little_old_man

Never heard of it, but I will check it out. The premise looks interesting.

I was reading this morning that HBO is pretty good about getting production of shows completed on schedule, and right now season 6 is set for April of next year. I guess we'll see. Yeah I really like Halt & Catch Fire, probably because I was about your age when the show takes place, lived in the SF bay area where the PC was born and was really into technology back in those days. I went to one of the first computer shows in San Francisco back in 1978 and saw Jobs and the Woz demonstrating new gadgets to go with their recently released Apple 2. Then in 1982 I went to work for my dad who was already networking Apple and Radio Shack computers together before networking for PC's actually existed on a large scale. We started and ran our company for the next several years on TRS-80 computers with proprietary software my dad had written, and got up to 100 employees long before we got our first IBM and NCR servers in the early 90's. Ah the good old days.

I'll bet he's glad it wasn't a cup of piss. Nice catch.

After recently watching seasons 1 through 4 I feel like season 5 was a let-down and not nearly as exciting as previous seasons. Hopefully they'll be able to turn that around in season 6. As I understand it the show has now gone beyond the books in the story-line, so those who have read them will be completely in the dark from this point forward. Now I need other shows to watch for the next few months. I'm kind of into Halt and Catch Fire which just started season 2 a couple weeks ago, and the spin-off of the Walking Dead starts in August.

I want dinner first and I like lots of foreplay.

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!! The finaly was amazing. I'm sending @@eidolonFIRE a PM right now to fill him in on all of the details.

Just so it's not Canadian, yes.

No worries Ter, I found them.

I didn't know Ford made the Explorer in 1915.

Hmmm

I had to look it up. Went to the original youtube video and read the description. They made the video as a joke at a vacation rental house on Lake Erie 3 years ago.

We're not forgetting that XI has gay members and gay family members Jay. I think many people are just venting over all of the media attention Bruce Jenner has been getting and blowing off some steam. No disrespect directed toward you or any other member. Discussions can only be considered as going the wrong way when somebody doesn't agree with a point of view, and rather than trying to censor civil discourse, I find that it's easier to simply remove myself from the conversation which I've done on many occasions and why I stay away from the political forum. I don't enjoy being mad at somebody because of their opinion on any particular subject so I just avoid the conversation all together to keep the peace.

Societal changes of this magnitude don’t happen overnight, and sometime never happen completely no matter how much we want them to. Just 99 year after President Lincoln abolished slavery in the US, the civil rights amendment became law, and 51 years later we are still as divided by race as we ever were. The LGBT community is frustrated that there are still people who don’t accept them for who they are, and many in the straight community are frustrated that they are being forced to accept a lifestyle they don’t necessarily believe should be forced into their children’s education and everyday lives, especially when it involves such a small percentage of the overall population. Bigotry is a two-way street, and people who are in favor of LGBT rights can be (and frequently are) every bit as bigoted as those who don’t approve of LGBT rights. African Americans have been fighting for equal rights for 150 years, and only in the last couple of decades has the term “racist” come out as a label for anybody who doesn’t subscribe to a particular political ideology. Race relations aren’t improving and on the contrary they are getting worse in this new “diverse” society. Now the new buzz word is “homophobe” and is directed toward anybody who doesn’t openly embrace the LGBT community and lifestyle. There are over 2 billion people in the world who identify themselves as being Christian. Their belief system is based on the bible which claims that homosexuals are committing a sin and are doomed to eternal damnation. Changing the beliefs of 2 billion people is a tall task, and won’t happen in our lifetime. Followers of Islam (all 1.6 billion of them) also subscribe to a belief that homosexual acts are a sin, but rather than worrying about the afterlife, many label them as infidel’s that must be put to death. No, not all Muslims believe that, but enough of them do to keep gays in the shadows in many parts of the world. Many members of the LGBT community (and on the left in general) in western society are going out of their way to demonize organized Christianity for their beliefs, but hardly say a word against followers of Islam. I find that extremely hypocritical. Personally I believe that if the LGBT community would tone down their "in your face" attitude, it would work out much better for them in the long run. Publicaly outing business owners who don't believe in their cause creates more anger toward their cause. If I were to go into a gay owned bakery and demand that they make a cake that says "All fags are going to Hell", I seriously doubt if there would be much media attention if any. In that respect, the media isn't a reflection of society, rather society is a reflection of the media which happens all too frequently today.

Singer Sara Evans has some country I'd like to taste.

If you were writing it in crayon I would be happy to offer my assistance. Otherwise C++ is where my education ended and it's been about 10 years since I've done anything with it. My 80 year old dad is a whiz at c# but he's having some health issues at the moment.

That was my reaction when the wife said that I needed to get a vasectomy.

Do you discreetly skip ahead to the next sex scene when she leaves the room?

Because we heard Bruce Jenner was your role model.

HBO can afford it with all of the money they're making from that show alone.

Some day (probably in most of our life times) there will be satellites beaming high speed signals to us all no matter where we are on earth. It will do away with the need for "cell" phones and we can have a computer or phone on the web anyplace. Until then I'm afraid people in rural areas will be stuck with dial up or Hughes unless somebody figures out how to greatly compress data to stream faster over phone lines. The cost for running fiber and cable to remote areas is cost prohibitive. The only way you could sell high speed to people in remote areas would be to have a single high speed location on a mountain top or a tall tower then do a site to site wireless bridge to users who are in the line of sight of the tower. Setting something like that up would be very expensive.

Personally I don't really have an opinion one way or another. I have no doubt that there are people who are born physically as one gender and their brains are wired to be another gender, so I can only imagine what life must be like for them. But, I do get really tired of seeing it splashed all over the news like it is something really important when it really isn't. Celebrities are human like the rest of us and what they do with their personal lives has zero impact or influence on my life, and I don't consider reporting on the movements or day to day life of celebrities to be quality entertainment or worthy of being news in any way, shape, or form.

Do you have any suggestions, or are you looking for suggestions? To my knowledge there really aren't any alternatives for people living in rural areas.