Jobber of the Week

That's a shitty parody. When did they say he didn't serve? They said he got favoritism to wind up defending Texas against the Viet Cong, which is something that pretty much all of us honestly know just by looking at his family tree and adding 2+2.

Holy crap, where was this "diplomat" when Arafat needed him? He would have loved this guy.

THIS BANK IS NOT A REBEL BANK

Well, I'm tired of packaged cable tiers enough that I'll look the other way this once.

Are you saying that the whole USB plug, i.e. this: has broken off inside the printer?

Are you trying to partition your own drive that already has Mac OS on it? Because that's a lot more different than trying to partition a new hard drive or something. I think I only ever heard of one utility that allowed you to change the partition table of the system disk, but they were unreliable. Your best bet is to get a dumpy drive that you can boot from, put the system on it, and boot off it while working on your main drive. Or, if you're using a recent laptop and have another Mac nearby, you can activate a mode at startup that allows the whole computer to become a FireWire external drive for another Mac for a whole boot. But even then, repartition space that's already been partitioned is just an iffy matter. You would be wise to simply burn everything of value to disc, reformat it, and then partition it then. Since I'm not the king of OS X (I know a lot more about the old system than I do the new one), you may also want to try calling up the nearest Apple store and asking them. There's some smart people there usually.

Wildbomb, you are a brave man to buy a laptop from eBay. Desktops, fine, but laptops have always been a real gamble.

Hook up your drive via IDE/Firewire/USB2 however it works. Go into Applications -> Utilities, folder and start up Disk Utility. Click the drive in the list for your new drive, click the Partition tab, and there you are.

What the hell did they do? I'm rather interested to know how they could cause so much harm to a car's occupants without even breaking or leaving a hole in the windshield. The only things I can think of is an explosion underneath or placing a large barricade it crashes into, but even that would damage the windshield.

Does that really equate? If she was sympathizing with terrorists, why would they kidnap her? Yeah, in her video there was a lot of pleas to withdraw, but who else's kidnapping home video calmly says "Don't withdraw, just let them kill me, it'll all be fine?"

Eh? This is weird. Last I heard, Cox cable in Las Vegas doesn't use video on demand for anything other than pay per view delivery, which was sad as I often like the HBO block.

I didn't realize that was supposed to be a gimmick at the time. I thought it was just supremely bad writing or milking a cheap pop.

Mike, what I'm saying is that sanctions on Iraq and sanctions on N. Korea will be different. Iraq wasn't just your usual desert country of sand dunes and guys riding camels from tent to tent. People drove decent cars. Women could show their face without men beating them down and blinding them in full-body cloth, etc. While you generally wanted to avoid doing anything that could draw the ire of the government for your own health, everything was rather modern. Then sanctions happened, people weren't allowed to get decent cars anymore so they had to use parts of old cars to keep their cars on the road. People started getting hungry, and life took a decidedly downward note. Saddam, of course, told them to hate America for using sanctions, and a large number of them bought that rather than realize that if Saddam wasn't a maniac we wouldn't need sanctions. N Korea is a different case. Life there sucks enough that sanctions can't really impact lives that much.

Nice conclusion to jump to. And here I wonder why that side always keeps saying we "blame America first." Usually it's INXS that answers that question for me. Am I the only one amused that this woman is the only person to be taken from capture, aside from that guy who made his own escape? While I'm not quite as easily bought into conspiracy as Mike is, I wonder if the people who took her were terrorists at all or if this was a whole plan? Was she taken alone?

And I'd rather know a person who when told to do something evil by his/her gov't would have a higher loyalty that would allow him/her to say no. -=Mike Wow, where did you pull that out of? I'm not saying to put complete faith and trust in what your government tells you. If that was the case, I'd be sitting here saying that of course we should have gone into Iraq and we should invest our Social Security money in stocks, too. I'm saying the ideals of this country are more important to me than superstitious tales about beings in the sky who watch you all the time and determine the fate of your immaterial soul.

Al Franken is PJ O'Rourke for the left, so I don't know what the hell you're talking about. P.J. O'Rourke is actually funny so I don't know what you're talking about. He's kind of funny but the constant small-government one-liners make it feel like he's just riffing on all of Ronald Reagan's best zingers. Fine then, Franken is Dennis Miller for the left. How's that sound for ya? There's another guy who has been a trainwreck of a comedian since he got political.

Austin. WM 17. Astrodome. And....? You didn't happen to notice that everyone no-sold the turn, did you?

Well, if Congress decided to have a debate about God, I wouldn't mind, as long as they didn't decide to legislate over it. I don't understand how saying that the nation is "under" (as in, secondary to) a higher power isn't a sign of respecting the establishment of that higher power. That's not only offensive to someone who doesn't believe in higher powers, it's offensive to those who hold their country first in their hearts and minds. That's why some of the outspoken Christians on this board (I'd name a name, but he hasn't posted lately and I don't want to start a war) who say they hold their loyalty to their religious deity higher than their loyalty to this country sicken me. That thinking has been responsible for more than enough bloodshed on the other side of the globe.

And one place where I thought he had a more realistic picture of what's going on than the other guy did. Ditto Iran. Well, I wasn't suggesting we starve the beast in the most literal sense. But a castrated military with inspections of all weaponry that is attempted to be imported through the border would keep them from endangering the world until their nutcase leader dies. Sanctions probably won't hurt the people of N Korea as it did in Iraq, because people are starving already. In Iraq, we have a bit of a personality problem because sanctions really did fuck things up for a lot of citizens and all they ever heard from Saddam was that they should blame the US & UN for it, which probably plays a small factor into why our welcome has involved more return fire than ticker-tape parades.

So you would rather deal with a massive homeless problem because doing anything else doesn't live up to your principles? Some of these jobs aren't exactly simple minimum wage jobs. Ringing up shit at Target isn't exactly the most challenging job, working in hot fields for hours on end every day is. They money being paid isn't really equal to what the work being done is worth, because it is difficult. However, there's enough people who are so desperate for any work that they'll do that that people are being exploited and not being paid anything near equivelant for what their work is worth. Another example: You think teachers are overpaid now? Wait until everyone sees what their average day is like and tries to decide what that's work. Combat pay is not unlikely. Personally, I feel digging holes in the ground for 15 hours in the hot sun is more effort than something like data entry in an air-conditioned cubicle. This is where we disagree, and where you begin to look foolish.

Well, a little war is probably inevitable, but not escalated into nuclear war, and not far enough war that we storm into Pyongyang and shoot Kim in the head. If we can get the surrounding powers on our side though, it would help. China and the US should be able to fight their way in enough to force Kim to disarm and then apply sanctions. The community is such an insular little bizarro-universe that removing the Communist dictator may do more damage at this point than sanctioning him powerless, letting him die off, and then slowly integrating changes.

But really, all you're doing is hurting the poor. Because the poor are in vast supply, and jobs you hire poor people for aren't worth all that much on the whole, not because it isn't hard work, but due to the number of other people willing to do them. Doctors and attorneys and shit will be paid the same or even more, since that occupation demands a type of educated individual who is in a much shorter supply. In fact, you may drive their salaries up, since they may believe that they're in short enough supply that they ought to be compensated better. So, honestly, you're widening the class gap and making it harder for the poor to become rich.

Also, I don't understand if Michael Eisner's job is really worth all those benefits he's giving for himself or not. And if I'm willing to be Disney CEO for less money than he is (and I'd probably do a better job anyway), should they can him and hire me instead because I'd be willing to just settle for middle-class salary so appearantly that's all the job is worth?

Here goes Mike on that stupid what the job is worth thing. Someone may be willing to do shit work for 50 cents an hour, but if that's the only person in the world that will do that, you shouldn't be expecting all other workers to accept that as standard. This concept lovingly benefits illegal immigrants over legal Americans, but anyway.. Still, I can't support either of these bills, because that means siding with either Santorum or Kennedy. Fuck, shoot me now.

Darnit, here I thought this was Clark County, Nevada. So I was going to make a crack about all the zombies milling about the Strip.