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The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it. Posted: 11/25/2009 1:51:55 PM
PC repair isn't my main trade.. I am a commercia/industrial electrician and we also do pc repair/network troubleshooting for our commercial customers and the netbook is just what the doctor ordered for what I do in the field. we also repair/troubleshoot laser cutters and various other industrial machines that run either Linux or propietary OS's. I have much much more powerful machines at the office and at home,that i have built. It's like why do mechanics have huge tool boxes of ratchets,wrenches and such when an adjustable end wrench will fit just about anything? It's all about the right tools for doing the job. I certainly wouldnt try to play World Of Warcraft on a netbook.. it's not designed for that,but my office PC and home PC will do those nicely, I dont need to burn cd's,thumbdrives work,if i need to connect wirelessly.. i have that option,wired networking too The Intel Atom dual core does a pretty good job for everything I need 2 gigs of RAM and a 250 gig hard drive,perfect. I saw a niche it could fill and it does it perfectly all in a nice small lightweight package. Now if I were into gaming and video editing,then i would look into something a little more robust,the desktops handle those just fine as well. If on a job and I need to look up something in the National Electrical Code,instead of lugging a thousand page codebook around with me it's all in a handy little .pdf file,need to print a document for the office? Open Office handles it.. very versital and as i stated,the right tool for the job. I suppose i could do the same things with a Cray supercomputer,but i dont seem to make enough coin to afford one just yet.. dang it!

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The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it. Posted: 11/25/2009 4:43:42 AM
Why on a netbook? i repair pc's thru my company and a netbook is the perfect platform to carry all the .iso's for various utilities I need to diagnose and correct problems on WINDOWS pc's.. thumb drives are cheap easily portable and it's a snap to make a bootable thumb drive to boot a system plus you can easily network them to a desk top pc. cheaper than a laptop and i dont need the cd rom. netbooks have a bad association with being cheap and useless for anything other than web surfing. not true at all. they are very flexible. it's all in what you intend to do with them,just as in an OS.

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The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it. Posted: 11/24/2009 4:40:55 PM
I'll have to agree with cooldude on this one. Linux was never made for the masses.. Simple fact is people in general don't give a rats patootie about what OS they run on their PC.. they just want it to work and boot up when they want to get their fill of clicking themselves into oblivion.. much like a car they just want to turn the key and go so to speak. No one wants to learn anything,dumb it down for the average Joe. DOS was too complicated for ppl to learn.. they wanted pretty shiny things to click on. I run windows still and while it has made some progress and Redmond is still trying to guess what the id10t's want so that they dont have to think. I actually AM glad linux has only 1 to 2 percent market share.. helps me not have to worry about virus infections and constantly worrying about security flaws. Of the multiple OS's I know Unix,Posix,Linux,Windows,Syllable,ReactOS,etc.. each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Always will. The average user can have winblows all they want and the headaches that go with it and feel smug in a wierd way A fellow I attened night classes with,came in gushing about windows 7 and how cool it was and how he managed to dual boot his netbook. Awesome said I! Then pulled out MY netbook..Windows XP,$120,Windows 7 Ultimate $319,Slitaz Linux with aircrack-ng $0,the look on his face when I pwned his system PRICELESS. He was impressed as hell that I triple booted mine with both the OS's he had plus Linux.. and then hacked his system..for the masses who want to "turn the key and go" they have their OS,for the rest of us,there is Linux and variants. The top 5 supercomputers of the world all run nix OS's,nix was never meant for the masses.. it was developed by scientific types for their use and was adopted out of that. Happy computiong no matter your OS!

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Ubuntu Linux.....Easy -or- Difficult ? Posted: 10/14/2009 7:51:38 PM
Ubuntu is an awesome OS IMHO. I love it.. My whole net work is nix, all my systems are dual,triple and even quad booted with various combo's of M$ and nix OSes. Wireless configuration seems to be the biggest issue but after a while its not really a problem. It seems most people complain about Command Line. My bet is most of the people that mutter about it have never seen a DOS prompt... I love the good old days of computing and running strictly from a prompt so much thats how i have a few of my systems set up! LOL I've revived quite a few old machines and put Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux on them and gave them to families that wanted a PC but couldnt afford one.. Sure.. they cant play WoW on it but would not be able to even with windows! and the service calls or questions i get when it is from those individuals are very limited.. they are happy with the OS. You can't beat FreeNAS for building a NAS.. I built one out of a 450 mhz P2 system with software RAID and 8 drives in the machine, max cpu usage has been 27 % and down time is 0%.. it just sits there and runs headless 24/7 on 128 MB Ram been that way now for over a year without a reboot and stream music for me holds all my info and movies.. swwet setup.. check it out.. Linux will definately make serious inroads in the next 5-7 years i think.. people will warm up to it and more support will be provided.. i just hope it doesnt become the POS that M$ has put out.. Just my thoughts.. oh BTW.. M$ runs *nix servers themselves.. Happy computing!

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Did you expect to be single this late in life? Posted: 8/29/2009 10:39:23 PM
Single is awesome.. Have been in some great relationships and some sucky ones.. none of them were exactly what I was looking for. I don't stress over being single,instead I use the spare time to do things I have always wanted to do,broaden my horizons as far as knowledge and just enjoy life.. I may or may not meet the "love" of my life.. If I do she is more than welcome to walk with me on my journey,if not.. oh well.. I'd much rather be single and alone then with a loser and lonely.

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What operating system are you using? Posted: 6/28/2009 5:50:34 PM
XP SP3 on 4 machines on my network ,various distos of Linux on the.. here we go: Machine 1: XP Pro SP3,Debian,DSL,Xubuntu Machine 2:XP Pro SP3,Xubuntu,98SE Machine 3: XP Pro SP3,ReactOS (testing),Xubuntu Machine 4:XP Pro SP3,Xubuntu On the machines NOT networked I have: DOS 3.0,DOS 5.0,WIN 3.0,Win 3.1,WfW 3.11,DOS 6.22, 95,98,98SE,Puppy Linux,DSL, and some seriously stripped down versions of 98 and XP I've collected a lot of orphaned and unwanted computers and usually it is just a matter of someone bought a new system and didnt know what to do with the old one. I clean them up and upgrade them,while trying to keep the original OS intact just for the geek factor and then see what I can find to run on them..I call it a hobby,some call it an obsession.

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Why would anyone want to date you? Posted: 4/9/2009 7:14:08 PM
Cuz I can count to potato? and do fractions ( potato chips)?

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Minimum Wage Posted: 3/29/2009 9:52:06 PM
With what you claim about a $8.00 starting wage and a 5% raise after passing each of their annual exams, an electrician in your state would make a whopping $9.72 an hour after four years in the program. Sorry if I find that a little hard to believe. re read the whole post,not what you wish to pick and choose from it. 8 dollars an hour times 2 semesters per year at the end of the 4 year course would be 8,40 after the first semester completed 8.82 after the SECOND semester is completed and so on.. there are 8 semesters total. We are not unionized. That is a completley different subject. Have a great day!

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Minimum Wage Posted: 3/29/2009 8:08:08 AM
^^^^^^^ Try a 4 year electricians apprenticeship program. And i know of a fellow who is working the field as an apprentice. 8 dollars an hour,tho the boss signed an agreement WITH the state saying that for every semester the apprentice completed and passed will give them a 5% raise in pay,so that by the time the apprentice is finished with schooling then they will be making 90 to 100 percent of a journeymans wage upon completion of their journeymans exam. The individual's boss feels that as he pays for the tuition and books every semester (total cost per years 1000 dollars) the apprentice is NOT entitled to a raise. So here we have someone learning a skilled trade and going to a state mandated course working for peanuts because of the employers interprtation of an agreement. It's not an isolated case. What is this individual to do? find a menial job in the service industry? Tough it out for 4 years without a cost of living raise AT LEAST? or change companies and fall into the same trap? Now if the boss followed thru with his agreement the individual would be making 9.60 an hour at the end of 2 yrs. That would cover the tuition and a little left over to help his living situation. But the individuals boss doesnt see it that way and pockets the difference after the books are bought and continues on merrily.. As i said.. a very common practice and who in their righ mind would want to become a skilled worker if they were being treated about as well as a 16 yr old kid flippin burgers?

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Sigh… my hero / what the hell was he thinking? Posted: 3/29/2009 6:33:27 AM
Alpha male this Alpha male that. Useless psychobabble. A MAN does what a MAN has to do in any situation. A Man will recognize whether a forcefully spoken rebuke will or should stop the undesired actions,if not then another step is required if the offender decides to disregard common sense. Immediate action up to and including violent physical force IS allowable to protect the physical well being of another individual if the balance is tipped in the aggressors favor. An insult does not require a physical reaction, would I stand by and let someone pound another into a pulp? If it were two drunks in a bar,have at it guys! Now if one was on the floor unable to get up and the other was stomping the person on the grounds head,would I step in? you betcha. Have done that exact thing.Would I intervene in a physical struggle where say the woman was out sized by the male? You betcha. Get up and leave with my date at the first sign of trouble? hell yes. It isn't Alpha this Alpha that that is a load of crap. People use that expression as justification for acting like a$$holes "Hey I can't help myself, I'm an Alpha male! My Bad!" The bottom line is use your brains first and fists as a last resort,unless,as I said immediate dire circumstances require you to do otherwise. just my two cents and that mode of thinking has done me well.

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Tazer crazy / Overuse of police force?!? Posted: 3/23/2009 8:34:19 AM
Robert received multiple tazer hits totaling 50000 volts for over 32 seconds Yes 50K of volts is alot. AND it hurts like hell. Ataser works by disrupting the bodies ability to send signals to muscles..what is the heart? a MUSCLE. here are some facts : The bodys internal resistance in adults is 1K to 4 K ohms depending on moisture,muscular structure,and VOLTAGE. the AVERAGE value is 2.1K at 240 V and 2K at 120 V. the effects of current on a normally healthy adult are as follows (note the current is in MILLIAMPERES) more than 5mA- Generally painful shock 15 mA- Enough to cause 50% of the population to freeze on the circuit,inability to release. 30mA- Difficulty in breathing (possible suffocation) 50mA to 1AMP- possible ventricular fibrillation or disruption of normal heart beat (irregular beating) and synchronization between heart beat and pulse beat ,death will happen within a few minutes unless defibrillation equipment is used. 1 AMP to 2Amps Certain ventricular fibrillation. Over 2 AMPS Severe burns and muscular contractions.The heart is more likely to stop than fibrillate. There are a lot of variables there. and if the officer shocked the man 5 times it only compunds the problem. What most of the public does not realize is that SOME tazers have NO timers on how long the trigger is pulled,meaning as long as the trigger is squeezed the current flows until released. Some of them do limit the amount of time to about 3-5 seconds then they reset,and the trigger must again be pulled. As an electrician I have been on the receiving end of house current numerous times. It hurts like hell. you get used to it. One thing I will never for get is a run in with 277 volts,on a circuit I had shut off and another person turned on as i was working on it. I was froze to the circuit for a good 5-10 seconds until I managed to throw myself from the short ladder I was on. I ached for hours afterwards. We are taught to always kill a circuit before working on it. Sometimes due to the nature of the problem you must work on an energized circuit and generally are very cautious. This poor fellow,no matter his crime,short of killing someone did NOT deserve to be hit with a taser. They are CRUEL and UNSAFE. Simple house current is enough to kill the average person. 50K volts into a person you know nothing about their health is going to be asking for a lot of potential problems. Nearly 200 people have died in the last five years after being shot by a Taser stun gun. While a taser may not have the amperage that house current has (and that is what truly does the damage) the exceedingly high voltage is what is used to deliver the milliamperes. the voltage overcomes the body's natural resistance to electricity. Tasers need to be banned. Pepper spray is and would have been a much more effective tool in this case,but it's messy and who can be bothered that when it's time to crack some skulls and keep law and order? Tase them,drop them and let's roll Danno there are more skulls to crack! just my 2 cents on something that is totally insane in this mad mad mad world we reside in.

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Ladies: Alpha male vs. Sensitive... Posted: 3/20/2009 6:12:52 AM
Hmmm... Is that kinda like a guy that has a pet rabbit,yet goes out rabbit hunting? Msg #17 (I think it was) cracked me up! Aww look a cute furry squirrel! Gimme my rifle so I can shoot the tree rat before it gets into the attic!

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so, why are you still single? Posted: 3/16/2009 8:06:25 PM
I'm waiting for Danica Patrick to rescind the restraining order and throw herself at me with reckless abandon?

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Unique 'getting to know each other' date ideas Posted: 3/15/2009 9:56:14 PM
Great idea's! I ave one that kind of turned out to be a seriously funny surprise! I'm a Ham Operator( Amateur Radio Operator) Every year we have what is called a Field Day ,where we set up as if in disaster conditions using emergency power ie: battery,generator,etc and temporary antenna installations,on various bands of the radio spectrum,using different modes, morse,voice,digital,etc and try in a 24 hr period to make as many contacts as possible for points. I had been seeing a gal for a little while and I had asked her if she would like to come by where a group of us had set up,and she readily agreed. I was well into the competition with the headset on making contacts when she showed up and patted me on the back. I finished exchanging info with the other operator and logged it into the computer,and took off and unplugged the headphones in order to monitor the band and talk with her.. after a lil chit-chat I got back to calling CQ ( seek you). A station responded and we were beginning to exchange contact info and all that and she was logging the info for me (bless her heart!) and she became really excited and exclaimed I KNOW HIM ! I KNOW HIM! I told the other station to hold one second and I asked her "What?" she said THAT'S MY DAD! I asked the other operator his name and callsign and he gave it to me ,he was using a club callsign,so I told him I had traffic for him and to hold one sec again please... I then ID'd and operated as control operator and handed her the mic and listened in to the conversation... it was great and she had an awesome time.. When I took a break I said you never told me your Dad yas a Ham Operator and she giggled "you never asked! We were in N.C. at the time and her father was in Idaho,just one of those things that happens and makes the date a memorable one! She and i ended up dating for about 2 years and I talked to her father on the radio as the conditions allowed and often online.. -.- . ....- .--- --. -..-

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Loners vs. lonely Posted: 3/15/2009 8:16:32 AM
Interesting questions I think. I work a job that requires A LOT o f concentration. I mean I don't want to let my mind wander while messing with mega volt and amperage systems and electrocute myself) and also I have to study quite a bit . I also must meet tons of people and try to understand what it is they are trying to get accomplished and then do it in a safe manner for them (Ever see a National Electrical Code book?,then pile local regulations on top of that) Sometimes at the days end I just want to sit down and clear my mind. a reset if you will. I do this by reading,once in a while conversing either online or on the phone with my family and friends. Sometimes I just want to be left alone to pursue my hobbies at my own pace with no outside interruptions. That doesn't mean that I won't answer a question now and again while doing something,but some of the "extroverts" have no clue as to when they are interrupting... Have a friend who feels that any time he texts me or calls me I MUST stop what I am doing and talk with him and if I don't then I get the "why didn't you answer " thing.. Happens with females I know also. Drives me insane! In today's day and age it is easy to be overwhelmed by technology and the constant input forced upon us,some of us need to take a break from it now and then,others are constant input junkies. I was involved in a long term relationship and my GF and I would be sitting on the couch or just doing something random and my cell phone would ring,and ring,and ring.. She'd look at me and ask "Are you gonna answer that" and I'd reply "nope, I am not on call this weekend" or something similar. She called it "phonesia" Now had it been her phone,you had better not be blocking her path to it,because you would end up with footprints up one side of you and down the other. I called it "phonedependance" Total opposite,yet we balanced each other out. There are a myriad of reasons people are the way they are and generalizations don't work. I'm me and you are you,each an individual with our own little quirks that either drive someone bonkers or are endearing to another.

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Why are some people against hunting? Posted: 3/12/2009 12:06:59 PM
It appears that MOST people who are ANTI hunting,truly do not know the amount of forethought,planning,respect for nature and life that sportsmen have. And I'd bet most are also city dwellers insulated from the "horrors" that their meat they purchase all so cleanly wrapped and displayed in a grocery store goes thru before it is killed. If you love veal and think it is just fabulous go to a farm where it is raised.. I saw it one time and never have touched a piece of veal in my life. Yet I have no problem stalking a deer in the woods,hunting squirrels,rabbits,quail or turkey. Wild life is healthy to eat and if managed properley insures it's continued existence. When i say sportsmen I am referring to true sportsmen.. NOT some weekend warrior from down state who when season opens loads up with his buddies and drive up north to deer camp to start a 2 week drunk fest and take potshots at anything that moves. I was raised and schooled by my father and grandfather in the proper use of a gun,how to have respect for anothers property,knowing when you should let your game go,because you are not 100 percent sure that there is no one that could possibly get hit if you miss. Being able to track your prey if you dont get a clean kill as not to leave a suffering animal and you only kill what you eat,or if deemed a nuisance animal you thin them down to proper levels,not eradicate the species. Just my two cents. If you are not a hunter,great I don't have to worry about you shooting me while I am deer hunting. If you THINK you are a hunter then you are the ones I worry about.

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does getting older scare u? Posted: 3/11/2009 10:43:07 AM
^^^^^^^ I am with her! in fact I can't wait until all my friends from school and I ( have one from kindergarten still)get so old and tore up with dementia that we become "new" friends!

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Who's your male parental unit now, female canine? Posted: 3/11/2009 6:43:21 AM
I do LOTS of pc repairs for people I know and from time to time i get older computers given to me andI try to use the various parts to fix other systems and what not.. The latest headache i had was trying to install an ATI Radeon VE/7000 AGP card into a Gainward 5VPA mobo. Good God you'd think I was a masochist! I installed a hared drive andsince it was an AMD K6-2 450 machine decided a stripped down version of XP would be fine,added the max amount of ram and away i went.. Install of OS was just fine,flashed the BIOS to the latest one available to overcome the 32 GB limit and everything seemed fine except of course the video card. As I do any time I am working with older machines I look for the mobo manual online and double check that all the jumpers are set according to what hardware is installed so on and so forth. I tried and tried and all I could come up with was broken or dead links for the manual or partial jumper block settings. FINALLY after 3 days of searching,begging,pleading and just generally being a PITA to the powers that be I located a .pdf of the mobo manual and went thru every jumper and then thru the bios set up,and downloaded the correct version of ATI's Catalyst and installed it,removed the device thru control panel and rebooted.. into a black screen...GAHHHH! did this like 4 times and finally after a complete re install and much more stress and angst got every thing to work in unison. The work around was manually installing OLD OLD ATI drivers THEN installing Catalyst,diabling the memory hole at 15-16 mb in BIOS and disabling the shadow memory. I myself stick to WD drives Nvidia vid cards LOVE AMD cpu's tho Intel is good too. as far as other hardware I take and research and compare and then make a choice based on value for the buck compared to realistic expectations of what i want that piece of hardware to do. Build all of my own machines and actually enjoy the unique challenges that older machines present while trying to extend their lives a bit further. great topic OP..Now off to fire up my 8088 and wait!

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over 40 and never married...is this a RED FLAG! Posted: 3/10/2009 6:40:12 PM
I'm 41 and it's been said here in this thread that if someone is not married by the time they are 40 or so they must have "issues" Yer dang right i have issues.. Issues of out of print books, collectable issues of magazines,issues upon issues of various publications... And I can blame none of them on anyone but myself! What can i say? I love my issues and don't do anything to rid me of them! Seriously... goodness me oh my! I have never been married.. well treat me like a leper! There are a plethora of reasons that could have contributed to this.. Working two jobs to support myself,getting an education past High School,Being a commercial fisherman for a while,traveling,going back to school so I can add to my list of licenses,caring for a sick father,attending school to become a tradesman,studying and research just for the heck of it,the list goes on and on... Ever stop and think some people don't especially enjoy the thought of getting into a legal binding agreement with someone and then having to hand over everything that they worked a lifetime to get,for whatever reason? I've been engaged,she ended it. I guess there is a huge red flag over me.. wait.. someone please turn off that glaring spotlight on me! it's high lighting all my "issues".

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It still works after all these years. Posted: 3/2/2009 4:44:59 AM
I just aquired another 3 computers this past weekend from a friend of mine to go along with my pile of obsolete systems,or more aptly put computers from a bygone time as there is still alot of life in them, He dropped off a 386,a 200 mhz penetium and a K6-2 400 mhz machine all boot up but are in dire need of some system maint. The plan is to restore them all back to the original oerating systems they were designed for and make them run as aptimally as possible. so that brings it to my 8088 2- 386's a 486 a cpl P1's a P2,a P3 a P4 and my current up to date machine,along with scads of RAM (over 200 pieces) Untold CPU's ISA cards PCI cards and various other parts and Monitors... I just cant help myself! Always great to see there are others like myself who still like to play with older machines.

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It still works after all these years. Posted: 2/24/2009 9:18:01 PM
Still have my first 8088,dual 5 1/4 inch floppies,it came with NO HDD.. the 10 mb drive i installed still works,the Amber monitor is clear and DOS 3.0 runs fine. wheezes to life at 4.7 mhz or (gasp) 8!

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Breaking up, ending it gracefully Posted: 2/23/2009 6:43:14 AM
I arrived at her house and it felt odd being there and knowing what was about to happen... She invited me in and we both had a seat. I did not know how to broach the subject. I was tired of talking after all the conversations we had in the past changed nothing. We looked at one another in silence as she tried to read my face ,after I had told her I had something to discuss with her, I,grasped for the right words to say. She had a stray part of her bangs hanging down,I gently brushed it into place as I had done so many times before,smoothing her hair,as my hand followed the side of her head,down the side of her neck and onto her shoulder,same as it had done hundreds of times before. Drawing a deep breath I tried to look her in the eye,I took her hand,so small and soft,so unlike mine with the scars and callouses,that small hand that could express so many feelings with just a touch,and held it for the last time,again I tried to look her in the eye and just couldn't. Finally I said in a calm voice "I'm done. I cannot do this any longer." The many times we had discussed the issues we were facing came back in a flood,nothing ever got resolved,and I was done,spent,exhausted,wore down....heartbroken. With a tight chest and trembling soul,I stood and she rose,we looked at one another ,both standing so close,yet with this huge gap ..a chasm,distance....divide between us. We embraced one last time, I brushed the stray part of her bangs from her forehead,my hand slid down the side of her head,down the side of her neck and onto her shoulder. I drove to a park,got out of my truck,found a bench and sat down. Eyes welling up,heart heavy. My cell phone buzzed,a text message read " I don't hate you" I sent back "Nor I you" True story

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Rejection = Success Posted: 2/21/2009 1:19:09 PM
If being rejected by you means I will make a sucsess out of myself... How about a date? No? OK.. hand me my money now! Seriously.. I don't think rejection by a woman for most guys is what drives them. Either they have ambition or not. I've dated women in the past and have done pretty well for myself,and none of them were the reason I continuosly try to better myself..

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Biggest Turn ONS.. Posted: 2/1/2009 5:08:03 PM
Eyes Confidence Her smell Compassion Her touch and lastly but not least,the way she makes my heart jump every time she walks into a room,even if she was gone for just a few seconds.

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Panties Posted: 2/1/2009 4:57:54 PM
Hmmm.. hadn't thought about it much as I don't wear them... well, much,on my head while she is still in them.. TMI... ahhhh nevahmind! LOL!

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what is everyones opin on tattoos? Posted: 1/30/2009 8:57:46 AM
Love'm,got a couple myself,never regretted them and want more. Women with tattoos are awesome. If done with taste and some forethought they are nothing to be ashamed of,they can reflect personality,lifestyle and such. In my case they are reminders of things dealt with. Every tat has a story.

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I'm an idiot. Posted: 1/24/2009 11:23:38 PM
This is what you do hun.. You get up,dust your self off and grab the bat,and step back up to the plate. Life is gonna throw you some curveballs and you are going to get beaned in the head a few times. Life also throws some pretty easy ones straight down the middle too,those are the ones you knock out of the park and you wont remember being hit by the curveball as much.. Good luck and it happens to all of us.

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30 and never married? Posted: 1/4/2009 10:40:08 AM
Been engaged once.was proposed to once (I only knew her for 3 days!) and never married,no kids. My parents used to give me all kinds of grief about "settling down" and as the eldest I heard it often. I always told them I was just gonna find a woman who was willing to tolerate me and then I would just buy her a house and sign over half my paycheck to her after 7 years,as that was what was probably gonna happen (all that said tongue in cheek) They took a very dim view on that,and well, now they don't say a word to me after each of my five younger siblings has been married and divorced,a couple of them numerous times. I'm the only one who can claim to never have had a failed marriage. when I am home,or they come for visits I'm the "cool" uncle that has all the neat toys and has no problem picking up a niece or nephew for a day fishing or just hanging out. I always have a constant line of them begging to come over and stay the night or just run around with me doing errands..It's a great life. I'm not opposed to being married,just want to be sure that I am married ONCE and it's til I die.

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Do men really want women to look their age? Posted: 1/4/2009 9:49:19 AM
I think as long as a woman takes care of herself there is no need to try to "enhance" what they were born with or turn back the hands of time.. case and point Cher. If she has one more face lift she is gonna have a goatee. (hehe)

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