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Comments on news posted 2014-04-13 09:59:36: It's of the utmost importance that you immediately take whatever is in your head and quickly place it into the comment section below. ..

hussle87
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Finally some warm weather!

Looking forward to a nice weekend

CaptainRR
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join:2006-04-21
Blue Rock, OH

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Re: Finally some warm weather!

It even looks like I will have to mow my lawn for the first time this year this weekend. Not they are talking about snow flurries around my parts early next week! Nothing like all four season inside of four days. Enjoy the nice weekend anyway!
tabernak4
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Re: Finally some warm weather!

I just changed the oil on my mower and did my first mowing of the year. I'm enjoying whatever mild weather is left before the hot, sticky months of summer hit.
Jim_in_VA (banned)
join:2004-07-11
Cobbs Creek, VA

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sorry

brain dead tonight
Bachinator
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join:2014-01-25

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Re: sorry

Glad I'm not the only one. I think my brain went dead around 9AM this morning...

FureverFurry
RIP Daphne: 3/12/05 - 6/19/12
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Re: sorry

At least you know where yours is. I only have the one brain cell and my cat ate it.

GadgetsRme
RIP lilhurricane and CJ
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Canon City, CO

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Re: sorry

Just keep watching the litter box, it'll show up.

mr sean
Professional Infidel

join:2001-04-03
N. Absentia

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Llamas!

»youtu.be/hBaUmx5s6iE
bookertdub
join:2012-10-08
San Diego, CA
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Modem Fee

Well, I ended up buying a Motorola Surfboard 6141 modem for my godmother and will have it installed tomorrow so that she can stop paying $5.99/month to the Time Warner Cable overlords (and $8/month when Comcast takes over, subject to regulatory approval). Kinda looking forward to help saving her from spending $72/year on one of those
crappy Docsis 2.0 modems from 2002 or something like that.

gatorkram
Need for Speed
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Winterville, NC

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Weekend Open Gator

Nooooooooooooo...

I missed first post.... What am I going to do....

Ahhh wait till next weekend I guess..

SIGH

chip89
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join:2012-07-05
Columbia Station, OH

chip89

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Weekend

It's going to be a good week end for me. My birthday is on Sunday!
biochemistry
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Re: Weekend

I stopped looking forward to my birthday when I turned 18. Happy Birthday to you, though!

skipon11
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Pittsburgh, PA

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Happy Birthday!
Timmn
join:2000-04-23
Tinley Park, IL

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My best to you on your Birthday!

annonytoday
@pacbell.net

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Happy Birthday! Opps this pc doesnt remember my username...

chip89
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Columbia Station, OH

chip89

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Thanks everybody! I got a new toy!

KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

Probably one of the best PSA type commercials I've ever seen.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· aTupw-hk


The Feels....

Duramax08
To The Moon
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join:2008-08-03
San Antonio, TX

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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

My problem is that there's so many stupid people making mistakes all the time. When will they learn?

sandman9r
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Franklin Square, NY

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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

That's not true at all. I hate when I hear this. In reality, if you go for a typical drive, out of the 2,000 or so vehicles you'll encounter, maybe two or three will do a bonehead move. And if you're a good defensive driver you should spot and avoid the mistakes even before they happen.

Most drivers on the road actually drive well. Everyone stops at red lights, drives on the right side of the road, stays at or near the speed limit, yields, etc.

Duramax08
To The Moon
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San Antonio, TX

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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

This doesn't help either.

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi ··· _Antonio

amenite
The Soylent - It's People
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Best one I ever saw many years ago late night (and I wish i had taped it), was a couple driving slowly on some two lane road, taking in the scenic beauty, and a guy tries to pass them on a curve or some such and gets it head on from another vehicle. A cautionary tale about slow driving, it was pretty funny actually, exact opposite of 99% of these things.

redxii
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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

I see a lot of comments on the subject and usually the people that speak out say that slow (speed limit could be slow to them) drivers are the problem. I tend to drive the speed limit for economical reasons and people diss that because they don't see gains in ONE trip. Occasionally I do 5 over but even that is not enough for some people.

Everyone makes their own decisions to tailgate or pass. They are in no way obligated when it isn't avoid any accident they just don't like the speed of the driver in front. If they want to waste their gas they are free to do so. I wasn't born to please other drivers either.

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

I drive the speed limit religiously and watch my fuel economy on the LCD display. It's safer and I get better gas mileage. No rabbit starts and I anticipate the traffic and stop lights ahead so there's very little waste.

Blob

skipon11
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Pittsburgh, PA

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No,that was a cautionary tale about being in a hurry and passing at the wrong time!

amenite
The Soylent - It's People
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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

It's been a long time, but I am fairly certain the gist of it was to not be a slow poke. I searched around a bit and couldn't find it. Hopefully it turns up somewhere down the line.

jap
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Damn. That is good. Points for the Kiwis. Way ahead of us on this score.

diablo18926
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Friendly, WV

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106.1 thats way too fast or am i reading it wrong?

StuartMW
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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

LOL. In NZ, like most countries in the world outside North America, they use the metric system. So that'd be 106.1 kph or 66mph (mph = kph / 1.609).

KrK
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And here's some from Australia....

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· bAgmE3N4


»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· 3CzSONiU

battleop
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Re: PSA about the perils of bad driving? New Zealand style....

They need to run a campaign of look left the right then left again before your dumb ass steps out into traffic.

YukonHawk
join:2001-01-07
Patterson, NY

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Time to ......

BBQ some nice NY Strip steaks and throw back a couple of beers on Saturday with the family!!

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Madtown
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Heartbleed

This could be a busy weekend changing passwords.
PrntRhd
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join:2004-11-03
Fairfield, CA

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Re: Heartbleed

said by Madtown:

This could be a busy weekend changing passwords.

It may not matter, your local network switch or router may still leak your data via Heatbleed until updated.

SimbaSeven
I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT

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Re: Heartbleed

join:2004-11-03

Did the server magically return from the future?

Ya, you can bet the NSA is having a blast with this. I wonder how long they've been utilizing this exploit in their data collection practices.
DageonYar
join:2002-12-18
Kemptville, ON

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In your heads -

Boobs...

No, seriously... you guys had other things on your minds?

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ITWIIMH
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Whatever is in my head...

Laverne & Shirley must be getting pretty old by now. I wonder if they retired from the beer factory yet.

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Re: Whatever is in my head...

I wonder if Laverne is still drinking milk and Pepsi.

Blob
Timmn
join:2000-04-23
Tinley Park, IL

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I thought they moved to California.

workablob
join:2004-06-09
Houston, TX

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Woo Hoo

I have been buying matchbox cars off of Ebay to replace all the ones from the 60's that I played the paint off of.

I use the proceeds from my program
»tinyurl.com/pyhhmoz (Free here on DSLR to Members)

and I was down to about $5.00 remaining in PayPal balance.

I just had a sale so the auction is back on.

Thank You Switzerland!.

Blob

EDIT: That link is to the software forum here on DSLR.

Nameless1
join:2014-02-25
Lexington, MA

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WARNING: random rants and colorful language inside.

Had to spend $80 to buy a decent christmas tree storage bag because after only 3 years, the box it came in is absolutely falling the fuck apart. Why do they have to make the fucking box too small to fit the tree back into? I mean they save what, 10 cents in cardboard on a tree that costs hundreds of dollars?

Same shitty mentality at GM, where they'd rather save $0.02 per ignition switch on a $20,000 car, and to hell with the actual customers that are put at risk. They do this same penny-pinching crap all over the car, which is why their cars suck. And why they fall apart not longer after the warranty expires.

This is why I'll never buy another GM car. That, and the fact that the last GM car I owned turned out to be a complete piece of shit.

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Duramax08
To The Moon
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PAX South announced, takes place in San Antonio January 2015

wewt!

»www.vg247.com/2014/04/12 ··· ry-2015/

FureverFurry
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FureverFurry

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A plea to all cat people

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If you are able, please help foster or make a donation of any amount to Great Lakes Bengal Rescue, a 501c3 charity.

Bengals are terrific cats: love water, heights, dog-like in devotion, very active. Unfortunately, many are turned out because the owners don't do their research. Beautiful, too: spotted like leopards or marbled.

Donations go DIRECTLY to help the cats; not like the ASPCA or Humane Society with about 20+% to 'administration'. Funds are for veterinary bills and food; the organization is 100% volunteers.

»greatlakesbengalrescue.com/

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SimbaSeven
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join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT

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Dual 2TB HDDs

..in my laptop! I also had to put new thermal goo on the CPU and GPU, which meant I had to completely disassemble my G53SX. Now to get everything reinstalled. *sigh*

buzz_4_20
join:2003-09-20
Dover, NH

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Motorcycle time

Also, time for motorists to completely forget that vehicles other than cars exist on the road.
Timmn
join:2000-04-23
Tinley Park, IL

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Re: Motorcycle time

Also time for some Motorcyclists to treat the road as if it were their personal playground.

Nameless1
join:2014-02-25
Lexington, MA

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One more thing...

Hitler speaks out on the end of Windows XP support:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· n4CUDS2s

why60loss
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Re: One more thing...

I just run XP in a VM.

But yes windows 8 seems to suck, not just the UI but even on software code. Seems to hate old software far more than Windows 7.

I shall miss XP being supported though. To the best OS made in the history of home PC's. I don't think an OS will ever match it this decade when it comes to service life + wide usage.

miataman
I've attained a PHD in DVR.
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Chelmsford, MA

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RIP Jesse Winchester.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· E2aRS-cg
mtman6698
join:2011-09-02
united state

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No Netflix - Provisioning Server Connection Failure

Have a Sony Blu-ray player that won't play Netflix, etc. because it has to go thru Sony's server first and that is not working as it should. Maybe because of the Heartbleed problem. In any case, I was not aware Sony was spying on me. Now that I know, I'm not sure I want to use their system anymore.