Illuminati-R-Us

I can see that happening for one of those comedy "people off the street are idiots" videos, but for a Roper poll? You are right, I temporarily mixed up this thread with another one. And go easy on Lonewulf; he probably got the countries confused with those hundreds of state capitals we al...

pmcolt wrote:I heard a rumor once that KISS actually stands for "Knights in Satin Sheets". I didn't pay attention to it because it made no sense.

Actually, the acronym for that is KKK.

I mean, there's over a thousand countries out there, and knowing every single one (and their capitals) is a lesson in incredible memorization. That must be the case, as you know at least 800 of them of which I am wholly unaware... Also, you have to consider that going up to some random person on th...

And then we have things like Nights in White Satin - hmm...

I Am He wrote:Can you tell me where are the worlds tallest buildings located??

101 Taipei Place, no? Prior to that, Kuala Lumpur.

If you get the left and right reversed, it will have no effect upon sound quality, just the sound image will be reversed. If you connect it with only one side wrong, that can be trouble. Yes, but I just couldn't live with the thought of the left and right being reversed, even if they sound pretty m...

No one cares about the "poor starving countries", because they rarely have much as far as shipping and economy goes. If they get blown off the face of the earth, it would make no appreciable difference to most people. They would feel it in their pocketbooks, though. (To their surprise.) L...

Back to the subject matter (maybe someone will start a seperate thread): It looks like this guy's days are numbered from the latest stuff I have been reading on cnn foxnews and other news websites. They have raided a safehouse and found some blooper reels of outtakes from his little video showing h...

Bill_Thompson wrote:The term "cracker" comes from an old southern expression to "crack" as in to talk without saying anything.

There are an awful lot of crackers on the internet.

Certainly North Korea is dangerous, and they might really loose their few nukes upon South Korea or conceivably Japan. But they are not exporting much of anything, let alone radical Islam, terrorism, etc. . I have heard that they are exporting nuclear weapon and rocket technology but that could be ...

OK, I'm putting today's exercise in self-destructive behavior on hold. It can resume tomorrow.

Cyndi wrote:

Lance wrote:But the grass probably got cut quickly.

Does cutting the grass quickly mean there is less pollen thrown up into the air?

Couldn't tell you. I'm not pollen-sensitive.

Cyndi wrote:So are you like dating how long ago it has been since you were in Chicagoland?

'til 2001.

Lance wrote:But the grass probably got cut quickly.

Well, yes it does, but the quality of cut is not so good. I think it would be better if it were slower. It is possible to throttle down, but that also slows the speed of the blades...

Lance wrote:Yes, then I can see how that could get exciting.

So, you were astride your lawnmower and something went wrong?

Do I have the right idea? Was there blood? (I hope not!)

No, it just makes for a very stressful ride.

Cyndi wrote:So - what radio station(s) do you listen to KOS?

When I'm in Chicago, WBBM. I can't remember the frequency anymore, but it was AM.

Lance wrote:

Khrushchev's Other Shoe wrote:Life is very exciting when your lawnmower is stuck in high gear...

Is it the type you are astride while using?

If nothing goes wrong, yes...

Life is very exciting when your lawnmower is stuck in high gear...

Lance wrote:Actually, no, but I don't watch much local TV and a quick Google search indicates that I probably would have had to.

Oh, maybe I've got the name wrong. I'm thinking of one of the fictional characters that used to appear in Mike Royko's newspaper column.

Okay... If you can get a good digital recording, you can use the program MP3Gain to boost the level to something reasonable if it's too soft. OK, I'll have a look - eventually :) I do recall that this goofy cable I bought had no way (or at least no way I could discern) to tell what was right and wh...

If they had a Survivor: The Bronx show, I might watch that...

Oh, people *would* care; they'd say, "Those poor people", and maybe some humanitarian groups would band together and try to make a difference. But for the most part, the majority of the population would not push for great changes in the Status Quo; not like what happened after 9/11. I am ...

Split per Lance 's suggestion. First Question: Is the cable going to the computer plugged into a MIC jack or LINE jack? If MIC, please switch to LINE. I tried it both ways, although I probably changed more than one variable simultaneously. At the moment, I'm not set up to do this (house for sale, a ...

Lance wrote:I don't think we in America would have been moved so much if it had happened in London, Paris or Moscow, either.

People die from preventable causes every day, in large quantities. Some deaths are more glamorous than others, and some lives have higher market value than others.

I don't know what you know, so... Unlike analog recording such as to tape, it is absolutely critical in digital recording never to go into the red. In analog it simply clips or compresses, but in digital it can't do that, so the artifacts are awful. In a way it is similar to entering too many digit...