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Off Topic / Hey guys, what's goin' on?
« on: September 17, 2010, 11:07:24 AM »
Click this > http://ketin.net/hey.swf
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Off Topic / Exploding Whale
« on: July 26, 2010, 02:34:49 PM »
Just thought you guys might enjoy this as much as I did haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9G-93uWFxI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9G-93uWFxI
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Off Topic / Robert C. Byrd is dead
« on: June 28, 2010, 05:59:13 AM »
Yes, my favorite senator is dead. And as his position of demi-god, with his relative immortality protecting the U. S. of A., we may now consider the apocalypse to have formally begun. Get your shotguns, your wives, and run for the hills, by God!
-Article starts here-
Robert C. Byrd, , a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the interests of his state, died at 3 a.m. Monday at Inova Fairfax Hospital, his office said.
Mr. Byrd had been hospitalized last week with what was thought to be heat exhaustion, but more serious issues were discovered, aides said Sunday. No formal cause of death was given.
Starting in 1958, Mr. Byrd was elected to the Senate an unprecedented nine times. He wrote a four-volume history of the body, was majority leader twice and chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee, controlling the nation's purse strings, and yet the positions of influence he held did not convey the astonishing arc of his life.
A child of the West Virginia coal fields, Mr. Byrd rose from the grinding poverty that has plagued his state since before the Great Depression, overcame an early and ugly association with the Ku Klux Klan, worked his way through night school and by force of will, determination and iron discipline made himself a person of authority and influence in Washington.
Although he mined extraordinary amounts of federal largesse for his perennially impoverished state, his reach extended beyond the bounds of the Mountain State.
As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the District from 1961 to 1969, he reveled in his role as scourge, grilling city officials at marathon hearings and railing against unemployed black men and unwed mothers on welfare.
He was known for his stentorian orations seasoned with biblical and classical allusions and took pride in being the Senate's resident constitutional scholar, keeping a copy of the Constitution in his breast pocket. He saw himself both as institutional memory and as guardian of the Senate's prerogatives.
Most West Virginians had more immediate concerns, and Mr. Byrd strove to address them. On the Appropriations Committee, he pumped billions of dollars worth of jobs, programs and projects into a state that ranked near the bottom of nearly every economic indicator when he began his political career as a state legislator in the late 1940s. Countless congressional earmarks later, West Virginia is home to prisons, technology center, laboratories and Navy and Coast Guard offices (despite being a landlocked state).
Critics mocked him as the "prince of pork," but West Virginians expressed their gratitude by naming countless roads and buildings after him. He also was the only West Virginian to be elected to both houses of the state legislature and both houses of Congress.
As a young man, Mr. Byrd was an "exalted cyclops" of the Ku Klux Klan, and although he apologized numerous times for what he considered a youthful indiscretion, his early votes in Congress reflected similar views -- notably a filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As those views moderated, Mr. Byrd rose in the party hierarchy.
A lifelong autodidact and a firm believer in continuing education -- vocational schools, community colleges, adult education -- Mr. Byrd practiced what he preached. While in the U.S. House from 1953 to 1959, he took night classes at law schools. He received a law degree from American University in 1963 and is the only member of Congress to put himself through law school while in office.
In addition to his multivolume history of the Senate, he was author of a 770-page memoir as well as "Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency" (2004), a well-received and stinging critique of what he considered President George W. Bush's rush to war with Iraq.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/28/AR2010062801241.html?hpid=topnews
-Article starts here-
Robert C. Byrd, , a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the interests of his state, died at 3 a.m. Monday at Inova Fairfax Hospital, his office said.
Mr. Byrd had been hospitalized last week with what was thought to be heat exhaustion, but more serious issues were discovered, aides said Sunday. No formal cause of death was given.
Starting in 1958, Mr. Byrd was elected to the Senate an unprecedented nine times. He wrote a four-volume history of the body, was majority leader twice and chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee, controlling the nation's purse strings, and yet the positions of influence he held did not convey the astonishing arc of his life.
A child of the West Virginia coal fields, Mr. Byrd rose from the grinding poverty that has plagued his state since before the Great Depression, overcame an early and ugly association with the Ku Klux Klan, worked his way through night school and by force of will, determination and iron discipline made himself a person of authority and influence in Washington.
Although he mined extraordinary amounts of federal largesse for his perennially impoverished state, his reach extended beyond the bounds of the Mountain State.
As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the District from 1961 to 1969, he reveled in his role as scourge, grilling city officials at marathon hearings and railing against unemployed black men and unwed mothers on welfare.
He was known for his stentorian orations seasoned with biblical and classical allusions and took pride in being the Senate's resident constitutional scholar, keeping a copy of the Constitution in his breast pocket. He saw himself both as institutional memory and as guardian of the Senate's prerogatives.
Most West Virginians had more immediate concerns, and Mr. Byrd strove to address them. On the Appropriations Committee, he pumped billions of dollars worth of jobs, programs and projects into a state that ranked near the bottom of nearly every economic indicator when he began his political career as a state legislator in the late 1940s. Countless congressional earmarks later, West Virginia is home to prisons, technology center, laboratories and Navy and Coast Guard offices (despite being a landlocked state).
Critics mocked him as the "prince of pork," but West Virginians expressed their gratitude by naming countless roads and buildings after him. He also was the only West Virginian to be elected to both houses of the state legislature and both houses of Congress.
As a young man, Mr. Byrd was an "exalted cyclops" of the Ku Klux Klan, and although he apologized numerous times for what he considered a youthful indiscretion, his early votes in Congress reflected similar views -- notably a filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As those views moderated, Mr. Byrd rose in the party hierarchy.
A lifelong autodidact and a firm believer in continuing education -- vocational schools, community colleges, adult education -- Mr. Byrd practiced what he preached. While in the U.S. House from 1953 to 1959, he took night classes at law schools. He received a law degree from American University in 1963 and is the only member of Congress to put himself through law school while in office.
In addition to his multivolume history of the Senate, he was author of a 770-page memoir as well as "Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency" (2004), a well-received and stinging critique of what he considered President George W. Bush's rush to war with Iraq.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/28/AR2010062801241.html?hpid=topnews
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Off Topic / Cinema 21:9 (2560x1080p) TV
« on: June 07, 2010, 03:41:41 PM »
http://www.consumer....SE_GB_CONSUMER/
http://www.cinema.philips.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ3D4CqHbJM&fmt=18
Better start saving money!
The light you see at the back of the TV is not for the purpose of the picture, it is a feature called Ambilight.
Multimedia connections: Ethernet-UTP5, USB, Wi-Fi 802.11g (built in)
Playback Formats: AAC LC, MP3, AC3, LPCM, WMA v2 up to v9.2, Slideshow files (.alb), JPEG Still pictures, GIF still pictures, PNG still pictures, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI (MP4S, mp4v, MP4V, XVID), H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-Progam-stream NTSC, MPEG-Progam-stream PAL, WMV9/VC1
Video Playback: NTSC, SECAM, PAL
Diagonal screen size (inch): 56 Inch
It also has 4 HDMI slots.
Discuss.
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Off Topic / What is your favorite computer case?
« on: June 04, 2010, 11:28:30 PM »
Mine is a cardboard box
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Off Topic / I found my dad's old RECORDS
« on: May 22, 2010, 02:25:20 PM »
Yes, 45rpm vinyl records. I'm in need of a record player.
Nazareth
The Doors
Queen
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Brownsville Station
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
Robin Trower
Steve Martin
Black Sabbath
Jefferson Starship
Steve Miller Band
Boston
Jim Carroll
Oyster
Kansas
Deep Purple
Uriah Heep
Elecrtonic Realizations For Rock Orchestra?
Ted Nuget
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Styx
The Nighthawks
Joe Walsh
Mahogany Rush
Bob Seger and he Silver Bullet Band
Roxy Music
Golden Earring
Foghat
The Monkees
Eagles on the Border
Bad Company
The Charlie Daniels Band
Nazareth
The Doors
Queen
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Brownsville Station
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
Robin Trower
Steve Martin
Black Sabbath
Jefferson Starship
Steve Miller Band
Boston
Jim Carroll
Oyster
Kansas
Deep Purple
Uriah Heep
Elecrtonic Realizations For Rock Orchestra?
Ted Nuget
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Styx
The Nighthawks
Joe Walsh
Mahogany Rush
Bob Seger and he Silver Bullet Band
Roxy Music
Golden Earring
Foghat
The Monkees
Eagles on the Border
Bad Company
The Charlie Daniels Band
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Off Topic / What the forget is China doing now?
« on: April 08, 2010, 07:09:56 PM »
Seriously what the forget?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7557799/Oriental-yeti-discovered-in-China.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7557799/Oriental-yeti-discovered-in-China.html
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Off Topic / The best music video ever
« on: March 26, 2010, 08:57:23 PM »
I swear to what ever deity is out there that this will make your dayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBFNaA7u1E
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Off Topic / friend's computer problems
« on: February 04, 2010, 05:13:40 PM »
Hey, my friend's computer keeps getting random freezes (sound glitches, and complete unresponsiveness). I have no idea what could be causing it.
His specs are:
AMD Phenom 2 720BE (tri-core 2.8GHz)
4GB ddr3 ram 1600
ATi HD 5770
450W psu
1TB hdd
Win7 home premium x64
UPDATE:
We got him a new Corsair 650W modular PSU, and no change, though, he did mention that his computer was a little quieter afterwards. So, any ideas?
His specs are:
AMD Phenom 2 720BE (tri-core 2.8GHz)
4GB ddr3 ram 1600
ATi HD 5770
450W psu
1TB hdd
Win7 home premium x64
UPDATE:
We got him a new Corsair 650W modular PSU, and no change, though, he did mention that his computer was a little quieter afterwards. So, any ideas?
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Off Topic / Random number in my pocket
« on: January 26, 2010, 05:12:06 PM »
So this morning somebody slipped this chicks number into my pocket, no name or anything. Call? y/n
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Off Topic / Rifftrax x-mas special feat. Weird Al
« on: December 16, 2009, 10:50:47 PM »
Did anybody else see it? Cause I loving loved it.
P.S. Snuggle bear is hungry.
P.S. Snuggle bear is hungry.
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