The Off-Topic Thread Part Deux

[I pwnd U]

i thought you werent gonna be on till the end of the month chris? anyways glad your back. have fun being smokey the bear!

ok ya im ticked i dont get my car back till MONDAY! the stinking gasket was split right down the middle. so i have no car for the weekend and i have places to be. and all the other cars are gonna be gone! i freaking ticked off about that... anyways here are some random pictures of me and my g/f

kaitlyn senior pic.jpg
^my girlfriends senior pic

lasdk;jfaio;ehg.jpg
^me in 8th grade with my brother and our pet duck bob (im in white hes in yellow)

ill get more pictures once my senior pics come back and once i get more ambitious on scanning pics

[chris_nin00]

Wow! Pwnd got a hot girlfriend .

I'm moving this Monday to a bigger house! HURRAH! More space to imagine my pokemon battles.
This house was the best deal my family could find. And just for everyone to know, houses are overpriced 75% here in Virginia .
And with a new house comes... NO INTERNET UNTIL THE INSTALLER GUYS COME .

I could be gone from a week to a whole month. So wish me luck with my ISP peeps.

Your girlfriend is sooooo hot .

[I pwnd U]

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Wow! Pwnd got a hot girlfriend .

I'm moving this Monday to a bigger house! HURRAH! More space to imagine my pokemon battles.
This house was the best deal my family could find. And just for everyone to know, houses are overpriced 75% here in Virginia .
And with a new house comes... NO INTERNET UNTIL THE INSTALLER GUYS COME .

I could be gone from a week to a whole month. So wish me luck with my ISP peeps.

Your girlfriend is sooooo hot .

wouldnt have it any other way chris.

wow that sucks that you wont have the internet for awhile.. how will you surivive? i guess you just have to use the schools interent... unless they have a really fast modem and havent blocked this site yet then i guess you could.

anyways i live in Illinois so i dont have to worry about you trying to hit on my g/f now do i chris? hehe been dating for 18 months and counting

[d4nowar]

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

And I'm weird. What kind of 15 year old plays pokemon games?

I have Pokemon Emerald in my DS actually right now... That just inspired me to start up a new game of Pokemon yellow this weekend. I'm afraid I'll beat it too fast though. Yeah, did I forget to mention to you all that I'm a Pokemon master? If I'd gone to tournaments and stuff I'd probably win them all.

I'm not kidding, I rock. I had 3 other friends that were pretty awesome at it and we called ourselves the 1337 Four.

[chris_nin00]

It's nice to hear from someone that appreciates pokemon... All the other gamers in my community often look down upon it and disses it a lot. You're lucky to have friends that play the game to.

I literally laughed my ass off when I saw 1337 four

[I pwnd U]

I was so addicted to pokemon back when i was in 5th-8th grade. im regretting selling my pokemon red game now. but i think i have silver around here somewhere and heck maybe even a yellow. the old games i think were the BEST! maybe i should just go out and by pokemon red for like $5 or however cheap they are now in days... hmm i think im gonna do that it was a great game! took me awhile to beat but i loved doing it!

[d4nowar]

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

I literally laughed my ass off when I saw 1337 four

I don't think you LITERALLY laughed it off. And yeah... I've been wanting to start up that group again, but they don't really want to anymore.

We'd sit up in the library and occasionally people would challenge us and they would just get dominated. It rocked. I think I still have my team somewhere around here too... Eh, I'll find it later.

[I pwnd U]

so is anyone else like addicted to the show Smallville? i freaking love that show. though i think last nights episode was a dissapointment i also think it was a tie in episode meant to tie next weeks episode to last weeks. anyways i just love that show and i was just wondering if anyone else did too.

[Old Dood]

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Wow! Pwnd got a hot girlfriend .

And just for everyone to know, houses are overpriced 75% here in Virginia .
And with a new house comes... NO INTERNET UNTIL THE INSTALLER GUYS COME .

Housing market is going to deflate some....maybe allot. (in my opinion). With GM and Ford laying off 30K emplyees each over the next few years is going to hurt this country's economy big time. Not only will the car companies be laying off(actually getting RID of jobs) then the suppliers to those companies will end up laying off too. That will affect everything else from restaurants, clubs, grocery stores, you name it.

After this shakes down...housing will dive. I just refinaced my home and I did it just before Alan Greenspan raised the rate again. I got it at 6%. Damn happy to get that. We live in Michigan. We have the highest unenployment rate in the country. We feel lucky we are still working. I would lose my job over Mrs Dood. My little company I work for could go under too. Mrs Dood is a RN and she is pretty well recession proof.

Good luck in your new home. Be thankful. Many are going to be hit and hit hard on things like home ownership, food, health care.

[I pwnd U]

Is this due to our econmy sucking so bad? cause we just cant seem to get a stable econmy lately and its become a real killer. taxes are up, job openings are down, unemployment rate is up. doesnt make sense to me. ever since reagen set up his plan (regaonmics) the entrepunear has been helped in suceeding. that is not a bad thing but it becomes bad when the rich pay less and the poor pay more in taxes. no one has bothered to try to fix it as its just accepted. we need it changed if we want to ever pay off that billions of dollars of debt we have.

[Old Dood]

Companies go where the labor is the cheapest. Right now it is China, India, Indonesia. They do not have the enviromental controls as we do in the States and other countries. They do not pay their employees anything near what we pay here. Many other factors also....this is why it is even more important then when I was your age to get an education.

I grew up in Flint Michigan. When I was a kid it was a thriving city. It had one of the best school systems in the country then. It is nearly a Ghost town now. I go there as little as possible anymore....makes me want to cry. The State is probably going to take it over. Detroit is not far from that fate as well.

I do not care what the present Administration says about the economy today. We are being sold down the river for Corporate profits.

[TheEPIC]

The economy is not so bad as you think, and reaganomics actually works quite well. I won't make it an open discussion because a mod will just delete it. PM me if you'd like to hear where I am coming from.

And as for GM and Ford laying off people, well, maybe they should have learned how to competently build good cars like Honda and Toyota have? It's a sad thing but one that should have been seen coming with as pathetic American cars perform next to their Japanese counterparts.

[I pwnd U]

Its true, everyone is going to Asia for work. Nike pays Indonesian peasnet girls 89 cents an hour to make a shoe that cost $5 to make but Nike sells it for $150. Really i just think we need to have our econmy redone. Something NEEDS to be done about companys going overseas for cheaper labor. I understand that they make more of a profit but they need to see the company as people not as a money tree. People are to stuck on money, we need to see that money does not equal happiness and start respecting people.

[EchoSex]

Hard to believe - I found ANOTHER reason to hate myspace. This (expleted x20) idiot who thought he was a nazi opened fire on a gay bar, shooting one guy in the back and slicing his face with a hatchet 'cause he was dared and inspired buy other teenager idiots on myspace.

LIFE GOES ON AFTER HIGH SCHOOL. THERE ARE THINGS AFTER THE AGE OF 16. GROW THE HELL UP.

In one day, two horrible cases because of that damn website. When will it end? JUST GET RID OF IT.

[chris_nin00]

Just like the emo kid with 289 friends that posted his suicide note on myspace.

Do you guys know a good ISP that comes with cable and phone service? I need some info thanks

[EchoSex]

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Just like the emo kid with 289 friends that posted his suicide note on myspace.

Do you guys know a good ISP that comes with cable and phone service? I need some info thanks

Comcast is as good as it gets, and it has both cable and phone. DON'T get Verison - I promise you'll regret it.

If you need any info, just PM me.

[TheEPIC]

Outsourcing really is the largest problem our economy has. And the problem with trying to limit it is that other countries will start to economically bully us. They like our companies outsourcing to them, and if we stiffle it then they will stop buying our exports.

My solution, reduce/eliminate minimum wage. Although it sounds ridiculous, if you think about it, companies are forced to charge more because they are forced to pay more. Thus, enforcing a minimum wage is really just enforcing a sort of "tax" on consumers. If our country did not have to pay wages as high as it does, then outsourcing would be less of a priority. And if the competitive market would be allowed to work like it does then prices would begin falling as companies could see that they could make more money by lowering prices further than their competetors.

Another thing we need to do is clean up certain industries that have a vice-grip on their particular service. *cough*oilcompanies*cough* We are forced to pay far more than we should be at the pump. I've heard something along the line of: the price of barrels of oil would have to be around $80 a barrelfor us to have to pay what we are. And I don't think oil is that expensive.

[EchoSex]

Personally I think you can stop it by just slapping some companies on the wrist and saying "No." Not in the ways they make money, but by the people hire and where they operate. I see it like this:

If your company started in the United States.. Guess what? You STAY in the United States. Making cash here then moving the company for cheaper labor is taking the money out of the hands of the country and bringing to freaking India. That just annoys the hell out of me: When I call ASUS for help on a very delicate matter, say motherboard troubleshooting, I'm not gonna want to put up with some guy who CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH.

Someone find the board of directors for Dell and smote them.

[Ultimate Warrior]

Originally Posted by chris_nin00

Nah, It's for college d4n and its fun.

And I'm weird. What kind of 15 year old plays pokemon games?

Your post makes no sense to me... at a age of 15 your in college??

[Guillaume De Sonoma]

Originally Posted by Ultimate Warrior

Your post makes no sense to me... at a age of 15 your in college??

D4N is going to college