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    As the theme music to 'Lowered Expectations" plays in the background
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    - ASUS Motherboard Model: [P4S8X]-w/ Intel P4 2.4GHz/533FSB - 512MB DDR SDRAM [333MHz/PC2700] - nVidia GeForce4 MX440 Model:MS-8888 [64MB-DDR,8XAGP] - Some old 40GB hard drive as boot drive. - 120 GB Maxtor drive with ATA/133 support for games and MP3's. - Memorex DVD+RW/+R - and the good ol' trusty FireWire Card. Put the bugger together last week - it does the job.
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    They had an interesting take on this whole topic of women wanting a mate with financial success, on some show on Human Sexuality on the Discovery Channel (or TLC, I forget which) - the idea being that women were partially predisposed (either due to genetics or socialogical imprinting) to look for a mate that was capable of providing for her future offspring - whereas the male was more prone to look for a female that showed signs of fertility - thus why men seem to chase women based on looks and why women seem to chase guys based on money. "I can't help staring at her boobies, my genes made me do it." In either case, the show will be a love or hate thing - depending on how one views Fox poking at the social taboo that people would date based on money or appearance. I figure it's gonna be hilarious.
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    Took the g/f to Minn. Airport to fly her back home this past week. They screened her checked stuff pretty much in front of her - there was a scanning machine on the other side of the Continental counter with a pair of TSA officials manning it. They asked her if it was locked, she gave them the keys, they unlocked it, scanned it, relocked it, tagged it as scanned and handed the keys back to her. I would *GUESS* this will be SOP at all airports so if there is a problem, you'ld know before you leave the counter.
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    Since my reserve has been the same size or one size bigger than any main I have owned, it was a relative piece of cake to land on a no wind day last spring - it even planned out during the flare (which surprised the frig out of me). There is wisdom in the suggestion I have heard repeated before of one trying out a demo reserve in place of thier main - to get a feel for it before you need it.
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    Me thinks you are thinking of Sodium Pentothal (5-ethyl-5-(1-methylbutyl)-2-thiobarbituric acid), a mild barbituate commonly used to sedate agitated animals. Interesting effect on humans is that it lowers inhibitions, much like alchohol, and when used in conjuction with a trained head shrink can get a person to open up about things they feel uncomfortable talking about while 'sober'. Though it alone will not make a person talk when they absolutely do not want to talk - my guess it needs to be combined with more aggressive mental and physical persuasion techniques to get someone being interrogated to open up.
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    One of the jumpers at SDC had a hand in that game doing Tools and Tech for SoF, SoFII and Jedi Outcast at Raven in Madison. Seems though that they don't list it under his credits on mobygames.com, then again, that same website credited me for work on games I hadn't even heard of. *shrug* It's a small world after all, eh?
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    Americas Army is ok, pretty neat idea for a recruiting tool. Snagged a copy of the MP Demo for Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield - if they get the bugs nailed down before final release, this could be a sweet one to play.
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    Seems to be confusion over choice of wording. Some of us tend to be picky with semantics when it comes to S&T stuff - no harm, no foul - looks like we're all on the same page. Me thinks it would be gettin' kind of late in yer neck of the woods - Oh how does that expression go, God natt, dröm sött.
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    Amen! And ditto. My routine has always been when they call up for tandems is check gear, review emergency procedures, envision diveflow, check gear, review emergency procedure, envision diveflow, until they call door, then one more review and check, look down to make sure we're in the right county, and off to the races - from the time of 'up for tandems' to exit, my 'multi-check' has gone through 5 or 6 repetitions. What one might see as 'mindless' may be in fact a concious decision tree. As Lisa so accurately phrased it, "Gear checks are free.", I would agree wholeheartedly.
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    Ahh, oxygen deprivation - at least that explains a few things
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    advice

    GrumpySmurf replied to freebird's topic in The Bonfire

    Just don't buy too much, lest you find your closing loop cut 90% of the way through and the reserve rip cord chopped as well. Never know with kids these days, especially when they become teenagers.
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    Between the choice of being able to sleep better at night knowning the country is not galavanting around ripping out teeth, breaking knees, and drowing people based on suspicion vs. being part of flying bomb, nuked, gased, or otherwise forced to endure a slow painful death for some nut with a towel wrapped too tight around his head to make some warped attempt at a religous statement - I will learn to sleep better at night simply knowing I will at least wake up the next day - torture away. This coming from a forgien national in the good ol' US of A
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    There was a discussion about the current techniques of torture not too long ago, I think on CBS. They had one 'expert' on the field that had made mention the most effective manner they have found getting people to talk was with the use of a wet towel wrapped tightly around a persons head, combining the fear of being enveloped with that of drowning - appearantly it proved very successful without long term physical side effects. "Not Santas balls!", Southpark just cracks me up. "Red Sleigh down, we have Red Sleigh down!"
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    Or at the gates of the soon-to-be American Palace in Bagdad
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    Frig no. They gave us the day off :) Between building a new PC from scratch, running rampant in GTA 3 on said new PC, and cleaning, polishing, Scratch-X'ng, and waxing the 'Heap' - it's been a nice day off at that :)
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    Wise reply ;) This is becoming one hot potato. Me thinks the confusion would have been avoided had they published a guesstimated release date during the pre-order process - odds are alot of folk (overly optimisticly) figured it'd be done within a month or so of the WFFC. *shrug*
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    A cousin of mine (along with his wife) owe thier lives to the construction quality of the Saturn line. They got a a nasty wreck on the TCH in Nfld about 5 years ago. Both the parameds and police who responded to it were amazed at how well the car did in protecting its occupants, and hazarded a guess that had it been any other vehicle at that that time, they would have been dead.
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    XM Radio - between BPM, The Move, and The System - life, musicwise, is doing pretty good.
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    Brings new meaning to pull out eh - stuff the entire canopy in the BOC pouch.
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    Bah! Everything in life is temporary - including marriage - either they leave you, or they die - in both cases, the marriage ends. Given that fact, that marriage is temporary state, one should work on finding a suitable partner for the next marriage as soon as possible.
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    "saying how those of us who can suck. " Perhaps this should be, "saying how those of us who can, suck." Otherwise, combined with "but why try to bring those of us that are getting to go down if you can't? " Makes for such an interesting post - between 'suck' and 'going down' and all. My advice to you ... is to drink ... heavily (In other words, who cares what anyone else thinks or says .. if it's worth getting upset over, you are taking it far too seriously)
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    BONUS DAY!!

    GrumpySmurf replied to Galen's topic in The Bonfire

    Yeah the gain sharing (based on both sales and cost downs) around here had the typical employee taking home between 1.5 and 2K as a year end bonus this year - sadly, since I've only been here 2 months - I got a pro-rated amount - though it beats my friends still in telecomm - the employed ones were getting half a day off on New Years Eve, and the unemployeed ones - well, nadda.
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    "If your passenger can pick up a $20 off the dashboard, you don't have acceleration." If the passenger seat has more holding capability than your tires and suspension - you don't have handling "An '82 El Camino " EL CAMINO! Everytime I see one of those, I keep thinking of 'The Mexican' - just cracks me up. That's a vehcile with personality.
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    She is still running fine - Got her all 'riced' up - clean tail-lights, clear side markers and a set of Xenon HID headlights.