analog_kidd

A more appropriate and heartfelt gesture would be to do it like the rest of the country's working class do... take up a donation from co-workers out of their own pockets. I could respect seeing congressmen chipping in from their own wallets, but reaching into mine: unacceptable.

Years ago we had some guy call raising money for the PD around Christmas time. Why do these places always call around Christmas? I kno wfolks are more giving around that time, but money is always tight at Christmas. I'm more likely to give in July than December.   Anyway, the guy calls up looking for a donation, using the hard sell tactic, and my wife politely says sorry we can't afford it and hangs up. The guy calls right back and leads with a long string of obscenities, telling my wife what a B**** he thinks she is. To this day it still makes my blood boil thinking about it.   Ever since then, any time the PD calls me looking for money, I share that story with them, Let them know that I know it's not their fault that guy was a dick, but I will NEVER donate to them EVER. There are lots of place I can and do donate to that will not cuss me or my wife out.   Plus, I now know that this wasn't police officers calling, and the group that does the calling is likely an scam that gives a very small percentage, if any, to the department.

  Umm... How about you take the peoples business seriously, make it a priority, leave early and drive the speed limit.    Somehow I manage to do this every day at MY job.

You might try booting into the PC's BIOS and see if there is a Fail Safe option. Sometimes changing one of the BIOS settings will make a PC boot up differently. While in there you could also try disabling things like Printer and serial ports, usb, etc. To get into the BIOS it usually F1, F2 or Del. I usuaily press them over and over (F1 F2 Del, F1 F2 Del) until it lets me in. Do this immediately after it starts to boot up. You might go thru the screens first and take a picture of each so you can set it back later.   If you know someone that can get a copy of Microsoft DART (got to have an MS Enterprise Agreement), that software rocks! You can boot to a windows environment from a CD and run all kinds of included utilities, even run Command Prompt or Windows Explorer.   Similar to DART, you could create a Windows PE disk, but that is a lot of work to create. It doesn't have all the cool utilities like DART, but you can get to a command prompt.   You also might try downloading a Linux Live CD and see if that boots. Some of them have NTFS support, so you'll be able to see your hard drive and make the file changes.   I like Lester's idea of a USB enclosure to put the laptop hard drive in and then access it from a different PC. I bought one for under $20.   If you don't care about the data on the disk, as a last ditch effort you may have to just blow away the disk and see if Windows will reinstall. You might be able to format the drive from one of the Linux Live CD's, or if you have a floppy, you could get an old copy of DOS, or download FreeDOS and boot that then run FDisk to blow away the drive. Once the partition is deleted, see if the Windows install CD will run. 

I would love to see some episodes that revolve around the beginning of the outbreak. It could be different characters every time, with none of the series cast. Or it could involve the series cast, but before they all got together. It would be a great way to fill in between the short seasons, and let them step outside the comic.

  This might come close  :shrug:

Lots of hits on Google with this info:     You should be able to get to PC to boot up in Safe Mode by repeatedly pressing F8 during the boot preocess, then selecting Safe Mode Command prompt.   then type these commands: CD\Windows\System32\Codeintegrity REN Bootcat.cache Bootcat.OLD     This will change your directory to the correct folder and then renmae the file. Don't delete like they suggest, let's just rename it in case that doesn't work and you want to put it back.   Reboot and see if it works   Good luck

  That is an awesome version! I don't think I've ever seen a rock band play glasses like they do at the beginning.   I recorded the Live in Gdansk concert onto my DVR a while back, but have not watched it yet. I'll definitely have to make a point to watch it.

This song, (album), (band), never gets old. In fact the older I get, the more I appreciate them...   http://youtu.be/BLKiMbC6s2k

I don't expect them to know every single law, but I sure as heck expect them to know our civil rights!

I recently went on vacation and discovered these things called "Podcasts". Just kidding, I knew about them, but never really had time to check any out.    Anyway, I listened to a PodCast called "Stuff you Should Know" and the topic was "How much money is in the world." They really focused on US dollars for most of the episode.    It turns out that the US Fed keeps track of this, because they like to count money, and has a few technical names for different kinds of money:   M0: This is actual money that people have in their wallets, buried in mason jars and stuffed under the mattress. This totals up to $1.2 trillion. M1:  This is all of M0 plus things like checking accounts, travellers checks. This is about $2.5 trillion M2:  This is the M1 supply plus accounts such as savings account, money markets, etc. This is about $10.5 trillion   For a best guess estimate of all the money in the entire world, here are the figures:   M0:  $5.2 trillion M2:  $55 trillion   If you are interested, the Podcast in a readable webpage form can be found here: http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm     After listening to the story, and thinking about it for a while I got to thinking about how much the US debt is. I just checked and the Debt is currently at $16.9 trillion. Think about that for a second. There is not enough US dollars in the whole world to pay off our national debt.

I will absolutely be voting for ANYONE that runs against Corker in the next election cycle. I'll take my chances with a bleeding heart liberal rather than have Corker in there one more time. At least you know where the liberal is coming from. At this point it would be no net loss in desired representation for me.

I am definitely in for one lower. Probably an upper too, depending on the final price.

If you are familiar with Oak Ridge, I live near the football field, or Big Ed's Pizza, and we have a large family of deer that live in a small greenway in the neighborhood. It is not an uncommon sight to see deer walking down the middle of the road in the middle of the day. People have started putting out corn and salt licks to bring them in, and it has made them less and less timid. I drove home the other day around 6:00 pm and one was eating something in my neighbor's yard right at the curb. As I drove by it looked up at me, kept on eating and watched me drive by.

BTW, Pressing Ctrl-Plus or Ctrl-Minus on most Windows browsers makes the default font for the browser larger or smaller.   Edit: Sorry, Oh Shoot, you explained all that in the thread you linked to above. 

One of my favorite rock bands is Rush. They have an album with one song named Digital Man, and another named Analog Kid. I'm an IT guy, so the obvious choice should have been Digital Man, but I have a warped sense of humor and in many ways I'm not like most IT guys, so I picked Analog Kid. I've used it as a screen name and email for years, but more often than not AnalogKid (with one "d") is taken, adding the second "d" it's usually available, so that just stuck.

I still have my 1970's era Midland from when I was a teen and CB's were all the rage. Back then I had a base station set up and I used to use it to talk to friends. Someone gave me a couple boxes of computer parts a few years ago and in the bottom was a newer (than mine) CB radio. I went out and bought a mobile antenna and set it up one evening to show my 9 year old grandson. He was unimpressed.  :cry:  Of course one reason for that was nobody else was on, and he lost interest in about three minutes. I'm going to keep it around just for SHTF situations.

Has anyone seen the actor who played Opie on the King and Maxwell show? It's really hard to recognize him. It was really his voice that tipped me off and I had to look it up on IMDB. He plays the book keeper for the detective agency, and is a little Savant-ish. The show is on TNT. It's not great, but makes OK filler when nothing else is on.

One more for me, please

I remember helping my mom stick S&H Greenstamps into a booklet, and saving them up, taking them into the local redemption store. I don't think they even have those any more.   I remember the hottest TV show was the Six Million Dollar Man. Now the star is hawking hearing aids or something, on TV.   You used to have to get a licence to operate a CB radio.   Banana Seat bicycles, with a playing card clipped to the forks with a clothes pin to make it sounds like a motorcycle.   Anyone remember the electronics sets that had a bunch of electronic parts on a board with little springs attached to them. They came with a hundred wires and you would clip them into the springs and make something, like a radio. 

I recently learned that the movie Home Alone was released closer to the MOON LANDING than to now.   and...   The original Karate Kid is now the same age that Mr. Miyagi was in the first Karate Kid. He’s 51.   More things here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-that-will-make-you-feel-really-old

http://youtu.be/esEdC0c3YI4     I'm only Happy When it Rains!   I'm a Whitewater Kayaker, and let me tell you this has been an unusual summer. Usually we go kayaking in the winter when it rains a lot and the ground is hard, and the trees don't drink it all up. But, it's usually 35 degrees out too. Being able to kayak on these same rivers during the summer, wearing nothing but a lifejacket is AWESOME!

Yeah, the first time he got skunked, a year ago, I used the Peroxide mixture and I expected it to have made him a platinum blonde, I couldn't tell the difference in his coat color, but I'm color blind and don't see shades very well.   It did make his skin all dried out and I had to use some kind of pet lotion on him.     I forgot to mention in my OP, that he is a Dachshund. So, the long story short is: I was looking for some love, but what I got instead was a small, stinky, wiener.   :stunned:   Yeah, we got a million wiener jokes in my house.

  I did add the Dawn, but I forgot to mention it. The recipe I used was two pints hydrogen peroxide, 1/4 cup baking soda and two tablespoons of Dawn dishwashing detergent. 

We have a nice restaurant within walking distance to our house (Market House near Jackson Square in Oak Ridge) that my wife and I like to go to. Not only is the food really good, but they have a nice selection of beer. So, my wife and I decided to go on a date to the restaurant last night. We decided to walk so we could partake of the adult beverages.   We had a really nice dinner, drank a bit, laughed a lot, drank some more. It was a great evening. We walked home under the stars, the temperature nearly perfect, holding hands, giggling like a couple of school kids. I'm thinking this night is just going to get better  :devil:   We get to the house and I see my stupid dog rolling around in the grass. Not just rolling, but plowing the ground with his face. That's when we noticed the smell of the skunk. I go over to the fence and, yep, he got it.   So, now it's 10:30 at night and I'm outside giving my dog a peroxide and baking soda bath. The beer buzz is pretty much gone, and my hands and arms smell like skunk.   Let's just say my dog was not the only one that got skunked last night!  :mad: