[quote]Take a trip back to 98 or 3x for a while and you may not 'love' XP...but you'll definitely appreciate it more.... Jafo refrained from EVEN MENTIONING WinME .....for obvious reasons....[/quote] Jafo, One of the reasons I am anticipating moving up the tech support chain (I will be management at my next job) is so that I don't have to take those steenkeeng Win 9x or ME calls!
[quote]Never ceases to amaze me, with all the Vista requirement info out there, just how many twerps who'll still totally can it after trying to run it with 512mb of RAM... not to mention the below par CPU that groaned like buggery when a few background services kicked in under XP.[/quote] Technically, my old desktop is Vista capable, but with the 1.8Ghz CPU, I'll stick with XP, as it blazes on XP (2 GB RAM, 256MB video card). Why fix what ain't broke? (except in the case of this new ma
Gideon records is proud to announce the release of the latest single from their new group, Run OMC. Run OMc is composed of Senators McCain, Clinton, and Obama, who although they are fierce opponents, basically sing the same song. Here are the lyrics to their new single, "Vote This Way": OBAMA’s Pa
[quote]Nader is nothing more than a has been who long ago jumped the shark into irrelevance. He can't stand the fact that he is meaningless in this day and age and his only true long term legacy is his infliction of the cancer known as the Bush presidency on the US.[/quote] The fact is, the entire "Run OMC" crew sucks. And while most of your points are spot on, the fact that Nader can't get a majority of party members on his side in Congress kinda gives me warm fuzzies!
[quote]Of course the rest of humanity will die out from contracting a horrible disease from unsanitized public telephones, but, meh, whats ya gonna do?[/quote] I always bow to great Douglas Adams references! Well played!
Jesus, You do not have the credentials to perform a psychological assessment of Bill Clinton. If you did, you would know that it is a breach of ethics to analyze someone without ever meeting them face to face. Offering your opinion is one thing. Presenting yourself as a licensed psychologist qualified to make a professional analysis of Bill Clinton based on secondary source information is another.
[quote]Now that didn't hurt one little bit, did it! Besides, it ain't so dark once you get inside properly... and I'm sure the lighting will get even better with a decent graphics card in there.[/quote] Yeah. Best quote on Vista I have heard yet is that those who don't appreciate it aren't technically savvy enough to understand it. That's actually my biggest beef; an O/S wasn't meant to be for techies, but for average end users. The chief problem with computers running
I admit to stockpiling food stores because of how I was raised. Had I been raised in any other faith with the same ethic, I'm sure it would have stayed with me. Yeesh, talk about stretching it! My point was that even though I already stockpile food, I'm hardly unique in that area!
[quote]Good point. I think we should start by taking you out. I should have suspected this from the mormon.[/quote] <---not Mormon, NOR elderly. I was just making a rather salient point.
[quote]If you don't agree with your god's judgement of those who don't agree with it, why do you worship? Is it cowardice that makes you worship a god you think sends the undeserving to eternal torment, or is there some other reason?[/quote] No, that's not what I'm saying at all, cacto... What I'm saying is, it isn't about what I think...it's about what God thinks. It's a valid question, though. I don't "urge" God to do anything, cacto. I have my beliefs, and I share m
[quote]The knowledge that you think they deserve to burn in hell for all eternity regardless of their nature is probably a turn-off.[/quote] I can't speak for Jythier, but I don't THINK anyone deserves to burn in Hell...I would rather see everyone in Heaven. What God thinks, though, is another matter entirely.
A couple of months ago, I built a computer on speculation, figuring to use it to make a couple of needed extra bucks. This was before the contract jobs were coming at a steady pace, when I thought we might need the extra scratch. It's a solid computer, Athlon 4400+ processor, 1GB RAM (that's what came with the package; I will upgrade later), 2-160GB Seagate SATA hard drives, and a DVD burner with lightscribe. I put it all together for $300 ($350 before rebates, but those are in now, so I can
I'm not a big fan of sex education in the schools. I think it's a shame that it is even debatable as a necessity, and I almost always disagree with the perspectives of those teaching it. Ideally, sex education should be taught at home in a proper environment. But it's that word "ideally" that muddies the waters. And it is because of that that abstinence only sex education should not be the choice for public schools. See, I'm among the crowd that refuses to concede failure. I a
[quote]Pro-lifers killing people.[/quote] Actually, this is not a trend among pro-lifers, Ockham, and I'm sure you know that. While incidents HAVE happened, they are not widespread, and do not in any way represent the mainstream of the prolife movement. But it's so much fun to portray stereotypes as typical of a group or organization!
[quote]the absence of family planning is one such wrong-doing.[/quote] Actually, bringing children into the world doesn't hurt the world OR our human community. Sorry, you lose. One might argue that extending the life of the elderly causes greater harm. They are beyond childbearing years, and thus, cannot propagate the race; and the medical expense of keeping them alive is not justified by their output.
[quote]I think a big difference between Christians and others, are that nearly all Christians deal in absolutes, while the others don't.[/quote] You don't believe in absolutes? I hope you head outside every day tethered to the ground because gravity is not an "absolute". I hope you plan for a sudden outage of the sun because its rising and setting is not an "absolute". EVERYONE deals in absolutes, Silent Poet. Some are just more honest about it than others. You want to
[quote]What? Post it. That doesn't make sense. It sounds like a bad PR move with no benefit.[/quote] It was a claim made by The_Politico on another thread, which I and others challenged and he/she/they/it has/have refused to support.
[quote]Anyone dumb enough to have voted for GW even once deserves to be branded with an M for "MORON" anyone dumb enough to have voted for him twice deserves to be tried and convicted of treason. Anyone still dumb enough to have the right to vote permanently stripped from them and any children unfortunate enough to be their kids.[/quote] Right...How DARE we allow people to vote their conscience, The_Politico! And I am saying this as a person that would rather dive into a swimm
[quote]arguably the worst person in the history of the country.[/quote] Arguably according to WHOM, precisely? Come on, I don't like Dubya, but to write him off as being the worst PERSON in the history of the country is a stretch. Now, if you said worst LEADER, I'd come closer to agreeing with you. By the way, how's the luck going with googling the incident where he had people arrested for having Kerry bumper stickers on their cars? Thought so!
As the election year drags on, I have actually begun giving strong consideration to voting for a candidate I would have never considered. While I disagree with many of his ideas, it is quite possible (depending on the LP candidate) that my vote may go for Ralph Nader. Why is this? First of all, integrity. While I don't fall for the "Chicken Littles" of this world, Nader is at least a true believer. One who takes his responsibilities seriously. You can use a lot of adjectives to descri
[quote]and forgetting the costs associated with there not being any national health care plan.[/quote] Individual costs. It's not the government's job to pay every expense we incur, sorry. [quote]For MILLIONAIRES.[/quote] Really? Wow, The_Politico, I didn't know I was a millionaire! [quote]And you seem to "forget" that the Democrats have called for not only extending that credit but actually increasing it.[/quote] Until November, that is. Talk is chea
Gonna hit the devil's advocate card on this one... Many years ago, Cora Jones was abducted from in front of her grandmother's home in Waupaca, Wisconsin, a community of 5,000 people. The small town environment did not protect Cora Jones, or many other children who have been victims. If this child was well versed in how to protect himself, a crowded environment may actually have been safer. Would I have done this? Hell no! But do I think the mother made an irresponsible decision
[quote]Yeppers, you conservatives really know how to operate a country...NOT.[/quote] Newsflash, SoDaiho...W isn't a conservative. Why do we let "they can't do much worse" guide our political decision making rather than demanding accountability?
What kills me is braille on a drive up ATM. Oh yes, and in webpage design...if you have a website for any public organization (including public colleges), it has to meet strict rules for handicapped accessibility.
[quote]If there is a God and he set the world into motion just right, didn't he determine everything to happen just the way it should already? Hence, He would really be directing everyting while doing nothing. Let's say Suzie prays to God. God set up the world so that Suzie would pray to him, and he also set up the world in a way that would determine his answer.[/quote] That is actually a very interesting theory.
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