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  1. TJSwoboda

    We've lost a good one at SVTP. R I P Larry

    Hopefully three weeks and a day isn't too long to bump a thread, but I wanted to pay my respects. I pulled him up on Facebook today, as I hadn't seen him active lately, and saw the news. :( May Larry rest well.
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    Sci fi readers

    Sweet!
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    Just bought my dream car...

    And then someone tells me a Honda Civic is their dream car... Makes me want to quote Eames in Inception: "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Darling."
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    Just bought my dream car...

    Long story short, and not that it's anybody's business, but I think he's already set. *cough*wehadathreadaboutplayboywantinghiswifetoappear*cough*
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    Holy F, big news, guys

    Congrats!
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    How Long Do You Sleep?

    Usually around eight hours. If I don't get at least six, I'm in danger of sleepwalking as much as I need to to turn off every single alarm I set and not wake up.
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    Just bought my dream car...

    I remember you. Haven't been active much myself. And you bought... Um, holy crap. I'm gonna come to Florida and relieve you of that, k thx... :D Congrats!
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    Sci fi readers

    Congrats! Great reviews so far, too; I'll check it out. As for me, I just have a beast pr0n on Smashwords under a female pen name... :o
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    Any Illinois LEOs still active?

    Paging Musclefan21? He was active today; shoot him a PM.
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    My new 2017 Chevy SS 6-speed

    They have the Fusion Sport with 325 HP, but it's slushbox only.
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    My new 2017 Chevy SS 6-speed

    Been here for a while. :) My previous Civic, Accord coupe V6, BMW 540, SVT Contour, and '92 Sentra were all three pedal. Profit margin for the dealers was very thin. Invoice wasn't a whole lot less than sticker, so no way in hell were you getting 20% off without GM kicking most of it in...
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    My new 2017 Chevy SS 6-speed

    Looks like most questions have been answered, but... Like pure sex. I've never owned a car with an exhaust note in the same galactic supercluster as this. With the 20% sale they're going fast, so you'll want to jump on one ASAP. The sale is only through March 13th.
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    My new 2017 Chevy SS 6-speed

    Not in 2014, the first year for them, but since 2015 they've come in manual form. http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-chevrolet-ss-manual-instrumented-test-review It's a saying, and the incorrect grammar is deliberate irony. You must be even worse at parties than I am. :-P
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    My new 2017 Chevy SS 6-speed

    I'd post in Roadside, but rules is rules. It's fast.
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    Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car...

    They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No, but I know exactly where I am," Heisenberg replies. The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35." Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!" The cop thinks this is...
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    2015 Belmont Stakes

    Who thinks American Pharaoh will take the Triple Crown? Who are the trifecta/superfecta picks? I'm going to bet against AP: If he chokes as the other recent Triple Crown contenders have, there's going to be a huge pool to collect from. Here's the morning line: 1 Mubtaahij 10-1 2 Tale...
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    2014 Honda Civic hill assist question

    I asked this on a Civic board and have received zero responses, so I'll submit it to SVTP's collective wisdom: My manual Civic LX has a brake assist for hills, that I find a hindrance rather than a help. It's not nearly as bad as a BMW's clutch delay valve, but I know how to drive a manual and...
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    Build a space elevator out of limpet teeth?

    Stronger than spider silk
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    Dusting off the steady state theory?

    http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html
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    Are we closer to a Theory of Everything?

    http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/stephen-hawking-working-new-theory-everything One thing I'm curious about is whether this supports the idea that the total, unbounded but finite universe should be about 2x10^23 times the size of the observable universe. It seems a little vague, but the main point...
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    Another science question: Terraforming Venus

    If we could get rid of Venus' greenhouse gasses, what would its surface temperature be like?
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    New three pedal econobox purchase

    I am now three cars removed from my SVT product. In 2001, I finally got into something reasonable quick, a year old 9K mile Ford SVT Contour, coming from a '92 Sentra sedan with the 5M. Almost seven years later, I fulfilled a personal vow and got a BMW, a 2003 540 with the 6-speed. In early...
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    Quoting pictures

    It took me long enough :) , but I just noticed that since the site update quoting embedded pictures no longer shrinks them. Any chance of getting this feature back, or too big a PITA?
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    Any VirtualBox gurus in the house?

    I'm trying to run a VHD file (clocking in at a slim 121 GB) of my old XP system in VirtualBox. The host system is an AMD 8350 eight core on an ASUS M5A99X motherboard, with 16 gigs of RAM. As you can see below, I'm dedicating four processor cores and plenty of RAM to the VM, but every time I...

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