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« on: May 19, 2010, 12:27:19 am »
wow enemy mine.. a classic! This was the first movie I watched and even as a kid recognized the racism aspect of the story. It honestly touched my heart. Again, another of my aging VHS collection hehe
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« on: May 19, 2010, 12:25:35 am »
The currently running series Stargate:Universe is rather space oriented this time around and I'm really enjoying it. It brings a different element into the equation of Stargate once you find out how deep in trouble they really are. I may just give the shows another chance to fill the role. Thanks!
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« on: May 19, 2010, 12:23:55 am »
Ice Pirates! Ah, good times. Love the afro when they go through the time warp 
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« on: May 19, 2010, 12:23:12 am »
Read some Orson Scott Card. Better than a movie.
PS. Okay, maybe not better than Serenity ... but a more sure bet than some of the other movie suggestions. The point is to throw a flick on at night while going to sleep... if I had time to read... there's a loooooong list of "to be read"  Thanks though!
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« on: May 18, 2010, 03:17:40 am »
Don't bother with Space above and beyond. IT got cancelled after the first season (was supposed to be five) so you get this open-ended series.
You can always try Space Balls:
King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies
But you have to be in the mood for the humor. No Sir! I did not catch you playing with your dolls again sir! Certainly a comedic classic! Lotsa good fun toilet humor for sure. It's like Ice Pirates but better. Thanks for the note on Space Above and Beyond though.
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« on: May 17, 2010, 11:11:38 pm »
Planet of the Apes (the old ones and the new too)
And some comedy stuff by Finns, related to Babylon 5 and Star Trek -> Star Wreck
It will also have a sequel sooner or later, named Iron Sky (The Nazi's in WWII made a moon base to the dark side of the moon!) Haha, nice! Star Wrek looks pretty cool. And yeah, Planet of the Apes is a great franchise... loved the old and new one.
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« on: May 17, 2010, 10:08:18 pm »
Farscape is fun and different, for sure. Four seasons (if I remember right) and a movie to keep you going.
While not exactly on the cutting edge of accuracy, I still get a kick out of The Last Starfighter. That was my all-time favorite sci-fi movie as a kid... Saw it on TMN and then a few years later got the VHS of it... still loved it... wore out the tape... couldn't find a DVD anywhere but found another copy on VHS... gonna have to dig it up and get it into a different format *chuckles* Double kudos for bringing that one up. Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. Great! A million miles from no-where and I'm stuck with a gungho iguana that tells me to relax. Simply Priceless!
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« on: May 17, 2010, 09:20:02 pm »
Space Above and Beyond - TV series
And I loved Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger for the 3DO (I wonder how many here even know what 3DO is LOL), stars included Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell and more! 3DO... Classic... I'll be checking into Space Above and Beyond though, looks interesting. Thanks!
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« on: May 17, 2010, 08:53:16 pm »
Babylon 5
Yeah, it's TV again, but like Battlestar Galactica, they at least paid attention to space physics (thruster-based maneuvers and such). And they had a few full-length movie specials, too. You know, I used to watch this and totally forgot about Babylon 5... Thanks I'll have to check for those specials and see how much the seasons are.
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« on: May 17, 2010, 08:52:12 pm »
Well maybe this could fit your list 
.. or maybe not! Haha! That was great
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« on: May 17, 2010, 08:48:57 pm »
Star Gate
Farscape
Titan A.E. ("An intelligent guard... didn't see that one coming.") Loved Titan A.E. and the original Star Gate... Farscape though, I've "seen" it but have yet to actually "see" the movie. Thanks! I'll be sure to pick that one up!
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« on: May 17, 2010, 07:52:33 pm »
Wing Commander (1999) David Warner, Jurgen Prochnow, David Suchet, Saffron Burrows IMDb link
Space movie w/ combat sequences reminicent of WWII submarine and carrier engagements Totally forgot about that one! Yeah, great example of awesome spacey stuff I loved the original game too. One of the best space-combat games of all time!
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« on: April 29, 2010, 10:42:42 pm »
I just realized after re-reading my reply... I didn't really answer the direct question of "what port is for IRC?"... 6667
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« on: April 29, 2010, 10:40:47 pm »
After some initial testing and an attempt or two at setting up the mibbit client I've concluded that it's going to take more time than I have available to find out what the problem is exactly and how to fix. No matter what I've tried so far with Mibbit it still times out for me. What did work for me with Mibbit reliably though was using their site directly. Simply went to their chat site and filled in the necessary details (being sure to click the "Server" link and setting it to "irc.layonara.com") and was logged in to #nwn just fine. See the attached image to this reply. Nothing particularly special. I've gone and replaced the link on the main irc.layonara.com page with a link to the Mibbit chat site but the old mibbit.html page remains available. As for the port blocking. Being that most malware these days hinges upon remote command interfaces, like using a public irc chat service to issue commands, Anti-Virus and network shaping services can be a problem. Sometimes this is on the ISP level (port 6667 outbound and sometimes 6668 inbound) which is fairly rare or more commonly found on the user's machine itself via firewalls (usually from anti-virus products) and other such "protective" software. There really isn't much one can do about ISP level blocking short of using a proxy service, which is essentially what mibbit is doing, but traditional proxy services work too. It's probably best to contact the ISP involved and see what can be done. For client problems like firewalls and anti-virus software, you'll have to refer to your software's particulars on how to "whitelist" (or "unblock" or whatever) port 6667 appropriately. If for whatever reason you can't connect via the stand-alone clients (like X-Chat or mIRC), the custom Layonara web-based client, or via the mibbit site directly... I'm not sure what else I can do to help. I hope all that answered everyone's questions or at least helped to some degree.
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« on: March 18, 2010, 11:41:41 am »
My sincerest condolences.
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« on: February 03, 2010, 06:00:00 pm »
Like a few of you, the FF books was my first introduction to the general game-scape with my brother when we were pretty darn young, I think I was like 7-ish. During grade 7 my best friend at the time and I were introduced to the honourable J.R.R. Tolkien by our teacher who was reading the Hobbit to the class over the course of a month or two. Suffice it to say... my friend and I had finished the Hobbit and the entire LoTR set a week after the teacher read the first chapter of the Hobbit to the class. I was hooked. We began studying everything about Middle Earth. Heck by the end of grade 7 we both could write fluently in a variant of Elvish (the letters were elven runes [Tengwar] but the words were English). Yeah... "Geek" became a badge of pride for me.  In the summer between grades 7 and 8 my friend and I discovered these crazy weird books at a garage sale while walking to his house one day. The entire 1st edition set of D&D manuals, guides and a binder of original modules. Bought the whole lot for like $20. I think there were around 6 or 7 hardcover books and at least that many modules in total. Spent the rest of the summer exploring the world of D&D. Near the start of the school year ( gr.8 ), my friend and I petitioned the school allow us to start a lunch-recess adventure club. By late November he and I were granted approval by the Principal as well as the Priest (get this, it was a strict Catholic school). We had to sugar coat a story to get approval by the Priest which certainly wasn't easy... lots of "In no way is this a D&D club! We're writing the stories and rules ourselves! We promise not to use any D&D materials!"... The club ran for the months of December through February... we had over 30 people staying in with us playing D&D... Then the Priest caught us with the D&D Monster Manual... *laughs* The look on his face as he bellowed "BLASPHEMY!!!!" hahahaha He labelled us sinners and banned the club but we didn't get suspended or anything serious. The die-hard players from the club continued to meet after school and on weekends so we could continue the campaigns. It was so much fun. Majority of the time my friend and I were taking turns DMing or we'd "Tag Team DM" a campaign together for a group of 8-10 players. It was awesome. So much fun! Ahhh the good 'ol days.
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« on: February 02, 2010, 09:57:45 pm »
Dude.. didn't mean to upset you. Nah, you didn't upset me at all... it's just the general feel of this thread that's irked me into that foul mood conveyed through the obviously poor medium of text.
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« on: February 02, 2010, 04:39:02 pm »
Yeah, I wonder why you do to!
ESPECIALLY the bug reports. :p
*hides* Ha ha heh :rolleyes:
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« on: February 02, 2010, 01:44:57 pm »
This is incorrect... "Collaboration" is illegal and carries huge fines. Insurers actually use common databases from company's such as Marshall, Swift, and Boeckh that are updated monthly by zip code. Adjusters write estimates and use these as a basis to negotiate an agreed scope and cost of repair with local contractors. I have some contractors in certain trades that I have to pay more in some areas then others because they are the cheapest in that area. The same trade could be much less in a more economically depressed county or zip code. In winter seasons costs go down because work is leaner. Summers it is higher. Supply and demand.
The government also has to approve any rate filings for increases for premiums, and they have to be justified and fiscally correct in relation to the company's solvency or they are denied.
Bottom line, fair market value is exactly that... whatever can be negotiated down to the cheapest dollar. No collaboration factors into the picture. LOL I hear that same argument all the time by many people, they just are not educated in how things actually work. I'll get off of my soapbox now. Hehehe. Ok, I wasn't meaning in a literal/direct sense of "collaboration" but rather this... if an insurance company pays their installers X, they don't pay other installers (of the same trade in the same region) Y (with exceptions per job based on mitigating factors of course). Also, I work in the insurance industry in Canada and for flooring there is at least one consortium type group that helps regulate the sub-trade fees via price guidelines for the benefit of the insurance companies. The insurance companies can use those values or not however by following the guidelines there are a number of benefits... one being that insurance premiums have less fluctuation, two being that contractors are held to a higher standard of workmanship, three being that sub-trades of general contractors have a clearer means of collecting on unpaid invoices by having direct channels to those that pay the general contractors and fourthly the insurers have a means of negotiating better deals on materials with manufacturers (through the intermediary group). So yeah, perhaps some of what I stated is not concrete or 100% accurate but I did not base my remarks on speculation either. Granted, I'm not American and so have little direct experience with that insurance market. As for the other things, I did not mean to imply that there are hard-fast rules for anything but rather that there are "guides" for general markets (that of course fluctuate with supply and demand) but regardless there are still guides. So, if people want to publish their own guides for CNR, I have no qualms with it being used or not or whatever. People just need to chill out and play the game rather than cause everyone grief. (Aside: Sometimes I have to really question myself as to why I read/comment-on the forums for anything other than bug reports.)
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