Hykos

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080225.jpg

I 2nd these recommendations. Also add Cat Power - "Song to Bobby" or "I Believe in You"

Dont let him fool you. He totall has Hello Kitty underoos.

Who's with me?? Hello Kitty Online beta anyone?

pfff hell no there's no hope for you addict.

It's pigeon/squirrel porn, and yes, im running out of room.

I'm confident you'll think of something perverse yet witty. On another note, this has got me thinking about upgrading my own comp. It's been 13 months already so I'm due for a new one! I'm thinking Kensfield Quad-Core and a 9800 GX2, once they're released. And I think I need to hit the 2 terabyte HDD mark. hmm....

Dude, the Geforce 9 series is coming out next week. You shoulda waited! (: QFT on the tidy cables. I hate a mess in my case.

To eat your baby

lol

I wrote in Stalin on the dem ballot.

hey Q!

Grats yall!

Me: Do you have any Wii's? Ugly Butch Target Chick: *stare of death* Me: *gulp* Ugly Butch Target Chick: No Me: Do you know when or if... Ugly Butch Target Chick: we haven't had any in a long time. A really really long time. rot in hell for making me walk to the counter. Me: DIAF bitch

I knew there was a reason why I didn't like Ryu

http://lh4.google.ca/abramsv/R3653UKUgWI/AAAAAAAACUY/Kzne_VmT2tw/684572418_18e0830025_o.jpg?imgmax=512 http://lh6.google.ca/abramsv/R37G80KUgnI/AAAAAAAACWk/RRPrjfr8dwU/s800/140943326_f9b62a3a39.jpg http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R32J80KUf8I/AAAAAAAACQk/3Mld2luGnA4/2127518834_8073381f69.jpg?imgmax=512 a lot more pics here: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/01/ma...-of-nantes.html

nazibear nuff said

Halo played with a WiiMote: it's a few months old so some have probably already seen it

I thought you quit your myspace habit, cribb

if the Joker dies in Batman it's gonna be kinda awkward...

/dr00d salute (yiff)

The last two recessions were in the 70's and 80's. Since I wasn't born at that time I don't know how things were, but I do know that at the last recession it was preceeded by massive unemployment, well over 10% (edit: 13.5%. GG Jimmy Carter). Our national unemployment rate is still relatively low (5% for 12/07). Increased slightly in the last quarter a little, but still low. I'd look at those numbers as an indicator before I look at whatever the lastest OMGWE'REALLSCREWED headline CNN is currently running for whether or not we're heading into a recession.

I guess it wasn't the best of examples since it could be due to increased competition, local problems, or other factors. Douglasville, for example, has been growing steadily for a while and it doesn't look to be changing. A lot of new strip malls, new businesses and restaurants in the old downtown area, and all in the past few months. Things like that. That doesn't typically happen when the economy is in the shitter like most of the media wants you to think it is right now. It's possible that could all change this year I guess. I'd just like to think it's not.

Then you should have used it to look up the definition of the word "recession". (sorry I had to) No, and that's the problem. They react to rumors and fear and create the problem before it even exists by doing stupid things like pulling out all their investments at the same time and sending a market into a nose dive for no reason. The back bone of our economy is built on small and medium size businesses. If you see your local shops closing their doors due to an economic slow down, then you have cause for concern. If some fortune 500 company lays off a couple hundred people, though, it's no big deal in the long run (well, except for those couple hundred people obviously).

sigh... just because growth slows doesn't mean it's a recession. "In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year." As I said, the GDP is still growing. Last report which came out in November and revised in December puts our GDP at a increase of 4.9%. It'll be almost two more months before we see another report and it'll be June before you can declare it a recession. Most of those banks you're referring too have already been bailed out by foreign investors, and it's a result of the subprime market, which yes will be a problem for awhile. They dug their own grave and they'll lay in it for a year or two. That doesn't mean the entire economy is fucked though. The only major bank in crisis I can think of is Northern Rock, and that's Britain's problem, not ours. And "800 companies"? seriously? you know there's like tens of thousands right? Just because a few high profile companies mostly in specific markets or fields are having issues doesn't mean all are. My company has been hammered by a slow market for the past six months, but we're still growing, still hiring people, still making money, still weathering a short term storm. Most are in the same boat. I wouldn't call that a recession. It's no different than it was in 90-92 and 01-03 when the economy slowed. They both led to recession mongering, neither ended in recession, both we rebounded from very well. We haven't had a recession in 25 years. I don't expect one now.