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Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy -- (link) - mara Apr 14, 09:20 3
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- *static*crackle* ~Don't worry, be happy~ *crackle*static* - Mysterious waves Apr 14, 09:21
- "Lady Gaga?" -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:20
5" of snow overnight... a few more expected to accumulate this morning. - Dr.Vermin Apr 14, 09:17 1
- yikes - I hope this isn't headed our way ... the mushrooms are just about to pop in the woods :( -- nm - JenBro Apr 14, 09:26
I do appreciate the constructive criticisms. The new update handles some things in a way that makes it easy to modify the styling. - Beryllium Apr 14, 09:16 12
- no issues here. what you have done works perfectly for me. -- nm - decline Apr 14, 09:20
- I like it, the hide function is fine. Thanks for everything you do to keep this place running smoothly. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 09:20
- I think what you've done here is neat, but perhaps the "stories" could be "blurbs" instead. - musubi Apr 14, 09:18 6
  - sometimes an explanation is needed, though. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 09:19
  - News ticker! -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 09:19 4
    - "We're gonna need a lot more news." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 09:20 3
      - "JackDawson is travelling to Egypt" "Andie wins another contents" "amxoy...still a girl" -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 09:21 1
        
        "BREAKING NEWS: truman's boss is still crazy" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 09:22
      - It could include recently favorited posts. -- nm - mara Apr 14, 09:20
- Works for me. You're the man. - oblique Apr 14, 09:17
- Needs more orange -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:17 1
  - Fatal errors make the site go orange. That should suffice. :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 14, 09:17
Louis L'Amour was robbed! -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:14
what's with all the high desert hatey? that's a gorgeous part of the country. - reluctantcynic (en treo) Apr 14, 09:14 1
- RE: your IM, so what's the downside? (nm) - musubi Apr 14, 09:15
Stephenie Meyer ... has a new link to the creator of "Harry Potter": a place high on the list of books most complained about by parents and educators. -- (link) - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 14, 09:13
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Today is a day where I wouldn't mind having live GPS tracking on a package I am awaiting. -- nm - Dano Apr 14, 09:11 2
- I didn't know Lukas Ridgeston was acting again -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 09:13
- You must be *really* excited for that new dildo. - Don Homer Apr 14, 09:13
1 Gbps fiber broadband for $26/month! -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 14, 09:10
SITWAP: evil clowns for hire to scare your kids and hit them in the face with cake - sycor Apr 14, 09:07 6
- I saw that in the paper this morning, but I thought it too disturbing to post. Interesting to know 1 in 7 have the phobia. -- nm - LMS Apr 14, 09:16
- down here, we all float -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 09:10 4
  - I don't know what that means. -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 09:13 2
    - You should read more - oblique Apr 14, 09:14 1
      - yeah I watched the movie and it creeped me out enough. could never bring myself to read the book -- nm - sycor Apr 14, 09:20
  - I'll buy that for a dollar! -- nm - mara Apr 14, 09:12
The new Google Twitter search allows you to look at a slice of time in Twitter's past. -- (link) - Mop (219 lbs) Apr 14, 08:59 1
- twitter must die. - sycor Apr 14, 09:02
Heard a great band name yesterday - Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam. - LMS Apr 14, 08:57
hmm, lyc, i got a census mailer in the mail yesterday. - tRuMaN Apr 14, 08:56
It almost appears that we have classified ads at the top. But I keep voting for you all. -- nm - MDH Apr 14, 08:56
Lunch: eaten - prayformojo Apr 14, 08:55 6
- pizza and a brownie -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:19
- no lunch yet, may be meeting a friend for lunch - tRuMaN Apr 14, 09:12
- Lunch staved off for another hour - it will be a Smart One Frozen dinner - on sale for a $ 1 - who eats that cheap? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 14, 09:04
- I'm just now getting around to my sausage biscuit I brought for breakfast. I'm not talking dirty to it though. -- nm - Dano Apr 14, 09:01
- devoured here - Reuben Soup mmmmmm - JenBro Apr 14, 08:57 1
  - reuben soup? -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 09:02
How do the Bruins have the #2 pick in the NHL draft? - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:54 4
- fleecing of TO -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:10 2
  - they have next year's #1 too -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:10 1
    - the Phil Kessel trade -- nm - Beaker Apr 14, 09:19
- trade with Toronto. -- nm - Jim Apr 14, 08:56
nmbHdnAgnda... - Krusty Apr 14, 08:53
spoilerish ( ? ) thought from a LOST post on B2ish ... - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 14, 08:49
Ok, I noticed a trend. My laptop is making notices when the CPU Usage % gets to like 80-100%. Why is the CPU usage getting that high. I only had - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 08:48 12
- other things to consider, conflicts between AV and adaware/popup protectors, start up monitors, a lot of times a restricted ad site will keep trying - zeitgeist Apr 14, 10:12
- What do have running for processes? -- nm - Shaun Apr 14, 08:51 1
  - Firefox, Win Explore, Desktop Win Manager, VAIO Care, MS Essentials, VESMgrSub, SysnTPEnH, Winlogon, taskmgr, igfxrvc are the top ones -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 08:54
- Flash in Firefox can bring CPU usage up quite a bit. -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:49 6
  - especially those flash games in facebook - decline Apr 14, 08:50 1
    - Yup -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:52
  - I am not doing anything new however. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 14, 08:50 2
    - I occasionaly have the same issue in FF if it's been open on a page conataing Flash page or Java for a period of time -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:51 1
      - terrible garbage cleanup. the flash plugin grabs tons of memory (buth actual and virtual) and never lets it go. -- nm - decline Apr 14, 08:53
  - So can Java in FF -- nm - scorpion Apr 14, 08:50
- Porn -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:49
- both of which are memory hogs. - decline Apr 14, 08:49
amoxy, I did not see that episode - ty97 Apr 14, 08:46 1
- Here it is -- (link) - amoxy Apr 14, 09:05 [youtube]
When do we fire Dave Trembley? - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:45 3
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  - For an inning or two each game. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:51
- Who the hell is that?? -- nm - Baltimore Apr 14, 08:46
Has it been mentioned...Schefter reporting Brandon Marshall signed a 4 year extension for $47.5mil ($24mil guaranteed). nm - Jim Apr 14, 08:44 3
- Good to get paid? He got sat down via request from teammates in must win games to end the season? - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:48 1
  - Being good as in "not getting arrested" and seemingly putting his legal troubles behind him. -- nm - Jim Apr 14, 08:53
- Going to Miami is like the kiss of death for a WR. -- nm - budice Apr 14, 08:47
LIR - travel advice on Cairo for dawson -- (link) - Roger More Apr 14, 08:43 [Backboard] 1
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LIR: ty97. My biggest concern is relying on other governments for access to space. What if, heaven forbid, something goes wrong with our GPS - oblique Apr 14, 08:40 35
- It's absolutely ridiculous for the United States of America's space strategy to be dependent on *any* other government. - Jovian Apr 14, 08:45 11
  - You're all ridiculous sometimes. I obviously meant getting up in to space. - Jovian Apr 14, 09:05 6
    - Well, you haven't bothered to state why this is so essential for the US. Should be a pretty easy case to make, if the alternative is - Roger More Apr 14, 09:10 1
      - I don't think manned spaceflight is essential to the US, but I think it's important for humanity to make space more accessible. - Beryllium Apr 14, 09:21
    - The plan isn't to scuttle space travel, or even completely cancel Constellation. The Orion capsule is still contining. - musubi Apr 14, 09:10
    - Yes...we're the ridiculous ones pointing out logic such as other priorities and fiscal insanity and delays to the programs - Will Hunting Apr 14, 09:08 2
      - to win the next round of the international dick-measuring contest, of course... -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 09:09 1
        
        This is bullsh** as well. Space travel, and programs like Constellation, *are* important parts of our progress as a nation. - musubi Apr 14, 09:12
  - Yeah! And space stations should be internati.....aw crap. (nm) - musubi Apr 14, 08:55
  - "Because we're America, damnit!" -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 08:49
  - manned space flight is a very small part of America's overall space strategy -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 08:49 1
    - space flight of any kind has been dependent on other countries for years. it aint like they manufacture a lot of those rocket parts here, y'know....nm - @#$!%#$@$#! x Apr 14, 08:54
- I wonder why the fiscal sanity questions go out the window when we're talking exploration of space. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:42 22
  - I can point to any project the government spends money on and say that some other thing deserves the money more - oblique Apr 14, 08:45 15
    - Someday leaving Earth ranks about 500th on the list of issues facing Americans - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:46 14
      - Until that asteriod comes a calling. It is a super-long-term project but one that we cannot abandon for short-term reasons -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:48 9
        
        You're using a 1990s Bruce Willis / Ben Affleck movie as your basis for government spending. - ty97 Apr 14, 08:50 8
        
        I'm just saying that there are many reasons why we need to have an active space program and some of them are inevitabilities -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:52 7
        
        No one is cutting NASA. -- nm - ty97 Apr 14, 08:53 6
        
        But they are dropping our ability to get into orbit independently for the next X years (maybe 10?). That's a major problem -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 08:55 5
        
        Thing is, even if funding for Constellation wasn't cut. Since Constellation was behind schedule, nothing is different in those 10 years. - musubi Apr 14, 08:59
        
        To get people into orbit. There are all sorts of launches in the US to get satellites and other payloads into orbit -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 08:58
        
        I'm wondering what percentage of Americans would rate that as a bigger problem than unemployment, healthcare and gas prices. - Jim Apr 14, 08:58 1
        
        No one is saying it is a bigger problem. The government can multitask (supposedly) and in those terms, I've got a ton of other programs we should cut - oblique Apr 14, 08:59
        
        Yeah, guess they realized there's more important things than mice screwing in zero-gravity. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:56
      - I appreciate that Obama appears to be taking a pragmatic approach to Space Travel, while not abonaning NASA completely. - musubi Apr 14, 08:48 1
        
        Yup. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 08:58
      - either way? Outsourcing (which is basically what we're doing) to the Russians isnt the answer though. -- nm - Jovian Apr 14, 08:48 1
        
        No, we should outsource to US businesses. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:50
  - Or for military spending. - musubi Apr 14, 08:43 5
    - Ding! If we wanted to get serious we'd take real hard looks at the military. I'd be happy cutting it in half or more. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 14, 08:45 3
      - I'd like to point out that I am not advocating cutting military spending, but it annoys me that it's considered such a sacred cow. - musubi Apr 14, 08:47 2
        
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        Word. -- nm - znufrii Apr 14, 08:47
    - What I like is that cutting military spending is more popular than, say, cutting Medicare or Social Security -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 08:44
Oh c'mon with the 'news boxes'! - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:39 25
- my problem is it's going to force people to purposely hide them, thereby making the box (which i thought was great) pointless. - Andie Apr 14, 08:41 23
  - It detects if there's been a change and then auto-expands. Normally there won't be four at a time. - Beryllium Apr 14, 08:58 9
    - I don't think the book club really is worth it, only Meg, Kim and I have actually said anything about the books. (nm) - musubi Apr 14, 09:01 6
      - I'm just finishing up the Ferguson book and I'll post something as soon as I'm done. -- nm - Krusty Apr 14, 09:11
      - I am reading them - slowly - but where do I comment on them? - Epiphany Apr 14, 09:08 1
        
        In the ST Book Club - I think ty has to approve you as a member -- (link) - Roger More Apr 14, 09:12
      - Yeah, I have to write my comments as well. -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 09:05
      - I'm not sure if ty ever approved my joining the group. I wanted to talk about TGWTDT book. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 09:05
      - I enjoy reading the book. Just a little sidebox with the book and a link to Amazon and goodreads would be fine -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 09:04
    - Could we maybe just not blurb them? That's a lot of words for an announcement -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:59 1
      - I've got about 1/2 a screen worth of whitespace on ST on the right side of my widescreen monitor. Use that :) -- nm - oblique Apr 14, 09:00
  - Yeah, this is the prob. A small one line blurb and link should do fine. - musubi Apr 14, 08:45 7
    - It's not on every page if you click on "Hide" once you've read it. Then, if bery updates it, it opens up, then you click on "Hide" again. - JaxSean Apr 14, 08:47 6
      - I feel like it's a Rube Goldberg Machine for announcements. Creating a complex fix for something that didn't need it. (nm) - musubi Apr 14, 08:52 5
        
        It's complex? Really? It's one *click*. Plus, if you don't want it to ever pop open again, you can change it in your "Change Info" settings. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 08:54 4
        
        Infintely more complex than doing aboslutely nothing, yes. Things are relative. - musubi Apr 14, 08:57
        
        I'll just say this; I hid it and thus won't see any reminders of the good stuff pimped. - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:55 2
        
        Yes you will, if you just click " - JaxSean Apr 14, 09:04 1
        
        click "{{ Hide" -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 09:05
  - If the news changes, it opens up. Then you can hide it again if you choose. I rather like the implementation. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 08:43 2
    - I liked this too ... you'll always know when something new is posted is how I interpreted it. -- nm - JenBro Apr 14, 08:46 1
      - agreed -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 08:47
  - Right. Simplify it and be very selective with what goes there. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 14, 08:42 1
    - Just have the headers, and make them clickable links -- nm - Roger More Apr 14, 08:43
- So click on Hide >>. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 14, 08:40
Rachel Ray just referred to a small town in the US near the Canadian border as 'the absolute end of civilization.' -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 08:39 9
- just because amanda moved to manchester . . . -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 14, 09:19
- From this POV, our situation within six blocks of Canada is just the beginning of civilization... -- nm - OAE Apr 14, 09:00
- That's not nice to say about Detroit. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:39 6
  - or Minneapolis - prayformojo Apr 14, 08:41 5
    - Buffalo, definitely talking about Buffalo. -- nm - decline Apr 14, 08:47
    - Minneapolis has Mauer, it can't be the end of civilization. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 14, 08:43 3
      - i think perhaps you all missed my point. -- nm - Andie Apr 14, 08:44 2
        
        Right, so why were you watching Rachel Ray? (nm) - musubi Apr 14, 09:19
        
        oh, right: Canada! -- nm - prayformojo Apr 14, 08:45
~ The snowflake makes the room cold, cold, cold. ~ -- nm - Shaun Apr 14, 08:38

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