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Not a video I'm asking about on the wheel thing. The top left picture when you click on the original link. Almost like the trooper's checking for ground clearance or something.

I just had a thought... given that he barely even tickled her, if you shoved him out of the way and did that girl like she deserves, could it even be considered sloppy seconds? Hell, he wasn't even hard. Would it even be seconds to begin with? Or are you the main course, and he was the lame appetizer?

what a waste of a perfectly good girl

Translation: The critics didn't just go and tear this flick a new asshole, they tore it to pieces, fed it to the sharks, took the leftover shark shit, fed *that* to the worms, then used the worms as fish food to start the whole food/sharks/shit/worms/fish/food cycle over again. In other words, the critics completely missed the point (as usual).

What's that wheelie thing the trooper's using with what looks to be a red escort? I've seen things like that used in surveying, but that doesn't look like what he's doing there.

Droptop, apparently you missed the spots where I said "If you have $$$ use xxxx, if you don't, use yyyy"

Dammit, why does everyone think that the video card does something when it comes to video (or even photo!) editing? Unless you get something with a built-in hardware MPEG coproc (which you will *NOT* find at Microcenter/BestBuy/CompUSA), the video card does JACK SHIT for editing. It's all in the CPU, RAM, and HDD. If you're doing video, you want 1. Huge ass amount of RAM. 4GB if you're running XP-32, motherboard max if you're running XP-64. 2. Monstrous CPU. Intel Core Duo if you've got the $$$, Athlon64 if you don't. 3. Fast hard drive. 15k Fujitsu MAU or Maxtor Atlas RAID-5 if you've got $$$, Western Digital Raptor SATA RAID-5 if you've only got $$ (either hanging off LSI MegaRAID controllers), a single Raptor for those with $, and 7200rpm if you're a po' college student. Don't cripple yourself with a BIOS RAID card like the Highpoint 1640. You'll also note I'm skipping RAID-0 (which is actually a bit faster) in favor of safety. The RAID-5 lets any single drive die and you won't lose data.

I have created a new category of "stupid" just for this... 1. Blondes 2. Sales reps (Mensan knows firsthand what I deal with there) 3. Incompetents 4. This broad

Two suggestions: 1. Follow the instructions to disable DNS failure caching at http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/ (You'll probably want to do the TCP Receive and Send window patches as well, hint hint) 2. Override RR's DNS servers by using the tier 2 servers listed at http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.html Side suggestion: Bookmark http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm and regularly replace \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\hosts with their version to cut down on ads and spyware tracing.

No higher than $800. And that's generous for a fucking ricer box.

It's slightly past midnight, but what can I say... there's a cute girl running around in my head that won't let me sleep. So I decided to throw more ice on Hawk's blunt. Doing a Google search for just "average real estate returns", the very first hit turns up this: http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/stock-market/ For those without the patience to read the whole thing, here it is: Average annual inflation 1913-2002: 4.240% Average annual growth 1929-2002: 3.331% Average real stock returns 1913-2002: 2.738% Average real stock returns 1913-1991: 1.269% (this is for folks who think the tech boom was an anomaly, though I suppose if that were the case, the 1920s should also have been discounted) Average real real estate returns 1975-2002: 0.635% (Housing numbers weren't collected before 1975) So let's see here... Taking the crummy number, stocks do twice as well as real estate. Taking the good number, they're over four times as good. They both beat inflation (if they didn't, the number would have been negative), but I know where my money's going to grow This public service announcement brought to you by, well, I'm not going to tell you her name

Whatever smokinHawk is smoking, get me the hell away from it, cause it's done gone fried all his neuron. Real estate being the ultimate investment vehicle? Shit, he must work for the NAR, and actually believe the spin they push. You thought the tech bubble bursting was bad, this RE burst is going to be a hell of a lot worse for a whole lot more people.

If that fireplace is single-piece marble, $125k is seriously undervalued. Even breaking it into the four obvious chunks (base, tower, and two side statues), it's probably on the cheap side.

Cool idea, but they need to go back to school. "Lass soo"?? wtf? Any cowboy will tell you it's "Lass soh"

+1

AR, why is it you don't trust the banks? Just on account of the absolutely shitty interest they pay on savings or something else? I'd also suggest you (and anybody else new to investing) to spend a lot of time reading Motley Fool (http://www.fool.com). They do a great job of bringing things down to an understandable level, and while there's often a pitch for one of their newsletters, their free content is well worth the time spent, ESPECIALLY their "Fool's School" series.

I was going to flame smokinHawk mercilessly, but it's already been started. I'd just love to know how you came up with only getting 7% in a "great" year, when since 1926, the S&P 500 (grand-daddy of all market indicies) have had an *average* return of 11% (http://www.fool.com/school/basics/basics01.htm). And take a look at that year... it INCLUDES the Great Depression!! The guys getting 18%? They're doing *very* well for themselves, and I wish you good luck trying to come up with a *LEGAL* way to beat that sort of return without having a lot of free time to devote to research.

Nah, it's ok, cause there isn't any dirt around to cause ricer crashes.

Ehh... it just takes its good old time about getting up to speed, that's all. I sure as hell won't be beating anyone off a dead start, but it's been up to about 80-85 mph without complaining. Can't really go any faster on I-71 up to CTown without risking a trooper around the semi-blind turns.

Haven't had a kitten thread lately, so here. IE/WMP required. http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=704c5272-3e43-4747-9f19-8d90eea981cb&f=06/64&fg=copy

Look into something like a Capital One high yield savings (http://www.capitalone.com/savings/) account. Money Market accounts are *mostly* like savings accounts, with a handful of added rules that change depending on the bank. They're great for "fun" accounts, emergency savings, and general slosh for things like car/house down payments. However, for medium-term (where you won't touch it for *AT LEAST* three to five years) growth, the stock market is almost always better than what a bank can offer you. And for really long-term (as in retirement), iwishiwascool is dead on... Roth IRA ftw. You can have one of those in addition to any 401k/403b (or state plan like PERS and STRS) your employer may offer (you are participating in that too, right?).

Yep. Old as fuck, and true as hell.

I wish they'd also "target" fuckers who swerve across three lanes because they forgot their exit was only half a mile away. I don't mind being passed by folks doing 90. I do mind having my life flash by as some bitch with a phone on her ear rushes to her evening pedicure.

Nobody can beat me at being slow!!! Well, ok, the K&N went in this afternoon, so if someone's driving, say, a stock Yugo, they might give me some trouble.

Definitely slavic, though based on the character set, I'm thinking slovenian or croatian. Serbian, if I remember, uses cyrillic (russian) characters.