Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 17th, 2009 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 506 and if you are interested in what that would look like, check out TrackMeNot - it is an add-on that does random searches on the various search engines. I have mine query 1 per minute; it has a range... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 17th, 2009 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 1,189 CSCGAL is daniweb - if she says okay, mods say okay. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 75 Views: 5,047 You are well on the way to becoming my 'goddess' (and not in a <<This user is on your Ignore List.>> way). |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 75 Views: 5,047 Yeah! What is up with I Am Legend movies? Didn't those screen writers get it (or even read it)? Though the Will Smith version at least left him a legend - but still.... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 832 We always like Adams because the oil did rise to the top so we would flip the jar -- it was supposed to be more natural but we got lazy and now buy generic pb - someone once said "you can eat peanut... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 832 Ah, not a peanut butter lover, eh? Peanut Butter in the US comes in 2 varieties Crunchy or Creamy. I prefer crunchy, my partner prefers creamy but I will eat creamy if my crunchy is gone but she... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 1st, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 832 When I was mugged on the subway in Paris, I lost my passport. Getting the replacement was a breeze because I had photocopied the original - in the interview, I was asked some interesting validation... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 1,236 Don't you just love Aia - he adds nothing to the conversation but spite and bile but only sees this in others.
When I have a message for a single person, I tell them - if they, then, want to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 602 The increase in computing power allows for the creation of smaller and smaller *precision* gates along with the use of newer 'doping' techniques like 'camel gates... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 9th, 2009 |
| Replies: 33 Views: 2,685 Well, you just lost any sympathy or credibility that I was trying to scrape up for you. You're just a putz (well, actually I like the old definition of schmuck - too low to kick, too squishy to step... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 8th, 2009 |
| Replies: 33 Views: 2,685 Just for a little balance, I found:
Sendur, India - It is in Surguja District (Chhattisgarh state); Pando and Korwa being the major tribes of the district.
Neither Serkan nor Sendur translate... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 6th, 2009 |
| Replies: 33 Views: 2,685 I have never understood the attraction of strip clubs. Back when I was a sign language interpreter, some of my deaf friends would drag me off to a club (I mention their handicap only because that is... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 3rd, 2009 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 1,324 So you are a sexist and a racists along with being some sort of stalker? It could be that you are just too socially inept to understand the the difference between healthy interest and unhealthy... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 24th, 2009 |
| Replies: 600 Views: 46,789 You can always try Schick Electro-Shock(tm) - they actually put electrodes on your (non-smoking) wrist, attach a pull-string to the little finger of the hand you smoke with, and you get a shock every... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 1st, 2009 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 412 OMG! It has come to the point that I don't give any of MS' programs blanket permission to pass ZoneAlarm - I would rather be bothered each time than to let them start taking over my system (any more... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 12th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 927 Aia, I am glad I do not live in your world! How do you get out of bed in the mornings? |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 927 Here is the positive side of the police state (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98u1HuqS7Nk) (sorry for the re-post but I love this vid). Here is a story about them: The Get Out Clause... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 7th, 2009 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Yes, back to Bush's SEC (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/sec_ig_cant_compel_testimony_from_key_madoff_witne.php) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 7th, 2009 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Whatever the hell this means, you should stick with a plan and not just 'core dump' whatever pops into you head.
Linky (http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/optimalg.pdf)Will address this one as time... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 4th, 2009 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Ooh! Kool - Leslie bet me you'd see that I had just added a level to my ad hominem attack, I was sure you wouldn't. I bought breakfast this morning.
To be honest, I have not had the time to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 3rd, 2009 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 William L Anderson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_L._Anderson)
vs
Paul Krugman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman)
I rest my case |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 2nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Okay, thanks for the inane link to a midget trying to bite the ankle of his betters (jeez, he even dragged in that stupid clock right 2x per day shite -- worse than a stopped clock is one that is... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 30th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Here is a sample of why it cost more:[1 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122802124_3.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008122900346&s_pos=)] |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 28th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 No, I do not understand that! I express my opinions, make my points and point to places for support. That is not the same thing as posting only links to this really weird guy who talks to Bob - he... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 26th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Yes, I do. I actually look around for more than one opinion, I think about what I say, and I generally post links. I choose links that explain and often do not fully support what I think. ... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 24th, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 498 Well, you could incorporate yourself as a bank holding company and apply for some TARP money - go for a little extra to cover a couple years power. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 23rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Murdock owns WSJ and FOX Snews - why anyone would quote those sources as having any kind of validity is way beyond me. It's like quoting Ace on Obama.
Neither are rational.
Neither are objective. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Let's have a little more from the Free Market:
The Madoff family has long standing ties to SIFMA, which represents many of the country’s biggest brokerage houses, banks and financial services... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 20th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 I read that part, all it said is that if you did not pay us, your screwed. The point of SOX was to protect the public - it was gutted by Bushies; it did not do the due diligence it was mandated to... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 18th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 Er, where does it show us that the free market can protect us? Bushie free-marketeers running the SEC were what screwed us. Gutting the SEC, then blaming the SEC for not catching the problem does... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 2,287 The US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) mandates what is effectively a systems engineering solution to the problem of how to control theft from the inside. Reliability is achieved not by human... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 28th, 2008 |
| Replies: 600 Views: 46,789 It is why hotels now have non-smoking rooms - the smell of stale smoke is nasty. We used to smuggle Cuban cigars down from Canada but I started inhaling them like cigarettes and realized that that... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 31st, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 637 Should this threads be milestones or millstones? I do not code for a living but I did in my youth, now I am unemployed <whimper> because my machine was discontinued in the mid-nineties cyber-crush... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 12th, 2008 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 4,258 For those of you with FF running "NoScript" - have you noticed "googlesyndication" and "google-analytics" - I have them marked as untrusted cuz - I don't trust them, especially since they bought... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 10th, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,065 I googled'em - this (http://www.free-web-space-page.com/lunarpages-review.htm) is only one review. Google is your friend |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 4th, 2008 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 4,258 Most Google ads from searches at least show up where you know they are ads. It is true that, like M$, their business model is ad-based and I can't imagine either allowing the blocking of in-page ads... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 3rd, 2008 |
| Replies: 600 Views: 46,789 One of the first things I noticed after I quit smoking was easy it was to smell who the smokers are. This is especially bad on the bus when you don't have any way to avoid the smell of stale smoke. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 4,258 It looks pretty nice but there is no way in h**l I will let Google put something else on my pc. Just like I hate having M$ know too much about me and my machine. I think that having a 3 or 4 way... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 600 Views: 46,789 Or as one smoker put it as she lay dying of cancer "I knew that smoking would take years off my life - I just didn't know it would take them from the middle" |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 17th, 2008 |
| Replies: 22 Views: 1,898 Ever listen to the full version of Alice's Restaurant -- if you party in the belfry, you can sweep an incredible amount of garbage down the hole. Was (er still is) an Arlo Guthry song that goes on... |