aftermarket original xbox controller to ... : opengl128
• Best Controller EVER!!!! : everybodysuncle
• Can you use it to play solitaire? : sanchez
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  they were 175 originally, right? : dignan
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    $200. I have been watching ebay forever but they go for $250+. I managed to find one on Craigslist for $7... : opengl128
    • nice, how much was shipping? did you already have the disc? : dignan
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  what happened to your carpet? : mystikal
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    he actually lives in the 1960's : mwasher
    • I'm digging the doilies on the coffee table! : leadgold
  • that looks like bona-fide frathouse carpet right there : Delaric
  • He sold it so he could get the controller : Serpico74
• awesome : lukej1337
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  I would be so jealous right now if they still made games to play with this. : Chester Copperpot
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    How many did they make that were compatible? : hatelull
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      2 : LoioshDwaggie
      • ..and wasn't the second one multiplayer only? So with Live gone for the orginal Xbox that makes only one ... : Iazu
• Badass! : DJ Clipdat
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  Not a vacuum I'm guessing. : paroxym
  • Not varnish either. : hussdelrio
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  A friend has 2, used to play with his wife believe it or not. He brought it into work the other day. I re... : Fred Garvin
  • No, if you don't eject then your pilot dies and that pilot's save game is erased. : ArcKnight
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  I still need the original disk. All I have is the controller but no game to play it with :( : X-GOUKI
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    They released mechwarrior 4 mercs for free...have you tried it? : DianeOfTheMoon
    • no, not yet, but I will. : X-GOUKI
• What a waste. : pigvomit
• I am completely jealous. : Deathlove
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  Oh man awesome : OverloadUT
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    Is it USB? Can you plug it in to a computer? I bet there are third party drivers for it : OverloadUT
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      It plugs into the original XBox, so no USB. Maybe someone has made it work with an adapter, I dunno : Serpico74
      • it'd be easy. the original xbox controller was simple USB with an extra (unused) connector. just cut off ... : biskits
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        http://vt.beckament.net/ : pwnage1232
        • There you go : Serpico74
        • Like this guy!: http://www.lineofcontact.net/setups/goldengun01.jpg : pwnage1232
        • Oh man, that is so cool I might have to find a controller my self!! : VictoriouSecret
    • That and the free release of mechwarrior 4 would be awesome. : Haxim
• so fucking awesome, i used to have one but i'm not sure what happened to it : MrBig0
• You should try Goodwills, I see one every so often. : steauengeglase

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  Not only do I not have one, but as mentioned in the past, I'm still using a CRT @ 1024x768. : Marrbe
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    doesn't your government provide monitors or something? worst socialism ever. : [fry]
    • Sort of, you can apply for college and get about $300 a month even if you don't pass the courses. For a y... : Marrbe
    • Only if you gross less than 30k a year AND drive a Lincoln Navigator. : CoreContingency
• I literally would be embarrassed to be seen carrying one around, besides I look bad in overalls. : Chester Copperpot
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  will you watch the TED talks on your iPad? : kevp
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    oh shit i may have just walked into one here. are they flash?! : [fry]
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      nope it works. haha fags. best device ever. : [fry]
      • damn! I thought I had a zinger : kevp
      • TED worked on the iPad day one. Oh yeah! : Serpico74
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  Yeah I love TED. I'm gonna go look through their site and see if I can find some that I loved. Also 7000t... : Reeves
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    Here are my favorites. I've watched a lot and I wish I could post all of them, but it would take forever : Reeves
    • For some reason the first one I linked starts 1:30 in.. not that it really matters but you may want to re... : Reeves
    • Nice stuff, thanks! Hopefully I can watch a few later. : randomjgj
• Get extra baked and take the bus to see Kick-Ass! I am drug free while I am job hunting. : dognose
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  Fresh from the bowels of reddit: http://www.9lessons.info/2010/05/must-watch-ted-videos.html : MagicWishMonkey
  • Oh yeah that wireless electricity one was amazing : Reeves
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  http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html : Godhatesfatpeople
  • this is definitely the best of those I've seen... a close second is Joshua Klein talking about crows: ... : Veegeezee
  • Saw this while trying to find all my favorites, definitely going to watch it soon. : Reeves
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    good talk, but dancing and shit isn't nearly as important as mathematics or literacy. i'm sorry. it just ... : d0pamine
    • oh, okay. : Modica Sol Solis
• Crows. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html : shortbuscaptain
• Find the talk on mycelium. It's the talk that always stuck with me. : TaintedSyringe
• http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html : mindshot
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  Feed this man the awesome talk by Mike Rowe. : LoioshDwaggie
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc : LoioshDwaggie
• I really enjoyed this one on underwater bio-luminescent creatures. And squid. http://www.ted.com/talks... : NexusOne
• Dan Ariely is amazing: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html He... : treefingers1
• The Bryan Cox talk on CERN/Large Hadron Collider was really awesome I thought. http://www.ted.com/tal... : Ellissd
• this one is the most impressive ive seen http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_sa... : eeeealmo
• the one where Bill Gates unleashes mosquitoes on the audience. I'm not one to agree with Microsoft stere : Postal
• http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html : smax
• The iPad is okay. After spending a few days with one now I can wait to buy one. I doubt the price will dr... : Fred Garvin
• Evelyn Glennie, deaf percussionist. Really amazing http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/evelyn_glennie_sho... : bipolar
• It is the best thing ever x1000 if you travel. I'm out of town half this month and this thing is a life s... : Serpico74
• What are the best TED Talks ever? : zach`
• I thought we were here to talk about a totalitarian government's ability to manage information and thus k... : steauengeglase

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• i have no idea what salt potatoes are : EvilDolemite
• count me in as one of the ignorant. : everybodysuncle
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_potatoes ? : hatelull
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    Yup. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/travel/escapes/22rNYfood.html : Wombat Woo
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      so it's boiled potatoes with TONS of salt added to the water? is it good? sounds like it would be so sal... : EvilDolemite
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        Apparently you then serve them with butter; salted no doubt? Which begs the question of why even bother w... : CoreContingency
        • the high salt content is supposed to render them extra creamy : EvilDolemite
      • When done correctly they remain fairly solid. A fork will go through very easily but they won't fall apa... : Wombat Woo
• What's salt potatoes precious? : CoreContingency
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  never heard of it : electroly
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    according to wikipedia this is a new york thing : electroly
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      any place that has german/irish immigrants and that should be some greater parts of the us will have salt... : Hoax
      • never heard of them here in WI : sleepyvt
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        i live in the most german area ever. never heard of them. : electroly
        • that is really fucking weird because salzkartoffeln are as traditional as a side-dish as it gets. its lik... : Hoax
• http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~zeb22/what.jpg : opengl128
• Born and raised in the south and I've never heard of Salt Potatoes. : Omning
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  Dude I lived in Albany for 4 years and I've never heard of them. : sammyl
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    I lived in Liberty City for 40 hours, and I've never heard of them. : CoreContingency
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      I live on the moon and me and my clone have never heard of them. : alphablu
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        i live in a galaxy far, far away, and i've never heard of them : shyguy74
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          I lived to die another day and I've never heard of them : Navy Spitfire
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            I live by the ocean and during the night I've never heard of them. : Majuju
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              I live in They Live and Rowdy Roddy Piper has never heard of them. : hussdelrio
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                I live in a pineapple under the sea an I've never heard of them : RikiTiki2
                • I Live Free and Die Hard and I've never heard of them. : heartsauce
• In colombia they do something similar, but without the butter, and they're called papa salada. They're li... : Floppygrandma
• The true tests of Central New York knowledge: knowing what salt potatoes are, and knowing what Buck Seas... : mexicanimator
• I am from NYC and I never heard of a salt potato. : s0osleepie
• I'd put my gumbo up against your saltwater-soaked potatoes any day of the week. : jimmy-buffett
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  mofos probably think a spiedie is a shishkebab too, the philistines. We had salt potatoes all the tim... : eskimo spy
  • let's not forget Cornell Chicken : drucifer
• I'm from Upstate NY now living in Florida and you CANNOT buy the Salt potato bags anywhere here. Most peo... : Deviaant
• yeah, that's hugely popular here in Central NY : drucifer
• I have no idea what salt potatoes are. Salted potatoes? : Ebu
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  I lived in the area around NYC for 25 years and I have never heard of this : mikecyb
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    oh it's a central/western NY thing. fuck that place, it's where food goes to die. : mikecyb
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      oh someone from the NYC area who doesn't like upstate, how original. : eskimo spy
      • I lived upstate most of my life and I went to college in Albany! there is some silly ass cuisine upstate... : mikecyb
• been in Boston for 43 years. never ever heard of a salt potatoe. : beastrabban
• Never heard of them. : tfsbrian
• Sounds interesting and simple. Any regional recipe that hasn't been mass marketed sound like something wo... : steauengeglase
• Yeah we don't do that yankee shit here. : Zolneirz
• What's a salt potatoe? : abrasion
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  I'm from the Deep South and I've never heard of it. 'Course most other parts of the country don't have... : RevRaven
  • sweat tea, so awesome. : sleepyvt
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    for a long time I thought sweet tea was just sweetened iced tea until someone from georgia explained how ... : mikecyb
    • mikeysippycup, would you like some sweet tea? because that's what you are! a sweetie! : Dave-A
    • you might have been lied too. Boil water add 3-4 tea bags pour sugar into the pitcher add boiling... : quazar
• I live in eastern USA and I don't know what a salt potato is : Cheeziologist
• ive been in upstate ny for the better part of the past year, dont know what salt potatoes are :X : supaLink
• SOUNDS DELICIOUS : MrBig0
• upstate nyer here, and i love'em! : papaskot

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• Not when they're carrying m60s and fucking you up while patching people up : aggressor
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  http://www.findlegaladvice.org/forum/Military/Are-medics-fair-game-to-kill-in-War-combat-477795.htm : mrvandelay
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    I find it laughable that there is a such thing as rules of war. Why would anyone not do whatever they cou... : snot3353
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      I would never want to give up my morality in order to fight someone else who has none. : Lucien Irenicus
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        seriously, this is how you know who the good guys are. : NexusOne
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          The good guys like who? : Johnnsen
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            Nazi Germany. Even they followed this rule. Most of the time. : frank_bures
            • except vs the russians. : Jikim
            • Yeah it really is pretty sad how accurate that is. Near the beginning of WW2, a bunch of German subs had ... : DerHuhnTeufel
        • What does that even mean? Who's morality are we talking about as every society/culture/religion/individua... : snot3353
    • If both sides agree that they wont torture things, they wont get tortured. That's about it. : mollikka
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      There are other things like restriction of mine usage, no hollow points, etc. as well. : mrvandelay
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        No hollow points is weird. When hunting god damn animals, you must use hollow points so they don't get wo... : Marrbe
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          hollow points go through bulletproof vests though. Makes sense for their banning in everyday civilian use... : Schnapple
          • That's not correct at all. Hollow points penetrate less due to their expansive nature design, thus are m... : jimmy_legs
          • You have it backwards. Hollow points are much less likely to go through bullet proof vests since they col... : ninjase
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          The intent for combat is that non-FMJ ammo is more likely to produce more dramatic and crippling injuries... : jimmy_legs
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            Pfft. The objective of war is to win. If that means .50 BMG rounds with explosive tips and ricin capsules... : Marrbe
            • Nations did not create the "rules of war" out of altruisim for their potential enemies, they did it becau... : ninjase
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      I always figured the reason the rules of war exist is so that the winners can punish the losers. I mea... : Schnapple
      • Most of the Nuremberg trials were about people who knew of and helped organize the mass slaughters of the... : DerHuhnTeufel
      • Don't take this the wrong way, but I throughly disagree with you. Those Nazi bastards, regardless of foll... : Khakimon
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      It is because neither side wants atrocities to fall upon them, so they both agree not to do it to the oth... : ninjase
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        Yeah, it's amazing that the Germans didn't use nerve gas against the Soviets when you think about it. I ... : trove
        • We gassed a bunch of Italians in WW2 but that was kinda on accident. Whoops, our bad! : buzzbat
• i was just yelling at a pyro the other day on an all-talk tf2 server that the red cross means don't shoot... : papaskot
• solution: lob 40mm or use the gustav. " I wasn't aiming for you sry lol" : Downforce
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  It's a video game, does it matter? : ra1n
  • But yeah, you're right :D : ra1n
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  IRL Army medic here. (Some years ago) Technically it's against the rules, therefore US Troops are tol... : Lucien Irenicus
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    do field medics carry weapons? : gokart.
    • They don't have to. Amish and certain conscientious objectors still joined the Army in WWII and served as... : Sailor of Fortune
    • Army ones do... I'm not sure about Navy Corpsmen tho. : Kaiser
• The medics in the game are armed, so they are fair game. The Geneva Convention protects unarmed medics, b... : frank_bures
• If they were not armed and were identified as being medical staff (w/ a red cross for instance) then yes ... : ninjase
• You don't shoot the medic, you shoot his buddy. Then when the medic runs over to revive, you shoot the m... : jimmy-buffett
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  I always heard that it is against the rules of war/Geneva convention to shoot at soldiers who are parachu... : kodt
  • Airborne Troops being dropped via parachute are fair game. Geneva Conventions however forbid firing upon ... : CoreContingency
• Battle Medics FTW! : disparate
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  So what .. go watch the video of the Apache chopper killing reporters, first aid staff and medical transp... : Lukiopimp
  • Yeah, that completely ruined my respect for the Airforce and however gave them the clear to engage. Those... : Khakimon

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• Just read up on the SMs you guys sent me, so there is lots of interest, we're doing this, just working on... : ejectorpod
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  I'd go but I have surgery D: Thought Fraylo was in Fremont : Waffles!
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    pretty sure he's in ballard : ejectorpod
    • your mom is in ballard : Waffles!
    • Pfft - there 5-10 minutes from each other - who cares? : dedgecko
• guys right now we're talking mainly about meeting up in the Ballard area tonight but nothing's set yet. h... : ejectorpod
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  http://www.yelp.com/biz/shelter-lounge-seattle : FrayLo
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    paging seattle area shackers. derelict515 cltcprd [will probably stay on the eastside] cpt_gloval ... : FrayLo
    • plus visitors s0osleepie alfonso, duncandun uuuuuuuuuuuh. : ejectorpod
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      cltcprd is total gayfer : Degenerate
      • well duh : cltcprd
    • Juno is busy, Kallanta isn't at work yet : kanix
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      you may knock the eastside, but it still had the biggest Seattle shackmeet in history (AFAIK)! Of cour... : cltcprd
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        I don't think I own any clothes good enough to go :( I kid, F the yuppies my Konami shirt rocks : kanix
        • it's cool, i slum up wherever i go : cpt_gloval
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          I'm in scrub clothes and I won't be going home after work but I gotta help my evicted friend and will try... : Iwannaacura
          • Think I SMed it to you otherwise check the shackmeet page : ejectorpod
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        eastside isn't bad, sometimes I like going out there. it's just not my usual thing. the celtics are p... : FrayLo
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          ^ This. If the game is on lets just watch it together. I will harass you cltcprd. : orgcaptainnemo
          • yeah, I'd love to watch it (obviously). I haven't been able to watch many east coast games since I've bee... : derelict515
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          No I just like making excuses. : cltcprd
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            that's cool, me too. can we be frens? : FrayLo
            • Sure! : cltcprd
          • What other skills do you have? : orgcaptainnemo
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        bungie tour FTW : Downforce
        • I like to think that wasn't the only reason it was successful :( : cltcprd
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          Does anyone have that picture lying around somewhere? That was a fun night. : Ecks
          • I may have it at home, but I'm not sure. : cltcprd
    • definitely more inclined now that it's on the westside. My roommates wanted to see Iron Man 2 tonight but... : derelict515
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  OKAY! I think we're going to do this: http://www.yelp.com/biz/shelter-lounge-seattle http://www.yel... : ejectorpod
  • Also if anyone needs a ride or anything LMK : ejectorpod
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  hey downforce, check your shackmessages : cpt_gloval
  • You guys ginna crash this thing? : ejectorpod
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  Damnit! I'm leaving on my vacation tomorrow and can't make it. Though on the plus side my brother should ... : digital_d
  • Sound like the perfect time to come out! : ejectorpod
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  Put this on the shack meet site so people signed up for Seattle area stuff will get a message. : kanix
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    Link? : ejectorpod
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      http://www.shacknews.com/shackmeet/ go go go : kanix
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        well i posted it but i don't see it on there...o_O : ejectorpod
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          ask a mod to please take a look : kanix
          • nah i just hit the wrong button : ejectorpod
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          okay WA shackers should have a shackmsg! : ejectorpod
          • I just got it ... GO GO GO : kanix
• BUMP. I'll be there around 10'ish. : orgcaptainnemo
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  Sweet Fliers! http://kanix.shackspace.com/ms%20paint/ejector.JPG : kanix
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    hahaha, i won't be wearing that shirt, i will however be wearing it at a hawaiian themed party i'm going ... : ejectorpod
    • oh hahahahahha : orgcaptainnemo
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  Poll: Are we bringing other friends and/or girlfriends? : orgcaptainnemo
  • i don't think that's really an issue. : thekidd
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    I brought my wife to two other shack events and she did fine. Not sure about tonight since she is up at ... : kanix
    • I think I scarred my gf for life when she met Degenerate, Sigpro, and Filtersweep. : cltcprd
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    Yes bring your sister and your gf so we don't look like homosexuals : FrayLo
    • actually, I should bring my sister. That would be hilarious + awesome. : orgcaptainnemo
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      That will be hard to avoid if anyone asks how we know each other : derelict515
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        we'll just say we're a softball team and nobody will think we're gay : cpt_gloval
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          are you coming gloval? : orgcaptainnemo
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            im gonna try to make it. : cpt_gloval
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              hot shit, is my co-worker taking care of you? : orgcaptainnemo
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                apparently i have but outlook thought it was junk :( : cpt_gloval
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                  or "he is." whatever. more coffee : cpt_gloval
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                    eh, lame. hopefully it works out. : orgcaptainnemo
                    • i'll drop him a line this afternoon. : cpt_gloval
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                      hey guys what's up in this thread? : kanix
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                        we're e-mailing via shacknews. : orgcaptainnemo
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                          want me to cc you? : orgcaptainnemo
                          • BCC stealth mode!! don't I hate A-holes who do this at work :( : kanix
                      • Something about a coworker "taking care" of him.. : Iwannaacura
        • ...softball-team, in Ballard / Fremont---still gay. : dedgecko
      • "we met while go go dancing" : FrayLo
    • bah she's totally bailing for some work party, i will try to find other womens to join us. : ejectorpod
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  PM bump, change those RSVPs to YES! : ejectorpod
  • Duncandun and Alfonso just texted they will be there : ejectorpod
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    My +1 is iffy but you can pretty much count me in : kanix
    • Want to get belligerently drunk carpool? I'm not sure what's happening this evening with the missus, b... : dedgecko
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  Bellevue is my hood : pun][sher
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    I'll be there tomorrow to see IM2 probably. : dedgecko
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      Tomorrow doesn't cut it : ejectorpod
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        wut? : dedgecko
        • i fail at shacking : ejectorpod
  • Drive over and chill with the cool kids. : orgcaptainnemo
• Bumping again, confirmed another couple shackers : ejectorpod
• Excited!! :) : s0osleepie
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  I demand pics be taken in my absence. since I'm captain fragile for a while, I ought not to attend. main... : Downforce
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    Are you sick? : orgcaptainnemo
    • Sick in the head if he is skipping this! : ejectorpod
    • He had some crazy back issues iirc : derelict515
  • shit, he's onto me : cpt_gloval
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  Well I think we have 7 or so confirmed RSVPs and 2 or 3 maybes so this thing could very well happen folks... : ejectorpod
  • im coming down with the wife in a bit we'll be a bit late obviously. : cpt_gloval

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  Actually, it's not that function that's destroying the class. It seems whenever I create a new object, th... : freakynipples69
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    If you create an object, the deconstructor will be called once the object is no longer in scope in most c... : RomSteady
    • Even if I'm staying with in a for loop, creating objects and storying them in an array that was declared ... : freakynipples69
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      Even if you don't explicitly call it? I'm not a C++ dev, but I always thought you had to manually clean s... : MagicWishMonkey
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        I thought the deconstructor gets called automatically when you exit a program, or unless you explicitly c... : freakynipples69
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          I have no idea, I'm not a C++ dev, but automatically calling a deconstructor when an object is no longer ... : MagicWishMonkey
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            Yeah, but the object is still in scope of the for loop when it's getting called though. It'd make sense i... : freakynipples69
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              Can you post the entire segment of code so we can see what the scope is and where you're passing these ob... : factor27
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                http://pastebin.com/1x0VbVXy ignore the obvious comments. Teacher wants them there. sigh. : freakynipples69
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                  Note, it still deconstructs even if I take out cout << personk], that's why I don't think its the problem... : freakynipples69
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                    Take out Line 32 as well then. persons [ k ] = Person(s1, n, s2, s3); Because persons is not an a... : Nullzero
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                      Okay, now I understand. So I changed it to be an array of pointers, got the program to run completely... : freakynipples69
                      • Well, once you start working with pointers, you open a whole different can of worms in terms of memory al... : Nullzero
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                  This line will construct a Person object and copy it to personk] personk] = Person(s1 : factor27
                  • This. And since you're not storing the name, etc as local member variables for each object,but instead ... : paulatreus
      • Only for heap-allocated objects. For anything stored on the stack (e.g. passed to a function by value) it... : uncleanmonkey
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  Why are you not passing person by reference? It's possible that by passing o by value, it's creating a n... : RomSteady
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    Strict assignment requirements. Trust me, not by my choice. : freakynipples69
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      And I don't think what you described it happening, cause the deconstructor is getting called even if I do... : freakynipples69
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        Toss in some breakpoints and step through to see what's calling it. I'm assuming it has something to do w... : paulatreus
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          That's what I've been doing, and it seems to be running correctly until it calls the deconstructor after ... : freakynipples69
          • Post the code where it hits the destructor. You're almost certainly copying over some object, which will ... : uncleanmonkey
• My OOP syntax is rusty. I'm not quite sure, but is it possible that you're creating an instance of Person... : Nullzero
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  easy. you're not passing "o" by reference so it makes a copy. when this function is done, that copy is ... : electroly
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    Why would it still destroy when I don't even call that function then? : freakynipples69
    • you never call the destructor yourself. it is automatically called when an object is destroyed. when a ... : electroly
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      cout << personk]; This IS calling the function. : Nullzero
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        No, I actually took it out and it still did it. I think factor27 nailed the problem above. : freakynipples69
        • It's actually the exact same problem: the compiler sometimes is forced, due to the semantics of C++, to m... : electroly
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  A destructor is never explicitly called -- its called whenever the object is destroyed. Your snippet w : walker270
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    >A destructor is never explicitly called This is not true. It's common for destructors to be explicit... : factor27
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      he doesn't need to know about that. 100% chance he will never see placement new ever : electroly
      • Yeah, but it's important to call out that there is *a* use for it. : dravalen
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        Agreed but never say never. Oversimplifying to the point of being incorrect can cause confusion too. ... : factor27
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          I bow to the size of your massive coding wang. I should have added a number of additional caveats to mak... : walker270
          • "Except in very rare and specific cases, a deconstructor is never explicitly called." Seems pretty strai... : paulatreus
          • Don't get your panties in a wad. It may be a bit pedantic but programming by nature is pretty damn ped... : dravalen
• I mentioned this yesterday http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22881099. I find it odd your assignment di... : johnlocks

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  It's been a loooong road..... : drucifer
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    getting from there to here..... : someWayne
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      life is a highway... : Ride-My-Rocket
      • make your time... : devpaul
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    worst fucking song ever. : papaskot
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      Tied with Firefly's theme, for sure. : RevRaven
      • FUCKING WRONG. : MeestaNob
• That would be nice : Navy Spitfire
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  Too soon. I'd rather wait another 10 yrs. Not that it would help make it any better. It just needs to sta... : pimpium
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    And really, where would they go? Voyager, TNG, and DS:9 killed off most everyone's Next Gen fetish and : hatelull
    • Don't get me wrong. I would watch a new series but I want something new and fresh. A different take. It d... : pimpium
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      They need to do one not focused on the federation. : retardhumper
      • I would kind of like to have one thats like Firefly or Riddick in a way. Have a loner with a ship, maybe... : pimpium
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      They could set it in the timeline from the Star Trek MMO. : ColoradoCNC
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        Doubt they would ever do this. Paramount doesn't consider Star Trek games to be canon. : IndigoAK
        • They could make them canon by doing it : RikiTiki2
      • Ok, but it better be based around the Section 31 bits. Those missions were great. : theangrywaffles
    • Star Trek vs. Star Wars : Marrbe
    • I'd like a series set in the 'new' timeline. I'd love to see a series that takes on a new Federation/Klin... : theangrywaffles
• only if there are no humans in it : CoRDS
• whatever it ends up being it needs to have lots of meandering political discussions, metaphysical debates... : EvilDolemite
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  Would Brannon and Braga be involved? If yes, then it's too soon. Well, unless their involvement would... : Arcanum
  • I agree with this sentiment. Not until those two schmucks out of the picture entirely should there be ano... : Home Nugget
• No, its not. You shut your whore mouth before someone hears you. : Thornfist
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  Set in a Post-Borg War Federation where the Federation won but suffered enough losses they couldn't defen... : Snuffles-
  • and lens flare! : CoreContingency
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    Sounds a bit like Andromeda. : theangrywaffles
    • I thought Andromeda was supposed to be star trek in the year 10000 or something like that. : eldiablo01
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    There was a episode in the last season where something or other caused all the parallel universes to star... : spiffymc
    • http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Parallels_%28episode%29 : theangrywaffles
  • except that romulas wouldn't exist : gmd
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  It would have to be grittier like SGU and BSG. : WhatIsThisFor
  • DS9 was pretty realpolitik gritty. : enyakk
  • Would it have to terrible like those shows, as well? : Tommy Toolbag
  • oh God no, not like BSG. Gritty more like coated in thick drama. : Toth21
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  I kind of feel like Star Trek Online is the next series. there is certainly a larger plot going on that p... : hirez
  • I need to remember to play this. Silly real life getting in the way. : hbalce1
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    which universe? : jayares
    • the one that spock left. after the supernova took out romulus. : hirez
• As though we need more garbage on TV... : mrvandelay
• We need a Spartacusesque release of Star Trek. Star Trek: Blood and Stars. : mastermike569
• What really needs to happen is a Deep Space Nine movie where Sisko comes back as a prophet and fucks shit... : IndigoAK
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  I can't see that happening unless it takes place in the new Star Trek universe that the new movie set up. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • KHAAAN!!! : r_Ed
• We don't need another Trek tv series. : Ellissd
• a new series better be in the original universe >:( : jayares
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  Why is he climbing a mountain? : sheepraper
  • He wants to make love to the mountain. : SqueegyTBS
• no. leave it be : jonin
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  they should make a new star trek series entirely in the alternate universe from several TOS and DS9 episo... : electroly
  • the one where kira is an evil lesbian : electroly
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  I would take a Q and/or Borg spinoff. : tinfoilhatter
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    Q and the Borg could have danceoffs, and serve the galaxy. : Thornfist
    • Q would approve. : steauengeglase
• Please God, no! : bluntage
• It's only been a year since the last Star Trek movie, and it's the first in a series reboot. : Maddog_Delphi97
• if they went with a much more modern and powerful Enterprise instead of going backwards like with the las... : tunis5000

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• I laughed way too hard at that. : Dynotaku
• bwhahahhaha : wurt
• almost sounds like the guy is making the noises and just opening and closing the dogs mouth : grandmasterlee
• Dog did not sound terribly pleased. I was however. : Lucien Irenicus
• hahahahahaha BAD DOG! : virus
• bwahahahahaha : JohnnyRey
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  LOL turning on transcribe audio is a riot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhz9Aa6tDwk&fmt=18 : Mikuya
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    hahaha, go ahead with the referendum : Bamtan
    • now if only he had said "revolution" the tea party could have finally found its leader. : steelsamurai
  • hahahaha but go ahead with the referendum : aurealis
  • FANTASTIC : pyros
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    omg i'm crying over here : wurt
    • me too : Merconium
  • it wouldn't have mattered ranch : dumb.
  • haha now this has me laughing out loud ahaha : kevp
  • that is a truly amazing piece of art. : blank
  • That's one smart dog! : c0bra
  • hahahah : riptyde
  • Goddammit, doesn't work on a Mac :( : heartsauce
  • Hahaha this is amazing : yosemiteclimber
  • best feature ever. : aethyr
  • that was easily the best beatnik poetry i've ever heard : Herman Toothrot
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  OMG http://videosift.com/video/A-dubstep-dog-There-is-a-little-more-to-say : hashd
  • hahahahahaha : mr.sleepy
  • LOL : liquidlies
  • OH SHIT HAHAHAHA. : manero
  • lmao : mrvandelay
  • brilliant : Veegeezee
  • HAHAHAHAHA : Nitrium
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    There are no words. : MarkovChain
    • only phat beatz : Mikuya
  • awesome : Merconium
  • ok, that get's a lol : lechuck59
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M06e14FBq0U&NR=1 :( : Haku-Jin
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  oh my LOL : tunis5000
  • dammit, meant as a reply to Mikuya's post : tunis5000
• I want to hear it auto-tuned. : zebosausamite
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  I'm not laughing :( : Reeves
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    someone kill your dog by making him lay down phat beats? : Merconium
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      Haha no I just don't find it very funny for some reason : Reeves
      • watch the one with transcribed audio!! : OhSnapHighFive
    • lol : royalally
    • hahahhahah : biskits
• haha awesome : bolneze

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  This is easily my most anticipated movie at the moment. : filtersweep
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    after Iron Man 2 right? : Degenerate
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      Sorry, it's this one, then Machete directly after. : filtersweep
      • you're all mixed up! : Degenerate
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  I like that music. It's so epic and scary. : Rice-Rocketeer
  • The music really reminded me of the music in shutter island. : sigpro
• christ this looks good : Vanitas
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  This was the best part of Iron Man 2. I'm just watching it on loop stringing out the word "FUUUUCK" like ... : sgtsanity
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    I mean, shit, that shot where they're all floating in the air (in a hotel room?) with wires attached to t : sgtsanity
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      Seriously. What about when they're standing on the street and city just starts curling up toward the sky : filtersweep
      • yea man, this looks fucking incredible : MrBig0
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  Is the audio on that trailer horribly out of sync for anyone else? : freakynipples69
  • It's in sync for me : Godhatesfatpeople
• That looks interesting, but don't tell me that it's all Dicaprio's dream within a dream. : trove
• It's going to be awesome : AlexXdude
• looks so fucking awesome : Bamtan
• doesnt seem to want to load? : hobosapien
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  Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in there too. I hope Nolan's fielding him for the next Batman film. Levitt's got ... : Modica Sol Solis
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    I love that dude in the most extreme way a heterosexual man can love a total stranger. He's such an awes... : action wombmate
    • he was awesome in Brick : OhSnapHighFive
    • He was the shit in GI Joe. Like, surprisingly tongue-in-cheek hilarious. That whole movie was basically a : sgtsanity
  • Holy crap I never thought of the resemblance but they might as well be brothers. : DasCracky
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  All I get is a dark gray rectangle with a lighter gray "x" in the middle of it : Home Nugget
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    Save it, run in VLC! : Modica Sol Solis
    • in vlc all i get is a green screen with audio and then crashes : spiderfill
    • that dont work : mindshot
    • VLC can't recognize the input's format: The format of 'D:\Installers\cobb3.ogv' cannot be detected. Have... : LoioshDwaggie
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  SCARY TROMBONE NOTE SCARY TROMBONE NOTE SCARY TROMBONE NOTE : industro
  • Good post. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  can someone please transcode this into somthing viewable by most? : mankeroo
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    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd83rl : Godhatesfatpeople
    • Thanks. I now know what I'm doing the evening of July 16th! : freshyk
    • Fucking sweet. : action wombmate
    • i love the trumpets : hobosapien
    • and it's gone : fishbone
  • yeah wtf is this crap? someone decided hey lets put this out in a format that's really obscure so only a... : tunis5000
• looks like a great movie about a gray box with an x inside of it : jarek99
• i am very excited for this movie. : ass-street
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  Please don't be Vanilla Sky. Please don't be Vanilla Sky. Please don't be Vanilla Sky. This could be... : treefingers1
  • I liked Vanilla Sky :( : exigence7
  • Nolan's got a pretty great track record so far. : Vincent Grayson
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  still have no clue what it's about : DonkeyPopsicle
  • nobody does : Sailor of Fortune
  • good, maybe I'll finally get another "The Matrix" experience after 10 years... : tunis5000
• http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/inception/theatrical-trailer : sexydingo