Jobber of the Week

^ That's nice, KKK, but if you actually looked at the country in terms of how many voters live where, the country is primarily purple. The old "no heart/no brain" rule. Kids don't want people who are going to saddle them with paying for things. They're already going to be paying plenty for their parents' leftovers anyway. edited to say: yes, his post was really old, but I just noticed it now. D:

My thoughts on the last few firings: Elizabeth: Yes, he fired the right person. She failed the same test that Kwame failed in the last episode regarding Omarosa. She should have fired her whole team, or instructed them that their job was to go examine rocks for the next six hours, and designed a simple ad campaign that got the message across by herself if she had to. Yes, it would look crude as all hell, but it would get the job done and possibly make everyone else on the team look like an idiot. If it failed, it all would have fallen on her shoulders, which is what happened when she waffled so no difference there even in a worst-case scenario. Raj: I'm currently repairing a house to sell right now, so I saw that one coming up as soon as he started tearing out the wall. We're actually re-adding a wall that we tore out so as to increase it's value. Stupid, stupid Raj. Chris: What can you say? Trump was absolutely chomping at the bit to fire the guy once he made his dumb-assed comment. That was the only reason Trump gave him PM status even after telling Stacy he doesn't do that, because he would take any oppertunity to murder the guy and making him PM only guarantees that someone stupid like Raj doesn't screw it up. I completely don't buy that bit about firing Jen at all. Even if he made into the final five, Chris would have been the first to go since he shot off his mouth. It's like that one woman in the last season who Trump practically mocked after her pal the PM absolved her of any blame (and then got fired herself immediately after.) Except with that woman you could see it wash over her face when she realized it was over before it was over. Not so with Chris.

Drawn Together is the dumbest thing I've seen on TV this year, and I watched two episodes of "The Biggest Loser" and five episodes of "Father of the Pride." Those three shows together nearly make me watch SmackDown. Adam Carolla sounded almost embarassed the one time I heard him interviewed about it, and I understand why now. It seems like everything the poor guy touches is destined to failure anymore. When you have a character that is an entire running gag that the guy from Final Fantasy dresses like a sci-fi homo and has a funny haircut, you're at 1998 levels in terms of geek humor. And oh hey, fat jokes. TV doesn't have enough of them!

Everytime you hear Cesar say something like "Here comes one now" or "Aw hell there's another one, go into your camera zoom mode and look for someone walking around or getting out of a car. Once the big red arrow appears above their heads, you can take a picture. Don't be afraid to take a couple extra here and there if need be, I took several that didn't "count" because I had taken them before the arrow appeared. Once you do take the picture, let go of all your buttons and wait until you hear Cesar say more is coming.

I already know three people who have their new model PS2s overheat and die, as well as one of them had his San Andreas disc scratched. Sounds like another dud, and one that dies even faster than the last model. Stick with the big one.

If this implies Sodom & Gomorrah, that happened because the town were such shitty hosts, plus they couldn't find a scant few people in town who loved God. I'm pretty sure you knew that, but in the unlikely event that you didn't.

LOL. CBS Early Show's report on this was ironic and sadly true. "Arafat was a terrorist who won the Nobel Peace Prize."

Third parties are a joke in America, first of all. None of them run on any kind of platform that most people would feel comfortable electing. They basically run to lose but show off their ideals and try to boost their numbers so that some day, they can sell out their agenda and become another big bloated party like everybody else. Our Presidential elections have room for improvement, but doesn't need to be completely scrapped and rebuilt as some people think. It simply needs some tweaks so that the whole thing doesn't always come down to two or three states that somehow have an almost equal level of party voters. Not only does it make the people who live in those states seem way too much more important than everyone else, it means that the politicians only step out of those states to ask for money to keep bombarding those states with ads, so if you live out here you either have to pay a lot of attention to government or you're way less informed than the people who get flooded with too much information about who's who and what they stand for.

I.... I think that I agree with you, I'm not sure. Thing is, I have to call bullshit on your "let them have their reasons for bringing religion into government" stuff because it'll come back and bite ya if a large Muslim movement organizes and express a wish to implement Islamic law in the government.

I'd put world title matches on free TV again and try and change the title ownership once or (in desperate times) twice a year (once on both brands) on free TV to keep people interested. It's way too obvious at this point that titles only change hands on PPV, it's never more visible to the common fan than it is now that Raw & SD only exist to sell PPVs. Since people don't voluntarily choose to view informercials, we need to make these shows stand on their own two legs instead of always propping up a future event. No more stupid Hogan-era USA Babyface gimmicks and angles. If they wish to capitalize on international tours, constantly doing angles about how America is vastly superior to the Europeans, Australians, Japanese, and Middle-Easterners will not sell tickets in those parts of the world. At the same time, no more political stereotypes. Bradshaw was good enough as a Million Dollar Man wannabe, but then he got political with the Eddie feud and it turns off half the US. That Nowinski/Steiner "debate" angle of 2002 was another situation where the only thing they can accomplish is tell their anti-war fans that they aren't wanted. Ethnic stereotypes can stay as long as they are done well (i.e. Eddie) and not done to make a group look bad (i.e. Booker/Austin feud.) Women's belt is gone because there's too few competitors who can hold it and be over with the crowd without it simply exchanging around the same three hands over and over again. Women now take a managerial role with male wrestlers and sometimes get involved in their wrestler's feuds or with another wrestler's manager. Also, sometimes women appear in non-managerial roles but are no longer confined to their own little universe (i.e. the spunky female tag team that uses better teamwork to beat guy tag teams, etc) Velocity becomes an all-cruiserweight show.

They should have gone with Robin Williams. Ye gads.

The higher-end ones still run well for graphics work. Aside from the speed boost, there really hasn't been very much difference between G3/G4/G5. Only with next year's OS is there any real functions used by G5 chips that won't be available in the older ones. If you're going for an iMac, get as much power as you can afford, but if you're going for one of those PC tower style Power Mac models, there's a lot of different options (so many in the G4 line it may get confusing) and they tend to have power upgrades down the road. Also remember that GHz you see on a Mac isn't the same speed as an identitical P4 on the PC because it's a RISC-based processor. Or, in your terms, Macs exist in a hippie land where they can run as fast as a Pentium with a somewhat higher clockspeed rating because the PowerPC CPUs do more work in each cycle than the Pentium (which is really based on old 1970s technology and could stand an upgrade) does. Although, it might not be a hippie CPU after all, since it involves doing more work, and that's supposedly a foreign concept to hippies. My Mac was bought used from eBay. I wouldn't dare spend the money they ask for a new one.

Aside from some macro viruses that operate with Microsoft Office, you effectively have nothing to be afraid of on a Mac from P2P viruses. I reccomend Acqlite, it's a LimeWire client for Mac that is like Acquisition but without all the begging for money and the mean-assed attitude from the guy who makes Acquisition. Unfortunately, it's stopped in development, and the last version works but looks for an old version of Java, so you'll have to read their forums to read about going into the Terminal and making an alias of sorts to point it towards the right Java version. But once you get it working, it works well.

If it's firewire, you can. Try holding down option when you boot up sometime and check out the boot disk selector. Your firewire drives will show up there, with a little blue X if the OS is installed. Select a drive and click the right-arrow to proceed.

You said that a bunch of states voted against gay marriage. I agree, and said that I don't support gay marriage even though I support the goal of the government granting equal rights to both sides. You ignored my point that people like you who see this as a matter of God will never compromise, because you see these people as sinners and their lives must be made difficult as possible, so as not to encourage sin.

More like: Though to be honest, I don't think anything is going to get better after the inevitable internal fighting. The devil we know is likely to be replaced with the devil we don't.

Yes it is. You are policing the lives of other people based on Bible scripture and what God wants, with no respect whatsoever that the people whose lives being impacted might not have interest in your God and how he wants people to live. That's pretentious to a tee. I don't mind that. I think we won't get anywhere without compromises which is why I support the solution that I mentioned in my last post towards you. The problem is that any compromise is impossible with people who are operating on your level.

I don't have any "beliefs" of that sort and I'm not trying to cast them onto anyone. In fact, I am trying to keep government free of influence via beliefs, whether they be my own or anyone else's.

Look, I support the abolishment of marriage as a government institution entirely and think we need to go 100% civil union legally, I've said that before. But pretentious pricks like you who believe that your faith extends beyond your life and into everybody else's lives and their politics annoy the piss out of me.

Except look how they voted. Do not take the Republican's bullshit on that Southerners won't vote Democrat ever and say that it's a result of us "making fun of them." These people gave Bill Clinton the nickname "Bubba" for eight years and made fun of him being some kind of uncultured swine who was throwing parties in the White House. So I take their suggestions with a massive salt lick.

He becomes Vader when the Emperor names him his apprentice. The emperor probably doesn't do so until he's had time to collect the body and stick it into the suit. Why would he reveal himself to Anakin before? He would give away his dual identity to someone he's not sure he can trust. He trusts Anakin after the suit because now all the things he hated Kenobi for in the past seem almost insubstantial in light of the whole "I'm a burned zombie corpse because you're an asshole" feud. Anyway, they have a LOT of missing ground to make up between the end of II and the start of IV. He not only has to fall in love, get Padme pregnant, hide the kids (remember the Emperor's new lines in the DVD set), and everything else AND we still have to transition from republic army to empire. That's too much content for 90 minutes. TPM was awful and AotC was what TPM should have been in the first place. If they didn't waste that first movie on a time period that nobody cares about it wouldn't have resulted in this time squash.

Burp.

Scalia isn't a right winger? He thought banning sodomy laws was "taking sides in the culture war," but didn't seem to think that NOT banning the law wasn't taking a side just the same, which is about as blindly ideological as you can get.

You've already heard people say it's faster, less suspect to security holes, and updated way more often. Here's some of the nicer things I use it for that don't get enough attention: Tabs. Ever read a page, seen a link you wanted to visit, but didn't want to stop reading the page? Sure, you could open the link in a new window, but that creates a ton of window clutter. Middle click to make a tab that loads up in the background. Middle click on a tab to make it go away. Once you adjust to using tabs, you wonder how you went through life without them. Integrated Google search. It would be enough to say that and let it alone, but... there's little downloadable plugins for pretty much every search interface ever, from Yahoo to Amazon to IMDB. There's also extensions created and updated by third party authors. Though in numbers they bog down the browser a bit, they do some nice things. Here's FoxyTunes and WeatherFox in action: FoxyTunes is controlling iTunes from the browser, although you can also use one of a bunch of other players including WinAmp, Windows Media, etc. WeatherFox goes to the Weather Channel's site after you give it your zip code and shows you an icon representing the weather of that area. Hovering your arrow over the icon brings up the kind of dialogue that you see above, and double clicking will take you to your city's page at weather.com This is just what I use it for, there's a lot of other ways to expand it. I use Safari as my main browser, but FireFox has it's perks, and since I do have to use Windows from time to time it's way better than IE.

I'm trying to make a tribal casino joke but.... Naw, I got nothing.