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Reply to Best. Economy. Ever. in World Trade Issues JoeUser Forums

Drama sells papers and keeps advertisers happy because the brain dead find it easier to moan about what should have happened, than make constructive comment on potential solutions and be held accountable for those comments. Its easy to sound profound and all knowing about what has already happened, its a different and far more difficult ball game to be positive, chart future direction, and horror of horrors actually be held accountable for those deci

Reply to Tag-You're Out in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Spot on - its total garbage. It will not be long before running is banned in case the little darlings fall over and scrap their knees, war is replaced by the term "conflict", and yellow brick roads are given out with the morning paper. Completely insane. (Yay I'm a crusty and for that I would like to thank my Parents, my manager, my teacher, the dog, the cat, the budg

Reply to Drinking During Pregnancy is "Alright"? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

In thirty or fourty years there will be new practices of the day that show what is done now was also stupid and insane - its always been that way, always will, new discoveries are made, life moves on. The basis of "the good old days" is more in a spiritual and ethical sense, the way one went about life, not how one went about life. The way one went about life has changed slowly over the last hundred years, down the road of indivi

Reply to Good-bye Miss Universe in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

"an enterprising Chinese businessman read the news and organized the first Miss Plastic Surgery Beauty contest" Aaaahh but he was doing it to help people achieve their Dreams, a compassionate soul dedicated to help those in their hour of need ..... no, really, the money is purely secondary The whole thing is an exercise in self delusion chasing a mythical perfection at the bot

Reply to And we wonder about the poor in Politics JoeUser Forums

My Uncle used to run a small niche market Luxury furnishings business - high end sofa' s yaddie yadda - in todays money around $20,000 a throw for a sofa and three armchairs. As all owners do he ran the daily tightrope of Turnover V Margins V Pay V Costs. During a particularly heavy wage negotiation round one year, the local Union rep went for him big time (in Public) about how disgraceful the wage levels were for the lower paid workers i

Reply to STOP THE HATE!! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

However, if we speak reasonably towards each other, then I am not like this. Thats the problem. With Politics and Religion, arguably uniquely in the grand scheme of things, they are very much conceptual topics where grand theory can go wild with lots of easily available ammunition - Google yaddie yadda. The latter opens the door to the Grandstander who is there for reasons other than the topic in hand. That causes great irritation and understandable d

Reply to Invitation to Joeuser Bible students. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

The Darwin theory will indeed rumble on, as it challenges the very core of some peoples beliefs. As has always been the case as science moves on, Religious theories move their foundations into areas not yet explained by science. The latter ultimately resting on the unique premise that as the new theory cannot be proved to be wrong, it is acceptable – yet in all other aspects of our lives the usual standard is to prove a theory before acceptance. To say that clear evidence concerning c

Reply to When the whole world is against you. . . in Misc JoeUser Forums

Too often "the sky is falling", when in reality many times the opposite is true. I guess we are all guilty of that at times to one degree or another. Doom and Gloom is the stuff of Blog-Land as it is i the media - *man strokes dog* ...... *click*

Reply to Are Public Schools best for Kids? in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

With 6.7 Billion on the Planet someone will be good at it - but I believe that for the most part, Parents should parent and Teachers teach. I've known many to grandly start down this track with substantial fanfare, only to collapse exhausted after 12 months, and go back to the local school after reality of teaching has given them a slap in the brain. School is also not just about learning the study topics of the day - its about communing with

Reply to Two Comedies... I Mean, Cautionary Tales! in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Even I recognise the description for the massacre as given is nonesense, and I live thousands of miles away. Its bad enough when Hollywood does this kind of "artistic licence" in fictional films, but its unforgiveable to rewrite fact in this way for real events. The basic tenant of the whole episode is clearly documented in many non-partisan sources with little differences on basic cause, effect and outcome, and albeit some facts are a little fuzzy (hardly surprising given passage of time), eno

Reply to Invitation to Joeuser Bible students. in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Dawkins says of the Bible: "To be fair much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed ,revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries." I guess he put it rather bluntly,

Reply to bah...! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I believe the best you can do in that situation is be there for him whilst recognising he will want to be his own person, and want to do things his way. An HIV person needs a "best friend" who is there for them without being overbaring, supportive but respecting their own space - almost (as a loose analogy) in the way a good parent will deal with someone in their late teens. Get too close and neither benefit. Talking to another HIV person is a great

Reply to YouTube - is it becoming less for YOU? in Websites JoeUser Forums

The commercial side of it was inevitable, YouTube has never made a profit. There was litte point taking them to court, there was no money to win..... anyway, if they had forced closure over copyright in lieu of cash, the wrath of the YouTube user would have been dire to any litigating company's Finance Director pondering his end of year bottom line Now its a new ball game, all of a sudden "the

Reply to Thinking Things Through in Misc JoeUser Forums

I believe the phrase is an analogy, not a literal. I agree in all you said in regards to the parent child relationship. There are times though when we need to step half a pace back and be firm - note I didnt say beat he living c$%p out of them, as you say, there's no excuse for that. My belief is that the analogy is a comment on being too friendly, too accomodating - there are times when we have to say no, even somewhat firmly, and anyone not prepared to do that when necessary, does not do th

Reply to My two cents on Stardock............. in Animated Wallpapers JoeUser Forums

How about you go back to school and read about freedom of speech because where you come from, there obviously is none. Remember that thought when your Mommy is at the voting booth next time, Fidel Castro's unfortunately not on the ballet, sorry.............. I'll try, be hard though, difficult to remember the road there, it was 40 years ago. I doubt mother will be too fussed, she's dead, anyway I dont think Castro will make it on the

Reply to Which Anti-virus/Firewall do you use? in Windows XP JoeUser Forums

I use Nortons / Ad-Aware / Ad-Watch Every now and then I'll run another as a cross check that all is well, but so far I'm a happy bunny.

Reply to My two cents on Stardock............. in Animated Wallpapers JoeUser Forums

Its very simple, no one is going to get excited over a $10 wallpaper, $50 maybe, but not the former. Dont like it? Live with it. In a way you do deserve some thanks - I wasnt a full blown Blinds yaddie yadda user, but having had the mind focused on it by this thread, its likely I'll go for it at those low prices. They say all publicity is good publicity - do you work for Stardock by any chance ? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/ju/T_JU/smiles/Laugh.gif" border=0 align="ab

Reply to Does Anyone Buy a 35mm Camera Any More? in Photography JoeUser Forums

Its not a question of "Digital is best" or "the old way is best", its a question of what the camera is to be used for. For the overwhelming number of normal situations there is no doubt that a digital camera has far more flexibility and can produce good results. With 35mm film and with digital, the final output clearly also depends on the paper used - but no amount of good paper will make an original picture sharp if its a lousey picture or zoomed in beyond the capabilities of the digital cam

Reply to Regarding Used Copies of GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I've always found it amusing how god-fearing, law-abiding, forever-green and impecable examples of solid morality some become over this, absolute paragon's of vertue. Anything to defraud the Company of a licence fee. They cant see the utter irony of calling in those virtues over this issue I chuckled about this to my son recently, he is a record producer and has similar issues with CD piracy.

Reply to VOTE NOW TO IMPEACH THE Clueless one! in Humor JoeUser Forums

I think those that do suffer from ego driven verbal diarreha, are just ignored, not worth the time frankly, they eventually disappear back to obscurity from whence they came. The rare few that turn into more of an extremist pain get stepped on the end as most start to become really bored with the silly antics. For the most part I usually ignore them, its usually obvious how silly they are to anyone with half a brain cell, so it usually needs no pointing out, they do that themselves. Li

Reply to 17 Year Old Hacks iPhone in Misc JoeUser Forums

Nowhere at present, which is hardly surprising, they only started the move in Jan 2006. It takes a whole world of hurt to change instruction sets and compilers to run independently on any intel chip in that manner. I'm sure they will do it in the end - would be suicidal not to now they are going down the Intel route. I agree, it probably will halve overnight, hence my keeness for Apple to suceed. I am not an Apple or MS or Intel or Linux or whatever Fanboy, each has their target market.

Reply to 17 Year Old Hacks iPhone in Misc JoeUser Forums

The Mac O/S has run on Intel architecture since Jan 2006, and as time moves on each new Apple model will be based on Intel Architecture. You can already run nearly all "PC" products on the new Intel based Macs. They have dumped the Motorola architecture, the prime reason being incompatibility with the mainstream market. Still some way to go of course, its only been 18 months since the strategy went public. I also hope that the silly PC/Mac "wars" type of discussion that used to prev

Reply to 17 Year Old Hacks iPhone in Misc JoeUser Forums

Frankly I doubt Apple could care less. They have had huge Brand awareness for free amongst all the silly natter and antics thats going on. You couldnt buy such effective Brand Awareness. Its a standard product launch technique, and they have executed it extremely well. Sometimes there is a negative downside to that strategy to be mitigated, but so far little negative comment has emerged apart from ritual moans about price. Its a dream world to think they want to restrict its use, howe

Reply to Do you believe in rehabilitation? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Rehabilitation should always be a central concept within any penal system. The court hands down the sentence, the latter is a totally separate issue. It makes no sense not to try to change the nature of the individual whilst incarcerated, it will reduce if not eleminate the chances of reoffending. How successfull that attempt will be, is of course a mute point with some individuals, but try we must if they are scheduled to return to society and not

Reply to Undermining Jihad in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Support the revolutions, you might have some success ending terrorism. But educating people without removing the source of their resentments isn't going to improve things. Before you can remove the source of resentment, you first have to really understand what it is - from their perspective, not filtered through Western logic. As to what that real resentment is, thats a whole new article. However much of the Western versions of why this takes place is