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I get these every day. - CW✔

I love that Jack Burton is one of them. - Alex Scrivener

My recent search for 'gentlemen' uncovered this gem. - Alex Scrivener

"How would you react if a visitor to your data center took out a pair of scissors and cut through an Ethernet cable? Even better: How would your company’s director of engineering react? The folks at Isilon Systems teamed with magician Scott Tokar to have some sport with Kiran Bhageshpur, Isilon’s director of engineering, who thinks he’s making a video promoting network attached storage. Watch this video for the drama and then check out the explanation of how the trick was executed. This video runs about 2 minutes, 20 seconds." - Alex Scrivener

NOT FUNNY! - Alex Scrivener

"Go To Label" is now an extra keystroke. g - l - [start typing label] - tab to auto complete - enter. The last enter wasn't necessary before. This will take getting used to - Benjamin Golub

Ben, you should be able to just hit enter, not tab needed. If that doesn't work, send me browser/os. - Keith Coleman

Keith: that works, thanks! Will still take some time to get my muscle memory used to it. Also you can't use g-l from within Buzz (other shortcuts seem to work fine) - Benjamin Golub

Happy Valentine's Day - Alex Scrivener

Actually went home and took a nap :) - LANjackal

"Open Source code: Mises.org code is not only open-content, but open-source, so you can verify the privacy and security of our site for yourself, or even set up a complete copy of Mises.org yourself. No server logs: Mises.org does not keep server logs (aside from brief security audits and diagnostics). We don't know who visits our website, so we can't tell anyone else. Access Mises.org via Tor server: Mises.org runs Tor on all our web servers. This means that Tor will automatically make your exit node the Mises.org web server when you visit this site. Bandwidth donated to Tor: We donate our spare bandwidth (about 10 TB per month) to the Tor project to help people facing censorship and surveillance by running Tor relays on our servers." - Alex Scrivener

Not the most interesting, mind you. Most talented. - Alex Scrivener

"Starship Troopers is one of Robert Heinlein's most famous books, and one of the most famously controversial in SF. And the 1960 Hugo winner has its problems — but that's probably why it's a classic. Man, I accomplished straight-up nothing over the last fortnight or so. In fact, those of you who are especially alert, as well as those of you who have built tiny shrines in your basement to honor me*, may have noticed that this particular piece of writing was supposed to run last weekend. Well, I was on Christmas break. I have always found it very difficult to get anything done during the holidays, and now that I am fully self-employed, this is more true than ever: I take a couple days off, it spirals into a few more days, and pretty soon I am back to staying up till 3 a.m. watching whatever is on AMC and sleeping in until noon. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO IMPOSE ORDER ON MY LIFE FROM WITHIN, AND I OFTEN WISH I WERE BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL AND ON A RIGOROUS, PREDETERMINED SCHEDULE. I believe I am not alone in this. Which is why, I think, Starship Troopers is such an appealing book." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

This and "Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester have been the SF books that I've reread the most over the years. - Bluesun 2600

available at Target for 18 bucks and some change. http://www.target.com/Come-Ba... - Alex Scrivener from Bookmarklet

Come back with a warrant or the Keys To The City *LOL* - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

"When he took over as head of Oak Ridge in 1955, Alvin Weinberg realized that thorium by itself could start to solve these problems. It’s abundant — the US has at least 175,000 tons of the stuff — and doesn’t require costly processing. It is also extraordinarily efficient as a nuclear fuel. As it decays in a reactor core, its byproducts produce more neutrons per collision than conventional fuel. The more neutrons per collision, the more energy generated, the less total fuel consumed, and the less radioactive nastiness left behind." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

"Even better, Weinberg realized that you could use thorium in an entirely new kind of reactor, one that would have zero risk of meltdown. The design is based on the lab’s finding that thorium dissolves in hot liquid fluoride salts. This fission soup is poured into tubes in the core of the reactor, where the nuclear chain reaction — the billiard balls colliding — happens. The system... more... - Michael R. Bernstein

"Among the various classes of protests—pro-life, anti-war, environmental, and now tea parties—the most destructive are the anti-globalization marches. So when cops clashed with anti-globalization demonstrators at the Pittsburgh G-20 summit in September, it was easy to assume that most of the altercations represented justified police responses to overzealous protesters. But a number of disturbing photographs, videos, and witness accounts told a different story. Along with similar evidence from other recent high-stakes political events, they reveal an increasing, disquieting willingness to smother even peaceful dissent." - Alex Scrivener

"Historian James Bradley had a fascinating op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times tracing the origins of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor back to the foreign policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, who famously intervened in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts." - Alex Scrivener

"Imagine a government agency with the authority to create and enforce laws, prosecute and adjudicate violations, and impose criminal penalties. Then throw in the power to levy taxes to pay for all the above. And for good measure, make the agency independent of political oversight. As any middle-schooler could tell you, such an entity goes against every principle of American civics. Still, it's an accurate description of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, pronounced "peek-a-boo")." - Alex Scrivener

"In his thorough history of 9/11 The Looming Towers, Lawrence Wright makes a pretty persuasive case that Osama bin Laden’s goal in planning out terrorist attacks throughout the 1990s was to suck the U.S. into a Soviet-style war in Afghanistan. Bin Laden had no delusions about turning the U.S. into a Muslim country. Instead, he wanted to pull America into an expensive, dispiriting, unwinnable war—the sort of war nearly every power that has invaded Afghanistan has had to extract itself from, tail between legs. Wright writes that bin Laden was initially dispirited at the ease with which U.S. forces removed the Taliban from power. Of course, we then let bin Laden escape. And then came Iraq. We’ve since given bin Laden more than he ever could have thought possible, and more. Two protracted wars. And our war in Afghanistan is looking more and more like the Soviet war bin Laden was hoping to emulate." - Rob H. from Bookmarklet

And OBL gets a twofer since we are deeply enmeshed in Pakistan as well so its two fetid swamps with quicksand everywhere for price of one... - WarLord

"Buffalo Sabers hockey team owner Tom Golisano announced that he was moving to Florida shortly after the New York State budget was passed. Galisano reportedly pays $13,000 a day in taxes." - Alex Scrivener

" The idea behind the $787 billion stimulus bill is that government can create jobs by spending money. For now, let’s ignore fact, history, and economic theory and assume that government spending can actually create jobs. In that case, we should expect the government to invest relatively more money in the states that have the highest unemployment rates and less money in the states with lower unemployment rates. So let’s check the data." - Alex Scrivener

"It ushered in the 1960s sexual revolution and gave women control over their own fertility. But the Pill may also have changed women's taste in men, according to a study. Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a woman's interest in masculine men and make boyish men more attractive. Although the change occurs for just a few days each month, it may have been highly influential since use of the Pill began more than 40 years ago. If the theory is right, it could partly explain the shifting in tastes from macho 1950s and 1960s stars such as Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery to the more wimpy, androgynous stars of today, such as Johnny Depp and Russell Brand. Dr Alexandra Alvergne, of the University of Sheffield, says the Pill could also be altering the way women pick their mates and could have long-term implications for society. 'There are many obvious benefits of the Pill for women, but there is also the possibility that the Pill has psychological side-effects that we... more... - Alejandro from Bookmarklet