[Klaustrophobia]

a simple laptop lock goes a long way to prevent theft.  use it even in your room.  a guy on my hall got his laptop stolen from his room while he was in it.  one guy held him down while the other ran off with it.

[Firstdragon34]

Those guys need to be tackled by Terrible Terry Tate!

WHEN IT'S GAMETIME ITS PAIN TIME! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO! *****! 

[sigtau]

Breaking my combo of vinyl related posts in this thread, we just got a new member of the family.  Say hello to Bogey, a purebred yellow Labrador.

****ing adorable.

[Dark Hunter]

It's ****ing cold around here! 

I hate snow...

[Scotty]

Just played Half-Life 2 for almost 10 hours uniterrupted.

I think that might be a problem.

[deathfun]

I got Half Life gifted to me by Steam
I think...

[LordMelvin]

The driveway's gone to ****ing **** today.

I hate when it rains instead of snowing.

[Colonol Dekker]

http://www.free-gamess.net/

It's not blocked by my work firewall.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

It's pissing with rain in Singapore's Central Business District. Outside the city, though...

[Wobble73]

http://www.free-gamess.net/

It's not blocked by my work firewall.

It is by mine!!!! 

On a sidenote, I just found this in my junk folder!

Capt William Johnson Capt William [email protected]
 
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From: Capt William Johnson ([email protected]) 
Sent: 21 December 2011 01:59:45
To:   


Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days.
Wait, it's safe!
    Hello
     
    Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent and writing through this channel. I got your contact from the professional data base found on the internet Google tourist search when i was searching for a foreign reliable partner. I assured of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity.
     
    My name is Captain William Johnson the commander of the Special N.A.T.O coalition force with the United Nation troops in Afghanistan, on war against terrorism. I was working with General Stanley Mc Chrystal, the former commander of U.S and NATO forces in Afghanistan before he was replaced last June by General David Petraeus. I am serving currently in a Taliban territory; a remote Village in Bamyan province to the bustling capital Kabul (CBC’s Doc Zone).
     
    After series of attacks from terrorist groups on United States troops in Afghanistan especially the shot down of US helicopter that killed 30 American soldiers on the 5th of August 2011 and the five American soldiers who were killed by a bomb in Afghanistan few weeks ago, we got an information about the sudden presence of some Terrorists camping in Marzar Sharif, a suburb not too far from Kabul here in Afghanistan. After Immediate intervention, we captured three (3) of the Terrorists,(7) injured. In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for Abu Baqir a Taliban sub-commander and al-Qaida group leader, and they took us to a cave in Marzar Sharif. Which served as their camp , there we recovered several guns and other Ammunitions including some boxes among which two contains nuclear weapons, and the other contains some millions of US Dollars and i have in my possession the sum of 18.7 million U.S. dollars.
     
    I am in keen need of a Reliable and Trustworthy person who would receive, secure and protect the cargo box which contains the Money for me until my assignment here is completed. I assure and promise to give you 30% of this fund and you keep 70%for me at the successful conclusion of this deal.
     
    It is never a stolen money or illegal money but because of what we face here to bring peace in this war zone that has caused the life’s of many soldiers which no amount of compensation will bring them back to life or put smiles on the faces of their families, that is the reasons my unit decided to share the money among us but return all the guns and ammunition's to our Camp, it is official and that's the reason i need your assistance to ship the box to any save location of your choice.
     
    Please, i trust you to maintain absolute secrecy and confidentiality to protect my job, myself and the money. In less than 5 days the box should be in your possession and i will give you further instructions. But you must know that i have taken precautionary measures to secure the money. The box is coded with high security gadget so am the only one that has the right combination to unlock it.
     
    The only telephone access we have here is radio message which is for our general use and is being monitored; therefore all communication will be via email till we finish our assignment. Please keep it to yourself even if you are not interested, thank God for President Barrack Obama whose keen interest is to call us back home soon.
    I confide strictly in you and appeal that you make this deal your topmost secret. Please kindly get back to me on my private email address [email protected]
     
    With the assurances of my gratitude and compliance to the terms, I remain;
     
    Very sincerely,
    Capt.William Johnson

DISTURBING!!!!!

[FireSpawn]

Umm. That's different....

If I were you, I'd look this guy up to see if he even exists.

Edit: Though the fact that he mentioned nukes makes it sound more farfetched than it already is.

[Wobble73]

Umm. That's different....

If I were you, I'd look this guy up to see if he even exists.

Edit: Though the fact that he mentioned nukes makes it sound more farfetched than it already is.

Well I looked him up and look what I found

[FireSpawn]

Report them to the FBI. Just the fact that he mentioned nuclear  weapons should enough for them to bring down the banhammer on this.

[FlamingCobra]

-snip-

I've had baaaaaaaaad experiences with Acer laptops.

And I figure since my parents are the ones paying for it, what they don't know won't hurt them. And they're probably going to go with a company they know. I'm 99% sure I'm going to end up with a Dell or an HP Pavilion, regardless. And I despise Hewlett-Packard.

-snip-

The abundance of grammar errors proves that it is fake.

[The E]

It's even easier than that. Why would a member of the US military use a german freemail provider?

[LHN91]

-snip-

I've had baaaaaaaaad experiences with Acer laptops.

And I figure since my parents are the ones paying for it, what they don't know won't hurt them. And they're probably going to go with a company they know. I'm 99% sure I'm going to end up with a Dell or an HP Pavilion, regardless. And I despise Hewlett-Packard.

Whereas I've yet to have an Acer last less than 3 years, and watched several Dells and HPs die within 10-14 months. To each his own I suppose. Seeing that your parents are paying, go with one of those badass Asus laptops. They're built solidly, and look awesome.

[Grizzly]

I can backup that statement. My EEE pcs have been able to get trough suprising amounts of abuse.

[Mongoose]

I've never seen a major hardware-related issue with the Dell laptops my family members have owned.  The usual amount of crapware you have to uninstall when you first buy them, yes, but no real failures.

[LordMelvin]

I can backup that statement. My EEE pcs have been able to get trough suprising amounts of abuse.

My acer netbook is small and underpowerd, as expected from an atom based system, but it's an energizer-bunny-style small. Sucker just will not quit. (course I had to upgrade the ram and swap out the spinny disc for an ssd, but if you're not up to doing stuff like that, well...) ~7&1/2 hours on a charge with low power consumption options, lightweight enough and durable enough to stand up to pretty severe usage... and even with the cost of replacement parts, it was under 400$, runs blender well enough to do modelling (though I use my desktop for renders - you can only fit so much ram in something that tiny), bluetooths nicely to my mouse, etc. etc. etc. Only complaint I've had with it is the irritation factor involved in configuring the ACPI to work properly under lubuntu.

[Firstdragon34]

I'm posting on Lucasarts and Hard-light. I just registered. I'm trying to blend in as such triyng to be random in their threads. I keep forgetting that it isn't WHIYL!

It feels good to be awesome.