Why? Because they have different views from you?

I don't want to speak for parent, but I think he meant it as a joke (think mafia tactics).

This is too funny. Good job.

We all know that it's the longest running joke and will not happen. Even if it did, it would probably even suck. Knowing all that, I can't help but hope it's true.

Let's call it "healthy skepticism" based on the knowledge that we can count on Franken to always do one thing right, be on the wrong side of an issue.

I'm sure he's salivating at the chance of getting more control of the Internet and silencing the opposition.

I was all for net neutrality before Al Franken's comment. At that point, I realized there must be a problem with it. Instead of the ISP's and corporations dictating what you can do, it will be Al Franken. I'll take the free markets, thank you.

I had a bad experience with a plumber one time. Should I say the entire profession is bad?

I am a chiropractor. I no longer practice though. Why? Because I never subscribed to the chiropractic philosophy. I don't agree with the philosophical principles that chiropractic is founded on. But, that doesn't mean that it doesn't benefit millions of people beyond what any other health care profession can provide. Chiropractic provides more than symptomatic relief. It restores normal mobility to the joints. And, this is what I believe provides relief. I guess an Osteopath could provide that service, too.

The problem I've seen is that percentage wise, only a small number of people seek Chiropractic care. So, to make a living, that forces the unscrupulous chiropractor to treat conditions outside of their scope or keep the patient coming in longer than necessary, under false information. I could never do either. So, I went back to school and got a degree in CS. I'm much happier.

But, I want to correct you. Although my personality conflicts with the principles of the profession, Chiropractic does not resemble massage. It is not quackery.

I am fully convinced that Chiropractors prevent thousands of unnecessary surgeries every year. When it comes to neuromusculoskeletal conditions, I don't think other health care providers can make that claim.

I think the key is to find a Chiropractor by referral. If you they are helping you (give it a couple of weeks), then good for you. Otherwise, try something else.

ditto

I installed Windows 7 64 bit at work this week. I'm rolling back to XP.

Maybe you can contribute my problems to being 64 bit. But, the apps I need to do my job aren't going to work. I asked around the office and discovered other developers are running all of their important apps on XP or Vista VM's.

I tried to install VS 2005 32bit (which I need for existing apps). The installation warns of "known issues" and recommends an update. Even it won't install properly and the update can't find the install. I just don't need those kind of aggravations. So, count me as one of those "switchers" who upgraded from Windows 7 to XP.

Wake me up when I can install the apps I need.

Great. Now, instead of being dependent on foreign oil, we'll be dependent on foreign windmills.

That is cute. I double tapped to create a new box, then did document.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]...... a bunch of things. It was cool.

Not to self promote, but I wrote a firefox extension for just this purpose. You can block Google search results with any phrase. I don't get any hits from scribd, experts-exchange and about.com. It also highlights preferred results. It's in Mozilla's sandbox. You can download it there. But, you have to have a free sandbox account to get to it. I call it GoogleCleaner.

You can also get it on my website (a tiny DSL connection).

http://www.crotchett.com

Try it out and let me know what you think. The only downside is that it doesn't clean results until the whole results page is retrieved. I wish someone would fix that for me. I don't have time to fix it myself.

Oops. That's lugoj.org, not .com

I was practicing Chiropractic at the time. I was in my office looking through a Popular Mechanics April 1999. I saw an article about Linux with two screenshots, one of KDE and one of GNOME. I couldn't believe my eyes. I said to myself, "I have to have that."

A few days later, I was walking through the parking lot of a shopping center. I noticed a sign in the window of a computer store that said, "Have you checked your LUGOJ?", with a large picture of a fat penguin. I knew what I was looking at. I knew this was about Linux. So, I subscribed to the mailing list at lugoj.com. I actually already knew a guy in the group who was willing to come over to my house and help me get Slackware and Red Hat installed on an old 486.

It was awesome! It changed my life.

I sold my chiropractic practice and went back to school. I finished my prerequisites locally. Then, I drove 1.5 hours one way for 2 years to complete my Computer Science degree.

This is why gift cards are a bad idea. They instantly made my $75 of gift cards worth about $50.