Jobber of the Week

I would reccomend AGAINST playing for real money, at the very least until you examine the fine print of the financial institution whose card you wish to draw money from. Many banks and credit companies refuse to give money to online gambling. Just the other day on another board I found someone complaining because CitiBank won't let him play poker. Interested, I looked at the Terms booklet for my bank, US Bank, and found much the same thing.

That's just making it safe to show in the Red States.

I know that we've used a few Hitler references the past month talking about the ten commandments and 9/11 sensativities, but in this thread it's really too far. Time to start enforcing a variant of Godwin's Law . He who drags out Nazis or Hitler in a thread that isn't specifically about those subjects has lost the arguement.

No, I'm saying that if, hypothetically, it was found that the chairman of Halliburton was a child rapist, you guys would auotmatically spout off with some bullshit to make it sound like a conspiracy theory. It would probably be some stupid-ass comment smeared in sarcasm like "Oh, well I bet that guy was a child rapist because DICK CHENEY told him how to get ahead! I bet he didn't get caught til now because DICK CHENEY is secretly making money hand over fist to keep that executive from being arrested! Because you know about HALLIBURTON and DICK CHENEY, and all the sneaky stuff going on there." Nevermind that something legitimately bad happened. You'll dismiss that because, in your imagination, the whole thing is just an indirect attack at the White House. I guess I could sum the whole damn thing up by saying that Vyce was the first person to mention Cheney in this thread, which is telling.

And then Vince bitched about how wrong that was. There's a variety of guys who have been buried for being too small, that often have fresh faces and developed but not beefcake bodies. If WWE was at all interested in gays as anything other than a girly man scapegoat, these guys would be getting more time. As it is, the only dreamboat who can get into a main event is Jericho, and he doesn't look as young as the others do.

Well, to be fair, it's not like an exit strategy has appeared out of the blue and rendered that past criticism into history.

Goddamnit. Nobody can ever discuss Halliburton without a bunch of people trying to sneer off the issue as irrelevant by jumping to conclusions, usually these conclusions involve Dick Cheney conspiracy theories. And even that isn't as terrible as bullshit posts like "Why should I care?" which are about as worthless as posting in a post whore thread to bump up your number a little more. If you don't have anything to contribute, shut up, you don't need to post. Believe it or not, some people have a grudge against Halliburton that doesn't involve conspiracy backroom dealings without a shred of evidence. They involve grey-area situations like these or maybe something else. It's just like how some people hate Wal-Mart and Starbucks.

Way, way, way too much Scalia love in this thread. I agree with the decision on an ethical basis, though even if I had the time to read all the opinions being expressed by the Supremes and agreed with him about the methodology being used here, it's still the exception and not the rule. A snake is still a snake, they're just sometimes in season.

Mike, you are again confusing my point and think I'm comparing our actions with Hitler's. I am not talking about what was done in either situation, I'm simply using the Nazis because it's an uneasy situation in that country and there's a number of people who would have felt better if nobody ever thought about it again, even if that means that nobody learns something. To me, that's sad. As for whether we have ever done anything to provoke an attack, history will be the judge of that.

None. For god's sakes, look at the ON-camera crew. They're well into their five thousandth years.

Yes, but does your Cox use VOD for anything other than PPV currently? Last time I talked to Las Vegans, they said no. PPVs only, although I had heard either way that they may or may not carry the premium services like HBO and Showtime's VOD offering. So, they might actually sign with Cox, but you'll get fucked over just like every other VOD service Cox signs with. Considering that my Comcast here gives me a whole bunch of free services, I have to admit that scaled-down VOD kind of dampens the mood of my impending Vegas move.

Well, if you're all sharing the cable over a router, you're probably using DHCP, so open up your Network Connections in the control panel and right click your connection to the router. If it's wired, there may be an option to "repair" the connection. You could try that, barring that, choose properties, double click on TCP/IP, and verify that IP address and DNS are set to automatic. The connection may also just be disabled (the computer screens in the icon are black like they're turned off, connections that are active have computer screen icons lit up in blue), or it may have a Red X over it with some kind of problem. These situations explain themselves, if you have an X or something report what the error is.

Find a new network besides Kazaa/Sidetrack. RIAA and the labels have been creating bad files with similar file names and structure (i.e. size, ID tag, etc) as the original MP3s and been uploading them around for a while now. So when you download what you think is a music file, it gets ruined by downloading a bogus file from an RIAA client as well as whoever has downloaded it and hasn't checked it, etc. It's basically not possible to tell them apart. Kazaa is dead thanks to industry crackdown, go find a new service.

You could have a guy who "chooses the US over the UN" who still has a higher opinion of diplomacy as your chief representative to the rest of the world.

And nobody's trying to say they shouldn't be punished. What's being said is that the government has no business deciding to end their life when they aren't even legally their own person yet.

I'm not comparing us to Hitler. You're fighting a memorial on the history of events that lead up to this attack happened by saying that any claim other than that we were victimized and that we never did anything to provke such an attack is unpatriotic. So, what I'm saying is, if you were German, would you oppose a place in a WWII memorial where people can learn about the rise of Nazi power and learn from history? Or would you oppose it because it's unpatriotic to think about? We have made mistakes that contribute to the rise of radical Islam in the middle east, we did provide chairty to guerrilla radicals in previous conflicts that seemed to be on our side, we did send oil money to a dictator who drove a hard-line society that went against the values of our own, and we did ignore the warning signs of prior Al-Qeda attacks, and it would be a costly mistake to ignore all that history because it's feels better to think we're flawless. But don't worry, time and the general public's need to feel infallable will win out for you. By the time I'm old, I'm going to be hearing people telling their children that they attacked us because they were angry about our SUVs and skimpy-dressed pop stars and we never did anything wrong and it's all because everybody hates the guy that's number one.

Well, some popular forms of Buddhism are lacking in all the symbolic stuff that Christianity is heavily into, as well as the omnipotent beings of the universe that live beyond our conciousness.

So, you know, at a Germany WWII memorial, they couldn't have a historical look at the rise of Hitler and how his power grab lead to the events of the war? That would be considered unpatriotic? While I don't think that something like 9/11 happens because of supporting Israel or whatever, or that we did anything to deserve or earn it, we did help build the monster by who we supported and who we propped up in decades past. It might be useful to remind ourselves not to assume that the enemy of our enemy is always our friend.

Did you read the story, or did you just read the poorly-written headline and think that Kofi said that Hezbollah needed UN representation with a chair at The Big Table or something? Because I concede that I read the headline and just about blew my drink all over my monitor, then read the story and was like "ehhhh..."

Only if you're desperate to Not Die. I don't see any decision that says that doing this would let you off scott-free without punishment. Spending the rest of your life in the penal system at that age is psychologically draining enough. Between that many states don't have capital punishment, that some that do run prisoners through at a snail's pace (i.e. California), and that not many judges in the world want to apply the death penalty to kids, meaning that I don't see this decision affecting that much in the near future. Regardless of the justification, I agree with the decision for ethical reasons. So leave it up to Mike to make it sound like the American decision was clearly to rule on the other side and just how wrong this whole thing is.

I wouldn't even be suprised except for that comment that came close to saying that peace isn't worth seeking unless there's something that can be gained/exploited from it. That kind of attitude is more of a barrier to peace. Again, witness Arafat, who made himself a blockade for negotiation thanks to wanting too goddamn much.

I'm aware of the cost of the basic local service, and that's fine with me. It honestly should remain a package just because it's there soley for customers that live too far away in rural areas to get the stations the big city people do. It's the nationals, the analog channels above 30 but below the digital barrier of 100 that contribute the most pain and suffering. Out of those channels, I regularly watch CNN, Spike (replace with USA if Raw changes), Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, and Mom likes HGTV. That's five. If I'm allowed seven, I'll throw in ABC Family and VH1. In the meantime, I'm paying for home shopping channels, three goddamn sports stations (ESPN, ESPN2, FSN), Discovery and several of it's spinoffs, various themed news channels I don't care for like CNBC and LOL In The Year 2000+5, The Oprah Station, Country Music TV, Disney, TV Land, Galavision, The Golf Channel, Lifetime, the trash that is MTV, and a couple more that aren't even worth typing their names in.

What the hell is a fairly recent Lexus doing out in Iraq? I can't even tell what model it is for some weird reason. Grill resembles an RX, headlights and body style resemble an LS.

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050113.html Lovely.

Let's ignore this loon's raving and ranting about how Americans are pigs and focus on the real issue: What communication breakdown happened that caused these people to not know that Italy was sending a car with a government agent inside? Was it an error in their side, someoen forgot to tell somebody? Did they just not tell us entirely, or did they tell us and someone on our side forgot to send the word (the same scenario as the first one but in our chain?)