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    so... whats new? (get me caught up)

    I'm looking to get a new discount workstation/gaming setup put together. The problem is that I haven't kept up at all since around 2007, and I want to know what the hell I am doing before I drop a grand+ on new parts. Basically I want to known how things have ebbed and flowed in the cpu...
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    How do I deal with this situation?

    it might be a little awkward for a while, but could/should be fine.
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    who deserves a noble peace prize

    i was thinking about the current controversy from today, and was reading this wapost and had a coupe prime candidate pop into my head, most notably bill/melinda gates, possibly the current PM of palestine. who else is out there that deserves a good look at for the prize?
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    Washington State Cougars fan asks

    i think it was to do with 4 teams losing than usc winning edit: op below my first op timewarp :)
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    ap top 25 poll out

    RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Florida (56) 1-0 1493 2 Texas (2) 1-0 1424 3 USC 1-0 1355 4 Alabama (2) 1-0 1331 5 Oklahoma State 1-0 1201 6 Mississippi 1-0 1095 7 Penn State 1-0 1082 8 Ohio State 1-0 985 9 Brigham Young 1-0 984 10 California 1-0 971 11 LSU 1-0 890 12 Boise State 1-0 882 13...
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    lets get me back to distributed computing

    state your cases so i can decide what to do, i'm really out of the loop. I did seti for a while, but stopped when i upgraded computers a few years ago. some background information on how all this work woudl be nice too
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    Lunenburg man launches Pace Car program to tame traffic

    sounds dangerous for other drivers.
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    Red River Of the North megaflood thread

    As many of you have probably heard, the Red River of the north is bursting its banks again. To understand how we got here, last fall was the wettest fall ever after one of the wettest summers ever, and it kept raining pretty much til it froze. This winter followed on dropped about 6 feet of...
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    dow 10000 thread, and other misc economy polls

    i'll check this in the morning if anyone has some decent poll questions. just trying to gauge the p&n respondents
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    would higher marginal tax rates lead to better management?

    I was thinking the other night from the aig thread, and other thread on similar topics, about how businesses managed to survive and hire 'the best of the best' back in the days when top end income was effectively limited by indirect government action through very high marginal tax rates. Now...
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    Ethanol industry demands higher ethanol limits in gasoline.

    Text I'm not a particular fan of ethanol, particularly the corn derived stuff in the united states. This is one industry that i say can bite the dust. Nothing quite as brazen as an industry trying to legislate its demand. On a related note, my respect of wesley clark dropped a few pegs.
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    over the line comment

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    Could stricter border policies be increasing the numbers of illegal residents?

    The theory went like this: in the old days of illegal mexican labor, it would primarily be only mail wage earners that came to the united states, most often to make enough money to help at home. Since the boarder was relatively easy to cross, they would frequently come and go, staying for...
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    Need to get new swim trunks

    I'm going to jamaca in 5 days, i need to get a new set of swim trunks. Preferably online or a national chain of some sort. I really have no idea where to look.
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    help

    I'm trying to finish up a paper atm and am trying to find this link, and am failing, please help. Also, feel free to argue its merits, personally i feel that the entire article is little more than a pander to rich people, though the numbers are useful, which are what i need.
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    Proposal for capital gains taxes

    I'll start out with my general hypothesis: Wise, long term investment is driven by strong profits which are caused by strong demand for products and services. Low capital gains taxes only serve to increase the potential profits of speculation, and do little to add capital investment into the...
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    I just saw a reverend wright ad

    this must be the kitchen sink
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    Electoral vote prediction thread.

    predictions now closed Ok, there are 7 days until polls close. the purpose in this thread it to lay down your electoral vote prediction. I'll quote your prediction in the OP, and whoever is closest to the final result wins some e-cred. No new predictions will be taken after Sunday. If...
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    richard wright of pink floyd dies

    Text i don't know what to say, :(
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    pawlenty to be rep vp candidate?

    http://www.in-forum.com/articl...id=212950&section=news interesting coincidence, looks like the reps are trying hard to win minn. this year.
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    oh crap

    Symptoms To give some back story, i've had some digestive 'irregularities' going back about 2.5 years, very similar to the symptoms listed there. symptoms first appeared in about may of 2006, since then, i've lost about 10 pounds, and generally been pretty miserable. Chronic flatulence...
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    Got my dad a wood/charcoal smoker for fathers day

    right now i have it doing a dry run on charcoal only. We are planning on using it on the fourth, but are at a bit of a loss for what to actually smoke. Need enough meat to feed about 15 people. Pork probably won't go over well with several people (especially me). If it would work wood wise...
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    live on cnn, tornado in oklahoma

    they broadcast it as it touched down and then immediately tore apart a bunch of buildings. one of the most amazing things i've seen on tv. near henessey oklahoma wherever that is
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    A question of Class

    After all hoopla that the media has played up and hillary's hardworking, middle class base, i realized that my perception of the middle class is apparently different for at least that of the medias. I've always considered to middle class to be basically professionals, more a career category...
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    Did you go to your prom?

    As inspired by this thread voted no, because i didn't really have any desire to go, prom was not a big deal at my school or among my friends.
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    how long does it take whey protein to go bad?

    I have some gnc whey protein that i bought 2 years ago thats about 2/3rd full. I'm looking to start working out again and was wondering if this stuff ever goes bad. It was stored well and looks and smells fine.
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    statement concerning the gold standard

    gold is too valuable of a productive commodity to be wasted as a currency. thought/opinions/fud?
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    i've lived up to my name again

    i was registering for classes today for the fall semester, and accidentally clicked the link for my current classes. On the list was a class that i have never been to, and another that i thought i dropped in February. They last day to drop was two weeks ago, so i am guaranteed 2 F's for this...
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    parents want a laptop

    they want something under $1500 thats a good value for the money. Good tech support is a must, and from my perspective is a priority because i'm sick of doing remote tech-support. Something reputable that won't break in a year or that ships with cra harddrives, and doesn't have vista (unless...
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    i hate statistics

    anyone know a good guide, or think they can explain this crap? Trying to figure out hypothesis testing atm, what a null hypothesis is and how you calculate it and p-values and all that crap. anyone have a good guide even? The test is tomorrow and i have no clue what i'm doing.
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    i went to make a new thread

    turns out i don't hink i've posted a thread of my own here in over a year, and forgot where the button was, and i don't think i've started more than 10 threads total. Out of curiosity, whats everyones post to thread creation rate? I'm sitting at about 1 to 500.
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    Kangaroo Court for gitmo suspects.

    http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/18/detainee.trials/index.html anyone know what the point of allowing hearsay evidence would be? Other than to spam up proceedings and overturn convictions later on?
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    ctach me up to speed

    1) what is all this CORE stuff about, never heard of it until I saw a link for it somewhere. I checked the site and did some reading, but was only left confused. 2) I'm guessing looking around that amd lost its performance crown, when and how did that happen, last I checked intel had...
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    YAGT: met a *hot* girl

    Last weekend my fraternity had our homecoming formal. I didn't really have anyone I wanted to invite, so I had one of my buddies (now-ex) girlfriend hook me up with one of her friends. She's kind of a mess of a human being (ditzy, stupid, annoying, skanky but without the easy sex), so I'll be...
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    wow cable news sucks

    I've had nothing better to do so i turned to cnn headline news, and there is this glen beck idiot ranting and raving like a moron. I was watching earlier and it was just as bad. Am i thie only person who thinks ths has gone downhill, am I just watching bad shows, or is it that this is the...
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    do you think middle eastern countries expirience more political violence than other regions?

    yesterday we read part of a paper on islam and democracy, and one of its conclusions was that middle eastern countries are no more politically violent than other regions, despite what we see to the contrary. Do you blieve this to be true, despite all the suicides and only terrorist acts that we...
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    shoudl i watch Star Wars tonight or not?

    in the room next to mine, 3 of my "friends" are watching episode 3. The started the movie awhile i was hear, i tried knocking on the door, and they wouldn't let me in. So the problem is, i will feel like even more of a loser watching it alone than i would being just left out or watching it...
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    so level 3 and other providors where having trouble earlier this recently

    because i can only get to google by IP, a whole bunch of site are frequently unavailable, and my connection is generally pretty unsteady. So whats going on?
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    The tax poll

    Assuming that you can only choose 1. I'll add other questions/answer as they come -------------- for me I would have to go with income Tax as my perfered tax, and property tax as my least favorite. I blieve that income tax is the cheapest and easiest to impliment, and it is the...