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That's tough that you got busted. Now you have to move on. Theres no point in thinkingyour a rebel, it won't get you anywhere. Right now what you need is good p.r. That can come in the form of getting good marks at school. Perhaps working at a part time job too.Show people your together.Do these things and just ride it out, and everything will be allright.Sorry to hear about your bad luck. Time heals everything.

Couldn't of said it better. That's absolutely true. Bettman should go back to his stupid little NBA, and quit Americanizing a sport that doesn't need Americanizing. As the song goes : I don't need your ghetto scenes I don't need your war machines You're no good for me! I'm no good for you! Another thing, who decided that Toronto and Detroit should only play each other twice out of every three years? Bettman! That was a fierce rivalry that Bettman has destroyed. Don't reconfigure the league for expansion teams at the expense of destroying the old rivalries. Let new teams find their own rivalries. Can you imagine in the NFL, if they say broke up the Green bay/Chicago rivalry? It wouldn't happen. Gary Bettman is a jerk.

When they first introduced the shootout in the NHL many people seemed against it but manyhave since warmed up to it. I guess I'm not as drastically against it as I was. It makes sense thatyou'd like it since you followed the ECHL. It's interesting that it took a tier 2 professionalleague to innovate, it happens though, and the NHL follows the example.

I've played everything for a dollar at one time or another. What I like to play is more rock based though. The bar scene is awful now. The people who run them expect the musicians to do it all. I should have lots of gigs coming up soon anyway though. Also, It wasn't the Br-600 that I had, but the BR-864. I happened to find the old box that I had for it. For me though, I can do anything recording on the computer without that.

Maybe you could try using one of those mouth guard things that boxers wear. They must be safe to wear during sleep, since I've never heard of a boxer swallowing one during a fight. At least trying that would be better than long term grinding of the teeth and wearing them down, losing enamel etc. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Actually, they do make night guards for teeth: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Surely these would help. It would at least relieve stress in knowing that your teeth won't deteriorate more. That's a first step.

You know, the problem here could very well begin because he doesn't have enough air circulationwhere ever he's sleeping. This would lead to breathlessness, followed by panic attacks,culminating in outright paranoia when this gets the psychological edge over him. Try sleeping with a fan on. This will improve air circulation and also the sound of the fan can be the most calming. It sounds like waves and the sea. It can be most soothing.Open windowswould also help, providing theres not too much noise in the area where you live.Also, maybe cut back on certain stimulants such as coffee if anything.

That's Microsoft for you. They change things just for the sake of changing them, the real reason being that whensomebody has to 'upgrade' something there are usually all kinds of spin off things that must be upgraded too. Itgets Micro$oft rolling in the money even more. Very inconsiderate and very arrogant.Thank god for Linux. They day will come when I switch to using them.

Internet explorer has always been virus prone. That's why I never use it, and haven't for years.Although I sometimes use Opera and Safari, which I might use more, Mozilla has always been greatas far as never being hit by viruses when using it. Why I don't know. Perhaps it has something to dowith being prompted for downloads.The more you use Microsoft the more susceptible to Viruses you appear to be. For example, any microsoft sql software on your computer is a favorite target for these viruses.I've been talking about switching to Linux for a long time and haven't yet, but it's inevitable.

There is no way that picture is a fake! No way! As a matter of fact it reminds me of one time when I flew from Diesal Illinois to Allemagro South Carolina. Some people on board decided to open a side panel of the plane, and since it was rather hot and stuffy inside the plane, it created a nice breeze. Anyway some people on board had some parachutes in their carry on bags and decided to do some air surfing. My friend walked out on the wing and took this photo : http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Now that was a thrill to see!

That is a pretty neat picture. I wonder if the air force senior officers would approve of a plane flying that low so close to civilian buildings? Maybe not, I'd say.Maybe in Detroit they don't really care, since half the buildings there are vacant and falling apart anyway. This reminds me of when I was a kid in Manchester England, and saw a plane fly over our house solow it was ridiculous. I've often wondered why. That was a thrill though.

It's too bad there wasn't some way of predicting when these earthquakes happen, so theycould have time to get people away from there. Hopefully there aren't as many deaths and injuriesas imagined.

How do they know for sure how hot it was? Did they actually have it in their hands? There will be all kinds of things floating around in outer space, it would probably boggle the mind.

If they didn't actually catch you with any in your possession then there isn't anything they can really do. Depending on how old you are, they might try and put you into some kind of rehab program. Everything in moderation they say. If weed were legalized it wouldn't be grouped together with dangerous things such as cocaine and methamphetamine. The fact is alcohol is much, much more worse and fully legal. Alcohol is just as destructive if not more so than any narcotic Marijjuanna is no priority to me. Sometimes the law could be a bit more objective and equal across the board though. If your going to ban one thing then ban them all, including alcohol. Only a complete hypocrite would condemn marijuana and then go and get drunk.

This response was tongue in cheek. I just wanted to see what the reaction would be.As far as I believe, there is no such thing as withcraft or black magic or white magick or majik or whatever. Whatever other people want to believe, then fine providing it doesn't hurt anybody else. I like Halloween too, but unfortunately we can't have it all year.

I wish I were a witch. I badly wish I were a witch,or warlock rather! As a matter of factI so badly wish I were a warlock that it's indescribable. I mean,if I were a warlock I'd have magic powers, at least that's what I've readabout in the newspaper.Just to think I'd be able to have anything I wanted by just simply casting a spell!Why can't it be so?Fact is though, without the title you just don't have the mojo whatsoever.It's all in a title isn't it? I'd rather be called a warlock than have a stupid knighthoodor be president of the us of a.Ah well. Such is life.

I think I used a little too strong of terminology when I said "killed" software. It's just having so much open source software I think helped accelerate us towards the glut of having tons of unused quality software that we currently have, and as I said, messageboards and other software that are the backbone of websites, should not be completely free for sites that are profit oriented. Stronger copyright rights/protection/laws wouldn't of hurt programmers either.

When I was in school there were one or two students in particular, who seemed to be doing okay, who a few years later wound up in special class. Nobody appeared tonotice any thing particularly different about them.When they wound up in special class, nobody bugged them or anything. Perhaps a few peoplewere suspicious of them, or even curious. I never bothered asking them any questions about the special class though. I guess it would of seemed impolite.

I guess the ultimate is to not want any material possessions, therefore not relying on them whatsoever.If we ever had to do without them, then we wouldn't miss them. It's wishful thinking to think that we could so easily live without them though.

Who knows what the purpose is in this life. That seems to be the greatest mystery.Maybe we take a rain check on it and find out more in the next life/existence.There are so many mysteries that we couldn't possibly understand. The bounds of theuniverse, for example. Just like dogs that can't understand calculus.

Absolutely. My only wish really is that open source software wasn't quite as open as it has been. The way things could of been is something akin to, if a website wanted to use say a messageboard for free fine, but as soon as a site becomes profit making, then a certain percentage of it's profits to a certain extent should go to the creators of the free software they are using. I think that's a nice compromise.

What does anybody think of the shootout in the NHL? Some say that it shouldn't be part of the game because it's not really a 'team' oriented process in a team oriented game. Myself, I'm fine with the 5minute overtime during regular season,but really, could do without the shootout. I could see the use of it during the playoffs, IF, the NHL were a low scoring game like soccer and hadone game playoffs instead of the seven game series that we have. Fact is we don't have those things,so I wouldn't miss the shoot out.

Who the #&^&^&% are you? Yes you are wrong. Here on Xisto we are encouraged to create discusssionfor discusssions sake, not to get harsh with people. I wasn't blaming anybody. Besides that you're list is weak. I mean Sun micro systems open office, definitely a small operation from some cutting edge programmers? Give me a break. Your paltry list covers a lot of years. As I said, take a look at the list of thousands and thousands of free and cheap software directories. Almost all of this software is high quality and UNUSED. Don't blame me, blame the market. Basic laws of economics, basic laws of supply and demand at work.

Perhaps I did post this to get some perspective on it. I'm a restrained dabbler of this speculation or gambling or whatever you want to call it. I haven't lost any money with it, although I've just made peanuts so to speak. Although I fear I'm spending too much time studying team sheets and checking injury lists and home wins and away wins and such. I would never condone gambling to anybody. rather just tell them not to bother. My goal with this is to slowly let the very small gains made from this, add up and pay for itself, so if the day ever happened where I lost 100 dollars, which I would no doubt quit after that, no money of mine would of actually been lost. So far so good.

I can appreciate the fact that people say there are certain benefits of open source software, and these can't be denied. The thing is where are these innovative and creative software programs that are breaking through? I know that somebody will come up with a list, but all I can say is that it's probable that this list will still be much too small to show a real ratio of productivity when one thinks of the great number of skilled, semi-skilled programmers out there and the small tiny rewards over all. I know Mozzilla will be included in this list. We've all built browsers before. I never really saw the brilliance of Mozilla anyway. I think they just got lucky. Who wants to know about garbage collection anyway? This widely accepted innovative software will be nothing but a drop in the ocean though. Half the reason being no doubt, that the public generally just won't give fresh ideas by cutting edge small time programmers a chance. I made several applications that were indeed cutting edge. All that happened to them was that they became a tiny,tiny needle in the gigantic haystack plethora of free software directories that are out there. Rarely seen, rarely used. The same public wants to gladly suffer the extremely bloated,over priced Adobe flash. Where is the alternative to that? Where are these cutting edge software programmers when you need them?

People go on about the benefit of open source software, which is great when you can use php for free and it doesn't cost you any money etc.What about the other side of the coin though? The open source mentality has appeared to kill moreopportunity than it's created. Take this message board as an example. Many web sites are poweredby free forums and message boards, and they are all for free. Is this really good?By doing this, programmers and coders become dime a dozen nobodies, and companies such as google can just walk in and clean up the rest. Can you imagine such a thing happening in the construction field? Can you imagine if all plumbers declared themselves open source and offered their services for free? It would kill the construction industry.Such an attitude would kill any industry.All very fine isn't it? Many,many people who learned programming in college are nowstuck with a skill that in many cases is basically worthless. That combined with the easy ability to just copy software, and the lack of proper copyright protectionadds up to something that just isn't very good at all.Now the way things are, everybody and his nineteen cousins are now 'software developers'.Probably more so than even house painters.Software is no longer a very enlightening field to say the least.