doobie dah

[juldea]

So here are the specs (muah):

AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz
256 megs DDR ram (woo DDR)
20 gig hard drive
guillemot/hercules 3d prophet kyro 2 4500 64mb no-tv out video card (I don't know what all those numbers are, so I figured I'd put them all for those who care)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (unless someone convinces me to spend more on a better one ;))

All of that (plus motherboard and fan) shipped to me for $460. All I need after that is a case (~$30-50 depending on what I want, shipping fees for cases are bad though because they're large, so I should just get one from a local place and not online), a floppy drive (so cheap that the shipping fee almost equals the cost of the drive), and necessary cables (see floppy drive). All in all I'll be getting a total badass machine for about $500.

I'll be borrowing the monitor and keyboard from the teddyville server for a while, but hey... not like they're being used. Also I need to get my ethernet card from my mom (she's got my old desktop) and I'm set.

Yum. This isn't far off.

On another note, there's a group of women (Women for Decency) in Utah who say that the first admendment "does not protect obscenity and pornography".
*shakes head sadly*
Maybe one day I will realize my fault in not taking these kinds of people seriously, but wow. Who does? Only other kooks.

Comments

[doteatop.livejournal.com]

And now we wonder - how do such cruel social practices propagate themselves without being noticed by so many? Well, it's certain that we all products of our class structures, that our inculturation is shaped by the people we know, and those that we associate with determined by, in turn, by our ideology, geography and demographic. Those factors themselves, of course, being determined by class oppression by entrenched power franchises.

So my response is that our culture conspires by many means to keep you from knowing or feeling empathy for its victims.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

I will not doubt that that may very well be true, so how am I to get around that? It's not really possible to get excited about something that I don't know or feel. Certainly I feel that these are things I should know.

[doteatop.livejournal.com]

Drop by starfruit's sometime, if you like - i've got picture book stories of victims of the more outrageous laws of our country.

Or, you could just chill with me more in general. You'd meet a broad spectrum of folk.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

"broad spectrum of folk" is certainly true. hanging out with robert is rarely (if ever) dull. :)