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Have not personally seen that one. Had a similar experience in reverse, though. On my old Ford Ranger, I had a sticker on the back window that was a wheel, each spoke had the symbol of a different religion. The cross was a Constantine cross, with the chi rho superimposed over the crucifix. (Looks like a P with an X over it.)
Constantine crosses are pretty common throughout Christianity, but not commonly used in the southeast. I got a lot of flack from people thinking that out of all the religious symbols, the cross was "X-ed out."
Typically I just go to a bar, but I was too hungover to do so during the VT/NCst Basketball game.
There is an addon for any Firestick or Roku owners called Kodi. It used to be called XBMC and was used on the Xbox. The legality of this site is in question due to the enormous amount of content available (live TV from around the globe, Movies that are released in Theaters at Midnight are viewable by 6AM same day) so take that into account before using but I have yet to not find ANYTHING I wanted to watch....period. I watched Mayweather/Pacquiao for free and all other PPV without fail. Again I am not endorsing this as a "legal" practice although I have been told that it is overseas so it is exempt from US protection just putting it out there for any banditos out there. Also, it can be used on a PC/laptop as well. Youtube Kodi.
Beware: Nerd note here - but if anyone has an AppleTV Generation 2 or earlier, you can jailbreak it to access XBMC.
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10 years 6 months
# | OT: Star Wars Episode VII (SPOILERS. SO. MANY. SPOILERS.) Anakin DID bring balance to the force:
Before:
Light Side: a lot of Jedi
Dark Side: Darth Sideous
After:
Light Side: Yoda and Obi Wan
Dark Side: Darth Sideous and Darth Vader
Balance Achieved
just guessing but surgery went well according to his twitter.. not seeing any information as to what it was for. I'm guessing VT will have a post season presser and this could be covered/asked about? <-- or am I completely wrong about a presser?
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10 years 6 months
# | OT: I now have an electric car. Questions? Awe? Ridicule? Fair point. I guess my overarching argument is, anything we pull out of the ground is finite. We're on a 5 billion year clock (per the expected life of the sun); I am willing to bet fossil fuels go away a few billion years before that happens. Gotta figure out a way to exist!
If the environment is such a concern then we should all go back to the ultimate climate friendly form of transportation!
here are your two choices:
Or:
Sidenote: I completely forgot Halle Berry was in this movie and animal fur never looked so good as an outfit!
fossil fuels are finite. It will take a technological overhaul to bypass this issue. Otherwise, sometime in the next 50-70 years (IIRC, don't quote me on it), we're going to pull the last drop of decomposed dino out of the Earth
(Warning: going off on a bit of a tangent here) As you likely suspected, you're right in principle, but probably not on the details. Whenever you see a published estimate stating that there is X amount of a particular resource left on Earth, they're almost always referring to reserves, which is a term that has a very specific meaning in the natural resources business. The word "reserve" means an identified resource that has been adequately explored and quantified and is economically exploitable. There is a lot of oil/coal/gas/etc. still in the ground that we know exists (and almost certainly much that we haven't found yet) that isn't tallied as a reserve because it hasn't been adequately explored or current extraction technologies and/or market conditions do not allow for profitable extraction. A good example would be the shale oil that they currently produce a lot of up in North Dakota. Thirty years ago, geologists knew that stuff was up there, but it wasn't considered a reserve because nobody had developed the technology to get it out of the ground and into your car in a cost-effective manner. Ditto for oilfields way out under the ocean floor. The speed at which we can develop affordable alternatives will dictate just how many years worth of dino remains we really have left. If we can't figure out a way to bring down the cost of alternative sources like wind, solar, tidal, etc., or develop something new, like fusion, then I thnk we'll see that our fossil fuel resources will last a lot longer than the 50-70 years (or whatever the official estimate is) that is currently being estimated.
I DON'T CARE WHAT "THE DATE" SAYS!!!
Am I the only one that is willing to pay the extra couple bucks for a consistent HD live, pre-programmed image through a hard-wired fiber-optic television service provider? When it comes to Hokie football, I don't take chances and I might as well invest a little into my source since I've already invested so much into the glossy display.
Others have mentioned Hola, which I've used in the past, but didn't always work that well. The other day I used F-Secure Freedome, which worked great. All I had to do was open Freedome, start the service, change my location to the west coast, start the stream on ESPN 3, and then close Freedome. The stream will start in pretty terrible quality until you exit Freedome since the traffic is being routed through a VPN.
I don't think that was meant that Muse was so much better as to be incomparable, but rather that their sound is just categorically different. They may both be alternative, but one is a former punk band that sold out and went mainstream, and the other is a progressive-tilted band that no matter how hard they try will never be Coldplay. It would be like comparing Zeppelin to Skynyrd.
Though for the record, as someone who loves Rush, I cringed at the comparison, though for the life of me I can't come up with a better one.
I'll be interested to see how Leday/Blackshear/Hamilton/Henry matchup with Tobey and Gill, who have been on a tear. They made Zach Auguste look like a n00b this past weekend.
If we can win the rebounding margin or at least keep it close, we'll live or die by Seth Allen (Repeat this sentiment for the remaining 16 ACC games).
Then you won't have to buy a Prius.
Or move to San Fransico.
b) any time you can push the pollution production up the line (suppliers rather than consumers) you consolidate the problem and it's easier to address. You can implement a strategy at a single coal plant to reduce emissions a heck of a lot easier than on every individual car.
Very good point. But then why not buy electric cars that'll then presumably push the pollution problem off of the track of big oil / dirty coal and onto the battery folks instead? Consolidate the problem with battieries and perhaps take oil / coal out of the equation (well...as much as possible).
Pretty much. I tend to text back and forth with friends during games, so it usually ends up with them spoiling things (which I kind of appreciate so I can prepare myself) and me appearing to be excited about touchbacks on kickoffs. And during the Duke game, WatchESPN decided showing us 10 minutes of commercials was better than showing us tying up the game in the 4th.
I think he said "GET TO THE CHAAPAAAAA" best.
I think people get hybrids / electrics to stop the rate of pollution to the environment. Considering how bad air pollution is not only here but the rest of the world, if we can do even a little bit to help the environment, then why not? Yes getting the aformentioned types of cars isn't going to automatically solve every problem, but every little bit helps - so why not?
There are a lot more false positives than false negatives.
Statistically, I don't think I can isolate the flag-throwing to the secondary's play style even though in watching the games real-time, it had me venting "TURN AROUND!!!!" ... Virginia Tech Defenders were flagged for 17 holding / defensive pass interference calls, out of 50 total defensive penalties. Opposing defenses were flagged 13 times for holding / DPI, out of 30 defensive flags. In looking at film, there was a questionable / inconsistent application of the rule in several games on both sides of the ball. The ECU game, for starters.
The numbers so far seem to indicate that there might be a correlation between the overall defensive style of VT and increased penalties against the VT defense and opponent offense, but I will have to wait until I have numbers entered for all the 2015 ACC games to really say anything conclusively. The data shows that both teams were penalized less heavily when VT's Offense / Opponents Defense were on the field (7%) and more heavily when VT's Defense / Opponent Offense were on the field (nearly 14%).
and one of these?
According to UGA, Chizik is most definitely not Smart...
I'll see myself out.
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10 years 6 months
# | Special Teamers on Beamer: Frank's Specialists Offer Memories of a Man That "Drips of Class" Teams
It came with a MENSA membership.
Oh, I thought only the Tesla's came with that.
The regular electric cars just come with a one-year subscription to NPR.
This is probably what the lady meant, but obviously didn't feel like going into detail about it. That's great though. Electric has always intrigued me because I always felt like the electric bill would negate the gas savings but it doesn't seem to be the case.