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Reply to Font Wars: Episode XXI in FE Sneak Peeks JoeUser Forums

I can see a distinct improvement between the old and the new screenshot. But please be sure, now that you've made the text display better, that you make it actually read better... the writing on both "Three Sons" and "Snake Oil" is in need of some good editing. "Three Sons" Current: ---- This farmhouse's fence is broken down and a cow lies dead in the field with a pair of bite marks nearly the size of short swords. The woun

Reply to US Constitution?... Pffft in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="Flakey101" comment="2"] Just try to argue what "The right of a militia to bear arms" means in this day and age, and you will have dozens of interpretations. [/quote] That may be so, but if you try to argue what the second amendment actually SAYS instead of some half-remembered paraphrase, it's a lot less susceptible to misunderstandings. :-) ("...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.")

Reply to Cost of Public Unions in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote who="myfist0" comment="1"] http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/02/25/the-wisconsin-lie-exposed-taxpayers-actually-contribute-nothing-to-public-employee-pensions/ Looks to me like austerity measures have come to the good old US of A. [/quote] Forbes got that one wrong. As the link below points out: First the idea that the taxpayer isn't contributing any money to a pension that is funded by public-sector employee salaries is prima faci

Reply to A kook with a long attention span in Misc Stardock Forums

"Bear fruit" is correct. The only meaning of the verb "to bare" is 'uncover, reveal, or divulge'. "To bear" carries the meaning of "to bring forth, to give birth to, or to produce by natural means" (as a child or a fruit). :-) Good luck with the bees, the puppy, and the garden!

Reply to Civil marriage is a flawed premise in Marriage Stardock Forums

darn it, that was supposed to be all linkified and everything. http://citahellion.joeuser.com/article/33729/All_marriage_is_unconstitutional

Reply to Civil marriage is a flawed premise in Marriage Stardock Forums

See my article from about 5 years ago...: http://citahellion.joeuser.com/article/33729/All_marriage_is_unconstitutional

Reply to Will Obama kill the American spirit by punishing success? in Politics Stardock Forums

Mr. Wright preached the same Black Liberation Theology that espouses the destruction of the current social fabric, that believes that white people actively oppress black people, that "white government" has conspired to keep the black man down, that America deserved 9/11 and should shut up and take its lumps, etc., for 20 years while Obama sat there and supposedly didn't hear a single word of it.

Reply to Kids, Felons, and Free Speech in Politics JoeUser Forums

Sorry, Gid, I guess my attempt at dry humor was lost in translation or something.

Reply to Kids, Felons, and Free Speech in Politics JoeUser Forums

Gideon, I'd like to tell you what's wrong with this idea, but I'm sure that you'd find my arguments offensive in some way. And it would be sick and wrong for me to offend you thus. Therefore I am obliged to agree with you after all that it's a great idea and should be implemented at once.

Reply to Microsoft Vista irritations and idiocracy in Microsoft JoeUser Forums

There's already a workaround posted on the web for "Must have a previous version of windows installed"... Start the Vista Install. When prompted for the license key, leave it blank. This gives you the "30-day trial" install. Complete the install. Start another Vista install over your "trial" install. put in the license key this time. Choose "Advanced". Choose "Clean Installation" to get Vista to reformat and do a comp

Reply to JoeUser Assignments in Blogging JoeUser Forums

If I'm gonna be handing out answers, y'all have gotta have some questions....

Reply to Would You Shock A Stranger to Death If I Said So? Probably. in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Probably the reason you've been hearing about it again recently is that someone performed a virtualized version of the experiment (administering "shocks" to avatars in an on-line environment)... Link Link

Reply to Fun with toes in Parenting JoeUser Forums

Zoo, with a rather elongated bedtime routine, these are actually just the 6 most popular. We do elephants, turtles, spiders, cows, donkeys, lions, bears, and other animals too. (Some of them are hard to reproduce in text, like making as realistic an elephant trumpet as possible on the small toe.) Tex, I've kept up (more or less) with the reading, I just stopped posting (and commenting, for the most part). <img src="http://images.stardock.com/ju/T_JU/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="

Fun with toes in Parenting JoeUser Forums

I'm sure you're all familiar with the classic children's toe-grabbing rhyme, "This little piggy...". Well, after the first 20 or 30 times, that rhyme gets pretty darn boring. So I came up with a few variations. First, here's one that my mom actually taught us to help us learn left from right. Piggies are always done on the right foot; Froggies are always d

Reply to Pointing Out Threats = Fearmongering? in Politics JoeUser Forums

There are serious problems in the Middle East. The fact that those problems only flourish there, and a few other deeply troubled parts of the word, and Islam is just about everywhere, tells me that the problem isn't Islam. It seems to me that the middle east and the "few other deeply troubled parts of t

Reply to Iraq Study Group blasts Iraqi government in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Sure, it's in our best interest to have a Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq. But only to a point. My threshold is 4.5 years. That's how long US troops will have been nation building come end of next year. May I ask how you arrived at such a specific figure? What is it about 4.5 years that makes you say "T

Reply to Iraq Study Group blasts Iraqi government in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I am very surprised that you (apparently) don't think it's very clearly "demonstrably in our best interest" to have a stable, functional democratic state in Iraq. Yes, our initial goal was to remove Saddam from power. But the immediate and obvious subsequent goal is to prevent some Saddam Junior from taking his place and having Iraq be just as nasty a country after our intervention as it was before. Of course it is by no means an e

Reply to Don't Tell the Army in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Looks fab, Tex!

Reply to bark once for 'yes' in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

Stilted even worse by time now, but still chattable. I'm still waiting to see the end result of that "Exquisite Corpse"-style mini-play you put together....

Reply to How young is too young? in Parenting JoeUser Forums

My daughter is 27 months, and has had very little interaction with the TV / DVD player / Computer, and that's the way I like it. To my mind, if a 20-month-old can already manage to run a movie for themselves, it means THEY'RE WATCHING TOO DAMN MUCH TV. I want my daughter to be learning things like stacking blocks, sorting toys, recognizing letters, squishing play-doh, and so forth; not just the names of all the critters on Miss Spide

Reply to bark once for 'yes' in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

Correct, 1 for yes -> 2 for no. Sorry, I'm much more the intermittent lurker these days. I still keep an eye out for any articles by you, though!

Reply to I don't get it in Misc JoeUser Forums

Anime: As with any other genre, there is HUGE variety in the quality. I love just about anything done by Hayao Miyazaki(Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, etc.). Other stuff is relatively mindless fun (DragonBall Z). And 90% of everything is crap. Rap Music: It's all about how bad, how hot, or how rich you are. It's music for people with no self-esteem to pose about what they want to be. Grand

Reply to bark once for 'yes' in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

bark bark.

Reply to Why any kind of sex with an American is sex with a child in Misc JoeUser Forums

I fucked up. Well, Karma thinks I fucked up. And I've moved on. I am emotional. And that's how I run. Another thing which is endemic to human nature is to project our own thoughts, emotions, and values onto those around us, rightly or not. You admit that you are emotional. However, many of the