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  1. I don't see why you people always get spyware and *BLEEP*. I never get spyware, malware, virus or anything on my computer. Just use Firefox for those porn sites and you will be fine. Internet Explorer can be used for trusted sites. I never have any problems.And, if I do have problems. I just reload the image I have. Takes about 15 mins and I've got a fresh install of my comptuer with all my settings set the way I like with all the programs already loaded.It's not hard. You just have to be smart and not just use your computer without thinking. Do you drive your car without thinking? no. It's because if you drove your care without paying attention, you would crash it or get hurt. Same with your computer, you have to pay attention to where you are going on the internet and take the proper precautions.btw. i am on XP media center edition. Also was on XP Pro with absolutely no problems.
  2. alot of this stuff can already be done except not to that scale. for example, the touch pads in computer laptops can recognize different types of touches. Also, there are many types of touch screens right now like cash registers. or even when you buy tickets at movie theatre and check in at air ports. these are all touch screens. i don't think this is really too far off. it's just the interface has to be developed and software will have to support it. basically all new OS has to be made to support this thing becaue right now the OS is mouse based.
  3. I am currently using Intel. I think they are best if you don't use 64bit applications. AMD is only better once you get to 64 bit operating systems and applications. Intel is supposed to be "more compatible" with programs because the architecture of the AMD chips are slightly different than that of the intel chips. Though, most of the time, it's poor software design that causes incompatibility issues.. never the less, it is slightly better with intel chips.
  4. BMI is not an accurate measure of health. It is better to measure percentage body fat than using this stupid BMI as a measure of health.BMI, like some others have already said, does not take into account muscle mass.
  5. it's funny going through this thread and seeing all the people on here supporting treasure trooper saying 'it works' and 'go there' or 'here's proof' are from people who have made ONE post.I'll bet if admin looked at the logs, all those accounts were from the same IP...
  6. if they don't refund the money you can always goto the credit card company and request a charge back.. that way you get your money back and the credit card company is responsible for getting hte money back from the company. that's why it is always good to use credit card for payment. they protect you against this sort of stuff.
  7. There is no way I will buy a PS3 if it is anything over $500. What I'm going to do is wait until the PS3 comes out and by that time, the XBOX 360 will drop in price to stick it to sony. Then the 360 will be cheap so why not just pick that up and play with that? Then wait for the PS3 to come down in price. I think the play station is going to die if PS3 isn't successful... look at nintendo, sega, and others.
  8. my initial reaction would be to ask how old you two are because this sounds very childish. If the guy doesn't want to hang with you at all then he doesn't like you or he is gay. It is quite simple. Ask him why he never wants to be alone with you. You will be able to tell if he is shy or just not into you. If you are offering yourself and you get no reaction, then just dump the guy. What's the point in hanging with him if he just wants to play with his friend eddie?
  9. It's hard not to hate Jews when they are killing innocent palestinians and Lebanese people. I somehow find it odd that israel's soilders got captured by both Hezbollah AND palestinian militants right when the new president got into power.I personally believe that it was an excuse to attack the palestinians and the Lebanese people so he could become a "war time" president. This seems like a ploy to get the Jews on his side. Lebanon has been quiet for like 20 years and suddenly they want to pick a fight with israel? I don't believe it. I think something is going on that we don't know about. And also, big surprise... USA backs israel...
  10. All these places that require you to complete this offer or do this survey, is kind of stupid. You really don't get that much money for the type of information you are giving up. Did you know that your information is EXTREMELY valuable? You giving up your information for free (or for just a few pennies) is simply cheating yourself.It's just like when you goto a big box store and they ask for your telephone number... why give them the information so they can monitor your spending habits? Marketing information costs TONS of money and they try to collect it ALL the time. Don't give it up for such low rewards.
  11. You people are all wrong. Whe isn't doing it because she wants to be "free", or because this person is "bored with their life". This is a classic example of a girl with low self esteem issues.She has to sleep around to proove to others and herself that she is attractive and can get guys to notice her. All though what she is doing is getting attention from the guys, it does not mean it is healthy attention.It's like when a child tries to get the attention of the parents by acting out and doing bad things. The child does the bad things to get attention even if it is negative attention.In fact, this could also be one reason why she is sleeping aorund. It could be that something is wrong in the home and she is not feeling needed or loved. So she looks for that elsewhere. In other words, she looks for the missing elements in her life by attracting guys who provide "temporary" or "fake" love.These type of people cannot change unless they fix the root cause of their problem. It is probably a complex issue and should be dealt with in more detail and with more effort than can be had over the internet.One quesetion though, is she hot and where can i get some? LOL
  12. I think famous people or celebrities should be left alone if they are out on the street. I would not bother to ask them for autographs or pictures of them in that situation. Who cares if you've got their signature or picture anyway?The only time you should ask for a signature or autograph is when they are at special functions like promoting a movie or CD or whatever. Besides that, they are people and should not be bothered like that.
  13. you took a ride from a stranger at the train station... that is the dumbest thing you can do. once you are in their car, you don't know what they are going to do.If you are stuck somewhere just call a cab and have them drive you where you need to go.. it's not hard.
  14. This is pretty simple actually. the square root of any negative number is UNDEFINED. what the imaginary number is doing is simply factoring out the square root of negative 1 so the remainder can be defined.i, or the imaginary number, is just a concept to be able to manipulate mathematical equations. It is undefined just like infinity. It can't really exist for us.
  15. There is a possibility that a female mentality is "put" into a male body? Give me a break. That is a MENTAL DISORDER. If you have a male body but think you are a girl stuck in a male body, you have an identity problem. This mental disorder must be corrected. Just because it "happens" doesn't mean it should be accepted. Just like i said before, if a kid was born with only 1 leg, it is obvious that it would be better if the kid had 2 legs. What happens? People give the kid a prosthetic leg. Now, you may say that a gender change operation will "fix" the problem but I disagree. The problem is not with the body but it is with the BRAIN. Just because it is EASIER to fix the body doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
  16. The height difference you are noticing between your parents or grandparents is definately NOT "genetic drift" or evolution. You think that could happen in 2 generations? Highly unlikely. It is more likely that those "minor changes" you mention are things like tolerances to certain diseases or chemicals that we've produced. This is the extent of our "evolution" since homoerectus. The height/size difference you are talking about is simply a result of people having DIFFERENT lives. There are a few schools of thought around this. 1. People, in the last 10-20 years have consumed more an more "growth chemicals/hormones" through our food supply. Those "special" grains or feeds that are given to cows and chickens to produce bigger chicken breasts. This could filter down to the people who eat that meat. For example, there was a study that showed girls hit puberty earlier when exposed to growth hormones from beef. 2. People are eating healthier and standard of living is improving. Getting the proper vitamins and minerals and eating balanced diets. The other side of it is also people eating bigger portions... generating a fat population.
  17. Humans have not physically changed pretty much since we started walking upright. This is fact. It has been shown that our brains have not changed since the caveman days. The way we use it has.One generation learns something new and passes it on to the next generation. Though we are technically not genetically passing it along, it is still being passed. The definition of evolution should include this.To expand a bit more...The last "evolutionary" change in humans was when we started walking upright. For the last 20 or so years though, we have undergone a different type of evolution.The information age has transformed humans. the next evolution of human beings will be done using technology as an enabler. For example, when virtual reality comes and we are all plugged into a "matrix" like environment, we are no longer humans in the traditional sense. We "evolve" to a new form of life, that is being played out only in our minds. In this way, humans physically will not change but they will harness technology to enable them to move into another stage of evolution. This is just one possibility. There are many more. Look at genetic engineering. Technology and the information age (human genome project) has allowed humans to understand what we are made of and how we are built. Right now, if we can genetically modify people... or "evolve" them to something different.
  18. Transgenders, homosexuals, and the lot are, at best, abnormalities. Many of you say "nature made them this way" or "they can't help how they are born". While this is true, that does not mean they should not be "fixed".Just like a child who is born with any other abnormality, you would like to correct it. If a child was born blind, would you not try to fix it? Would it not be better off?Abnormalities need to be corrected. If they are not, it only leads to suffering.
  19. the funniest stuff happens in call centers like on tech support. I heard some major funny stories from a call center for an ISP. They had this one old lady who called in saying her son was not getting the emails that she was sending him. These guys went through tons of trouble shooting. Then finally, the tech asked for the old lady to give him her sons address.... She gave him his mailing address... the old lady thought sending an email to a mailing address meant that the post office would print the email and mail it...another one was where a guy wanted to know why there was no sound coming from his computer. After checking sound card, drivers, etc. the tech asked if the speakers were plugged in. The guy said - what speakers? LOL... he wanted sound but didn't even have any speakers!
  20. sometimes suspicious emails are real though. i got an email for a free magazine subscription and it turned out to be true.I thought it was spam at first. What I did was look at the message headers to see what domain the email was coming from and the path it took. Then instead of hitting reply, i typed in the email address to ask the guy if it was a scam just to see if the email was being spoofed.the other good test is the type of information they want from you. They asked for my name and mailing address. They did not ask for any type of payment information. I took the risk, sent them my info and a few months later, I started getting free magazines.
  21. the movie was very predictable but there was some funny parts. It was a decent movie but I don't think it was really worth paying to watch.it is basically another one of those ghost of christmas past, present, and future type movie. You know the guy is going to get a second chance at his life and make things right. He learns his lesson.Typical.
  22. bush never had any intention of capturing bin laden. If he really wanted bin laden, bush would not have waited so long to go into afghanistan. Bush put more effort into getting sadaam than he did bin laden. And sadaam never really did anything to justify all the attention that he got. let's face it bush and his administration don't know what the hell they are doing. they never did. all they know how to do is make everyone else in the world angry at them.even their "friends" like the brits hate the USA. a recent survey from the uk showed that like 80 or 90% of brits think bush is a moron and americans are all crude, rude, and are basically idiots.How sad that americans have had their reputation soiled by the actions of one retard.
  23. Why do people believe god would even care about what we do? If there was a god and it was as powerful as people say it is, then it is highly likely that it doesn't care and never will care about what we do. all the writings of what god can do and what god is like is written by a man who HOPES that god will do those things because without those things, life would be meaningless for people. People get meaning from life beause they think there is something after this life. They do things in this life to prepare for the next life.In terms of god having a plan for us and our future being predetermined because of it... that's just BS. How can god have a plan for us? In order for god to have a plan for us, god must actually care about us first.If god were as god is described, I really doubt god would care about individuals in this world. He might care about how the OVERALL world is moving along but not individuals. If I owned an ant farm, I would not care much about what each individual ant was doing. I would just care that my colony didnt die and was living well. Besides, that I don't care what they do individually.God is probably the same way.
  24. no9t9

    Iptv

    You don't need extremely high bandwidth for IPTV. The main thing is what compression they will use. Also, when IPTV first comes out I highly doubt they will deliver it in high definition. On a standard definition signal, they only require about 6mbits/sec speed. There are vdsl units where I live which deliver both internet and television. Though it is not exactly IPTV, the vdsl feed comes through the phone line and provides 12mbits/sec shared between the internet and tv signal. there are some issues with slow internet speeds.
  25. gmail is starting to get slow. there are probably too many users on it now. There seems to be more errors now than when they first launched. I almost want to go back to hotmail or yahoo especially after they have upgraded (which is faster now).if gmail gets slower, i will definately switch. And it should be easy since there is email forwarding.
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