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Last login: 41 hours agoKarlwilbur: Karl is a 33 year old married guy from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.; Likes 2,269 pages, 710 videos, 12 photos • 129 fans • Received 16 reviews; Member since Feb 08, 2005

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http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/QUOMAG/M175~Good-Friends-Are-Like-S…: Apr 26, 7:23am 17 reviews
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First World War.com - Vintage Audio - Its a Long Way to Tipperary: Apr 12, 6:20pm 2 reviews military, songs, irish
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/itsalongwaytotipperary.htm; "It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go."

http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/sw_focus.jpg: Apr 11, 8:36am 32 reviews humor
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Odd Pics Blog & Blog Archive & man of the year: Apr 11, 6:19am 21 reviews humor
http://oddpicsblog.com/funny/man-of-the-year.html

Apr 3, 2:19pm: A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.

Enabling SILC support in Pidgin under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) | Ubuntu Magnet: Apr 3, 8:55am 1 review internet, chat, ubuntu, pidgin, silc
http://ubuntumagnet.com/2007/10/enabling-silc-support-pidgin-under-ubuntu-710...; Had a PITA trying to get SILC installed with Ubuntu Gutsy. This writeup saved my ass plenty of additional pain.

What Are You Thinking? | Other & Random | Funny Videos, Pictures and Jokes at Ji…: Mar 13, 5:43pm 1 review humor
http://www.jibjab.com/view/97559; What Are You Thinking?

Scientology should be met with tolerance - Entertainment News, Letters to the Ed…: Feb 15, 7:22pm 2 reviews religion, scientology
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980699.html?categoryid=1349&cs=1; "Scientology should be met with tolerance..."

Everybody loves Eric Raymond & GPL killed the MPAA star: Feb 13, 7:07am 1 review humor, open-source, mpaa
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/gpl-killed-the-mpaa-star; "Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled." - Jack Valenti, MPAA

"If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?" - Jack Valenti, MPAA

BBC NEWS | UK | Sharia law in UK is unavoidable: Feb 7, 5:49pm 11 reviews uk, culture, law, religion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/7232661.stm; I am kind of torn on this one. I can see accommodating other cultures into ones own society, however at the same time there is also the valid "if-you-are-going-to-live-in-my-country-then-you-will-have-to-obey-my-laws" point of view. Though there is no denying that for the Archbishop to make such a statement is quite something.

Bearing in mind that our own laws (here in the U.S.A. and in the U.K.) are based in the main on the values and mores of Christianity, I can see how there might be some friction with other religious and cultural values. But at what point does one start to lose their own culture? or start allowing their own culture to become some alteration of what one holds dear?

Now, if we were to look at eliminating laws; therein might be a solution. Place responsibility back into the hands of the individual. Make people think for themselves; stop Congress (or Parliament) from deciding what is in one's own best interests and how one should conduct oneself in one's own home. Providing people the freedom promised at this country's inception (alright, this maybe doesn't apply to the UK), narrowly and concisely defining the role of government, putting a stop to the attempted legislation of morals and common sense and reducing the pages of the law books to find a middle ground may be the way to go.

Hummm. I'm gonna chew on this for a bit.

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