I live in a small town (about 6000 people) in rural NE Okla. and have Blockbuster Online. The nearest place for me to go to a BB store for the Total Access is either Grove (50min) or Claremore (40min) to trade. Sending movies in, however, goes to Tulsa and they arrive at BB the next day, and we get movies the day after they ship out. Netflix's closest center is in Dallas I believe, and takes a while. My mother-in-law has Netflix (also in our town) and it sucks. On top of that, the online movies I've seen them have on their site have all been pretty old. I think I'll stick with BB until they go out of business. No need to switch to something that sucks any sooner than necessary!!
I have 7.04 Feisty on my Dell Latitude 120L with a Broadcomm 43xx wifi card, and it took about 10 minutes after reading UbuntuGuide's http://ubuntuguide.org/ HowTo on it, and that was the first time I'd booted Linux *EVER*.
Did M$ not get the hint that Vista wasn't ready for launch when it was 4 years late?! I work for Acer computers and about 85% or more of our sales are laptops. Our number 1 problem? Vista won't communicate with some routers, or drops connections to wireless routers all the time. The damn things don't work right half the time. However, you can wipe it and load XPPro or Home or MCE on it, get the drivers for that system, and its wonderful. Granted when you work tech support, you hear only the bad stuff, but this is rediculous. I constantly have customers asking for help or at least links to XP drivers after they have reformatted and loaded an XP install. Microsoft not only needs to let companies continue to load XP as OEM, but also be willing to support it. Acer's agreement with M$ is that we do not support their piece of shit (it'd be nice if it was actually worded that way!), but they insist that the registration problems with product keys our OUR problem when Acer can't issue those keys any more than Linus does it. I'm not a Linux guy (only because I haven't sat down with it yet really) but as soon as I can get my wireless to work with it I'll have a dual boot. And Satan will be seen building a snow man before that damn "piece of Vista" makes its way into my house!
Come on guys, I know a LOT of us suffer from rectal-cranial inversion (Read: Head up your ass), but lets stop bitching and arguing about this and SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Granted, I think its kind of stupid myself that the globe thinks we should turn over our stuff, but then again, who knows. Why don't they just make their own freakin' stuff and stop trying to take ours? They might as well try telling us we should get rid of our guns too. I can see them trying to tell that to someone in Oklahoma or Texas! I personally have several. But, if they think we should give them our stuff, then I wonder what they'd say if we demanded the money we spent to rebuild their sorry butts after WWII. We did rebuild like half of freakin' Europe and probably Japan too, went rediculously in debt (even though it wasn't as bad as it is now) to do it, and then they complain about us trying to keep something together. Just like a car, they can build their own! I'd like to know how much we've spent helping all of these people who are screaming at us for "controling" the Internet, while our own people are dying of hunger and can't read. I don't have that problem, and I don't make much money at my job, but I do try to give something when I can, even if its not a lot. They say it only costs a couple dollars a day to feed/cloth someone at the Salvation Army. We complain about not having any money and being poor, but we spend $1.39 for a bottle of water at QuikTrip. Anyone who is sitting here reading this (myself included) can't imagine what those people live like. We should be ashamed of ourselves, and so should the people yelling at us. Lets get this out of the way and concentrate on something bigger, like trying to help the homeless guy you pass on your way to work every day. It doesn't take much, but it can change someones life.
And, forgive me again for being far OT, but I saw something on here (in a different area, obviously) about people trying to "self-identify", and a guy talking to a woman who said she was German-American but spoke no German. People were talking about always wanting to be ID'd with something else. I'm a mutt, no 2 ways about it. Irish, Scotch, German, Cherokee, and I don't know what else. I'm not Irish-American, I'm not German-American (though I do speak it a LITTLE), I'm an _AMERICAN_ and damn proud of it! I'm not saying I agree with GW and everyone in D.C. with what they do, but I'm proud to be an American, and if you aren't, then PLEASE go somewhere else, or start writing your reps, senators, and everyone else. IMHO, you have no right to complain unless you vote and/or try to make a difference in some other way.
BTW, do us all a favor. Stop complaining about our soldiers fighting the war. They don't like it either, they just do what they are told. Pray, or whatever it is you do, that as many as can will come back home in one piece. And go grab the next old man or old lady you see with a WWII/'NAM/ECT. VET hat on and shake their hand or hug them and tel them you appreciate their willingness to lay their lives on the line to defend our country and our freedom, since so many seem to have lost what it means to respect someone who's done that for them. I've never served, and I don't ant to, but I thank all of you who have from the bottom of my heart.
how about NOT tin foil. If it hits the fillings in your mouth (assuming you have them, and they are still partial Hg), then its going to hurt like hell, since it's about like crossing the posts on a battery. Physical Science class guys.. We actually had a kid dumb enough to try it. It was funny..
Not to be off topic, but check out the guy with the bottle rocket in his rectal cavity at ebaumsworld.com.. I almost fell out of my chair at work when my super showed it to me!
I like my Smith & *Western*, but don't forget J.P. Saur either. He was one of Samuel Colt's partners then they got into a fight. Saur makes some dang good revolvers as well.
The largest Mc-f'ing-Donalds in the world is in Vinita, OK, and it sucks. It stretches across the Will Rogers Turnpike (Interstate 44), and is disgusting. I think it'd be fun to see how many people get pissed off because it starts working all of a sudden and then quits again after they pass under the building (assuming it'd even work well enough through that, probably not).
Also, I want to see them get some picachu(sp?) in somoene's BigMac, instead of kangaroo!
The obvious answer is the one I chose. Fiction. The main reason is my own personal experience.
I live in NE Oklahoma. My nearest neighbor is a little over a mile away, and my family owns 900 acres of land. We have deer, turkeys, coyotes, and someone found some wild pigs on an adjacent piece of land a week ago. Plenty of chances to kill things.
I've played FPS's since I got a shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D WAY back in the day, and that was all. It was just fun! I of course graduated to Doom, Quake, UT, and have played Halo some also. I just like to play those kinds of games.
I currently own a Howa.243 5-shot bolt action with a 4.5x32 scope, a P.R. of China made 7.62x39mm SKS, a.40 cal F-N Model Fourty-Nine, and just sold a.45 Ruger. If I want to kill something, I can do it fast, effectively, and with extreme predjudice. Yet, I don't care to hunt. I want to become an even better shot, and I like to target practice. Thats all. If anyone had the means, it'd probably be me.
When the idiots shot Rachael Scott (the girl shot for defending her Faith in Columbine), they came under a microscope. They were avid players of Quake-type games, listened to bands like Ram(m?)stein, and spoke German as well. At that time, I was 17, played those games, spoke German (exchange students were teaching me.. school firends) and I kind of listened to Rammstein, until I learned enough to translate what they were saying. Sick sick people.
Does that make me a potential killer? Not any more than sitting in McDonalds makes you a hamburger. And playing Halo doesn't make you a sniper either. I have a friend who is an honerably discharged certified sniper for the USMC (was on the crew to clean up faluja after the city was captured) and he's helping me improve. There is no way on earth you can account for the wind, angle, trajectory, ect in a game. Yeah, you can do a physics model, but nature is still unpredictable. If you don't believe me, watch an OK tornado in May. Violence in video games doesn't kill people. Stupid people kill people. I don't even hunt much less shoot people. Plus, a game isn't going to make you get out your broken shell extractor for your SKS and fix it, or clean your Glock 17C before you can fire again, or replace a wornout spring in your clip on your Ruger.
Who wants to lay odds that if people keep bring him to task, that the next game he has someone develope then wimps out on, will be a mass-execution of/.ers??!! What a jerk this guy is.. Someone needs to strap him into a holding chute in a coral and show him how a steer feels. (Hey, I'm from Oklahoma, leave me alone!;)
Someone needs to send this guy to an Oklahoma turnpike. Ours, like PA, was supposed to be paid for long ago, and still charge way too much. Our construction projects are so bad that the nearest state to use the ammount of barrels and cones as Oklahoma does, is like 1/2 of what we use. Its that rediculous. Its seems to me like PA is next in line, but ours is by far worse (my dad works for a state agency, just not the turnpike). However, it does save a lot of time going from place to place, especially when there is almost NOTHING between some of the towns in WSW Oklahoma!
While I'm not a psycho-doc, I think I agree with you. I bet if I went into a doctors office, the whole "White coat syndrome" would kick in and my test would come back positive because I'd be anxious, although I'm rarely anxious about anything else. It's not that I have a problem with doctors or needles, no big deal. It just happens, and I know a LOT of people go through it, because you're not in the docs office very often because you just *WANT* to get poked and prodded. If that were the case, an OB visit wouldn't be so bad for a woman. I feel sorry for my soon-to-be. It's a good things guys don't have to go through it near as often!!
heck? If you have sterile males trying to breed females and not being sucessful, won't another dude come along and poke her too? I don't really think that those critters die after being mated once, though I don't know. I'd think you'd want to leave the sterile ones in the population instead of killing them, so to create compitition for food between them and non-altered ones (though I doubt it'd be of significant impact) and so there are sterile males still in circulation as we wait for the ones with loaded guns to die off. I kind of like the flamethrower aproach myself.
The reason they don't last is because one is a bad apple, and the other too much like the first! Getting married in March of 06, I can say I'm glad my bride-to-be is not just like me. We get along great, and she is absolutely perfect for me. This girl is more than I could have dreamed of, let alone what I was looking for. I'm glad we aren't *THAT* much alike, but we do have a lot in common, and a lot is different enough that we always seem to learn about eachother. And though the divorce rate in the state of Oklahoma is 1:2, I firmly believe we won't be the one calling it quits. We both want this too much and have had a lot of trials so far. Wish us luck!
Anyway, Hollywood relationships are a lot like the milk in the fridge.. they don't last more than a week or 10 days it seems. Thats because they have no Foundation. Someone needs to sit down with those guys and read Ephesians 5:22-33. It talks about wives submitting to their husbands and husbands loving their wives how they should. Now, I'm not saying wives should be RULED or anything, and I'm not a thumper, but I do know what I believe. What Paul is saying here is that a wife should submit herself to her husband as he submits himself to God. If he doesn't, then she shouldn't, because if the man does, then it will be no problem for her to follow suit and make it work. Granted things aren't a basket of roses when you walk the walk you're supposed to, if anything they are harder. But I'd rather know my wife will be there when I need her and her know I'll be there than anything this world has to offer.
[Please understand I'm not trying to put anyone down or any group or anything, so don't be crappin on my box just because I actually am among the few who think that marrige and taking care of my wife and my family is a responsability and task of the highest honor.]
The fact that someone knows that they get crusty is semi-intruiging, yet makes me want to hurl about as much as watching a couple of 2000lb people do it.. or watching a bull get his nuts cut off. I can't understand how people eat calf fries.. *hurl*
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I live in a small town (about 6000 people) in rural NE Okla. and have Blockbuster Online. The nearest place for me to go to a BB store for the Total Access is either Grove (50min) or Claremore (40min) to trade. Sending movies in, however, goes to Tulsa and they arrive at BB the next day, and we get movies the day after they ship out. Netflix's closest center is in Dallas I believe, and takes a while. My mother-in-law has Netflix (also in our town) and it sucks. On top of that, the online movies I've seen them have on their site have all been pretty old. I think I'll stick with BB until they go out of business. No need to switch to something that sucks any sooner than necessary!!
I have 7.04 Feisty on my Dell Latitude 120L with a Broadcomm 43xx wifi card, and it took about 10 minutes after reading UbuntuGuide's http://ubuntuguide.org/ HowTo on it, and that was the first time I'd booted Linux *EVER*.
True.. but they make for tasty burgers though!
Did M$ not get the hint that Vista wasn't ready for launch when it was 4 years late?! I work for Acer computers and about 85% or more of our sales are laptops. Our number 1 problem? Vista won't communicate with some routers, or drops connections to wireless routers all the time. The damn things don't work right half the time. However, you can wipe it and load XPPro or Home or MCE on it, get the drivers for that system, and its wonderful. Granted when you work tech support, you hear only the bad stuff, but this is rediculous. I constantly have customers asking for help or at least links to XP drivers after they have reformatted and loaded an XP install. Microsoft not only needs to let companies continue to load XP as OEM, but also be willing to support it. Acer's agreement with M$ is that we do not support their piece of shit (it'd be nice if it was actually worded that way!), but they insist that the registration problems with product keys our OUR problem when Acer can't issue those keys any more than Linus does it. I'm not a Linux guy (only because I haven't sat down with it yet really) but as soon as I can get my wireless to work with it I'll have a dual boot. And Satan will be seen building a snow man before that damn "piece of Vista" makes its way into my house!
I use FF to check my yahoo! mail every day. Never had one bit of trouble!
Come on guys, I know a LOT of us suffer from rectal-cranial inversion (Read: Head up your ass), but lets stop bitching and arguing about this and SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Granted, I think its kind of stupid myself that the globe thinks we should turn over our stuff, but then again, who knows. Why don't they just make their own freakin' stuff and stop trying to take ours? They might as well try telling us we should get rid of our guns too. I can see them trying to tell that to someone in Oklahoma or Texas! I personally have several. But, if they think we should give them our stuff, then I wonder what they'd say if we demanded the money we spent to rebuild their sorry butts after WWII. We did rebuild like half of freakin' Europe and probably Japan too, went rediculously in debt (even though it wasn't as bad as it is now) to do it, and then they complain about us trying to keep something together. Just like a car, they can build their own! I'd like to know how much we've spent helping all of these people who are screaming at us for "controling" the Internet, while our own people are dying of hunger and can't read. I don't have that problem, and I don't make much money at my job, but I do try to give something when I can, even if its not a lot. They say it only costs a couple dollars a day to feed/cloth someone at the Salvation Army. We complain about not having any money and being poor, but we spend $1.39 for a bottle of water at QuikTrip. Anyone who is sitting here reading this (myself included) can't imagine what those people live like. We should be ashamed of ourselves, and so should the people yelling at us. Lets get this out of the way and concentrate on something bigger, like trying to help the homeless guy you pass on your way to work every day. It doesn't take much, but it can change someones life.
And, forgive me again for being far OT, but I saw something on here (in a different area, obviously) about people trying to "self-identify", and a guy talking to a woman who said she was German-American but spoke no German. People were talking about always wanting to be ID'd with something else. I'm a mutt, no 2 ways about it. Irish, Scotch, German, Cherokee, and I don't know what else. I'm not Irish-American, I'm not German-American (though I do speak it a LITTLE), I'm an _AMERICAN_ and damn proud of it! I'm not saying I agree with GW and everyone in D.C. with what they do, but I'm proud to be an American, and if you aren't, then PLEASE go somewhere else, or start writing your reps, senators, and everyone else. IMHO, you have no right to complain unless you vote and/or try to make a difference in some other way.
BTW, do us all a favor. Stop complaining about our soldiers fighting the war. They don't like it either, they just do what they are told. Pray, or whatever it is you do, that as many as can will come back home in one piece. And go grab the next old man or old lady you see with a WWII/'NAM/ECT. VET hat on and shake their hand or hug them and tel them you appreciate their willingness to lay their lives on the line to defend our country and our freedom, since so many seem to have lost what it means to respect someone who's done that for them. I've never served, and I don't ant to, but I thank all of you who have from the bottom of my heart.
how about NOT tin foil. If it hits the fillings in your mouth (assuming you have them, and they are still partial Hg), then its going to hurt like hell, since it's about like crossing the posts on a battery. Physical Science class guys.. We actually had a kid dumb enough to try it. It was funny..
Not to be off topic, but check out the guy with the bottle rocket in his rectal cavity at ebaumsworld.com.. I almost fell out of my chair at work when my super showed it to me!
I like my Smith & *Western*, but don't forget J.P. Saur either. He was one of Samuel Colt's partners then they got into a fight. Saur makes some dang good revolvers as well.
The largest Mc-f'ing-Donalds in the world is in Vinita, OK, and it sucks. It stretches across the Will Rogers Turnpike (Interstate 44), and is disgusting. I think it'd be fun to see how many people get pissed off because it starts working all of a sudden and then quits again after they pass under the building (assuming it'd even work well enough through that, probably not).
Also, I want to see them get some picachu(sp?) in somoene's BigMac, instead of kangaroo!
The obvious answer is the one I chose. Fiction. The main reason is my own personal experience.
.243 5-shot bolt action with a 4.5x32 scope, a P.R. of China made 7.62x39mm SKS, a .40 cal F-N Model Fourty-Nine, and just sold a .45 Ruger. If I want to kill something, I can do it fast, effectively, and with extreme predjudice. Yet, I don't care to hunt. I want to become an even better shot, and I like to target practice. Thats all. If anyone had the means, it'd probably be me.
I live in NE Oklahoma. My nearest neighbor is a little over a mile away, and my family owns 900 acres of land. We have deer, turkeys, coyotes, and someone found some wild pigs on an adjacent piece of land a week ago. Plenty of chances to kill things.
I've played FPS's since I got a shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D WAY back in the day, and that was all. It was just fun! I of course graduated to Doom, Quake, UT, and have played Halo some also. I just like to play those kinds of games.
I currently own a Howa
When the idiots shot Rachael Scott (the girl shot for defending her Faith in Columbine), they came under a microscope. They were avid players of Quake-type games, listened to bands like Ram(m?)stein, and spoke German as well. At that time, I was 17, played those games, spoke German (exchange students were teaching me.. school firends) and I kind of listened to Rammstein, until I learned enough to translate what they were saying. Sick sick people.
Does that make me a potential killer? Not any more than sitting in McDonalds makes you a hamburger. And playing Halo doesn't make you a sniper either. I have a friend who is an honerably discharged certified sniper for the USMC (was on the crew to clean up faluja after the city was captured) and he's helping me improve. There is no way on earth you can account for the wind, angle, trajectory, ect in a game. Yeah, you can do a physics model, but nature is still unpredictable. If you don't believe me, watch an OK tornado in May. Violence in video games doesn't kill people. Stupid people kill people. I don't even hunt much less shoot people. Plus, a game isn't going to make you get out your broken shell extractor for your SKS and fix it, or clean your Glock 17C before you can fire again, or replace a wornout spring in your clip on your Ruger.
Oh yeah, and JT is a moron.
Who wants to lay odds that if people keep bring him to task, that the next game he has someone develope then wimps out on, will be a mass-execution of /.ers??!! What a jerk this guy is.. Someone needs to strap him into a holding chute in a coral and show him how a steer feels. (Hey, I'm from Oklahoma, leave me alone! ;)
Someone needs to send this guy to an Oklahoma turnpike. Ours, like PA, was supposed to be paid for long ago, and still charge way too much. Our construction projects are so bad that the nearest state to use the ammount of barrels and cones as Oklahoma does, is like 1/2 of what we use. Its that rediculous. Its seems to me like PA is next in line, but ours is by far worse (my dad works for a state agency, just not the turnpike). However, it does save a lot of time going from place to place, especially when there is almost NOTHING between some of the towns in WSW Oklahoma!
While I'm not a psycho-doc, I think I agree with you. I bet if I went into a doctors office, the whole "White coat syndrome" would kick in and my test would come back positive because I'd be anxious, although I'm rarely anxious about anything else. It's not that I have a problem with doctors or needles, no big deal. It just happens, and I know a LOT of people go through it, because you're not in the docs office very often because you just *WANT* to get poked and prodded. If that were the case, an OB visit wouldn't be so bad for a woman. I feel sorry for my soon-to-be. It's a good things guys don't have to go through it near as often!!
heck? If you have sterile males trying to breed females and not being sucessful, won't another dude come along and poke her too? I don't really think that those critters die after being mated once, though I don't know. I'd think you'd want to leave the sterile ones in the population instead of killing them, so to create compitition for food between them and non-altered ones (though I doubt it'd be of significant impact) and so there are sterile males still in circulation as we wait for the ones with loaded guns to die off. I kind of like the flamethrower aproach myself.
The reason they don't last is because one is a bad apple, and the other too much like the first! Getting married in March of 06, I can say I'm glad my bride-to-be is not just like me. We get along great, and she is absolutely perfect for me. This girl is more than I could have dreamed of, let alone what I was looking for. I'm glad we aren't *THAT* much alike, but we do have a lot in common, and a lot is different enough that we always seem to learn about eachother. And though the divorce rate in the state of Oklahoma is 1:2, I firmly believe we won't be the one calling it quits. We both want this too much and have had a lot of trials so far. Wish us luck!
Anyway, Hollywood relationships are a lot like the milk in the fridge.. they don't last more than a week or 10 days it seems. Thats because they have no Foundation. Someone needs to sit down with those guys and read Ephesians 5:22-33. It talks about wives submitting to their husbands and husbands loving their wives how they should. Now, I'm not saying wives should be RULED or anything, and I'm not a thumper, but I do know what I believe. What Paul is saying here is that a wife should submit herself to her husband as he submits himself to God. If he doesn't, then she shouldn't, because if the man does, then it will be no problem for her to follow suit and make it work. Granted things aren't a basket of roses when you walk the walk you're supposed to, if anything they are harder. But I'd rather know my wife will be there when I need her and her know I'll be there than anything this world has to offer.
[Please understand I'm not trying to put anyone down or any group or anything, so don't be crappin on my box just because I actually am among the few who think that marrige and taking care of my wife and my family is a responsability and task of the highest honor.]
The fact that someone knows that they get crusty is semi-intruiging, yet makes me want to hurl about as much as watching a couple of 2000lb people do it.. or watching a bull get his nuts cut off. I can't understand how people eat calf fries.. *hurl*
For the love of God please don't say that!! Someone this stupid might get in!