i've currently been-bitten by the MySpace flea, does anyone else here use it
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I did but I haven't been on it in a while. I have a MySpace page somewhere. And a Facebook page. And a rubbish blog. Too easy to spend way too much time on the net. But they're all good for keeping in touch with people.

MySpace bugged me a bit because of the friend harvesters out there. I only want people I know or people I respect on my list. Not startup bands trying to find an audience. On Facebook, only people I know well would ever get added.

So lets see your page!

I used to be on MySpace and Facebook, but I deleted my accounts. I wasted too much time checking out strangers' pictures and profiles. I also found out things about people from Facebook before I found out IRL, so it kind of sucked when someone would be like "Dude, I just got a tattoo of Dr. Wily on my face!" and I'd be like, "Yeah, I know, I saw it on Facebook." Social networking really deflates the personal connection between people that know each other IRL. It's great for internet friends, though, but then again that's what I use e-mail for. Blaaaah.

So, no, I don't use MySpace. My old band's page is still up, though: http://www.myspace.com/doctormindbender

Okay you're right, I gotta believe..

(thinks to himself for a moment about how shy he's feeling)

Well.. Feets, don't-fail-me-now!! (Kooloo-Limpah and all that jazz)..

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*throws some Magical-Sparkle(TM) pixie-dust into the air*
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myspace.com/shoebonics
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(i wanna start addin' y'all, so if yer into it, please send me a Friend Request).

-shoe
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I did have a myspace page and my co-workers thought it was hilarious. This is how I described myself:

I am a tangible extension of reality, occupying a rather small portion of space that moves rapidly. I live on a small object made of heavy elements that orbits an average star, which is approximately 30,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. The object I live on is called a planet and it spins at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour, which allocates 24 hours per day, since the planet has a circumference of 24,000 miles. My planet, called Earth, orbits our star, which we call the Sun, at a velocity of 66,000 miles per hour. Once the Earth has spun through 24,000 miles, a unit of time called a day has passed. It takes 365 days, at a velocity of 66,000 miles per hour, for the Earth to go completely around the Sun. It takes the Sun 230 million years to go around the center of the galaxy, so while we have been making one circuit, the dinosaurs came into existence and vanished. There is enough time left for us to vanish as well.

Anyway, we humans are markedly different from the other forms of life on this planet, since we can provide ourselves with our own extinction; we require no assistance from other animals or forces of nature. Humans are very strange in the sense they kill even when they are not hungry. In fact, there are these large groups of humans known as militaries that exist solely to kill other humans. They are supposed to only kill humans that have joined other militaries, but sometimes they kill whomever they please, without abandon. When militaries fight, they do so in places called warzones. It seems that the entire Earth is a warzone, since people that are not in militaries will also kill, without warning. I would say, if the conditions were right, each human is far more dangerous than even a hungry lion. As it turns out, most humans do not kill, but that doesn't mean they aren't human.

I spend nearly 100% of my time at 38 degrees North by 91 degrees West. A common model of the planet, known as a globe is quite helpful for understanding the Earth, since it's easier to see than the real thing. I have crossed the Prime Meridian - twice. I have never crossed the equator.

Humans use vocal cords in conjunction with the tongue and air to produce many different sounds which can be interpreted by other humans. This is almost always region specific. When groups of humans isolate themselves from other humans, they make noises that are mutually unintelligible to other groups. Whilst the other groups are left scratching their heads, those within a group are producing sounds that are mutually intelligible. These noises, that can be intelligible or unintelligible, are known as a language. Of the thousands of languages that exist, I speak the 3rd most common - English. Spanish is the 2nd most common. Chinese has more speakers than any other language, so it is the most common. So, if aliens were to ever visit the Earth (which is unlikely), they would not come to the United States. They would go to China, since the Chinese are the logical dominant group of humans, having a single language that is used by more than 800 million people. As a side note, Chinese is also interesting because it has numerous unintelligible dialects which can be considered different languages proper, such as Mandarin and Cantonese. In America, there is nothing quite like that. In fact, we Americans can understand people from England and Australia, which is astounding, considering the large distances separating us. An example of a region of the Earth with extreme language diversity is the Philippines, which has more than 100 different languages (not dialects) in an area slightly larger than Missouri.

I suppose I'll take a break from my ruminations and tell you a tad more about myself, other than how I tangibly occupy reality (I think). Somehow, when I was 5 years old, I learned how to read. I never lost that ability and have read several (hundred) books and countless magazines. Among other things, I want to know what an electron is, and, as I learned very recently, Albert Einstein wanted to know the same thing. Do you know what an electron is? Probably not, since Einstein didn't know either. That's what years of reading will do to you. You'll eventually start asking questions that few (if any) people can answer. Of course, you know what electrons do. The flow of electrons is what we call electricity and it makes our lives much easier. Electrons also bond with atomic nuclei and form atoms. We should be thankful electrons are kind enough to do that, because if they didn't, the universe would be full of lonely atomic nuclei.

Besides reading, I like to look at humans. Sometimes I look at their tangible representations and other times, I look at snapshots of them. Television is not a continuous image, as our brains believe, but a construction of frames, and to bring back a familiar friend, scurrying electrons. What could I learn from observing other humans? Not much, but it is entertaining.

To summarize, I learned how to read when I was 5 and I like to observe other humans. I also want to know what an electron is, so I'm not normal. I also don't kill people, so I'm very abnormal.

Just say No.

you should run for Mayor, Jodo.

if y' do, i'll make some buttons & flyers emblazoned with

JODO FOR MAYOR.

or

JODO > YODA

ROOTRICK: y'all Give-me/Gimme Lumina, won'tcha?? If ya do..

PRINCESS FILET (sounding Enthused/pleased): Alright, Lumina!!

ROOTRICK (bops her lightly on her head): Aw, shut-up ya dum(b) gal !!

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ROOTRICK'S FINAL HAT_TRICK

ROOTRICK (spoken with Dripping-Sarcasm(TM): ..Oh, and have yerself a <i>Nice Day!!<i/>)

(gives Fake-Smile(TM) and runs off into CHAMBER ROOM)

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I second.

I have one, but it's never been developed because I don't want to be apart of the movement. I'm a fairly introverted, personal person which is why I like keeping details about myself to a mininum to those I do not closely know. But I'm also one who can interact with anyone socially, so I'd rather develop the interactivity the old-fashioned way instead of online developments. Many people I know who use it reflect much of what exactly defines this generation of egotism.

I am guilty of having a Facebook but I try not to check it often (like my blood sugar). I don't shun it because I do find it useful just to see where some of my older buddies are when the telephone method fails.

Between MySpace and Facebook, my generation is becoming increasingly narcissistic and celebrity overdosed, especially when most of my peers have no idea what the hell is going on in the world and around them.

I've honestly thought about making a mySpace page... still, there is a part of me that says "no" as well. Part of it is there are people I know who would find me on there that I really don't want to talk to (like that former roomate of mine who wanted to barrow $300 dollars and when I wouldn't said it was because he was gay... uh, no - the fact I haven't seen you in three years was why and I couldn't even trust him $20 "back in the day" - having money to go clubbing was more important that paying me back) and well the past is the past. I'm sure all I would do is talk about the past with people and that isn't going to complish anything.

Looked at your page. You've loads of friends already! I've only got 50 and a whole bunch of those aren't even actual friends. Sent you a friend request though I'm very rarely on.

Only a Facebook for me... I finally was convinced to start it when I left Japan and wanted to keep in touch with people who were either staying there or moving home to their own countries which are not in time zones conducive to keeping in touch regularly by other means.  I don't like myspace because I don't like broadcasting myself to the general internet-going public.  I still wonder why these things are considered better than just writing people emails, though.

I have a Myspace but I barely use it. I also have it so that only people who know me fairly well have access to my profile (and pretty much everything else). It's probably the buggiest service I've ever barely used.

One of my friends convinced me to join MySpace about two years ago, and I hated it.  Not to mention all the fake porn-ad profiles that were constantly trying to befriend me.  No thanks.

I've been using Facebook for a few years, though, and I love it.  It's also been a great tool for keeping in touch with my friends back in America now that I'm gone.  Still, it's sad that profiles are becoming more bloated now that they introduced all of these "applications."

Facebook > MySpace.  But I agree with above, applications suck...even if I'm guilty of having a couple.

If you do have a Myspace - reach out, let's be friends

http://www.myspace.com/brandonpfn

I have observed (and was involved with) some aspects of the process of running for office firsthand, so I am aware of what it takes. I do take your advice seriously but becoming a mayor is not for me. I can't even begin to explain to you how many enemies I would make if I were to run for office. I could find staunch supporters rather quickly, as I know people that know people. Considering I don't know people, such knowledge is helpful.

  If I were to hold office, I would try very hard to reduce the cost of health insurance by attacking the causes of most hospitalization. Health insurance should be much cheaper than what it is, and there is an easy to way to get the cost down. It would essentially mean making vast throngs of people angry, simply because, people enjoy being fat. I would fight to make becoming overweight illegal and fine people heavily for becoming heavy. There is no reason whatsoever to get fat. None. Zero. No excuse can help me understand why someone needs to be fat and thus more prone to heart disease and type 2 diabetes. And then there's the issue of car accidents. Yet again, there is an easy way to solve that problem. I could go on and on....

You want to make car accidents less common and far less deadly?  Lower the speed limit to five miles per hour.  Better yet, put a device in every car that is sold to limit the car's top speed to five miles per hour.  People would have plenty of time to react to road conditions ahead of them, and the most damaging a car accident could be would be a head-on collision at a relative rate of ten miles per hour.  Combine this with mandatory seatbelt laws, and watch the traffic mortality rate plummet.  Of course, it would take forever for anyone to get anywhere, but think of how much safer the children would be!

As for being overweight, how would you define "overweight"?  For example, how much would a 6' tall man have to weigh for you to consider him "overweight"?  Would there be an exception for the heavily muscled?  There are valid physical reasons to be overweight (some people have thyroid issues).  What if someone couldn't afford the fat tax?  Do you throw them in jail where you can feed them a prescribed cure-all diet?  What if they can't lose weight then either?  Are they executed?

As for insurance, health insurance in the US is screwed up because it isn't true insurance.  Do you have your car insurance pay when a rock dents your front bumper?  Do you have your homeowners insurance pay if one of your electrical outlets doesn't work?  No.  And yet that's how the average American uses health insurance.  And because of that, it gets outrageously expensive.  Insurance is supposed to cover the catastrophic events that would ruin you if they struck, not the sprains and strains of everyday life.  Plus, no one has any idea how much medical procedures cost until after they've had them.  No one shops around beforehand, so everyone pays more accordingly.

Please, don't go on... your ideas scare me. What's next? Fat people concentration camps? I’m seriously amazed the lack of compassion and empathy you seem to have for your fellow "man" in your “solutions.”

Just remember who to add to your staff.... I have the prior military experience, leadership, and health care knowledge.

You're the weirdest dude....like ever.

I have a myspace, it's pretty sweet actually (mine that is, the site in general sucks).

A guy I work with at my second job had this to say about My Space users:

dammit! i was hoping i could hold that honor.

Do i come in second or third??

Seriously Ashley, we're here to back you up, so call if you need to talk.

i can be reached at 147.890 MHz

p.s.- A majority of 'fat people' are going to continue to (in)breed until Mother Earth's resources are completely depleted.

So take a step back, peruse The Big Picture for a minute or two, and Join Us.

-shoe

The one other thing i wanted to say tonight before i go to sleep is that 'black-and-white thinking/ all-or-nothing mentality' is one of the trickiest aspects when it comes to not abusing one's power (if not <i>the<i/> trickiest.)

For example, in the 2004 remake of MGS, poor Donald Anderson was forced to simulate performing fellatio on Snake, simply because whoever was in charge of that particular scene-direction (not necessarily Kojima or Kitamura though) thought to themselves 'well, Donald Anderson is of african-american descent, so that *automatically* makes him our enemy.'

Compare Donald Anderson's character to someone like say, lil' john or busta rhymes and you get an idea of where i'm coming from.

Good night, all. See you in the twilight hour.

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I've been thinking about stalking old high school acquaintances through MySpace and Facebook.

Especially the females.

I ought to get to that.

YOINK!

SCORE!

Well...I MIGHT have found one, maybe two of them...

I'm going to scare some people, make others laugh, make some angry, etc.

   I have a lot of compassion and empathy - I want to see fat people lose the fat. If they are not willing to lose it (remain extremely lazy), then they should be kicked very hard (by some means that is not actually kicking) until they are inspired to lose the weight. Concentration camps are not a viable option because they unfairly restrict freedom and cause unnecessary deaths. The reason why my ideas scare you is because your emotions dominate your mind. Emotions are quick and (sometimes) deadly. Be thankful (I'm also thankful) that someone like me uses emotions as a last resort.

Although sarcastic, your comment reveals a lot. So I have to explain a lot. The following should be made illegal:

  - Cell phone use while driving. The exception to this law would be the need to call in an emergency.
  - Eating while driving. No exceptions. Pull over if you need to eat.
  - Shaving, teeth brushing, make-up applying or anything related while driving. This is why we have bathrooms.
  - Looking backwards at accident scenes or police on the side of the road. I have witnessed people turn their heads around while driving forward to look at an accident scene or police (not moving).
  - Slowing down significantly if a police officer is stationary on the side of the road. People should not slam their f---ing brakes if a police officer is around. It causes problems for the other drivers.
  - Not slowing down if it is raining, snowing, or foggy. There should be 2 speed limits for any road. One for normal conditions and one for inclement weather. Since few people recognize that inclement weather causes accidents, a second speed limit would be useful.
  - TV screens on the dashboard. Watch TV at home.
  - Installing large subwoofers and amplifiers. If you want to feel bass, go to a night club or put a subwoofer in your living room.

It's not my job to define overweight. It's my idea and I expect others to make proper sense out of it and apply it to reality. I am aware of thyroid problems as I have witnessed what a hyper and hypo active gland can do. A person with a hypoactive thyroid simply needs to modify their diet accordingly; it's an easy fix. A hyperactive thyroid is not relevant to this issue. No, no one would be executed for being fat.

    These are some things that confuse me:

  - Why is it legal for a fast food restaurant (or any restaurant) to serve an obese person foods that contribute to weight gain? Anyone that is clearly obese should not be (legally) allowed to consume anything fried, any soda, beer, or food with excessive amounts of cheese. What bothers me is the way no one gives a shit. Fat people are not educated; if they were educated they would know which foods expand their waistline and then avoid those foods. Or consider this - fat people are educated but don't care about themselves. In that case, well, maybe they should be executed (sarcasm intended).
  - In the United States we make some effort to make things look nice. Those things include lawns, cars, buildings, highways, parking lots, living rooms, pets and clothing. Why don't we try to make the humans in this country look nice? Why do things take priority over us humans (yes, we are things, but play along)? I've seen very fat people living in an immaculate house with a clean yard. That confuses me to no end.

To tell you the truth, I do not understand health insurance. It is simply my guess that if fewer people had expensive health problems, the rates would decrease. The problem you mentioned never occurred to me; it is interesting.

A lot of these things are actually pretty reasonable, if not already outlawed.

As long as I'm able to use my cellphone in the car WHILE I'M STANDING STILL, that's fine. I'd still like to be able to make emergency calls, because that's what I have a cellphone for, I just hope they don't make it illegal to carry cellphones in your car PERIOD.

As much as I like the stereo in my car, there are anti-noise ordinances in some cities that make it illegal for the volume or bass on my car stereo to be up past a certain point.

Of course, I'm usually pretty overzealous about blasting my car stereo in the city, when I'm around other people; I often feel embarassed to play my favorite styles of music around other people, so I tend to keep it down naturally, too.

When someone pulls up behind me, or next to me, and they're blasting their car stereo, and shouting out their car windows, it scares the shit out of me. Their bass beats with the same pace that the human heart does when it's stricken with mortal terror. The fact that they're also screaming like barbarians with reckless abandon doesn't help, either.

STILL, I have to admit, it's fun for me making people think the end of the world has come, blasting chorus music from my car stereo.

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As for the whole anti-fat thing, good luck with that.

There are plenty disadvantages of being overweight, but most people have resigned themselves to not being unable to get rid of the weight; past a certain point, you're just unable to exercise to get rid of the weight after awhile.

Of course, what you really have to consider is how a person got overweight in the first place. It could be the body overcompensating by itself, besides just a conscious decision of that person to over eat.

This was the only odd thing about your list that you would make illegal. For me, who still haven't gotten his drivers license, slowing down if there's heavy rain/snow or dense fog seems the most logical thing to do, of course, not slowing like to the speed of a snail, but still, keeping a bit slower speed than the maximum allowed, especially if it's heavy rain.

And people should just start using more common sense when driving.

Also, one thing what will of course prevent people crashing, would be making 10-30 meter (too lazy to convert that to the odd american measurements, you guys really should start using metric system) safezone between two cars, of course, that will be impossible in city / rushhour zones, but otherwise in the highways, that would prevent something.

Also, funny thing, in Finland it is illegal (atleast you'll get fine if you get caught, but that seems to be pretty rare) to speak with cell phone when you're driving, unless you're using hands-free plugin.

And your idea of making fattyness an illegal thing is bit stupid to be frank, but that's your opinion and you have good points supporting it, but after that, it's not so big leap to start saying that being ugly should be illegal.

And american people should just get rid of most of the fast food restaurants, or start downsizing the meals in there. But isn't that already have happened a bit, what I've heard, that you don't can't get anymore of those Supersize meals in McDonalds for instance?

Also, removing vending machines and unhealthy food from schools would prevent young children getting fat and learning only to eat 'fish and chips'. But that's probably impossible, aren't the soft drink companies etc. pretty keen throwing funds at schools so they allow those vending machines?

Not to fill you full of holes, but it's just not that simple...

SEE, people don't really know what is a safe speed for rain and snow; they just slow to snail's pace.

Sure, they tell you in Driver's Education how fast you ought to drive in such conditions, but how many years ago was that for us? How many of us still have our Driver's Education manual, if even any text was issued to us at all?

Also, it really depends on the particular road you're driving on, how fast you should drive on it in particular conditions.

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Still, the law would probably have use drive slower than we REALLY need to under such conditions, but having posted speed limits for certain types of weather would still make sure that everyone's not moving at a snail's pace when they don't need to, either.

Then again, weather stations on the radio often advise how you should be driving in that particular place at that particular time, but how many of us actually consult the radio, let alone even know what station to tune into?

WELL, for people who DON'T have common sense, there needs to be people who think FOR them. That is, if those of us who DO have sense don't want to be endangered by them.

The law has its criteria for reckless endangerment, but I can't help that such standards have become lax, seeing as how sense and logic are harder to come by these days; I blame genetics for that.

These days, people don't know what IS sensical; "common" sense ain't so common no more.

You'd be surprised how many schools have done this in the US already. I remember when you could by all sorts of junk food... not anymore, at least where I went to school.

If my phone rings when I'm driving I don't pick it up; I can see who called once I've reached my destination. Don't think they'll ever outlaw allowing you to have an actual phone in your car though, like you said having it in case of an emergency or breakdown is to damn handy.

I blare my stereo only when I'm in sparsely populated areas; I turn it down when I'm in towns (especially of my windows are down) because I like to think I'm being respectful in that respect. I also don't blare it when I have passengers either because it's one less thing you need to concentrate on since you'll probably be talking with the passengers. I hate trying to talk over radios and that again comes back to respect.

Well, it's probably not that they don't know what's the safe speed, it also could be the possibility not being confident in their driving skills.

Anyways, remembered one thing what should be done, driving tests / education classes per every five years to be sure that the roads don't carry drivers without much knowledge.

Those sentences pretty much summarises the current world and age, somehow when we get more technical with everything, more we lose our common senses. I'm waiting the time when basic cooking is something that people can't do. Or cleaning.

Ah, that's good to know, maybe there's some future for the kids then, only if there would be more funds for education system in America. Seems that every time I hear something about American education, it's usually budget cutting or something else negative. But maybe I should check more often.

Anyways, wasn't this about MySpaces. And not about fattyness / shitty drivers. Of well. :D

Yes, let's get back to that.

I truly think that if I did not exercise on a regular basis, and was obese, that I would not have woke up the night of the fire.  Then again, I have always been anti-obese and pro-fitness.

As my aunt Vera from North Carolina would say: You ain't whistlin' Dixie.