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"christopher hitchens is full of win" on 10th June, 2007 (12:28 GMT-07)

Host: By being so angry about what his legacy was, or is, are you not hurting his [Falwell's] family or others who may have no dog in that hunt, but who would just like a few moments to celebrate his life and have some peace?
Hitchens: Well I don't care whether his family's feelings are hurt or not, but if they are, they can take comfort from the extraordinary piety and stupidity and generally speaking uniformity of the coverage of the man's death.

Host: When somebody dies we ought to show a measure of respect and appreciation for their family and loved ones and for those who are grieving right now, and our thoughts and prayers ought to be with them regardless of whether we agree with Doctor Falwell or...
Hitchens: Oh come on, play the world's smallest violin. Listen, he established a business, a racket in my opinion. He was a religious businessman, in the same way as Mr. Ralph Reed was a religious entrepreneur. He left the business to his children, it's a hereditary job, let that console them. You can't have me on [the show] and say that I have to say that I'm terribly sorry he's dead.

Host: I knew Reverend Falwell, Christopher. I know the good work that this man has done.
Hitchens: Tell me about it. It takes a lot to make me cry.

Host: You have nothing good to say about him [Falwell] at all?
Hitchens: No.

Host: I think you are incredibly mean, incredibly selfish and incredibly thoughtless.
Hitchens: Excuse me, you invited me, sir, to give my opinion of the departed and I give it to you and then you say "well might that not upset his family". If I said it when he was alive would that not upset his family too?

Hitchens: If you gave Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Video from which I took the quotes

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"christianity vs atheism" on 2nd June, 2007 (17:20 GMT-07)

off-topic chat in #atheism:

<paros> Craiggers: I doubt the democrats are master-minds secretly plotting an orwellian system. I just can't give them that much credit.
<Craiggers> paros: Did you think that the entity that would eventually encroach on your freedoms wouldn't have the facade of legitimacy?  Did you think they would be wearing Nazi uniforms?

off-topic chat in #christianforums:

<LivingforGod13> hmmmmmmmmm
<LivingforGod13> guess what?!?!?!
<LivingforGod13> I'm pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"男娼 " on 27th May, 2007 (16:28 GMT-07)

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"prison break to traveler in two easy steps" on 25th May, 2007 (02:24 GMT-07)

How to go from Prison Break to Traveler in two easy steps:

1. change the premise of Prison Break from "one guy framed for murdering the vice president's brother" to "two guys framed for blowing up an art museum"
2. remove season 1 from Prison Break

Done!

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"i live in california" on 8th December, 2006 (21:09 GMT-08)

Thanks to Svip's idea for an alternative to a captcha, I've implemented something simple to avoid automated spambots.

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"baaaaah" on 19th November, 2006 (03:53 GMT-08)

I made this site when I was learning php and as a result some of the code, while not being particularly messy, is a bit inefficient. Someone convince me to spend time fixing it plzkthx.

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"timmy" on 5th September, 2006 (00:54 GMT-07)

<+Timmy> what is the point of ips?
<+Timmy> like what can u do with them?
<&Edwards> you use them to talk to computers
<+Timmy> ok
<+Timmy> why not use MSN?

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"the airport" on 4th September, 2006 (09:19 GMT-07)

"Have you noticed that everything on planes is very tiny? There's always tiny food, tiny liquor bottles, tiny pillows, tiny bathroom, tiny sink, tiny soap, everyone's in a cramped seat working on a tiny computer. There's always a small problem: there'll be a slight delay, we'll be a little late, if you could be a little patient! We're just trying to get one of those little trucks to pull us up just a little closer to the jetway so you can walk down the narrow hallway and there'll be a man there in a tight suit and he'll tell you you have very little time to make your connecting flight. So move it!"

- Jerry Seinfeld

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"hfs: http file server" on 15th July, 2006 (10:42 GMT-07)

Ever since the dawn of time (okay, a year or two) I've been searching for a tool that I can use to quickly share my files easily and conveniently. BitTorrent doesn't suit the job, it's not quick at all. FTP works, but the catch is that users need an FTP client. There may be one built into most browsers but that just isn't convenient for most people (including myself) and it does not give you customisability with regard to what it looks like on the client's end. Basically it depends entirely on what the user's browser or FTP client is like.

I've tried web servers. I found Apache does the job best, but it's still not a file server. I wanted something designed for serving files, not websites. I don't need something that has support for PHP or fancy mod_rewrite-style URLs, subdomains and so on. I set up Apache such that I moved or copied files inside the root directory and that was the directory that appeared when users browsed my web server. But Apache is big and bulky. It's not designed for something that simple, and it definitely wasn't good enough.

I tried smaller, more lightweight webservers such as thttpd and a few others. I almost found one which was perfect for my needs: it was a single file, commandline, and would simply serve a directory set in a .conf file. The problem was that it didn't do automatic listings of the directory contents. Since creating HTML files containing urls to the files I wanted to share would have been far too much work, it wasn't suitable.

I continued to use Apache when I needed to and continued to be unhappy with it. Until today.

HFS: HTTP File Server

Someone in uTorrent's IRC channel (#utorrent p2p-irc) pasted the link to HFS (HTTP File Server) and I checked it out. Single executable (600KB), specifically designed for file serving, and seemed to have all the features I needed. I tried it. This has existed for 4 years and I'm only discovering it now?!

1. It uses a VFS (virtual file system) preventing me from having to copy or move files into the root directory. I can set up 'real' or 'virtual' folders, and so on, allowing me to set permissions on them or hide them from certain users etc.
2. Amazingly detailed logs. No more sifting through Apache's pathetic logfile, now I can see everything (connections, requests, downloads, uploads, disconnects, etc) in real-time including lists of files currently being downloaded.
3. Full customisation of... well, everything. The HTML templates, the mime types, the filetypes that the browser will download or display, limits, users, bans, ... all of it. I haven't found something yet that I can't customise in some form or another.

The only bad thing is that it's coded in Delphi (kidding, don't kill me lopardo).

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"praying is useless" on 3rd April, 2006 (10:54 GMT-07)

mu22le writes "A recent study conducted by the Duke University Medical Center on 700 patients, found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery."

Source

O RLY?

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