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AI and the superconducting relativistic monkey collider RL July 26, 2025 10:14 pm (Off-Topic)

Trump's namecalling is no match for the Scots BuckGalaxy July 26, 2025 2:15 pm (Flame)

Retirement home Spirit cover -- yeah, we had better music. ER July 26, 2025 7:31 am (Off-Topic)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer ER July 26, 2025 6:58 am (CurrentEvents)

♫ I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late ♫ BuckGalaxy July 22, 2025 1:32 pm (Off-Topic)

How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump, or put another way... BuckGalaxy July 19, 2025 2:32 pm (Flame)

Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein BuckGalaxy July 18, 2025 8:07 pm (CurrentEvents)

Colbert cancelled. ER July 17, 2025 8:20 pm (CurrentEvents)

just passin' thru... ER July 16, 2025 2:08 pm (Space/Science)

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Most annoying IE9 bugs so far by TB June 4, 2011 12:01 pm

My friend, the simplest "fix" I can offer you is thus: Switch web browsers. IE had numerous problems ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-07 15:20:05
I got an answer for you. Don't use IE at all. I detest IE and only use it ... by Eri 2011-06-04 23:00:38
- Sadly, IE9 seems to harbor to a number of bugs, some of the worst being in the way it handles ... by mcfly 2011-06-05 01:58:01

Got the SOB! by Eri June 4, 2011 9:56 am

Plus the fact that these things can be mass-produced. Taking one of them out isn't really a victory ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-04 17:57:40
- Maybe we need to take out the factories where they're mass produced. (The Mosques or at least the Imams ... by Eri 2011-06-04 19:08:52
  - No, no, no...you guys have it all wrong. Have we learned nothing from Bomber Harris? Structures, like factories or mosques, can ... by mcfly 2011-06-05 00:45:48
  - Bad Eri! BAD! Hellfire armed Predators are not the answer to that! This is what Navy SEALs are for! XD by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-04 20:01:09
    - I know! They need to take them out with Mosquitos! by Eri 2011-06-05 07:11:40
The last few years have been hell on Al-Quaeda in Pakistan. These drone attacks must be taking their toll, and ... by ER 2011-06-04 12:08:24
Invisible death from the sky. An added plus has to be the continuous dread the terrorists have to live under. ... by TB 2011-06-04 10:38:14
- "Hey did you hear about Abdulla?" "What about him?" "He got martyred. I saw it. He got really seriously martyred." "Did you bring ... by mcfly 2011-06-05 15:24:05

Can you believe her ignorance? by Eri June 3, 2011 10:23 pm

She's not as ignorant as you might think. The Palins of this world know exactly what they are doing. They're just ... by ER 2011-06-05 05:40:54
- Apparently you missed how the current president got elected. Just shut off your brain, ignore the reality of the ... by TB 2011-06-05 12:56:40
  - Really? You're making this accusation? "Anyway, since your philosophical definition of “evil” seems to be “things ER doesn’t like,” I’m not ... by mcfly 2011-06-05 15:27:35
    - Explain. by TB 2011-06-05 15:36:05
      - You've put your conclusions on a pedestal. They're not to be touched. Supporting evidence is enshrined, detracting evidence is dismissed ... by mcfly 2011-06-06 11:34:48
        
        Have you ever seen me reject actual facts or real detracting evidence? Just because I don't like them? "Consistency" means ... by TB 2011-06-06 11:42:36
        
        It's probably obvious that I can't claim to agree. Frankly, I think that if your ideas don't collide in the real ... by mcfly 2011-06-06 12:11:22
  - Sure, Tom. I shoulda voted for a guy who's first presidential decision was picking Palin as his running mate? And ... by ER 2011-06-05 15:15:15
    - I don't know. Did you vote for the guy who picked Biden as his running mate? I could ... by TB 2011-06-05 15:30:06
      - For reasons of space, my reply is above, filed under "Fundamental Ideas and Philosophy". by ER 2011-06-05 17:08:08
- I am sorry you perceive them as evil. I personally don't feel they are but that is my point of view. Obnoxious ... by Jody 2011-06-05 08:59:32
  - You ought to hear what her friends say about me. by ER 2011-06-05 12:18:37
    - Dammit ER!!!!! LOL! by Jody 2011-06-05 13:18:05
Palin's ignorance of history isn't really the issue here. The issue is the way she gleefully, publically and obliviously demonstrates that ... by mcfly 2011-06-05 01:07:13
You folks would have a hay day with my recollection of historical events!...It is a lot like my spelling...I may ... by Jody 2011-06-04 12:13:10
- Yes, but dear, you're not running for public office. If you were, and you made a fool of yourself, ... by Eri 2011-06-05 07:15:32
Just for fun, here's Revere's own account of his ride. by TB 2011-06-04 09:58:33
- Very interesting to read. Thanks for posting. by Eri 2011-06-04 10:15:48
A year of Palin's policy statements, and this is the best hit they've got? Anyone thinking of running for President should ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:15:55
- There is no such thing as "fundamental errors in his entire ideology". First, you have defined WHAT his ideology ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:06:02
  - Really? Then you wouldn't mind a Republican president next time around since ideas and ideology aren't "right" or "wrong," ... by TB 2011-06-04 09:14:38
    - Cmon TB, you know that's not what ER said. by mcfly 2011-06-04 09:44:46
      - Go read it again. Tell me what he did say. by TB 2011-06-04 09:59:31
        
        Hell, do you own leg work. You read it again, and show me where he says all ideologies are the ... by mcfly 2011-06-05 00:52:00
      - That's called "reframing", a favorite conservative rhetorical maneuver. He dilutes the milk with water, and when you find the ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:48:47
    - I never said there was no right or wrong. I just think that's a decision that must be made ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:24:53
...... Why did I know it'd be Sarah Palin before I clicked on the link? by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-03 23:54:07
- Sarah is like a child, she should be seen and not heard. by ER 2011-06-04 05:55:41
  - And like a 2nd Lieutenant, can be given guns or ammo, but never both. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-04 18:01:10
    - In the AF, they used to call them Greenies. Now, a Greenie is a cat treat. Which is actually about ... by Eri 2011-06-04 19:12:37

Adventures of the Charity Police by TB June 3, 2011 7:58 pm

As always, there may be more to this story than meets the eye. To begin with, the activist group ... by ER 2011-06-04 05:30:54
- Oh, it's fairly obvious that the group is deliberately provoking a legal response, much the same way as protestors have ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:24:26
  - Then again, maybe they're just shameless opportunists who have seized upon a legitimate cause in order legitimize their own agenda. ... by ER 2011-06-04 08:52:30
    - The real charitable efforts don't make the newspapers much. My son volunteers at a food bank now and then. ... by TB 2011-06-04 09:17:00
      - Matt. 6:1-4. Good for him. Real philanthropists do not brag about their good works. by ER 2011-06-04 09:35:34
Jesus *Random Sexual Expletive* Nice coincidence that I read a certain quote today: "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-03 23:57:41
- "The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as ... by ER 2011-06-04 05:39:38

Official recovery is two years old this month. by TB June 3, 2011 7:55 pm

Piggies (J Lennon P McCartney) Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt? And for all the little piggies Life is getting ... by ER 2011-06-04 05:52:59
- Do we all remember that Lennon and McCartney are (or were) richer than Croesus? McCartney's wealth has been lovingly detailed in ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:28:11
  - That really steams you doesn't it? Isn't that what U Peeple call "Class traitors"? Or is it just that rich or ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:44:31
    - Nah. Nothing that profound. Just pointing out people who live in mansions who make money singing about those ... by TB 2011-06-04 10:47:14
      - I agree with you TB...hypocrisy on such a basic level. by Jody 2011-06-04 12:16:14
Funny.... I thought we had just started our economic return a couple of months ago. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-03 23:58:22
- The National Bureau of Economic Research, which seems to be the go-to place for deciding when recessions start and end, ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:40:20
  - I've often wondered about that. I guess the official definition of recession does not take unemployment into account. by ER 2011-06-04 09:09:47
    - I don't know what their exact methodology is. They discuss it a little here. by TB 2011-06-04 10:50:03

54,000 new jobs. Half of them hamburger flippers? by TB June 3, 2011 2:46 pm

Ten bucks says these same people lose their jobs before the year is out. by VelociraptorBlade 2011-06-03 18:26:32
- McDonalds does have a very high turnover rate, but not from losing jobs. It's from people finding better ones. ... by TB 2011-06-04 08:31:08
  - The traditional entry-level job for young men when I was in my late teens and early twenties was construction (if ... by ER 2011-06-04 09:18:04
    - Out in the midwest, at least in the small town where I lived, entry-level was agricultural grunt work. I ... by TB 2011-06-04 09:30:15
      - Bingo. Government policies may play some role, especially in the short term, but in general, our economic problems are ... by ER 2011-06-04 10:04:38
        
        I still have a lot of confidence in people's ability to create new industries and jobs. While a lot ... by TB 2011-06-04 10:20:04
        
        Yes, as soon as us old farts hurry up and die off so all the young dudes can take over. ... by ER 2011-06-04 11:19:08
        
        U.S. fertility peaked in 1957. A lot of what we're seeing now may be due to immigration and descendants ... by TB 2011-06-04 11:52:45
- The carbon units are interchangeable, replaceable and disposable. Welcome to the Machine. by ER 2011-06-04 05:48:23

The coming Age of Fossil Fuels? by TB June 3, 2011 2:23 pm

My thought for the day... by Jody June 3, 2011 7:55 am

Friday's Follies by Jody June 3, 2011 7:16 am

...can you tell an author's sex? by Jody June 3, 2011 6:10 am

Sure, after a couple of drinks. by ER 2011-06-03 20:37:07
- ER!!!!!!!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! by Jody 2011-06-04 07:42:28
I got them all, although I dithered on a couple before finally choosing. I write from a male POV ... by Eri 2011-06-03 17:03:10
7 out of 10 but I don't feel that I would do better than break even in a hundred trys by FrankC 2011-06-03 12:31:58
4 out of 10. About what one might expect for random picks. I do know that writing from a woman's ... by ER 2011-06-03 07:01:22

Shell to begin construction of Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility by TB June 2, 2011 8:08 pm

How to handle natural gas from offshore rigs has alway been a huge problem. Look at a picture of ... by podrock 2011-06-03 17:50:06
- I think rising worldwide demand for energy is a more important driver right now than scarcity of the resources themselves. ... by TB 2011-06-03 18:30:17
Lets just hope they "invest" a little more in safety procedures and emergency planning than BP did in Macondo. ... by ER 2011-06-03 06:44:16
- "Only an adversarial system of government regulation can strike the right balance." We had a system exactly like that when the ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:15:15
  - Royal Dutch Shell is not an American company, that device will not be anchored in American waters, I doubt if ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:01:28
    - I've been tracking these things, although someone like Podrock probably has his finger closer to the pulse than I do. You ... by TB 2011-06-03 13:04:11
      - Normally, I'd be tempted to just take your word for it, but you seem so breathlessly desperate to bring this ... by ER 2011-06-03 13:30:01
Look at all that beautiful blue water. Does it belong to Shell too? by mcfly 2011-06-02 20:37:27
- Ignore that reply. I'd have deleted it but that option isn't presenting itself. by mcfly 2011-06-03 04:38:12
  - Don't delete but if you ever do need to delete, click on Edit and then at the right hand side ... by Eri 2011-06-03 06:03:17
    - I don't have an "edit" to click on, or a window to throw it out of. ARRGGGHHH! by ER 2011-06-03 06:46:07
      - Refresh once or twice after publishing a post or comment. I find my "edit" doesn't appear until I've done ... by TB 2011-06-03 08:16:09
        
        I only get edit capability when I initiate the thread. And then I get it on all posts in the thread. ... by ER 2011-06-03 09:05:14
        
        ER, TB is right. After you post a reply 0comment), go up and click on the forum heading (Current ... by Eri 2011-06-03 10:32:49
        
        OK, i'll try it right now. by ER 2011-06-03 12:26:42
        
        OK, I did just what you said and nothing happened. All I have is a [Reply] button, but no [Edit] button. However, ... by ER 2011-06-03 12:33:34
        
        ER's observations are exactly what our testuser Rita experiences with permission settings at the author level. by podrock 2011-06-03 12:44:26
        
        ARRGGGHHHH! by ER 2011-06-03 13:46:05
        
        Poor ER. :( If you smile real pretty at Pod and/or Robert, maybe they can give you the ... by Eri 2011-06-03 16:38:29
        
        I completely agree by podrock 2011-06-03 17:29:46
        
        THE RIGHT TO EDIT. Man, does that sound ponderous, or what? Actually, it's not worth a great big ... by ER 2011-06-03 18:24:42
        
        Piece O'Cake. So simple I can do it. And I agree, it sounds ponderous. The survivors of the ... by podrock 2011-06-03 18:47:49
        
        If you need something major moved or corrected, or a link done, I can help. I'm not going to ... by TB 2011-06-03 18:31:35

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