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if you studied much history, you would find it highly unusual for democracies to go to war with one another...

That's not such a simple issue. There's correlation, but there's also correlation between peace and wealth of nations, their historic geographic isolation from one another, the rise of the cold war's stabilizing influence during the peak period of democritization, and a number of factors, suggesting that the correlation is not the causation.

track record of the USA is astrounding

On what count?

Tang is nasty powdered orange drink mix. Supposedly drunk by astronauts. link.

http://online.thinkfree.com.nyud.net:8090/ (Coralized)

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:9hxx796XGNMJ: online.thinkfree.com/+&hl=en (Google's cache)

http://online.thinkfree.com/ (Spare them please!)

Netscape always controlled the media when it came to the story about how the browser was first built. This is the only article that I've ever seen that actually went back to the place where it was created to find out the real story.

History is written by the victors.... Even if that "history" isn't true.

The Interaction Design of Microsoft Windows CE

Evolution of Design
            Handheld PC (H/PC)
            Palm PC (P/PC)
            Auto PC (A/PC)

just disneyland alone has 2.5 miles that has ran since 1959. We are talking a train that runs every couple of minutes day in and day out. How many total miles has been traveled? a lot more than say Denver or Seattle or Houston. Yet, they have numerous accidents. Why? not due to distance, but due to mixing with traffic as well as sitting ON the rail. Most monorails (including all of disney's wrap the rail. It would literally have to have the rail dropped or hit a bomb to be derailed. EACH Disneyworld trains travel nearly 70K MILES each year. That means that each of these trains travel more than all of the denver RTD combined (up till the new extension, then it will take several of these trains to beat denver's total). And these are just 2 of disney's lines. It does not take into acocunt the lines that are opened in other countries which run far more miles.

Base Price: $4,589.00

Holy CRAP that's expensive! And that's (apparently) without the monitor! If I may suggest, you should be able to build the same machine for about half the price, perhaps a bit more.

Asus A8N-SLI Premium nForce4

Sweet! They chose my favorite board! I have the A8N-E board (same thing, but only one Vid card) and I must say that it is a VERY nice board. Practically everything you could ever want is built in. NForce4 chipset, Gigabit ethernet, PCI Express, 8 channel audio, 10 USB ports, hardware firewall, hardware RAID support, 4 SATA-300 (aka SATA-II) connectors, IDE support, nearly all AMD64 chips supported, etc. I haven't found a better board, especially in that price range!

Sound Card: Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS Platinum INT Drive Sound

Can anyone explain what is up with this? The board comes with 8 channel sound built in. What do you need a separate sound card for? Is the sound quality really that much better?

BTW, if you get the A8N board, don't get the ASUS Star ICE. I've got one of those things and I'm now using it as a desk ornament. I just wanted an extra fan to keep things cool. I had no idea that I'd get a friggin' JET ENGINE! (I'm not kidding either. This thing can barely fit in the case when installed.) It gets great comments from my coworkers though. "What the HELL is that!?" ;-)

If you don't believe me on its size (no one ever does) just look at this pic.

I wouldn't say any . And I think astroturfing and paid reviews are pretty obvious to even the moderately savvy.

Strange. Well, according to the original thread (that now seems to be deleted), you could /pvp to remove the infection. Haven't tried it myself tho.

google cache: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:4toUblI0DaEJ: www.scottberkun.com/blog/+scottberkun+firefox&hl=e n&client=firefox-a

google cache link: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:4toUblI0DaEJ: www.scottberkun.com/blog/+scottberkun+firefox&hl=e n&client=firefox-a

Useless Use of Cat Award.

Useless Use of Cat Award form letter

(Quote abomination)

And of course, if you've been following along for a week or two, you know
that this (BING!) is a Useless Use of Cat!

Remember, nearly all cases where you have:

                cat file | some_command and its args ...

you can rewrite it as:

                <file some_command and its args ...

and in some cases, such as this one, you can move the filename
to the arglist as in:

                some_command and its args ... file

Just another Useless Use of Usenet

I don't know if I should follow up to your original posting, or if I should follow up to my reply, but...

As I noted in my previous reply, the "free speech zone" euphemism wasn't being used in this context. So, I tried a couple of different search terms, finally getting a hit with "cordoned clinton protester". It's from the Denver Post, although the original page is no longer available. This link is from Google's cache:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:X-nfVVK7tu4J: 63.147.65.175/news/shot041200c.htm+cordoned+clinto n+protester&hl=en

I don't remember this particular instance, so I don't know if the cordoned-off area (i.e. the "free speech zone") was near the site of Clinton's appearance. But there were others where the zone was positioned at least a block away and around the corner, away from the site.

It wasn't that long ago that there was a big stink over a doctor-run web site that blacklisted malpractice plaintiffs so that doctors could deny them future coverage, regardless of who won the case. Google cached link I guess it's not so funny when someone does it to them.

The ISP involved is CIT, aka foonet. Here's a link (google cache to information regarding the takedown.

What rebels of Tiananmen.

Google this: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:d3BWlmOlvfMJ: www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_51/b37620 58.htm+rebels,+tiananmen,+us&hl=en

Why do you think the rebel leaders fled to US ? Some even becoming the CEO of a US company and denying their responsibility in the deaths of their "fellow" dissidents.

Google cache (no images, and black background, so turn off styles or whatever in your browser to read it.)

"Or, you could by an Xbox and support Microsoft. Which is worse?"

And Sony is any better? Last I checked Sony wasn't just in the console, PC hardware and PC software (games) business, but they are also into music, video, movie production etc etc etc.

Sony has a huge hold in many different areas, and is also a part of the RIAA and also the MPAA.

Sony V.S. Microsoft isn't comparing apples to oranges, its comparing apples to apples.

I'm too lazy to search, but I believe the Superdome was built such that it's weight was spread across a wide enough stretch of land to distribute its load and prevent it from sinking. At least from sinking all at once. In fact, it and the city of New Orleans are built on timber piles. Wow.

I wonder why we get boom and bust cycles

An Austrian Theory of Business Cycles

Check that page out. It's not that businessmen are clueless...it's that central banking sends them the wrong signals every time it inflates the money supply. I've studied the austrian business cycle for quite a while now, and there's so much evidence for it, it's crazy. But Keynesian theorists are sort of the "creationists" of economics. Keynesian economics clearly did not save us in the 70's, it did not save Japan in the 90's, and it won't save us from this housing bubble. I was watching the history channel recently, and they even mentioned that about 10 years after FDR took over, the unemployment rate will still about 20%! But yeah, his "new deal" saved us from the Great Depression *rolls eyes*

But it doesn't seem to matter to people that we keep seeing the Austrian business cycle in every country with a central bank...people are still under the foolish idea that the cycle is just a "feature" of the free market. Some people might say, "But the federal reserve wasn't created until 1913, and we had cycles before then!" Check out Rothbard: History of Money and Banking in the US. People have been screwing with banks for a looooooong time, and the results are always the same; the greater the manipulation, the greater the cycle.

Google cache, since article is already going slow:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mO-w2Me3Sy4J: www.americanrightsatwork.org/workersrights/eye7_20 05.cfm+&hl=en

This sounds like a very disturbing ruling. IANAL, so I'm not sure how any of this will stand to to serious scrutiny, but would this give employers the power to "ban" employee unions it doesn't like? And yet workers have the right to associate (at least I believe they do, its been a while since I researched workers rights at all, correct me if I'm wrong :) )

More importantly, what useful purpose could this serve, and how would you enforce it? Without following your workers around 24/7, this ruling is nearly unenforcable.

This whole think reeks of silliness.

If you're having trouble seeing the article, try this: Google Cache

Google cache of the expired Gont paper

I agree. I hardly claim any particular genius for this idea, I doubt that I was the first, and know that I accomplish little by just mentioning it. I like how Michael Abrash ("inventor" of Mode X, and Quake co-developer) put it (also applicable to the discussion of software patents):

Our world is changing, and I?m concerned. By way of explanation, three anecdotes.

Anecdote the first: In one of his books, Frank Herbert, author of Dune, told me how he had once been approached by a friend who claimed he (the friend) had a killer idea for a SF story, and offered to tell it to Herbert. In return, Herbert had to agree that if he used the idea in a story, he'd split the money from the story with this fellow. Herbert's response was that ideas were a dime a dozen; he had more story ideas than he could ever write in a lifetime. The hard part was the writing, not the ideas.

Anecdote the second: I've been programming micros for 15 years, and been writing about tyhem for more than a decade and, until about a year ago, I had never-not once!- had anyone offer to sell me a technical idea. In the last year, it?s happened multiple times, generally via unsolicited email along the lines of Herbert?s tale.

This trend toward selling ideas is one symptom of an attitude that I?ve noticed more and more among programmers over the past few years-an attitude of which software patents are the most obvious manifestation-a desire to think something up without breaking a sweat, then let someone else?s hard work make you money. Its an attitude that says, ?I?m so smart that my ideas alone set me apart.? Sorry, it doesn't work that way in the real world. Ideas are a dime a dozen in programming, too; I have a lifetime?s worth of article and software ideas written neatly in a notebook, and I know several truly original thinkers who have far more yet. Folks, it?s not the ideas; it?s design, implementation, and especially hard work that make the difference.

Virtually every idea I?ve encountered in 3-D graphics was invented decades ago. You think you have a clever graphics idea? Sutherland, Sproull, Schumacker, Catmull,
Smith, Blinn, Glassner, Kajiya, Heckbert, or Teller probably thought of your idea
years ago. (I?m serious-spend a few weeks reading through the literature on 3-D
graphics, and you?ll be amazed at what?s already been invented and published.) If
they thought it was important enough, they wrote a paper about it, or tried to commercialize it, but what they didn?t do was try to charge people for the idea itself.

A closely related point is the astonishing lack of gratitude some programmers show for the hard work and sense of community that went into building the knowledge base with which they work. How about this? Anyone who thinks they have a unique idea that they want to?own?and milk for money can do so-but first they have to track down and appropriately compensate all the people who made possible the compilers, algorithms, programming courses, books, hardware, and so forth that put them in a position to have their brainstorm.

Put that way, it sounds like a silly idea, but the idea behind software patents is precisely that eventually everyone will own parts of our communal knowledge base, and that programming will become in large part a process of properly identifylng and compensating each and every owner of the techniques you use. All I can say is that if we do go down that path, I guarantee that it will be a poorer profession for all of us - except the patent attorneys, I guess.

Anecdote the third: A while back, I had the good fortune to have lunch down by Seattle?s waterfront with Neal Stephenson, the author of
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age (one of the best SF books I've come across in a long time). As he talked about the nature of networked technology and what he hoped to see emerge, he

Guess I must be a bit of a freak, because I've ignored all those instructions not to walk directly on molten lava during an eruption, etc., and no foot damage.
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Considering that a volcano is part of our natural environment, it kind of makes sense.
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Are you seriously that stupid?

Not that I'm recommending it, just saying that just because you either can't look directly at the sun or are conditioned to believe that doing so will cause immediate eye damage doesn't mean that everyone is in the same boat.

And lets face it - people did it all the time before "modern days" with "modern eye protection". If you're going blind, stop browsing so much pr0n.

here

Except that its still there on his website, and its still a GPL violation

So he's lying.

Anyway I notice the links gone missing of the front page.

Oh here it is in googles cache!
http://www.imblaze.com/download/IMBlazeVersion1Bui ld310.exe

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Q33uMOaXnEUJ: www.imblaze.com/+imblaze&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Yeah the law was [i]still[/i] being broken.

ten months after it was pointed out.

No. Not reasonable. Fraudulent.

http://goat.cxhlen/">Google cache

Try OpenACS. It is an open source (GNU GPL) toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. Oracle and PostgreSQL are the supported back-end databases and the programming language is TCL/TK. The developer community is almost 9000 strong which is very helpful. The toolkit is very mature and is useful to build community-based websites quickly and has a host of advantages over other similar systems.

More information about the toolkit can be found at the OpenACS website "What is OpenACS" section and on my personal website - About OpenACS. A quick comparision of the CMS applications available can be found at www.cmsmatrix.org (Link to Google's cache as the site doesn't actually have the comparision feature anymore now! Maybe you need to register?!)

For comparason, here is the google cache:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wcmrSqHuaRYJ: www.marketingmetrixgroup.com/+marketing+metrix+gro up&hl=en

Here's an example: 10ml of HP black ink is over 15 british pounds. 1 USD is about 1.8 british pounds. There is 3785.4118 ml in 1 US gallon.

If you do the math (378.5 ink carts per gal * $27) that means that a gallon of black ink is $10,219 if you buy the manufacture's ink cartridges. You can buy a gallon of black ink for less than $100.

I'd say a 100x mark-up is a bit excessive, can you imagine if even the cheapest cars were over a million dollars?

I think they should be sued, that's absurd, and now they even have a built-in expiration date. As if 1000% profit isn't enough....

And now, 'The Fable of "The Fable of the Keys"'
(Original Article seems to be down, here is the google cache of it.)
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ro7lk9oKNWkJ: www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/dissent.html+&hl=en&client =safari

and another response

http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/dvorak2.html

And plus the fact that the writer of "The Fable of the Keys" DESTROYED all of his data so people would not be able to draw their own conclusions from it.

finally found a google like that works :-) http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lUcwBFt6qWcJ: gmerge.2ni.net/gmerge-Wallpaper.py+&hl=en&client=f irefox-a (their initial links have been taken down..)

Or, since all of those caches seem to have disappeared (!), get it from the Google cache (you'll have to strip off the header from the HTML, of course):

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:fWrAVd4XgzUJ: gmerge.2ni.net/gmerge.py+%2Bgmerge.py+%2Bmap&hl=en &client=safari

Or, Google cache of the source code:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:fWrAVd4XgzUJ: gmerge.2ni.net/gmerge.py

And without the awful highlighting:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:xJ536HFTXwIJ: cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/labscam.html&hl=en& lr=&strip=0

Wow, looks like they have a track record with these things.. Here [google cache]. I know that they take big security precautions for their data while its on the servers, why can they not afford the same in these situations? Maybe its time to stop looking at outsourcing your transportation of customer records to private companies and work out something that will ensure the privacy of your customers data.

same thing, just no high lighting

... what the Famous Penn and Teller trick was...

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:xJ536HFTXwIJ: cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/labscam.html+penn+t eller+arno&hl=en

Actually, it isn't absolutely true. Empirical studies show no correlation between intelligence and happiness. Highly intelligent people are neither more nor less likely to be happy than anyone else.

Since Esperanto is mentioned so prominently, I have to wonder whether the tool will support it. There has been at least one previous attempt to use Esperanto as an intermediate language for a machine translation project. The only English translation of the article I could find is now only available in Google's cache. There is an ironic symmetry to that.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:oxaUmtTL9DUJ: c2.com/cgi/wiki%3FEmacsPinky+EmacsPinky&hl=en

Sense the original link to the definition of Emacs is already down...

Like this?

This is why people are building component frameworks around AJAX. Component frameworks hide the messy browser specific details. This gives a developer who uses these components "one programming language" that works universally and provides a RIA experience.

AJAX's fate does not rest on all browsers being in full compliance to the standards, it rests more on the implementation of AJAX components. You can read more about my view on this on my blog.

I have to say WTF just the same. I've never seen the advantage to country discriminating the people going to your bloody website.

FYI, the google cache seems to not mind Canadians (like me) - try your luck at http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:5CxXjgz2VZgJ: www.sho.com/site/ptbs/+&hl=en&client=firefox

it was a time of great promise and flowing capital

And excellent Onion parody articles of what everyone knew was a ridiculously large bubble, such as Species of Blue-Green Algae Announces IPO and AOL Acquires Time-Warner In Largest-Ever Expenditure Of Pretend Internet Money

Google cache of how to drive yourself nuts (see my previous post)

Google cache of how to prove you don't understand what the WWW is...

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Google cache of how to drive yourself nuts (see my previous post)

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Google cache of how to drive yourself nuts (see my previous post)

Google cache of how to prove you don't understand what the WWW is...

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