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Snow
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description: TAKE 1 MILLION SPERM TO FERTILIZE ONE EGG? >>> (they don't stop to ask directions) >>> >>> 4. WHY DO MEN SNORE WHEN THEY LIE ON THEIR BACKS? >>> (because their balls fall over their butt-hole and they vapor >>> lock) >>> >>> 5. WHY WERE MEN GIVEN LARGER BRAINS THAN DOGS? >>> (so they won't hump women's legs at cocktails parties) >>> >>> 6. WHY DID GOD MAKE MEN BEFORE WOMEN? >>> (you need a rough draft before you make a final copy) >>> >>> 7. HOW MANY MEN DOES IT TAKE TO PUT A TOILET SEAT DOWN? >>> (don't know.....it never happened) >>> >>> And the personal favorite: >>> >>> 8. WHY DID GOD PUT MEN ON EARTH? >>> (because a vibrator can't mow the lawn) >>> __________________________________________________________ >>> One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his Sweat-shirt >>> Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, 'What >>> setting do I use on the washing machine?' >>> >>> 'It depends,' I replied. 'What does it say on your shirt?' >>> >>> He yelled back, ' University of Oklahoma ..' >>> >>> And they say blondes are dumb... >>> >>> _____________________________________________________ >>> A couple is lying in bed. The man says, 'I am going to make you the >>> happiest >>> woman in the world.' >>> >>> The woman replies, 'I'll miss you... >> >>Smarter? Naaa. Loonier maybe. If you were loonier you would have thought of that. S "rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:2mamo3hjje0huv008c9bbq55efk88mc94r@4ax.com... > and if i were smarter i would have thought of that... > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:16:51 -0800, "Sarah" <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> > wrote: > >>"Ignoransk is blisk" - Popeye >> >>S >> >>"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>news:32qjo3tacag3k1niba4n0sdgo18aafjb5v@4ax.com... >>> but they're happy...afterall ignorance is bliss. >>> >>> On 13 Jan 2008 14:09:17 +1000, "Deej" <noway@jose.net> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Bill L <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote: >>>>>You are spot on. Our educational system started …
creator: Neil
date: 2007-11-24T17:26:28-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: mpanies make drugs. Sometimes they even make up diseases to >market the drugs. (Restless leg syndrome? Please . . . ) Sometimes they >even neglect to inform us about the risks and side effects. > 2. People have aches, pains, and problems. They want relief, and if >they can get it from a pill, all the better. Much less work that way. > 3. Doctors are under pressure to fix people's aches, pains, and >problems, and if they can do it with a pill, all the
creator: Don Nafe
date: 2007-11-24T17:38:19-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: >> wrote in message news:478b7089@linux... >> Sarah, It's hard to confront evil. Sometimes evil people smile and laugh >> and seem like,they are your friend. But truly evil actions are not done by >> accident. Can you think of any word other than "evil" for drugging 8 >> million helpless and innocent children with a harmful and very powerful >> narcotic? It is NO ACCIDENT and it is VERY EVIL. >> >> Confront it. >> >> Sarah wrote: >>> Now, settle down, Bill . . . don't go all Tom Cruise on us. "Battlefield >>> Earth" was just a book and a movie . . . the psych-iatrists/ologists are >>> not evil ali
creator: DJ
date: 2007-11-24T17:48:02-00:00

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description: w this post I have to save
creator: John [1]
date: 2007-11-24T20:25:46-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: sterious and vague. >> >>Chuck >> >>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote: >>>
creator: Nei
date: 2007-11-24T20:33:09-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: >>>Those who engage the conversation, will pick the things that will >>>be taught. >>> >>>There is no other answer. >>> >>>There may still be common ground enough for a set of virtues to >>>be agreed upon. I certainly hope so. But, nothing I think will establish >>>who >>>does the choosing, and no matter what I say, I will be wrong because it >>>is a conversation, not an opinion poll. >>> >>>Right now, millions are opting out of public education because of this >>>very issue. Christians, Muslims, Scientologists, Jews, all have their >own >>>school systems for this very reason, and now the public school teachers >>>must often try to teach in a war zone because young people are raised >>>without morals and parents so often. Many people think it is time for >>>moral education to re enter public schools. >>> >>>Which set of morals? >>> >>>Ours. We decide. Those who participate, that is. >>> >>>But mark my words, the conversation will occur with or without us. >>> >>>DC >>> >>>"chuck duffy" <c@c.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>Don, >>>> >>>>Thad asked a question, and you did your typical turn it on the asker, >instead >>>>of just answering. >>>> >>>>Chuck >>>> >>>>"DC" <dc@spammersinhell.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>"TCB" <nobody@ishere.com> wrote: >>>>>>So, again, who picks the morals to be taught? >>>>>> >>>>>>TCB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Simple enough. Those involved in the conversation. >>>>> >>>>>Do you have something to offer? Because I can assure you, the >>>>>conversation is not going away. >>>>> >>>>>Would you derive morals from Hobbes' natural law reasoning? >>>>>Social contract theory? Natural selection? >>>>> >>>>>Tell me how you would join the conversation. >>>>> >>>>>After all, it's up to us innit? >>>>> >>>>>Again, have anything to offer? >>>>> >>>>>DC >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >at least Jake has parents who care enough to ask if this is really the right or only choice...hats off to you both. On 16 Jan 2008 00:58:19 +1000, "Gantt Kushner" <ganttmann@comcast.net> wrote: > >This has been an…
creator: steve the artguy
date: 2007-11-24T21:58:04-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: ugh my job, and if >>>> there's an evil conspiracy to ruin humanity, I think someone forgot to > >>>> clue them in. Now, the pharmaceutical companies . . . that's another > >>>> story. >>>> >>>> But thanks for the nice compliment. I should tell you, though, that > I'm >>>> not particularly young, and the fact that I can count spilled toothpicks > >>>> at a glance doesn't make me bright. >>>> >>>> I'm an excellent driver. >>>> >>>> S >>>> >>>> >>>> "Bill L" <bill@billlorentzen.com> wrote in message >>>> news:478a535f$1@linux... >>>>> Well done, class! Your answers are all correct, but as usual our bright > >>>>> young lady is most astute. In the '60s psychiatry started a campaign > to >>>>> influence the schools and school systems and the teaching colleges in > a >>>>> big way. >>>>> >>>>> In the '50s at an annual convention, the head of American Psychiatric > >>>>> Association publicly declared their new goal of creating a "Value >>>>> Neutral Society". Their aim was to blur and eradicate the distinction > >>>>> between right and wrong. >>>>> >>>>> They knew that the sure way to change society was by influencing the > >>>>> children. Psychiatrists have gradually introduced to our schools the > >>>>> mass drugging of children and even infants (approximately 8 million > on >>>>> Ritalin type drugs), Outcome Based Education (doesn't matter how much > or >>>>> how well children learn, just that they felt good about it) and the > rest >>>>> of their psuchobabble notions of how people should think and behave. >>>>> >>>>> Who was the most influential proponent of the "drug culture"? Not >>>>> coincidentally, a psychologist and college professor, Dr. Timothy Leary. >>>>> >>>>> When you hear someone derided for being "judgmental", that is the >>>>> influence of psychiatric double speak. Smart, ethical people used to > be >>>>> regarded as showing "good judgment", but now that positive attribute > of >>>>> being able to rightly judge people and situations has been slyly skewe…
creator: Sarah
date: 2007-11-25T01:01:03-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: . >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> -Jamie >>>>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> TCB >>>>>> >>>>>> Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote: >>>>>>> New thin MacBook Air just announced. www.Apple.com >>>>>>> The track pad is multitouch now. Optional solid state drive. A bit >> >>>>>>> slower CPU than the other MacBooks but not bad. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It looks pretty cool for something that light. But right now I need >>> a >>>>>>> heavy lifter 17" HD res box, so it's not for me. >>>>>&gt
creator: Neil
date: 2007-11-25T03:37:24-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: (or 64GB if you want to spring for the solid state >drive >>>>>> option). If that's enough space to add Debial and XP, bootcamp should >>> >>>>>> support 'em. Or use one of the virtual machine setups if you want to > >>>>>> switch between OSs on the fly. CPU is 1.8GHZ I think. Slower than the >>> >>
creator: LaMontt
date: 2007-11-25T06:26:35-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: >>>> bigger/heavier laptops but still very capable. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> -Jamie >>>>>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> TCB >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> New thin MacBook Air just announced. www.Apple.com >>>>>>>> The track pad is multitouch now. Optional solid state drive. A bit >>> >>>>>>>> slower CPU than the other MacBooks but not bad. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It looks pretty cool for something that light. But right now I need >>>> a >>>>>>>> heavy lifter 17" HD res box, so it's not for me. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Also at MacWorld: Software updates to iPhone/iTouch, movie rentals, >>>> a >>>>>>>> wireless backup system, and an iTV update. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> No refresh for the other laptops (what I'm waiting for) yet. Dang! >>>
creator: steve the artguy
date: 2007-11-25T06:50:56-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: ref="mailto:nobody@ishere.com" target="_blank">nobody@ishere.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>Jamie, >>>> >>>>There's plenty of room for FW and ethernet, and those should not be considered >>>>luxury items. They're necessities on any computer these days. Why apple >>>didn't >>>>include them is beyond me. >>>> >>>>TCB >>>> >>>>Jamie K
creator: Rich Lamanna
date: 2007-11-25T16:07:57-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: able. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>>> -Jamie >>>>>>>>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> TCB >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Jamie K <Meta@Dimensional.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> New thin MacBook Air just announced. www.Apple.com >>>>>>>>>>> The track pad is multitouch now. Optional solid state drive. A >>bit >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> slower CPU than the other MacBooks but not bad. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> It looks pretty cool for something that light. But right now I >>need >>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>>>> heavy lifter 17" HD res box, so it's not for me. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Also at MacWorld: Software updates to iPhone/iTouch, movie rentals, >>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>>>> wireless backup system, and an iTV update. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> No refresh for the other laptops (what I'm waiting for) yet. Dang! >>>>>> I >>>>>>>>>>> guess they'll sneak that update in sometime between now and NAB, >>>>much >>>>>>>>>>> like they did with the MacPro last week with little notice or >fanfare. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I'm expecting LED backlighting on the 17", updated CPU and chipset >>>>>> for >>>>>>>>>>> more speed and battery life, and now I'm expecting a multitouch >>>track >>>>>>>>>>> pad! Hope it doesn't take months... >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>>>>>> -Jamie >>>>>>>>>>> www.JamieKrutz.com >>>>>> >>>> >>> >> >TCB wrote: > Jamie, > > There's plenty of room for FW and ethernet, and those should not be considered > luxury items. They're necessities on any computer these days. Why apple didn't > include them is beyond me. It looks to me like the design philosophy was "do everything you can to make it thinner." Clearly they wanted the bragging rights of having "The Worlds Thinnest Notebook" as they currently trumpet on their web site. It's a faster subnotebook than Sony's, too, and less expensive apparently. So in that market, this little beauty should make a splash. To get there, the battery is not user-removable (like iPods). There are minimal i/o ports. No expansion port. T…
creator: Neil
date: 2007-11-25T20:35:40-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> Never mind, I take it all back, it doesn't have ethernet. Nice >>> job >>>>>>>> Apple, >>>>>>>>>>>>> leave out a ten cent part on an $1800 laptop so I can't use > it >>> in >>>>>>> my >>>>>>>>>> office >>>>>>>>>>>>> to talk to my servers securely over a wire. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>&gt
creator: scott h
date: 2007-11-26T03:00:54-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: t;> > >Hey Thad - no I don't disagree with you at all - just pointing out that as someone else said, Air is basically a large iPod, not a fully capable laptop. I'm completely with you - lack of firewire takes out a significant market (it could have replaced a lot of firestore drives with digital film/video people). USB isn't good for any large scale data transfers, and given the drive sizes, Apple apparently isn't planning to sell this outside the check email and type proposals market, and didn't think about the people at the other end of those business travelers' data link. I can see the pr
creator: Neil
date: 2007-11-26T06:30:47-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: tivity needs a little update - perhaps a snap locked fiber >>port >>with 10+ G/s speeds. 1394 is too loose of a connection design, and 1394c > and >>faster are no >>where to be seen yet (not to mention that most laptops use the smaller >>unpowered 1394 port). >>USB is too slow to the be the defacto data port on laptops, even though > it >>is. >>Fine for smaller or low bandwidth devices, but too slow for data backup > of >>any size. >> >>My .02. >> >>Dedric >> >>"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>news:478e7056$1@linux... >>> >>> MacBook air, wow! Yawn! >>> >>> I'm with Thad, this was a dumb oversight on Apple's part. In May they > >>> will >>> do updates to the MacBook line, I just hope they don't discontinue the > >>> MacBook. >>> I cant see paying
creator: steve the artguy
date: 2007-11-26T07:44:56-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: gt;>>>>>> TCB >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Ted Gerber" <tedgerber@rogers.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> I'm guessing they think it's needed in order to keep the size down >>>>>>>> and keep the wow factor up (my daughter in 3rd year and her friends >>> are >>>>>>>> dying to get it), whilst still providing alternatives for >>>>>>>> connect-ability so it's not a deal killer for users like us. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Also, by doing so, they are driving the market (wireless) and >>>>>>>> therefore >>>>>>> have >>>>>>>> a leg up >>>>>>>> on the competition by establishing tech standards. I believe they > >>>>>>>> were >>>>> the >>>>>>>> first >>>>>>>> to drop floppy drives, use Firewire etc. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Not saying I agree with their thinking, just speculating as to >>>>>>&
creator: Sarah
date: 2007-11-26T08:50:14-00:00

Re: Snow
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description: ns >I pretty much set levels and hit record and listen back after the fact. >We monitored through a Furman HDS sustem which was very helpful, but I couldn't >get alot into careful mic placement because of the noise problems of recording >the way I did. (when recording individual track takes I could get careful >- like with acoustic guitar - but the band situation w/ drums in same room >as recorder makes knowing what you have a bit tough). >- Recording 3-4 takes doesn't always make the job easier. Remarkably, if >there was a mistake with an instrument - it often seemed to occur at the >same place in all 3 or 4 takes... So in the end the extra takes might just >give m
creator: Rich Lamanna
date: 2007-12-11T05:15:53-00:00