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dvschic @dvschic (1795) • United States 13 Oct 08

i am an athiest, no apologies no regrets, but i am an athiest, i get tons of people saying they will pray for me and to keep god in my prayers. guess what, i dont believe in prayer and while i would never knock you, how do i let...

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taiguy I believe other people forcing their beliefs on people is extremely annoying. But, on the other hand, if you do not believe in prayer how is them praying for you forcing their beliefs? They would be more alike to forcing an empty thought upon you. Do you get a...

13 Oct 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 13 Oct 08

Are corporations evil by default? A corporation can be thought of as a "soul less enitity" since it has very little liability to any single person when it commits crimes (i.e. a product kills someone, etc). On the other hand, the...

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taiguy Excellent response. I think the essense here is anti-monolopy laws ensuring the corporation does not extend to a 'non-competitive' state where it will prevent any new business of similiar types from being introduced into the economy.

13 Oct 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 13 Oct 08

Are corporations evil by default? A corporation can be thought of as a "soul less enitity" since it has very little liability to any single person when it commits crimes (i.e. a product kills someone, etc). On the other hand, the...

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taiguy Sometimes I wonder if the prism is simply the rich vs. poor view. The poor resent the rich for having, and the rich are (i imagine most the time) simply being rewards (or the grand parents were) for working hard. In a sense this is socialism vs. caplitalism....

13 Oct 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 19 Sep 08

I tend to get a phantom cell phone vibration as I carry my phone on my left pants pocket. It happens more often when I am listening to music (the bass vibration). Does anyone else tend to get these alot?

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taiguy Yah, it does not happen to me nearly as much as it used to. When I first got my cell phone it happened so much that I just started ignoring my phone whether it was really buzzing or not.

19 Sep 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 6 Apr 07

Last Friday, in the village of Bili'n near the central West Bank city of Ramallah conducted it's weekly non-violent protest against the israeli wall. Fifteen protestors were injured, and one Israeli supporter was adbucted during...

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taiguy Yah, it's a sad situation. I don't think if you asked an ordinary palestinian, "Hey would you like to be in endless war with your neighbor country instead of trying to support your family" they would actually say "oh yes, these endless wars are much more...

18 Sep 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy Keep in mind XP is going to be faster, i.e. will process games better. Also a little less flakey in the drivers area.

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy Linux is just as easy to use as Windows these days -- providing you are actually a little computer savvy. Everything now is all GUI based (egh), but you can still pop a command-line window and do stuff that way. I think it's still a little more for programmers...

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy Doesn't sound too far off. Took me a couple weeks to setup a modem in linux the first time I used it. Modems are tricky because they are all "WinModems" which don't use standard IRQ functionality so it's not neccessarily all linux's fault. On the good side...

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy It has come a long way since then. I am not currently using it myself, but I have several friends who do use it. They have reportedly been able to play WoW, install DirectX 9.0, and similiar 'advanced' software.

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy Do you prefer Vista over XP?

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy There is more than one emulator, but wine has been around for a long time. See [www.winehq.com] for more information.

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 11 Apr 08

Which operating system or version of windows do you use? XP, Vista, Linux, Max OSX ? Amiga? I use Linux at work and at home. We actually sell our software to Windows users, but use an extra "library" to let our unix/linux...

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taiguy Are you going to upgrade to Vista or wait [indefinately]?

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 10 Apr 08

Hugo is at it again. This time he is nationalizing private cement companies and the largest steel factory in the state. Alot of these are owned by his 'close friend' in argentina. Nice way to say thank you. His excuse for the...

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taiguy Yah, it's one of my favorite cartoons. All I tend to watch is cartoons and CSPAN. Faily comedic in itself.

11 Apr 08

taiguy @taiguy (478) • United States 10 Apr 08

An interesting report came out today from the USGS [neo-natura.blogspot.com] about a large oil deposit find in north dakota and montana. Apparently there is an estimated 3 to 4 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically...

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taiguy Well, montana itself has gone from 46,000 barrels per day to 99,000 billion barrels per day over the last 5 years or so. A big achievement of a dinky (economically) state totalling a 115% expansion on oil recovery. To give you an overall picture, though, the...

10 Apr 08

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