All categories - 23 July 2007

I want to just unplug the thing, but I have no idea what that would do. You see, I'm trying to connect using a Wi-Fi USB connector for my DS, but the router is interfering. I was looking for a way to turn it off for a bit, so I can go on wifi, but I don't want to change the settings, or reset it by accident.

2007-07-23 09:59:39 · 5 answers · asked by Flexa W 1 in Computer Networking

2007-07-23 09:59:31 · 2 answers · asked by jobees 6 in Polls & Surveys

2007-07-23 09:59:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

did you see it ? it was only a few days before she died.bless her heart ,i was moved to tears she had such a spirit and was so accepting of what had happened,but she wanted to share with the world her faith in GOD and his forgiveness and love for us all.i am glad she is at rest now and no longer in pain and my thoughts are with her family at this time.

2007-07-23 09:59:07 · 9 answers · asked by dixie58 7 in Religion & Spirituality

my dog last night had thrown up some type of yellow liquid. and today just a few minutes ago he did it again. the same yellow liquid. the last time he did this he has a mild stomach infection so we took him to his vet and he god beeter wthin the week. but when that happend he threw up once and had darrhea. so maybe he ate somthing is stomach upset him? i dont know any ideas ould help alot thanks

2007-07-23 09:58:45 · 12 answers · asked by aollen 1 in Dogs

Someone is using my router and I cannot block it, I have changed my password and assigned a WEP key. no change. What can I do?

2007-07-23 09:58:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computer Networking

All of a sudden the WASP reporters have a hispanic speech defect.

2007-07-23 09:58:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I have found condoms in my husbands bag on two different occasions. Once when I was pregnant and he went away on a trip, he came back and I was putting his bag away and I found it in a small pocket inside. He said he honestly did not know where it came from and his bag had been sitting out at work alot. He is in the military and he does work with alot of very young jerks who are against marriage and such..so I believed it. I was pregnant during this time too so it was almost an obvious thing for me and I asked. The second time around I found a handful of them in his bag and I was also pregnant. He said since we were not having sex, he was using them to "pleasure himself" so there would be no mess?? I almost had to believe it because of the fact he was never gone..he was always with me (due to having sugery and being off work) except for when we were asleep and I knew he was on the computer...hence the times he was using the condoms....He didn't tell me cause I'd freak. Is this nieve?

2007-07-23 09:58:41 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

2007-07-23 09:58:38 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Like me on this computer now, writing this question which will probably never be answered.
And if so, will we ever intervene with ourselves?

2007-07-23 09:58:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Astronomy & Space

I am 24 weeks and 3 days pregnant and in the last 3 check ups they have found protein in my urine twice what does this mean?

2007-07-23 09:58:20 · 16 answers · asked by Sexymccay 2 in Pregnancy

Ok... I have an 05 Infinity G35 coupe... and it breaks down on me... i tow it to the dealer.. for them to tell me that its the Mass Air Flow Sensor... i purchased this car used... and to find out this is now the 3rd one that has been on this car... they are telling me its because the prior owner put a Fram air filter and not a dealer filter... now here is the question.... is that a true statement or is there somemore wrong with my car that needs to looked at.. my feeling is that there is something more going on here...

2007-07-23 09:58:19 · 8 answers · asked by happygolcky75 3 in Maintenance & Repairs

My parents have been dealing only weed (to my knowledge) from my house. I am 20 now, and have very little money since my parents have stolen the bulk of my money. Is there any way for me to get the police involved while protecting myself and being able to keep my home? I live in Ontario Canada. Any information or advice is very much appreciated. If there are any more questions, please refer back and I will add more details later.

Thank you VERY much

2007-07-23 09:58:10 · 10 answers · asked by mike m 1 in Family

I'd probably start an argument and make fun of Islam and just point him out that he is a tool/

2007-07-23 09:57:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

In comparison to the West, would you agree that Muslim societies have a more stronger family unit and love between relatives.



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2007-07-23 09:57:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What can't you stop yourself from being drawn towards?

2007-07-23 09:57:44 · 28 answers · asked by The Unknown Soldier 6 in Polls & Surveys

2007-07-23 09:57:40 · 23 answers · asked by Thomas Paine 5 in Religion & Spirituality

They can never take someone 1-on-1. They're always like, "Well shutup, you just wait till I get 20 a mah hoomiez and we gonna mess up!"

2007-07-23 09:57:40 · 15 answers · asked by Coolio 5 in Polls & Surveys

perspective "that" is a sign that I trust him. He said, if I'm giving him this he'll take it, but he also mentioned that this is my private space, am I sure? I replied "of course, It is not like u're going to come in and barge in all thetime. I trust you". We haven't talked for two days, although it is normal behavior. But I'm now in doubts whether I made the right move. I certainly don't want to freak him out, that's the least of my intention. I want nothing back in return. So, wondering on what your opinion is.
hopefully you guys can give me good insight.

2007-07-23 09:57:39 · 12 answers · asked by cnfused 2 in Other - Family & Relationships

I understand that, when the Queen or Prince Charles fancy gallivanting around the world, the British people foot the bill by way of the civil list.

But since the Queen is not just the Queen of England, Queen of Scots, etc, but also Queen of Canada, Queen of Australia and Queen of most other Commonwealth countries, should not they too share the cost?

Or do they in fact already chip in towards supporting this unlikely family?

2007-07-23 09:57:33 · 12 answers · asked by Raygun 2 in Royalty

2007-07-23 09:57:25 · 5 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Jewish Punk
Though few people would associate punk rock with Judaism, the punk movement was created by Jews from Brooklyn and Queens.
By Saul Austerlitz

Is punk Jewish? At first glance, what music could be less (stereotypically) Jewish? Punk rock, in its classic, Sex Pistols-and-Ramones form, was all about simplicity, rebelliousness, anti-intellectualism, and shock value. Its foremost practitioners kitted themselves out in matching swastikas or dressed like a white-ethnic biker gang straight out of "The Wild One," but it was essential to the project of punk that its musicians appear brutish, Neanderthal, evil--anything but bookish, or well-spoken, or worst of all, nice.

And yet, as Steven Lee Beeber documents in his book "The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's," New York punk was primarily a movement led by Jewish boys (and a few girls) from solidly middle-class families, born and raised in the outer boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn but drawn to Manhattan's club scene like a moth to a flame. The sons and daughters of shopowners and accountants rebelling against their parents' comfortable but too-confined existences--what could be more familiarly, soothingly American? But what is the significance of the Jewish angle, if there is one at all?

The facts undoubtedly bear out a significant over-representation of Jews in the first wave of New York punks. Lou Reed, Joey and Tommy Ramone, Suicide's Martin Rev and Alan Vega, Jonathan Richman, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, Richard Hell, Blondie's Chris Stein, CBGB's founder Hilly Kristal--the list of Jewish punk notables is lengthy, and impressive. According to Beeber, the common thread for many of these Jewish punks was a desire to overturn the stereotype of the feeble, brainy Jew, the yeshiva student or the bespectacled clerk, replacing him with a brawny Jew in closer touch with his inner beast, and intent on shocking society out of its narcotized comfort.

The new punk Jew was inspired in equal parts by the warriors of the Israel Defense Forces, the comic-book superheroes scripted by an earlier generation of Jewish artists, and an instinctive revulsion at the musical excesses of contemporaries. Stripping down to essences after the overblown pompousness of rock in the mid-1970's, punk cut away everything it saw as being unnecessary, including any prior identity. Punk was not merely a musical genre; it was a rebirth, with each newfound punk reborn in the movement, baptized in the flaming guitars and pogoing bass. How could punks be punks, and be Jewish too?

Beeber's book sees punk as a specifically Jewish outgrowth of post-Holocaust awareness--and shame. A new generation of Jewish boys sought to express their horror at the concentration camps by caustically embracing fascist aesthetics and an iconography of raw power. Rather than sink into what they saw as a mire of self-pity and narcissistic victimhood over six million dead, the Jewish punks preferred to rock out with swastikas, pose meaningfully with Nazi flags, and do their utmost to shock the living daylights out of their parents. Seeing the Holocaust as a moment of tragic weakness, the Jewish punks sought to never be weak again.

Or so Beeber says. The punk movement was never quite as uniform as Beeber has it, nor was its Jewish component as explicitly Jewish as he makes it out to be. Key figures like Tommy Ramone preferred to keep their Jewish identity in the shadows, preferring a white-ethnic, outer-boroughs style hilariously dubbed "Juido." Moreover, being an all-embracing, all-encompassing lifestyle more than a mere musical distinction, punk sought to displace Judaism, as it displaced any religious or cultural affiliation. Punk was a calling, a source of meaning, and a religion of its own. To point out that there were many Jewish punks is akin to pointing out that there were many Jewish Communists; while true, it ignores the fact of the newer identity essentially canceling out the older.

The punks kept faith with Judaism less in the ideas they espoused than in the position they took vis-à-vis mainstream society. Having far more in common with their immigrant parents and grandparents than they might have been comfortable, or familiar, with, the Jewish punks simultaneously sought to maintain their status as a people apart, divorced from mainstream culture, while desperately in search of the approval of that very same uncomprehending mass. What, after all, was the significance of the punks' embrace of Nazi culture and other similarly toxic aesthetic motifs, if not an angry response to the seeming inability of the bourgeoisie to grasp the nature of their revolution?

The Jewish punks, like their immigrant forebears, sought to fit in and stand out, to be celebrated and to be ignored. Like their predecessors, the punks also flocked to the dingy, crime-ridden, tenement-dotted city, only in far smaller numbers, and as a lifestyle choice, rather than because there was nowhere else to go. For the punks, the very nature of their beliefs made them a people apart, divorced from society at large, and yet, deep in the marrow of their bones was a clamorous urge to be celebrated, and to be accepted.

How apropos, then, that so many of the New York punks were also Jewish. Punk may not have been Jewish, but its push-and-pull dynamic regarding American culture at large might as well have been.

2007-07-23 09:57:06 · 7 answers · asked by C Deezy McCain 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I live in a quiet town, and this is the first time I've ever been the victim of road rage. I was followed by a drunk driver who'd been weaving all over the road and almost hit me in my lane as I was trying to get around him. He apparently decided it was my fault somehow that he almost hit me, so he followed me to a parking lot and proceeded to get abusive, but decided to leave when I suggested that we call the police. He roared off before I could get his license number, still yelling at me.

Now I'm sitting here shaking because I'm so angry and I don't know how to deal with these feelings. I don't even want to get back in my car again -- that's just how bad it is.

If you've been a victim of road rage, what did you do to cope with how you felt afterwards?

2007-07-23 09:57:01 · 7 answers · asked by Wolfeblayde 7 in Mental Health

I heard that somewhere a 12 or 13 year old girl got her legs chopped off while riding a free fall ride at an amuesment park somewhere. Does anyone have any info about this? Where, when and how?????

2007-07-23 09:56:59 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Amusement Parks

... stars can I get for this question?
(I've never had a bunch of stars on any of my questions... So, I'm curious to how many I can get!)

So, to make it interesting & "official"... what do you think of when you FIRST wake up? (Keep it clean & nice, please!) :o)

2007-07-23 09:56:47 · 34 answers · asked by Lady Harley99 4 in Polls & Surveys

besides Freedom.

2007-07-23 09:56:43 · 12 answers · asked by bearsfan96 1 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-07-23 09:56:40 · 9 answers · asked by redcar 1 in Fish

It is on a new Jeep commercial

2007-07-23 09:56:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Music

2007-07-23 09:56:33 · 17 answers · asked by Elijah W 1 in Celebrities