You do know hovercrafts have been real for a while now, right?

Can't you just send the SAS in and pull the little shit out? It's Ecuador we are talking about. what are they going to do? Throw bananas? Stop shipping them to the UK? Leave banana peels all over the street? (They would learn true fear after Health and Safety crawled up their ass)

>> ^jmzero:

Or you could buy good PCs and see the price is pretty much the same.

Lol @budzos. Mac people have always said this, and it has always been funny. They used to have some magic wiggle room because so many parts were different (different processor, especially) - but that's mostly gone now. OK, so here you can get a quad core Mac Pro for $2499. Let's see what those parts it lists are worth:
Processor: $316 (here's the specific model)
Graphics Card: $109 (here's actually a slightly better model)
6GB of RAM: $100 (good RAM for that premium)
1TB hard disk: $100 (decent hard disk for that)
Motherboard: $250 (let's get a nice one)
Case: $250 (let's get a nice one)
Optical drive: $100
So far we're at $1225. Maybe they've got some Apple magic (whoo! Superdrive!) to make up a couple hundred more dollars - but it's going to take a lot to spend another $1275 (ie. more than double). If you prefer a Mac, go ahead and get one - but pretending they're the same price is silly.
To be clear, I don't hate Apple and some of their products are reasonably priced now. A Macbook Air, for example, has been a good deal for a while and is still much nicer than its competitors. But their hardware has historically been way more expensive, and lots of it still has a significant premium attached.


Oh please - stop it with the DIY PC vs. Mac Pro comparisons, they are just ridiculous.
A HP Z8x0 or a Dell Precision for example - those are the machines you should compare to.
You'll find that they are in the same ballpark.

Price is definitely not something I'd hold against the Mac Pro, that would be stuff like:
- weak expandability (1 PCIe16+2 PCIe4, 4 drive bays, max 64GB RAM),
- lacking features (eg. no SAS or SATA 6G, no USB3.0, weak selection of graphics/GPGPU cards)
- weak support options (no onsite support available at all?! I'm running a business here - do you really expect me to haul my workstation to the Genius Bar when a deadline is imminent?)

Ryan looks like Eddie Muster.

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As I said, my point did not neccessarily have a direct link to the point being made in this video.
I did not get that Mr. Chapelle went to SA to get away from stardom, I falsely presumed that he was one of the African Americans I read about from time to time that go "back" to Africa to "find their roots".

What I meant be my comment was that I personally don't feel any roots to ancestors that lived three hundred years ago and don't get how one could.

Furthermore, I often read about African Americans going back to "Africa". Keep in mind that Africa is the world's second largest continent and encompases 57 nations and hundreds of ethnicities, religions and cultures.

An African American who goes to Africa to escape being a minority will (in my humble opinion) only find to be a member of a new minority, as a tourist.

Still, props to the *British security detail. Presumably some SAS/SBS types?

[edit: read the article - ah, 'regular' cops rather than the special forces... still, well done)

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Additionally, Venice is awesome but NEVER go in the summer. It's super hot & humid, which means the canals stink (because they're also the city sewers), and it is CRAZY crowded with tourists. Go in the off season. Everything is just as beautiful, but you'll actually get to enjoy it. >> ^raverman:

For any considering it. DON'T bother planning the tower of Pisa in to your trip.
It's a depressing little trap town. It really isn't that interesting or unique when you're there. You won't have a good time, and you wont 'remember it fondly forever'.
You'll remember how disappointed you were and that you saw better churches and towers and this sucked you in because of famous bad architecture and tourists all getting in each other's photos. If you do have to go, don't make the mistake of thinking you'll stay a night and see the town. It's basically a ghetto bus stop of regrets.
Book 5 nights in the Ci
nque Terre and a further 3 nights in Sorrento instead and tell me this wasn't the best advice i ever gave you.

For any considering it. DON'T bother planning the tower of Pisa in to your trip.

It's a depressing little trap town. It really isn't that interesting or unique when you're there. You won't have a good time, and you wont 'remember it fondly forever'.

You'll remember how disappointed you were and that you saw better churches and towers and this sucked you in because of famous bad architecture and tourists all getting in each other's photos. If you do have to go, don't make the mistake of thinking you'll stay a night and see the town. It's basically a ghetto bus stop of regrets.

Book 5 nights in the Cinque Terre and a further 3 nights in Sorrento instead and tell me this wasn't the best advice i ever gave you.

Sir, I don't understand. Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway? All you gotta do is push a button, sir.
In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
I kind of thought he looks like Jake Busey ...

>> ^bareboards2:

Thanks!
And that guy does kind of look like you, doesn't he?
Do you have a brother who plays the fiddle?
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That's awesome! quality

I kind of thought he looks like Jake Busey ...

>> ^bareboards2:

Thanks!
And that guy does kind of look like you, doesn't he?
Do you have a brother who plays the fiddle?
In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
That's awesome! quality

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>> ^HaricotVert:

That is the worm. This is a bx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=d2cfe3fb97159b3f&biw=1536&bih=846">caterpillar.


And this is Tom Selleck.