Thorgnor

yes.

nice

I'd like to put a couple of those up in the hallway at York and see what becomes of them. Anybody got a link to a printable version?

If you buy a really nice stylus/cartridge package you can go almost ten years before having any real trouble... trust me. I have a pair of Techniques and I use Stanton stylus/cartridge sets. This is not an advertisement.

He may be personally weak, but he's politically strong, as his support shows. I was kinda playing on the company line that the cons use about strong leadershit in hard times. A 'weak' leader is really a strong one in this. It's a bit of a reverse, but I'm suggesting that someone with a 'strong' personality would have the bravery to face the truth about a lot of the problems we face rather than playing politics. And that for this same reason they would enjoy less 'popular' support. Their own message would be 'weaker' than a 'strong' leader (who may in fact have tissue for brains). In short, I think we actually agree... except that I think Canada is plenty tough for lots of people already.

Part of the problem could be a cheap needle if you only paid $30.00 for it. Does sound like a stylus issue to me though. Could be a hairball or some dust on the tip interfering? I'm sure by now you've checked this part though.

I can see it in your eyes.

And almost all of those people think that democracy is good, but anarchy is bad, when democracy proper actually describes an 'anarchy of the people' as opposed to the landholders commonwealth we live in. The fascist neurotic impulse towards strong leadership only puts cowardly tyrants into office. Voting for a strongman because you are afraid of violence only makes the source of violence itself visible and more powerful; it puts the 'legitimate' use of violence in the strongman's hands. Asking for a steady hand on the wheel only means you don't get to drive. Democracy does not align with 'strong' leadership. I beg you all, Vote for weak leaders! Strong leaders don't want or need your opinion, weak leaders balk at every pitch and can't help looking over to the dugout for support. Politics is not an individual sport.

"The first one's free. The next one goes in your mouth."

Who's said it, Charlie or Momar?

Ghaddafi's latest accusation; that agents of Al-Qaida are putting hallucinogenic pills into the coffee of susceptible young people who are at the head of the "revolt". Fascinating and evil genius at once. It may at first sound absurd, but he's playing on some big politics. He simultaneously makes a reference to the feelings of threat felt in the West at the mention of radical Islamic ideologies and people, while playing on a very long train within (and in the West stemming from folktales from Islamic areas) Islamic cultures whereby poisoners, drug-addicts, and radicals become lumped together as "Hashishim" or assassins. This summons the image of Osama Bin-Laden as the personification of the old man in the mountain, or Hassan-i-Sabbah, the first leader of the group now referred to as the Ismaili', often scorned as heretical Muslims in the past. This group held vast political power in the Muslim world and beyond as they were implicated in the assassination of many "Caliphs", from Egypt to Indonesia. The mountain of the tale sits right between Iran and Afghanistan, the seat of shared fear on the part of Westerners, and "good" Muslims at home. Likewise, this plays on the prominent, and often capitalized on divide between Shiite (Iran/Afghan) and Sunni (Libya/Egypt/Bahrain/Yemen), orthodox and kaffir/kufr (heretic). Impressive convolutions.

Sadly, I fear he'll kill thousands first and then end up like Mussolini.

Call me gay too then, the kid is killer.

For the better, imo. When hasn't the politics of the middle east been in shambles? Before or during Colonization? Decolonization? Ever? Hey hey, ho ho, autocracy has got to go

Word!!!! :D

:surprise: and word !!!!!!!!!!! :content: :chug: :relax:

I guess if it's a pdf I can open it up, cut and paste and whatever else, for ease of quotation. But are most ebooks in some format specific to the reading device, or are they still in a format that I can open and "use" on my laptop/desktop? Getting a hold of the books is the most important thing. Most of them are often out of print to begin with but I'm guessing on the torrent sites you can find people sharing all kinds of stuff, or is it mostly entertainment reading that is available on these things so far?

Does anyone know if these things are useful for academic purposes? For instance, how many "current" academic texts are available as ebooks? And with Calibre, can I transfer texts in to my computer and make them accessible from there as well? I'm very tempted, but I don't want to burn more dough than necessary, and then end up ordering more paperbacks online.

Most important thing in my experience is the screen quality. You need one like a kindle that has a "permanent" light, not one that has a more traditional style of screen where the image "updates" over and over again. I've found the constant update is what hurts my eyes, like staring too long at a computer screen, but not everyone experiences the same thing. Try out many before buying, see which you prefer.

Thanks for the ammo Punk, and thanks for loading up the weapons Booche. classic hover hand'd.

I bet David Stern was waiting outside with a syringe.

Actually, he could be just as racist for choosing the cool black superstar over the lame white guy. It goes right along with the same exotic/erotic other shit that regular racism goes on. It's not about hate, it's about fear, and the desire to be as bad as the boogeyman. Hey Velvet, finish the albums yet? What's your opinion now?

I really don't want to be closed minded about this, but I am.

"There's about, like, 5 trillion people in the whole world, and only like, 5 polar bears in the whole entire world..." so cute.

Depends which ones. Pakistan, not so likely. Egypt, you can swear on a Christian Bible, or a Talmud. Turkey, pretty much same rules as the rest of the 'Modern' world, or the 'rest' of Europe for that matter. What do you mean by Islamism? That's a pretty modern development as well. Being Muslim is old school, but this Islamism thing is really just a recent American code for "we don't like the idea that you guys want to do things you're way, so we're gonna call it something like Islamism. That way we can suppose that you're all a bunch of ideologues, and that you can't be reasoned with." It's real convenient that all of a sudden Muslim governments and societies can be called Islamist, when the issue is that we're crusading against their belief systems. But does a crusade by another name stir up less organized resistance? apparently so, cause we fuckin'bought that bullshit and ran with it. In my opinion, there are NO countries rooted in Islamism, but many with historical ties to Islam, or with Muslim societies at their helm. Egypt was democratic before the West had a notion of democracy. After the West got wind of the Arab translations of Socrates and Plato we quickly erased our own memory of where we learned the ideas we now hold so dear. So while we got the idea of "reason" from Arab translators of Greek texts, we somehow manage to accept the concept that Arabs are unreasonable, and that they have no experience with running a peaceable society. And btw, how would we know anything about any of the places where things go smoothly? Those places aren't 'newsworthy'. We only care about news from the Islamic world when it confirms our suspicions that we're 'better off'. m2c