“davidst: good idea, consider it done”

Alright!  By the way, tell Lee to make one too ;) Oh and… first post!

I think your last 30 posts thing is too low though, and the link to this should be at the top of it not the bottom.  For slower sites a forum format like this with only one thread can be very effective.  You can always beef it up if necessary.

That right column has way too much stuff in it… Most of it isn’t even visible unless you’re way down on the main page or in a long comments thread (and the comments don’t get that long here most of the time).  When I hit ctrl + end instead of taking me to the end of the document, it takes me to the end of the right column leaving the end of the main portion of a page in the dust (try hitting ctrl + end here to see what I mean).

Anyway, has anyone visited the Oil Drum.  I read some of the stuff there and find it strangely convincing.  It seems there is at least some attempt at using factual information rather than moonbattery, but the second post (all the way at the bottom of their main page) indicates that they describe to the Bush went to Iraq for Oil argument.

On the other hand… that’s at least somewhat believable (and defensible) if you think it was done for the good of the country rather than to line haliburton’s pockets.

However, I haven’t looked at the place in depth yet.

Oh, here’s an update to a story I think you’ve covered.

The chili bitch has a history.  And they just arrested her.  She may get her due after all.

Whoa! An open forum! Sweeet.

Yep, but we have to get people to actually use it…

I wanted to see this open forum get used more, but this isn’t what I had in mind.

Makes me wonder about my brothers cat… he’s pretty nice, declawed and only bites hard if you repeatedly mess with him for long periods of time.  Still.

Bill Gates: Cellphone will beat iPod
Microsoft chairman tells German newspaper that Apple’s nifty little gizmo can’t sustain itself.

As good as Apple may be, I don’t believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run,” he said in an interview published in Thursday’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

“You can make parallels with computers: Apple was very strong in this field before, with its Macintosh and its graphics user interface—like the iPod today—and then lost its position,” Gates said.

Apple (Research) has around two thirds of the global market for MP3 music players, which store thousands of songs on pocket-sized disk drives or smaller flash memory chips, and sold more than 5 million iPods in the last quarter.

But it faces increasing competition not only from the likes of Sony, whose iconic Walkman dominated the personal audio market for two decades, but also from mobile-phone companies integrating MP3 players into handsets.

Well, thats interesting.

So we can talk about anything here, not just current events or politics?

Yeah I think so.  At the current level of activity, I think discussion about anything would be welcome.

So anyone into games?  I just got back from attending E3 out in LA.  It was a busy week.  The XBox 360 was mostly in hiding and Sony released some fake tech demo’s demonstrating what the PS3 most certainly will not be capable of.

Was there any real talk about how all this next gen technology was going to affect game PLAY?

I’m a graphics whore as much (ok, maybe more) as the next guy, but there’s a reason the Quake 3 engine is still licensed...it plays like a dream.

it seems you CAN get everything you need at Wal Mart.  Apparently you can even find your bride there now.

express love

ok, i’m single and looking...and I’ve thought about Home Depot LOl but Wal-mart? I never would ahve thought of that and frankly, I’m a little frightened by it.

Can it be?  People using the open forum finally?

Well… “Was there any real talk about how all this next gen technology was going to affect game PLAY”

One new trick of the new GPU’s is the ability to take one set of geometry (whether its a tree or some creature) and redraw it it hundreds of times very quickly but in different sizes and shapes.  Obviously for trees this just nice looking, but it would have a dramatic effect on the amount of enemies you might go up against.

Then of course there is the potential for next-generation physics.

But honestly, these consoles are mostly about the graphics so far.  Nintendo intends to change that, but no one knows how yet because they’re not saying.

On the wal-mart thing… sounds interesting for relatively ordinary people.  I don’t think that would work for me though.  I’m going to have to meet someone at work.

I would just like to say that the new movie “Crash” has to be one of the best movies this year.  It is about how the lives of several people of different races collide with each other after a few certain events happen in L.A.  It is absolutely riveting and everyone should see it.

The open forum is not dead!!

It seems that some Washington politicians are threatening Major League Baseball (who currently have some sweet anti-trust exemptions) if they sell the Washington Nationals to George Soros. Ignore the source of the link, I’m sure there is some bias there.. it has the full Roll Call article, though, which costs money to read at the source.

“I think Major League Baseball understands the stakes,” said Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis (R), the Northern Virginia lawmaker who recently convened high-profile steroid hearings. “I don’t think they want to get involved in a political fight.”

Davis, whose panel also oversees District of Columbia issues, said that if a Soros sale went through, “I don’t think it’s the Nats that get hurt. I think it’s Major League Baseball that gets hurt. They enjoy all sorts of exemptions” from anti-trust laws.

Now, say what you will about Soros. I’m not about to defend him.. but for these politicians to attempt to influence the sale by threatening Congressional reprisals.. Just another nail into the Small Government coffin.

The next US civil war is about to begin.. Sandra Day O’Connor retired.

Hey JimK, have you started playing GTA: San Andreas yet?

Hells yeah…

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I just killed Ryder and started working for the crazy government guy.

haha, check this out:

http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1293.htm

save up 60 “dollars” and check the “buy skins” list :)

Ha!  Poor mikey.  That makes him look so thin.  ;)