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		<title>Freelancer.com Morons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been wandering around some of the freelancer websites looking for some programming/project management gigs to keep me busy, and I ran across this one on Freelancer.com:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been wandering around some of the freelancer websites looking for some programming/project management gigs to keep me busy, and I ran across <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freelancer.com/projects/PHP-Website-Design/Adult-quot-Babe-the-Day.html" target="_blank">this one</a> on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freelancer.com" target="_blank">Freelancer.com</a>:</p>
<p>&#8220;Want to make a website which features a different picture of a babe everyday.</p>
<p>Successful candidate:</p>
<ul>
<li>Must create and design the website</li>
<li>Logo creation</li>
<li>Provide 3000 original large, high quality photos with my watermarked logo</li>
<li>These photos must be legal</li>
<li>All <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Copyright" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright">copyright</a> will belong to me</li>
<li>Photos must automatically change as of 12:00 PM MST</li>
<li>Must  be able to and will be responsible for setting up the website with  advertising program to ensure money is made from visitors&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>The poster gave a max budget of $250&#8230;.</p>
<h2><strong>Really!!!???</strong></h2>
<p>Let me make sure I understand&#8230;You want me to develop the software to power the site (admittedly very simple), design the <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Look and feel" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel">look and feel</a> of the site, create a logo, and come up with 3000 original photos of &#8220;babes&#8221; and then sign it all over to you, all for $250?  Then you want me to market it and advertise it?  What the F*&amp;# do I need you for?  Let&#8217;s face it, you cant get 3000 images, even non-orginal ones for that price, but I have no idea what the photoshoots required would cost&#8230;maybe $25000?  For that many images there are going to be a lot of different girls, doing a lot of different things, in a lot of diferent places.  $25000 may be extremely cheap I dont know.</p>
<p>I do know the idiot that posted this is delusional.  He/She wants to pay a paltry sum for someone to do ALL the work.  Usually clients have ideas, content, and know how to market their own stuff, but not in this case.  Maybe this person works in politics and thinks this is how the real work actually operates.</p>
<p>**And yes, the thumbnail is <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Jennifer Connelly" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000124/">Jennifer Connelly</a>, she is the celeb that I think is all sorts of beautiful, so she is the babe of the day today, and then we go back to Jessica being the babe every other day of the year.</p>
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		<title>New Moon&#8230;.please make it end</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, Jess and I watched Twilight New Moon the other night and I am still in a ball in the corner trying to understand if there was a point to those 2+ hours that I just missed.  I have finally come to the conclusion that no, there is no point.  The entire movie could have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, Jess and I watched Twilight <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Two-Disc Special Edition)" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Saga-Moon-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B001OQCV56%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001OQCV56">New Moon</a> the other night and I am still in a ball in the corner trying to understand if there was a point to those 2+ hours that I just missed.  I have finally come to the conclusion that no, there is no point.  The entire movie could have been made into about 12 minutes, because the rest of the time all we got to watch was one character or another staring off into the distance.  For the record, if it was even a slight surprise to you that Jacob was a werewolf, you are a <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Mental disorder" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder">mental defective</a> and should stick to watching <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Dora the Explorer" rel="hulu" href="http://www.nickjr.com/dora-the-explorer/">Dora the Explorer</a> that way the plot is linear enough for you to follow.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s go through a checklist of what it takes to make a Twilight movie:</p>
<p>Acting?  Nope.<br />
Plot?  Nope.<br />
Anything surprising at all?  Nope.<br />
Wasting lots of time with montages as if that makes a movie?  Check.<br />
Lots of staring into the distance?  Check.<br />
Vocalizing the obvious?  Check.<br />
Taking a 2&#215;4 to your head to make sure you have a low enough <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Intelligence quotient" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient">IQ</a> to enjoy Twilight?  Check.</p>
<p>The moral to the story is, if you drool on yourself, you will enjoy the movie.  Otherwise&#8230;.have some dignity and watch Battlefield Earth instead.</p>
<p>The only way I may watch another one would be if it was like this:</p>
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		<title>Top 15 Advantages of Being a Temp</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 01:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve held onto a list from Dilbert.com from 2001 as to the Top 15  Advantages of Being a Temp.  It&#8217;s still so true.
1. You&#8217;re only lending your soul, not selling it.
2. You won&#8217;t be there when the fruits of your labor turn rotten.
3. Trying on a different personality at each new job site.
4. You don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve held onto a list from Dilbert.com from 2001 as to the Top 15  Advantages of Being a Temp.  It&#8217;s still so true.<br />
1. You&#8217;re only lending your soul, not selling it.<br />
2. You won&#8217;t be there when the fruits of your labor turn rotten.<br />
3. Trying on a different personality at each new job site.<br />
4. You don&#8217;t have to continually fork over park of your paycheck for  coworkers&#8217; weddings, babies, birthdays and anniversaries, or children&#8217;s  school, scouts, athletic, and band fund-raising efforts.<br />
5. No one gives you clothes emblazoned with the company logo and then  expects you to wear them.<br />
6. You can avoid the internal &#8220;war&#8221;. I once temped at an office so  divided and filled with hate, one half wouldn&#8217;t even speak with the  other.. it was my job to convey messages between the enemy camps.<br />
7. Your true Pointy-Haired Boss is usually miles away&#8230; and the  &#8220;customer&#8221; PHB can often be ignored.<br />
8. Overtime at time and a half! woohoo!<br />
9. Leaving at 4:30.<br />
10. Eight words: &#8220;It was like that when I got here.&#8221;<br />
11. You get to hear the words, &#8220;good job&#8221; and &#8220;please stay&#8221; frequently.<br />
12. When the company goes out backwards your resume says you worked for  an agency.<br />
13. You don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s hoohaa what the stock is doing.<br />
14. I know my end date.  The directs don&#8217;t.<br />
15. It&#8217;s like being the only lemming in the group with a parachute&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Obama is a Douche</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 23:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. President, ever hear the phrase, &#8220;no one can call my sister ugly but me?&#8221;.  I didn&#8217;t think so.  But take a hint, and dont applaud when the President of Mexico rails on your people for upholding federal law, and being far less severe about it than Mexico is.  You may not like AZ [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. President, ever hear the phrase, &#8220;no one can call my sister ugly but me?&#8221;.  I didn&#8217;t think so.  But take a hint, and dont applaud when the President of Mexico rails on your people for upholding federal law, and being far less severe about it than Mexico is.  You may not like AZ right now, but at the end of the day, they are still US citizens, (mostly legal ones).  Allowing <em>El Presidente</em> to talk like that not only makes you a complete hypocrite, but a douche.</p>
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		<title>12 Things Women need to know about Men when it comes to Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These assume you are in a relationship, one night stands, booty calls, and f*ck buddies do not count.  There is another set of rules mostly ending with &#8220;just f*ck me&#8221;.

Yes, we think about sex a lot.  In fact, if you actually knew how much or in what detail, you would never stop blushing.   It is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These assume you are in a relationship, <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="One-night stand" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-night_stand">one night stands</a>, booty calls, and f*ck buddies do not count.  There is another set of rules mostly ending with &#8220;just f*ck me&#8221;.</p>
<ol>
<li>Yes, we think about <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Sexual intercourse" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse">sex</a> a lot.  In fact, if you actually knew how much or in what detail, you would never stop blushing.   It is how we are wired.  It is like you thinking about if your ass looks fat in jeans or your hair is frizzing due to <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Humidity" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidity">humidity</a>, we are just more direct and simple than that.</li>
<li>If you consider the relationship like a tall building, women are up on the 100th floor, all CEO like, communicating, being rational, using logic, and trying to connect before and during sex. Men are in sub basement J working on the furnaces turning up the heat until clothes come off.</li>
<li>We worry about our body just as much as you do, we just don&#8217;t dwell on it when we are naked together, we are far more interested in your body at this point.  Take a hint from that, we would like it to be the same way.  When we are naked together, don&#8217;t worry about what I think of your body, because guess what, it looks great to me, if it didn&#8217;t, we wouldn&#8217;t have tried so hard to get you to this point.  Don&#8217;t be so uptight about your thighs/breasts/stomach/hips/ass/pubic hair (or lack thereof)/smell/taste that you let a great night of sex with your willing and hungry man pass you by.  Turn off that part of your head, look into our lustful eyes, and try to see you as we do: An amazing goddess that we want to have/taste/touch every inch of and give a great night.</li>
<li>When you say &#8220;Don&#8217;t stop&#8221;, for some reason we hear &#8220;do it faster/harder/better&#8221;.  So, do us a favor and be even more direct, something like &#8220;just like that, perfect, just like that&#8221;.  Let&#8217;s face it, at this point, we don&#8217;t have enough blood left in our head to recognize our native language, much less understand complex directions like &#8220;don&#8217;t stop&#8221;.</li>
<li>Your <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Vagina" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina">vagina</a> is foreign soil to us.  We didn&#8217;t get to play with a vagina 10 times a day during junior high like we did with our cocks.  So, when we are down there, give us some direction.  A little to the right?  To the left?  Somewhere in the middle? Fingers?  No?  You will like it better and we will be even more confident about doing it.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t ever fake it.  Tell us what you need to get off.  We want you to get off, as much as you want.  By this point, we are going to get off.  It isn&#8217;t hard to make us climax, and since we actually are into you and want to come back for more, tell us what you need to make it happen.</li>
<li>Talking dirty is all sorts of hot.  You don&#8217;t have to swear or even use a recognizable language; moaning, breathing, and gasping are all good.  If you don&#8217;t believe me, call your man at work some time, and just make those types of noises into the phone.  I promise you, there is a severely horny man on the other end of the line trying to figure out how to cancel meetings and rush home to pounce you.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t ask us for honesty when looking at clothing.  We will say anything looks great if it increases our chance of getting to peel it off you.  Besides, we are usually thinking about having a tryst right there and then in the dressing room.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t demean us for kinky ideas.  We are like <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Jacques-Yves Cousteau" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184150/">Jacques Cousteau</a>, and want to explore all kinds of things.  We have seen a lot of porn in our life and are curious if a finger around your anus will make you scream in pleasure.  We aren&#8217;t trying to offend or anything, just curious, and are comfortable with you enough to suggest (or try) it.</li>
<li>Blowjobs are amazing. We love them.  If you are adverse to giving, let us know why and we will fix it.  Do you need directions, candles, pretty smells, us to shave or trim, what?  We will fix it, I promise you.</li>
<li>Just because we notice another woman, doesn&#8217;t mean we are even considering anything with her.  Maybe she had those shorts with something written on the ass, or some bling tried to burn our retinas, or something was off, or we know her from work, etc.  Perhaps we just noticed her because you are so much more desirable and she doesn&#8217;t know she is being outshone and out classed by you in your sweat suit instead of pretending behind designer clothes or makeup.</li>
<li>Even thought you may not feel desirable or lusty at the moment because you are eating/cooking/cleaning/running etc, you are.  You always are, no matter what.  For the record, your sweat contains pheromones that drive us nuts, so next time you aren&#8217;t feeling sexy because you just worked out, remember your body didn&#8217;t get the memo and is broadcasting the menu to us.</li>
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		<title>We are Moving&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, it is official, we are moving.  The house in Keller is sold, we close this month, and are moving to Flower Mound.  We are moving to a much larger home, also to be closer to the ranch were we keep our horse soon to be horses.  Nothing wrong with Keller, just ready for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, it is official, we are moving.  The house in Keller is sold, we close this month, and are moving to Flower Mound.  We are moving to a much larger home, also to be closer to the ranch were we keep our horse soon to be horses.  Nothing wrong with Keller, just ready for a change.  Been here over six years which is a record for both of us, and time to move along.  Running the company and having another kiddo requires more space than our house has now, so we found a buyer and found a new house and are excited to go.  Maybe we will have a house warming of some kind, Jess would know, I don&#8217;t do that stuff.  So, yeah!</p>
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		<title>Well Played Windows 7, Well Played</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been having some problems with my computer lately, I have no idea what caused it, but I was running XP Pro for about 5 years without a single re-install, which must be a record of some type.  But the screen would get a bunch of lines on it after any given amount of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had been having some problems with my computer lately, I have no idea what caused it, but I was running <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Windows XP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/default.aspx">XP Pro</a> for about 5 years without a single re-install, which must be a record of some type.  But the screen would get a bunch of lines on it after any given amount of time, forcing a reboot.  Totally impossible to get anything done.</p>
<p>Well, I thought &#8220;<a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Video card" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card">Video Card</a>&#8220;, but I was wrong.  I went out and bought a new <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2009/10/20/asus-ati-radeon-hd-5870-volt-tweak-review/1" target="_blank">ATI 5870 by Asus</a>.  Turned out replacing my 4870 with that beast didnt do a thing for me.  So, back the $400+ card went.</p>
<p>Well, it must be software then, the problem now being I can either re-install XP, or try Windows 7 since that is where I will have to update to within 6 months anyways.  Out I go to get Windows 7 Pro, and more than $2,000 later, it is finally installed and working.</p>
<p>Upon installing it, I had network driver issues from hell.  Who knew a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WMP54G" target="_blank">Linksys wireless G PCI card</a> wouldnt work with <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Windows 7" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx">Win7</a>?  What kind of moronic OS development team made it where one of the most prolific network card manufacturers products wouldn&#8217;t work?  Answer:  <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Microsoft" rel="homepage" href="http://www.microsoft.com">Microsoft</a>!  But since I used the word &#8220;moronic&#8221; we all knew that was coming, right?  Ok, read a lot online about the various woes of people with that card, and I upgraded to a <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="D-Link" rel="homepage" href="http://www.dlink.com.tw">D-Link</a> N card, that seemed better.  Only, it wasnt.  But I knew, from what I read online the network card was correct.  Could it possibly be my <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WRT54G2" target="_blank">Linksys router</a>?  I mean, really, a router is a router right?  Nope!  I replaced the router with a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.netgear.com/Products/RoutersandGateways/WirelessNRoutersandGateways/WNR2000.aspx" target="_blank">Netgear one</a> and BAM, it works great on the network now.  Spiffy!  Time to start installing software finally.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, installing software, because for some dumb-ass reason you can&#8217;t upgrade from XP to Win7, they expect you to have had 2&#215;4 to the head and actually used <a target="_blank" title="Vista is Retarded" href="http://kazza.id.au/2007/10/vista-is-retarded.html" target="_blank">Vista</a>.</p>
<p>Start installing software, and the first reboot, the computer doesn&#8217;t come back up.  Not only that, the primary hard drive isnt even seen by the BIOS anymore.  WTF!!!???  How did Win7 just kill a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.seagate.com" target="_blank">Seagate</a> HD?  I have no idea, but it did.  Off I go to purchase new hard drives.  This time, I got two, so I can RAID 1 them, &#8220;ah ha!&#8221; I will show you Microsoft, I will fix your stupidity with hardware. <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="RAID" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID">RAID array</a> created, Windows 7 installed (again), and now I can start installing software.</p>
<p>But wait, Adobe CS2 isnt supported by Windows 7, so, $1,699 later, I am the extremely annoyed owner of<a target="_blank" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/web/?promoid=DNOWK" target="_blank"> CS4 Web Premium</a>, a supported version of the ridiclously priced yet required by everyone software suite.</p>
<p>I get everything re-installed, except for my document management software,<a target="_blank" href="http://personable.com/sourcelink/us/std/source_home11.asp" target="_blank"> Source Link</a>.  It seems those retards over there won&#8217;t reissue a CD key without a $60 fee, &#8220;because that is how we control the licenses&#8221;.  &#8220;Why do I use your software again&#8221;, I wonder as I am re-downloading games from <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Electronic Arts" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ea.com">EA</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://quickbooks.intuit.com/" target="_blank">Quickbooks</a>,  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nusphere.com/" target="_blank">NuSphere</a>, and a ton of other software that doesnt require me to pay them to reinstall their software on the same computer. Clearly everyone else has figured it out, even Microsoft and Adobe!  And get this, I get to upgrade as well to SourceLink 2010 in order to have it supported as well.</p>
<p>So, what is the final tab you ask&#8230;.</p>
<p>$200 for Windows 7<br />
$350 for 2 Hard Drives<br />
$70 for Network Card<br />
$70 for Router<br />
$1700 for <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Adobe Creative Suite" rel="homepage" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/">Adobe CS4</a><br />
$50 for new <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="McAfee" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mcafee.com/">McAfee</a><br />
$169 for SourceLink<br />
Total: $2,609 plus tax for the privelege, nay honor, nay ass raping that is Windows 7.  I bow to Microsoft&#8217;s superior skills at making their products part of everyday life, because both I am in awe I spent that much, and bowing is about all I can do since I won&#8217;t be sitting for at least  week, or until the bleeding stops.</p>
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		<title>12 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.
Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can’t legally get married because the world needs more children.
Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage is [...]]]></description>
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<li><a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Homosexuality" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality">Homosexuality</a> is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Birth control" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control">birth control</a>.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Heterosexuality" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality">Heterosexual</a> marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can’t legally get married because the world needs more children.</li>
<li>Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.</li>
<li>Straight marriage will be less meaningful if <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Same-sex marriage" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage">gay marriage</a> is allowed, since <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Britney Spears" rel="homepage" href="http://www.britneyspears.com/">Britney Spears</a>’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.</li>
<li>Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are property, blacks can’t marry whites, and divorce is illegal.</li>
<li>Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.</li>
<li>Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="United States" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h">America</a>.</li>
<li>Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.</li>
<li>Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.</li>
<li>Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why single parents are forbidden to raise children.</li>
<li>Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven’t adapted to things like cars or longer life-spans.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="Civil union" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_union">Civil unions</a>, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “separate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Separate schools for <a target="_blank" class="zem_slink" title="African American" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American">African-Americans</a> worked just as well as separate marriages for gays and lesbians will.</li>
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This is just crazy.  How can this be safe?  How did he even get on the plane with only one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a pretty big guy, not fat, but very tall and broad shouldered and the little airline seats suck for me, and more so for the person next to me&#8230;but this is fricking ridiclous!</p>
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<p>This is just crazy.  How can this be safe?  How did he even get on the plane with only one seat and not three?  I know AA is retarded, hence the reason I do not fly them anymore, but dear God, someone do something!</p>
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		<title>Dude, I got a Dell&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 06:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I finally broke down and got a laptop.  It has been a while since I had one, or felt I needed one. But here I am typing this on my shiny new laptop.
While I am extremely pro-Linux, and getting more so as I deal with Vista and the stupidity that is Microsoft’s latest [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I finally broke down and got a laptop.  It has been a while since I had one, or felt I needed one. But here I am typing this on my shiny new laptop.</p>
<p>While I am extremely pro-Linux, and getting more so as I deal with Vista and the stupidity that is Microsoft’s latest OS (I can’t wait for Windows 7, anything is an improvement). Enough about Vista, be looking for that in a few days, as I have to deal with it, and pretend I have the intelligence of a basic moss covered rock in order to use it. I digress…</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t end up getting a Mac for a couple of reasons. First is the price, it is more expensive for less machine, which doesn&#8217;t make a whole lot of sense, but I do understand it as they are pretty sexy. But I will admit as I type here on this backlit keyboard, this Dell is pretty sexy as well.</p>
<p>I have had some terrible support experiences with Apples over the last few years. You have to drag your computer to an Apple store, after you make an appointment, then you have to wait to get it back, which could be weeks. I don&#8217;t have the time for that crappy service. If I could tolerate that level of incompetence, then I wouldn&#8217;t have much of a case for the purchase of a computer in the first place.</p>
<p>Instead, Dell gives me next business day on site, with even accidental damage covered. Apple doesn&#8217;t even begin to offer that kind of service, regardless of their completely misleading commercials.</p>
<p>Then there is the issue of having to run Windows in a virtual machine for a lot of the software, and having to re-purchase the Adobe suite which is like $1800, instead of being able to use the fair-use clause and use the same copy for both my desktop and laptop.</p>
<p>So, what would the point of paying more for way crappy service, having to double up on software, new learning curve, and then running the other OS in a virtual machine. So, here I sit, hating Vista, but loving the machine, especially for the price. Thanks Dell, and oh, Apple, take note, either improve your warranty service, or just don&#8217;t bother going after the larger business market outside of the creative arenas.</p>
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