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Just to take this conversation to the land of Godwin's Law: Mein Kampf is a book that has had a localized effect on history. It is undoubtedly an important text, but only for a few decades. In historical terms, it's just a promising rookie prospect to your holy book's solid lifetime...

It's likewise hilarious to find individuals who claim to believe the whole and literal truth of the bible as the revealed word of god. Those same people have to begin making exceptions literally on the first page of the book... if they managed to read that far.

I figure I need about five fonts, total.

This warms the cockles of my heart. Handy, most statistical polling is done with samples that you'd probably think are staggering for their smallness. Presidential polls are usually taken from samples of 500 or 1000 or maybe 2000 people. If you remember from the '04 election, there were 10 or...

In contrast, all my monthly expenses (gas, food, rent, insurance, electricity) + my expensive media-collecting habits - don't quite work out to $1000 a month...

Most of the population of Europe pretty much thinks of religion as the quaint thing their grandparents do. Even "conservative" nations like Italy, Spain, Ireland and Mexico have legalized abortion and gay marriage. Apparently lawmakers in those countries understand the difference between the...

Pradeep and Sol - not a big fan of guns. More particularly, I'm not a big fan of the sort of person who is a big fan of guns in the USA. It's one thing to talk about sport shooting with a gun you keep at the range, or hunting for something you'll actually eat, but the minute you start to oppose...

That was a google April Fool's joke about four years ago, Lost6200. So, anyway, this week's Newsweek Magazine shows something even more disturbing than usual about the US population: This is the article about the study in question 48% of COLLEGE GRADUATES do not accept the theory of...

I can't imagine the circumstance that would make that Seasonic a lesser PSU than that Antec, other than sheer wattage. Maybe corrupted info in CMOS? That would explain why everything was normal after you swapped PSUs.

Do you have, say, a PCI video card?

You might pull one of the video cards as well, or drop to a single, less capable video card for testing purposes. Likely culprits in this are the motherboard and the video card(s), if the system is powering on at all. From your description that sounds like the case.

The Screaming Woot Monkey (i.e stuffed monkey slingshot thing) is awesome. I bought three. They shall strike fear in the hearts of my students. And they are loud, too.

I was very unimpressed with the 300 soundtrack. Was expecting awesomeness. Received tired, recycled crap that was cribbed from Poledouris's Conan the Barbarian soundtrack and from the more bombastic Hans Zimmer stuff. Bleh. Lately I have been switching between piano music by Debussy and by...

I am normally better at counting small numbers than that...

In my experience, the two things that slow down system startup more than anything else are Antivirus software, unnecessary services and having too damned many fonts installed. I suspect the programs that don't have any startup options are services. Hijack This can show you which of those...

Samsung is a memory manufacturer, much moreso than a hard disk company. Seagate is a hard disk company that is not a memory company. I rather strongly suspect that Samsung's SSD products will very shortly make it a leader in the secondary storage marketplace. Duopoly may be a short term scenario.

"The Watchmen" will fail as a movie if it is played as anything other than straight, deadly-serious. Rorschach and Veidt in particular are characters that could go down into campy-comic-land and that would be TRAGIC. Actually I have a real problem with its adaptation as a film because there are...

1. I'd like to apologize to Clocker for the direction this thread has taken. Hopefully useful information was extracted prior to this becoming the SF Roundtable on Gayness. 1a. Not that there's anything wrong with that. 2. No one has to tell me about the magical powers gay guys have to get...

For what it's worth, being a gay as a guy is actually a pretty good deal. There's lots of casual sex... and your "friend" actually has the same drive you do, so there's no argument over what to do with that empty half-hour you might've spent watching "Survivor" with the girlfriend you no...

All the BSGs, streaming

I know all about "nice changes of heart" and hey, at least yours was straight. You got at least one kind of fucking I didn't. :( Still, everything about that situation has just sucked. Buyers falling through. Renting AND paying a mortgage, having an uncertain living arrangement for over a year...

http://movie6.net/movie/tmnt-.html

I found 300 on dailymotion.com about a week ago. I didn't even have to torrent it. :D Today I watched TMNT the same way.

In English, fair means very light skin and light complexion, probably best exemplified by the pale folk of the British isles. Of course, it's possible to be fair-skinned and non-European, which is what mubs said.

My working life in combination with my particular set of interests and social dysfunctions, make doing anything like that pretty much impossible. I work odd hours. I like solitary activities. I don't drink. I don't care for sports or crowds or popular music or being outdoors. I don't speak to...

I think that if WD made a 15k SATA drive, what they'd sell would just be a serial number so you could find out where it was in the RMA process.

That house does not look very special to me. It's missing like $3.8 million worth of special. Unless it has a Hot Chicks Room. But you'd think they would put something like that on its web site. Also Merc's pedantic English tip for the day: It's is the contracted form of "It is" or "It has."...

No, no. I'm pretty sure they'd be going to westerndigital.com if they were wanting an RMA.

I'd just like to point out that this is probably the least typos in a Lost6200 post ever in the history of SF. Also, who the hell would ever go to Maxtor.com?

A 150,000rpm SATA drive would very likely be a hibachi drive! You wouldn't back up 24TB. You'd mirror 12TB. That's still a lot of space. The "no advantage to SCSI" thing referred to the reliability of the drive, Bozo.

300 is very stylized. It's not a slasher movie. Grindhouse will be out soon and looks like a lot of cheesy fun.

The fallout I see from that is a lot of vomit boxes suddenly having Maxtor branded cheapo-drives. I'll bet they move "Seagate" to a prestige branding.

Heroes picks up again in a week or two. So does the Sopranos. Recent TV Shows I have enjoyed watching: Dexter (1 season), Venture Bros. (2 seasons), The Boondocks (1 season), The Wire (4 seasons), Rome (2 Seasons), Big Love (1 Season), The Shield (5 seasons), The Sopranos (6 seasons), Carnivale...

Handruin, you kind of got fucked on your mortgage anyway. Did you ever sell that place or have you moved back? I am glad I do not own a house right now. Another few years and all the idiots who bought homes with whacked-out ARMs and interest only loans with be busting out of their mortgages...

I've heard that certain US retailers are dropping the SKU for the 20GB Playstation for some reason. If that's the case they may discount them to get them out of the supply chain. I guess the unit with the bigger drive is vastly more profitable and popular?

Because there really isn't any other hope for me to find real-life companionship, LM. There are 101 rants wrapped up in this, but it is very important to me to have that experience.

Not enough people have PM'd me. I am very disappointed in all of you.

I use RAID0 in preference to JBOD arrays when all I want is a larger-than-a-single-drive volume. But then I also mirror everything.

Bear McCreary's blog entry on the last episode of BSG.

Industry in the USA is fucked up. You guys who are deriding unions and what they do need to understand something: Big industrial-type companies will do anything and everything to anally rape the blue collar dopes who do their work. That's not hyperbole. The relationship between working stiffs...

Uh, spoiler stuff for BSG fans. All of you should be BSG fans. To that end, I will gladly point you to a high quality direct download of the first three hours of the show. PM me. All of you. I mean it. My theory is that Starbuck went through a wormhole in the eye of that storm and came...

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh awayeth. Apparently, while Vista's "time remaining" counters for file move and copy operations are now much more accurate than they've ever been, there's a pretty serious Vista bug that makes it vastly slower for actually copying and moving files. Linkage...

Clocker, my issue with GM has a lot to do with what happened to Danville, Illinois after the parts plant there moved out. I know there's Flint, Michigan - the subject of "Roger and Me" - but it's the same thing. Grown men with no work. A lot of my family lived there, and some of them worked at...

Yes there is. And the music is only a transparent device if you've heard that song before. Which I hadn't. The Season 3 soundtrack will be released in August. I am looking forward to that.

Yes but Honda has, to the best of my knowledge, not devastated the economies of dozens of small midwestern towns that used to have some kind of auto plant. I'll give them some credit for that, Mr. GM Man. The Element really has been the right vehicle for me. Tons of interior space. Handles like...

24MBps has been known as a real world limit for USB2 bridge chips for some time. I know specs would indicate better performance, but it just isn't there. This limitation is a very good reason to look at Firewire products. ddrueding, your drives are only halfway across the country. And even...

Stupid nine month wait for new Battlestar Galactica episodes. :( My brother asked me to download all of "Dexter", which likewise did not disappoint. Dexter is a serial killer. And a sociopath. The whole show is a lighthearted romp through the mind of a killer. It's worth downloading or picking...

I like how my Element looks just fine. :P Psions, on the other hand, are hideous.

Er... you mean SAN, don't you? Cause SAS is just pretentious and expensive SATA.

No mystery meat. But my vegetable crispers were filled with something that was well on its way to being petroleum. Why is it that each and every time I visit a personals web site I feel like slitting my wrists?