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I Want to Believe-The Senate's Social Thread and Secret Society Roundtable
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Jabbadabbado
Title: Senate Floor Moderator
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Mar '99
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7/23 3:32am
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RE: I Want to Believe-The Senate's Social Thread and Secret Society Roundtable
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It was a fun movie. After all the reviews, I was afraid it was going to be too cerebral and contemplative to be any fun. Luckily, the critical hype was way overblown. It delivered the goods as an action thriller.
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Mr44
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Date Posted:
7/29 12:35pm
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On a more light-hearted note, Chicago, the Windy City, just beat out a host of other cities in a "Most Beloved City" poll conducted by Paris based Veolia Environnement SA.
Chicago ranked #1, with Sydney falling 5 percentage points behind Chicago and capturing the #2 spot.
The city's cultural offerings, ease of lifestyle, proximity to the Great Lakes, and user friendliness were all mentioned.
HERE
The one thing that needed improvement was public transportation, but Chicago still has a better transportation system than a lot of US cities.
Here's the entire ranking:
Chicago-49
Sydney-44
New York-41
Berlin-38
Los Angeles-35
Lyon, France-35
Paris-35
Shanghai-29
London-28
Alexandria-22
Prague-22
Mexico City-19
Beijing-18
Tokyo-14
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Lowbacca_1977
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7/29 12:43pm
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I'd disagree just in that I think Sydney is, just on its own, prob the top city, at least of those I've been to.
For Chicago though, I'd had a few days in Chicago while travelling to the east coast by train with a friend, and we were really impressed with Chicago. It really gets undervalued in general when people talk about places to travel.
I'm surprised L.A. is that high just because of how difficult it is to get around. Or that NYC is up there that high, but thats mainly as I really don't like NYC.
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LostOnHoth
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7/29 2:25pm
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I hate Sydney but then I live here so I probably have a different perspective than a visitor.
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Lowbacca_1977
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I've never figured out how when I'm in Sydney, I don't get homesick for L.A., but I seem to get a bit 'homesick' for Sydney.
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The past two days were busy, my brother left to go to on a mission to New Mexico, and then yesterday I went whitewater rafting and then saw Old Faithful and then drove back home.
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Lowbacca_1977
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8/12 11:00pm
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The Economist has sent me something about getting a subscription. Thoughts?
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KnightWriter
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8/12 11:07pm
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Lowbacca_1977 posted:
The Economist has sent me something about getting a subscription. Thoughts?
I rank it as my second best subscription, just behind The Atlantic and just ahead of The New Yorker (I've got close to a dozen right now). Apparently, it's written largely by young writers (I suspect that means late 20s and 30s), or so says Wikipedia. It's expensive, but the breadth of coverage it gives is rivaled only by publications like the New York Times.
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Darth Mischievous
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yankee8255
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8/13 12:36am
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KnightWriter posted:
Lowbacca_1977 posted:
The Economist has sent me something about getting a subscription. Thoughts?
I rank it as my second best subscription, just behind The Atlantic and just ahead of The New Yorker (I've got close to a dozen right now). Apparently, it's written largely by young writers (I suspect that means late 20s and 30s), or so says Wikipedia. It's expensive, but the breadth of coverage it gives is rivaled only by publications like the New York Times.
I subscribed for a long time. It's really a brilliant publication, leaves you amazingly well-informed even if you only get through 20% each week. Unfortunately, it's also prety expensive, which is why I let my subscription run out. You can read most of their content for free at their website.
If you do subscribe, try to get them to give you a free publication, like the Style Guide. It's quite good.
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Out of all the cities I've been to I would say San Diego is best. Beaches, sun, not to hard to get around, and once a year there is comic con.
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LostOnHoth
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8/16 2:55am
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My computer keeps freezing, then shutting down after about 15 minutes with a blue screen which says "kernel stack inpage error". Any computer wiz help would be great. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite laptop, about 9 months old - don't know much beyond that. 
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Darth Mischievous
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LostOnHoth posted:
My computer keeps freezing, then shutting down after about 15 minutes with a blue screen which says "kernel stack inpage error". Any computer wiz help would be great. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite laptop, about 9 months old - don't know much beyond that.
That sounds like you need some help from the Geek Squad!
I have an Alienware PC (about 3 yrs old), and I had to call them out because one of my RAID drives kept having this error message on it. They came out to my house and ran all kinds of tests, and now it runs fine.
But, I'm sort of clueless about tech help questions, though. Sometimes, when I have these freezing problems and whatnot, I'll just reformat my hard drives and load all my saved data back on the machine... which is why it's important to have a backup drive. I learned that lesson the hard way some time ago.
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Lowbacca_1977
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8/16 3:03am
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My help amounts to google, but still: http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/archive/topic/34731-1.html
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LostOnHoth
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I wonder if they make house calls to Sydney?
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