• 1Oct 08

  Not too difficult to rip off best buy I guess

  My sound card went out on me after years of service so I had to replace it. I went to Best Buy and saw they had some soundblaster X-Fi gamer fatal1ty pro sound cards on clearance for $60. So when I got home and opened it something seemed kinf out of place. The card seemed small and the anti-static bag looked a little too crumply. I took out the card and it was an an audigy 4, not the X-Fi gamer card, plus you could see the wear and tear on it. Also there was no manual or driver CD's. Ooops, looks like someone had bought this and removed the orignal card and packaging and replaced it with their old card.

  I took it back to best buy right away and got it exchanged. The service rep said maybe it came from the factory that way and I said I highly doubt it. Also the orignal box I got was not sealed like the other one I exchanged it for. I guess the best buy employee who accepted the return just saw a sound card and didn't know any better. They could have checked the picture on the box though to make sure. You would think though that before they put the product back on sale that they would make sure everyting is in order. Not to mention it should have been sold as an open box item instead of new.

  • Posted Oct 1, 2008 5:33 am GMT
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• 4Aug 08

  Catholics and Protestants

  Don't worry its not an "anti" thread and I'm using Protestants to signify non-Catholics to make it easier. Its also not directed at any one person in particular, but from many sources.

  I just wanted to voice a few things after reading blogs and visiting other unions and visiting other sites on the web. After reading the many posts I can see why there was so much bloodshed and hatred in the middle ages between the two groups. I can see why there was so much hatred and bloodshed in Northern Ireland between the two groups. There may not be the bloodshed as in the past but the hate is still there and I believe many are capable of continuing the bloodshed. Sometimes I'm astonished to see the hate and those that despise the other group. It comes from both sides, Catholic and Protestant.

  One side will become offended or upset with what someone else said on the other side and then will lash out in the same type of hateful, arrogant, hurtful spirit as the other. Do two wrongs make a right, are we to repay evil with evil. I'm not saying we shouldn't defend our views or church but when you lash out with the same type of hateful spirit as the other then you are just like they are. When you group one whole group of people together because of the actions of some you are no worse than they are.

  If you want to change someone's mind, belittling them or attacking them with hateful comments will not change their mind. If anything it will only cause them to resist you more. When I was a Catholic I remember all the hateful comments directed at me and it did nothing to change anything except hate you more. When I became a Protestant I got the same hate directed at me from Catholics. I wasn't innocent either, I did the same thing when I was a Catholic and when I first became a Protestant. Its not enough that we have disagreements and continue to go on our way, we have to carry out our own little crusades and inquisitions.

  Its no wonder that Europe is so secular now seeing as how the Protestants and Catholics did their best to turn people away from God with their wars and brutality against each other. Its sad that centuries later the underlying hate is still there between the two groups.

  • Posted Aug 4, 2008 5:53 am GMT
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• 25Jul 08

  Funny article on Obama

  I saw this on the timesonline.uk and thought it was great and had to post it.

  He ventured forth to bring light to the world

  The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers Gerard Baker And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

  The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

  When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: "Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?"

  In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working ****Whites. And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world. He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media.

  He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world. And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

  From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it. And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

  And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

  From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered "Hosanna" and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet. In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace. As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites. And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

  The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for. And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again. Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

  And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

  Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length. But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him. And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

  Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not. On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One. And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: "Yes, We Can."

  • Posted Jul 25, 2008 4:51 am GMT
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