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...and California? ;)

Merc, I can relate. Though things are different now, I certainly was part of that group at the time.

Since when were wheat farmers known for their intelligence?

That would be the ideal behavior, but I'm afraid it would just BSOD or something.

My opinion on freedoms that could have negative consequences is to increase the penalties. This is a very good point. This is another good point. So....we make it hard but not impossible to get a gun. We hold the proper owner of the gun directly liable for any crimes committed with that gun...

I think both the Pirates and the *IAA have it wrong. The pirates say "collection of bits" and the *IAA say "every pirated copy is a lost sale". BS. There are many things that I would not pay money for, but would like to have a look at. By pirating things I wouldn't have otherwise given a...

Considering Samsung is one of the leaders in the upcoming SSD revolution; I think it is a big mistake for them to market a merely quiet drive as "silent" when they are one of the few coming out with a truly silent drive.

I have also had the understanding that intelligence removes the need for a god. Just look where the "bible belt" is in the USA and that should clear it up ;)

I don't think there is just one "system" font for Vista. I think there are at least 5. I'm curious what happens if you remove all but one?

Posting without sleep. Yes. Still am. I'll try again. People are cattle. Religion (and as the physical object that represents it, the bible) is a very effective tool to drive these cattle, because those who have recognized it's usefulness have continued to reinforce it's "teachings" so they can...

Groceries are specialty. She's Russian and likes Russian foods and I like high-quality meat. So between the small Russian shop and steaks at Whole Foods, the bill increases dramatically.

Is there a list somewhere of the ones Windows needs? The ones that couldn't be deleted safely?

My primary complaint about the bible has nothing to do with what it says; even if I completely agreed with what was written (which I certainly don't), I would still hate the book. The root of it's evil is about what people think the book is. Many, many people around the world believe that it is...

Since this topic was threatening to put my "Something Random" thread on a track (where it doesn't belong), I figured this would be a good place for some ranting.

The bible doesn't have to be inconsistent to be hated. I despise the thing. Which has caused more bloodshed over history, it or Mein Kampf? The unfortunate thing is that people keep believing in the bible....

Fuel for my car alone is ~$700/mo. Groceries for the two of us (not counting eating out 3-4 times a week) is ~$1000/mo. This is pretty comparable to San Francisco, except that the weather and people are nicer, and you have more space. A six-figure household income is practically mandatory for...

That's too bad Merc. At the club I went to (south of SF) most of the people there were .com-ers looking for something different. Nearly everyone kept their guns at the club; I was part of a group that kept a collection, so I never actually bought a gun, just "bought in" and got to shoot a...

I'll third (?) target shooting. I actually had some great interactions with females because of it. Started as them saying "What is a sensitive guy like you doing with horrible guns?" and ended with them going to the range with me ;)

I have a really nice 1bd/1ba in a good complex for $1300/mo. including power, water, gas, and trash. The best deal in the area IMO.

Chewy, $215k is 5% of the price: $4,300,000. Yes, two commas :( With a 6% 30yr: ~$24,000/mo This is why I'm not happy. Our postal code has the lowest average house price in the area: $1.45M. That is because it includes East Palo Alto; a serious crime center on the other side of the...

A Seasonic 430W should be enough for that system, but it would be my #1 focus as well. Do you happen to have a 500W+ unit sitting around? A reseller with a friendly return policy (Frys)?

Dell XPS desktops

Fantastic post, got my first smile of the day ;)

They are bad. "That bad" is a relative term. Would I put non-redundant data on them? No. Do I run a RAID-0 array of them for my OS? Yes ;)

This is where things get complicated. In addition to us, we'll have her mother from Moscow and her handicapped 16-year old brother. And we are talking about (2) kids. And since her family is from far away, they tend to come and visit for 2 weeks+ at a stretch... So granted, that house is very...

Or the spelling polizei? ;)

What are your favorite songs from the 80's? Just looking through my list, the bands of choice seem to be: Beastie Boys Metallica Aerosmith Guns n' Roses and of course: Escape Club - Wild, Wild West!

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I've been thinking of a house; the girl I'm with now is really awesome, and I'm thinking it will work out long-term. So on our walk today (prepping for backpacking: 5 miles with a 60lb pack) we went by the nearest house to our place that is for sale (2 blocks). It has it's own website...

Ah, yes. That was so long ago that I'd forgotten. Seems that they have finally decided to let the marketing drones announce it.

I just got an e-mail from Seagate that says: Now that Maxtor is part of the Seagate family, we help you satisfy an even broader range of customer needs. Did I miss a memo?

Seek times for even a slow SSD are in the ns range, right? not the ms range?

Merc, I read your whole post and I hear what you are saying. The part that stuck in my head is this: So our problem is immoral/corrupt management and lazy/corrupt government inspectors. Fine, let's fix that. You don't need a labor union for that, you need efficient government and effective...

Nice blakewry, those must've been some hot systems! The most RAM I've ever stuck in a box was 12GB...

The big problem for the big 3 at this point is their reputation. I haven't even gone to their site to look! Meanwhile I've been to every European and Asian manufacturer's site and checked their line. I know they don't deserve this much abuse (I'm sure they can rival the Malaysians and Koreans...

I'd like to take this opportunity to blame the unions. They shouldn't have been given the power they had, and even if they were, they should have been smart enough to not screw themselves. So in effect, I'm blaming the government for sticking it's nose in and supporting unionist crap in the...

Vista sux. But I do think it's better for day to day users than XP. Then again... XP sux. Having never spent serious time in Linux, I've always known large numbers of small files to take a long time. Copying large files always seems to be disk/network limited to me. :shrug:

Interesting. I get the response "this update does not apply to your system"...

Considering my USB drives just got delivered on the other side of the country, it'll take a while for me to run the tests ;)

My suspicion would be that the problem was one of the north not liking the arrangement and deciding to force the issue. (stupid, IMHO, who would want the south?)

People who choose the hard way without good reason are fools. I'm not saying there isn't a good reason, but I can't think of one that makes it worthwhile.

I think you could save some money and get crazier with this motherboard: 12 SATA ports onboard and 4 16x PCIe slots.

'course, so long as you are OK with the "good" part being put into question from time to time ;)

I assume that when you say DNS server above, it's really also a DC (the DC?) I've found that sometimes I need to manually set the DC as the primary DNS on other servers for the AD to resolve correctly.

Vista + TeraStation = Wierdness? I had to perform this hack to get the permissions to work at all. Now I can write and change files, but I still can't delete anything. I'm currently using FireFTP to connect and delete stuff, but it is quite odd. I don't have a non-vista machine to test with at...

Sechs, I agree with all your arguments, but how do you overcome the problems I mentioned? Make everyone 'see the light' and think like you do? That seems like a lot of work.

I'd agree with MaxBurn; a brownout is likely just to fry the power brick, but a surge protector (a good one) is a good idea. IIRC, Belkin makes a mini surge protector for laptops...just one plug and very portable.

3Ware RAID cards also have LED headers for each drive...

As far as "what is wrong with the country" is concerned; I believe the primary issue is that we're just too darn big, trying to represent too many people with one government. Furthermore, the rewards of screwing the country are simply too large. If the country that I lived in only represented...

Nice. And why are you looking for 250MB/sec+?