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I'm still alive. I may be dead after Saturday though... I'm getting married. :) Here's the thirty second "my life" update: getting married, bought a house, sold a house, selling a house, sort-of moving soon, parents finished their new house, in-laws (to be) building a new house, traveling a...

*sniff*... Republican? Where am I? erm... shhh................

erm, well, I haven't made any kind of announcement to the board yet, but I'm now engaged. :drink: I'm interested in some suggestions/ideas on possibly honeymoon locales, since that is my biggest responsibility at the moment for wedding planning stuff (thank God!). Exotic, Romantic...

Yes, I know the prices are artificially inflated by the DeBeers family. Yes, I know that the diamond market is likely to collapse within the next 5 to 10 years due to the perfection of cultured diamonds. Yes, I still have to buy one now. :) I've looked at a dozen or more "online diamond...

OK, here are some idiot questions coming from the SciTech mod! :) I do good with general tech stuff... computers, cars, gadgets, etc. I'm fairly clueless though when it comes to the creation and operation of a website. I'm starting a new business, and naturally will need a website as part...

The ages old philosophical question. I've never believed there was a "right" or a "wrong" answer, since the question is thankfully such an extreme hypothetical and something we don't have to face in normal life. I still find it interesting from time to time to poll people's opinions and...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030908-480226,00.html I know you're not keen on SA, so I thought you would like this if you hadn't already run across it. The "leak" was very likely made with the full confidence of the Bush administration... probably from pretty high up...

A thread like this pops up a couple of times a year, and since it's now me that is interested in buying one, I figured it might as well be me that started one. I'm leaning towards the ~$300 range, figuring that is the sweet spot right now for pixel count, features, image quality, ease of use...

I'm half way through Julian Barbour's book The End of Time and thought it might be interesting to see what others thought about this idea. The general theme is that both time and motion are illusions, that the "real" universe exists as a collection of static "snapshots" or "timeslices" (or...

Not for punishment, but for extracting information in extraordinary cases. Remember, torture is a wide umbrella that covers truth serum, sleep deprivation, and loud music as well as the less creative physical means. AFAICT, our Constitution doesn't prohibit the use of torture. It only...

I don't remember the popular name for this law, and I can't seem to find a link about it (would help if I could remember the name, eh? :D ). Essentially, California passed a law that prohibits acts/choices for which there is evidence of it being harmful to the environment. I wish I could...

Was busy this afternoon... look at the forums tonight and there are several posts/threads by new members. Welcome all!

I thought it would be useful to troll (in a good way) the forums for the centuries of combined knowledge and experience of homeowners for suggestions on "outfitting" (a term I'm used to in engineering) my house. You know... all that wisdom, like "don't use marble tiles because..." or "use...

Seriously. Who do you guys think stands a legitimate chance at beating Dubya? The campaign finance reform the Democrats pushed and pushed for - and finally got - is going to bite them in the ass big time this election. I don't think any Dem. candidate is going to be able to run on a...

can we get the date and post title shown in a color other than white? it's like... white on white. I'm talking about the text in the silverish bar above each post.

I happened to have the displeasure of listening to her interview on NPR today. Disgusting. She made a horribly sweeping generalization that was in essence "Democrats care more about people and the planet, Republicans care more about getting elected." She then quickly said, paraphrasing...

So, did any of you bother watching that and following along? I was waiting for a phone call and had nothing better to so. For the really bored of you that took the test, how did you do?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2931457201 For only $50,000 it could have been mine! Waaaahhhhh! :( But it looks like there are some other bottled demons/spirits for sell on ebay now. :D

I got the appraisal today for my new house. Even being a bit pessimistic/conservative on what the final building cost will be, I'll have 30% equity in the house the day I close the mortgage (5% down payment + 75% loan to value). I keep running the numbers, and it just looks too good to be...

been getting a lot of MySQL errors lately, mostly when hitting the back button. Couldn't log in for quite a while last night as well. fury, man, we need you! :D