I had two eBay auctions cancelled late last year because I was selling the recovery disks that came with two IBM Thinkpad laptops I didn't even own anymore. The thing that gets me is the disks would be pretty much useless to anyone that didn't own one of the laptop models the disks originally came with, so why cancel the auctions?
That's an outstanding idea, one which I believe would benefit the entire nation. It adopted on a nationwide basis, it would also seem to eliminate most of the inconsistencies associated with the electoral college, such as 100% of the electors going to a candidate that won 50.1 percent of the vote (what happens to the wishes of the other 49.9%?). I wish some organization would make this their sole activist platform.
WEGA always sounded (in my mind anyway) like Chekov from Star Trek trying to say 'Nuclear wessels'. Maybe he was talking about the old hatchback Vegas from the 70's.
Man, I've got to step in on this one. What is the weight of those items? I JUST set up to ship three Livingston Portmaster 2Es (the ones with thirty serial connectors in the back) ALONG with 90 six-foot serial cables in one box. The weight was 96 pounds. I shipped it via FedEx ground and it cost $45.00. What are you shipping (and how) that costs $52? Are you sending it USPS Priority? That's about the worst way to send heavy items.
Brunson's Super System is considered the classic text
Sklansky's Theory of Poker is also well written
I've got both, and many others besides, as Sklansky has written a lot of books on poker. Buy all of them you can find, including 'Essays on Poker Vols 1 - 3', and you'll be a better player. I've been playing on PartyPoker and UltimateBet for about a year, coming from no background whatsoever in poker, and I can consistently win. When I sit in for a long haul (2-5 hours), my winnings will generally match my day's pay at work ($150 or more), so it is very definitely worth playing.
I work for a small computer company, and we've only just received our first scam call this week. I identified it immediately as such from reading on this particular scam online, so we played along with the person to get as much info as we could, then blew them off. Amazingly, they CALLED BACK the next day to check the status of their order...our boss convinced them we'd fired the salesperson they were talking to because he was screwing barnyard animals in the warehouse, and he said we could provide the customer a copy of a video if he wanted to purchase it...:-).
Anyway, I found out you can specifically block internet-relay calls without impeding the ability for people to use standard TTY relay services to contact you. Go Here and check it out. You just call a 1-800 number and tell AT&T you want to filter internet-relay calls specifically.
"After Robert Jordan I've tried to avoid starting series that may never end..."
Amen to that. I once was quoted as saying Robert Jordan was the best modern fantasy writer in my humble opinion, but I have to say that the last installment of the Wheel of Time series was the first 500+ page book I'd read in which absolutely nothing happened. After I got done with it, I had to acknowledge that there was no plot continuance in the entire book. Everyone stayed where they were doing what they'd been doing in the previous book, and Rand himself showed up for about 20 pages. I am certain that when the next book comes out, one would be able to skip the most recent installment completely and carry on just fine.
Six hours? I'm not particularly prone to hugely long playing sessions, but I recently acquired a copy of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and I spent nearly a month going to work for eight hours, then coming home and playing to within 3 or so hours of having to go back to work again. Now I'm just playing maybe six or eight hours a week of that, but then again I also recently set up XBox Live so I'm busy getting my ass kicked on Rainbow Six...:-)
As a postscript, I have NEVER played one of the massively multiplayer role playing games, because I 'might' turn into one of those people who keels over after playing for three days...lol
If you still use newsgroups, there is a newsgroup specifically dedicated to D&D and RPG PDFs. Don't know exactly what it is, but it is something like alt.binaries.ebooks.rpg or something like that. If you search on the entire list of a decently-capable newsgroup server, just look for rpg because I know its there.
You know, I work for a company that does new computer builds, and the current group of hardware we use is spookily silent. We build 3ghz P4s with Serial ATA drives and 400W power supplies, so they aren't underpowered. The video cards are high-end GeForces with their own fans, but I swear I can fire up one of those machines with the case off and no blocking plates in the back and I have to put my hand on it to see if it is actually running. When everything is buttoned up, it is dead silent. I guess we're contributing to the decline of the Internet, eh?
I personally think that Hormel or whomever makes Spam(R) should sue the hell out of the government for making up that lame-ass name. They already MAKE Spam(R), and it comes in a can! Sounds good to me.
Most people are born with the smarts you speak of...
I don't believe that at all. There are a BUNCH of people walking around that barely have the smarts to tie their shoes every morning. That's just the truth. Just look at a bell curve that plots intelligence...there are a huge number of people at or around average, which ain't all that grand, and there are fewer and fewer as the curve progresses to the higher intelligence levels. There are only a few staggering geniuses out there at any given time, and the terrible shame to the human race is that we likely don't know about most of them.
I would agree that people that have high smarts use them for different purposes...just because you have a 180 IQ doesn't mean you're going to be wearing a white robe and a pocket protector to work every day.
DELAND!! That's your problem right there. I moved from Atlanta to just up the road from Deland and I had to commute to either Jacksonville or Orlando for years before I found even a remotely relevant job close by. Submit to the inevitable and get in the mode of commuting 100 miles a day.
The tournament tables are like musical chairs as 57 people try to see who can click 1 button, a check box and then a second button the fastest for 10 seats!
Absolutely! I was on partypoker.com last night for four hours, playing on one pot limit Omaha table and watching the single-table play money tournaments, and I NEVER even came close to getting on a table. I know they aren't going to expend a lot of effort on play-money people, but you'd think they'd open new tournaments up to the point where they aren't getting enough people to play. I don't see the difference between opening one play-money Hold 'Em tournament and opening ten if there are 100 people hanging around in the lobby looking at the tournament page.
Actually, I'll point out that the leather 'clothes' on the Terminatrix weren't clothes at all. Think to the fact that they kept reappearing as she morphed back to her female hottie form. She just had to touch the person wearing them, apparently, to be able to model them correctly. As someone else pointed out, she could have really done the same thing with any of the clothes in the store window. Of course, then we wouldn't have gotten the requisite butt shot.
My favorite recent 'broken' setup was the Sliver decks that were tourney legal up to (I guess) about a year ago. I put together a deck with three Sliver Queens (to play against friends, not in tourney), a mix of slivers, the 'Coat of Arms', and (I think) Tormod's Altar. I'll never forget the look on their faces when I'd attack with a dozen 20/20+ creatures and do 200 points of damage in one shot...aaah.
8 binders? I laugh at your pathetic collecting attempts!!?!?! I have (no shit) a four-drawer clothes chest packed SOLID, along with at least eight Ingram book shipping boxes packed, along with about six binders full.
I actually bought about 1/10 of those cards the 'first time around', prior to the release of the 4th edition cards (right after Ice Age I quit, IIRC). The rest were bought as collections or accumulations off Ebay last year. I finally had to disengage again, even though I actually only put about a 1/2 cent or less into each card this second time. Of course,.5 times that many cards is many computers...;-)
Jim Carey, Dana Carvery, Mike Meyers and Lesley Neilson.
I'm not sure how you did it, but you managed to misspell EVERY name in that grouping there. How about we give you back all those people, and keep Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, and Leslie Nielsen? At least you spelled John Candy right.
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I had two eBay auctions cancelled late last year because I was selling the recovery disks that came with two IBM Thinkpad laptops I didn't even own anymore. The thing that gets me is the disks would be pretty much useless to anyone that didn't own one of the laptop models the disks originally came with, so why cancel the auctions?
Don't know about the right trigger, but mashing the boost button made the tip of my thumb go numb for about two days after playing for six hours.
In other news, that's a pretty rockin' game.
That's an outstanding idea, one which I believe would benefit the entire nation. It adopted on a nationwide basis, it would also seem to eliminate most of the inconsistencies associated with the electoral college, such as 100% of the electors going to a candidate that won 50.1 percent of the vote (what happens to the wishes of the other 49.9%?). I wish some organization would make this their sole activist platform.
WEGA always sounded (in my mind anyway) like Chekov from Star Trek trying to say 'Nuclear wessels'. Maybe he was talking about the old hatchback Vegas from the 70's.
Man, I've got to step in on this one. What is the weight of those items? I JUST set up to ship three Livingston Portmaster 2Es (the ones with thirty serial connectors in the back) ALONG with 90 six-foot serial cables in one box. The weight was 96 pounds. I shipped it via FedEx ground and it cost $45.00. What are you shipping (and how) that costs $52? Are you sending it USPS Priority? That's about the worst way to send heavy items.
Brunson's Super System is considered the classic text
Sklansky's Theory of Poker is also well written
I've got both, and many others besides, as Sklansky has written a lot of books on poker. Buy all of them you can find, including 'Essays on Poker Vols 1 - 3', and you'll be a better player. I've been playing on PartyPoker and UltimateBet for about a year, coming from no background whatsoever in poker, and I can consistently win. When I sit in for a long haul (2-5 hours), my winnings will generally match my day's pay at work ($150 or more), so it is very definitely worth playing.
Oh come on, that's just pathetic. It takes me more than three minutes when I'm by myself!
I can't believe you're admitting your sexual incompetence so publicly.
What's wrong with more than three minutes? I mean, when you're working with yourself there's no reason to hurry usually....
$21k a year is rich? Whatthefuck have you been smoking?
I work for a small computer company, and we've only just received our first scam call this week. I identified it immediately as such from reading on this particular scam online, so we played along with the person to get as much info as we could, then blew them off. Amazingly, they CALLED BACK the next day to check the status of their order...our boss convinced them we'd fired the salesperson they were talking to because he was screwing barnyard animals in the warehouse, and he said we could provide the customer a copy of a video if he wanted to purchase it...:-).
Anyway, I found out you can specifically block internet-relay calls without impeding the ability for people to use standard TTY relay services to contact you. Go Here and check it out. You just call a 1-800 number and tell AT&T you want to filter internet-relay calls specifically.
"After Robert Jordan I've tried to avoid starting series that may never end..."
Amen to that. I once was quoted as saying Robert Jordan was the best modern fantasy writer in my humble opinion, but I have to say that the last installment of the Wheel of Time series was the first 500+ page book I'd read in which absolutely nothing happened. After I got done with it, I had to acknowledge that there was no plot continuance in the entire book. Everyone stayed where they were doing what they'd been doing in the previous book, and Rand himself showed up for about 20 pages. I am certain that when the next book comes out, one would be able to skip the most recent installment completely and carry on just fine.
Maybe he's afraid Al Qaeda isn't going to miss the White House next time.
Six hours? I'm not particularly prone to hugely long playing sessions, but I recently acquired a copy of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and I spent nearly a month going to work for eight hours, then coming home and playing to within 3 or so hours of having to go back to work again. Now I'm just playing maybe six or eight hours a week of that, but then again I also recently set up XBox Live so I'm busy getting my ass kicked on Rainbow Six...:-)
As a postscript, I have NEVER played one of the massively multiplayer role playing games, because I 'might' turn into one of those people who keels over after playing for three days...lol
If you still use newsgroups, there is a newsgroup specifically dedicated to D&D and RPG PDFs. Don't know exactly what it is, but it is something like alt.binaries.ebooks.rpg or something like that. If you search on the entire list of a decently-capable newsgroup server, just look for rpg because I know its there.
You know, I work for a company that does new computer builds, and the current group of hardware we use is spookily silent. We build 3ghz P4s with Serial ATA drives and 400W power supplies, so they aren't underpowered. The video cards are high-end GeForces with their own fans, but I swear I can fire up one of those machines with the case off and no blocking plates in the back and I have to put my hand on it to see if it is actually running. When everything is buttoned up, it is dead silent. I guess we're contributing to the decline of the Internet, eh?
I personally think that Hormel or whomever makes Spam(R) should sue the hell out of the government for making up that lame-ass name. They already MAKE Spam(R), and it comes in a can! Sounds good to me.
"If anyone can remember the name of the story or even the Author, I'd be very grateful..."
How about "Tales from the White Hart" by Arthur C. Clarke? First story therein is titled "Silence, Please!"
Google rules, booyah!
Most people are born with the smarts you speak of...
I don't believe that at all. There are a BUNCH of people walking around that barely have the smarts to tie their shoes every morning. That's just the truth. Just look at a bell curve that plots intelligence...there are a huge number of people at or around average, which ain't all that grand, and there are fewer and fewer as the curve progresses to the higher intelligence levels. There are only a few staggering geniuses out there at any given time, and the terrible shame to the human race is that we likely don't know about most of them.
I would agree that people that have high smarts use them for different purposes...just because you have a 180 IQ doesn't mean you're going to be wearing a white robe and a pocket protector to work every day.
Whoa...eight years? For what were you unjustly accused and convicted?
DELAND!! That's your problem right there. I moved from Atlanta to just up the road from Deland and I had to commute to either Jacksonville or Orlando for years before I found even a remotely relevant job close by. Submit to the inevitable and get in the mode of commuting 100 miles a day.
Given the choice between 10% better skill and 10% better luck, I think I'll take the luck. I can work and improve my skill.
The tournament tables are like musical chairs as 57 people try to see who can click 1 button, a check box and then a second button the fastest for 10 seats!
Absolutely! I was on partypoker.com last night for four hours, playing on one pot limit Omaha table and watching the single-table play money tournaments, and I NEVER even came close to getting on a table. I know they aren't going to expend a lot of effort on play-money people, but you'd think they'd open new tournaments up to the point where they aren't getting enough people to play. I don't see the difference between opening one play-money Hold 'Em tournament and opening ten if there are 100 people hanging around in the lobby looking at the tournament page.
Actually, I'll point out that the leather 'clothes' on the Terminatrix weren't clothes at all. Think to the fact that they kept reappearing as she morphed back to her female hottie form. She just had to touch the person wearing them, apparently, to be able to model them correctly. As someone else pointed out, she could have really done the same thing with any of the clothes in the store window. Of course, then we wouldn't have gotten the requisite butt shot.
My favorite recent 'broken' setup was the Sliver decks that were tourney legal up to (I guess) about a year ago. I put together a deck with three Sliver Queens (to play against friends, not in tourney), a mix of slivers, the 'Coat of Arms', and (I think) Tormod's Altar. I'll never forget the look on their faces when I'd attack with a dozen 20/20+ creatures and do 200 points of damage in one shot...aaah.
8 binders? I laugh at your pathetic collecting attempts!!?!?! I have (no shit) a four-drawer clothes chest packed SOLID, along with at least eight Ingram book shipping boxes packed, along with about six binders full.
.5 times that many cards is many computers...;-)
I actually bought about 1/10 of those cards the 'first time around', prior to the release of the 4th edition cards (right after Ice Age I quit, IIRC). The rest were bought as collections or accumulations off Ebay last year. I finally had to disengage again, even though I actually only put about a 1/2 cent or less into each card this second time. Of course,
Jim Carey, Dana Carvery, Mike Meyers and Lesley Neilson.
I'm not sure how you did it, but you managed to misspell EVERY name in that grouping there. How about we give you back all those people, and keep Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, and Leslie Nielsen? At least you spelled John Candy right.