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I'm so stupid, I signed up and got the Zot.

Posted on 12/21/2004 12:25:42 PM PST by hk409

Edited on 12/21/2004 12:54:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: sionnsar
"Just pour your fuel on the fire."

True, but one has to consider other things, as well.

If Michael Moore were to choose to immolate himself ... Well, heavy water is expensive, Man!

33,781 posted on 07/12/2005 2:22:23 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
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To: Dead Corpse
"...even some more rare or exotic materials like titanium."

I was considering our discussion of the risks of meteorite puncture of the hull and the subsequent air-loss.

What say we strip out those old fuel tanks we used for the turbo-jet engines, and put in some high-strength spherical chambers for compressed air storage?

Even without drastic loss, we'll need make-up air for normal leakage and air-lock operations.

33,782 posted on 07/12/2005 2:33:12 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
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To: sionnsar

"(There is a small hole in this theory, though.)"

It may be from your view, but to me, it makes perfect sense. (WHOA!! Did I say that???)

[Maybe my brems are working better today than I thought...]


33,783 posted on 07/12/2005 2:55:58 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: sionnsar

"(There is a small hole in this theory, though.)"

It may be from your view, but to me, it makes perfect sense. (WHOA!! Did I say that???)

[Maybe my brems are working better today than I thought...]


33,784 posted on 07/12/2005 2:55:58 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Monkey Face

Here we go with the double posts again...*tearing hair out*


33,785 posted on 07/12/2005 2:59:28 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: sionnsar; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; King Prout

I was having posting troubles again, but I'm back now.


33,786 posted on 07/12/2005 3:53:55 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)
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To: Monkey Face
No hair-pulling, here, despite posting problems. Plugged into my Trance/Electronica LAUNCHcast Radio (if you have a Yahoo ID you can link up through my 'Links' page and give a listen).

Just wrapped up "Center of the Sun" by Conjure One (lyrics below).

Link here then click on one of the orange headphone buttons for a sample.

Young girl in the market
Music to the men 
When the men leave 
Her eyes are red 
When her eyes are closed again 
She sees a dark market of a violin 
And she sings 
“They say the most horrible things 
But I hear violins” 

“When I close my eyes 
I am at the center of the sun 
And I cannot be hurt by anything 
This wicked world has done” 

Young boy in the market 
Follows all the men 
When the men leave 
He’s out of his head 
When his eyes are closed again 
He sees a dark market of a violin 
And he sings 
“They break the most beautiful things 
But I hear violins” 

“When I close my eyes 
I am at the center of the sun 
And I cannot be hurt by anything 
This wicked world has done 
I look into your eyes 
And I am at the center of the sun 
And I cannot be hurt 
By anything this wicked world has done 
I am at the center of the sun.” 


Young boy in the market 
Sees the girl alone 
And asks her 
“Have you lost your way home?” 
She sings 
“You say the most beautiful things 
Just like my violins 
I look into your eyes 
I am at the center of the sun 
And I cannot be hurt 
By anything this wicked world has done 
When I close my eyes 
I am at the center of the sun 
And I cannot be hurt 
By anything this wicked world has done 
‘Cause I hear violins 
I hear violins 
I hear violins 
I hear violins 
I am at the center of the sun.” 

I hear violins.

Some of my top-rated tracks include songs by Armin Van Buren, Coldplay, DJ Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, Eiffel 65, Ferry Cortsen, and The Cranberries.

33,787 posted on 07/12/2005 4:09:43 PM PDT by HKMk23 (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost)
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To: HKMk23; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob

I'm not tearing my hear out... but I do need a hair cut in the near future.


33,788 posted on 07/12/2005 4:22:23 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)
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To: tuliptree76

We've all had the posting problems...some of them are still going...LOL!

Are you taking a break from studying?


33,789 posted on 07/12/2005 4:29:44 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Monkey Face

Well, kind of... I'm working on something while I'm online. LOL!


33,790 posted on 07/12/2005 4:31:29 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)
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To: HKMk23

Thanks! I tried but got an error message, saying it wasn't available. Must be a lot of people listening to it...


33,791 posted on 07/12/2005 4:32:30 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: tuliptree76

Get Winston to help...he just sits there acting kinda fishy, anyway...


33,792 posted on 07/12/2005 4:34:42 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Monkey Face

;-)


33,793 posted on 07/12/2005 4:37:49 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)
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To: Monkey Face
"(There is a small hole in this theory, though.)"
It may be from your view, but to me, it makes perfect sense. (WHOA!! Did I say that???)
[Maybe my brems are working better today than I thought...]

Methinks you aren't giving them enough credit.

The catch that struck me was the server that gets told "this post is #12345" when it only holds up to #12340. What does it display for 12341..12344? But then again, this may be so rare I simply haven't observed it. After all, I've rarely seeing any offset greater than "post N+1 of N".

33,794 posted on 07/12/2005 4:59:24 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Kyoto: Split Atoms, not Wood)
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To: tuliptree76
It's happening to me too. But it seems to happen more on this longer thread than when I post on the shorter threads.

Ah, HA!! Another indication of the problem of very long threads. It takes the machine longer to run a linear search from the beginning to find the very end.

33,795 posted on 07/12/2005 5:01:39 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || Iran Azadi || Kyoto: Split Atoms, not Wood)
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To: sionnsar

Some days, things make sense to me, and some days, they don't. It happens that your explanation was simple enough (or I was aware enough) for me to understand the concept.

I think there has been a lag of as much as four posts the last two days. Even refreshing hasn't helped.


33,796 posted on 07/12/2005 5:04:24 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Monkey Face

Hmmmm. It should have opened a window and begun streaming the audio to you. Maybe you've got to have your own LAUNCHcast station set up before you are allowed to sample other peoples' stations. I have two separate Yahoo ID's with a station set up for each of them and I can listen to either one no matter which ID I Sign In under.

Try this: Sign into your Yahoo, then navigate to music.yahoo.com and look for the "Create Station" link near the top right under the heading "RADIO". You'll be instructed how to set up your own LAUNCHcast station for streaming playback.

There isn't TOO much to know about it; it's fairly simple but this is KEY: On the "Genres" page, mark everything you DON'T want to listen to as "Never Play". Leave the genres you DO want to hear UNRATED. Then leave it at that and just rate each song as LAUNCHcast serves it up for you. NOTE: Among the Options you have is a choice between a 0 to 100 rating scale and a five level scale. I like the 0 to 100 scale, myself.

It's pretty much that simple and you'll have a place to go on-line for the music you like most. Oh, yeah, there ARE commercials and you can avoid them if you want to pay out $3 or $4 a month; I just turn down the volume for 60 seconds.


33,797 posted on 07/12/2005 5:09:17 PM PDT by HKMk23 (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost)
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To: HKMk23; Monkey Face

I tried the streaming audio thing once, but my dial up connection is t-o-o s-l-o-w.


33,798 posted on 07/12/2005 5:14:02 PM PDT by tuliptree76 (I'm sailing on the wide accountancy.)
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To: HKMk23

OK...I got it...now how the HECK do I turn it off?

LOL!


33,799 posted on 07/12/2005 5:37:07 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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To: HKMk23

Never mind...I did it...some things are easy and some are not quite so. But I still manage to function...;o]


33,800 posted on 07/12/2005 5:48:00 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.)
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