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two of your links are broken.

most likely because he will never take 2000+ shots in a season. I'm not a fan of either one but in iversons first year with the 76ers they went 22-66, at least the hornets went 38-44 pauls first year. Edit: Chris Paul was the rookie of the year in 2005.

actually the only things iverson had better stats on his rookie year over pauls was 3P%, off rebs, and points. Paul outperformed iverson in: FG%, FT%, def rebs, total rebs, steals, and !@#$%^&*ists. So looking at things statistically Paul had an overall better rookie year than iverson did. Edit: Iverson also took 835 more shots than Paul did his rookie year. Iverson has always been a gunner.

I've got $20 on remorse Yep I'm in still grad school up there part time. Let's just say he wasn't the brightest bulb in the box...lol I only go part time because I work for the company thats taking over keyspan down there.

I was never worried about people coming in and shooting up my highschool. I lived in a bad neighborhood and if someone tried to shoot up the school, they wouldn't have made it out of the foyer, and it wouldn't have been an officer shooting them.

Aw young love. young being the key word. And on a separate note I went to college with melo, man did he ever get special treatment lol

I give vista under a year before the major bugs are worked out. The beta version of ME was good just not the public version lol

Have you checked what ports they've blocked?

this is nothing worse than when XP came out. Just the same bugs microsoft has with every operating system when it comes out.

Vista 1280 0-5 2 GB AMD

it will and in the meanwhile you can deploy an external cooling system. aka take the case off and put a fan on it lol

What's wrong with talking about attractions sexual fetishes? We all have fetishes.

You realize that hentai means pervert as used concerning a person, otherwise it means perverted. It is in a classification all of its own Not saying that you, attraction, can't get off to it, I just don't see the point of it. Watching a bunch of cartoon/anime characters being drawn to have sex just doesn't do it for me. Edited for: , attraction,

I just don't see how cartoons can get you excited.

I would beg to differ, I would assume it is an isp problem, or if he is connecting from a university a firewall issue. If it were a zone issue it would be more than just Sever not being able to connect.

I don't think they were quite talking about marching band.

I would never vote the for only viable female nominee at present. I would rather see obama as the democratic candidate over clinton.

Case in point: If you don't want to spank your children don't, but don't tell me I can't spank mine if they act up.

See I've experienced a different story on that. When I was in elementary school we had a program called "gifted", then they called it something else more pc. What they would do would 1-2 times a week for a half day or a day they would pile the kids chosen for this program on a bus and I forget where they would go, but they would bring them into an environment designed for smart children to help them excel. Great program, this way the people who are not as smart, or don't pick up things as fast don't feel ashamed to ask questions. They cut the program because they decided it would be better to have a new little league field, which was un needed, instead of having this program. We used to play the "24 game", it's a math game based on adding, subtracting, multiplying and or dividing the 4 single digit numbers on each card to get them to make 24. There used to be a city wide tournament. They stopped that because if kids didn't win they would feel bad. The problem is that you have the bright children, who show up each day and want to learn. They do their homework, they study, they want to succeed. Then in the same class you have children who need to work harder to understand the material, need to do more studying, and these are the kids who don't do their homework, don't show up for class, don't study and generally don't care about their grades. My brother is an elementary teacher and he says the biggest problem with students is that they don't care. They'll have smart kids, but they just don't do their work and just don't care to. So from a political level what are you supposed to do as a city, as a school, as a teacher? Are you supposed to take away programs, as was done in my elementary school, for kids who excel because it makes those kids who have to work harder feel bad? Are we supposed to try to cater school, which is what is starting to happen, towards the kids who don't try and don't care? Now not only are the kids who didn't try before not trying, but now the kids that worked very hard get nothing out of working very hard, so they stop trying as hard. A friend of my fiance's parents is a teacher in florida. No matter how bad the kids do, they can't even fail them. Every student must be allowed into the next grade no matter what their grades were. What kind of bull !@#$%^&* is that? How is that going to help anyone? There is a whole list of things terribly wrong with our education system. And I know there are some teachers who just don't care, but I'm yet to personally meet a teacher where if you come to them for help, that they won't give it to you. But if the students don't care about their education the teacher will start not to care about your education, and will focus on the students who do care. It can be done, out of our top 10 in my graduating class, only 3 of us were "caucasion" the rest of our top 10 was either a minority or an immigrant. And coming from a poor school I got accepted to princeton, but went to Syracuse University on a free ride, we had students at Cornell, Princeton, Duke, MIT and the like, not just in our top 10, but some even in our top 25. A lot of schools add weight to AP classes, not my school. If you took basic algebra that counted just as much towards your GPA as AP Calculus. Everyone in our 25 were AP students. None of us came from wealthy families, none of us had an advantage over our classmates, but we wanted to learn, wanted to do better, and we did. If I have an intolerance for the lower class, it is because after spending the first 18 years of my life with them I am quite frankly disgusted.

So we shouldn't reward the students for working hard? One of the biggest bull !@#$%^&* ideas my school ever had was taking away awards for science fair. They used to give out ribbons for first, second and third. Then they decided that it might hurt the kids feelings who didn't win so they cut out all academic compe!@#$%^&*ion. By doing that are you not only not helping the kids who don't care, you are hurting the kids who's only motivation might have been to prove that they are good for something. And I know where you're coming from about the school quality, but its a simple law of politics. If two schools need more money. One school has a dropout rate of 43%, the other 23%, politically and ideally the money will go better in the school with the lower dropout rate. Not saying this is how it always is, as every school and situation is unique. My question to you is when do we stop making excuses for these people and make them own up to what they've done with their own lives? We do we make people, men, women and children accountable for the actions they take, and the consequences that come from that? I personally hold every single person accountable for their actions. Anyone can sit back and blame everyone else for their troubles and the mistakes that they've made, it takes a real man or woman to account for their actions. I apply this to children as well because they are not held accountable nor do they take responsibility for their actions. The age of reasoning is 8. Beyond that you know what is right, what is wrong, what you should do, and that which you shouldn't. Peer pressure is just another excuse for the weak. Everything today is someone else's fault and I'm sick and tired of it.

Sever I call them minorities because Jesse Jackson and the NAACP spends every day proving to us that they are not just Americans, that they are the minority, African American. Which is bull!@#$%^&* because unless you are a dual citizen in Africa, you are just American. But as long as they keep fighting to prove that they are African Americans, when most of them have never even seen a picture of Africa, and they keep fighting as a minority, they will be called one. Also minority by definition: 1. the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole. 2. a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action. 3. a group differing, esp. in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population: legislation aimed at providing equal rights for minorities. 4. a member of such a group. 5. the state or period of being under the legal age of full responsibility. –adjective 6. of or pertaining to a minority. Being America is something like 82% caucasian yes they are a minority. And I don't give poor "African Americans" much credit because as I showed, in my previous post, "Latino Americans" should be poorer, but they are not. "Asian Americans" don't have any advantages over either and yet they have a lower poverty rate than even the "Caucasian Americans". Being poor is just another excuse. My family was under the poverty level for a while and never once did they rob, steal, or kill anyone. People blame it on poverty because the drug dealers and gang members are legally in poverty because they don't have to claim any of their revenue with Uncle Sam. A guy I grew up with now drives an escalade and still gets food stamps. Yeah poverty my !@#$%^&*. He makes more in 6 months than I make in a year.

Well my whole arguement is what more can we do? We can't give untrained people who didn't give a !@#$%^&* enough to even learn to balance their own checkbook, jobs that require large amounts of, if not knowledge, responsibility. In NY, Welfare is abused worse than it is in any other state. Most states have a 5 year limit, while in NY something like 48% of people who are on welfare right now have been on it for over 5 years, and it was somethink like 30% have been on it for over 10. I grew up in a !@#$%^&* neighborhood, and we had to get bag checked, wanded and go through metal detectors just to get into school every day. The problem is that the majority of the "poor" kids, even though a lot of them had more than I did, just didn't care. They'd skip class, deliberately not do their work, and expect that the teacher would just p!@#$%^&* them anyway. And we had 2 great vocational schools in the area, which some students took advantage of. For the students who were not so book smart, they could learn a trade, and these schools would help them get their certification so they can make a good living. Being a machanic, or electrician or carpenter is very good money. But obviously, at least in NY, giving them money doesn't help, because I don't care who you are, after 5-10 years, you could either part time take classes, which in NY if you're on welfare they will pay for community college, or small vocational programs, or you could find a stable job. But when you have untrained, uneducated people, by their own choice, who lack the motivation to do anything better, there isn't much else you can do. I mean growing up where I did I didn't see your "hidden curriculum", more so as kids who don't care, thus don't listen, thus don't learn don't do as well as those that do care and listen. I mean when you're in the 6th grade and have problems doing basic math, thats has nothing to do with the school.

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First of Astro, Texas is not a country. Second, if the crime rate is indeed increasing in europe due to tensions between immigrants and natives, what country is the immigrant center of the world? And what is your idea to cut the problem at the source? Give gang member and drug dealers more welfare? Give them jobs, that they won't care about, that we don't have to give? Poverty, especially in the United States is almost wholly dictated by the commitment and motivation of the person. There are also a lot of people who have made bad decisions or over extended and buried themselves in debt. But I don't buy for one instant that crap that poor people stay poor. I came from nothing and have a lot now. I spent more money on the engagement ring for my fiance than my parents spend in rent for an entire year. And if you try to give me the bull!@#$%^&* that its not their fault, and how are they supposed to climb out of poverty being they've been beaten down and have no support. Well if you're trying to tell me that because of how they grew up they are hopeless and can never come out of poverty, I say kill them all or deport them all to poorer countries. If they are not going to be "able" to pull themselves out of poverty on their own, then when they have kids their kids won't be "able" to pull themselves out of poverty, we should just end this vicious cycle now. Instead of spending billions of tax payer dollars a year financing a hopeless cause, we should stop the cause, or at the very least stop funding it. I mean that is simple politics.

I can keep going through the minorities until we are balanced with the UK. I'm not blaming a particular minority, but the fact is that out of the 298,444,658 million people we had in 2000, 38,499,361 were african americans. The statistic I used showed that if you were not black, you were under the "white" category, meaning that all other groups of people in america only total to 48% of the murders. Now we have 12,658 murders each year. 52% are committed by black americans, that it a statistic. So that means 6583 murders are committed by black americans each year. So out of the 38,499,361 of them, there are 6583 murders committed. Out of the 259,945,297 left, they all together only commit 6075 murders. Your capita(per 1000) would be Black Americans: .17098701 Rest of Americans: .02337030 As for black americans being the poorest, ironically they are poorer than latinos, when latinos have a higher high school drop out rate, much lower college graduation rate, the same yearly household income average, of course have a much lower hs graduation rate, and still manage to have a lower unemployment rate. Ironically Asian americans have the highest average household income. If the Latino and Asian americans can do it, sorry if I don't feel bad for the poor black americans. And to couple this guess which race is the race that recieves the most welfare? I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count. I'm not trying to sound racist, but the fact is that if 52% of murders are committed by a minority that accounts for 12.9% of our population, it is a direct result that our murder rate would be lower if that minority population was lower.