If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place — Page 85

I believe that's the thing a computer geek friend of mine highly recommended as well. I've never tried it, but it must be pretty good.

That sounds good but I am always afraid that since I don't know anything about programing computers I would end up screwing things up real bad if I ever tried to use one of those.

It's an operating system. You don't have to program anything unless you want to.

Do you have learn how to program to run Windies?

Here is a very easy to follow video about setting up a live USB.

And it's Linux so practically no problems with viruses.

XP fans may like this one.

bkev said:

Good point on the football fans, Warb.  I just tend to be exposed more to the fanatical devotion of Phillies fans than other teams.  My home team, the Dodgers, has plenty of fans -- but I never see them cry out for the firing of this person or that person after one disastrous game.

 That's because LA fans are fair-weather (see what I did there?) fans.  When the teams are good, they come to the games.  When the teams aren't good, they just don't care.

Which is fine.  But that's why.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I say just pass a federal law making it a crime for tax dollars to fund entertainment then cities can't built arenas with tax payer dollars,problem solved.

If I had a nickel every time someone suggested just passing a federal law to fix a problem...

Oops, I sound like a Conservative now.

Bingowings said:

It's an operating system. You don't have to program anything unless you want to.

Do you have learn how to program to run Windies?

Here is a very easy to follow video about setting up a live USB.

And it's Linux so practically no problems with viruses.

XP fans may like this one.

 Wow,thanks.

That looks like something I could work with and I wouldn't have to keep hoping Microsoft keeps desktop mode.  Thanks a bunch.

^I've updated the links, Sorry but I'm a bit tired and pasted the wrong ones in.

That channel is quite interesting and fun. Basically it's just a young Aussie guy getting his mum to try a variety of operating systems from the present and the past.

He reminds me of one of friends who tragically resembled Hayden for a couple of decades.

RicOlie_2 said:

While we're on the topic of sports, why do sports players get paid so much money!? Apparently the minimum wage in the NHL is $500,000 per year. $500,000!!! I also find it disgusting that millions after millions of dollars are spent on sports arenas funded by tax dollars, when the money could be used so much more productively. If they're going to build a new arena, they should use money from people's tickets, not raise people's taxes.

 Supply and demand. People are willing to pay a lot of money to see someone good and moving a ball quickly past people trying to stop him. 

And sports can be really good for a city. As a small example, last week WrestleMania (admitedly not a real sport) brought 125,000 money spending people into New Orleans to spend money. Every hotel in the city sold out. Imagine the revenue for taxis, retaurants, coffee shops, gas stations, adult book stores, coffee shops. 

Sports bring in dough. That's why football players get to rape people all the time and it's ok. 

I find it sad and disappointing that virtually every fictional franchise I've ever taken a liking to has become hopelessly tarnished or ruined by creatively-deficient hacks.

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Have you tried Tippex?

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long time reader, first time B*tcher..

So I work with a guy who is a complete jackass and he's also completely imcompetent.

The problem is that he's also good friends with the boss who looks the other way every time he f*cks up.

^Sounds like a tasty recipe for disaster.

So, the dude who owns the LA Clippers basketball team is racist. 

A 80 year old rich white dude is racist. In America. 

I can understand outrage, but why all the faux-shock and surprise?

Even if this somehow leads to him leaving the NBA owner's club, he'll have a great future as a payed speaker across the American south.

not all 80 year rich white people are racist.     And I think it is shocking and suprising that someone in his position would say what he said, especially in the 2014.

Warbler said:

not all 80 year rich white people are racist.     And I think it is shocking and suprising that someone in his position would say what he said, especially in the 2014.

I really don't think it is either shocking or surprising. We act surprised when the Sterlings, Paula Deens, the Duck Dynasties, that Bundy felow, the Joe The Plumbers, turn out to be assholes. Do we act shocked when those same assholes are embraced by large segments of the population? 

Oddly, all those people have become practically folk heroes to that certain part of the population. I wonder if Sterling will too... or is he not "kosher?"

Warbler said:

not all 80 year rich white people are racist.     And I think it is shocking and suprising that someone in his position would say what he said, especially in the 2014.

 I mean this with no sarcasm at all.

WHY does that seem shocking? Outside of your own personal beliefs, what in our society have you seen that makes that seem shocking?

1. I hadn't heard that Joe the plummer was a biggot.

2.  I just think that most of society has gotten past the kind of racism spewed by Sterling.

3.  I doubt Sterling will be embraced by large segment of the population.  I guess people just like Paula Deen's cooking(but she did get fired from the food network), and I think the Duck Dynasty has to do with religion.   I am not sure that the Duck is much of a biggot.   All he did was express a widely held Christian belief that homosexuality is a sin.  Is Bundy the nut out in Nevada?   

It makes me sad and angry when I see how so many people, especially Protestants, have no idea what Catholics really believe. I was looking at an apologetics forum called "raptureforums" and pretty much nobody there has the slightest clue what Catholics or Mormons believe. They have such bizarre ideas about us it made me cringe. I tried to sign up to make some counter arguments, but I was unable to post, or even view my profile, for some reason. The posters there also refer to Catholicism as a "cult" (even though more than 50% of Christians are Catholic!) and distinguish Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnessism (or whatever you call them), etc. from "Christianity."

Yet Protestants and Catholics aren't all that different in their core beliefs, though many millions of Protestants think we believe the strangest things...

I've noticed that some of the more rapid Protestants like to label anything that isn't Protestantism -- be it non-Protestant Christianity or even seperate religions -- as a cult.

RicOlie_2 said:

It makes me sad and angry when I see how so many people, especially Protestants, have no idea what Catholics really believe. I was looking at an apologetics forum called "raptureforums" and pretty much nobody there has the slightest clue what Catholics or Mormons believe. They have such bizarre ideas about us it made me cringe. I tried to sign up to make some counter arguments, but I was unable to post, or even view my profile, for some reason. The posters there also refer to Catholicism as a "cult" (even though more than 50% of Christians are Catholic!) and distinguish Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnessism (or whatever you call them), etc. from "Christianity."

Yet Protestants and Catholics aren't all that different in their core beliefs, though many millions of Protestants think we believe the strangest things...

    Is it directed towards the rank and file or the hierarchy?

    I make a tremendous distinction between the laity and the Jesuit educated clerics. It's like the lower degrees of Masonry, on the whole good folks who don't have a clear idea what's really goin' on. Only a very small handful at the top are given the BIG picture.

    Personally, I don't care about vestments or bread and wine. There are lines in the NT that could justify wearing special clothes (as much as I am sure that the disciples wore standard clothing) and there is no question that One who could create the fabulous complexity of life could somehow transmute food and drink into something more significant (as much as I am certain that it was meant simply as an act of remembrance.)

     It's only when INSANE SNAKES start using these differences as cause to destroy other persons and societies that I start to care.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I've noticed that some of the more rapid Protestants like to label anything that isn't Protestantism -- be it non-Protestant Christianity or even seperate religions -- as a cult.

What does speed have to do with their tendency to label non-Protestants as cults? ;)