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You bet I would! (Ps: some people look forward to football season so they can knit or crochet while watching the game)



Anything interesting planned this week?
 
Inviting about a dozen non-USAians over on Saturday for "American Thanksgiving".


Would you work on a submarine for 6 months?
 
Depends on the kind of format, why you're doing it, and who you expect to go looking for old data on it. A quick format deletes entries from the file allocation table and leaves the actual files intact.


tea or coffee?
 
It's happening again. Perfectly happy with either.

To answer the reformat question the answer is no. There are ways of reading a disc down through multiple layers of over-writing. If you have evidence you need to dispose of the only way to be sure is get an acetylene torch and melt it.

Speaking of the permanency and universal nature of digital information, how long before we evolve from an individualistic species into a hive type?
 
We won't because a hive is socialist (or, *gasp*, communist) and SOCIALISM BAD!


Why do you hate Capitalism and 'murricah?
 
Sneezy said:
Speaking of the permanency and universal nature of digital information, how long before we evolve from an individualistic species into a hive type?
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That was actually discussed in the book I finished this weekend (The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies - see non-fiction forum), where he seemed to argue that it was more or less inevitable; we're already using highly functional prostheses today. Once we figure out how to upload a consciousness (which isn't even practical today, given how much information is in the human brain, but Moore's Law should fix that in a few decades), give it a few generations and nobody will want to hang onto a biological body that'll eventually decay and die. Hive mind is another step beyond that so, say, 5,000 AD?

Vigilante groups working missing people cases: good thing or potentially problematic?
 
not sure about the question but if it happens I hope it's after I've departed to the hereafter (if there is one!)

do you get up out of bed with a smile to meet the day or do you grump around for a while
 
canuck said:
do you get up out of bed with a smile to meet the day or do you grump around for a while
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I don't grump, but I'm not much of a smiler either until after I've had my tea. I am more or less a drone until then.

What's your favorite season and why?
 
BeerWench13 said:
What's your favorite season and why?
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This one (Mid Atlantic US autumn). The air is clean, cool in the evenings and warm during the day. The holiday season is just around the corner and people just seem....happier.

Thanksgiving feast, I am thinking of doing Cornish Game Hens. Sacrilege?
 
Not at all. It's a gourmet twist on a classic. Just make sure you allot at least two per diner. Because Thanksgiving.



Why does this image made me laugh every, single, time I see it?
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Because it is hilarious on multiple silly levels, which makes it gold.

Who wouldn't find that picture funny?
 
Sneezy: Republicans and communists, that's who.

beerwench: Red and green. Don't mess with Christmas else Santa will cry.


$350 for an autographed Wilco poster and $150 for an autographed Wilco 7", each with a little over 5 hours left to go in each auction: priced right or too damned expensive?
 
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