See how the left can NEVER offer anything constructive? The only thing they know how to do is start with name calling. I heard one a few weeks ago that called Rush a big fatso. I asked them have you ever listened to him? No they didn't. Then how could you base your OPINION on something you've never listened to? Because of what others said about him. LOL....typical.
I listen to BOTH sides. I listend to Air America a few hours of the "O Franken factor" to see what it was about. Unlike those on the left, I form my opinion AFTER I listen to something, not before....
Fox news looks "conservative" because unlike the "mainstream" media, they report BOTH sides. The liberal media doesn't like the competition that fox, drudge, world net daily, Rush, etc.......
for over 40 years, they could say what they wanted, and no one was the wiser. Now with the internet, talk radio, the "other side" has gotten their message out, and the public likes what it hears. They don't like the fact that the public is getting informed by someone other than them, and they are going to say or do whatever it takes to get their power back, at any cost. If and when (it will happen unfortunately) the left gets control of the white house, and congress, they will appoint judges that will allow them to railroad the "fairness doctrine" which will attempt to pull the plug on talk radio. Liberals think it isn't fair that conservative talk radio has the audience it has. They think it is an unfair advantage.
Let see...the left has: NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS.
Just watch any of the above mentioned stations, when they have a "round table" discussion on just about any topic. Their idea of "balance" is to have a commetator, 3 panelist (all of which spout liberal garbage), and one somewhat moderate conservative. That is their idea of balance.
Air America, the so far disappointing attempt by the left to "get their message out" will fail. Why? simple. They are not entertaining. I listened to it a few times on XM, and all it was was whinning, name calling about what is wrong with the conservatives. Did they offer any constructive ideas? No. If a show, no matter how it is broadcast, is not entertaining, then people will not listen to it. Do they have a right to broadcast anything they want? You bet! 1st amendment. Unlike some on the right, I think that Howard Stern and the like have every right to be on the air. It is my choice NOT to listen. That is called freedom. To me shows like that are not entertaining, they are simply trash.
If there are enough shows on the air, people make a choice. I think there are enough shows on the air with the left view AND the right view. Unfortunately for the left, the majority of the public wants to listen or watch the more conservative shows. Just look at the 2000 election map. The one with the red and blue. The reason there were a lot of red is that the majority of the public outside the major population centers are conservative. The large cities, like NYC, LA, Chicago et al, are for the most part, liberal. They live liberal lives and ideas. Another reason we have the electoral college. Yes, Gore one the popular vote, but he lost the electoral vote. It's in the constitution. Not one president has ever one an election by a vote of the people. They one it via the vote of the electoral college. We live in a representative form of government. We live by the rule of laws. If you don't like the rules, work within the system to change them. The left just doesn't like the idea that the PEOPLE can vote. Let me rephrase that. The left doesn't like the idea that the WRONG people vote. Why do you think they are working to allow convicted felons, and prisoners the "right" to vote? Because the majority of them would vote democratic. Once convicted of a felony, you have LOST your right to vote. Period.
The left just doesn't like the idea of fair and balanced news reporting, and will not stop, until they can ramrod a way to stop different opinions.
Antabuse was widely perscribed via court order to keep people from drinking. Heck, even listerine would set it off and you'd get violently sick.
I've worked in law enforcement for 20 years and I think they quit using it because it was considered "cruel"......well, if it kept them from drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car and killing someone, I think it was a good thing, but the ACLU always thinks otherwise;)
I quit listening to commercial music radio almost a year ago. They kept interrupting the commercials with music;) I like XM better, it shows you what the song is. And, NO STINKING COMMERCIALS (on the music channels that is). And, for my peace of mind, it's DEFINATELY worth 9.99 per month
I haven't bought a new CD in almost 2 years. Nothing on the radio is worth spending that much money on a CD. I bought a satellite radio receiver over a year ago, and I can't tell you the last time I even listened to the CD's I have. with over 60 commercial free music channels, talk, news etc, there is always something on to listen to. For me, it is definately worth ten bucks a month. If for anything else, NOT having to listen to those annoying automobile commercials LOL
The problem is that computer savy people know the cost of a blank CD, and the artists say they only get pennies per cd, then who gets all the money?
The middle man!
If the artists want more money, distribute it DIRECTLY to the end users. Look at shareware, no overhead. Plus, I've been to the music stores, there isn't anything but CRAP out there. Who wants to pay 12-18 dollars (US) for one or two good songs, and the rest is junk?
Same reason some people spend on lots of things......small penis size! LOL
There money.......no biggie to me......a fool and his money are soon parted;)
Overclocking your car?
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I thought all you had to do, was put one of those
idiotic HUGE spoilers, a bunch of stickers, and one of those stupid coffee can mufflers on your car to make it go fast? LOL, some of the cars I see around here sound like a motorcycle under water.
Kids today....they don't have a clue what a GOOD motor sounds like........Heck, my stock mustang can out run them.
Here's what I do.....I get to a stop light when one of those rice-a-roni cars pulls up next to me...he guns his engine, I gun and brake torque my engine.....Light turns green, he floors it, I quietly make a right turn....lol....Like I'm going to race down a BUSY street anyway.....
I worked 911 for 14 years........here in the midwest, we have tornados around this time of year.
The warning sirens usually go off to warn the public. Ok, I'm sitting at my console, waiting for people to call about wind damage etc......and the line rings....911, do you have an emergency?....yeah, can you tell me what the sirens are going off for?.........it's a shame that the line is recorded....there have been times, when we get idiot calls like that, that you really really want to say....well, I'm sorry to tell you this, but the russians have changed their minds, the bombs will be here in 10 minutes.
And then, hang up on them LOL....
Heck, we've had calls from people that ask us where Bass Pro Shops is.....(Springfield Missouri)
Yeah, Pete Knight went to Mach 6.7 in Oct 67....STILL a record to this day, for a MANNED airplane (X-15 isn't "really" a traditional airplane since it is air launched). Also Pete Knight earned astronaut wings by flying the X15 near 300,000 feet.
Several of the X15 pilots received astronaut wings by flying near or over 300,000 feet. Joe Walker, went the highest to 320,000 feet! Sadly, he was killed in the 60's when he was in a formation of planes for an Ad for the general electric engines that all the planes were flying. His "tiny" in comparison jet got too close to the XB-70 bomber (which was suppose to be a Mach 3+ bomber) and it went inverted and smashed into the tail of the bomber, and exploded.
Sorry, the early years of test pilots, NASA has always fasinated me, and buddies of mine call me a walking encyclopedia of aircraft knowledge;)
Everyone complains that there isn't enough
electricity.....well, the state of California
has no one to blame but itself....they haven't built
a new power plant in that state in YEARS.
20 years ago, there weren't any home computers....now everyone has one. People don't
understand that when you plug something into a
wall, it just doesn't come out magically.......
I think because of the stupidity of TMI, the world missed its chance as a viable cheap means of power.
In the USA, not one person has been killed in the nuclear power plants etc.......can't say that for coal......
Coal is a great resource, but the tree huggin' crowd doesn't like it because it pollutes. They don't like nuclear because of that stupid china syndrome move. Now, they don't seem to like wind power for a few reasons....the "not in my back yard" mentality of the idiots in the massachuttes area (kennedy, cronkite et al) don't want wind turbines spoiling their view, and now the bird lovers say birds are getting killed flying into the wind turbine blades....well, thinning the heard! Dumb ones die, smart ones live.
One saying I still like....freeze to death in the dark you enviromentalist Ba*stards. LOL.....call me cold calouse, so.....doesn't bother me a bit.
It's life, get over it....we are at the TOP of the food chain....not the other way around.
I haven't run any FPS games in a long time. Why? Same thing over and over.....run around, kill things, pick up objects, open doors etc, go to the next level.....
I don't think in the grand scheme of things, that it makes a bit of difference. WHO CARES! I'd be more concerned if another idiot with a cause would fly a plane into a building.
I've been in the photocopier/fax/printer business for over 23 years. It is very common for manufacturers to produce machines for different companies, then when they sell them the cartridges, "fix" them in some way so they will not fit the OEM cartridge, but only the "branded" cartridge. Toshiba builds many of it's low end fax/copiers for Xerox, and the Toshiba cartridges will not fit the Xerox unless you break off some plastic tabs.
Also, all of the newer Toshiba digital copiers have a "patiented" cartridge design (a small plastic tab) that, when the cartridge rotates, pushes against a microswitch. The purpose? If someone puts in an aftermarket cartridge, it will run, but will pop up on the display "use genuine Toshiba toner only".
Inkjets are a little different, but if you knew the variations in quality of powder toner, you would understand why we don't want anything but OEM toner circulating inside. I've seen some of the cheap "toner pirate" toner that was all clumped together inside the bottle. I tell my customers, who don't have a service contract (toner is included in the contract), that if you insist on using non Toshiba toner, please call me first so I can check it out BEFORE you install it.
When are people going to get it through their thick
skulls. Driving an automobile (since this guy was
parked IN a car) is considered a PRIVLEDGE, not a right. If you read the driving manual for any state, it will have in it (paraphrasing) "driving is a privledge granted by the department of revenue of (insert your own state). This priveledge can be revoked at such time by the director of revenue.
Also, according the the laws (at least in my state), if you FAIL to produce an ID, as requested by an officer, then you may be arrested for "failing to obey a resonable request by an officer"
We have laws for a reason, and when someone doesn't like one, they whinnnnneeeeee and complain instead of using the system to get the law changed. I don't like a lot of the laws on the books, but I'm not going to break them, I'm going to work within the system to get them changed, leagally.
Could someone tell me why everyone puts "Mr. Jobs" up on a pedistal, but everyone wants to bash Bill Gates? BOTH have "borrowed" technology from other places, both have used marketing to their advantage. Both have given huge sums of money to worthy causes. The only difference is that Jobs builds Macs, Gates builds windows, and that Jobs wanted to keep the entire process of a Mac to himself and not make it like the "PC" process where common components could be used. Therefore, there were tons more uses for lower priced PC's than propriatary Macs. Nothing against macs, but for what I can buy in a PC to do the exact same thing in a Mac would cost me a bunch more money just to be "stylish" and arrogant. I'm not into trends, I want something that works, and dosen't cost an arm and a leg, so I go with a PC. Jobs isn't the "visionary" that everyone makes him out to be. It's just "stylish and trendy" to kiss his butt.
Friendship 7 Landing bag deploy. Got Lucky
Apollo 1 (AS206) Fire on launchpad dress rehersal
Apollo 11 1201 alarm (computer overload) Got Lucky
Apollo 12 Lightning on takeoff. Got Lucky
Apollo 13 Oxygen tank exploded. Got Lucky
Apollo 14 Landing Radar blinked. Got Lucky
Challenger O-rings went bad, crew lost
Columbia Foam strike hole in RCC, crew lost.
Space is dangerous. Go fever will usually get you
in trouble every time. With shrinking budgets, lack of interest in space, short attention spans,
I'm surprised more having been killed attempting
travel in space. We MUST continue, but we need to
go back to expendible launch vehicles. Yes, they might be wasteful, but use a redesigned shuttle (robotic) to haul the stuff up, and use a capsule style rocket to get the humans up there. Nothing better than a triangle shaped capsule with an ablative coating on the back to get through the atmosphere.
For the same reason we have so many warning
labels on everything you touch or do...
PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS LOL
In this country (USA), anymore, we are not
responsible for anything you do, it's always
someone elses fault. Trip on your shoelaces
because you didn't tie them? Sue the manufacturer
of the shoes, laces. Drink too much in a bar,
get behind the wheel of a car and kill someone?
Sue the bar, the manufacturer of the car, the alcohol company, and anyone else you can think of.
Stupidity is rewarded every day....lawsuits.
The old saying goes......
He who has the most toys at the end WINS!
We have the most toys, we win.
Heck, anyone who has believed since the late
50's when nasa was formed, thinking the military
doesn't have anything to do with it is nuts.
Where in the heck do you think the hubble space
telescope came from in the first place? All it
is, is an old CIA KH11 spy telescope pointing OUT
instead of IN.
And 20 years later, Apple still has the same percentage of market share........not much.
They have (in my opinion) a superior product
for the most part, but by keeping it proprietary,
they pretty much killed it off. Such as Sony
did with the betamax.
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See how the left can NEVER offer anything constructive? The only thing they know how to do is start with name calling. I heard one a few weeks ago that called Rush a big fatso. I asked them have you ever listened to him? No they didn't. Then how could you base your OPINION on something you've never listened to? Because of what others said about him. LOL....typical. I listen to BOTH sides. I listend to Air America a few hours of the "O Franken factor" to see what it was about. Unlike those on the left, I form my opinion AFTER I listen to something, not before....
Fox news looks "conservative" because unlike the "mainstream" media, they report BOTH sides. The liberal media doesn't like the competition that fox, drudge, world net daily, Rush, etc....... for over 40 years, they could say what they wanted, and no one was the wiser. Now with the internet, talk radio, the "other side" has gotten their message out, and the public likes what it hears. They don't like the fact that the public is getting informed by someone other than them, and they are going to say or do whatever it takes to get their power back, at any cost. If and when (it will happen unfortunately) the left gets control of the white house, and congress, they will appoint judges that will allow them to railroad the "fairness doctrine" which will attempt to pull the plug on talk radio. Liberals think it isn't fair that conservative talk radio has the audience it has. They think it is an unfair advantage. Let see...the left has: NPR, CNN, ABC, CBS. Just watch any of the above mentioned stations, when they have a "round table" discussion on just about any topic. Their idea of "balance" is to have a commetator, 3 panelist (all of which spout liberal garbage), and one somewhat moderate conservative. That is their idea of balance. Air America, the so far disappointing attempt by the left to "get their message out" will fail. Why? simple. They are not entertaining. I listened to it a few times on XM, and all it was was whinning, name calling about what is wrong with the conservatives. Did they offer any constructive ideas? No. If a show, no matter how it is broadcast, is not entertaining, then people will not listen to it. Do they have a right to broadcast anything they want? You bet! 1st amendment. Unlike some on the right, I think that Howard Stern and the like have every right to be on the air. It is my choice NOT to listen. That is called freedom. To me shows like that are not entertaining, they are simply trash. If there are enough shows on the air, people make a choice. I think there are enough shows on the air with the left view AND the right view. Unfortunately for the left, the majority of the public wants to listen or watch the more conservative shows. Just look at the 2000 election map. The one with the red and blue. The reason there were a lot of red is that the majority of the public outside the major population centers are conservative. The large cities, like NYC, LA, Chicago et al, are for the most part, liberal. They live liberal lives and ideas. Another reason we have the electoral college. Yes, Gore one the popular vote, but he lost the electoral vote. It's in the constitution. Not one president has ever one an election by a vote of the people. They one it via the vote of the electoral college. We live in a representative form of government. We live by the rule of laws. If you don't like the rules, work within the system to change them. The left just doesn't like the idea that the PEOPLE can vote. Let me rephrase that. The left doesn't like the idea that the WRONG people vote. Why do you think they are working to allow convicted felons, and prisoners the "right" to vote? Because the majority of them would vote democratic. Once convicted of a felony, you have LOST your right to vote. Period. The left just doesn't like the idea of fair and balanced news reporting, and will not stop, until they can ramrod a way to stop different opinions.
Antabuse was widely perscribed via court order to keep people from drinking. Heck, even listerine would set it off and you'd get violently sick. I've worked in law enforcement for 20 years and I think they quit using it because it was considered "cruel"......well, if it kept them from drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car and killing someone, I think it was a good thing, but the ACLU always thinks otherwise ;)
Instead of a 20 something kid......there should have been a disclaimer, warning, 40 something geek in skintight clothes!!!
I quit listening to commercial music radio almost a year ago. They kept interrupting the commercials with music ;)
I like XM better, it shows you what the song is.
And, NO STINKING COMMERCIALS (on the music channels that is).
And, for my peace of mind, it's DEFINATELY worth
9.99 per month
I haven't bought a new CD in almost 2 years.
Nothing on the radio is worth spending that much
money on a CD. I bought a satellite radio receiver
over a year ago, and I can't tell you the last time
I even listened to the CD's I have. with over 60 commercial free music channels, talk, news etc, there is always something on to listen to. For me, it is definately worth ten bucks a month. If for anything else, NOT having to listen to those annoying automobile commercials LOL
The problem is that computer savy people know the cost of a blank CD, and the artists say they only get pennies per cd, then who gets all the money? The middle man! If the artists want more money, distribute it DIRECTLY to the end users. Look at shareware, no overhead. Plus, I've been to the music stores, there isn't anything but CRAP out there. Who wants to pay 12-18 dollars (US) for one or two good songs, and the rest is junk?
Same reason some people spend on lots of things......small penis size! LOL There money.......no biggie to me......a fool and his money are soon parted ;)
I thought all you had to do, was put one of those idiotic HUGE spoilers, a bunch of stickers, and one of those stupid coffee can mufflers on your car to make it go fast? LOL, some of the cars I see around here sound like a motorcycle under water. Kids today....they don't have a clue what a GOOD motor sounds like........Heck, my stock mustang can out run them. Here's what I do.....I get to a stop light when one of those rice-a-roni cars pulls up next to me...he guns his engine, I gun and brake torque my engine.....Light turns green, he floors it, I quietly make a right turn....lol....Like I'm going to race down a BUSY street anyway.....
I worked 911 for 14 years........here in the midwest, we have tornados around this time of year. The warning sirens usually go off to warn the public. Ok, I'm sitting at my console, waiting for people to call about wind damage etc......and the line rings....911, do you have an emergency?....yeah, can you tell me what the sirens are going off for?.........it's a shame that the line is recorded....there have been times, when we get idiot calls like that, that you really really want to say....well, I'm sorry to tell you this, but the russians have changed their minds, the bombs will be here in 10 minutes. And then, hang up on them LOL.... Heck, we've had calls from people that ask us where Bass Pro Shops is.....(Springfield Missouri)
Yeah, Pete Knight went to Mach 6.7 in Oct 67....STILL a record to this day, for a MANNED airplane (X-15 isn't "really" a traditional airplane since it is air launched). Also Pete Knight earned astronaut wings by flying the X15 near 300,000 feet. Several of the X15 pilots received astronaut wings by flying near or over 300,000 feet. Joe Walker, went the highest to 320,000 feet! Sadly, he was killed in the 60's when he was in a formation of planes for an Ad for the general electric engines that all the planes were flying. His "tiny" in comparison jet got too close to the XB-70 bomber (which was suppose to be a Mach 3+ bomber) and it went inverted and smashed into the tail of the bomber, and exploded. Sorry, the early years of test pilots, NASA has always fasinated me, and buddies of mine call me a walking encyclopedia of aircraft knowledge ;)
Everyone complains that there isn't enough electricity.....well, the state of California has no one to blame but itself....they haven't built a new power plant in that state in YEARS. 20 years ago, there weren't any home computers....now everyone has one. People don't understand that when you plug something into a wall, it just doesn't come out magically....... I think because of the stupidity of TMI, the world missed its chance as a viable cheap means of power. In the USA, not one person has been killed in the nuclear power plants etc.......can't say that for coal...... Coal is a great resource, but the tree huggin' crowd doesn't like it because it pollutes. They don't like nuclear because of that stupid china syndrome move. Now, they don't seem to like wind power for a few reasons....the "not in my back yard" mentality of the idiots in the massachuttes area (kennedy, cronkite et al) don't want wind turbines spoiling their view, and now the bird lovers say birds are getting killed flying into the wind turbine blades....well, thinning the heard! Dumb ones die, smart ones live. One saying I still like....freeze to death in the dark you enviromentalist Ba*stards. LOL.....call me cold calouse, so.....doesn't bother me a bit. It's life, get over it....we are at the TOP of the food chain....not the other way around.
I haven't run any FPS games in a long time.
Why? Same thing over and over.....run around,
kill things, pick up objects, open doors etc,
go to the next level.....
I don't think in the grand scheme of things, that it makes a bit of difference. WHO CARES!
I'd be more concerned if another idiot with a cause would fly a plane into a building.
I've been in the photocopier/fax/printer business for over 23 years. It is very common for manufacturers to produce machines for different companies, then when they sell them the cartridges, "fix" them in some way so they will not fit the OEM cartridge, but only the "branded" cartridge. Toshiba builds many of it's low end fax/copiers for Xerox, and the Toshiba cartridges will not fit the Xerox unless you break off some plastic tabs. Also, all of the newer Toshiba digital copiers have a "patiented" cartridge design (a small plastic tab) that, when the cartridge rotates, pushes against a microswitch. The purpose? If someone puts in an aftermarket cartridge, it will run, but will pop up on the display "use genuine Toshiba toner only". Inkjets are a little different, but if you knew the variations in quality of powder toner, you would understand why we don't want anything but OEM toner circulating inside. I've seen some of the cheap "toner pirate" toner that was all clumped together inside the bottle. I tell my customers, who don't have a service contract (toner is included in the contract), that if you insist on using non Toshiba toner, please call me first so I can check it out BEFORE you install it.
When are people going to get it through their thick skulls. Driving an automobile (since this guy was parked IN a car) is considered a PRIVLEDGE, not a right. If you read the driving manual for any state, it will have in it (paraphrasing) "driving is a privledge granted by the department of revenue of (insert your own state). This priveledge can be revoked at such time by the director of revenue. Also, according the the laws (at least in my state), if you FAIL to produce an ID, as requested by an officer, then you may be arrested for "failing to obey a resonable request by an officer" We have laws for a reason, and when someone doesn't like one, they whinnnnneeeeee and complain instead of using the system to get the law changed. I don't like a lot of the laws on the books, but I'm not going to break them, I'm going to work within the system to get them changed, leagally.
Could someone tell me why everyone puts "Mr. Jobs" up on a pedistal, but everyone wants to bash
Bill Gates? BOTH have "borrowed" technology from
other places, both have used marketing to their
advantage. Both have given huge sums of money to
worthy causes. The only difference is that Jobs
builds Macs, Gates builds windows, and that Jobs
wanted to keep the entire process of a Mac to himself and not make it like the "PC" process where common components could be used. Therefore, there were tons more uses for lower priced PC's than propriatary Macs. Nothing against macs, but
for what I can buy in a PC to do the exact same thing in a Mac would cost me a bunch more money just to be "stylish" and arrogant.
I'm not into trends, I want something that works, and dosen't cost an arm and a leg, so I go with a PC.
Jobs isn't the "visionary" that everyone makes him out to be. It's just "stylish and trendy" to kiss his butt.
What if D...O...G... actually spells
C...A...T...? (revenge of the nerds) LOL
Friendship 7 Landing bag deploy. Got Lucky Apollo 1 (AS206) Fire on launchpad dress rehersal Apollo 11 1201 alarm (computer overload) Got Lucky Apollo 12 Lightning on takeoff. Got Lucky Apollo 13 Oxygen tank exploded. Got Lucky Apollo 14 Landing Radar blinked. Got Lucky Challenger O-rings went bad, crew lost Columbia Foam strike hole in RCC, crew lost. Space is dangerous. Go fever will usually get you in trouble every time. With shrinking budgets, lack of interest in space, short attention spans, I'm surprised more having been killed attempting travel in space. We MUST continue, but we need to go back to expendible launch vehicles. Yes, they might be wasteful, but use a redesigned shuttle (robotic) to haul the stuff up, and use a capsule style rocket to get the humans up there. Nothing better than a triangle shaped capsule with an ablative coating on the back to get through the atmosphere.
For the same reason we have so many warning labels on everything you touch or do... PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS LOL In this country (USA), anymore, we are not responsible for anything you do, it's always someone elses fault. Trip on your shoelaces because you didn't tie them? Sue the manufacturer of the shoes, laces. Drink too much in a bar, get behind the wheel of a car and kill someone? Sue the bar, the manufacturer of the car, the alcohol company, and anyone else you can think of. Stupidity is rewarded every day....lawsuits.
Looks like ole marvin has his uranium Q38 explosive space modulator up and running again. Mars 21 Earth 16
When the body gets cold, it goes into emergency mode. Shuts off the temps to the the outer body to protect the brain, heart, lungs etc.
The old saying goes...... He who has the most toys at the end WINS! We have the most toys, we win. Heck, anyone who has believed since the late 50's when nasa was formed, thinking the military doesn't have anything to do with it is nuts. Where in the heck do you think the hubble space telescope came from in the first place? All it is, is an old CIA KH11 spy telescope pointing OUT instead of IN.
And 20 years later, Apple still has the same percentage of market share........not much. They have (in my opinion) a superior product for the most part, but by keeping it proprietary, they pretty much killed it off. Such as Sony did with the betamax.
Trying to stir up some feedback? LOL
To each his own, but the only thing I use IE for
is to check for windows updates