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actually the big bang theory isn't so bad now. i really disliked its first and maybe second season, i don't recall (i watched it tho cuz every monday i went to a friend's house and they loved it for some reason), but now it is fairly watchable. i think the introduction of the female characters real...

Well, let's put it this way- I got to the part in The Atrocity Archives where they exposit about how the Great Old One eats heat, and then they call it an "infovore", and I think I mouthed "Oh, please". But I really like "A Colder War". I guess I agree with Bounty. It'...

HH sure as hell doesn't get better!

Any thoughts on Charlie Stross, Baks? He's not exactly high literature but (unsurprisingly) as a CS major it's kind of fun to look at his worldbuilding for light reading. His blog is usually interesting, too.

You cannot trust your computer at this point. Backup, wipe and reinstall. Not even that boot CD antivirus thing? If you trust your antivirus software to have cleaned your computer, go on and keep using it. It might have even worked, but there's no way to actually prove it. No... :failure: I'm going...

So I managed to pick up one of those cyber security ransomware things, which sucked. I did a system restore and that seems to have dealt with it, although The Internet™ has told me that may not have been the best solution. :( What say you, computer experts of NT? I'm not seeing any issues now so am...

Growing up in Florida = "generators for everyone!" not just rednecks

i dunno baks, i feel one of the kaiju having a gigantic phallus for a head isn't that feminine rinko kikuchi ends up killing a kaiju with a, crudely speaking, hate-boner, and all of them have prominent labial features. this film is quite willing to incorporate intersexuality. I normally don't reall...

I find it odd that, despite the fact that I generally am in-tune and mostly aligned with the TEO CONSENSUS™*, this board is currently 1000% more interesting to me! Also, whoever runs Dawkins' Facebook feed should be fired. Not enough cool bits about science and reason and way to much babbling about ...

I can't wait for SSDs to mature enough to become competitive with hard disk drives. They already are. What needs to happen is for people to stop saying "omg I need the slowest 1tb spinning rust on the market" when they can get a 256gb SSD for the same price. Spinning glass , sir. :colbert...

Yeah, the more I use it, the more it is ok. But if you are mentally rewriting it all to for() loops it doesn't help so that's a habit I had (and still have a little ways to go) to get out of. Yeah, don't do that. It's easy to try and view those structures in the guise of imperative programming but ...

http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/voy-living-witness-review-6607010 lol Chuck just subtly slammed SDN here I don't read it as such. I read it as more fatigue with what SDN represents, rather the mindset that worships dogman and placating preconceptions rather than exploring or discussing...

Yeah, yeah, old hat posts by now but I like programming-talk: otherwise i think it is incomprehensible code golf (Python has this thing called 'list comprehensions'. more like list incomprehensions amirite? though i find if i read them with the part of my brain that speaks SQL it isn't so bad. but m...

Obviously not because those are not JPEG artifacts

i told isabella that zoisite was a man before the english translation and she didn't believe me. it is disappointing that they had to change some of these things Did DiC change any of the animation? Because I'd swear Zoycite looks like a female character in some of the scenes, not just ambiguously ...

http://i.imgur.com/6CaVj.gif :neckbeard: yes, in that both are bloated adaptations of awesome, well-put-together comics that still manage to have some cool moments in and of themselves seriously, the original manga is still a cool-as-hell superhero thing even though all the translations have been a...

no i was just watching sailor moon and had to tell the world! Remake of the anime comes out this summer :D Look this isn't some sort of machismo thing. Sailor Moon was a really crappy show and people should be embarrassed for liking it. It had shitty dialogue and voice acting, predictable cookie cu...

Did they complain about the Cesar Chavez on Google being an affornt to Chrisitans and EAster too? I've heard there are secret Liberal Obama ties ot that as well... so its probably conspiracy worthy. Nope. They have occasionally complained about Google not doing a doodle for certain holidays like Me...

So, random other thought re: nuclear war. What if North Korea takes a shot and we shoot it down?

That's exactly what I'm getting at. Saying "You'll turn into a glowing hole in the ground!" and doing it are two different things. I just don't think the strike gets launched, but there absolutely HAS to be some sort of plan. I'd be willing to bet the plan's fairly well worked out, too. S...

The flip side is that I'm relatively sure that the US did have a stated policy of first strike at one point, but I'm having a really hard time finding the signal (policy statements) among the noise (everything from contemporary journal articles to HPCA). I am 100% sure, on the other hand that that ...

Holy shit, no wonder they've been having server problems. And yeah, CRW has some really popular authors on it. I should take a look again... They where spamming >25000 post threads in under a week. Not to mention Xenforo had some structural issues where it would read an entire thread after a post t...

Holy shit, no wonder they've been having server problems. And yeah, CRW has some really popular authors on it. I should take a look again...

He went on a rampage and left. I have no idea why.

Yeah but Shep's primary sources 90% of the time were technical manuals. I'm sure it's really interesting for engineers but the only thing it does in terms of historical debate is continue the totally unhelpful trend of 'Panther 75 could penetrate 200mm of plated Soviet steel at 2km so THEY WIN'. I ...