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    Me = Cruel POF profile

    So I'm on Plenty of Fish. The dudes want advice me from me, the chicks want me, and everyone is full LOLZ. What do YOU think? http://www.pof.com/viewprofile.aspx?profile_id=22217037 EDIT: Goal isn't necessarily to get chicks. It's to get responses and people aroused. Am I doing THAT right?
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    I lost $10k in my 401K in the last 2 weeks, LOL

    Down 6.25% YTD. Probably not that bad overall. Over last 12 months still up 7.6% even with this week's bloodbath
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    [Official] Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Install/First Impressions/Issues Thread

    Mail has gotten hosed since the install and has never launched under Lion. I tried pulling it off the OS disc, but the check option is greyed out. Is there any way i can get this back working without having to uninstall software?
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    [Official] Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Install/First Impressions/Issues Thread

    Getting back to home is so easy that I'm not sure. You should check official documentation.
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    [Official] Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Install/First Impressions/Issues Thread

    I can't help feeling Apple laid an egg. Mission Control was the first thing I noticed, and while this will show more value on machines with more software, the apps I frequently access are already on my desktop or pinned to the dock. They are trying to basically get the touchy-feely interface...
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    New York Legislator proposes Salt Ban

    All people don't have the same preference for salted food as you seem to have. I simply don't like food that is heavily salted and prefer other seasonings if available. Any food I make at home is lightly salted, if at all. I'll concede that most restaurants and school caferterias are far too...
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    David Icke's Book about Moon Bases gives new meaning to "Lunacy"

    David Icke has been kicking this horseshit around for years, always ranging somewhere between anarcho-libertarianism and occult psychobabble. Looks like he's gone the way of psychobabble full-on.
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    Rush Limbaugh Vows to go to Costa Rica for care if Health care bill passes!

    This. The MSM takes a sliver of a segment or call on some topic, runs with it, and twists it into something ridiculous or cruel when it was never intended to be taken that way at all.
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    Official Final Fantasy XIII thread

    I got into the second "area" last night. Granted I had a few drinks before I got the game, but here are some tentative thoughts. The battle system is terrific, but horribly easy. When they say it was more active, they emphasis should be on active. I've been getting 4/5 or 5/5 stars in every...
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    Nudity in gym sauna?

    I've gone to this gym for about fifteen months and in that time I've noticed progressively more men going into the sauna and steam room with nothing on at all or just briefs. The sauna and steam room are in the locker rooms, so it's not like women or children would be in there, but still...don't...
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    Two upgrade paths and conflicted

    I'm looking to upgrade one of my computers to something more modern, have two machines and am unsure of which upgrade path I should take. Both machines are running Windows 7 64-bit RC that was available from Microsoft. Here are the specs of the two machines. Dell System: Q6600, 8800GT...
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    Less that 50% of recent college grads have jobs that require a college degree?

    Mostly correct, but one can't generalize your statements into a rule. I'm 23 with all of my work completed for a political science major and sociology minor, and didn't realize how bleak my employment prospects after graduation were until the last year or so. The most pertinent question a...
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    What have YOU given up due to the current economic climate?

    News of the recession is beaten into our heads 24/7 with the cable news cycle, complete with stores of heartache and loss for those affected. What have you given up, if anything, as a result of current economic conditions? My income has not decreased and I am still employed. However, the...
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    Wanting to change schools, everyone thinks it's stupid.

    The community is tighter-knit, more residential, and student participation in campus activities seems higher. People seem to know and care about each other, etc. At the state school, I've felt as if I've always been nothing more than my student ID number. Many of the instructors don't know...
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    Wanting to change schools, everyone thinks it's stupid.

    Originally posted in a thread at GenMay...new developments and hoping for more responses. I attended a local public university for 3.5 years before dropping out last semester due to some problems in my personal life. I was told one business day before classes began that my scholarship...
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    Democratic Debate 10-30-07 - Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA

    The unfortunate thing is that I don't think that Obama did enough to differentiate himself from Clinton. Edwards did a better job and I'm surprised he hasn't taken off.
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    House for sale - give me your opinion.

    This realtor *says* 1900, but that would put it before the closest town was developed. Blountville would have been the nearest town at the time, and it's around seven to ten miles away from Blountville. I can't see why anyone would have built this here in 1900; it would be in the absolute middle...
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    House for sale - give me your opinion.

    I am not the owner of this place, but having known the owner personally since I was a little boy (she was like a second mother to me) and having stayed in the house quite a bit, my jaw nearly hit the floor when I saw what she was asking for it. They are asking $230,000, and while this is a large...
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    Sony - "Big Bang Announcement" on Oct 12th

    There are still $500, 60GB PS3s floating around out there. I picked one up new at a Gamestop about two weeks ago. You can get them for $400ish on eBay.
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    Which device do I switch to component?

    I'd get rid of the DVD player. The 360 should be able to upconvert over HDMI.
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    HD DVD versus Blu-Ray versus HD VMD (old)

    I'd like to know who will pay nearly $1100 for a movie player.
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    TGS Rumor: SE to announce new FFVII game for PS3

    If this is true, they'll sell hundreds of thousands of PS3s on FF7 alone.
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    UF student arrested at Town Hall with John Kerry

    The taser was used because he was resisting arrest. He had numerous attempts to calm down and just became more belligerent. Idiot.
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    Is the Wii good or bad for the industry/hobby?

    The hardcore games you're talking about tend to be in one genre, the FPS. I'll be the first to admit that the rehash of shooters of the last few years is getting old. You have HL2, Doom 3, Stalker, FEAR, Far Cry, the Halo seris, Gears of War, Bioshock, and Crysis, and that's just what I remember...
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    Is the Wii good or bad for the industry/hobby?

    I don't understand how the Wii can be good for the industry at all. IMO, the Wii is mostly novelty aimed at those who have never touched a system before. It's interesting to look at and play for a little bit, but for a game you really "get into," it fails miserably. Yesterday's graphics and...
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    Question on HD movie sales figures

    No matter who pays for them, they are movies in the hands of consumers. If the tally is counting movies shipped, they will definitely be there. If they're counting movies sold, maybe.
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    PS3 Pricing Rumors for the Holidays

    They are already here. Check eBay.
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    HD DVD versus Blu-Ray versus HD VMD (old)

    My take on the matter: Most average buyers know little to nothing about these formats, that a "format war" is going on, or that A/V quality can be much better than regular DVD. They're happy with their $40 Wal-Mart DVD players and HTIBs. But these are the same mass market consumers that have...
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    World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

    There are plans to revitalize Azeroth with this new expansion. What that means, who knows, but there are a ton of places like Grim Batol that exist, but would likely be turned into major raiding hubs if they were fully developed. I would like to see some of these zones take shape, but isn't new...
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    World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

    Why are players, especially long time players, complaining about Azeroth being a ghost land now? I've been playing since April 2005, and the least thing I want to do is go back and farm a zone that I've seen for the last year or more. All of this old content nostalgia seems to ignore the...
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    Baptists for Brownback

    Here is a group of "Baptists" supporting the Kansas senator. This group seems awfully close in viewpoints to the Westboro Baptist Church, out of Topeka. Those Hellbound Folks An excerpt from the page: People Who are Probably Going To Hell Regardless of how reluctant we are sometimes...
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    who bought a PS3 due to $100 price drop?

    I would qualify this with the fact that you can get a 360 HD-DVD drive for $200 new with a free copy of King Kong thrown in. This isn't available for everyone, but it's certainly an option with a lot of folks. Also, you can find the Toshiba HD-A2 on eBay for around $250 shipped from stores...
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    Heart fluttering concerning me

    The thing that DOES concern me is that I've done this for months without any trouble until now. My allergies have been worse than usual the past few days
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    Heart fluttering concerning me

    I've noticed over the past few days that my heart has been fluttering A LOT. Yesterday was worse than today, but I still felt very uneasy today. I have severe allergies and I've been taking an Allegra 12 hour, Singulair 24 hour, and Sudafed 12 hour every time I'm up for one. I drink a lot of Mt...
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    MMOs, the people who play them, and you.

    Vanguard was pretty trashy. Granted, I don't have a cutting edge system (4800+ with a 6800GT), but I can run LOTRO and WoW at 1680x1050 on high settings with AA, and Vanguard struggled at 800x600.
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    Starting WoW...

    I'm not sure that now is a good time to be starting WoW. I've played since 2004 and have basically stopped playing over the last two months, and not for personal reasons. The attunements for everything except Karazhan, an intro 10 man raid, were overkill. For the first real 25 man raid, you...
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    Microsoft: We Don't Have a High Defect Rate on 360

    Can you all describe in more detail what one needs to do about the xclamps?
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    Rate your PS3 experience

    The voice acting is a little overdone, but I'd rather have someone trying to be too lively than the whispers and dull voices that were FF10.
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    If you go to a gym

    About $85/mo, but that's for three people, one of whom rarely uses it.