Liberal vs Conservative

Liberal - Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Conservative - Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

You have 3 addition obvious groups:
Further Left - Radical Liberals, which include socialists, communists, anarchists. They might be 10-15% of the country.

Further Right - Radical Conservatives, which include, tea party nuts and randists

The Middle - Centrists 

If you split the groups into 5 equal parts of 20% each, you will always get 60% in the middle, center-left, center and center-right. Whoever wins The Middle will pretty much always win the general election. They have the numbers. Even in primaries, the candidate which is closer to the center tends to win. (look at gore, kerry, mccain and romney, all of them were centrists to some degree or another compared to their competition. 

A third party? LOL
The far right would be too small, the far left would be too small, and these are the people who WANT a 3rd party, which would really be a 3rd and 4th party.

The only 3rd party that could work at all would be a centrist party (which is what the democrats have become - clinton and obama are both centrists or even slightly right of center.)

A centrist party could be from 40-60% of the voters, with 20 to 30% being on each side.

The centrist party would almost always win.

IF the GOP splits in two parts, they will always lose to the democrats. If the DEMS split, they will always lose to the GOP. Therefore, neither party will every split.

It would be interesting if center-right members left to become centrist-independents and caucused with the democrats. Shifting the majority further toward the center to center-left. The likelihood of the reverse happening is lower, that shift has already happened over the last 50 years with conservative dems switching to the GOP.

writing to a friend, while listening to sad music and talking about the dark times

"There can be no light without the dark. Songs like this help make the light so much brighter. Compare where you are today with those dark days. The pictures of Aria's shiny little face are reflecting your glow."

Leslie Sharp and Andrew Lincoln

Look, you never listen, you never watch the movies or shows that I go on and on about.
But once in a blue moon, ONE of you trusts me a tiny bit, Keith just started Chuck, he got to episode 10 without even trying, Denise watched Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica and was amazed.

So I am rewatching an episode of Dr Who, dont worry, you would hate it, but it guest stars Leslie Sharp and she is AMAZING. So the first time that I was watching this one episode, as always happens when I am watching and entertaining myself, I google the show and look at what else actors have done.

Well, Leslie Sharp was in a short series with Andrew Lincoln.

WAIT WHAT? Andrew Lincoln? The same guy from The Walking Dead?
Well I love that series, so of course I would be interested in something that both of them were in, right?
RIGHT??

Afterlife
University lecturer Robert Bridge (Andrew Lincoln) becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy (Lesley Sharp) in this chilling TV series.

Look, I am not sure how I would explain this to convince you to watch it.
Haunting
Compelling
Amazing
One of my all time favorites.

Like all supernatural stories, they ask you to suspend disbelief. And if they ask too much, you can not enjoy the show. This one ask for the tiniest bit. One that a lot of people already believe, which makes the transition so easy. She can see ghosts.

That's it. She can see ghosts.

The consequences though are what make the stories amazing.
Some of them wont leave her alone. Some living want to contact the dead. Some are restless spirits, trying to be released.

Andrew Lincoln plays a psychologist who interviews her. Of course, he has a few ghosts of his own. Which will break your heart.

In the end, this is just some amazing writing and acting and directing from the BBC.

Enjoy

PS
If anyone ever watches this, let me know, I really want to know what you thought!

SHIT PISS FUCK CUNT - swearing in the future

The article was pretty worthless without discussing what would be the NEW profanity topics. Science Fiction has led the way in a bunch of different stories and we can go from there.

If and when the vegans get there way and become the majority, there will be many swear words for the meat eaters.
Carnivorewould become an insult.

Recycling and waste. Look at how people already look at you funny if you toss a can or bottle in the trash. There is clearly something wrong with you. Waster! Dont get me started about wasting water or electricity, you  nasty clean freak.

If homo-sex became more common than hetero-sex, people would be ripping on straights and breeders.

FFS look at how the Luddites have turned education into an insult already. Elite has become an insult!!

At some point if the atheists ever become the majority, believers would be the new group to hate on.

1% percenters havent quite turned into a hated group. But if the economy died, they certainly would join the ranks of the insulted.

Private vs public transportation.
Private homes vs Renters
Full time vs part time
Healthy vs sick
Fat vs trim
Tall vs short

strange, the article didnt mention any of these as what the future would hold for swear words.

Conservatives, liberals, bigots.
When does moderate become an insult?

Prude will come back in fashion to insult the people who are still insulted by shiat piss fark.

Facebook Changed the World

So
The world has CHANGED.

We have NEW THINGS.
I have people who are FB friends.
More than strangers, less than close friends (in the normal definition).
I have friend who I have met through games (wow in my case).
More than strangers, less than traditional close friends.

Does having not met some of these people in real life make them less than friends?
Well that is the NEW PART. The world has changed. Some I have met, some I will meet, some I never will. But some have become very close in strange, wonderful ways.


There is Patricio. A modern day Renaissance man. Just amazing stories and times. (and a trip to mexico will solve the never having met in RL)
There is Mélanie with one of the most amazing kids.

But the list goes on and on.
The people who are friend of a friend. Who we touch so briefly. So lightly.
Pictures of happenings. Moments shared.
Are they less meaning full because we have never met in RL?
Really?

To dismiss them out of hand, well, it feels like such an insult to me. And more so, to them.


Then there are the people, friends that were long, long gone, that I have reconnected with. I had dinner and saw a talk with a long lost friend from college, it was amazing. Like we hadnt stopped. Except for all the new stuff. Good and Bad.


Make what you will out of it.
But Facebook has changed the world.
Like all new things, there has been great good from it.
And great evil.


But dont you dare dismiss it. Because that is so simplistic.

And insulting.
To me.

Bigots

I was insanely lucky. My parents were not bigots. An aunt who is chinese and one of my dad's best friends was black. We lived next door to mexicans.

And then I went to school. All the kids in grade school were bigots and hated that one PR kid. Who was my friend.

And then I went to Catholic HS for 1 year. Which was filled with bigots and unending fights.

AND THEN I GOT INSANELY LUCKY!
I was forced to go to the this TERRIBLE inner city school. I was going to be in the minority?!! 10-20% white. tops.

THANK GOD
My three years at Whitney Young were a god send.
Surround by fellow student who were smarter than me. Period.
Few, if anyone cared what race someone was. (for the most part)

Oh look, my class secretary sleeps with the president!!!!
Yah ....
Being blind to racism meant that I was able to not THINK that way. Sure, I had to learn about injustice and bias and racism. But I am pretty sure that bigots never learn about it, they just CAUSE it.

Of all the things that I value which I got from my parents, being blind to race is the one which I will value until the day I die.

Single Drive DATA Recovery for Dummies - Buffalo Linkstation Pro

(This process is explicitly for a Buffalo, but will work for any single drive external storage device.)
(If your drive has 2-4 drives in a raid configuration, well, that answer is MUCH harder, email me and I could write up what you "need", but it is so much harder and annoying.)

1) remove the drive from the case
(if you cant do this, are afraid, dont own a screw driver, are worried that you will break it, well, you need to pay someone to do it for you)

2) external cable - buy one of these - they are dirt cheap and you will use them over and over
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UO6C5S

3) plug your drive in (cables are pretty fraking trivial)

4) download
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ - just read the drive
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery/ - read and recover files
http://www.diskinternals.com/ntfs-recovery/
http://www.diskinternals.com/partition-recovery/

most/a lot of the external NAS devices use linux,
5) try the linux version first,
6) if that doesnt work try the ntfs version
7) if that doesnt work try partition recovery, but now things are getting ugly

If you need help using this software, read what they have on their website.