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:kitty: I doubt I would be on that side. I feel strongly on certain topics, but its not across-the-board for all issues. For example, I consider myself Republican (**crickets chirping**) but I am in favor of stem cell research, and have a neutral stance on homosexuality. Hell, I even have homosexual friends. There are some issues that make me hate the government. Almost to the point of being a libertarian. So I don't think I really get pigeonholed in any global camp. The issues are too complicated for that.

OK. That I have no problem with. We are allowed to disagree with each other. Its bound to happen from time to time in society

Supposing I am...does that somehow mean my opinions are no longer valid? Or is it just merley an observation. 'cause saying someone's opinions are not valid is kinda....fascist. I'm not saying thats definitely implied in your statement, but I am a little curious.

What a fun thread. I've been called a Totalitarian AND a Humanist I thought you guys didn't like absolutes? Bill O Riley is my homeboy.

People's political opinion's don't make them stupid. Isn't everyone entitled to have an opinion? I thought democrats were supposed to be 'open minded', but so far all I've seen is childish name calling towards those that think and feel differently. I never heard anything about Oregon. Whats the story there?

Since I know nothing of this report, are they basing numbers on percentage of population, or just numerically compared to USA? I also noticed that they said "not normally arrest"...what are the differences when they do? Also, marijuana is a long way from crystal meth. I don't really care about that, its the harder drugs that scare me the most.

...Guess we can't do anything about it then. All I can honestly say is that I'm anti drugs. Regardless of who initially made drugs illegal, and regardless of their motivation or purpose. Even if it was rope companies, rail road companies, Microsoft, martians or my next door neighbor's cat. To make drugs legal for the purposes of eliminating the legislated morality once imposed on our nation, to me seems ludicrous. I don't deny there was legislated morality, sometimes there is little you can do about that. And yes, I'm sure I support it when I don't even realized I'm doing it. But I believe its in the best interests of the majority of Americans. I don't believe my intentions are quite as severe as the Nazis genocide of the Jews, or any of those other crutches people fall back on. I truly believe keeping drugs illegal has more benefit than legalizing for the purpose of morality purging, for lack of a better term.

I have no idea what they mean by server grade. Maybe a 32 mb cache?

I think at some point you have to balance lack of moralizing with adequate protection, even if that means the addition of moralization. A society with no rules is a society in chaos, as far as I'm concerned. I don't see making drugs illegal as radical. There are far more radical things in life. I think its a reasonable compromise. If the government isn't here to protect, than what the hell are they good for?

I dont know why they would, I just know it would happen. People do stupid things. I really dont see how we can turn a blind eye to the whole thing, but I guess I'm just brainwashed.

Partially. But even if drugs were made legal, people would still cook at home, though in smaller numbers, no doubt.

The violence of drug gangs is far worse, I'll agree. The problem, as I see it, with simply giving up, is that it sets precedent. If drugs are legal, gangs are out of a job. So they will inevitably turn to the next illegal activity and specialize in that. Then we'll make that legal. Where does it stop?

lol I think the 'its not going well' mentality is just a cop out for responsibility. But it sure would be easier to make everything legal. As far as 'only harming themselves'...tell that to the parents of children who have overdosed. Tell that to the people who die from fire and asphyxiation from the tenant below them who had a meth lab explosion.

Well we haven't cured cancer or Alzheimer's yet. Lets send those GSK scientists home.

wow. That right there is all I need to know.

I guess iffy or not, they seem pretty important to me. You take them out of the loop, and I'm willing to bet you'd see a drop in drug smuggling via cars from Mexico. This is all well above my pay grade, but it seems like you can't just go in and make sweeping changes without severe consequences. I really dont want to present myself as 'clued in', because I'm not, but thats just my overall impression. I guess I'll just say that most of what I've heard him say gives me great pause.

I'm no economist, but I dont understand Ron Paul at all. He seems crazy to be honest. I hate taxes, dont get me wrong, but talk about pipe dreams. How many years have all the candidates been promising to balance the budget? Still waiting on that one, lol. And he plans to replace tax income via import/export terriffs, if I'm not mistaken. How does he plan on paying for anything local? And you cant just stop using the coast guard, FFS. I know Fox news is considered the joke of news for most people, but the truth is all the stations are biased in some way or another. Chris Matthews? He's not a journalist. He's a commentator, as far as I'm concerned. MSNBC is way, way more biased than Fox ever was. They just happen to be biased towards democrats. The liberal media really does a great job convincing everybody FOX is so biased, when in fact, its usually a knee-jerk reaction from those stations, who are all biased towards the liberal, in my opinion. FOX just happens to be less biased the same way, so everybody just assumes that they are skewed ones.

I have an eye on the Drobo unit myself. I need multiple drives. Plus the ability to use different brands and sizes is awesome. Not looking forward to paying for it though. I have little interest in the NAS companion set either. I just need pure music backup.

Thin is nice, but what I really wanted was an 11 or 12" screen. This basically fails on all levels for me. Wrong screen size, wrong storage type, wrong storage price, wrong battery, wrong DVI connector, no Ethernet, wrong price overall, ...sigh.

No argument there. But still, this is just way too much money for way too little product, even by Apple standards. The Mac Pro just got a hell of a lot more tempting, for me at least. 1200 for SSD... its cheaper just to keep buying the hard drives, and break them multiple times, or hell, buy multiple laptops, than to invest in the added security of solid state. Also, with MAC, its 'want', not 'need', at least for me.

For $3k, I'll take the Mac Pro with 8 cores and 4 hard drive bays over this hunk-o-crap. SSD should be standard at the base model price. Goddammit.

aardvark want replaceable battery. aardvark no get $3000+ w/ the SSD option. Pffffffffft. The whole point of LED and SSD is durability....which is now moot. Apple snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

This big.

For me, its seeing acoustic guitarist Tommy Emmanuel in concert in 2004 in The Chet Atkins Appreciation Society, in Tennessee. (I used to play fingerstyle guitar as a hobby during college; not as much anymore). He put on one hell of a show. Its not even funny how good he is. His CDs dont really show his full potential; live is the best way to hear him. Its just short of a religious experience. Before that, it was seeing Blues Traveler play a non-stop 45 minute medley of songs in one of their concerts. John Popper took about 2 breaths the entire time. That was very cool too.

You know I should clarify, these are still 16 bit, the remastering was 24 bit. The labels are misleading.