I also quit cold turkey, I gave up alcohol at the same time (only for a year or so), but although it was really tough giving up both simultaneously I think not drinking made it MUCH easier to keep off the cigarettes. It's consistent with a lot of theories on addiction that much of it is associated with other behaviour, settings and people- the more you can avoid those other factors (even temporarily) the lower your chance of giving in to temptation. Quitting smoking was probably the smartest thing I ever did, I'm genuinely grateful that I am still finally free of the bloody things. Don't believe what they say about saving money though- I still don't know where it goes! Best of luck!

@tomsdesk said: my two cents: If you were satisfied with the arrangement before he contacted you, send him a waver letter refusing additional payment (the extra heft in your karma bucket is worth more anyway :`) I agree with you, Tom.

@mateo soletic said: I agree with Mike that this little girl Yang Peiyi should not have been substituted by Lin Miaoke. This is a big injustice to the little Yang who obviously has the tallent but hasnt got the required looks or at least someone thinks this way. And for the people that think that this is fuss over nothing let me tell You something about these countries like China. I lived most of my life in a socialist/comunist state that was once called Yugoslavia. In those countries being a individual is nothing . The individual only exists to serve bigger cause. So now they took her voice tommorow they will take her kidney . Believe me I have been there. And the worst thing the communists did is with peoples minds. If these people had to choose between democracy and totalitarism The majority would even now choose the latter. It will take generations to change this. And if we keep saying that this is fuss over nothing it will take even longer. Mateo Thanks for saying this, Mateo. I DO think this substitution is a big deal. It shows how desperate the Chinese government is to put on a happy face to the world. I'm not fooled. In fact, things like this just reinforce my sentiments.

Another winner. . . .I love speficity in a fortune cookie. . .[image: hrVw_medcookie.jpg] Who couldn't??? They're called Doctors. . .. I Couldprosper in the field of Medicine. . .but I chose architecture instead.

the Sh#t house is funny. Here's a typical comment heard just before the residents leave and go on vacation: " Honey did you remember to close the Lid on the Sh#it house" Hehehe.

It seems green technology is popping up everywhere, but not on the market where it should be.I find it amazing that some of these technologies have been around for a very long time and still we don't have an eco car in our garage.Now besides these eco cars we also need to invent some ozone generators and climate/weather control.

Thanks guys! Jeez, it says a lot about Autocad/Autodesk that placing an image in a dwg file and saving it should be as complicated as that! Thanks again,

@remus said: 600pics/3 hours=200 pics per hour= approx 1 pic every twenty seconds. Im no expert, but id say tis a bit ambitious to do that for 3 hours straight well if all he wants is a stickman with no background then i'd say it's pretty doable, but then again i'm no expert either, nor do i feel like proving it

Fair play Remus!

Do you have a 'compatibility files...' area on the top bar when you open the folder where they should be ? Sometimes Vista moves files into special sub-folders 'to protect you'... It happens to me when I tweak a ruby script but when I run it the old version runs because Vista's put the new one in this stupid folder so I won't do anything bad !!! . Good luck...

hi Alan, are you talking seriously ? i have a romanian in our house honest yes in my father´s house she cares for him i can get that feeling sometimes maybe pureness ?

Thanks for responding to this guys. Always like to help my customers on the one side and my friends here on the other side.

i tend to use the futura family, especially the futura light bt, for my cad work and even in print.

My pleasure, guys... I found the animation very impressing myself...!!

If you go with #2, use a lower case Y on the second "you". Otherwise the eye stops too quickly, anticipating a new thought.

I can't believe this thread has gone on for 12 pages! but having said that, I need to add my 2 cents to this philisophical discussion. . .or rather 2 cents that I swiped from Monty Python. . . *Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. David Hume could out consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raisin' of the wrist. Socrates himself was permanently pissed. John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away, 'alf a crate of whiskey every day! Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, and Hobbes was fond of his Dram. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am." Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed. -- Monty Python* I remember just enough of my philosphy courses to screw me up for the rest of my life!

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Welcome, Denis...

This is all very cool TBD It'll be interesting to see where this all leads to.

Kwistenbiebel wrote: “Any one knows a good one? Preferably one with free love and drinks.” A. Behold a “good one”, w/ “free love”: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27) B. Regarding “drinks”: “He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38) “And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come! And let him that heareth say, Come! And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” (Revelation 22:17 ) Cornel