As long as you're bringing the mustang. Your drunk but ain't getting in the Z, lol.

Awesome, I'll look into it next time I get mad at my job, lol.

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I'll be in trouble on that day. HIN is on the 16th in Dallas but the tickets are $30 a pop, so I'm waiting for my next paycheck to get them, want me to get u one?

Are they hiring at that company. Sounds more exciting then sitting in a logging unit offshore watching the wiggle maker.

Did the harddrive already have an OS installed or did you install it? Will the computer start up and let you have access to the start menu, or does it stay on the black BIOS screen with white letters when it starts up?

Gawd I hate work related injuries. The worst I had was a week due to an incident with a machette when I was surveying but I was going stir crazy just laying around the apartment b/c I couldn't walk.

Yep, love it. So nice to be able to smoke indoors again.

Okay hateful lady.

Throw it out the window, hehehehehe.

You could be a little more specific. Is it plugged in?

Don't tell my secrets for purchasing women!!!

I put it on before she started talking to me, and I didn't dis her. I just wasn't interested. Plus everyonen else in the bar wanted her to leave too, so it all works out. She can tell all of her friends. If they act anything like her I don't want to be around them anyways. Crazy drunk!

Funny little contraption that acts like a nicotine inhaler, but it looks and works like a cigarette without the matches.

the **** disrupter is up early today, thought I would start off with a little fun. Just poking around and working on comics on my day off and got to thinking, It's a tuesday afternoon. Most people should be at work. Obviously the people online right now don't lead the normal 9-5 lifestyle, as is the case with me. What do you all do for money.

Me? Field Engineer for an oilfield services company (I work offshore), stock trading, my website, and hoping to start selling electronic cigarettes soon.

As an artist, I don't care to get the occasional bad comment, because alot of people admire what I do, but I do occasionally look at some of my own work and say, "this is crap."

You have two conflicting theories, both of which raise serious unanswered questions, competing for dominance in a society of finger pointers with a "might makes right" attitude.

The topic of instincts in interesting indeed. I think that we just don't understand "instincts" and it is also one of those words that is kind of gellationous in its definition, but I'll take a stab.

I think that most behaviour is learned, and the learning mechanism is just misunderstood. Beauty for instance, is something that some people consider to be instinctual, but being raise on TV and seeing the same qualities over and over will drive a person to those qualities when paired with outside influence, what the mother/father look like etc. Behaviour in general is a tricky mechanism and not fully understood. There seems to be a chaotic mix of memory mechanisms that lead to most animal behaviour, so what about the other stuff that isn't so obvious, the "true" instinct.

Perhaps it isn't cellular memory so much as cellular comfort. Bodies are , geese I hate to use the word designed because it implies other things, but can't think of a better word so... bodies are designed for specific types of muscle movements and the release of hormones paired with the already complex memory mechanism perhaps simply leads to these "true instincts" being two similar beings comming up with the same logical solution to a problem.

I can't however, off the top of my head, think of any specific behaviour that can't be linked back to the memory mechanism other than reproduction and caring for offspring, and the "simplest solution" model seems to fit the picture decently for the most part. Or perhaps there is some form of communication that takes place in animals that we are simply not aware of whereby they are taught certain behavior.

For some I would say too many,
for most I would say not enough.

I used to have a few. I gave one away, a couple are at my parent's house. I still have the one I made.

You didn't say that you taught them not to be sheep. Conformity has a variety of definitions in our day and age, and almost everyone I meet is guilty of it in one form or another. Pull for the Saints and the Tigers. Watching TV. Brushing your teeth.

I'm sorry that I misinterpreted your response. I find that a lot of people claiming to be non-conformists are the people that pull the most for this invisible set of rules that people actually should conform to. Like the pothead that insists that there is nothing wrong with weed and even though it is illegal, everyone should do it anyway. Or the millions of people that try to force their will about drinking and driving onto others while at a bar. It's amazing to see how many people mock me when I say "I've reached my limit, I'm driving tonight" at any bar, or the people who frown upon the fact that I don't have a television.

I conform to the legal code whenever I can and to the best of my ability to keep myself out of trouble and hopefully make life a little easier to bear. I conform to a code of ethics and honor that nearly nobody I know cares to acknowledge. And I am usually seen as the "boring" or "stupid" person for doing so, and endure endless hassle from a lot of people because of it. Especially girls that I try to date that want to "live for the moment" or "have fun." And by that they mean that they simply make up the rules as they go along and blame everyone else for the trouble that they bring upon themselves.

By all means it is good in my humble opinion to teach your kids to think on their own. Good for you. Like I said just misinterpreted what you said.

And so the pendulum keeps swinging. So they are not to conform to your wishes either?