Survey posted 2000-11-08 16:05 by Andy Selle.

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Please help me. I took home my friends 89 to put games on it. I put on street fighter 2. In the readme it says to download Archive Utility from the link that says it's my homepage above. I did it, then the calculator messed up. It crashed really bad. It won't let me do anything. It just shows a black bar at the top of the screen. If anyone has experienced this please e-mail me at :KJShumate@lycos.com

If that isn't an off-topic post, i don't know what is! :-)

Have you tried holding left, right, 2nd, and ON at the same time? If that doesn't work, take out the batteries and leave them out for a while. (including the backup lithium battery under the screw cover) That should clear the memory and make the calculator reset.

I tried to put it in a baord that is well read. I already took out the backup battery and all the other ones. It didn't work. I left them out for few hours too.

ouch. 1-800-ti-cares is the number.

I would rather have a man who pled guilty to DUI 6 years before I was born be president than a man who claimed on national TV "I took the initiative in creating the Internet".
Sorry, Al, but DARPA and MIT had rudimentary computer networks up and running while you were still in college.

Just for your information about Al Gore. He did give a large amount of money to the millitery to develop the internet. Al gore doesn't lie to say but he tend to stretch the truth. There is some truth behind what he is say but he wants to get the people excited and intressed in the subject.

even though i live in the US i think that communism is the best governmeny in theory but to bad it will never work so i will have to stay with the 2nd class democracy

I don't think communism even works in theory. It decreases people's incentives to work hard since they will get the same pay anyway. I'm closer to democracy, but perhaps a bit of socialism. I think that people should at least be able to get necessities easily, such as food and shelter and such. They should also have the potential for social mobility.

Uhhh... no im too young... but anyway This ihas nothing to do w/ the topic....
Would it be possible to make sopme device out of a floppy disk drive and plug it into ur calc and it woyuld automatically send alll files on the disk to the calc???? THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME
1!!! A PORTABLE GRAPHLINK !!!!! ! !!!! Cuz I have TONS of games 4 my calc and would like to be able to switch b/w games on my calc.... CAR OR PLANE TRIPS?!?!?!?!? Who else thinx this idea ROX?????

I would just like to state that the united States of America is a Republic. So I cannot possibly vote in a democracy.

Uh, in my Social Studies book, a Republic is defined as a form of Democracy where people elect their government.

Hmm, old Rome, up to 44 BC, was republic, but based on slavery, and only the reachest people elected consul.

Real democracy is in current world impossible. This means agreement of a whole people about all questions. It may be possible at viladge level. Old Athenes yearly organized council of all adult free men (so, no women, no slaves) with 8000 participants that voted about all important questions. With so big states as now, it is impossible.

But in future?

Karl Marx had ideas about communes, small teritorial organizations where state functions are given to free workers class. World without police, armies, money, with so evolved social relations that everyone liberately works that wants best possible(for example today works as woodcutter, tomorow as teacher), and takes just as he needs.

Many people even today have some prototype of such kind of life. Imagine for example GNU software written for good of humanity, or youth working actions. Or people who choose worse payed working place because they love this job, assuming that even this lower salary is enough for them.

It is interesting that even american visions of future are similar, although not red colored. Stateless world without money and so technologicaly evolved exists for example in "Star Trek TNG".

Same implications. Government for the people by the people. Exact definitions aren't entirely relevant. Some of our founding fathers were actually aristocrats and the U.S. has both aristocratic and socialist tendencies in addition to democratic but it has a balance and stays relatively responsible to the people generally (except for campaign finance stuff, but hopefully it will adjust and people will end it).

I mean come on, This is the man that traded sammy sosa to the cubs. Not the brightest move. What other mistakes will he make when he's in charge of this country.

Maybe if we get lucky he'll trade Hillary...

"It's obviously a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it" He has a point. The Imperial Federal Government spends money on some pretty ridiculous things. For example:

$1 million to study the mating habits of the Japanese Quail

Millions to run "peacekeeping" operations in places where nobody wants us--like Somalia.

Millions more in incompetence (see Janet Reno).

Billions towards education--when it has been proven that throwing money at a problem is never a lasting solution.

Millions in matching contributions to political parties.

In short, the IFG should not be spending nearly as much--just give it only the powers in the Constitution, and leave to the "people and the states" everything else.

Vote Libertarian!

And forgot to mention... the US is NOT a democracy! It is a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC!

"I'm sorry I ever invented the Electorial College."
-Al Gore 11/08/00

LOL - He was joking, I assume. That's one plus for him - he actually realizes what a liar he is and is able to joke about it!

heh he never really said it.. someone just made it up :) he is pretty weird though.....