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Re: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Barrett — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:55:17 -0000

Err, that should be Batman Forever, not Batman and Robin. I still envy you, though. When are they gonna get around to inventing Brain Bleach?

Re: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Barrett — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:53:44 -0000

What? You've never seen the movie Batman and Robin? Sir, I envy you.

Re: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Barrett — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:24:46 -0000

I think I just had a joy-gasm.

Re: ASUS Eee PC

Barrett — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:30:06 -0000

Nice. Glad you were able to find something that works for you. I've been considering getting a laptop myself off and on for the past couple of years. My hang-up has been getting one that's portable, has plenty of room on the keypad, and is easily affordable.

Re: eReader Bliss

Barrett — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:50:44 -0000

I find it amusing that the gentleman displaying the item has difficulty getting it to work correctly at first.

Aside from those false starts, this looks like an interesting piece of tech. I've never really paid attention to things such as this before. Never even heard of the Kindle. I'm not sure how much it'd help me in my work (I tend to mark up my documents extensively with arrows, cross-outs, and notes in red ink).

The only way this would catch my eye is as a way of storing media such as novels/magazines for entertainment and leisure reading. As such, I'm curious as to the memory capacity (i.e. can you fit a 500 page novel on this?)

I am quite pleased to see there are people and companies running with this idea.

Re: Due to Hilarious Printing Error, Latest Batman Comic Curses

Barrett — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:49:57 -0000

Well, ya know what they say...

Any publicity is good publicity.

Re: Set Gmail as Default Mailto for Firefox 3

Barrett — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:42:56 -0000

Odd, I can't get this to work. I paste in the javascript snippet but no dialog box when I hit enter.

Re: Window Zune Theme for XP

Barrett — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:26:51 -0000

Feels a little Halloweeny to me. But in a good way. Don't really care for the desktop background but that can be changed. If I can find something to fit 1440x900 resolution...

Re: Texas irony.. The old fashioned way.

Barrett — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:38:11 -0000

Egads, I love irony!

Re: Portable WoW

Barrett — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:33:22 -0000

From what I saw of the trouble the guy was having, it looked to me that he wouldn't be doing much of any playing, while driving or otherwise. Don't believe I'll be running out to buy an iPhone just to play WoW anytime soon.

Re: Little Hypocrites

Barrett — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:48:24 -0000

Unless I'm mistaken, there was another survey, saying pretty much the same thing, that was released quite some time ago. Can't remember where I read it, but I do remember thinking that the numbers seemed about right. After all, who cares about other people's liberties? As long as I've got mine, you can go jump off a cliff, right?

Sad, sad, sad.

'Course, I suppose it's not too bad. At least it was just high schoolers (who likely will discover the "Real World" by it giving them an unceromonious a kick in the face. It could have been much worse.

Imagine if the survey had been of our congress critters... 8O

Re: Free Energy?

Barrett — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:34:18 -0000

Ummm....

Unified wave theory is possible. It's just using an equation complex enough to model "everything" all at once. It will include the laws of thermodynamics.

This is, quite simply, a case where they're getting energy from somewhere other than what they're measuring or their equations are wrong. Those are the only two possible alternatives.

Well, other than God himself stepping in. I won't get into that, though.

Re: Free Energy?

Barrett — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:20:30 -0000

Okay, after having watched the video, I'm gonna have to say that there's an energy source that's being tapped somewhere that someone is missing in their analysis of this process. If I had to guess, I'd go with Occam's Razor and say that they aren't factoring in the energy required to generate and maintain the magnetic fields used to propel the particle. A variation on a mistake that has often left many engineering and physics students sitting around, scratching their heads, and saying, "WTF am I missing here?!"

Re: Free Energy?

Barrett — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:07:53 -0000

Bah.

Anyone who purports to have broken the laws of thermodynamics automatically loses all credibility with me.

If it turns out I am mistaken, I will, of course, retract that statement. However...

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's usually a duck.

Quack, quack.

Re: Password-protected Bullets

Barrett — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:03:47 -0000

8O :roll: :? :x :evil:

I *&^%%# well am *%#*$#^ thinking of the children, %#$* it!

;)

Re: Password-protected Bullets

Barrett — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:32:12 -0000

Oh, one more thing I had intended to mention.

What about the person that buys a gun for protection and just leaves it in their closet for an unspecified period of time? Is this moron stating that he will guarantee that the battery will not go bad during that storage time?

If a person needs a gun, they really need a gun. If it doesn't work 'cause the batteries are dead, are they gonna have time to figure that out and correct the problem before being killed?

I hope this fella pulls his head out of his dark, stinky place and pulls the plug on this before it goes to market.

Or that he has really good insurance for all the wrongful death lawsuits that could potentially be filed. 8O

Re: Password-protected Bullets

Barrett — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:27:03 -0000

I don't suppose it's occurred to this donkey's rear that:

1) This is just adding a ton of frivolous additions to an already complicated system that is prone to failure anyway? And that this is life-saving equipment that needs to be as reliable as possible?

2) It's totally useless with the availability of reloading equipment such as it is.

3) The cost of each cartridge will jump significantly with the addition of a solid state switch to them.

4) A minimally competent criminal will likely have no problem bypassing this system once it's been on the market long enough for a few tech savvy folks to disassemble one and diseminate that knowledge. (Heard of hotwiring, anyone?)

Nevermind all that. We've GOT to make people FEEL safe whether they really are or not. And I suppose that if you're ignorant or an idiot, this will make you feel better.

I am truly amazed at the need folks have to feel safe. The world isn't safe. Take the risks you have to and the ones you believe to be necessary for a better future. But don't think you can legislate or engineer risk out of life. You can't. At best, you'll have wasted all your effort in the attempt. At worst...well...let's just say that I believe there are things in this life that are worse than death or injury and leave it at that.

Re: Advent Children

Barrett — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:47:41 -0000

Uhhh....

No, it's in English. Although you can tell they did a loose job translating based on the subtitles.

"Dilly Dally Shilly Shally" my fat butt. They could have at least tried to get the spirit of what was said across in that scene...

Re: Junyor & Company Upgrade

Barrett — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:58:16 -0000

Uhhh.....

What?

Re: Wisps: April Fools

Barrett — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:31:28 -0000

Whew!

Re: WoW Lapse

Barrett — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:57:17 -0000

Oh, BTW, you're missing out on some fairly cool upgrades with the new patch...

I particularly like that you could fly from Light's Hope Chapel to Booty Bay non-stop now.

Re: WoW Lapse

Barrett — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:55:17 -0000

Well, I suppose I could go out and tame a few pidgeons to relay messages back and forth...

What am I saying, that's crazy. We don't have pidgeons around here.

Seriously, this page, TS, and Yahoo Messenger are pretty much always up if yer needing to talk.

Just log on, man! :mrgreen:

Re: A neocon view.

Barrett — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:26:56 -0000

Wow. I just got a flashback to college, specifically world civ to 1860. That man was a master at getting completely away from the topic at hand.

But I digress.

Did I approve of us going to war? Absolutely. For the simple reason that we said that we would if Hussein did not allow weapon inspectors into Iraq. Boy who cried 'wolf', anyone? However, I'm really not certain I agree with us putting a democratic government in power. I'm thinking that the only way that democracy is truly appreciated is if it's purchased with the blood of patriots.

But that's just me. And I'm not sure what we should have done instead, either, so who am I to point fingers?

Re: Good Guy 1, Bad Guy 0

Barrett — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:20:39 -0000

Actually, I couldn't see the gun (And I only watched the video 3x...). But, in the forum where he speaks out, he says he used a Glock in .40 S&W.; Don't know whether it was a model 22 or 23. The round was 165 gr. Golden Sabers. Two passed completely through the BG and imbedded into the wall.

And suddenly, I'm not so disdainful of .380 ACP.

Re: Proof about guns

Barrett — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:19:00 -0000

I cannot believe you posted that crap. :|

:lol: