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The core question here is, in a world of sound-bites and 10-second attention spans, what is more relevant ... the obscure text of a resolution or the headline that it is going to generate and propagate through the extremely efficient dissemination mechanisms we now have in place? In other words, how many MJ's are there really in the world?

Do you have a popup stopper? It could be something wrong with it and may need a reinstall or an update.

Extra, didn't you say you met him once in Vegas or something? Not sure but I kinda remember something like that

I guess "pain in the heart" for Armenians and "pain in the ass" for the Turks?

So wait a minute America-Hye ... are you confirming his 1/2 Armenianness? I personally admire the guy. To be that ugly yet that famous ... he must be doing something right

Ok at this point I am going to stop to reply not because I am agreeing or disagreeing with you but more because I have no idea what you are talking about. It is as if you are talking to someone else with all these assumptions you have made about me so it really doesn't make a difference what I say or don't say. It seems like before even replying to this thread, I was deemed a traitor to mother land Armenia (a place I have never seen or been to or have any real connection to) which somehow makes me a "born again American" who is only rooting for the winning team like most Lakers fans in Los Angeles. <_< Ok yah I guess that just about sums it up ... yes quite "logical" indeed.

Ok then there is one conclusion that can be drawn from this. Your memory is faulty.

What does that mean anyway? How did you arrive at this label for "me" and my like?

That is wrong. Let's say you love your wife a lot. You want to buy her a PDA since she needs it for work. You can search ebay and pay $100, go to a retail store and pay $300, or be a complete dumb ass and walk into a downtown Manhattan electronics store and pay $1000 on a "good deal" for the same PDA. Which one professed more "love"? It's the OUTCOME of an action that determines it's value not the cost you incurred. ... basically what you are telling me is that if you die in order to get your wife the PDA, it would be like the greatest act of love while any intelligent human being would say that the "greatest act of love" would be something more constructive in the long run as opposed to being extremely short sighted and just pay the "ultimate price" for very little gain. Note I am not condoning soldiers. They provide a very valuable service to their country and some give their lives doing so. What I am trying to tell you however is that simply giving one's life blindly for something is NOT always automatically the right thing to do. Life is not as simple as having the "passionate extremist view" all the time. You HAVE to put some thought into your actions.

The first part of that sentence completely contradicteds the second part of that sentence as it is just wrong. I took an oath to become a US citizen and as I stated before, I took that oath quite seriously (unlike many others that I have encountered in life). Also, there is a sharp contrast between me who took such an oat and someone who was born here and never had to pledge such allegiance. My intelligence. Then please explain to me why we have prisons if we are not qualified to judge who is a valuable human and who is worthless. Unless you are making a case that we shouldn't have prisons.

Vigil, stop being so unpatriotic and start respecting the US flag a bit. You are a disgrace to the US and the blankets that it provides. How dare you assume that a doctor that is not going to the front lines is not going to do everything in his powers to work towards finding a cure for cancer or help his patients? Ok see how stupid that sounded? Now read your post and you realize you sound the same. You wrote more than a page of "stuff" using words like "according to you logic" and "logically" and full of assumptions about me that are completely untrue. Stop preaching ... You extending "my logic" to conclude something about Armenian genocide versus the Jewish Hollocaust is absolutely rediculous. Thus, No comment. About my community mourning my dead ... I couldn't care less if anyone mourned my death. But furthermore, yes, I do think I am less valuable (more expendable) as a human than many. However, I also think I am more valuable than some of the scum you have rotting away in the overcrowded prisions right now. You again assume that by "spending money" I meant spending it on "cleaning up the mess" or "hireing merceneries" or "funding the war" where you fail to realize your basic premise as war and dying in battle as being the ultimate patriotic act is fundamentally flawed.

That was an example. I don't think Afghanistan (where Tilman was killed) was started due to oil interests. The fact that Iraq has been on top of the US "worry" list is certainly oil related as there are other countries with WMD (N. Korea? not to mention Pakistan, India, etc) that haven't received as much attention. It doesn't change the fact that Iraq was and had been a significant threat but there is really no denying that geography certainly impacted the escalation of the situation. I have always maintained that I thought US was very justified to move into Iraq. Not due to "terrorism" or "9/11" or whatever other dumbass reason George Dumbass Bush came up with in his sleep ... but because of all the other reasons that we have discussed countless times in other threads. My argument here is also not regarding whether a soldier should die for his country or not. It's just against the point Vigil is trying to raise that even a doctor doing cancer research should go to the front lines in Afghanistan with an M16 which is just down right "simple minded" to say it politely (he calls it passionate extremist or something).

By the way, to me, "passionate" and "extremist" are synonymous with "irrational" and "stupid".

OF COURSE it will make it a better place... but not just random and blind spreading .... no actually very calculated and intelligent resource management. However, by no means am I advocating socialism here. But for example, spending $3.5 million on developing ultra-efficient engines will be much much much more beneficial to the world than spending $3.5 million in pretecting current oil interests of billionaire fat cats. There are some plans that are farther looking than others. Guess which ones are better for the world?

Yes yes ... we need him on that wall ... we want him on that wall ... http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/afewgoodmenjack2.JPG ... "I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!" The point I was trying to make is that here we have someone who is able to generate $3.5 mil in 3 years. Surely he could have done a lot more for his country with that kind of money. What's my point? My point is not every life is equally valuable. Some are more valuable than others. I fully realize I am going to get flamed for this but never the less, it doesn't change the fact that that's how I think it is. You don't send your best and the brightest to the front lines. That's just poor strategy. You use your resources wisely. Otherwise, there is really no difference between Tilman and the idiot muslim youngsters that charge a mine field on a dirt bike screaming Allaho Akbar, "defusing" 4 or 5 mines until the 6th one brings them to the ground and just that much closer to their Allah. http://armenians.com/forum/style_images/1/icon8.gif

What a waste ... one can't stop but to wonder now whether he could have served his country better by staying in the NFL and donating the $3.6 mil to feed the hungry or fight cancer or something.

Would it help if I shaved? <_<

So looks is all you care about? How shallow I want you to respect me for my mind.

Hell yah! I can cook clean take out the trash AND fix the car and crush spiders and I won't even complain! Just please don't ask me to make babies.

Why not?

I just looked up the specs for that which made me do some quick math in my head which then further led to my personal astonishment ... 4.7 Mhz -> I have a 3 Ghz CPU -> factor of about 650 increase 1K RAM -> I have 1 GB RAM -> factor of 1 million increase ... but here's the astonishing part: that sinclair has a tape drive interface with a 250 baud speed. I assume that would translate to 250 bits per second max transfer rates. A typical SATA hard drive interface these days could be on the order of 150 Mbytes per second 250 baud -> 150 MBps -> factor of 5 million increase! We keep hearing about how processor speeds double every 18 months. But look at what happened to storage size and speeds!!!!!!!!

Potatos ala Sip: ----------------------- Same as Evilina except step 2 goes after step 4. Much easier to peel that way. Tuna ala Sip: --------------------- Same as extra's method with the following addition: After draining, add a generous squirt of Ketchup and 1 tablespoon of relish. Tuna-Melt ------------ Ingredients: 1 can tuna drained, some oregano, lemon juice, ketchup, salt, pepper, grated cheese. Refer to above for preperation. Add a pinch of oregano instead of relish. Fire up a non-stick pan on the stove ... no oil no butter nothing. Just a couple of drops of olive oil to prime the pan. Throw tuna on pan in the form of a pancake and heat until firm and brown. Flip a couple of times. When the nuna is nicly krisp, sprinkle generous amount of cheese on it and flip a couple more times. Serving suggestion: Best served on toast while it's hot.

Don't worry Anileve ... we can ask Azatik to adopt you too! Then we can both stay in the car and play chess while he and Anoushik go to the concert ... and just to make it interesting I'll play with ONE castle

I would like to dedicate this thread to the Culinary genius in each of us that has ever struck gold with that 5 minute recepie that not only made the stomach growls at 2AM go away, but has also managed to spark those indescribable joyful tingly feelings that start at the tip of the tongue and roll all the way into the pit of the stomach. I also wanted to share some of my own personal creations which hopefully I will one day turn into a 2-page cook book for the single guy who happens to enjoy food a lot. I'll start with 3 of my favorites: Sip's Special Dressing: (~2 minutes) --------------------------------- Rating: Somewhat healthy. Ingredients: Heintz ketchup, virgin olive oil, rice vinegar, lemon juice, salt and pepper, Sriracha hot sauce (not to be mistaken with this guy). Directions: Take a glass, mix ketchup, olive oil, vinegar, and lemon juice at desired ratios (I perfer 6:3:1:1) and salt and pepper to taste and a couple of drops of the Sriracha just for a bit of spice. You may want to add one or two tea spoons of water to achieve the desired consistency. Mix well before using. Vospov Matsun: (~15 minutes) ------------------ Rating: VERY healthy: It's basically all protein and fiber. Ingredients: Vosp (aka Lentil), Matsun (aka Yogurt) - can be non-fat, salt. Directions: Rinse the vosp in a pot of water. Dump the rinse water and add new water such that all vosp is submerged and you have some left over. Bring to a boil. Hint: By heating the water in separate containers on the stove, as well as in glasses in the microwave you can minimize the time required to bring the water to boil. In my personal experience, I can usually bring 8 cups of water to a rolling boil within 3 minutes. Cook the vosp until it's nice and soft .. for me, it takes anywhere from 10-20 minutes depending on the vosp and depending on the desired softness. After cooking, drain the water, mix with the cold yogurt, salt to taste and enjoy. Turkey Burger ala Sip: (~5 minutes) ----------------------------------- Rating: Pretty healthy but tastes heavenly Ingredients: Frozen turkey burger patties, frozen potato pancakes, salad stuff in a bag, tortilla bread, crunchy sour krout that comes in a jar, grated cheese, sliced cheese of your choice, Sriracha hot sauce, ketchup, mustard of your choice ... I prefer dijon but not spicy stuff. Required equipment: George Forman Grill (any size) Directions: Turn on the gril and put the frozen turkey burger patty and the potato pancake on the gril. If they don't fit side by side, microwave the potato pancake until the turkey burger starts getting smaller (oh it will, trust me). Then put side by side. While that's cooking, fire up the stove and throw the round tortila bread on a pan (no oil no nothing) and toast it a bit. Sprinkle the grated cheese on the bread until it starts to melt. You don't want the bread to over toast at this point. Take off the fire and put on paper plate. Turkey burger should be about ready now (~5 mins passed). Put on bread and slap on the slice of cheese (preferably monterey jack). Put some of that crunchy sour krout on the gril where the burger patty was. Pour ketchup and mustard on the cheese slice and a few drops of the Sriracha. Place potato pancake on top and give it more ketchup. Now it's time to sprinke your salad stuff on there and if you want pickles or what not. Top off with the grilled sour krout. Fold everything together. Fire up the pan once again and place burger on there ... give it another 30 seconds or so until the tortilla is nice and redish brown and crunchy on all sides. Don't forget to unplug the grill

$90 ticket $10 parking $20 ticket master fee Do the math, carry the one ... multiply by two ... That's a $200 dinner!!! :eek: Azat, can you adopt me? Pleeeeeeease? I usually only eat $10 worth at the buffet and I can even stay in the car while you're at the concert.