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Spend a few years living with an aging loved with a degenerative mental or neuromuscular disease, and it will change your outlook. I used to think that euthanasia was absolutely out of the question - i no longer feel that way. But I DO believe that this is VERY touchy - you just can't go putting people to sleep once they've outlived their 'usefulness'. People should only be euthanised under the rarest of circumstances...

THIS may take a while to load for dialup users - but it's quite entertaining.... NOTE: viewer discretion is advised

Dan, aren't you attending York? What do you mean your *mom* doesn't let you go out?? You're old enough, non?

It's christmas time dude - go shopping I think the forum traffic is pretty cyclical - sometimes many posts - and sometimes not. You just never know....

That's the sad part - you can.

Why do I feel like we're on Oprah? I think the short answer is: Men DO talk about their feelings, but only in appropriate environments - eg. bar, (preferably a sports bar), where we can discuss all out issues, like: which team we FEEL is going to the superbowl, or how we FEEL about physical contact in amateur hockey.... etc etc.... In all serionsness though, and I think I represent a pretty typical male attitiude, I really don't have a problem communicating feelings with anyone - within the right context of course. There are, however, some things that I'm reluctant to discuss regardless of how comfortable I feel in a particlar place, or with specific company. But, I simply don't see why men *must* exhibit openly the entire emotional spectrum to be considered anything but 'old-world' or 'macho'. What's all this pressure to make us be willing to discuss all our 'issues' openly with everyone they meet - we're not built that way. I'm sure that women and men kind find ways to work around this. One way is by listening....

Oh, and BTW, your comeback was hilarious... LOL

Ani! Lighten up - the poor kids think you're a hottie! Here's one I like: Excuse me, I knew it! Made in Heaven. And another: If I could change the alphabet, I'd put 'U' and 'I' together... It's all in the delivery, mind you, I've never been able to deliver a line without looking like a big list. (yes that list).

Thanks for the links Ani! I'm off to bed now but I'll look at your Central Park Jogger later sometime.... And BTW I never read too much about a flick I'm going to see - expectations have everything to do with your level of enjoyment.

You summed it up perfectly right there I agree 100%.

Thanks for your feedback guys - I'll post more details when I'm closer to purchasing. I wish I could just but another Mac! BUT the world is made for PCs, and I already have a Mac...

that may be true - but small-time crooks, and two-bit criminals are not likely to stay in prison for a long time. The economic issue is exacerbated by life sentences lasting 25 years or more. That's 25 years of 3-meals a day, TV time, excercise everyday, free health-care and precription drugs, cigarette allowance, conjugal visits, access to libraries, computers, internet, education by correspondance....the list goes on. Why? When someone decides to take the life of another - or to scar/traumatize someone future through repugnant violence or rape - then they FOREGO there individual human rights. It's simple. And still, the death penalty should not be used unless there is a solid irrefutable evidence that the purpetrator is guilty. That my two cents...

Ani - I think I've seen you mention his in another thread. Do you more info about the film or the cast? A URL, maybe? I'd love to know more - sounds very interesting. Thanks.

AH-AHAHAHA !!! Mosjan, YOU should have been the funniest HyeForumer!!

As for the numbers thing - it really doesn't matter in my book. I did some crazy stupid things when I was young, and I learned some very valuable lessons. As long as folks are careful, then I don't see the problem of having multiple partners before a serious relationship - neither for girls, nor guys. Not all men are 'proud' of their 'numbers'. Besides, let's be honest, most of the time it's the female doing the conquering. Guys take advantage, and use pressure tactics, but ultimately the woman has the power - and if more women knew this, than this whole equality thing would be a moot point.

HAHAHA C'mon Dan, you can figure it out...

Care to share, Dan? I'm going to be picking up a new machine within the next week or two - and Dell is one of my options... If you have any input, please feel free...

HEY! What happened to the best choice??

uh-oh. you mean, you're going to make us talk about things???

I'll have to agree with Nairi on this - no incest reference whatsoever...just teenage pregnancy... BTW - was this split off from another thread? (kind of a strange comment to start a thread with....)

These stories are so sad - my heart goes out to all who have suffered. I won't say how old I was when it happened, but we did try our best to mobilize releif efforts from across oceans - sending (what seemed to us like enormous quantities) of blankets, coats, medicines and food - and collecting funds to help the response teams. Unfortunately the little help we could offer does not go a long way considering the losses. Very sad

Dan, I really think you should re-read Armat first few posts on Dali, Surrealism etc. He never said that Dali was a poor artist, he never said that ONLY novices like his art. You are jumping to conclusions (and yes, you are making an ass of yourself.) What Armat said was that Daii's work frequently appeals to novices (and not exclusively!) Which is perhaps quite true - some of the first art I enjoyed was Dali, Escher and so on... as my tastes have developed (and I'm still a novice BTW) I have grown to enjoy other styles whose qualities are much more subtle....

BTW the snow just started up here in Montreal a few hours ago.... my puppy's loving it!

I've been to marblehead too! I loved it there! Of all the places in the US that I would choose to live (if I had to live in the US, of course) One would be near Boston - hopefully on the cape - the other, San Francisco.

This happened to me a LONG time ago - and I had just installed a second OS (dual boot) - it was a desktop so no suspend/wake up issues. Some restore utilities like Norton, allow you to make rescue disks and keep a copy of the Boot record for this purpose. They'll also prompt you when it has been modified, if you need to make new rescue disks. I suspect (although I'm really not sure) that the advances in hard disks/storage devices has probably helped to reduce the incidences of boot record damage...