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I must be getting old. The age group of women that I used to think of as older women are now younger than me. :( Rick

Check your bios configuration before you do anything else. If the bios recognizes your hard drive, then check the boot order. If that is all ok, then make sure you don't have any removable media inserted eg, floppy's, cd's, usb memory sticks, etc. If nothing there, then use an xp(I am assuming that is your os) cd and boot to the recovery console. First, run chkdsk /R. If it reports that it found errors and fixed them, then reboot. If you still have problems, go back to the recovery console and run fixboot. This will write a new boot sector to the hard drive. IF none of this works, as pawtucket says, it STILL does not mean you have lost your data. Also keep in mind that I do not have your computer here to troubleshoot it so if you follow any of the advice I have given you to do in the recovery console you do so AT YOUR OWN RISK. It is very hard to troubleshoot computer problems without being able to physically inspect the machine. Rick

So it's called Crowded House? Odd name. The same song was covered by the Eagles I think. Or Joe Walsh solo maybe. Rick

sleep all day, out all night, I know what your doin Yeah, that song. James Gang. NO idea what the name of it is. Rick

Salt? Are you sure that list is accurate? Rick

Oh No! She's gone over to the dark side! Rick

Just keep in mind that the RIAA is still bringing lawsuits against people for doing this. I think I read the average settlement is something like 750 dollars per song. At the very least, turn off shareing. That way people will not see what YOU have downloaded and will not be able to download from your computer. Rick

Is THIS the kind of stuff your looking for? Rick

So what's all the hate about Beautiful Ohio? I can think of a number of other state songs as well as a few national anthem's that are MUCH more annoying. Rick

HAPe4me said: Hap, thank you for that courtesy, but you are welcome to discuss any aspect of Veg* that you like. I don't think I've EVER seen a thread on GS stay on topic for more than 10 minutes anyway. Sorry I didn't say that to you earlier.V-XTC said: While labeling a normal, run of the mill animal rights activist as a terrorist is way over the top, ALF and ELF are not run of the mill. They are not non-violent protesters just out to make a point. I found an extensive list of the terrorist acts that have been commited by ALF and ELF but they were on a site called furcommision.com so I didn't figure you would take anything they say seriously. :) But HERE is a site with some good info about ecoterrorism and ALF and ELF. I'm pointing this out because I don't think YOU or the AVERAGE Peta member WOULD condone these types of activity. But by not officially condemning these groups, Peta has chosen to affiliate themselves WITH these groups. Peta as an organization, not the Peta supporters individually. Ingrid Newkirk needs to OFFICIALLY condemn these activities, then I believe that Peta would get more support than they do from the mainstream. V-XTC said: OK, we can agree to a point. I am against NEEDLESS animal testing where there is another alternative. Cosmetics for example. No, I don't think it's right to test cosmetics on animals to see how bad it will burn their eyes, or their skin. (Yes, that has been done in the past, don't know if it still is or not.) Putting a chemical in an animals eye just to see how bad it burns is cruel. But let me ask you this. If their was a very promising treatment or even cure for aids, and the ONLY way to find out if it is safe is to test it on say, rhesus monkey's first, would you be against that? And again, I'm saying if it was the ONLY way to test it to see if it's safe. Now, next question. What if there was an alternative but it would take 5 years longer to conclude wheather or not it's safe? Would you tell all of those people who are in the final stages of the disease that there is a possible cure but due to laws banning animal testing, it won't be available until your already dead? (Which brings us to a whole new topic about the FDA being screwed up as he||, but that's for another thread).V-XTC said: Which is in response to this statement: OK, I said a LOT of peta members. I was not sure what Peta's offical stance is on those things. As for where I got the information though, was by reading the PETA DISCUSSION FORUM If you read some of the posts there, you will see why. I have a real problem with that statement. Why is it Peta's place to say who is allowed to hunt for their food and who isn't? I like venison. I can't go to the local market to buy it. So when I take a deer and use it for food, how is this wrong? I do not kill for the sake of killing. I kill for food. Well, there's DirtDzn, but he doesn't count as, he is your husband therefore he HAS to agree with what you say. Just kidding! Thank you for keeping this debate civil. That is ONE thing that you usually do NOT get when discussing animal rights with an activist. :) Rick

Well...don't know about the 70's as I didn't get involved in twi till later in life. But there was a lot of it being smoked in the 90's. Or so I'm told anyway. Rick

I'm glad you don't condone arson. But do you condone breaking and entering? Grand theft? Trespassing? The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front(ELF) are criminal groups. And should be prosecuted. You don't "make a point" by breaking into labs and stealing the research animals. And that is is MILD compared to some of their activities. During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremism, as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. Generally, extremist groups engage in much activity that is protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Law enforcement becomes involved when the volatile talk of these groups transgresses into unlawful action. The FBI estimates that the ALF/ELF have committed more than 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 43 million dollars. Full Story HERE. What about animal testing that could result in saving lives? Are you against that? Ingrid Newkirk(Co-founder and president of PETA) IS. PETA opposes all animal testing, even for research that is aimed at finding cures to life-threatening diseases. Says Newkirk, "Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." She has often criticized such groups as the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the March of Dimes, and the American Cancer Society for using laboratory animals in their research aimed at finding cures for diseases. When asked if she would oppose an experiment on 5,000 rats if it would result in a cure for AIDS, Newkirk replied, "Would you be opposed to experiments on your daughter if you knew it would save fifty million people?" Quoted from THIS site. Once again, I want to point out that I myself love animals. If I saw someone intentionally infllicting pain on an animal for no reason I would more than likely try to stop them. I have no problem with people who don't want to see animals suffer for NO reason. But I would be hard pressed to tell someone dying of aids or cancer, well the bad news is, we can no longer do any research to find a cure for you. But hey! Good news is, no more lab rats will die in trying to find a cure! Oh, uh, sorry bout your luck. I asked before but got no answer. Who get's to define what curelty is? Owning pets? Riding horses? Would you ban those? a LOT of peta members would. Would you ban hunting? MOST peta members would. I'm asking these things seriously V-XTC. Not trying to be combative. Or trying to single you out...these questions for for anyone reading who supports animal rights and peta. Rick

Are you running in a dos box under xp? If so, try the following: net use lpt1: \\printserver\sharename /persistent:yes It's the same syntax as mounting a network drive Then set WordStar to print to the printer on that port. Of course, the easier way would be to save your doc as a plain text file and print it with notepad, but that would ruin any formatting you have. Rick

I probably didn't name this thread properly. Again, I do not care what someone chooses for their diet. Be it animal, vegetable, animate, inanimate, it makes no difference to me. But to the point, I think that a lot of people lash out at people who say they are Veg*'s because they immediately assume they are some kind of radical, pinko commie activist. Activists, of any type, can be good. Or bad. Depends on which side of the argument your on. :) But seriously, I have no problem with the PRINCIPLE of wanting to stop animal cruelty. But now the question is, who's definition of cruelty do we use? Some Peta members will tell you that keeping a pet dog is cruelty. Some think that riding horses is cruel. To the ones here who are supporters of Peta, how do you feel about ALF and ELF? Would you support them also? I wonder because I would think that there are even certain issues with Peta that not all activists would support. By the way, someone made the statement that ALL Veg*'s are animal rights activists. I don't believe that is true. I think there are many who just think it's healthier. And good for them! Takes a lot of discipline, I'm sure. Rick

You got it George! Rick

Well, this one will definetly be for the oldsters! I can tell your future, it will come to pass I can do things to you make your heart feel glad Look in the sky, predict the rain Tell when a woman's got another man

Gee, I wonder WHO did that song? You Better tell us WW, you bet! :) Just funnin'...it's The Who, You Better You Better You Bet. Rick

I LOVED that episode! The artist was actually playing a "ball-turret" gunner. You know, the guy that rode in the thing pictured below. From what I read, they had a very short lifespan once a battle started. The story was, that the landing gear had been damaged and the only way they could land was to do a "belly landing". Everyone would have come out ok except our hero the artist, who would obviously have been crushed in the process. I was also a big fan of the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits! Rick

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... A true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "D@mn...that was fun!" Rick

Lot's of good posts here. Cool! I can't make a real long post today as my arthritis is VERY painfull this morning. But I want to address a few issues. First, I wanted to make it clear that I have no problem with anyone being a Veg*. Hey, I'm an old, former acid-head...some of my best friends are vegetables. OK, bad joke! But seriously, the only thing I have a problem with is someone shoving their lifestyle in my face. This apply's to Veg*'s, religious fanatics, gay's, anyone who takes a lifestyle and makes a religion out of it. If you look at the link to the Peta site in my first post, you will see why a lot of people have problems with Veg*'s. And yes, I know every group has it's fringe elements. I was a card-carrying member of Greenpeace for a number of years until the Sierra Club and fringe groups like that began to associate themselves with Greenpeace. Somehow, spikeing trees so the chain on the saw would break and maim or kill a lumberjack just wasn't my idea of "helping" the environment. Funny how this ties into some other recent threads though. "I don't like you because your a Vegetarian". That is almost as ignorant as saying "I don't like you because you are black". Tolerance is needed on both sides, veg and non-veg. Linda, I'm with you, I don't get sport hunting either. If I go hunting, I am going to use what I kill for meat. Or at least give it to someone who WILL. For example, I do not like squirrel, but I go squirrel hunting with one of my hunting buddies and give my squirrel to him as him and his family love squirrel. OK, there's more I would like to discuss but maybe later. I'm in too much pain at the moment. Rick

I didn't want to derail the thread this was on, so I did something that is rare for me...I started a new thread. :) VeganXTC, I did not include your entire post as, I am only addressing the issue of why some people would get mad at Vegetarians/Vegans, hereafter referred to as Veg*'s cause I hate to type. Maybe some people get upset with Veg*'s because it would seem that MOST of them, not all, but the majority, think that they need to push that lifestyle on everyone else. I don't really care what you eat or don't eat. It's none of my business. So why do veg*'s make it a religion? I have heard time and time again from the veg side that hunters are horrible awful people who hate animals. Makes me wonder how many hunters they have really known in their lives. I grew up around hunters. For the most part, hunters love animals more than anyone else you will find. Are there bad apples, yes, of course. But they are the exception, not the rule. Here is a real life example for you. Just this last Sunday, me and my friend Keith were travelling on a back road. A rabbit jumped out in front of the car. Crunch. Dead rabit. In less than 15 seconds, ANOTHER rabbit jumped out in front of us. Another dead rabbit. We BOTH felt really bad for them. Yet we both go rabbit hunting every year. See, the difference is, when we hunt rabbits, we are planning on USING the rabbit for food. And the rabbit will die a swift death. What happened Sunday was an accident, and these 2 rabbits died for no reason and probably a lot more painfully than being shot by a hunter. Now back to thw veg*'s. SOME would say that we should have swerved off the road and over the cliff to avoid killing those 2 rabbits. Not saying that our local posters who are veg*'s would say that but a LOT would. If you don't believe me, check THIS forum. I work from home so I have a lot of opportunities to check in on GS during the day, but not usually a lot of time to post. So if anyone responds to this post and I don't answer for awhile, I'm not ignoring you, just busy working. But I would like to hear other peoples thoughts on the matter. Rick **Please note that any use of the word "You" in this post is referring to the collective you, and not to any particular poster.

March 8 will be one year since I had my last cig. Do the cravings ever stop? Yes and no. The really BAD cravings do stop. But every once in a while, one will hit you totally out of the blue. When that happens, I've become really good at getting my mind off of it. Usually only lasts a minute or less...just long enough for me to refocus my thinking. I smoked for 30 years and at the end was up to a minimum of 2 packs a day. Sometimes 3 or more on a bad day. Krys is right on about the trying thing. If you are going to TRY to quit, chances are, you won't. It's a mind set. You have to tell yourself that your done. No more smoking forever. I quit one time for about 3 months. Used the patch that time, for 2 weeks anyway. Then I made the mistake of thinking I could just have one smoke. Wrong. In less than a week, I was back up to 2 packs a day. This time I had some kind of bad skin reaction to the patch after about 3 days, and had to stop using it. So I guess I did cold turkey. I won't lie and say it was easy. It wasn't. But it was easier than I THOUGHT it would be. The world didn't end. I didn't die from my cravings. Funny thing though...my friends who smoke were some of the most supportive people I know. From day one, they would make it a point to not smoke around me. Of course I would tell them, no, go for it. It doesn't bother me, light up! Just let me sit right beside you and take real deep breaths. Anyway, keep up the good work Linda!(and all the other quitters.) Don't things smell and taste so much better now? :) Rick

Load of buckshot in the @$$ should do the trick. Rick

By the way, Geek is preferable to Nerd. Rick

Go to add/remove programs and remove the Novell software. If it's not listed, then remove the protocol under Control Panel, Network, Network adapter, properties. Rick