Matt

I'm sorry to hear the news Hitest. Best wishes you, your dad, and your family.

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So then why did the prohibition of alcohol fail so miserably? Isn't it possible that marijuana is a similar scenario? Ron Paul is likely the biggest supporter of small government in all of congress. I agree that wasn't the question. But its the main point of your argument. How about what Representative Paul said about the drug cartels and violence due to it being illegal? Even if you think that the economy should have nothing to do with this, couldn't this point be valid? No, I gained my opinions independently.

Here's an interesting video. It goes against Obama, and I agree. What a Harvard Professor and Republican Ron Paul have to say about legalization:

I think you got that backwards. I believe it's 8:30 PM Eastern time

darthvader, only trained malware staff should be posting malware advice. Generic instructions are ok, but let the staff handle it from there. I don't see much of an issue with this post, I'm just bringing that fact to you attention. Matt

Do you have a live linux cd? If so, you can try to reinstall grub: 1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop. 2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty. 3. Type "grub" 4. Type "root (hd0,5)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda6, which translates to hd0,5 for grub). 5. Type "setup (hd0)", or whatever your harddisk number is. 6. Quit grub by typing "quit". 7. Reboot. Also from the Live CD, run the command: sudo fdisk -lu\ And post the output here. It may help in troubleshooting

Quite true.

Wait... what? Dick Cheney? - http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007...ment_to_be.html Alberto Gonzales? - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/washingt...d-gonzales.html Donald Rumsfeld? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfe...for_resignation Cheney/Halliburton investigation? Lewis "Scooter" Libby? Karl Rove? Moving to politics.

Obama official not a target in FBI raid The FBI raided the former office of Obama administration official Vivek Kundra and arrested two people in a corruption probe on Thursday, but Kundra is not a target of the investigation, a spokeswoman for Washington's mayor said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090312/pl_nm/...ama_kundra_raid

That is nifty

I was getting OFFLINE for the past ~12 hours. But it seems fine now.

Type: about kitchen sink (notice no colon) Not really built in, but interesting.

Obama is not for legalization. http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/open_for_...und_2_response/

Yeah, he's conservative-leaning. He had a show on CNN a year or so ago, then recently left for Fox News. I agree, it's certainly a good thing that your opinion isn't changed by one report. That shows you've really thought about the issue! And many of the points you've made against legalization are strong as well. I think this is a very interesting topic, and as more and more states begin looking at it, it may start getting more attention--for and against.

I usually dislike the things Glenn Beck says, but this made sense to me:

Interesting.

Moving to politics forum. P.s. I don't regard Rush Limbaugh as the Conservative "Wizard Behind the Curtain". I just regard him as a talk show host--as you said. Also, there are countless others who have more impact than Carville.

As of now, PC Tools will still operate as its own unit. The only difference, basically, is that the profits go to Symantec.

They are both produced by PC Tools, which was recently acquired by Symantec

Good call. Yes I did. If you notice, I haven't made any comments one way or the other about it. I agree with that statement. In fact, I made it in the converse (see my post above). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall everyone being very upset about the economy these past eight years. Not as bad as they feel now, but quite upset. Gas prices anyone? I'm not blaming that directly on Bush, I'm just making a statement. Besides, the economy isn't the only measurement of how good things are, contrary to popular belief. I could talk about the two wars we're in, but that would go in a differ

What, like Fox News? And yet, its ok when people do that to Obama now... Bush had eight years, and they sucked. A lot. Obama hasn't been in office for 2 months yet. Seems like a double standard to me. You genuinely believe that the market would have stayed up had Obama done nothing... despite the approval ratings of his actions are at an all time high? Really?

"A budget deficit occurs when an entity spends more money than it takes in." ... "An accumulated deficit over several years (or centuries) is referred to as the government debt. Government debt is usually financed by borrowing". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit Since 100% of the spending so far put forth by Obama is financed by taxes, not borrowing from other countries, the national deficit isn't affected.

Yeah, you're getting terms confused JDoors.

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