Necromagus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_ ... _s_torture http://www.waterboardseanhannityforchar ... annity.htm Short version: conservative windbag Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity to prove that it's not torture, and liberal blowhard Keith Olbermann immediately jumped on it and offered him $1000 for every second he lasted. The second site has been started by other people who wanted to help raise the money. Personally, I'd be all for it because it's pretty much a win-win situation, especially if the whole event is taped for TV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8026807.stm That article pretty much sums it up. My younger brother was working the event as private security, but he was in a whole different location when the attack happened. For those of you who don't know, Queen's Day is a national holiday in The Netherlands that basically celebrates the royal family. Usually the queen and her direct family will visit a handful of towns to 'meet with the locals', so to speak. It generally involves tours, parades, etc., and markets, carnivals and parties all over the country.

I used a cane for a while to help me walk while I had a hernia. It was ebony with a silver head, very nicely made, used by a distant uncle I never met.

Apparently the version of Ubuntu I'm currently running wasn't using any drivers at all. Someone on another forum directed me to this site, which looked promising but yielded the following error when I tried to install the whole thing through the terminal as described in the installation instructions: jx@x-laptop:~/Desktop$ sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run Created directory fglrx-install.uUiQhZ Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.593............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .......................................... ================================================== ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager ================================================== Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version default:v2:i686:lib::none:2.6.28-11-generic; make sure that the version is being correctly set by --iscurrentdistro Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.uUiQhZ

Bumped because the problem has suddenly gotten a lot more severe since updating to 9.04. This is what my screen looks like. I've been having this problem for several weeks now but never really bothered to do anything about it. However when I updated from 8.10 o 9.04, the problem suddenly got a lot more severe. This is what it looked like under 8.10: The red stuff on the shutdown window was just something that happened when you dragged a window around. For some reason that doesn't happen anymore. The problem looks exactly the same when I plug in an external monitor. lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10][hide=xorg.conf] # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously # in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings # here are ignored. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Configured Monitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Video Device" EndSection[/hide]

We're Tip.It's original power couple.

Things I've already done: - Hear Iron Maiden perform Hallowed Be Thy Name live - Go to Wacken with a bunch of friends - Climb a mountain all the way to the top - Get paid for the publication of a story or article I wrote - Dig up something truly ancient - Go to San Francisco (to meet a certain someone :-w) - Visit Rome (and part of that: See the sculptures of Bernini in person) Other than that: - Go to Jerusalem with my father - Visit Angkor-Wat - Participate in a Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour tournament - Complete my collection of Garfield pockets - Visit every Legoland park in the world (Only the one in Denmark so far) - Buy a triple-digit bottle of single malt whisky and share it with certain friends - Cook the perfect hamburger - Go to Athens - Visit the Giger museum - Observe a nuclear blast - Run a marathon - Complete the 50 km version of the Four Day Marches of Nijmegen (already did the 30km version), basically a 50km walk every day for four days, the largest marching/hiking event in the world. - Travel through an ex-Soviet republic while backpacking/hitchhiking

Yeah, I'm not seeing any useful discussion coming out of this. Locked and all that. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

As was pointed out, there's already a thread on this. Locked. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

Leave Magey alone :evil:

Surprised to see Enslavement of Beauty on there. I dusted it off just now, I have to say that for some reason I still think that The Dying Buds of May is the best track on there.

Recently Obama announced that he would pardon CIA operatives who tortured people because they thought it was allowed. A lot of people screamed bloody murder at the fact that 'they' are going to get away with it, but I think that this could actually work out for the best. Now, Bush didn't pardon these people in the last days of his presidency for one very simple reason: A pardon would be admission of guilt. A mass pardon for everybody involved would basically be saying: "Yes, we actually knew we were wrong all along, our bad, but you can't touch us now". So how about a conditional pardon? Anyone taking that pardon would have to testify, under oath, as to how deep the torture rabbit hole goes. If they take the pardon, they can't be prosecuted (but still get disbarred, fired, etc.) but they will have admitted guilt. We could have Patrick Leahy's truth and reconciliation committee up and running. A conditional pardon now becomes a trial and conviction. After all, you can only pardon a crime if it's actually been committed. Of course if they don't take the pardon, they'll have to suck it up and deal with the prosecution, and with any luck we'll have a whole lot of fodder from those who did take the pardon to take those who didn't take it to town. Republicans can't complain because Obama did actually offer them a pardon, and they were just too stubborn to take it. Of course this is all just a bunch of political trickery, and of course I want to see those responsible hang, but I think that in the long term a conditional pardon is the best way to get to the bottom of the cesspool.

Pointless bump locked. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

6/10, Canada jokes are kinda blah.

Locked on request. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod

Moved to the appropriate forum. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod

Locked on request. -Necromagus, Tip.It Mod.

I only post in blue when I need to yell at people, I am allowed to post in a non-official function :P

The Italian host is simply because the site owner (Silverion) is Italian. Tip.It is not exclusively a Runescape fansite. In the early days, as early as 2001, Tip.It also had subsections for Asheron's Call and Dark Age of Camelot. For a long time Runescape was the only game the site supported, but now we also have a section for Lord of the Rings Online. Rune Tips just has a better ring to it than Runescape Tips :P

Excellent episode. I love just how ignorant Cartman is of the offensiveness of a phrase like "I need you to teach me some Jew defenses". Also, the Carlito's Way reference was great.

I haven't been able to find it, although it is sometimes played in a bar I visit.

Sounds like decent background music. It reminded me a lot of the music for Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption.

It started for me when Within Temptation's Ice Queen topped the charts in The Netherlands. It spawned a minor "goth" fad (I was too much of a dork to participate in that beyond the music :P), but after it died down I continued to listen to the album. Eventually I moved on to other metal bands, at first exclusively with female vocals, but later on other stuff to. Also, Within Temptation's first album (Enter), which I didn't hear until 2003, was probably what helped me learn to enjoy grunting vocals.