As an XM listener, I enjoy "Old Time Radio". Last week the host played three different radio shows that were all a version of one script. Apparently the rinse and repeat writing has been going on since the 1930's.

His explanation was that good scripts are expensive and rare. The studios try to maximize the yardage by reworking the material a little and using it in other shows. CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York, Criminal Minds, NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, etc. etc. The sad thing for me is that I watch all of those. I DVR them to skip the commercials. I guess the good news is that if what you like becomes popular you can certainly get your fill of it since it will be copied and pasted repeatedly. Yay me... I think?

If you downloaded "Hurt Locker" and you get a summons in the next few weeks, can you post back and let us all know how this argument worked out for you? I would pay money to sit in court and watch you tell that to a judge as a reason to have your case dismissed. I would find that quite a bit more entertaining than a movie downloaded from a torrent.

You are attempting to counter the poster's comment of unreliable source being defined as a source I don't agree with.

Your examples in your argument are that the two large sources of conservative republican rhetoric are full of shit and everyone knows it. Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck are full of shit but your disagreeing with them has no bearing on your anecdotal evidence.

Can you cite references of information that Rush Limbaugh has given out on his show that are inaccurate? Some tax payer numbers or legislation that he is lying about? I can't stand Glenn Beck, but I don't think he is lying. I kind of like Rush Limbaugh and find his knowledge of politics impressive. I have never heard him lying to his audience.

The left of the political realm has always comforted themselves with a warm feeling that the rest of us are just too stupid to know what is good for us. If we listen to a proponent of conservative politics, we are by definition, fools.

I believe that you have in fact made the original poster's point for him, no?

When I went to work at a new place in 1998, they had a Modcomp computer running their process. It had a floor mounted hard disk drive that was 4 MB, I think. I replaced the whole system with a Unix environment. The 4MB drive was about half the size of a refrigerator and had a glass bubble top so you could change the platter. I called him R2D2.

Oh yeah? Well my uncle can beat up your uncle!

The Ministry of Truth issues the announcement and extols the high minded well meaning intent of messaging censure. The Ministry of Love will "help" those citizens sending naughty messages. Does each Chinese citizen also have a telescreen if they are not Proles?

If any vehicle in the history of human flight needed to play this song on it's maiden voyage, this is the one... "I'm leavin' on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again..."

How much are the tickets? I'm willing to fly coach. I bet there are already a bunch of dates blacked out.

I love eBooks! I read them on my iPhone constantly. Project Gutenberg is an excellent source of an endless number of books that I should have already read. Right now I'm reading Bullfinch's books on mythology. I have no nostalgic attachment to paper books for whatever reason. I find that I am very likely to eventually finish a large tome (eTome?) if it is in my pocket at all times. A book can lay on my nightstand for a year and I may never finish it, but the eBook will always eventually be completed.

I second this motion. I have worked on my mother-in-law's computer in the past. She chain smokes and that computer was NASTY. I don't know if that is a biohazard or not, but it damned sure should be. Just messing with the case and the screws gets your hands sticky. If it's got that nasty sticky stuff on it, I say void the warranty.

I hate boot lickers.

I don't know why, but that tickled the shit out of me. Thank you for that Shatrat.