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"Many know that MTV2 has the freestyle thing. I am going to start it when I get my camera. Sounds good, right?" Not so much spelling, but punctuation would have been helpful. I'm not trying to rip on ya, since I have frequently been an offender of grammer police, but adding some punctuation makes posts far more understandable. At any rate, it sounds like it good be cool, good luck with it!

I think the Wii is going to dominate this round of consoles. Nintendo has a ton of things going for them and Sony and Microsoft have some huge factors holding them back. I'm definately going to be getting a Wii the first day, mostly because I'm a Nintendo fan-boy. I firmly believe that Nintendo does everything "right", but man, those controllers have me wondering. :)

Thanks ya'll!

Yea, that would go well on there

So the latest greatest hits release has gotten me thinking about what I would want to see as a true greatest hits release. I've decided that I want a 3-Disc set like the following: The Stories Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble Just One of Those Days Just Rockin' Scary Story You Saw My Blinker Who Stole The DJ Nightmare On My Street Parents Just Don't Understand Ain't No Place Like Home Men In Black Then She Bit Me I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson Who Stole My Car The Parties Will 2K So Fresh Party Starter Summer Time Ring My Bell He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper Boom Shake The Room I'm Looken For The One Block Party Getten Jiggy Wit It Miami Numero Uno Brand New Funk I'm All That The Thoughts Afro Angel Potnas Chasing Forever Tell Me Why Caught In The Middle Shadow Dreams Twinkle Twinkle Momma Knows Born To Reign Just The Two Of Us I Wish I Made That Swagga

Interesting review, though I think it was more of a thesis than a review... But I don't get why ya'll are up in arms, it seemed like a pretty positive review. Jazzy's great on the wheels, check. Will is a great story teller, check. The album gives new folks a chance to check out some hip hop history, check. What more do ya want?

I have a PSP and a DS. I like my DS far more than my PSP, though I am a big Nintendo fan, so take it with a grain of salt. However, I'm pretty sure that the DS has FAR outsold the PSP world wide. The coolest thing about the PSP is the movies and the memory card you can load with MP3's. But I don't think the games are all that fun, and they seem more like small versions of console games, requiring massive time commitments. I only play hand helds for short bursts of time, usually while waiting on something or watching tv. :topic: The New Super Mario Bros, I bought it, love it, my lady stole it. :)

I just ordered me one! :2thumbs:

That was great!!!

Good point

Sure it does, if a female calls and is told a rip-off price and then a man calls and is given a legit price, and the only difference is the sound of our voice, it's obviously because they think they can pull one over on the girl.

Most recently I worked on John Deere North American Farmer and John Deere American Farmer Deluxe. On those I was just an employee, so my money doesn't get changed by piracy, just my employment status. :)

This is a totally anecdotal, but it really seemed insane. My girl is moving out of her apartment, so we're trying to pay her last months rent. She's moving out half way through (gave notice, etc...) and is supposed to pay about half a months rent, and be done. When she tried to pay them, not only did they want the full months payment, they want an EXTRA $200! (off of a 600 or so a month payment) She tried to explain that it wasn't right, they replied with some jive, and she left. So I called today and magically the price was back to where it was supposed to be and I only had to pay for the half a month. Crazy.

Ok, this is a bit of a rant, and I don't mean anything personally by it, but I'm gonna rant anyways. :) I can't access that site, so I don't know about it specifically, but I have seen many that sound similar, which I very much hate. The reason why I hate those sites is that those folks are making money off of other peoples work. As a software developer, I would much rather you steal my product directly than give money to someone else who's stolen my product. I know it seems kinda odd, I don't get paid either way, but I see it that way for a couple of reasons. For some strange reason, I see it as ethically better... Maybe you can't afford my prices, maybe you won't use it very much, you could have many semi-legit reasons for not buying my product. But if there's money going out, I want it in my hands, if there isn't, than I'm not out anything. Also, by giving money to those folks, you're giving them even more incentive to go through the effort of stealing my software. (generally, when software gets stolen, it's only a few people that make it stealable) Finally, these places frequently try to confuse legitimate customers into thinking they're getting a legal copy but at a great price, when they're actually not getting a legal copy at all. If those customers had known, they would have bought it from me instead. So please, don't buy my products from illegit places, just steal them, I would be happier. Of course, I would always rather have you buy them from me. :) But, just to be clear, I don't know if the site mentioned is or is not offering legit products, but super small prices and a name including "warez" seems like it's not very legit... of course, that could just be what they want you to think. :)

I can't help ya with that product specifically, but I would think that the program has many competitors, most cheaper, several free, all with free trials.

But while the small business was bringing in 25% of what the large business was bringing in before the wage increase, it's now bringing in 25.4% of what the large business was bringing in, which would imply that it can now compete more effectively.

Right, so higher minimum wages should help small business.

Could you explain why that would be so, that seems opposite to how it should be.

Can someone explain to me why a higher minimum wage hurts small business? As far as I can tell, a whole lot of small businesses that hire minimum wage employees compete against major corporations. When those two go head to head, I would think that the small business would benifit from higher minimum wage. All companies have several costs that go into their products, such as wages, materials purchasing, advertising, and store front costs (lights, electricity, rent, etc...). Typically major companies can get better rates on materials and advertising, because they're buying in bulk. That usually results in the major companies having lower prices than the small business, which makes it hard for the small business to survive. However, since both companies pay the same wages, when you increase wages, the cost difference on materials and advertising becomes less important. For example, let's take two stores, Bobs Ice Cream, representing small business, and Dairy Queen, representing major corporations, and look at a fictious cost of an ice cream cone. Store - They're across the street from each other, bought at the same time, and using the same utilities, so they're the same. Bobs - 20 cents DQ - 20 cents Materials - DQ has much better rates here, because they can buy in major bulk Bobs - 20 cents DQ - 10 cents Advertising - DQ buys one ad and splits the cost between 10 stores in the city, Bobs buys one add and pays for it all from one store. Bobs - 10 cents DQ - 1 cent Wages - They're both cheap bums, so they both pay minimum wage Bobs - 20 cents DQ - 20 cents So the total cost for each cone is: Bobs - 70 cents DQ - - 51 cents Bobs is 37% more expensive than DQ However, if you where to double minimum wage to 20 cents, than the cone costs would become: Bobs - 90 cents DQ - - 71 cents Now Bobs is only 26% more than DQ, which should make it more attractive to customers. I just made the numbers up to illustrate what I'm talking about, I would think that in reality it isn't nearly as pronounced of an effect, but I would think it would still be true regardless of the numbers. A higher minimum wage wouldn't do much, but if anything, it would slightly help small business. So why does everyone say it's going to hurt small business?

So this is a song about programmers, so if you aren't a programmer, you probably won't appreciate it... at all. But I figure there could be a programmer or two lurking around here, so I'm posting it. It's a remake of a Gilbert and Sullivan song (Major General) or for the less sophisticated individual, such as myself, it's a remake of an Animainiacs song (Cartoon Individual) I am the very model of an elitist Software Engineer My Kung-Fu is wicked fast, the code I write is very clear I've master many languages, compiler theory I have read From C++ to Python scripts but not Cobol cuz it is dead I can debug any crash I see always in two minutes flat Add a data-break and check the heap, I've got techniques all down pat If all else fails, I'm out of clues, and I really have hit the wall There's one last trick, in my bag, I go and do a Rebuild All I sleep all day and code all night drinking Mountain Due by the case The only break that I take is a couple hours to watch Office Space Then I go back to my darkened room with a couple Twinkies in my hand And before I code I go download the torrent of my favorite band I always shower once a month, but thats ok cuz I never date When I meet a girl I say nothing because I find I can't relate I just go home and fire up my latest clips of Pr0n downloads Then I scrutinize my sorry life and then decide to write this ode Because: My Kung-Fu is wicked fast, the code I write is very clear I am the very model of an elitist Software Engineer

Top Dawg secretly voted for George W..... twice.

some1 explain that :ponder: It's kinda hard to tell with out hearing the whole song, or even knowing what it's about, but the jj/fp line sounds to me as a throw away line saying he's "fresh", kinda like "I'm fresh like will smith when he was part of the group jazzy jeff and the fresh prince" I could see how it could be a shot at will, saying he used to be good, but since he released as "Will Smith" he's not good anymore. But I more see it just as a minor play on words, stealing the word "fresh" from the name "fresh prince". And, yet again, I go against the grain on who I like to listen to, but I dig on Kanye's music. His beats aren't as hot as JJ's or even Dre's back in the day, but they're pretty good. His lyrics aren't as deep as KRS or even as thought provoking as Chuck D, Tupac, or Ice Cube, but they're reasonable, exceptionally deep by todays standards. Every now and then I'll try some underground hip hop, I tend not to like the music of it, but the lyrics are pretty good. Main stream rap usually gives me beats I really like, but the lyrics make me shake my head. ("my lumps"? give me a break) Kanye hits a nice sweet spot in my book, both his lyrics and beats are good. Not great, but good, and that, for me, is rare these days.

Hey Brakes, I check that site every now and then, but I haven't seen any voting or anything. Am I missing something?

My life has been crazy busy lately and I don't see that changing any time soon, so this project is officially on hold. :)

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