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[JenB]

I can agree with that! I'll be watching it on my 15" laptop screen, nice resolution but a little small. Ah well.

[ExGeeEye]

LOL-- last time I did that...my cousin and I took a week down to Gettysburg, walked the battlefield etc. and then, in a plywood cabin by the light of a propane lantern, uploaded the day's pics from his digital camera to his laptop...then watched DVDs! From the bunks...10 feet away!

One of them was "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"

[JenB]

I love my laptop. I paid extra for the biggest screen they made. It was well worth it.

[ExGeeEye]

Next time I buy a whole complete computer, it's to be a laptop... an HP, I'm sure, with a better-than-pretty-good processor and a DVD/CD-R combo drive.

In the meantime, I'm still changing up pieces of my desktop, the oldest piece of which is the 8-year-old modem, and the newst the USB 2.0 card and the Windows XP Pro :)

[JenB]

I had an HP. Liked it a lot. When I went to buy a new laptop, I looked at HP and Dell. I got basically the same exact system for $300 less from Dell. So far, no complaints.

[ExGeeEye]

My cousin's is an HP. One of the things I like about it is that you can turn off the goofy touchpad and use a mouse, and tiny USB optical mice are available. That, and his Dell desktop is a PITN for software. Could be just his, but his opinion is its some proprietary Dell shenanigans. Oh well, if yours suits you, "good on yer, mate" :)

[Sam Cree]

Thanks.

This community just incorporated, and I doubt they will tolerate a commune or anything like that setting up here. After all, the primary reason for incorporation was to gain control of zoning, and thus prevent anything that might damage property value.

In theory, I don't care much what my neighbors do...unless of course it affects me somehow. Property value being an example.

[Sam Cree]

Where's Ruthy, anyway?

[Sam Cree]

Hey cool! I killed the thread!

[RosieCotton]

I like Dells. Mine is getting on toward three, and I've had no trouble that wasn't my own fault, except for a problem with viewing DivX files (the system kept slowing down and dropping frames) that apparently was QuickTime related...it stopped when I took that out of startup. Darn Apple software...

[RosieCotton]

Congratulations! ;-)

[RosieCotton]

Time to get ready for church. See everyone later...

[mstar]

I suppose there must still be support for us in the UK, after all, Tony Blair is still the PM, I think.

They call Tony Blair Pres. Bush's poodle. You recall that Blair was also a Clinton man. Remember King Bubba and Queen Tony? Ugh.

I think English culture, which is the cradle of individual freedom, (which includes American culture, really) could be fading away, and ours along with it, just as Tolkien's Oxfordshire countryside faded.

I feel you are right on. The EU is pushing it's agenda with the younger generation and they are buying it. In many of the pubs the focus was not so much on a particular ale brewed at a particular pub or public house, as in LOTR, it was more on the various trendy vodkas, ect, because "that was what the young people liked".

It was so different from our last visits. . I think the change surprised me.

[Sam Cree]

Havn't been to the UK in about 25 years, though I have been to Australia recently, where America seems still to be very well liked.

I figure that the UK is closer to the "French" system now (socialism) than to the "English" system of individual liberty.

Same goes for us here in the US, though we are not quite as far down the road (to Serfdom) as the UK is. I doubt that either country can get back to where we were 100 years ago.

I think the Democrats are actively destroying our traditions of freedom, and am not even sure the Republicans care. For that matter, there are a lot of freepers who will argue that individual freedom was not the primary purpose of the founding fathers.

But, Mstar, did you still like it over there, and enjoy the English?

I can't get over the picture of you guys in the pub where the Inklings met. Not that I knew they met in a pub. It's somehow reassuring to know that they did, though.

[Ramius]

Hey howdy there everybody.... :-) [sip]

[Sam Cree]

Yes, I remember that Blair and Clinton were buddies.

However, Blair has turned out to be a man of true conviction and integrity, while, far as I know, Clinton is still just a ruthless, selfish, needy, dishonest power hungry jerk, albeit a charismatic one (supposedly).

[Ramius]

How about Condi today? The velvet hammer struck well and true, I thought.

[Sam Cree]

Yeah, she's great, they never had a chance.

I notice the media is in damage control over that, doing their best to spin it.

[GulfWar1Vet]

Hey all. :)

Corwin, Mickey came today!!

:grins:

[Ramius]

Back in the Clinton days, I had little respect for Blair. He seemed to be the same sort of preening little lightweight that Clinton was. I really liked Margaret Thatcher, and then John Major, and I thought Blair was a poor choice.

9-11 changed Blair, just like it changed many people. I think he really honestly looks up to George W. Bush and admires the "cowboy" in him. There are times when the world needs cowboys and marines to take charge of things, and I think Blair saw this in spades.