2,064 Forum Posts by "Politics"
At 10/23/07 09:22 PM, Malachy wrote: and I am using Vista.
Well there's your problem.
I'm not a big fan of Vista, but I am fascinated with Microsoft's business model, and have been since I read this. I'd be interested to see what kind of user restrictions and improvements Vista actually has.
At 10/22/07 07:29 PM, Malachy wrote: It's sort of bothersome.
Did you have IE set as default when you first installed those programs? Because it's possible that they have their own set preferred browsers (like I'm fairly sure mIRC does) that they set depending on the default browser at the time of installation, and then those settings are independent of default settings afterwards. I'm looking at the mIRC catcher options right now, but I can't seem to find anything significant.
If I find a method to fix that, I'll let you know. I don't understand how it's a problem for you, assuming you aren't using Vista or something crazy like that.
Oh, and MSN Messenger will always open links in IE. Microsoft is a cunt that way.
At 10/22/07 02:07 PM, Malachy wrote: (oh I wish..maybe my computer would open links in firefox)
You know you can do that, right? Just set firefox to act as your default browser.
(ie in Firefox, Tools -> Options -> Main, and down at the bottom click the "Check now" button.)
You should also look into Ubuntu, or some other user-friendly distro of linux/GNU. I burned a Ubuntu live CD some time ago, just to play around with it, and found it was a great little tool to introduce you to linux. It's free and easy to use. Now if only I could successfully get debian to work with my vid card and motherboard setup. :/
Also, my winamp randomizer just picked a cover of "Space Oddity" played by Helloween. Awesome.
At 10/21/07 06:44 PM, reviewer-general wrote: I am wounded by that remark.
Very deeply.
Wow, you're only fifteen? I thought you were in your twenties. At least I didn't completely speak in hasty generalizations. I only made a partial ass of myself. :D
I dislike stupid people. Often those of an age of 15 or less are stupid people.
This concludes a generic complaint regarding the Politics forum. Thank you.
At 10/20/07 04:06 PM, DancingTurkeyGod wrote: It always amazed me that even though I go MIA for 6-12 months, the same people always post in this thread.
wb
At 10/20/07 02:09 PM, Politics wrote: Midterms are no fun. Midterms at 9 in the morning on a Saturday are even lesser fun.Better than having one at 9 o'clock at night (happened to me once).
I would LOVE to have a midterm at 9 pm over 9 am. In fact, my next three are in the evenings. I heart sleeping in. :D
At 10/20/07 01:20 PM, GaiusIuliusTaberna wrote: Hey I've been thinking the regulars lounge thread is essentially a success so why not have other lounge threads.
There can only be one lounge.
Seriously, people have tried threads just "For liberals only" or "for conservatives only" and they're horrible disasters for good reason. This lounge fills many niches in the Politics forum, and the only reason it's allowed to exist is because of the nature of this board, and its tendency to produce a specific set of known users who don't want to set foot in the General forum. Lounges can only exist in special circumstances, and in small numbers, ie 1 or less.
I's a bad idea.
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Midterms are no fun. Midterms at 9 in the morning on a Saturday are even lesser fun.
Hey Skunk. Sup?
At 10/16/07 03:47 PM, Tremour wrote: Opinions and discussions are welcomed, although do keep in mind that I won't even acknowledge any utterances an overtly low IQ user spews forth.
Oh my, well aren't you just a card.
At 10/16/07 05:26 PM, JackFox wrote: I didn't know you could get pregnant within one day.
You must have a Super-Vagina.
If you think that's impressive, you should see his dicks.
At 10/11/07 06:50 PM, JMHX wrote: What happened to the quality of posts on this forum?
penis
At 10/11/07 10:22 PM, GaiusIuliusTaberna wrote: So in other words I was joking that since he's named after a roman god Sol Invictus and talking about having his way with vestal virgins he was acting like Mars the roman god of war.
YEAH I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GUYS DIDN'T GET THAT, JEEZ
At 10/12/07 03:25 AM, JMHX wrote: Used to be simply saying "I disagree with this post" as if it were some classroom reading response was an excellent way to be laughed off the forum by the Regulars. Have you fine soldiers turned your swords into plowshares?
That must have preceded my time on this forum, because I recollect a stupidity ilk to the same degree seen today.
I'm sure it went bad a short time before my arrival on this forum two years ago. OH LOOK JESUS IS RIDING A PURPLE FLYING ELEPHANT AGAIN LULZ.
At 10/9/07 09:34 PM, SuperDeagle wrote: I like ham, I like ham, I like ham, I like ham.
Can anyone guess what I like?
Rhetorical questions?
At 10/7/07 08:31 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:
Eh, the Xeon still runs significantly higher clock rates which allows it to out-perform in those tests overall. I thought that was rather scathing in that AMD claimed between a 40-50% out-performance for their new processor earlier this year. In contrast between what it is and what they said it would be, it's a disappointment.
Still good, though. Especially after considering the new clock rates. It's a shame most people can't afford a server to play with. :(
But I think it is more because of the implementation of the quad core AMD has made, more than because of the K10 uarch.
We shall see when the dual cores arrive.
They are making tricores as well, have you heard?
Yeah. Why can't this technology get to us soonerrrrrrr. I want it now!
At 10/7/07 07:00 PM, Der-Lowe wrote:At 10/7/07 06:55 PM, Politics wrote: Sorry, I was wrong. They were released on September 10th, I think. They're socket F, though, so only for servers as far as I know.How are the benchmarks?
Not great. Doesn't look world shattering for Intel. AMD apparently stepped up frequencies since that article, though.
I am, however, looking forward to AM3. I might just wait a full year-and-a-half or so to buy a new motherboard, processor, memory, and graphics card. Then I can save myself some cash and time by transferring over the rest of my system to the new setup. I might even splurge and get a new case.
At 10/7/07 06:32 PM, Politics wrote:At 10/7/07 06:22 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: What happened to Barcelona? Has it been released yet?Nope.
Sorry, I was wrong. They were released on September 10th, I think. They're socket F, though, so only for servers as far as I know.
At 10/7/07 06:22 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: What happened to Barcelona? Has it been released yet?
Nope. I expect they'll be priced similarly with Intel's chips anyways, though. So it's just a matter of being ABLE to choose, and not really the currently standing AMD-has-the-lowend-market-but-Intel-has-
the-highend-market deal, so it's not really pertinent to buying a new processor for NG anyways.
That being said, I want a fucking K10 now. I guess I'll have to wait for them to come out before I can build a new system, though. Bah.
Also, I can't see my fucking cursor anymore. God damned PHP.
At 10/7/07 08:09 AM, Der-Lowe wrote: I'm thinking of buying a new CPU just to be able to type fluently on NG.
Is that insane?
Depends if you run AMD or Intel.
The former might actually be affordable. The latter is more expensive, though higher quality in the upper-ranks of processors.
At 10/7/07 02:25 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: I have more new audio.
It just never stops coming, does it?
oGm u r liek so metalz0rz
I should probably actually give it a listen. I'm assuming you got rid of that vocalist from the last time I listened to your audio, which was something like, what? Nine-months-ago-ish?
penis
I was hoping they'd throw down American-Gladiator style.
At 10/1/07 02:32 AM, Malachy wrote: oh, thos xkcd...ers...
Incredible. I wish I could have gone. :/
Oh well. I see Funkbrs went.
At 9/30/07 09:55 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Fuck being a WASP.
I know what you mean, dude. I don't mean to bring politics into the lounge or anything, but I mean apparently my skin isn't brown enough to get some fucking financial support, though I need it as much as any ethnic-minority member. I still can't entirely believe EVERY Government application form involving money in any way asks "Are you a member of a visible minority or a disabled person?"
Remind me what the definition of racism is again, you affirmative-action-touting cunts. Fuck.
And if an argument starts up on this in the lounge, I'll probably take it to PM. But I mean...
Fuck.
At 10/1/07 12:29 AM, Malachy wrote: and Legos
Oh God, Legos. I may have been into Pokemon for a short time as a kid, but Legos were constantly a part of my childhood, and they outlasted everything else to all fuck. I still think back fondly at all the shit I made. They may be a bit dangerous, as they're easily swallowable, but Lego is still the greatest toy ever dreamed of by man-kind.
I think I still have a slightly-broken-up Lego aircraft I made that ended up being about a meter long and actually rather well-built. I love Legos. :D
On my 10th birthday I received two packages of Pokemon cards as part of the gift, and one of them had a foil Charizard. I set it aside about an hour later in a safe place in my basement, and later, after my friends had gone home, I couldn't find it. To this day I still wonder where it went, though I lost interest in Pokemon not-too-long afterwards. And yeah, I like to think it was actually worthless.
Fuck you, I'm going to continue using that very argument forever and ever AND YOU CAN'T FUCKING STOP ME SO THERE I WIN
So I put in my two-weeks notice to quit my job last Sunday, and was told that I just wouldn't be scheduled after the 6th of October (which is as far as the current schedule goes). This means my first day off in over a month will be on the 7th, and I finally get to devote a day to studying so I can catch up on my class work. Huzzah!
Working while taking a full load of Engineering courses is NOT a good idea, turns out.
At 9/27/07 06:13 PM, fli wrote:At 9/27/07 05:59 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Nice rainbows! :)Gay.
This is the first time you've stuck your head here... cool.
LOL
At 9/26/07 03:16 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: I'll be 22 tomorrow. It's not as cool as 26 on the 26th, like fli, but in a few years I'll get one like that :)
Happy nearly-birthday.
Steve made me earrings out of a Lego Batman and Robin. They have little capes and everything!
Awesome. Aren't they a bit heavy, though?
At 9/26/07 07:45 PM, EnragedSephiroth wrote: ["]do YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCk the furry rebellon is man wtfg
give me cradit carrd info at saladman@hotmail.,com"
LOL
He makes a persuasive argument.
At 9/25/07 10:59 PM, fli wrote: Today... I've turned 26.
*sigh*
4 more years, and I will be 30.
Happy birthday, fli. Since when is 30 old? When you're 66 and dreading 70, complain all you like, but that's a ways away.
In my search for the story similar to Reviewer-General's, I stumbled upon this. It's a bit dark, and a bit of a hard read, but it's prompted some thought on my end, so I thought I'd share.
Eh, it was an intriguing story that I enjoyed reading. A bit overly theatrical, but it served to make it a unique read. Considering the propensity of users to post factual stories about their own lives in this lounge, it's only a small step towards fiction. All perspectives considered, his story would be a prime example of fair exception to the rule (of posting stories on user pages rather than on the forum).
Did you actually write that, R-G? All argument about rules and protocol aside, it's an awesome story. Great job. I loved it. :D
It reminds me of something I read in Grade 10, Semester one English, but I can't remember what it was. This is going to haunt me for hours, now.
At 9/21/07 01:52 AM, LardLord wrote: leave Cellardoor6 behind in order to impregnate himself
This has been suggested before, in not-so-many words.
At 9/21/07 12:08 PM, tony4moroney wrote: tony4moroney, sevenseize, elfer, malachy, demosthenez, cellardoor, imperator, ravariel, der-lowe, cuppa-lettuce-nog, jakehero, memorize, gaiusluliustaberna, smilezroyale, empanando, d2kvirus, proteas, poxpower, judgedredd, drakim, mortifiedpenguins, wolvenbear, jos, fli, bcdemon, stafffighter
i got bored so i wrote up a list of 'regulars'. am i missing anyone?
:'(
That's what I get for reading everything and never writing a thing.
I'm hungry. I think I'll go eat.
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At 9/16/07 12:49 PM, SuperDeagle wrote: Hurray! It's my birfday.
Happy birthday, dude. I hope it's a good one.
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I need a fucking day off.
At 9/6/07 12:40 AM, Imperator wrote: The first day always flies. Profs introduce themselves, hand out the syllabus, and you leave.
That was how it went. It was pretty good, actually, with the exception of my Math 110 class, which was all my prof reviewing shit I knew like the back of my hand and telling everyone that we'd better do a fuckload of homework (not in so many words).
WTF? I'm eating that RIGHT NOW!
lol.
At 9/6/07 10:15 PM, SevenSeize wrote: LOLOLOLOLOL
I have a fan! <3
rofl.
