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Such great news Steff! Joey remains in my thoughts.

QUOTE(Omeed @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 01:49 AM) After a quick bit of research, you are correct; myself, incorrect. But, that research also showed the liquid natural gas potential of that country is much higher than petroleum. However, potential and Iran don't mix well. Khoda hafez. Unless you count potential for problems, that is.

QUOTE(Omeed @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 12:02 AM) Salaam. I can't say a whole lot on this topic. Levenworth doesn't sound like a fun place to live. However, Iran doesn't have a whole lot of oil. Their big natural resource is liquid natural gas, and China has a nice contract to get a pretty big chunk of that. Khoda hafez. Not sure what your criteria for 'a lot' is, but like Balta said, Iran has 10% of the world's known oil. Seems kind of like a lot to me. This is from DOE:

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 04:58 PM) Well, I am currently defragmenting the HD and now I am going to go through and remove some unused programs. Then I am going to run an Acronis PC Leanup and then run another Norton Antivirus scan. Then I'm going to run a disk cleanup. Just for fun you should unplug the computer half-way through the defrag and see what happens.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 04:41 PM) 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... Clarificatio. Rhymes with fellatio. I think your student is trying to plant subliminal thoughts in the teacher's head.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 04:51 PM) There goes my theory about Macs. Running Virex (free thru ISU) and it's run into 2 trojans. But are they really trojans that can activate and cause trouble on the mac or are they PC executables that the Virex program happens to note are there but are not endangering your computer?

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 04:44 PM) Protesting? So while Israel is smoldering, we start an investigation? I don't think anyone would fire nukes back at Iran for fear of killing people in nations that are trying to "democratize" (Iraq and Afghanistan come to mind), but it would be a full scale ground and air war on Iran...and I don't think too many Islamic nations would come to their aid. Hatred of Israel or not. I hope you are right, but we may be deluding ourselves as to the degree of reserve we would show. There have been worst-case-scenario discussions in Neocon circles that have gone so far as to suggest that we eventually might "nuke Mecca" as a general retaliation to the Muslim world if we decide they are not doing enough on their respective homefronts in the Global War on Terror® Now, if incomprehensible actions such as that can be openly suggested by the sort of folks calling the shots in our Special Relationship® with Israel, I wonder how much they'd fret over Nuking Tehran if early intel suggested they were thougght to have been responsible for nuking Israel. And how can we even be talking about these types of scenarios in 2005?

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 04:22 PM) What exactly does disk defragmentation do? ("defragment" is not an acceptable answer) Then you are out of luck. Defragmentation cleans up your drive by clearing out old data that doesn't really get erased when you delete files. The references to that data are deleted but the data is not scrubbed until you overwrite it with new data or get it off of your drive by defragmenting the drive. All the old orphaned data is scrubbed and your drive blocks reallocated ro make the freed up space useable.

From one of my favorites: You're that smart? Let me put it this way: have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Yes. Morons.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:26 PM) I thought that was his real name, my bad Jim is allowed to call me douche any time he wants, if that makes things better I'm saving it.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:23 PM) I think murderers should spend their days in prison, and there they have a chance to live in a seperate society and choose whether to continue to be the least of us or choose greatness. That is good, and we agree. You seemed to be siding with the capital punishment camp, but that must have been my misinterpretation.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:16 PM) I can't play, cause I'm against it. I can't play because I don't want to throw away 20 years worth of recovery.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:12 PM) hey douche, don't put a period at the end of a quote where there isn't one. that's what the quote said. Sorry. So is a grammatical error going to keep you from answering? By EXECUTING the least of His brothers, are you not doing the same to Him?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 03:08 PM) You want to play the religon game then explain how people who didn't worship the same God were the subjects of genocide? Obviously their lives were worth less than the lives of the chosen ones. I don't care to play the religion game. But I was hoping that somebody who does like to do so could reconcile for me the difference in how Christians are called act toward the "least of His brothers" and what is actually advocated by the pro-capital punishment "Christians."

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:59 PM) The life of an innocent person is not equal to the life a convicted felon. Would that be Jesus' take as well? I'd assume so if man is going to take it upon himself to play God and sanction the murder of convicted felons.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) I take it that you haven't read much Camus... Truth to tell, I rather preferred Billy Joel's version of The Stranger to Camus'.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 01:05 PM) that little temptress never tasted soooooooooo good..... Oblique snack cake reference?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 09:35 AM) in a barn, in the middle east, thinking about the birth of an infant that would change the world for a couple thousand years . . . I had a dream the other night and in the middle of it Jesus walked into the room. So I said, 'Shut the door, what, were you born in a barn or something? Ah, Emo Phillips. . .

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 11:01 AM) Not to belabor the point. Okay, I’m belaboring the point. When I said “I don’t know about First Rule, but I understand your point” I meant that I understood the principle but wished she didn’t use that term, as in First Law of Thermodynamics or Newton’s Second Law of Whatever. You know, I didn't want to spell that out since I was already being niggling enough with the procreation/reproduction thing…………………………………. Wait, aren't we talking behind Soxy's back here? Yep, I got that. But I'll take any chance to reaffirm the central tennet that in the living world everything is secondary to and in support of getting as many copies of the individual's genes into the next generation. I also could add that while I abhor the term creature when used in the context pf biology (because it derives from and on woruld seem to on some level legitimize a creationist dogma), the use of the term procreation to signify sexual conjugation and the creation of offspring is perfectly acceptable. In this instance, the two creators are the sexually mature organisms, and not a vague divine agent as alluded to by in the term creature[/]. See? I'm more picky about language than you. Nya nya nya nya nyah.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 10:45 AM) LMAO. We tried that already. It was called the "politics thread for the week" and lots of people got pissy about it because they couldn't b**** in every single thread. So, now, we just get to b**** in every thread we deem appropriate about any subject. It's the cool soxtalk SLaP way, er the cool CRaP way, depending on your take. As the the de facto leader of the Pissy People, I still think it's a lot better this way. Readers can ignore entire threads that either don't interest them or anger them, and you don't have to wade through two dozen topics to follow a single thread topic.

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 08:52 AM) I understand both arguements, but let's talk about what this says if it is indeed true. It says that America is more in the mold of the Roman Empire at its most depraved and morally bankrupt than I would have believed possible.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Dec 13, 2005 -> 04:51 AM) Well, I don’t know about “First Rule,” but I understand your point. However, I would take exception to your use of the very loaded word, procreation, which is usually used in a humanities context, and often signifies those very specific human begetting activities. I think the more neutral word, reproduction, is more appropriate as it is commonly understood to encompass both asexual and sexual methods of organismal replication. JMHO. Your exception to the term is noted, and as it does technically exclude asexual processes I'd agree that reproduction or (better still) propagation the better blanket terms. That said, Soxy is correct in stating that reproduction in THE goal for living systems. The selfish genes within all life have seen to that.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 06:51 PM) I thought the first rule of nature was don't talk about nature? Well played.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 03:08 PM) I bet he asked for someone else to change poopy diapers. Well if he can'r even take a break from the computer to attend to his own bodily functions. . .

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 05:03 PM) uhhhh There are plenty of Jewish individuals willing to take the blindly pro-Israel/pro-Zionist extremists to task when the need arises.