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I tried. No hits on Google.
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those gooey wall-crawler things.
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It didn't work when I ordered my suit a year ago, either.
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The NBC website says it was Brides Of Destruction.
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I pretty much agree with what everybody else has to say. I prefer AMD processors for my personal stuff, ideally with an nForce-based motherboard. I also usually build my computers from scratch. If I was buying prebuilt, I would look for the best combination of price, performance, and a brand I trust. There is a good chance that it would lead me to an Intel solution.
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-Up at about 9 -Shower, shave, all that good stuff -Write some checks -Call skybytch, order a large Optik -Go to work. Maybe actually do something. This week hasn't been very productive so far. -Go to school. Be bored. -Come home -Watch the Daily Show. Oh wait, Dish Network has blacked out Comedy Central. Fuckers. -Interweb time. -Sleep.
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Why? The end result is the same.
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So if you grabbed a CD and walked out of Sam Goody without paying, but only used it for your personal entertainment, it's not theft?
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Absolutely. About a week ago I noticed that Viacom was putting scrolling messages at the bottom of the screen. They'd only be up for a couple of seconds before Dish covered them with a black bar, so I never really figured out what it was about. I finally found out about EchoStar's threat Sunday night. Honestly, I didn't believe that they would go through with it. Now I'm thinking it's DirecTV for me. I'm more pissed that EchoStar intentionally suppressed information about the blackout from it's customers than the blackout itself. "Everythings fine, nothing to see here, keep sending us checks." Edit to add: Oh yeah, we are eligible to receive a whole $1 if our local CBS service is interrupted, and another whole dollar for each national channel affected. Yeah, that makes it all better.
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I've been following this for a while because I'm a Dish subscriber. Starting late last night I no longer get MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, WBBM (my local CBS affiliate), and many others. Needless to say, I'm pissed.
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I have 220 jumps and this weekend I'll finally be doing my water training so I can get my B. I'm a lazy bastard and would probably put it off even longer but I need the B for a coach rating. I thought I'd be able to go straight to my C, but I didn't realize that the C license now has the landing accuracy from the old D license (25 at 2 meters).
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Funny story... I do computer stuff for lawyers. Myself and the two other non-management geeks are in a fairly large back room which houses the server rack (soon to be two), workbench, shelves of spare parts, and our three desks. Originally there were no cubes. Before I was hired, the two other guys pushed their desks together so they could talk while they were working. About 7 or 8 months ago, one of them noticed that the company across the alley had put a whole bunch of cube parts in their dumpster. Needless to say, they jumped on this opportunity for privacy and jimmy-rigged cubes for themselves out of the random assortment of panels, connectors, etc. I was hired a month later. Right now my desk is pushed up against one of the cubes. I continue to monitor the dumpster, ever hopeful that someday I may find enough parts to build a cube of my very own.
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I've just done about the hardest thing I've had to do in my life :(
indyz replied to kansasskydiver's topic in The Bonfire
What do you want to do with your degree? I went to a good CS school (top 3) and while the material was very interesting to me, I heard from a lot of recent graduates that they were having trouble getting computer work partly because of the recession and partly because while CS programs are theory heavy, they typically ignore things like business skills and practical knowledge. So if you want a job doing computer stuff for a living, MIS. If you want to teach, pursue a masters or doctorate, do research, or be a hardcore coder, I'd go with CS. -
That's not bad at all. I would have been plenty happy to get that at my recent 6 month review.
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The ring attachment points are reinforced so that the load on the rings is transfered to the lines during deployment. I was talking to one of the Aerodyne guys and he told me that they have seen destroyed canopies from people who tried to add a retractable bridle without proper reinforcing. He also said that the reinforcing is practically impossible to add to an assemebled canopy.
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Honestly, I'd be happy to see them go all together. Basing titles on post numbers alone seems to encourage post whoring, especially when people are approaching the next level. Basing them on experience, ratings, etc. would, IMHO, be too susceptible to manipulation by unscrupulous users and require too much policing my moderators who already have a lot to do. There is an interesting thread in Suggestions about ranking users based on community feedback, so that the status of a person who gives consistently good advice would be elevated by his/her peers. It has the potential to be a good system, but similar trust metrics have shown weaknesses to manipulation in the past.
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"Hey, Remember the 80s?"
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Do you walk across a taxi-way after you land?
indyz replied to skyhussy's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
At Hinckley the landing area is across the grass runway from the rest of the DZ facilities. No way to get around walking across it. The runway is shared by a fairly busy glider port, which makes things interesting because gliders on final can be tough to see and are completely silent, not to mention incapable of a go-around. -
Pretty similar in Wisconsin. On the plus side, after this morning I only need 16 more signatures on my coach rating card (out of 17).
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Lucky SOB. High school class of aught-one here.
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Firewire transfers the video from your camera to your computer exactly as it is stored on the tape. If you have a slow computer it's possible to lose entire frames of video during the transfer, but general blurriness or distortion just isn't possible. There will be quality loss when converting to VCD. You are cramming MiniDV at 25Mb/s into 224kb/s. The only way to do that is to give up significant amounts of quality. It is unavoidable, and has nothing to do with the Firewire capture.
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He climbs into the harness.
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If you each put your pst file on a share visible to the other user, then add each other's pst file as a Personal Folder from (I'm doing this from memory, so bear with me) Tools->Special, you should be able to see each others email. We do something similar with Office 2000 so that secretaries can see their attorney's calendars and tasks.
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OK, then fill in the title box (it's right at the top of the edit window) so that your page's title is something other than "Untitled Document." "application/octet-stream"
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Just the text, or the images too? If it's the text, and you are using Internet Explorer, try: View -> Text Size -> Medium