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This. Lots of market research has shown that devices/applications that deliver a more "personalized experience" curry more favor with their users than "cold" apps which do not acknowlege the user in some sort of warm fuzzy human fashion. It's something like the reason bathrobes are made of terrycloth and not sandpaper...

The HONEST answer?... No, actually that's a method I can really get behind. I fully support calling a piece of crap exactly what it is, whatever it may be. True, it won't get Uncle Bill to shape up Microsuck's act, but then again, nothing short of bankruptcy or World War III will. Just enjoy the refreshing feeling you get from shining the harsh light of truth on a filthy cockroach like the MS Oligarchy. It doesn't make you a bad person, certainly not nearly as lousy as the megalomaniac who runs that show. Now that you got my blood squirting from my eyes, I'll now have to post a true rant in TIS explaining just a surface-scratching of why MS = Epic Fail... Just remember, MS always stands for Multiple Sclerosis, whether in reference to disease OR software. (ok, maybe sometimes 'Money-Sucking' in regards to the latter...) Oh, and Linux? I can't say I hate it, but it will never be more than a geek's power toy or a dedicated server OS untill the "community" figures out that the AVERAGE user needs it to be USABLE THE WAY WINDOZE IS!!! (of course without the proprietary suckage.) It IS possible... (note: I do realize this is a necro-post, but it bears addressing...)

Heh, thanks! The ghost is my trademark logo, the baby head was my old one. It's from an old medical text. There are other baby heads too; one where it blinks vacantly at you, and the same blinking one alternating with the ghost. The karate one you mentioned also has an Elmo version in this rotator. There's also Hello Kitty caught in an atomic blast, an old Maori poking his finger through the hole in his nose, and "GoDK" painted as the LOVE statue in Philadelphia. Keep refreshing the page! Yours; 8/10 for pure dodgy-ness. It fits well. He looks like an Edwardian card shark or something.

Hmmm... so you suppose maybe foul play was involved? Interesting theory, but I see nothing pointing that way. Another possibility though, is that he could have been some Columbine-style miscreant, and his "experiments" were less than noble. I mean, if you're into chemistry as a possible white-hat profession, you would probably want to play with your explosives in a more controlled laboratory setting, rather than in your own home. It seems to me that if one is that ignorant, you would also accidentally dip your gum into the wrong stuff, having it laying about your room. Again, something doesn't add up. I still see no more info on this story...

Judging by the picture, I think maybe he wasn't so happy with life? Who knows. Anyway, a little bit more info at ABC News... http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Welcome to the Trap! I don't really have any experience with Coppermine, but you might find some help here: http://forums.xisto.com/topic/68-web-design/ See ya 'round the boards!

The scorpion gets a 5/10, seeing that its a scraped pic from an electron microscopy service website, but interesting. (I like their tick images ) My av is on a rotator, and each one is made by me. If you rate it, specify which one you see!

Well, I do not agree with assertions that "rights" have been trampled by Comcast.It is a service which you pay for, or not. The problem is, they're the "only game in town" wherever they are. They are indeed left-wing; only look to NBC and GE to see who's pulling that puppet's strings. Wait until they become an official tool of the FCC.What grinds my gears about them though is their outright dishonesty in their market operation.Before the Digital Transition, they swore up and down through commercials on every channel that "if you are connected to the cable with an analog TV, YOU WON'T HAVE TO DO A THING! We're not changing anything!!! You'll still get all your cable channels!!!"6 weeks after the transition, and NTSC broadcast over-air had ceased, Commie-cast announces that all your cable channels are now going away. Going digital. And not the over-air-convert-analog-to-digital kind either; you need their special proprietary decoder box. What a big lie. Of course, now on legal shared connections, you cannot get another box without buying it. (3 boxes max per subscriber)]So if you have more than 3 TVs, or are in a boardinghouse/apartment shared "free cable" arrangement, you're screwed.What a scam.As I fall into the above category, all I get now is Jerry Springer and endless infomercials on the few broadcast channels they left, the very ones you can get anyway over-air....and CSPAN & Weather Channel. Yay.

Yeah, unfortunately, this is amounting to epic fail. Nowhere was it supposed that the citric acid had anything to do with said explosion. It was only pointed out that this individual liked to "sour-up" his gum with the stuff, and then it was pointed out that a "mystery substance" was found nearby bearing a striking resemblance to the student's preferred treat. Wow. How could nearly everyone MISS THAT?! My only questions were, what was the mystery stuff, and was it some accidental mixup between substances, or a suicide?

Hey there, thejode!As you can see I just joined up myself, but I haven't seen any problems yet with the myCents system. I suppose pretty soon I'll have to figure out my plan for these dollars accumulating in my account Good to see ya, take care.

Erm... CITRIC acid. Nowhere did it say anything about Nitric acid. It comes in a crystalline form. You know, like those sour gummy candies? They're coated in the stuff. @ shadowx: Nitroglycerine is indeed extremely pressure sensitive, but it is a liquid, not like citric acid. Yeah, that's what I'm saying IMHO, basically all it shows is that someone had the money to pay for tuition.

As reported through Yahoo! by Sky News - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ Apparently, this individual liked to dip his gum in citric acid. Nearby the mess, another substance believed to be an explosive was found. The student's jaw was blown off. Now of course this is an actual news story, but somehow, something doesn't seem right. This was a chemistry student. You might think that someone intelligent enough to get into a university would be smart enough not to mix up his chemicals? Something doesn't add up here. Could this truly be an accident, or do you think this guy found a novel way to off himself and become "an hero" as they say in the 'chans? Whats' your view?

I recall the scene in the movie "Faces of Death" where the gleeful restaurant patrons sat around cracking the monkey's skull open with little mallets before scooping out the brains... Quite disturbing, and not something which can be erased from memory. Nothing I would eat, either. Cooked brains are alright... although I can't speak for monkey, but calf brains have a texture and taste similar to scrambled eggs. While visiting the Philippines, I have had monkey... not the brains, mind you, but the meat, grilled. It's apparently a common thing eaten there, as I found it being grilled and served on street carts, along with chicken legs. It was very good, something like pork, but something like veal. Maybe it's only sold to tourists, I don't know, but I was game. The balut, however... no way in hell I'm putting an exhumed rotten duck egg in my mouth. I don't care if it's called "the food of life", it looks and smells like death.

Wow.This is something like the old sci-fi novella "Rogue Moon" by Algis Budrys. The gist of the thing was that they were making copies of an astronaut to explore some deadly phenomenon found on the moon. The subject's molecules were parsed and the signatures cached on magnetic tape (!!! it was 1960 ) and copies sent one after another to the Moon to investigate. Each time a doppleganger was killed, a fresh copy was sent. Problem was, each copy was experiencing signal degradation. The way I see it, it is quite theoretically possible to do something wacky like this, but of course there are far too many "fudge factors" to take into account to make such a thing feasible. More likely, true teleportation would not take this technological form, but instead would be achieved by bending space. A kind of a tesseract if you will. It's kinda hard for me to explain, but something like walking along a shadow to get around the object from which it projects. The closest I can come to relating the thought is to point out that the shadow of a 3-dimensional object is 2-dimensional; likewise the shadow of a 4-dimensional object is 3-dimensional. Or look at it as if you take a string and stretch it between your fingers, and an ant would have to take a while to crawl it from one end to the other. If however, you pushed said fingers together letting the string fall slack, the ant could step directly from one hand to the next without crawling the length of the string. Only once Human knowledge can expand such that we can comprehend the mystery of gravity, and how it bends space/time, would such a thing be possible, and would render the notion of the Copy-Paste Method of teleportation not only moot, but foolish. We could then leverage the "shadow effect" on our 3D shadows to navigate around to some other slice of time where it also exists somewhere in 4D... because a 4D object is the object everywhere it is "whenever" it is; or in other words, "at all times it exists". Our 3D perception is only where a thing is at one moment of when it is. That way, we gould go wherever, whenever; no dopplegangers, no lost souls or molecules, no hibernation for millennia to make a simple trip and not wake up dead... I do think that it could be possible given the trend for inventing the impossible that Human history has witnessed. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology; it always has been, and always will. That's a constant. The only variables are imagination and the will to achieve.