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Charity Nerds donate games to hospitalized children.

The Shriners help transform the lives of children scarred by burns.

Your local Salvation Army chapter has a great track record of helping those least blessed.

Maybe they're the creators of the >Salvation Army USA Widget - Bottom Box (best viewed with Javascript disabled)

Who Gives and Who Doesn't.. Yes, you can call it biased... yet no liberals have ever been able to disprove it, just attack the authors without substantive arguments.

The article you linked concludes that "religious people donate more to charity" by checking the donation levels to a Salvation Army bucket in San Francisco and Sioux Falls.

The Salvation Army is a conservative religious organization; check out their own position statements on abortion or homosexuality, for example. http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/0/B6F3F4DF3150F5B585257434004C177D?Opendocument

And almost all of the people who gave to our bell ringers in San Francisco and Sioux Falls said they were religious or spiritual.

This study might as well have set up a donation table to the Republican party, and concluded that "Republicans donate more than Democrats." Set up a Planned Parenthood donation table in both San Francisco and Sioux Falls, measure the respective donations, and then get back to us on which group *gives more to charity.* Go ahead, we'll wait.

If only they did not have an anti-gay agenda, I would concur.

The Salvation Army is not anti-gay. Sure, they are not pro-gay, but that doesn't make the anti-gay.

Decide for yourself.

From http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/B6F3F4DF3150F5B585257434004C177D
(Pick Homosexuality from the sidebar)

Scripture forbids sexual intimacy between members of the same sex. The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that Christians whose sexual orientation is primarily or exclusively same-sex are called upon to embrace celibacy as a way of life. There is no scriptural support for same-sex unions as equal to, or as an alternative to, heterosexual marriage.

Likewise, there is no scriptural support for demeaning or mistreating anyone for reason of his or her sexual orientation. The Salvation Army opposes any such abuse.

To me, the expectation for a group of people to remain celibate is demeaning and a way of mistreating them. Sex is a very basic human function. It is unrealistic to expect a group to be able to do so even if they say that they choose to. And for the vast majority that don't choose to, expecting that is flat out demeaning. So to me, this an anti-gay position that they attempt to mask quite poorly.

Turns out Goodwill and the Salvation Army have stacks of old used IBM Model Ms. Many techs (or their wives) donate their Model M keyboards. I think Model M owners clickety click by themselves... Either they are single or their IBM Model M is in a soundproof room or a room that is far away from the family bedroom. Clickety keys at 1AM will cause your signigicant other to give you an ultimatum: "It's me or the Model M" http://www.goodwill.org/ http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/

It's just another one of those pseudo "do-gooder" organizations where 95% of the revenue is used to buy luxury cars and expensive vacations for the executives, while the remaining 5% goes to "feeding the children".

If you must give money, I suggest the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army returns 96% of its revenue to those in need. Only 4% goes to administration and overhead.

Donate your stuff.

• FreeCycle
• Computer Recycling Center
• Alameda County Computer Resource Center
• Goodwill
• Salvation Army

Also, check out your city's or county's website. They may have local programs for recycling old hardware.

Oh, yeah, you could also donate all your stuff to me.... :)

Really?!? Wow, and all this time I thought I was the only homeless person in America...

Remember, Junior, never assume; when you do you make an ass of Uma Thurman. As you have no idea what I've been through, whom I've talked to, and how I've lived, you're just blowing more smoke than Happy Harry's House of Hashish...horrendously horridly, at that.

...and you think you're the only person on this mudball that has? Your name wouldn't happen to be Narcissus, would it?

Kid, if your {I'm betting brief} homeless stint gives you the right to lecture, what makes you think anyone else that's been in that situation can't?

If you're on drugs, there're halfway houses and freebie rehabs in many urban areas. Female and pregnant/have kids? LOTS of options there, including financial/housing assistance, food, job placement, etc. Once again, far more common in urban areas with the cash/charities to assist. Nuts, like me? Once again, programs exist all over. If you were homeless and never hit the Salvation Army, or made use of the multitude of services found at the United Way, or any local faith-run food banks, then I'm going to have to wonder just how you're defining "homeless", and for how long you might have been...

Ye gads, it annoys me when people think personal accountability means balancing your checkbook.

After seeing how the Government works (Katrina?), and experiencing how the Salvation Army works, I'd trust the Salvation Army with my money far more than I would trust the Government.

[Salvation Army members] work endless hours, seemingly tirelessly, and never lose their smiles.

Here in Houston, before the first buses began arriving, the Red Cross knew it didn't have enough supplies on hand to accomodate the number of people who would be arriving yet when large companies turned out to offer assistance in the form of manpower, bottled water & drinks and even food they were turned away. We saw this repeated many many times on our local news even once the tired, hungry people began arriving yet the Red Cross people kept smiling and saying "Send Money."

The people who were able to get out who are staying in hotels here are running out of money but nobody thought of what to do about that. In my immediate community local churches are helping with vouchers and offering the occasional hot meals. I went to a major chain hotel near my home 2 days ago to see if anyone there needed anything and was told by the manager that many of the guests had rooms because the churches were helping to pay for them but had run out of money so had no food. I brought several sacks of non-perishable groceries and when I came back 6 hours later with a major food drop, they were all gone save for 3 bananas and a couple of cookies.

Many individuals like myself are working with the owners of local restaurants who are donating their leftovers each night to some of the hotels. And the Salvation Army has stepped up to the plate with clothing and other donations since many of these people left with very few clothes and personal items of necessity. Where's the Red Cross?

The Red Cross doesn't endorse members of the community taking in or hosting refugees since they cannot "check out the households" they would be going to. Bloody hell, these people barely have the clothes on their back, many have no money and no food and the Red Cross is turning away every potential source of help available to them except themselves. Most people here are showing compassion and saying bugger the Red Cross and taking families into their homes since it could be weeks or months before they're allowed to return home and the Red Cross doesn't seem to have any grip on reality in terms of where these people will live or what they will eat in the interim, nor have they apparently planned for such a contingency.

If you're going to send money, send it to http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm. Sure, the Red Cross is 'there' but at what cost and what miniscule amount of your dollar is actually going to any relief effort rather than to feed that top-heavy organization?

American Red Cross

Provides a full spectrum of services to disaster victims, including shelter, medical care, food, clean water and assisting with cleanup efforts.

http://www.redcross.org/

https://www2.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

Salvation Army:

Providing hot meals to displaced disaster victims and emergency personnel working to aid those devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm

https://secure5.salvationarmy.org/donations.nsf/do nate?openform&projectid=USN-hurricane05

United Way

Identifying serious needs of devastated communities and helping not only with front-line disaster relief but with long-term recovery.

http://national.unitedway.org/

https://volunteer.united-e-way.org/hurricane-katri na/donate/

America's Second Harvest

Transports food to victims and secures additional warehouse space to assist member food banks in resuming and maintaining operations.

http://www.secondharvest.org/default.asp

https://www.kintera.org/AutoGen/Simple/Donor.asp?i event=67898

Feed the Children

Mobilizing and distributing supplies in hurricane devastated areas.

http://www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pag ename=usw_hurricane_katrina

https://secure2.convio.net/ftc/site/Donation?ACTIO N=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=2661

Habitat for Humanity

Helping disaster victims rebuild piece by piece and house by house.

http://www.habitat.org/

https://www.habitat.org/donation/generaldonation/d efault.aspx?media=habitat&lander=MP&sourcecode=10w 39&tg=katrina&keyword=homepage_08302005

Here's how to donate:

RED CROSS
Online:
https://give.redcross.org/?hurricanemasthead

Phone:
Call
1-800-HELP-NOW
(1-800-435-7669)
English speaking

Call
1-800-257-7575
Spanish Speaking

Call
1-800-220-4095
For TDD Operator

SALVATION ARMY
Online:
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm

Phone:
1-800-SAL-ARMY

In Person:
Visit your local Wal-Mart or Sam's Club to donate to The Salvation Army's Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

I'm posting anonymously. I don't want your mod points. I don't care about your politics. I don't even care if you live in the US. I want this MODDED UP because these people desprately need your help! I want us to slashdot the funds to help these people. Katrina's damage in money is estimated at over $100 billion. The toll in lives is so much higher. Let's save as many as we can. HELP NOW, PLEASE!

If you can actually transport people or supplies, I beg you to offer to drive your bus, semi, or even pickup truck for one of these organizations. If you have supplies to donate, any and everything you can offer is appreciated. They need water, food, clothes, medicine, and sanitary items. If you want to help with money, give money, don't buy supplies. These organizations can bypass many of the local consumer markups. If you have a business, allow your customers to donate somehow at the checkout. Ask your employer if they can donate anything.

Please re-post this information to your friends, e-mail lists, companies you work with, and websites your frequent. Put the donation links in this post in your signatures.

There is also something else you can give that is very precious right now. Give them hope. If you have any contact with those affected, such as a member of the press or a telephone, let them know:

YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!

AmeriCares:americares.org

Baton Rouge Area Foundation(BRAF): 877.387.6126 or braf.org

Episcopal Relief & Development: 1-800-334-7626 or www.er-d.org

United Methodist Committee on Relief: 1-800-554-8583 or gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/hurricanes/2005

Salvation Army: 1-800-SAL-ARMY or www.salvationarmyusa.org

Catholic Charities: 1-800-919-9338 or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org

FEMA Charity tips: www.fema.gov/rrr/help2.shtm

National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster: www.nvoad.org

Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: www.la-spca.org

Operation Blessing: 1-800-436-6348 or www.ob.org

America's Second Harvest: 1-800-344-8070 or www.secondharvest.org

Adventist Community Services: 1-800-381-7171 or www.adventist.communityservices.org

Christian Disaster Response: 1-941-956-5183 or 1-941-551-9554 or www.cdresponse.org/cdrhome.html

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: 1-800-848-5818 or www.crwrc.org

Church World Service: 1-800-297-1516 or www.churchworldservice.org

Convoy of Hope: 1-417-823-8998 or www.convoyofhope.org

Lutheran Disaster Response: 1-800-638-3522 or www.elca.org/disaster

Mennonite Disaster Service: 1-717-859-2210 or www.mds.mennonite.net

Nazarene Disaster Response: 1-888-256-5886 or www.nazarenedisasterresponse.org

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: 1-800-872-3283 or www.pcusa.org/pda

Southern Baptist Convention - Disaster Relief: 1-800-462-8657, ext. 6440 or www.namb.net

>You can be arrested for a crime, but you can't be arrested for a violation.

BULLSHIT.

Which American president was ARRESTED for speeding?

I'll hint you one: Ulysses S. Grant.

Don't talk about things like this unless you have a clue.

>Same thing with parking tickets, disturbing the peace, driving without a license or without insurance, that kind of thing.

Huh? Protestors are jailed for disturbing the peace all the time. You are really talking out of your ass. Joe the Turk, for instance, was arrested 57 times for disturbing the peace.

I'm not even going to bother with your other points, since none of them are serious enough to warrant arrest anyways. A police officer would have to be honestly insane to book someone for parking their car, considering we have tow trucks and cops are allowed to use them.

>If you seriously think "just about everyone I know" constitutes a useful sample of society, then you're even dumber than I thought.

Okay, apart from yourself, tell me someone who HASN'T violated copyright law?

I'm waiting...

>So what you're saying is that because the laws fail to deter EVERYONE, we should get rid of the laws. Right?

No, he's saying, like me, that laws that don't work require reform. He didn't say anything like what you're saying. In fact, I'd go as far as to say you're now libelling that poor slashdotter.

>Yup. Even dumber than I thought.

Yup, you are.

>Hell, I'll bet you wouldn't even know how to break the DMCA if you wanted to. Seriously. Do you know what the DMCA prohibits? Do you know how to break it?

Let's see, it prohibits me from using my DVD player on my expensive projection TV. To break it, I would load the hack CD into my Apex DVD player to turn off macrovision.

>Most people drive safely most of the time

My point exactly (and I said it a LONG time ago). The fact that the speed limits are too low are an indication of a broken the law.

>Since we have records that clearly illustrate that highway fatalities are linked to speed limits

We do? Show me them.

Oh, that's right, they'll illustrate that high speed driving is linked with highway fatalities, not speed limits. Can you not see the difference between a reccomended/lawful limit and a person's free will? You sound like a dictator.

Next thing you'll say is that computers cause heart attacks. It isn't the computer, it's the lazy ass operating it.

You continue to commit the fallacy of correlation. Read about it and please stop doing it, because it's annoying the hell out of us. Plus you're looking childish when you do it.

>So now you're saying that we need stricter laws (or stricter enforcement of existing laws) to deal with the IP theft problem. Man, you're just all over the map here.

I think he's saying we need reformed laws. That doesn't mean stricter, it means better. How difficult is that to understand.

And stop saying that someone is saying something when they haven't said it in their quote. It's libel, and more importantly, it really makes you look like an idiot.

Call me an optimist, but I think the Save Farscape [savefarscape.com] campaign has the ability to bring this thing back.

No, they don't. It doesn't have a prayer. Practical matters prevent it- Producers, directors, crew, actors/actresses all go their separate ways.

Second, let's not forget that the ONLY reason TV shows exist is to SELL ADVERTISING. When the advertisers go "hey, this show is only watched by a bunch of nerds, everyone else thinks it's stupid, sorry, we'll advertise with someone else", guess what? It gets dropped. Why do you think the VAST majority of TV shows are NEVER -continued- on another network?

Are you seriously blinded to the point that you think a science fiction show that FAILED on a -network dEDICATED to science fiction- will have even a prayer?

The concept of donating money to 'save' a TV show, which is at best entertainment, at worst a device invented PURELY to make money. It disgusts me that people are so loaded with money that they prioritize a MONEY MAKING DEVICE over helping the homeless, feeding starving children, curing various diseases, etc. Try getting off your fucking couch and building a house with all your new-found spare time, instead of popping pimples waiting for the browser to load the "people who can't let go" webboard.

I guarantee you'll feel better, meet some cool people, and be healthier to boot.

I did hang up one of the posters [watchfarscape.com] on my door.

Sad that people will protest a TV show but not a war and the continuous stripping of their personal freedom and rights.

Baa baa, little sheep.

So including information for someone else's benefit, that would have to be researched anyway in order to understand a subject, is unimportant now, just because I'm a busy man?