okay, I hate that argument. The Transmetta was a shitty chip. It ran at 1.0 Ghz tops and on a tiny little 10 inch laptop could only dish out like 3 hours of battery life. I can get 5 hours on my 15.4 inch dell with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium M that kicks the shit out of the Transmetta in any benchmark. Why are people still talking about the Transmetta? It died? GOOD. It was SHITTY. The Pentium M is an awesome chip and maybe it can be improved upon but that advertisement that you bash has led a revolution in the computer industry with people caring about low powered chips and buying notebooks and advancements in battery life and small hard drives, portable devices, etc.
You're absolutely right sir. However, I think one part of The Mismeasurement or another book by Gould is very significant here. IQ tests were originally written to isolate the idiot and retarded population (yes, those were terms used back in the early 1900s I believe). They were then used to, as the parent poster says, justify slavery and mistreating women. However, they and other methods started backfiring when it was found that Africans and Asians and women scored higher than the whites in various measurement tests.
In any case, none of these tests should be taken seriously, especially because they were never meant to test excellence. Moreover, I think any sort of test made by a human is subject to their assumptions which are nowhere near close to understanding the brain's inner workings.
That said, I completely agree with TFA, men are much more intelligent than women. For example, women have been cooking for thousands of years and yet... who invented the steam engine? QED
I vote for natural asshole. This is a vast insensitivity that isn't available to the mind alteration drugs but only to long years of practiced yoga and stretching. Only through patience and determination and most importantly incessant stretching can you get your head stuck up your own ass so far that you not only cease to see the light of day, but you think your own shit is the light of day.
that's an excellent point, but do you really think that home technology won't be able to surpass theatre technology? I mean, it's not a fair game, home technology has a fridge and comfort on its side whereas theatre technology has bucko and his 10 gallon hat in front of you.
I'm saying you can set up a home theatre for like 2500 dollars with dvd player, projector, and speakers included (go for a 5.1 altec lansing and a panasonic 700 aeu or whatever 1280x720p with a good toshiba dvd player and you're set). Then you can watch any movies you'd like with your closest friends and eat all the popcorn you want and sit however you want and yell as loud as you want. This is not something that was possible in the other declines in theater attendance of which you speak.
um... do you like have a computer game called Jogging where you "jog" every day because as is listed on Apple's web site the iPods have a skip free timeout of like 20 minutes so any serious jog would make it skip I would assume.
however, the cost of those little things should be going down soon, just like the cost of all the other memory. Then, my dreams will come true and fie you with your feasibility concerns : )
Man, it would be so cool though, like a 20 GB flash mp3 god. I'd pay like 1000 for that if it has good data protection
what I don't understand is this. One of these little flash cards is like 4 GB but it's also VERY SMALL. So... why not put like 5 of them in an iPod Mini and get the fucking competition over with.
I for one welcome our new short sighted flash enabled overlords.
what I find interesting here is that whereas in the detection time sorted column Symantec performed at an average level, in the alphabetically sorted column they performed very badly, being one of the last ones in the list. Judging by a quick glance at this, I will switch my antivirus software to AntiVir which was at the TOP of the list.
25 year old, hm... 3 million dollars worth of stuff is pretty nice at 25. The only problem is... when you go to hit on a girl... what do you say you do? SPAM? Hey baby... I'm a spammer. Wanna SPAM? You know baby, I could make a couple of calls and all that spam in your inbox would be gone?
HEY, there's an idea, do you think these people know how to protect THEMSELVES from SPAM???? WOA!! I'm a freakin genius. I'm sure this guy's girlfriend isn't getting Viagra adds, how do they do it? Maybe we can just use their methods against themselves.
um, I agree with your point, but your math is a little off and I'm a prick : )
72000 prescriptions for 10 months is like one prescription every 6 minutes 24 hours a day so one every 2 minutes in a normal 8 hour work day. Whereas that would be physically possible, it should still have been a flag to the authorities, unless they got the math wrong the other way and thought it was one prescription every 2 hours : )
I do not by any means have prejudice against any movies because of how / where / when they were made. I would love Deuce Bigalo if it was good. Now, I am definitely NOT a film snob but here's the reason that The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) and The Great Dictator (Chaplin) are awesome movies (in my opinion of course, but also agreed to by many many people that love movies... i.e. Roger Ebert)
Seven Samurai
- beautiful scenery filming. You're not just watching a movie, you're immersed in the fields of grass and rivers that surround the village. This was done in the 1950s by the way and it is still better than almost anything done today
- simple, direct, meaningful plot. There are bandits, villagers, and samurai. All three are human, there is equal importance paid to the death of a bandit as to the death of a samurai.
- no clear bad / good guys and no message crammed down your throat. Clearly all of us fall in one of these categories in life. Is it worth it being a samurai? Could you stand being a farmer? Would you resort to being a bandit? The movie shows the complexity of an issue, it doesn't pretend to solve some problem and cram the answer down the watcher's throat.
- perfect dialogue
The Great Dictator
IS NOT a movie where Charlie Chaplin acts like an idiot. For anyone who actually sat through the movie, you would see that this is a celebration of life and beauty and a mockery of fascism and the fools who dare opress the human spirit. Chaplin was a true romantic and his movies are a celebration...
Most of Chaplin's movies and shorts follow the same lines, but if you take a moment and think that The Great Dictator was released in 1940, BEFORE U.S. involvement in WWII, and if you consider the audacity of the film and how utterly hilarious it is, maybe you could talk about the movie. But you haven't even fucking seen it and you speak of one of the greatest people that ever lived as if he's a fucking clown. Guess what, that's all that entertainment is... clownery. It's people pretending to do shit for your fucking amusement. It's just you're so wrapped up in Hollywood gloss that you forgot what life is really like and what art is really like, if you ever knew at all. I feel really sorry for people who don't get Charlie Chaplin, and it seems to me that most people these days don't get him. I just have one thing to say to all the people that read this and aren't going to go get a copy of The Great Dictator and watch it:
1.) I'm a computer consultant, never studied movies. 2.) whereas I agree with that argument to a point, is that to say that Titanic was a "good" movie because so many people enjoyed it? Does that mean that Van Wilder was a good movie because people enjoyed it? Your argument is flawed, if you have no standards, arguments are meaningless. If you live in a cave your whole life and the only movie you're allowed to see is Deuce Bigallow Male Jiggalo part 5, you'll think it's pretty damn enjoyable, does that make it Good???
I'm not bashing those movies at all, I love them both very very much. I love kevin spacey very very much. I also love the directing job in Monster's Ball very very much. That doesn't change that these movies are nowhere near close to The Seven Samurai. I'm willing to hazard a guess that most of the readers of this haven't even seen The Seven Samurai, and for that... if you're over 22, shame on you.
there's nothing wrong with anyone. People can enjoy whatever they want, still doesn't make it good. American Beauty isn't the highest grossing film of all time. Titanic is, and the movie is clearly ok but not good. The Seven Samurai is better than American Beauty which is better than the Titanic and the amount of people that went to see each of those movies in theaters are inversely proportional. So, just as I said, today and yesterday, people know nothing of good movies. That doesn't stop me from enjoying the crap out of Star Wars and Lord of The Rings even though I'll be the first one to say that these movies are utterly just really really really bad. My point was that whether a movie is good or bad, people prefer to watch it in their homes on DVD or on demand cable. That will kill theaters and any tears shed over it are just stupidity.
Well, I sort of see where you're coming from, but you're missing my point. People can enjoy whatever they want, but that doesn't make it "good". What makes it "good" is the group of people that know what they're talking about (like the directors themselves and film students and film critics). I think you'll find widespread agreement among the people that know what they're talking about as to what a great movie is. "The Seven Samurai" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest movies of all time. My point was that whereas American Beauty or Monster's Ball or whatever new movie you happen to like a lot is nowhere close to The Seven Samurai and there are hundreds of reasons this is so. But hey, here's the thing. People NEVER knew anything about good movies. Nor do they care. It's just that now, there's an easier way to watch movies than go to the theater. I'm just arguing that good movies have nothing to do with the theater, didn't mean to insult anyone and of course everything I say is my opinion, but expert opinions that agree are typically called "objective".
On one hand, I agree that a whole lot of movies today are horrible. On the other hand, people today know nothing of movies or what a good movie is. Take for instance Charlie Chaplin. The man was a romantic genius, pouring his emotions on the screen with "Modern Times" and "Limelight" and tens of other wonderful productions. He wrote, directed, acted in, and even composed the music for most of his work. But people today don't get him at all, and they don't even rent copies of Modern Times at Blockbusters any more.
Or Kurosawa. Seven Samurai is a brilliant film and yet most people can't sit through it. Or Jean Luc Goddard, there's not one movie of his at Blockbuster's. So why make good movies? So that the experts can say they're good? Movies are out to make money and the bigger problem at hand is, how do you make people go to a movie, not how do you make a good movie. I think there is no way, theatres are doomed. People will more and more sit on their lazy asses and pay the 3.99 on demand price whenever the movie is available. So what? Museums used to be hopping places too and now they're just tourist attractions.
I don't mean to be rude, but I don't understand why 4500 dollars for that low end OpenPower system you describe is something that someone would want. I set up the following system for my dad for 2200 dollars two years ago:
Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz 15K SCSI drive of 39 GB 10K SCSI drive of 78 GB 7200rpm IDE drive of 200 GB 2 GB ram Supermicro motherboard with built in Ultra 320 SCSI controller Windows 2003 Server
Besides the cache, everything else is about the same or better than what you describe, it hasn't stopped working since I set it up.
wow, that was the coolest video ever. Up to this point, I've only seen virtuoso pilots at air shows make those kinds of manuevers with their airplanes. I think this design, new or not, gives these mini planes a LOT of flexibility and could enable such applications as:
- spying on your next door neighbor while she's getting undressed - spying on your neighbor across the street while she is getting undressed - spying on your wife while she is getting undressed but not letting you watch because you got caught doing the above two things - spying on yourself while you are getting undressed by programming the plane to do so WITHOUT your knowledge and then getting really mad at it.
no but seriously, what's up with all the jokes? This is an awesome little plane concept, great job you guys.
"Many of the games are fairly complex, the sort of logic exercises I remember going through to get ready for my graduate school exam. One example: You see a drawing of an ant, a bear, a cat, and a dog. It's a multiple-choice question, so you have to pick, by tapping with the pen, the next animal to complete this chain. The answer is elephant, of course, as the creatures in the chain are placed in alphabetical order, and the word starts with an 'e'"
This isn't graduate school... it's a center for Ants! It has to be at LEAST... 3 times this size!!
That's right folks, you heard it here first, if you want your kids to go to graduate school thinking that because they know e comes after d in the alphabet they're hot shit, go ahead and buy them this AWesomeTAstic pen, and teach them to say "w00t" whenever they put letters in correct alphabetical order.
If you make something easy or fun it loses educational value. This is much more obvious in athletics. I have yet to encounter a workout regime that is "fun" and actually works to make you a great athlete. To run even a 5 minute mile, you have to get your ass out there and run until your veins pump acid and keep running and do it every day with a little day of rest once in a while.
Why is it that everyone seems to think mathematics or language or anything is any different? There may be some geniuses among us that love to learn and absorb everything and make it seem fun. However, they are most often tormented by their passion and driven through some very hard nights of sleeplessness and study.
To learn something well, you have to work hard at it. When America comes to grips with the fact that working hard is not fun and that you can't buy such and such device to make it fun, it will perhaps be the country it once was. Until then, it is headed in the direction of easy come easy go.
I am a 23 year old young adult who learned mathematics, programming, language, art, science, history, basketball, all the hard way. I loved every minute of it without having an ounce of fun. I had fun playing starcraft and quake and unreal tournament and pick up basketball games. I've lived in many varied neighborhoods and been educated in many different schools. Trust me on this one. What the world needs is not fun, it's hard work. The world was built on hard work. Having fun would only consume what has been built. Working hard would further develop and build our world. It's your choice, but I sincerely hope we'll choose to work hard.
no, I meant what I said, and I found each and every one of those bugs through my own painful experiences.
and, you're right, I did blow it with that last line. Perhaps if I was in a more diplomatic mood I would have said: "In order to make a claim that something is the best, you must make a point that everything else is not as good". However, duly noted, I will try to be less offensive in my future posts. My apologies to the original poster.
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okay, I hate that argument. The Transmetta was a shitty chip. It ran at 1.0 Ghz tops and on a tiny little 10 inch laptop could only dish out like 3 hours of battery life. I can get 5 hours on my 15.4 inch dell with a 1.8 Ghz Pentium M that kicks the shit out of the Transmetta in any benchmark. Why are people still talking about the Transmetta? It died? GOOD. It was SHITTY. The Pentium M is an awesome chip and maybe it can be improved upon but that advertisement that you bash has led a revolution in the computer industry with people caring about low powered chips and buying notebooks and advancements in battery life and small hard drives, portable devices, etc.
You're absolutely right sir. However, I think one part of The Mismeasurement or another book by Gould is very significant here. IQ tests were originally written to isolate the idiot and retarded population (yes, those were terms used back in the early 1900s I believe). They were then used to, as the parent poster says, justify slavery and mistreating women. However, they and other methods started backfiring when it was found that Africans and Asians and women scored higher than the whites in various measurement tests.
In any case, none of these tests should be taken seriously, especially because they were never meant to test excellence. Moreover, I think any sort of test made by a human is subject to their assumptions which are nowhere near close to understanding the brain's inner workings.
That said, I completely agree with TFA, men are much more intelligent than women. For example, women have been cooking for thousands of years and yet... who invented the steam engine? QED
*ducks*
I vote for natural asshole. This is a vast insensitivity that isn't available to the mind alteration drugs but only to long years of practiced yoga and stretching. Only through patience and determination and most importantly incessant stretching can you get your head stuck up your own ass so far that you not only cease to see the light of day, but you think your own shit is the light of day.
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dude that doesn't make gramatical sense... or sense at all
that's an excellent point, but do you really think that home technology won't be able to surpass theatre technology? I mean, it's not a fair game, home technology has a fridge and comfort on its side whereas theatre technology has bucko and his 10 gallon hat in front of you.
I'm saying you can set up a home theatre for like 2500 dollars with dvd player, projector, and speakers included (go for a 5.1 altec lansing and a panasonic 700 aeu or whatever 1280x720p with a good toshiba dvd player and you're set). Then you can watch any movies you'd like with your closest friends and eat all the popcorn you want and sit however you want and yell as loud as you want. This is not something that was possible in the other declines in theater attendance of which you speak.
um... do you like have a computer game called Jogging where you "jog" every day because as is listed on Apple's web site the iPods have a skip free timeout of like 20 minutes so any serious jog would make it skip I would assume.
touche, realistic person
however, the cost of those little things should be going down soon, just like the cost of all the other memory. Then, my dreams will come true and fie you with your feasibility concerns : )
Man, it would be so cool though, like a 20 GB flash mp3 god. I'd pay like 1000 for that if it has good data protection
what I don't understand is this. One of these little flash cards is like 4 GB but it's also VERY SMALL. So... why not put like 5 of them in an iPod Mini and get the fucking competition over with.
I for one welcome our new short sighted flash enabled overlords.
what I find interesting here is that whereas in the detection time sorted column Symantec performed at an average level, in the alphabetically sorted column they performed very badly, being one of the last ones in the list. Judging by a quick glance at this, I will switch my antivirus software to AntiVir which was at the TOP of the list.
25 year old, hm... 3 million dollars worth of stuff is pretty nice at 25. The only problem is... when you go to hit on a girl... what do you say you do? SPAM? Hey baby... I'm a spammer. Wanna SPAM? You know baby, I could make a couple of calls and all that spam in your inbox would be gone?
HEY, there's an idea, do you think these people know how to protect THEMSELVES from SPAM???? WOA!! I'm a freakin genius. I'm sure this guy's girlfriend isn't getting Viagra adds, how do they do it? Maybe we can just use their methods against themselves.
I rock so hard.
um, I agree with your point, but your math is a little off and I'm a prick : )
72000 prescriptions for 10 months is like one prescription every 6 minutes 24 hours a day so one every 2 minutes in a normal 8 hour work day. Whereas that would be physically possible, it should still have been a flag to the authorities, unless they got the math wrong the other way and thought it was one prescription every 2 hours : )
arithmetic people, Run -> calc -> Enter
I do not by any means have prejudice against any movies because of how / where / when they were made. I would love Deuce Bigalo if it was good. Now, I am definitely NOT a film snob but here's the reason that The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) and The Great Dictator (Chaplin) are awesome movies (in my opinion of course, but also agreed to by many many people that love movies... i.e. Roger Ebert)
Seven Samurai
- beautiful scenery filming. You're not just watching a movie, you're immersed in the fields of grass and rivers that surround the village. This was done in the 1950s by the way and it is still better than almost anything done today
- simple, direct, meaningful plot. There are bandits, villagers, and samurai. All three are human, there is equal importance paid to the death of a bandit as to the death of a samurai.
- no clear bad / good guys and no message crammed down your throat. Clearly all of us fall in one of these categories in life. Is it worth it being a samurai? Could you stand being a farmer? Would you resort to being a bandit? The movie shows the complexity of an issue, it doesn't pretend to solve some problem and cram the answer down the watcher's throat.
- perfect dialogue
The Great Dictator
IS NOT a movie where Charlie Chaplin acts like an idiot. For anyone who actually sat through the movie, you would see that this is a celebration of life and beauty and a mockery of fascism and the fools who dare opress the human spirit. Chaplin was a true romantic and his movies are a celebration...
Most of Chaplin's movies and shorts follow the same lines, but if you take a moment and think that The Great Dictator was released in 1940, BEFORE U.S. involvement in WWII, and if you consider the audacity of the film and how utterly hilarious it is, maybe you could talk about the movie. But you haven't even fucking seen it and you speak of one of the greatest people that ever lived as if he's a fucking clown. Guess what, that's all that entertainment is... clownery. It's people pretending to do shit for your fucking amusement. It's just you're so wrapped up in Hollywood gloss that you forgot what life is really like and what art is really like, if you ever knew at all. I feel really sorry for people who don't get Charlie Chaplin, and it seems to me that most people these days don't get him. I just have one thing to say to all the people that read this and aren't going to go get a copy of The Great Dictator and watch it:
FUCK YOU
1.) I'm a computer consultant, never studied movies.
2.) whereas I agree with that argument to a point, is that to say that Titanic was a "good" movie because so many people enjoyed it? Does that mean that Van Wilder was a good movie because people enjoyed it? Your argument is flawed, if you have no standards, arguments are meaningless. If you live in a cave your whole life and the only movie you're allowed to see is Deuce Bigallow Male Jiggalo part 5, you'll think it's pretty damn enjoyable, does that make it Good???
I'm not bashing those movies at all, I love them both very very much. I love kevin spacey very very much. I also love the directing job in Monster's Ball very very much. That doesn't change that these movies are nowhere near close to The Seven Samurai. I'm willing to hazard a guess that most of the readers of this haven't even seen The Seven Samurai, and for that... if you're over 22, shame on you.
there's nothing wrong with anyone. People can enjoy whatever they want, still doesn't make it good. American Beauty isn't the highest grossing film of all time. Titanic is, and the movie is clearly ok but not good. The Seven Samurai is better than American Beauty which is better than the Titanic and the amount of people that went to see each of those movies in theaters are inversely proportional. So, just as I said, today and yesterday, people know nothing of good movies. That doesn't stop me from enjoying the crap out of Star Wars and Lord of The Rings even though I'll be the first one to say that these movies are utterly just really really really bad. My point was that whether a movie is good or bad, people prefer to watch it in their homes on DVD or on demand cable. That will kill theaters and any tears shed over it are just stupidity.
Well, I sort of see where you're coming from, but you're missing my point. People can enjoy whatever they want, but that doesn't make it "good". What makes it "good" is the group of people that know what they're talking about (like the directors themselves and film students and film critics). I think you'll find widespread agreement among the people that know what they're talking about as to what a great movie is. "The Seven Samurai" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest movies of all time. My point was that whereas American Beauty or Monster's Ball or whatever new movie you happen to like a lot is nowhere close to The Seven Samurai and there are hundreds of reasons this is so. But hey, here's the thing. People NEVER knew anything about good movies. Nor do they care. It's just that now, there's an easier way to watch movies than go to the theater. I'm just arguing that good movies have nothing to do with the theater, didn't mean to insult anyone and of course everything I say is my opinion, but expert opinions that agree are typically called "objective".
On one hand, I agree that a whole lot of movies today are horrible. On the other hand, people today know nothing of movies or what a good movie is. Take for instance Charlie Chaplin. The man was a romantic genius, pouring his emotions on the screen with "Modern Times" and "Limelight" and tens of other wonderful productions. He wrote, directed, acted in, and even composed the music for most of his work. But people today don't get him at all, and they don't even rent copies of Modern Times at Blockbusters any more.
Or Kurosawa. Seven Samurai is a brilliant film and yet most people can't sit through it. Or Jean Luc Goddard, there's not one movie of his at Blockbuster's. So why make good movies? So that the experts can say they're good? Movies are out to make money and the bigger problem at hand is, how do you make people go to a movie, not how do you make a good movie. I think there is no way, theatres are doomed. People will more and more sit on their lazy asses and pay the 3.99 on demand price whenever the movie is available. So what? Museums used to be hopping places too and now they're just tourist attractions.
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I don't mean to be rude, but I don't understand why 4500 dollars for that low end OpenPower system you describe is something that someone would want. I set up the following system for my dad for 2200 dollars two years ago:
Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz
15K SCSI drive of 39 GB
10K SCSI drive of 78 GB
7200rpm IDE drive of 200 GB
2 GB ram
Supermicro motherboard with built in Ultra 320 SCSI controller
Windows 2003 Server
Besides the cache, everything else is about the same or better than what you describe, it hasn't stopped working since I set it up.
wow, that was the coolest video ever. Up to this point, I've only seen virtuoso pilots at air shows make those kinds of manuevers with their airplanes. I think this design, new or not, gives these mini planes a LOT of flexibility and could enable such applications as:
- spying on your next door neighbor while she's getting undressed
- spying on your neighbor across the street while she is getting undressed
- spying on your wife while she is getting undressed but not letting you watch because you got caught doing the above two things
- spying on yourself while you are getting undressed by programming the plane to do so WITHOUT your knowledge and then getting really mad at it.
no but seriously, what's up with all the jokes? This is an awesome little plane concept, great job you guys.
What the hell is this? A computer for ANTS??? How do you expect Children to fit in this thing? It would have to be at LEAST 3 times the size!!!
I totally agree, check this out from TFA:
... graduate school ... ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
... 3 times this size!!
"Many of the games are fairly complex, the sort of logic exercises I remember going through to get ready for my graduate school exam. One example: You see a drawing of an ant, a bear, a cat, and a dog. It's a multiple-choice question, so you have to pick, by tapping with the pen, the next animal to complete this chain. The answer is elephant, of course, as the creatures in the chain are placed in alphabetical order, and the word starts with an 'e'"
ahahahahahaha
hahahahahahaha aaAAAAHHHAAhahhahahaah AHAHAhaaaaahahahahahaaaahAHAAAAAAha
WTF?? graduate school? Holy freaking God
This isn't graduate school... it's a center for Ants! It has to be at LEAST
That's right folks, you heard it here first, if you want your kids to go to graduate school thinking that because they know e comes after d in the alphabet they're hot shit, go ahead and buy them this AWesomeTAstic pen, and teach them to say "w00t" whenever they put letters in correct alphabetical order.
"One geek will drag over their friends"
geek... friends?
I strongly disagree.
If you make something easy or fun it loses educational value. This is much more obvious in athletics. I have yet to encounter a workout regime that is "fun" and actually works to make you a great athlete. To run even a 5 minute mile, you have to get your ass out there and run until your veins pump acid and keep running and do it every day with a little day of rest once in a while.
Why is it that everyone seems to think mathematics or language or anything is any different? There may be some geniuses among us that love to learn and absorb everything and make it seem fun. However, they are most often tormented by their passion and driven through some very hard nights of sleeplessness and study.
To learn something well, you have to work hard at it. When America comes to grips with the fact that working hard is not fun and that you can't buy such and such device to make it fun, it will perhaps be the country it once was. Until then, it is headed in the direction of easy come easy go.
I am a 23 year old young adult who learned mathematics, programming, language, art, science, history, basketball, all the hard way. I loved every minute of it without having an ounce of fun. I had fun playing starcraft and quake and unreal tournament and pick up basketball games. I've lived in many varied neighborhoods and been educated in many different schools. Trust me on this one. What the world needs is not fun, it's hard work. The world was built on hard work. Having fun would only consume what has been built. Working hard would further develop and build our world. It's your choice, but I sincerely hope we'll choose to work hard.
no, I meant what I said, and I found each and every one of those bugs through my own painful experiences.
and, you're right, I did blow it with that last line. Perhaps if I was in a more diplomatic mood I would have said: "In order to make a claim that something is the best, you must make a point that everything else is not as good". However, duly noted, I will try to be less offensive in my future posts. My apologies to the original poster.