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LOL Chimp! Doing some serious cooking. Bought her a bunch of stuff over the weekend, to spoil her, but didn't "valentine's gift" it to her, y'know?

WAY old school, Mush...for those that remember, my "most infamous" exploit was to trash the hell out of a poser, "Von Doitch" with a RL rage...from over 100 miles away... But back when 1.5-1.6 were "fresh", that was my raging game, followed by some original Battlefield 1942 stuff...haven't been active *here* much, since those days :)

captinamerica, Hugo reads like an antique soap opera...but if you liked Les Miserables, you'd like Hunchback, too. What I'm reading "right now" is a huge list...what I read just for the sake of reading, is even longer...this household tends to dump all but our "serious favorites" two or three times a year, on used book stores, and begin collecting again...yet we somehow consistently have 3 six foot bookshelves piled two high and two deep on each shelf, in paperbacks. Right now, I'm into John Ringo's Paladin series, love his book "Last Centurion", liked the "Empire of Man" series he did with David Weber, read all the Honorverse books, am re-reading the Wild Card books (George R. R. Martin editing), which were re-released in '09, but were originally released in the late 80's. Of course, we keep Steinbeck, Dickens, Hugo, Twain, Orwell a few other classics around the house, but they're not "I go back to these to waste time" type books. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Gaiman does the Sandman comics) did "Good Omens", a great comedy built around Armageddon not going right (by the POV of Heaven and Hell, anyhow), and Pratchett did the Diskworld comedies, which I like the Moist Von Lipvig and Sam Vimes centered books from. Orson Scott Card did the Ender series, which I LOVE "Ender's Game", and like the next three books of...

I still cruise in to see what the "new talent" is up to, and check out any new, useful, information posted, once in a while, peepulz. Been active in console raging (and teaching my boys, who are now teens, how to do it), but not too much of that on my end (THEY are getting seriously into it, though).

ROFL...forgot you'd quoted that, but that's another piece of advice I give, and follow.

Take nothing too seriously, everything changes. Do what really makes you happier, overall. Most people are stupid, when it comes down to it, the brighter they are, the more likely this is to be true. Maybe this can be better said "most people are incapable of thinking rationally about anything they are involved in or care about". People are selfish. This includes you. If you find yourself tempted to be generous/charitable, figure out what it is YOU really get from it (warm fuzzy feelings, a tax shelter, a feeling of having done your part to ease suffering in the world, whatever), and if you still think it's worth it, then have a blast, but UNDERSTAND your motivations. Be well capable of providing for your own needs before taking on the responsibility of providing someone else's It's always worth taking the time to illustrate to an idiot exactly how stupid he is...most people ONLY learn through painful experience, so you're doing the world a favor when you aid someone in this way. If you start a sentence "hey guys, watch this", you're about to learn something by the method listed above.

His last words: "Croikey! Take a look at this beauty, she's a raal purty wun, let's jus' 'ave a closer look, shall we? C'mere, baby."

No, you wouldn't need an amp to use the speakers, but to get full performance out of them, you would need one. And if you do the wiring internally for the speakers, it's not hard...all I did was take a premade circuitboard out of a car amp, mark all components down, trace a template, copy it onto sandwitch board, and make "cloned boards" for each speaker, screw it to the back of the speaker boxes, and run what HAD been the solder points to the RCA jacks for 2 speakers direct to the cones I'd installed, and mounted clip style input feeds in place of the old RCA input jack, and mounted them through the back of the box. The only hard part is makign certain you wire everything in phase properly.

I'm a student of American History, specifically the times near our Revolutionary War (the successful one...we tried earlier, and failed), and the "Old West". I've taken college classes cocentratign on both areas, but alot of this knowledge is the result of self-motivated studies. I've read the full content of the transcriptions of the debates around the framing of our Constitution and Bill of Rights (available through the Library of Congress, largest library in the country, at this time, and ranked amongst the "world class" libraries), though that took me almost three years to finish reading all 14 volumes (and cost my folks $2600 to purchase for me as a gift, my senior year of high school...that was my graduation gift), and have gone out of my way to read anythign and everythign I could find written by Jefferson, John Q. Adams, Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin (though I disagree with most of what he says...he was a Francophile Socialist, after all, and I REALLY disagree with alot of his politics, I just admire him as a statesman and diplomat, as well as considering him damned smart for someone stupid enough (or blind enough to human nature and advanced maths) to think socialism could actually work in a capitalistic society...but then again, maybe he was assuming that everyone had the same desire and drive to make themselves busy he did, and failed to understand MOST humans will do the very least they HAVE to do in order to support their lives, and a small handful of vices they consider to be enough to make them "comfortable", which is THE fact that has driven social advancement....I never understand how people fail to see that fact, no matter how bright or stupid they are otherwise, when they support socialism/communism or analogues of them.

Honestly speaking, I'd go for the 5.1 surround sound reciever...probably the one Jedi pointed you at, as it's definately a good brand and model, buy a decent 100watt+ powered subwoofer, and build my own speaker setup...you get better speakers cheaper by scrounging the yard sales and pawn shops for single or double cone setups with decent wattage, and building your own tower/stack boxes for them, and doing the internal wiring yourself than you get buying premades... I've got a set for mains that I built off three 10" cones off 100 watt "main channel" shelf system speakers per stack box, with sattellights I made with dual 8" cones each off the same sort of system...picked up all these speakers cheap as fuck at pawnshops because the shelf system they came with was trashed, and mounted them in homedone cases, then actually used a car amp and a PC PSU to convert 120AC to 12VDC for it in each speaker (actually, to be honest, I pulled the 200 watt amp out of my Camry and replaced it with a 400 watt, then took that 200 watt, desoldered it, after marking all parts and taking pics, went down to radio shack, and basically ran 4 copies of the breadboard circuit off with a breadboarding kit, and built my amps to be mounted internally in each speaker, so the two sattellite 2-speaker babies have 200 watts, the center speaker 2 speaker side-by-side box has 200 watts, and the "mains" have 300 watts each, all functioning as if they were designed as powered speakers...so I deliver 100 watts to each cone I have running, off a little 50/250 Magnaxvox home theater 5.1 surround sound setup with TiVO and DVD-R I picked up for $150....I went less than $500 in, all told, and ended up with wattage that lets me play my music INSIDE so loudly that I can hear it OUTSIDE clearly while mowing the lawn.)

Hooded, alot of modern Americans are under the impression that American English (or "English", as they call it) is the official language...it's amazing how many of them don't know there isn't one in fact, even though there's one in practice, adiopted due to being the most common "common language", back in the day. The only reason all our signs are in English, and our schools teach it, etcetera, is because, as I just said, it was adopted as the best "trade language", back in the early-on days, because more people had English as a common tongue than Spanish or French, or German....during the mid-1800's, it was a pretty close thing...after the Louisiana Purchase, we ALMOST ended up with French as an "official language", but Jefferson opposed it, and Franklin was out of politics by then (he'd originally pushed for French as our official language, then when met with heavy resistance, switched to the "none" stance)...and during the absorption of the Republic of Texas and adoption of California, we almost ended up adopting Spanish, but the Eastern states were already to calcified in using English as the common tongue....

Thanks to Jefferson and Franklin, there is no "official language" for this country (The United States), so I've got no problem with them doing the Anthem in spanish for a spanish-speaking audience. As for "illegal aliens", we didn't HAVE an immigration policy until the 1920's, so anyone whose family was here before then, I guess, would have to consider themselves the descendants of "wetbacks", unless they were full-blood Amerind. Personally, I've got no problem with REAL illegals...the ones who cross the border, work migrant farming, and such, and ship some money home (or spend half the year south of the border, and live well for that time), the only ones I have issues with are the (few) who cross the border, apply for welfare, and start living off the working public...generally those aren't true illegals, as it's too big a chance they'll be deported, for not fitting the standards for asylum or a visa/green card, usually, those are the second generation cholo assholes...children of illegals born here, thus assured citizenship, and certain that THEY can abuse the system and not be deported for it. My hate and disrespect is saved for those who earn it through being willing to live off the efforts of others...I personally respect anyone who will bust their ass to try and make things better for themselves and their family, especially if they have to go through shit conditions and miserable situations, compared to most "legitimate Americans", to accomplish it. I'd sooner do migrant cropping myself than go on welfare, so I have NO issue with those who recognize that the US Farmer can't hire Americans at wages we generally insist on for that kind of work, and still sell their produce cheap enough for most of us to afford it, and then go "but me, I'm from a poor country, so I can do that work for less than half what a Yankee will ask for, then I can come home, and live well, the farmer, he sells his food at prices the other Yankees can afford, and the Yankees can work at jobs that CAN afford to pay the wages they insist upon, without unsettling their whole economy", and come over to do so.

Yes, you ARE a noob. You don't put stuff in "startup" through an exploited open port, it's easier to simply edit the regkey in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run to include a path to the executable or batchfile you got in, if you're good enough to use a port exploit to get something into someone else's machine anyhow. Generally, what you do is you find they've been infected with a remote access program of some sort you have a client for, infect them with one yourself, or get physical access to the machine....then you do it all as if uploading files and making registry changes on a server, or on your home machine (if you got PHYSICAL access) Otherwise, your only option is to learn enough about computers to know how to run commands through buffer overflow exploits, and the like, so that you can cause the machine to go download what you want it to have and run it all because of your exploit use (this is used for getting the machine to download and run an installer), or stick to scriptkiddy tricks, like getting a trojan, telling them you're sending them some piece of software or something else that won't get through if they don't disable their antivirus for some reason they buy, and so on....

Actually, I was thinking it'd be cool inked over the colored parts of certain pieces of my sleeve, seeing as you can't cover a darker color with a lighter one, and all the chameleon UV reactives I could find are VERY light colors (light to the point that white ink covers THEM if laid in afterwards). Like I said, I have blacklights in the house for the nocturnal reptiles my boys have, blacklight isn't uncommon at completely non-raver cons and parties, and just generally, when exposed to UV, like fluorescent light in general (which is high in UV content, as anyone here who remembers the late 80's can testify to), will show up all the brighter and more "alive" and "glisteny".

OOOO, nifty! Think I'll see if the guy doing my sleeve would highlight some of the biomass with that green UV reactive...be real wild at clubs and cons, or in my kids' rooms (where they have blacklights for heating their reptiles' cages)