Dan Greene

Reply to Birth Control For Sixth Graders? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"If you think that women who get pregnant at 13 don't suffer lifelong consequences, think again, Dan. Even when they have an abortion, there's evidence they carry those scars with them. We actually have a GREATER public interest in providing birth control for teens than we do the HPV vaccine. Because if a teenager gets pregnant, TWO lives are impacted; if she gets HPV, ONE life is impacted." I said the exact opposite. I also think especially when a child aborts another child, that cause

Reply to Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I still have to call Microsoft another 50 some days until my support for OEM Vista runs out, during that time, I'll just keep trying to get XP going. At this point nobody at MS fucking seems to know how to install XP on a computer that had/has Vista. True story. That perception may just be because I am talking to the Vista tech staff and of course talking to a nazi I'm expecting to get a 3rd reich response and support effort, who I have been asking for all along, is XP support because

Reply to Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

If you run OS 10, it's exclusive to the Mac branch of computing right? If you run a PC you have the choice of Microsoft products or Linux right? 90% of computers sold run MS. The majority of computers users use only MS OS products. That being the case, I find that Microsoft needs to be able to hold 3rd party products accountable, by listing what is and is not compatible with their operating systems. The fact that they are not is that it is no skin of their own back, because they sell O

Reply to Birth Control For Sixth Graders? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

HPV vaccine, helps women who choose to have sex later on in life. Birth control only helps prevent pregnancy. It does not prevent STD's or improper use of birth control itself. Mandatory may be too strict of a compliance but mandatory HPV treatment is much more sensical than birth control access for children. Some adult women who have not had the HPV vaccine face serious consequences for sexual activity, married, financially, and emotionally able to care for children not withstanding.<b

Reply to Birth Control For Sixth Graders? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

"I'm sure educators all over the nation/world are waiting and watching to see how this goes over, and it's only a matter of time before this new idea spreads." Or is rejected. Imagine how the Islamic extremist movement will use it lol, calling us all early impregnators or whatever propagandized message they can use to recruit more "Blow yourself up R-Us soldiers". "I am very sorry and disappointed to read this last post by LW. Her insistence in going down the personal attack pa

Reply to Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I was running 64bit Vista, which I think may have been some of the compatibility issues, root cause. On XP it was SP2, I would assume 32 bit, since everything f--king worked lol. Unfortunately, the worst news for me has arrived. I have been unable even with the help of the boneheads at MS (go figure right), to get XP back on this computer via the OEM disk with XP SP1, on it which was my origin

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

This thread is about 3 things. A. Global warming 1. Does it exist? 2. Is it caused by humans, and to what degree? 3. If it does what are the ways or reducing that or controlling it? B. Alternative energy sources to oil and coal, resources which have a limited supply and are constantly in such demand as to cause wars. 1. Are they feasible yes/no why not? 2. Anybody know of a cheap way to do this? C. Identifying the problems ranging from be

Reply to Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

"I am running Vista Business (32 bit) with a good processor, video card and 4 GB RAM (PC 6400) and the OS still feels like "bottled up" I think Brad Wardell wrote about handles and how excess handels were a possible cause of bogged down system. I don't think I have the depth level of computer knowledge to really know if that is bs or an intelligent observation. What I will say is that there are more handels, more processes, more this that and the other thing going on in the background o

Reply to Birth Control For Sixth Graders? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Agree. I don't think the actual number of an age really matters. There are some 16 year old who are ready mentally and emotionally to handle the burdens and responsibilities of an 18 or 20 year old. But financially no way. Some dead beat mom and dads in their 20's and 30's who can't. No two average 15 16 year old children, never mind younger, are equipped with all the skills and demands to even deal with the potential of having to accept that type of responsibility. They all se

Reply to Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

"I often see this sort of time-stamp as an attempted indicator of competency. 'Using for X years' can still mean someone is a klutz with mechanical/technical objects...." I am a klutz, and I am not very skilled with computers. Which is why I thought Vista would make it easier for me to perform my computing. The questions I have for you are, Why is Vista less compatible with stuff than XP? Why does Vista peroform worse accross the board than XP? Why does Vista

Reply to Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Listen folks, the Vista Sucks is an opinion. On a technical merit, the OS is great. Except last night I had it crash and recover explorer just like XP, so I'm guessing it is equal to. This is a clean install of an OEM version of Windows Vista, with all updates applied expect the foreign language ones. However, on a performance basis. It is slower with any task I have attempted when compared to XP SP2, thus far it is incompatible with... Supreme Commander patching utili

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Oh ok lol, I misunderstood. I don't consider myself to be an environmentalist, I do appreciate nature, but I am not in a position to exert influence or control on environmental issues. I do think we as a nation should do more to secure our nations energy infrastructure, but not necessarily because its good for the environment, but because it will free us from having to make choices which in which the environment will lose out. If that makes me an environmentalist so be it. I'm comforta

Hey I just got Vista I'm paying the "Ultimate" Price for it! in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I'm not going to lie to you all. Vista looks great, but it runs like shit. ---PROFANITY WARNING--- Nothing too severe but I'm not pulling punches with this one. In the interests of telling you all where I am coming from I've been into computers since 1988 when I played a game called SUBBATTLE on my uncles Apple IIGS. My first comp was a 486SX 20mhz with 4 MB ram stock. Since then I have run DOS 5.1, 6.2, Win 3.1, Win 95/98SE, I've had a P3 500, a P4 2.4 Ghz, and now I am

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

I am not an environmentalist. Does an environmentalist, drive a 1989 Buick? Does an environmentalist own a Quad Core CPU? Does an environmentalist, mow lawn with a motor lawnmower? Give me a break, sure I use compact flouresent bulbs but not because they are more environmentally friendly but because they last longer. Which of my statements automatically makes me an environmentalist? The one where I say, we can basically get free trips under 200 miles if we drive electric inst

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Nuclear power could replace coal over 25 years, as easily as we replaced horses with automobiles. Moving the bulk of electrical power generation from coal to nuclear and then from nuclear to solar wouldn't be all that difficult. There is also a possibility of fuel cell technology. I seriously don't see why nobody else seems to see, that we all have roof's with shingles instead of solar panels, and we all commute the distance electricity can take us, and we have a government t

Reply to Supreme Commander in Real-Time JoeUser Forums

Supreme Commander has one really excellent feature. The strategic zoom, which hopefully will carry over to future RTS games, I also like the effectiveness of the transports, I wish they were more defendable, and I also like the no rush circles. The editor is pretty good. Unfortuantley it has taken gpg so long to get the ball rolling on meaningful updates and improvements to the games, as well as fixing memory management issues, and it doesn't play well at all on single core marginal sys

Reply to Birth Control For Sixth Graders? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I don't think it's responsible for anybody to be encouraging or enabling anybody the age of a middle schooler to be engaging in sexual intercourse. It seems like people are outraged as well they should be, I would be very wary of sending my children to a school district where this became a reality. The stated idea that they were doing this to protect "the at risk kids" who have "irresponsible parents" is silly and really is outrageous.

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

I wrote this out, a few weeks ago and then didn't touch it. Renently I've gone through the process of building a new computer, trying to get microsoft to play nice and let me run XP for a reasonable cost, and then realizing what I thought I really want to do is run VISA Ultimate. Unfortunately, I don't think I like Vista, anyway on this piece of writing I appreciate the commentary. It is my belief that global warming is inclined to be true and scientifically so. Of course there are peo

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

"If the Earth goes through these cycles of hot and cold for the last three billion years what is it that man can do to harm the planet?" Man is pumping in lots of CO2, and it is trapping more and more of the suns energy inside the Earth, and at a higher rate, than ever in history. Perhaps the sun is getting hotter, or more solar energy is getting to us than in the past, so what Paladin? If we are in agreement that it is getting hotter than that's ok. If you wanna believe

Reply to Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

Humanities' contribution of greenhouse gasses, is probably adjusting the equilibrium of the Earth and causing global warming. With the event in motion, and with little to stop its acceleration, nobody knows for certain where that leads the planet on the global scale. Do you stop suddenly any and all contributing factors to the problem, without understanding it fully? No. Do you take measured and approaches that make sense at the time? Yes. The root cause of a lot of the CO2 emissions i

Reply to Looking for recommendations: Hardware upgrades in PC Hardware JoeUser Forums

Cool, Well you will defiantly want to up your power supply, if you are going dual core and want to run with Vista eventually. I would recommend a minimum 500 watt supply. Even if you aren't going to high end, and I didn't except with my cpu, you are going to need more power if you keep your hard drives in the unit. ATI does make some really competitive graphics cards under $100 and around that level. As for AMD, their dual core processors are not very comparable to the power

Reply to Looking for recommendations: Hardware upgrades in PC Hardware JoeUser Forums

I just this week upgraded and finished building my own rig. CPU Intel Q6600 MOBO Asus P5K Deluke RAM 2 GB Crucial Ballistics PC2 DDR2 6400 PWRSUP OCZ 700 Watt GPU Geforce 8600 GT PCI-E 16X DVD RW SONY NEC HD Western Digital 500 GB I spent about $1000, and I got a new monitor too but it's not something I'd recommend. Do you intend to just upgrade your current case or do you plan on starting fresh? If anything I'd recommend the Q6600 and

Global Warming Part 2 in The Environment JoeUser Forums

I am finally becoming convinced that this is a real, man made + natural phenomenon. I have become convinced through making an in depth analysis, and seeing how science rather then politics or politicians are providing the tools to conclude that a potentially serious global warming series of events and trends is occurring. The first bit of evidence you need to know when researching this, is understanding the "actual greenhouse greenhouse effect" and the "greenhouse effect of the Earth

Reply to Just the facts please.. in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I think the General had an outstanding briefing. I believe his is very knowledgeable and realistic in his outlook on the war. Certainly few could successfully argue that he isn't one of the few people who have an accurate view of the situation in Iraq. I find it troubling that the best he had to offer was a reduction in troop levels over several more years, sort of a four or five year plan before our forces are out of Iraq, all of that is of

Reply to Michael Vick Down for the Count? in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

"When you cite what you see on Maury as if that's a reliable source" But you see dear, I did not cite it at all, nor did I give it reliability, I just gave it as an example. Citation requires a link to something with further depth on the subject. "An example of providing citation would be this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Povich" I don't think Maury is any more credible a source than Anna Nicole Smith. It is you who chose to assume I was providing "evidentiary