"Bush bails out Porno."
"Troubled Asse(t)s relief Program"

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Im sorry I couldn't help myself.

So the porn companies had over inflated assets as well?

 Allright. Thanks nyguy,Winterclaw  and FrankT for the info and opinnions.

 Oh Okay. Thanks Holler and hborre. I have Kielo and she is very lovely, but I never had the chance to buy Alice. Bad timing I guess.

Quote - They seem to drag that out and put it on sale every so often that I dont know why they dont just leave it available. It was out for christmas I think , or maybe new years :(

Thanks. Well atleast I know now that I wasn't seeing things. (I had drank a few glasses of wine on Christmas). Does anyone know if Alice will be available again? And if you do have Alice 3.0 what do you think of the product? 

Quote - > Quote - JOELGLAINE you do know that Social Security is supposed to pay for your lawyer and not you, right?

I know that.  Unfortunately, that IS part of the problem!  THAT is the reason why Social Security turns down almost 99,62% of all first-time applicants. On appeal, you turned down 86.72% on second  application/1st appeal, UNLESS you have a lawyer! Then the appeal passes at 80%+ (no exact numbers available on that statistic).  It leads to wide-spread graft, corruption and abuses in the whole network.

The payment comes from the payback to first appeal.  My lawyer's pay-off is $6000 from the bulk settlement of back-dated SSI payments with-held in the system.  A LOT of that $6000 goes to kick-backs and bribes to the "right people" to get me onto the system, I'm sure.  No acceptance, they get no money!

I've talked to over one hundred and twelve people about it, and they all agree about the above details. The figures I got from the Bureau of Statistics.

This whole ball of crap makes me sick as an American.  Geez!  It sounds like Russia or Iraq, not America.  I used to be naive, not any longer, dammit.:cursing:

It'll be Saturday before I can respond. The libraries are all closed New Years and Fridays,

Jesus Christ! 

...They just gave 700 billion to incompetent bankers and to wallstreet, while regular people are hurting like this. (EU gave 2.3 trillion euros to greedy bankers). My God! This is insane!  It seems like the whole western world has got it's priorities all messed up. If Joel needs to hire  a lawyer just to get some help, well then the system is truly fucked.  This is not democracy, this is fascism!  And I thought the EU was as bad as it could get....We need to wake up.

Quote - Perhaps a millenium shark, everything from those small home aquerium sharks through to a Megladon?
I'm sure people would buy it.

There is an aquerium shark? Now I am facing a serious moral dilemma: To aquire an aqueriem shark and to cage a creature that I find fascinating for my own pleasure, or to buy a cat that I can  possible even interact with. The Doctor Evil in Me likes the idea of having the Great White in my swimming pool. That oughtta energize the party. "Don't swim in the pool. Shark may bite!"  "Swim at your own risk." and then the traditional friday "Shark swimmingpool party". I would call the shark "Herbert" or "Nancy" to ease the tensions. "Herbert may bite but he means well". 

"You have a Ferrari? Big deal. Check out the huge whiteshark in my swimmingpool."

Anyway what you suggested is actually a pretty good idea. The basic shape of the shark is pretty similliar to all sub-species (with the exception of Hammerhead and the Whaleshark). Daz has mil dogs and cats so why not mil-shark! :D

Odd thing that they still haven't made the Great White. Perhaps it is allready in the making.  

Yup. That's just the thing, it looks very good but not great. That's the thing that has kept me from actually buying it. Vicky4 looks very lovely and realistic, so I am hoping to see the same quality for animal models  as well. Digital I is incredibly talented and makes the finest shark models in the poserdom that  look like actual sharks (judging from the promos and how those sharks are posed. Very natural.), but I'm still looking for the great white itself. It's bizarre that the "king of sharks"  is still missing. The Great One itself is missing!  I have a few freebies that look kinda nice but not realistic. Hopefully Digital I will make a Great White Model for Poser and DazStudio. But in the mean time I am still looking. 

"Shark Attack" over at daz. Yes I know and I will most likely purchase this item (it looks like a very high quality  product indeed)  for myself as an xmas gift, but what I am really looking for is the Great White Shark itself.

My initial reaction: "M4 looks like a whimp. " But I'm sure after month or 2  I might think differently.

The so-called European "Rescue" plan makes me sick to the stomach. Media sure loves it though. Let's see: The Banks took huge risks, gambled with money, lost money and acted irresponsibly. So what do we do? Give them more money! In what kind of bizarro world do we live in? Even Homer Simpson could come up with a better plan. Even after 20 beers and lobotomy Mr Simpson would be smart enough not do what the Europe is doing.  I wouldn't give a pickpocket more money just because he no longer even wants to make the effort of stealing it. "I can't be arsed to trick you anymore, so just gimme your money anyway." Ok. You got it buddy. This is the great European rescue plan!?! The usually Un united European leaders stand united when they "have to" give more money to the gamblers.  Brilliant. I'm beginning to think we deserve another great depression. Stupidity should be punished.

What's really odd that we can't hire enough doctors or nurses but for some reason there's this magic money we can give to the banks.

*I suppose it depends on how you define left and right. Many Democrats "endorsed" unregulated capitalism essentially because those who bucked the trend were being voted out of office, i.e., they moved to the right, but to say the left endorsed it is just silly.

My remark was spawned out of frustration mainly.  The social democratic party in my country tends to say one thing and then do another . My casual observation of Americas democratic party left me with the same conclusion. Perhaps I was being hasty. I am the first person to admit that my observations of Americas political parties and customs are superficial at best.  But I dare say  that America lacks a proper leftist party. Or alternatives to 2 party politics.  That's how it seems to an outsider anyway.  Then again there is very good chance that I am 100% wrong. I usually am.

*The nobel peaceprice was given to the former finnish president: Martti Ahtisaari. He proved in many cases that talking is the solution to peace, in Northern Ireland, Namibië, Kosovo and many other conflicts.

*As a Finn, I'm really happy about Martti Ahtisaari's win. He is an inspirational figure and I think we all here in Finland respect and admire him very much indeed. We are very gratefull for his efforts in making the world a more peacefull place. 

I'm going to agree with JOELGLAINE. It's not a conspiracy but an ideology that caused this mess. Unregulated capitalism is an ideology that both the so called left and the right have embraced unconditionally. I read an article recently that blamed the Clinton administration for this mess and then I read an article that blamed the republican party and Bush. Both of these articles made a lot of sense to me. But I think the whole western world embraced this ideology blindly (save maybe for France). It's an ideology that says that unregulated capitalism will somehow, magically make everything OK. A system based on  Greed will somehow benefit everyone? In my country we have a  plethora of political parties and they All tried to sell us this insanity.  Some of them still believe in it. It's insane.  The political discource is the same everywhere in the western worlds. That's my impression. Hopefully once the dust settles in America, the rest of the world will think hard about what to do next. Maybe it's time not to follow a suicidal idelogy to the bitter end.