Kwisatz

Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart" has an awesome intro. Such a fat, distorted sound is my personal epitome of hard rock guitar. Or, Van Halen's "Mean Street..." Eddie = Amazing. Ozzy and Randy on "Crazy Train" is awesomesauce too. So many songs to list... it'd be pretty hard to choose just one best one.

I would sooner shoot myself in the head than play any American Idiot. Up to and including Dookie, perhaps. But most definently not American Idiot. On topic, I would play something like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Freefalling," unless of course your girl is not crazy about Elvis, Jesus-worshipping and American loving. Ah, screw that. She'd be like "Who the hell are you talking about?" Or, better yet, any number of compromising power ballads, like Def Leppard's "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad." Tab is here. I can play the intro, but I suck bad at doing chords since I don't actually play guitar. It's not excessively difficult though. If you absolutely had to choose an incredible and impressively-difficult song, then I'd choose a Boston song, like "A Man I'll Never Be." Judging by the solos it's pretty hard, but I haven't tried it, and the piano intro would be a point of concern, but you could probably come up with something to replace it. In fact, looking at the tab, playing it would be quite a feat. If I was you I would play whatever you think is romantic and nice sounding.

I'm going to see about that since my family is moving sometime in the future (might be during the end of the school year, not sure) and it won't be an inconvenience to get guitar lessons... and then year after I'll be in college :P My microphone has also been broken since february/march, so I'm out to go find a new one... Is there a style that would be cheap yet suited to what I'm doing? (or even something I can just plug in the headphone slot of my amp) Buy a halfway decent amp. Then buy a halfway decent sound card. Then buy a male-to-male patch cable to connect the amp's headphone out to the computer's line in. Then download Audacity and select recording from line-in. Then play guitar through the amp. It will play through your computer speakers as it records in Audacity. Then get a USB microphone and record a track over that and you have yourself guitar and vocals. Then do the same thing with a decent set of drums and percussion mics, as well as a bass, midi synth (which you can plug straight in the midi port if your sound card has one) and you have a song :D. Cheap recording ftw!

Kashi, failed ramble. Either way I thought that rather strange myself when I heard that recommendation when I was like seven. My parents always told me to loop the belt under my arm instead of across my "shoulder" so that I wouldn't die in an accident, and then when I was tall enough I used the belt the normal way.

Yea, and that's one guy in the thread. Just ignore it and the fun will be off and his revolution will fail. Hence the fact that I pointed to his specific case. That aside, it fuels good debate, as somebody already mentioned. Also, there is a mod for PhpBB called SpellingCow that provides a convention for forum-inbuilt spelling and grammar checking. Of course, many people would find this rather aggravating, so it won't happen.

Like I said earlier, I don't mind if the post is intelligible and has a few mistakes, but since Lionheart is trying to make a huge controversy over people correcting his spelling, I figured I might as well toss the common consensus out there. He's trying to justify his laziness. He could be NOT lazy, but he won't, and even worse, he's (vainly) attempting to make it seem as though it's right.

Lionheart, you say that pasting something into Word to check it detracts from your posting experience. It's a matter of putting others before yourself. "Hmm, should I take 45 seconds, maximum, to do a simple spelling and grammar check and save everyone the trouble, or should I convey a bad impression?" Like I said, it's one thing if your first language isn't English or you are making a genuine effort that is still intelligible, there is no problem. However, if you routinely make mistakes that are easily correctable by Microsoft Word or don't bother to look a word up if you are unsure of the spelling, then that's just stupid. It's alright if you misspell something one, two, or even three times, but after that you should have at least took half a minute to go to dictionary.com and look it up for future reference. Humans have the ability to recognize their own shortcomings and correct them, and not doing so is a gross abuse of the sentience invested in us by our creator(s). I don't usually make a point of picking people on grammar unless it's either a) really bad or B) they have little ground to stand on in a petty argument. You would be the latter case. Perhaps if you made a subtle effort to improve your writing skills and didn't make such a big fuss over people picking you out then maybe people would stop. *EDIT: Just noticed this in your sig: You spelled the same word with two roots. Right next to each other. It's either beeten and beeteng or beaten and beating. That's a prime example. It's almost as though you have lingual memory loss or something...

You would qualify as not a native speaker, as you mentioned. That's why I addressed that in my post, because I actually read the thread. No offense intended to you or any other "foreigners."

People are trying to get revenge on the mystic ninja-rays that were hired by the Tupac 9/11 Gestapo to assasinate Steve Irwin with the same rifle that killed John F. Kennedy while he was in the studio faking the moon landing. People need to get lives, I'm sorry. This makes no sense. If you go to Sea World you can touch rays in the little pools they have of them, they won't kill you. I don't see why they should suffer as a species because of one's self-defense.

If you don't care then why are you getting worked up about it? I think what he was saying is that if you practice bad spelling/grammar online, eventually it's going to be transferred into your schoolwork. The better your grammar is online, the quicker it will come to you when it really matters. I am sick and tired of people make assumptions, that is why! And what i ment is that i dont care if poster has an opinon on the bad spelling and grammar, all I care about is that past that, im making some of the best posts, and all you all see is the errors. Maybe if people tried looking at the good (What i mean) instead of the bad (The errors) the world could be a diffrent place. And my bad spelling and grammar do not transfer over to school work. I may not be the best speller(I do learn new words some times) but I am awsome in Grammar BTW, i dont need to write (IMO) or anything like that, cause everything is my opinion. If you dont like it, fine, i could care less. I'm sick and tired of your whining. Tell me, do you have this nifty program called Microsoft Word or any of its open-source derivatives? It's loaded on many suburbanite childrens' computers. Contained within it is this nifty feature called Spelling and Grammar Check, which, sans a few instances, fixes many common English mistakes, turning what might be a relatively incomprehensible piece of garbage into an intelligible opinion overflowing with veritable awesomeness. There is no excuse for poor grammar. If you're as old as you say you are you should know how to write English, unless you speak French as a first language, in which case I disregard what I said. You are pure lazy, writing "cause" instead of "because." I do the same thing now and then, but when your post is rife with such shortcuts it becomes annoying. Additionally, you purport that there is no correlation between a user's intelligence and their grammatical skills. I think that if a user is posting on an ENGLISH LANGUAGE FORUM then they should have A REASONABLE GRASP OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, don't you? If they do not then they obviously do not comprehend things when they are told to them, and are therefore rather slow. We don't care if this isn't an English class. This is a community where people come to be entertained and informed. The aforementioned people like to be entertained and informed in a relatively coherent and intelligent fashion; they do not feel like struggling to decode a users' meaningless drivel. I've been typing just like this since I joined this community, with the occasional BTW or LAWL here and there, but NEVER anything drastically terrible. I may have been a fool for a good bit of that time but that doesn't change the fact that I at least made a genuine effort to make myself understood and not be a selfish brat. Unless somebody knows English reasonably well, has something to contribute and is not a native speaker there is no case for them in this war. Have a nice day.

Even if you don't like rap, it is relatively ignorant to dismiss Tupac as nothing more than a fraud or non-artist. Even though he did sample songs and I don't like any of them, he still was a great inspiration to many people and was noted by his teachers as very gifted. Like another poster said, he chilled with the wrong people and ended up paying the price. As for his death, I don't know. None of us truly know. Can we all stop speculating and leave the poor guy alone?

I have a Zen Vision:M. I would rant about how iDon't actually hate iPods but iHate the fact that so many people like to use them as status symbols and justification for the illusion that they somehow make more money than me, nevermind the fact that their parents bought the damn thing for them, but then everyone would neglect to read the post and then flame me for hating the iPod. iPods are, feature for feature, inferior to Creative players. Controls are down to preference, as is form factor and software. But feature-wise there is no comparison. Price-wise, Creative's players are infinitely better choices as well. If you really want to get something with brand identity that looks svelte and gets you +10 awesome points then get an iPod, I think no less of you. If you get one because you want to make fun of other people because "you have an MP3 and I have an iPod!!!1 [sic with regard to spelling and technical references]" then you're stupid. Of course now that I posted this I should prepare for the inescapable barrage of groupies from everywhere, on all fronts.

Well, let me tell you something. If you're 10 then at the most just be friends. I remember that there was ONE kid who "dated" in my class when I was 10 and everyone thought he was icky. Granted two years later everyone knew what was up, but still. At this point I would just be friends, but not like uber tell everything friends. If it gets to that point then you pretty much sink a chance of a relationship, because when one of you rubs the other the wrong way or says something or does something the other doesn't like then you're pretty much sunk on both fronts, unless both of you are mature, forgiving people. Unfortuantely lots of people you'd think would be aren't, so be careful. Good luck with everything mang. And a word of advice - follow your parents advice and do whatever your parents tell you since they probably got so far as to marry, so they MUST have done something right. Unless they're like George McFly from Back to the Future who married someone on a fluke (in the unaltered pre-time-travel timeline) and through no effort of their own. Lots of weird crap like this happening to me at the moment as well. Just stay level-headed and reasonable, and if you don't want to talk to your parents then find somebody at least 15 or 16 whom you know reasonably well and trust and get advice from them.

Yes, the staffers do a great job nowadays and work quite hard. Personally I couldn't imagine having to manually mod this many templates as on these forums :D. For a bit there I was in the middle of a feud: being banned (but I don't hold that against them), being censored and then having a mod curse at me, having rules enforced in the wrong manner, misinformation... But as of late no problems. Great jobs guys! Keep it up.

Sophomore. No idea WHEN my classes are but I'm VERY sure they are the following: AP World History Pre-Engineering (second Engineering class, first one was Intro to. Kinda weird naming convention, I know) Computer Programming 1 English 10 Honors Pre-Calc (Trigonometry? I think) Chem Honors Spanish 3 Both semesters. I'd like to do what Anethesia's doing. I just finished up with doing an Exchange/IIS installation on a server, wasn't too bad. That aside network people make a [cabbage]load more than techs or salespeople :D. EDIT: Heh, my senior year will be something like AP Prob/Stat (easy) English 12 AP (easy) Some Social Studies, dunno what though Lunch AP Computer Science Crafts Early release for work I've tried to plan it so it's easy as a mo.

The difference is that an unfertilized ovum has potential to develop into a person, not that it necessarily will. A fertilized one will almost certainly develop into one, unless you act upon it by aborting it. More cause and effect.

Curious how you didn't touch on that. It's not whether it's technically a human being. Everybody is running around "oh it's not a human since it's this and that." That isn't the point. The point is that it WOULD be human were it not for you stopping it. Think fourth-dimensionally, cause-and-effect. If I abort the baby, there is no human. If I have the baby, there is a human. The absence of the human is caused by me if I abort the baby. That simple.

As far as I'm concerned, abortion is not a matter of religion, it's a matter of thinking about what's universally moral and accepting responsibility. No offense to the poster who aborted their baby, but they PORKED THEIR BOYFRIEND. It is their own fault that they did it in the first place. Even if they use birth control they know that the risk still exists. Biologically sex is designed to create children, and we should always be expectant of that outcome. What did you think was going to happen by attempting to procreate, nothing? Consequently if you willingly engage in sexual activity and become impregnated you have absolutely no right to get an abortion. You KNEW the risks, you KNEW what you were doing. As for the sentiment that abortion is not killing, think of it this way. What if somebody traveled back in time and killed your mother before she had you, and you ceased to exist? Well, it's not techincally killing since they didn't end your life, but they prevented it from starting. I don't think you'd be very appreciative if somebody did that. Conversely, preventing an embryo from developing into a child is effectively killing it, making one less life on Earth. Don't ask me about rape; I still haven't quite reconciled that with myself, and I fear that I never will. But still, if you knowingly commit a sexual act and get pregnant, then abort the baby, you refuse to accept the consequences of your actions as well as end a human life before it even begins. Such people can only hope that deities are indeed fairy tales, because if they aren't I pity them.

Even if that life would be wrong? I don't believe in God..how could some weird supernatural being control everyone's life? If this is true then surely we have no free will. Christianity states that God gave us free will. You obviously have misinterpreted quite a bit. Either way, to the person who said that "nobody thinks about the consequences in the heat of the moment" - well tough shizzat. In that case they should turn the heat of the moment down to a simmer rather than a rolling boil. It's still their own damn fault, and nobody held a gun to their head and said to do it.

If you're a wife who didn't get jewelry, I can see where this is going. I could launch into a whole thing about how feminists and housewives want this that and everything without doing any kind of real work but that would be presumptuous on my part since I don't know your situation, and so I shall refrain. But as others have stated you could invest it, or buy web hosting and hire content creators and make a lucrative entertainment portal or something, or buy a gaming machine, new lawnmower, put it towards a truck... Given the choice between a $5000 diamond and $5000 cash I would take the cash and spend some and invest the rest.

I wouldn't be too worried about how much you can bench, since I find that it's not always an accurate indicator of practical strength. For instance, I know lots of people that can bench more than me but I can still dominate them should they choose to arm wrestle me. Alright, so that's a bad example. If I need to lift a television/luggage/computer/case of beverages/person or any combination or multiple thereof I can do a better job and strain less than other people who are supposedly stronger. Of course such things also rely on your legs, back, etc. but I'd still rather be able to do all that then bench a high number.

:ohnoes: *feels like screeming bloody murder and finding a good corner to cry in* I have just learned there is soooo much wrong in the world. For once I actually concurr. Bubsa, you have scarred me. For life. And yeah, I started the facial hair shaving when I was 12 as well. I do it irregularly to see what people say :-/. I don't really think anybody cares at this point.

Wow, it's amazing that somebody would be nice enough to actually do such a thing like immortalize my online alias in a wall :D. Name: BTTF_Man Message/Quote: "Too witty for words. Seriously."

Heh. I have a pretty high pain threshold. I was camping with one of my friends and his dad handed me some coffee in a thin stoneware cup. I took it below the rim with my fingers. Needless to say I stood there for about five seconds before I said "Mr. , could you please take the cup?" He replied "Eh?" I said "Of coffee. It's hot." "Oh!" I ended up having blisters on the top portion of all of my fingers. And I didn't scream or anything. Seems pretty awesome to be as Chuck Norris hardcare as I am but then again that also means that little cuts I sometimes get go unnoticed as itches until I go to scratch them :D.

Try having two that cover your entire palm on your right hand (dominant for me). That was no fun at all.