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This is a central listing for all the comments that have ever been posted on this site. There are 1297 total comments indexed. Fifty comments are listed below(the newest fifty, by default). For older comments, use the index at the bottom.

Matt at 5:51 PM, May 9, 2008,
regarding The Flying Saucer
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I had lunch there yesterday with a few coworkers. I enjoyed the place. Too bad I was still "working" and couldn't have a drink. :(
Brian at 10:30 AM, Apr 30, 2008,
regarding My New Eee, and the Forced Adventures Thereof
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Specs, yo? Which model did you get?
Brad at 4:59 PM, Apr 28, 2008,
regarding Pennies are Worthless
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Awesome!
bahua at 4:11 PM, Apr 28, 2008,
regarding Megaman 2
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As I recall, Crashman will blow up after only two shots of Quickman's boomerang.
Brian at 2:53 PM, Apr 28, 2008,
regarding Megaman 2
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I don't play this often enough, but I would still use the same order we used to use. Actually, I guess I would mix it up just for variety's sake. You really on need Flashman for Quickman, right? Maybe do Airman first? His weapon makes short work of Crashman. Maybe Air then Crash, then you have Crashman's weapon to pick up all sorts of items and shortcuts. Why not Crashman first? Though without Woodman's shield.. But there are other ways. Have you seen any of the speed runs online?

I could go on and on. Such nerdery. Such wonderful nerdery.
what at 2:13 AM, Apr 25, 2008,
regarding Megaman 2
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UR A NRD
God's Urologist at 9:49 AM, Apr 22, 2008,
regarding Holy Hail!
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Hail is God's kidney stones.

grammar police at 9:28 AM, Apr 22, 2008,
regarding Holy Hail!
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you "got out of bad" and "took a look out to the window" lol.
DOOM at 4:41 PM, Apr 21, 2008,
regarding Every Reason to be Happy
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(looms)
Brian at 11:33 AM, Apr 14, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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The civil libertarian in me doesn't have any problem when local government regulates the use of dangerous substances, especially in reasonably public areas. For example, governments regulate how and into what you can pump gasoline. I find that pretty reasonable, from a public safety standpoint.

Governments also regulate the presence of asbestos in public and private places, because it has been determined to be a public health hazard. Do you question whether laws prohibiting asbestos to be hanging from the ceiling of a pub are a good idea? I think a big part of the question here is whether second-hand smoke is a public health hazard. The prevailing research is that it is a hazard, but I'll concede that it's not as firmly established as the case against asbestos. Still, there's not much serious contention on the issue.

If that's the case, it's not a matter of people's choice to work among smoke. It's a public health hazard and no one should have to put up with it.

Also, the coal miner comparison is pretty flawed in my opinion. Ask a coal miner if that's their preferred career (with the risks of gas leaks, fires, collapses, etc.), and you'll probably find out that they'd rather be doing lots of other things. Unfortunately, people don't have complete freedom in their choice of jobs, and people like bartenders and servers can't always pick and choose their job either.

Second-hand smoke in the workplace has been pretty well established to be an unreasonable danger. No one should have to deal with it at all. That's why these laws are being passed all around the country.
ls CVS Repository at 1:11 PM, Apr 13, 2008,
regarding Linux Stuff I Use All The Time
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You forgot ls!
Brad at 1:47 PM, Apr 12, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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I have yet to meet a smoker that has acquired frostbite from being outside for 5 minutes.
Cole at 3:07 AM, Apr 12, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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Despicable hippies. "Workplace pollution" You have a choice not to work in a coal mine either. More importantly, do the preferences of non-smokers outweigh the right of smokers to not get frostbite? Winters can be cold and windy and just plain awful. I'd rather have a face full of smoke than tell somebody to go outside in the snow or rain. Both sides can not be dicks about it.
Chris at 2:24 PM, Apr 11, 2008,
regarding Linux Stuff I Use All The Time
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How in the world could you leave out uptime??
cmh at 12:26 PM, Apr 11, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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banning/regulating a noxious pollutant in the workplace, regardless of its source, is a perfectly acceptable exercise of regulation. pollution control is one area where outside regulation (i.e. the govt) is superior to "free market" (cough cough) approaches, since there is no market for "public health and good."

why is it so troubling when the workplace being regulated is a bar or restaurant but it is (presumably) not troubling in other workplaces and places of public accommodation - city transit, offices, airplanes, hospitals, courthouses, other govt buildings, etc? is it because there is a cultural "preference" by smokers and libertarians that the govt cannot invade where we choose to spend our public leisure time? why should those preferences be given precedence over the preferences/concerns regarding workplace pollution?
bahua at 9:44 AM, Apr 11, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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Nobody has to work in a smoky bar either. Nobody's arm is getting twisted in any case. With no smoking ban. there are already dozens of smoke-free bars in Kansas City, employing a couple thousand people. Like any other bar, they all have ridiculous employee turnover rates, so I fail to see how anybody that doesn't want to work in a cloud of smoke is being forced to do so in Kansas City. Just like customers, employees of smoky bars are choosing to place themselves in smoke. They aren't being chained to the floor.

The trans-fat bans are currently the cutting edge of idiocy, in my opinion.
ralf at 8:31 AM, Apr 11, 2008,
regarding Linux Stuff I Use All The Time
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apache has become a hog. check out lighttpd+fastcgi for perl. mmmm.
chicus at 10:28 PM, Apr 10, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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What choice to the employees of said bars have?

This argument always gets turned back to the patrons of a bar but we have banned smoking in pretty much every other workplace. Why are the workers of bars exempt from working in a smoke-free environment?

I don't disagree with the civil liberties aspect but I think a much more dangerous trend is banning trans-fats in cities, which mine has done. In that case, truly ANYONE can choose whether or not to partake in the "bad" deed.
bahua at 11:20 AM, Apr 10, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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"but why do i have to go home smelling and have a scratchy throat the whole next day because of it. My quality of life is just as important."

You don't have to go home smelling like smoke. Who says you have to go to a smoky bar? What requirement is there for you to go? Smoke is not some hidden danger. It's obvious, right in front of you, and easily avoidable.
Gulia at 10:48 AM, Apr 10, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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I don't agree with your stance on why keep it legal. You really put down quality of life - why is that? I don't have any problem with people's right to smoke, but why do i have to go home smelling and have a scratchy throat the whole next day because of it. My quality of life is just as important.

Also, with regard to the bars closing...i doubt it. The bars here in Mass just ask people to step outside, it doesn't appear to be a big deal. Sure, if they had a roofdeck or outside seating it would be ideal, but most don't, and as far as i can tell, smokers still patronize establishments.
chris at 8:07 PM, Apr 9, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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i bet at least 3 of the bars on that list will let patrons smoke anyway, and the city will not know or care. that said, i really can't imagine people can't just go outside. columbia and lawrence have had smoking bans for a while, and as far as i know none of the divey/smokey bars have gone under - and i'm not talking about places that are packed with students. people will adjust the same way they adjusted when they could no longer smoke in offices, government buildings, courthouses, hospitals, airplanes, airports, schools, etc. - or, more presciently, the way they have adjusted in places like california and new york and paris, where you can no longer smoke in bars and restaurants. they either go outside, or they find the places that ignore the ban.

i also think this issue has absolutely nothing to do with freedom, and i am a freedom-loving kind of guy.
ck at 5:45 PM, Apr 9, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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Fantastic use of "douchebaggery"
Brad at 4:16 PM, Apr 9, 2008,
regarding Kansas City's Smokiest Bars
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"...as I think smoking bans are part of a dangerous trend away from freedom, and an ignorantly accepted part of the wildly popular habit that Americans have for trading their freedom for quality of life."

I agree with that statement, but now that the ban has passed, I don't see what the big deal is with walking 10 steps outside and smoking til one's heart is content. People are still free to smoke at any time, just not any where.

If your business is dependent upon smoke floating in the air, then I suggest you find a new business...or rent a fog machine.
KRANG at 12:03 PM, Apr 1, 2008,
regarding 366 Days
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Nice. Very nice.
ck at 4:12 PM, Mar 25, 2008,
regarding Smoking Ban
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Since Chicago has gone smoke free, it's been fantastic. One thing you'll notice almost immediately is that the smoke smell covered up a lot of BO body funk and after meal gas. Fortunately those smells don't generally stay in your clothes or hair like smoke does.
Gandalf at 6:38 PM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Twin City and Gilhouly's
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You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark will not avail you, Flu of Udûn. Go back to the shadow! You cannot pass!
Nick at 6:34 PM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Kansas City for St. Patrick's Day
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Get better...that sounds like a rough night...
PumpkinStalker at 12:54 PM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Monday in the District
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I can't believe they gave Chris the wrong patty. That's something you don't want to screw up, but it was indeed their first night. I thought the burger was amazing as well, and the $8.00 was tough to beat on taste. I should have watched them make it to see how much booze went into it though.
PumpkinStalker at 12:47 PM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Kansas City for St. Patrick's Day
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That completely blows. Hope you feel better soon.
Josh at 12:21 PM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Kansas City for St. Patrick's Day
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Oh, man, that sucks. So, K.C. left the parade on the 17th, even though the official Catholic calendar has it on the 15th this year? Apparently, this is the first time it's been a movable feast since 1940, due to the earliness of Holy Week this year. Ah, Catholic calendar minutiae!
The Flu at 12:06 PM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Twin City and Gilhouly's
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No, bahua, it's me. I have taken root in your system and am happily multiplying inside of you, while your puny white blood cells try in vain to take me down.
bahua at 8:04 AM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Twin City and Gilhouly's
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No, I still don't. I feel rotten to be sure, but I really don't think I have anything as serious as the flu.
Jeff at 6:56 AM, Mar 17, 2008,
regarding Twin City and Gilhouly's
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"He claimed it was the Flu, but I really don't think that's what this is."

...do you believe it now?
bahua at 10:31 AM, Mar 11, 2008,
regarding Can Someone Explain This to Me?
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Ouch! Bitter much?
dick at 11:06 AM, Mar 10, 2008,
regarding Can Someone Explain This to Me?
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it's amazing how narrow-minded most of you are. there are millions of reasons people choose to live where they do. it's ignorant to assume i lived in the OP for the same reasons the 40-year old couple with two kids on my street did.

p.s. just because you lived with your parents in the suburbs and how have a studio apartment in or near downtown, you don't suddenly know everything. if that were the case, everyone would want to live downtown.
Richard at 1:43 PM, Mar 7, 2008,
regarding The Red Balloon, again
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John, I'm never going to dance again. I'm not sure if you were aware, but guilty feet have got no rhythm.
cole at 5:17 PM, Mar 5, 2008,
regarding Can Someone Explain This to Me?
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living in the current downtown is a bit like living on the frontier of the wild west. it's unsettled. and people drink wiskey and shoot each other at high noon. but the city is where living is living again. the suburbs have a sonic and a truck stop. there is no point to living in the suburbs except for the schools, but i think the schools could be reclaimed by a coup d'état of interested parents. obviously they are smart enough to fill any gaps perceived left behind by teachers. what if enough people said 'so what if these houses are on holmes, they are worth making homes.' the reason we don't move on from this topic is because people will move from blue springs to grain valley to oak grove to odessa. At some point people need to realize solutions don't lie in moving 30 miles from anywhere, but by fixing what is there.

p.s. my oak grove education never taught me to capitalize words.
suburbanite. at 12:06 PM, Mar 4, 2008,
regarding Can Someone Explain This to Me?
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you answered your own question - people endure commutes because they choose to live in communities they feel are more appropriate for rearing their families. for most of these people, it doesn't take much, if any, longer to get to work than you do. 15-35 minute commutes are worth it to them. while i am sure they would prefer to work closer to home for a variety of reasons, sometimes that isn't feasible in their respective professions. so it goes.
dick at 10:42 AM, Mar 3, 2008,
regarding Can Someone Explain This to Me?
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you don't enjoy driving; i get it. you think living in downtown is tops; i get it. you think those who live in the suburbs are idiots; i get it. we've covered this tpoic a million times, move on.
liz at 1:02 AM, Mar 1, 2008,
regarding Ski Trip '08
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hahahahaha. bradley's a baby. whaa.
qwerty at 11:23 PM, Feb 29, 2008,
regarding Can Someone Explain This to Me?
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A traffic filled commute is for the birds!
Chris at 3:11 PM, Feb 20, 2008,
regarding I'm Sorry
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3 hour drive, John!! Be optimistic. ARGH.
Alexjandroo at 10:54 AM, Feb 16, 2008,
regarding Son of a Bitch
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I believe there is a Avenue Q song for you situation.... "It sucks to be you"! It is weird that this happened to you because it almost never happens. On an unrelated side note, it is a good thing we have people pushing for universal health care run by the government.
ck at 5:34 PM, Feb 14, 2008,
regarding Son of a Bitch
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Wow, that entire situation BEE EL OH DOUBLEYOU ES!
Becca at 12:11 PM, Feb 13, 2008,
regarding Open Vacation
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Don't you know somebody in Germany?
Brad at 4:03 PM, Feb 12, 2008,
regarding Open Vacation
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Atlantis
Brian at 5:12 PM, Jan 11, 2008,
regarding Self-imposed Hops Shortage
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Wired had an article on this a while back, talking about a plant called switchgrass. It's a much better ethanol producer than corn that grows well in our climate. I'm not sure how it compares to sugar cane, but yes, in general tariffs are a very bad thing, I think.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1847256
Brad at 11:58 PM, Jan 8, 2008,
regarding LOTRO
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I finally registered on this damn thing. I haven't won anything yet. Nor have I received any fruitful benefits. What a rip.
Brad at 10:27 PM, Jan 8, 2008,
regarding LOTRO
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Beer is always a good way to spend your days of freedom. I suggest a meeting at Grinder's tomorrow evening.
Anonymous at 3:19 AM, Jan 2, 2008,
regarding 2007 In Review
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I resolve to no longer leave comments on blogs. Wait. Damn it!

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