$130US for a coffee grinder?!? That is seriously hardcore. That's like a 512MB RAM upgrade, or an XP 2700+ processor!

That's what I thought. $13 would be all right - but $130?! But then, even if I used a grinder, I'd probably don't need one that grinded 1 lb per session and offered "16 selectable grinds"... Anyway, nice to see the site is still making money.

and it's good to get out of the same old grind.

ouch... that was just painfully punny, blue...

coffee grinder... reminds me of the scene from City Slickers.

Goodness! That is one serious coffee grinder. I use a simple Braun Aromatic grinder. I picked it up for $14 at Linens and Things years ago. It keeps going and going, and I don't have to rock it/shake it to get good cafe.

However, it doesn't look nearly as cool as the Kitchen Aid one.


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Patriot act 2

http://www.rickieleejones.com/political/patriotact.htm

Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen again. The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person "had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen. Remember Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist designation

SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes news gathering illegal.

SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American people and to share information with foreign governments.

SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to secretly take individuals out of foreign countries.

SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone investigating Haliburton.

SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the same purposes.

That is the coffee grinder of my dreams! I was actually just thinking about this yesterday. I tend to buy coffee ground in the shop[, as my little grinder is such a pain to clean, and to get the ground beans out without spilling them all over the place. This goes to the top of my birthday/holiday list.

Thanks for the heads up Blue!

Thanks dude163.

Indeed.

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"I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills."

So I guess those pop-ups are working for him.

Looks like a cool grinder. I picked up a Senseo (www.senseo.com) last month, and I'm really happy with it. Since I'm generally just making coffee for myself, making one cup at a time works out pretty well. The per cup cost is pretty high, but at least I'm not wasting half a pot every morning.

didja ever notice...

living in California where we're supposedly DESPERATE for energy at any price, every time you drive over the Altamont Pass where the winds blow constantly 24/7/365, of all the many dozens and dozens of windmills that you can see...

at most only 1 or 2 are EVER RUNNING???

what a scam. who owns these "wind farms", Haliburton?

Patriot act 2 - nothing new here, most of these (and worse) have been in effect since the 1950's. We've been living in a de-facto police state for generations and no one seems to know or care.

slow day today

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We don't go to Ravenholm.

Police state? Pfft, hardly. Plutocracy? You betcha.


"It's not that I can't help these people. It's just I don't want to."
- Lawrence Bourne III, Volunteers

$13 would be all right - but $130?

We got it at the outlet for $99. Call it my birthday gift.

Believe me, I've already got a pile of broken grinders with a retail value of over $130, so if this holds up like it looks like it will (it has a one year warranty), it will have been a bargain.

Believe me, I've already got a pile of broken grinders with a retail value of over $130, so if this holds up like it looks like it will (it has a one year warranty), it will have been a bargain.

Dude, you go through coffee grinders like most people go through SOCKS.



http://tds.nin.com/

(it has a one year warranty)

You've just jinxed it now. Up to 6 months after the warranty has expried, your grinder will break down. It's always the way.

Happened to my dad with a 250gb external firewire hdd. The software interface died. He wasn#t happy as the warranty expired like a month before this happened. They wanted i think it was £100 for every MB of data recovered by them. He cheated and managed to buy the software thingies from somewhere else and fix it himself. Smart man

well, i finished HL2 SSTHL2 follows:

am i alone in thinking the G-Man isn't human? also, i assume that in the big confusing ending sequence that Dr. Breen was killed? this game was a lot like Matrix Reloaded in that it seems to create more questions than it give answers...

what i gather is that there is some evil enslaving alien race that is f*cking with the Vortigaunts and trying to take over Earth. they get Dr. Breen to act as their puppet, and meanwhile a resistance is formed to oppose the "new world order". Gordon is famous for the incident at Black Mesa, so he becomes a savior-figure to the resistance, yet the Vortigaunts also seem to think he is something special. i have no idea who or what the G-Man is, but he seems to think Gordon is something special as well, and is leading him around to do the dirty work.

anyone agree, disagree or have a different angle on any of this stuff?

SSTHL2 reply:

I agree that the G-Man is not human. Remember in the first game when bullets would just bounce off him when you managed to get a shot off on him (they made a metallic spark). At the time I wrote that off as a bug, but now I believe it was fully intentional.

He's some kind of semi-invincible super being, but for some reason doesn't dare get involved directly.

Anyway, I pretty much agree with the rest of your post, and can't wait for the expansion or sequel that wraps up the story a little more :)

I finished earlier today as well. What a great game!

ROFLHAXXORPRONL33TNOOB3SSHL2T:

I don't know why I'm using secret text here since this isn't a spoiler of any kind - just a personal theory.

I've been playing the game under the working theory that the G-Man is actually Gordon from the future. I don't have any good arguments to support this but the G-Man (G for Gordon?) does look like he could be an older Freeman without the facial hair. There is also the point in the game where the teleporter seems to have transported Freeman a couple weeks into the future - so they could be building up to a time travel slant.

The thing I'm missing from the story is what the "new order" has to do with what happened in the first Half Life and the other world that was involved. I probably don't remember enough about it and I never played Blue Shift or the other add on game so maybe I'm just missing a big part of the story.

Now I just have to look back at an earlier post that told how to get the blue grav gun so I can play the game over with just that!


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