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Tunnel Tire Burglar Fails to Plan Exit
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Dec 7, 9:24 PM (ET)

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) - A burglar who tunneled under a wall to access a Coquille tire shop did not have a good exit plan. The burglar was unable to remove anything because the tires were too large to FIT through the mouth of the hole.

Officers received a report earlier this week of a hole outside Steele's Universal Tire & Wheel Inc. The hole led into the shop's dirt-floor storage room. It was roughly 2 feet in diameter and several feet long. But not big enough for the tires.

The storage room is connected to the business but does not lead to all areas of the business. The only items stored in the storage room were semitruck tires.

"That's the first TIME Ive ever seen something like that," said Sgt. Patrick Smith, of the Coquille Police Department. "It was pretty comical."

The break-in is believed to be connected to an incident at a local EATERY discovered earlier that day.

Police say fingerprints and other evidence connecting the two crimes were found at the tire store.

According to the Coos Bay Police Department press log, officers responded to a burglary report at Joe's Place earlier the same day.

A window was open at the restaurant and the business ransacked; $63.61 missing. A safe in the restaurant had been moved and showed signs of damage but had not been opened, police said.

Smith said investigators have located a possible suspect.

I have a spare computer (Compaq Presario) that we got from my in-laws and when i turn it on I get a blue box in the middle of the screen that SAYS "power up password" and asks for the password (it also has a key icon) each time i PRESS enter it gives me {key X an icon that looks like a very simple table} I've never seen this before, the only keystrokes that do anything are enter, which just makes the key and “table” icon appear a second and third time.  The only other thing is control-alt-delete, which causes it to reboot, and the same MESSAGE appears all over again.  Help!!Desktop or Laptop ?
Have you contacted them for the password ?A desktop, and no i havent contacted the manufacturer , i'll try that tonight!!
THANKSI meant the In-Laws...haha
yes i have and they are clueless as to what that even is lol yeah well if they absolutely can't remember and the manufacturer can't help you out then you can try re-setting the CMOS. You do that by removing all power to the unit, removing the clock battery, and depending on the model, also switching a specific jumper on the motherboard.

How old is the Presario?probably around 5 yrs old if i had to guess
once i remove the cover (I assume) remove the clock battery and then the jumper switch on the motherboard.... Ok i guess ill have to go home and look at it then get back to you guys.  Thanks for the help.  I will need to write further cuz i have no idea where this stuff is
Sorry im so inept

Part # CR 2032...available at any computer store and most Wally Worlds.

Be sure to be careful removing it as the SPRING loaded clip can break easily.....and as always when working inside the case remove all power sources first and take anti-static precautions...

Hello - I am about to SWITCH to a new bband provider (from Comcast to Verizon) and I am clueless as to how I make sure my existing EMAIL files/folders etc. remain in tact. I have been told that I do not have to do anything: my existing email functions, files, folders remain the same. The only THING that happens is I no longer receive new mail from my old comcast address? Any thoughts? Thanx, SCYour existing email is safe.
As for mail, which is still sent to your old email address, you can use email forwarding services, like this one:
http://ecoa.returnpath.net/What program are you using for email so we can instruct on creating PROPER backups just in case ? ?

Awe, I like cats

aww come on guys, dont make me feel bad for laughing at it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqNx7vJLDE&NR=1

Pretty Funny

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oDFkP5JCgaM

best 15 second movie ever.

Oh!Bwahahaha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_flrd6BlWo

Quote from: street1 on December 02, 2007, 02:52:08 PM

Oh!Bwahahaha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_flrd6BlWo

i couldnt watch it all...i tried...but i just could not do it...

I have just joined a NEW clan , and i was wondering if some of you wont mind voting for us .

Dead simple Just follow the LINK and VOTE .

If we WIN , we get funded with a small amount each month.

Vote here : http://teamobjective.com/top/index.php?a=stats&u=Diddydecoy

Clan Site here: http://www.godsofwar.hkhp.us/

Cheers Guys!

Tony I voted,voted,voted....Glad to HELP Tony.gOOD GOOD !!

1 DOWN 100 TO GO! :d

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I too voted. Wait, so all I have to do is click on the link? Whoa! That was easy.....
Hope ya win!

HIDE PROPERTISpam . reported.Topic locked, WARNING given. We don't NEED this kind of crappola posted.

GX1
ModeratorIn ADDITION, to move it out of the WAY so its not DISTRACTING, moving to Off Topic

Can any staff member clean it up? It's been like that for last two days.
Thanks.Notifying right now, thanks for letting us know What upload folder?When upload folder is full, you can't ATTACH anything to your post.Ok... Quote from: Zylstra on November 25, 2007, 03:54:03 PM

Notifying right now, thanks for letting us know

Thank you...
I guess, it's not possible to set some automatic warning, which would go to Staff people?

That would defeat the PURPOSE...PULLING twice as many teeth ! !

 Some of our "PATIENTS" may be that bad, so double force will be needed.Point taken...i'll use it with the PROPER discretion.

Mind Blower

This is another example of an AMAZING illusion!!! The last sentence is so true.

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink.



However if you stare at the black " +" in the center, the moving dot turns to green.
Now, concentrate on the black "+ " in the center of the picture.
After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot rotating.
It's amazing how our brain works.
There REALLY is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.

 thats crazy..More here:
http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/
Stare at this one for a minute or so,  and it will look like a giraffe.
No kidding!


Concentrate.
Try not to blink.























  Willy? Have you been drinking?.....LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Quote from: Broni on November 15, 2007, 05:41:34 PM

Willy? Have you been drinking?.....LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Actually, it took me couple of drinks to see that *censored* giraffe.....LOOOOOOOOL

now where did I put that    pink elephant    gif?

BTW...maybe I'm imaging something, but I'd swear, that when I reply, I didn't see "Spell check" button yesterday.

*censored*! Misspeling doesn't happen to me that often.....imagining this....ehhhh

- A full BLADDER is roughly the size of a soft ball.   

- Approximately 75% of human feces is made of water.   

- It takes the food seven seconds to GET from your mouth to   
your stomach.   

- One human hair can support 3 kg.   

- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.   

- The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.   

-Your thumb is the same length of your nose.   

- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.   

- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet   
long when he died.   

- Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get   
cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.   

- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.   

- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about   
one square inch.   

- Women blink twice as much as men.   

- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.   

- When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate,   

- They do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.   

- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working   
out than it did to gain it.   

- You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when   
you aren't.   

- Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are   
standing still.   

- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.   

- The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.   

Side Note:   
You checked out the length of your thumb..   
Didn't you?   
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Side Note:   
You checked out the length of your thumb..   
Didn't you?

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Side Note:   
You checked out the length of your thumb..   
Didn't you?

Twice..

Did it work?....LOL

- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

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- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

i just washed my hands...

what do your hands have to do with your feet?

Quote from: homer on November 22, 2007, 10:40:21 PM

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- There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

i just washed my hands...

.......what do your hands have to do with your feet?

What for?...Are you into fetishes?...LOOOOOOOL

Home Depot Alert! 
A 'Heads Up' for those of us men who may be regular Home Depot  customers. 
Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while  out shopping. 
Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite  traumatic.   
Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you or your friends.
Here's how the scam works.

Two seriously good-looking 20-21  year-old girls come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the  trunk. They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their *censored* almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts.  It is impossible not  to look. When you thank them and offer them a TIP, they say 'No' and  instead ask you for a
ride to another Home Depot or Lowes.

You agree and  they get in the back seat.   On the way, they start undressing. Then one of  them climbs over into the
front seat and starts crawling all over you, while the  other one steals your wallet.
I had my wallet stolen September 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th & 24th.  Also October 1st, 4th,  twice on the 6th, three times just yesterday, and very likely this coming  weekend. 

So tell your friends to be careful. ...

Awesome. I needed that. Any Home Depot close by?....LOLGood one Broni Thank You Broni...Keep 'em comin' COL!!!tat sounds nice, ok so im Not going to bring anything with me and I get this Deal SWEET!!!!! THANKS BRONI lol no no its no that FUNNY but still! Quote

Not going to bring anything with me

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Not going to bring anything with me

It may be dangerous.....LOL

I'm pretty much movie buff, so I go to THEATER with my son, EVERY weekend. I watch bunch of them at home, as well...
Since I'm home, sick, I'd like to see your proposals.
Last weekend, I went to see "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington, and Russell Crowe. I liked it a lot. I'd say, at least B+ in my opinion.
How about you?Well, the most recent and interesting movie I saw was on Dish (Pay Per View) about this guy, who is a tax auditor, who ends up in this authors story, and hears the authors narration (I remember the characters name, Harold Crick, but cant remember the title of the movie)

In the theater, however, the most interesting and recent movie I have seen is Harry Potter... Well, that and the Simpson's movie... (I will admit, it was the two most inappropriate parts of the movie that were the most interesting)
Stranger Than Fiction
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/ Quote from: Broni on November 07, 2007, 09:14:23 PM

Stranger Than Fiction
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/

t*r*nt?....shhhhhhhhhhhh

Guys, it really annoying to have eRAgent appear during start-up.
Please help me get rid of it!
I'm using Acer Aspire 5570 laptop!

DLoad and INSTALL Startup CPL by Mike Lin...this will add a Startup icon in your Control PANEL where you can disable it and anything ELSE you don't want to run at startup...
Warning: Be CAREFUL what you disable...
The one you mentioned is fine to turn off.

Right.....isn't she bald?

Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on April 30, 2007, 08:23:24 AM

Right.....isn't she bald?

Perv.

Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on April 30, 2007, 08:23:24 AM

Right.....isn't she bald?

Perv.

Thought: Why is John Howard on the poll?  (go Kevin Rudd!)

This one's for you:

Get Some Nuts! - Snickers Advert

 Now that is FUNNY. "Get some nuts!" ROFL
Nice find RaptorWas sent to me by a friend. The social way of 'stumbling upon'.  Working hard in the office, or hardly working 

(Ah, the wonders of Stumbleupon) nice Quote from: Raptor on April 28, 2007, 07:03:12 AM

This one's for you:

Get Some Nuts! - Snickers Advert

 

T-Rex eats Raptor....LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_h-ZcYmP0

I'd try posting what I wanted to say, but I'm worried I'll be prosecuted. welll what is it raptor i dont really hate on all that muchWeeelll.... I think Riker is far too lewd, he'll sleep with anything that BREATHES.

rofl well i dont watch the show nor know who that is so i wont judgeInteresting TOPIC..........Which Star Trek are you talking about?Well, he features in TNG.. So... Maybe his philosophy is (bleep) is (bleep), no matter where it hangs.Blame it on Merlin

whats with this 2k_dummyWhen somebody sees a picture of a Teddy Bear and his response is......

So thats what a windmill in holland looks like

......ummmmm ........you be the judge.

Merlin and Merlin_2 are the same person, if that tells you anything.nope i wasnt here when the merlin and mac attacks happenedWilliam Riker is just an updated version of James T Kirk as far as his personality and attraction to everything that moves. Quote from: 2k_dummy on April 27, 2007, 10:22:02 AM

Maybe his philosophy is (bleep) is (bleep), no matter where it hangs.

Well,at least they used Micheal Dorn(Worf )so there would
be a man in the series.

He hasn't posted for some time.

Alan <><  Maybe he's working on a second book.I seem to recall that he recently GOT a new job and wouldn't be around as much because of it. He does still log in OCCASIONALLY, but isn't posting.ROB!! where art thouHe still needs to answer my question in the Linux section.

Heh, just thought this was too good to not share. Picture of Data on StarTrek getting a BSOD.

http://forthfreak.net/fatalerror.gif

HAHA hilarious. I haven't got the blue screen of death for years.
I remember once in calss we were doing power point presentations on the second WORLD war and when my friend loaded his, the computer froze and the blue screen OD came on.Very funny

Last time I saw BSOD was while attempting to use my Infrared port, which I still cant get to work...I was walking around school today and i found 2 computers (out of hundreds spread throughout  the school) with the BSOD.

This computer was connected to a printer and it the message was something along the lines of 'physical memory dump'


This computer is in one of our computer ROOMAND its an encoding error or something.


2 in one day, how special  Ever had the whole room go down?
HAPPENED to me before.Once the speakers on the walls made these awful high pitched noises and wouldn't stop so we got to miss half of our class while some techinicians came with a ladder and unpluged them all.
Got to miss half of Spanish class the last time i saw bsod was when i put the bsod screensaver on my moms computer and she freaked outBSOD screensaver?  Ha, classic.It's from the episode "Power Play" Where Data is locked out of the MAIN computer after some lifeform took over several crew members including him. The bluescreen was of course later on added.   When our power went out at my Elementry school, there was a high pitched noise made by the servers for the old computers, which happened to be located in the walls.
HmmHaha, wall computers Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on April 26, 2007, 11:41:26 PM

Haha, wall computers

Sorry been trying out the new Stumble Upon site BROWSE feature and finding all sorts of great videos. This one is a great old commercial of the COMMODORE Amiga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY27PC9FWT0
Woah... GRAPHICS in 1987?

Now that was something I did not know.

(What, was it all MYST or something?) Pirates of silicon valley

6 PARTS, DOCUDRAMA.

Heh, I've seen IPODS, hard disk drives, but never PCs... great stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_tXcRYOYZ0ROFL

Now I wonder where they GOT all of those

Neat video
Haha.  That's awesome!  Gives me some ideas...LOL i wonder if all the pc's survived?They were empty, otherwise they'd be too heavy to fall over I think.. ok then where did the insides go?I ate them. Quote from: Raptor on April 26, 2007, 10:05:46 AM

I ate them.

I do believe you all will get a kick out of this!

I work for this privately owned mis-managed charter bus company.
I basically am buying my time here for convenience and the very short
driving distance to the house. The owner's son (guy-close to my age) who ummmm runs things around here and hates me , finely broke down and let the mechanics purchase a laptop for the diagnostics capabilities it can do with
a new software purchase from the manufacturers of the buses they buy (engine problems ie...codes ).
 I was ridiculed by him for "touching" their router upstairs few months ago, to get my Lan line connected. It was too technical for me and might have shut everyone down.;-(
I looked at him and laughed and walked AWAY at that point.
   Today, the guy from Canada shows up to install and show them the basics of the 5,000 software. The operations manager purchased the laptop at STAPLES << lmao 2 days ago.... ....  I went out to have a cig 2 hours ago and they are standing around with "you know that look" and the mechanic looks at me and says,  honvetops > ummmm it won't work with Vista !!!

what is it HOMER says " Duuuuuuuhhhhhhh"   So what did you tell him? Quote from: Raptor on April 26, 2007, 10:27:12 AM

So what did you tell him?

My Math teacher from last year wasnt the biggest fan of AOL, but really GOT them at this:
She would CALL to cancel
and they would offer her another free trial (90 days)
She would take it
and repeat after 90 days

If they didnt offer it, she would just switch her ISP.

(But then she got rid of it completely, and got HSI instead)

I remember when we tried to cancel, they offered us a free trial, and then they asked us the question we didnt know the answer to:
What is your password? Quote from: Zylstra on April 25, 2007, 09:38:33 PM

My Math teacher from last year wasnt the biggest fan of AOL, but really got them at this:
She would call to cancel
and they would offer her another free trial (90 days)
She would take it
and repeat after 90 days

About 20 MINUTES ago, the weather was calm and peacful and then it went from calm to massive wind and rain. I went downstairs with my camera and stood in the open. It is so cool out with the strong wind and rain. I live in a 24 story high building and on the 16th floor they were doing renovations and they had bamboo and stuff hanging off the edge of the building and it collapsed on the road in front of my building.
I also went to the roof and its too crazy up there. Like a hurricane or typhoon or whatever but it isnt.
I have videos but it is 8Pm here so its hard to see.

EDIT: Half an hour after that heavy rain and wind it was calm again. but the temperature dropped 10 degrees

Anyone else got weird weather stories to share like tornados or hurricanes or something?

same here....
now it stop everything i think or my
comp's speakers are too loud to hear anythingIt was one of the warmest April days ever recorded yesterday and the days before that where I live. I went from lovely warm sunshine to howling wind, driving rain and lightning.
Had to shelter for about an hour in a bus shelter when my bike decided to die (handlebars came off).
NEVER seen anything like it in the UK.Easter WEEKEND 19 inches of snow in 30 hours....but the Ham was Gooood !seems like this year it has a wild weather global warming?Global Warming, what are you talking about, it's been cold over here since mid November, and now it's in the middle of April, which is strange. I live in Texas, which is strange, it's usually scorching hotglobal warming doesnt mean the whole world just warms up...
it gets cold too.Weather was really good today here really wanted to go golfing. However, as far as strange weather stories don't really have any myself. Been through some freakish snow storms but in Utah it happens every few years so not totally out of the norm.Where my dads house is, its always raining... here its dry and dry...Oh I know that, but I don't believe Global Warming is going to happen in my life TIME. Quote from: fffreak on April 17, 2007, 11:09:58 PM

Oh I know that, but I don't believe Global Warming is going to happen in my life time.

Yeah, we watched a discovery channel thing in class about that.

Engineers have concocted metals that remember their original shapes and which, with a little heat, can snap back after being crumpled or dented.
"We showed for the first time that metal can snap back after deformation," lead author Taher Saif of the UNIVERSITY of Illinois told LiveScience.
Normally, if you bend a hanger or even a paperclip, it's nearly impossible to restore the metal to a 100 percent unkinked state.

Physical properties like this one are determined by the metal's crystalline and chemical structure.

The crystalline structure, or microstructure, is the result of tiny groups of atoms that take on different sizes depending on how the atoms within each group are packed together.

Saif said that when the lab METHOD gets scaled up, the memory metal could be used for any metal object that could get dented, ranging from cars and aircraft fuselages to everyday objects, such as garden TOOLS and the metal frames on suitcases.

How it works

Saif, a mechanical engineer, and his graduate students tried to mess with those grain sizes. They examined microstructures within thin films of aluminum and gold.

By controlling the temperature during production, the team created metal films with very fine grains, under 100 nanometers.

For comparison, the width of a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers.

"We found that the type of metal doesn't matter," Saif said. "What matters is the size of the grains in the metal's crystalline microstructure, and a distribution in the size."

The research was reported Friday in the journal Science.

The atom grains had to be small, but not too small, to store a "memory" of their original state.

Grains that are too tiny make a metal brittle and likely to snap when bent, while grains that are too large make a super malleable metal that bends and stays in a droopy position.

Just right

The key to making metals that snap back to their original shapes, the scientists found, is a balance between brittleness and bendiness, or a balance between teensy and relatively giant grains.

With a mix of big and little grains, a sort of tug-of-war ensues: When the bigger grains bend, they push and pull on the smaller grains, which get scrunched like a spring.

Here's one way the metal might be put to practical use: After a fender-bender, the springy grains in the modified metal could get sprung and release all their stored energy and force the big grains back to their initial positions.

The scientists found that by applying heat they could speed up the energy release and thus the metal's spring back to its original shape.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,263401,00.html

** I swear on some ufo show a few years back, there was this guy (actual eyewitness as a kid) who LIVED in Roswell and found this metal!!  ** see below..............


(Corley) "What are you trying to make me say, 'Do you really know that it came from outer space?'  I don't.  How can I say that?  All I know is the material that I found and carried to the base ... The only thing I can say is that it might indicate that it might have been from out of space.  It is nothing I had ever seen before.  And I haven't seen it since.  Even modern manufacturing and process that we have now ... all the material they have ... I've never seen anything like that."

[Corley:  The foil that you said ... if you wrinkle it and lay it down it gets its shape again?]  "Well, you couldn't wrinkle it.  You see this foil    [Pointed to a cigarette package on the table]  You know the thickness of that?  That's thin.  I found a piece about this wide and about this long.  About two FEET long.  And I had a very genius fellow working for me in my office.  ...He said, 'I saw something unusual.'  I said, 'What's that?'  He said, 'You see this piece of metal?'  He said, 'I tried to bend it, tried to make a mark on it.  You can't make a mark on it.'  I said, 'You're kidding me.'  So I went out there.  He took a sixteen pound sledgehammer and put the piece of metal on the ground and he hit it like that and it bounced off it."

[Corley:  So you couldn't fold it, bend it, wrinkle it, or nothing?]  "You couldn't even dent it with a sledgehammer.  Thin as this.  [Pointing to the cigarette pack]  And when you had it in your hand you had nothing.  It was as light as balsa wood. "

http://roswellproof.homestead.com/debris3_misc_metal.html


So i can bend all my paper clips into weird shapes, throw them in the oven for a minute and they would all be fixed? If so, THATS WICKED!!!

I read about this but never got to SEE it. Great video of the Asimo ROBOT and also video of it running, which is amazing for a robot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khgt8ChiGoHonda has been working on Asimo since the 80's.
It was around 1-3 years ago that he was finally able to master stairs.

Its neat that Asimo can finally run.

COOL VID

I was a BIG fan of The Screen Savers back in the day and just Stumbled across this YOUTUBE profile that has 57 of the OLD Screen Savers shows. Great stuff for anyone who was a fan and/or was not familiar with it.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=zdtvfanI have WATCHED the "Screen Savers" a few times ("Installing a Hard Drive" I think)
But never watched any more.

Neat link

Found the below note to parents online. I think it could make
you chortle and pee your pants.

Dear Dumbassed Parents:

School staff does not equal bill collectors. Please make it possible for us to reach you during the day. While it's true that 99.9% of the time we're calling you because your kid is acting a d**n fool, there may be the rare chance that your kid is hurt or sick.

When your kid actually IS sick, it's bad for them and us to leave them waiting in the office for hours because we couldn't locate you to come get them. Please let us know when your phone number has changed, yes?

When it COMES down to paying the cable bill or the utility bill/phone bill... dude. Pay the freakin' phone and/or utility bills first.
(Yes, I know this one for fact, as I had to copy these things as proof of residence during registration. I saw numerous cutoff notices for phone and utilities, but d**n if those cable and satellite bills were paid up.)

Please refrain from smoking weed in your car before attending a conference with your kid's teacher. It's tacky.

If you are going to name your kid after a car, make sure you've got the car's spelling correct. It's LEXUS. Not Lexxus, Le'xus, Da'Lexxus, DaLexiuss or DysLexicuss.

...Nor are you helping your kid when you give them a name with 12 consonants and three apostrophes.

...Nor are you helping your kid when you call them "Lil' ReeRee" or "Baby Girl" their entire lives, because they enter kindergarten not knowing what their real names are. Would that I were lying.

I'm guessing here, but I think it's safe to assume that it is not good for your kids to subject them to RAP music on the way to school that is loud enough for me to hear as I walk across the parking lot, even with your windows up. It's even less good when said music is about shootin', slappin' your *censored*, pimpin' ho's, smokin' up blunts and icin' whitey.

I know you may be a single parent and you need to get kids to school and get yourself to work on time. And making a Burger King or McD's run on occasion is better than no breakfast at all. However, doing this every day is not so smart. You do realize it's much cheaper, and healthier, to buy a box of CEREAL and eat breakfast at home, right? Eh.

Do not complain to me about how my griping at your kid "hurt their feelings". Guess what? I don't give two turds. Nay, three. Maybe if you taught your little crotch droppling some manners, I wouldn't have to scream at them every two minutes.

When you come to your kid's school, remember that nighttime is not for several hours. That means you don't need to dress like you're out to get your freak on at 11 a.m. No skirts that are two sizes too tight and almost show buttcrack. No knee-high boots with stiletto heels. No hooker style fur jackets. Your shirt should not be so low cut that I can see the tattoo of your BOYFRIEND's nickname on your right *censored*.

Teachers are not flunking your kid out of LAZINESS or meanness... your kid truly is a f*****g idiot. You are not helping matters.

Signed: The Freaking Principal--->

Hello,Calum....ROTFLMAOIs that a real letter to parents? I seriously doubt it but it is kinda funny.I like the term 'crotch dropplings', it makes kids sound like expendable objects. haha, wow Quote from: Raptor on April 20, 2007, 06:10:56 AM

I like the term 'crotch dropplings', it makes kids sound like expendable objects.

A short list of great computer related movies/videos on  Google. If anyone happens to know of anymore please feel free to post them. I also have listed the duration and a short description of the video. Enjoy.

Revolution OS - 1 hr 25min -
Great video about the history and development of Linux.

In the Realm of the Hackers - 56 Minutes
DOCUMENTARY about hackers.

Discovery Channel -The History Of Hacking Documentary - 50 Minutes
Fantastic show done about the real old school hackers like Steve Wozniak, Captain Crunch, etc. Although  mostly OLDER STORIES of hacking / phreaking still a good show.

Cyberwars - 47 Minutes
Short film about Chinese hackers such as little fish that talks about hacking, cyber crime, honkers, poinsonbox, and patriotic hacking in cyber war.

Hackers in Wonderland - 47 Minutes
Another movie about hackers in this one cold fire and cyber junkie and why they hack.

Pirates of Silicon Valley - 1hr 36min
Great movie about the Steve Jobs / Steve Wozniak / Bill Gates.

*Edit: Added Pirates of Silicon ValleyNice, I'm going to check them out later. I'm currently doing my homework 
I remember seeing a like a 40 minute video about the history of Windows COMPUTERS on a website...I'll see if I can dig it up.

EDIT: I found something really weird ads. Thought i might share them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZUYxwhduE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuRQmvykwkHeh that first NOVELL ad was REALLY strange. Call me crazy but Windows is running on my machine I never pictured it as a young kid flying around in the air?Added Pirates of Silicon valley.Speaking of kids flying through the air in Microsoft-related ads...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBDSqLzSl8Ha, life is short...and windy Quote from: CBMatt on April 23, 2007, 02:21:23 AM

Speaking of kids flying through the air in Microsoft-related ads...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBDSqLzSl8

when was that movie made?

Subject: World History - As it Really Happened

        Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic
hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and
would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.  The two
most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the
invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These
inventions were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the
catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals

   and

2. Conservatives

        Once beer was discovered, it required grain, so this spurred the
creation of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were
invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around WAITING for them
to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery.  That's how villages
were formed.

        Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at
night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known
as the Conservative movement. Other men who were weaker and less skilled at
hunting learned to live off the conservatives by SHOWING up for the nightly
B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the
beginning of the Liberal movement.
        Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest
became known as girliemen.  Some noteworthy liberal achievements INCLUDE the
domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the
concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that
conservatives provided.
        Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest,
most powerful animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the
*censored*.
        Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer
white wine spritzers or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish, but like
their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.
        Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have
higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal
injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are
liberals. Liberals invented the DESIGNATED hitter rule because it wasn't fair
to make the pitcher also bat.
        Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still
provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys,
lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers,
corporate executives, test pilots, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone
who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other
conservatives who want to work for a living.

        Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers
and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are
more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in
Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the
Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history.

        It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to
angrily respond to the above before forwarding it. A Conservative will simply
laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will
be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to
piss them off.    lol thats funnyhonvetops is that you on that pictures? <;-)       << there's a story behind that !!!  lmao

one episode of South Park had Cartmen piss'd off at his buddies and he said he was way too mature to hang with them anymore. He decided to go "online" to find  more ummm mature companionship.  He went into a chat room and typed young boy, looking to meet mature friends and finished it off with that symbol hence the (wink) on the eye.....

needless to SAY the pop ups on his screen after he hit enter floored me !!
responses  about  12 in  3 secs ..............lol     rofl what episode Quote from: unlovedwarrior on April 24, 2007, 09:24:44 AM

rofl what episode

Happy birthday ROB.  Happy birthday Rob, have a GOOD one.

Enjoy Rob !Happy Birthday, Rob!

All the best!He seems to have disappeared..?He's the hidden one!Not after those Guinnesses he won't be....Happy birthday!
Quote from: PATIO on April 22, 2007, 12:16:29 PM

Not after those Guinnesses he won't be....

Happy Birthday....I wonder why he hasnt posted here or anything....

60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

168. A PREGNANT goldfish is called a twit.

Believe the Subject explains this VIDEO.

Edit.. Changed the link to the same video but on YouTube.Yeah, I saw that on YouTube quite some time ago.
The WORLD is getting lazier and lazier.Lazier and lazier or more efficient with their time? Although maybe everyone should just convert to the bidet.Haha, nasty.Aww. Its not loading.

So what exactly is it?
(Toilet paper folding machine?  what on earth  )Hey Zylstra, try this link. I think it's the same video as the one Nathan PUT up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsXlTKaFq0Thanks for the link, Carbon Dudeoxide

LOL

I dont see a point, but its STILL funnyThat is so...awesome...LOL! I just noticed
That thing is made of Legos! Quote from: Zylstra on April 23, 2007, 04:54:23 PM

LOL! I just noticed
That thing is made of Legos!

I know this is always an interesting topic. Although I'd imagine most of the forum users believe that games don't cause violence in humans. However, stumbled across this interesting picture depicting the decrease of crimes per 1,000 citizens.

http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/pics/violentgames.jpg

The data is gathered from:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/viortrdtab.htmCould it also be because more people are born therefore less people would take a criminal path as social care has become better, crime has become more organized and therefore harder to join? I very much doubt videogames are of any influence to either the lowering of crime or the rising. If any, they'd amount to rising crime because game consoles and games are very expensive and I can imagine youngsters needing to get the money from somewhere...

Besides that, less people could become victims due to increased security. Especially after terrorist attacks.

I find these numbers wholly inconclusive. I bet it's because all the 'criminals' are too busy playing games.

For example:
Instead of stealing a real car, they steal one in GRAND Thef Auto 
Instead of KILLING someone in reality, they kill someone in Halo or something....Yeah, because we all know that criminals no longer need to make a living after they buy a game console. They need to make a very good living to get a games console over here, the PS3 is over £400.I'm sure those guys that jack Beemers and Jags are having alot more fun playing GTAuto...

  Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on April 22, 2007, 08:14:19 AM

I bet it's because all the 'criminals' are too busy playing games.

For example:
Instead of stealing a real car, they steal one in Grand Thef Auto 
Instead of killing someone in reality, they kill someone in Halo or something....

But it just doesn't compare to the real thing...

Lol, steal a random person's car on GTA and then do 150 on the highway and then 100 in the neighbourhood. Hit another car head on. Get out of the car and start shooting everyone and blowing up any passing cars on the highway.

Some great random pictures of geek culture.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/32500/Pictures-of-Geek-Culture  Good find Nathan. ROTFLMAOSomeone needs to build a page-overlay script web app so I can comment on every one of those!

Thats awesome! That is awesome, a TAPED TOGETHER computer  nathan did you find at a digg? cuz thats where i saw it its coolthese are most awesome !!  I am laughing too hard ....... these could be numbered and talked about for weeks!Thanks for the laugh Quote from: unlovedwarrior on April 20, 2007, 08:12:35 PM

nathan did you find at a digg? cuz thats where i saw it its cool

This may sound stupid, but how do you add pictures in your signature?

It's probably written somewhere, but I can't find it.I use photobucket.It makes them for you.

http://s94.photobucket.com/




Hpoe that helps you some friend.
I DONT think that's what he means street1. I think he want to know how to add it to your signature.....

Where you type your signature for the forums, type the following for a picture:
Code: [Select][img]www.your_picture_address.com[/img]
Hope this helpsDon't add pictures to your signature, or we'll end up looking like one of those TEENAGE forums where every one has a picture that's about the size of my wallpaper. Depends what you have as your sig.
I feel a banner image is fine, but the ONES that have a scrollbar to see it all are too big.
It does sometimes get ridiculous when the images are very large (file size or resolution) so please bear that in mind.

Oh, and Dark Blade - if you GO to an image hosting site such as photobucket, you will NEED to upload your image to the site, which will be explained at the site.
You will then normally be given the code to embed it. Quote

dont think that's what he means street1. I think he want to know how to add it to your signature.....

Where you type your signature for the forums, type the following for a picture:

Code: [Select][img]www.your_picture_address.com[/img]

Hope this helps

Nathan, I wonder if you can stop posts in this forum from counting towards an overall post count?  Word games are very quick ways to rack up large post counts (THEREBY gaining access to D's B&G) without necessarily contributing ANYTHING of significance to CH.I'd thought about this too, but you beat me to mentioning it.
Most off topic forums don't count towards overall posts, maybe this one shouldn't either.I agree. I think the posts in the 'Off Topic' shouldn't count because they more or less have nothing to do with helping anyone. Quote from: Calum on April 04, 2007, 02:15:35 AM

I'd thought about this too, but you beat me to mentioning it.
Most off topic forums don't count towards overall posts, maybe this one shouldn't either.

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for WINDOWS. It runs whenever you're logged on and UPDATES your wallpaper with an ACCURATE representation of the Earth as it would be seen from SPACE at that precise moment.

http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp

1) Go to google maps and click "Get Directions"
2) In from type "New York City"
3) In to type "London"
4) Get directions
5) Read step #23 and check the plotted course.

From another Forum.

patio.Heh. PRETTY funny. Long trip too: 3,938 mi (about 29 days 10 hours)I did that once for directions from my home TOWN to Paris. I like how they expect you to start driving after you swim the ATLANTIC, like there's a car readily available or something.

Oddly, Google Maps cannot find driving directions across the Pacific... LOL!
Very neat find, Patio! 

That is very coolHaha, that made me COL.
And a good point Dilbert, unless they expect you to carry a car across on your back, or steal one.
Then again, I guess they can't recommend GOING to an airport or ferry or something because it'd be powerful advertising, SENDING everyone to one company to get across the Atlantic.
Nice find.

Many of you MAY have ALREADY seen this but for those that have not, crazy robot controlled by a Cockroach. This page  is the project overview page and contains complete information about the project and PICTURES and video.

http://www.conceptlab.com/roachbot/