I normally don't do this, but. WRONG!

    Beer. What beer you use is important as well. Dark... something Porterish...

    Start with some ground meat (brown it up a bit).

    Throw in some onions, peppers (red and green bell), 1/3 cup Frank's red hot, garlic (a few cloves, minced or pressed in a garlic press). Toss in a beer or 2. A few cans diced tomatoes. Sugar (white or brown) to balance out the acidity of the tomatoes.

    Add yer spices: CHILI POWDER, cumin (some already in the chili powder, but a bit more won't hurt- don't kill it with cumin though, lots of flavors gotta come outta a great chili), oregano (yup, that too), onion powder (just because it's awesome), garlic powder (yeah... do it), red pepper flakes to taste (or toss a habanero in it...). Salt if it needs it (depending on taste, Frank's has a bunch of salt in it already, but I usually like a bit more). Screw it... you might as well grind some fresh black pepper into it as well. Black pepper rules.

    Let it simmer for a while to reduce the amount of liquid. An hour or so before it's ready, add in a few cans of beens- red kidney, light red, pinto, etc.. and a few tablespoons of red wine vinegar for some zing - make sure you balance it with sugar, if you make it too sour.

    Serve it up with some grated cheese and either crackers or chips.

    For the grated cheese, try some Cabot's habanero cheddar.... :D although you might want some pre-shredded mexican cheese blend or sharp cheddar as well.

    Anyways... Now I gotta make chili this weekend. Thanks for the idea.

This whole conversation strikes me as a bit anal retentive...

What about the botnet comprised of all the electrons in the solar system? :D Everyone is rooted....

What about the energy used creating efficiency?

    Are we experiencing an increase in efficiency?

  OR

  Are we expending every increasing amounts of energy creating the appearance of efficiency?

Hahaha... you had the grilled shrimp on the barbie?

Well, at least theSkyNet will see that I was the first to welcome, I mean bow before, it. Did I just type that out loud?

You sure about that? After all, you think you read this comment.

It's 4 space dimension matter rather than 3 space dimension. Since 'our' 3 space dimension matter has nil (0.0) 4d space volume, there is basically zero % chance of interaction*. Likewise with other lower or higher dimensional matter.

    Additionally 4d photons don't interact directly with 3d matter, etc.etc.

    The interesting thing is that spacetime curvature still occurs... which explains the gravitational effects of different dimensional matter.

    * I can't recall the article, but a while ago someone was talking about how particles 'teleported' through a very thin "solid" sheet of matter because they had a small chance of being on the other side of the sheet of matter. Since a 2d slice of 3d spacetime has zero thickness (more or less infinitely smaller than the Planck length), the particle would be likely to be on either side of the 2d slice. Extend this up to a 4d/3d interaction...

A star had some of its plasma ripped off by a black hole (or another star) moving by. For whatever reason, the heavier elements were captured by the 2 larger bodies and the leftover H and He slowly coalesced into the freaky star.

    Scenario 2- The freaky star formed at the Lagrangian point between 2 huge stars and was dislodged from the system by a passing star.

Please delete this post and close the thread. :D

I thought San Andreas was already split off from the rest of the USA, unless you get Vice City or other mods.... need controller back.

Shocking. Before I could click "join" Theicebreak recommended I remove myself from the gene-pool.

    Incidentally, can anyone tell me what happens if it lets you click join? It won't allow me to, no matter what computer I use or proxy I go through.

No. Media couldn't resist the opportunity to pun on "When pigs fly". It's that simple. The swine flu.. blah blah blah...

    It'll happen again tomorrow (media not resisting urge to pun-ish its consumers). Like my sig... a cow word is moo.

Yup. Blizzard North... you know what I mean, or perhaps I should say "you see what I mean", if you are from the land of long nights.

Need to keep an outdated graphics card to be safe.