I'm not that interested in the streams. Streamed video is also hard to share. You can't throw an hour-long-plus video at someone unfamiliar with LRR and ask them to watch 15 minutes of video to absorb enough context to get the joke made at 35:02. Short sketches are easy to consume and easy to share....

Derp. Weird. The link worked in the preview. Here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/05/14/george_r_r_martin_writes_on_dos_based_wordstar_4_0_software_from_the_1980s.html

LRR knows what's up: www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/0 ... 1980s.html

EDIT: Fixed the link.

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by necro-ing this thread, but Brad was on to something. The possible implications the Third Amendment may carry in the modern world--particularly for government surveillance--are being discussed in legal circles.

I'm getting this error when I attempt to visit loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive on both Firefox and IE.

http://imgur.com/Xcx88G7

EDIT: Huh. I was able to access the videos page after I logged in to the forums.

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup.

Long read (very long), but I think it offers some much-needed perspective.

This article changed my mind about that California law I discussed a while back.

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/16/6982559/yes-means-yes-ezra-klein-people-wrong

And everyone was okay with that statue? I remember a huge outcry against it and the company apologized for it. Also it was not used as part of the wider promotional material like the "beautifully executed" Hitman ads. It was only for the collectors edition, but you're right as long as the...

Please don't get me wrong, neither I, nor am I certain Vive (her screen name on another message board I frequent where we had this conversation), believe that educating women about the incredible efficacy of physical and even verbal resistance in preventing rape should supplant education and awarene...

This is true for a number of crimes, but becomes muddier when the actual actions taken are not the crime, but the circumstances around them make it so. If we're friends, and I want to show you my new gun, and then also ask to borrow money, that's fine, but it's on me to prove it was friendly if you...

ehehehe -m No one likes trolls who spam "[citation needed]" just to annoy people, but equally unhelpful are people who dismissively quip "Let Me Google That For You" when you ask them to substantiate their claims. If you claim that most men do x or believe x or most women experi...

Master Gunner wrote: and a few third-party tools can make it look and act entirely like 7).

No kidding. Startdock Software keeps pinging me with ads for their Win8 mods.

re: Windows 10, and big hard drives Cool! Definitely avoid Windows 8. re: skipping an optical drive Be sure you won't need one. First, the drivers for you hardware will come on a physical disc. And while you'll probably be able to track them down on manufacturer websites, it can be a bit tricky and ...

:facepalm @ myself: I can't believe I forgot about a power supply and a disc drive. I generally chose a power supply with 250 more watts than I think I need. I've had bad luck with power supplies that totally should have been fine. In my case, a 430 watt PSU should have been plenty for an HTPC I was...

Basically, here's what you need : -CPU/processor -motherboard -RAM -*GPU/graphics card -hard drive -DVD reader or DVD writer (you need a DVD drive to install Windows and the drivers that come with your parts for one!) -power supply (PSU) -computer case -monitor -mouse -keyboard -audio (speakers or a...

Metcarfre is right. An $800 build quickly becomes a $1300 build with a monitor, mouse, keyboard, operating system (OS) and speakers/gaming headset. Fortunately, those peripherals and the OS will likely be one-time purchases that will last through years of upgrades and new builds. Especially, your OS...

I've given up trying to evaluate people's builds individually and just point people to LogicalIncriments.com . You really can't get better than their suggestions. The site runners update the recommendations frequently and they're very active in the comments. Pseudonym is definitely correct that you ...

I started reading The Stand , my first Stephen King book. My friend loaned me the unabridged version . Over 1400 pages. I'm about halfway through. It's getting a little weird. It's all harsh realism and then suddenly Randall Flagg starts levitating.... Anyway, I'm just hoping The Stand doesn't turn ...

Thanks for keeping us informed ocelot.

And thank you bar room hero for sharing season 1 with all of us!

I PM'd ocelotteranian yesterday asking if the disc came in. No response yet.

Wonderful. Thanks for being on top of this, Trisha.

Awesome. Thanks for letting us know, Trisha.

No worries Mums. The biggest delays are always waiting an extra week for people to respond to PMs who sometimes never do.

This is just a general reminder to everyone, please post in-thread when you receive the discs and when you ship them.

Also you can hold on to the discs for up to ONE WEEK.

Has the disc been shipped yet?