It's not an energy drink. Einstein used to stay awake for days thinking about things. He also would forget to comb his hair or bathe, change clothes that kind of stuff. They get so worked up thinking about a solution to a problem that they enter their own worlds, and forget about everything from tv to all people around them. Crazy....
I would venture to say that these people are so smart they have a hard time functioning in the real world. So smart they forget to eat, or brush their hair for instance. I haven't studied up on any of them, and can't even read the test for it being/.'ed but I did see the practice test and all of my answers where C, C, C.
There is no argument in the world where you cannot find one man who finds it right and another who finds it wrong.
I don't let my kid PLAY with scissors either, but he uses them, and if you don't let me someone else will.
If the world is ever free of terrorism, then you I will demand any lost freedoms that I need or want and you should too.
My main point which you have still missed my friend, is that I will trade a small percentage of my freedom for a safer country. Now I am not going to agree to a body cavity search every time I want to fly, but I am cool with having to prove I am who I say I am, and that the airline in turn tells the government who I am, what time and flied, and where I went.
I have enjoyed your point of view it's helped me make it through my Friday....
I never said you couldn't criticize it. I absolutely wouldn't pass gas in Bush's general direction.
I also have to disagree with the free democracy comment. Prohibition was one of the biggest failures of invasion of privacy I have ever read about.
I stand tall and say government needs help. We have an idiot in the Whitehouse and a bunch of Senators that are being steered by special interest and deep pockets inside of the people.
That wasn't his argument though, he had doomed up to death by our own hands.
This sounds like a more reasonable topic of discussion. I would agree that the level of our freedom may be eroding, but we must all agree that we are still the free of the free.
Due to the recent events within our country, we have to make sacrifices. Now we could start a whole other threat about the levels of the sacrifices we have to make. But I look at this just like during World War II. No sugar, no new cars, rations, etc, they made sacrifices. I am willing to make a few to ensure that so I can send my kid to school everyday without dirty bombs and worries over flying planes as weapons and terroristic activities.
We should be thankful that we don't live like some others live. Israel and Palestine are prime examples and if it means that an airline has to take all the information on me right down to the streak in my underwear and turn that over a the government then I am all for it. As a wise man once said, the only people who will complain are the criminals. If you can't handle it, don't fly. If the government has nothing better to do then watch me live a boring average life, then I say more power to them, but they better get some No Doze...cause they are gonna need it.
To answer your question, America still stands for being free, but you cannot be free at the expense of the masses. You cannot be free to choose, if chosing means it kills 3000 people who were just trying to have the American Dream, with a beautiful wife, a good job, 2.5 kids and a dog.
September 12, 2002 was one of the greatest days I have ever lived. I have never been more prouder to be an American, because for the first time in my lifetime, people came across the aisles and shook hands, and the whites cried with the blacks, and people went home, hugged their fathers and kissed their mothers. For a few weeks everyone was nice, and loving, and actually showed gentle sincere kindness for their fellow man.
2 years later, everyone seems to have forgotten the lives, and the tears, and the nightmares. They want to complain that we are going to hell in a hand basker people Uncle Sam knows that your boss sent you to the middle of hell on your kids birthday to rub elbows with a rich, pompous ass and the airline didn't tell you that they were gonna tell.
(Catches breath......whew...getting long winded here)
There are two sides to every story, everything a man does is right in one eye and wrong in another. If we are all free to do as we want with no limitations, our society would self destruct. The Patriot Act has a purpose, just like your kid trying to cut his own hair. It may not be perfect, but it is a work in progress. At this time in our society, with buildings falling and planes crashing and people getting their heads chopped off for just living, I would rather be safe then sorry.
How can you say that the 20s were the peak of our country? So I suppose that for nearly a century we have just been running on fumes? I agree we have our problems with partisan politics and bureacrats that have no business leading the masses when they don't understand the common man, but to stand there and say that our country is heading for crapper is an insult to every man, woman, and child that have died in the name of America.
In conclusion if you aren't happy you were born here, and at peace waving the flag that allows you to bring your highly educated, liberal arse on this website and spout such nonsense, then I would suggest you take the first plane outta here.
Maybe a few years in a third world nation would change your mind and make you realize not only how greatful we should be to have the life we live, but that we didn't accidently get here by stumbling around in the dark for the past 3/4 of a century.
And you are obviously an asshole. Good luck making it in the real world at all. This is/. not a damn spelling contest. Didn't realize I had to wear the Sunday clothes to Wednesday lunch.
Although, I will have to admit that English never was my subject, something about having to read and write, I didn't know that the teachers were proofreading the works today.
Now excuse me, I have to get back to my low paying job working in a Call Center for the Deaf and Blind.
"Here's my plan: Amass a small fortune, then move to some small country that no one knows about and live like a king."
When you amass this fortune, be sure to forget that if it wasn't for this great country that you live in that is run by this broken government that has worked so well for over 200 years you would probably be nothing more then a substance farmer bathing and pissing in the same river that the cow shits and drinks in.
Also when you find this small country that no one knows about, let me know...I want one too.
I don't know about you, but I have never had to give my SSN to get on an air plan. Driver's License maybe but never SSN. Don't tell me that your butthole hurts every time you fly either:)
Seriously, how many of you in here can read this and say you are surprise? Not I said the duck...Not I said the goose....Not I said the little red hen. This is not surprising. (Place tinfoil hat on now.) The government has the ability to know anything about anyone of us that they want. As long as you stay "Above ground" ie, you have a life, you are easily traceable by almost anyone, more or less Uncle Sam.
The deal is the same with ET and life in space, the majority of society is not ready to know this. Joe Smoe in Suburb A, Good Ole Boy, USA doesn't want to know that I can find out whatever I want on him and the government can probably tell where he is within 5 feet at any given time. That is if they want to waste the resources.
This is why I am amazed that the Olympic Bomber Dude (sorry, pressed for time and can't remember his name nor wish to google) spent years in the mountains of my home state without anyone finding him. HE would still be there too, if he hadn't come back into town....
I kinda got off topic for a moment, but to me, this is not news. If you think other companies don't do the same thing you are crazy. If the government came to me and said do this this and this or I am going to shut you down, and not pass this bill that will keep you in business, as well as block this foreign trade, then you would do it too. American Way baby.....
Doesn't anyone else find this even remotely saddening. That you can unplug for a weekend? Man...got to get away from the Matrix every once in a good while.
I hate to be the closed minded one again, but I think this is a bad idea. One of the coolest things about google is that no one really knows how it all works. It's like Willie Wonka the candy just shows up in a little box. And with the competition revamping and reworking everything they can to catch up to the googlites, I think this is a bad idea.
I think that 5 years from now, they may look back and say, you know if we hadn't reveal line 5267 of our code, MSN and Yahoo wouldn't be kicking our asses right now.
Of course my opinion is worth just about as much as the paper you could write it on.
Should cut prostituition(sp?) too...since Mr. Trucker can get some free pr0n! now when surfing the free Wi-Fi at the rest stops. I might even pull over for a little beef jerky and some...well you get the idea....
Until I can finally put a highly reactive substance in my laptop which gets so hot that I can't stand to place it in my lap. Sounds like a recipe for fun and profit.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. For some reason, I now feel like I may be at the wrong website. There is a possibility that the/. community has some deeper issues here.
Maybe they were picked on in high school or bullied in their block, maybe they have snot filled nightmares of late nights doing Johnny's homework. I think they might all be able to relate oh so too well to McFly. (What would happen if I turned in my homework in your handwriting McFly...hello...McFly...McFly).
Seriously people, the best form of comedy is at the expense of other people. Fact or fiction...one mans pain is another man's joy. Especially when that man is so tight assed he sweaks when he walks....and is named Lauren!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, lighten up a little bit. If you don't think it's funny to see Justin Timberlake crying like a baby, you are craZy as hell. Punk'd only goes to show you how stupid some people actually are. They assume so much, never check ids, never ask the right questions. They are too busy worrying about what they look like or their sweet material possessions. I saw screw'em. It's not like they are actually huring anyone by messing with them. Now if they were playing chicken with speeding cars or something I would understand. But pretending to run over an actor just to see Dave and Carmen shit their pants is okay by me.
"This is about creating a culture that demeans intellectual people."
Please remember those hardcore years in high school when you had to stop wearing underwear because Mr. Badass Jock would give you a superwedgie every morning. Recall that it only recently has become cool to be a geek. Show of hands to how many people in here get goosebumps and flashes of Fruit of the Loom going over the head everytime you walk past a water fountain? Jeez...nothing new here people.
Well except for instead of making you do his homework the bully is picking on you on MTV....
Why would they? Without competition there is no drive to make a better product. No reason. Well shy of the fact that you should want a better product. But no one is gonna shell out loads of dough if there isn't a price driving the force.
"But Mac users keep and use their machines for a _lot_ longer- they're actually more like 10% of users"Alot longer then what? Oh I forgot, my windows machine self destructs after 3 years. I just can't take all this MAC washing. The world according to a MAC user:
1. My MAC is better then your Windows XX machine.
2. MS apps run better on my MAC then your Windows XX machine.
3. The silicon that makes up my MAC is high value, so it will last so much longer the the silicon in those Windows parts.
4. My MAC is faster then your Windows XX machine
5. Because I use a MAC, my penis grew 4 inches and I can screw for hours and I couldn't do that before.
I have to leave this thread now. Getting....a...migraine.
No, not assuming a great game is a Windows game. But you could. Because I would almost guarantee that one thing you will never hear at EA is "Hey Shithead, how are you coming on that Award winning game that only works on OS X?"
Or you will never see a Venture Capitalist meeting start out by saying..."ok, we have this great idea for a game, but here's the catch, it only works on MACs. PCs can go to hell...and we are gonna make tons of money..."
Excuse me....but I don't think they would add special code to SimCity to see if SimCity was running. So if they added special code to Windows, wouldn't that be fixing their software?...hmmm.....think I might be on to something here.
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It's not an energy drink. Einstein used to stay awake for days thinking about things. He also would forget to comb his hair or bathe, change clothes that kind of stuff. They get so worked up thinking about a solution to a problem that they enter their own worlds, and forget about everything from tv to all people around them. Crazy....
/.'ed already!!!
But the world hasn't fallen apart using Microsoft either...oops, I said that outloud....
Wow I really screwed that post up....excuse the grammar, I was in a rush. I think you can get my point though.
I don't let my kid PLAY with scissors either, but he uses them, and if you don't let me someone else will.
If the world is ever free of terrorism, then you I will demand any lost freedoms that I need or want and you should too.
My main point which you have still missed my friend, is that I will trade a small percentage of my freedom for a safer country. Now I am not going to agree to a body cavity search every time I want to fly, but I am cool with having to prove I am who I say I am, and that the airline in turn tells the government who I am, what time and flied, and where I went.
I have enjoyed your point of view it's helped me make it through my Friday....
I also have to disagree with the free democracy comment. Prohibition was one of the biggest failures of invasion of privacy I have ever read about.
I stand tall and say government needs help. We have an idiot in the Whitehouse and a bunch of Senators that are being steered by special interest and deep pockets inside of the people.
That wasn't his argument though, he had doomed up to death by our own hands.
Turn'em off. Even the hotmail ones. It takes 5 secs to get one, so it should take 5 secs to turn one off. SPAM MUST be stopped!
Due to the recent events within our country, we have to make sacrifices. Now we could start a whole other threat about the levels of the sacrifices we have to make. But I look at this just like during World War II. No sugar, no new cars, rations, etc, they made sacrifices. I am willing to make a few to ensure that so I can send my kid to school everyday without dirty bombs and worries over flying planes as weapons and terroristic activities.
We should be thankful that we don't live like some others live. Israel and Palestine are prime examples and if it means that an airline has to take all the information on me right down to the streak in my underwear and turn that over a the government then I am all for it. As a wise man once said, the only people who will complain are the criminals. If you can't handle it, don't fly. If the government has nothing better to do then watch me live a boring average life, then I say more power to them, but they better get some No Doze...cause they are gonna need it.
To answer your question, America still stands for being free, but you cannot be free at the expense of the masses. You cannot be free to choose, if chosing means it kills 3000 people who were just trying to have the American Dream, with a beautiful wife, a good job, 2.5 kids and a dog.
September 12, 2002 was one of the greatest days I have ever lived. I have never been more prouder to be an American, because for the first time in my lifetime, people came across the aisles and shook hands, and the whites cried with the blacks, and people went home, hugged their fathers and kissed their mothers. For a few weeks everyone was nice, and loving, and actually showed gentle sincere kindness for their fellow man.
2 years later, everyone seems to have forgotten the lives, and the tears, and the nightmares. They want to complain that we are going to hell in a hand basker people Uncle Sam knows that your boss sent you to the middle of hell on your kids birthday to rub elbows with a rich, pompous ass and the airline didn't tell you that they were gonna tell.
(Catches breath......whew...getting long winded here)
There are two sides to every story, everything a man does is right in one eye and wrong in another. If we are all free to do as we want with no limitations, our society would self destruct. The Patriot Act has a purpose, just like your kid trying to cut his own hair. It may not be perfect, but it is a work in progress. At this time in our society, with buildings falling and planes crashing and people getting their heads chopped off for just living, I would rather be safe then sorry.
In conclusion if you aren't happy you were born here, and at peace waving the flag that allows you to bring your highly educated, liberal arse on this website and spout such nonsense, then I would suggest you take the first plane outta here.
Maybe a few years in a third world nation would change your mind and make you realize not only how greatful we should be to have the life we live, but that we didn't accidently get here by stumbling around in the dark for the past 3/4 of a century.
Although, I will have to admit that English never was my subject, something about having to read and write, I didn't know that the teachers were proofreading the works today.
Now excuse me, I have to get back to my low paying job working in a Call Center for the Deaf and Blind.
When you amass this fortune, be sure to forget that if it wasn't for this great country that you live in that is run by this broken government that has worked so well for over 200 years you would probably be nothing more then a substance farmer bathing and pissing in the same river that the cow shits and drinks in.
Also when you find this small country that no one knows about, let me know...I want one too.
The deal is the same with ET and life in space, the majority of society is not ready to know this. Joe Smoe in Suburb A, Good Ole Boy, USA doesn't want to know that I can find out whatever I want on him and the government can probably tell where he is within 5 feet at any given time. That is if they want to waste the resources.
This is why I am amazed that the Olympic Bomber Dude (sorry, pressed for time and can't remember his name nor wish to google) spent years in the mountains of my home state without anyone finding him. HE would still be there too, if he hadn't come back into town....
I kinda got off topic for a moment, but to me, this is not news. If you think other companies don't do the same thing you are crazy. If the government came to me and said do this this and this or I am going to shut you down, and not pass this bill that will keep you in business, as well as block this foreign trade, then you would do it too. American Way baby.....
Doesn't anyone else find this even remotely saddening. That you can unplug for a weekend? Man...got to get away from the Matrix every once in a good while.
I think that 5 years from now, they may look back and say, you know if we hadn't reveal line 5267 of our code, MSN and Yahoo wouldn't be kicking our asses right now.
Of course my opinion is worth just about as much as the paper you could write it on.
Should cut prostituition(sp?) too...since Mr. Trucker can get some free pr0n! now when surfing the free Wi-Fi at the rest stops. I might even pull over for a little beef jerky and some...well you get the idea....
Until I can finally put a highly reactive substance in my laptop which gets so hot that I can't stand to place it in my lap. Sounds like a recipe for fun and profit.
Maybe they were picked on in high school or bullied in their block, maybe they have snot filled nightmares of late nights doing Johnny's homework. I think they might all be able to relate oh so too well to McFly. (What would happen if I turned in my homework in your handwriting McFly...hello...McFly...McFly).
Seriously people, the best form of comedy is at the expense of other people. Fact or fiction...one mans pain is another man's joy. Especially when that man is so tight assed he sweaks when he walks....and is named Lauren!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, lighten up a little bit. If you don't think it's funny to see Justin Timberlake crying like a baby, you are craZy as hell. Punk'd only goes to show you how stupid some people actually are. They assume so much, never check ids, never ask the right questions. They are too busy worrying about what they look like or their sweet material possessions. I saw screw'em. It's not like they are actually huring anyone by messing with them. Now if they were playing chicken with speeding cars or something I would understand. But pretending to run over an actor just to see Dave and Carmen shit their pants is okay by me.
Please remember those hardcore years in high school when you had to stop wearing underwear because Mr. Badass Jock would give you a superwedgie every morning. Recall that it only recently has become cool to be a geek. Show of hands to how many people in here get goosebumps and flashes of Fruit of the Loom going over the head everytime you walk past a water fountain? Jeez...nothing new here people.
Well except for instead of making you do his homework the bully is picking on you on MTV....
Why would they? Without competition there is no drive to make a better product. No reason. Well shy of the fact that you should want a better product. But no one is gonna shell out loads of dough if there isn't a price driving the force.
1. My MAC is better then your Windows XX machine.
2. MS apps run better on my MAC then your Windows XX machine.
3. The silicon that makes up my MAC is high value, so it will last so much longer the the silicon in those Windows parts.
4. My MAC is faster then your Windows XX machine
5. Because I use a MAC, my penis grew 4 inches and I can screw for hours and I couldn't do that before.
I have to leave this thread now. Getting....a...migraine.
Or you will never see a Venture Capitalist meeting start out by saying..."ok, we have this great idea for a game, but here's the catch, it only works on MACs. PCs can go to hell...and we are gonna make tons of money..."
Excuse me....but I don't think they would add special code to SimCity to see if SimCity was running. So if they added special code to Windows, wouldn't that be fixing their software?...hmmm.....think I might be on to something here.