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Reply to Why I support inheritence taxation in Politics JoeUser Forums

I absolutely must disagree with you on this topic. Property rights are the very foundation of this nation, and the fundamental " RIGHT " on which the Constitution is based. The very idea that others should be taxed to the point that they are forced to sell their inheritance, so that YOU have a chance to buy it, is as repugnant a thought as forcing your fellow citizen to remove the crucifix from her necklace because don't like loo

Reply to They're Made of Meat! in Humor JoeUser Forums

HA! I love it! NEED MORE SCI-FI!!!

Reply to Suffering from Longhorn or Tiger envy? in OS Wars JoeUser Forums

I tell my customers that if they need more computing power for their current needs, then upgrade to the limits of your current budget. If their PC and apps are running fine and they are wanting to upgrade "to be ready" for the next big thing, I tell them to save the money for now and wait for "the next big thing" to be released. In 6 months the same money will buy more power. Of course, back in the day when I made money build

Reply to Suffering from Longhorn or Tiger envy? in OS Wars JoeUser Forums

Starkers, Longhorn is still over a year away, and features keep getting stripped to make that possable. As I tell all of my clients, don't upgrade for a future operating system, upgrade to get the best preformance you can get NOW. That aside, x86-64 is the future, AMD dual core processors are the way to go for CPU upgrades. Intel dual core CPU cores communicate with each other throuth the chipset on the motherboard, and t

Reply to Wal-mart and wages and salaries in America in Politics JoeUser Forums

I have to agree with an earlier comment about the appalling lack of economic education in this country. When I graduated from High School I could balance my checkbook, not because I learned it in class, but because my Mother took the effort to teach me when I started my first job. Shortly after I graduated HS I got my first credit card… This was trouble! Like so many kids I see today, I charged, and charged, and charged, because I thought

All these ICONS...now what? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey folks, I'm kinda' new to this... I've d/l'd a ton of great icons, now I want to start changing some of my system icons. How do I do that? I want to place an AUTORUN.inf file on my CDs and HDDs so the Drive shows up with a custom icon... I used to know how to do it, but I had to forget it so I could learn how to make VCDs..... In need of a memory upgrade, gNOMEintheRedHat