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Haha .... only if all diseases were this much fun! By the way, I'd like so see someone do it in that tank that's parked in the background in the 3rd video

... aaaaaaaaaand a video - Noe that you can also watch in high quality. Nothing amazing ... just messing around in some fresh snow.

Here's my contribution to this thread ... just some fun from today up in the Sierras ... http://www.seapahn.us/jeep/jeep_snow_lo.jpg (click image for bigger version)

Whooooooo hooooooooo!!

Mosjan jan ... ed katunerits mez ban chi hasni ... Es lava bayts: http://eknives.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fishing.jpg

Even though those pictures are fake, I'm sure there are people somewhere that would eat cats and dogs ... but don't worry one day they'll all get toxoplasmosis and go blind.

Aren't you guys like a couple hours from Big Bear? I heard they got like 4 feet this past few days I'm heading up to the Sierra's myself this weekend ... it should be FUN! But the kitty makes me

This just made me laugh

He's probably curled up in some corner trying to stay warm ... no worries, he'll show up (unless he is really old?) --Seapahn

You are probably ok ... just keep checking for viruses and run some anti spyware like spybot or something (not sure if they allow you to install and run your own programs at work). It's a pretty common scam to bring up these windows and pretend to scan for viruses and then ask people to pay for the cleaner or remover or checker or whatever they are selling. Moral of the story ... no soup for you

Sounds to me like you were not very successful in your new year resolution to not have any new year resolutions ... hmmmm ... wait ... maybe you were successful afterall .. but then that means ... AAhhhhhhhh never mind.

We also "celebrate" (aka eat the Holy Dinner) the evening of the 5th. It doesn't cause much of a confusion because the American thing on Dec 25th is called "Christmas" while our thing on the 5th we usually call "Jrortnek" which translates to "blessing of the water".

Ok makes a lot of sense now (and no worries about confusion). Office is office on either one so yah that's definitely what you want to use no matter whether it's a PC or Mac. There are free alternatives but nothing nearly as good as office (OpenOffice comes close). About the rest, you can definitely do all of those easily either on Mac or a PC (like making web pages, photo albums, etc). So that shouldn't change your decision either way. It is true that Microsoft has traditionally had trouble with "viruses" but that is because over 90% of the world's PCs had been running windows (now it's a bit less than 90% due to Mac and Linux). Now that Mac is gaining market share, they are seeing problems pop up more. Actually there was talk recently that Apple is starting to recommend protection software mainly since most problems these days come from people clicking on bad stuff on the web so it is more of a browser security issue (and the browser trying to figure out is this something you wanted to do or is it bad). Apple's safari is definitely not one of the best browsers but again, either way you go (PC or Mac), you can chose to run a better browser like Firefox (and hopefully Google Chrome soon on Mac). Still, the problem will remain that you would either have to be very careful on what you click, or have some sort of protection/anti-virus software. On a Mac, it's less of a problem but that doesn't mean there is no problem or there will never be any problems. Some people will jump up and down and swear Macs are better. Other people will do the same for PCs. The fight has been going on since there were Macs and PCs Again, not really having used a Mac or new PC (vista), I can't personaly recommend either way but I would suggest you play with a Mac at a mac store and a couple of pc's at best buy or something and see which laptops appeal to you. Either way you will be fine and either way you will be able to do most of what you want to do. So look at the costs, and other esthetics with the laptops (size, shape, battery life, screen, keyboard, trackpad, built in speakers if you are going to use them, availability of peripherals (much more on PCs), availability of other software (much much much more for PC ), dvd/cd recording ability etc etc). There is no doubt the Macbooks are very sexy but the true advantage of Mac vs PC is no longer the safety, reliability, simplicity, etc that has been associated with Mac (for various reasons, mainly because of their stupid commercials). Both platforms are pretty damn good these days with the PC, in my opinion, still having a number of advantages over Mac -- but I am probably not a typical user so probably not the best person to give advice.

Do they sell Macbooks with Microsoft OS? You can definitely install yourself but that's like buying a toyota and then switching all the insides with Honda (they are both good) ... so not much point to it really. The Mac hardware is decent but it's basically the same as a PC so switching to Microsoft OS on the Mac "hardware" won't really make things any better or worse compared to just starting with a good PC. The macs are still rather expensive. But I have personally not used Vista nor any Macs so I can't really recommend either way. The main question I have is what you plan to do with your PC as these days, pretty much the cheapest notebook will get 95% of what people want to do done and then some.

Haaaaale luya.

One again, I think divorce is the SOLUTION to the problem. The problem is marriage as Arpa said and I definitely agree with him. So let's talk about what we can do about the "marriage" problem. Why are girls still raised to dream about fancy weddings and spend most of their life worrying about which guy is going to want to marry them? Why not for example consider a "child-producing union" which will last at least till the child is of a certain age instead of a "till death" marriage? Actually "monogamy" is quite unnatural. I am no expert but there are very very few species that are monogamous and far less that mate for life. We have somehow forced ourselves to be into this unnatural category which is what is clearly illustrated by high divorce rates in societies where people are free (more free) to pursue their personal happinesses.

Once again, you use the word "problem". What do you see as "problem"? I still don't understand what you consider as the problem.

What do you mean by "work"? Do mean people staying together? Isn't that just by definition when you say "forced marriage"? Yah I have no doubt forcing people to stay together will reduce divorce rates. Actually, if you make divorce illegal, marriage "success" rates will shoot up to 100% !!!!!! It's just a different philosophy on marriage ... in the US, it's not a dead-end (literally) contract that two people sign. There is a way out and a LOT of people chose that instead of sticking with the alternative.

Why is divorce a "problem"? I definitely agree with Arpa as it seems like divorce is the solution to the "problem" which is actually caused by marriage. As it turns out, marriage is an inherently flawed concept when gender equality becomes more the norm. From the list, you can see clearly that countries which favor the traditional gender roles have much much lower divorce rates so divorce is not the problem. The problem is forcing a woman to be stuck with a man and vice versa for the rest of their lives, without forcing them to have to live together due to enforced gender roles.

Glad to hear it ... if you are going with one of the smaller pocket sized canons, definitely try to get one with image stabilization (IS). The difference in casual images is just amazing. Finally I have a camera I can give to random people and they don't screw up the pictures (most of the time).

It really depends on the people involved ... but in the end, it always comes down to the fact that in the end, you'll have some sort of "mixed" culture (which may or may not be a good thing). I personally have not felt any of these pressures of "maintaining" Armenian identity since I am never going to have kids. I think all this maintenance struggles are only really important if you are going to have kids.

Reminds me of all the pranks UCLA and USC pull on each other before the football game. I saw the video and I just couldn't help but laugh at all these idiots beating each other up over Jesus.

But from the questions, it sounds like since 2001 the US hasn't done anything bad .... that's at least a good sign, no?

So which one is better? On the G1, out of the box you get gmail, calendar, instant messaging, google maps (with full gps) + streetview, a very functional multi-window browser (yes, you can open several websites), media player and all the rest of the stuffings. As far as apps, there is a TON even now. I am not sure how many are released to the public but it's only a matter of time when there will be far too many G1 apps that you will know what to do with (most for free). The main advantage Apple has with the iPhone is their store where you are forced to buy their stuff. But in terms of functionality, the G1 is one of the most functional phones I have ever played with. It simply works and does what it does very well. I don't have to think anymore before quickly whipping out the phone to look something up, check for a direction, put something on my calendar or answer the non-stop emails that I get. The head-ache I had with my windows mobile phone was all the syncing I had to do for calendar, email, tasks etc. With this, it's all sync'd to my google account all the time with no additional steps required on my part.