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"we're about six weeks away from the final, blessed death of any and all conversations about the fact that the man's name is spelled with letters we don't have in English. For nearly four decades, America has been obsessed with the fact that his name starts with something close enough to a G, Q, K, or Kh that any of them could be used, but not close enough that one of them is consistently used. Well, in six weeks or so, his name will be out of the public discourse forever, and everyone will finally shut the fuck up about it and do what we should have done years ago - just spell it however Wikipedia does." - youaredumb.net

In the mean time, draxar has provided this:

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Louisiana bans cash sales of second-hand goods.

Geek Pop Quiz.

Debian 6 server. Worked fine before, now it won't boot. It hangs on "using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S".

I cannot boot into single user mode. It crashes at the same point.
I can't boot into an earlier kernel - this is the only one on the machine.
I *can* boot to a liveCD, but from there I don't know what to do to switch to the older-style boot (I can't just take the CONCURRENT line out of /etc/default/rcS because it's not there), or even if that's going to help.

Suggestions?

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"We just can't take you ANYWHERE."

Metal pop quiz!

Your challenge, whether you accept it or not, is to find the 13-or-so MOST PERFECT songs to accompany "Hallowed Be Thy Name" on a playlist.

(For bonus marks, find me the MOST PERFECT songs to accompany the Cradle Of Filth cover of "Hallowed Be Thy Name" on a similar but unrelated playlist)

How about a nice game of chess?

Let's play chess. I'm White:

1. d4 (Offering the Queen's Gambit - queen's pawn to queen 4.)

Your move!

(Multiple players are totally supported. Start your own thread in the comments - my board is virtual, I will play against you all.)