Gene Splicer PHD

Oh, I thought this was FINISH Bieber, which is a concept I can totally get behind. FINISH HIM Also, that kid has some kind of really bad speech problem, I couldn't understand a thing he sang about.

Is that bluescreen really your computer, or just an example? If you are getting bluescreens, there is a problem with driver software or with a hardware component in the computer. The important line in that bluescreen you linked is the STOP: line - the error code here is showing that there is either a video or BIOS problem. Have you updated your video drivers lately, or any other updates? If you are getting blue screens consistently, you need to have the machine looked at by someone that can diagnose hardware problems. For now, let's concentrate on trying to fix some things without diving into the hardware. If your browsers are all crashing, that indicates something with your Internet settings, probably something like misbehaving toolbars and/or browser add-ons, are the problem. In your start menu, look for "Internet Explorer (No Addons)" and try to run it. Do the sites you visit crash with that version of the browser? If so, it's a problem with addons, and there may be some spyware or a trojan causing you grief. Here's what to try: - Download this and run it - it's called Malwarebytes AntiMalware. It will install, then it will want to update a definition database, and then it will want you to start a trial version of the software. Do all those things EXCEPT accepting the trial, you want to decline the trial, and you will be left with a free version of the software. After it is installed, it will recommend you run a "Quick Scan". Do so. At the end, click the Show Results button, and then "remove selected". Reboot. See if the problem persists. Then: What antivirus software are you running? Is it up to date, or is your subscription expired? If it is expired, use Add/Remove programs and remove it. Then go download this, which is Microsoft Security Essentials and is very good, and free. After it installs, it will also want to download some updates, and then run a scan. Run a full scan on the PC. Clean or remove anything you find, and then reboot. If you have good antivirus, start it up and run a full system scan. Remove anything it finds, and then reboot. After the reboot, click the start menu, and in the Run box, type CMD and then press enter. in the black box that appears, type this netsh winsock reset ..and then press enter. It will reset a catalog, and then tell you to reboot. Ignore that for the moment. Now, find a Windows XP disk. It doesn't have to be YOUR windows XP disk, anyone will work. Put it in the drive, and then inthe black CMD box, type this sfc /scannow ...and press enter, then go get a coffee, this will take a little while. This scans for files that have been removed or damaged by spyware or viruses, and copies them back from the XP disk onto the system. When its done, reboot. Run Windows update. Download the most current updates for the machine and the browser. Reboot. If all THAT doesn't work, boot the system, go to Help and Support, and look for System Restore. Use System Restore (just follow the prompts) to return your computer to a time when you weren't having all these problems, but not more than about 5 days if you can help it. You won't lose any documents by using system restore, but you will have to reinstall any software or printers that were installed in the timeframe you restored back from. PM me if you have trouble! You have enough to do here to last a day or so...

Sharon: Yes. That's right. You'll get your new computer and get it all set up. Once you've got the new machine running okay, you'll remove the hard drive from your old computer - usually takes a few minutes but isn't all that hard to do, and then insert it rear-end first into the Thermaltake unit. Power on the thermaltake, and it will spin up the drive. Then, plug the Thermaltake into the new computer. You'll see Windows detect it as a new drive. After it's all done installing the hardware, you can open the Computer icon and see the old drive there. If you had Windows XP, your itunes library will be in c:\documents and settings\username\My Music\itunes\. On the new computer, create a directory named just like that on the C drive. Now, When you install itunes, you can tell it where to find the library file, and you'll pick the file it copied over. The reason you need to recreate the c:\documents and settings\username\my music\itunes folder is so that itunes knows where to find the actual music files on your new computer. New versions of Windows don't use the same folder structure - files are in c:\users\username\ now. If you don't recreate the folders but put them in c:\users\username\music, itunes will still be looking for the files in the c:\documents and settings\blahblah folder. it's important to copy the library file itself because it's associated to an ipod. If you don't use the same library, itunes will erase and resync all the music to the ipod again. PM me if you have more questions. Oh, and once you've got everything off the old hard drive, you can format it and use it to back up your new computer. So, win/win there.

I really like the way you ended this story with things not fully wrapped up and new characters to get to know. I liked Gathan's raw anger at Kristin and I like that he was able to see past it and not burn the bridge with her, but at least remain somewhat civil with her. Thank you for a good story.

Here's an update: RIck Jones (the guy who added the religious stuff into the bill) has removed the provisions. What got accomplished? RIck has established himself firmly with the religious folk in his constituency and has strengthened his position. Plus all that publicity. I don't believe for a minute there was ever any real intent to let this bill become law with those provisions intact - if it did happen, Jones would have been happy with that, but no big loss, he's made his point.

I hope we soon get back to some action, the explanations are nice, but overly complex for my taste, and frankly, I don't have a lot of sympathy for Rachel or Dirk or Jim at this point - they're all just ducking the law. Bunch of low rent cheaters, really. It's kind of like the last episode of Seinfeld, when you find out that really, these characters don't have a lot of redeeming qualities and are just not very good people to begin with. CJ, my hat is off to you for creating such well formed mediocrity in your characters uh, moral character I say set em all adrift on Atlantis without all the renovations, while Trev and Shane go off into the sunset to have babies with Joel and Lisa.

Here is a link to the bill without the Facebook interference factor. Here is some analysis. here is a key element in the analysis: it's a poorly written law to begin with. Here's another: Also, today, the Michigan House passed its version, which has no such provisions. My opinion: The law won't be passed in the condition the Senators left it, and it's sure to get even more screwed up then it is currently. Our state legislature is mildly incompetent and then there's Snyder, a whole other topic that doesn't belong here. We need an antibullying law. It's taken ten years. Lets let the process continue without the OMG OUTRAGE for a while and see how it plays out. Your kid is protected from bullying under this law. Criminal punishment would be meted out for bullying regardless of freedom of speech protection. Bullying is not protected speech. This topic belongs in the Soapbox. No politics in the lounge, etc etc & so forth

Dude knew what Sandusky was up to and ignored it. I don't care where you are in the chain, that's not right. Bye joe!

the actor that plays Cameron is straight The one that plays Mitchell is gay So...acting?

Here's the beginning of the discussion of sissies in The Celluloid Closet. It contains Fierstein's comments, and the subject continues in part 2, should you be so inclined to continue watching. In this clip, it's clearly stated in the narration that the "sissy" was a stock character, in fact, the first type of portrayal of gays in the movies. That's how I remember the movie portraying the sissy, as a specific type of gay character (there is also the strong lesbian (Marlene Dietrich), the psycho, the hapless victim, etc). A non-sexualized, flamboyant, stupid character, who flounced around in flamboyant clothing with exaggerated mannerisms, to the derision of all around him, played up for a laugh. I don't see that in Cameron and Mitchell. I'm sorry, I don't think they are equivalent examples. Are Cameron and Mitchell exaggerated examples of a modern gay couple? Sure. They're sitcom characters. They're expected to be exaggerations, just like the rest of the characters in the show. Are they sissies, flouncing around in flamboyant clothes, unable to keep their hands off the gorgeous dresses and mincing up to straight men and hitting on them? No. The characters don't do those things. They are effeminate. They are not "sissies". What they are, are stable. They own a home together. They're raising a child. They participate in family events. They work. They have fights. They have fun. They are also quite stupid and generally clueless, but that's because they're characters in a sitcom. But I understand your wider point: Effeminate men should not portray the "stereotypical" gay man. In your original post, let's flesh out your point of view a bit: This here: You imply that being effeminate is a negative trait; that it's an inappropriate way to portray gay men, that it's wrong to be effeminate. And that we shouldn't allow effeminacy to equivocate to gayness. So all you effeminate men? Could you just tone it down a bit? Is it necessary to be so obvious? Why can't you just butch it up so we don't have to see that? You imply that you don't have a problem with effeminate men as long as they're not near you or making you uncomfortable or representing you. Gay people are okay as long as they don't shove it in my face all the time. I think that seeing effeminacy as a negative, especially when you're a member of a community that is supposed to be accepting of other members of the same community regardless of their mannerisms, shows the bigger problem: bigotry within the gay community itself. Just as there is racism within the African American community between people of varying skin tones. Rather than calling out the wider portrayal of gay men on TV shows, I'd suggest we need to address internalized bigotry first. And finally, going back to Cameron and Mitchell for a minute. Pretend that the producers of the show tone down the characters. That they take out the effeminate characteristics, leaving all the rest of it in place - the house, the kid, the jobs, the good relationships with the rest of the family. Two solidly male men, instead of two effeminate men. Would that make them more suited to represent you as a member of the gay community?

I'm a depressed person. How I treat it depends on the season and my activity level. I do my best to treat it naturally, without meds, but there are times (the middle of a Michigan winter or just after the death of my dad) where meds are necessary. Depression is a treatable state. Some call it a chronic disease, like diabetes, or some call it a state of mind, like addiction. The definition doesn't matter, but what does matter is that a depressed person is responsible for their state of mind. Being depressed doesn't absolve or excuse a person's behavior. In fact, it makes you more responsible to do something about it if your behavior or mood is off. Just like a diabetic is responsible for their sugar level or an addict is responsible to themselves and others to not use <insert addictive substance here>, I am responsible to take my meds or exercise every day. I am responsible for making sure I have full spectrum lighting in my house, that I exercise regularly, that I get up every single day and make my bed and don't go back to it until bedtime (my depression manifests as laziness and lack of motivation - I really have to work at that make-the-bed thing). It's my responsibility to recognize that when these measures don't work, I've got to hie off to the doctor and get the prescriptions refilled. So, no, depression is not your fault. It is, however, your responsibility to deal with it in the best way you can. It's not an excuse, it's a condition. Treat it accordingly. Also, it's my experience that the zombie-state you experience with antidepressants fades over about a two or three week period. Your emotions are muted but still there, I still get mad, I still get happy and I still get sad. I just don't spiral with the emotions when I'm on the meds.

I've watched a few times and I disagree with you. I don't think Cam and Mitchell are portrayed as sissies, although they may have effeminate characteristics. There is a big difference between being effeminate and being weak: a "sissy" as presented in the Celluloid Closet and in so many movies was a weak and often crazy person. I don't think either Cam or Mitchell are weak (crazy, yes). In fact, they are some of the stronger characters on the show: Phil Dunphy is witless and unable to stand up to his father in law, his wife is shown as a hysteric and overreacts to everything; the father (Ed O'Neill's character) and his unintelligent trophy wife - need I go on? I think Mitchell and Cam are effeminate in their characteristics, but when needed, both characters have stepped up and not allowed themselves to be treated as sissies. Cam in particular has stepped up (even dropping the effeminate mannerisms) and put people in their place on more than one occasion. And what does it mean when I can see characteristics in Mitchell and Cam in myself and in my friends? Am I "typecasting" when Mitchell responds to Cam with a really cutting, funny rejoinder, and I'm immediately thinking that Mitchell is so much like my friend Chris that its scary? Also: Portraying LGBT people as we really are would be really, really boring.

Bridget is her MOTHER I have no idea what I am talking about

They'd probably practice their ball handling

http://www.advocate...._Gay_And_Lucky/ I AM ONE STEP CLOSER TO HAVING A SHOT AT THAT

http://www.youtube.c...e&v=cgps85scy1g At about :55 in, he gives us his view.

I read the soapbox, don't see much point in contributing though

Every word you say is true! Except that if you were to ask most folks - especially those older than you - how to edit their Facebook privacy settings, you might actually see a little drool as they try to parse what the hell you just asked them to do. Between Scrabble and Farmville, they're working hard just to keep their mouse centered on the mousepad while jamming a doughnut down the piehole. Privacy? What's that? Hang on, this website wants me to click OK to get the new pink pony cursor pack! Most people don't have a friggin clue about how to protect their privacy, since most people wouldn't know how to "change the internet page to the google", let alone find their privacy settings in Facebook without someone pointing a finger at the specific area of the screen where they need to click. Facebook is also notorious for burying critically-exposing features deep within the settings so they aren't easy to find. They know their audience and they know the doughnut-aiming is more important than the privacy-watching Which is why they are ALSO notorious for quietly changing a setting here or there, without notifying you, and therefore exposing information you had previously marked private. It's my opinion that the only way to win at Facebook is not to play.

Oh, GREAT. There goes TWO MORE WEEKS.

MY WORK HERE IS DONE

From the article: This must be er, stopped! Or something. I'll be in my bunk.

Don't hurt yourself for christs sake, they'll make more Just try to hold on to a little bail money anyway... H

Do we get flash on the iPhone now? /goingtohell

Now go do it again THE FIRST 8 YEARS ARE A GIFT BOY

If Mark modeled Claremont after Zanesville Ohio, its mostly Methodists. Fucking Zanesville