Cheech

Please, by all means, share with us your repertoire of beer. I want to know what you've tried and where you tried it.

Sounds like the minutia on parts has been picked over, so I'll start on storage solutions. I don't know if you leave this PC on all the time or not, if you don't (and at these PSU loads nowadays, I don't blame you), you obviously don't have to spring for a full-out RAID0/1/5 NAS. I have a single 500GB that's got all the biggies; iTunes library, pr0n collection, stuff like that. If I had sufficient coin, that would end up being a 3TB RAID5 dumb SAN with a eSATA connection back to the PC. All the redundancy of RAID, none of the expensive backplane stuff or internal resources. Of course, if you turn your rig off that kills the connection, so a NAS might not be a terrible thing. As I recall I think there are NAS's that also have eSATA, if you're trying to do something hardcore on it on your primary rig, doing it over a network (wired or especially wireless) probably isn't the best thing to do.

Works, sleeps, eats, and movies, eh? Buy him a porno and a 2 liter of Coke.

Fucking bingo. NOTHING more needs to be said.

I had someone call me saying that I had won some "real cash" sweepstakes from one of my credit cards. He then asked if I carried a Visa/MC/AMEX, to which I responded with *click*. Getting more and more brazen...

he's, um, kind of a bigger guy...

and we are all the product of the inbreeding of the family of Abraham. Jews, Arabs, Christians, 'erbody. That is, um, if you believe in such things...

shut up and bring me my simulated coffee.

Lager, yes. Black and Tan, you shut your whore mouf.

Some coastal villages and cities in Japan (especially close to the epicenter) now flood two times a day on high tide due to the entire land mass losing 5 meters (16 feet) of elevation during the tectonic plate movements as a result of the quake. Manhole covers (and the pipes that they covered) now jut up through the street because the street moved lower and the pipes didn't. Power lines sank deeper in the saturated soil, putting overhead wires much closer to the ground. Crazy stuff.

motherfucking pwned. hope everything works out for you, have a baby ruth

dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

Excellent!

i get a little sick and don't follow the playoffs to find out that Tampa Bay is up 2-0 on the Caps? SAN JOSE IS 2-0 ON THE WINGS?

Pome, eh?

Ah, that was indeed satisfying.

I suddenly want something very bad to happen to you.

I love people like this. "I don't consider myself a birther"... but I'm seriously a birther. Go back to listening to Rush and Glenn Beck.

...until a LEO on here began admitting to pulling people over without probable cause, just so they can get a better look at their ride. I still find it interesting that no one else is stepping up to defend their actions.

I've got 25-1 those documents never see the light of day.

oh goody, another religious debate! Wrong, you're a Protestant, which is a denomination of Christianity. A true example of a non-denom would be a mega-church, 99% of those are non-denom to not exclude possible revenue sources, err, people. I think I'll just stop you right here. First, you are dead-on in that it's completely impossible for any government, anywhere, at any time to attempt to legislate ethics/morality. Following the Enron bullshits, the government thought they could and made Sarbanes-Oxley, which companies do cartwheels around every day. Can't legislate ethics. However, religion as a moral source? Really? Scientology is a religion, would you consider them moral? Would you hand your kids over to a group of Scientologists for day-care 5 days a week? Morality is a hugely, MASSIVELY subjective term. Ethics is moderately standard, right and wrong, stuff like that. Morality is all over the place. You can't force your morals onto people that don't accept them, or create a legal definition of morality that usually involves tying it to a religion. This is one of the major reasons by the separation of church and state. The true source of morality has been and always will be from your parents or whoever is responsible for your upbringing. Once the kid reaches the age of reason, it's up to them to think for themselves. If nothing else, this last part is what's missing from our society as a whole.

Your point is completely valid, however the method in which the bailout was put together and executed was all W, all the time. Obama changed the rules to something that's wasn't so mind-bogglingly stupid, but point still remains.

I slightly disagree with that. Under Bush-TARP, Paulson just wanted to give everyone money with express provisions that the TARP fund and it's managers are completely immune to Congressional/GAO oversight. Obama at least had the stones to turn the screws to the companies that had taxpayer funds to make it as uncomfortable as possible for them to repay those funds ASAP, which most of them did. I am completely convinced that if the whole thing were done under Bush, that money would be long gone and we wouldn't have seen any returns from it. I would, of course, love to see some more of this on the GM/AIG side of things, since the Govt still owns a sizable chunk of those companies. GM still isn't producing cars that are worth a fuck, and Ford is eating their lunch (and rightly so) by adapting to the new environment, getting some new thinking in management and finally working out their quality issues. As far as Fannie and Freddie goes, we're just fucked. I don't expect to see anything back from them in my lifetime.

Umm, under Bush is where it started, and it was in massive decline for a full year; from Oct 07 to it's largest drop in recorded history on December 2008.