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That reminded me of this pic I took last year ... must be in the genes ...

Cold? Dude it's 26 outside right now and it's going to get down to 16-17 tonight. I LOVE northern cali ... well not so much the middle parts ... either along the coast and sonoma county or around Tahoe. Didn't spend too much time up north around oregon. But yah ... sacramento and stockton etc those areas suck big time.

I take that as a compliment now

I live in the dairy state now (WI)

That almost looks like red-dark blue-red to me. The last one doesn't look like orange at all. Plus .... not sure what that yellow dealie is up top but I don't think I've seen that on the Armenian flag before ... looksl like some sort of commie emblem... I think they went out of busniess a few years ago.

Amen to that!!!! Excellent point and one of the reasons I HATE phones. Why? Because on the phone, silence is a big taboo, while a lot of times silence can be a great thing.

Since he got his toy delivered early, he is probably already surfing around ebay and other geeky sites making plans to order the next one.

Trust me, NOTHING like what you have in mind.

Coming home and realizing UPS has delivered my new toy a day ealier than it was supposed to arrive.

The missionary A missionary who had spent years showing a tribe of natives how to farm and build things to be self-sufficient gets word that he is to return home. He realizes that the one thing he never taught the natives was how to speak English, so he takes the chief and starts walking in the forest. He points to a tree and says to the chief, "This is a tree." The chief looks at the tree and grunts, "Tree." The missionary is pleased with the response. They walk a little farther and the missionary points to a rock and says, "This is a rock." Hearing this,the chief looks and grunts, "Rock." The missionary is really becoming enthusiastic about the results when he hears rustling in the bushes. As he peeks over the top,he sees a couple in the midst of heavy romantic activity. The missionary is really flustered and quickly responds, "Riding a bike." The chief looks at the couple briefly, pulls out his blow gun and kills them. The missionary goes ballistic and yells at the chief that he has spent years teaching the tribe how to be civilized and kind to each other, so how could he just kill these people in cold blood that way? The chief replied, "My bike."

I personally like the dress-down look... much more casual and comfortable. I never know what to do around girls that are too fancy and too made up... they make me nervous. Basically afraid I'd mess something up if I accidentally touch something I shouldn't I don't even own a suit and I love it.

Armo, welcome back! Being a not-so-communitywise-active person who spent the last nine years going through the UC system, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents out there. Take it for whatever it's worth. I was never one to participate in these events ... I was often way too involved in the daily 'stresses' of going to a UC school (as angel puts it) to have any time or energy to worry about stuff like that. All I can tell you is this ... that is not such a bad thing! Don't feel obligated that you have to participate ... that you have to do something. If you do, that is great. If you get satisfaction from it, that's even greater. But in the long run, you will be much more beneficial and able to induce "real" results by excelling in whatever it is you are doing as a human being. Try to become the best you can become! Be good at what you do. Try to enjoy what you do and immerse yourself 100% into it (academically and personally). I think by becoming a model member of society who happens to be Armenian, you will do (and be able to do) much more for Armenians than collecting some toys at Frat parties or lighting up a candle at an April 24th gathering or having your name listed as a member of an "organization".

badga badga badga badga badga bdaga mushrooom mushrooooom I was actually singing that a couple of days ago when chopping up some mushrooms for my soup! For those unfamiliar with what we are babbleing about, just go to http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

Armat, that was a link I never expected to see posted from you !!! One of the most disturbing cartoons I've ever seen.

Maral, sorry to hear about your father but if I were you, I would find comfort in knowing that he is no more. He doesn't feel. He doesn't suffer. He doesn't think. He is not looking. He is not affraid. He is not sad. He is gone ... only a memory now. So try to focus on the memories and remember the good times.

Please no bashing. bashing who?

First of all welcome to the board! What you say is true. But I would like to add that files like word documents, excel spreadsheets, and other such "non-executable" files may also contain viruses. The trick there is that Microsoft office applications have this feature called "macro" that can be used to automate certain things. Well, people have figured out how to use those features to automate the doing of some bad things There are also other "holes" in a computer that viruses (or "worms") can enter from. It is always always very important to keep your windows computer updated using the windows update feature that fixes a lot of these holes. Oh and if you have MS Office, don't forget office update either What Domino is talking about is with certain programs like Kazaa, they may introduce new holes into your system that may leave you vulnerable to either viruses, hacker attacks, or just by addition of spyware that spy on what you are doing on your PC. So although these may not be "viruses", they are still problematic.

What I have learned from history is that "workers democracy" cannot survive as it fails to take into account basic human traits such as greed, instinctive desire to accumulate wealth, and the fact that the average worker is going to be pretty stupid and unable to make intelligent decisions. Democracy is great when making public policy and electing leaders but economic decisions should be left to the guys who know the economy By the way, I'm not saying anything about what's right or wrong for Armenia as I don't know. I just don't understand how "Workers' Democracy" or in other words "idiots in charge" will ever work. Unless you think the average worker is an intelligent being in which case I think we have to agree to completely disagree.

Where has ever Workers' Democracy worked and been successful? Why do you think it would work now?

I understand gambling ... there are clearly some odds of winning and you place wagers knowing and playing those odds. But it just seems to me many who get involved, simply don't understand or want to understand these con schemes. There is no "chance" involved here. It's a lose/lose deal unless you started it... and it basically revolves around your ability to sucker more people into the scheme. With "gambling", new comers have the same chances as everyone else ... so it's very different.

I just can't understand how people get suckered into these schemes. I just saw a report on TV (dateline) about these thousands of woman accross the US that are being suckered into these pyramid schemes called "women helping women" ... The idea is that each person that comes in pays like $5000 and then they have "birthdays" for some of the older memebers who get a ton of money (like $40K). Then each member moves up around the "dinner table" etc with one day hoping of getting a "birthday" (pay-day) themselves. What's most shocking that those who they were interviewing were completely unwilling to admit that they have in fact been totally suckered into a classic pyramid scheme where almost everyone except the very few people who started it stand to lose money BIG time. We had a discussion about the "golden circle" schme that seems to be going strong in Europe and other countries (see this thread) ... but I just had no idea so many people right here in the US would be so stupid as to fall for these rediculous scams.

... once in a while, when it's like 1AM, and I've been waiting at a red light for 5 minutes with no hint of when it might turn green ... and there are no cars in sight for miles ... I would cross the red light.

Sure I have. But I haven't broken it just because it was a rule. "Rules are made to be broken" sounds like a rebelious slogan to me... as in like saying go around, fine a rule, and break it just for the sake of breaking it

Rules are made to create order out of chaos... like stop when you see red light. If you want to break that, then I'd say that's pretty damn stupid!!!!

This just doesn't get old!!!! Every time it makes me crack up