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In other words, you're so concerned with the state of your wallet that you're unwilling to underwrite the statistically small net cost of including benefits for homosexual partners in those enjoyed by the other ~95 of the married population despite the obvious evidence of discrimination not...

One of my personal favorite quicky meals - and I freely admit that this barely qualifies as cooking, is to take a couple precooked chicken patties, cover them with "Pizza Quick" sauce (or my own marinara if I have some on hand), a little bit of minced garlic, and some mozzarella cheese. Cooking...

I tend to concur, sechs. My ideal would be that all state-recognized unions be offered the same rights and privileges. We can let the term "marriage" lapse back to religious groups to refer to some collection of their ceremonies.

I have a Mag DX17F that I bought in 1994 for $1200. It's sitting next to my bed and I use it every night. It's never been in for service. It's been used at 1024x768@75Hz, around 55% brightness for its entire life. It is not as bright it used to be, but it's a more than acceptable display given...

I live in Indiana. Specifically, I live in Hobart, a bit south and east of Gary. Gay rights are a very important and deeply personal issue to me. One of my aunts has lived with a loving partner for 40 years. They have raised biological and adopted children together, yet the two of them have...

Are you sure about that? He ran his businesses into the ground. He's running his country into the ground. Face it, this is a man who has defied the Peter principle to rise to the highest level of power without a whit of merit or accomplishment of his own.

Try browsing the internet from an OC-48 in an Exodus datacenter. I kinda liked being on the same collision domain as playboy.com. :D

I think the greatest solace that I have in all this... Despite the fact that a republican senate candidates with obvious signs of Alzheimers, and another who described his state public schools as filled with "rampant lesbianism" (for some reason I don't want to do a google search on that during...

Powercolor and Gigabyte are also good choices.

I guess I'll just have to live with myself, feeling smug about my moral and intellectual superiority.

Fortunately, some Canadians are willing to do what it takes to help out.. There's even a homosexual willing to take on a legal same-sex domestic partner. Since, you know, state-sponsored homophobia isn't real popular in the land up north.

I have nothing at all to say about Rosewhatever, but Jetway has a reputation as pretty much the rock-bottom worst-of-the-worst WRT motherboards. Which is kind of too bad, since newegg has a Jetway branded 17" LCD with DVI connector and a pretty good 450:1 contrast ratio for $260. Anyway, yeah...

As I understand things, GWB scores were well below those needed to enter flight school on his own merit, and his scores never improved above the bare minimum to remain with that duty assignment. For the most part, Yale is the least academically rigorous of the Ivy League schools. He got in as a...

I said similar things about Kerry at the start of the primary season. You weren't the only one who felt that way, i. At any rate, yes, I am considering leaving the country (key word there is considering). There is very little tying me to this place. I really don't want to be associated with the...

Well, here's the Canadian Immigration information. Apparently I qualify to emigrate there as a skilled worker. And here's Australia. So Tannin, you still need help at Red Hill, right?

Maybe Coug can give us French lessons. Apparently a majority of my countrymen are morons. I apologize to the rest of the world on the behalf of the 49% people who who live here who had the good sense and decency not to vote for the Great Satan.

Dear right-wing scum: My local Circuit City had a DVHS unit on sale for $380 last week. I have a feeling that if you wait until after your early-winter religious festivity, you will find such items in the $300 range.

You're right, RWIndiana, I do think the vast majority of the residents of the state I happen to reside in are, well, let's just be kind and say they have "poor judgement". And I can prove it with three little words: Senator Dan Quayle I think that ends all argument. Anyway, there was an...

KDE is a Linux GUI. There are many varieties of Linux that use it. You might want to hit distrowatch.org to find out more.

I have to believe that there is a special place in hell reserved for those who spout ignorant and misinformed political opinions, assuming that everyone agrees with them, in the workplace. Me? I don't talk about politics at work. Or religion. Obviously I have a minority view on both subjects...

Doesn't look like much of anything interesting was added to the flagship product. Localization issues and some minor compatibility issues with SVCDs and CD-ROM copy protection? Yawn. Wake me up when you get to version 7.

I've been quiet here, because I don't have many nice things to say to the majority of readers here who happen to disagree with me on the ultimate superiority of my political ideals. But tomorrow is the day when we in the USA will essentially decide the state of the free world for some time to...

The last couple of times that's happened to me I found evidence of arcing on the underside of my motherboard.

Praise the loahd! You have seen the light brotha Lunar!

Unless you know of a place that has 802.11a, there's probably not much point. It seems to have lost the battle for widespead adaptation, and 802.11n hardware will probably be out Real Soon Now.

Well, I am a real person. And I've spoken to Handy, BooST and Howell, and all of them are real people. Gary, I think you miscounted. There are FOUR real people. Anyway, Lunar can't be a Gary, because his location isn't that awful place formerly known as Mexico.

I'd probably choose KDE for a first-timer with a decent machine. I'm a minimalist myself, but it's pretty windows-ish IMO.

My father strained at the same thing as a Naval Officer, timwhit. There is no shame in finding that you have a different vision for yourself than the one offered by the military. There are other ways to serve one's country and there are other ways to serve the world. At this point I think this...

Apparently. ;)

I eat hot peppers at any opportunity. I've never had Gilbo's, uh, experience, but I've had the odd burn on my hand from insufficient washing.

It's worth pointing out that since you're dealing with less-than-pristine analog sources, there will be issues with less-than-pristine sound input no matter what you do. As a practical matter, using a USB device for input probably isn't going to make any difference. "Auto Level" sounds to me a...

The search works just fine. I can find anything here that I'm looking for. The benefit of omnipresence. :P Anyone know a good mix of spices for chili? I've been using packaged stuff but looking at the ingredients list on a spice packet, I'll bet all that stuff is in my spice rack. I mix three...

This was, I think, the second-ever thread from the Pub. Maybe the third. It's, uh, pretty old. :)

win98's fdisk is supposed to handle whatever. You just need to use Percentages instead of raw numbers.

Most of them are minor, nit-picky stuff. There are articles elsewhere on the web that list them all. The biggies for me pretty much involved replacing the "old" emperor with the one from the newer movies, and doing the same thing with Hayden Christenson as Anakin.

I like cases that blend in with my home theater rack. Shoeboxes don't cut it in that regard, and they really don't support enough drives IMO to make a decent stab at being long-term video storage (note to amateurs: 500GB only sounds like a lot until you get used to having that much). The HT400...

Cause most people don't do MPEG4 to MPEG2 conversions all the time.

You're right. You do sound like a religious zealot.

I've got DVDs of the LaserDisc (original) editions, the VHS "Special Editions" and the DVDs. MOST of the changes are are very minor in the grand scheme of things; the changes in the special editions tend to be more radical. These updated versions ARE still Star Wars. Not quite the movies I...

That sounds about right to me.

If you're gonna rent a woman, you might as well go all the way. One of my brothers is taking a trip to Prague expressly for that reason.

I do note that Hauppauge, after telling me in *two* different email queries, is finally offering their PVR-250 in a half-height PCI card. That makes finding a decent HTPC case about a billion times easier.

I would get up and walk out if someone asked me that question with the expectation of a serious answer. If someone had asked me five years ago what I would be doing today, the answer would be very, very, very different from reality.

Click here for comedy gold.

I'd do it, but I have to have the phone line (and long distance service, according to Verizon) to have my DSL service.

Friends don't let friends use Western Digital. Please Lunar, if not for us, think of the children. Think of the children. <shudder> (I did notice, when I was in Sam's Club on Sunday, that 2500JBs are apparently now $99. Even at that price, I'm not buying).

I'm of the opinion that it's better to never start. Alcohol is expensive. It doesn't smell good. And a bottle of anything "decent" costs as much as 256MB DIMM. ;) No, I still haven't had my first drink. I don't know what circumstances would lead me to do so. I do think there has to be a better...

You can use any DNS you want. No one cares.

Spyware is absolutely the first thing I think of with those symptoms. But it's easy enough to try a different DNS. Verizon's for example, are 4.2.2.2 - 4.2.2.4. Thing is, you are finding pages. They just aren't completely loading. That suggests that you're getting timed out. Which suggests...