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When we mark up the retail prices, it only circulates the money already in the economy. The products are usually sold to other Americans, not people in other countries. Money is still being lost from our own economy, and going to the economies of other countries. It would seem healthy if the amount of money going out equals the money coming in. However, the economy itself is losing more money than it is making.

I'm a crazy hermit who has never had a girlfriend. Can you please explain your post in words I can understand? Are you trying to say that your gf went to a party with two other people and got drunk, but didn't invite you? How does that affect your relationship? Maybe she just didn't think you would enjoy the party.

I was a Christian until I noticed obvious scientific errors in The Bible. Since the religion states that everything written in The Bible came directly from God through the Holy Spirit, and also that God knows everything, I realized the Biblical version of Christianity can't be true. I still attend church because they help poor people, and they also teach good moral issues. If there is a God, I believe he is hidden from us.

Actually, a teacher at my college was talking about this subject. He explained that a negative trade balance for goods was not harming the US before because it had a positive trade balance for services and technology. Recently, the US has had a negative trade balance for both goods and services. Therefore, the US is spending more money than it is making. In each second, the US is losing over $25,000 more than it is making. That's about $1.5 million every minute. Won't the money eventually be depleted?

I'm not an expert on the economy, but I've heard from many sources that the United States economy could be heading in the wrong direction. In the US, we import a much greater value of goods and services than we can export. The latest statistics from the US Census Bureau show that the US economy had a total international trade deficit of $68 billion in the month of July 2006, and that number is increasing each month. You can visit http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/ to see the value of goods that the United States is trading with each country. The US used to have profitable trade with other developed nations, such as the UK. However, now it seems that the US is losing money when trading with both developed and developing countries. Just a few years ago, it was not too harmful to have a trade deficit of goods in the United States. While they lost money in trading goods, the US profited from trading services and technology. For example, China manufactured goods such as clothing and toys, but they bought machines and computers from the United States or other developed nations. Now, that has started to change and China is starting to manufacture more advanced technology items. This is a major change that I have noticed myself. At the place I work at, they have a large variety of computers made by different companies. Most of the computers that are over three years old say "Made in USA". Most of the newer computers say "Made in China". Even most of the chips inside the computers are now manufactured in China. Recent statistics on several web sites prove the observations I have made. A major category of trade that was once profitable to the US is now a category where the US is losing money. At the moment, this international trade deficit appears to be helping US citizens. As more goods are manufactured in developing nations, the prices of products continue to decrease. However, the economy as a whole is constantly losing money at an increasing rate. If my calculations are correct, the US economy lost over $25,000 a second in the month of June 2006. I'm sure that number is even higher today. How long can the US continue to lose money before the economy begins to have problems? Already, high-paying technology jobs are being lost to outsourcing. Do you believe this could eventually cause the US economy to crash?

Oh, that does make sense. That's too bad, I could have a lot of fun if telekinesis was real...

The technique mentioned in the link sounds like a simple magic trick. It seems to be performed physically by the body, and not the mind. The instructions at http://www.crystalinks.com/psychokinesis.html say you should use your mind. It mentions using the "part of your consciousness that is above". I don't really believe that it is anything "above", but simply a part of your mind that is not used by instinct. It sounds like it is just something you need to learn to do. It sounds fairly simple by reading the instructions. Has anybody ever tried it before?

I'm suddenly interested in the idea of psychic powers. There are rumors of people who can control the minds of others, predict the future, and do many other things with their minds. However, the only form of this power that can be tested by everyone is telekinesis. You can visit http://www.crystalinks.com/psychokinesis.html to see some instructions about it. I don't have a jar and needle, so I haven't had a chance to perform the experiment yet. However, I am interested in developing this power, and then some. In fact, I have the desire for great psychic power. I want to know what others think about me. I want control of the world around me, and have some influence over the thoughts of others. For once, I want things in my life to start going my way. Does anyone have any scientific information about this power? What part of the brain allows it to happen? What type of foods can provide more energy for this power? What is the limit to the amount of power I can have? Could I potentially send heavy objects flying across the room if I focus and practice enough? I don't want to simply stop with being able to bend a spoon. I want to have great power!

Food is great. Whenever I'm stressed out, going out to a restaurant always makes me feel better. Also, it helps to play video games. When I'm stressed out, the best games are ones that are easy but fun. My favorite games that help reduce stress are the old Super Mario games from the original NES.

I'm not whining. In fact, I'm doing the complete opposite. I have my own ways to relieve stress. My main way is to just go out and eat at a restaurant. It's a great way to relax. Also, it helps take my mind off of stress if I play video games. After playing a good video game, I will feel much better if I was having a bad day. Exactly! Socially isolating myself has taken away all of my worries about whether or not people like me. It is very freeing and makes my life seem much better. I have already realized I live in an isolated world of self-delusion. That's why I'm so happy. At first, I did miss having social conversations with people. However, once I realized I was socially isolated, it gave me a feeling of great comfort. You're right, and I doubt I would ever come close to getting over it. If I'm ever friends with a person, I will be constantly worried about what he/she thinks of me. I will worry about it quite often, even when I'm not around that person. If I try to be social again, I know this worry will control my life again. It's just not worth it. I have found the way to avoid this worry and the stress that it brings. Having friends is not worth the constant worry of what they think about me. I'm just going to enjoy my life.

What would be the purpose? I really don't have any need to talk to people. Well, I'm not really worried about making a bad social connection. The problem is just the stress from any type of social connection. For example, I had a good friend last year. She was a very nice person, and she certainly wasn't a bad social connection for me. It's just that I was always worried about what she thought about me, and I was constantly worried about losing her as a friend. When I first left high school and started college, I missed her a lot. However, that's when I decided to live a socially isolated life. Now, I realize that I don't need her or any other friends to enjoy my life. Most people are trapped by the desire to make friends. I recently learned how to overcome the desire to make friends, and now I've never felt better in my whole life.

Many of you have probably read posts Ive made in the past when I was feeling lonely and rejected by other people. However, I have now found the secret to true happiness. I stopped worrying about what other people think, and Ive just decided to avoid conversations with people except for when I need to work with them. I no longer feel the pressure and stress of trying to be accepted by someone. I just dont care anymore, and it feels great!

Yes, we are planning to use a VPN. I don't have that much information about them yet, but I believe we will be using FortiGate firewalls at each office location. They will be the type that connect between the DSL modem and wireless router. I believe the VPNs will be setup using Windows XP Professional. I'm not sure if the VPNs can be encrypted or not.

I've been talking to some of the top people at the company about the wireless security issue. I don't believe that they fully understand the security issues with WEP. The top executives have been told that they will be fully protected by the firewalls. The firewalls will be installed between the DSL modems and the wireless routers. They believe that this will completely prevent anyone from seeing the data sent across the wireless networks. I know the firewalls should prevent people from hacking into the network from the Internet. However, I don't know how they will do anything to secure the wireless signals. Another technical person at the company believes the firewalls will create "invisible wireless tunnels" that will directly link the wireless routers with the company's PCs. However, I've never heard of a wireless network that behaves this way. As far as I know, it would still be possible for anyone to receive the signals and decrypt the WEP data. I don't see how these firewalls will have any affect on the wireless signals. Tomorrow, I'm going to meet directly with the President of the company. He is very concerned about the security, and he wants me to demonstrate how to break their WEP encryption. He has been told different things from different people, so he's not really sure what to believe. He has been told by some of the other technical people that it is completely impossible to see any of their wireless data, but I'm almost positive that it can be done. I'm going to use a laptop with a wireless card to try to show him how this is a security issue for the company. I believe that all I will need is some free wireless eavesdropping software, but I've never tried to do this before. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I purchased a PHP script that allows users to login and everything. However, I need to customize it to make it work with my services. The problem is that the source code for the script is very complicated. Most of the files link to other files, and I don't need most of the script's features. Also when I upload the script's files to the hosting server, I get the follow message when I try to access the site: I'm not really sure what this error means. I know it is a Apache web server that is compatible with PHP and MySQL, so I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.

I own several web sites, but I have to create and update all the pages manually. For example, if someone signs up for a service using a form, their information will be sent to my e-mail address. I will then have to manually create their login page and enter their information. I know that many web sites are automated. For example, someone is automatically a member of SFN when they sign up. An administrator doesn't have to worry about manually entering the information of each user. I would like my web sites to be the same way. I would like to create a database where new data can be added from forms, and also new web pages be created for members. They should also be able to update their information using another form. I know it is possible to do this using PHP and MySQL. However, I can't figure out how to make any of this work. All the guides I can find online are way too complicated because I've never taken any type of PHP programming classes. I've even spent money trying to figure this out, but nothing is very helpful. Does anyone know where I can find basic information about this subject?

Hi Cap'n, thanks for the link. Yes, it sounds like the strange things I was seeing were hallucinations. Why don't I see these hallucinations anymore? Do older people have more control over their brain activity when waking up?

This is something that I rarely think about anymore, but I used to see strange things in my bedroom when I was very young. I used to see strange lights and shapes, and they often formed the shapes of large objects or people. They often made noises, or talked to me. They would appear in my bedroom only on certain nights, and I would sometimes yell for my parents to come in and see them. However, they would always disappear immediately when my parents came into the room. After I started elementary school, I never saw them anymore. My parents always told me that I was just dreaming, but I know that they weren’t dreams. I remember sitting up in my bed and watching them, and I would sometimes even get up and walk around. The lights and shapes would keep moving around the room until I left or someone else came in. They would also disappear if I turned on the main light. However, I would still see them if I just turned on my flash light. I’ve heard stories about many young kids seeing similar types of lights and shapes at night. It is usually believed that it is just part of the kid’s imagination. However, I have a very vivid memory of these lights and shapes, and I’m almost positive I didn’t imagine them. Yes, I do remember imagining things when I was that age, such as my toys being real people. However, I also remember controlling their actions with my own imagination, and I knew I was just pretending they were real. I remember looking at the strange colors and shapes, and having no control over what they did. It was like they were part of the outside world, and not part of my mind. Does anyone have any ideas about what these lights are, and why so many younger kids see them? Could it be some type of sixth sense that you lose as you get older? Perhaps, some type of view into another dimension or parallel universe? Or could it be a part of the brain that is disconnected from consciousness, and we just learn to ignore it as we get older? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thank you, I appreciate everyone providing their advice. They are a pest control company, so they don't deal with banking or anything extremely classified. However, they do have credits card numbers in their system. The company needs wireless networks because they have multiple locations. There are employees who travel to the different locations, and need to be able to easily connect using their laptops. We used to have them connect to the networks using ethernet cables, but they kept unplugging the wrong cables and messing up the networks. Therefore, we decided that wireless networks would be the best solution. Security is a large concern for the company. They've spent thousands of dollars on new servers, firewalls, and computers so they can increase their security. Unfortunately, their weakest security point seems to be the wireless networks. They don't seem to realize how easily someone can capture data from a wireless network, especially since they have some offices in populated areas. I've sent them information about WEP, and how easily it can be decrypted. However, they don't believe that anyone would target a pest control company when looking for data to steal. They seem convinced to stay with WEP, so I suppose I have no other choice but to use it.

I am securing the wireless networks at the offices of the company that I work for. I wanted to use WPA, but some of their older wireless cards aren't compatible with it. They want to use WEP, but I heard that it is very easy to decrypt. They don't want me to spend a lot of extra time working to upgrade all the wireless cards so that we can use WPA security on the networks. Do you believe there are any benefits to taking the time to setup WEP? I've heard people say that using WEP is as secure as using no encryption at all.

Just to point the blame, Ecoli was the first person who assumed you had murdered your wife. LOL... I thought the same thing when I first read your post. I guess we all are crazy. Anyway, I'm glad to hear that everything worked out for you.

It sounds like Rebiu found his wife, and buried her under the house. I guess Rebiu is feeling better and his sense of humor is back. Hopefully he wasn't serious...

Good place for her!

The amount of respect I have for someone does not depend on their age. There are some senior citizens that are very intelligent and led the way for our present society, and others are just crazy old fools. There are also some very brilliant young people, and then others who are just plain stupid. I look at a person's personality when deciding whether or not I should respect them. I have a lot of respect for people who are very successful, such as business executives and scientists. I also have respect for people who are very kind, and always looking for ways to help other people. In my opinion, these people deserve respect no matter what their age is.