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QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 06:26 PM) From my understanding, there is no genetic link to alcoholism. How many alcoholics had parents who either drank or were alcoholics? Do you honestly believe if someone who supposley has alcoholism in his or her genes would become an alcoholic if they were never around the s***? not true. not only are there strong [experimental] studies that can link a genetic/experiential factor to alcoholism they have even identified some characteristic genetic features: for example a variant type of long dopamine 2 receptors are linked with a predisposition of addiction. and you would be hard pressed to find someone with an alcoholic gene that also wasnt' raised around alcohol (unless we're talking adoption).

We use SoundForge at work. I like it.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 02:51 PM) Anybody who likes looking at these photos are sick. Please close this thread. That's a f***ing Human there. This s*** ain't funny. Or, you could just not look at the threads that offend you.

I love beating the snot out of uppity texans.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 08:00 PM) Because knowledge is power! I just think it's kind of funny. I actually was called that (in all seriousness) for suggesting that honey bees do not have language.

QUOTE(SnB @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 07:50 PM) um no, the movie is racist to monkeys STUPID! I think the word (and yes it's actually a word) you're looking for is speciesist.

I would just like to say this: God bless academia.

I liked the "Carpentry Accident" one. Good satire, thanks Rex.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 06:12 AM) Think it would be a bad idea to pull an all nighter when you have a 10 o'clock final that morning? Yes. Sleep helps the memory consolidation and makes memory retrieval easier.

I didn't realize until recently that he was divorcing her when he died. Makes me even madder about her having the rights to his and Nirvana's songs.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 06:32 PM) The U.S. has been trying to do that for years (sacajawea dollars, susan b anthony dollars, etc.) Simply because it's a lot cheaper to produce the coin than it is to produce the bill. Thus far though, they just haven't caught on no matter how hard the government has tried. Mostly because nut jobs like my parents collect the new coins and just stash them under their bed. Here's what my parents will do when the new coins come out: annoy every cashier, bank teller, and, possibly, homeless panhandler to see if they can get some of the new coins. Then, they will hide these coins (rolled of course) in shoeboxes under their bed. I feel relatively confident that 70% of the Sacajewea coins that were put into circulation ended up under my parents' bed. They're insane.

Only missed one point on my only final. I'm obviously the goddess of Conditioning and Learning.

Good for him. And I'm not being facetious at all. As much as I dislike him, I give him respect for this.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 03:24 PM) You must have mesmerized him. Or, more likely, he was stoned off his ass. I have no illusions about my students.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 03:12 PM) He called you Soxy? and how much was the check for? haha I wish there was a check. . . But it was seriously the funniest thing ever, this kid has come to my office hours a couple of time--and I try really hard to learn all my students' names, but no clue who this one was. Funniest thing is, he wasn't even asking for anything in the e-mail. Undergrads are so weird.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 07:10 PM) The first to quote a modern French novelist wins. Congrats Soxy! (edited) And by Soxy I meant LCR. I like those rules of debate. And PA actualy might enjoy a book called Camus and the minister--which traces Camus' (alleged) conversion later in life. Also, if you read his books in order, there could actually be an argument for some sort of religion enterring into his life. In case it ever comes up on Jeopardy! one of my top 5 favorite books is The Fall. I've worn out 3 copies. . .

Got this from a STUDENT today: Thank you for the clarificatio Soxy, you have been a lot of help. You have proven not only to be beautiful but kind and friendly as well, a rare combination.. Thanks again, and have a nice vacation...

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:01 PM) All of the above. But what's the ultimate goal of all those things? What is accomplished by doing that? Does it actually help the vic's family? I've heard mixed things.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:54 PM) Let me ask this. Do you soxtalkers think that murders will RISE if we got rid of the death penalty? No QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:54 PM) Therefore, the death penalty isn't doing anything to keep crime down, so why sanction government killing? Revenge? Make an example? Peace to the victim's family? I have no idea. But I would, honestly, like to hear someone's honest answer.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:18 PM) Read my post please. I said killing him DIDN'T put things right, but its a start. Right, but I don't even understand how it's a start.

Thought provoking little opinion piece in the Trib. From the Los Angeles Times 'I Watched a Man Die Today' By Steve Lopez Times Staff Writer Published December 13, 2005 SAN QUENTIN -- It's just past midnight, and another Crip is on his way to the graveyard. Stanley Tookie Williams, who shotgunned four people to death a quarter of a century ago and couldn't sell the story of his redemption to anyone who mattered, took a lethal shot in the arm and closed his eyes for good. I watched him die from 12 feet away. The execution team struggled to tap a vein, and Williams raised his head as if to question their competence. He also looked at supporters and exchanged final words with them before the drugs kicked in and he was gone. Nothing I saw made me feel any differently about Williams, the Crip co-founder whose legacy is terrorized neighborhoods and a chorus of weeping mothers. His anti-violence books and speeches were too little, too late, and the methodologizing of him was as unconvincing as the Nobel nominations. But his execution was a macabre spectacle in a nation that preaches godly virtue to the world while resisting a global march away from the Medieval practice of capital punishment. I would have had no problem leaving Williams locked up with his regrets and haunted by his deeds for the rest of his natural life. I watched a man die today, killed by the state of California with institutional resolve, and wondered what we gained.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) *cough*50*cough* both of 'em? Sorry, Mike, you got unjustly dissed there.

I always feel bad for the people that live on Leonartz (sp?) Ave in Aurora, but we go every year and it makes my Christmas so happy and fuzzy. I don't know if I could deal with the traffic, though. . .But I'm glad they do.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:39 AM) So you're saying I should click all the "Daisy Does Dallas" and "Have Sex Tonight" ads? Daisy?!?!?! Wtf happened to Debbie?

Both of you knock it off. White guys over 30. :headshake