ParrotHead

Re: Looking for my first... I've got a Beretta Model 92FS Stainless 9mm and it's been a great gun. Easy to shot, extremely easy to breakdown for cleaning and as equally easy to put back together. It's a little easier on the wallet than the Glocks and Kimbers.

Re: Thought I\'d Share A Few Names Schandrena? With government schools today I can only guess it was the 9th grade before she learned how to spell that!

Re: John Edwards - Voice of the Common Man So you guys still haven't figured out that "Civil Service" really does pay off.

Re: Stupid legislation-blasted liberal idiots!!!! Just remeber that when you select someone to represent you in the government. Sad thing is wtn - there are a lot of people out there that are in-line with this type of legislation and are more than willing to give up all rights to a government for the sheer reason that they don't want to take responsibility.

Re: Hahaha Ok enough with "what if the children see it" BS around here - have you watched what the children are watching on Saturday morning cartoons? This picture compares in no way shape or form as to the violence they're seeing while watching Cartoon Network!!!

Ok here's the scoop - I'm in Denver this week for a meeting and was suppose to fly out this morning. Anyone that's seen a news clip knows what problems I have now. I'm looking at 28 inches of the stuff and it's still snowing!!! Come on now, enough is enough!!! So keep you fingers crossed folks, I'm currently booked on a flight Christmas eve that gets me back into Atlanta around 10:00 pm - that puts me getting home around mid-night and just in time for ole Santa ya know. Either that or if the roads clear tomorrow I'm driving out of here. PH

Re: A Marine\'s Response to Kerry--WOW!!!! Not sure if it's true but if it is, may God bless this man and have him returned to his family as soon as his work is done.

Re: And so it starts... My guess is that most elected officials haven't even read the 9/11 Commissions Report.

Re: We\'re #1.... We won't bring up the fact that all ACC teams won their games in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge. We won't even bring up the fact that once again the Big 10 is over rated in the polls. But there's no way we can't let the butt whuppin that happened the other night go without a little friendly ribbing! Go Heels!

Re: Pop Tarts???? I like the one's without icing on them. Put them in the toaster and get 'em hot then spread some butter on them then call the doctors office to re-schedule my cholsterol test.

Re: Converting music to MP3 Question [ QUOTE ] Im sure you can download them a lot faster than converting them over. [/ QUOTE ] I won't argue that, you are correct but here's the deal. I'm old fashion which means I'm more likely to try and save the money on downloading and do it myself. Especially with the amount of albums I have plus given the fact that a lot of this music won't be readily available. So there you have it - I'm a cheap scape and proud of it! So far from my research, the project while it may take a while to accomplish isn't going to be that expensive. Albums, turn table and receiver I have - zero cost Software - anywhere from $20.00 (Microsoft) to $40.00 (other plans) RCA Cable to audio in jack - Radio Shack $10.00 A whole lotta time listening to old LPs - Priceless!

Re: Converting music to MP3 Question [ QUOTE ] Now wouldn't it just be easier to download those songs from the internet ParrotHead [/ QUOTE ] You may be right! Hey - one of the reasons I was wanting to do this is to convert all my KISS albums!!!!

Got a questions folks – have any of you had success in ripping songs from LPs and CDs and converting them into digital formats? I’ve held onto a hugh collection of LPs – for those of you too young to know what an LP is, it’s an album and they were made of vinyl. Anyway, I’ve been looking around at various tools and software that now allow you to hook up turn tables to your pc’s and copy and reformat the songs into MP3’s and WMA’s. I’m just wondering if anyone has done this and if so, what success you had and/or any advise on what to use, not use or stay away from. Thanks, PH

Re: Calling all computer geeks If it's a laptop - remove the battery for a couple of minutes and then reinstall and try to boot it up. It's just kind of "hung-up" right now and the operating system isn't kicking in.

Re: Poll: Do you plan to vote? There are how many memners here...1000??? And only 27 can admit to voting or not? Sad state of afairs

Re: We\'re about to get the government we deserve.. [ QUOTE ] Let's start a Realtree Party and take on these scumbags....that means all of them! New [/ QUOTE ] There is merit in what you're asking however even within our "realtree party" you'll have those that only partially agree with your stances. The problem today is we are a unity devided by so many little hate groups that it's become impossible to unit as one America. The days of "Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country" have gone by the way-side and now we're reduced to "What's in it for me"

Re: Labeling We live in a nauseatingly confessional society. But it wasn't always that way. There was a time when you wouldn't dream of telling a guy you just met that you were an alcoholic. Unless, of course, you met the guy because you had driven your car into his swimming pool. True, thanks to our tight-lipped Puritan ancestors with their scarlet letters and witch hunts, we've always been a nation obsessed with the doings of others. In the past, however, we justified our pejorative meddling with some lame, moralistic claptrap about "upholding community standards." Well, the fact is, folks, community standards have now deteriorated with no thanks to our media saturated culture we just simply can’t seem to mind our own business. What I can't fathom are the people who auction off their privacy on the open market. You can go online now and actually watch mutants and cyber geeks who record every nanosecond of their lives - every snore, every burp, every restraining order filed against them - and beam it out over the Internet. It all raises the interesting philosophical question: How can you broadcast your life when you don't have a life to begin with? I have a theory: I think we're far less evolved ourselves. I know we consider ourselves to be very nineties creatures, we take it all in, we deal with it, we put it back out. We are just the hippest little creatures, but you know something? I think in a deep gut level we're scared . We live in a madhouse and it's brought into our living rooms on a day-to-day level via CNN. And yet this is what it's come to. This is what it's come to in contemporary America. Everybody's broken off into these petulant little tribes. Everybody walks the perimeter of their own damaged esteem ever-vigilant against an incursion by They, Them or The Other Guys. Everybody's touchy and everybody's encouraged to be touchy, everybody that is . . . except me: the White Anglo-Saxon male. I'm everybody's enemy these days. Black people think I'm oppressive and physically deficient. Women think I'm oafish . Gay people think I'm overly macho and latently homosexual. And Asians think I'm lazy and stupid. Hey, you think you've got an ax to grind? I'm Paul Bunyan over here. Look, we have to become more tolerant of others. Listen, I will accept anyone's lifestyle, appearance, belief or idiosyncrasy just as long as they don't ask me to pay for it. What I do object to are fringe groups who go beyond the notion of tolerance and demand our approval. Tolerance does not mean you agree with everything that other people say, or that you subordinate your own best instincts to the tyranny of mass opinion. It simply means you pretend not to know that everyone on the planet but you is a total moron. The most unforgivable thing about intolerance is, by its inherent assumption that one group, belief or lifestyle is superior to another, it fails to take into account the ultimate truth which binds us all, black and white, gay and straight, Republican and Democrat, Arab and Israeli, Hindu and Muslim, Catholic and Protestant, Serb and Croat, Hutu and Tutsi: the fact that, at the end of the day, we are all equal pains-in-the-butt in the eyes of the Lord.

Re: Music? At work the other day we had the same discussion and someone asked what cd's everyone had in their automobiles and this list will give you some idea of the wide varity of music I like. Currently in my changer I have: Buck Owens 38 Special Hank Jr Jimmy Buffett KISS Journey But no rap....never any rap!

Re: What\'s gas where you are now?? WOW - I'm in better shape than I thought. I live outside Atlanta and I was $2.089 tonight at the place I buy gasoline.

Re: FYI! What Next?? [ QUOTE ] If it's a sickness, then why isn't there a cure? An anti-homo pill or something? [/ QUOTE ] Cause their still working on curing the common cold.....give 'em time though

Re: Do you believe in millions of years???? [ QUOTE ] The only problem with that theory is that God is perfect and infalible. So is his plan and his creation....So I can't agree that there was any type of screw up in his plan or his creation. The only screw up was when sin entered the world and sin entered through man. [/ QUOTE ] Hey - I said it was a theory and in my beliefs I'll agree with you that God is perfect in every way. However, you have to question the creation of fossils fuels and the amount of years it takes to create pockets of oil. So either scientists are lying about the creation time OR fossil fuels are not manifested by fossils at all?????

Re: Do you believe in millions of years???? [ QUOTE ] Have you ever thought that we might be using science to try to disprove the Bible? [/ QUOTE ] Scientists have been trying to disprove the Bible for years. Do you really think that if some scientist were to come out with "proof" that it was all a myth that Christianity would be dead? I don't believe it would, you either believe in God or you don't and what man says won't deter you from that belief.

Re: Do you believe in millions of years???? [ QUOTE ] No. At present the bible accounts for only about 6,000 years. 2,000 from creation till Noah's flood, 2,000 from the flood until Christ, and 2,000 from Christ until now. I also believe that the dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible and that carbon dating is a flawed system. Once again it is just man tryin to disprove God's perfect word. [/ QUOTE ] True but lets say my theory is correct - do you think God's going to let on to those that wrote the Bible that there was a hugh R and D screw-up before and that these current times 6000 +/- BC is the second go-a-round? I'm thinking he's keeping that under raps......

Re: Do you believe in millions of years???? [ QUOTE ] Hey Parrothead.......................you just wanna answer the question? Quotes are fine, and I'd love to quote you [/ QUOTE ] Hey, just adding a little fuel to the proverbial hot bed discussions going on here! You touched on something in that last comment that really sums up my beliefs. “Even God ain’t perfect” Now don’t go tossing me to the curb before you hear me out because I’m in no way stating that God is imperfect or being sac religious. Follow me on this one ok The majority of Christians believe that the creation of man in the form of Adam happened somewhere around 5 to 6 thousand years ago. From reading the Bible and examining the timetables, I’ll agree. Now you go to the book of Genesis and God made the heavens and earth in oh, about 7 days, one of those days he took a rest. And reading more, the Bible refers to a day as a 1000 years so if you put your pencil to it, that puts us somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 to 13 thousand years ago right? Now we have science to come along and some pretty smart folks telling us that there was a form of man living on the face of the earth over a million years ago. We also have these smart folks examining the fossil fuels and the amount of time it takes for a single dinosaur to decay to the point that it creates a pocket of oil; there again, it’s millions of years. Ok, now for “my” theory There was some lag time between when God created the earth and when Adam came along. In this lag time we had several periods that happened and I believe that it was during this lag time that God was experimenting with the final product. You know, basic R and D. After the earth was created with all its vegetation, God had to create something that would clean the earth or eat the vegetation so he created a few animals. We know these animals today as dinosaurs. Everything was ok but then God decided to go a step further and created what we’ll call “man version 1”. Of course, God was successful in his creation but lets face it, version 1 wasn’t exactly a sharp tool. It took years for him to finally discover fire, he couldn’t talk, mostly grunted and had atrocious table manners. Hey, the first design is usually the worst design. So God stood back and assessed the situation. Man wasn’t going anywhere, all these animals he created starting reeking havoc, maybe multiplying too much and generally causing chaos so what did he do? Yup, decided to scrap the whole thing and go back to the drawing board. So what’s the easiest way to wipe the slate clean? You guessed it. Down from the heavens comes one big ole meteor and BOOM, there goes the neighborhood. A few years pass while God contemplates the design of man and what he really wants the earth to look like, maybe a few thousand or even a million years pass but eventually God gets back to work and he creates and whole new crop of animals, something a little more tamer. I mean hey, have your choice between a dog and a T-Rex and I think you’re going with mans best friend. Course, you can’t be eating mans best friend so God created animals that were for consumption purposes so that when he did create man again, he wouldn’t starve. Then God created man version 2. Someone in his likeness, someone just a little smarter, a little faster, a little brighter, basically someone that God could relate to and they could relate to him. Someone like Adam. Course we all know that Eve was created from Adam and was made solely as a help-mate. Course along came the apple tree and we’ve been paying for ever sense but that’s another discussion somewhere in time. A few thousand years later, you have today what God “may or may not” have wanted to create. Who knows, maybe God’s up there right now scratching his head and saying to himself “what, another screw up?” Maybe just maybe we’re just version releases and once God has perfected the product will release his final version. Who knows, all you can do is believe in God and do as he would want you to and end the end when you do get to meet him, he won’t be too disappointed in the life you’ve lived. Course, that’s just my opinion – I may be wrong.

Re: Do you believe in millions of years???? Interesting article today from the AP - Skeleton sheds light on ape-man species POSTED: 1:13 p.m. EDT, September 20, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete skeleton of a 3-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by "Lucy." The discovery should fuel a contentious debate about whether this species, which walked upright, also climbed and moved through trees easily like an ape. The remains are 3.3 million years old, making them the oldest known skeleton of such a youthful human ancestor. "It's pretty unbelievable" to find such a complete fossil from that long ago, said scientist Fred Spoor. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime find." Spoor, professor of evolutionary anatomy at University College London, describes the fossil in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature with Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and other scientists. The skeleton was discovered in 2000 in northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists have spent five painstaking years removing the bones from sandstone, and the job will take years more to complete. Judging by how well it was preserved, the skeleton may have come from a body that was quickly buried by sediment in a flood, the researchers said. The creature was a member of Australopithecus afarensis, which lived in Africa between about 4 million and 3 million years ago. The most famous afarensis is Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, which lived about 100,000 years after the newfound specimen. Most scientists believe afarensis stood upright and walked on two feet, but they argue about whether it had ape-like agility in trees. That climbing ability would require anatomical equipment like long arms, and afarensis had arms that dangled down to just above the knees. The question is whether such features indicate climbing ability or just evolutionary baggage. Spoor said so far, analysis of the new fossil hasn't settled the argument but does seem to indicate some climbing ability. While the lower body is very human-like, he said, the upper body is ape-like: The shoulder blades resemble those of a gorilla rather than a modern human. The neck seems short and thick like a great ape's, rather than the more slender version humans have to keep the head stable while running. The organ of balance in the inner ear is more ape-like than human. The fingers are very curved, which could indicate climbing ability, "but I'm cautious about that," Spoor said. Curved fingers have been noted for afarensis before, but their significance is in dispute. A big question is what the foot bones will show when their sandstone casing is removed, he said. Will there be a grasping big toe like the opposable thumb of a human hand? Such a chimp-like feature would argue for climbing ability, he said. Yet, to resolve the debate, scientists may have to find a way to inspect vanishingly small details of such old bones, to get clues to how those bones were used in life, he said. Bernard Wood of George Washington University, who didn't participate in the discovery, said in an interview that the fossil provides strong evidence of climbing ability. But he also agreed that it won't settle the debate among scientists, which he said "makes the Middle East look like a picnic." Overall, he wrote in a Nature commentary, the discovery provides "a veritable mine of information about a crucial stage in human evolutionary history." The fossil revealed just the second hyoid bone to be recovered from any human ancestor. This tiny bone, which attaches to the tongue muscles, is very chimp-like in the new specimen, Spoor said. While that doesn't directly reveal anything about language, it does suggest that whatever sounds the creature made "would appeal more to a chimpanzee mother than a human mother," Spoor said. The fossil find includes the complete skull, including an impression of the brain and the lower jaw, all the vertebrae from the neck to just below the torso, all the ribs, both shoulder blades and both collarbones, the right elbow and part of a hand, both knees and much of both shin and thigh bones. One foot is almost complete, providing the first time scientists have found an afarensis foot with the bones still positioned as they were in life, Spoor said. The work was funded by the National Geographic Society, the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, the Leakey Foundation and the Planck institute.