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]

i take crazy mindsets and wacko infringements of liberty (not to mention closed minds) very seriously because they've been imprisoning and killing my friends for years.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Oh... I don't know anyone who has been imprisoned or killed.... which I guess isn't an excuse but it does lead me to not treat such people seriously. It's hasn't touched me yet.

[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. :)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Goldbug pointed out that I forgot to mention that the computer also has a CD-ROM drive. It does.

[doteatop.livejournal.com]

Although, you know what? Should have realized this earlier, but i was napping all day and just really awoke right now... "Obscene works" and "hard-core pornography" by their legal definition are even now not provided first amendment protection under the supreme court. i happen to have the rulings somewhere around here... the reason this doesn't seem to affect us, these days, is that there is no really good social definition of what these things are. So right now only those works "utterly without socially redeeming value" are even in the danger zone for prosecution - this is a more liberal age in this respect than has ever before been seen in America. However, there are a lot of good, relevant, important, and threatened aspects of the freedom of expression still.

[maximilian-xiii.livejournal.com]

wow... prices have really gone down... i spent $750 on nearly the same exact parts.. minus the cd rom and harddrive... overall my current PC probably cost me... $1300... but that includes the $200 i spent on the case ;)

[goldbug.livejournal.com]

want to borrow my old desktop's monitor? it's just sitting in my closet, taking up space. since there's an imac on my desk, and i stripped gus before bringing him home, i don't think i will have any reason to set him up here. i not sure if i'll even use him when i move in with you. but if i do, the monitor will be one less thing to move if i bring it now.

it's a sony trinitron, 15 inches, and it has more viewable space than most 15 inch monitors. it meets the stringent goldbug monitor standards.

poor gus...

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

stripped, then left friendless.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Maybe you didn't buy from where I did :)

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Woooo yes!!! :)

Re: poor gus...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

is the monitor named Gus?

Re: poor gus...

[goldbug.livejournal.com]

the computer is named gus cause it's a g3.

Re: poor gus...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Um.... okay.