Rhino

This is brilliant. You're that guy who shows up uninvited, is the last one to leave, and talks to people about things no one wants to hear about for far too long. Since that doesn't work for you in real life. Now you want to do it on the internet. Don't complain because they figured out how to keep you out. They are doing it to protect your hermit status. Al Gore didn't invent the internet so you could spend all day gawking at people's profiles. Real hermits would use the internet for pr0n, music, and movies. Unless you are of course a spiced molasses cookie often containing raisins or nuts. The thing I think is the coolest about this whole gripe of your's is the fact that there is absolutely nothing in your public profile. So by the rights you think everyone should have on the internet I am now your friend. I am communicating with you, and I learned about you by looking up hermit on dictionary.com.

You're assuming she wants to be found right? Daytime talk shows have episodes where they get a person who had a crush on someone years ago, and they never did anything about it, but now they want to see this person again. You could call one of those shows and have them track down who you are looking for. Even if it isn't for romance you could just play along and then say "the old spark just ain't there". The shows usually pay for a date. So you could at least get a trip and a meal out of it. Good luck! Work smarter not harder.

There are a lot of things that can mess up USB devices. 1. You should make sure you have the latest USB drivers for the USB ports themselves not just the drivers for the equipment you are plugging into them. If your USB ports are mounted on the MOBO check the MOBO maker's web page for updates to your MOBO's chipset as well. If it is a slotted expansion card check with the card maker's web page. 2. What version of USB are your devices? It should say on your packages if it says they require USB 2.0 and if you only have USB 1.(whatever) ports. You could run into problems even though things are supposed to be backwards compatible. After all it is plug and pray! 3. Are you using a USB hub or plugging directly into you PC? Hubs are great but some devices require the voltage from the USB port for them work properly. When you use a hub unless it's a powered one that has it's own wall wart you you can't use the device through the port. So unless the hub is powered try plugging the device directly into your PC. 4. Have these devices ever worked properly before on this PC? If they have try to plug them back into the port you had them in when you originaly installed the software. I know it sounds silly, but if I don't plug my iPod back into the same USB port it recognizes it as a new device and tries to install it all over again. 5. If you are using the USB ports on the front of your machine check to make sure the wiring is still connected. When you use front panel connectors they are usually wired directly from your MOBO. It's possible if you were in there working on something you could have loosen them or they could have otherwise been disconnected. Good luck

If we really were part alien do you think the aliens that gave us the "alien part" that we came from would be ticked off that we haven't figured it out yet? Even better yet. How dumb would they think we were for coming up with all the other crazy ideas we have about where we came from? This would be a great Simpson's episode. Scene: Kang and Kodos are observing earth from thier space ship. Kang: Have the humans figured out how they were created? Kodos : No Kang, Some of the humans believe they were created by a god or other religious diety of thier own creation, others believe they came from (dramatic pause) chimps. Kang and Kodos look at each other through three seconds of uncomfortable silence. Both: BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Kang: Stupid humans! Space craft flies away, Homer says "d'oh", Mr. Burns says "excellent", Krusty says "Hey Hey Kids". THE END

Now that was a mature reply, but why does it sound like you're whining to a parent? When you say there is no disrepect for the law, and then you say that I'm the only one that cares about it. Guess what? You disrespected the law. Just because you're tying to set it up as a victimless crime doesn't make it any less illiegal. The fact that you are going out of your way to brag about how good and safe you are at consuming alcohol like you can do it just as good as mommy and daddy, or any other legal adult says a lot about your lack of maturity. I use that to base what I said earlier that you aren't mature enough to be in a serious relationship. The thing that really gets me in all of this while setting everything I've said about alcohol aside(even though I know you won't). The fact that this convienently happened while you were out of the state is red flag the size of Texas. Come on man you can't be that naive. What's going to happen the next time you are gone? The second her lips touched someone elses besides your own in a sexual manner the relationship ceased to be exclusive. You liked the idea of her kissing another girl. You permitted this to happen. Then you changed your mind and you set a condition upon her by telling her in the future you were going to see it as kissing another guy. The moment you set a condition on your gf, she will start or has already started to resent you and your relationship is headed toward the toilet. Obviously she liked kissing her because she did it for the picture then and she did it again when you were out of state. Sounds like a repeat offender to me. Even though she did have permission to the first time she clearly didn't the second. If she was too drunk to push him off, and she didn't really want it. Why isn't this being treated like she was raped? A supposedly univited guy comes over and has sex with your drunken girlfriend and says she's too drunk to push him off, but other than being apologetic with you she's cool with it. I have to assume that because you haven't stated otherwise. That tells me it's something she enjoyed, or something she wanted to do.

Use that logic the next time you get pulled over for a moving violation, or you get a parking ticket. "I wasn't hurting anyone officer, so morally you have no reason to punish me" No wait don't tell me you haven't driven in your life either.

I can say what I said because in his first post alcohol was sited as a contributing factor. Biologically mature, and intellectually mature are two very different things. I didn't know I'd have to spell that one out for you. I do have a problem with him drinking. It's against the law. I didn't make the law, but I have to live by it, and for some stupid reason I expect mature people to obey the law. If that makes me uncool so be it. I do not condone the consumption of alcohol by people who are under the legal drinking age. So by your statement you think he's mature by reaching for a bottle to ease his pain, and you think it's fine for minors to drink alcohol if they are cheated on. Does that mean you would openly contribute to the delinquency of a minor (which is also a crime) to help them be more mature and grown up?

According to your profile you are only 19 years of age, and located in the USA. So by law you are an underage drinker. I'm going to have to guess your "gf" isn't of age to consume alcohol yet either. So you're either a liar (if your profile is false), or a self confessed delinquent who has a flagrant disregard for law. You are simply too young to be in a serious relationship and that's without throwing alchohol into the mix of this. When you state alcohol is one of your choice ways of dealing with difficult situations. It shows how immature you really are. It's nice to play grown-up with a "gf", and do grown-up things like drink. I seriously hope none of you are driving either. People in this forum want to tell you if she stays with you should to tell her she shouldn't have alcohol anymore. You shouldn't either. Not until you are old enough. Unless you are both willing to stop drinking this relationship doesn't stand a chance. Also if you try to forbid her from doing anything, or you put any kind of conditions on you staying with her she will resent you, and your relationship will fail. Her actions already clearly indicate the relationship is over or well on it's way to being over. At the very least she doesn't respect you or take you seriously. Why would you want to be with someone who feels that way about you? People who really love each other and really want to be together don't let themselves get into situations where cheating is likely. Alcohol is just an enabler.

At least you have your priorities. I'm sure that made her feel secure in the relationship.

Well of course Ritalin isn't going to work for everyone. That can be said about every drug, and usually is in the disclaimers, and fine print. My reading comprehension skills may not be the best, but your initial post appeared to have a lot more in it than just the question about Ritalin. We still really don't know anymore than we did before. I'm sure if you looked harder you could find more examples of Ritalin not being successful as a treatment. What good would that do anyone? I would ask more questions, but you really seem unwilling to answer any questions that have been put to you by anyone. So good luck.

Without any further information from Igor there is no way for us to really know.

I did make a suggestion my first post. I suggested to make reports of every incident to social services. Instead of saying anything about the advice anyone gave good, bad, or otherwise. Igor decided to throw a deffinition in our faces without giving any indication of intentions. So I am left here to assume Igor is doing nothing while waiting on a better answer in which Igor has to do nothing. Igor may not be in the postition to do either of those options. I'm betting Igor isn't a legal guardian of this child so Igor can not take the boy to get help from professionals. If that is indeed the case then the basement option is out unless Igor is comfortable with kidnapping, and likes the smell of fish heads. We would also have to assume Igor has a basement. The two real options here are to report the incidents to the proper authorities or do nothing.

I'm not saying it's not a possibility. I just don't agree with labeling someone with something they obviously don't know more about than what they've found on the internet. We don't have enough information to know if any one has tried to make a "dent" in him. Maybe nothing has failed because nothing has been tried. We don't have any sort of background information. All we have are allegations of behavior. Instead of getting anymore information that might lead to some insight as to why this child is displaying this behavior Igor decided at an attempt to educate everyone on APD. Which leads me to believe that Igor didn't get the answer he was looking for. Since Igor used the phrase "unfortunately I am aware". It looks as though Igor is wanting an answer from someone here to clear his or her "unfortunately aware" conscience without any action to be taken. The statement Igor made about hearing how sociopaths are incurable. Also leads me to believe that as well. I think the real unfortunate one here is the 14 year old boy not Igor.

That's brilliant. How does attempting to slap us in the face with a deffinition of Antisocial Personality Disorder help out this child? I think you need to do a little more research though because is it widely accepted in the field of psycology that..... Antisocial Personality Disorder can not be formaly diagnosed until a person is at least 18 years old.

What kind of business is this? I want to make sure that I don't have anything to do with them if they are going to be cheap this on securing their data. I don't know what kind of data you have, but I'm sure customers would absolutely love to know what securing their data is worth to your company. Is there some way you can propose to them that spending a little on newer wireless cards can be a lot less expensive than having to recover their lost or corrupted data when the integrity of thier network is compromised? I'm surprised these days with all the news about identity theft, virus threats, e-mail scams, and companies that end up with compromised data that contained all kinds of personal information that security wouldn't be a bigger priority. Does your company use virus scan and spyware programs? Or are they too cheap for that? I just hope that when you get everything set for WEP that no one gets into your network and does any damamge. Because if I know how upper management works in the end you'll probably get the blame since you "secured" the network. My end all solution would be a wired network, but I doubt they'd put out the cash for that if they won't buy newer wireless cards. If you get enough convicing arguements on the forum print them out and lay them on your bosses desk. If that won't get you fired of course.

That's the reason I get up in the morning. As long as you associate "sympathy" with weakness you will not stray far from your chosen path. I always figured when the animals got tired of being mistreated they will rise up and rebel. The most efficient, and practical way to feed the vast amounts of people is through a slaughter house method. The only way around this is for everyone to raise there own animals to sustain their own families or communities. Then you can treat the animals as nicely as you want too. Dress them in with bows, and tell that chicken how much you love it as you tighten your grip as you prepare to wring it's neck. As long as you feel better. As warm and fuzzy as that sound everyone knows that ain't gonna happen, and it if did there would be some farmers forum with people complaining about how early they have to get up to feed everything, and how much work there is to raising and caring for animals. Then people would be asking for another solution. Can't someone else do it? This also goes hand in hand with experimenting. Let the people who are against animal testing live in a seperate community without all of the things in science that were discovered through animal testing and experimentation. They can come up with thier own solutions to problems with out the help of our furry and feathered friends. It could be a new reality TV show for the rest of us to watch while we eat our KFC.

That statement has made you my favorite poster of all time in any forum! The people who know me will vouch for that. Of course I think you may be ready to move up to the all important self-gratifying next step. Which is called "Kicking people when they are down". There is nothing more satisfying. Unless you also put them in the down position in which they are about to be kicked. Yes! I have a feeling violent criminals "experiment" on each other anyway. Might as well get some researchers in there, and take notes. Can I offer some people from my work place? I can garantee they will be 100% brainless. They may not be the best test subjects, but they already sit around in a cubicle all day and do nothing. Not a far jump off from a lab full of cages. We have done testing on our military in the US before so why not use criminals?

I have no idea where in the world you are. If you are in the US then there isn't much you can do other than report the incidents to social services. Not just one incident but all of them. Which means he will more than likely be taken from his parents if they are found to be negligent. Then he will be placed in "in-patient" hospital care until he gets placed into a foster home. Then he will be moved from foster home to foster home, because there will be people who will take him in that think they can deal with him and "fix" him. When he becomes to much for them to handle he will be throw back to social services for more in-patient therapy. Wash, rinse, and repeat until his eighteenth birthday. At that age he will no longer be the responsibility of the state and he will be unleashed upon society. If you really wish to do something that is pretty much you're only alternative. I only have what little information you gave me. I do not know how long you have been "unfortunately aware" of a 14 year old who has been this way most of his life. It seems like you would have had to known about it for quite sometime to know that he has been that way this long, or you are only taking someone else's word. If you have known about it for very long and you have done nothing until now then you can share some of the blame for standing by and letting it get out of control. If you just now became aware then the people who told you can share the blame.

Without involving humans, world conflicts could be settled on episodes of "BattleBots". Then it would become all about the ratings and advertising. Since BattleBots isn't on the air anymore it would be the end of all world conflicts because not enough people are interested, and we'd have to start fighting with people again. How much interest would the media have in covering a war of robots? Would anyone care if 2,000 robots were defeated? Especially when you could salvage parts and rebuild a lot of them. The human face is where the story is. Showing the pictures of people killed in combat on the evening news gets people much more stirred up than showing a pile of busted robots ever would. We (the USA) looks bad enough to other countries for invading Iraq with humans. How much worse would the perception be if we invaded them with inhumane, cold, unfeeling robots. On the plus side it would eliminate the protesters who say you're not sending my sons and daughters over there.

Glad he wasn't gored by a "rhino".

Perhaps if you would have used one of the following names... Jimson Weed, Loco Weed, Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple, Angel's Trumpet, or Zombie's Cucumber ...instead of The_simpsons you'd be able to remember what the common english name is. It was very educational though. So thanks for that. Tori Amos also wrote a song called Datura. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimson_weed As for my avatar. I just like FLCL.

That's your first problem. It would help to know if your DSL modem and you router are the same device, or they are seperate devices. Have you had any lightning strikes or power surges around the time your problem started? It would also be a good idea to have both pair (red/green, yellow/black) checked for shorts. Makes sure your phone lines haven't been damaged somewhere. Can you still get online when the landline is "dead"?

Interesting question. Has anyone tested their path clearing abilities? Do they "dominate" their "neighbourhood"? I think some research needs to be done on this. I really think they should have left Pluto alone. If we have to add the other dwarves to the list because they are closer to what Pluto is in definition then I'd be fine with that. I'd rather have more planets than less.

.....And I thought they caught the BTK guy.

What's worse? The fact that she left you, or that she left you in Salina? Were you miserable before she left you? That might be a clue. Anyways my first(and only) divorce was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got an upgrade, and you can too!