I think we donated to charity while it was still usable with recent software. We actually got the 'new' chip sent to us tho, that was cool. First time I had pulled a chip more complex than a DIP!
Dude, the big cities are the only ones driving our economy. What does the US produce that it exports for profit? Software, music, movies, aero-space (tho not as much as 10 years ago). Sure we export some food, but our manfucturing base is shot. Shit, we have a negative trade balance! GM and Ford are in trouble. We have no fabric or steel industry anymore either. We are a service economy (which I think is bad) for better or worse. That's city-centric.
But by all means, break the coasts off. Most non-coastal states are in the red. They can't balance their budgets without handouts from the Federal government...and where does that money come from? The cities. I totally agree with you. Let's do it. The coasts will become more liberal, the center becomes more conservative. Without the cities providing the $ through the federal government for farm subsidies...can you still compete? South America is a strong producer of food. Maybe we'll team up with Venezuella and get some of that sweet non-mideast crude!
When I was in rural america I was under constant scruitiny. If I did not toe the line, I knew it by the locks and whispers. The city gives anonymity. It allows one to be whatever they want, without the artificial constraints of a tyrannical local culture. This is what I meant by intollerance and pettiness.
You have not denied my statement. In fact, you have supported it. I wonder how the inter-racial couple next door would have fared in rural america.
I said that rural areas have a reputation for intollerance bigotry and racism (or whatever).
How come nearly all those school shootings happened in Rural areas? City violence is usually gang vs. gang or person vs. person. You fall out with your crowd, find another one no problem. In the country, if you aren't on board with school spirit and sports and shit, you are SOL. No wonder those kids shot up the school. Try being a big guy in a rural town that's hot on football...and you don't want to play. You can't even escape it at church...and you can't really go to another one without changing denomination.
All sorts of religions, beliefs, customs, etc. I want them to know all about the world, and get as much of it 'in person' as possible. They are curious about Islam? Visit a Mosque. Judaeism, the same. Language, I live in a little crappy town in CT and I can walk a block and hear Vietnamese, Spanish, Hindu, Italian and German.
I want my kids to go to school with all sorts of people, so they grow up accustomed to the fact that everybody has their own view of the world, and that those who are 'different' are not 'lesser' or 'evil' or 'damned' or whatever.
Oh, and nice talk-radio talking points dude. I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative. Sorry I don't fit your mold.
I may say things you don't like, but I do not marginalize the groups I dislike. I think religion is shit, but I do not try to stop them from doing their thing. I will try to stop them from putting their religious beliefs into law. The religious think abortion is shit. They try to stop it.
Silly child, the difference is I hold my opinions but I DO NOT TRY TO MAKE OTHERS ACCEPT THEM. I diss the ignorance I see, but I am content to let them live like that. These rural assholes are the ones pushing for laws which restrict my freedoms because their book of fairy-tales says so. They are so insular that they reject new ideas, and reenforce their existing ones. This is closed minded. I think this is a pathetic way to live, but again, that is their right.
I feel that the city IS a better place to raise a child. Exposure to differences (and not the two local flavors of Christianity) makes people better able to handle complex life situations.
Went to college in Nashville, TN for a year, big mistake. Often went home on the weekends with friends, as the whole school emptied out and driving back to CT didn't help...well I didn't have a car anyway so I was stuck.
I've visted Caldwell County, Kentucky. A few places in Alabama. There is no culture. Life revolves arround church and the highschool sports teams. The towns would shut down during a fucking highschool football game. I mentioned in passing that I liked De La Soul. I got some weird looks, and someone said they didn't like Mexican music. Good thing I didn't tell them that De La Soul is black!
If you like simple, salt-of-the-earth people, then good on you. But sorry, marrying your highschool boyfriend and pumping out babies ASAP is no way to advance our species. For some reason they kept asking me how many siblings I had...everyone down ther ebreeds like three or four. I mentioned my only sibling, and that I would likely only have one or two children. Suddenly I was being lectured for being 'selfish'.
Yeah. Selfish. Whatever. I have no interest in people like that who just live for the purpose of existing and making more of themselves. Get a fucking goal.
But they don't try to force you to follow their religion by encoding it into law. I haven't heard of any black people in cities dragging white people behind their car. I haven't head of any city people beating the shit out of a homosexual, and having their neighborhoood stand up for that action. Very few cities are interested in making it difficult for poor people to get abortions. They may be apathetic, but at least they don't go out of their way.
If you have some links, I sincerely would like to see them.
I find that rural people do have a better sense of community. But only because they are all alike. Similar racial make-up, monolithic culture, fewer outsiders. Make that mostly white/maybe-black population more diverse and you see the same problems.
People aren't that much evolved from our tribal origins. We like to be arround those like us. Those dislike us cause stress on some very primal level (in my opinion).
There are other concerns than cost of living. Namely, the quality of people you live arround. Rural areas have rightly garnered a reputation as being ingorant, intollerant and petty. If you're the weirdo in a city, there's a good chance you can find people like yourself. In some depressed backwater, if you can't escape...you are the pariah.
The Constitution neither prohibits nor gurarantees the right to perform religious rituals during government business.
So why do we expunge religion from governmental business? Because religions are divisive, and even if every faith represented in the room was able to do their ritual...there would still be drama and problems. If there was time left in the scheduled meeting for the actual work.
Suppose I am a devout satanist. A Minority religion in the USA. I'm sure that followers of the Majority religions in the USA would be horribly offended that I worship what they fear. There would be drama.
Now, it need not be this extreme. Hell, the Christ-worshippers are forever clashing.
Would it be OK for a Catholic to get up and start one of their canned prayers? The Non-Denomonationalists would be offended.
Please show me where the consitution grants you the right to perform your religious rituals during governmental business.
Please show me where the constitution grants you the right to refuse to pay taxes and ignore the rightful orders of law enforcement?
If you had a grasp of reality, you'd realize your statements make no sense. Please, think about what you believe, challenge yourself over WHY you believe that. The lack of ciritcal thinking is going to destroy us all.
I've searched, believe me. The only way to get the theatrical version (from 1982) is to buy the expensive box set. Which also includes the abortion released in 2002. That's lame, he still sucks.
If you can give me a link where I can buy the theatrical release on DVD for under $20, I'll take back all the bad things I said.
I never said that he shouldn't have done it. I merely expressed my dissatisfaction for the turn his movies took, and his desire to alter his past work. Which I am free to do. Are you somehow implying that my opinion is invalid? I liked the original ET. Now all you can get is the modifyied one. SO he lost me.
He did replace the guns with fucking walkee-talkees in the re-release of ET. Fuck him right in the ear for that. I decided to ignore his work form then on. Especially considering that today the police are MORE likely to be packing weapons then back in the 80's. Because of the terrorists, you know. Shit man...in 2005, ET would be in Abu Graihb awaiting a trial that will never come.
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SCSI slaps SATA arround like nobody's bidness. It's not just about bus bandwidth. SATA sure beats IDE, but that isn't really saying much.
I think we donated to charity while it was still usable with recent software. We actually got the 'new' chip sent to us tho, that was cool. First time I had pulled a chip more complex than a DIP!
I believe IBM® Workplace(TM) Collaboration Services is the desired destination. Based on Eclipse.
I guess it's cool. Just not for me.
Dude, the big cities are the only ones driving our economy. What does the US produce that it exports for profit? Software, music, movies, aero-space (tho not as much as 10 years ago). Sure we export some food, but our manfucturing base is shot. Shit, we have a negative trade balance! GM and Ford are in trouble. We have no fabric or steel industry anymore either. We are a service economy (which I think is bad) for better or worse. That's city-centric.
But by all means, break the coasts off. Most non-coastal states are in the red. They can't balance their budgets without handouts from the Federal government...and where does that money come from? The cities. I totally agree with you. Let's do it. The coasts will become more liberal, the center becomes more conservative. Without the cities providing the $ through the federal government for farm subsidies...can you still compete? South America is a strong producer of food. Maybe we'll team up with Venezuella and get some of that sweet non-mideast crude!
When I was in rural america I was under constant scruitiny. If I did not toe the line, I knew it by the locks and whispers. The city gives anonymity. It allows one to be whatever they want, without the artificial constraints of a tyrannical local culture. This is what I meant by intollerance and pettiness.
You have not denied my statement. In fact, you have supported it.
I wonder how the inter-racial couple next door would have fared in rural america.
I said that rural areas have a reputation for intollerance bigotry and racism (or whatever).
How come nearly all those school shootings happened in Rural areas? City violence is usually gang vs. gang or person vs. person. You fall out with your crowd, find another one no problem. In the country, if you aren't on board with school spirit and sports and shit, you are SOL. No wonder those kids shot up the school. Try being a big guy in a rural town that's hot on football...and you don't want to play. You can't even escape it at church...and you can't really go to another one without changing denomination.
Was it racially motivated? Who knows, because you couldn't get me a good article.
All sorts of religions, beliefs, customs, etc. I want them to know all about the world, and get as much of it 'in person' as possible. They are curious about Islam? Visit a Mosque. Judaeism, the same. Language, I live in a little crappy town in CT and I can walk a block and hear Vietnamese, Spanish, Hindu, Italian and German.
I want my kids to go to school with all sorts of people, so they grow up accustomed to the fact that everybody has their own view of the world, and that those who are 'different' are not 'lesser' or 'evil' or 'damned' or whatever.
Oh, and nice talk-radio talking points dude. I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative. Sorry I don't fit your mold.
I may say things you don't like, but I do not marginalize the groups I dislike. I think religion is shit, but I do not try to stop them from doing their thing. I will try to stop them from putting their religious beliefs into law. The religious think abortion is shit. They try to stop it.
I live and let live. You should too.
Silly child, the difference is I hold my opinions but I DO NOT TRY TO MAKE OTHERS ACCEPT THEM. I diss the ignorance I see, but I am content to let them live like that. These rural assholes are the ones pushing for laws which restrict my freedoms because their book of fairy-tales says so. They are so insular that they reject new ideas, and reenforce their existing ones. This is closed minded. I think this is a pathetic way to live, but again, that is their right.
I feel that the city IS a better place to raise a child. Exposure to differences (and not the two local flavors of Christianity) makes people better able to handle complex life situations.
Went to college in Nashville, TN for a year, big mistake. Often went home on the weekends with friends, as the whole school emptied out and driving back to CT didn't help...well I didn't have a car anyway so I was stuck.
I've visted Caldwell County, Kentucky. A few places in Alabama. There is no culture. Life revolves arround church and the highschool sports teams. The towns would shut down during a fucking highschool football game. I mentioned in passing that I liked De La Soul. I got some weird looks, and someone said they didn't like Mexican music. Good thing I didn't tell them that De La Soul is black!
If you like simple, salt-of-the-earth people, then good on you. But sorry, marrying your highschool boyfriend and pumping out babies ASAP is no way to advance our species. For some reason they kept asking me how many siblings I had...everyone down ther ebreeds like three or four. I mentioned my only sibling, and that I would likely only have one or two children. Suddenly I was being lectured for being 'selfish'.
Yeah. Selfish. Whatever. I have no interest in people like that who just live for the purpose of existing and making more of themselves. Get a fucking goal.
But they don't try to force you to follow their religion by encoding it into law.
I haven't heard of any black people in cities dragging white people behind their car.
I haven't head of any city people beating the shit out of a homosexual, and having their neighborhoood stand up for that action.
Very few cities are interested in making it difficult for poor people to get abortions. They may be apathetic, but at least they don't go out of their way.
If you have some links, I sincerely would like to see them.
I find that rural people do have a better sense of community. But only because they are all alike. Similar racial make-up, monolithic culture, fewer outsiders. Make that mostly white/maybe-black population more diverse and you see the same problems.
People aren't that much evolved from our tribal origins. We like to be arround those like us. Those dislike us cause stress on some very primal level (in my opinion).
There are other concerns than cost of living. Namely, the quality of people you live arround. Rural areas have rightly garnered a reputation as being ingorant, intollerant and petty. If you're the weirdo in a city, there's a good chance you can find people like yourself. In some depressed backwater, if you can't escape...you are the pariah.
I mean..durr...Remember John Katz?
Like you can't pay your taxes in all pennies. Even though it is legal tender.
The Constitution neither prohibits nor gurarantees the right to perform religious rituals during government business.
So why do we expunge religion from governmental business? Because religions are divisive, and even if every faith represented in the room was able to do their ritual...there would still be drama and problems. If there was time left in the scheduled meeting for the actual work.
Suppose I am a devout satanist. A Minority religion in the USA. I'm sure that followers of the Majority religions in the USA would be horribly offended that I worship what they fear. There would be drama.
Now, it need not be this extreme. Hell, the Christ-worshippers are forever clashing.
Would it be OK for a Catholic to get up and start one of their canned prayers? The Non-Denomonationalists would be offended.
The Gov't wanted in because of reports of abuse, but primarilly because those freaks didn't want to pay their taxes.
Google 'color of authority'.
Please show me where the consitution grants you the right to perform your religious rituals during governmental business.
Please show me where the constitution grants you the right to refuse to pay taxes and ignore the rightful orders of law enforcement?
If you had a grasp of reality, you'd realize your statements make no sense. Please, think about what you believe, challenge yourself over WHY you believe that. The lack of ciritcal thinking is going to destroy us all.
Don't you worry. You might throw up, but you will survive!
Which...judging by most people...is ZERO.
Your mom doesn't try to diagnose a drivability problem with her car, she takes it to the shop.
Your mom should do the same with the PC.
Just make sure you find her a reputable shop.
I mean, if people can't be bothered to understand a relatively simple CAR...
I've searched, believe me. The only way to get the theatrical version (from 1982) is to buy the expensive box set. Which also includes the abortion released in 2002. That's lame, he still sucks.
If you can give me a link where I can buy the theatrical release on DVD for under $20, I'll take back all the bad things I said.
I never said that he shouldn't have done it. I merely expressed my dissatisfaction for the turn his movies took, and his desire to alter his past work. Which I am free to do. Are you somehow implying that my opinion is invalid? I liked the original ET. Now all you can get is the modifyied one. SO he lost me.
Your time must not be worth very much money!
He did replace the guns with fucking walkee-talkees in the re-release of ET. Fuck him right in the ear for that. I decided to ignore his work form then on. Especially considering that today the police are MORE likely to be packing weapons then back in the 80's. Because of the terrorists, you know. Shit man...in 2005, ET would be in Abu Graihb awaiting a trial that will never come.
Guess you learned a few things about a sane approach to finances.