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« on: August 30, 2007, 08:42:42 PM »
Yeah it would be cool, unless you think about the cost to take one pound of weight/volume into space and back again and the number of hungry people who could put off starvation for a week with that $.
In 1996 - 1998, it cost between $10,000 and $20,000 (US) to put one pound of material into orbit. Now many starving people could you feed with 60 grand?
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« on: August 30, 2007, 07:54:32 PM »
Brother, if you measuing "country coldness" by shrinkage when you go in the water then Trinidad should be snowing in some parts. Beaches that nice and cool duing the day can be pretty cold at night. Even some beaches like Maqueripe get downright chilly during the DAY if the currents coming into the bay right.
And as a man who's been swimming in the dark enough times, water NEVER warmer at night. And yuh see flipping river water at night? Listen nuh doh even PLAY that nonsense unless you running a fever or something or hoping to make a particularly bad impression on someone.
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« on: August 30, 2007, 12:46:57 AM »
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_aug2007/PiranhaOnSteroids.htm
WTMC!!!
Lol @ reducing the urge to go skinny dipping.
That is not any form of piranha. It looks like a big african tigerfish, Hydrocynus goliath. You get those in lakes and rivers from Tanganyka down into the Congo basin. They get up to about 50 lbs, I think. Piranhas are a totally different family to that thing. You get Pygocentrus (the ones you would think of if you think of piranha usually... well the ones I think of at least... assuming I'm thinking of piranha instead of, oh something like winning lotto, or beating the blasted emperors without switching to a jade golem), Pygopristis and Serrasalmus that you find mainly in the Americas (unless some fool lets them go somewhere else). Whole different continent really. That thing up there is probably more closely related to a neon tetra than a real piranha. If you relly want to fight the urge to skinny dip, realise that that water is probably colder than you think, and no it is NOT warmer at night, it's bloody well colder at night, and we all know what happens when you move yourself into that cold water. Now think about the kind of wanderful impression you would make and having people call you stupy and singing that song involving "teeny weeny shriveled little short" as the major part of the chorus.
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« on: August 20, 2007, 09:34:59 PM »
And in the same vein.
You guys would probably think I was making it up if I mentioned that the same thing happend in emperor valley zoo a long time ago, that's why they had to redo the big cat enclosures with the nets. Hell some of allyuh would probably say I was lion.
As I recall it wasnt beer that drove him to it, it was religion. He probably took Psalm 90 a little too seriously "Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis et conculcabis leonem et draconem". He should probably have taken the steps in literal order and started with the asp and basilisk before working his way up. Might have survived the snake bite, being that close to POS G.H. .... then again.......
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« on: August 14, 2007, 07:49:52 PM »
Check your inbox.
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« on: August 14, 2007, 07:17:59 PM »
Uh guys, rape is when someone doesn't consent to something. By law minors cannot give their consent whether the want to or not, so it is automatically rape. A minor might be more than willing to do a lot of things when an adult knows better. Or an adult might be taken advantage of when drugs or alcohol or a physical handicap are involved. But be honest. If it happens to you, God forbid, are YOU going to make a report? Worse, how do you think that the police and the law will respond? And for those who STILL think that it's impossible for a woman to rape a man, you are wrong, you can choose not to act in a situation, but it is far far different to choosing not to react in a situation. So physical coercion is possible too. Guys, it's like saying that a man cannot be physically abused by a woman. If you feel that's the case, read on: In an article posted on MenWeb, correspondent Barry Daniels interviewed Michael Burlingame, professor of history at Connecticut College and author of the book, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
University of Illinois Press. Daniels notes: As Pokorski noted in his lengthy report, historians have long known that Lincoln's relationship with his wife, Mary, was sometimes tempestuous.
But beyond that, Pokorski reported, the new book 'cites evidence that Mary was both physically and verbally abusive toward Lincoln' and that the marriage was 'so truly miserable' that 'Lincoln's desire to be away from Mary probably contributed to him becoming president'.
Or, as author Burlingame more delicately puts it, had Lincoln married a more, uh, congenial wife, he might more likely 'have been satisfied with the modest emoluments of a country lawyer's practice' and contented himself 'in the delights of an inviting and happy home'.
So I asked Burlingame, who put in 10 years researching his book, would it be fair to describe Lincoln as, in the language of today, a 'battered husband.'
'Well, yes, he was one,' replied Burlingame unhesitatingly. 'He was in a sense a victim of spousal abuse.'
For instance, when the Lincoln's were residing in Springfield, in the old home that is now a shrine, one day Abe didn't put more wood on the fire soon enough to suit Mary, so she bopped him with a piece of firewood. 'The next day,' says Burlingames's book, Lincoln showed up for work 'with a plaster (bandage) covering his nose.' On another occasion, the meat Lincoln bought for breakfast wasn't what Mary wanted. Bam! She smacked him in the face and drew blood. The book also cites incidents, as noted above, in which Mary let old Abe have it with hot coffee, broomsticks, and fast-pitch potatoes.
It got so bad that, according to the book, Lincoln, as a Springfield lawyer, kept a couch in the office where he often spent the night. He also took refuge on occasion with neighbors and friends.
And being married to Mary and what the book calls her 'ungovernable temper' obviously didn't get any easier after Lincoln became president and had the Oval Office to hide out in.
In 1864, with the Civil War still raging around him, the book recounts - by way of illustraqting how Lincoln viewed life and strife with Mary - an incident in which Lincoln pardoned a young Union soldier who had been sentenced to death for deserting the army to mary his sweetheart.
As he signed the pardon, Lincoln commented in an aside to a witness that: 'I want to punish the young man. Probably in less than a year, he will wish I had withheld the pardon.' http://www.safe4all.org/essays/victimsYeah we can be all macho and laugh and carry on, but seriously, if it happened to you, would it still be so funny? Would you be able to face your peers and admit it?
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« on: August 13, 2007, 11:13:38 PM »
If Lucasarts have beef with bioware, they hadda be on crack. KOTOR was the most highly critically acclaimed Star Wars Title in history!
Das what I said about the bond producers and Pierce but dat didnt stop them from firing him. 
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« on: August 13, 2007, 10:02:49 PM »
We'll...it's not unusual at all. As you defined from your post...he was dialing from outside his...well...rather...'their' point of presence.
Ok got it now. The bill would make sense if he was dialing into a G or H combination for the 100 hrs.
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« on: August 13, 2007, 08:32:36 AM »
The book's even more of a classinc because he was kinda experimenting in the use of english at the time.
As an aside, listen to that song, "Dont stand so close to me" by The Police. There's a reference to the book.
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« on: August 13, 2007, 08:22:33 AM »
Highly unusual. I say that because I had packages with two of the sister companies as well and that phone bill itself came up to about $60 a month. Subtract $30 for the rental itself and so all I was paying in call charges was about $30. The only time my internet bill came up to more is when I accidentally went to about 200 hrs on my 100 hrs package.
Were you permanently dialling into an "outside of your area" POP or through a cell phone? Remember calls inside of your "Area code" cost 24 cents unlimited. (Unlimited is defined by TSTT as from 12 midnight to 12 midnight tho....)
I remember getting a >$200 bill in... 1994 probably around may/june and being told that it was my fault "being on the internet all the time like that". The real reason was my sister making a bunch of calls to her pre-teen friends. I worked out that my bill at the time was closer to $20 and handed them $40 and a piece of paper with my calculations.
Average 3 hour long calls a day * average 30 days * 24 cents per call
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« on: August 12, 2007, 11:27:21 PM »
WTMC when your ping is 600 and everybody else sitting at a cool 40-100
!!!!
WTMC
That's thanks to Carib Link...
*shudders as he remembers dreadful days of carib link dial up where you paid per minute for your connection and phone bill came back in the late hundreds early thousands just for internet.*
Uh... so why you didnt just go with a 100 hrs package (or three) from their sibling provider? But as an aside, do you remember that a certain group of internet providers had cable modems sitting around since the mid to late 90s made several offers over the years and didnt share them out to the "public" until not so long ago? That's a belated WTMC right there.
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« on: August 11, 2007, 03:53:34 AM »
Actually it's not hours, it's days if you want to be safe. Not because of reflex actions or anything like that, though. Its a case of the venom being stored in the head, and you being possibly unlucky enough to step on the head, pierce your foot with a fang and compress the head enough to envenomate yourself. Think of it as a full syringe lying on the floor in a crack house.
TrinithereturnofGam, you really shouldnt kill off all the snakes in your area, unless you like the idea of leptospirosis, which AFAIK kills more people in T&T than snakes do. Better to get familiar with the three (though I suspect that there's a fourth) venomous ones, so you can steer clear. (They also happen to be the ones NOT protected by law. The law probably figured they didnt need it's help.)
The majority of snakes in T&T have a bad rep for no reason at all. They eat other pests, keep us from dropping dead on a regular basis, usually run away when they see us coming. In all the time I've wandered around in the bush (real bush, not empty lots or caroni swamp) I can only say I saw wild snakes maybe three or four times, and of those only once was it a venomous snake.... a mapepire. I've smelled them more times than I've seen them.
But I usually wear steel toed boots, so I cant say that I was ever much worried about getting bitten on my feet. I figure if any snake dumb enough to stick around for 220 lbs of Gambitt to step on it, in his 5 lbs of steel toed boot, it was feeling suicidal anyways.
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« on: August 11, 2007, 12:59:15 AM »
You right, but I was always under the impression that it was because Lucas arts took it away from bioware. I remember reading a blurb that looked like sour grapes at the time about bioware and some sonic boom game or something. I had thought that it was because bioware wasnt living up to their (LA's) vision of it. But then again I also heard about Force Unleashed, and I doh think they letting obsidian or bioware do that one either.
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« on: August 10, 2007, 03:59:04 PM »
We only have a few poisonous species in T&T, Corals and the two mapepires. I suspect that we have (or had) another but it's not on the books. The way I see it, if you ever get bitten by a snake in trinidad you dont need to worry about if you are going to die. With the coral and one of the mapepire, you already dead. With the other, you probably wouldnt dead, you just feel like you going to dead.
But seriously, most bites on humans seem to be "dry" bites anyway, you probably wont die. And since they normally slither off as soon as they see you coming the amount of rubbish you normally have to go through to actually get bitten by one of them makes it even less likely. And before allyuh go and tell me how redlum almost dead from a coral snake, remember we have something like at least four species of false corals in T&T (they are Colubridae) and only two real corals (Elapidae) and that whole "Red on yellow ... red on black" rhyme does NOT apply to us in T&T
But hey what I know about snakes? I been bitten three times on the same finger by the same rainbow boa in as many weeks.
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« on: August 10, 2007, 11:14:53 AM »
I dunno man, KOTOR was amazing. KOTOR 2 felt... less amazing but still pretty good. It wasnt complete. You could literally feel it in the game, that pieces were left out, that they tried for too much in one grab. Still a pretty good game.
I keep peeping at the bioware site every once in a while hoping that they'll have something useful. They not being very helpful in that respect.
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« on: August 10, 2007, 09:54:55 AM »
Actually, it doesn't hurt at all. There are no performance enhancements, just more options for tweaking. Besides, by the time the 10.1 hardware matures, i'll be upgrading.
I noticed where it said no real enhancements in the copy and pasted article. But to be told after upgrading specifically for DX10 that, on the face of things, your equipment is now very close to obsolescence...
Understand my point, i.e., not everyone wishes to be on the "cutting edge" with their equipment, but most everyone wishes to be able to play most games or use most pieces of software. And here we are talking about an OS that required in many cases an overhaul to begin with, and now, a mere 8 months later is putting out a very minor "upgrade" that makes the initial overhaul a "waste of money".
That's rough. And it HAS to hurt. It seems that the author would agree given his comments on blood pressure and cheesing off.
Dude...I could'nt care less what happen with Vista, SP1 and DX 10.1, at least for the rest of the year. In case you have been living under a rock these last few months, you'll know that almost all developers are staying on the DX9 codepath and those who using dx10 ill also have a dx9 path. Personally, I still use XP since its performance in graphics (and just about everything else) is better than that of Vista.
Again...it DOESNT hurt since despite that dx10.1 thing I still play ALLL games on ULLTRA settings and when the next generation comes out, i'll be getting that too.
Read meh post over again nuh. I not talking about you personally, I talking about all the millions of users who dont have $ growing on trees to perform major upgrades every time someone decide to change the recommended system req's. I talking about all the people who paid to upgrad or custom build systems based on the specs for vista, to have those specs change this drastically in a few months based on a minor revision. I not saying you cant still run XP or even ME, but since I havent been living under a rock for the last few months I also know that MS has been pushing vista exclusive software to try and convince people to migrate. I also know that a lot of people were complaining because their "older" software giving hell to run on vista. BTW you remember the jump to Windows NT? That time we got to choose between stability and gaming. Even back then, when games were crappy by comparison to what we have now, as a gamer back then it hurt hearing that we had to make that choice.
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« on: August 09, 2007, 07:50:51 PM »
Uh... just a guess, but it could be an ice spike. Never actually seen one IRL, they generally form when a freezer is set to just a little below freezing and the water is highly pure. But it looks too large for that. Might just be an icicle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike
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« on: August 09, 2007, 07:47:14 PM »
See why is better to raid yuh neighbour ixora for free than go spending good money behind dem women and dem? An online florist is facing a million-dollar legal case after it revealed one of its customers was sending flowers to his girlfriend.
Leroy Greer is suing 1-800-Flowers after it sent a thank you card for using its service to the man's home address. His wife opened the card and queried the order, which was then faxed through to her.
The fax contained details of the order and the message "Just wanted to say I love you and you mean the world to me! Leroy". The order also included a stuffed animal.
Greer's wife amended the fax, sent it to her husband and has sued for divorce. He is now suing the florist for a million dollars in the Texas Southern District Court.
News source: VNU Net http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=41875
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