I think this suggests using an elder "protip". It's called haggling. The other month, I was looking for a nice ceiling fan to go into a home office. I went to Lowes and Home Depot. Nothing really impressed me. I went to a local floor & lighting center which had the fan I wanted. I wrote down the model numbers, went home, and looked it up on the internet. Amazingly (I had never seen this before), the store was cheaper than anywhere I could find online (at least $25). There was still a problem, the fan was $75 more than I had budgeted. I spoke with the sales guy and told him, I was really looking for the $300 range and $375 was more than I could part with. He tried to talk me into other models, I said the other's didn't appeal to me, and if I wanted to settle, I'd go back to Lowes where I saw one for $150 that was pleasing enough. Well, after a bit of time and some more discussion, I walked out of there with my fan for $305. I saved almost $100 over the internet price, and $75 from the store's initial price.

Is the one buried a mile under ground in 100' radius of concrete connected to nothing. Preferably in an undisclosed location. Even then, it is only as secure as the guards protecting it.

This is the 3rd article today mentioning them. Why is anyone even paying attention to them? Give them anonymity with obscurity. If these are just a bunch of rotten 12 year olds, then ignore them and maybe they'll grow up. Assuming Wikileaks is a good cause, was it even worth it to "hit" Amazon, Mastercard, and PayPal? If these kids are even remotely successful, they will come to regret it when they apply for jobs, and these companies make sure they are unemployable. It's like the old song says, don't pull on Superman's cap, spit into the wind, and don't mess with Jim. Amazon, Mastercard, and Paypal are Jim.

Would their battle with snow be equivalent to spitting into the wind?

14.4k? Ha! Such luxury, I still have a 300bps in the closet from my Vic 20 and the upgraded 2400bps modem for my Amiga.

You're thinking all wrong man. I own a "vinyl cutter" (Wishblade) that came with some great software. I can do just about anything I want with it. I've made tons of stencils for cakes, woodworking, fabric patterns and other stuff for people. I can scan an image and have it on the cutter in minutes. There's a problem with it. It takes time to learn. It took me about a day to learn and I'm technically adept. My roommate, it would take her a long time to learn. She's been watching me make stuff for a year, and wouldn't know where to begin. She bought a machine which does something similar, but is far more limited. She bought a Cricut. She has made more stuff in the 3 weeks she's had it, than I have all year with mine because it is so easy for her to make stuff. The Cricut is not versatile. It is not cheaper than the Wishblade. It doesn't do half the cool stuff I can do. But she learned it in just a few minutes.

Wishblade made a very nice product, and they will get to sell me overpriced cutting blades at $20 a pop. Cricut will not only sell their blades at $20 a pop, but you have to buy "fonts" to make it work at $20-$100 a pop. Her friends own about a dozen font cartridges each. Her friends don't need to buy expensive software or even own a PC. They just own a Cricut which holds their hand so they don't have to do any thinking outside the box.

I'm trying to figure out how to make a 3d fab machine that takes font cartridges I can sell bajillions of. As a person very capable of doing stuff, I love the Wishblade over the Cricut every day of the week. But there is far more profit selling the Cricut. Photoshop is awesome, but when half the population doesn't understand MS Paint, your aren't going to sell to many copies of Photoshop.

I've spent way more than 100 hours on Civ I, II, & IV. My nephew has played hundreds of hours of Pokemon. Someone below mentioned tetris, which I think I've spent dozens of hours playing, which leads to other games like bejewelled & bookworm.

I know there are minimalist fans out there, and people who hate old keys, but I use every key on my keyboard. It already galls me to no end that I can't find an ergonomic wireless keyboard that hasn't made my function keys into some damned media key. Now I have to try and hit the damned f-lock key in just a few milliseconds as I try to get into the BIOS on start up, or I'm hitting keys wondering why they aren't working because I didn't hit the damned f-lock. Just because you don't use those keys doesn't mean they should be taken away from me.

Even better (for you), have you looked at chorded keyboards? I think those are exactly what you are looking for.

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I wasn't sure. The picture here was only a face (and you can tell nothing about its edibility by a face), so I went and did a Google search, and found the Red Panda on Wikipedia. Apparently, they use to classify these similar to raccoons. That may be because they tasted similar. Now the diet of the animal may indicate it should be seasoned slightly differently. Might try substituting the Worcestershire for soy sauce, and juniper berries for bamboo shoots & watercress. The Zane Grey cookbook I have at home might also have some very tasty recipes; otherwise, it looks like the . One day I'm going to try the squirrel recipes from that book, but the local parks prohibit taking their squirrels, and the ones in the forest are diseased.

You're half right.

I think it is about security theater...where the passengers are the actors and the TSA are entertained.

Well, if the customer read their contracts, they could get out of it when the company changed it because it is a significant change. That is to say, if a company decides to change the terms of the contract, I don't have to agree and I'm no longer locked into the 2 year agreement. My friend did that last year with Sprint because they were going to charge $0.70/month (or some other bogus amount). He then sold his (subsidized) Palm Pre on eBay and bought a Droid through a different carrier.

If we could draw power from PETA ("ethical treatment") members, I'm all for it. If it is the "eating tasty animals" people, then of course they are going to have a cow. Beef, it's what's for dinner, but eel is pretty tasty too. You won't see them protesting this event though.

Well, I think she did realize the money was in being a commentator. That may be the largest reason she gave up the governorship. I'm sure some of her faux pas are legitimate, but I wonder if some are just a type of showmanship. She can run for office, but she won't want to win. If she runs and fails, she may continue to ride the gravy train by showing all the questionable things the winner did. Limbaugh and Beck took years to build their audiences. She was an overnight sensation by running for office and not making it.

If people were honest they would have no friends and marriage would never happen.

If a man were married to a woman for say 5 years, one day she says, "do I look fat in this dress?" No wise man is going to say yes. Is a 10lbs gain over the winter really worth a huge fight and maybe half your bank account? No. Instead, you find a tactful way of avoiding the question (there is none, a pleading of the fifth is admitting the fact in this case), or answering with a lie. Instead, you look at all the surrounding facts, and choose to avoid the argument or set the building aflame. Even in a hell of a marriage, you're probably looking to minimize casualties.

So, if most people cannot tell their spouse the truth, what makes you think nations can?