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TTIS: What is the difference between a router and a gateway? -- nm - lileve Jan 9, 15:46 2
- a router provides a gateway -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:47 1
  - Link. Some say router, some say gateway. - lileve Jan 9, 15:49
The commercials for "Taken" are effective. -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 15:41 1
- Kinda like "Frantic", then? Looks interesting, though. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:49
I'm kinda glad I was away from TT/ST for the afternoon. --nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 9, 15:39 1
- Us too. - ST Jan 9, 15:40
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  - That just doesn't make sense. -- nm - ty97 Jan 9, 15:42 2
    - I'm with you. The parting line was addressed by Rick to Louis, who stays, not to Ilsa, who leaves. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:52
    - And it made sense in the movie? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:43
  - I would reply with "Did you even WATCH that movie?!?!" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:35 4
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    - (as an aside, I haven't seen it. I actually have it sitting on my PVR, along with Maltese Falcon, waiting for a slow day or a lazy sunday) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:35 2
      - I avoided it for a while, but really liked it when I finally saw it. The romance is the weakest part of the movie. -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 15:38 1
        
        I'm trying to figure out if I can convince megan to watch it -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:39
STIS: If my printer has a ethernet port can I just plug it into the wireless/wired-router for other comp's to use it? -- nm - lileve Jan 9, 15:32 2
- Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:33 1
  - Sweet! Thank you! Woohoo! -- nm - lileve Jan 9, 15:34
The 3D chat lady on the left is making my peenie go 'err?' -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 15:30
The Top 10 Episodes of 2008. -- (link) - nubby Jan 9, 15:28 11
- 3/10 and I would argue that The Shield: Family Meeting, should be number 1 -- nm - Jovian Jan 9, 15:52
- 3/10, 14/50. I can't believe they said "My Princess" was Scrubs best of the year though. One of their weakest, imo. - musubi Jan 9, 15:46
- 17/50 -- nm - dogbert183 Jan 9, 15:40
- 1/10, 5/50 -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 15:36
- I have seen shockingly few of the top 50. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 9, 15:32 1
  - Me as well. -- nm - nubby Jan 9, 15:45
- 4/10. I'm maybe 50% for the whole list. Too much FNL. Not enough Pushing Daisies. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:31 4
  - Also, "The Norwegians" was a much better episode of Pushing Daisies than "Bzzzzzzz!" - Mop Jan 9, 15:34 3
    - Where's the Dexter? -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:36 2
      - Episodes 12 and 11 of 2008 -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:38 1
        
        I sit corrected. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:43
Don't to get to vote for Vegas '09 dates. -- nm - nubby shill-bot Jan 9, 15:24 6
- FYI: I'm not voting. If I don't have a job by then, I won't go and until I get a job I won't know what, if any, dates I can't go. - Cuzzin Todd Jan 9, 15:30
- I'm not going, so I'm willing to sell my vote to whomever has the best offer. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:28 4
  - I'll give you a sheckle and a farthing. -- nm - nubby Jan 9, 15:29 3
    - Just for that, I'm voting for the Sabbath. Suck on that melakha! -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:40 2
      - Wait! I don't roll on shabbos! -- nm - Walter Vermin Jan 9, 15:43
      - thanks for your support! -- nm - Tony Iommi Jan 9, 15:41
Fascinating, did you know that the 4th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court was killed while trying to kill his succesor as Chief Justice? - musubi Jan 9, 15:20 3
- "Well, maybe I'm just OK" -- nm - 5th Chief Justice Jan 9, 15:22 2
  - Somehow I don't see Cap'n Mal as a judge. -- nm - nubby Jan 9, 15:23 1
    - I judge lots of things. Ain't I deservin' to get paid for that? Plus ... the robe looks good on me. -- nm - Judge Reynolds Jan 9, 15:25
I love the vile and bitter humor in Penny Arcade: A rhombus is the kind of rectangle a bitch would draw. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:18 1
- What is a Rhombus? -- nm - Tycho on Jeopardy Jan 9, 15:21
LIR:"My name is buck, and I'm here to fuck." -- nm - lileve Jan 9, 15:15
Your daily dose of "Blergh!" -- (link) - Reagen Jan 9, 15:14 4
- The mugshot is L3. -- nm - nubby Jan 9, 15:27
- that's one heck of a Last Meal. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:18 2
  - he sounds old school crazy. -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 15:21 1
    - I regret clicking that link. (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 15:24
The Palm Pre groups contacts like Digsby does. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:12 3
- By allowing you to select two ordering criteria, as well as allowing you to "group" by the first criteria? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:18 2
  - I... don't know what this means. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:28 1
    - It's my description of Digsby's awesome sorting. Customizable to the max (of 2). Which is more than anyone else offers that I know of. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:31
The amendments to the constitution (including the bill of rights) are as much a part of the constitution as the rest of it. - pmb Jan 9, 15:04 2
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- INVALID. - Constitutional literalist Jan 9, 15:10
I feel kinda bad that Trish's boss story made me laugh my ass off for like, 10 minutes. - kelly Jan 9, 14:59 4
- well played Trish! - Marcel Jan 9, 15:39
- Don't feel bad, Crash called me on the phone specifically to laugh at me and mock me. -- nm - Trish Jan 9, 15:06
- don't feel bad, its quite possible someone you know called her on the phone and laughed in her ear - crash davis Jan 9, 15:05
- I agree - Roger More Jan 9, 15:01
OMG, that's hilariously disturbing. Dexter married his sister. (By which I mean, Michael C. Hall married Jennifer Carpenter) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 14:59 9
- What?!! I didn't even know he had divorced Amy Spanger!!! -- nm - Diva Jan 9, 15:29
- Who knew they were dating? Wow. -- nm - nubby Jan 9, 15:24
- Hrmm. For some reason I thought he was gay. I mean, real life gay, not Hollywood gay. -- nm - Trish Jan 9, 15:11 3
  - He was sorta-kinda gay in Six Feet Under. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:36 2
    - *blink* Sorta? Dude.....so what qualifies as full gay? -- nm - JD Jan 9, 15:38 1
      - I have a small emotional scar from watching his scene in a Las Vegas alley, with my parents. -- nm - Six Feet Vermin Jan 9, 15:45
- huh. -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 15:02
- Dude! Spoi....oh... :) -- nm - znufrii Jan 9, 15:00
- Wow. -- nm - mara Jan 9, 15:00
Eventually I will tackle Infinite Jest again. - Reagen Jan 9, 14:58
kilbo kilbo kilbo! it worked!!! thanks so much for all your help! yay! -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 9, 14:55
Microsoft calling their new product "Windows 7" was genius. - Mop Jan 9, 14:50 12
- I wonder whether it makes it to release as 7, or if this is just an initial name like Longhorn. -- nm - Ender Jan 9, 15:16
- Sven. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:00
- "Seven! Seven! Seven!!! (seven)" -- nm - Monica Jan 9, 15:00
- never thought of that and you're right. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 14:52 6
  - You're my Ed McMahon, aren't you? -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:03 5
    - there's never enough affirmation around here. - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:21 4
      - I need it the most, and I appreciate it. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:25 3
        
        your maturing. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:26 2
        
        "YOU'RE"! "YOU! ARE!" *head explodes* -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:27 1
        
        that's not very nice. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:36
- it's got cachet. - Jason Alexander Jan 9, 14:52 1
  - L4 -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:56
I can't explain why, but "Corn Nuts" made me laugh out loud. (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 14:49
I've never read Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. Should I? Is there a recommended sequence? - ceregon Jan 9, 14:47 10
- FWIW, I recommend Fountainhead first, Atlas second - this is also the order in which they were written -- nm - rollo Jan 9, 15:06
- Forget about both of them and just read "The Source" by James A. Michener. -- nm - Trish Jan 9, 14:53
- i tried to read fountainhead but only got a couple hundred in. i've heard it's an easier read than atlas shrugged, though. - kare Jan 9, 14:49 5
  - The first time I read "Atlas Shrugged" I nearly gave up... - Mel Profit Jan 9, 14:55 4
    - I *did* give up. Glad I got through it on the second try, years later. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:56 3
      - I'll never forget where I was when I decided to finish... - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:02 2
        
        That's one long ass subway ride -- nm - rollo Jan 9, 15:10 1
        
        It was just me and the homeless for weeks... -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 15:11
- I haven't read Fountainhead either... but will swing by the used bookstore today. Atlas is mandatory, mandatory. But I defer to others as to sequence -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:48 1
  - Agreed...it's mandatory. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 9, 14:49
SITWAP: Not News: Customer bills phone company for time wasted. News: Phone company pays him. -- (link) - TaurusII Jan 9, 14:45 1
- Precedent! -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 14:48
Vermin, I think your description of liberalism earlier today was spot on. - znufrii Jan 9, 14:44 18
- Conservatism is fine, right up until the point the old ideas don't work any more. - Roger More Jan 9, 14:48 8
  - Well said. (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 14:50
  - Nicely put, sir. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:50
  - pretty much, yeah. -- nm - znufrii Jan 9, 14:50 5
    - I like aggressive women with a nerdy vibe. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 9, 15:01 3
      - is that liberal or conservative? -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 15:04
      - So in the wrong place. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 9, 15:02 1
        
        I was going to say... -- nm - znufrii Jan 9, 15:04
    - Liberalism looks to the future, conservatism looks to the past. We, however, have to live in the present. -- nm - znufrii Jan 9, 14:52
- Thank you. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:47 1
  - Personally, hough, I would change the second sentence to read... - znufrii Jan 9, 14:49
- Liberalism=Starfleet, Conservatism=Romulin Empire. -- nm - Trish Jan 9, 14:46 6
  - Trish=Nerd. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:47 5
    - I like aggressive women with a nerdy vibe. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 9, 15:02 2
      - Shut it down! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 15:04 1
        
        was that a Sex and the City reference? Being an adult male, I didn't see the movie -- nm - Roger More Jan 9, 15:10
    - You say that like it's a bad thing. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 9, 14:57 1
      - Actually, I take it back. - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 15:00
LYC: I was watching Trivial Pursuit: The Game Show on TV the other day, and the question was what author wrote "The Joy Luck Club". - musubi Jan 9, 14:42 13
- Very similar, but even funnier. I saw this on TV once and was very pleased to just find it on YouTube now. -- (link) - Mop Jan 9, 14:56
- I'm not sure I could pick a more incompatible subject and author. -- nm - Reagen Jan 9, 14:51 1
  - To be fair, in the end the dude won $50,000, so he's the one who was laughing last. (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 14:52
- Fwiw, I found Atlas Shrugged pretentious and unwieldy. - Trish Jan 9, 14:45 9
  - Maybe they'll put out an illustrated edition like they have with some of Dan Brown's tomes. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 14:58 2
    - This, coming from a person who reads and quotes Ann Coulter as if she's some kind of prophet? - Trish Jan 9, 15:11 1
      - Promise? - Dr.Vermin Jan 9, 15:11
  - Everytime I read it I find something significantly enlightening... - Mel Profit Jan 9, 14:49
  - What about The Fountainhead? (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 14:47 4
    - It's an easier read, but stiff isn't really my thing. - Trish Jan 9, 14:50
    - PS- I did see crash's endorsement. (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 14:49 2
      - such as it was, it was an endorsement in comparison to another book, not a wholesale endorsement of ideas contained in either book. -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 14:57 1
        
        Understood, thanks. (nm) - musubi Jan 9, 14:59
I'm thinking I can get my boss to pay for a cell phone. But I need a smart phone that does in-browser Flash support. - Mop Jan 9, 14:40 5
- I don't think the Storm does. I'm not sure there's any smartphone on the market right now that does Flash to the extend you need if at all. -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 14:45 3
  - Sooper. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 14:47 2
    - We can't even get decent flash on our set-top or gaming consoles, and you think it will be better on your smartphone? Get a netbook or that new Vaio -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 14:48 1
      - I'm optimistic about Flash Lite 3. Palm is allegedly working with Adobe to put Flash support on the Pre. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 14:52
- *thinks Mop needs a phone smarter than me* -- nm - TaurusII Jan 9, 14:42
MILESTONE POST : One of my pieces of flair now has 10 users! (I haven't given to anyone, all 9 non-me users found it and chose it.) -- nm - mara Jan 9, 14:39 1
- good job - it went off like a flare gun! -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 14:46
Speaking of books nobody wants to read (hi Mel), I just finished Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America. - musubi Jan 9, 14:39 3
- Maybe it's not coincidence. -- nm - TaurusII Jan 9, 14:41 1
  - My thoughts. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 15:03
- Obama will fix it. -- nm - Mop Jan 9, 14:41
5th fucking place? 5th fucking place!?! - Spawn Jan 9, 14:38 3
- It counts matching subjects once, not once per swear. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 15:04
- don't worry about it, dude....you're an all-star...its just that Tfox is one of those once in a generation, hall of fame players. -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 14:41
- hah, you got ranked lower than the Supreme Court and the BCS. -- nm - Max Jan 9, 14:41
WEEKEND! -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 14:38 2
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- HALO! -- nm - crash davis Jan 9, 14:38

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