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**LIVE THREAD** Second Presidential Debate - Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama (9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern)
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Posted on 10/16/2012 2:13:41 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Edited on 10/16/2012 3:04:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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To: Chickensoup
Hot Air was good for me during the VP’s
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:55:28 PM PDT
by
acw011
(Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
To: tapatio
Excellent pic ! pre-debate hotel ?
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:55:38 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Revolting cat!
Yeah, Obama won. And it hasn’t even started yet!
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: All
I’m hoping that Romney comes out of this debate just holding his own. Since Obama was so miserable in the first debate, he will probably pick up a couple of points with even a mediocre performance.
I am looking for Romney to really shine, though, in the last debate on foreign policy.
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:55:52 PM PDT
by
PAR
To: onyx
Hey Onyx, long time. My nerves are shot. Need a pep talk. Can’t help but think that this is make or break time.
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:55:56 PM PDT
by
sofaman
(An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. Thomas Jefferson)
To: Lucky9teen
That is just too Funny! They both look so wrong
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:56:26 PM PDT
by
jusduat
(on the mercy of the Lord alone.)
To: Cboldt
friend in Sanford felt it pretty good and said it really scared her cat!
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:56:36 PM PDT
by
pollywog
("O Thou who changest not, abide with me.".......)
To: Jim Robinson
Well, we can give it a try. If theres a chance that hundreds of people trying to post to the same thread at the same time is causing a deadlock on the db, its worth a shot to try to split the load. John says the load avg on the web server was low, the cpus were not busy and the db sever was mostly idle last time, but we couldnt get any throughput. Could be a logjam in the db caused by record locks making it hard to get anything in or out. Check with John about the DB schema before you try that. Depending on how it is organized, more threads may make it worse.
If it is a lock contention problem, then you need to look deeper into the database performance statistics, and especially the I/O (reads/sec and writes/sec) on the database device.
If it is indeed I/O contention, one thing that would help a great deal is:
[imagine Keanu/Neo's voice]
RAM. Lots of RAM.
If the database isn't using it, the O/S will use it for file caching. Any I/O operation that is avoided will be performed much faster -- as in orders of magnitude.
It isn't unusually for me to see database servers with 64GB of RAM. It makes a huge difference.
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:56:36 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: Jim Robinson
Would putting the Freepathon on hold for a short while help a tad?
(I don’t like asking this question)
To: nutmeg
I honestly can't remember the last time we had a decent live thread going during an important event like a presidential debate.'08? ;)
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:56:44 PM PDT
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
To: Lucky9teen
Classic...Classic...Thanks!
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:57:41 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: alisasny
I’m about 15 minutes from there too
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:57:59 PM PDT
by
PMAS
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
To: convocation
Welcome to FR !
behave
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:58:02 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: onyx
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:58:04 PM PDT
by
tapatio
(In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
To: onyx
Well, gonna try to watch the debate here! Prolly no luck though! Hey, young lady!!!
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:58:19 PM PDT
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
To: StarFan
Crowley and CNN have also preselected the people from the audience that get to ask questions.
To: RKBA Democrat
Yep, I knew I really wouldn’t be able to tolerate the Obama-Romney debates. But I did expect the Ryan-Biden one to be well worth catching. However, after a few short minutes of that jackass Biden, I just had to turn it off. Literally finding I can’t stomach any of that crap anymore. And it goes double for all the news-punditry that follows. The more I see of it, from the slickster politician spin-meisters to the snotty media talking-head elites, the more hatred I feel towards them all, along with the whole current culture and state of affairs.
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
BTW, do images, pictures have an effect on slowing down a thread or is that irrelevant? It doesn't have any effect on the FR servers. Those are loaded from the source, either the original one or wherever the poster uploaded them.
Your page rendering might be delayed a bit if you have a slow connection to the Internet. But, the part from FR is only a few lines of text.
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:59:35 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: RKBA Democrat
To: RKBA Democrat
Which one will appear at tonights debate?
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posted on
10/16/2012 4:59:59 PM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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