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I thought Ozi was being nice. At least he didn't call him a scrotum cheeked testicle tooth. Here we pride ourselves on intelligent insults...sometimes.

anybody else, besides me, think that maho is being tricksy.

Maturin asked if signing up for the selective service in the US means firearm training. The answer is NO. Only if you actually join the military and it depends on the service you enter. It is merely an acct of the eligable males between 18yo and 26yo. All services require small arms training - that's learning safety, care, and shooting of an M-16 that's usually been rechambered for a .22 long rifle. The Army and Marines learn more about the use of various firearms because they protect the US Air Force and Navy respectively. The military police train on whatever sidearm du jour is, in whatever branch of service they're in. In my time, late 70s, it was a S&W .38 or a .45 Colt Commander. Now I believe it is some Italian made hunk of junk (I always prefered the Colt 45 semi-auto. I can field strip it, clean it, and reassemble it with my eyes closed in about 3 minutes). Though I don't have any weapons in my house - I don't need them for home defence because I have baseball bats and a wife with twirling skills turned martial by me - I do own a Webley Service Revolver with a cylinder made for .45ACP w/ halfmoon clips for fast reloads and an Enfield .303 long barrel. I was an Avionic Sensor specialist but I also wore a badge on the weekends to help clean the airmen out of off-limits bars and chase down those who've gone AWOL. Not to have weapons in my house is a choice I made when I developed the ability to defend my household without the need for them, but I will never give up the weapons I own and if necessary will use them against a percieved threat to my family and friends (not myself because I can run...well...hobble real fast). Yet, even in my choices I have misgivings about casual ownership by a great many folks who have Concealed Carry licenses. Half-a-century back I wouldn't have these same worries because folks who grew up in Texas were more mature than today.

Backwoods version of a colonoscopy. They have endoscopes for that.

Its partner "Audacious" Is a pretty good player too.

I may have posted this in the wrong place. So, here it is again. A little light reading on the argument of gun control. http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Articles/Harvard-University-Study-Reveals-Astonishing-Link.aspx?p=1

Here's a little light reading on the argument of gun control. http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Articles/Harvard-University-Study-Reveals-Astonishing-Link.aspx?p=1

If Jesus was black then he must be an ancestor of Sammy Davis Jr. I mean Mr Davis is the only other black Jew I know of.

My son, who is a sytem admin kinda guy, prefers the linux servers to IBM and Dell. Though you do have to (should) learn to perform command line functions, the advantage is...you can do everything from the command line. One of the coolest things about Linux is that you can customize the OS's Kernel for your particular platform -this includes the choosing the specific CPU, GPU, and any fancy peripherals- then compile it on the platform and reboot into an OS that is compiled specifically for your machine. Then install any apps you want to use and you have a very lean OS and all the extra space that had info not related to your machine. The downside of this is if you upgrade a peripheral like the graphics card, you will want to recompile. But hey! If you're a Geek that is all part of the fun.

Keep in mind that only the last pic is a pic of the actual car '75 Chevy Laguna S3. I fogot to mention that my '73 RX3 Cosmo was red, not green. The DeTomaso Pantera was also a '73. The pic of the '71 Pontiac Le Mans Sport is the model and color of mine.

these are the cool cars I've owned. They aren't like the rest here but each had it's part to play. The photos are not pics of my cars but I never took any of myself. This was my first new car. I bought it in 1973. This car was the reason I got laid in HS. It was beautiful, comfortable, and handled very well for an american car. It was average in speed for a 350ci, 4 barrel Rochester and factory drive train. I owned it until 1978; my last year in the USAF. I bought this car a year old but for only $500US. It only needed new rotor tips which, at that time, only cost me about $25 for 3 of them. About 2 weeks after I made the repair, the local auto parts guy gave me a Holley 750cfm 4 barrel carb and an adapter because he couldn't sell it. It fit right on the Cosmo and since the Wankel engine was generally starved for air and gas with the factory set-up it not only ran like a scalded assed ape (0 - 60mph in about 4 secs because I couldn't shift fast enough), it got better fuel mileage; even with the crappy Holley. I sold it to some fool kid, for $1200, who couldn't keep it on the ground and ended up wrapping it around 5ft dia Oak tree. I bought this for $1000US in 1974. I wondered why it was so cheap until about a week after I bought it and realized the tranaxle was using crutches (sawdust). I thought about sueing the salesman but then I had a cool car. The only place to get a new one was from the DeTomaso factory in Italy. It cost $1500 + $500 shipping. Still below actual value of a working Pantera. I got my first speeding ticket 140mph in a 55mph zone; I was slowing down. I think +/- 160 was it's top speed. I sold it for a small profit when I decided I didn't want to pay $1200/yr for insurance. I still owned the LeMans and it only cost me $250/yr. This is an actual picture of my car; my Dad took it the day it got home from the shop. I bought away from an idiot who was using it to chase down his friends in jeeps. What you see is after I got it back from the body shop. By this time the car was no longer a factory ride. It had a 350 HP 327ci engine with a, believe it or not, 2 speed electric rear differential from a wrecked 12cyl Jaguar XKE. It fit with only minor mods to the frame. It allowed me to have a fully supported drive line and rear independant suspension. Inside it came with split bench front seats but I switched them with buckets. I replaced the tranny with Turbo 400 (original was the turbo 350) which was much stouter and transfered more torgue to the wheels. It was still heavy and would only achieve 150mph but I could get there pretty quick. I lost it because of a long story that involved the border patrol and a trusted friend. :shithappens: but I might not have married my wife if I hadn't lost it. These aren't the cool machines but they were to me.

Bison Burgers have to be mixed with something sticky or they just fall apart. I like it too but there is no fat to hold it together. It's great in Chili; no grease.

GIMP is an open source app that easily replaces Photoshop. for Video editting I advise you to look here before buying an expensive software. http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/693365-top-3-linux-video-editors

Since I am a Homebrewer, I use an app called "Brew Target" which, like all Mozilla products, VLC Player, and Open Office etc, has been ported over to windows.

I don't have Windows on my machine at all, so, I use linux for everything. Ripping music, bank transactions, video mods, music mastering, file organization, and making fixes on my son's windows machine that the protected OS won't allow you to make unless you can navigate through DOS. I use it to watch movies. Netflix doesn't work in Linux because of DRM issues because Silverlight doesn't understand the concept of "Free", but my TV and Blu-Ray player do play nice with Netflix. I have an HP scanner, that is still better than the ones being sold now, however, windows quit supporting it past XP. Linux sees it just fine and the App I use, XSane, operates it better than Windblows ever did. In fact, Linux sees all the peripherals, on our network, that windows has to be told to look for. Linux uses far fewer resources so it can be loaded on old machines like my Dell Latitude (850MHz) laptop. I used it as a printserver before I got the network printer. I also use it to program Microchips processors. MPlabX IDE is Java based and so is cross platform. The best part of the Linux environment, besides being free (though you can pay big bucks for some things), is that while MS may have a few hundred, or so, software geeks maintaining each project, the Linux world will have thousands all over the world; and they will gladly accept your advise and participation since it is open source. You are allowed to fix something that is broken and submit it to the rest of the world. I have a 4GB thumbdrive with Linux installed as a multimedia server with LOTS of music on it. When I go to parties all I have to do is plug it into a PC or laptop, tell it to boot off the thumbdrive, and I have a full media center that will play DVDs, CDs, any format of audio or video file -except iTunes protected files...who cares anyways- and will deal with mono to 7.1 surround and SPDIF optical or otherwise. Only gamers need windows and even that is becoming unnecessary for most things because of an app called "Wine" which handles the APL calls for windows and so I can play most games in Linux...and faster than windows.

I don't see the point in moving to another flavor of Linux. Mint doesn't seem to add any advantages and you can install, onto Ubuntu, anything you get pre-packaged with Mint.

Who gets to wash the thing...eww.

Thanks. It's the only time I get waited on hand and foot and everyone feels guilty watching me try to do stuff so I get to direct them and get more work done...as it should be.

[quote author=corboblanc si on se replonge dans l'époque, l'association guitare/piano/batterie, est assez intéressante!!! cela sent le hippie!!! Je l'ai vu la chanteuse manger des sandwiches tout en chantant.

Hey! I don't hold a degree in CS but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn...twice. :poke: Sorry I haven't voted sooner but I was moving many boxes of an ancient form of education into their new... er .... "ancient form of education" cases, last Saturday and wrenched my back pretty well, Today is the first day I have been able to stand straight since Tuesday when I was actually able to stand up. Pain meds and muscle relaxers are wonderful when they are needed.

But this'll make up for it.

This is off the beaten path even for us oldsters.

I think she's getting ready for "Cat Tossing". You only score if the balloon pops.

Ok I'll bite. This Forum's Quorum has masterbators and instigators and musical demonstrators. The politicos can get rowdy ...

A Canadian? OMG. What's this sight coming to when you let those kind in here. :nana: