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Reply to A Real Fuster Cluck - The Matrix Org Chart in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

At least you are going on your vacation. The last two comanies I worked at was a night mare. The last one was a small consulting company. The told us we had to take our vacation time since it is a liability on their accounting books. But whenever I asked for vacation time I couldn't get it because we were too busy. So end of the year comes and I haven't used any of my vacation. So my boss comes to me and asks me why I haven't used any and how it's hurt

Reply to Stem Cell research Ban? There is no ban! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Alot of the current stem cell lines were contaminated and are not really viable for research. The work done by the Korean scientists is what's really interesting. Creating a stem cell line from a doner so it's a genetic match to the donor. This is where the science will get interesting. Creating a replacement organ with your own genetic stem cell lines means no rejection and no need for the expensive cocktail of anti-rejection drugs. So in a sense this

Reply to Star Wars Episode 3: Flawed Masterpiece in Movie Reviews JoeUser Forums

But aren't Jedis supposed to be unemotional? They are supposed to control their emotions and not get attached. So maybe the reaction was exactly right on Obi Wan's part. Or maybe Lucas just knows he can't make a movie with decent dialog and real emotions and this was perfect for him, make the Jedis lacking in the emotional department.

Reply to I think I need new sneakers, what do you think? in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

Depends on what it is. If it feels like a cramp it could be diet then. You need a balance of calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium. Deficiencies in one of those can cause cramping and exercise just makes the problem more evident.

Reply to Pascal's Wager: Faith as a "hedge your bets" proposition in Religion JoeUser Forums

This is something I used to think about and had discussed with friends over a camp fire many times. I have some friends that are extremely religious (if you can call it that). They go to church, go to confession, talk to everyone else about it and warn us we will go to hell if we don't convert or take it seriously. Then the guy get's drunk every weekend, gets in a car and has no problem with that. When we ask him what if he hits someone and kills them

Reply to Eating Healthy is Expensive in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

Alot of times fresh fruits and vegetables are not as nutritious as forzen or canned. For example: According to research from Pennsylvania State University, a bag of spinach that has been stored at 39 degrees Fahrenheit for eight days has lost half of its folate and carotenoids, compounds known for their importance in preventing birth defects, fighting heart disease and preventing blindness and cancer. And at higher temperatures, the

Reply to Speeding tickets based on income in Automotive JoeUser Forums

"equal PROTECTION under the law" that's a load of bull. I was driving once and got behind a car tailgating another car. They were both going below the speed limit. I didn't want to get stuck behind them and I don't really feel safe being behind someone who is tailgating another car. I decided to pass them so I sped up and changed lanes (I was in the right lane). The cars in the left lane were flying by and I had to match their spped to merge into the l

Reply to Yeah for Fat People! in Diet JoeUser Forums

I heard it on the radio, they interviewed a doctor. I wish I had more details. But to be honest I don't trust a majority of the studies. I majored in math and took a course in uses and abuses of statistics. There are so many ways to make the results represent what you want them to represent that it's hard to trust anything you hear

Reply to Yeah for Fat People! in Diet JoeUser Forums

It was a flawed study. They did not look at prior history. There were too many "skinny" people in the study that lost weight because they were suffering from a terminal illness. They did not take this into account which skewed the results.

Reply to How to get to First Grade without a Rap Sheet in Current Events JoeUser Forums

My friend worked as a bouncer at a club before. The worst night were the all-ages nights. That was the only time they brought in metal detectors and searched everyone. And it was a guarantee that there would be a bunch of fights on those nights too. The club stopped throwing all-ages nights because it was just too much trouble. On all other nights you would rarely see even a makings of a fight let alone a full out brawl. Also I have no idea wh

Reply to Some Staggering Figures in Politics JoeUser Forums

The Canadian governement basically said that. When there was a protest by some University students over sky rocketing tuition some members of parliament said that it is the resposibility of the younger generation to bear the burden of the governement over spending. It'e not the burden of the people who actually caused the problem.

Reply to Which LCD Do I Buy? in Monitors JoeUser Forums

Go for the Dell UltraSharp 2001FP. Had a great review on anandtech.com. Also my friend owns one and I can tell you it looks great. Right now you can pick it up for $506.75 shipped. Just check out techbargains.com for the coupons. You can't beat that price for an LCD that does 1600x1200.

Reply to Couric HATES SUV's? in Politics JoeUser Forums

I find it funny how people want to justify driving gas guzzlers and then use logic like supply and demand. If people want to drive gas guzzlers they should have the right and no legislature should be put in plavce to stop it. But when gas prices go up again because of supply and demand we get outraged and demand that something be done about it. That the government should step in prevent the increases in gas prices. In the end people are just s

Reply to N.Y. Man to Use Tattoos As Advertisements in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There is a group of people from British Columbia, Canada offer permanent tatoes for advertising. They have been doing it for while now. So he is definately not the first. Just depends if you happen to end up in the main stream media first if you are given the credit with coming up with the idea. Also if you get more exposure in the main stream media you will probably end up getting higher bids.

Reply to PHP vs ASP.NET Part 1 in Websites JoeUser Forums

oops, can't post the html code. Try again. Just replace the number sign with the less then and greater then signs test.htm: #html# #body# #form id="boo" name="booo" action="WebForm.aspx"# #INPUT id="Text1" type="text" name="Text1"# #INPUT id="Submit1" type="submit" value="Submit" name="Submit1"# #/form# #/body# #/html# WebForm.aspx: #%@ Page language="c#"%# #!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DT

Reply to PHP vs ASP.NET Part 1 in Websites JoeUser Forums

It's actually just one line of code in .net Here is the first page just regular html. WebForm.aspx: WebForm

Reply to The Hell that is recruitment consultants in Work JoeUser Forums

You might want to try this. I had a lot of problems with my phone company. Getting over charged, bogus long distance phone calls (on dyas when I was on holiday) and eventually being charged even after I cancelled my phone. What I started to do was every time I called to talk to them I would tell them I was recording the conversation for my records. The next time I had to call them back I played back the converstaion from the last time and you wouldn't

Reply to UAW and Detroit Diesel in Current Events JoeUser Forums

My mom works in a plant that has a Union. Unfortunately she is one of the few people that works hard no matter what. There are only a few people like her in the plant. The show up every day, work when they are sick, work hard and don't complain. Unfortunately because of that they get the worst jobs in the factory. The best workers get treated the worst. And all the lazy people there get to breeze by because of the Union.

Reply to Apple: Glass houses alert! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I don't think it's really right to say the Miscrosoft ripped of the Mac when making Windows. Charles Simonyi started working at MS before Bill Gates saw the Mac demo and Charles Simonyi worked for Xerox Park. So to be perfectly fair both MS and Apple ripped off Xerox and Apple can't make any claim otherwise.