My SB Audigy 2 worked fine OOTB with Mandrake 10. I had to install the drivers for my Nvidia 5700 (whihc you have to do in windows too).
Once id released the Doom 3 client for linux, I could stop going back to windows to play it. It DOES run at the same speed as it does in windows, and I didn't have to muck around at all. It just worked.
I even run it thru KDE, with my IM client still going. Seriously, what is the problem? If it doesn't run reliably or fast, its probably the game developers fault (or possibly yours, for having a bad setup).
id can do it, its not impossible...and the fact that it did 'just work' really impressed me (i've been trying to game since '98 on linux).
I see there is a reply to my post but when i click on it, I just see my post. I have to change my threshold from 0 to -1 to your replies to me.
I didn't say that, or mean it. My point is that you're describing lots of bad luck, and seem unaware that all sorts of bad things are not happening to you from one day to the next. Some of those bad things not happening are not happening to you because at least some bad people have been caught in or after the act by a cop, and can't be bad to you any more. But your opinion of hundreds of thousands of people in law enforcement is driven by bad luck (whether or not you've done anything in your driving habits to push that bad luck along somewhat).
Its not bad luck when its a policy. EVERY time I've gone to traffic court (which, BTW 3 times) the judge doesn't ask to hear my side, askes if I'd lr ike to accept anothecharge instead which, invariably means no points, but the same fine. Their intrest is not in improving safety, its generating revenue. The fact that I personally have been hit few times does not mean that others aren't.
But, I've encountered dozens and dozens of dicks in other places of authority (regulatory, legal, college professors, supervisors, etc.) and of course run into people on the road every day that are complete jackasses. If you know three asses that happen to be cops, you're just in the wrong orbit of humanity (or only looking at a small slice of it). Don't get me wrong - I think that the vast majority of humans are asses. But there's a reason that cops undergo psych reviews all the time... so that the true wack jobs are out of a job. Wish that were true of some college professors, utility workers, and some IT people I've come across, too.
Yes, but of all the other places you encounter these people, cops are the only one that can have you fined or even jailed (for a short amount of time) for no real reason. And that doesn't even begin to talk about laws that punish you even when you have not harmed anyone else (i.e. speeding laws). The physc reviews cops undergo are only to make sure they don't go nutty and start randomly shooting people. I doubt one was ever told 'well, you have too much ofa power rush, so we need to let you go.'
Actually, the way that most jurisdictions handle traffic violations is to consider them the breaking of a regulation, and the training that the cops go through is considered adequate for them to testify (if it comes to that) about what they saw. It's sort of like you pressing charges if I were to hit you in the head, but without any witnesses. If you tell a judge a convincing enough story (absent anything else to go on), the matter is (legally) considered "proved." Of course, a lot of jurisdicions are getting away from even having to squabble about it by using radar guns that are coupled with video cameras, etc. Pretty hard to argue with the picture of your car in the intersection with the light red.
Wrong...if there are no witnesses, its basically a 'he said, she said,' and nothing will come of it. Its not considered 'proved' at all. Are you sure you're from the US? The reason we require actual proof is because going on word alone gives the speaker way too much power. GEt a clue. Oh, as far as those cameras go...you might want to google about the ones in NYC...you know, where the private company that runs them will start mailing tickets to anyone going through a YELLOW light. With today's technology, even pictures must be studied carefully.. My final point is this; just b/c thats how most jurisdictions do it does NOT make it right, either morally or legally.
One of the tickets I got was for "operating the vehicle in an unsafe manner" (weather related, in my case - we had a difference of opinion on whether my 4x4 could handle the snow) - no need for proof beyond his assesment that I wasn't being safe. Sort of like a health code violation in a restaurant. The inspector doesn't li
Says the author of a -1 post. Its rare i have to lower my threshold to see a reply. Congrats, you are one of only 5 posts with a -1 moderation. Must be proud.
I'm curious why you would think I'd just make up these incidents. You don't really know me, what gives you the right to just say 'bull?'
Know a lot of cops, do you? Personally? I do.
Three. Well, technically two...one became a prison guard in hopes of using that experience to become a cop. And yes, all three are dicks I'd rather not know.
They all work unbelievably hard hours, get paid squat
Ya, I see them working hard, camped out at known speed traps. Or the bagel shop. Occasionally I'll see them drive up or down our road. Mostly those are chasing speeders though. Hate to break it to you, but there's not a whole lot of crime here.
and are universally disliked by people until it's their house that's broken into, or their neighbor that's trashing their yard, or their business that just got ripped off, or their kid that just got killed by a drunk driver.
Hmm...but you HAVE to call the police, because any power you had to take care of these things has been taken away from you. Regarding being killed by a drunk driver...its usually not a big mystery to find said person.
Bullshit, and you know it.
Nope, I saw his test. Their words to him were that he was 'overqualified' and would quickly bore of the job.
These people have to have degrees, and when that education is coupled with very high scores, they typically become aware that they can shoot for a fast track towards a detective's job, or work for a state or federal agency
Wrong. Your average beat cop has at most a HS diploma.
(or a DA's office, etc)
Usually lawyers work at the DA's office, not cops..
So, is there anything in your professional life that you can size up at a glance? Do you know, when you see a certain type of server activity, that it's heavy load from a DoS attack? Or, that a certain sluggishness on a web browser is a bloated cache or some malware eating up performance? Are you at least in the neighborhood, making quick observations about things like that?
I can offer an educated guess, never say for sure until I do some investigation though. You're also forgetting that in order to convict someone you need, you know, actual proof. Punishing someone based solely on someone else's word is totally against our idea of justice.
Any chance that someone younger than you could, doing the same things all day, every day, for a few years, also arrive at that sort of observational skill?
Maybe, but there was a rather large age gap between myself and the cop, and I'm willing to be I actually had more experience than he. Again, you're forgetting thought that convicting someone of a crime requires PROOF, not someone's 'best guess.'
Put it this way, if I drove past you at 25, and then did so again at 40, or 55, would you have a pretty good sense of it? I know I can spot it, and patrol cops are in their cars driving in traffic for 30 or 60 hours a week. Every week. Assume thirty, and assume two weeks off a year. That young cop has spent 1500 hours on the clock, watching vehicles, usually on very familiar roads. That's more hours than a lot of pilots have ever spent in the air, and for cops, it's every year. They know what they're looking at, and if they're wrong, it's not by much.
Again, I'm willing to put money down that I had more experience. I bet you'd guess wrong most of the time. For the third time though, and estimate isn't good enough..he needs PROOF. Never mind that it'd be physically impossible to drive that fast down that road without destroying my car. Please, feel free to email me, I'll tell you the exact road, and you can take a Honda Accord down it going 55 to see what happens. Going over
No, I hate the "pigs" because they let thier power go to their head. You do realize that cops are just the bullies from HS...and now realizing they suddenly have to actually do work but have no real skills, they sign up to be cops. They get accepted because they have just high enough a score to pass thier little test, but not too high that would have them thinking for themselves. Yes, I know of someone turned down b/c they scored too high. They want someone with an average of a 6th grade education.
I hate them because twice now I've been pulled over for a cop wanting to make a DUI or just ticket someone. The first case I went to court to fight it; the state pled me down to a bad muffler. In the second case the cop had NO proof whatsoever (claimed i was doing 55 in a 25...except there are huge speed humps every 250 feet that would have ripped my car's underside off). He said he could technically ticket me anyway, based SOLEY on 'his knowledge and experience' that lead him to believe i was going that fast (never mind that he was much younger then me...). A third time I was harrassed by cops for supposedly breaking into a store and robbing it...in the end, it turned out they spelled the last name of the real person wrong. But 'applogies are against dept. rules.' Bite me.
Actually, a level of incoherence of the "science" involved in Trekkie technics cancels it aspirations to be SCI-fi.
Why? ST is supposed to be far enough into the future that tech has advanced considerably (along with the underlying math). People seem to forget the Fiction part while they rant about the Science part. Science is contantly undergoing change, with new discoveries invalidating older theories. Why do you expect that what we 'know' today might actually pretty far off?
Laser beams visible in space
Phasers aren't lasers. Since they don't actually exist, why are you debating about if their emittions can be seen?
FTL with preservation of causality and general relativity
I believe there are now modern theories that, if correct, would also mean relativity is wrong. Since we haven't gotten anywhere close to light speed, attempting to say we know what happens if you can go faster is nothing more then an educated guess.
completely naive view of human psychology
Maybe, maybe not. Are we self destructive by nature, or is it our enviroment that causes that? Nature vs. nurture is still being debated...
most aliens are humanoid...
I'll give you that..it was done for a reason probably. My grandmother used to like ST because it didn't have the 'gross' monsters other sci-fi did. I think there was a TNG episode that also tried to explain that.
The truth is we really don't know what the future will bring, and to me sci-fi is a way of exploring what could be.
I'm saying its not worth trying if doing so restricts peoples rights.
The problem with your line of thinking is that it inevidiably leads to making just about everything illegal, b/c hey, it might hurt / kill someone at sometime. Quite frankly, I'd rather be dead then alive but a slave to everyone else's whim.
You're responsible for your own safey. Take matters into your own hands, and if you're really scared of being killed by somone on the cell phone, then don't drive. Personally, I deal with them by passing them ASAP, so that if (notice, not when, IF) they do crash, I'm already where I want to be.
Having said that the scariest place I have ever driven, right above Boston, was Philidelphia. The people there are out to kill you! Several times I was driving on the freeway and someone would swerve right into my lane, not cutting me off, trying to occupy the same space at the same time.
Being from Philly..I have to saw we drive like that, b/c we'll never get into the lane we want if we don't.:-)
My wife seems to fail to remember where I learned to drive, i guess its different learning to drive in Vermont then Philly. Don't need to pay as close attention.
I like the certification idea, but it would never pass...it would rule out the elderly completely (which, BTW is a great idea too).
I'm often saying 'say that again' because I was concentrating on some moron cutting infront of me as opposed to the phone call.
So why not just not talk on the phone at all and wait until later? I'm surpised the other person doesn't hang up with you..I hate having to repeat myself.
To point at the culprit and say "HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS ACTIONS" provides little consolation to the family of the guy he just killed in a wreck. There's nothing wrong with taking preventative action to minimize the risk of traffic accidents.
Give me a break. no one said life is safe, any number of things can kill you just as easily. People that say this crap are also usually ones that want to ban free speech and remove other rights 'for the children.'
There was a great Law & Order on last night about this; a kid rapes another kid and goes to jail. Mommy blames some guy on the radio and shoots him, and her case ends in a mis-trial. Seems pretty accurate portrayal of thought in the US. Its not ok to rape, but its ok to shoot someone you disagree with!
By your reasoning, the communist revolution in Russia was not a revolution either..granted those involved in the revolution were not elected, but certainly a vast majority of the people didn't necessarily want the communists in power either. Just enough of the military, as I remember.
I think you'd have to study the effects of it first. True, if you setup your will to allow your friends to do so,and they want to, it probably should be ok.
However, given that no other living creature i'm aware of will 'eat' its own species tells me something. Look no further then mad cow disease to get an idea of why this might be a bad idea.
This is true. Overall I don't think i had any lousy teachers. I think the number of those increases as the average income of the area the school is in decreases. Its almost like poor = stupid. And I'm not convinced that being poor causes stupidity, because it also seems to work the other way around too...you're poor b/c you are stupid. Some schools might not be as high quality as others, but it doesn't justify dropping out either I'd think.
The 'jesus is god' teacher should be fired if he's working for a public school. Thats his personal belief and he shouldn't be trying to force it onto others' children.
I'm not sure why you'd want to legalize cannibalism (or even what it really has to do with this topic). Most people don't want to be someone else's lunch so killing them for that is denying them their rights.
I don't know where you went to school, but in my HS the essay writing was more like your college profs. expectations. As long as we could back up what we were saying from the book (essays usually were about the book we were reading), you got a good grade.
Yes; especially if I'm traveling 300 miles. That works out to be about 37.5 minutes.
You also fail to consider that by passing 'that guy' I got to the bottom of the exit ramp in time to make the light, which also means I make the chain of lights once past the ramp light. Times that be 260 (5 days * 52 weeks), and thats about how much time I get back from my morning commute.
Wow, you're a twit. You really think I have nothing better to do then try to hide my responses to you?
First off, I don't really care what the tobacco industry used in its court arguments. I presented MY view of why cigerrettes should be allowed to be sold. Eating at McDs alot is probably alot worse then smoking, yet people choose to do so all the time. Since the outcome of the trial, they can't claim they don't know anymore, so saying thats why they are STILL allowed to operate doesn't make any sense. It is MY view that they should have won the lawsuit hands down. But b/c they didn't, you now have the ridicous lawsuits against fast food.
Secondly, I wouldn't have bashed your m-e-d-i-c-a-l marijuana comments either, as not only do I support medical marijuana, I support abolishing the war on drugs.
So, yes, I did have a point, and it was that your anology doesn't really make sense. For the record, I don't think simply telling someone where to download illegal copies of music or where to buy crack or how to pick a lock should be illegal.
So, hope you're thinking that you had found someone more insecure then youself left you with a good feeling..but now its time to come back to reality and realize that, no, there really isn't anyone out there more insecure than yourself. Its truely sad that you need/. to feel better about yourself.
Um, if only the pamplets are wrong, why are they letting you EXCHANGE the dvds you already have for new ones? If it was just the pamplet, sending out a new pamplet would suffice.
You may be seeing "less movie", but you are seeing what the director intended.
If the director didn't intend for me to see something, it wouldn't have ended up on film.
I do purposely only buy the widescreen versions, because I got tired of seeing a character talking to someone offscreen, or missing some visual clue that only appears in the corner of the widescreen version. Also...some of the pan and scans are so badly done they detract from the movie.
I thought i did own some movies that that were panning, and thought that it was wierd. I guess this would explain it.
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Why is this insightful?
My SB Audigy 2 worked fine OOTB with Mandrake 10. I had to install the drivers for my Nvidia 5700 (whihc you have to do in windows too).
Once id released the Doom 3 client for linux, I could stop going back to windows to play it. It DOES run at the same speed as it does in windows, and I didn't have to muck around at all. It just worked.
I even run it thru KDE, with my IM client still going. Seriously, what is the problem? If it doesn't run reliably or fast, its probably the game developers fault (or possibly yours, for having a bad setup).
id can do it, its not impossible...and the fact that it did 'just work' really impressed me (i've been trying to game since '98 on linux).
What the hell are you talking about?
I see there is a reply to my post but when i click on it, I just see my post. I have to change my threshold from 0 to -1 to your replies to me.
I didn't say that, or mean it. My point is that you're describing lots of bad luck, and seem unaware that all sorts of bad things are not happening to you from one day to the next. Some of those bad things not happening are not happening to you because at least some bad people have been caught in or after the act by a cop, and can't be bad to you any more. But your opinion of hundreds of thousands of people in law enforcement is driven by bad luck (whether or not you've done anything in your driving habits to push that bad luck along somewhat).
Its not bad luck when its a policy. EVERY time I've gone to traffic court (which, BTW 3 times) the judge doesn't ask to hear my side, askes if I'd lr ike to accept anothecharge instead which, invariably means no points, but the same fine. Their intrest is not in improving safety, its generating revenue. The fact that I personally have been hit few times does not mean that others aren't.
But, I've encountered dozens and dozens of dicks in other places of authority (regulatory, legal, college professors, supervisors, etc.) and of course run into people on the road every day that are complete jackasses. If you know three asses that happen to be cops, you're just in the wrong orbit of humanity (or only looking at a small slice of it). Don't get me wrong - I think that the vast majority of humans are asses. But there's a reason that cops undergo psych reviews all the time... so that the true wack jobs are out of a job. Wish that were true of some college professors, utility workers, and some IT people I've come across, too.
Yes, but of all the other places you encounter these people, cops are the only one that can have you fined or even jailed (for a short amount of time) for no real reason. And that doesn't even begin to talk about laws that punish you even when you have not harmed anyone else (i.e. speeding laws). The physc reviews cops undergo are only to make sure they don't go nutty and start randomly shooting people. I doubt one was ever told 'well, you have too much ofa power rush, so we need to let you go.'
Actually, the way that most jurisdictions handle traffic violations is to consider them the breaking of a regulation, and the training that the cops go through is considered adequate for them to testify (if it comes to that) about what they saw. It's sort of like you pressing charges if I were to hit you in the head, but without any witnesses. If you tell a judge a convincing enough story (absent anything else to go on), the matter is (legally) considered "proved." Of course, a lot of jurisdicions are getting away from even having to squabble about it by using radar guns that are coupled with video cameras, etc. Pretty hard to argue with the picture of your car in the intersection with the light red.
Wrong...if there are no witnesses, its basically a 'he said, she said,' and nothing will come of it. Its not considered 'proved' at all. Are you sure you're from the US? The reason we require actual proof is because going on word alone gives the speaker way too much power. GEt a clue. Oh, as far as those cameras go...you might want to google about the ones in NYC...you know, where the private company that runs them will start mailing tickets to anyone going through a YELLOW light. With today's technology, even pictures must be studied carefully.. My final point is this; just b/c thats how most jurisdictions do it does NOT make it right, either morally or legally.
One of the tickets I got was for "operating the vehicle in an unsafe manner" (weather related, in my case - we had a difference of opinion on whether my 4x4 could handle the snow) - no need for proof beyond his assesment that I wasn't being safe. Sort of like a health code violation in a restaurant. The inspector doesn't li
Wow, I bet you get hit by lightning a lot, too.
Says the author of a -1 post. Its rare i have to lower my threshold to see a reply. Congrats, you are one of only 5 posts with a -1 moderation. Must be proud.
I'm curious why you would think I'd just make up these incidents. You don't really know me, what gives you the right to just say 'bull?'
Know a lot of cops, do you? Personally? I do.
Three. Well, technically two...one became a prison guard in hopes of using that experience to become a cop. And yes, all three are dicks I'd rather not know.
They all work unbelievably hard hours, get paid squat
Ya, I see them working hard, camped out at known speed traps. Or the bagel shop. Occasionally I'll see them drive up or down our road. Mostly those are chasing speeders though. Hate to break it to you, but there's not a whole lot of crime here.
and are universally disliked by people until it's their house that's broken into, or their neighbor that's trashing their yard, or their business that just got ripped off, or their kid that just got killed by a drunk driver.
Hmm...but you HAVE to call the police, because any power you had to take care of these things has been taken away from you. Regarding being killed by a drunk driver...its usually not a big mystery to find said person.
Bullshit, and you know it.
Nope, I saw his test. Their words to him were that he was 'overqualified' and would quickly bore of the job.
These people have to have degrees, and when that education is coupled with very high scores, they typically become aware that they can shoot for a fast track towards a detective's job, or work for a state or federal agency
Wrong. Your average beat cop has at most a HS diploma.
(or a DA's office, etc)
Usually lawyers work at the DA's office, not cops..
So, is there anything in your professional life that you can size up at a glance? Do you know, when you see a certain type of server activity, that it's heavy load from a DoS attack? Or, that a certain sluggishness on a web browser is a bloated cache or some malware eating up performance? Are you at least in the neighborhood, making quick observations about things like that?
I can offer an educated guess, never say for sure until I do some investigation though. You're also forgetting that in order to convict someone you need, you know, actual proof. Punishing someone based solely on someone else's word is totally against our idea of justice.
Any chance that someone younger than you could, doing the same things all day, every day, for a few years, also arrive at that sort of observational skill?
Maybe, but there was a rather large age gap between myself and the cop, and I'm willing to be I actually had more experience than he. Again, you're forgetting thought that convicting someone of a crime requires PROOF, not someone's 'best guess.'
Put it this way, if I drove past you at 25, and then did so again at 40, or 55, would you have a pretty good sense of it? I know I can spot it, and patrol cops are in their cars driving in traffic for 30 or 60 hours a week. Every week. Assume thirty, and assume two weeks off a year. That young cop has spent 1500 hours on the clock, watching vehicles, usually on very familiar roads. That's more hours than a lot of pilots have ever spent in the air, and for cops, it's every year. They know what they're looking at, and if they're wrong, it's not by much.
Again, I'm willing to put money down that I had more experience. I bet you'd guess wrong most of the time. For the third time though, and estimate isn't good enough..he needs PROOF. Never mind that it'd be physically impossible to drive that fast down that road without destroying my car. Please, feel free to email me, I'll tell you the exact road, and you can take a Honda Accord down it going 55 to see what happens. Going over
No, I hate the "pigs" because they let thier power go to their head. You do realize that cops are just the bullies from HS...and now realizing they suddenly have to actually do work but have no real skills, they sign up to be cops. They get accepted because they have just high enough a score to pass thier little test, but not too high that would have them thinking for themselves. Yes, I know of someone turned down b/c they scored too high. They want someone with an average of a 6th grade education.
I hate them because twice now I've been pulled over for a cop wanting to make a DUI or just ticket someone. The first case I went to court to fight it; the state pled me down to a bad muffler. In the second case the cop had NO proof whatsoever (claimed i was doing 55 in a 25...except there are huge speed humps every 250 feet that would have ripped my car's underside off). He said he could technically ticket me anyway, based SOLEY on 'his knowledge and experience' that lead him to believe i was going that fast (never mind that he was much younger then me...). A third time I was harrassed by cops for supposedly breaking into a store and robbing it...in the end, it turned out they spelled the last name of the real person wrong. But 'applogies are against dept. rules.' Bite me.
I imagine its quite easy to make a rubber glove that looks very much like a real hand.
Actually, a level of incoherence of the "science" involved in Trekkie technics cancels it aspirations to be SCI-fi.
Why? ST is supposed to be far enough into the future that tech has advanced considerably (along with the underlying math). People seem to forget the Fiction part while they rant about the Science part. Science is contantly undergoing change, with new discoveries invalidating older theories. Why do you expect that what we 'know' today might actually pretty far off?
Laser beams visible in space
Phasers aren't lasers. Since they don't actually exist, why are you debating about if their emittions can be seen?
FTL with preservation of causality and general relativity
I believe there are now modern theories that, if correct, would also mean relativity is wrong. Since we haven't gotten anywhere close to light speed, attempting to say we know what happens if you can go faster is nothing more then an educated guess.
completely naive view of human psychology
Maybe, maybe not. Are we self destructive by nature, or is it our enviroment that causes that? Nature vs. nurture is still being debated...
most aliens are humanoid...
I'll give you that..it was done for a reason probably. My grandmother used to like ST because it didn't have the 'gross' monsters other sci-fi did. I think there was a TNG episode that also tried to explain that.
The truth is we really don't know what the future will bring, and to me sci-fi is a way of exploring what could be.
I also liked the with where Data because Massaka. I think it was called Masks..
I'm saying its not worth trying if doing so restricts peoples rights.
The problem with your line of thinking is that it inevidiably leads to making just about everything illegal, b/c hey, it might hurt / kill someone at sometime. Quite frankly, I'd rather be dead then alive but a slave to everyone else's whim.
You're responsible for your own safey. Take matters into your own hands, and if you're really scared of being killed by somone on the cell phone, then don't drive. Personally, I deal with them by passing them ASAP, so that if (notice, not when, IF) they do crash, I'm already where I want to be.
Having said that the scariest place I have ever driven, right above Boston, was Philidelphia. The people there are out to kill you! Several times I was driving on the freeway and someone would swerve right into my lane, not cutting me off, trying to occupy the same space at the same time.
:-)
Being from Philly..I have to saw we drive like that, b/c we'll never get into the lane we want if we don't.
My wife seems to fail to remember where I learned to drive, i guess its different learning to drive in Vermont then Philly. Don't need to pay as close attention.
I like the certification idea, but it would never pass...it would rule out the elderly completely (which, BTW is a great idea too).
I'm often saying 'say that again' because I was concentrating on some moron cutting infront of me as opposed to the phone call.
So why not just not talk on the phone at all and wait until later? I'm surpised the other person doesn't hang up with you..I hate having to repeat myself.
Heh...I'll just add a 'me too' to this part of the thread.
Also when driving in severe weather (usually snow).
To point at the culprit and say "HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS ACTIONS" provides little consolation to the family of the guy he just killed in a wreck. There's nothing wrong with taking preventative action to minimize the risk of traffic accidents.
Give me a break. no one said life is safe, any number of things can kill you just as easily. People that say this crap are also usually ones that want to ban free speech and remove other rights 'for the children.'
There was a great Law & Order on last night about this; a kid rapes another kid and goes to jail. Mommy blames some guy on the radio and shoots him, and her case ends in a mis-trial. Seems pretty accurate portrayal of thought in the US. Its not ok to rape, but its ok to shoot someone you disagree with!
It takes much less effort to listen then it does to participate in a conversation.
By your reasoning, the communist revolution in Russia was not a revolution either..granted those involved in the revolution were not elected, but certainly a vast majority of the people didn't necessarily want the communists in power either. Just enough of the military, as I remember.
I think you'd have to study the effects of it first. True, if you setup your will to allow your friends to do so,and they want to, it probably should be ok.
However, given that no other living creature i'm aware of will 'eat' its own species tells me something. Look no further then mad cow disease to get an idea of why this might be a bad idea.
This is true. Overall I don't think i had any lousy teachers. I think the number of those increases as the average income of the area the school is in decreases. Its almost like poor = stupid. And I'm not convinced that being poor causes stupidity, because it also seems to work the other way around too...you're poor b/c you are stupid. Some schools might not be as high quality as others, but it doesn't justify dropping out either I'd think.
The 'jesus is god' teacher should be fired if he's working for a public school. Thats his personal belief and he shouldn't be trying to force it onto others' children.
I'm not sure why you'd want to legalize cannibalism (or even what it really has to do with this topic). Most people don't want to be someone else's lunch so killing them for that is denying them their rights.
Thanks. Its nice to see there are still people out there that can admit fault.
At any rate I shouldn't have resorted to name calling either, as it was an honest mistake. So, I'm sorry too.
I don't know where you went to school, but in my HS the essay writing was more like your college profs. expectations. As long as we could back up what we were saying from the book (essays usually were about the book we were reading), you got a good grade.
Do have to agree the rest of your post though..
Yes; especially if I'm traveling 300 miles. That works out to be about 37.5 minutes.
;-)
You also fail to consider that by passing 'that guy' I got to the bottom of the exit ramp in time to make the light, which also means I make the chain of lights once past the ramp light. Times that be 260 (5 days * 52 weeks), and thats about how much time I get back from my morning commute.
Less time on the road also equals less stress.
I imagine most countries do also. Your point?
Wow, you're a twit. You really think I have nothing better to do then try to hide my responses to you?
/. to feel better about yourself.
First off, I don't really care what the tobacco industry used in its court arguments. I presented MY view of why cigerrettes should be allowed to be sold. Eating at McDs alot is probably alot worse then smoking, yet people choose to do so all the time. Since the outcome of the trial, they can't claim they don't know anymore, so saying thats why they are STILL allowed to operate doesn't make any sense. It is MY view that they should have won the lawsuit hands down. But b/c they didn't, you now have the ridicous lawsuits against fast food.
Secondly, I wouldn't have bashed your m-e-d-i-c-a-l marijuana comments either, as not only do I support medical marijuana, I support abolishing the war on drugs.
So, yes, I did have a point, and it was that your anology doesn't really make sense. For the record, I don't think simply telling someone where to download illegal copies of music or where to buy crack or how to pick a lock should be illegal.
So, hope you're thinking that you had found someone more insecure then youself left you with a good feeling..but now its time to come back to reality and realize that, no, there really isn't anyone out there more insecure than yourself. Its truely sad that you need
But tobacco companies are allowed to keep doing business under the "We don't know that, la la la, can't hear you" school of thought.
No, i think they are allowed to operate under the 'i am allowed to put carcinogens into my body if i choose to.'
Um, if only the pamplets are wrong, why are they letting you EXCHANGE the dvds you already have for new ones? If it was just the pamplet, sending out a new pamplet would suffice.
You may be seeing "less movie", but you are seeing what the director intended.
If the director didn't intend for me to see something, it wouldn't have ended up on film.
I do purposely only buy the widescreen versions, because I got tired of seeing a character talking to someone offscreen, or missing some visual clue that only appears in the corner of the widescreen version. Also...some of the pan and scans are so badly done they detract from the movie.
I thought i did own some movies that that were panning, and thought that it was wierd. I guess this would explain it.
Only when going thru my http 1.0 junkbuster proxy. Are you using a proxy of any kind?