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Remember when we were kids and it never got hot in the summer? What's up with that...

Any system that we have will be prone to exploits. The goal should be to close the exploits rather than damn the whole system as broken because of those that exploit it. In 08 both my wife and I found ourselves out of work at near about the same time because of economy slide, do you know how hard it is to get some type of help after years of putting money into said system? Damn near impossible. After a year, when other benefits ran out, we were given $200 dollars per month to spend via EBT, and embarrassing as it was at the time I was grateful and not buying lobster and steak, unless

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Man! Didja see that girl at the Grands? She looked like a can of busted biscuits!!

Go into your control panel, either mouse settings in vista/Win7 or hardware/input controllers (maybe, been awhile for me) on WinXp, and make sure you haven't got double click on the left button cranked all the way over to fast. If that isn't the problem, consider trying to swap to a new mouse, I've encountered several Dell PC brand mice in the past few weeks where the mice (meese, meeses?) left button contact has worn to the point that it registers more than one click on the left button.

Not that I meant to hijack this earlier thread today but again our recession, and slow recovery, is now tied to the cost of energy these days. Gas has already gained this year to the point it's hit near pre-recession prices at the pump, a recession that our economy has not even recovered from, and most likely never will gain, at least, pre-recession levels of unemployment. Ask yourself this, if the economy ball was still rolling like it was 4 years ago what would the price at the pumps be today with what's going on in the world market. 5.00... $6.00 a gallon? Food for thought: It

Awesome someone who finally does want to open their eyes, but unfortunately that BIG PDF isn't the entire picture, as you point out later. But that all depends on the grade of oil doesn't it? Most of the "excess supply capacity" is not being defined as light sweet crude which we are primarily setup to refine into fuels, most sources speculate the reserves being touted mainly consist of heavy and sour crude that cannot be depended upon to make up the shortfall we have in light sweet. And what shortfall you say according to the numbers in the .pdf file? The one that is expected by the

Basin Wrench.

I didn't say in the US, I said worldwide total. We are in a Global Economy, prices everywhere else affect us here, and fuel prices have risen this year worldwide, supplies are down, worldwide. Reading for your enjoyment here. That is what I suggested? Hardly. My suggestion is to begin the transition on the whole as a country in order to reduce the cost of energy production, lower unemployment through building the infrastructures that will be needed to support this, and ease the recession through making it cheaper for businesses to bring manufacturing back to our shores. But

Actually we aren't we're just using enhanced oil recovery techniques that are showing diminishing returns both domestically and internationally. We wouldn't have issues like the BP blowout if the easy to recover oil was still there for the taking at the level it was in the past. As manufacturing processes mature and the infrastructure are put into the place the cost of manufacturing and maintenance go down as it does in any industry. Europe, especially Germany has had great results in Wind power since they've implemented it on a large scale and have had their maintenance costs d

Personally I'm a proponent of coal fired powered plants, as the long term problems associated with it can be mitigated through the earth's natural processes vs. nuclear plants which leave a nasty radioactive waste that we do nothing more than stick in cement lined ponds and keep covered with water hoping for a solution down the road. Plus coal reserves are still amazingly high. But this would all fall under my "politicans pussyfooting around with policy statement". I'm not a greenie who wants to shut down one in lieu of forcing the other upon us. But we are at the point now where oil reco

Reports are saying that as a world we are down by 4% on total energy production for the year so far vs. same time last year, with the destabilization of certain middle east countries at the moment, that prevents them from exporting their supplies. This should be considered along with the fact that with each year that goes by we need total world energy production to increase in order to maintain economic growth. Until we as a country wake up, especially the politicians pussyfooting around with policy, and begin looking for real solutions to implement our weening off the fossil fuel teat, t

I was sooo going to go there, but figured I'd be e-castrated for even mentioning that on here after the Y-chromosome comment.

It's that pesky Y chromosome. It enables us to have that perfect GPS in our head and always be right, those without it.. they just don't understand.

Just as every company that does business was getting ready to roll out Firefox 4 in their enterprise environment, Mozilla drops it in favor for version 5, and drops all support. So, many enterprises have washed their hands with Mozilla, and Mozilla thinks that's just dandy. I'm still on, the still supported for now, version 3.6 of Firefox, but been testing out Chrome. I've had a few issues with it that keep me from recommending it over Firefox 3.6 for now, but I'm not a fan of the "let's copy Chrome instead of working out our browsers glaring (security) issues" bandwagon MSFT and Mozill

The only thing I call into question is does the charge of aggravated child abuse not take into account the neglect of her failure to mention the child missing for 31 days? That's the charge I could not believe she got off on and feel the jury failed on that one alone. BTW, all she has to do now is write her book and make millions.

Nearly all the new smartphone designs have the radio antenna (cell antenna) in the bottom back portion of the phone. When you stick the phone to your head and cup the bottom of the phone to talk you're essentially blocking the signal with your body's natural emf field. Also the iphones that were coming out last summer exhibited the problem that if you touched any part of the phone with your body it would kill the radio antenna reception because of the same emf problem when they engineered the outer band of the phone casing to be the radio antenna. Not only that but sitting the phone

But that's the point ins't it? There's a symphony in the cacophony?

Growing up in Paulding I had a neighbor, who was American, who was born Austrian to an american father post WWII and Austrian mother, he had dual citizenship. He took his younger German nephew visit one time and they drove from Atlanta to Mobile Alabama, where the older guys wife was from, and the kid seriously asked, "Have we reached California" after the 6 hour drive... Euros have no idea how big America is. I say take them to PC Beach! and freak them out.

We live on what altogether roughly equals 15 acres, this contains a 3/4 acre lake and a creek that marks one side of the property line, and a creek that equals about a 1/4 of the other side of our property line, that feeds the lake. What makes this all odd is if we have about a week or two of warm weather in November, we hear frogs. In the summertime.. omg.. it's crazy out there listening to the cacophony of the entirety. Not to mention snakes and turtles that call our property home. But yeah when I first moved in over here I thought I'd go nuckin futz over the frogs in spring and f

I went from buying Friskies brand to buying the store brand and I can't tell a difference.

Hear Hear! If I forget my bluetooth that day I don't look at my phone while in the car. If I remember my bluetooth I don't care how stupid I look walking around the store when I forget to pull it out of my ear. Oh and times when I do need to concentrate while driving, I'll either stop talking/ignore you/ask you to repeat everything you just said or just say "Gotta drive now. Bye!" and immediately hang up, and we can talk later when I get wherever it is I need to be.

Hey now!!! Farmville is Srs Bidness!! But no, folks driving rear wheel drive vehicles can spin-out easily when taking off from a standstill on a freshly wet road from the oils on the road. I'm sure many of us learned this the hard way when younger and we bought our first hot-rod's with a posi rear end. Well I will at least admit that I sure did. Then I sold it not long after.

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Well during the last decade we've sent nearly all our manufacturing jobs to SE Asia. I've read a report saying that in China alone, they've manufactured and sold more cars there in the past 2 years than we here in the US have sold for the past 4 years. It's not surprising that we gave them our jobs in exchange for rock-bottom goods, and now they want to eat our lunch while driving their Chinese made American branded cars.