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Small strength lamp, level 98 - 8602 XP

You just don't get it. One size will never fit all, and that's a failure of socialism. It's the difference between 50 different family owned restaurants, and 50 McDonalds. Except it's even worse than that, as each McDonalds is locally owned and operated.

Surely not every family who needs a meal during a tough time can have one provided by a charitable person, that's impractical. How could you identify them? If they make themselves available, who do they make themselves available to? You seem to be against a centralized welfare system, but in reality what you support is just a series of locally central systems. If you can't tell the difference between the two, I'm not sure it's worth my time trying to explain it.

Or they just make themselves available, much like early hospitals. Also, aid doesn't have to be organized. Can be as simple as bringing dinner to a family in a tough time, which many people still do.

I'll probably do that, either XP or Ubuntu. Won't be back at work until Monday, yay vacation.

Not going to work. Are there any logs I should try to access? I can bring up the command prompt with shift+f10, not sure where those might be located...

Not sure what I'd load... A CD came with the motherboard, but it has apps to be used after the installation. Same with the GPU, but I'm not sure how I'd load that without an OS.

Because I was handed a bunch of parts and I was told to make it work. Also, we need it to run a very specific application.

Social security contributions are not the same as income tax. And I don't worry about social security, because I'll never see that money again anyway. Another failure of the central government is borrowing against social security, so in a few more years it'll be bankrupt. People were donating to charity long before government decided to step in. People still are donating to charity. Why do we need to send our money away to a central government so they can redistribute it? Because charity doesn't guarantee that everyone in need will get money? Nor does government. Not really. Progressives have been pushing for socialism in America for about a hundred years. I'd call the Department of Education a complete waste but it's existence doesn't mean there wouldn't be schools without it.

Not sure if anyone can help me. Trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on a server my work is having me build, and it keeps getting hung up on "Completing Installation" Specs: Supermicro serverboard X8DAH+-0 2x Intel Xeon X5650 processors 2x Crucial 24GB Kit PC3 - 10600 Registered for a total of 48 GB 1 TB Hitachi (unsure of specs, came brand new) 1 Asus dvd burner Started by using an NVIDIA GTX560, now using an msi r4350 md512h I've tried swapping graphics cards, disabling the on board network adapter, changing some of the hard drive settings in the bios, but I still get hung up on the same spot. Any ideas?

That percentage is households. So if you're a student, you'd be counted under your household, which is likely your parents. Children aren't the heads of households either, so they get lumped in with their parents. Social security contributions are not the same as income tax. And I don't worry about social security, because I'll never see that money again anyway. Another failure of the central government is borrowing against social security, so in a few more years it'll be bankrupt. People were donating to charity long before government decided to step in. People still are donating to charity. Why do we need to send our money away to a central government so they can redistribute it? Social security contributions are not the same as income tax. And I don't worry about social security, because I'll never see that money again anyway. Another failure of the central government is borrowing against social security, so in a few more years it'll be bankrupt. People were donating to charity long before government decided to step in. People still are donating to charity. Why do we need to send our money away to a central government so they can redistribute it?

Please explain to me, how this is practical. :mellow: I have virtually no control over Washington Bureaucrats. I can't vote out the representatives from the other 49 states, or even in the 6 districts in Indiana. I can't fly to D.C. to protest, I have a job. Locally, it's much easier to be involved with policies, the government is much more accountable. As for the "let me be the judge," the other half of this is charity. Before I give, I vet. I make sure they're not going to waste my money, and if I find out I was scammed, I don't give to them again. I'm not going to let people in my community freeze or starve. I'm not saying there shouldn't be welfare. I'm saying that we don't need the central government to take our money and redistribute it. You're not making a good argument when you have to change the subject.

I wonder how much effort they put into that page, to be quite honest. It'd probably be more than the amount of effort it takes to write one email, and just forward it to whoever asks. Especially since they had to send me the email to link me to the facebook page to begin with. :wall: I think it's just a ploy to try and access their employees facebook accounts, try to get to know them better and be all big brother and what not. Tough shit for me because I deleted my profile a couple years ago.

I call bullshit on this statistic. The "only x% of americans pay income tax, the rest are just lazy/illegals/leeches" argument is flawed and deceitful. Everyone who's not tax dodging, and that's a large majority of americans, is paying income taxes. It just so happens that the way our system is set up that if they make below a certain threshold that what they payed gets refunded. So everyone does pay income taxes, your bullshit statistic is just saying that 48% of americans (If that's actually the case, you have no citation) actually make enough money so that they don't have to get refunded to get by. Sorry, I got my statistic wrong. It is somewhere between 48.5% and 51% that pay no income taxes. My bad. :rolleyes: http://nation.foxnews.com/taxes/2012/02/22/percentage-americans-who-pay-no-income-tax-hits-495 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/08/john-cornyn/john-cornyn-says-51-percent-american-households-pa/ Also, 30% of Americans make money under the tax system, i.e. get more in rebates than they withhold. Seriously? Cable costs like what, 30-50 dollars a month? According to this that's maybe enough money to feed a single adult female for a week on a "thrifty" (Most likely nutritionally deficient) diet. And don't even get me started on paying for internet, any sort of job outside of basic service industry jobs that don't pay anywhere close to a living wage damn near require a decent internet connection. And I'm damn proud that the poor (Which, need I remind you is a RELATIVE term that varies from society to society) in America are better off than the poor in Uzbekistan, or the Congo, or Vietnam. If you seriously expect me to sit by and let the lowest tier of our society fall into that sort of rut while corporations are having some of the most profitable quarters in our nation's history then you are sadly mistaken. What you can't seem to grasp is when I say that the federal government has no role in welfare, I'm not saying there shouldn't be welfare. What I know right now is that the federal government does a piss poor job in managing money, and welfare should be left up to states, counties, cities, towns and communities. I'm also advocating for charity. I want to know who my money is going to, and let me be the judge if someone is able to work or not. Why do we need a central government to collect and redistribute money?

Building a server, forgetting a small aesthetic piece that has to go in first. Have to redo all the wiring that I could barely squeeze in.

People / organizations that will only use Facebook. I've got a summer internship in Missouri, and the page for housing assistance my company set up is only on facebook. I love getting that email - for more information, like our page. FUUUUUU

Ironically, despite our unemployment issue, we actually give more than we get for welfare. I can rest assured knowing that we're not receiving money from Texas or anywhere else for welfare. Random states, maybe a bad example. Wouldn't you prefer it if you knew you didn't have to send money to D.C. only to have them hold it hostage or give it to someone clear across the country?

In the U.S., I feel that the federal government has no role in welfare. I don't feel that it is particularly good policy to take money from someone in Indiana, and funnel it to someone in California, nor do I think it's good policy to take money from Texas and give it to someone in Michigan. The federal government has too much control, and it isn't very healthy for people. Think bureaucratic social engineering. Government also supplants charity and religion. "I don't have to donate to the poor because that's what my taxes are for." When I donate my hard earned money to a charity, you'd better believe I'm going to make sure they really need it, and it's for a good cause. When government takes money from me and hands it out, they don't do a very good job nor do they really care. I also think the way that welfare is setup is more of a trap than anything else. I'd rather see people be able to work their way out of welfare and into a good paying job, rather than be forced to "leech" on society. It's sad that there are generation after generation stuck on welfare; there's no reason for it. As I posted in another thread, I think it's a crime that most people considered "poor" in America are very rich compared to the majority of the world. You pay for cable every month? Why am I paying for your food then? All this really is just an ill of socialism. But don't worry, I'm greedy, mean and evil for wanting to keep more of what I earn. I'm part of the 48% of Americans that actually pay income tax.

I get 50 fps, but I have horrible lag. For some reason, JaGEx doesn't like me.

If you really want to go to college, you'll figure a way to do it. My older sister has taken on about $300,000 in debt to attend medical school. Do we need doctors? You betcha. Do I think someone else should have taken on that cost for her to become a doctor? No way! Putting education expenses on people also make them much more responsible. My older sister, brother, younger sister and me all attend college, and we pay for it ourselves (not our parents). All of us will graduate on time. I'm not aware of statistics on how fast people graduate, but from what I've seen, the people paying their own way graduate on time. I also have many friends who are privileged enough to go to school on their parents dime, most of them end up changing their majors half way through or take an extra year or two to graduate. I don't think "professional student" should be a job, and public funding for higher education enables that.

I don't think the public should fund schooling after high school (e.g. college or university). While in theory free college for everyone sounds nice, college isn't for everyone. I believe this demotivator sums it up quite nicely: Right now (especially in school and health care) we've seen that government intervention is good at one thing: driving prices up. I don't believe the solution to bad government is more government.

That little guy has the heart of a champion. :sad:

You WBM! Oh. Wait. :mrgreen:

Because you're a girl, and you have a confession... Sherlock Holmes says his best advice is to go to Planned Parenthood to get it sorted out.