i play by my own rules, and i play for points. the more bureaucrats i can get looking at my cock at once, the better. 20, and i win.

this is, in my opinion, what makes you a good doctor. i want to point out that by taking time to address the person's concerns, you help ease their anxiety if they're wrong.

i don't know what the difference is between google nowadays and old wives' tales 50 years ago, either. the solution to old wives' tales is to listen to the person, and correct them where they're wrong. i see a similar solution to the googling.

kudos to you, good sir. :)

i don't think you understand. doctors who pay due attention and give a shit are a rarity. while an untrained individual is not the best person to investigate and diagnose their ailments, at least you have someone paying attention to the issue. as a matter of fact, i think that if someone goes in and after 5 minutes takes what a doctor says on a serious medical issue to be the absolute truth, they are shamefully uninvolved in their personal wellness.

i think the fact that you're pointing to is that most people don't have such a serious issue that a doctor not paying attention really matters. also, most people are not really all that great at logic, especially if their emotions get entangled in the issue. still, i'd rather have someone with less training paying attention to me 9/10.

I agree that it's not a good place to get a second opinion. It is, however, a good place to do research, and get an Nth opinion. considering that the problem is that doctors mostly refuse to spend an appropriate amount of time with a patient, i have a hard time believing that an intelligent and discerning person should be discouraged from doing research and asking questions on the internet.

my brother had a recurring ear infection. the third time he went back to the same doctor, he told him not to prescribe him the exact same antibiotic ear drops that he'd been prescribed the last two times, because they didn't work. the doctor spent 10 minutes with him, scribbled some shit on a piece of paper, and charged him between 50 and 100 dollars. as my brother stepped out of the office, he looked at the piece of paper. same fucking ear drops.

there's no worse doctor than a doctor who doesn't give a shit, except perhaps yahoo answers.

trey parker and matt stone's reasoning behind starting south park studios is that they found themselves repeatedly going online and watching illegal versions of old episodes, and they figured that probably their fans were doing it too.

true that.

they wouldn't be able to use sex as a tool to destroy you, so at least they'd have to destroy you based on your actual actions.

I'm not getting way into this shit-slinging match, but I seem to be able to position my mouse on every corner of almost every window on my macbook without hovering over any active elements. it seems like they could just tick out a tiny section of each corner so that i don't have to move my window to resize it. i don't think people would complain about the edges if you could resize from the corners.

hell, how about top left and bottom right? that would be a start.

this is wrong in my experience. i have used almost exclusively a mac for over a year, i still prefer having the menu in the window. when a window grabs focus on mac, it changes the menu. if i'm selecting from a menu, and i misclick and hit another window, the menu changes. i don't experience the drastic hit in screen real estate, either, because i can buy a computer or display with better resolution for less or equal money than an apple product. also, when a window is behind another window, i don't feel like it's taking up screen real estate.

i understand the fitt's law argument, and i just think it is wrong for me and quite a lot of users. i think it's a bad idea. some people like it.

i see the benefit of this, but only if you have a decent sized display. even still, i can acknowledge that it's a matter of preference. still, my web browser won't maximize, and since i can't resize from the left or top, if i want a full screen browser, i need to drag my window to the edge of the screen and then resize it.

and in linux, i can maximize it either vertically or horizontally, and move my windows with keystrokes. windows can suck it too. :)

hahaha. thank you. :)

I wasn't aware it was a double action, and I don't know enough about pistols to keep double action and single action straight, even.

However, I didn't get my info from movies or video games. I got all my info directly from 2 guys who served over 20 years apiece in the military and have guns scattered throughout their houses. What I hear is that people can (at least on some guns), modify the gun to have a hair trigger. Just because it's stupid and inadvisable doesn't mean people don't do it.

I don't know anything about this particular gun, though, and I may be wrong.

If you value both the loss of life AND the sorrow caused by it, it's better that the negligence caused sorrow to the person who was negligent, rather than a neighbor. It doesn't devalue the life.

You can adjust the trigger resistance. It's generally inadvisable to lower the resistance past a certain point, because it makes it more likely it will go off from bumping against things, but I think it's likely enough that a guy who leaves a gun out with his toddler around is liable to have the trigger resistance questionably (if not illegally) low.

I am by no means an expert, but I live in a mother-in-law apt in the back yard of a gun lover.

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yeah, but apple will only kick you on the left ball. :)

I should've made myself clear that I consider that I'm not the best damn guitarist in the world, and the statement wasn't just directed at you. I actually come from a place where I KNOW how hard it is to be a fantastic guitarist, and I'm working hard at it.

Radiohead is pretty good. Muse is pretty good. Modest Mouse could go either way, but I'm hoping their next album is good. Menomena is awesome, and worth checking out. Listen to Deerhoof and Experimental Dental School.

My band is decent, and our recordings are okay. Please follow the link in my sig, and check us out. I'm the bald-headed fucker with the guitar. :)

Beta is not as good as I wish it were because Jim and I recorded Beta by ourselves, and made some recording mistakes along the way. Our intention was to get the material done so we could move ahead, and now we have 3 new band members. Gasoline Alley is pretty tight, but it's the first show we played together with the new guys, and Jim wasn't there, so there are some mistakes. Definitely more punchy, though. We'll have more recordings soon.

(-3, OT. -5, link whoring)

Flogging a dead horse here, but dude. You can reprogram your device. If you try to connect to their pay service, they don't have to let reprogrammed devices connect. They don't want to provide support for reprogrammable devices, so they don't advertise it as such.

You're not being punished, you're being left out in the cold, and that's the deal you get with that product. Buy another product.