Kwisatz

Double post.

Civics... When I took that I couldn't stand it... It's all propoganda, in short, it's BS. The American government is currently one of the more corrupt governments among the OECD countries... Oh and for the record? The Nazi's were Fascists. 18th century England was run under a Ogliarchy. There's a difference, a big difference... I know that. It was poetic license, since the opression is often compared to the Holocause opression of the Jews by my wonderful countrymen. It would be rather pointless for me to rant about my classes being easy and then make a blatant error about it, wouldn't it? You make another mistake... Do you even know the real reason behind Hitler's Holocaust? Before the "Racial Cleansing" 80% of the proffessors at Berlin University were Jewish. The Jewish people are a very competitive people. In every society the flourish and are prosperous. The Aryran[i had to mispell because the censor picked it up](Native German people) saw the Jews as a big problem. When Hitler found a excuse for killing them all everyone natrually supported him. He was a genius. He used the Jews as a tool and exploited them even further into the 2nd World War. The oppression towards your "wonderful countrymen" by the British was one concerning a matter of power. The Americans were getting to self-sufficient and no-longer needed Britain. The Americans unofficially boycotted English items. This led to financial crisis in England. Soon there was talk about independance. The King of England had to do something. His country was in financial debt and was about to lose one of the most fruitful of it's empirical colonies. He had no choice but to oppress. The Jews were being used as SCAPEGOATS. Thats what its called. I remember that from 7th grade history last year. And also Nazi-Germany was NOT FASCIST. They were TOTALITARIAN. Fascism is having blind loyalty to your nation and the government is in control of the media and you dont get freedom of speech. Both of you missed the boat. The two events are analagous in the fact that CERTAIN PARTIES WERE OPRESSED. I said NOTHING about type of government, motives, or hidden agendas. I know all that. I know how Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats. I could spout off all day about types of government. But THAT'S NOT THE POINT. THE POINT IS THAT IN THE LATER 1700s THE AMERICANS WERE OPRESSED, AND IN THE HOLOCAUST THE JEWS WERE OPRESSED. BOTH PARTIES WERE OPRESSED BY TYRANNICAL PARTIES. Honestly, must I spoon feed everything to you people?

Why does he need to "experience the lord" at all? If his mother forces him to feed himself and pay his own bills, then she has no right to morally educate him. I didn't say that he has to. I said that's what he should tell the priest. There is a difference. Notice the "just say" bit, implying a bit of deceit. On a side note, PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BEING STUPID AND START READING FOR COMPREHENSION ON THESE FORUMS. I hope the large font size and capital letters help you understand how important and significant my statement is.

That makes no sense. You will pay just as much or more money for something that will be more obsolete by the time you get to college. I'm 14. If I buy a laptop now in 2006, I would get something that would be less powerful than a computer that I bought for the same price in 2009, when I start college. Money is money, and it makes no sense to buy something before you need it, unless there is a sale or something. Additionally, a computer you buy for four-year will barely last you that long, further invalidating the point. In short, unless you're a senior, you shouldn't buy a laptop for college.

Yea, I was trying to use the same form you used in your post when responding (the whole moaning to "us dudes"), and it came out sexist. I didnt' mean it that way... my point was, if people were truly satisfied with their lives they wouldn't resort to self-degredation, and men aren't helping the problem by encouraging it. I'm sorry if it came out sounding that way. I tried to make it not - I thought that "us dudes" sounded more innocent and less offensive then us "men."

I've been realizing lately that I really don't like it when people use the law to justify something. That's a little shallow - we all know that pornography is legal, but what we are asking is, is it good? Is it right? Or maybe they're moaning to "us dudes" who instead of directing them towards good jobs or helping them out financially - make our shallowness evident by directing them towards self-degredation as a form of work. I rarely (I have never) met a girl whose main goal in life was to become a porn star/prostitute. It usually seems to be a last resort for women. I think you're being sexist by implying that men need to direct women, and that women are incapable of making decisions. Nobody holds a gun to a woman's head and screams "MAKE RAUNCHY POSES! NOW!" They're independent to steer themselves, or so they purport. For the record, I don't hate all feminists, only the radically unrealistic ones that decide that men are to blame for all of their little problems. Realistic feminists are the ones that recognize that disillusioned women contribute to the problems that face the female gender as a whole in society today, and the unrealistic ones decide that men are the most evil things on the planet Earth. I've met a few girls who have those kinds of goals, but then again, they also appear to be sentient beings, not mindless atomatons, and thus have the free will to tell the photographer and agent to stop.

Also, if you're just one of those new-school radical kids that likes to be different from the generation before them and be a hardcore atheist or an agnostic then you deserve to go to church. I always find it rather stupid when people stand around making witty jokes about how the bible is a fiction novel and how God is their favorite fictional character, since it's a bit obvious that the reason they purportedly don't believe in God is that they want to be funny or different. But if you do actually have legitimately different beliefs, then talk to your priest about it, since I'm sure he wouldn't like what your mother is doing, although you're gravitating away from the congregation. Approach him/her nicely about the problem you're having, and just say that you might like to try "experiencing" the Lord a different way. For the record, I'm supposed to be Catholic and I haven't been to church for three years now, but that doesn't make me atheist.

Civics... When I took that I couldn't stand it... It's all propoganda, in short, it's BS. The American government is currently one of the more corrupt governments among the OECD countries... Oh and for the record? The Nazi's were Fascists. 18th century England was run under a Ogliarchy. There's a difference, a big difference... I know that. It was poetic license, since the opression is often compared to the Holocause opression of the Jews by my wonderful countrymen. It would be rather pointless for me to rant about my classes being easy and then make a blatant error about it, wouldn't it?

Excellent point. I keep trying to tell my friends that. They say that they buy their own stuff, but they really get "allowance" which is just pocket money from thier parents for doing a grand total of nothing.

I wasn't making that point in direct reference to you, but rather to the general catholic discussion. Well personally... option 1 - women don't have a choice in this situation, they are/were denied to perform high religious duties option 2 - women have a choice of being portrayed in these ways. now which option is recognising women as humans? EXACTLY! All of the feminist rights groups are moaning to us dudes, and they should be moaning to the women who allow themselves to be photographed. They make money off of it, like it, and allow it, if they want to stop it they should stop it at the source.

Come to think of it, I don't especially like any of the subjects I take in school. I take Civics, which is stuff I already know concerning our almightily wonderful, perfect, free American government and about how it came to be that way after the tyrannic, Nazi English King opressed us. I take Intro to Engineering, which is just drafting and dimensioning simplistic drawings. I take Health, which is just talking about how alcoholic beverages function and are made (which, given how many winery tours I've had to endure over the years, is by no means new knowledge to me). I take English, where we have a teacher who seems to be on a Black Rights crusade against my [unfortunately] predominately white-elitist school. I take Algebra 2, which I'm good at, but is rather easy and repetitive. I take Biology, which is rather easy and boring (but at least the people I have class with are awesome!). I take Spanish 2, where I get to be taught by the clueless cheerleading coach who forced a kid to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance (and subsequently got her name in the Washington Post, one of the US's more respected newspapers). The beef I have with all of my classes is that I usually get the material on the first time it's explained to me, and that I absolutely despise doing the homework. I don't even do it half the time and my teachers all say "well, if you don't do the work you'll fail the tests," and yet I get at least a 95% on every test I take, simply because I retain the information. Granted, I don't necessarily want to take an ultra-taxing class, but I don't feel that I should have to do homework when I understand the material sufficiently. It wastes time for me for doing it, for the teacher for grading it, and just brings my grade down if I don't have time to do it because of other classes. If I had it my way I wouldn't do any homework, because I always pay attention in class and participate more often than the majority of my peers, as well as take notes. I want school to stay at school, not follow me home and outside of it where I'm trying to develop my life in areas that are more applicable than acting out Shakespeare in drag (being Juliet) and learning about how Americans have "freedom of speech" that is limited. To make things worse, half of my classes are taught by sarcastic, loathing teachers who are at school because they receive paychecks. To be honest, I've learned more on the internet than I've learned in school over the past year. I've learned many ways to make myself more likeable and less of a [bleep], more things about computer and network administration (which seems to be a promising future career for me), and more about classic writers and literature than I learned at school. It's very sad. On top of which my mother keeps buggering out on me about how my interim (halfway through the marking period report card type thing) is going to be messed up, since I was absent for five days, and then the day I came back the interim period ended and my teachers are counting all of the work that I didn't make up against me until I do make it up. In short, this means that my interim report will be filled with Cs, Ds and Fs, and my mother is upset at me about that, despite the fact that interims mean nothing and are only used as gauges for progress and don't actually count for anything cumulatively and academically. If you read that, then thank you for entertaining me while I skewed off on my rant about my state's mediocre educational system.

What is with all those bands with numbers? Blink 182 Sum 41 Matchbox 20 They mean NOTHING.

I know, I'm such a brilliant humorist. I even stole that joke from Thilo Savage

Rage Against the Korn Bizkit. Seriously, come up with your own name. Otherwise, once Blender interviews you, as they inevitably will when you get signed, you'll say "oh, we got our name from some noob on some Runescape forums..."

I don't know about you, but music focuses me. Despite what scientists may say, listening to music helps me stay focused while doing my homework and speeds my work and ups the quality.

Look a*shole, did you PAY for any of that yourself? Your parents have no legal obligations to provide you with anything other than school supplies, food, drink, clothes, and living space. And, a "coaxel" modem (by that I presume you mean cable) is faster than a dial-up connection, and even if you had to spend 15 bucks for the cable, your parents have to pay at least 30 a month for service, so stop whining. I'll tell you what I have: A $1300 computer with 1GB ram, 80GB hard disk, Athlon 64 3500+ and a 7800GT graphics card A Creative Zen Vision:M (MP3/video player similar to iPod) A 5.1 Logitech speaker system and two JBL speakers hooked up in a 7.1 surround configuration A 19" 8ms LCD Flat panel display 400 Songs and 20 CDs But see, I had to pay for all of this myself. I'm 14 and I work. I give up my weekday afternoons and Saturdays for a job and get paid what are reportedly meager wages for what I do, since I am the youngest person working at my company, which has upwards of 2000 employees nationwide, and I do my job as good as all the adult employees, who spend all their work time watching videos on Google and IMing each other. It slays me whenver my friends complain about how they are so unlucky, despite the fact that they have big-screen TVs, surround sound, iPods and computers in their rooms, free of charge. Know what I got for Christmas? Two music CDs, a computer game, a Gamecube game, Guinness 06, an almanac, a book and a Lego set. Retail: $150. Many people around where I live are upset because they got an iPod nano instead of an iPod video, and they treat everything they own like crap. I know somebody who is on their fifth iPod because they throw it around the lunch table and then just commit warranty fraud and send it back to Apple. Case in point - I have to work for my stuff, and I have been since I was 12. You do not work for anything, you complain about having free high-speed internet access, and you are totally disillusioned about what computer you want, given your price range, and you have yet to seek help regarding what you should buy. You need a reality check.

Aw man same here! :D I lose it for about 3 minutes but then know the final 4 or so as well :P I know up to the Kaopectate part. One of the rappers is starting to lose his voice at that point :D.

I'm asuming you want Intel for the 3.06 ghz? (i'd go for a 2.4 AMD 64... better) Anyways, for all that you do not have to pay ANYWHERE near $2000, you could get a setup like that for about 300-400 $, and throw in a good video card, say, PCI-E 6600GT or a X850 radeon, and you'll have a rocking machine for about 500-600$. Not quite that low. Anyway, my parents let me spend my money as I please, not because I save up free money that I get from relatives, but because I work two part-time jobs and do my best, and the money I make is mine, and I didn't just get some check in the mail from a relative that says "Happy Birthday." I brought this point up with one of my friends and pointed out that I'd paid for pretty much everything in my room aside from my bed, shelf, clothes, and books, including my computer, monitor, printer, speaker system, etc, and he got all defensive and tried to say that he bought his own computer too, but that was because his birthday's in January and he got like $500 in total from Christmas and his birthday, and as such he didn't technically buy it, he just ordered it with somebody else's money. If I was you I would think about what you would use your new computer for, and ask if your current computer cannot already do that. Unless you build it yourself (which I doubt you will), you can't get a high-end computer for $700, and Dell is not always the wisest choice for a few reasons. If you were going to get a computer, I'd suggest going to a local Best Buy and buying one of those super rebate computers that's $300 after rebate and then upgrading the memory and video card. We did that for my brother's computer and it worked pretty well.

Well, I hope that you don't teach English. :lol: ooo yea lets make fun of the man with dyslexia oo your so cool its bloody lil cabbage like you who used to make my life a living hell stupid gits. lay off, was that even called for. You don't have dyslexia, you have slackass-itis. Typing "b4" instead of "before" is not indicative of dyslexis, it's indicative of somebody who chooses not to type out before, despite the fact that forums are not chatrooms and you're in no rush to reply.

Well, I hope that you don't teach English.

FRAMES!!!!! Welcome to 1999 how about adding some and clipart gifs :D What do you have against frames? They're very useful for nav bars so that you don't have to scroll all the way back up a long page to go to another section of a site. Of course, you have to code the frames so that the grey separating bar is invisible and mimics the background of the site :wink:, so that it looks good. Just make the nav bar float in a div on the site... looks soo much better than multiple scroolbars.. :D Floating navs are annoying as hell, because they take time to catch up.

I agree with those points. If your Linux ever crashes then it always screws over the swap partition and refuses to start. But then again, the only time my Linux (Fedora Core) has ever frozen was on my old computer (350Mhz 64MB 4GB) while using Gnome, and it didn't actually freeze, it just took more than an hour to install an RPM, and so i got bored and shut the computer off. However, once I started using Fluxbox everything was a bit speedier. Now on my new comp (AMD64 3500+, 1GB, 80GB + 10GB) it works wonderfully, and has never "frozen." The one nice thing about Linux is that it never gets extremely mucked up like Windows does, and you can leave a Linux machine running for years, unlike Windows, which needs to be restarted every so often. Since you seem to know little about Linux, I would suggest getting a book that has CDs/DVDs in the back of a Linux distro, and then following the book instructions to install and configure your system. If you decide that you like Linux then you can keep it, and if not then uninstall it and repartition the Linux space as a drive for storage in Windows.

FRAMES!!!!! Welcome to 1999 how about adding some and clipart gifs :D What do you have against frames? They're very useful for nav bars so that you don't have to scroll all the way back up a long page to go to another section of a site. Of course, you have to code the frames so that the grey separating bar is invisible and mimics the background of the site :wink:, so that it looks good.

I work as a helpdesk technician, but I hope to do something a bit more testing of my skills, like being a PHP programmer, IT admin, or being an OEM builder.

MySpace should be illegal. The amount of moronic comments that get posted there and the harassing and flaming that goes on is horrendous, not to mention the fact that people bragged about their "tricked out" profiles with two music videos, a song, a background picture that's the same color as the text, how everything is a fakelink, and how the CSS and HTML is so malformed. An example of a comment from somebody to their boyfriend: "hey trav! whats up? pshh i know my myspace is the best! hahaha ill show you the ropes of myspace sometime since its soooo hard :P lol jk ugh i really didn't want to go to practice today! Wednesdays are always sooo long. but im pretty sure we're playing water polo tomorrow so.... SWEET haha well i gtg! talk to ya later" How hard is it to hold down the Shift key every now and then, or type out joke instead of jk? It's two extra letters. These people aren't in any kind of hurry, since they have time to scout out lame "underground" music videos, crappy malformed HTML "codes," and brag about how awesome their space is because they filled out a form that autogenerates code for them. I also know people that have mentally deficient quizzes on their profile, like "What sex position are you," or "Which Victoria's Secret model are you," as if it actually matters whether you're closer in terms of supposed personality (which they lack) to Heidi Klum or Naomi Campbell. MySspace never works half the time anyway, Tom is always too busy organizing new adverts for the site than upgrading the servers or streamlining the code, or leaving what works be before trying to introduce a new "feature." It seems that every time there's a new feature, ten regular things break. In short, MySpace is a poorly coded, atrocious environment that promotes idiocy, disrespect, and stalking, and should be banned off the face of the planet. And then after that it would be nice for everybody to take an hour to learn basic HTML and CSS, so I don't have to look at such a poorly coded eyesore.