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I have to agree completely with Adell. I do like the post for host the best, and for exactly the same reasons Adell stated, the lack of funds and the fact that I hate running ads for others on my site. I really hate those sites that are just plastered with ads. Yesterday I was tring to read another forum and you could't even see all of the message for the stupid scrolling add on the right side of the page. The very top of the ad was not in reach so you couldn't even X the stupid thing out. That is VERY annoying. Besides, my web site is just that. MY web site.I created it, I maintain it, it is to sell my pups. Why should I promote other's sites? the only ads I have on my site are the Google adsense ads, and they are carefully tucked away on the very bottom of my own pages.

Yes, without a doubt we did get off topic. However, as slow as things have been here lately, isn't some discussion better than nothing? At least we are making posts. So lets start with about the only point we all agree on, that Xisto has gotten slower than mollassas in January. I'm actually not at this point yet refering to the speed the pages load, I am refering to the amount of traffic here. I'm not so computer savy as Shadow, so most of the things that bother him are not even noticed by silly little me, except the part about how slow the board is some days.(now I'm refering to the speed the pages load at) Sometimes it's not too bad, but there are days when I just give up on trying to read or post anything because it just takes too dang long. There are thousands of people signed up here. What is the reason so few post? It's hard for me to believe that people wouldn't rather spend a little time posting every day as opposed to paying out in cold hard cash for a web site. Granted, when it's slow like it is now it does take more time since you have to look threw it more to find new posts to reply too. So really, aside from making more posts, what can we do?

Ok, I've tried to keep track of anwii and shadow's pissing contest, to see who's scoring the most points, and sorry Anwii, but I think your loosing this one. The 2 left feet picture was just too funny! What a great sense of humor to be kept up so well with all the mud slinging. I usually don't like arguments, but this has been the most entertaining run of posts we've had on here in awhile.

Now that's interesting! And something I didn't know. Guess a person has to be really careful now if anyone offers to sell them some ocean front property even if it isn't in Arizona! Now some of this sounds like double talk.(typical government) Your island would not be a state, so why would you not have the right to not be part of the US if you didn't want to. You are not succedding from the union if you weren't a state to start with. I didn't think having ocean between land masses would count as being a part of or neighbor to. I think 20qs's thoughts on the subject are pretty accurate, at least that's what I would think would be the case. So, if you find one in some nice warm tropical place, can I come visit????

Well, it looks like at least one more day of the old slice and dice. I still have to cut off the brisket and neck meat, then the actual carcus will be done, except cutting it up for the dog bones. But that shouldn't be too hard to do, I'll just go after it with my chain saw. Now there's a scary nightmare causing visual for you. Crazy lady whacking up carcuss with chain saw....... I have the hams off now but need to cut them up into pieces that will drop down in the grinder. The hams were so huge I couldn't even lift them. Took us both to carry them inside. Hubby has lots and lots of grinding to do. I filled 27 little freezer bags last night, I'd say they are holding about 2lbs each, and that was just the meat off the front shoulders and a few other odd peices. No, I'm still depressed over Prop B. The legislators are trying to work it over, but who knows if they will succede. Or what if anything they will do to help. The whole bill is a disaster and not workable. You can't spend $50,000 to build a new building and then ever hope to pay for it with 50 dogs, and the additional expenseses of operation including heating and air conditioning will make it impossible. Besides the health problems the dogs will start having in the kind of building they want you to keep them in further reduces any vague hopes of profit. I hate animal rights wacko's. They should turn the whole bloody bunch of them into polar bear poop on the artic tundra!

Baniboy, you are just too funny! Here I am so proud of myself that I can even turn this stupid computer on and surf the net and your saying I'm outdated and old fashion! Oh well, your probably right! I did read some on Picasa, if my old outdated ideas are correct, you are actually storing your files online with Google??? I'm not sure I'm real crazy about that idea, especially since Google thinks it's perfectly acceptable to spy on my when I'm skinny dipping in the pool and having that available online. Also in the comment section, someone mentioned that useing it make your pictures Googles pictures if they want to use them for anything. Don't know if that's true, but it sure would give me cause for using it too. I'm not so sure adding another viewing programis what I want to do though. Hate to clutter up the computer with all sorts of programs that eat up space, when I have one that works now. Just cause it doesn't work the way I want it to. Thanks for the link Web Designer, I didn't find exactly the answer, but there was some good reading there, I picked up a few other things that are useful. And to Inyila, thanks, I am going to give that download a try. I have the worst time trying to figure out what is on what cd. At least a list of the folders would be a big help. Thanks guys.

I sure with I could explain it to you, but I really don't have a clue, other than the site owner didn't think Xisto was a good enough name and wanted something else. I think he did even do a poll about changing the name, and most everyone didn't like the idea, but he did it anyway. Owners perogitive I guess. I do know Xisto was a lot easier to remember and type in than Xisto! Anyway, it's still much the same as it was a few months back, same old gang and same general works, just in a new set of clothes. Glad your back. I wish more of the old timers would come back, seems like quite a few have wandered off.

So, anybody here starting to work on or worry about their bucket list? Heck, is anybody here old enough to care about or even know what a bucket list is? For you young sprouts, your bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Although it wasn't really on my list of things I really really wanted to do, this week I'm doing something for the fist time. Butchering a cow. Ug. Not fun. Not even a little bit. She was a huge cow. Anything I have butchered up till now I could reach in from the outside to cut. I'd pretty much stuck to deer/goat sized critters. This dang thing I just about have to stick my hole head and shoulders inside the rib cage to cut along the back. Normally we let the cows go to the slaughter house, but this one had hurt her leg, and it is against the law for a slaughter house to take in a down cow, so we have to process her. The good news is she was given to us free. So we will have lots and lots of hamburger! She's too tough to do much else with than grind up for hamburger, but hey, at the currrent price of hamburger, I'm sure not going to complain!

Wow, sorry to hear about your snow. I'm almost afraid to ask how big your dog is! I will admit you have to look really hard right now to see it. But my jonquills are starting to peek out, and my naked lady lillies are allready a couple inches tall. I'm like you though, HURRY UP SPRING!!!

Yes, hitting the right kind of rock with something metal will definatly make a spark. It doesn't even have to be a flint rock. And with me around, no telling what kind of bonfire would be started! I did finally manage to burn off the last few little piles of debris in my flower bed without incidence, but while I was working on that hubby came along with his welding torches to work on cutting up an old hay baler we are hauling off for scrap metal, and he started a nice grass fire. Guess he's taking up my bad habits. At least we got it out before anything was burned up.

I?m not sure if you used the analogy of yelling for a taxi because someone actually had that fear, or phobia, or if you just made it up as an example. Either way, this is what I don?t get about emotional instability in people. Let?s take the yelling for a taxi in your example. Is yelling not the normal and acceptable method of hailing a taxi? Wouldn?t the noise of traffic, and people milling about, and the fact that the cab driver probably has his window?s rolled up and is listening to his cab radio in case the dispatcher has a call for him, make it a reasonable assumption that yelling is necessary? It just seems like plain old common sense to know that you would need to yell. What exactly is a ?patch? that you would get from a doctor? Would a person need a doctor to explain something like this to them so they would feel better? It just seems to me that something this simple should be within the realm of human understanding to figure out all by themselves without having to pay money to have it explained to them. I?m sure that on occasion there are more complicated social issues that cause a person grief. I just think that the vast majority of the time if a person would just think threw their dilemma and try to rationalize their own fears and problems, there wouldn?t be much need for all that expensive physic analyses. Actually your taxi example is good for another reason. Do you know that bar tenders and cab drivers are the most under paid physiatrists in the world? You would not believe the number of people that spill their guts about all their problems to the cab driver. Good way to save money! (though it?s a bit of a drag to the cab driver, unless the meter is running)

I really feel sorry for people who have to live in the city. (Although I admit it, there are times when I would like to strangle them) Surrounded by the jungle of concrete and steel, the constant noise of traffic, and voices, the smell of by products of human lives, how on earth can they feel and enjoy the natural world and all the beauty in it? How can they stay in touch with the natural forces that guide and control our very own earth? How can they have an appreciation of what is real? It?s no wonder there is so much crime and violence in the cities. I can feel it all around me now. A static charge in the very air I breath. Still yet difficult to see, unless you watch for the subtle signs. A flock of geese high overhead. A songbird. It?s almost as though mother earth is taking a huge deep breath, gathering her energy for that explosion that is soon to come as she shakes off the dead cold chill of winter and allows spring to be born. What a dramatic and drastic change the earth will make in the coming days. You can practically smell it in the air, that charge of new life and hope and the rebirth of all living things. Soon the grass will start to grow, the buds will swell on the trees and the cold will turn loose of the earth and allow the world to be born again. More of our feathered friends will soon be returning from their warmer southern winter home. We will soon see the birth of calves and colts and kids once mother nature has fully allowed spring to put forth life giving plants for the winter hungry mothers to replenish their bodies from. Its a sad thing people in cities are so disconnected from such a miraculous process. So, if you are stuck in the city, take some time to reconnect. Get out of town! Even if it is for a few hours. Get away from the noise and the traffic and pay a visit to mother earth. Find a park or wilderness area where you can be alone with your thoughts and yourself. Leave your cell phone and lap top at home. Let the purity of the coming season clear away your troubles and the problems you have to face in your every day life. Give the rebirth a chance to work for you too! Shake off your trouble and tribulations just like the earth shakes the grip of the winter cold. You could just gain a whole new perspective on life. Find a little peace and enjoyment of the wonders that you have around you.

Oh well, at least you got a good laugh out of the deal! Lordy, it's hard enough in this country to keep up with all the initials of government agencies, let alone know the ones for the other side of the pond! I get it now that the safty comment wasn't directed at me, I just thought it was when I read the post the first time. I still can't quite figure out the ego thing though. Why would ego be involved with owning a car in the city? You have to drive places in town don't you? Or use it to get the heck out of town!

Actually, they do worship animals. Maybe your not familiar with the lunitic fringe of the animal rights movement. They believe we should not enjoy animals in any way shape, fashion or form. They consider pet ownership the same thing as slavery. They do put animals at either equal or above humans. Did you know that one animal rights idiot had to be taken to court to stop him from donating one of his own daughters kidney's to save a sick monkey? (notice I said his daughters, not his own) It isn't empathy to do something that insane. No, personally I wouldn't care to eat dog meat. But that is a personal preference of my own, and I am smart enough to realize that not everyone feels the same way. In countries other than the USA it is common to eat dog. And believe it or not, I would never try to force my personal opinions on someone else just because I wouldn't eat dog. It is within their rights to have the choise especially when it comes to something as critical as the food you eat. No one should make that choise for another person due to his or her own "personal" beliefs. Now, for the Bible as a science reference book? No, maybe not science, but certainly a code of morality and decency. Weather one is religious or not. You wouldn't say it is dumb to not steal, lie, cheat, kill, etc would you?

Yes, that may of been a bad analigy, the drinking and driving thing. It was just one I thought would be the most vivid and easy to understand. Though I don't really agree with your ideas on how some people seem to think that they are ok to drive under the influence because they have a higher alchol tolerance than others. It may be true, but there are a lot of people who just THINK they have a good tolerance to alchol. Would be difficult to acess who really did and who was just a dumb drunk. Perhaps I should of gone with the thou shall not steal thing. We want to impress upon our children that stealing is wrong. Any stealing. It's not ok to steal a little bit. As for rebelious teenage years, now there's a subject for a whole nother topic! I don't think there is a teenager alive who didn't go threw that rebel period. That's just a part of growing up and learning to become an adult. Finding out the kind of person you are going to end up being. If a child has a good solid background in what is right and wroung, the teenage thing will pass and in the end they will be fine. Most of the time anyway.

Wow really? I would LOVE to have a fence charger like that! You have no idea the numbers of hours and the miles I have walked over the years looking for that dang little short. Sometimes they are practicly invisable, like when the plastic on an insulator cuts threw and lets the fence wire touch the nail holding the insulator in place. I'm going to have to look into that for sure! Sorry to hear about your friends accident. At least he wasn't injured. Good of you to help him out. At least you did acomplish what you set out to do and found a nice gift.

Hey, sometimes being crazy can really work for you! It sure did in your case. I guess driving all the way across the country made a very good impression on your prospective employeer and got you the job! Glad that worked out for you.

What a great post! I don't think everyone realizes how easy it really is to be a nice person as opposed to being an @$$ hole. It's too bad more people don't take the time to realize they are not the only person on earth with a problem, and to take the time and consideration of others first before getting all involved with me me me!

Might as well add my 2 cents worth here. Yes, Atheism is a religion. It is a belief, that there is no God, just as other religions are a belief that there is a God. The very defination of religion as KansukeKojima pointed out with his excellent post seems to me to make it perfectly logical to consider atheism a religion. And I'll go one further.I believe animal rights activisim is also a religion. They worship animals, giving them the same statis as a human being. (despite the biblical references to man having dominion over animals) Much like other religions who will wage war on others of different religious beliefs, animal rights activists wage war against all who would use an animal in any way, from as a sourse of food, fiber, entertainment, or companion. They are without a doubt, zealots with a cause. They wish only to enforse their beliefs on others, one way or another.

Excellent post anwii, some good points, but you haven't convinced me yet. You have given examples of why in many cases, the death penelty should not be given. Granted, a young woman who had lived her life in such emptioal trama being raped by her father would have to be granted special consideration at a trial. Same goes for the killing of someone who had killed a dear family member. This is the reason we have trials by groups of our peers, to prevent vigalantee justice. This is why we allow our government to kill and not allow individuals to make life/death decisions about other individuals. At a trial, everything is done to do what you say we don't do, to learn the circumstance of the killers life, any good defence lawyer will bring to the atttention of the court every horrible thing that has happened to the acused in his entire life. So really, we do get to know that person. Ok, how could we help somebody like this? Remember, I am talking about on specific case here. Not talking about how a starving bum on the street should be treated for stealing a package of hot dogs at a grocery store. I mean a person who would march right into a crowd of people and open fire, indiscriminatly killing anybody in frout of his gun. I don't believe it is a selfish act to want to remove such a danger from society. Would you want to take the chance on his rehabilatation? Should we try to help him and then turn him loose again to see if he would be a good boy and become a productive member of society, or if he would slaughter another big group of people? Would you really want to take that chance?

Ah yes, fortunatly, we do still have that right in the USA. It's too bad more people don't exercise that right too. If a few more people were packing heat, maybe somebody else could of shot that sucker before he killed so many other people!

I think your ideas are pretty good, providing that you do considerable changing to the original text, and add more. A lot more. The point in exchangeing ideas is to present as much possible information and get a bigger variety of comments and sugestions, and opinions. Everyone has ideas on how something should or could be done and if we use someone elses ideas as just a base line or frame work to hang our own opinions on, and expand upon those with our own, it's a good way as any to come up with topic discussions.

I assume this NCAP is in reference to nuclear power plants. No amount of safty tests will ever convince me that something can't possibly happen in a neclear facility. And the results of an accident that could cause an area of hundreds of miles to become uninhabitable to humans for at least five hundred years is just not worth the risk under any circumstances. This has nothing to do with ego. Not everybody lives in the city, so yes, for a lot of people this is a big problem.

Hello DanerDen from Canada! Welcome to our neighbor from the north. Glad to have you here.

So...How's this project going? Think their ready to make a movie about you yet? Are you trying to attract the general public, or a specific group of individuals? If you were looking towards just a certain part of the people you should come up with a name related to the interests of the group, for instance, copshop if you were looking towards people in law enforcment or doghouse if you wanted me to sign up. If your after computer gamers, how about gamiegroupies? But if your after the general public, that's a little tougher. You want something catchy, and also easy to remember and easy to spell to log into and rememeber so a newbie can tell all his friends.