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Reply to What its like to enter kindergarden for the first time. in Misc JoeUser Forums

Don't you wish you could go back to kindergarten and do everything over again? I never listened to good advice when I was a kid. The stuff that would have been really useful to know was over my head, anyway. Only now, at age 20, do I feel I know enough to redo my childhood properly. Ah, but that's not how it works, is it? You live, and you learn. And you don't waste time thinking about what it would be like if you could do it in the oppos

A mark of distinction in Blogging JoeUser Forums

By looking at the referrals section I see that my blog is the #5 result in a Google search for "i wish i had a girlfriend lonely blog". And, without actually clicking on any of the links, it looks like mine was the first page that was really relevant to the intent of the search. I guess that's a mark of distinction. I hope the person who did that search found whate

Reply to Test in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Of course it's not plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you try to pass it off as your own work. Reposting articles without permission is something different, but still something that there have been lawsuits over. "Citing your sources" would have been if you had talked about or summarized the article, and linked to it.

You can't live like that in Misc JoeUser Forums

Me: I don't think I'd want a pet, because they have such short lifespans. I'd be sad if it died. B: You see, you can't live like that. So true. I was at a pet store the other day, and the furry critters they had for sale there were so cute. I know my mom doesn't like rodents, but some of them are just adorable. Not having any pets is just anot

Feeling alright in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Feeling okay tonight. I found myself able to open my mouth and talk to people, which has been a problem before. I'm attributing part of it to the prozac, but I've been at this dosage for almost two months, so that can't be the only factor. Maybe it just comes in waves, and I'll be feeling crappy again next week. But it could be a sign that I'm getting better. Wou

Reply to Have Blacks become professional victims? in Misc JoeUser Forums

To be a bit more civil, almost very few people have that "exeptional strength of character." That kind of what "exeptional" means. Blacks are just more likely to start out in poverty because of the extra racism-imposed hurdles their parents faced, and the hurdles that they still face makes it take even more strength of character to get out of it. I think this discussion would benefit a lot if everyone would start out by assuming that everyon

Reply to Have Blacks become professional victims? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Probably most of the reason I immediately think "white" is because most of the people I know are white. That's what happens when you grow up in a predominantly white area. It's kind of a default race in my mind. I generally don't think of race much. People are generally the same, except possibly for accents and certain facial features. Certain accents get on my nerves, and certain facial features strike me as unattractive, but other than that it's

Reply to Have Blacks become professional victims? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Eh. If you'd asked me in person, I'd have said the same thing. If I was the sort of person who went on television shows I'd probably have said the same thing there, too. I can't believe I'm being accused of being racist against my own race. Just curious, why did you quote the whole post if you were only going to reply to a small part of it? Not that I really wanted a reply, I'm just wondering why we need the extra clutter.

Reply to Have Blacks become professional victims? in Misc JoeUser Forums

Notice how I made the comment publicly. And I quoted the sentence I was directly replying to, because it was kind of far removed from where my post would appear and I wanted to give it some context. Anyone who read my post would have already read your post, of course, so as a courtesy to people who don't like to read the same thing twice I quoted as little as possible. I'm not sure what you're getting at, though. What does the second sentence lose

Reply to Have Blacks become professional victims? in Misc JoeUser Forums

if a white made this comment publically he/.she would be crusified. I assume you mean if I white person made the comment about black people? I'm "a white," if that makes any difference.

Reply to Have Blacks become professional victims? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I'll bet that up until a very short time ago you wouldn't have been able to find any pictures of a five year old black girl being handcuffed by white police officers, either. And I don't know if I represent the common American off the street, but when I heard the story and the mother's response ("My baby was set up!") I pictured your stereotypical spoiled American parents who can't be bothered to raise their children and look for someone to sue whenev

R.I.P. unnamed Egyptian girl in Health & Medicine JoeUser Forums

I just saw an article on snopes.com about an Egyptian girl named Manar Maged who was born with (part of) a conjoined twin growing out of her head. That article contains pictures that you might find disturbing. Go look at them. I was kind of weirded out when I first saw it. I went into the artic

Me feeling lonely in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I lost at least an hour's worth of typing when I accidently hit the power key on my keyboard, shutting my whole computer down within seconds. I know what you're thinking: "Peter, why is there a power key on your keyboard?" There isn't. I got out my screwdriver and took the damn thing apart to get rid of it. The sleep and wake buttons a

Reply to So You Think Sending Condoms to India is a Good Idea? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A better idea would be to allocate some resources to educating people on what the condoms are actually for and why they should be used for that purpose. And possibly make the lubricant available seperately, if it's so useful for industrial purposes.

Reply to Vacation bound in Vacations JoeUser Forums

You can never go wrong with Disney World. I don't care how old you are. As long as the children are old enough that you don't get stuck riding Dumbo over and over, there's plenty that you all can enjoy. Though I do think bringing along the laptop takes some of the "vacation" out of it. You hired employees that are good enough to go a week without your intervention, didn't you? Let them handle things for a while.

Hidden complexity in Misc JoeUser Forums

This makes me cry, but then this makes me laugh. Two very different emotions evoked by the same blog site, written by the same person. I tend to think of everything having a single theme, but in reality people are complex and multi-faceted. It's a l

Reply to Porn at Work in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The argument I can see would be that using company time to look at porn is no more or less wrong than using company time to, say, browse non-work-related blogs. Companies may block their employees from accessing popular non-work-related websites, but I haven't heard of anybody being fired for bidding on eBay when they should have been working.

Seconds - A poem in Art JoeUser Forums

I wrote this poem about three and a half years ago, when I was a senior in high school. I just realized that now that I have this blog I have a good place to post it. I entered it in poetry.com's poetry contest (which, strangely enough, looks like it's still going on...) and they told me it was selected to be put in a book and tried to sell me a copy. I strongly su

Reply to Hours away.. in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I recall Brad saying somewhere that money from pre-orders takes the place of advances paid by publishers for Stardock, which allows them to develope games independently.

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'... in Misc JoeUser Forums

I feel like I've got so much work to do, and not enough time to do it. I don't know where all my time goes. I don't spend rediculous amounts of time poking around on the internet. Reading random JoeUser articles and such. Reading whatever gets posted on snopes.com . Just a little bit of time here and there. I think th

Reply to Sex, Friendship and What It All Means in Sex & Romance JoeUser Forums

Sometimes, however, it can go awry. F managed to (while within an open relationship mind you) cheat on me and nearly destroy the relationship. Out of sheer curiousity, what exactly constitutes cheating in this situation?

Reply to Interesting Facts Vol. III... in Misc JoeUser Forums

For anyone who's interested in knowing what the word means, but not quite interested enough to look it up, here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Envy in Misc JoeUser Forums

A lot of people seem to get these two confused, so just to clarify: Main Entry: 1 en·vy Pronunciation: 'en-vE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural envies Etymology: Middle English envie, from Old French, from Latin invidia, from invidus envious, from invidEre t

My "Linguistic Profile" in Misc JoeUser Forums

Well, I found this slightly interesting: Your Linguistic Profile: 65% General American English 20% Yankee <td bgcolor=

Reply to Constuctors in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Probably not until much later. The main thing Stardoci is trying to evaluate with Beta 1 is hardware compatibility. With Beta 2 the focus will shift to the user interface. Beta 3 is when they start worrying about balancing the gameplay. See http://galciv2.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=162&AID=64347#535063 for details.