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This week in Article/Forum comments in Humor JoeUser Forums

I can’t help but think of this video: http://youtu.be/pbIR51_J_qY

Reply to Stardock at 20: My Stardock scrapbook in Stardockians GalCiv2 Forums

There, put the Porsche picture up. :) And ltos of new pics.

Internet Mob Logic in Internet JoeUser Forums

“People who say mean things should die in a fire!”

Scenes from Fall 2013 in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

I can’t believe Fall is here. I think I missed a month, at least! So before everything has changed, I took some pictures. <img title="2013-09-20 11.04.58" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="2013-09-20 11.04.58" src="https:

Religion of Peace Update: September 2013 in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Islamists in Kenya murder 39 at a shopping center after ordering Muslims out and screening them based on their knowledge of Islam. Read the full thing here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2427892/Nairobi-mall-Gunmen-massacred-22-Kenyan-shopping-centre-targeted-non-Islamics.html

The 5 stages of a disaster prepper in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

Shortly after the Northeast blackout of 2003, my wife and I started to take disaster preparedness seriously. The blackout only lasted a couple of days but we realized that had the blackout not occurred in the Summer and had the blackout lasted much longer, we would have been in serious trouble. The journey from being totally unprepared to being aware of how totally unprepared we are could be be described as “The idiot’s journey”. <img style="border-bottom-style: non

Stardock turns 20: Ten lessons I learned being an entrepreneur in Business JoeUser Forums

In October we turn 20 years. As some of you know, Stardock started out as a 1-man shop. I was a college student paying my own wa

Automatic Burger Machine: Coming soon to a McDonalds near you in Business JoeUser Forums

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The best bug out vehicle in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

Wow! Lots of PMs and tweets regarding yesterday’s article on what would happen with the collapse of the grid . Let me first say that I make no claims to be an expert on EMP. There are a lot of people who are convinced that a reasonably strong EMP would disable modern cars. I don’t happen to agree with that view. Hopefully we’ll never find out. I

Would a collapse of the power grid be doomsday? in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

About a year ago, I wrote “The lights go out: What happens if the grid goes down” . It talked about what would likely happen if the power went out and works through the first 4 weeks. In short, it’s not a pretty picture. Doomsday Scenarios Below are my opinions and just my opinions. They’re based on reading and researching these topics in my spare time out of morbid curiosity. I define a doomsday scenario as a

Panther Chameleons join the family in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

We went to the reptile show this weekend.

Troublemaking at Twit.TV! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I was on this week’s episode of Windows Wee

The Company of Heroes 2 thread in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Been playing a lot of Company of Heroes lately. One feature I really really like is the Automatch vs. AI feature. So it gathers a random group to go up against a set of AI players. It’s remarkably fun. Anyone have this yet? What are your thoughts?

Only on the Internet in Internet JoeUser Forums

I so do love the Internet. I really do. On

The Wolverine thread in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Ok, saw this. Was surprisingly good. 3.5 out of 5. Much better than the original Wolverine Origin movie. Have you seen it? What do you think?

All the time in the world and more in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

My gift and curse is that I don’t require a “normal” amount of sleep. After 4 or so hours, I wake up, full of energy for the next day. It’s come

Mercy for thee but not for me in Life, the Universe and Everything JoeUser Forums

There's a great line in Atlas Shrugs that goes like this: "You concluded I was the safest person in the world to spit on because I have power over you and that I would be tied by the fear of hurting your feelings by reminding you of it." Our society seems to have taken that view en-masse in recent years.

PolyCast Episode 176 in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Hi all! As some of you know, Draginol is my “alt” handle here for Frogboy. Anyway, this week I was on PolyCast, a popular Civilization-related podcast and this episode focused heavily on the upcoming Civilization V expansion “Brave New World”. Feel free to check it out here: http://civcomm.civfa

The Singularity is closer than most realize in Art, Science, & Technology JoeUser Forums

The technological singularity is defined to be the point in which technological progress is increasing at a rate that human level intelligence can no longer predict what will come next. We are closer to that time than most people think. There are a lot of technologies most people expect to happen that I don’t think will happen or, if they do happen, will be relevant for a startling short amount of time. For example, strong AI. My day programming jo

Reply to Whence 1.20? in LH Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="dacty4491" reply="2" id="3375506"] Thanks. I assumed the release version is out. I'll wait upon that.[/quote] The random hard drive formatting and malware has been reduced by over 9% in this build...

Climate modeling continues to fail in Politics JoeUser Forums

As discussed here , the climate models that predicted a rapidly warming earth continue to be way way off. <img title="image" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto;

Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 0.85 changelog in LH Support Elemental Forums

The AI updates in this build are pretty significant.

Reply to Yes, there are monsters in the world in Everything Else Elemental Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="116" id="3349459"] I couldn't disagree more, but then that is why I ended my rather long post on page 4 with that 'agree to disagree' remark. To me, what I posted about 'societal stewardship' is something no society on earth can afford to ignore........at least not in the long term anyway.[/quote] Understood. I was trying to prevent my post from being hijacked by people wanting to turn it into a referendum

Reply to Do you have blood on your clothes? in Economics Elemental Forums

If they're working there voluntarily they're not slaves. I'm not sure why this is such a difficult thing to understand. It gets really old seeing people complain about how evil companies are for outsourcing to other countries who have people willing to do the same job for a lot less while they themselves happily buy products made in those same third world countries. People pat themselves on the back for supporting minimum wage laws in the US while being aghast that

Reply to Yes, there are monsters in the world in Everything Else Elemental Forums

While I think there is a serious sickness in the heart of the Islamic religion, that is not the point of this topic. The religion of the perpeatrators -- for the purpose of this topic -- is irrelevant. My general point is that if we want to keep the society we have, we should be thankful that most people's emotional instinct towards those who would seek to destroy them is anger and not compassion.