Please... can we cut out the political discussions????  The presidential elections aren't held until November... this is only February.... do we really need 9 more months of this??

I can't believe how much bandwidth is being wasted on a mute issue.

If someone ELSE feels the need to post their views, I will respond.

Get past thinking that the person who has the last word wins the argument.  It usually doesn't go that way.

You'll make the rest of us a lot happier.

Just don't read it. There's always the same amount of bandwidth. You might like like how its utilized. 75%  political discussions 25% sex.

You'll never hear"hey where's all the bandwidth we bought a 10Mbit ethernet" reply "Its gone, Hip wasted all of it  on sex newsgroups"

Reoes SO! [eom]

that's "moot" not "mute"

...when one player takes a shot at his opponent out of view of the officials and then the other player responds(with justification in his own mind) only to be caught in the act and draw the penalty.

Not really sure of the relevance of that statement to the subject at hand. Just looking for a little comic relief given some of the highly polarizing political exchanges that have taken place on this board recently. Yes I've engaged in some of those exchanges myself but I have tried to temper my remarks, perhaps not tempered enough in the view of those who take a differing viewpoint.

It's kind of funny- alot of people (few here) might say our usual topics are pathetic and the political stuff is an upgrade!

But I agree- can we get back to RCG, bbbbbjtcim, and all those other fabulous topics that get a more carnal rise out of us ALL.

Except of course when I want to rant...

Hey You, there is a GLUT of BANDWIDTH ... This is why Telecom world has been turned upside down.   Have you heard of Fiber Optics?  Cienna?  The combination has made the bandwidth cost minimal!

What better use of bandwidth than these free exchanges of ideas. Nobody puts a sword to your neck forcing you to read stuff.

Learn to filter.  When a provider says something intelligent or sensitive, that makes me want to see her, sex is not all about intercourse!

to have sex with you or the other guys.

and on the kitchen counter and bent over his desk and in the car and in his wife's bed and wherever else he desires. He's hot!

Now is that discrimination or my prerogative as a provider?

hmmm ..

Doesn't that leave you with just poor clients and Hollywood people?

I guess wimmen like the slick ones

And I spend between $25-35K a year on escorts.  That's less than 10% of my income, BTW.  There is no question that I personally am a beneficiary of Bush's tax cuts.  But I would gladly sacrifice the few grand a year in ill-gotten gains that his tax policy puts in my pocket to improve the country by getting him out of office.

Your assumptions are not valid.