beowulf

If Cocaine were to be made legal I know more then a few people that would be using it on a regular basis and would most likely end up losing control of their habit. ie spending everything they have on Cocaine.

As long as there is a demand for a product, then there will always be someone willing to meet that demand. There is no good solution to the drug problem. The most effective was what China did to curb the opium use. Kill anyone and everyone associated with its use and sale. Not a viable option in the U.S.

Good Luck there are no such thing as an Idiots guide to networking. If they don't have the interest or intelligence to pick up the networking and computer skills on their own then there is no use trying to teach them anything. I have spent lots of hours sitting in front of a computer. Not everyone has the patience or the will to stay with something till it is figured out and fixed. I am pretty obsessive when it comes to computers. If I start on a problem I can't hardly let it go till it is fixed.

Guru312 in my eyes you are a skydiver and will always be one.

Why buy new? hmm mostly because I had the money and it felt really good to have all new gear. Also it really hurt to have some asshole break into my apartment and steal the nice fitting used gear that I had owned. Kind of therapy for loosing my first rig.

If you really want to learn how to fly your canopy using every input imaginable get with your local CReW dogs and do some CReW jumps. I have learned a lot about canopy control from them.

I just bought a 5 spd manual trans Saturn. Hondas are one of the best cars for holding their value.

I think anyone should be free to kill themselves if they want to. I don't have any problem with that statement. If someone wants to shoot themselves in the head or jump a 39sft canopy with very little experiance that is fine with me, but don't as me to help. I wouldnt provide the plane or the gun. We're all adults. We understand the consequences.

being paralized from the neck down. I can endure just about anything but that. Being fully competent in mind, but trapped in a body that can do absolutely nothing. Can't even commit suicide, if I wanted to. Which I would imagine would be very tempting.

I can vouch for that. The kid could have used a cork screw but it would have been a waste of time. It is very diffucult to put the cork back into a bottle of Dom Perignon. I have tried. Ended up buying a plastic cork made for those types of bottles.

Yeah well if rember right ol Dennis got Shaq out of his game. yeah those are the good Bulls memories.

Kobe and Shaq couldnt beat MJ and Scottie. I don't think that Phil Jackson was the deciding factor, but he does have the highest Won/Lost percentage of any coach in the NBA.

the fastest desktop is faster then the fastest laptop having said that it is not that noticably faster anymore. I prefer Dell for desktops and IBM for laptops. Guess thats why I have a Dell Optiplex and an IBM laptop

The least they could do is use the encryption. I use encryption and block all MAC address's other then mine. That forces the hacker to have to spoof a mac address. Wifi is no where near secure no matter what you do.

What does this expression mean? You are way out of touch with reality. The expression "socialism takes from me to give to the lazy" pretty much speaks for itself. I don´t know your background, but i doubt you come from a low income family. Capitalism works for you. And it works for me, and i am happy with that, but i admit that it doesn´t work for everybody. If you don´t have enough money for college because you barely make it thru the month to feed your family, capitalism does not works for you. I know of people who have two jobs and don´t make that much money, and they certainly work harder than most of the rest. Edited for spelling I came from a low income family (ie single mother with 4 kids). No one ever handed me anything. I worked my ass off to get to where I am. I sometimes worked jobs that most people here in the US would never dream of working. I did what I had to do and continued to push forward. Now I work with my brain and not my back. Capitalism works for those that are not lazy and are willing to take chances.

US soldiers are not killing anyone for just being at a wedding. Now put a gun in that persons hand and have him fire into the air with no regard to his own safety and the safety of those around him, now that is a different story all together. Get a group of people shooting into the air and I can see how a helicoptor on patrol could see that as enemy gun fire and take action against them.

What you are saying doesn't really make sense. How are the troops supposed to distenguish between celebratory gun fire and enemy gun fire? In a warzone it is not a good idea to be shooting into the air just for fun. Any reasonable person would expect to be shot at in a War zone.

There wasn't any talk about regulating guns. Anyone that is a convicted felon should not be legally allowed to have a gun. The problem is that there is a black market out there that doesn't care who the buyer is as long as the money is good. If there is a demand then there will always be someone to supply the goods. True of illegal guns and anything else. The more illegal it is the higher the price the higher the profits. Someone will always be there that will think the risk is worth the reward.

True so far. Nope....The Second Amendment here in the US makes it quite clear that they should not be. And if you outlawed guns...Crime will not go away. Bad people will do bad things without guns. Quote I think a more accurate statement would be that Bad people would be the only ones other then the Police with guns and the good law abiding people would be at their mercy. That would be the result of outlawing guns. Only the outlaws would have them.

If a draft is started up I will join up.

I wonder how many of those people surveyed actually told the truth

It just points out some true facts. Isreal is just as willing to kill to hold on to the so called "holy land" as the Palestinians are willing to send their children out to blow themselves up. I really don't see any "good guys" in any part of that whole situation. I don't think it was right to create the Isreali state and does not reflect in any way the morality that is taught in the jewish religion. On the other hand the Palestinians are not any better and in some ways worse then the Isrealis. Holy land? more like bloody land.

I like my Glock .40 model 22. It is the full size.

I was in a car accident where I thought I was going to die a slow and painful death due to internal injuries. I got lucky and lived through it. The doctors confirmed that it was as close as I thought it was. During the time that I believed that I was going to die, which was about 8 or 9 hours, it took about an hour of laying on the side of the road waiting for the ambulance before I really started to get mad. At first I really didn't think about it much. I was busy sorting out just how bad I was hurt and dealing with the people around me. I really thought that was my last night alive. I felt that I had a lot more things left to do before I die. btw it didn't take 8 or 9 hours for the ambulance it was bout hour and half.

But what about like the video showed? Where you get thrown around and take the other people out? Are they okay with the risk, or do you only not wear a seatbelt when you are alone in the car? If some one asks me to wear a seatbelt I will. It really doesn't bother me either way. I rarely think about wearing a seatbelt, but I do occaisonally wear one. That car accident that I was wearing the seatbelt I had just put it on about 20 min before the accident and had not had the seatbelt on for the previous 8 hours. hmmmmm "insert creepy music"