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Muahaha :twisted: Let's get this Trainee party started! :-D

Forgive me for cherry-picking this detail, but as a prisoner, you forgo most of your constitutional rights in prison because you are a convicted felon. The only one I can really think of that is still applicable would be the 5th (self-incrimination).

I was 17 when I worked there. I would guess it's around that age, maybe 16.

Working at a pizza place is AWESOME. Even if you don't get free food, you will most likely get it discounted and the majority of people that work at pizza joints are really laid back and chill. Plus, delivering can be really good money (tips).

Yeah, it just seems too Orwellian for me to ever support that kind of stuff. I don't know if this has been posted or not, but I got it from NPR: In U.K.: Talk Of Banning Masks, Blocking Text Messages Talk about an invasion of privacy.

The CCTV convictions seem a little bit shady. Don't get me wrong, I think people that have committed the crimes should be punished, but the whole "caught on camera" thing seems a lot like those red light camera tickets in the U.S. Unless there is absolutely no doubt in identifying who committed the crime, they shouldn't be using them to convict people.

Syzygy?

Duh, Wikipedia isn't a source :P

Got ya greens on eh? I haven't bought a game since... Pokemon Platinumn like 2 years ago...then I sold it. The greens are on Master Sheep! :mrgreen:

I'd like to hear from the Brothers Gower over the other ones.

You can't go wrong with dogs. Heh. But yeah, I've always had a dog and I will never own cats. I don't despise them, but I won't own one. Confession: I was seeing a girl last year who was obsessed with her two cats. It was weird. Advice: don't see girls that are obsessed with cats, they're as crazy as you think they are.

Bande à part (1964) Another Jean-Luc Godard film. I liked it, but I didn't enjoy it as much as Breathless or Contempt.

The last video game I bought was Battlefield BC 2 and the next I will buy is Battlefield 3. I haven't had time for video games lately. I haven't had a Live subscription since last fall :???:

I took vodka on a field trip to the Festival of Nations with a friend of mine. Basically it's a bunch of booths set up with different countries' food/clothing/culture/etc. in them that you can buy or view. We were basically on our own for the whole day so it was easy to get away with. I smoked a cigarette in the bathroom once, so that's the worst I've done on school property.

Today I'm voting for the first time in my life. Wisconsin recall elections are today for six Republican state senators. I've been eligible to vote since 2008, but I haven't because of lack of interest in the candidates. I finally feel like my vote is going to matter in an election.

If you own a pair of hi-fi headphones, songs that are non-FLAC are glaringly obvious. FLACs can be converted to .WAV using WinAmp, dragged into iTunes, and then converted to MP3 (a reasonable file size). FLACs are totally and completely worth it for those of us who have those "good" headphones :P

Now that would be funny :lol: This. lol, i wonder if i should turn it on now? Naw. It'll be the same midi-crap it's always been.

If I don't feel like answering someone back on Facebook chat, I just ignore them. If you make a habit of being inconsistent in your replies, people get used to it. It's when you type back immediately all the time that you get accused of ignoring people when you're not paying attention.

I disagree. If people are made well aware that actions have consequences, there is nothing they can do BUT stop. That's like saying because they put people in jail for looting the riots will continue and breed long term dissent. No, it's not like saying that. Putting someone in jail is a logical decision for rioting and looting and people that riot and loot are aware of that. The public is aware of this as well. Shooting rioters and looters is not logical nor is it effective. Even if the rioters and looters are in the wrong, that is not the way the populace will interpret it. They will see it as police shooting citizens and things will get worse.

Hold on a minute here - you're proving something other than what I was saying. I'm not condoning shooting looters nor calling it ethical. I'm saying it would be effective in ending the riots. No, I'm saying that if these riots are stopped with extreme violence on the part of the police, the riots will not end. They might stop for a day or two, but not for good. Which is why I said it would create long-term dissent among the populace.

Not when you're dealing with people having no greater purpose. The majority of these people are just out to cause trouble and loot knowing there is no real consequence. If looters were shot on sight, these riots would have been over days ago. I realize it isn't a realistic solution, but it would be an effective one. I'm not too sure it would work. While it would quell most of the violence, it seems barbaric which would be, in my opinion, stooping to the looters' level. As long as these rioters aren't using guns of their own, I don't see the need for riot police to use their own guns on them. Over the long-term it would create more dissent among the populace than using other methods of riot control.

In other news, I haven't played with sound on since 2005. The graphical updates are kind of cool though.

For me, things changed when I started listening to whole albums. Good ones are more than the sum of their parts. Before that, all i had was a [cabbage]-ton of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest songs. This totally. I started listening to entire albums when I saw Elton John on Conan saying that (paraphrasing here) listening to one song of an album is the equivalent of looking at one brush stroke of the Mona Lisa. I never download singles anymore and I rarely listen to individual songs.

Shooting rioters is just going to make things MUCH worse. That's probably the dumbest thing they could do right now.

Because music speaks to us, for some it's films, for some it's literature. Everyone has something like that in their life.