Dan Greene

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

"And yes, it is the media that is making him out the victim, not you. I just used your name as stating that viewpoint. I did not mean to imply that you were the author of it." Thanks, cause I think he deserves exactly what he's going to get out of this. "Star status does NOT impair decision making." B.S. It's an accumulation thing, and also all in how you deal with it, consider the MTV channel. Does star status impair the decision making of the people on it, to say som

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Re: Your apology for using profanity and your post #93. It's sad to say that you evidently don't mean what you say and don't say what you mean." "Do not belittle her name. It does nothing for your argument. And probably more than the offensive term stopped her from continuing the debate." "Hopefully with this, Dan will get the message and be a more careful." My apology was intended and I apologize again, I forgot to revise the profanity, my response had gotten long, not an excu

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

Tough crowd in here, don't let me sit with the crowd that is defending Vick. I am not a fan of his, but I give him some credit for both pleading guilty and facing the music for his crimes. If he is not guilty as he once stated to the effect he should be fighting this. It was not me but CNN that is making him out to be a victim. When I say he is a victim of his star status, its because people without that status have the conscience complex that might prevent them from exercising animal

Reply to Building A COMP in PC Hardware JoeUser Forums

"I don't think you can overclock those Core2 Duos on air with the standard heatsink." You can just not to the degree I was quoting. In the case I have I expect it to have a high degree of heat dissipation via convection, but you are right in suggesting I acquire an aftermarket heatsink solution. This being the first process I OC I am hoping there are diagnostic tools that will let me have insight to the temperature so I can monitor it and metric different cooling options. I know that th

Reply to PC Games sales decline: Piracy vs. Quality? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

It depends on how you measure quality. If graphics that are closer to photo realistic than geometric shapes of images, than quality is improving. If you don't mind telephone/radio quality audio but a good standard is 5.1 or 6.1 surround sound, than quality is improving. Game depth is falling, and so is the crispness of ideas, but in a medium where innovation takes a back seat role against for sure profitability there is a serious quality problem. A lot of game companies do half ass wor

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

VIDEO FROM CNN "http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/20/vick/index.html#cnnSTCVideo" I love how this video categorizes the story as "Vick" the victim, of the justice system, because there was a group of other defendants who took plea deals, in order to testify against him, and get lesser sentences. Of course you would expect that people with integrity, don'

Reply to PC Games sales decline: Piracy vs. Quality? in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

I guess entertainment, being a non-essential sector of economy, is more able to sustain piracy or even tolerate it. It's not all bad if it drives innovation and adds to marketing even though it's not fair I seriously doubt it affects quality. People get into business to make money, there are more honest consumers or consumers who don't have access to pirated goods, that pay for goods at retail, than there are who acquire them through piracy. Piracy though bad for startups probably, and

Reply to Bridge Collapse is Example of Crumbling Infastructure! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"You have to keep in mind that these weapons and forces are not just for fighting terrorist but also for facing other nations who may want to go to war and can match our fire power." We have had a larger defense budget that the combined rest of the world for at least a decade and the only military force on the world that is comparable would be the Chinese. They are interested in selling to us not sticking it to us with a big war, of which everybody knows we'd end up nuking them into his

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Building A COMP in PC Hardware JoeUser Forums

I am building a new computer. I am doing it myself, that is to say without the help of a major corporation in business to build a computer for me and than bill me. I have listened to a bunch of sources on what types of components to buy and come to a few conclusions. The choices are staggering, and I love that but it can be overwhelming at the same time. I ha

Reply to Bridge Collapse is Example of Crumbling Infastructure! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"not their job it was the cities job" How is an interstate highway section not the responsibility of the Federal Government? It would seem to me that all miles on a Federal highway ought to be inspected by the Feds so shit like this doesn't happen. It's interesting and sad that there is finger pointing because if the bridge situation was that bad nobody should have been driving on it. The best place to cut spending is the Pentagon Budget for the airforce, the army an

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

"I don't like to talk about it, because it's always dismissed, but Satan is in fact at work in our lives." You can believe that if you want, however if it is true Satan was in our lives, in the 40's and 30's and 20's, and this type of behavior did not manifest itself as prevalent or counter measures would have been taken before the incidents in the 60's. "I read the whole article, Dan, but that doesn't make the conclusion valid." I didn't assert that it did make a corr

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

Let me first say that I added this article into the discussion to point out that there is no known cause of homosexuality. I don't even know if it is credible but I have no reason to suspect it is not. I do believe that it is well sourced and objective. "Within the allpsych article, it is expressed that among pairs of identical twins (That's identical DNA) only 52% were both gay. While that says that the closer the DNA, the more likely it is to be tied together, it also proves conclusi

Reply to Bridge Collapse is Example of Crumbling Infastructure! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well I didn't say it was just Bush, but certainly going to war in Iraq without an exit strategy and then staying forever in order to never score a loss, isn't a responsible decision making process, financially as well as in other terms. There is no question congress should stop excessive spending, but nobody seems to agree on ways to enforce that, or which of the spending is excessive and which is not. What I will say in regards to this thread, is that this bridge collapse is

Reply to Bridge Collapse is Example of Crumbling Infastructure! in Politics JoeUser Forums

If Gene ever made the argument that Bush cornered himself into the role of lame duck president he would be right about that one. Bush may have done some, right and wrong, but right now its hard to find that he is doing anything but marking time and keeping troops in Iraq. Oh yeah, and spending lots of money and mortgaging the future of the nation.

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

"policies of "zero tolerance", and other steps that have come from the Holy See, the Church is doing what is needed to effectively solve the problem." Haven't excluded Cardinal Bernard Law, a known enabler, from being a member of the church. "The root problem is that of homosexuality and the sooner that everyone, including the Church, recognizes that, the better." Homosexuality is no more at fault than heterosexuality for the abuse. Abusers abuse victims because of op

Reply to Bridge Collapse is Example of Crumbling Infastructure! in Politics JoeUser Forums

As soon as the story recedes from the headlines so does the debate about infrastructure lol.

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

"As pedophilia isn't confined to the Catholic Church, lust is not confined to the Catholic Church, and homosexuality isn't confined to the Catholic Church, I guess we shouldn't even talk about the Catholic Church in connection with these things?" Certainly none of my posts have been to the exclusion of the Catholic Church on this thread, so as for your assertion 'we shouldn't talk about the Catholic Church' in that framework Go to hell. I was taught on here what a straw man arg

Reply to Dangers to Free Societies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hitler was very interested in keeping the United States out of WW2 for as long as possible and entirely if possible. There was a Nazi party in the USA but for most of the pre-war and war it was not supported extensively by Germany. Hitlers primary concern once the war had begun was Defeating Britain, Keeping the USA isolationist, Attacking and defeating Russia. The attack on the communists was, in Hitlers' mind, a plan to remove an ally or potential ally of Britain, because they could not or wou

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

"We know that all homosexual persons aren't child molesters. However, in the case of the clerical scandal, an extrememly high percentage of the molesters were/are homosexual." Of course they aren't. Show some stats. "It's definitely our business to recognize that fact." Show some stats! "The same goes with the proportionality of homosexuality in the other sectors of the society." Show some FUCKING STATS! Before you go making the case for a c

Reply to Dangers to Free Societies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I'm interested to learn that German American citizens were detained as well as that is an education for me. I figured with a vast number of American citizens at the time, tracing their ancestry to Germany, that such an internment would not have taken place. Beyond that I specifically remember being taught that there was no internment of Germans. Perhaps it was not common knowledge in public schools or teaching circles. Of course nor the German American or Japanese American citizen

Reply to Dangers to Free Societies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Actually I had no idea Lincoln suspended Habeas corpus during the civil war thats interesting. As for comparing citizens of this nation with armed combatants. The American citizens of Japanese descent were detained against their will as security threats by the government. Without trial. The connection to armed combatants is such that if we as Americans believe in our rights as a free people, we should be bringing these criminals to justice or letting them go if they aren't guilty of cri

Reply to The Sins of the Father in Religion JoeUser Forums

I'm not trying to ruffle your feathers Gid, I just read different things then you write I guess. Certainly I have no idea how anyone can find out information, without already knowing, without an investigation. Either you know it, or you do not and in order to find it out you investigate. You said... "After several years, her actions were proven and the teacher was finally charged." Then you said... "In the intervening years, the school never even investigated.

Dangers to Free Societies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

My life intersected a few interesting topics, some recent, some old rehashes, others important but years in the past. I wanted to write on them with some relevance and urgency but not with more urgency, then would be prudent for creating a good understanding and presentation of the facts. There are some people in our nation who see fit to make argument, that

Reply to Voting Isn't Working in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I guess your solution of voting "them out" would make sense if we were not dealing with a system "controlled" by two parties who work together to kick down independents on the national level. If you are an outsider, they both attack you, beyond that, the two parties have their spin masters who pollute any word of mouth you might get as an independent with "spin" most of it bullshit and all of it negative. Beyond that they work to keep you off the ballot so people either canno