I’m not really sure where to begin with this one. What happens if they forget to turn the volume up? What if it mispronounces your name, does someone else get your prayers? Are people really this stupid? This is proof that yes, yes they are.

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Grains
10 lb Belgian Pilsner
.25 lb Belgian Aromatic
.75 lb Rye

Other
1 lb Candi Sugar
1 lb Corn Sugar

Hops
3 oz Styrian Goldings (bittering)
.3 oz Styrian Goldings (flavor)
.5 oz Saaz (flavor)
.5 oz Cascade (aroma)

Mashed all the grain with ~3.5 gallons of water at 150 deg F for 60 minutes. Sparged with 4 gallons of water at 170 deg F for about 45 minutes.

Brought to boil and added the bittering hops and sugar. Boiled for 45 minutes. Added flavor hops boiled for 12 minutes then added aroma hops and boiled final 3 minutes.

Cooled to ~75 deg F and transfered to a glass carboy.

Pitched one vial of White Labs WLP570 Belgian Pale yeast.

O.G. 1.075

Grains
4 lb British 2-Row
4 oz Crystal 60L Malt
4 oz Chocolate Malt
8 oz Oatmeal

Hops
.75 oz Kent Goldings (bittering)

Mashed all the grain with ~1.5 gallons of water at 150 deg F for 60 minutes. Sparged with 2 gallons of water at 170 deg F for about 45 minutes.

Brought to boil and added the bittering hops. Boiled for 60 minutes.

Cooled to ~75 deg F and transfered to a glass carboy.

Pitched one vial of White Labs WLP004 Irish Ale yeast.

O.G. 1.050

Here’s the ingredient list:

Grain and Fermentables
8.50 lb Belgian CaraPilsner Malt
.25 lb Caramel 20L Malt
2 oz Belgian Caramel Vienna Malt
2 oz Belgian Aromatic Malt
9.2 oz Clear Candi Sugar

Hops and Spices
.3 oz Centennial Hop pellets (bittering)
.5 oz Styrian Goldings (flavor)
.25 oz Styrian Goldings (aroma)
.5 tsp ground Coriander
.5 tsp Sweet Orange Peel

Mashed all the grain with 2.8 gallons of water at 150 deg F for 90 minutes. Sparged with 2 gallons of water at 170 deg F for about 30 minutes.

Added candi sugar and brought wort to a boil. Added bittering hop and boiled for 60 minutes. Added flavor hop and .25 tsp of coriander and boiled for another 10 minutes. Added aroma hop plus .25 tsp of coriander and orange peel and boiled for a final 5 minutes.

Cooled to ~75 deg F and transfered to a 3 gallon carboy.

Pitched one activator packet of Wyeast 3787 Trappist High Gravity yeast.

O.G. 1.100

This is the Belgian IPA fermenting. I’ve never seen such an active fermentation before.

11.5 lb German Pilsner
.5 lb Cara-Munich
.5 lb Munich
.5 lb Crystal 60º

Mashed grains with 3 gallons of 155º water for 90 minutes.

Sparged with 5 gallons of 170º water for about 45 minutes.

Hops:
1.5 oz Centennial (pellets) bittering (45 minutes)
1 oz Goldings (whole leaf) + .5 oz Cascade (pellets) (12 minutes)
.5 oz Cascade (pellets) (last 3 minutes)

Pitched dry safale yeast at 75º.

Racked to Secondary, added 1 oz Cascade (pellets)
O.G. 1.051
F.G. 1.008
abv 5.6%

4.25 lbs 2-Row
4.25 lbs American Pale
1.25 lbs Rye
1.25 lbs Vienna
.5 lbs Crystal 15L
.25 lbs Carafa Special II

Hops
.75 oz Columbus? Pellets <— I can’t remember if this was columbus or not
.5 oz Columbus Pellets
1 oz Cascade

Mashed the grains in 3 gallons of water at 155º F for 60 minutes. Sparged with 4.5 gallons of water at 180º F for a final boil volume of 7.5 gallons.

Added the .75 oz of bittering hops at once the wort was brought to boil. After 15 minutes of boiling I added the .5 oz flavor hops (Columbus). Added the Cascade at flame out for aroma. I also added 1 tab of Whirfloc for the last 20 minutes (helps with clarity).

O.G. 1.055
F.G. 1. 010
abv ~ 6%

I’m going to refute these one by one. Here we go.

1. It’s more secure than Windows XP.
- This might be the only one I’ll give them. They’ve improved on some core security issues. Unfortunately, part of the reason for their lower number of security patches is the low install base (ie hackers are going to focus on XP where the majority of users lie).

2. It’s the best looking Windows yet.
- Yea. It looks sooo awesome. Especially when you have the 8 gigs of RAM needed to see that cool Aero interface. (Anyone who thinks you need as much RAM to run OS X as you do to run Vista is sorely mistaken. I had Tiger running on a G4 Powerbook with 512 megs of RAM. No problem.)

3. Games work just about as well as under XP.
- Well that’s a compelling argument. I should upgrade to something that’s ALMOST as good as what I have. Good call.

4. Vista Media Center is a fantastic DVR.
- So is my TiVo. This is a good example of something 95% of users will never use.

5. The sleep mode works.
- Really? Amazing.

6. Built-in search is better and more useful.
- This is one thing I think they did right. They just had to wait for Apple to do it for them.

7. User Account Control is useful for some people.
- For some people? Who? People who like to be prompted for a password everytime (sometimes twice!) they copy a file or install a plugin? Yea, right. I don’t know anyone who leaves this turned on.

8. Drivers support isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be.
- Yes it is. Oh yes it really is. One must only point to the fact that manufacturers have to make signed drivers for EVERY device they make. NVIDIA, for example, used to make a set of drivers that would work with many different products. This makes driver development less costly and more timely. Vista killed this with their hollywood placating DRM.

9. It’s not any buggier than Windows XP.
- Again, is that supposed to make a compelling argument??

10. Vista is not slow if you have enough RAM.
- Yea and my skateboard isn’t slow if I strap it to a jet engine. Dumbass.

To clarify: Passengers who refuse to show ID, citing a constitutional right to fly without ID will be refused passage beyond the checkpoints. Passengers who lie and claim to have left their ID at home, will be searched, and then permitted to board their flights.

Your Papers Please: TSA outlaws ID-less flight | Surveillance State – CNET News.com

Ahhh. It is like nothing ever changed…