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I'd suggest you go to http://ww1.ftatalk.com/ and learn the alternative way to obtain entertainment programming for your home. I currently own a View Sonic 7000PVR and I'm not unhappy about it. Time to stick it to DN since they've been so kind as to stick it to you.

Seems to me, roooss, you've just decided not to learn the Mac way of doing things. Takes a fraction of the time to click the keyboard combo, [cmd-Q] compared to clicking on the red "X" for each and every window open in an application to close it all down. It's different, and more efficient, but enough so that you can't just treat it like MS wrote it. If every OS in the world were exactly the same, it'd be a less interesting world. Further, like a poster above you mentioned, you get a lot more bang for the buck when you buy a Mac. I own an "overpriced" Macbook Pro, but the hardware internally is the very best and highest quality that money could buy when I bought it. This means I'll be replacing it, out of necessity, later than if I'd bought the cheapest Dell. Or even the highest priced Dell. Go do a head-to-head comparison some time. I think you'll be surprised that the Mac is actually less expensive most of the time. (The rest of the time you can't even option the Dell or Toshiba or whatever to the higher speed chipsets or larger HDs available in the Mac.) The price myth has been busted.

LiveHiFi, if you're still around, could I ask you to eliminate the last line in your original post? The whole point of this board is interaction where we all learn, not private messages that no one but you learns from.With regard to your query, I remember enjoying Asimov's Foundation series very much and I, Robot was one of my favorites as well. Pretty much anything A.C.Clark wrote was good, but Heinlein was always my favorite. Red Planet, Farenheit 411 I believe was the title referring to the temperature that paper spontaneously ignites was awesome if I recall. Some of the older SciFi by Edgar Rice Boroughs was pretty amazing stuff for its time and is always worth checking out, too. I don't know where everything is or I'd just look. I've got a pretty decent SciFi collection myself. Enjoy your stories!

Try shooting with a red filter when using black and white film. Improves contrast.First shot "Easter" is a bit washed out. I like it, but the colors aren't as vibrant as I'd like. Second pic is lacking contrast. The darker skin of the subject should be richer as should the grass. Exposure is too long? Red filter or yellow filter would improve contrast a lot. Actually, yellow filter is better for B&W.Third pic has too much magenta and her dress is lacking any real detail.Fourth pic is slightly green or yellow, I can't be sure, and the subject's clothes are washed out lacking contrast.Final pic needs more contrast.The cool thing about B&W is what it lacks in color, it's capable of making up with contrasts. Contrasts convey a narrow field of emotion and, used well, can impart some impression on the viewer that would be otherwise lost with color. Shadows are vastly important with this medium, as is skin tone. Near-field objects can be better defined using depth and focus. Keep at it. I see a lot of desire and possibilities in your eye.

So, what's yours here? It's just the border then? That was a huge source of confusion for the people who took the time to reply to your topic. Please make it clear, by editing your original post, what's not yours so we may judge your work only. Thanks!Edit: I suppose I should have known that was what it was. I think, though, that to bring it in to context, more of the building that's painted on should be shown in the picture. 1000 speed B&W film might bring out some interesting detail. I believe that's a company logo, some kind of beer, is it not? The border doesn't do anything for me when it comes to photography. Nothing should distract from the subject unless it's another important element in the frame.

Too bad Mt. Ranier wasn't visible when you were there. I like the first photo. The warehouse, is that the Old Spaghetti Factory?, would've been nice if you'd focused. Throw that one away. The others are nothing without a blue sky, and you won't see that in Seattle unless you're there for July or August. There's an infinite array of possibilities for landscape photography there as long as you walk around, especially around the Seattle Center area.

This should be fun...1) People who don't care about politics or get annoyed when they're discussed.2) People who assume that someone who has a superior education and is well-written and/or well-read has a "complex".3) People who have this socialist mentality that someone with money is automatically obligated by way of their success to share it with others less fortunate. ^_^That was fun, let's do this again some time.

"How do you lose weight"? Stop shoving garbage in your pie hole.Simple. Next question...

I've been here over a year now, Satori, and I must say that you're as articulate as the top one percent of the members on this site (at least in your ability to express yourself in English). Given that condition and one other condition I'll detail at the end, I think you have a very good chance of talking (or writing) yourself right out of those dental caries and back to a healthy body. I have some knowledge of dental caries or cavities as I got my first one a few years back (I'm 39) and when I found out about it, I was shocked, horrified, and angry at myself for neglecting such an important part of my health. Frankly, after a good amount of research, I think I caught it. That's right. The bacteria that causes cavities is contagious. Every time you kiss your "more than a friend", you're passing on that bad bacteria to another or catching it. I think kissing should be banned until bacteria tests are performed. That would probably prevent as many cases of mouth disease problems as the modern toothbrush. I have a funny feeling you've researched the subject yourself, and if you have you've probably discovered the debate regarding fluoride (sodium). Now, as every educated person knows, calcium fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral and it's found in trace amounts in nearly every water source across the planet. Sodium fluoride is found in the waste produced by the aluminum, fertilizer, and nuclear industries and it is very expensive for these respective industry companies to dispose of it in an environmentally friendly manner. So they found some people who were "scientists" and who probably had enormous student loans and other debt and could be easily bought off and started perpetuating the myth that sodium fluoride is beneficial to the maintenance of the healthy human tooth (like sodium fluoride allegedly is in very small doses) so they could actually get paid to dispose of it. There were experiments in WWII Germany concentration camps that proved humans became docile and apathetic, losing 10-20 IQ points in intelligence when fed a healthy dose of daily fluoride and because it's nearly odorless, tasteless, and colorless, and is a cumulative chemical that the body partially (50%) flushes out of its system, it requires a very tiny dose to do the trick (I believe it's around 1-3 PPM). That along with other toxic metals found in the cocktail that municipalities buy from the fertilizer and other industries contribute not only to rotting teeth and bones (dental and osteo-fluorosis), but to a permanent decay of the well-reasoned and intellectually superior human mind that was once common place. (Remember the founding fathers of the original 13 colonies? They were not the exception in intellect, reasoning, and education; they were the rule for their time and socio-economic status.) I've lost nearly all faith in the establishment medical community, but having some faint wisps of my past insistence on believing in the good in people, I still hold out hope that there are some people out there who are truly in their profession to help the ones who can not help themselves and so my suggestion to you is to ask real people who practice medicine near where you live for help. It's sometimes amazing that all it takes is to simply ask the question. I know it's not easy, but a doctor who still believes in the Hippocratic oath should feel compelled to help you regardless of your ability to pay. One such man is Dr. Ron Paul who, in his more vital years, worked in an inner city hospital and provided care to all those who sought it regardless of their ability to pay. It is he who has caused me to believe, once again, that there are still people out there who'll lend a hand. You just have to ask. If you don't know where to start, begin at your local church of your choice. Sit down with the head-man-of-cloth and have a frank discussion with him about your rotting mouth. He knows lots of people. If he can, he'll find help for you and it won't cost you anything. But when you make some money, you'll feel compelled to pay him or contribute to a charity in his name because that's the way the world should work. I, like you, had an idealistic view of the people of this world and my country when I was younger. I'm still recovering from ideology to total and complete cynicism. I find that being a cynic fits me more and more. Good luck to you, and let us know how it worked out. Remember, though, you'll never stop having problems with your mouth until you solve the root problem of the bacteria that eats your teeth.

Well, I think you can sell a kidney, or whatever you want, can't you? In any event, I must say, Satori, that we usually treat someone who has just one or two posts coming on here to talk about such an enormous undertaking as this with a large healthy (no pun intended) amount of skepticism. Jlhaslip and I may be even more skeptical than most because of the rural environment we each live in. Speaking for myself, I live in an area of the U.S. where there is an extraordinarily high level of unemployment, "officially". However there are many ways of making ends meet around here that Uncle Sam doesn't have his fingers in and none of them involves selling a body part, so that just adds to our suspicious nature. Now, you may be completely on the up and up, but you need to build up our trust a little more before offering to sell bone marrow or any other body parts. Why not start out the discussion telling us about yourself, how old are you, what have you been doing to keep a roof over your head thus far, how can you cut back and save money toward your needed medical care like perhaps turning off the computer, TV, and reading a book or whatever. I find people around here earn some extra money selling a cord of wood for $150 a truckload. That's one way to stay under the RADAR...

What's amusing to me is you seem to actually believe there's a wit of difference between those three. Rather disturbing, actually.

Since you obviously took the information from your Original Post from this web site, http://www.iloveindia.com/nutrition/milk/index.html, I'm curious as to why you didn't include the nutritional information for Soy Milk. Soy Milk is not good for you, but, I'd argue the same can be said about Cow's Milk, for other reasons. Ever notice little humans don't drink pasteurized human milk? Why do we pasteurize other animal's milk, then? Pasteurization doesn't prevent it from going bad. I found, through experimentation, that to keep milk way way past its expiration date all I have to do is drop a silver dime in the container. Unfortunately the container (if it's made of paper) falls apart before I finish the milk (actually buttermilk for pan cakes), so I end up throwing it away anyway. The point is pasteurization kills the important enzymes that contribute to making milk and other milk-based dairy products good for the body. When those enzymes are killed, the milk becomes dead and is no longer good for you. It's basically sugar (lactose) water at that point with decent mineral content.

Yeah, I was shooting for the stars and all I could hit was a couple satellites. Better than empty space, though.Bad weather hasn't affected the reception once so far. More than I can say for the satellite internet we pay $70 per month for...The failures happen due to the providers changing their code. All you do then is download the new counter-measure from the appropriate internet forum, upload the file to the receiver, reboot off the new file, and you're back in business. Works quite well, really.

I think it's like the difference between being handed everything in life without having to actually work for it versus working for it. If God just gave it to us, it wouldn't be the same. martyrs are necessary sometimes.

I have an idea. Since you've had these experiences (and I presume you're here to earn points), share with the rest of the class. I've never personally seen a ghost or aborition, but that doesn't mean I dismiss out of hand those who have. Tell us one of your experiences. Please, Magic? Pretty please?

Awe crap. I forgot to watch Passion of the Christ this Easter... Wait a minute... The actual time of the crucifixion isn't really in Spring anyway, is it? When is it historically? My soul may yet be redeemed and reclaimed, perhaps I didn't miss the time I've set aside to watch Passion. (Forgive me if you aren't up on American Hollywood and movies in general) Seriously. Do you know when The Christ was actually crucified? For informational purposes only: (Don't "crucify" me for telling the truth!) From: https://www.ucg.org/the-good-news/what-are-the-real-origins-of-easter

Look, as I said from the beginning, I'm not a doctor or dietitian. And I'm sure your problems didn't start yesterday so you've done some homework on the subject. First question: Why is having lower testosterone bothering you? You're aware it decreases normally as we age, right? What is the significance of having lower testosterone such that you're considering actually getting shots?Second: Have you considered that simply being overweight is causing an imbalance? Even if it's not, it's not healthy either. Lose weight until you're at about 205 - 210 and see if you improve.What, specifically, do you eat and drink?Doctors have very little if any dietary education as a rule, so they're not going to suggest you tackle that aspect of your life. Changing your diet and eating right doesn't send their kids to Yale, you know? I've got considerably more dietary education than most physicians I've ever met and I've only studied it on my own time. Common sense rules the day, though, when we're talking about food. What you may not be aware of is McDonalds doesn't actually sell "food" in the strict sense of the word. The items people shove down their throats sold in fast food restaurants contain very little if any nutritional value, are shockingly high in sodium, are nearly all created in a laboratory in New Jersey, and many of the ingredients that are sold in Amerika are outlawed in many countries around the world. Two examples: Aspartame and MSG. Both of these chemicals have been shown in independent (suppressed) laboratory tests to cause diseases including but not limited to cancer. Both are found in copious quantities at your favorite fast food joint, and in other restaurants supplied by Sysco and other suppliers. It's increasingly difficult to find any food in a restaurant any more that is prepared from scratch from good wholesome ingredients and when you do it's probably going to cost you at least $50 per plate. All I'm saying is, the intrusion of a needle which bypasses all the body's natural defenses should be the very last option for a thinking reasonable person. Not the first option, or second, or third...Edit: I forgot to mention. Apparently some oils normally used for cooking (olive, peanut, rape seed, rice, sunflower, safflower...) contain either female hormones or male hormones. I don't recall which is which, but some research should reveal that answer.

Dude! I'm not a Dr. or anything, but DUDE! Your testosterone is low because of your diet! And perhaps your activity levels! Stay away from the needle pushers and do some research on the subject! For God's sake! I can't understand why people are so willing to blindly trust the medical community and so unwilling to trust their own intellectual prowess. Wake up! People who visit the medical establishment are much more likely to fall ill or die than those who don't. Don't get me wrong, I visit the doctor every now and again too, to maintain control over my asthma condition and for yearly checkups they require to maintain status at the Veterans Administration. But when some quack suggests I go on some new medication, I never let them just prescribe it without grilling them over the pros and cons. I hate taking meds, especially pills, and I'm a strict minimalist when it comes to drugs and hormones are very dangerous! Let your body do its work and if your lower levels of testosterone are irritating to you, change your diet and activity levels, walk a mile a day, cut out the sugar-water (all soda pop, all fruit juice -unless it's actually fresh squeezed by you personally), cut out all pre-packaged convenience "dinners" or other prepared foods, and eat natural whole food. If this is a problem, sit down with your significant other and explain that quality of life is more important than social status, eating out, diamonds, and nice cars. Tell her to quit her job and learn to cook, well. You and your spouse need to understand that without a healthy diet and having an active lifestyle, you'll loose quality of life, you'll fall ill more often, and you'll be far more likely to develop kidney disease and or diabetes -both of which are absolutely at a epidemic rate in developed countries and getting worse, not better! My wife retired early from a music career and was domestically challenged when I met her. She took the time to learn to cook, though, because we slowly realized that we were being poisoned by eating prepared food. So now she makes a 16 quart stockpot of soup that contains lentils, tomato paste, carrots, spinach, rosemary that is from a live plant that lives in the house during the winter and is transplanted in the garden in the summer months, other fresh spices grown here, (greens are generally grown in our garden too) chard, double filtered well water that contains no chemicals, and probably a few ingredients I'm not thinking of at this moment. It takes an entire day plus cool down overnight to make this wholesome staple and when it's cool the next day it goes into containers and into the freezer to wait for us to use it. A batch lasts several weeks as a rule. We eat it every day for lunch and feel less energetic when we don't get to have it. We eat cheese made from RAW cow's milk only thus we get the active enzymes with it, drink a glass or two of red wine from Europe during lunch. I even roast my own coffee beans, just to save money and obtain more control over the flavor and freshness. When the wife works at home, she isn't as exposed to the corrupt tax system, she doesn't spend money on the commute to and from work, doesn't waste money on the morning latte and pastry, doesn't waste money on lunch, doesn't have to buy the stylish expensive clothes or pretend to like people she can't stand. Working at home, she saves your health by preparing your nutritious lunch, making a fresh and from-scratch dinner, maintaining a clean and relaxing home environment for you to want to come to after a day at work. All these things are far more valuable than her work unless she's making a huge salary, in which case perhaps you should consider taking that traditionally female role and stay home from work. It's nearly impossible to experience a healthy lifestyle, truely healthy, when no one is at home all day preparing fresh, whole, natural, tasty food to nourish us. Americans (and presumably other developed countries) eat more empty calorie food than ever before and it's causing obesity and health problems like never before. It'll catch up with you sooner or later unless you make the educated informed changes. Think the Royals eat the garbage most people do? They do not. They actually have their own working farms that supply everything from RAW milk and cheese, organic beef and pork, you name it. They eat a diet completely segregated from the main stream food supply. Because they know the main food supply is full of toxins and poisons. You know how they know? ...

I agree. An active imagination isn't one that necessarily partakes in the vocal paradigm. On the contrary, it's often impossible for me to fall asleep sober because of all the brain activity occurring keeping me awake. I just want to smack myself up side the head and yell, "Shut the BLEEP up already!" I've cured insomnia with alcohol, though, so it's no longer much of a problem. I doubt a deaf or mute is any more likely to be a mental midget than someone whose five senses are working just fine. I'd actually suspect the opposite to be true, in fact.

I don't know of any consumer laptops that would reliably survive being stepped on or dropped. I own and use a Macbook Pro that's about 17 months old according to my battery health monitor, Coconut Battery, and it's puttering right along with no issues. I should add a Gig of RAM one of these days, but otherwise, I can't complain. I sure wouldn't drop it, though, and expect not to have to replace part of the casing or something else. The hard drive parks its heads when the computer detects a sudden change in velocity, though, so it'd likely survive a fall, as long as it wasn't too far. The sensor for that feature is so sensitive, someone created a small software program to detect seismic disturbances using the velocity sensor. I can watch the needle bounce when I walk around the room when running that program. Called SeisMac, I believe. The problem with Macair, for us who have limited resources, is it is dependent upon you having another computer, a whole Macintosh computer with optical drive and WIFI in order to upload software. It uses software included in Leopard to allow it to easily commandeer the optical drive of a host computer. That means, not only do you have to pay a premium for the tiny thing, you have to have another newer Mac to host it. I don't have the budget for that kind of nonsense. I'll stick to my MBP, thanks.

I assume you're not a neuro-scientist. So I'm curious where you've sourced your material. Please let us see your original source. I'm not convinced that all the "facts" you've outlined are, indeed, facts. Any effects from smoking, for instance, are gleaned from questionable science and the variables are many depending upon what a person smokes, how often, when, and for how long. That's just one line item I'm skeptical about. Reveal your source, please.

I think the only thing gained, as TF alluded to, is in order for reincarnation to be a valid or reasonable philosophy is if through it you gain something. So, if that's the case, wouldn't it make sense that if you were to be reincarnated, you'd be reincarnated to something equal to or better than human? Would it be likely you'll live again and again as a human in an unending variety of circumstances so as to learn as much as possible? Following that logic, it would stand to reason that, if they're superior or equal to us at some mental level, we'd either have been or will be born in the seas as sea mammals like dolphins or whales? What would be the ultimate goal? Some would suggest that ultimately we'd become ethereal beings not constrained to the physical form at all: like angels or something. Just food for thought. Yes. I'm a believer in progress, and I don't believe this is the only shot we've got to destroy this planet with our vile presence.

Traditional glass is too heavy to consider as a structural component in a large passenger aircraft, no to mention it's just way to fragile and unable to withstand the flex and temperature extremes that aluminum is able to shrug off. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that what you really meant to say is, "What would it be like to fly in a transparent aircraft?" That sound about right? Let's say, for instance, as in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home, it really was possible to manufacture transparent aluminum. I don't really understand why that was so important in the movie, but maybe it'd be kinda cool as a novelty to use it in an airliner to really give the passengers that unique experience they've been dieing for all their lives. I bet there are people who'd pay extra for the thrill of having that wrap-around 360 degree view while flying. I think it'd be pretty neat, too, but I don't think I'd like the landing sequence. Now THAT would be just a little too scary. Even for me... Seeing the full clear, light-pollution-free night sky from 35,000 feet would be awesome, though...

The allied soldiers in the occupied countries around the world (Let's not lie to ourselves, no "war" was ever declared. It's an occupation based on totally false and misleading information -illegal in every way.) are being trained to be the police of their respective countries. These people who were probably mostly harmless and innocent in many ways before enlisting are being turned into monsters by the war machine created by the globalist corporate empire controlling the world today. Tomorrow, they'll be torturing civilians with impunity while in the uniform of the law enforcement officer, in fact if you scan the internet for news on a daily basis you'll see that this has already been happening, and it's increasing in frequency. The new favorite torture device is the taser which kills people on a regular basis and is used far more frequently than it should be. Puppies, scary and deadly though they may be, today, vicious old ladies and infants tomorrow.

Parenting is a lost art, by and large. It's been replaced by pharmaceuticals and the internet/ wireless phones. And government mind-control brain-washing centers (public schools).