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Armo, as a rule of thumb, I change any posted picture over 50K to a link. Feel free to post whatever, just that large pictures (over 50K) should be linked. I think there is also a 50K limit on attachments. About avatars, I'd like to see them as small as possible. Less than 10K is perfect. 20K or less should be fine. More than that is pushing it ... especially since they show up a lot and in a page with 20 replies, you can have 20 different avatars. About your question, I connect to the site with anything ranging from 14.4Kbps to over 100Mbps. My usual connection is a 1.5Mbps DSL line. Also, not everyone viewing these pages is in the US ... so we want to be as accomodating as possible.

Oh where oh where is Domino when you need him!!!!

Good one oh weird one

This is how not to do it ROFLMAO Sorry modem users .. the video is about 15MB in size.

He wasn't banned. He decided to leave the board after making a fool of himself.

It also seems to me it's not uncommon to have the location someone is from to be their last name like Najafi, Xhomeini, Tabrizi, Yazdi, Tehrani, etc ...

Armo that's kind of hard to believe considering the extent of the ian's there. I would suspect there is another explanation.

So I think angel4hope is asking what you do in this case

I sleep.

She said MEN

Nasty, if you are in present day eastern turkey, just look out the window. The answer to your question is much closer than you think. Assuming you think.

Last I checked, he was going to visit a few other universes to see if any of them are better than this one.

Weeeeeeeeell ... Do you like mexican food? Ok ok ok .... I'll stop RIGHT there.

Blow on it? You can get these cleaner sprays that spray compressed air mostly used for cleaning keyboards and other electronics. That would be the best way to do it ... to avoid contact. But closing eyes and giving a vigorous blow will do wonders for the thick dust ... it's also useful for cleaning out connectors and contacts on the motherboard for example. Note the close eyes part.

Compressed air.

By the way, an example that comes to mind is that poor shmuck that caught the baseball in the stands in one of the final games of the chicago cubs this past year costing them the game. There were literally people out there looking to rip this poor guy into shreds ... If I were him, I'd be packing ANYWHERE I went ... whether I had a license to carry or not.

Absolutely ... there is often no reason to carry a gun in a "civilized" place like a large metropolitan city. Of course law enforcement and other (hopefully trained) security personel and body guards should have them ... I also think busniesses and busniess owners (such as shop owners) should be allowed to have them to protect themselves. If someone feels their life may be at risk (i.e. being threatened or stocked etc) then they may also have a legitimate excuse to apply for and get conceiled carry permits for guns or other personal protection devices. But do I think owning guns should be outlawed all together? absolutely not. There IS valid reasons for the public to own them such as protecting your land, home, or store/busniess, hunting, and recreational target shooting among others.

Dan, I have a gun. I don't have a carry license ... they don't give those out in WI. As I said before, even if they did, I probably wouldn't get it as I certainly don't need it. I take my gun when I am out in the middle of nowhere by myself. I could claim it's for protection against animals and what not but I have to admit mostly it's for protection against some weird ass people you sometimes run into. Trust me, these people are freaking scary ... add some (actually a lot) of alcohol into their system, sometimes combined with drugs .. and let's just say it ain't pretty. About a robber coming into my house ... I am not worried about that at all. If he has a gun, I'd just let him take whatever as I don't have anything of value at home other than a couple of electronics here and there ... and I certainly wouldn't mind buying new If he doesn't have a gun, then may god have mercy on his soul as he is going to be faced to face with a 6' 250lb guy who's going to have a whole foot up his rear end. I don't think I'll bother going after the gun as it'll be much more fun bashing the guy's face in. Now if there's more than one, that's a different story but then again, that is not a situation I will have to face most likely as my house is empty

Eve ... I think this will clear up everything about relative strengths of guns ... http://www.bangedup.com/archives/lionstupidfoolhunter.wmv Granted there are not that many lions in the US but there certainly are some big arse dogs and definitely a lot of bears especially in the Sierras in the west side. Obviously there is a legitimate reason to own guns for hunting and of course recreational target shooting, etc. But I don't hunt ... I got mine for protection and as I have said before, I feel much better with it than without it. I don't carry it anywhere in civilized places. I also don't keep it loaded in the house ... actually it's in a locked box. Now you are questioning their use as far as personal protection is concerned ... do you really want to start that argument?

Google has always been a biased search engine ... that's what made it good. It was able to distinguish between crap and non crap hits to a search query. So what is crap and non-crap ... I think it's all about the value of the information the site contains... accuracy, correctness, completeness, usefulness, etc etc Now this is a very interesting topic you bring up Dan ... But I think in the end, a search engine is useless to me if it's just a dumb search engine ... anyone can come up with a crawler that crawls the web and indexes every single term and phrase ... The value of a search engine is not in whether it can find matches to my request ... the value of a search engine is in its ability to be able to find what I am looking for! For now, I have been very happy with google and will continue to use it.

So you are saying that the gun "problem" can be solved if we outlawed kids? Hey ... this sounds good to me. Where do I sign?

Dear Maral, I think I would rather spend my dash Driving to buffets with lots of cars and cash. and though your dash length story made my eyes mist The only length that really matters is of course my list.

Unlike the A-bomb though, the gun does have legitimate uses in the hands of the right person. I am pro-gun but I am certainly not for people freely posessing AK-47's, M16's, and Rocket Propelled Granade launchers that are purely designed to kill other people.

good.

Very good ... That's what I like to hear. Your post had a very dark, somber, and depressing tone to it. All I was trying to point out is that the world seeming "a very sad and scarry place" and "everything seeming more complicated than usual" indicate to me that your perception of how things are in general may be biased. Sometimes we let the pressures of things around us cloud our judgement about how the world really is. Sometimes things are just not going well ... sometimes bad things happen ... sometimes people do bad things to us ... heck I have had a lot of those kinds of days myself. But we shouldn't let that cloud our judgement into thinking the whole world is a complete mess. A similar phenomenon happened with 9/11. People were so caught up with the "trajedy" that they lost sense of reason and many started to see the world as a much much darker place than it actually was/is.