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    FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Pony wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I love how several of you are anti-kid. The more anti-kid you are, the bigger a goofy parent you're going to be.

    Sure some people genuinely never want children. The number of people that profess this is rather a lot smaller than the number of people who go through with it their entire lives.

    Trust me, hit your 30's, and then we'll talk again. You'd probably rather show me pictures of your offspring by then though.

    i am getting a vasectomy in a month

    not because i am against the idea of having children entirely, mind you

    i am just against the idea of me producing genetic offspring

    my genes are terrible

    i'm an evolutionary dead end

    i should not be cursing the world and young children with my terrible DNA

    now, adoption?

    okay, i can see that, at some future point

    but my own genetic offspring? No.

    god bless you, pony

    more people should follow your example

    people are raised by wandering fathers and mothers that have kids in between every bong rip and they wonder why the world is fucking stupid

    AH'M A GOOD MAM I LUUV MAH KIDS *tooth falls out*

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    PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    What exactly does bangercore consist of? I heard the single heartbeats and a mix they did of an Anoraak song but I wouldn't describe them as bangers personally but my personal definition could be way off.

    Mega-hard four to the floor, huge snare on two and four, fast hats, massive (usually triangle) bass often bitcrushed or distorted, trebly two or four bar lead line, inane lyrics. Think MSTRKRFT, Bloody Beetroots, GRUM, Le Caste Vania, Boyz Noize, etc.

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    joshua1joshua1 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Yeah, i know the drop down in the print tab, but due to the retardedness of trying to put landscape excel files in word, I would have to put multiple pdfs together into one glorious one.

    What does that? can preview handle that?

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    Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    we've been trying to have kids for four years

    just doesn't seem to take

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    SanderJK wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    joshua1 wrote: »
    I think i will be "printing" this off as a .pdf via word before I take it to the printshop. Would you happen to know a way to compile pdfs in OSX? for free?

    I hate having to reassemble documents.

    Open/NeoOffice.

    There's a couple of free "fake printer" things too, but they generate monstrously huge files.

    CutePDF is the standard for this. I can't recall much of an issue with the size of files it creates...

    CutePDF I have no experience with. Generally the things that are pretend postscript printer drivers are the things that generate the gigantic files.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Lud I'm not really anti kid, I'm anti everyone else having a kid. It's one of my rules when I become a dictator.

    Preacher on
    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Fallout wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I love how several of you are anti-kid. The more anti-kid you are, the bigger a goofy parent you're going to be.

    Sure some people genuinely never want children. The number of people that profess this is rather a lot smaller than the number of people who go through with it their entire lives.

    Trust me, hit your 30's, and then we'll talk again. You'd probably rather show me pictures of your offspring by then though.

    i am getting a vasectomy in a month

    not because i am against the idea of having children entirely, mind you

    i am just against the idea of me producing genetic offspring

    my genes are terrible

    i'm an evolutionary dead end

    i should not be cursing the world and young children with my terrible DNA

    now, adoption?

    okay, i can see that, at some future point

    but my own genetic offspring? No.

    god bless you, pony

    more people should follow your example

    people are raised by wandering fathers and mothers that have kids in between every bong rip and they wonder why the world is fucking stupid

    AH'M A GOOD MAM I LUUV MAH KIDS *tooth falls out*
    None of that has to do with genes.

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    PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Podly wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    duna you work at the rockaway mall?

    what's up, mariposa?

    that's our word

    what's the other one? is it marricone?

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    thisisntwallythisisntwally Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    joshua1 wrote: »
    Yeah, i know the drop down in the print tab, but due to the retardedness of trying to put landscape excel files in word, I would have to put multiple pdfs together into one glorious one.

    What does that? can preview handle that?

    preview I don't think would.

    now you could make your PDFs, then insert them (insert image?) into your overall word doc, then print that to pdf...

    lotsa steps, but it should stay clean.

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    we've been trying to have kids for four years

    just doesn't seem to take

    I think you have to catch yours in the wild.

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    PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    we've been trying to have kids for four years

    just doesn't seem to take

    you have to pray to jesus first

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Podly wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    duna you work at the rockaway mall?

    what's up, mariposa?

    that's our word

    what's the other one? is it marricone?
    it's chacarrone

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    monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Podly wrote: »
    Podly wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    duna you work at the rockaway mall?

    what's up, mariposa?

    that's our word

    what's the other one? is it marricone?

    Is it bird? Is bird the word?

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Preacher wrote: »
    Lud I'm not really anti kid, I'm anti everyone else having a kid. It's one of my rules when I become a dictator.

    When I become dictator I am going to allow scientists to do human testing. We need to get to the future, damn it, and it will be a hell of a lot quicker that way.

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    joshua1joshua1 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    joshua1 wrote: »
    Yeah, i know the drop down in the print tab, but due to the retardedness of trying to put landscape excel files in word, I would have to put multiple pdfs together into one glorious one.

    What does that? can preview handle that?

    preview I don't think would.

    now you could make your PDFs, then insert them (insert image?) into your overall word doc, then print that to pdf...

    lotsa steps, but it should stay clean.

    This sounds the safest.

    Ugh. my markers are going to have a field day when they reach the end of this report. Im so fucking done that I can't think of regular words. Only obtuse flowery synonyms that i spell atrociously.

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    you know

    people who are deadset against ever having children ever tend to just be sorta self-absorbed folk at this stage in their life, and often grow out of it

    ain't nothing wrong with them, as people, they are just sorta overly concerned with themselves and don't really see there being a point in their life where they aren't too busy with their oh-so-important lives to care for a child

    however

    people who hate the idea of anyone having children, and look down on "breeders" and other folk who have kids

    those people are just misanthropes

    and misanthropes are sad and pathetic

    i look down on them, cluck my tongue, and hope one day they will learn to love their species

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    edited August 2009
    Somebody give me $120 so I can buy an overpriced hat.

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Ludious wrote: »
    we've been trying to have kids for four years

    just doesn't seem to take

    I think you have to catch yours in the wild.

    Where's he going to find a pokeball that big?

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    thisisntwallythisisntwally Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Is this too dense to go in a cover letter? (Yes, I think...)

    What should I trim?
    I am currently working for the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management program, doing economic analysis and data management for the Office of Cost Estimation and Analysis. In addition to our office’s traditional cost estimation work, I have had to opportunity to research and apply economic and statistical approaches to provide more accurate cost estimates and support contract negotiations. I have also worked with a team of consultants to create a cost capture database so that in the future, a sample of actual costs can be used to produce more accurate cost estimates.

    Beyond the simple analysis of price escalation for existing contracts, one of my responsibilities has been developing new forecasting techniques for commodity and price escalation for the purpose of program planning and contract negotiation, and for the creation of standard escalation indices. My use of a sophisticated multivariate time-series approach has proven more accurate than commercial escalation indexes in capturing and predicting commodity trends, and allows for application in dynamic, project specific instances. This was done with a free, open source statistical environment, R. Given recent price instabilities, an accurate picture of cost escalation is instrumental in creating accurate cost estimates and models.

    In addition to improving price escalation strategies for contracting and planning purposes, I have worked to improve the quality of our baseline cost estimates. Working in an interdisciplinary team, we developed the Environmental Cost Analysis System (ECAS) database to capture historical costs for the Department of Energy's Environmental Management program. With the database structure created and finalized, I have reviewed the database design and reports for usability, and overseen contractor efforts in data collection and analysis. As a DOE representative, I oversaw the training of contractors by the ECAS team, for manipulating accounting and waste data from historical projects, to ensure accurate input into the ECAS database.

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I just kinda hope they stop being part of my species Pony.
    Or used in human testing.

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Pony wrote: »
    you know

    people who are deadset against ever having children ever tend to just be sorta self-absorbed folk at this stage in their life, and often grow out of it

    ain't nothing wrong with them, as people, they are just sorta overly concerned with themselves and don't really see there being a point in their life where they aren't too busy with their oh-so-important lives to care for a child
    this is pretty arrogant

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    Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    duna you work at the rockaway mall?

    nah, I was just there for lunch and to pick up my copy of batman (which doesn't come out for the PC until the 15th apparantly.........)
    so you live around here, then?

    why don't you hang out with us

    I'm never invited :P aren't you farther east?
    i'm in bergen county but i regularly head down to rockaway/denville because many of my friends live there

    also i'm always in paramus because it's paramus

    I actually live on the much farther west than where I work right now and commute back and forth.

    I don't go into denville much because its in the opposite direction.

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    japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Feral wrote: »
    Somebody give me $120 so I can buy an overpriced hat.

    This sentence is far more amusing than it has any right to be.

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Feral wrote: »
    Somebody give me $120 so I can buy an overpriced hat.
    okay

    wait....

    okay

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    japan wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    we've been trying to have kids for four years

    just doesn't seem to take

    I think you have to catch yours in the wild.

    Where's he going to find a pokeball that big?

    ball-walk-on-water.jpg

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Dunadan019 wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    duna you work at the rockaway mall?

    nah, I was just there for lunch and to pick up my copy of batman (which doesn't come out for the PC until the 15th apparantly.........)
    so you live around here, then?

    why don't you hang out with us

    I'm never invited :P aren't you farther east?
    i'm in bergen county but i regularly head down to rockaway/denville because many of my friends live there

    also i'm always in paramus because it's paramus

    I actually live on the much farther west than where I work right now and commute back and forth.

    I don't go into denville much because its in the opposite direction.
    oh. hmm. what county are you in, if you don't mind my asking?

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    monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Ludious wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    we've been trying to have kids for four years

    just doesn't seem to take

    I think you have to catch yours in the wild.

    Where's he going to find a pokeball that big?

    ball-walk-on-water.jpg

    Is that Jesus?

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    LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    No. He's just this guy, you know?

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Somebody give me $120 so I can buy an overpriced hat.
    okay

    wait....

    okay

    Mikeman the leader of fiscal responsibility in chat.

    Preacher on
    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
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    PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Also, i drank a hundred dollars worth of remy xo cognac for free last week. That was pretty awesome.

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Preacher wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Somebody give me $120 so I can buy an overpriced hat.
    okay

    wait....

    okay

    Mikeman the leader of fiscal responsibility in chat.
    hey

    shut up or i'll give you $120 too

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Boo, 2 hours left in work day and no work to do.

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    We'll see how long this blog lasts
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    OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2009
    Podly wrote: »
    MikeMan wrote: »
    duna you work at the rockaway mall?

    what's up, mariposa?

    that's our word

    I want it noted that I greatly enjoyed this post.

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    titties

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    HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Podly wrote: »
    Also, i drank a hundred dollars worth of remy xo cognac for free last week. That was pretty awesome.

    Over the week or in one gulp?

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    MikeManMikeMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    it's an eddy post

    of course you enjoyed it

    it's eddy

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    edited August 2009
    Pony wrote: »
    people who hate the idea of anyone having children, and look down on "breeders" and other folk who have kids

    those people are just misanthropes

    I like kids. I really do. However, I have a lot of resentment towards parents who believe that the world should stop spinning on its axis and kowtow to their needs just because they were able to get their gonads to rub together long enough to spawn. If people want to make the lifestyle choice to have kids, that's fine. But when those kids make noise on airplanes or in movie theaters or distract their parents while driving leading them to nearly run me off the road or when coworkers insist on leaving early and coming in late every day so they can drive their kids to and from daycare or otherwise act like that lifestyle choice gives them special privileges in life, I get extremely irritated.

    Feral on
    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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    DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    god i hate mstrkrft

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    you know

    people who are deadset against ever having children ever tend to just be sorta self-absorbed folk at this stage in their life, and often grow out of it

    ain't nothing wrong with them, as people, they are just sorta overly concerned with themselves and don't really see there being a point in their life where they aren't too busy with their oh-so-important lives to care for a child
    this is pretty arrogant

    it's a tendency.

    it's not universally true of all people who don't want children

    but the fact is a lot of people who say I DON'T WANT CHILDREN EVER a) tend to grow out of it and b) their motivations are based entirely around self-interest, not any larger principle.

    if you actually pick at someone's reasoning for not ever wanting children, nine times out of ten their reasoning will be based around their career, their appearance, their social life, or some other aspect of how their life functions right now (or how they want it to function) that is entirely about themselves and their happiness.

    for example, if someone says "I don't ever want children because I can't reasonably provide real care for a child, given my jet-setting lifestyle of a professional model"

    well, there you go

    you are deciding to put your current career and lifestyle ahead of ever caring for a child.

    there's certainly selfless reasons to say "I am the sort of person and/or lead the sort of lifestyle to which child-raising would not be functional and may in fact be harmful to the child"

    but the reality is

    the majority of the people who say "I don't ever want kids!"

    are hardly so noble

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    Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    MikeMan wrote: »
    oh. hmm. what county are you in, if you don't mind my asking?


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_County,_New_Jersey

    middle of nowhere'sville

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