LadyCrimson

Oh good grief. That is hardly a comparable theoretical scenario to, say, trying governmental programs that restrict number of children per family/couple/person/reward those who have less children, or something.

But we wouldn't know if the reduced population theory was true or not, unless we try it, no? Typically the richer nations have less children - so if we spread the wealth out more evenly, it's fairly possible that eventually most people would just have less children by lifestyle choice. Unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon.

That's something I really don't like either and wish they'd stop going in that direction.

If your sound card is decent, I'm not sure why recording it as it plays would = terrible sound quality? That is, if it's recorded from the computer via a program, not with an external mike pointed at your speakers. Maybe it wouldn't as great as the original, but it shouldn't sound completely awful.

While I think being environmentally conscious is important, it doesn't keep me up at night, simply because I'll be dead by the time we completely run out of anything.

Fossil fuels would still run out. What we need is to move away from dependence on such as energy resources.

I keep thinking that whole website/group has got to be a long-running joke/hoax for chuckles/fame by some really bored people, but a quick Google makes me think they're actually serious. I mean, I agree overpopulation is a problem for many reasons, and that education about it being a problem is good, and that a very drastic reduction over the next 200 years would be pretty cool...but this "movement" is just silly.

As you guessed, such symptoms usually mean the actual video card or video drivers are fubar'd (or soon will be fubar'd) - my own vid card went this path this week, complete w/those graphical glitches - but since you tried on different systems/cards, it sounds mysterious. Did you try changing all the cables, in case any of them have become faulty? Hope you figure it out.

Interesting chart, that, thanks for those links. When I complain about amount of direct wage/income tax, I guess what I'm complaining about is the social security part. If you're self-employed, personal-finance-wise it's more "painful" since with no official employer to pay half of your SS tax, you have to pay it all. While you are allowed to deduct the "other half" from your total gross-income, that won't typically lower your adjusted-gross enough to make a huge difference in the non-SS areas of taxation, so you still end up paying close to double more "out of pocket" than a non-self-employed worker, for the same end result.

Dye his hair blonde or give him a wig etc. and I think the guy who voiced Disciple (Greg Ellis) would do fine as a live-action Disciple. I base this on seeing the hammy way he acts in bit roles in stuff such as '24', 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.

"book1?" There's only one Gone w/the Wind book. That Scarlet 'sequel' should never have been written. I've been re-reading the Northern Frights anthologies (edited by Don Hutchison), a decent dark fantasy short story collection series. Some of the tales give me pretty creepy mental images that stick for a long time.

Excellent film.

Mum gave me some CD's of dad's old family film slides, converted to jpgs. They haven't gotten to the years where I joined the family, but going through them was still a treat, especially since I have so few personal memories of my dad before his MS. It made me feel all maudlin. I think I'm getting "softer" in my middle-age. Although, I have to nitpick that whoever did the slide conversion didn't do a great job. Very old and somewhat faded slides can be hard to convert well, but they didn't make the resolution big enough to print even fair 8x10's, which I think is a shame.

I found that pretty hard on my ears. Can't say I liked it ... but I didn't hate it, either.

I saw Planet Terror. I liked it a lot more than Death Proof...Death Proof was decent, imo, but PT was a lot more amusing. The whole BBQ thing, all the silly one liners, hammy over-acting and 'bad-horror' dialogue, etc. Fun stuff.

I find mixing up your favorite hot/spicy salsa with a can of seasoned stewed tomatoes (including the liquid - cut up the tomato pieces into smaller bits, or buy the pre-diced ones), plus a little ketchup and a little sugar ( to thicken it a bit - not too much of either), makes a good "BBQ" sauce/baster. Or a covering for oven-baked meats. Less sugary sweet, no added vinegar, very flavorful. And kimchee/kimchi rocks.

If gas was $8 a gallon in the US, it might inspire states to actually build effective and truly usable mass transportation in all areas to all areas, including recreational/national parks, beaches and so on - not just a bus to the local store or office. Even where there is some mass transit available, as long as it's not stop n go rush-hour, it's still faster & less hassle to drive yourself there instead, hence people don't use it much. Feels like you either stay at home and never go/drive anywhere, or you're always driving for hours to get anywhere/do anything.

He probably shouldn't have been trained in the first place - too old w/too much emotional baggage & anger already in place. Doesn't matter who he was apprenticed to...

Re: Why my hubby uses so many servers I asked him. What little bit I understood of his answer went something like this: multiple different operating systems that need to be able to talk to each other simultaneously - I guess if you install multiple OS on one computer, while running one OS the others are 'off' so they can't talk to each other or something? He sometimes uses them for testing out/troubleshooting network problems & programs for his work (he'll bring home servers from work to hook into it all, too). Other than that, I'm still clueless. And ... yesterday I built a barn-shaped cat-nap-hidey-house out of cardboard boxes - which is much better & more elaborate than the first cardboard box 'house' I made. Kitty loves it. A pox on all those high-priced cloth and foam or wood and carpet things at pet-stores.

I always feel so cheesy voting for my own, but... 1 - 7 2 - 3 3 - 15 4 - 10 5 - 4 6 - 12 7 - 11 8 - 8

They're not up to bone yet ... maybe in 10 years, they say.

I barely know what he does with all of them, so I don't have much of an idea. Most of them are fairly old hardware wise...he doesn't need "new" to do most of his stuff...and I think most of them run different versions of Linux. I'm sure he has a reason for keeping them separated/isolated...hubby doesn't do anything without a reason.

To be fair, Anakin had no choice, since otherwise there would've been no Vader .... harhar.... But mostly, what went wrong with Anakin was he couldn't let go of his fears ... particularly the fear of being left alone.

...I dunno...I'm not sure I believe it either. Seems like some kind of magical exaggeration to try and get more funding/stir up excitement for their (claimed) interesting, but less than magical, research. But who knows. If it is true, it's certainly ... intriguing.

I'm tempted to get a smallish scooter, ala the Vespas, tho preferably a cheaper type...