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PanAm is fast becoming one of my favorite shows.

Excuse me, while I chew on some crow.;-) Thank you for the link to the gas price fixing stuff. I didn't realize it had been repealed. I don't really get that, since there is only one refinery, or at least that I know of, in the islands, so Standard Oil does have a monopoly and no competition...

Pervert. Sechs, go to your room.

Sechs: Your full of it. First off, what practicality? You want to send ships another 6000 miles to Kali and back to Hawaii, and that's practical. Bullshit. Second: Hawaii is near halfway between China and Kali. Oil companies were shipping crude to Hawaii, having Standard Oil process it, and...

Whatever. The toyotas I bought in Hawaii had Federal regs: a PCV valve. Fuel cost was last fixed in Hawaii at 4.00 a gallon, IIRC. Standard oil must be loving that. Used to be, before China want cars, that oil tankers came to Hawaii with a load, dumped it, and Standard Oil made a ton of money...

David is too smart, and young, to try and feed the Great Whites. I've gotten over the ego thing of: "Man, your wearing a hood and it's hot.(It's offshore, water 48, and 15 miles an hour)." Turns out I had the right idea in the early 70's, but, the rubber was good, for what I had. I just didn't...

MY GF knew a "Franchesca". She was very rich, drove a red Ferrari, with very short skirts, and no underwear, and a hairy... She was also beautiful. A Hollywood legend...

I had magic Jack, and it sucked. Support is non-existent. I have a very fast connection, and it still didn't work. If it won't work on the Beast, and Astound at 120 Mbps bursts, sustained, it's seriously Fubar. It sucked on 7, ran sometimes on XP, and wasn't worth the hassle. Google voice is...

Depends. Those states have a bunch of people that think the government, both federal and state, should be limited. Texas as well. If the state congress only meets 3 months a year, they have little time for dictating how you wipe your ass, like Kali, and what temperature water, and what kind of...

Just pointing out that all those folks in free states have a reason for moving there. I'm not sure if it's the ostrich position, head in sand, or the nuclear weapon position, kissing your ass good bye, but for a not very positive person, Sam is in love with Big Brother.

What was that remark about government intrusion, and a compound in Idaho, Sam?

"Wear the wetsuit to the beach under all your layers." The wetsuit is a 6/5/4 and has a hood. Probably wouldn't need any other layers. However, the drive is 45 minutes to 2 hours, depending no traffic. Certainly be hot by the time you got there. Might work, since one of the problems is...

I do the same. I've tried using long underwear under the wetsuit, so I don't have to expose skin. I've also got a full body suit, but, my metabolism kicks in at the beach, and if its good, my system wants to clear itself. Peeing in your wetsuit is a wonderful thing in such conditions, but...

Today is kind of blustery, read 25 mile an hour winds blowing off the Sierras. It's 40 degrees, with a steady 26 knot wind. That works out to a wind chill of 13 or 28 degrees, depending if you are using the old or new wind chill calculator. So, the question is, how do you get to the the beach...

Used to be that way in Kali, when it was glass only. You take the bottle to the corner store. When that days delivery came in, they picked up the returns. REAL simple, worked really well. Legislature made a bunch of laws that stopped that system from functioning. They didn't get a cut, since...

SD: David has a ton of machines running SSD's from OCZ. The ONLY failure was one of my drives, in a 3 drive raid, in my server. Pulling it, going to two drives, no difference. It did take OCZ a couple trys to get me a working SSD replacement, but, last time I checked, that's the boot drive in my...

How can they be fakes, if they are probably made in the same plant as the labeled ones? ;-)

They still have clothes on, and all they do is walk. Why would Merc be interested?

Strange, but it seems the only thing that comes from this social networking stuff can be bad. I just watched Dallas Cheerleaders 6. This girl spends a tremendous amount of time and energy, makes it to nearly the end, after numerous cuts. They call her into the office, and fire her, because she...

Widget for earthquakes works, and it's kind of scary. Lots of Earthquakes, all the time. Luzon just had a 6.0. Anywhere with a volcano seems to rumble daily. California has minor quakes, all the time.

No smog laws in Hawaii. No laws about how gasoline is produced. Hawaii tends to be exempt for a number of reasons. Location, history, being the 50th state, and some common sense in government. Hawaii can import cars directly from Japan and they do not have the same stuff required by the Federal...

How about cars? Most of the world has smaller, lighter, more practical vehicles then we do. When I was in Hawaii they don't have all the safety regulations we have in Kali. The result is they have a lot of high gas mileage, light cars, brought straight from Japan, which also has a high...

That's the line they try and sell. When I was a kid, I could buy 7 up in a bottle. Pay a deposit. When I finished the drink, I could take it back to the store, they would give me the dime or nickel back, and I'd use it for something else in the store. Great system. But, government has to have...

"You seem to be conflating a valid and reasonable fee with some attempt at thought control. I put forward that this association exists only in your mind. " If you don't see how government uses laws, taxes, etc. to dictate behavior, then I'm clearly not going to waste my time trying to open your...

"Looking for gadgets? The Windows Live Gallery has been retired. In order to focus support on the much richer set of opportunities available for the newest version of Windows, Microsoft is no longer supporting development or uploading of new Gadgets. However, some of the most popular and...

I use the bottles to freeze water, then use that to keep stuff cold in a cooler. I also have some bottles from costco that I use for water. Sam, use your imagination: If you don't remember 1984: "Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published in 1949) by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about...

2.00 dollars, on a 4.00 purchase, and you think of that as a deposit?

I went ballistic today. I've been reading stuff that suggests a good weight loss tip is 8-10 8 oz glasses of cold water, per day, kicks up your metabolism, and the energy used looses weight. It's working for me. So, Costco has these 32 oz water bottles that are an easy way to do what they...

I'd say half of the widgets that I've tried worked. Weatherbug, and about 5 others weren't working right. Right now have a clock, Intel cpu meter for turboboost, google, amazon, and another memory and cpu reporter.

That is a good point. I do pay 100 bucks a year to be a Costco member.

M: They have responded. they cut the warranty and return length on TV's. The return policy has been abused. However, I would never have bought a couple of the TV's, the Viore, and the Westinghouse, if not for the return policy. Too big a gamble. With Costco's policy, it's not a gamble.

The reason I buy stuff at Costco is no shipping on returns. I don't buy TV's from newegg, etc. for that reason. Any company that doesn't understand the situation with Costco is on their own. I'm sorry your company put a product with them, thinking they could change Costco's buyers habits. I...

Have a look at Costco.com. You'll notice usually a pretty good range. Costco has the really expensive TV's as well. I'm just not up for dropping more money then a car is worth on my TV. However, if you want to drop 1500 dollars up, Costco generally has the best values, and, quality stuff.

Is there a drop in CPU replacement that offers a doubling of computer power? Example is the 3800+ dual core more then doubled the speed of the 3200+ on my HTPC. It was 50 bucks, used. I did find that big jumps, like single to dual cores, or dual to quads are usually worth doing on old...

Costco is what newegg used to be, and amazon seems to be right now. A company that stands behind it's products, gets value for it's customers, and by their policies, creates very loyal customers. I've been a member since 1993, and that actually carries some weight. They are the first place I...

Costco has always had a pretty much unlimited return policy. However, due to the problems with being able to find quality electronics, and the wild price schemes, they now limit returns to 90 days, and, offer an extended warranty program that either fixes or replaces the item. The stock market...

Kind of curious at what point she'll even be able to notice the difference in CPU's. If that's the case, I'd work on things she can see, and appreciate everyday, like a big monitor, or SSD. Looking at Passmark, your at about 1800 on their numbers, nearly twice my dual xeons. The SSD's we put...

Oh, bull. The dollars are the bottom line. If you sell enough units, your profit soars, and the returns don't hurt your overall bottom line. Costco sells tons of Samsung and Vizio products, and, most of their customers are happy with most of their products. Otherwise, Samsung and Vizio...

OK: My experience. Athlon 3800+ dual. HUGE difference with a Vertex Turbo boot drive. Dual Xeons big difference between SCSI raid and dual Vertex Turbo boot drive. I'd try a single drive for a boot, SSD, and see how it affects her work. Or, you could jump on one of those REVO drives. I do...

Thanks Stereodude. Didn't know for sure, but, all the costco employees I talk to encourage experimenting and returning if you have any questions.

Update: Changing the blades in the Hess a pain.. I've been using the straight razor enough to dull a blade, a little. Changing them is a pain. You don't exactly stick the new blade in by using the injector system. Found a single blade razor for injector blades...

Price is good, size is good. Product seems to work. David: Any down sides to these drives? Had any go bad? Will it fit next to the 295, on my Gigabyte GA EX58 UD5?

Turning the TV down to being black? That would be typical Kalifornia solutions. Can't trust us with hot water, why trust us with really expensive electricity? Something did happen, because the 'recycling tax' has been lowered to 8 dollars on most of this stuff, from 26, etc.

Has it occurred to you that Costco is abusing their position? One of the reasons I buy things there is I trust their purchasers to buy quality products and good values. However, I think there is so much garbage put out with TV's they are having a hard time keeping up. If I was a buyer, I would...

You think 440 dollars for a 32" TV is cheap? I bought it thinking I would be happy with it, since it's the top of the Vizio line, just like the one I'm looking at, in that size. It was considerably more expensive then anything in that size range.

It appears PanAm had a break from 11/14 to December 4th. Holiday scheduling.

I really liked the look on dinos' face right before he ate a crazy scientist in episode 3 or 4. It was sort of like: "Are you really this stupid? Are you infected with some germ that may harm me? Or, I wonder how you'll taste?" Right before he chomped off at the boot tops, and left his feet...

David: Let's say you have two X-25M's that go Does the REVO drive bring anything to the table that is better, and, does it support Trim? gs

I view it as calling the companies on their garbage, and why pay, and then have to put up with junk technologies that don't work, and cost money to make and install? Why should I pay extra money for some marketing gimic that doesn't work, like a frame doubling chip that do what it's supposed...