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the mac OS releases are overtested before being released. i have been through four mac OS upgrades and never had a real problem.

i hear that it's bad, but is it windows ME bad? that was pretty much the worst.

(i was a tech support person back then, but haven't done tech stuff for the last 5 years. i've also been a mac user so i don't need to fix stuff too often.)

chrome dreams (rust edition)

Pocahontas

Will To Love

Star Of Bethlehem

Like A Hurricane

Too Far Gone

Hold Back The Tears

Homegrown

Captain Kennedy

Stringman

Sedan Delivery

Powderfinger

Look Out For My Love

River Of Pride

Campaigner

No One Seems To Know

Give Me Strength

Peace Of Mind

Human Highway

chrome dreams might be my favorite neil young record.

for being so long overdue, it should be much more awesome.

but in all seriousness, good luck with that. my kid has to stay 11 for a few more years. i can't handle teenagerdom.

my condolences on your OS.

if at&t admits it, they might not have the cool market to sponsor events and have a captive audience to subject to their cool market. or something. when i think of cutting edge alternative hip, i definitely think of at&t - the only carrier for the iphone!

the only argument that it's not about oil that makes any sense to me is that there are neocons in the administration who want iraq to be permanently unstable. this situation gives us an external enemy to unite against, a place to funnel military spending and chaos so complete that there is no accounting for the dollars spent.

i tend not to believe this because i don't think the bush administration is competent enough to pull off a plan like that and there is no existing historical model for that sort of policy. this is much more akin to the war in cuba and the philippines 100 years ago.

i usually run a chorus, phase 90 or small stone and some kind of overdrive set with no distortion to boost the front end of the amp. i have a delay, but i kinda suck at making it sound like i want it to.

I doubt their venture into SS amps has anything to do with quality but is a smart way to build profits by selling budget priced amps using the Marshall name. But yeah you're right the SS Marshall stuff is junk. However I'm not a fan of their newer tube amps either the only new Marshall I would consider buying is the hand wired 1974X. I only have one tube amp that uses PCB's, the rest are hand wired and I can't see myself ever going back to mass production PCB amps.

the peavey 5150 is a PCB one trick pony that can't be beaten for what it is. if you ever wanted to have a high gain mule of an amp, you could get this for $500 or a soldano slo-100 for $1800.

i'm totally with you on the merits of hand-wired amps, but PCB amps definitely have their place. my main amp is a PCB combo and it's okay for what it is, and given how often i play it, it's a good deal. my absolute favorite rack setup was PCB (the carvin quad-x and t-100 power amp).

based on name alone?

best - black flag, cave in or smoking popes

worst - goo goo dolls, letters to cleo, jets to brazil and every metal/metalcore/hardcore band with three words as their band name.

You are a man of high ethical standards. I don't know if I could hold you in higher regard right now.

 

::wipes away tear::

it's hard not to think of the oil motive when you consider rumsfeld, perle and cheney all saying that the oil would pay for the war (as well as it'd be over in a few weeks and we'd be greeted as liberators).

if we had unlimited immigration of central americans, who would make our clothes in the maquelidoras?

you're not factoring in the blatant incompetence of the administration.

if not oil, what then was the real casus belli in this conflict? it certainly was not WMD. the downing street memos alone completely discredit that assertion. it couldn't have been to spread real democracy -- the iraqi people in their purple fingered moment picked a slate of candidates along a party without even knowing in advance who would be on the ballot. there is no given reason for this war that makes ANY sense by any stretch other than the control of the iraqi oil fields and a permanent military spending destination to bolster a post-cold war industrial base.

this certainly wouldn't be the first time we provoked a war for economic reasons. the spanish-american war was at the urging of the united fruit company to protect their investments in plantations. the annexation of hawaii was a direct result of sanford b. dole asking for interventions so he would not have to pay a tariff on pineapples. the mexican american war was polk's blatent aggression to steal half of mexico not just for expansion, but for extension of slavery and rich pacific ports to exploit chinese markets in the future. is it so hard to believe we're in the middle east again for oil? it was only 1953 when we were covertly in iran for that exact reason.

and the wars in iraq were not primarily about oil?

it almost looked like journalism for a change. it's sad when the hardest hitting news program of the day is on the comedy channel.

deadwood was kind of a cop story, but not really. i think there's a nyc cop drama for every three nyc cops. this is not good news.

i did post it, and it's not as much an oversimplification as much as an illustrative point on zealotry and semantics. in the US civil war, the south honestly felt they were fighting for freedom. many in the north felt they were fighting to preserve slavery. eric's excellent post quoting lincoln very astutely pointed that out. we called the viet cong communists, insurgents and many other things. they called themselves liberators. in iraq, we call ourselves liberators, they call us invaders.

besides, that poster is old (but not out of date). barring "osama hussein" and the other oversimplifications on the invasion for oil, terrorists around the world have been insurgents attacking non-military instillations for propaganda and tactical advantages - like the boston tea party. that was an act of terrorism and violence against property for economic purposes as well as propaganda value. we call them heroes because they won. we don't call daniel shays a hero, he lost.

free to establish a religious theocracy and bring about a righteous kingdom of god on earth, by whatever means.

this could be the shia or sunni insurgents or the mayflower pilgrims.