Recent content by phantom309

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    The technology gap between older generations

    After 10 years of IT support for a company mostly composed of middle-aged white males, I've come to believe that past a certain age it is simply impossible for a lot of people to grasp basic computer concepts. They just don't understand where the stuff goes when it's off the screen. Some of...
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    What songs do you think epitomize the 80s?

    Oh Shiela by Ready for the World. Effeminate, empty, souless ripoff of a much more talented artist, recorded purely to make money. Yeah, that was the 80s.
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    Networking Support thread for the unemployed:8-1-07 Almost Fall

    I have 10 years experience as a Systems Admin and am looking for an IT Project Manager position in the Lenexa/Overland Park/ Lawrence KS area. Would prefer smaller to medium-sized company, but I'm all ears. No PM's please, contact me at solsen1@kc.rr.com
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    All-new Subaru WRX Wagon hatch/wagon **Update 3/30** CONFIRMED with official pics

    Mediocre, but given that the original wagon was easily the dorkiest-looking performance car ever built, it's an improvement. Great cars anyway (I owned an 03 and drive a Legacy GT now) but yeesh.
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    Newt Gingrich will be the next President.. Giuliani as VP.

    So Newt Gingrich was secretly cheating on his own wife, while attemting to unseat the President for cheating on his wife. I can't think of anything more emblematic of the modern Republican Party than that.
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    any one else enjoying a nice tornado warning this evening?

    FURIOUS rain and lotsa hail here in Shawnee. Pretty small hail so far - hoping the cars won't get beat up too bad.
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    Calling the Guitar Guys

    For relatively cheap? No.
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    How long can you eep your system running

    I had NT boxes on my work network that were up for over two years. People put it down these days, but NT was incredibly stable when you gave it hardware it liked. It helped that we weren't constantly installing security updates and patches like we do with XP now. Can't seem to keep the iMac...
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    Do you find Mixed-Race people more atractive or less atractive than Single-Race people?

    I don't generally like darker-skinned women but I have known some incredibly attractive white/asians. Around here it's also popular for some black or Indian girls to wear bright blue or green contacts - which I think looks amazing with the right features.
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    Korean, Mexican, or American Strat?

    Agreed. I have an American Strat and the Mexi I had a few years ago was just as good. I bet if you pulled five Mexi's off the wall at any given music store, at least one would be a truly great guitar.
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    If All Car manufacturers wants to install Alcohol Breathalizer in vehicles as standard options

    I find the whole idea incredibly invasive, demeaning and un-American. It makes me sad that so many people would so readily submit to it.
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    Would you go to Mexico without a US passport?

    That's because corruption is so universal in Mexico that the news doesn't bother reporting it.
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    Coolest guitar duel ever: Steve Vai vs. Ralph Macchio (well, steve vai vs. steve vai really)

    What is it about extremely technically skilled musicians that makes them incapable of writing a decent three-minute rock song? It's a crime that so much work went into such embarrassing material. It's like hand-carving carving an exquisitely detailed sculpture of a Kia Sedona in Italian marble.
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    Am i the only one who isn't in a good mood because of Saddam getting hanged?

    I couldn't care less about Saddam. What makes me uneasy is knowing that millions of Americans are going to go to bed tonight thinking that the War on Terror is now over, and that the man responsible for 9/11 has finally been punished.
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    9mm, .45 ACP, .357sig, .40SW -- which?!?

    Finally, someone who gets it.