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I need to get my hands on someone's roku/ATV to try it out. I'm honestly a little skeptical, but that's probably because I've never seen one in person and played with it. I opted instead for something I was already comfortable with and could easily control/set-up. No worries brah.

hey asshole, ask before you use my blockquoter. Have you considered rolling your own? I've built a few HTPC's with networked cable tuner and Windows Media Center, only catch is it costs about $500 instead of the hundy or so for ATV. If you're interested I have no problem hooking you up with a parts list.

Is the "camo" on the front there a vinyl wrap or painted on?

That's the thing, this isn't a zero-sum game. It's not about winning or losing, it's about the exchange of ideas. It's about doing a little critical thinking and intelligently challenging what's going on around you, then taking that knowledge you have and exchanging it with someone else.

Mojoe's got some serious stripes (in the literal sense) on his sleeves, you'd do very well to heed this advice.

You've made a very convincing argument so far in attacking my Pedobear gif and posting a clip from Good Will Hunting.

I wasn't. That second trip through the MEPS was as far as I got, and pretty much the only aspect of Military life I can speak intelligently about. Long story short, my recruiter wanted me to lie that I had asthma up through high school. First time around I did, until the MEPS doc wanted a copy of my hospital records for a unrelated illness when I was 5. I was able to get a copy of this record, and that copy stated that I had asthma. My options were to double down and get a notarized statement that the copy of the record I had in my hand didn't exist, or spill the beans and hand it over to the MEPS doc. MEPS washed me out after that.

I see you are unwilling to learn. Too bad. Enjoy what's left of your miserable, jingoistic existence living in constant rage/fear of the Obama boogeyman.

Had so much fun, I went through it twice in 2001. Advice on here (as far as I can remember it) is spot on. Mouth shut, speak when you're spoken to and answer every question as directly and concisely as you can. I don't know what you're going in for, but understand that you are basically talking directly to the United States Government, and anything untruthful you say can and very well might come back to bite you in the ass if you're investigated to be issued a security clearance or other sensitive position. Any advice your recruiter gives to the contrary IGNORE. Mine wanted me to lie to the MEPS doc, and I did the first time through but not the second. DO NOT LIE, but don't volunteer information that they did not specifically ask for. Try to have some fun, and thanks for your service.

i hate you for coming up with this joke before I did. You and I are enemies now.

I know what some of those words mean. Congrats on the house, it looks like a true liberal's castle. Seriously though, 3.5 acres is going to suck balls to cut. Isn't it legal to have grazing animals in Ashtabula? Just a thought, and hey, free free-range steak!

So on one hand we're being "greased up before the screw job", and on the other hand we're "way better than anywhere else". Which is it? Maybe something like this is more your speed, once they get it off the ground, of course. Or maybe sunny Puntland, you can carve out a good chunk of land right off the Horn of Africa, you can even implement your solutions to curtail illegal immigration by keeping out the locals! Electrified fence, a moat with sharks (lasers optional, wouldn't want to add to the deficit!), anything you want! You want to be truly patriotic? Pick up a book and read about Locke's social contract, about Lincoln's policies following the Civil War, Teddy Roosevelt's policies towards corporations, and Eisenhower's policies on infrastructure development and it's effect on the nation as a whole, and his policies on continuing military spending. Understand all this is where your party once was, a party of conservation, both financial and ecological, about responsibility, both personal and corporate, and about coming to the table and intelligently exchanging ideas with people who may not share the same viewpoints as you, in hopes that in the exchange you both will understand each other a little better and a compromise will be that much easier. It doesn't take that much to bring that back, all it takes is for you to put down the cable news, open a book, and do a little reading. That's being patriotic. Waving a American flag while listening to cable news pundits doesn't make you a patriot, it makes you an spoonfed, uninformed idiot.

forget it, he's rolling.

Sounds like lots of impotent rage here. Hate to break it to you bub, but the government has a right to collect taxes and spend that money as it sees fit, subject to the laws of the elected representatives. Don't like paying taxes? Feel free to live in any one of the semi-autonomous countries on Earth, there you can be as bootstrappy as you wish.

to say fair's fair?

I still have to take some pics of these cabinet doors once I get them up, but him and his company did an excellent job fabbing these up from scratch. Adam, I haven't forgotten about you, I just haven't been able to find a stretch of a hour and a half where I can get out of the office. Can we try for Wednesday? I've got all the hinges (-1 that I already banged into the door) in my car ready to go.

O rly? 1950's, eh? When the Republican Senate was too busy shitting all over themselves conducting their own personal Spanish Inquisition against "communists", all led by a raving alcoholic asshole who ended up drinking himself to death after being censured by the Senate? It seems Michelle Bachmann, Peter King, and some of the other R's in Congress have taken up that mantle just fine. History has a liberal bias, especially when it's fatal to your argument.

Interesting. I honestly didn't even give them another bite at the apple, last time I renewed with Progressive they had to issue me a whole new policy to have me realize any savings from one half of the year to another. The justification they gave me was due to the storms that passed through last year, but in my mind that would justify a small rate increase, not a double-digit percentage increase AND a 1.5x increase in the only deductible I'm probably going to use as a homeowner.

Progressive (more to the point, Homesite through Progressive) raised my homeowners from 520/yr to 710/yr, AND hiked my deductibles for wind/hail and other acts of nature from $1000 to $2500, on top of that, Progressive proper stagnated my car insurance after my renewal. I kicked them both out and went to Nationwide. Homeowners is 10 bucks less pre-rate hike, and car insurance is down by about 150/6mo.

Ah, false equivalency, for when you can't use logical arguments and just want to spout bullshit. But hey, since you brought it up, for 3Q2011, Kellogg's netted 464M while Pfizer netted 3.7B, up from 867M the year prior. To be fair, that 3.7 number is a little inflated due to one-time charges and selling off a business unit, so we'll chop 1.3B off that number for a total net of 2.4 billion dollars.

then start with the classics and work your way up.

It's not the "payment system", it's the profit motive driving the payment system. I'll put this out for starters. No, that's not satire, and no, that's not a billing error, overzealous staffer, or any other bullshit copout excuse, and I'm willing to bet there's a lot more where that came from. If you want to talk about profits, then let's talk about marketing. Last year, Pfizer spent 6 BILLION worldwide on marketing their products. The industry as a whole? 92.2 Billion. Before you start on "b-b-but, it's expensive to do clinical trials!" those trials took up 2%, or 1.8 Billion of that total. Professional advertising? You know, actually educating the people that should be educated about the benefits and risks of new drugs, so they can adequately explain these to their patients? .8%, or 737 Million. Where did the rest go? Here's en experiment you can try tomorrow night. Watch the evening news, and during the commercial breaks count how many prescription drug commercials you see. Pick up a Time or Newsweek and count how many are in there, and know that magazines that cater to housewives have double that number. Source for the above numbers So you tell me, as an industry that regularly wastes 89 billion dollars a year for unneeded marketing (unneeded since the rest of the world doesn't think that Rx marketing is necessary, it's only legal in the US and NZ), you don't think that the price of prescriptions drugs is just a wee bit inflated, and indicative of a larger problem of massively inflated health care costs in the US?

Headphones. Next? I run a i5-2500 on my gaming system, and it's taken everything I've thrown at it. I don't think you'll have a problem chopping up videos on that box. It might behoove you to look at something with a separate graphics card if you're really gung-ho about the editing stuffs, but that's pretty much going to obliterate your budget. As far as the Toshiba goes, I reiterate my objections about AMD processors in mobile environments. I've had way too much bad luck with processor overheating to get anything but Intel. Maybe take a look at this? http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00332588000P?mv=rr It's about 170 out of your budget, but Intel proc and nVidia graphics card with plenty of memory on both.

First off, I'm going to have to ask you to define "video editing", since just watching a lot of streaming video isn't all that taxing. Second, the build quality on the Asus is much better than the HP, and I trust Intel processors a lot more in mobile environments than I do the AMD.

Fuck. I sincerely hope you're getting some settlements out of this as well. What 'Murican bike did you end up getting that you so coyly posted on FB?