Everybody knows that Apple computers are for creative people and that creative. You just have to think creatively. Think OUTSIDE the box. For example, I bought a PC.

Tell your boss that this is important, and that the company needs to pay for it, and you feel obligated to report it as you will be liable also. Then offer helpful suggestions as to who you can lay off in order to allocate money to pay for the software. Will it be friendly Bob, or the pregnant lady in the accounts department? Alternatively you can just shut your mouth and get another job like everybody else said.

Sounds like you still have some bitterness left over from gym class, and\or may be fat. Either way... Who says fame is a measure of human achievement of any kind? Seems like a very populist weak-minded measure of achievement, don't you think? Perhaps you should open your mind a little and stop measuring the worth of people's achievements based on what your own interests are.

How do wookies feel about wax strips?

Give her looks a rating out of 10. Then post that on the fridge. Encourage her to lose some weight to increase her rating. If she objects compare it to levelling up on WoW.

Name her breasts Han and Chewie.

Tell her that everytime you put on your Wedding Ring you hear the voice of Sauron calling you to do evil.

Inform her that her feet are as cute as a hobbits.

When times are rough tell her that you wish you took the blue pill.

Remind her that you are a true geek by not having sex with her unless she accepts money first.

Tell her you hope you both have a kid like Jake Lloyd one day.

Your comment makes no sense. Your ridiculous comparison to the mafia, joking or not, just shows how out of touch you are with reality. There is no medium on the planet that will get music to non-label bands by buying another band and another label's music. If you want to get money to these bands... then do what everyone else does - buy their music.

And what is wrong with the music going to the label? The band signed the label. It was their choice that they'd lose a huge percentage of income in exchange for mass exposure and distribution.. Like whats going to make you people happy? There are many good reasons why its difficult for record labels, large or independant to give away music for free, and make their money on touring. There will never be an age where 100% of music is free to distribute legally without any compensation for the people who invested in it. This sounds like a reasonable compromise. Nobody is forcing it on you, but they have every right to disconnect your internet if you break the law. SO RELAX.

I'm not saying you need to conjure up the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, but I've found it very effective just to get people to really imagine what their lives have been, and will be if they continue on their path.

Encourage him, in whatever way you can, to imagine two futures for himself, one if he continues on this path, and one if he cleans himself up and gets his life back on track. Just telling him isn't enough - some kind of dramatic demonstration is better. Like when parents take their drug addicted kids to hospitals or rehab to learn first hand what drugs will do.

You know your friend best, so how you present it is something you'll have to think about, but I do know from experience that the logical argument approach never works on someone who's resistant to it. You need to be a little emotionally manipulative, without it being obvious that you're manipulating them.

Yes,

You need to watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc

I think he means there's no ";" at the end of your print statement

He's wrong too. Sounds like he didn't play quake live, but just listened to some of the whingers from its first day. Quake Live doesn't even have queues any more. That was a temporary system they brought in when they went public to give them time to bring in more servers.

The ads are usually nothing more than a billboard in the background that you barely even notice. It might as well be another wall texture for the amount of difference it makes to the gaming experience.

They deserve to go to jail for lack of options in the polls

Europe got rid of postal monopolies, and the vast majority if not all are either privatised or soon to be. Mail here is cheap and reliable. I've never had a DVD broken or go missing either.

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