thrash-boy

ok well recently Ive had a few problems booting my PC that i have never had before. here are my 2 problems: 1. I just opened my computer and found a new drive called "3 and a half floppy (A:)". The problem is the computer doesn't have a floppy drive and this is the first time i have seen this. I figured it could be one of my many programs that create fake drives for you to mount disc images to, so i went through them all and they all had the number of drives to 0 or disabled, so it wasn't that. if it was it would probably be a DVD drive anyway. When i tried to right click the drive to go to properties my computer stopped responding. I right click another drive and went to the hardware tab and selected the floppy drive, and it says: Manufacturer: (Standard floppy disc drives) Location: on Standard floppy disc controller Device Status: this device is working properly I am totally lost on this one 2. Boot problems. A while back i booted up and got a message something like (cant remember exactly): Disc read error Press Ctrl+alt+del to retry It was the first time i had ever seen the message so i just pressed ctrl+alt+del and it booted up fine. Since then i've had a couple of times this long message: Intel(r) Boot Agent FE v4.1.16 Copyright 1997-2004 Intel Corp Intel Boot Agent base code (PXE-2.1 build 084) Copyright 1997-2004 Intel Corp CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 13 20 8E BA 0F GUID: 184D1FEE 5029 DA11 8000 4E45435F4349 PXE-E53: No boot filename received PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel boot agent im not sure if thats letter for letter because i couldnt read my handwriting (which was rushed) very well. Im also very lost on what that means. could both the problems possibly be related? anyway what im running: It's a Packard Bell iMedia A887 (some details are from CPU-Z because i don't know them off the top of my head) -Win XP Media Center Edition 2005 with SP3 and any new updates that auto update thing downloads (Basically the same as home edition with media center im told) -Motherboard: Intel D915PWK. I remember updating BIOS a while ago -Processor: Intel P4 630 @ 3.00GHZ -Memory: 2048mb DDR PC3200 anymore details just ask thanks for all help in advance! :thumbsup:

it also stands for: First On Rubbish Dump Im not a ford person. they make good engines but the cars are just junk. can you believe that the old falcon GT's had an extra for window winders (here in Australia anyway). just found that out today. if you didn't pay for the extra feature of window winders you had to use a screw driver to wind your window up and down. if you ask me that's hilarious. sometimes i just wish people knew what they were doing and maintained there cars properly. if they did that they would probably last a lot longer and the mechanic wouldn't have to fix anything. of course if you don't know anything about cars send it to the mechanic. but you cant expect them to happily and freely fix a problem with someone's car because they were to useless or un-knowledgeable to do something simple like change the oil or give it a grease. my dad does some odd car repairs for people and he gets so frustrated when someone wants something fixed because they couldn't look after there car. i don't blame him, you should see some of the unmaintained junk heaps he's had over. imagine oil as thick as syrup that probably hasn't been changed for 5 years.

they are no where near becoming a threat to humans yet so there's no reason why we shouldn't develop them more. they are simple to use if you know what your doing

no, no and no.

i had the same thing. the first injections were really bad. he put the needle in and moved it round a bit (not sure if by accident or not) and it felt like it was like moving the strands of muscle inside my toe or something. it was really weird. weird how i cant bend that toe as far as my other (no operated) on now. i can barely bend it at all, the joint next to my foot bends fine, but the one between the 2 parts of my toe just wont bend hardly at all. i can bend it with my hand but i don't feel like it, i think ill pop it out of joint or something. EDIT: with a bit of experimenting i just worked out my middle toe joint still half works (but not very well). i just have to hold the one closest to my foot still and try bend my toe otherwise the one closest to my foot does all the bending anyway back on topic: you will be fine. if you get a gas mask to put you out it couldn't be less painfull!

that's what every 14 year old says. the truth is when your a few years older you will realize that you were not capable of making all your decisions back when you were 14. i hate how everyone thinks there adult and should get to control there whole life when they hit about 12. OT: that 5 year old using that language obviously has some sort of issue, whever its poor parenting or a medical problem (such as ADD)

totally agreed.

-as already said, polar caps melting = flooding. -stopping of golf stream > ice age of Europe. -more heat = more evaporation = more clouds = more rain = more/more intense floods -more heat = more evaporation = less water left on ground = more/more intense droughts ie half the world will experience record droughts/water shortage while the other half will experience record floods. -extinction of certain species (eg bee's) = infertile crops (bee's carry nectar from male plants to female plants) = mass food shortages -more hurricanes/tornado's or whatever due to higher temperatures and more water evaporating (i dont know exactly how hurricanes work) = mass destruction of city's etc = food/water/health contamination/shortages in that city/surrounding areas -increase in allergens (im no medical expert so don't ask me how) = alot more people allergic to peanuts/other stuff and maybe eventually alot of other things -disappearing plankton (bottom of food chain) -CO2 increasing acidity of ocean waters imagine if all them things and alot more hit at once. im not saying it would send us extinct, but it is defiently a significant danger to the majority of the worlds population there just a few i got from the first page i got when i googled you can see that page here

as a few people have said i disagree with the death penalty. whats the point? if they did something that bad they should be put to life in prison in there own cell chained up and only get 30 minutes of outside time p/day to exercise. they should be made to suffer for there crime, not be put out of there misery.

if there arnt a lot of people already doing it i have an idea. i recently bought an ipod on ebay but it wasnt a new one, it was an apple certified refurb. i haven't had any problems with it at all. anyway: buy refurb ipods and other apple products here sell them for slightly more (10 or 20 dollars) on ebay. just make sure there cheaper then new ones in store and you leave it in the apple packaging and explain well what a refurb is. everyone is probably doing that already though.

there are only crap 'fights' at my school. pushing and rarely any real fights were people actually get stuck right into someone. really my whole school is weak. they push each other and say [cabbage] but wont get into them. i've never been in a fight. never needed to.

english, but a very old type of english. He actually invented his own language called Elizabethan. really? you learn something new every day :thumbsup:

i made up my mind this morning while watching the today show (aussie). that stupid poof richard reid (im fairly sure thats his name) that always delivers all the Hollywood news and crap, and talks like a pansy and acts like a pansy. only aussies will know who im talking about probably. anyway i could put a million tons of lead threw that morons head. he irritates me so much. his voice almost makes me want to destroy the tv. he is SO DAM ANNOYING! i cant believe any tv network would want to have a [bleep] like that on there show.

english, but a very old type of english. the kind people would be talking in 500 years ago maybe. its certainly not relevant to now anyway. i done a quick google to find an example: Sampson: Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. Gregory: No, for then we should be colliers. Sampson: I mean, an we be in choler we'll draw. Gregory: Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar. Sampson: I strike quickly, being moved. Gregory: But thou art not quickly moved to strike. Sampson: A dog of the house of Montague moves me. Gregory: To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away. and it continues here: http://www.literaturepage.com/read/shak ... iet-3.html now i dont know about other people, but all i can extract from that is they are talking about drawing swords and striking or something. and that's only because ive read the book and seen 2 movies on the subject, if i hadn't i would have no idea what they were on about.

i suppose you have a good point there. but i still don't think it should be a compulsory subject. sure there are a few careers requiring english and not maths, but there are also alot requiring maths and no english. why isnt maths compulsory? even if it is compulsory they should give us a choice to do something interesting, not romeo and juliet or poetry, which is irrelevant and extremely boring, instead of forcing us to do those things.

comedy rocks! i lightly remember that special Olympics song he did. thats hilarious. anyway, my favorite comedy is the kind that you would be able to post here.

ok well i just started reading that is grammer important topic, and it raised something in my head. im not sure about other country's but here in Australia English is the only compulsory subject in years 11 and 12. that kind of [cabbage]s me because i hate English, im no good at it, i don't try very hard at it, and i haven't tried very hard since about year 7. i dont see it as any benefit to me at all, especially for the career im planning to take. (would you seriously expect your local auto mechanic, electrician or any hands on trade for that matter know about romeo and juliet before you hired them? i would much prefer to think they had spent that time in school learning there trade, not english) last semester was the first time i have ever failed a subject (im in year 10 btw), and guess what it was, english! there were 2 main reasons for this: 1. because im a shy person and i utterly refused to prepare a talk/review thing i had to read to the class. 2. i only handed in about 1 of 8 worksheets on the stupidest topic of all, romeo and juliet. that brings me to a whole different topic. why would they try and teach romeo and juliet in school? it isnt even written in english. its written by some stupid [bleep] that no one in my class cared about from back in about the year 1500 or something. this is meant to be an english class, not a history class. anyway back on topic, im also quite sure im going to fail English this semester also, we have to do another talk which im not doing, and guess what topic where on now. what topic would you expect your local sparky to know all about. no its not how to wire up your house, its poetry. :roll: personally i find this kind of thing really stupid. i could be better spending those valuble 4 periods a week i have to sit in a class with a stupid teacher and listen to [bleep]ers read out poetry and there amazingly exciting talk on champagne bottle caps (no joke, we had a talk on his collection of rare champagne bottle caps which "can sell for thousands in years to come if there rare ones"). im sure i would benefit alot from several other classes, but english isnt going to benefit me one bit. subject selections for next year are coming up in the next few months i think, and apparently the only compulsory subject i must pick is something English. when i first heard that i almost punched the wall. they are trying to encourage people to complete year 12 and they are forcing them to do English in year 11 & 12? the education system is really screwed up. and to think maths isn't compulsory anymore. i honestly cant think of any career where maths is of lesser importance than english (name it if you know of one). if anything i would think its more important. i would want my builder to build my house square rather then writing me a poem and telling me the story of Romeo and Juliet after all. what are your thoughts on this whole compulsory English thing?

100% agreed! i wish i was deaf in both ears whenever i hear him. the sad thing is my brother downloaded some of his terrible music just because a friend of his told him to at school and he wanted to be cool. he listened to it all the time to, its terrible.

had a good outdoor ed class today. we had a substitute teacher who treated us like primary school kids so she got treated like she should. some things that happened: -she got abused for not letting someone have there own opinion about digging trenches around your tent when camping. -she asked someone if they had a pen and got a a quick yelling response from someone at the back, "wheres your pen miss!". she absolutely went of her nut for a couple of seconds and the kid kept talking back to her. he was sent to the coordinators office but he was away so the kid was back in a few minutes. -she was told that we dont care about global warming, our kids can worry about it, its not our issue. she disagreed with that and quickly got bombard with claims that her generation was the actual cause of global warming, they polluted the atmosphere, and now they have dumped it on our generation. that shut her up. -when we were talking about water pollution another kid came out with something along the lines of "we dont have any fresh water left because you (the teacher) all used it for bong water". that conversation quickly ended and we moved onto another topic. -and alot of other stuff, thats just what i can remember. it was hilarious. i wish i had a video of it to watch again

i wouldnt bother. the majority of all celebritys have already killed themselfs in a way because of there obsesion with material possessions and how they think there above everyone else. i dont take any notice of 99% of all celebritys

same as me. there are a few nerds im friends with but im friends with a lot of "cool people" too. i think the 'cool people' think im a nerd and the 'nerds' think im a 'cool person' in a friendly way. the 'cool people' always joke with me about me being a nerd. if there's some big math problem or something its "whats the answer to that you nerd?", there only joking around though.

i was playing with cap guns and playing war games where we ran around shooting each other using plastic toy guns with friends since i was like 7 or 8, maybe even younger. i havnt turned out shooting people yet, and i don't have any plans to. id anything it helped me, exercise and alot of other skills. -i dug several 3/4 meter deep bunkers in the backyard = lots of exercise and digging skills. -back then i could sneak up behind people easily without them hearing me = survival skills? -hiding in places and sniping people down = survival skills? -lots of running around chasing people = exercise it was great

meat ftw 1. what an absolute load of [cabbage]. what the [bleep] are you smoking? of course of bodies are built for it. meats (especially red) high protein levels were one of them main factors that caused our brains to develop and us to swing out of trees. 2. ill correct you: our body's are not as healthy without it. i don't know where you got that idea. maybe for some lazy office [bleep]er who sits on his [wagon] pushing paper all day, then he might not need any. there are so many beneficial things in meat. i have a real life example: the stupid hippy across the road from me doesn't eat meat. she's a true vegetarian, i think even a vegan. shes the type that when you go to a neighborhood bbq and everyone is cooking there snags and beef burgers she has to wait untill no one else is cooking, and put [bleep]ing tin foil down before she cooks her stupid vegy sausages on it. i feel so sorry for her young kids, growing up with a stupid [puncture] like that. not to mention how she will never let them do anything remotely fun when there older. you should see the way she comes out yelling and cursing when i ride me moty over the road next to her house in the paddock, claiming how shes been in some enviro trust for so many years and how im "hurting the creek". anyway back on topic. 3. of course we [bleep]ing do. we are meat eating animals. we have ate meat for as long as we have been our own race, not monkeys. we hunted and possibly sent to extinction bloody mammoths for god sake. just because we dont run around killing them like tigers and lions anymore doesn't mean where not meat eaters. we ahve evolved enough to kill them better and more cleaner and store them. no offense, but people like you who claim how bad eating meat is really piss me off. i just cant stand it. what has happened, has the whole world turned into a race of [bleep]ing pansy's? its not like we put the animals through massive pain when we farm them. they live happy lives eating grass and walking around in each others [cabbage] right upto the moment there killed, which in most cases in done in the best way it can, causing minimal pain to the animal and finishing it off as quick as possible. idiotic vegies like you need to get stranded on a desert island for a year where you have to kill and eat meat. you will worship the [cabbage] for saving your life then. now i am really pissed off :wall:

a teacher at my school has 200+ pairs of shoes. he collects them. wears a different pair every day

only time i can think of was walking to school bus stop. was a foggy morning and i had a quick look before crossing the road, and because of the fog i didn't see a white car coming. luckily my friend grabbed me before i stepped onto the road. thanks god he was with me or i probably would have been hit, and probably injured badly, not to mention the embarrassment :oops: .