DrCrowTStarwars

I can't wait for Mouse trap the movie, that was always my favorite when I was a young kid.

Of course it doesn't help that because of the extreme cold we are having to keep the cats inside and so because of my alargies I have not gotten a good night's sleep in over a week, that can break you down a little too:)

Yeah I volunteer when i get the chance but since getting around is a problem that can get in the way.

As for feedback I do ask and the biggest answer I get from the large companies "Is it is against corporate policy to tell you", from the smaller ones it ranges from them not believing I can get to work on time without a car to the fact that I have not been hired by anyone else in the past four years.  Yeah never mind that that last one is a loop that I can't break, that is still a reason given. Despite having good write ups from all my past bosses they assume their is something really wrong with me if I have not been hired lately.  That may be the most frustrating one to hear.

Still things could be a whole lot worse, it may not seem it from what I post here some times but i am doing much better then I was last year where some days I literally could not get out of bed, and the unemployment rate is falling.  I think it's just my 30th birthday coming up that has me down a little, I always assume when I was a kid but by the time I was this old I would be set in life.  I mean my plan was simple, become a history teacher and do some writing on the side but life had a way of getting in the way.  I know it's up to me to turn things around and I am working at it and I know things will pick up at some point it's just that some days I feel like Luke in Star Wars "Biggs is right, I am never going to get out of here!"

Still as I said things could be a lot worse so one of the things I am working hard at is always looking on the bright side of life.

Maybe that was the wrong term, I am not sure what to call it but I was trying to go so far over the top that the whole argument would seem silly and everyone would laugh it off.

I admit I screwed it up so let's just move on and not let it cause any more trouble.

As I said in that post I misjudged you and I said I was sorry.

I was trying to combat the situation by going so far over the top everyone could see how silly it was getting.

I know I botched it and I am sorry for that.

I am also sorry I didn't take the time to understand what you were really saying.

I wish you and yours' all the best.

I guess you missed the point where that was sarcasim.

Sorry about that.  I did explain the point I was trying to make in the next post.

If you think I'm anywhere close to the 1%, you're very mistaken. I'm way below the poverty line myself. I dunno where you got the idea that I was born into wealth, but you're very wrong. My parents are now in their 70's and still have to work hard everyday to make ends meet.

I hope you and your family find out some time what it is like to be really down and out and have no control over what is happen in your life.

That is a terrible thing to say to somebody. To anybody.
I hope nothing but the best for you and your family.

 Exactly, thank you for getting it.

You see what happens when you make general judgements about people you hardly know and take the most extreme position possible?  You come off as a blood thirsty nut job and it leads to bad things.

Now if I misunderstood your intent I am sorry.  I just felt the best way to get this over with was to give an example that would show how it was coming off to me.  Sorry if I didn't get your point.  I may be a little over sensitive about this issue since in so many interviews in the past few years I have had people ask why they should hire me when I have not been able to get a job for myself in the past few years.  Sorry if I viewed you through that lens.

By the way I did stop the necro posts once people complained expect where we really are talking about something.

Also I did get your avatar confused with someone else's, there is no excuse for that and I am sorry.

I am also sorry I didn't take the time to understand what you were really saying.

I wish you and yours' all the best.

Everything from all the local business to the major places like food lion and McDs.

The trouble is that since I can't afford a car without a job and there isn't any bus service in my area I am really limited to places I can walk or bike to so that keeps me within about a ten mile area.

Yeah I know it is hard to understand because it is a problem a lot of people don't have and truth be told if a few things had gone differently when I was in my late teens(like if I had been seeing a shrink and put on the meds I am now before my family went bankrupt I would have being able to pass my driver's test, go to college, and get a good job)I wouldn't be in this mess.

I really am trying not to focus on it but this pst couple of weeks with my aunt in the hospital and feeling helpless at home while everyone else is dealing with that it has worn me down.

Sorry, I am doing better then I was a year ago, it's just when you are going on thirty and your family has an emergency and you can't seem to help with that let alone the bills it can be hard not to feel depressed.

Again I am dealing with it and working on the problem a little at a time it's just I am at that stage where there is a lot of waiting around right now.

Thank you all for trying to help and for your support.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/settlers-of-catan-movie-tv-project-gail-katz-1201437121/

This was a joke on Robot Chicken a decade ago but now it is really happening. I am sorry but that just makes me laugh.

ray_afraid said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Being that you necro posted my necro posts I don't see that you have the right to complain.  Call it satire or anything you want, it's still making the problem you are complaining about worse.

I've not responded in any of the threads you've necroed. Plenty of others have, even calling for you to be banned, so I dunno why I'm your target on this.

Your encouragement amounts to you saying that I am not trying to make things better, I explained that I am it just leaves me with a lot of down time because of where I live.

No, my encouragement was to tell you to keep your chin up and keep trying. You can twist that into me telling you to kill yourself if ya wanna, but that only makes you look crazy to everyone else.

Also you know nothing about me.

I've not claimed to know any more about you than what you post on this site.  You seem like someone who I share many interests with, and I've tried to make friendly conversation with you about these things (Robin Hood, Star Wars, vintage tv, snazzy dressing, ect.)

People like you are why the rest of us hate the 1%.

If you think I'm anywhere close to the 1%, you're very mistaken. I'm way below the poverty line myself. I dunno where you got the idea that I was born into wealth, but you're very wrong. My parents are now in their 70's and still have to work hard everyday to make ends meet.

I hope you and your family find out some time what it is like to be really down and out and have no control over what is happen in your life.

That is a terrible thing to say to somebody. To anybody.
I hope nothing but the best for you and your family.

 Exactly, thank you for getting it.

You see what happens when you make general judgements about people you hardly know and take the most extreme position possible?  You come off as a blood thirsty nut job and it leads to bad things.

Now if I misunderstood your intent I am sorry.  I just felt the best way to get this over with was to give an example that would show how it was coming off to me.  Sorry if I didn't get your point.  I may be a little over sensitive about this issue since in so many interviews in the past few years I have had people ask why they should hire me when I have not been able to get a job for myself in the past few years.  Sorry if I viewed you through that lens.

By the way I did stop the necro posts once people complained expect where we really are talking about something.

Also I did get your avatar confused with someone else's, there is no excuse for that and I am sorry.

I am also sorry I didn't take the time to understand what you were really saying.

I wish you and yours' all the best.

Being that you necro posted my necro posts I don't see that you have the right to complain.  Call it satire or anything you want, it's still making the problem you are complaining about worse.

Also you know nothing about me.  I spend my day keeping the house running but again that leads to a lot of down time where I spend a lot of time waiting for things to happen.

If you think I don't know about working and making thins happen you are wrong.  Every single job I have had I have ended up being put in charge of coworkers because I am so hard working.  I have had coworkers pull knives on my and call in cop buddies to harass me and I still didn't let that stop me from doing my job.  At the same time due to a family emergency I had to practically raise my preschool aged brother and sister due to a family emergency. Believe me I know about hard work and I am hardly the only person in the country who is having trouble finding a job at the moment.

Your encouragement amounts to you saying that I am not trying to make things better, I explained that I am it just leaves me with a lot of down time because of where I live.

Now I have admitted that you are right and I have no right to complain but you keep bringing it up.

So tell me what do I have to do to cleans myself of my sins in your eyes, because I can't build a time machine so how do i make myself pure oh holy one who is perfect and can stand in judgment of all.

I guess since you can't use the report or ignore buttons I have to kill myself since it is the only thing that will make you happy.  I hope you and your family find out some time what it is like to be really down and out and have no control over what is happen in your life. Maybe if you ever had first hand contact with anyone who who wasn't born in a mansion with a crib made out of solid gold you wouldn't be such a horrid person. As it stands I would rather interact with the crazed Nom vet who pulled a knife on me then ever see another word written by you.

People like you are why the rest of us hate the 1%.

The really awful thing is that because of all your money it's only a matter of time before your people get power in this country and start send everyone not born into the 1% to gas chambers because we are all lazy and just refusing to become rich and must be wiped out.

Here are the fact people like you don't get rich on your own, your wealth comes from the labor of the workers.  The fact is people like you don't grow your own food, or know how to clean your own clothes. Just remember that while you may have the money numbers are on our side and every time your class has declared war on mine we have defended ourselves and won and once we win we always take revenge on people like you, so think twice before starting this war.

Oh for crying out loud.  I can tell you have never apply for jobs in a place with a limited number of jobs before.

Most companies will only let you apply once ever thirty to ninety days. Also searching for this stuff involves a lot of waiting for pages to load so some times I do other things while waiting.

Some of those things include listening to college level lectures and reading books to improve my mind as well as posting on the internet and writing on my computer.

I said I was sorry and I would not complain any more so if you still have a problem then report me to the mods.

Sorry if you think I am a drama queen, not sure how to fix that since any response or complaint on my part makes me one.

Of course one could make the argument that having to search for the thread you want is just as much a problem unworthy of complaint as a lack of jobs and that you can make the solution to this problem happen just as much as someone looking for a job.  You could get off your butt and bump the threads you want to read, so by your own logic you are a drama queen for complaining here instead of spending your time bumping the threads you want to read.

Of course it's easier said then done but it is up to you to make it happen, so stop complaining and make it happen.  Stop being a drama queen.

How do you use your computer without an OS?

Vista came preinstalled on my laptop(I wish someone would sell kits so I could build my own custom laptops)so I was stuck with it until I bought a copy of XP.

That's why you should always buy 16mm films and not VHS!

Davnes007 said:

I'm still waiting for a Betamax/HD-DVD combo machine.

 Add on a Lazer disc player and you will win all the format wars.

Okay I just finished watching the Voyager episode Flesh and Blood and I have not watched this episode since it's broadcast and when you think about the full implications of the message of this episode am I the only one who thinks it is the single most stupid and racist episode of Star Trek ever made.

That may seem harsh and like an over reaction but really think about what this episode is saying by making Janeway right when she hunts down the holograms and talks about them as "those people" and how it applies to the real world.

It is in effect saying that no enslaved people no matter how abused have a right to fight for their freedom and if their fight results in even one death of the people oppressing them then it is okay to genocide them out of existence.  So it if the south had won the civil war it would have been okay if they had committed genocide against all Africans since some of them took up arms against the slave holding states and killed people in it.  So the only way to end the killing and be sure it was done would be to kill them all or put them back into slavery.  Remember the one Hologram who we see alive in the end only redeems herself by turning against her fellow holograms and then she is placed on a ship with one of her former masters being given control over her.  In other words this episode is saying that the civil war should have ended with the slaves either killed or returned to slavery.

Then there is the idea that Janeway has every right to kill all of the holograms because some of them did kill Herogan.  Now again some people may see me as reading too much into this but let's apply Janeway's and since the episode showed her to be in the right by extension the show's logic to a real world situation.  I know this will rub some people the wrong way and this is something we are not supposed to bring up when talking about fiction but I find it impossible to explain why this disturbs me so much with about talking about this real world event because it is the most extreme and best understood example of a certain world view in action.  If talking about this subject offends you or has you rolling your eyes at me please stop reading now.  I am sorry but I find no other way to explain this point, if you think I am wrong that is fine and I am sorry I am too stupid to explain this without broaching this topic.  Also to be clear I am not accusing the writers and producers of Star Trek Voyager of being in favor of this, I am only saying they are guilty of not thinking through the message their show was sending because they were too focused on making big action scenes.  Given that Star Trek has always prided it's self on being a message show, I don't think the message should be over looked or that viewers like me are at thought for "thinking too hard about it".

I know this will offend a lot of people so I am giving you one last chance to turn away.

Okay the example I am citing is the nazis and the final solution.  This episode says that Janeway was right to wipe out the holograms because some of them were guilty of killing people, so the only way to be sure they would never hurt anyone again was to kill them all.  This story frames it's self as being about race relations and it argues that when it comes to race wars you should always fight for your own people and only your own people no lengths are too extreme to ensure victory.  How does this apply to the final solution you may ask and aren't I taking this a bit too far? I don't think so because remember Hitler argued that the Jews and other groups had been plotting against the German people and causing the deaths of Germans for hundreds of years so an extreme solution was needed to stop the killing of Germans.  it is in fact the same argument Janeway makes in this episode about holograms and remember the episode says she was right. Now also remember that not all holograms were murderers but Janeway still was shown to be in the right for wanting to kill them all.  If you follow this episodes logic then the only reason Hitler was wrong was not because his general mindset was wrong or his solution to the problem he saw was wrong. No, Hitler was only wrong because the jews didn't happen to be plotting against the German people, if they had this episode is saying Hitler had every right and in fact was duty bound to his race to enact the final solution.  In fact given that it doesn't matter if they were involved in the plot or not, Janeway still kills the holograms this episode is in fact saying that if Hitler could have found one small group of jews who were plotting to kill Germans he had every right to kill every member of the race.

Now let's get to the other message that Janeway is somehow at fault for the deaths of the Horgan in this episode because she gave them holodeck tech.  Let's think about it and see just how disturbing this is.  It is in fact saying that if you help about people and anyone of those people does something wrong in future you were wrong to help them, so the best solution is to not help at all.  Again let's apply this to the real world.  My family sponsors several children in Africa through a group called compassion international.  This group makes sure these children don't starve to death, gives them clean water and clothes, and sends them to school.  Under the logic of this show if any one of those children grows up to join Isis or some other radical group it is my family's fault for sponsoring them and we should have just left all African children to starve to death because that was better then getting involved and we shouldn't have taken the chance in the first place.

When you put this all together in my mind it makes this episode and not any of DS9 the one that would have Roddenberry spinning in his grave.  I mean from the start he saw Star Trek as a message show that took a stand against racism and war and this episode either wants you not to think about what it is saying or it is pro racism. I think he would have found both of those things as disturbing as I do. 

When you break this episode down to what it is saying and apply it to the real world I think it is not only the most disturbing and wrong headed episodes of Star Trek ever made but I also thing it is one of the most disturbing and wrong headed episodes of TV ever made period.

Oh as a brief side not am I the only one who laughed out lound at Janeway's excuse for not punishing Holodoc?  I mean by that logic no one can be punish for breaking the law.  I mean isn't a thief just being "who he is", so how can you punish him?  Isn't someone who speeds through a school crossing and runs over a  kid just being "who they are"? Serial killers are just being "who they are" so I guess the police can't try and stop them.  I guess this is the perfect line to end the episode on since it is just as stupid and wrong headed as the rest of the episode.

My final thoughts are that "A night in sickbay" is no longer my most hated episode of Star trek. Don't get me wrong that episode was garbage but it didn't argue in favor of the captain taking an active role in genocide.  This episode is complete garbage and has no redeeming values if you ask me.

For a show like Star trek that is the worst thing you could ever say about an episode.

SilverWook said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Yeah since when did Picard shoot first and ask questions latter.  The situation in Insurrection is exactly the type of thing he would have talked his way out of on the show, why did it need to turn into a blood bath again.  Also once we get the plot twist that the Baku kicked the Sona off of the planet and now they are dying slowly and painfully there are no straight up good guys.  Now on the show Picard would have refused to take sides once he learned this and used it to force some sort of truce but in the movie he just uses it as another excuse to kill Sona.  The twist didn't change anything so what was the point and Picard is so out of character I don't even think of him as Picard.

I grew up with TNG and I hate the movies because of this, it's painful to admit but it is true. I can't stand the TNG movies.

 What stuck out for me in FC, was his almost casual writing off any crew member who had been assimilated. Never mind he's living proof you can be de-borgified, shoot to kill!

If he had ever met Seven of Nine, that would have been a really awkward conversation. ;)

 Yeah, not to mention we already had Picard go through this character arc twice on the series and it was handled much better.

Also why was it just some random person from the past who he is never going to see again who called him out on it? Why did that work?  The scene would have worked a little better if it had been Crusher I think.  I mean he already has a relationship with her and we know from the series that he still kind of feels guilty about having to give the order that resulted in her husband's death so I think it would have worked a little better if she were in the scene, plus it would have given her something to do in one of the movies.

Davnes007 said:

Children of Dune can suck my balls.

 I am pretty sure even on Arakis they call the cops on you if you do that.

Yeah of course but that doesn't help with ice cream.  Normally lactaid work just fine for me but for some reason if never seems to work with ice cream.  But this ice cream went down smooth and stayed down, so I am calling this a win!!!!

Well so does yours to me. So there we are.

Yeah but is it worth the sugar hang over in the morning,the answer is yes.

I once got so messed up on moose tracks that I ate half a ginger bread house and then passed out for two days.

Boy was that witch mad when she got back from vacation.

He is okay, when he isn't doing prat falls every time he tries to climb up a ladder and clean the gutters.

Railroad Tycoon was a board game?

As someone who loves old stuff, trains, train sets, board games, and Tycoon games I must own this, now!!!

I found lactose free ice cream!

FINALLY I CAN EAT ICE CREAM WITHOUT SPENDING HALF THE NIGHT GETTING SICK!!!!

No I don't mind.

As long as it is okay with The Sisko.

Danfun128 said:

I click reply with quote a couple times and copy and paste to only one reply.

 Oh, I never thought of that.

Given that I have been trying to figure this out since I joined the site I know feel pretty stupid.