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  1. Eomer

    The Astronomy Thread

    A line needed to be drawn somewhere. If it's drawn to include Pluto, eventually we'll end up with at least a couple dozen. Pluto has far more in common with Ceres, Vesta, Eris, Quorar, Makemake, and a bunch of other KBOs than it does with the rest of the planets. That doesn't mean it's not a...
  2. Eomer

    Lasik Eye Surgery

    LASIK Risks and LASIK Complications - AllAboutVision.com Millions of surgeries have been completed. If serious complications were truly wide spread, we'd have heard about it by now, and there'd be class action lawsuits flying around.
  3. Eomer

    Lasik Eye Surgery

    You're just flat out wrong man. If it was as risky as you seem to think, it wouldn't be getting done on tens of thousands of people. That study you cite probably considers moderate dryness and/or night halos as "complications", as well, which are incredibly minor issues to deal with. As I've...
  4. Eomer

    NHL 16

    Nah bro. NHL06! How's that whole "never won a fucking thing" going in BC these days?
  5. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Yeah, will give that a shot.
  6. Eomer

    Pot talk friday discussion - Robots.

    Some of what he said about animal consciousness there is already inaccurate. It's becoming fairly apparent that chimps and possibly other highly intelligent animals CAN plan for the future, and do perceive time etc. Obviously not nearly to the extent humans can, but that's still pretty significant.
  7. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    I don't think so, at this point. If you read my posts in order, the SSD being unrecognized was only a problem initially, and it seems to have gone away for whatever reason. Now, the computer freezes at the American Megatrends POST screen (do computers still POST?) when booting from being powered...
  8. Eomer

    NHL 16

    Still trucking along on NHL13. I refuse to purchase a newer copy until the Oilers aren't dogshit.
  9. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Ah. I'll take a close look at that. Like I said in my original post, it sure would be nice to have a guide or FAQ for a modern BIOS. I did some quick googling and didn't see much. The amount of options is bewildering, and as always the descriptions are fucking useless.
  10. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Didn't make a difference. And yes, there's options to fast/ultra fast boot etc. I haven't played with them in a systematic fashion as yet, but some preliminary fucking around didn't seem to fix anything.
  11. Eomer

    Burnt: Bradley Cooper Foodie/Chef movie

    It's funny, I do remember stumbling across Kitchen Confidential channel surfing late one night. The only thing I remember was that Cooper really, really stood out on the show. And sure enough he blew up not long after.
  12. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    It's in a PCI-Express x4 slot. So not the slot where I'd put a second GPU. Basically the bottom one. Haven't tried messing around with that as yet either.
  13. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    BIOS is up to date for the mobo, will have to check on the SSD. But that doesn't really seem to be the problem now. It's an Intel 750 SSD, so it's on a PCI-Express slot. For whatever reason, it's been finding the SSD fine if it gets past the initial American Megatrends screen now. Before it was...
  14. Eomer

    My new Dating Pool

    He works for a steel/metal fabricator, I believe. Doubtful there's more than a small handful of them working for the company hosting that tournament. It would take next to no time for them to identify him, if this thread was passed along to them. What an idiot.
  15. Eomer

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    "It seems like the Biblical prophesy is being fulfilled in orders of magnitude!" What a dumb cunt. Wow. What does that even mean?
  16. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Fucked around with it for an hour tonight. Tried unplugging absolutely any and all USB items from the computer to see if I could get it to cold boot, and it did on the first try, but then wouldn't repeat. It only booted from a cold start about twice out of...
  17. Eomer

    Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

    Of course not, but Ford is widely regarded as being a revolutionary thinker in terms of standardizing mass production, the 40 hour work week, and so on. Some of that may be myth or exaggerated, but he's rightly given a lot of credit for being one of the most important people of the early...
  18. Eomer

    My new Dating Pool

    How dare he approach your special lady friend like that!
  19. Eomer

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    It's generally liters per second vs GPM. In any case, there's arguments to be made for imperial and metric units, depending on the subject. In a lot of HVAC situations, imperial units are actually a lot easier to work with than metric.
  20. Eomer

    2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

    Yeah, it's almost silly to say that Pitts has failed given they've won a Cup and made another final, along with a huge amount of other successes. But given the cards they were dealt with Crosby and Malkin, that should have been good for another Cup or two. Chicago has found a way to win three...
  21. Eomer

    2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

    The other picks haven't been "wasted" in that the players didn't pan out as expected. Hall, other than last season (and of course his rookie year), has been one of the highest scoring wingers in the game. Nugent-Hopkins came in to his own last year, and while he hasn't been putting up crooked...
  22. Eomer

    2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

    I think that on the ice PK Subban is a showboating, diving little douche. But he's got some giant testicles off it:P.K. Subban donates $10M to Montreal Children's Hospital - Montreal - CBC News
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    heh, my brother's father in law brought a woman over from the Phillipines a few years ago. I don't remember all the details, but basically he was separated from his wife, but not legally divorced. I think they still officially aren't. But he had been living on his own for awhile, and he just...
  24. Eomer

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    For many people, it just reinforces their beliefs. I've posted this before:When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I don't know why, but I found that particular line hilarious. More here:Doomsday cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia All of this shit is textbook Lumie...
  25. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I never said it was the only thing holding me back. All I said was, and you can go back and read it, was that I knew early on that a pro hockey career was fairly unlikely (keep in mind, pro hockey is not just the NHL. There are a shitload of leagues in Europe, I'm friends and play beer league...
  26. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    No shit small guys can make it, but they're only going to do it if they are unfucking believable players. I certainly was never that. I was a D who could skate really well and read plays in all three zones to drive the play, but was never particularly skilled scoring wise. My size would have...
  27. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    People are really bad at judging height, whether their own or others. I'm legitimately 5' 8-3/4" (measured that shit precisely!), yet I frequently hear dudes that are pretty much the same height as me claim they are 6'. And people are often surprised when I tell them my exact height, as they...
  28. Eomer

    The Documentary Thread

    Probably covers pretty similar ground to The Denial Machine, which was a CBC documentary from 2007. For whatever reason it's not on their website, but you can watch a really shitty quality version here:The Denial Machine Video by david sasaki on Myspace It was really interesting how so many...
  29. Eomer

    The Beer Thread

    Even if you don't have anyone to go with, just go anyways and make friends. I was there for a couple days a few years ago and it's just a plain awesome time, and everyone is super friendly.
  30. Eomer

    Home Improvement

    Water lines in unconditioned spaces? Genius idea in places that can get cold! But seriously, even in Edmonton with a pretty serious winter, houses built in the 50's and 60's often had little or no insulation in the attic, and basically nothing more than newspaper in the walls. Homes were...
  31. Eomer

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Be careful with labs. They are very good dogs if trained well and given enough activity. But they can be high maintenance given their energy level and need to be given tasks. My bro's chocolate lab was doing okay until his eventual wife moved in, treated it like a baby, and pretty much ruined...
  32. Eomer

    Juicers

    Been thinking of getting a Vitamix, but the girlfriends little magic bullet blender keeps trucking along. Even with frozen fruit, ice cubes, etc. Seems like spending $500 on a Vitamix would be silly.
  33. Eomer

    Your Own Photography

    They're pretty spectacular if you're away from light and air pollution. There was one time in particular when I was out at a cabin with some buds and it seemed like the entire sky was lit up. All most of us were capable of was just standing there dumbfounded, or hooting like idiots.
  34. Eomer

    Computer Issues

    Anyone have a good guide for tweaking the settings on a Gigabyte Z170X-UD5? I've been having some issues with my new Skylake setup. It doesn't seem to want to detect the Intel 750 SSD when I boot up from a cold start. Not sure why, but it'll ask me to insert a boot drive, I hit ctrl alt delete...
  35. Eomer

    It's time to come clean.

    I mean in terms of the sheer amount of time you spend flinging shit at a wall. Araysar's generally posts a few sentences, maybe a couple paragraphs. You will happily spend weeks arguing with retards, wallowing in shit right along with them. And you probably think that's admirable, for some...
  36. Eomer

    It's time to come clean.

    Because while he may put a fair bit of thought in to his characters, he's never shown nearly the obsessiveness that you frequently do.
  37. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    He looked delightful tonight.
  38. Eomer

    It's time to come clean.

    Dude in the past was a hardcore libertarian, if I recall correctly. Then a democrat. Now most recently he's become a Putin and Russian nationalism cheerleader. I have no idea if it's all just an elaborate troll, or if he really does just change his ideological worldview like I change shoes (once...
  39. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    Que? I got mine for $950 I believe. Yup:Acer XB270HU 27in WQHD IPS Gaming LCD w/ G-SYNC, 3D Ready at Memory Express Plus GST of course. Seriously, it's worth it. Do it. Like Heylel said, you'll easily get 5 years of of it, if not more. My Dell I think I bought in 2006, and it's still...
  40. Eomer

    The Documentary Thread

    Hard to say. I don't know much about battery technology or materials science, but I think it's likely that we wouldn't be much further ahead. Storage of electrical energy is useful to a whole shitload of other industries and products as well, and yet improvements in batteries are only a few...