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I think we have to keep

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:46:00 -0500

I think we have to keep things simple in order to have a clear picture of this problem. Recently many countries introduced the smoking ban mostly for public places. I am a smoker and this new rule seems fair enough, people have the right to fresh air and we shouldn't deny them this right. Plus, smoking ban should be an alarm signal for smokers for quiting.

What are the smokers right

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:01:00 -0500

What are the smokers right exactly? For sure they don't have the right to affect others peoples health, and I think this is the main point here. I don't know anti smoking campaign is spam, I don't have enough arguments to believe so. By the way, I am a smoker.

Maxtor sucks

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:42:16 -0400

and after looking at my maxtor 40 gb i realized there was 2 stickers and i took one off and it was relabled with a newer manufacture date like wtf.

They suck

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:30:59 -0400

i bought a 40 gb western digital but i went to get a os install and they stole my WD and put in a maxtor like wtf and the 1 year later the maxtor just wont stay on and the fan i use to cool the peices of shit moves the power cable and then the drive turns off and it is the same with my 15gb and that one has no fan and i turns off just be stepping to close to it.

ps MAXTOR SUCKS

From Maxtor hater

WTF F F F F F F F MAX.. DIXASTOR!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:40:11 -0400

I have used 20 Maxtor 160G IDE drives for my biz.
For 3 years, I did RMAs about 15 times.
All kinds of problems like cliking. LED always on. can't find hdd. need format error messages. can't read block. you name it.
Every month I was RMA thing via maxtor.com

I have another 10 Western Digital 160G IDE.
No problem AT ALL for 3 years so far.

Recently I saw Seagate got Maxtor. WTF, Seagate got nut?

If you buy Maxtor for any reason. You're IDIOT. Period.
You'll lose data for sure sooner of later.

You're warned.

read the opinion before defending this man

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:31:03 -0400

If you read the opinion, particularly pgs. 5 and 6, you'll see that the whole situation involved force and coercion, and there was not really consent in the first place, because 'forced consent' is not consent.

From the opinion:

After Jewel acquiesced to the boys’ insistence that they stay
ten more minutes, she found herself on her back with appellant
removing her jeans and Mike sitting on her chest, attempting to
place his penis in her mouth. After she told them to stop, the
pair moved her around so that her body was up in appellant’s lap as
he held her arms and Mike tried to insert his penis in her, but
briefly inserted it into her rectum by mistake. After Mike again
tried to insert his penis in the complainant’s vagina, appellant
inserted his fingers in her vagina. After appellant exited the
car, Mike inserted his fingers, then his penis into her vagina.
Mike then got out of the car and appellant got in. Appellant
told Jewel that it was his turn and, according to the complainant,
the following transpired:
Q. [ASSISTANT STATE’S ATTORNEY]: And what else did he
say?
A. He, after that we sat there for a couple seconds and
he was like so are you going to let me hit it and I
didn’t really say anything and he was like I don’t want
to rape you.
* * *
Q. So when Maouloud said I don’t want to rape you, did
you respond?
A. Yes. I said that as long as he stops when I tell him
to, then -
Q. Now, that he could?
A. Yes.
* * *
Q. Did you feel like you had a choice?
A. Not really. I don’t know. Something just clicked
off and I just did whatever they said.
* * *
Q. Now when you told [appellant] if I say stop,
something like that, you have to stop. What did he do
after you spoke those words?
A. Well he got on top of me and he tried to put it in
and it hurt. So I said stop and that’s when he kept
pushing it in and I was pushing his knees to get off me.

Lens cap

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:30:01 -0500

The Logitech Quickcam pro 5000 has a flip-over lens cap, one of the reasons I purchased it. Not sure about the others though.

5 seconds is not rape

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:45:52 -0500

I agree with you, but to answer your question about whether the boy was impaired, he was. The opinion states that the boys had smoked pot. Another thing to point out in this case is that yes the boy was 16, but the girl was 18. In addition to being older than the boys, the girl made a choice to go with these boys. There was another girl with these three who decided not to continue hanging out with them when they went for a ride.

In regards to some comments that this case provides that women can not withdraw consent after penetration. That is incorrect. Of course a woman can withdraw consent and a man should comply. The question is what is the crime if he doesn't? I personally think it is wrong to place this type of activity in the same criminal category as a situation wherein there was never consent. Obviously when there is never consent, the perpetrator has intent to rape, this is not always so in these "post-penetration" cases. The 16 year old boy in this case clearly made a decision to not rape. I feel for him and his family. I think that women need to take some responsibility for their actions as well. This girl was an adult, she knew what was going on. She even gave the boy her phone number and hugged them goodbye when she dropped them off. As for the examples someone else gave about a women who consented then found out that the partner had a disease, shouldn't that be discussed prior to consenting to sex.

As a woman, I agree with the views in the Battle case. If I consent to sex then want him to stop and he doesn't, that is a crime, but it is not the same crime as if I had never consented. The harm is not the same.

Give me a break

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:29:58 -0500

How silly. Stops after 5 seconds and gets 5 years in the slammer? WTF is this world coming to? The pendulum has swung too far again.

What is rape?

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:41:38 -0500

I have been reading many articles on-line about this case. While I agree that the Maryland law needs revision, I am very troubled by the idea that what this boy did would be considered 'rape'. I'm speaking specifically of it taking him five seconds or less to comply with her withdrawal of consent. The boy was sixteen at the time. I have not read whether or not he was impaired by alcohol or drugs. Were his youth and inexperience even considered?!

As a fifty-year-old woman, I can think back to several "sweaty groping sessions" that I went through during my late high school and college years where the gentleman in question had a lot to put up with from me. I wanted to but I didn't want to. Yes. No. Maybe. I was inexperienced and he was inexperienced. If I said, "No, stop, don't do that" and he didn't INSTANTLY obey, I would no more consider that 'rape' than if he didn't INSTANTLY obey me when I wanted him to turn down the radio or stop tickling me. Kids wrestling around in the backs of cars--especially CONSENTING kids--do not instantly obey one another. That's not how the games of youthful exuberance are played. When does tickling your girlfriend for five seconds after she said 'stop, stop' become 'assault'? When does playfully tackling a buddy on the playground become 'battery'? I am very troubled by the idea that five seconds or less of hopeful persistence--followed by disappointed compliance--would land a sixteen year old boy in jail for FIVE YEARS and completely ruin his life.

We use the term "fog of war". I think that the term "fog of sex" also applies. Five seconds or less is a fairly responsive time for a steamed up 16-year-old youth to reign himself back in after a girl says yes and then no.

The second boy is a no-brainer: she said no, he forced her. That's rape, end of discussion. But the boy who had permission, had consent and then allegedly took a few seconds to stop? I can't believe that he was even prosecuted. Frankly, I'm appalled.

The decision to prosecute him in this circumstance shows a complete lack of common sense and dilutes the meaning of 'rape' in a manner that I fear will come back to haunt us.

Maxtor indeed SUCKS!

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:15:01 -0500

Can someone truly recommend a Large 300GB hard drive that doesn't fail? I've had nothing but headaches since I got mine. The p.o.s. (piece of shit), sorry for the French, make a video-game like sound, then a scatching sound. After 5 seconds, you hear it all over again and again. Please don't let anyone else buy this junk. This was my third and final drive that I had left over. I bought three 300gb drives at one time. (onetouch II 300gb)

maxtor sucks

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:17:28 -0500

I also have a onetouch II 300gb and had the same exact thing happen. Fortunately I was able to extract some of the files out of the damaged file system out with a file recovery program. Im ready to pitch this one. Just one thing after another. Once they get their first corrupted file its just downhill afterwards stay away from this shiiity company.

Hard drive recovery services

Zed — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:20:41 -0500

I've never actually used such a service myself, but they exist. Just Google for Hard Drive Recovery Service and follow up with each one that looks reputable.

Their services are expensive, but they are reputed to have very high success rates in that industry.

HELP! on file restoration with Maxtor

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:40:28 -0500

HELP! I am now a believer after reading these comments that MAXTOR sucks! I’ve had my OneTouch II 300GB for nearly a year now and it’s been working fine up until yesterday. My mistake was that I stored valuable original files on there such as home videos of family and kids, 140GB of MP3s, digital photos, etc. I did this so that my main PC’s drive didn’t have to be so cluttered with these personal files. I did nothing with the PC, but now it won’t recognize the drive at all. When I unglug and plug it back in, it makes the “dinging” noise letting me know that the USB port has detected a connection, but the drive is invisible. I looked under device manager under disk drives, and it is not listed. The blue light is steady and solid and the fan on the Maxtor is running and making noise… but I can’t access it. I’ve even tried switching cables and trying it on another PC… still no luck. Maxtor says they’ll send me a replacement but I’m SOL on my files, unless I pay them to recover it. BS! Can anybody please tell me how I can recover my files on this drive? PLEASE!! I don’t want to lose my kids valuable photos and videos - you can’t replace those! I don’t care if it voids the warranty… I just want my files back!! Please email me your advice at

Logging in

Zed — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:38:48 -0500

... to the web interface isn't (currently) the same as logging into the server directly. You originally set up a web account as "japplegate", and if your e-mail address is still good, you should be able to retrieve your password if necessary.

(Sorry for the long response time -- I'm currently travelling.)