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Very sorry to hear about your friend. It's a shame when the cure is about as bad as the injury or accident it's supposed to cure. I am really starting to wonder about our drug testing methods. The Food and Drug Adminitration is supposed to make sure companys go threw many years of testing and long and tedious protacals before drugs are let out on the market, but yet every day you see Tv commercials done by ambulance chasing lawyers to sue drug and medical supply companys because of damages done by these drugs. Why do you suppose they miss so many potentially dangerous drug reactions and side effects?

Wow, 2 newbies from Ireland! That's pretty neat. It's great of you to be brave enough to make the trip to Japan. With the nuc's in the shape they are in, it's certainly not a real safe place to be right now. I wish you the best of luck and do try to be safe.I am surprised that you are the first one to even mention the disaster in Japan. I really expected to see a lot of topics started about that horrific disaster. My heart goes out to all those poor people, so many lost and injured and so much distruction, it's just awful. I've watched some of the TV coverage and it is just terrifying. To see rivers of water so choked with what was once peoples homes and business and cars, there is so much debris in the water you can't even see water, it looks like a giant moving junk pile.

And welcome to you stayingpositive! Take a look around, find some posts on topics that interest you and just jump right on in with your comments and personal opinions. Every body has those. This is a pretty good place to express yours. Nobody will bite your head off either. Ok, well, not to many people will anyway. All and all the group is pretty open minded and not real hot headed. You'll do fine, just post away. Especially if you like dogs!Are there a lot of Irish Terriers in Ireland? They are pretty rare here. Really nice breed.

Hello Larry! Glad you found your way here. I'm going out on a limb here and guess from your nickname that you are a pre medical student? Are you going to become a doctor? And if so, what kind? Any specialities?Hope you find the forum to your liking. We need some new blood around here.

Your post kind of reminded me of something I remember from way back in my childhood. We are talking way back there folks. I was just a little kid. Anyway, it was so long ago that we still had party lines in this neck of the woods. For those of you that are probably too young to even know what the heck I'm talking about, in rural areas people couldn't have their own private phone line. You had to share a ling with a group of people, often as many as 10 families would be on one line! Talk about having a hard time getting to use the phone! There would always be at least one person in the group on the line that would hog the phone and you could never use it. It would sure be funny in this day and age with so many people who have their cell phones and don't seem to be able to go more than 2 minutes without talking to somebody on the phone, but anyway, back to my story.There were these 2 old ladies on our party line. Every single week without fail, the day after the Tom Jones show came on, they would get on the phone with each other and start carrying on about how terrible that show was, how vulgar and disgusting it was, with all his gyrating and hip shaking and dancing about on stage while he was singing, and how it was too brash and should not be allowed to be seen on television. I suspect those old gals would be turning over in their graves if they say television today, with outright nudity, etc, but anyway, every single week they watch Tom Jones and every single day after they would hog the party line and complain about it. (on party lines, when you picked up the phone, if someone else was using it you could listen in to their conversation, for those of you young 'uns who are unfamiliar with party lines) One day when their conversation had gone on for a considerable length of time, and I needed to use the phone, I just couldn't help myself, I blurted out into their converstation, "Well, if you think it is so horrible, why on earth do you watch it every single week?" Well, that ended their conversation not only for that day, but I never heard them discussing Tom Jones again. So, the same holds true here. Nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you watch U tube videos. And it's a pretty safe bet that given the number of stupid people on the earth, that there will be no end to the posting of stupid videos. So, the solution to your problem is really very simple. Don't watch U tube.

Thanks for the update. I am sorry to hear your brother is such an *bottom*, but at least now you know that you made the right decision in leaving, and I am glad to hear that things sound like they are working out very well for you in your new job. The best thing for you to do now is to do well and prove to your brother what a dummy he was for taking advantage of you. Good luck!

Welcome Pluttordelt, glad to have you and hope you hang around. Of course, I have no idea what joax mx is. But that's ok. Maybe somebody can explain that one to me. I probably learn more computer stuff reading other peoples comments and problems here than I do anywhere else. You really don't have to worry about being quick or brief here, it's fine to ramble on and start interesting discussions. I know, I do it all the time and so do lots of others. It's the way we earn mycents to pay for our web hosting. So just jump right on in and have fun.

Hey now, there's an idea! Would you split the prize money we would win from America's Funniest Home Video's with a video of 2 old fat people huffing and puffing and diving through the brush trying to chase down a bunch of renagade grossly fat and pregnaunt goats? It would be pretty hysterical if you weren't the one doing the chasing.And yes, I do have a gun, but that solution is just a bit too permenent. Besides the freezer is full right now.Anyway, they have been behaving themselves now for 24 hours. I take that as a very good sign. You would think as big and pregnaunt as they are they would be laying around taking it easy. We are now just under 2 weeks to go until kidding season starts. Hoping to get to town and get a big protien tub for them, they usually like those so well I was hoping they'd hang out near it so they wouldn't go running off.

I have a problem a lot like you are describing due to making my web site with Front Page. It pretty much drives me crazy. I can see stuff when I look at my site online, but when I open front page to update my site, the stuff I need to work on is not there. Then once in awhile, it does just the opposite. I can see stuff when I edit my site, and it's there and been saved, but you can't see it when you visit the site. Even after refreshing the browser. So, if you find out what's going on with your site, let us know, I'd be curious too.

You know, I have debated that very idea for some time now. I did finally get my first check from Google this past spring, but shucks, it took almost 3 years to do it. Now, my sisterinlaw gets a check nearly every month, but I'm a long way from that point. But when you look at just about any web site these days, they all have google ads. So hopefully tucking them near the bottom doesn't really detract much from the professionalism of my site. Not like it's actually all that professional anyway, you know I'm just sooooo 2000!!!

Hello and welcome to Xisto. Be careful if you come to the Windy City, Chicago. It's a rough place. I know, I used to live there.

You know, there are some days I would really like to strangle ever single goat I have. Today was one of those days. About a half a dozen of the pesky critters got out again. Now mind you, I just moved them awhile back to the farm next door. When we have them here at the house they almost never escape, even when their pasture gets down to nearly nothing, they would stand here till they starve I think, but yet when we move them next door where it is a virtual goat feeding paradise, the beggers get out every few days and rampage over the neighborhood. I just can't figure out what their problem is. So, I spent the afternoon hunting their latest escape hatch, found a couple holes where they had pushed under the fence, but of course before I could fix the places, I had to get them back in. I found the renegades up along the highway side of the property, so had to run all the way back to the house and go around on the road. I had opened the gate along the county road, and I ran those dang things past that gate 3 times and they never would go back in. Once they ran across the county road into the brush and I had to get off the 4 wheeler and chase them threw all the sticker and briars to get them back out of the brush and on the road again. The third time they passed the gate I knew it was hopeless and so I went back to the house to get reinforcments. Well, that didn't help either. This time when they shot past the gate they went to the trailer house along the road, and the dang things crawled UNDER the frigging trailer and tried to hide. Poor old man had to crawl under there after them, they promptly shot out from under there, took off at a long legged run the wrong way up the county road, and then cut up threw the woods back toward the house. I had to go all the way back home, and ended up having to leave the 4 wheeler and walk them back. They finally ducked back threw one of their escape holes. So I had to run back, get more wire and concrete blocks to fix the holes, and then go back and gather up all the tools and stuff I'd dumped along with the front basket when flying a bit to fast on the 4 wheeler threw a ditch. So, for now they are back in. I'm not making any rash statements about how long it will be that they stay in, but I hope for at least 2 weeks, then we will be bringing them home for kidding season. And now it's 1:30 in the morning, and though I am so tired I can barely move, but I'm too sore from all the running to go to sleep. I have a lot going on tommorow, and this is not going to make it any easier!

That sounds like exactly what your brother is doing to you, tossing you out like a dirty tissue. And it sounds to me like that has been going on for quite some time. Look, your the one with a morgage to pay. Apparently your brother doesn't give a hoot about that. Take the other job. Do you really think he will care? If he does, it would serve him right. I do have to wonder why he has sugested you makeing a career change though. Maybe he want's to keep your talents away from his competitors? It's like, well, he doesn't want you but he doesn't want anybody else to have you either. The excuse that he would be undermining the authority of the GM is bogus. He's the boss, he can do whatever he wants, that sounds to me like he just doesn't want to take the blame for laying you off. So, I'll say it again, take the other job. Try to be friendly with your brother but don't let him put you in a bad position like he has in the past. Stand up to him and for yourself. If he doesn't like it that's just tough *BLEEP*. He isn't the one that has to pay your bills. Does he really expect you to sit on your hands and starve until he can call you back? And why did they hire someone completely new and let you go? I don't think you owe your brother any loyality at all.

Hi Mel! Welcome to Xisto. I'm not one much for computer games, but wish you the best of luck with your site and your future here at Xisto. I don't think you will find a smarter, better informed and generally pretty friendly bunch of computer people anywhere than here.

Ok that is really really creepy! They have to be checking your message content in some way. Google really has no concept of a person's privacy do they? Never really thought about them reading your messages, but I do think that Google Earth thing that spys on you and takes pictures of your property is a real crock of crap. Anwii, you are probably right, and I'm sure it may be more profesional to not use hotmail. But I'm not sure I want Google reading my business emails either. I was almost convinced to try Gmail until I read In Iyila's post. Now I'm not so sure. Tough call.

OHHH too funny! You've been bitten by the bug! The love bug! You can claim to be an anti-social loner if you want to, but I'm not buying that! No dude is going to write out a post this long unless he has it REALLY bad! About this anti-social loner thing. You do realize that you live on a planet with billions of other people right? Being an anti-social loner is not a good thing to be. Time you start working on that. Take Anwii up on his advice, he did a great job with his post. You know she is interested, take a deep breath, gather your courage and go for it!Good luck!

LOL, Yea, like that would be possible! I can see the city planners trying to arrange something as complicated as bus or train schedules with multiple stops and greatly varring amounts of commutors depending on the time of day and location of the stop. In most cities they can't even get the trafic lights coordinated enough to keep traffic from forming a grid lock! And public transportation would be a real pain if you were out doing grocery shopping and were in the habit of doing your shopping once a week, it would be extremely difficult to carry a week's worth of groceries home if you lived a few blocks or more from the bus stop/train station. If you had a few kids and a big dog, your looking at 30lbs just carrying the dog food and potatoes! Nice thought though. Getting the masses off the roads would be a major help in the cities, not only with tranport time, but with all the polution, noise, congestion, etc all the extra cars cause. Less cars would make it safer for more bycicles or pedestrians.

You know, that is kind of intersting. But I wonder if they just looked for pretty woman in each country to use for the base? I think the majority of those pictures are woman that are above average looking. No dogs in that bunch. I also noticed something else I thought was a bit strange, there's not a single blonde in the whole lot of them. I wonder why? Surly in the Scandivian countries theres a lot of blondes. I'd think so anyway. I'd be curious at to what the average age of these women are too.

There is a big lake in southern California that had a massive fish kill a year or so ago. Nobody is really sure of the cause of it either, unless I just missed the news about it. I think a lot of those local incidents are caused by accidental contaminations of the water. And there are also more natural causes. Overpopulation of any species in a contained enviornment like a lake, can cause the species to be stressed due to lack of sufficient recourses, like food and oxygen, and then a disease organisim that under normal circumstance is held in check by the immune system florishes and will cause mass deaths. Birds on the other hand, are just highly suseptable to toxins, far more than other living organisims. Why do you think minors always used to carry a little canary in a cage down in the mine shaft with them? We have to on occasion bomb the kennel building for insects. After removing all the dogs of course. But after a good bombing session, I have seen birds to a very rapid 180 when they fly under the roof on the open sides of the building. They do not linger long, don't even stop to roost. After years of fighting birds that want to build nests under the roof in the rafters, and tearing down nest after nest, I discovered the easiest way to stop them from trying to build a nest in a particular spot is to tear down the nest and then put a squirt of bug spray on the spot. That puts an immediate end to their nest building activities. And before you say anything, no, I don't hate birds, it's just that kennel inspectors frown upon them pooping on the dogs below them, and droping off lice and other such unsavory garbage. So they have to be removed.

This is the very reason I am so opposed to this energy sourse. No matter what safeguards are in place, there is always the chance for human error. And the consequences in this case are far too serious to even take a chance on to my way of thinking. But I don't suppose my silly little opinion is going to make much difference to those in charge who want to supply the world with cheap power. So I suppose it is good that they are trying to find ways to correct the disaster at Chernobyl and are finding out the difficulties and what to do about it. Baniboy is right, it's unlikely that this clean up could possibly effect the entire world as to cause some catastrofic event, but I will have to disagree with him on the Murpheys law thing. Murphey has been ruling my life forever, it is not something I can ignore or not believe. Sure, we get lucky sometimes and get around old Murphey, but he all too frequently rears his ugly head and bites us in the butt too often for us to ignore him.

Well, I suck at math almost as bad as I do on computers, heck maybe even my math is a little worse! But every other number has to be even. So the way I'd figure this one is that 1 is the first number so if zero is in front of it then it would have to be an even number. And then when you get to the number after 9 it's a 1-0 which is then divisible by 2. Funny, when you are counting up you never say 0. Nobody says 0 1 2 3. But when you are doing a countdown, you always use the zero. It's always 3 2 1 0.

mahesh2k I'm glad you are able to find humor in what is for most of us a very anoying situation. I have seen a few on one of the ad sites I visit that can be kind of funny. But I couldn't get your link to work to see your funnies. But they really are annoying to try to figure out. Especially when you have gone threw all the trouble to fill out an ad form and you've spent hours on line putting up ads and your butt hurts from sitting in the chair typing. They run the letters together for example, if they put an r next to an n it looks more like an m than a r and n. Those dang things drive me crazy.I like rvalkass's idea, of Apple, banana, cat, strawberry. But with my luck they would get to asking questions about computers that were so far over my poor head I'd never get any ads posted. Picking out red or some other color charectors would be good too, unless of course you were color blind. But I suppose captcha's are just like everything else on the internet. Sooner or later someone is going to figure out a way around them no matter what we do or how they are made. So someone else will have to come up with a new idea. And on and on it goes. Leaving little old me in the dust. I just figured out what captcha's were a few days ago.

Oh, don?t even talk to me this year about global warming! This has been one long cold, and miserable winter. I will be ever so grateful to see spring arrive. Which leads me to the following list. Thought I?d take a clue from the David Letterman show and do my own version of 10 things I hate the most about winter.No. 10 Frozen water pipes. You wake up first thing in the morning and your mouth is dry as the Sahara Desert and no water to rinse it out with, nor any water to make that first glass of ice tea, which contains the caffeine you need to maintain life it?s self. If you survive that, when you get to the kennel and everything is frozen there too, and no matter what chore you try to do you discover you can?t do it without water. No. 9Frozen dog and other critter?s water dishes. You have to know just exactly how much water they will drink in a day, or before it will freeze, so you don?t overfill the pans so you can at least water them for a couple days until you have to resort to number 8No. 8 Carrying their pans inside to heat on the stove because they won?t thaw out any other way. Then you have to pick up all those blocks of ice with your poor frozen fingers and haul them outside to dump somewhere that you won?t be tripping over them until the spring thaw. No. 7 Frozen water hoses, so it?s a royal pain to thaw out and refill all those frozen water dishes. At least if the water is running, you can flip the ice filled pans upside down and run water on the back of them, which will make the ice pop out, unless of course the hired help has been resorting to beating the pans on the ground to remove ice, which dents up the pans and then the ice is impossible to get out, unless of course, you resort back to reason no. 8. No. 6Hauling buckets of water by hand out to the animals because the hose is frozen. Seems like no matter how carefully you stretch out the hoses when you?re done so they can drain and not freeze before you need them the next time, they somehow manage to occasionally retain just enough water to stop them up real good. Then you have to drag them inside, try to coil them up in the bathtub and run hot water over them, that is, providing the hot water inside is not frozen up too. If the tub water is frozen up, you have to lay them out in the floor, so when they thaw out they make big puddles in the floor you have to mop up. No. 5All that extra laundry. Lets face it, you can wad up a tank top and pair of shorts in one hand, which is all I wear in the summer, but you can fill the washing machine in short order when your daily outfit consists of T shirt, sweat shirt, sweat pants, long johns, socks, jacket, hat, gloves, etc. No. 4 Having to spend 10 minutes getting dressed to go outside. Pile on those layers to avoid frost bitten body parts, and by the time you get all of it on the boots have to be put on last and by then you can barely bend over to pull them on your feet. By the time your all dressed up your nearly too tired to actually go do something. (lets not even get into the frequent urination thing) No. 3Ice and snow! You just can?t believe the amount of aggravation these 2 cause. You have to remember where you put the water hoses so you can find them under the snow. Ice coats all the gate latches, you literally have to fight your way into the dog pens. Snow on the roofs of the dogs houses weighs a ton, and you have to lift up the tops to put feed inside the house. Snow hides the poop, ice freezes it down, so even if you can find it you would need to take a pickaxe to it before you can scoop it up. Of course, there?s the constant fear of slipping and breaking some important body part. Around here there are no safe landing zones for falling down. Any fall could result in my being impaled on a fence post or cracking my skull on concrete. No. 2Winter storms taking out the electric power. Let?s face it, in this day and age you can?t do much of anything without electric. We have taken every precaution we can, we have a small generator that can run part of the place at a time, so we can switch it around like to run the well pump for awhile, or the house when all the watering is done. We also got one of those vent less gas heaters in the kennel that works without electric to keep it a little warmer inside, though it isn?t much help when I have newborns and can?t use the heat lamps and pads. We heat the house with an outdoor wood furnace, it doesn?t work the best without electric to run the fan, but it will warm the house somewhat. And the number 1 thing I hate about winter??The propane and electric bills!!! Heating the building with propane is bad enough, but to add insult to injury, our electric bill nearly doubles with all the heating pads, and heat lamps the newborn pups need. This year really sucked down the propane. I keep the thermostat set fairly low, around 60, but even at that rate in just a few days over a month we burned up over $400 in propane.

Boy I hope I never get a message like this about my site! I have absolutly no idea what any of this means. What is VPS?I do understand about phishing, that's scammers trying to get your personal information so they can in some way take advantage of you, right? But say you were starting some kind of club or organization online and requested certain information from people before you let them join, or for that matter, what if I wanted to check information or the background of someone interested in buying a puppy to see if they would be a good pet owner, how could you do any of this without it being considered phishing?

Hummm.....well, it seems my favorite is in last place. I still have the very first email account I ever started, my hotmail account. I really like it. It's been hacked just once, and I couldn't use it for a few days because spammers were topping out the maximum numbers of posts I could make in a day, that was a real bummer, but it was only for a couple days. I actually topped it off a few times myself during the battle against Prop B by mailing so many people to fight against B, but But the limits are several hundred emails, so under normal circumstances this isn't a problem. I should probably ad that I don't have the completely free Hotmail anymore, I have the $20 a year one, it provides a ton of space so I can save more messages, I have a lot of folders with prospective customers in them so I figured I needed the extra space.