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Weren't other states like Oregon ****** to sell California electricity last time that happened on a big scale?

Here's a comment left below the article: Sums up my opinions quite nicely.

Quite agreed! :thumbsup:

Not a big fan of Windows on the whole, but I've definitely found XP to be the best of the bunch. More support is always good (well, mostly)!

...I dunno about everyone else, but I've heard the average time for sex (actual intercourse) is four minutes. I've heard it a number of times as well, though I couldn't really name any sources (I think I heard it on the radio once, probably read it somewhere, or something like that). Just four...

Hey, thank you for giving us someone so nice to look at.

I've always been a big fan of Vicky, to be honest. :)

I work with ********. Summer camps and daycare. I've found it much, much more fulfilling, than, say, making boots (worst job I ever had, even if it did have the best pay and benefits).

That sounds like a fantastic solution to me (but I've already made my case as such; now I'm just stirring the pot :) )

That's a good hour bike ride, if you ride leisurely. That used to my commute to school when I was getting my Associates. And you can bet it was chock-full of all degrees of hillyness. There are, of course, always circumstances, but it's been said and I still believe: we only have ourselves to...

Perhaps I should say, *potentially* informative...

We talked about this in this thread as well. But yes, the moral of the story is, if we stop mucking around with them, they'll stop mucking around with us. Definitely something to keep in mind as the rhetoric ratchets up in the election season. Though I'm preaching the choir as it were, as the...

It's a classic power trip by the conservative establishment trying to control personal behavior. I wonder if it's possible given human nature if such individuals will ever leave well enough alone. Changing subjects to Peter's mention of the pharmaceutical Industry, I recommend a book called...

Friend of mine made one of these. There's such fantastic software you can get these days.

I would like to add: c) Efficient urban planning ...so that you can do away with b) altogether and replace it with a nice, unlimited-mile-to-the-gallon bicycle (but yes, surely, in the absence of such, those two are key).

I think folks should start using other operation systems altogether. Unhappy with Microsoft's new OS? Don't buy it. Don't buy a computer that ships with it. Get a Mac, or something that ships with Linux. I've warned everyone who comes to me for computer advice to avoid Vista, and those that went...

Not sure where it falls on this conversation, but I figured I'd throw it in there: Oregon (like a few other places, I'm hearing) has started blending in biofuel at a 5 or 10% mixture with regular petrol, and folks have found themselves getting worse gas mileage out of their vehicles and...

I sometimes wonder what the state of things would beif we took even 5 or 10% of our (the US) Defense budget and used it to pay off our debt. Or improve schools. Or, you know, end world hunger or something. There's a lot more efficient things one could do with fifty billion dollars.

I think that's fair enough, considering, as I understand it, such infrastructure has been rebuilt to much better standards than it was before.

Since April 6th, which is what I get for leaving the gal home during my month-long trip to the UK. Not that there isn't any lack here, but I'm whipping around the country so quickly I'd probably lose my pants (plus some of my stops are with ****** two generations older than I).

I realized almost immediately after posting this, that there really is a question, and it's a good one to ask. There's one area, specifically, that if left out I'd assume our society is actually growing healthier (with crime rates going down, secularism on the rise, more concern about the...

While reading things like this makes me want to agree with you (even though I fall into that little age category), having looked at statistics, I know that, overall, that generation has actually participated less and less in crime than its elders, and participates a lot more in community service...

I don't disagree with this: it's pretty logical. My question would be: is it worthwhile for us to stick it out? The costs, as we all know, are rising rapidly in every category (human life, debt, et cetera). Our progress is fragile. I guess looking at it from a purely cost-effective standpoint...

Err, ooops. I meant Jesse Ventura!

I enjoyed watching Jesse Jackson on CNN the other evening when he was talking about this.

Someone recommended in some thread similiar to this a book called Dying to Win by Robert Pape. I found it to be one of the most compelling and fully researched accounts of suicide terrisom to date. The big conclusions? They won't continue to be at war with us if we are not at war with them -...

As a ***? Now! Mike and Ike's. Nothing like candy wax.

My day's been good so far, though I've only been up for an hour of it. Got to see a neat cloud thinning for a peak at the sun amidst a complete Portland cloud blanket, which was cool.

I've been thinking for a while now that people like to choose their politics like they do their favorite sports team: you pick a side, for whatever reason, and then you root for them irregardless of whether or not you should. I hear of far too many people voting Democrat or Republican because...

George Carlin. ...what can I say? He makes me laugh.

I have to agree with titsrock. Without even pointing out any specifics, the language sounds like a male. That aside, though, I found this hilarious. Gave me a laugh!

I would be all for this thing if it was self-sustaining.

Y'know, just from looking at that first comparison picture, I was thinking: "That just kind of looks like it's turning away from us, not disappearing." Then the article turned out to be saying exactly that.

For what it's worth, an article on the US and the EU: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2004/11/15/europe/ There was a broadcast on NPR a month ago or so that touched on this topic; they were interviewing a fellow who'd just written a book that mentioned the EU's economy overshadowing...

I wasn't speaking to individuals, but society as a whole. Sex is *****, and for many religions, wrong in most cases. Hence, it's tough to talk about and educate. Prudishness isn't the right word...don't have a replacement at the moment.

Perhaps it's a difference of politics between the US and most European countries (from what I know), and I'm not arguing for the left or the right - I'm arguing against picking sides like a basketball team. Candidates here aren't defined by their parties like they are in many other places, so...

I'm tellin' ya, prudishness fucks with everything: you can't educate if you can't talk about it.

Re: should prostitution be legal in the u.s. I think for as long as society tries to regulate private behavior, there will be problems. So yes, I think it should.

Re: Board Contest: When Will Post 2 Million be Made?? What the hell: March 21th, 4:47 PM.

This quote is so indicative of the mentality of so many voters (on either side). I'm glad you don't get to vote. No offense intended.

Unfortunately, the masses in America are so docile that even if the Government did pull some radical tyrannical stuff, the majority would just let it happen. As long as they can stay nice and comfy. Which isn't to say anything toward the self-defense argument.

Boy, wouldn't that be nice, though?

Unfortunate, but true. I'm frequently reminded of one of my favorite George Carlin quotes: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

I'm justing waiting for the day that one Church or the other decrees "Get educated or go to Hell!" Even if that would naturally lead to many who follow that decree to leave said establishments...

An amusing quote comes to mind: "Arguing on the internet is like the Special Olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded." That said, I look into those more serious posts for entertainment and enlightenment. I learn a surprising amount, or, at least above all, to question what I do know.

I do both! :thumbsup: To be honest, I'm happy with skyrocketing gas prices. Means less cars on the road, which means far too many good things to count. The cons? I might have to pay a little extra at the grocery store for my apples. But I saved considerably more by not driving to the grocery...

Won't be that long, with 100 years of war left to go.

It seems to me like our Congress has pretty much failed to do its job: coming up with policy and keeping the President in check. Instead, they bend over to the President's will and let the President enact his own policies. I'd vote the whole lot of them out (with exceptions, of course), if I...

I read an article about Hillary's experience in my local paper that had an interesting point on how Hillary's experience was the same as the our last X presidents have had: political experience born from the Cold War era, and that the U.S. was one of the last to really move on from that. It was...

I believe broken families and religion/conservatism/prudishness have a lot to do with it. See study: http://********.de/