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The average home price inside Detroit is now around $12,000 and they've lost 50% of their population in the last decade. Most Realtors don't even consider it a city anymore. Next great observation about Detroit?

So... you need a babysitter badly for whatever reason, and the service sends her over... Who would wind up staying home with the kids instead? Be honest and don't B.S. yourself. Oh, and I'm sure lots of ladies would like to know they're skin will have such a healthy glow when they reach their senior years as this one... Hot

Well, it's not like you hide the keys to it in a safe. Keep the key near the door but in a place the kid(s) can't get to it, and don't know where it's at.

Well, it's easy to label stuff like that as racist, but if you were on an airplane and and there was a little old women who was acting very nervous, and a Middle-Eastern guy who was acting very nervous, I can promise you, that even a "raised in Detroit" person will be keeping a MUCH closer eye on the Middle-Eastern guy who's acting odd over the old woman. Would that make you "racist" against Middle-Eastern people, though?

I've never met anyone who grew up on Mars before. Wow. I'm honored. I've met the first non-human! How is that different?

Just for reference, there are deadbolt locks you can buy that require the use of a key from the inside to lock/unlock it. Parents have the key and at night you can lock it so kids can't get out, etc. Some people I know have installed these as a secondary deadbolt so they don't have to use it, but can at night to keep the kids in, etc.

Yep, certain new computer purchases during a period of time at stores qualified for a free Win7 upgrade disk if they were running Vista. I think at Microcenter some of the older models on sale still have Vista and you can still get an upgrade disk with it too, but that's if you buy the system. Otherwise, as someone said, you have to buy the upgrade. It's HELL to get them via the free upgrade, though. Some third-party Chinese owned import company in California is handling a lot of the upgrade disk mailings for Microsoft, and it's taking them up to 2 months to ship them out. They're next to

Most parents aren't up all night checking on their kids, but I would HOPE that parents of toddlers would also have baby/child-proofed their homes with proper locks so kids of that age can't just open doors and wonder out of the house in the middle of the night, too.

Every "assumption" or observation I've made in any of my own comments above were done so based on people I actually knew who were heavily inked/pierced - either though knowing them socially, work-related, project related, actually related to, etc, which I did clarify. The "issues" I mentioned them having were accurate because these were people I knew, who had these issues, and everyone else who knew them were aware of the stuff, too. It wasn't like someone walks down the street and I diagnose a list of mental symptoms they have - however, based on the people I've known, yes, I assume that

Most of the saggy boob surgeries make one of them turn out crooked, though. I used to work with a lady that had that done - one of 'em was 4" higher than the other. Everyone tilted when they talked to her without realizing they were doing it.

They're too busy using their cell phones, Twittering, and using their computers to pay any attention to what their kids are doing. But it gives them the excuse to use the, "But I only had my eyes off of them for ONE second", excuse after something bad happens to make themselves feel better.

Many piercings will close over time if you take the item(s) out. They might leave a small mark, but for the most part, people have to look very carefully to tell where a piercing was a couple of years or more after it's been removed, unless there was damage done to an area. Tattoos (even carefully removed ones) leave much more visible markings, as do "dinner plate sized" things in ears which will never shrink back if stretched. It's good to tell kids not to do any of these things until they're ready for a commitment, but, ever since when do young people and "commitment" go in the same sent

But WHY should it knock you for a loop? You just proved one thing - that you're HUMAN. Hello - nothing wrong with that... welcome to humanity. lol Everyone these days have become so politically kum-ba-ya about everything they actually think that humans can disregard their natural instincts and behaviors. Sorry - you can do that only one way, and that's when you get put under the ground. As I said earlier, everyone judges. Everyone. Don't let it knock you for a loop that you're included in the human race - if you allow it to CONTROL you, it's a problem. Otherwise, you're normal.

I know someone who works for Microcenter and they said they would never own a HP computer these days. They went through good phases in the past where their systems were halfway ok he said, but these days he says most of them are absolute crap. I can't remember any specifics, but I seem to remember HP systems that used AMD chips having some other mass issue a while back, too. When I bought my new computer last year he and I hadn't discussed this and he was off work the day I went to buy mine. I got a higher-end HP. Thing died on me within days of bringing it home. The replacement had a

I think it's funny that when social issues like this come up in paulding.com, that the natives get SO incredibly riled up and defensive if someone has an opposing view of their own. The same people who talk about "not judging" someone with tattoos or piercings will later down the road be the same people who may make extremely slanderous comments about blacks, or the President, or gays, or Jews, or "fill in the blank". Let the topic have something to do with someone they know, or themselves however, and poof - the other person or persons are the evil bad guys. Doesn't work that way, folks

Across from the Kennesaw Costco are some homes on the edge of a hill with two layers of block retaining wall. I've been saying for a long time that something good can't come of this setup. This is what it looked like so far as of last weekend - how'd you like to have coffee out on your back deck knowing this was behind you?....

Hey, I said "some" or in some cases "a lot" but not "all" regarding folks who plaster their bodies with the things, ok? Don't be so sensitive. You might be an adjusted person who for whatever reason gets aroused by self-mutilation, and that's fine - we all have a kinky side I guess.

Since I'm not one who's known to without their opinion.... When I see someone who has excessive piercings and/or tattoos, the first thing I usually think of is that there's something about them that isn't right - they "missed" something during development and they're crying out for attention by turning themselves into a sideshow attraction so people will look at (hence, pay attention to) them. I'm not saying that parents of inked and pierced kids were bad parents necessarily, I'm just saying that in the kid's minds, there was something they craved when younger that for whatever reason the

I'm from West Virginia originally. In my area of the State, ALL men had facial hair. It was kind of a "man thing", and if you didn't, you were viewed as being a nerd. These days you can go back up there and find an occasional metrosexual who goes to wine tastings who thinks he's a guy and who body waxes all his hair off of everything, but truth be told, he'll still get his ass kicked if he's ever left alone behind a building for it. Just say no...

My Sister's kid had one in his room at around 12 not long ago, but the TV had a timer built-in that you could assign a passcode to which makes it like a parental control. They set it for a specific time at night and poof - it would shut off at that time and not come on again until they entered the code again. A lot of TVs have features like or similar to this, but you have to dig into the menu system to find them. I will add this as a side-note though - her kids were not allowed to have computers/laptops alone in their rooms, and their cell phones had to remain in a basket in the family

Thanks for the comments, folks. I've been busy so haven't been able to answer until now. I think on Christmas Eve I'm just going to invest the whole day into doing a clean install of it, then. I'll leave the stuff plugged into it during the process and all that as per comments earlier (HP printer, web cam, etc) and hopefully it'll be able to find the updates and drivers without an issue. I guess this will ensure any slow-down bugs that are in the system won't be passed on to the new O.S. It's just a pain to have to re-install all the programs again, but I'll just pretend I got a new c

Just a question for the Computer guru guys... I got an early Christmas gift - a Win7 upgrade DVD, since I decided Vista was causing too many minor headaches for me. In past versions of Windows they always said that it was best to do a "clean install" and let the new version erase your drive and just start fresh. I had HEARD that the Win7 upgrade was better than this, and would do a very good and glitch-free upgrade from Vista to Win7, fixing old problems while keeping your files and programs intact. Any experience with this? True rumor, or is it still better now to do a clean ins

Well, there goes the spaghetti dinner I was going to have later - So, I guess the general idea is that even though it appears people are leaving notes on this person's page, there's a way but it's little-known on how to do it, huh? Gee, what a dumb service - who came up with that??

Ok, gotta admit... I think twitter is kinda dumb and have never participated in it. But there was a particular story that riled me up and I wanted to post on the person's twitter page. Ok, I sign up, and go to that person's Twitter page. I see all their postings. I want to reply to them and have my comment appear on their Twitter front page, right? I add them as being followed, but see no field area anywhere where I can type a comment and "submit" to add it to their page. When I hover over OTHER people's comments or the Twitter account holder's comments, then a small "reply" appears

This isn't the first time stories like this have popped up. The girl a few months ago out West who racked up $14,000 in text charges is the first of several that come to mind. Here's the thing: In order for a kid to ring up that much in texting or cell-web browsing, they practically have to LIVE on their phone. As in, sit on the thing for 12-16 hours a day, every day. So what I want to know is, where are the parents during all of these hours, and why are the kids allow to sit in their rooms, on the sofa, at the dinner table, and in the car, with their cells in-hand using them this much