DavidK

DavidK

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Reply to Logical Falacies in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

There was an interesting study done at Boston University in the early 70's. They had two groups of people, one group watched TV the normal amount and the other group didn't own televisions. The results were: The group that watched TV was convinced their lives were in danger whenever they ventured outside. They didn't go out at night unless they had too and basically lived a perilous life in a dangerous city. Many of them had bad experiences on the street, muggings etc. The oth

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The Bilderbergs (I misspelled it before) are a group that formed in 1954 and has had an annual meeting ever since. There is no real membership list and the meetings are held in secret. Their name comes from the Hotel they held their first meeting in. It's said that world policy is decided at these meetings. Whatever is the focus of the meetings gets rolled out as policy in the following year. I don't follow these groups or know much about them so I'm not a good one for information. I do

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Reply to Logical Falacies in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have a club (piece of hickory with a lead weight at the top). It's a non-lethal weapon. I've never had to use it though, the one time I had a chance I yelled at the guy and he ran away... I also have lots of guns but I'd never shoot anyone... or an animal or even a snake... they are only for shooting holes in paper and harvesting misseltoe. Not to turn this into a gun-control thread but... the worst thing about most people that own guns is they've never thought it through to the conc

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Reply to Seeking good MSStyle skinners. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I tried to convert SETI green just to see how limited MSStyles really was. It was a joke... The format doesn't support anything except Luna style skins, no plugins, no extra buttons, no repositioning the buttons, severe limitations on border sizes and shapes, etc. etc. The guys who say they prefer MSSTyles because it's simpler aren't kidding... it's just straight Windows with no customization other than colors and textures. It's a shame to give that group any more credibility than Britn

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You could be right about the Trilateral Commission paxx http://trilateral.org:9999/moreinfo/faqs.htm It's not something I've looked into so I don't know what's true about them, they're a fairly recent invention. The people attributed with starting the group and forming their core beliefs and goals are certainly real though. If anything, the Trilateral Commission is somewhat benign and compassionate towards developing nations. Zbignew Brezhinski's ideas on how to get support for the cause are fri

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The Trilateral Commission is only a piece of the story, don't forget the Bildebergs or the Council on Foriegn Relations (CFR). Every President we've had in the US for the last 40 years has been a member of at least one of those three groups. And the "Shadow Government" - no discussion of the Illuminati would be meaningful without talking about the shadow government. It's not even considered a conspiracy theory or paranoia. It's a simple fact that these groups exist and exert a powerful influence

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ok - the Amusing Kreskin has had his press conference and he's announced the date, time and place of the world's biggest UFO sighting! hehe - trust me... it's bound to happen... Thursday, June 6th, 2002 — between 9:50pm - 12:00am PST (GMT-8) The location: the best viewing spot will be just behind the Casino in Las Vegas that Kreskin does his show at yikes... what a coincidence... don't

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Reply to Site Skins in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

That was my favorite too. Check out the Mud theme Davad, it's also very nice (and gray) and pretty close to Charcoal. I'm kinda stuck on Universe right now though... can't imagine I'll ever get tired of this theme, I love how everything on my system is Universed

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Reply to Go Brazil! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I thought you soccer heads would enjoy this, Published today in the UK Daily Star: ------------------- NOZZA'S KEANE ON ROY Soothsayer Nostradamus predicted the furious bust-up that saw Roy Keane storm out of Ireland's World Cup camp. Hot-headed Keane flew back to Britain after a war of words with Irish boss Mick McCarthy. The star then refused to apologise for his outburst. Amazingly, despite football not even having been invented, Nost

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Reply to Smartbuttons? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Here are all the skins that specifically mention having smart buttons in their description (going back to January): Starone: Palo Duro / Misty Morning / Silver Doe / Fiber Optic Angel / Country Metal / Provicially Fishy Adni18: Epsilon / Design1 / XP Professional v3 Treetog: Olympics OS DavidK: SETI green / SETI glass There could be many more that didn't mention it in the description. (actually mine don't but I knew they had the feature...) Sorry if I

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Reply to Smartbuttons? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

ahhh - If it says the skin doesn't support smart buttons then that's the problem. The smart buttons have to be added to the skin by the skin author. It's a very new feature so there are not many skins that incorporate them. If you want to see what they do download SETI green (or glass) - that's the only skin I know for sure has them. I'll go look for some others, I know there were a few of the GUI Olympics submissions that had them.

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Reply to Question about nickname in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

When you register, you'll still log on to your old account because of the email address. After you make the new account, go into your old account and change the email address. Then log off, and log on with the email from your new account....

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Reply to Here we go again. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's a shame the term "port" seems to give some sort of credibility to these rippers. Like unauthorized porting is not the same as copying, plagarism or stealing. To call it a port of a theme it has to be sanctioned by the original designer and include credit to him as well as permission from him. Call it a rip, not a port. They come off like idiot children supporting each other in this nasty little game. They are stealing an artist's work with no regard and then congratulating each other on

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The recent discovery of oceans of water on Mars (currently frozen beneath the surface) brings up the very real possibility that there was not only life, but intelligent life on Mars in the distant past. We know that a catastrophic event stripped away the atmosphere and much of the surface of Mars (estimates are around 5 million years ago). We also have found many indications of life there like the photo with 'trees' and what seem to be foundations of structures showing intelligent design. Some o

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