D) wasted bandwith

Nope.

Just saw Local H open up for the Electric Six at the Great American music hall week before last.  It was a great show.  Local H is a two-piece with guitar and drums.  They both play like madmen.  My girlfriend thought that they sounded like Nirvana at times, but I thought they sounded like they were influenced by a lot of the same stuff that influenced Nirvana, especially early 80s punk like Black Flag.  The Electric Six are just too much damned fun.  It's a nearly cartoonish mix of high-energy 70s rock and disco with terribly awesome lyrics.  Most of their songs are about dancing, rocking, drugs, war, nuclear war or partying.  Or cleaning products.

As far as anything else, I'd be curious as to what you're into.  I listen to all kinds of music.

rock

Do yourself a favor, drop your television off a high rise, film it, and put it on YouTube.

I try not to watch too much TV.  Outside of TDS/TCR, the only show I really care about is Battlestar Galactica.  I was a big fan of what Ron Moore did with TNG and he basically saved DS9 from a boring demise by giving them something to do with the Dominion war.  If you're not into sci-fi at all it might not sound appealing, but the new BSG is sci-fi done right.  They don't waste time with technobabble and they cleverly use the framework of the show to feel around in the mess of the human experience.  The shows has dealt with politics, religion, war, terrorism, drugs, divorce and the very big questions of existence itself.  Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonell definitely give the show some dramatic gravitas and James Callis frequently steals the show.  They're just getting ready to air the last half of the final season, so I'd recommend watching the 3 hour mini-series that kicked it off if you've never seen it.  If you can't stand it after that then perhaps it's not for you, but I'd say it's one of the best shows I've seen on TV.

I also watch Lost, very grudgingly, after a friend of mine convinced me of how great is was.  He kept saying that it got better.  It doesn't.

I bet it's the Mob.

'cause investors see them as down market.

Has anyone here ever watched the Maggie Gyllenhaal/James Spader film, "The Secretary"?  There's a scene where Maggie goes to a local laundromat in Florida that has a bar/restaurant with music in it.  Now that, to me, would be the ultimate laundromat experience.  I could literally bring a month's worth of clothes in and sit there drinking and eating and talking with other people while doing my laundry.  That would be a great chain to start, no?

Shopping is power.  It's I-can-have-whatever-I-want-power and it's I'm-a-grown-up-and-I-have-the-means power. Sometimes it's all about "I'm gonna by this ball dress, even though I have no occassion to wear it and nobody to wear it with... just because I like it and it looks good."  And sometimes it's "I've given myself permission to buy whatever I want and I'm not going to buy that $400 purse because it's feaking ugly" power.

Though the fruitless searching, long lines, florescent lines, and delirium can be rather irritating.

That's what I go straight for shoes when I really need to "shop" -- I know I'll wear 'em; they're much easier to fit than clothes.

How do some people find violent hate for people unlike them makes them feel better?  Folks are weird.

I don't like shopping for major appliances, clothes, or anything other than groceries if I'm out.  Every time I put something in my cart, I imagine little dollar signs drowning in a pool of bubbling green slime.  However, when I shop online, it's a whole other story.  Somehow, not being there in the store makes it easier. 

I don't understand the logic of this statement.

no

I like your intent, Deadman, but it ain't gonna work.  Sorry.

My dad's a pediatrician. He was once recruited by Rob Reiner for a three-way debate on spanking with Reiner and Jerry Falwell. It fell through, probably because my dad was too cautious and doctorly for Reiner's taste.

The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against corporal punishment and threats of corporal punishment not because they're inherently evil but because they're less effective than other disciplinary approaches, like time-out, and because they can lead to abuse. Here are some details:

• Spanking children <18 months of age increases the chance of physical injury, and the child is unlikely to understand the connectionbetween the behavior and the punishment.
• Although spanking may result in a reaction of shock by the child and cessation of the undesired behavior, repeated spankingmay cause agitated, aggressive behavior in the child that maylead to physical altercation between parent and child.
• Spanking models aggressive behavior as a solution to conflict and has been associated with increased aggression in preschooland school children.
• Spanking and threats of spanking lead to altered parent-child relationships, making discipline substantially more difficultwhen physical punishment is no longer an option, such as withadolescents.
• Spanking is no more effective as a long-term strategy than other approaches, and reliance on spanking as a disciplineapproach makes other discipline strategies less effective to use.Time-out and positive reinforcement of other behaviors are moredifficult to implement and take longer to become effective whenspanking has previously been a primary method of discipline.
• A pattern of spanking may be sustained or increased. Because spanking may provide the parent some relief from anger, thelikelihood that the parent will spank the child in the futureis increased.

I spanked my daughter once, and it was more of a reaction than anything. She went running out between parked cars at a busy parking lot. I spanked her once. It shocked both of us. I was very frightened as a car was speeding down the aisle and I had to pull her back abruptly. (Parents of toddlers have amazing reflexes.)

She did not run out from between cars again.

Misbehaving is not a reason for a spanking... Dangerous behaviour that has to stop at once may be a reason for a single slap.

I was never spanked as a child, because I was so well-behaved.  Now that I'm an adult, I am not at all well-behaved and now and then really crave a spanking.  Go figure.

No, there's hope for you yet.  And I can't wait to buy your baby a hoodie and then draw a little mustache and beard on it's face.

So many ways to answer this question...

• Socrates/Plato: There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
• Aristotle: All men by nature desire knowledge.
• James Madison: Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
• Francis Bacon: Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
• Shakespeare: Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
• Genghis: Insufficient knowledge is the leading cause of ignorance.

Not really. I didn't get a degree, though. Ran out of funds after my 3rd year, and didn't want my parents mortgaging their home. I went to work, and it hasn't hurt me, I don't think.

It being a waste of time implies that it could have better been spent otherwise.  This also seems to imply that it doesn't help achieve an unstated goal.  So, what's that goal?

Not to get too meta, but what are we here for anyway?  What isn't a waste of time?  Keynes said, "In the long run, we're all dead."

Time is like a trust fund that you get when you're born, except that you're constantly spending it, must spend it all and never get to know the balance.

Have you ever met someone with a bachelors in business?

I'm with Genghis on this one:  11, and 11.  Unless, of course, I can go all the way up to 110, and in that case I'd give it a 120 and 120.

There's one in every crowd....