Well it's all a matter of perspective....Think about it, America is a country built on illegal immigration.  Almost all this country is built on lands seized/stolen from Native Americans! and really every white/black persons family is here illegaly....before the white man came there were no borders between Canada and Mexico.  But it was a different time then and back then it was no big deal to tell the Indians that they didn't own their land and they have to move...and in a way it was ineveitable, there was no way they could have co-existed....haha but now a days Indian Nations are sueing to get their land back....the Blackfeet Nation is in court proving  how 2/3rd's of preesent day Montana was seized illegaly....but anyway when people get all huffed up saying they don't have a right to be here or illegal immagrants are the plauge of our soceity then i always point out about how really they don't have a right to be here either when you get to thinking about it...

BUT i can also see it from the other perspective and illegal immigration is a threat to National Security and how Illegals can drain the healthcare system and not pay tax etc...i personally am for more border scurity..

My two cents anyhow :D 

i bought an acoustic guitar at a garage sale a few weeks ago for $40. i'm not very good, but i can play a few tunes like Iron Man, 7 Nation Army, and i can also play a bit of the underground theme from mario (stage 1-2) , and i can play part of the music that plays in the 1st level of Doom...if you have any tips i'd like to hear them loldante_123456

Since you sound like your really interested in playing one thing i can't reccomend enough is buy a electronic tuner, you can buy them in most any guitar shop/pawn shop and for 15-30 you ain't got the worry about having the headache of tuning your guitar.

Oh yea? Why don't you tell us some of YOUR funny/horror stories you've had with your instrument hmm? Do you play guitar? What kind do you play? And what style of music? :DDarkKar

haha iight...right now i have a electric Fender Squire Stratocaster (with a effects pedal i bought in a pawn shop lol) then i have a Ventura acoustic and i recently bought a Kona electric/acoustic from a buddy of mine for $80 (a 3-4 year old guitar originally 300-400 bucks, just had to wax it and change the stirngs :D) but i don't really have any real "horror" stories of like strings snapping and putting my eye out or anything like that lol.  but the style i play the most is prolly bluegrass or old timey hymns (i like to do the fingerpicking).  but i also play some alternative rock, right now i'm trying to learn 311's song "Don't Tread on Me" and Theory of a Deadmans "Santa Monica".

I was thinking of downloading AVG Free or Spybot Search & Destroy and Lavasoft Ad-aware for Spyware. Is it better to buy virus scanners like Norton or are the free downloadable ones just as good?MastirOfPuppets

lol that's the exact same setup i'm running... 

I'm a little more than half White and a little less than half Native American.  On my Dad's side I'm Dutch, German, Swiss, Scottish.  On my Mom's side of the family both her parents are mostly Native American, my Grandma is almost full blood Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw...and maybe a little Shawnee, my Grandpa is between half and 3/4s Cherokee and Choctaw with some French blood in there somewhere... 

 My GS name kinda reflects that...but my real "Indian Name" is Standing Deer or Haloka ("Loved One" in Choctaw), but i thought "Chief Smackaho" was cooler lol

I never had one either just cause i never really wanted to get into a relationship. But now theres this girl in my class that is SUPA FINE and i want to marry her. only reason is i have no experience in this girlfriend boyfriend thing so ill probably like come up to her and throw a line like " hey baby you wanna get down with me, cause your SUPA FINE". My friends laughed and said it probably wasnt gonna work so then they rented me the movie HITCH. Ill probably watch it later but if you guys have any tips for me please do say.lazilla7

Pickup lines rarely work lol.  but here are some fun ones to say....

"Hey baby, you belive in love at first sight? or should i walk by again?" 

"Hey.....I lost my phone number can i have yours?"

"Baby I'd say God bless you...but it looks like he already did!"

I'd say for Modern Alternative Rock some pretty good bands are Breaking Benjamin, Trapt, Crossfade, Three Days Grace, Nickelback, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Staind, Disturbed, The Black Maria

or if you want some good heavy metal good bands are All That Remains, Atreyu, Avenged Sevelfold, Godsmack, Lamb of God, Winter Solstice, Remove The Veil

and then Classic Rock you can't go wrong with AC/DC, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Halen, Allman Brothers, 

just to name a few...but yeah music is kinda a personal taste thing so whatever you like dude ;)