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No, it's jsut 'cause there's always gotta' be someone who opens their mouth about something completely redundant. If I say I'm a careful driver, guess what? Don't even question it, because you don't know me or how I drive. Just because I said my tires were bald does not mean I was out on ice running race slicks, you know? I thought I just went in the ditch because it was icy, period. My dad said my tires were kind of getting bald though, so he blamed himself for it. *Shrug*

Riding around on bald tyres, especially when there is ice on the road, does not make you a careful driver. When you are critising other peoples driving its not such a good idea to post something that shows blatent disregard for yours and other peoples safety as well. You speak as if you know anything. Don't. My tires weren't "bald", they just weren't up to Minnesota-Winter-With-Freezing-Rain standards. They had tread on them and they obviously weren't totally bald because they were on the car for the 5 years it was sitting in the garage not being driven. I was 16 at the time...Even if they WERE bald, I would have had no idea. What I mean is that I'm always very cautious while driving...I always wait if I think a car is too close (I often have people sitting with me saying "Go! You can go! Quick!" but I wait to be careful, lol) always signal, I even let people go before me just to be nice...This guy should have yeilded to me because he was on a side street and I was on a main road. Yes, he was to my right, but if I'm on the main road and he's on a side-street...GG, I have the right of way. Like I said, the look on the guys face was that of guilt. I believe he KNOWS he hit me and it was his fault, though he never actually SAID that. My agent said today that if it's 50-50 as for who was at fault, I get nothing, but if its 49-51 in my favour, I get 65% of blue book...We're guessing the blue book on my car as like $3,000, so I get like $1800. Not even enough to buy a new car, let alone pay the higher rates. Switching insurances probably won't be an option, by dad is friend's with our agent, but at the same time, I doubt that'll help me. My agent knows that I'm careful but it isn't his choice, if the company says to raise it, he has to. That's the worst part of it, is that my whole family has to pay more money for insurance because some guy hit ME. Here's a little picture I made so people can get a visual.

Pale Blue Dot.

I somehow doubt this study. Even in WoW, where there are lots of females, there are many more males.

I agree, his rate should go up, but not mine. The saddest part here is that I am such a careful driver, and I'm a responsible person considering my age, yet it'll still get jacked up, and for my whole family, not just myself. I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, and ever have. I don't party, at all. I don't speed, race, etc. I'm very careful because I don't want to pay out the [wagon] for insurance, but look where that got me! *Sigh*... Off to write my police report fully. Gotta' turn it in before 10 days or they take my license or something. :-s Yea, that'd be a great cherry on the messed-up sundae.

My insurance agent said our insurance policies will pay for eachothers cars...It almost makes insurance seem pointless. YOU don't get anything, but the other person does! :lol: I had Liability, meaning that if I was in an accident, the other guys stuff would be paid for, but not mine. I'm assuming, due to that guys age, that he had full coverage. That should pay for mine also, my agent said. If he had liability like I did, it would obviously also pay for mine. I'm hoping that it gets paid for, if it don't, I may be forced to play "mean-guy". I don't want to sue anyone, especially an older guy, but I'll have no choice...My family isn't rich...We get by, but we can't afford to buy another car. I certainly can't myself, either, and I wouldn't feel right making my parents do it for me even if they could...I need a car though, so...If push comes to shove, as they say. My agent said in cases of un-signed roads, they go by who was at fault to pay for it, and the other guy was obviously at fault. He was on the right-side of his street, and he hit the front of my car...That means I was 3/4 the way through the intersection before he hit me. I even out-did my agent on this one...He assumed since the damage was to the front-mid side of my car, that I was 1/3 the way through, but I pointed out that since he was on the right side of the road, it actually makes him further over in the intersection, thus I was 3/4 the way through. The passenger side of my car was actually briefly lifted off the ground, I believe. I'm not 100% sure about that claim, but I remember seeing the sky through the passenger window when I looked over to see why my uncle said "whoa dude s**t!" I had saw the car and assumed it was going to stop at the stop sign there, but as it turns out, he didn't have one and either did I. He was also further back from the intersection than I was, so yea. He flat-out, undisputably hit me. :P Also, he walked his son home. His son was old enough to walk himself...My mom and I have been wondering if the son was drunk, or was actually driving the car without a license...Since we're not 100% sure who was driving, we just assumed it was the older guy. I mean...Technically, they both fled the scene of an accident, which is hit-and-run, but the older man came back. The younger man did not...The officer KNEW this (the guy told him) and he said nothing. At the time, I didn't think anything of it, but after I left, I was like..WOW...That was ILLEGAL. :P Just hope for me that my stuff gets paid for. I always wanted to fix my Mercury Cougar and the money would be awesome. If it does get paid for, though...It won't be a great victory...I'll still get my insurance upped because some guy hit me. Unfair world.

The reason this post is so long is because I'm telling the story, but also using this text for my case-report. Well, snippets of it. I'll leave out the leet-speak and the like. :P So yea, in case you were wondering about the length. ;)

...Because there is always an idiot out there who doesn't know what he is doing. And somehow, someway, that idiot will find, hit, and total your car when you were just trying to get a cat-box for your kitten. Case in point: My night. I went to go get a cat-box for my kitten, and on the way over to visit a friend afterwards, a mere block or two from his house, I was T-boned by some old man who had ZERO concern for my health after he did so, apparently. I was driving along - very carefully as I always do so as not to ruin my car or my health - and obeying all the laws of the road. I came to an intersection with no stop signs, something the reporting officer noted as being "a load of s**t" in his own words. I was going 20 MPH, as was the posted speed limit in the neighborhood I was in. I kept going to cross the intersection, and right as I was about 3/4 the way accross, BAM, I get T-boned by some bald, graying old man in a Lexus with his son. The passenger side of my car? Desimated at a mere 20 MPH. 25 maximum, if he was going the speed limit, which I assume he was...He's old afterall. My uncle was in the passenger seat and got tossed about a little and complained about pain in his side, but said it was nothing really. I hit my knee and hip on the door panel and there is a large lump on my knee, which is rather painless, and my hip no longer really hurts. We were both wearing seat belts. I told the reporting officer, when he asked if I was injured, that my hip and knee hurt and that I had a bump on my knee, but he wrote in his report that there were no injuries because I said I didn't need to go to the hospital...Basically, if I was turned out to be badly injured, I couldn't do anything about it because he wrote nothing was wrong with me. Good job, officer. But anyways, back to the story... Right before impact, my uncle said "Whoa dude s**t!" and then we were hit from the side. I immediately knew what happened and was startled by it, but I wasn't really scared. I've been in an accident before (with myself, lol yay for ice and bald tires, going into ditches ftl) so I knew what was going on and immediately asked my uncle if he was okay and I got out of my car prepared to be very angry at some college kid who was not watching where he was going...I got out and limped a bit noticing my hip was feeling some pain, enough to make it limp-worthy, I guess, and that my knee also hurt a bit. After noticing it was an old man, I wasn't mad anymore because I figured he was just not watching where he was going, but at least it wasn't a college kid fiddling with his Ipod or something. I walked over and asked if he was okay...Him and his son were inspecting their car. He kind of nodded his head and the kept inspecting it seeing what damage had been done...It should be noted that they were out of their car and checking it out before I was even out of my car, and I got out almost immediately, so obviously they were not hurt. He also walked his son home after a few minutes and came back. I was a bit angry that the man seemed totally unconcerned about my safety, but didn't get mouthy with him or anything. I asked him a second time if he was okay just to make sure he heard me and he looked at me kind of wide-eyed and said "Yea, yea, we're okay." again. He never once asked me if I was okay, which after-the-fact, has actually angered me kind of, because after all, he did hit me, not the other-way around. The guy seemed WAY concerned about his car and not concerned with me, and definately not my car, in the slightest. A guy came out of his house (apparently he heard the crash) because my car was forced up on to his lawn by the impact (from the right-side of the street all the way across and into his yard, very close to his garage) and actually complained about his lawn having tread marks on it. I couldn't believe that someone could actually be that heartless, but thus is our world. I said something like "Oh man, all those parts that got damaged are BRAND new. I just bought them." and he said "Your parts? What about my lawn!" I didn't even say anything to him because I thought he had to be kidding. Noone could be that arrogant, you would think. My father is a lawn-fanatic and even he said it was nothing. I immediately called 911 because the man who hit me said "Yea, you better call 911 because I don't have a phone." The man ran over to the street signs when I asked what streets we were on and he said Ledley and Chelsey. They said they would send out officers immediately and they arrived 5 to 10 minutes later. The officer questioned the guy...I had no idea what he said...I wasn't over by them because if the guy DID say it was my fault, I would have been angry because I am 100% confident that I did nothing wrong. Afterall, the front of his car smashed into the side of mine, that would mean my car was already in the intersection as he was going out of it. I don't want to totally blame the guy because it sounds mean to point fingers, but yea, it was obviously he who was at fault. Hopefully he realized that and won't want to challenge it in court because I honestly don't want to go through that all, win or lose. By the way the guy acted, he seemed to recognize his responsibility...Except for the fact that he never asked me how I was, but his body language and facial expressions showed it. He also never apologized, but either did I. If I was at fault, I would have ran out of my car and right up to his saying "Sorry, sorry, sorry!" a million times because I have always admitted my faults. If I T-boned him, for example, I would have seen that as my fault. The officer that was there said that technically it was nobodies fault because there were no signs to indicate right-of-way, stopping, yielding, etc. The officer asked us about injuries and the like and I told him about my leg and all that. The other guy said he was fine. My uncle also said that his side was in pain, by that he would be okay. As of right now, we are both in a lot more pain than when we left, and tomorrow will probably be much worse. My back is aching, my neck hurt for a little while, but I think I rubbed that out, it doesn't hurt anymore...My knee hurts more and it's turning purple and bruised. Not sure about my uncle exactly, but I just asked him several minutes ago and he said his side hurt pretty bad, but he doesn't want to go to the hospital or anything because they'd just tell him to take it easy...I feel the same way. Don't need a doctor for that information! The tow truck came and loaded up my car and his, second and first, respectively. My car wouldn't run...I believe the older man tried to drive his up onto the ramp, but I don't think it would run either and they had to pull it up. His airbags were deployed and everything, so his car is totalled for sure. My car's power was knocked out, being it the starter cables or something, but it wouldn't start,nothing worked. Front axel looked broken, none of the doors but mine (drivers side, front) would open. Not sure why the driver's side back wouldn't open (wasn't hit), but it wouldn't. Headlights were popped out...It wouldn't run, to say the least. My car also looked totalled. My car was probably worth two the three-thousand dollars, but mine also had $2,000 in work recently done (transmission, etc.) and so yea, mine is totalled aswell. I no longer have a vehicle and won't for a good-while. We don't have the money...So I have no way to work or anything. I had liability insurance, so it will pay for his car, but won't give me a dime. He had full-coverage which will pay for his, but I highly doubt mine, even though it was his fault. If I had to take him to court to pay for it, I could do it and win, but it probably wouldn't end up being worth it. What did I get out of this? A soon-to-be higher insurance rate and a busted vehicle. What did the old man get? A brand new car, and higher, but less higher than mine, insurance rates...maybe. He's older, they probably won't even care about that, but I'm 19, so they'll freak out and think I'm responsible before even knowing any facts. So, I guess being good and driving carefully doesn't pay off. In the end, I'll still get screwed by some old fart in a Lexus that wasn't watching the road. *Sigh*.

Anyone who is informed knows very well that PC owns Mac. They're not even just taking a shot at one corperation, either...They're taking a shot at many. Many companies make PC's, but for some reason I feel like it's a direct shot at Microsoft. *shrug* Mac = can't do a lot of stuff PC's come with out-of-the-box. Can't play your favourite games, for example. What CAN you do on a Mac, anyways? Aren't they good for like...Artsy stuff? And music? Multi-media, you know. And that's it? All for the same price of my PC that does that and 100 times more? No thanks, yo. And Mac's crash just as much as PC's, just differently. I had one when I was younger. :lol:

I think they're spending so much money on advertising to sell this crap that they'll probably only break even selling the crap. :lol: I've literally seen this commercial on EVERY channel at least once. Except Nickalodeon, I think. Rofl. I just hope this marketing strategy doesn't catch on...They're depending on human curiousity...They don't tell you what it does or anything, they just say BUY IT NOW, IT WORKS. Human curiousity + annoying phrase over and over almost makes me want to buy it, but I know what it's for and that it doesn't work, so I don't. If I didn't know, and I saw the stuff in the store, I'm 100% sure I'd at least LOOK at it to see what it was for. Bastards. :(

You're wrong. The Old Testement constantly refers to the coming Messiah. Read the book of Isaiah (I can't spell...) and you'll know what I'm talking about. It is the exact same God because the Jews were (still are if they're still Jews) waiting for the Messiah to come. Jesus didn't replace God. Quit talking about Christianity - you obviously don't know much about it. I never said he replaced God. I said that Chrsitians worship Jesus as a God. If you deny that, then apparently you don't know much about Christianity. :-s You said you don't think Jesus was meant to be worshipped, but you don't realize - because you don't know anything about Christianity - is that Jesus is just another part of God and the Old Testement is filled with prophecies telling of the coming of the Messiah (Jesus). It's the same God and the Old Testement clearly prophecizes for the next part of God to come down in human form to save humanity. The point you're making is if the old gods have been disproved, why not Jesus since he's not even as old as them, and that's ridiculous because we're still worshipping the same Gods, and we're still reading the same book. You just don't realize that Jesus has always been a part of our faith, but before him, we were just waiting for him. Current Jews believe we picked the wrong guy - but they are still waiting for their Messiah. And when he comes (obviously I don't think he will, since I think it was Jesus) they will do the same thing Christians have done with Jesus - but that doesn't mean the God they worship is going to go away. It's the same God in different parts (therefore, not against the 10 Commandmants) and the prophecy for the Messiah has been there since the beginning and therefore isn't anything "new" like you suggest. Your point is just wrong. Read the Old Testement and then get back to me. I don't have to read the Old Testement to know that worshipping any diety but Yahweh/Jehova itself is "wrong". Yes, dude, I'm well aware that there is prophecies of a messiah in the Bible...How that is relevent to Jesus not equalling God is beyond me, but since you've read the Bible, you must be right! Right...? Nay. Now of course, if I stop there, you'll call me an idiot and say they're not seperate diety's and that I should shut up and go read some other part of the Bible...No, just no. Me being birthed from my mother doesn't make me my mother in any way, shape, or form. It really doesn't matter what the Bible says, they're seperate beings. You can say "Oh, but it's a PART of God!" all day long, but it still doesn't make Jesus God. I know damn well that one of the commandments it you're not supposed to worship ANYTHING but Yahweh/Jehova ITSELF. Nothing else. Not a statue of Mary, not a picture of Jesus on a cross. Not Jesus himself. Assuming Jesus was indeed the son of God, and that he actually did all that uber stuff (most of it boarderlining "magic" but being covered-up by being called "miracles" so people can preach about how Harry Potter is ruining society :roll:) I still see no reason why Christians can FLAT-OUT just not worship God. By saying "Praise Jesus!" in church, you are not praising God. Jesus is not your God. Yahweh/Jehova is...your...God. When was the last time "Praise Yahweh/Jehova!" was said in a Christian church? Like, never. I watch those surmons on TV and whatnot, it's all "Jesus this, Jesus that, buy our $100 bible, send us $100 for Feed the Children and we'll only take 20% for profit" and all that nonsense. I just find it amazing that the very rules that God laid out are broken by 2 billion people everyday. It honestly doesn't matter what you say, Jesus isn't God, just like I'm not my mother. Worshipping Jesus > God = Wrong. Notice how I said worshipping him OVER God, which is what Christians do. If you were to just be thankful to have a messiah and a saviour, but continue to worship the REAL God, you'd definately be "in the right". It makes me shudder to know that a man that lived 2,000 years ago has been ascended to God-hood. No matter who he actually was or what he actually did, it makes me feel very sorry for the world...He was never meant to be worshipped over God himself. And no, I will not read the word-play of some scripture so I can be brain-washed by metaphores into thinking otherwise.

You're wrong. The Old Testement constantly refers to the coming Messiah. Read the book of Isaiah (I can't spell...) and you'll know what I'm talking about. It is the exact same God because the Jews were (still are if they're still Jews) waiting for the Messiah to come. Jesus didn't replace God. Quit talking about Christianity - you obviously don't know much about it. I never said he replaced God. I said that Chrsitians worship Jesus as a God. If you deny that, then apparently you don't know much about Christianity. :-s

Certain ads should be illegal. HeadOn should be illegal for it's sheer annoyance factor. Acne fighting commercials should be illegal because they are misleading...Over-the-counter acne medications work for about a month, sometimes they work great, too, but after that, they stop working and the problem comes back worse. ;) That's pretty a pretty horrible way to sell a tube of Benzoyl Peroxide, but whatever. ProActiv commercials especially. Those are the worst. Every celebrity endorsment they have is from a celebrity that has never even used the product EXCEPT for Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. He actually uses it. All the other celebrities have used Accutane, which is like the "cure" for pimples. It should be illegal for them to flat-out lie like that, but whatever. What else...Oh yea, Girls Gone Wild commercials. Nothing against naked women, but give me a damn break already. They're on EVERY CHANNEL from midnight to 6 AM running non-stop. I do not need to see porn THAT bad.

Now, putting aside individual respect, religious fanaticism and courtesy, let's make it clear it is ignorant to state in a real debate that the world is 6,000 years old and that's when it was created along with all the things that exist today. Just radiometric dating alone can prove objects and minerals to be as old as 4.404 billion years old and it is an absolute certainty that many of earth's substances have existed for at least 4.404 billion years. The isotope 206 of lead has a half life of over 4.5 billion years, hardcore religious people might want to perform research on that one. The isotope 40 of Potassium has a half life of 1.3 billion years and can be found in many rocks today. In case you still think the Earth is 6,000 years old or whatever your book says, consider reading about radiometric dating. http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens211 ... dating.htm Tell that to them. They just say "Nope, sorry, it's been proven wrong. The world is 6,000 years old." They'll be damned if they can site a source, but yea. :lol:

Wrong. The God of Christianity is the same God of early Judaism, way before the Roman Empire was even a thought in Romulus' mind. I can't let anything go? My point is simple: You can't discount somone because of how long they've been around or how many posts they have on thhe forum. Their ideas should be attacked on the basis of their fundamental points, you are acting ridiculous by saying Kant is "no one" instead of responding directly to his point. (Obviously I see you have no sort of responded, but at the time you hadn't.) I wouldn't say they're the EXACT same "God", GhostRanger. Christians today follow Jesus just as much, if not more than God himself. Nevermind that's against like, the first commandment, but I would consider it an entire different being if it's like that. That whole "holy trinity" thing. I don't think Jesus was meant to be worshipped as a God. He was simply a guy with a message. An important guy, if he was he who said to be, but not a man of "God" status. I've even heard people here say that Jesus *IS* God via that whole holy trinity thing or whatever...

The Universe very well could have been created by a "God", but the thing is...The Bible says nothing about anything that happened before 6,000-ish years ago, thus religious people (hardcore people that won't take anything but the Bible as literal fact) say it's a fact that the world is only 6,000 some years old. It's an undisputed scientific fact that the world is older than 6,000 years old. They say it's 4.5 billion, but even if it isn't that old, we know for sure it's older than 6,000 years. We also know that the Grand Canyon wasn't created by "The Great Flood" :roll:, however, these religious peolpe just completely dismiss it as "not fact" because they take the Bible so literally that it doesn't allow it...They can't even begin to fathom for one second that perhaps, just maybe, if the Bible and science cannot go hand in hand, that it isn't science that is the wrong one. I don't want to bash people's beliefs, 'cause some good comes out of religion (though a lot more bad comes out of it *shrug*), but if science and religion can't co-exsist, it seems to me that for science to automatically then be wrong is a very, very...flawed, just flat out dumb way of thinking. The Bible is a book, which may or may not have even been written by God's words. Science is the facts of how stuff works in our world. Would you deny gravity if the Bible said it didn't exsist? Probably...But we all know Gravity is a friggin' fact. Until you can throw something in the air and it doesn't come back down, it's a fact. To me, it is devistatingly obvious that the Bible was written by men of their time with little interference from an "outside" source. Want to know why the Bible mentions nothing of what we know as fact today? Because people back then didn't have the knowledge of it, thus they couldn't write about it. If God was infalable, I would think he would have at least mentioned something about this stuff. However, I want to believe that God was just being lazy and he really does exsist, because if we die and nothing happens, that's going to make a lot of people feel like they wasted their lives. Exact reason right there why I don't follow religion...I believe that as long as I don't go murdering, raping and hurting people, God will accept me into Heaven if it exsists. I don't believe Hell exsists at all, because the Bible says God loves us all...The whole "yea, but he warned you..." argument for Hell is bunk. My mom warned me not to ride my bike near the river, but when I did and I fell in and lost my bike, she didn't beat me to death and scream "i warned you, now suffer!" she said "go get your bike out of the river." and she still loved me. I can't and won't believe that there is a God that would make people suffer for not doing everything to the letter that he says. THAT God doesn't exsist. I very much believe more in the Jehova Witnesses' teachings more than anything else...They may be called a cult, they may not accept other people's blood, but at least their not lunatics telling their children they're going to burn for eternity for not reading the Bible. They teach their children that if you're good, God will want you in Heaven with him, and if you're really bad, you don't get to go to Heaven, i.e., you just cease to exsist. Any good parent wouldn't torture their child for any reason, and God is our "parent", if he exsists.

It's good Blizzard was being a great sport about it...It's obvious they had some help from Blizzard in creating it...They were using animations not even in the game, etc. Blizzard also publicized it on their website...I'd wager that was one of the most viewed episodes ever...According to my friends on WoW (I don't play anymore, talked on MSN) almost everyone on their servers were /afk watching South Park. People were even skipping raids (It was on at 9 PM, prime time for raiding) to watch it.

Religious followers...Well, actually, these new, die-hard evengelics more than anyone, take the bible completely and utterly literal. They believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that carbon dating is a flawed science, which it isn't as far as I know of. There was some guy here recently trying to say that carbon dating couldn't be trusted because space-carbon that was much older would have fallen on the bones, making them much older seemingly. Not that that is even possible, but that still means God didn't create everything. I guess he looked over that. /shrug. Most of them just say carbon dating = flawed. It would amaze me if a widely used science accepted as fact was not only totally off, but off by such a huge number of years that it isn't even close to fact.

And that online comics arnt always funny too. I agree. I love online comics...This one...Isn't funny. It's "random" at best.

Sorry pal, but the God of Christianity isn't "modern." Until you show me that you know anything about my faith before criticizing it, I'll use my intelligent debating skills elsewhere. Well, in a time-line aspect, Yahweh/Jehova (that is what it is called, right? Believe so..) is actually one of the newer diety's. There were many religion's before Christianity, it's just that noone follows them anymore, lol. Edit: I should clarfiy, the God the Jewish religion follows is one of the older God's, but the one that Christians follow...That whole "holy trinity" thing...That's like the...Second-newest diety, Allah being sometime after, in the 1500's or whatever.

People believe it because it's what science is leaning towards as how the Universe started. Other than that, they don't have to have a reason, just like religious people don't have to have a reason to believe in creation. They just do. Ever ask them WHY the believe it? They just say "Because the Bible says so" and that's that...Never any proof or nothin'.

Problem is, it's signature for "dork" to most people. Tuner cars sound EXACTLY like crotch rockets, which is kinda' silly. I like the way some body kits look (most spoilers, or wings I should call them, because they're THAT big usually...look really dumb) and stuff like that, but modifying a 4 cylinder engine with anything but a Turbo Charger (two if you're lucky :P) is a waste of time. I won't deny it, cars with Turbo Chargers, no matter what they are, are fun to drive. I don't race or anything stupid, but turbo's sound really cool and they make your car really quick. I know some dude with a Subaru and his car accelerates way faster than mine. :shock: I drive a 1967 Mercury Cougar, 351 Cleveland with almost 400 HP.

Only 2 years? I recall a story about a kid selling ONE JOINT worth of Marijuana and he got a year just because it was on the edge of a school-ground area. He wasn't even near a school, but he was on the "grounds" that the "Drug-Free School Zone" campaigne said is the schools "zone". One year for that. This woman had posession, child endangerment and tampering with food. All felonies...And she faces 2 years? "Member the kids that put pot in their teachers brownies and got like 2 years? Yea, exactly. GG court system.

Indeed, I don't believe most people understand how massive the Universe even is. Like, according to the Big Bang theory, which could be false, of course, the Universe has been moving for 14.5 billion years at the speed of light...Do the math on that distance. :P

I don't even want to know how a Jew powered laptop would work. :lol: I have no idea what they're talking about, but *shrug*. Silly MIT go-ers...Always being smart and doing random things just because they're smart enough to!