loki

hahah

think there was something similar happened in CO, but it's a federal law about "Campaign activity" that was from the mccain feingold (?) campaign finance reform? not sure if it's been changed, but pretty easy to see how having to at least audit yourself (or face the consequences) on one's "politiking" puts a huge damper on freedom of political speech.

clinton did sign something saying we did basically conquered hawaii and forced them to become a state...

not blaming the officers.... they acted. sadly liek the soldiers in "collateral murder" it's the lawmakers fault for pushing them into those situations, but it's still the officers' duty to follow through or reject the assignment. the law is supposed to protect people and their property, this is the opposite of that.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/1619190174.html Dear University Alumni Office, I'm sorry to hear that the university's $750 million endowment has fallen in value to $500 million because of the recession and because your bank died. I'm also sorry to hear that you're dealing with declining enrollment due to the fact that middle-class families are no longer willing or able to bet their homes on a $45,000-a-year higher education for their children. I really am. So, what I want to know is, why are you wasting money on glossy fundraising brochures full of meaningless synonyms for the word "Excellence"? And, why are you sending them to ME? Yes, I know that I got a master's degree at your fine institution, but that master's degree hasn't done jack $h! for me since I got it! I have been unemployed for the past TWO YEARS and I am now a professional resume-submitter, sending out dozens of resumes a month to employers, and the degree I received in your hallowed halls is at the TOP OF IT and it doesn't do a f@#king thing. You know, maybe if you wanted a little bit of money from me (and these days you'd get about $3) maybe you should send me a fancy color brochure admitting your role in the bubble economics that got us all in to this mess. For example, since 1987, higher education expenses have gone up 450 percent, while personal income in this country has gone up 87 percent, making tuition IMPOSSIBLE to afford without special financing. But, during this time, you were thriving because people could come up with the cash in two ways: 1. Get a home equity loan and use the inflated value of their house to pay for their kid to get drunk and/or raped at your school and then lose the house when the market crashed. 2. Get a federal loan. HAD IT OCCURRED TO YOU THAT NEITHER OF THESE SOURCES OF MONEY ACTUALLY EXIST? THAT IT WAS BEING MANUFACTURED BECAUSE YOU MADE PEOPLE THINK THAT ONE OF YOUR DEGREES WAS NECESSARY TO CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE BUBBLE? Oh yes, federal loans. I've got $40,000 of those, which are in "forebearance" right now because I'm unemployed, meaning that the feds are paying the interest for a while, which is convenient for me, but not for our government which is now owned by China. You know, the idea behind federal loans was that it would allow more students to attend your university, not let you INFLATE your tuition to obscene levels! I mean, what the f@#k were you spending the $16,000 per semester on, anyway? I was in a public policy program, so that meant we got to sit in classrooms and listen to Professor God up at the front of the lecture hall glorify Himself and Creation as He saw it and talk about how much smarter he was than anyone else and how much he'd learned at MIT and the RAND Corporation. Really, that's about all you did for us -- gave us a lecture hall, gave us an arrogant bastard to listen to, and gave us a room full of computers we could use sometimes, and you gave us a degree that employers look at and say "This guy knows how to write reports. Amusing." And I will be paying for this privilege until I am 51 years old. So I'm sorry that the economy's been rough on you. Maybe, if you wanted to save a little money, you could stop printing and sending brochures to my parents' house (oh yeah, that's where I live because I can't afford rent on ANYTHING). And, maybe I'll donate a little bit of money to you in 2030, when I get the loans for your imaginary education PAID OFF! Sincerely yours, Alumnus

i agree... and more so about the logo

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004030-503544.html?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain poll: 51% think the law is about right. only 36% think it goes too far....

I agree to that next paragraph. quotas are just a hint at real economic planning... yes, economically you could look at immigrants as goods moving in the economy, why would you stifle that like sugar is?

no... not really. just have the original iso with a hack to not have to have the dvd.

"real powerful pc to play it"....gotta have a semi new video card if you play on huge worlds... video memory will run out if you only have 128Mb. i know. lol it's a good game, 5 is in the works.

"We are called on today to make a basic choice. The choice is between collapse or salvation," ...yeah, salvation by becoming a puppet, and probably causing a huge loss of their industry because of the tax changes. "The IMF's lead negotiator in Athens, Poul Thomsen, praised Greece's "draconian reforms" that he said could help "shock and awe markets and re-establish confidence." The rest of the money would come from the Washington, DC-based IMF." hahaha. draconian reforms - 2.(often lowercase) rigorous; unusually severe or cruel: Draconian forms of punishment. ....and Greece was once the "pinnacle of democracy" anyone ever research what limits the EU bank placed on countries that joined? i wish i still had my powerpoint with some of that research on it... not sure i still have it. the EU showing more confederacy than their own sovereignty. ...i pushing this to the politics? sorry.

so... an air conditioned room? lol

think that's a tad ahead of our tech right now. lol

i thought power suits were in reserch and were, maybe 10 years away from first field tests? or something liek that, you know, mecha suits...

hehe

i'd rather have my wagon back and make it a sleeper.... either turbo or a ls 1,2,3 or 4. and a 5-6 speed too. lol

happy birthday!

i'd say that's a tad catastrophic. toyota's diesel! LOL!

my stocks... a little mixed, but my silver stock i own is ~155% of what i bought it at, too bad i didn't funnel more $ to it since i bought it. it's price is above what silver is at on the "market" / ounce. still waiting to hear about a job, to get an interview, with a global company that has a place locally. there were several hundred that applied. congrats on the upswing 84, hope it doesn't swing the other way too soon.

sounds like great praise, for what was supposed to be a saturn. we better get this, and maybe stage 1 & 2 kits too.

yes.. what's going on in Juarez is horrible... surprised texas hasn't done something like that. it is a failure of the federal gov, both here and in Mexico, and too bad alot of it has to do with drug laws, also how ineffective mexico is as trying to bring business to it to keep workers in their country.

nice. hahah. pretty sure the second is from a banned sprite or 7up commercial. lol

why the prohibition on allowing people to easily legally work? yes i used prohibition on purpose. do i need to say anymore about it?

it might be quite old... just thought it was kinda funny...maybe should be in the lounge, don't know.

http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/pontiac.shtml For the engineers among us who understand that the obvious is not always the solution, and that the facts, no matter how implausible, are still the facts ... A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors: "This is the second time I have written you, and I don't blame youfor not answering me, because I kind of sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of ice cream for dessert after dinner each night. But the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem. You see, every time I buy vanilla ice cream, when I start back from the store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it sounds: 'What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?'" The Pontiac President was understandably sceptical about the letter, but sent an engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful, obviously well-educated man in a fine neighbourhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it wouldn't start. The engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, the man got chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start. Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end he began to take notes: he jotted down all sorts of data, time of day, type of gas used, time to drive back and forth, etc. In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavour. Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavour, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the other flavours were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where it took considerably longer to find the flavour and get checked out. Now the question for the engineer was why the car wouldn't start when it took less time. Once time became the problem -- not the vanilla ice cream -- the engineer quickly came up with the answer: vapour lock. It was happening every night, but the extra time taken to get the other flavours allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour lock to dissipate. Moral of the story: even insane-looking problems are sometimes real.