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volleyball hints:
#1 dont get hit in the nads
#2 save this for after the game
#3 watch out for that pervert camera man

Showing your ID at the gate along with a ticket with your name on it allows the airline to tell your family that yes, you boarded the plane that is currently burning, sinking, or that shattered into a million pieces, but no, we haven't found the body yet. Nor do we expect to, since the largest piece of that particular plane is about the size of a tire. Which, incidentally, is still burning, having been doused by 24,000 gallons of airline fuel that covered it when it fell apart 1/2 hour ago. Sorry. We'll of course pay you for your loss, instead of ... I don't know... making you wait a month or two for us to find the pocket in which your family members stored their ID card, which of course will survive the fire.

What any of this has to do with your freedom, right to privacy or anything else is completely secondary to the reason the airlines started recording who was on which flight.

Members of the Iraqi delegation pose with members of the United States' delegation during the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games

Anyway, were I in 4th grade, I'd submit "nibbler."

I'm surprised none of the many replies to the parent didn't mention the heavy cute little eating machine from Futurama, also named Nibbler.

And I think it's entirely appropriate: their products may look cute, but they're backed by several 600,000 pound gorillas who are busy gobbling up as much of the world as they can.

Why don't you bitch about what they did at the Dem Convention?

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Yes, GeoCities free home pages and Sitebuilder software. They also have Yahoo photos that lets people publish photo albums.

Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers

this gal looks like she would be pissed if she lost one SMS text.

The whole Ap article here.

My typical text message is "Hi Sweetheart I miss you. I watered the plants. The cats are being weird." Cost about 10 cents, a phone call to do the same thing costs 25 or more cents. We use pre-paid Virgin Mobile. If I have to leave a phone number to have her call someone she doesn't have to dig for a pen and paper. This is mostly about 98% of all non business texting.

If China thinks it needs to monitor and censor this kind of crap it really shows how fearful the oligarchy is of loosing it's grip. It's going to spend a lot of time and effort staring at white noise.

Get a Paladin Toner and Probe (somewhere around $80) or something similar. Get your son/wife/trainedchimp to go through jacks plugging in the toner (cellphones help here; or just yell real loud) while you tone the cable to find which one is which.

Assuming you are putting these cables in a Patch panel you can just masking tape label them until you get them into their ports. Worst case is the tape comes off and you have to retone your wires (you didn't seem to have more than 30?). As for Making it look pretty just go with whatever cable management fits your budget and your mounting method. If it's in a basement and the stuff isn't gonna be bumped, you might as well go with an open relay rack bolted into your floor (you can hacksaw them down to size fairly easily since they are usually aluminum).

Supplied links are my personal hardware preferences . . .

I think that the links provided could be more relavant.

Just another stupid toy that helps kill people

I disagree. Clearly the idea of this little robot is to save lives. Our lives and Arabian lives.

..it'll probably make some defense contractor rich. Isn't that what this war is about?

nope.

Spc. Lynndie England could have me on a leash - anytime, anywhere

when will they learn to put the control key in the right place?

My robo-therapist gave me the finger. I want my money back.

I detest the new and ??improved?? CG in the SE.
Give me good old fashioned muppets anyday. ... and THIS is the worst. Darth Vader. costume. ever.

UKians (and RestOfWorldians lucky enough to have caught the Fast Show/Swiss Toni spin off)...
Compare and contrast:

George Lucas
Swiss Toni

So this is the new vader costume? I'm skeptical.

Mmmm... brown sugar would be so sweet...

Looks like Jesse Ventura is prepping to join the OSS crowd

You think they are hot in that link - check out Jenna in this link

Phwoar!

Holy city of Najaf not under coalition control: Rumsfeld

But the actual use of it was great, because of the tactile feedback (the keys sort of clicked just at the moment the input actually was sent -- sounds trivial, but on more modern computers it's a little lacking) and the audible "click" the keys made was also nice to have as an audible feedback (if you're transcribing texts and can't look at the screen, that's helpful).

So it's a lot of little stuff. Not something for everyone -- I sure as hell wouldn't go so far as to shell out $90 for it, and am satisfied with my current Apple USB keyboard with the G5 -- but some people really need that.

I do like the additional labels on the keys, though -- something that's sorely lacking on Apple's newer keyboards (especially the non-US ones).

My question is, does it come in non-American layouts? From what I saw on the site and article, there was no mention of other layouts at all. (The physical layout is usually the same, just the keys are rearranged and in some cases labelled differently for special characters.)

Cheers,

Ethelred

But the actual use of it was great, because of the tactile feedback (the keys sort of clicked just at the moment the input actually was sent -- sounds trivial, but on more modern computers it's a little lacking) and the audible "click" the keys made was also nice to have as an audible feedback (if you're transcribing texts and can't look at the screen, that's helpful).

So it's a lot of little stuff. Not something for everyone -- I sure as hell wouldn't go so far as to shell out $90 for it, and am satisfied with my current Apple USB keyboard with the G5 -- but some people really need that.

I do like the additional labels on the keys, though -- something that's sorely lacking on Apple's newer keyboards (especially the non-US ones).

My question is, does it come in non-American layouts? From what I saw on the site and article, there was no mention of other layouts at all. (The physical layout is usually the same, just the keys are rearranged and in some cases labelled differently for special characters.)

Cheers,

Ethelred

Mmm. Condi could make my "PocketPC" very happy indeed...

Ha! They've been doing this for years. Its a boardgame called "Operation". Picture of Boardgame I never could get the pieces of the patient out without setting off the alarms. Hopefully the real doctors are good at this game.

Pretty cool. Is the guy on the left about to lob a grenade from his M203?

pic here

From that picture it sure seems like, well...you decide...

Take a look at the photo of the actual X-43.

All the pics were of the Pegasus booster rocket which was dropped from a B-52. You can't even resolve the X-43 in those photos.

That X-43 is smaller than most of the bombs that B-52 has dropped in its lifetime.

don't you think Ballmer kinda looks like an evil Dr. Phil?

You've got it all wrong.

This is the face of the traitor and it was his lies that were exposed yesterday.

Do the right thing and donate for perhaps the most important cause of this decade: getting rid of Bush.

Checking post history on /. is, imho, a bit like following you to a local "watering hole" and listening to the conversations that ensue.

/., as with most Internet sites I actually post, is a place to hang out and blow off steam. That is its purpose for a lot of people.

I'm certain if you looked over my posts, you might see an overall cynical trend. You'd probably get, just from my nick alone that I'm fed up with things. I don't come here looking for solutions to what ails me. I come here to commiserate. But that is worthless information in a hiring situation. Unless you think people should *never* complain, and are one of those "I'm upbeat 100% of the time!" people who really thinks supposedly motivational platitudes on posters are meaningful, you're probably an idiot, a fool, or corrupt.

Personally, I think looking at /. for any guidance on any decision is foolhardy.

Checking post history on /. is, imho, a bit like following you to a local "watering hole" and listening to the conversations that ensue.

/., as with most Internet sites I actually post, is a place to hang out and blow off steam. That is its purpose for a lot of people.

I'm certain if you looked over my posts, you might see an overall cynical trend. You'd probably get, just from my nick alone that I'm fed up with things. I don't come here looking for solutions to what ails me. I come here to commiserate. But that is worthless information in a hiring situation. Unless you think people should *never* complain, and are one of those "I'm upbeat 100% of the time!" people who really thinks supposedly motivational platitudes on posters are meaningful, you're probably an idiot, a fool, or corrupt.

Personally, I think looking at /. for any guidance on any decision is foolhardy.

Checking post history on /. is, imho, a bit like following you to a local "watering hole" and listening to the conversations that ensue.

/., as with most Internet sites I actually post, is a place to hang out and blow off steam. That is its purpose for a lot of people.

I'm certain if you looked over my posts, you might see an overall cynical trend. You'd probably get, just from my nick alone that I'm fed up with things. I don't come here looking for solutions to what ails me. I come here to commiserate. But that is worthless information in a hiring situation. Unless you think people should *never* complain, and are one of those "I'm upbeat 100% of the time!" people who really thinks supposedly motivational platitudes on posters are meaningful, you're probably an idiot, a fool, or corrupt.

Personally, I think looking at /. for any guidance on any decision is foolhardy.

I've got the hots for powerful women. My wet-dream would be to submit to Carly Fiorina, Madonna, Hillary C and now to Martha.

She's a hottie!

I know what I'm going to do tonight (with my penis, that is).

n/t

In the spirit of Earth First! Enjoy!

Janet's tittie

As a non-Mormon, the first time I read the Book of Mormon, Lehi and Nephi kept morphing in my head to "Nehi", a brand of sodas whose grape flavor was a fave of Radar on M*A*S*H.

http://ichart.yimg.com/y?s=NOVL&z=b&t=1d&c=SCO X

A couple of minutes later, however, prices were back at the level as they were before.

How would you feel about having a good time with a virile hunk of a man tonight?

Mail me - you know where in the DC area...

Is it just me, or does he look amazingly like Ted Kazinsky? Coincidence?

If I gave a dime, I would have probably spell checked it to begin with.

While so many others learned how to spell words correctly the first time. (Especially when purporting to quote something.)

Frankly, I wasn't making the light-hearted observation for your benefit but rather for others who make the same mistake and now, with you as a counterexample, may be able to avoid it. Mistakes.

Someone has already thought about that.

Now where did I put my tin-foil hat?

Uh, here it is:

Dubya has been great for the GNAA!

"A company that will go to the ends of the earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of americans"
Despair.com

I'm still trying to figure out all its modes of operations, but it's a classic still.

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So enjoy the eyecandy, but remember, too much candy can rot your brain.

oh that reminds me of something.... oh yeah! THIS

i.e.
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