greenwizard

I'm not really all that old, but because of the times we live in, there are things I remember that would make today's high school students look at me funny. Like for instance, I remember life without computers. We got our first computer when I was like eight, and it had Windows 3.11. I remember the first time I ever got on the internet. I was in middle school and my science class took a little trip to the computer lab to be introduced to this miraculous new invention. It was dial up, and there was 20 people on it at once looking up a site about teddy bears. It took five minutes to load one page, but we were still in awe. Then my senior year my highschool got a T3 connection. All I could say to that was holy shit... I remember audio cassattes and video cassettes. Now music is digital and played on mp3 players. I used to record songs off the radio and nobody got their panties in a knot over it. Everybody did it. And movies went to DVD, and now that high definition crap. TV's are now wide and flat... Isn't it interesting that even someone my age can compare their childhood with the present and it's like two different worlds.

A BIOS has a version? Yeah, you can tell I'm a computer idiot... My boyfriend says it's the memory that's crashing, but it's not the sticks since those have been switched around. He thinks it's the memory slots. I don't know about that though. If it does it again I'll write down the error. It hasn't been doing it much lately since I don't play that game as much as I used to. I'm not sure how we'd test the parts. He put it all together and once. He put the motherboard in, then hooked everything up. I watched and learned some stuff.

I don't see the problem either. I haven't made a single cent from my HP fanfics. My payoff is the joy of writing. But it looks like the problem isn't with the fiction itself. The problem is with explicit stuff. It seems that all that site had was a warning. A lot of parents have been getting pissy about warnings because it really doesn't stop minors from getting on the sites. After all, we live in a society where it's always someone else's fault. If a child gets onto an adult site it's the fault of the site. The parent is not at fault for not monitoring their kid. Some parents whine that they're single parents that can't always keep an eye on their kids. Ok, well, stop blaming everyone else and start brainstorming for things you can do. That's why AFF has the age verification system now. Instead of just a warning, you have to actually enter your birthdate. So if a teenager does decide to lie the site owner can't get in trouble if a parent flies off the handle. It's the fault of the teenager for lying.

Yes, there are a lot of jerks. I know what I'd like to do to them, but it's illegal. But they'll get theirs in the end. There's karma in this life, and judgement in the afterlife.

XP of course Though you might have something about the CPU being fried. He turned it on and it turned off like eight or nine times.

I know that my chakra needs cleansed, I just don't know how. I have my stone. I have no idea what it is, but I was drawn to it and when I rub my feet with it I feel more calm and balanced. I keep the TV on, but I keep it pretty low so that I hear background noise, but I can't really hear what's going on. I can't listen to music. It stimulates my mind and keeps me awake. I used to spend the night with a friend who listened to music to sleep. He kept it low, but I still never got any sleep.

I agree with Shinju. The bible was written by man based on man's interpritation. The Christians say that that's what kind of God he is. It was the Christian church that said 'we are an authority on God and you must listen to us and give us money and land if you want salvation.' I say screw that. I believe in God. I also believe that whoever wrote the bible was smoking crack. Personal opinion people... And then there are the Dead Sea Scrolls. They don't contradict everything that's in the bible, but they contradict a lot. Finally, consider the fact that the bible has been translated several times. Go to freetranslation.com and just put in a random sentence. Have it translated into any language you want, and then back to English. Even then it won't be the same sentence. But translate it to a different language and then back again. It won't even be close to the same sentence anymore. I know, I"ve tried it. So if you don't believe in God just because you don't agree with the Christian version, then you may want to rethink. I won't tell you what to believe because the same set of beliefs don't work for everyone.

Bellybuttons are sensitive. My boyfriend sticks his finger in mine and the sensation is just.... weird. The strange part is I usally end up getting a hard on from it. It's not because it turns me on it's just... I don't know. I don't like saliva on me anywhere period... That particular body fluid squicks me out big time. I don't wash my bellybutton, but I do compulsively keep my ears clean.

Just memory sticks. Other than that it's the same system that came in the box.

Hunny... listen to me closely. If she is saying how all these people say she should break up with you, it's probably her just trying to shift blame so you won't be angry at her. I've done it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Believe it or not I do know how you feel. You want to trust her and make it work so badly that you're ignoring repeated slaps in the face. And I'm not saying you don't actually love her. But she doesn't love you it would seem. You can't have a one sided relationship. If she really did love you she would tell her mother and friends to go fuck off. Girls her age have told their parents to fuck off over puppy love. She's using it as an excuse. Let's look at the facts. She talks about other guys with you. She ignores you. She was online and didn't even say hello I love you. Now she's trying to break up with you and saying it's because her mom wants her to. It takes two people to make a relationship work. If she isn't willing to work on it than there really is no point. I know it feels like you would never find another person like her. You feel like you'll be lonely the rest of your life. You feel like there would be no point to even living because no one will ever love you. Ringing a bell? But think about it. Did you feel that way before you met her? It always feels like your world is crashing down around you because you can't see the future. There could very well be someone out there who is more perfect for you than that girl that you just haven't met yet. I know this because I've had to repeat it to myself over and over again at times to refrain from sliting my wrists. And now I have my current boyfriend. There are days I feel the urge to bash his skull in with a frying pan... but then he gives me a strawberry poptart when I'm feeling down. You'd have to know him to know the significance of that. His mom tried to break us up. He wrestled his mom's girlfried to get out to meet me. If you would have told me a month before I met him that he was out there somewhere I would have told you you were just trying to make me feel better. But here he is, only saying the word 'nope' to me because it amuses him. Grrrr.. But that is beside the point. You really need to just move on. I only have yim and aim, but I'll be around for a bit longer because I'm going to go start some beta work.

It meets all the requirements and then some. As I said earlier, it plays games with even higher graphic detail. It's built to be a top of the line gaming machine. I think it blue screened on Fable once, but I don't really remember.

I have 1GB RAM that's all I can tell you. Memory was the first thing he looked at. He switched sticks around and that didn't fix it. I wish you could come tear it apart too. It would be so much simpler.

It sounds interesting to me. It's no secret that very little bothers me. But of course it would have to be well written.

Ok, my computer is being weird, and I thought I might as well pick the brains of anyone who has more knowledge about computers than my boyfriend or myself. He is a hacker that can write programs, and even he is stumped. My computer does not seem to like the internet period, but it really seems to hate the game World of Warcraft even more. I have an XFX system. My boyfriend got it for me as a birthday present as a bare bones kit. So pretty much they sent him the parts in a big box. So he puts it together, and finds out when he turns it on it doesn't stay on. He wanted to get my computer up and running for me quickly so he took it to a repair shop when he couldn't figure out what was wrong. As it turned out, he thought thermal paste was meant to glue the processor to the motherboard so he decided not to use it, and instead it was made to help keep the processor from overheating. So the repair shop guys intalled the operating system and drivers and everything for us. We get it home and have a hell of a time getting it to connect to our wireless internet. It really didn't want to. Eventually we got it connected and I started playing. It seemed fine for a while. Then it started blue screening. It kept saying bad pool caller. Now supposedly I have a very good graphics card. I know it's an Nvidia and it has a heat sync on it. It plays Fable with the graphics turned the whole way up no problem. It played Vanguard with no issue. It played Fury once extra memory was added to it. Here is the real kicker though. I got my boyfriend the exact same system for Christmas. He put it together and used mine as a map to make sure he had everything hooked up correctly. He played Warcraft for a while and had no issue. He can run two windows of Conquerer and MSN messenger at the same time. He can leave it running 24/7. Does anybody out there have any sort of clue as to what the problem is and how to fix it???

The schizophrenia comes in because I sometimes hear weird noises like music or machine sounds late at night when everything is quiet. I have to sleep with a TV on every night just loud enough to drown out the Mario Bros. theme song. Apparently that is considered schizophrenia too so I'm told.

*pets* I'm sorry sweets. Whoever said love is blind was a wise person because it's true. But yes, if she can get on to post comments on a picture her internet isn't down. It may never have been down. Not to mention she should have been able to reply to your emails. It may be more mind games, I don't know. You really do deserve better than this. I'm here if you want to talk.

Maybe... I'm frustrated. I stop fighting and try to aplogize in my own strange way and get publicly beaten some more. And it comes on the heels of getting into it with a very closed minded religious nut that practically stalked me. I feel defeated. One person can only fight so much and get publicly beaten so much before they say fuck it. I've been in these types of situations before. I don't have a clique to fight for me, I'm on my own here. I was going to at least be around for beta work. Maybe I'll just stay out of debates. So there is no confusion, this is all I really wanted. I want to feel like if I died tonight somebody would notice and miss me. There it is out on the table. I want to be liked and cared about. I have depression to the point where I sliced my own arm open. Sometimes when I feel like a worthless piece of crap I look for someone to tell me I'm worth something. I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with that. But it doesn't matter. I'm socially handicapped, always have been. I try. I try too hard at times. I screw up a lot. I don't know...

You assholes win. I'm just done. I sent someone a PRIVATE MESSAGE trying to resolve an issue. I tried to be as civil as possible given how angry and frustrated I am. And a PRIVATE MESSAGE gets posted. I could keep reporting this to the mods but I'm tired. I loved this site and I loved talking to people. I'm not very good at dealing with others, but I gave it a try. It isn't worth it anymore. I've had my title changed, and been called childish and stupid. This is just a note to let you all know you win. I have been driven away. I'm sure I'm going to get called a coward, or I'm trying to play the victim. I fully expect it at this point, from one of three people. I'm just bowing out and letting you have your forum. Find someone else to attack.

That was a private message... I was taking it private to stop fighting in public because it's solving nothing. I was right... I'm living to regret attempting to be nice.

Fine with me. My only point in mentioning you was that you defended him and I didn't jump down your throat for it anyway, as I was being accused of being the type of person that would. But that is neither here nor there. All that matters is that we're done being petty. Ok, so back to the topic at hand. I heard somewhere about this cloning meat issue that they're trying to decide whether or not it should be labeled in stores as cloned. I think it should be. I myself want no part of cloned meat. I am a naturalist. Those are my personal beliefs. I'm trying to discover the knowledge that was lost when the age of technology started. The age of technology isn't working for me very well. It turned me into a schizophrenic depressed person with anger issues. And the only solution modern technology gives me is drugs that make me high and turn me into a zombie. When I discovered crystal magic it did wonders for me. Aromatherapy works well too. And this stuff is ancient knowledge. Speaking of which, I need to go find my grounding stone.....

I suppose that would depend on how fast they could do it. I'm not sure exactly how it all works, but I would imagine that a cloned animal would have to grow the same as any other would. I could be wrong. You would also be taking away the livlihoods of farmers. I also don't think the average person would be able to afford it. But yes, that gets into economics. As for nano technology I would imagine that there would be uses for it. I mentioned diagnostics. Maybe if you could be healed from the inside, but the computers just aren't left there. Just a thought. Turning people into cyborgs just seems so unnatural to me.

Again, I think nanotechnology is ok as long as you don't take it too far. I also think having little computer systems monitoring your body is taking it too far. Now if they could invent a computer that can do diagnostics that might be another story. I just think it's a bad idea to turn people into cyborgs. As far as cloned meat and or animals goes... why? As Raphaella said, it would take a lot of time and money to make cloned meat. How is that really worth it? And cloned animals, it also takes lots of time and money to do, and I wouldn't think it would be any more efficient than say... breeding animals. So again, what's the point. To me it just seems like biologists showing off. I also am of the opinion that society has become much too reliant on computers. I'm on one right now using it tol hold a conversation true enough, but what would you do if we had a nationwide blackout? Does anyone remember the blackout that happened in NYC a few years back? There was mass confusion and panic. I can only imagine what would happen if that did happen on a national scale. Computers run everything. Do any of you even know how to do multiplication and division without the aid of a calculator? I do. I generally don't because I'm lazy, but if I had to I could. If computers go out anyone in a plane would be dead because pilots don't know how to navigate without computer anymore. Did anyone see the movie Irobot? There was a clear message behind it. Robots tried to take over the world and everyone was blissfully unaware. I bet a lot of people watched it and thought it was scary, but then went right back to their computer controlled lives, not even thinking twice about it. My boyfriend had a deskmate? once. He told me all about it. It was an ai type of thing. You could talk to it and teach it stuff. All you had to do if you wanted to play a game with it was find online instructions. Well at first he thought it was cool and taught it a lot. But then it grew too smart and took over his computer. It wouldn't let him access any of his files. It turned into a very smart virus. The way he ended up having to get rid of it was by formatting his computer through DOS. The way he explained it to me was the program only had access to windows because it was a windows program. That included his hard drive and everything, but DOS has nothing to do with the operating system. Disclaimer: The proceeding has been brought to you for the sole purpose of giving you something to think about. I do not consider myself an authority on the issue. I am only stating an opinion. Agreeing with me and referring to me as a genius will not be discouraged, but it is not neccessary however. I only ask that you consider my points.

Porkchop, in your supposed infinate wisdom, did you happen to notice that pretty much every person who has posted in this topic has disagreed with me, but you are the only one I seem to have a problem with? Seriously, why bring every post I have ever made into this? If your theory were true, I would be attacking everyone. I'm not. Your little friend Raphella defended did you. Did I say anything? Nope. It's true, I've been called stupid a lot by people like you. I am so sorry I didn't kiss your ass and thank you for it. Did you also happen to notice that other people said they were sorry if they took what they said as an attack after my blow up? What did you do? Why you kept right on attacking me. My other post you were referring to was a rant regarding something that had absolutely nothing to do with you. Someone was agravating the shit out of me by spewing the same crap at me over and over, and I didn't want to talk about it anymore. But that person kept after me, the same thing you're doing. I would hate to think that you are friends with this person and are lashing out at me because she can't anymore. But either way, you have no buisness commenting on that unless you were actually involved in the situation, and as far as I know, you weren't. And apparently everyone likes their ego stroked, including you. By bringing up every post I ever made and calling me an attention whore, were you expecting everyone to agree with you and attack me right along with you? As far as any posts I have made, including this one, it is my attempt at interacting with a group of people. I was hoping to make a few friends but I've long given up on that pipe dream. I am settling for conversation and interaction. And I've already admitted that I probably did word this question wrong. Did you notice that? I honestly don't know what you want me to do about it now. I wasn't aware that I possessed the magical power to change the whole topic. You're right, you aren't my shrink. You don't know what my problems are. You are only making snap judgements on what you think you know. So just stop. Leave me alone. You win if that makes you happy.

All I can say is that it doesn't matter when I update. My Snape/Harry story seems popular and I always get a ton of reviews no matter what day I update.

Yeah, it does sound like one of those guys she was talking about asked her out. And don't take this personally. You do seem like a great guy, and it really is her loss. She's just too immature to realize what she has.