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<0> I haven't seen him or heard from him in years
<0> he lived like 10 minutes from me
<1> well, the sane people have left IRC
<2> hey!
<1> only the insane (that's us) stay
<3> heh
<0> lol
<2> I resemble that!
<3> in our own fashion we are sane though
<1> Admit it...
<1> Yeah.
<1> There's this joke in hebrew
<1> we had a minister here, named David Levi (probably the most common name in Israel after Haim Moshe)
<3> is that the joke?
<3> :)
<1> he is morrocan, and everyone used to make fun of his intelect
<1> (like they make jokes about bush)
<1> anyway
<1> one day, David Levy calls his wife on his carphone
<1> she says to him: David, there's a nutcase driving on the wrong side of the road on the ayalon highway, I heard it on the news
<1> He says to her: ONE NUTCASE ??? THEY'RE ALL NUTS !!!!
<3> heh
<3> loo
<3> s/oo/ol
<2> <rimshot!>
<4> i'm beginning to think that Mail.app is trying to rival outlook express in generally poor design and inherent brokenness
<1> so, in our own fashion, we're sane :)
<1> hrmm, any new PC gamez released lately ?
<1> I haven't played a computer game in a while
<3> well.. just remember you drive on the side where the seperation lines of the road are on your inside
<1> pbug, ***uming every country uses the same road markings
<3> unless you drive a rural postal van
<5> ArielIL-: rush for berlin, hitman 2, heroes of might and magic 5
<1> BTW, how much does a 37"-42" inch LCD TV (with HDMI and 1366x768) go for in the US ? (>1:1500)
<1> and will one be good for computer gaming, or is the pixelation as bad as on CRT TVs
<4> i'm thinking of getting rid of my hdtv
<5> its not a matter of pixelation, but color replication (specially dark shades) and ghosting (slow response time)
<6> kp: it's a couple of years old now isn't it?
<4> about four years old
<1> say 8ms response time
<4> it was fun for a while
<4> but it's big and ugly
<1> but I have a problem with simulators
<5> and yeah, you will have pixelation if your game cant run at the native res
<4> i still want a predicta
<4> that would look much better in my living room
<1> the little letters/numbers near gauges
<1> are unreadable on a CRT TV
<6> I keep looking at new tv's but for how much i watch them i cant' justsify the cost
<1> I can't play simulators due to that
<4> http://www.predicta.com/meteor.shtml
<4> that one is what i want
<5> i want a nice widescreen hdtv for when i get a ps3 :)
<4> that would look awesome in my living room
<1> anyone here plays simulators in the living room ?
<5> roycroft: thats not a tv, thats furniture
<1> mongo, xbox 360 ?
<1> or the older one ?
<6> no old one so it wont' sell for much
<1> hack it and run freebsd on it
<6> ya thats all i need, a slow peesee
<4> as a good tv should be, wettoast
<4> if i get some bleached walnut or mahogony furniture in the living room i can recreate that '50s ambience really well with a predicta like that
<4> too bad my living room isn't big enough for a nice sectional sofa
<6> heh i should sell you my couches
<1> So, doesn't anyone have a clue if a LCD TV will be good for me?
<4> that would be the bee's knees
<4> wettoast: i've moved most of my stereo gear out of the living room, but i still have my 1927 victrola in there (last year of the crank models)
<4> i can't get into video games either mongo2
<4> and i have a bunch of geek friends who game all the tiem
<4> time
<4> they can't understand how i can work with computers all day and not game all night
<3> :)
<3> **** I haven't gamed on any of my computers in ages
<3> last game that I played on an intel computer was some robot fighting game, mechwars or tronwars or something liek that..
<6> i have a huge living room and not enough "stuff" to fill it
<6> i'm using it for various gear storage right now
<6> saddle, bikes, skateboards etc... :(
<3> and that was around 1994 probably
<6> the last time i seriously played a video game was when the first myst came out
<3> I MUDDED for a while
<3> got hypnotized well
<3> it wasn't gaming, it was hypnosis
<6> heh
<3> well I wrote a few tintin++ scripts and watched it catch keywords and execute..
<3> just alphanumeric characters flying across the eye
<3> triggers they caught it..
<3> I think they were even regex, don't remember..
<4> the last time i seriously played a video game was when "defender" was in vogue
<4> that game drove me crazy
<4> i finally quit it and went back to "moon patrol"
<4> a much more relaxing game :)
<3> I played police quest III for a bit, I never got far.. I just learned that shooting the lunatic wasn't a good thing.. you're supposed to use the baton when he attacks..
<3> oh yeah and.. you're supposed to frisk him after putting the cuffs on him..
<3> or else someone is gonna get stabbed at the jail check-in
<3> another cool lesson that game had was when you pull a car over on the freeway, never approach the driver from the traffic side, always go around the inside so that you can see traffic coming in your direction.. or else you're gonna get hit
<3> all the cops you see on the show cops or other recorded footage do it wrong..
<3> but isn't that with anything you see on TV or film? the pilot will say that's not how it is. The programmer/hacker will say that's not how it is.. and that's what the cop will say as well
<3> anyhow in halifax the police had an interesting method of checking out back alleys..
<3> they had a high speed camera in a van when they drove past
<3> then they could frame it back and see exactly if anyone was in an alley
<6> in canuckistan?
<3> yep
<3> this was 4 years ago, I'm sure the camera vans have gone undercover by now..
<6> why not just drive into the alley?
<3> one way alleys in many cases
<3> it's just surveillance
<3> I've seen a police officer stand in the shade.. hardly moving across the street from a bunch of hoodlums there
<3> just making sure they aren't causing any trouble..
<3> can you imagine the pain you gotta endure to watch someone for hours on end?
<6> police work in general is boring
<3> I read somewhere in new york city or chicago they got a computer telling cruisers where to drive, because it predicts where a crime may spring up next
<3> the criminals have a similar netting
<3> only it's not using digital computers
<3> afaik..
<6> doesn't seem like it's helped them with crime in either city
<4> using technology to try to thwart crime is not going to work
<4> when are people going to learn that you don't solve social problems with technological tools?
<4> what we need to do is address the reasons that there is as much crime as there is
<3> yeah that has a point
<6> kp: or by banning random things
<4> there's a lot of that going around mongo2
<4> i agree
<4> speaking of banning things, the oregon d.e.q. did some extensive air sampling at restaurants and bars all around the state
<3> smoking?
<4> the results came out yesterday - corvallis has the cleanest air in those environments in the state, followed closely by eugene
<4> the two cities that have banned all public indoor smoking
<3> interesting
<4> and the two cities' air is significantly better than the others
<4> it's like two tiers of air quality that are vastly different
<3> not smoking or being exposed to smoke is healthy, but native indians will tell you they use tabacco for spiritual and health reasons
<3> and the chinese are the biggest smokers of all
<4> it's what one would expect but the naysayers have been claiming otherwise without presenting evidence
<4> north american indigenous people traditionally smoked outdoors as part of their ceremonies
<6> i dont' know anyone who claims that
<4> and did not chain smoke
<4> a lot of people who were against the bans here claimed that mongo2
<6> they also had a life span of about 30 years
<4> they said it's not going to make a difference and that second-hand smoke has no effect on people
<6> i'm just against it because it is a nanny statist tactic
<6> just like outlawing pot
<4> smoking is not outlawed
<6> and i have no intrest in pot or smoking atm
<4> it's not not permitted indoors in public places
<4> just not rather
<6> technicaly it is in washington
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