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Hey, my bad - I guess my behaviour was getting risky I saw some gamers rappin and I started getting frisky I'm eager to throw down (or throw up? Now I'm rappin slime?!) But for now I'll watch you guys and go to the back of the line.

"Here Comes a New Challenger!" I'm here to drop a coin. I know I wasn't invited but I'm here to make a point. I'll crash this party just because it seems you're having fun but it just got real up in here so bitches better run! Yo what's up with all this dissin? Can't we all just get along? You guys would even compare pissin just to measure length of shlongs! You start droppin the "g word" so what the hell you tryin to say? Even if he's not "no homo" what's it matter if he's gay? You're sure good at blowin' wind but they say "he who smelt it dealt it..." So I guess in this case it's your masculinity that felt it! Sorry I just had to start by getting that shit off my chest This rap should be about gaming but already I digress! I'm not gonna waste my time - hey I don't waste it, I invest... So just sit your asses down because I came here to impress! All in all without a beat we're just a bunch of cracker poets; but at least I'm not deluded cuz in this case I sure know it. When it comes to startin fires you get smoked cuz you can't roll it but enough of talking trash - my inclination is to show it. When I was made they wanted more but then I broke the mold I'll take on any challengers in any Battletoads. You say you made it to the speeders - I say *yawn* "ok, that's nice" "But you've never seen the Wingers - or even made it to the ice!" Even Wookie Hole would leave your punk ass with some trauma Which is surprising since that was our old nickname for yo momma. You better see a doctor about that full-body burn, When you get back, here's the mic for you if you dare take your turn!

I came to sort of like Outlook at a place that used a well-run Exchange server - that's the real purpose of it, IMO. It always made me nervous though because I'm old enough to remember working in IT when the "love bug" hit - it swept through the company like wildfire on Outlook clients (though we did have it under wraps before noon... It did annihilate a ton of engineering drafts, but they were backed up!) But yeah... it's nice for setting up meetings and recalling messages. It's also sure to be found in most offices since it's part of MS Office. Not saying it's awesome, but it has its place if you have a company of like, 100-1000 people.

Haha... I was having a conversation about our dollar coins and I mentioned they were made of nickel, but wasn't sure if nickels still were (not anymore...) So I dipped a powerful magnet into a handful of change and a couple of the dozen or so pennies stuck to it too.

Since 2000 they've been virtually all steel here... but apparently that wasn't cheap enough because it was just announced they would be phased out of use. Actually looked it up the other day after accidentally picking up a few with a magnet. That reactor must be super efficient or something because you can split hydrogen off water with a power source and any electrode - say, platinum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN7Ow9anm8Q

Sorry, hard to see it even now, since cars do have problem lights/alarms. I just saw something along the lines of "the problem must be that your car just sucks..." "The Internet is serious business" as they say...

No... I'm saying I know how my car works and there is no such lifting gate mechanism. The tone tells you you are reversing. It's not some used junker or something; it was bought brand new and then checked by a friend who is a master mechanic.

Huh? No, the feature IS resistance, not lack thereof. If you gently pushed left, it'd just slide between 1st and 2nd. It's smooth going into any other gear, unless the car is specifically locking out low gears at high speeds. Other than that... the reviews speak for themselves. The only real problem with it is that some drivers had grinding going into 5th - never happened to me though.

Ah, I've never seen a car like that. With mine, you just have to push past some resistance to get into the channel for reverse, and a tone sounds to confirm it. I find it kind of bizarre that this would be considered a hassle or annoyance since it's basically a selector switch.

Then I'm not following what he said, because to me "opposite to 1" is straight down - where 2 is. Truth be told, having a little resistance to overcome to get it into the R channel isn't even that reliable a lockout - I've gone to put it in 1st and crossed the line, but backed off when a warning tone sounded. Still, it's no more hassle putting it where it goes than it is having to shift in the first place. (edit: Or do you mean physically pulling up on the stick? That's not part of it at all in my car...)

Actually it seems like a small price to pay considering the alternative of driving away in 1st then switching to R by accident. It doesn't save hassle - it saves needing a new set of synchro rings, gears, clutch etc if you made a mistake once or twice. It also makes sense for a 6-speed since the 6 driving gears are all in one block. Reverse is a special case, so sliding over to get there is no problem. Though even all in one block, there could be secondary safeties I guess... it's almost impossible to shift my car into 1st if it's rolling because some kind of gate mechanism blocks the stick. That does more harm than good, IMO. - FWIW, I've also never seen a light go from red to yellow. The most involved lights around here go red, left turn, red, green, yellow, red

It's true - in Canada too. Maybe manual came to be seen as old fashioned, like crank starters? Funny too, since auto is only now starting to be more efficient, with things like locking torque converters and CVT transmissions coming into popular use. Most people would know someone who can drive stick - I know a couple, not counting parents. None of my coworkers were into it though - seemingly only car fans and people who drove in the 60s or 70s. I've read about cases in the 'states where car thieves would steal a car, get in, fool around a bit, then flee on foot - or worse, carjackers would steal the car AND the driver because they can't drive it themselves. Personally, I like stick shift - it's the exact same pattern Dean posted. I got a motorcycle a couple years before my car and when I drove the car for a while, I found that I missed having a clutch in other cars. It's nice being able to accelerate OR slow my car my modulating the gas pedal. It drives me nuts trying to find the sweet spot in an automatic, accelerating, then slowing with brakes, then accelerating, etc. The anti-theft effect is just a bonus.

This is probably NSFW in places... and generally bizarre anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwgAMyTFo_c

Just wondering how long it takes for the "Donator" tag to appear? Does it have to be set up manually in my settings? I've given it a few days and logged back in.

I just made my entries for Chewie's best game songs thread, but I'm bad at picking favourites, so I had a bunch of leftovers... Here's one I wasn't confident enough in the to enter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSVp8gysZHg

Touhou has well over 150 tracks in canon, so I had to listen to Touhou music all day to narrow it down... then decided to scrap it and go with one of the most popular ones anyway. All in all, a good day! Also in J-core(?), and versions, among many others... Noriyuki Asakura is great too... I loved his work in the Rurouni Kenshin anime OSTs, but he also did the music for most or all of the Tenchu games. I cannot think of a better composer for a slow-paced ninja stealth game. It seems to have that perfect balance of "relax and take in the scenery" and "kill or be killed."

Oh? Haha... I am woefully behind on QI so I didn't know they'd covered that. I actually saw it 2 or 3 times on Reddit, which probably came from that episode of QI. I need to catch up - Stephen Fry is awesome.

Interesting thing about "ye olde ___" - it's not meant to be read "yee" but "the", as it was originally written with the letter thorn, as "þe". As I understand, "Ye" and "Þe" looked similar in blackletter calligraphy and started to be used interchangeably in common words before "th" was adopted.

That's pretty cool... Actually, for the longest time you could do that on a Mac, so maybe Yan's on a Mac? They've always been ahead of Windows for international support (god, the hacks I used to display Japanese on Win 3.1... or the way Win95 would flip out when it saw filenames from Win95J...) But yeah, I forgot Macs can easily type accented letters and things like copyright and registration mark symbols by holding down... option?

"e" usually. I'm guessing by opening the "Character Map" program and copying it to the clipboard from the palette? I used to write the pound sign with alt+0157 but that doesn't seem to work these days...

That's a good point. If I remember right (way back to 1997...) I think the British version of Carmageddon had "zombies" with green blood, where the North American version had red-blooded people. It was sort of an issue since you got time bonuses and points for running over innocent pedestrians. (While I'm talking about that era, you guys have my condolences for Fallout - I heard that violence against women and children couldn't be depicted even though you never had to do any of it, so children were sometimes invisible and women were talking dogs? Bizarre...) As for the zombie trope, I am kind of tired of it too, but like an FPS, I don't mind if it's done well. I like a couple of iOS games - Age of Zombies (excellent Robotron-style twin stick shooter) and I just started playing Zombie Highway (Zombies latch onto the side of your car on a highway strewn with wrecked cars and you have to scrape them off and shoot them while they try to make you crash or flip your car.) They are getting to be too much of a default character though.

I can't tell if you're contradicting yourself here or not. Yes, I know they're using these services to vet logins for them, but your accusation that I don't understand what they've done goes against your assertion that you're always being tracked... So I don't understand because they don't actually know you're logging in when you log in through them? You're saying I'm assuming tracking is going on... then you stated it always is, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, unless it's that we're all already beaten so we should just give up and let everyone see everything? But to bring it back, the problem is that you're not just being tracked by easily defeated semi-anonymous usage trackers that could only know you through correlation of disparate datums - you're going "hey, (third party): I, (first name, last name, user history) would like to log into this site now..." and all of the choices are companies that make their fortune off analyzing customers to sell them shit on behalf of advertisers. It's like showing your driver's license to shop at a convenience store. It doesn't become alright because you can make a dummy account and cheat the system. It's really ridiculous to think this is a problem because it's Gawker. I'd say it's completely backwards - it's a problem because it's not Gawker. Actually, I don't see why I should retype it all... To paraphrase, it's not cool when sites - whether or not Gawker has anything to do with them - require you to sign in through the private entities most commonly cited as "big brother." For the record, Gawker was hacked... Also, a Google engineer stalked some kids, Twitter got owned, and while Facebook has been hacked here and there, its name is synonymous with arbitrarily redefining their privacy policies and oversharing users' data - the most infamous of which... involved sharing user data with third parties! So yeah... I think you're either jumping to their defense with tenacity you wouldn't expect from a non-employee, or you must not understand the difference between data mining by one of many media companies vs the biggest players on the Internet, or the difference between "anonymous" data and logging in directly with a personal user account that usually includes your real name and other personal info collected through its use. It's an invasive practice, and being able to hide from it or outsmart it doesn't make it fine for everyone, even if you're personally ok with it.