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We moved to a new server today. What a PIA. Verizon has our old IP address cached and getting in here to make changes has been a nightmare. This should clear up in a day. New server has: 3x the RAM 4x the number of cores 64-bit OS (as opposed to 32-bit) 15k RPM SCSI drives in a RAID 1 for improved read performance... Should be fun!

Thank you. You saved me the time... Inadvertent expirations happen all the time.

You already mentioned something that raised a red flag. Your eyes have been changing every year. Surgery does nothing to prevent this change, thus if your goal is to get rid of glasses, but your eyes are still changing, you'll be back in glasses in no time. You'll need to pray that the changes in your eye are then correctable with lenses again. They might not be. You've carved a permanent prescription into your eye - thinning it in one area and now the eye may deform differently than without the surgery. Normally, "good candidates" have stable prescriptions.

because I don't believe the risks are adequately understood by those who want the procedure and I lay this blame at the feet of the "buy one surgery get one free" doctors... I've made my opinion known in the past about how this risk has been soft-peddled and here we are in 2010 just learning that the FDA basically shrugged and discarded all the side effect data because they "didn't know what to do with it". I think every potential patient should be given a bottle of eye drops and asked to put them in their eyes every 20 minutes for a month before they get their surgery - just so they can appreciate how dry their eyes might become (after all their nerves are severed creating the corneal flap, of which 65% of the nerves may recover - best case scenario). Then I would give them a pair of glasses to wear that gives them double vision and make them come back in another month.

Special Investigative Report on LASIK Good Morning America 2/25/2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDWH2Tye7dQ&feature=player_embedded Just remember to hold out for the FOUR-slice toaster as your parting gift. Too many surgeons try and pawn off the two-slice with every major surgery and I call BS on that.

Will be down again for a bit. We probably lost all the gallery images and avatars... That wasn't part of my automatic backup as that was a separate disk. Oh well.

we had a disk fail and they need to reboot the server, so that the replacement can be recognized. That is why you don't see any avatars, etc...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/worse-it-seems_515069.html Looks like the blue states will lose a bunch of electoral votes and will be giving them to the red states. However, with the increasing Hispanic population, maybe that effect starts to wane somewhat.

It was setup to prevent passing BAD laws. That is why it is inefficient. That is why there are so many obstacles. It was supposed to be that way from day 1. and this is not my opinion, it is the opinion of the congressional historians on capitol hill.

The race broke for Obama when McCain "suspended" his campaign and then proceeded to do and say a lot of damaging things. That's when he lost it. He got hammered for saying the "the fundamentals are good". That made him look old and out of touch. Either way, if the economy was good - McCain would have won. He wouldn't have made those late September errors and he would have naturally had greater support because of good economic times.

He would have never gotten elected if it didn't start just before the election. "It's the economy stupid"

Rove's analysis was much closer to reality than the others. How did he come across as stupid? The guy got GWB elected twice. Stupid he is not.

what is wrong with pointing out something that is better today than yesterday? Is that such a crime that someone consuming entertainment is enjoying a particular aspect of it?

http://www.kcchiefs.com/media-center/photo-gallery/Chiefs-v-Bills-Cheer/d26fdf00-cfe7-4dda-9c10-f93dd1cc31f7

We actually have a chat room integrated into the board...

There's a 1st time for everything....

There is a big red exclamation point under ever post on the left that says "Report".

Did you take the time to report it?

The stadium is nice. The HD screens are nice. The game boards on the sidelines are nearly invisible. In in-game rituals are non existent, except maybe the "heeeeeap", and "gooooose", etc...

Ringing from what? It sure as hell wasn't from the Ravens fans.

Nice stadium, but the atmosphere is pathetic. Do you realize that nothing really happens after a Ravens score? Other than 5 seconds of initial cheering, that's it - the crowd just goes silent. They tried to play a Redskin-esque fight song once, but no one knew the words. So, the crowd was loud for one 4th down play late in the game and semi-loud maybe 3 other plays. Couple that with no scoring ritual and what a lame atmosphere today was...

the problem I have with this (and all the other FO failure posts) is that no one knows under what constraints they are operating. They may not have been aggressive this year due to other forces at play, which may or may not be temporary. So, 1-15 may mean survival if they were told upfront that the unsettled labor issue would mean they would need to cool their heels for a year.

This observation started with his first game and has continued until today - regardless of who has played dline.

I rarely see a play that doesn't have PP over pursuing or standing in the wrong spot.

And there is your season quarterly "I'm done with this team" post... See you in 4 weeks. Same bat time, same bat channel...