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Sounds like your wife works for an insurance company. Often they have "packages" that work together with other software to verify you are secure, not only via encryption, but secure from viruses, malware, etc. The process is probably something simple which verifies certain services are running on your PC upon connection and if they aren't, it terminates the VPN session. With VPN packages like this (proprietary) there may not be much you can do.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 10:24 AM) Ah yes, I'm so looking forward to this weekend! 69 is the high today, 76 the high tomorrow, and 74 on Sunday here in Knoxville. 0-10% chance of rain too. Sounds just about perfect. Die. In. A. Fire. Of course, I say that with much love, since this thread is all about the love!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 10:05 AM) Good to hear, thanks for the advice. I have flown enough 8-9 hour flights to Europe, but 13 hrs is gonna be something else. We are flying Qantas, but they dont let you pick seats until you check-in, but I'll keep that in mind. All this funny money talk reminded of the Simpsons episode where they get kidnapped in Brazil, when the kidnappers get their ransom money. "Look at all that pink & purple!!" "Wow, our money sure is gay." Yea, that's how it was for us -- the last like 4 rows on one side of the plane has only 2 seats, if you tell them you are on your honeymoon and you'd prefer those, they'll probably give them to you, that's how we got them on both flights! It's far better than sitting next to strangers on flights. And it's not just the one 13 hour flight, you will have plenty of movies/music to listen too -- it's built into the headrest, and the plane is big so it's quite easy to sleep on it, just take a Tylonol PM (or 2) and you'll be out for 1/2 the flight, easy. It's the fact you have to fly to LAX (5 hours), Australia (13+ hours), then to your destination after you get to Australia (usually 2 more hours.) It's well worth it, though! And try eating some Kangaroo out there, almost ever good restaurant will have it...it's like their version of Deer. I discovered that Aussies are basically the exact same people as Americans (and I don't say that for any other county). They won't really know much about baseball, so just say you're from Chicago -- and mention Michael Jordan, they all know who he is. Oh, and keep in mind they walk like they drive (on the wrong side of the sidewalk/road), I bumped into a ton of people, I couldn't get used to walking on the opposite side of the sidewalk, nor cross the street without running through traffic.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) Its the 15 minutes between when the leaves fall, and we get the big snow storm. You are all murdering the loving tone of this entire thread. THIS THREAD WAS FOR f***ING LOVING EACH OTHER NOT FOR HATING ON CHICAGO'S WEATHER, NOW DAMNIT SON OF A MOTHERf***ER START LOVING EACH OTHER BEFORE I START KICKING ASS#$@!!#@$

QUOTE (DBAHO @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 09:13 AM) Hey at least we have different colours, and it can't get all wrinkled up like your paper equivalent. To be sure, our money isn't made out of paper -- it's 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. Most people simply don't know that.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 08:45 AM) So it's 830. In the Morning. And I'm drunk. Started drinking at 6. Should make for a fun day. I have a rule, no drinking until after 11am central time (which I try to abide by, unless I'm on vacation...than all is fair.)

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 08:39 AM) fixed I love that kyyle23 fixed your grammatical error.

QUOTE (shipps @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 08:38 AM) And I love that I dont even see it. "Too" not "To"

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 07:34 AM) Which I don't have a problem with. But I'd hate to see us go wasting money and effort on some stupid move like this, when that money could go towards... you know... actually helping the environment? Don't be silly. We don't actually do anything to help the environment, we just talk about or study about helping the environment -- and that costs a LOT of money! I still find it funny that until Gore was ousted by the media for using 20X more energy to power his Tenn mansion than the rest of the ENTIRE STATE he didn't bother installing solar to assist powering his glorious estate. He's a con artist, and the worst kind IMO, he masquerades as a person who cares. Although old, it's still important to not forget the kind of people these politicians are -- "The former vice president's mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, says the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service." Enough said. Gore can kiss my nature loving ass.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 08:28 AM) Chicago doesn't have spring. Don't assassinate my loving thread!#$@! This is supposed to be a lovefest!

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 11:32 AM) I'm actually headed to Australia/New Zealand for my honeymoon next month, pretty pumped about that, although I have to miss the first 2-3 weeks of baseball season... I went to Australia for 2 weeks in October 2008 for my honeymoon, you're going to love it...and the favorable exchange rate you'll get -- its like 1$ American to 1.55AUS. Their plastic toylike money makes me laugh. The only thing you may not love is the flight, but it's not as bad as they say. If I could recommend anything to you, if you're flying Quantas, when you are getting your seats (if you aren't first class anyway), request the seats in the far back of the plane, as they are only in 2's rather than 3's/4's like the rest of the plane, that way you get to sit alone with your girl...otherwise you'll end up squished between wacky Aussies. As for the question asked in this thread -- go to Hawaii, stay FAR away from Mexico right now. Besides, Mexico is for spring breaker children who think they know how to party -- Hawaii is for Honeymoons.

I just thought I'd say on this beautiful springlike morning that I love you all, even if I don't know you, and even if you're a guy -- but just not in that way. Go Sox in 2009! Go spring in 2009 -- kick winters ass already, please! And that is all.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 02:30 PM) You completely missed the point. Oh, but on the contrary, I understood you just fine. It's you that missed the point.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 02:03 PM) Well no s*** America is a better place to live than North Korea, only a few people in NK would disagree with you there. But compare another industrialized country like Sweden with the US and how can you really say one is better than the other? The whole point of having ~200 countries is so each one can be different and fit the needs of it's people. If everyone just wanted to be exactly like the United States then you'd see a reflection of that in the policies of other industrialized countries. Of course that isn't the case. America > Sweden. Yea, I said it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 02:00 PM) But how do you do that with record numbers of people using public lands? Do you limit access to national and state parks somehow? (this is a "tragedy of the commons" argument) They do this in the Boundary Waters, I visited there for an extended trip two years ago, wonderful...peaceful, not a lot of people. The answer is more limited access and MORE places, the fact is they're selling these places off and there are less and less of them. As for starved rock -- meh -- tourist attraction, nothing more. They need to keep these places on the wild side and not so overbuilt with pop-machines and easy services...it attracts the wrong people. :/

I'm pretty sure Al Queda is in the desert of Tanaris in the World of Warcraft. Nay, I'm positive that's where they are.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 01:35 PM) I don't overlook our flaws. I think our entire political system is a mess, find our justice system to be a bit of a joke, and am 50/50 on if we'll ever recover from the current economic mess we're suffering. That doesn't mean we should just back off and listen to/do whatever the rest of the world wants us to.

It's pretty simple. America is #1 because I'm here. Because you are here. Because we are here. Good enough? :usa :usa :usa

+1 Sox fans.

What's with all the wierdo names for kids these days? Brooklyn Jayden? That sounds like a pr0n stage name.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 01:11 PM) My favorite trader saying of all time... "Those who pick bottoms, get s*** on their fingers". I learned that from a guy who traded in my crowd in AOL at the CBOE, who now happens to be on one of the CBNC after hours shows. That's a good one.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 12:01 PM) That is good to hear. I was just discussing with someone the other day, the subtle but important differences between being a good conservationist, and a good environmentalist. They are related but not always the same. But a lot of people talk about it, or expect the government to "green" everything for them, yet do nothing to reduce their own impact. Yea, it's pretty commonplace for people to talk about how into the "green movement" they are, but they waste more energy than anyone around them. Things like leaving the heat on when you aren't home, or leaving lights on...I see it all the time. It's like they think they're into this movement because they bought a more gas efficient car, but they do nothing else in their lives to respect the environment, including simple things like not littering. Also, just using public services like a picnic or campground brings money to those causes/places. For example, buying a fishing license actually funds water conservation and whatnot for future generations.

And for the record, I think there is something to personal accountability and we should all respect nature more. I'm an avid outdoors man, I go camping, fishing, hiking, etc...as a matter of fact, it's what I love more than anything else in this life. I do respect the environment, I don't just talk about respecting it. That said, I do what I can, but I also don't believe we're as much of an impact as we'd like to think.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:38 AM) There really isn't anything in the vicinity of "as much science debunking it as there is supporting it". Just a few months ago, someone in this very forum posted a super-study looking at peer reviewed scientific pieces. And there were thousands that supported not only the existence of global warming, but specifically at least some degree of human effect on it. The number of those articles saying there was none was some very tiny number, or zero. There is no split of the scientific community on this - it is a unison chorus with one or two hacks interrupting from the gallery. And by the way, you were the one that brought up the hysterical example to begin with. Finally, how is it that you think overpopulation is having a negative effect, but somehow it isn't effecting the atmosphere? I don't think it has no effect on our atmosphere, I'm simply stating that not all science agrees. Science has been pretty clear that the Earth heats and cools with or without us here -- core samples have shown the Earths temp was higher and lower at points in the past, with or without industry, and it will be again. I'm not claiming to know everything. But I do know that we've gone through warming periods and ice ages before we existed...and we will again, after our existence. I think humans love to think they have a bigger effect than they actually have...bottom line is, the Earth will be here long after us...and as a race, we don't like that idea.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:35 AM) Frankly, the divide in the Scientific community at this point is whether the total accumulated warming will be 3-5 degrees C (like the IPCC reports predicted, they tended to take the most conservative approach possible since they were in no small part politically driven) or something significantly sharper than that. The reality is...at virtually every point, the actual effects on the earth and the atmosphere have been beyond the worst case scenario so far presented. The divide you talk about between people who buy in to human-caused climate change and people who don't just doesn't exist. It's only there in the media and in the few people who get directly funded to say that there is a debate. So, what is your suggestion for the overpopulation problem? Given the energy input from the sun, I contend that the Earth can handle a load of humanity actually greater than what the earth is currently holding. You claim it cannot. Is your solution famine/war to cut down on the population? My solution isn't a very popular one, and probably not the most humane...but yes, if people reproduce to the point they can't feed themselves, than maybe they were meant to die off. The strong survive. It's how it's always worked. I feel our constant meddling in this is making things worse and worse long term. I feel that the Earth will eventually take care of itself in this case...if it wants to get rid of some of us, it will...and it has plenty of time to do it in. In the mean time, we'll do everything to make sure it doesn't happen -- as our human egos cannot accept the fact that the Earth doesn't need us, nor would it miss us when we're gone -- but we need it, and although I can't speak for everyone, I'm sure as hell going to miss it when my times up.