♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Runs like a champ on my box, which is relatively old. Athlon 64 3000+ with 2GB RAM. - Jason Huebel

Oh...yeah....that's ancient compared to my compaq with 512mb RAM....LOL! I wasn't even running Firebug...it just wigs out on me on ocassion and I have to kill it. It starts lagging my whole session. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I'm running Ubuntu64 8.10 w/64-bit Flash with no crashes so far. I had more FF crashes with Ubuntu 8.0.4. Note that the more FF plugins you install, the higher the chance of encountering lockups and crashes. Mine was mostly due to the Flash plugin. - imabonehead

What you can do is backup your .mozilla directory and restart Firefox with a fresh .mozilla. Once you find that stable, copy over one plugin at a time from your backed-up .mozilla into your new .mozilla, restart FF, rince & repeat. - imabonehead

:-/ Sorry Rah, I guess I have kept ahead of the curve a bit. This is my Gentoo/amd64 development box from when I was Lead Developer in 2004. :-D - Jason Huebel

I only have Gears, Flashblock, Greasemonkey and FireFTP. I'm guessing it's something to do with FireFTP. If not that, it's a problem with Firefox itself and I'm screwed...LOL - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

serial, ftw. - Derrick

lol! did you just use my serial? - Monique via IM

Yeah....I'm totally thinking of Mo and Derrick everytime they say it...LOL - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I was but now I'm going to watch some more True Blood. - Mathew Ballard

:) - Derrick

Man-bear-pig leaves no one alive I'm super-duper serial! - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

they've *been* doing that man. remember calvin? - tiffany

What do you mean, "Now?" Are you too young to remember the "all Calvin needed was a chance" commercials?" - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

Nah, but this is seriously a little toddler planning to work at McDonald's because of their awesome benefits and his auntie owns 3 and that's his life dream...WTF, man. Calvin wasn't that blatant...LOL - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Sigh, I *miss* Calvin... - Derrick

It's been the career choice for English and Art History majors for a long time... - Mark VandenBerg

at least little toddler's auntie is being an entrepreneur. i prefer that to calvin the lead fry cook quite frankly... lol - tiffany

*softly fondles B.A. in English* sigh... - Derrick

It may not be the greatest job, but it sure beats being the U.S. President: http://www.theonion.com/conten... - Bruce Lewis

LOL Derrick! You know what I mean. - Mark VandenBerg

Nice. FAIL for McDonald's once again. - Mathew Ballard

Installing from scratch on a new domain :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Is 2.7 out yet? - AJ Batac

Dunno, but 2.6.5 is what the download site gave me - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

After updating manually for awhile, I've come to appreciate auto update. - Jonathan Hardesty

i use 1&1 - Outsanity

I feel dirty using it (though I don't have a reason why or know why) but I normally use godaddy just because that's where most of mine are already. ~$8/.com domain typically - Robert DeBord

Godaddy wants 10.19 at checkout for 1yr. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Gonna go with that cuz my hosting is there anyway and 1&1 wants me to create an account before I see the checkout screen. None for me, thanks. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Meat.. - Chris W

In the middle, HAHAHAHAHA. - Trish R

'Hot Beef Injection' - Johnny Worthington

Penis :) I keep it simple - zoblue (Zulema)

Oh, BTW... that's what she said. - Johnny Worthington

But I wanted to make t-shirts. - Trish R

D... - Derrick

depends on the situation :) - Melissa

I'm more of team pee pee. - Alex Scoble CISSP

wang, schlong, weiner, pecker, one-eyed-willy-worm, mr.happy, pythonus maximus, but it does really depend on the situation.. and the guy - Morgan Haley

Peethingy? - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

junk. - Melissa

D!ck when I'm talking casually or joking. C*ck when I'm serious or in the mood :o) - Katie

winky - jlt

Katie +++ - Melissa

Johnson - AJ Kohn

Team Discovery Channel! - Johnny Worthington

full. of. win. ... er, i mean the thread. that's not what i call "it" - tiffany

Monsterous Pork Sword (or) Blood Hammer - Enrique Gutierrez via twhirl

jlt++, I got sons...gotta stick with winky. Also, "Don't you wanna play with my winky" sounds much nicer than the alternative, although it depends on the woman :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Neither - Soup

i just say crotch when talking about men in general... - Trish Haley

This thread is cute. :) - Derrick

Touch me in the Ides - Joshua Schnell

One-eyed trouser snake FTW! - Robert Fischer

Prolly "dick". - Jason Huebel

OMG, Blood Hammer (capitalized, no less)! And "peethingy" is making me laugh. - Ayşe E.

Spam Javelin - Mo Kargas

Team Todger - Ian May

When I'm writing (yeah, I write gay 'erotica' for cash) I tend to stick with dick, cock, or penis. When talking to the partner-in-crime, it's thingy, ween, or wang. We're really juvenile. - Nine

Junk, sausage, The Big 10 Inch, skin flute depends on the mood. If I'm naughty mood it's COCK. One more "the third leg" - Sheryl

mmmm, spam javelin.... - Morgan Haley

Team Schlong? - Denise

Beef Bayonet - Ian May

Tuna poker. Hot rod. Mushroom-headed world-rocker. (Although spam javelin is awesome.) - Robert Fischer

delete and repost. not too late. - Yolanda

meh. I've already fielded a question regarding the one app I was worried about. It's not as big a deal as I thought. - Mattie Kenny

*emailing you* Maybe it's something to do with using Chrome? It's going to sound weird but all my GAccount stuff is done in Firefox, and all browsing, etc. is in Chrome... until they can handle multiple accounts on Chrome, it's how it has to be. But I think the new design has potential... Look for that email! - Kyle Brady

FUDGE! I totally didn't even think about my email being out in the open. Shit. - Mattie Kenny

I think you're ok, Mattie. It's not plaintext - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I don't like it.. Too much white. I miss the blue sidebar :( - Haggis (Sean)

go ahead and delete. i see the difference. - Anika Malone

What is that 4chan icon down there, Mattie? ;) - Phil Glockner

full disclosure - the company i work for does work for one of the automakers and has done work for the auto manufacturers alliance in the past - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

So they borrow the money today and declare BK on Tuesday? No thanks... - Mark VandenBerg

Well since we have such connections to the banks.. why don't we just give them a loan through the banks??? - Chris W

Thank you. And as much as I don't like this, they've been given loans before and have repaid them before they were due. People need to educate themselves and not buy into the media stupidity. - Anika Malone

here's the deal - i'm not thrilled about the whole situation either and the free marketer inside of me says - let them go through the pain, we know it will suck but it will be better on the other side - the rest of me says - you can't implement pure theory which is why we are not a pure capitalistic society with a completely unfettered free market - we recognize we must make trade offs between our values and economic expediency - in this case I think the situation warrants action - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I just wish, with all this bailout crap going on, people would stop talking bad about marxism/socialism/whatever. Admit that pure capitalism doesn't work, that way we all know where we stand and things will make a lot more sense. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

agree @anika - and they need to STOP saying we are bailing them out on the backs of our kids for goodness freaking sake - its a LOAN - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

i totally agree @rasheen - I am and will likely always be a HUGE advocate for making sure that we always keep as close to the capitalistic side of the spectrum because i truly believe that it provides the best outcomes on balance - that said we have never been a purely capitalistic society because we have always realized that there are some things that do need to be done by the gov - even adam smith believed that - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

and it's an L-O-A-N that they may not be able to pay back. should we still make it? - tiffany

@tiffany personally I think we should because the potential harms of inaction far outweigh the potential harms of giving the loans. Do I think that not giving them the loans, letting them fall into bankruptcy, hundreds of thousands possibly millions of US workers lose their jobs EVENTUALLY provide the best economic outcome? Yes. Do i think its a worthwhile trade off? No. - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Marco, people will still purchase a car whether or not GM/Ford/Chrysler exist. The other companies left will increase production due to an increase in demand. An increase in production involves increasing the workforce and increasing the amount of parts produced by vendors. Many of the jobs eliminated by one company will be offered by another. - Mark VandenBerg

If they loaned me $7 billion I could survive until 2012 and pay it back. Really. - Glen Campbell

The problem being of course is that it is not a loan -- not in any normal prudent sense of the word. Loans are provided to those with collateral -- it assumes that what you have as collateral is worth enough to cover the loan. Worth implies that someone will be being to pay that amount for the assets. Those conditions do no exist here. - Brian Sullivan

According to the Senate hearing today: The market capitalization of the Detroit 3 combined is around $6 Billion. They are asking for several multiples of that. Kinda like getting $1 Million for a house worth $200K. And people are okay with this? - Mark VandenBerg

@mark a very succinct explanation of the macro level shifts in production and employment that are likely to occur - if that's all there was to worry about I'd be all for letting them go without the loans but there are a ton of considerations at the micro level that concern me - over a period of many many years i have no doubt that things would happen just as you've said but its how many years and what kind of damage we cause during that time that leads me to support the loans - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@brian how do you figure? i fully realize that the scale we are talking about is dramatically different but I can walk into my bank right now and get approved for a loan of several thousand dollar with nothing but the threat of harming my credit rating to serve as collateral - credit card are nothing more than mechanisms for providing access to rolling unsecured loans as well - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@glenn done $7 billion it is - come by first thing monday and we'll draw up the paperwork - remember, you said by 2012 now - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Marco -- I seriously doubt that -- you are saying with no asset as collateral you bank will loan you $200,000 plus? -- can anybody else here do that? No bank I have ever heard of will do that. - Brian Sullivan

Yes, it's a loan. But, and this a a big but, IT'S A BAD LOAN. It's a loan to companies not making it, and not showing any signs of getting to a place where they can make it. The nation would be better served handing out the (most recently) 34 Billion dollars we are talking about in the form of vouchers for "Big 3" produced vehicles to tax payers, so that they get an in flux of cash and a lot of us get new, US produced cars. At least we'd be getting SOMETHING for our billions. - Brian Norwood

These people just last week flew in, supposedly "hat in hand", to ask for money in their Gulfstreams. Clearly we are dealing with people who don't get it, and haven't got it for a while. - Brian Norwood

lmao no that's why i said thousands vs hundreds of thousands - but to my knowledge they haven't come to a decision on whether or not these will simply be unsecured loans or whether they will require something in return for them so it may be a moot point - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Brian, that's not a bad idea, but it will still reduce competition, and reduce the pressure on American auto makers to increase quality and make the best product for the money. If they're practically guaranteed that $34B in revenue, which isn't going to foreign companies, they will have less incentive to try to compete with those foreign companies. - klecu

@mark according to this http://tinyurl.com/6zjcjd in august of this year GM and Ford alone were worth a combined $17 billion - still depressing given their sales revenues - with all of the recent problems they may very well be at a combined $6 billion - but again traditional lending practices have little bearing on the factors that make me reluctantly supportive - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@brian - ok let me make sure I am understanding you -are you saying that the only reason (or even the dominant one) that US automakers have been forced to ask for these loans is because they have done nothing over the past several years to try and restructure themselves? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Well I said hundreds of thousands (and even that is probably at least a couple of orders of magnitude off) to get back to scale of what is being asked here. The few thousand loan is a easy -- the bank has already pre-cleared you as having the assets to support such a loan The big 3 have a capitalization value of 6-10 billion, they have liabilities of 60+ billion. Not sure what the breakup/bankruptcy value is -- but nowhere near enough to cover the liabilities. This "loan" will have a near zero effect. - Brian Sullivan

it is a handout if it is a loan at conditions no other business can get. - Joelle Nebbe

The only way out from under the liabilities is bankruptcy. It is not like the loan will allow them to instantly become competitive again. Even if they start producing "better" cars tomorrow it will be years before they gain the confidence of buyers back. They will be back in six months for more .. and so on and so on. - Brian Sullivan

was just giving you crap on the hundreds of thousands thing - look i don't disagree with anything you are saying - on paper it might be horrible but there are a myriad of other problems that aren't being taken into account. Would you agree that - on paper - every government regulation or involvement of any kind in the marketplace comes at the expense of the optimum economic benefit that can be derived on paper? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@brian i have to agree with the auto companies on this one - you think sales are down now? just wait until one of them files for bankruptcy. Would you buy a car from a company in bankruptcy? Knowing that at some point you may need to call in the warranty or replace a part specific to that car that was made by a company that is indicating they may cease to exist in the near future? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I am not totally sure what you are getting at -- I am not against government regulation. I am just saying that calling this handout a "loan" is a perversion meant to pull the wool over the public's eyes. - Brian Sullivan

I just fixed it - Casey Muller

I don't know what this is, but it's been rolled out to nearly every embedded YouTube clip I've found; it must be some new default option on the embedded player. It's really ugly. - Mark Trapp

I think I would eat that. - Laura B. is for Bedtime?

Oh my. - Jason Huebel

Given the opportunity, yes, I would eat that. - Graham English

The Luther... Mmmmm... - tehKenny

I would need a Paramedics near me when I eat this. - Chris W

Holy shizzle...the donut is a little much for me... - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

HAHAHAH, it's a sugar,cholesterol, and sodium orgy!!! - Terence Washington

My poor arteries. - Jared Smith

There's a skeleton from your closet - Josh Haley

Holy... You are weird o_o - Kristian Salonen

oh.. so you are the kripy kreme burger girl... :) - Tim Hoeck

you are what you eat ;) - Lindsey

You're beautiful! - Thomas Hawk

From Alcatraz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k... - Ryan

Ill be your friend! - Shevonne Polastre

YAY! Gratuitous and obvious begging WORKS! =D - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I'm setting it up now - Shevonne Polastre

I use DIsqus for commenting (well, theoretically; no one comments so it's a tree-falling-in-the-forest situation). If they ever build in Friend Connect, then I guess I'll get it for free. - James Williams (willia4)

I'll have to try when I get home. - Yolanda

I use Disqus for actual comments too, but I figured this was along the lines of a MyBlogLog situation (that's what it reminds me of, at least). - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

And the other is ME! I feel so special. :D - Haggis (Sean)

Is it wrong, or just close to lunch that on first glance, I saw Google Fried Chicken? - Derrick

So what does it...do? - James Ferguson

Okay, can someone tell me what this actually does? I know that sounds stupid but ... sometimes ya just gotta ask the stupid questions. - AJ Kohn

I never actually looked into what MyBlogLog did. Reading it makes me think of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog and I wander off to watch Arrested Development clips on YouTube... - James Williams (willia4)

Ok, I put it on my blog. Can you believe your blog is blocked at work?! I'll have to go when I get home. - Shevonne Polastre

:) Did I mention how much I love you recently, Tina? You do all the stuff I think about and then get distracted...where was I? Oh yes - pleased to be providing links/instructions for the setting up of the Google Fried Chicken :) - WorldofHiglet

By the way, Google: If you're going to do this, you HAVE TO LINK MY EXISTING OPENID TO MY GOOGLE PROFILE!! It's like they don't understand the point of OpenID. It's just an extra button they put on their log in forms, but past that, they don't get it at all. - James Williams (willia4)

Haggis, of course you're special! =D For both the James's and AJ: I always saw MyBlogLog (and by extension G's FriendConnect) as just another way to build an audience. For whatever reason, people like putting faces to names, and names to readers. From a users perspective it's kinda cool to get to 'see' who's been reading the same sites as you. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I think FriendConnect will allow you to build a community around your site, that's what MyBloglog and Blogcatalog seem to wanna do, but I think Google could probably do it better. What if they integrated google talk, for instance? That could be pretty awesome. I think they have the pieces, they just need to be put together. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Done! - pea♥ fierce as a woozle

Shevonne, Websense blocks my blog and I have no idea why. Might be the post about the wanker wacker... WoH, to setup your very own GFC (haaaaaahahhahaaa!) just log into your existing account and head over to http://www.google.com/FriendCo... and follow the instructions to add the widget to your blog. And Rah, I agree that Google could make something very useful out of these, it just remains to be seen if they will do so. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Just joined you on Google Friend Connect! - Tyson Key

i read your blog, tina =) - Adam Singer

I have a few questions Tina. (1) did google just pay u to say that?? (2) if they did then I'm ok with that (3) wtf is it? - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

Adam, in that case I appreciate you putting up with my rambling =D Noah, no I didn't get paid (heck, I don't even have ads on my blog!). As for WTF it is, it's kinda like Google's answer to the MyBlogLog widget. I'm pondering what I might want to do with it, I'm thinking I might put up a wall widget on it's own page... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I'm still abit confused over FriendConnect. I don't really know what to do with it? - Patrik Johansson

You have 13 friends now! :) - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio

hmmm may have to try and set up friendconnect myself. Still not sure exactly how it works or what it is supposed to do. - Thomas Hawk

hmmmm.. it says I have to upload these two files to my server for this to work. I'm not sure how to do that. Can I set up friendconnect through Blogger? - Thomas Hawk

I'm trying out this thing now for my blog. Interesting. - Mathew Ballard

Thomas, my understanding is that if you have a Google hosted Blogger blog, you should be able to skip the part about uploading the two HTML files to the server. Patrik, I'm still playing around with it, but I think I'm going to go with a 'retro' guest book thing for now. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I joined! - Shevonne Polastre

Hmmm...not really sure this is something that will really catch on. Maybe if more is done with it, but I'm not really feeling it right now. - Mathew Ballard

meh i'll join the thing later... i've been reading your blog tho - Amber aka SDA

Mathew, see my next post http://friendfeed.com/e/63fbbc... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

grrrrr.. it seems that you can only add it on blogger as a "widget" sort of thing which means I'd have to change my blog from bloggers old templating thingy. I tried to do this once before and it screwed my blog all up so I guess I'm out on Friend Connect for now. It seems lame that I use blogger (read: Google) and can't even add it. - Thomas Hawk

Off we go into the wild blue yonder ... Nothing'll stop the U.S. Air Force! - RAPatton

Even if it doesn't stop the hurricane...that would be an AWESOME video - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

i get alarm bells "messing with things we dont understand" - probably end up with a bigger hurricane :S - Joelle Nebbe

I have a little bell with HOAX written on it and it's Christmas so let's ring it a bit: HOAX HOAX, HOAX :D sonic booms have nowhere near the power to control that huge swirl of warm and cold air - Thomas Chisler

Well, I don't know how you want to define a hoax, but the guy who came up with the idea did apply for a patent: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/w... Now of course, like most patent applications, this could be dismissed as having no merit. Edit: I'm terrible at reading patents, but I think it's actually been awarded. - Mark Trapp