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I think there's a way we can maintain a good amount of privacy and still get all the same information we're really looking for from a person's dropzone.com profile. We just have to figure out what the equation is. Don't shake your head like you don't know what I'm talking about. You read something someone posts, your eyebrow furls, you click on the name next to the post, and up come some tidbits, morsels if you will, on which you will apply the equation and answer the question that has you off on this extra-threadular mouse-clickary. "Is this person a douche?" So once we figure out what the equation is, we can finally get rid of the profiles, put all our information in, and under our name it will simply say either "douche." or "notadouche." Thus honoring privacy, and readily identifying instruments of lavage.
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If you're looking for another napster clone like limewire, kazaa, winmx, etc, bit torrent is not what you're looking for. Bit torrent was made simply so people could share big files without putting a ton of load on a fileserver somewhere. Someone creates a torrent, people connect to it and start downloading non-overlapping chunks of the file from the original person, and then start sharing with each other the pieces that they've downloaded. Only one person connected to the torrent may have the entire original file, but right away everyone is contributing to the distribution. bit torrent, in and of itself, has no function to search for content to download. (btw azureus is the bit torrent client)
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If you really wish to prevent the above situation, may I suggest the following topic of discussion for Monday: "Gathering single quotations and ignoring their context so that the pre-conceived opinions of you and/or your audience remain intact is not research."
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it's not festering... it's marinading.
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In his defense, he did put a smirking face after the joke. Which, by the way, I thought it was hilarious... ...mostly because I read it quickly and just picked up: "Aerodyne--> buy our sucky gear that will kill you and your family..."
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(R)ead (T)he (F)ucking (M)anual
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Danger! Will Robinson! Danger!
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That's crazy, congratulations. I have no idea how I'd being doing if I'd taken a break before grad school, let alone 20 years.
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This has been true for most of the "Mac experience" for me. Apple's various software apps generally give you fewer changeable preferences than I'm used to having in the windows/linux world. And while the fine people over in Cupertino have hit many nails squarely on the head with these simplified settings, they have also managed to smack me in the thumbs countless times as well. With windows/linux, it's about figuring out how to set up all your applications to work best with what it is you're trying to do. With macos, there's very little setup, but then sometimes you find yourself trying to figure out how to make what you're trying to do work with how the applications are set up.
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That's probably the most common one I get too. And it's unfortunate, because it usually puts me in "more information than they wanted" mode. I feel somehow obligated to explain that I don't generally jump by myself (solos) but I've also always jumped by myself. (I've never done a tandem)
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a lot can happen in ten years
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Having lived most of my life in Illinois, and an appreciable spell in Florida, the people of Southern California provide me much amusement when it rains and/or changes temperature by more than 10 degrees. I was at USC today for an exam and half the people there were huddled under shit like the world was coming to an end. /edited to add: in all fairness, whenever I feel the slightest earthquake (like this one yesterday) I get all excited and start checking the web to see where it was.
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Has anyone had any luck bringing a carry on bag and saying your rig is a "small personal item"?
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Holy shit, you photographed her... ...she's going to be pissed at you.
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Low-latency satcom is a bitch, just ask Motorola. And with an application like an internet connection where latency is just as important as bandwidth, it's hard to give your customers what they're going to expect for what you have to charge them. That said, in this case it sounds like they're doing an exceptionally poor job.
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The problem I have with the more recent Bond movies has less to do with the actors and more to do with the plots. In Die Another Day he gets captured and tortured at the begining of the movie... WTF is that? James bond isn't supposed to get tortured. Sure he gets caught like 8 times in only 2 hours, but he's supposed to smooth talk his way out of it, or just bust out a gadget and cut through the wall or something. He's a martini drinking spy, not an action hero soldier.
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What percentage of your annual income do you spend on skydiving?
champu replied to davedlg's topic in The Bonfire
pffft! hahahaha! -
What percentage of your annual income do you spend on skydiving?
champu replied to davedlg's topic in The Bonfire
jumps ~9-10% gear ~3-4% -
I probably wouldn't make a big deal out of it, but it would make me feel weird having to pay an extra fee to jump at a dropzone I'm at every weekend anyway.
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My two favorite jumps from the weekend...
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Neither the university I attend, nor the corporation I work for observe Columbus Day. The only holidays I ever pay attention to anymore are Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Chicks Rock Boogie, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Guess which one I'm celebrating this weekend?
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Which was actually the third name they floated before settling. The others being "Billy Idaho" and "Stevie Nebraska".
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you mean they're actually going to let you bring another barbie in there?
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Looking for a "Chaz" that was at Perris during Nationals
champu replied to linestretch's topic in The Bonfire
I know a "Chiz" that shot video for K II this year. He has [had?] an ipod. -
They ought to, the filthy buggers, they go from port to port.