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Bubble-Plexi Case Mod
sandv!per writes: "If you want to spruce up the front of your case a bit, and those lighted case badges don't seem like enough, check out Matt's guide on making a "bubble-plexi" mod." There are disclaimers and warnings all over the place about
injuring yourself while attempting this mod, so have fun but don't bitch if
you lose a thumb ;)
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imagine a beowulf cluster of these!! sorry... had to do it...
Look at the economics -- a printer is a one-time sale; you've collected the customer's money, and they've got their printer. Ink is a fungible; it gets used up, and you have to buy more. If a printer manufacturer can come up with a mechanism to ensure that the people who buy their printers have to buy their ink, they have a steady revenue stream.
Look at the relative costs. Printer prices have been going down almost as fast as memory prices. With some of the low-end ink-jet printers, once you buy more than one or two OEM ink cartridges, you've spent more on cartridges than you did on the printer. And over the printer's lifetime, looking at the OEM costs for some of these ink-jet cartridges, you're going to spend on ink several times what you spent on the printer. Think about what the automobile market would be like if you had to buy your oil, gasoline, tires, and every other consumable or replacement component for your car from the company that made your car. That's what the printer manufacturers want.
Several companies tried, back when the high-resolution ink-jet printers were first coming out, to achieve that kind of control over the other fungible supply for printers -- paper. They brought out special ink-jet paper 'specially designed for high-resolution printing' and ran ad campaigns suggesting that you would be producing sub-standard printouts if you used non-OEM paper. That lasted until the big paper manufacturers ramped up to produce the same products, and unlike ink cartridges, there was no way for the printer manufacturers to put in mechanisms to force consumers to use OEM paper.
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This is a fair and accurate rebuttle which provides evidence to the contrary concerning the existance of "Pluto":
.00012% in mass magnitude, compared to what is known as "The Planet Pluto." The assertion that a mysterious ball of ice exists by itself beyond a real gas planet [Neptune] with no subsequent balls of ice similar size-magnitude beyond this supposed "planet."
The occurrance of a false-scientific conspiracy is rare. What am I referring to, you ask? I refer to the existance (or, lack of) the "Planet Pluto." Supposedly "discovered" in 1930 by Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh by accident, was merely a clever story to claim credit for a "new planet" and scientific precedence. The pure and simple truth is the FACT that the planet Pluto does not exist. The reason for orbital disturbances beyond the planet Neptune are explained in a rather simple non-planetoid manner. Rather than a planet-sized mass made mostly of frozen water, methane and carbon-oxygen compounds, a more plausable suggestion is a mobile gravity well or dark matter pocket of comperable space-distortion magnitude. Contrary to popular belief and physical evidence, the Oort cloud does not possess any other masses similar in magnitude to "Pluto." In fact, the second largest Oort fragment is all but
As far as optical "evidence" is concerned, Oort fragments aligning in a per-chance optical arrangement distorts sunlight in a manner that appears planetoid, but is really rather faint to be considered a "planet." Reconsider your universe: Pluto does not exist.
Dutch Politician Fortuyn Is Shot Dead
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HILVERSUM, Netherlands (AP) -- Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot six times and killed Monday as he left a radio interview.
Dutch television said the 54-year-old politician was shot in the head, neck and chest. The attack came nine days before national elections, and opinion polls had predicted Fortuyn would lead one of the largest parties in parliament.
Prime Minister Wim Kok confirmed Fortuyn's death.
``After this assassination, Pim Fortuyn is gone,'' Kok said in The Hague after breaking off a campaign engagement in the western city of Haarlem. ``This is a deep tragedy. I am shocked. This is a deep tragedy for those close to him, for his loved ones and for our country and our democracy.''
It was the first time in modern history that a Dutch political leader was assassinated. ``These are things you thought were just not possible in the Netherlands,'' said Ad Melkert, new leader of the ruling Labor Party and its candidate for prime minister. ``It's a low-point for our democracy.''
He called Islam a ``backward'' culture and laid claim to leadership of the Netherlands' perennially vacant political right.
``I saw Pim Fortuyn lying on the ground with a bullet wound in his head,'' said television reporter Dave Abspoel.
Fortuyn's platform seemed out of place in the Netherlands, which has a reputation for liberalism. It was the first country to legalize gay marriages, regulate prostitution, approve and control euthanasia, and tolerate the over-the-counter sale of marijuana in hundreds of ``coffee shops.''
Though tolerant of such subcultures, Fortuyn's popularity has exposed a deep vein of suspicion of immigrants in Europe's most densely populated country, about 2 million of whose 16 million people are not native Dutch. About 800,000 are Muslims, predominantly Moroccans and Turks.
In the Netherlands, most political leaders travel without bodyguards, often using public transportation. The only exceptions were Kok, as head of government. Fortuyn, however, had his own bodyguards and his party headquarters in Rotterdam were always guarded.
Police cordoned off Fortuyn's house in Rotterdam, where he often met supporters and gave interviews. Followers lay bouquets outside the house.
Fortuyn had recently expressed fears for his safety. A few weeks ago, Islamic protesters threw cream pies laced with urine in his face.
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Not a long ago, I was one of the most hated trolls on slashdot,I even recived this from Cmdr Taco
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It has come to my attention that you have -99 karma. If you hit 100 i will be forced to bitchslap you.
The bitchslap is every trolls night mare. I had one chance left.
Now i always post at 5. I have recived offers of $500 for my secrets. Now i will spill all the beens!
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Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.
You don't need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snotting's future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Circle-snotting leader Jeff "Homos" Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Let's see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of CowboiKneel's walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.
All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.
Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.
I'll take first pass, I scramble it up and I get:
I pled, "Lux me, Bobbi!"
personal attacks hurt, especially when deserved
3 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Baking powder 1/2 ts Salt 3/4 c Margarine 1 1/2 c Sugar 2 Large eggs 1 tb Lemon peel; grated ---- filling --- 6 oz Dates; pitted 1/2 c Dried apricots; 6 ozs 1/2 c Apricot nectar 1/2 c Sugar 1/4 c Lemon juice 1 ts Lemon peel; grated 1/2 c Nuts; chopped 1. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Set aside. 2. In large bowl, beat sugar, margarine, eggs, and lemon peel with electric mixer set on low to medium. Beat until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture until well combined and smooth. Form a ball of the dough and wrap tightly. Refrigerate a few hours or overnight. 3. Make filling before continuing with cookie dough. In small saucepan combine chopped, dried apricots, apricot nectar, sugar and 1/2 cup water. Bring to a boil, turn to simmer, and cook, covered, for 15 minutes. Add chopped dates and cook 5 minutes longer, stirring often, watching carefully to see that the fruit doesn't dry out and stick. Mixture should be thick. Remove from heat and add the lemon peel, juice and chopped nuts. Use your choice of nuts; walnuts or pecans are good choices. Mix well and cool completely. 4. Divide dough into 4 parts and work with one part at a time, keeping rest refrigerated until ready to use. On lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 10 x 12 inch rectangle. Use a sharp knife dipped in flour to cut dough into 12 rectangles. Or use cookie cutter to cut dough into 12 pieces. 5. Use spatula to place cookies onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Spread 1 teaspoon filling on half of each piece; fold over and use floured fork to seal edges firmly. Prick tops in one or two places. Bake in preheated 375-degree oven for 10-12 minutes until lightly browned. Do not overcook. Continue with remaining dough, greasing cookie sheet each time.
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