static talking heads boring them to death, just watch an episode of Battle Star Galactica. There you can get all the shakey-cam you like.
Hey! That's an idea! I'm going to sell BSG Shakey-WEBcams(tm). Put a little lopsided motor in the base to shake the camera for you! This out to be a huge hit with the under 30 crowd!
Anything filmed after the 70's is pure shit. When I go through looking for something to watch, if I find a black and white film that's a good prospect. Very few things in filmed in color pass as watchable. There were some GOOD color movies filmed in the 40's and 50's, they began to drop off steeply in the 70's and by the 80's, it was all over with. I quit going to movies years ago once they began to pull film reels out of a monkey's ass.
One of the very, very few exceptions has been the LOTR movies. I thought those were well done, the plot was excellent, the actors were excellent, and yes, there was a lot of digital effects but they actually worked.
I am so f*cking sick of all these new movies and tv shows that bombard you with shit blowing up and people flying around and shit zinging all over the place with 37 fireballs per hour. It's all a distraction from the fact that the plot sucks ass, the "actors" suck ass and the entire movie sucks donkey ass in general.
I'm 45. The original Battle Star Galactica came out when I was a teenager in the 70's. Then, at that time, I thought it was cool. Now, when I look back at repeats of the original show, I can see how badly it sucked.
As for the new version of it, it sucks too. And that shakey-cam sucks. Whoever came up with that method of filming MOVIES needs to have their ass kicked and a camera shoved up there too. I can't tolerate that at all. REAL documentaries do NOT have shakey camera effects. Watch the History Channel or any of the many educational channels on TV and you won't see shakey-cam. Not even in WWII when bullets were zinging past the photographers head and bombs were raining down on them and blowing up within spitting distance did they pull that BS. They held those cameras steady and got good footage.
The shakey-cam is just a piss-poor method of disguising piss-poor, low budget SFX. Nothing more. If the camera was rock solid you could easily see how crappy the effects are. But with the camera whipping around madly like a drunkards arms on a balance beam it's impossible for you to detect the visual anomalies of cheap and badly done FX that ARE present but obscured by this very annoying methodology.
If you like that crap, fine. I don't. You can keep the sci-fi channel, I find it to be utterly worthless except for when they run old, ORIGINAL Twilight Zone shows. Bad acting? Yeah. Bad effects? Oh yeah. But you know what? It worked then and it still works. People still love those old shows and they are still wildly popular. It's because they were GOOD..
I suspect that you couldn't get 99.9% of the/. people to watch ANYTHING on Turner Classic Movies. I suspect that if any of you would have to sit through a black and white movie you would burst into flames. This is the same crowd that would DIE if they had to ride in a car without an FM radio. I haven't listened to FM radio in 15 years. I listen only to AM radio or nothing at all.
Troll my ass. The parent is 100% correct. The camera man is obviously drunk off his ass 24/7.
The first time I tried to watch this show I changed the channel after less then 10 minutes and vowed never to watch it again.
The acting IS bad. The camera IS shakey. The shakey-cam made me sea-sick. You need to take Dramamine to watch it and Prozac to survive the bad acting.
Try watching something filmed in the 30's on TCM. They don't try to cover bad acting with special effects or loud music. The actors and plot either worked or failed.
Two, three other packages that support webcams? Where's Gaim in the webcam support arena? I like Gaim the best of all the packages but it's lack of webcam support is sad. BTW, what would be a good choice of webcam to buy for Linux that is likely to work well with whatever comes along? Something economical but solid. I don't want to waste $10 on a POS cheap cam but I don't want to spend $200 either..
provide false and misleading information. NEVER give anyone anything, ever. The *ONLY* exceptions are banking and police/gubmint. Everyone else gets a flaming chainsaw up the ass sideways..
Here they are all worried about working with this stuff but they are telling everyone how wonderfull it will be to put these things into YOUR body to make you HEALTHY....
I do hate sports but the only channels I find worth watching are The Science Channel and Turner Classic Movies. Everything else is pretty much crap, IMO..
There are not many channels either on satellite or cable that have TRUE HD content.
MOST of it is just stretched to fit and looks like crap. I have a friend that has a HDTV and satellite and there's a demo channel that plays some very impressive demos, they blow your mind. When you switch from that to other "HD" channels you can tell that the content was not filmed in HD..
What's the point of having an HDTV?? There's just not enough content out there to warrant dropping the bucks on the bling. It's status and ego. As for usability, it's not very usable. Not yet anyway..
I plan to wait a few years and use what I have until it breaks beyond my ability to repair it. By then HD content may have taken off and the price of the sets will be much more affordable.
But for now, I can go to Wally World and pick up a nice 27" CRT set with multiple inputs for $150 that will last me 10 years or more.
My recommendation is to wait a while before jumping onboard the HDTV bandwagon. Save your bucks and let the tech improve and prices to come down.
It's called "The Robin Hood Law" and it's a fact of life in Texas. They take LOCAL property tax dollars from Town A and GIVE it to Town B. Town A suffers so that Town B can have more.
In this case, where I live, a town of about 12,000 people are totally supporting the school system of a town next door of 80,000 through local property taxes. The local property taxes here are much higher than they should be because not only do the people in this town have to pay for the schools and city services of this town, they have to pay for the school system in the other town.
Why? Because the other town is extremely poor. There are NO jobs there, there are NO businesses there, there is no work for anyone because EVERYTHING shutdown and moved out. Why? Where did they move to? I don't know but it wasn't to our town here. So the other town has a 60% or higher unemployment rate and it's spiraling downward out of control, poverty begats poverty. It's sad but it's fact.
They are saying now that if they strike down the Robin Hood Law that those schools will have to shut down. What then? Send them to our schools? Our schools can't hand that many people, no way, not to mention the distance is too far. Where will they get the money? Most likely the federal government will take it from people and give it to them. Bad idea but probably is what will happen.
What would be the best thing? That the people that live there get off their butts and revitalize the area, reopen the closed businesses and become masters of their own destinies rather than subservient slaves to a "no can win" system.
Do you honestly believe that it's MY responsibility to provide for others that aren't as well off as I am??
Show me where in the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights it says that..
Does the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness include MY INCOME that I WORKED FOR and that I EARNED?? Did these disadvantaged people come out and help me do my work, did they do their part to earn a part of my paycheck? I think not.
LOCAL taxes are supposed to take care of LOCAL issues. That's what was being discussed in the OP. It had nothing to do with federal taxes..
No matter who imposes the taxes they still have no right to take MY money and GIVE it to someone else simply because they are worse off than I am. The welfare system promotes and propgates a society of people addicted to welfare. It rewards them for staying in the system. The reward is "get paid for not working". There is no incentive to break out of that system and better oneself or position in life because it's much easier to do nothing and remain in the system and get paid to do so.
It's a BAD concept that needs to be done away with. Doing away with such nonsense systems will improve *everyone's* lot in life.
Communism failed in Soviet Russia, it's failing in Red China, it's an utter failure in Cuba. The concept of "From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need" may be the passphrase of the day but in the end it fails.
Here where I live they have what they call the "Robin Hood Law" What it does is rob tax money from wealthy towns, cities and counties to fund schools in poorer counties. Like where I live, it's a small but wealthy town. They take tax money from the people here to fund the schools in a much larger poverty city a few miles away. The schools in this town receive less income from the local tax payers than the schools in the poverty city one over. Because of that, the schools here suffer, repairs are not done, books are not bought, needed people are not hired.
It's completely unfair to the people here. Why should we have to pay for the ills of another city? It's not our problem that the city is in such a terrible state. Let them take care of their own problems and leave us to take care of ours.
I've heard that the Supreme Court ruled that the Robin Hood Law was illegal but I haven't seen it in print yet. If so, our tax dollars will go where they belong, in our schools for our kids.
How do they propose to install one of these devices in any of my vehicles?? There will be no such device ever installed in any vehicle I ever own. BTW, all of my vehicles are over 20 years old and long ago fully paid for in full.
They'll have just as much luck installing one of these things in my vehicle as they will inserting a RFID chip under my skin.
I didn't allow any of that sort of thing in my house. But not once was there every any sqaubbles over it. That was just the way it was. My kids knew what was acceptable and what was not and there never was a problem in my house. Never once was there any arguments, problems, fights, anything. My kids behaved well and respected my wishes and rules. I was proud of them then and I'm proud of them now. They never even asked if they could buy, play or watch this sort of filth because they simply knew it was not an going to happen under my roof.
And to the idiots that modded my OP as a troll, I suspect you are some 16year old that thinks it's a great thing to play video games that involve murdering people and raping and robbing and such..
The GTA series comes to mind.
Why do you have such a big problem with that? I can't belive that people think that an underage child that lives in his parents home has the RIGHT to do any thing he wants, that he has the RIGHT to view any materials, to play any games, to surf anywhere on the internet, that he has the right to do anything he feels like doing and that the parent should have no say so, no right to restrict or deny the activities in their own home..
Kids these days are extremely disrespectful of their elders and of the wishes of their parents. They think the parents should just shell out cash on demand for what ever deviant activity that the child feels he wants to indulge in and that the parent should just shut up and stay out of their lives.
You know, never mind.. Really, I'm talking to people that are incapable of understanding the problems of society because they know nothing but self indulgence and self gratification.
Trying to explain the values of parenthood to young people falls on deaf ears.
to ensure that children have access to violent and or filthy materials? Do you think that it's GOOD that kids should be seeing this sort of trash?
As a parent and a grandfather, I would not want my kids partaking in this sort of degenerate filth. It's garbage.
And don't get all excited. I'm an atheist so I'm not some religious right wing zealot..
I'm an adult and I know what's bad for kids. I've raised two kids myself, they are adults now and I'm happy to say I think they turned out pretty good and I had strict rules on this sort of thing in my home. I absolutely forbid MTV and such trash under my roof and it was NOT a problem, as a matter of fact my son came home from college last year and told me that he was glad that I had forbidden MTV type trash in the home..
that it means the end of flash.. God how I despise flash. I wish they would outlaw it. That BS with the built in camera, microphone and other nasty little features just add to my hatred of an already POS annoyance.
If I win the Power ball lottery I'm going to drive around and kick the ass of everyone on earth that embeds annoying ass flash content into webpages.
I dunno about all this. Personally I take two showers a day with anti-bacterial soap and I scrub all of myself thoroughly. And I rub my face down with 90% rubbing alcohol each night and change the linen daily and wash the pillows in Lysol weekly. Is that going too far? Probably. But I've seen some disgusting things in my life and seen some extremely filthy people.
I have an old friend whose home should be condemned it's so filthy. I won't even go over there anymore it's so gross. Years ago when I was living nearer to this friend, when I would go over, I wouldn't use his restroom, drink anything I didn't bring with me and certainly wouldn't eat anything over there.
When he brings his computer over here for me to repair, I have him set it in the driveway and I open it up and with an air compressor I blow up the filth, dust, roaches, etc... I ALWAYS have to wipe the computer down with Lysol because it's so friggin nasty. I can't understand how someone can be so nasty like that, much less how his computer doesn't short out and burn up with all the grunge and filth in it. His computer is a bio-hazard..
I do my best not to touch anything handled by other people. If I do I clean my hands with alcohol asap.
Heh. I don't partake in the filth of the public. The *most* public place I ever go is the grocery store and I've never seen more than 25 people in there at a time on a very busy night. I live in a small town and I stay away from people. People are filthy and they spread disease, germs, viruses, bacteria, etc..
I minimalize the contact with other people as much as possible.
I don't use public restrooms. I live in a small town and the occasion to use a public restroom never occurs here. And if I HAD to go all of a sudden, I would just drive home. Home is at worst a 5 minute drive from anywhere I might happen to be.
As for mosquitos, we don't have much of a problem with them around here and when they do flare up I just wear long sleeves and repellent. No problem there. Besides, a mosquito lives it's entire, short life within a 300' zone. And I assure you, there is no one with AIDS or any other such filth living anywhere near where I live. My worst threat is possible West Nile. That's one of the reasons I wear long sleeves and repellent.
Is my rejection of donated tissues or fluids superstitious? No. It's based in FACT. People carry and spread diseases. How many people have died from getting tainted blood transfusions? Too many. 1 is 1 too many. The odds are totally unacceptable. I carry a card in my wallet stating that I reject donated parts/fluids from other people and especially animals. It has nothing to do with religion, I'm an atheist.
Several months ago during hurricane Rita I was forced (by law and against my will) to evacuate to a large city of several million people. I ended up in places jammed in with hundreds and thousands of strange people, coughing, wheezing, blowing snot and spitting on the ground. It was disgusting. Filthy doesn't even come close to describing it. I could not believe how filthy people could be and simply not care. It was so disgusting that the next time there is a hurricane I'm NOT going to evacuate, I'm going to stay home and take my chances with the storm rather than be dipped in the filth like last time.
You want to live in the huge, fetid city full of nasty people choking and wheezing their lungs out on your sleeve, pissing on the sidewalks, SHITTING on the sidewalks, go right ahead. You think that's BS? I SAW IT.. I SAW PEOPLE SHITTING AND PISSING ON THE SIDEWALK EVERYWHERE.. Police should have been there SHOOTING THEM DEAD for that but sadly there was about one policeman to every 50,000 people.
I'll stick to my isolation and everyone else can keep their filthy germs to themselves.
As for organ donation, I refuse to donate my organs. I'll take mine to the incinerator with the rest of me. That's *MY* choice..
Like hell I would have anything from a dead person put on or in me. I had surgery last year and they wanted to put bone marrow and bone fragments in me from an UNKNOWN DEAD donor.. Like hell. I opted for a different type of surgery that where they used my own bone fragments for the fusion.
I also donated blood to my ownself in advance so that I would have it if I needed it. With all the fonky diseases they keep coming up with there is no way in hell I will accept body parts or fluids from another person, especially mystery donors. Screw that!
I would rather just take the stitches and and plastic surgery. Besides, I saw where they can grow new skin for you from your own skin cells in a culture so there is zero chance of rejection or DISEASE........
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static talking heads boring them to death, just
watch an episode of Battle Star Galactica.
There you can get all the shakey-cam you like.
Hey! That's an idea! I'm going to sell BSG Shakey-WEBcams(tm).
Put a little lopsided motor in the base to shake the camera for you!
This out to be a huge hit with the under 30 crowd!
Anything filmed after the 70's is pure shit.
/. people to watch ANYTHING on Turner Classic Movies. I suspect that if any of you would have to sit through a black and white movie you would burst into flames. This is the same crowd that would DIE if they had to ride in a car without an FM radio. I haven't listened to FM radio in 15 years. I listen only to AM radio or nothing at all.
When I go through looking for something to watch, if I find a black and white film that's a good prospect. Very few things in filmed in color pass as watchable. There were some GOOD color movies filmed in the 40's and 50's, they began to drop off steeply in the 70's and by the 80's, it was all over with.
I quit going to movies years ago once they began to pull film reels out of a monkey's ass.
One of the very, very few exceptions has been the LOTR movies. I thought those were well done, the plot was excellent, the actors were excellent, and yes, there was a lot of digital effects but they actually worked.
I am so f*cking sick of all these new movies and tv shows that bombard you with shit blowing up and people flying around and shit zinging all over the place with 37 fireballs per hour. It's all a distraction from the fact that the plot sucks ass, the "actors" suck ass and the entire movie sucks donkey ass in general.
I'm 45. The original Battle Star Galactica came out when I was a teenager in the 70's. Then, at that time, I thought it was cool. Now, when I look back at repeats of the original show, I can see how badly it sucked.
As for the new version of it, it sucks too. And that shakey-cam sucks. Whoever came up with that method of filming MOVIES needs to have their ass kicked and a camera shoved up there too. I can't tolerate that at all.
REAL documentaries do NOT have shakey camera effects. Watch the History Channel or any of the many educational channels on TV and you won't see shakey-cam.
Not even in WWII when bullets were zinging past the photographers head and bombs were raining down on them and blowing up within spitting distance did they pull that BS. They held those cameras steady and got good footage.
The shakey-cam is just a piss-poor method of disguising piss-poor, low budget SFX. Nothing more. If the camera was rock solid you could easily see how crappy the effects are. But with the camera whipping around madly like a drunkards arms on a balance beam it's impossible for you to detect the visual anomalies of cheap and badly done FX that ARE present but obscured by this very annoying methodology.
If you like that crap, fine. I don't. You can keep the sci-fi channel, I find it to be utterly worthless except for when they run old, ORIGINAL Twilight Zone shows. Bad acting? Yeah. Bad effects? Oh yeah. But you know what? It worked then and it still works. People still love those old shows and they are still wildly popular. It's because they were GOOD..
I suspect that you couldn't get 99.9% of the
Beh...
Troll my ass. The parent is 100% correct.
The camera man is obviously drunk off his ass 24/7.
The first time I tried to watch this show I changed the channel after less then 10 minutes and vowed never to watch it again.
The acting IS bad. The camera IS shakey. The shakey-cam made me sea-sick.
You need to take Dramamine to watch it and Prozac to survive the bad acting.
Try watching something filmed in the 30's on TCM.
They don't try to cover bad acting with special effects or loud music.
The actors and plot either worked or failed.
The age of silver screen bling-bling SUCKS......
Two, three other packages that support webcams? Where's Gaim in the webcam support arena?
I like Gaim the best of all the packages but it's lack of webcam support is sad.
BTW, what would be a good choice of webcam to buy for Linux that is likely
to work well with whatever comes along? Something economical but solid.
I don't want to waste $10 on a POS cheap cam but I don't want to spend $200 either..
Come on Gaim, get with the program!!
provide false and misleading information.
NEVER give anyone anything, ever.
The *ONLY* exceptions are banking and police/gubmint.
Everyone else gets a flaming chainsaw up the ass sideways..
Spock was doing better stuff than this in the 60's...
of nature. We've worked hard over the past few centuries to cut, burn and concrete everything. Mother Nature IS going to bite us in the ass in return.
Our refusal to respect and live in harmony with nature will be our undoing.
Get over it. Move on.
Get with the times..
Here they are all worried about working with this stuff
but they are telling everyone how wonderfull it will be
to put these things into YOUR body to make you HEALTHY....
I smell dookie......
Close..
I do hate sports but the only channels I find worth watching are
The Science Channel and Turner Classic Movies.
Everything else is pretty much crap, IMO..
and hacked six ways to sunday as well..
There are not many channels either on satellite or cable that have TRUE HD content.
MOST of it is just stretched to fit and looks like crap.
I have a friend that has a HDTV and satellite and there's a demo channel that plays some very impressive demos, they blow your mind. When you switch from that to other "HD" channels you can tell that the content was not filmed in HD..
What's the point of having an HDTV?? There's just not enough content out there to warrant dropping the bucks on the bling. It's status and ego. As for usability, it's not very usable. Not yet anyway..
I plan to wait a few years and use what I have until it breaks beyond my ability to repair it. By then HD content may have taken off and the price of the sets will be much more affordable.
But for now, I can go to Wally World and pick up a nice 27" CRT set with multiple inputs for $150 that will last me 10 years or more.
My recommendation is to wait a while before jumping onboard the HDTV bandwagon.
Save your bucks and let the tech improve and prices to come down.
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It's called "The Robin Hood Law" and it's a fact of life in Texas.
They take LOCAL property tax dollars from Town A and GIVE it to Town B.
Town A suffers so that Town B can have more.
In this case, where I live, a town of about 12,000 people are totally supporting the school system of a town next door of 80,000 through local property taxes.
The local property taxes here are much higher than they should be because not only do the people in this town have to pay for the schools and city services of this town, they have to pay for the school system in the other town.
Why? Because the other town is extremely poor. There are NO jobs there, there are NO businesses there, there is no work for anyone because EVERYTHING shutdown and moved out. Why? Where did they move to? I don't know but it wasn't to our town here. So the other town has a 60% or higher unemployment rate and it's spiraling downward out of control, poverty begats poverty. It's sad but it's fact.
They are saying now that if they strike down the Robin Hood Law that those schools will have to shut down. What then? Send them to our schools?
Our schools can't hand that many people, no way, not to mention the distance is too far. Where will they get the money? Most likely the federal government will take it from people and give it to them. Bad idea but probably is what will happen.
What would be the best thing? That the people that live there get off their butts and revitalize the area, reopen the closed businesses and become masters of their own destinies rather than subservient slaves to a "no can win" system.
Do you honestly believe that it's MY responsibility to provide for others that aren't as well off as I am??
Show me where in the Constitution and/or the Bill of Rights it says that..
Does the pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness include MY INCOME that I WORKED FOR and that I EARNED?? Did these disadvantaged people come out and help me do my work, did they do their part to earn a part of my paycheck? I think not.
LOCAL taxes are supposed to take care of LOCAL issues. That's what was being discussed in the OP. It had nothing to do with federal taxes..
No matter who imposes the taxes they still have no right to take MY money and GIVE it to someone else simply because they are worse off than I am.
The welfare system promotes and propgates a society of people addicted to welfare. It rewards them for staying in the system. The reward is "get paid for not working". There is no incentive to break out of that system and better oneself or position in life because it's much easier to do nothing and remain in the system and get paid to do so.
It's a BAD concept that needs to be done away with. Doing away with such nonsense systems will improve *everyone's* lot in life.
Communism failed in Soviet Russia, it's failing in Red China, it's an utter failure in Cuba. The concept of "From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need" may be the passphrase of the day but in the end it fails.
Not in my state.
And I'll drive "illegally" if I have to.
That's called taxation without representation.
Here where I live they have what they call the "Robin Hood Law"
What it does is rob tax money from wealthy towns, cities and counties to fund schools in poorer counties. Like where I live, it's a small but wealthy town. They take tax money from the people here to fund the schools in a much larger poverty city a few miles away. The schools in this town receive less income from the local tax payers than the schools in the poverty city one over.
Because of that, the schools here suffer, repairs are not done, books are not bought, needed people are not hired.
It's completely unfair to the people here. Why should we have to pay for the ills of another city? It's not our problem that the city is in such a terrible state. Let them take care of their own problems and leave us to take care of ours.
I've heard that the Supreme Court ruled that the Robin Hood Law was illegal but I haven't seen it in print yet. If so, our tax dollars will go where they belong, in our schools for our kids.
No taxation without representation.
How do they propose to install one of these devices in any of my vehicles??
There will be no such device ever installed in any vehicle I ever own.
BTW, all of my vehicles are over 20 years old and long ago fully paid for in full.
They'll have just as much luck installing one of these things in my vehicle as they will inserting a RFID chip under my skin.
I didn't allow any of that sort of thing in my house. But not once was there every any sqaubbles over it. That was just the way it was. My kids knew what was acceptable and what was not and there never was a problem in my house. Never once was there any arguments, problems, fights, anything. My kids behaved well and respected my wishes and rules. I was proud of them then and I'm proud of them now. They never even asked if they could buy, play or watch this sort of filth because they simply knew it was not an going to happen under my roof.
And to the idiots that modded my OP as a troll, I suspect you are some 16year old that thinks it's a great thing to play video games that involve murdering people and raping and robbing and such..
The GTA series comes to mind.
Why do you have such a big problem with that? I can't belive that people think that an underage child that lives in his parents home has the RIGHT to do any thing he wants, that he has the RIGHT to view any materials, to play any games, to surf anywhere on the internet, that he has the right to do anything he feels like doing and that the parent should have no say so, no right to restrict or deny the activities in their own home..
Kids these days are extremely disrespectful of their elders and of the wishes of their parents. They think the parents should just shell out cash on demand for what ever deviant activity that the child feels he wants to indulge in and that the parent should just shut up and stay out of their lives.
You know, never mind.. Really, I'm talking to people that are incapable of understanding the problems of society because they know nothing but self indulgence and self gratification.
Trying to explain the values of parenthood to young people falls on deaf ears.
to ensure that children have access to violent and or filthy materials?
Do you think that it's GOOD that kids should be seeing this sort of trash?
As a parent and a grandfather, I would not want my kids partaking in this sort of degenerate filth. It's garbage.
And don't get all excited. I'm an atheist so I'm not some religious right wing zealot..
I'm an adult and I know what's bad for kids. I've raised two kids myself, they are adults now and I'm happy to say I think they turned out pretty good and I had strict rules on this sort of thing in my home. I absolutely forbid MTV and such trash under my roof and it was NOT a problem, as a matter of fact my son came home from college last year and told me that he was glad that I had forbidden MTV type trash in the home..
that it means the end of flash..
God how I despise flash. I wish they would outlaw it.
That BS with the built in camera, microphone and other nasty little features just add to my hatred of an already POS annoyance.
If I win the Power ball lottery I'm going to drive around and kick the ass of everyone on earth that embeds annoying ass flash content into webpages.
I dunno about all this. Personally I take two showers a day with anti-bacterial soap and I scrub all of myself thoroughly. And I rub my face down with 90% rubbing alcohol each night and change the linen daily and wash the pillows in Lysol weekly. Is that going too far? Probably. But I've seen some disgusting things in my life and seen some extremely filthy people.
I have an old friend whose home should be condemned it's so filthy.
I won't even go over there anymore it's so gross. Years ago when I was living nearer to this friend, when I would go over, I wouldn't use his restroom, drink anything I didn't bring with me and certainly wouldn't eat anything over there.
When he brings his computer over here for me to repair, I have him set it in the driveway and I open it up and with an air compressor I blow up the filth, dust, roaches, etc... I ALWAYS have to wipe the computer down with Lysol because it's so friggin nasty. I can't understand how someone can be so nasty like that, much less how his computer doesn't short out and burn up with all the grunge and filth in it. His computer is a bio-hazard..
I do my best not to touch anything handled by other people. If I do I clean my hands with alcohol asap.
Heh. I don't partake in the filth of the public. The *most* public place I ever go is the grocery store and I've never seen more than 25 people in there at a time on a very busy night. I live in a small town and I stay away from people.
People are filthy and they spread disease, germs, viruses, bacteria, etc..
I minimalize the contact with other people as much as possible.
I don't use public restrooms. I live in a small town and the occasion to use a public restroom never occurs here. And if I HAD to go all of a sudden, I would just drive home. Home is at worst a 5 minute drive from anywhere I might happen to be.
As for mosquitos, we don't have much of a problem with them around here and when they do flare up I just wear long sleeves and repellent. No problem there.
Besides, a mosquito lives it's entire, short life within a 300' zone.
And I assure you, there is no one with AIDS or any other such filth living anywhere near where I live. My worst threat is possible West Nile. That's one of the reasons I wear long sleeves and repellent.
Is my rejection of donated tissues or fluids superstitious? No. It's based in FACT. People carry and spread diseases. How many people have died from getting tainted blood transfusions? Too many. 1 is 1 too many. The odds are totally unacceptable. I carry a card in my wallet stating that I reject donated parts/fluids from other people and especially animals. It has nothing to do with religion, I'm an atheist.
Several months ago during hurricane Rita I was forced (by law and against my will) to evacuate to a large city of several million people. I ended up in places jammed in with hundreds and thousands of strange people, coughing, wheezing, blowing snot and spitting on the ground. It was disgusting. Filthy doesn't even come close to describing it. I could not believe how filthy people could be and simply not care. It was so disgusting that the next time there is a hurricane I'm NOT going to evacuate, I'm going to stay home and take my chances with the storm rather than be dipped in the filth like last time.
You want to live in the huge, fetid city full of nasty people choking and wheezing their lungs out on your sleeve, pissing on the sidewalks, SHITTING on the sidewalks, go right ahead. You think that's BS? I SAW IT.. I SAW PEOPLE SHITTING AND PISSING ON THE SIDEWALK EVERYWHERE.. Police should have been there SHOOTING THEM DEAD for that but sadly there was about one policeman to every 50,000 people.
I'll stick to my isolation and everyone else can keep their filthy germs to themselves.
As for organ donation, I refuse to donate my organs. I'll take mine to the incinerator with the rest of me. That's *MY* choice..
I'm an atheist and a realist.
PEOPLE spread most diseases.
Like hell I would have anything from a dead person put on or in me.
I had surgery last year and they wanted to put bone marrow and bone fragments in me from an UNKNOWN DEAD donor.. Like hell. I opted for a different type of surgery that where they used my own bone fragments for the fusion.
I also donated blood to my ownself in advance so that I would have it if I needed it. With all the fonky diseases they keep coming up with there is no way in hell I will accept body parts or fluids from another person, especially mystery donors. Screw that!
I would rather just take the stitches and and plastic surgery. Besides, I saw where they can grow new skin for you from your own skin cells in a culture so there is zero chance of rejection or DISEASE........
No thanks, this is a disgusting idea.