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Actually, PBS has been ahead of the curve on digital broadcasting here in the U.S. It was the first network to do a national broadcast of a program fully produced and aired in hi-def. It was also the first to offer a 24/7 network of HD programming. In addition, it has worked to develop applications for interactive TV, and has worked to build various advanced broadcasting technologies. PBS.org is the most-visited .org Web domain in the world. So in a nutshell you're, like, wrong. PBS has decades of leadership in broadcast technology. But I know everyone loves to knock it, so go right ahead.

I realise this is a bit offtopic, bit I moderated in the discussion on word frequency before I saw your post:

I have to learn German. I need the 86,000 most-commonly used German words. This would give me a nice target of words to get to know in the process of learning it ...

And since I'm also an English speaker in Germany I thought I'd note that typing "word"+"rank"+"german" into google returns plenty of sites including:
http://german.about.com/library/blwfreq01.htm
which only has the top 1000, but that's not a bad start.

In all honesty, I find that the word frequency depends a lot on your environment. Are you speaking in a pub with a bunch of welders or are you reading scientific literature? You'd be much better off just keeping a little notebook and writing down words you see more than once.

I also find that leo http://dict.leo.org/ is pretty good for a lot of stuff that doesn't make it into standard dictionaries.

Good luck,

Tony.

As for the origin of sign language, it's as old as the origin of Native American tribes. Anyone who has taken an ASL course would know that Native American tribes used signs as a sort of inter-tribal language among themselves.

Even after that, it is not rare for an isolated group of people to develop a language of their own. That is exactly how sign language developed (Somebody didn't just make up a system of sign language out of pity for the deaf who couldn't possibly communicate on their own). Even now, a small group of people often come up with their own system for basic communication needs (i.e. mother and baby, a deaf person without formal education and his close family, etc.) Also, twins are known to come up with their own languages--this is a very well documented case.

This article falls short of other details that might have been interesting. It says,

That method of communicating now shows similarities to other languages, researchers say in Thursday's issue of the journal Science.

What similarities? That it is used to communicate (isn't it how one defines language)? Knowing the diversity of modern languages, I find it difficult not to find any similarity to other languages. Do they tend to put the subject in front of everything else? Every language does that (for obvious reasons...). Do they tend to omit the subject? I know Korean does that regularly, whereas in English it's done only when brevity is paramount. Do they sometimes put the object first? Find any inflected language and you can do that there as well (usually means emphasis on the object, though). Tell me when the children have matured enough to learn multivariable calculus on their own and they happen to use the inverted capital delta for their "del" operator. Then I will be astonished at the similarity. Frankly, I doubt that this new language thing will go far (same case with twin language--for the twins to live in the world, they have to learn the language of their society, the process which inevitably all but destroys their own language). Or, if it is to "evolve" to show a parallel structure, well, expect to have generations of isolated (hereditary) deaf children for a century or a millenium.

Even the article's sidenotes about similarity among existing languages is trivial.

The mothers in every country reported that their children learned significantly more nouns than other types of words. The researchers said this held true regardless of whether the language emphasized nouns, as does American English, or verbs, as does Korean.

Might as well say, "The mothers in every country reported that their children learned significantly more words related to food or household item than words used to describe linear vector spaces or binary operation structure." Of course they know more nouns! That's what the mothers teach most, because it's the easiest thing to teach ther children. And, I'll bet, among nouns, the children know more concrete nouns abstract nouns. It's not just that. In all the languages I know (and I know more than 2, if you count a few dead languages), nouns comprise the biggest group of part of speech. Also, usually, there is always a way to make a word from any other part of speech (excepting a few specialized parts like conjunctions or articles) into a noun (but not the other way around--for example, how would turn the noun "apple" into a verb?).

This study reveals nothing new--that is, other than the fact that there are too many (useless) researchers around the world with too much time on their hands (even then, that's not new either, eh?).

It still isn't useful against spammers because the filter rules are too simple and too inflexible.

The 900+ email scoring rules in SpamAssasin are totally irrelevant and unecessary!

I have identified the 8 hallmarks of spam and malware, everything else in such email doesn't matter as the 8 hallmarks are deemed 'unwanted content' as needed by those that use my software.

1. File attachments - if not from expected sources, it is likely malware--usually the latest mass-mail-virus-to-hit-unsuspecting-Windows-users.

2. HTML - a waste of bandwith to send legitimate, plain-text email and a delivery vehicle for spam, phish attempts (ID theft), scams, and malware.

3. Quoted printable content - not needed for 'standard' email. It is used in HTML email and to encode 'incriminating' commerce characters in an attempt to avoid filtering.

4) Percent signs (% - used primarily in commerce and a potentially 'expensive' web browser exploit via HTML)

5) Dollar signs ($ - used primarily in commerce and, to a lesser extent, in assembler source code listings.)

6) Numbers (0123456789) - needed by spammers to create prices, website urls, email addresses, postal addresses, and contact phone numbers. When interacting with first-time correspondents via email, numbers are likely not needed and will only be used by spammers or computer crackers as part of their email 'pitch'.

7) URLs ( http://www.example.com example.com ) - one of the true payloads of spam email--all other content in such email is irrelevant and merely serves as a means to persuade the email recipient to visit the spammer's website(s) mentioned in such email.

8) Email addresses ( user@example.com ) - one of the true payloads of spam email--all other content in such email is irrelevant and merely serves as a means to persuade the email recipient to contact the spammer at the provided email address(es).

The only possible use is against exploits as HTML-mails are converted to plain text. Nice "i can program an email-server"-project but nothing worth to use in daily life.

My mailserver program also does everything possible to prevent spammers from using the SMTP DATA command in the first place and punish them appropriately when they do.

The complete details of this process is available at the bottom of the software's homepage.

SpamAssasin needs a Perl interpreter to run and is not a mailserver.

My mailserver program has simple, effective, built-in email filtering.

Mailservers like Sendmail, Postfix, and qmail are sophisticated and likely consist of 2 or more programs.

My mailserver is a simple, all-in-one, piece of software that was coded for high-performance. All it needs to run is the Windows operating system and a initially empty hard disk subdirectory to 'live' in.

Multiple polls in the USA have shown that women largely prefer SUVs over other vehicles. According to industry research, FORTY PERCENT of suv buyers are female:
source

It has also been found that, all other things being equal, the average female will find the male with the SUV more attractive than with any other vehicle. (source is Men's Health magazine).

So please, this is not about "male inferiority", women are a HUGE part of this problem, both because of their buying habits and how they affect the buying habits of men.

Was the conduct of the Republicans ethical? In no way, shape, or form. Was it criminal? Possibly; a judge and/or jury needs to sort out the meaning of "authorized" in this context....

Personally, I can't conceive of accessing information published on a publicly accessible share as illegal. Assuming legality, this seems like "fair play" to me.

Consider some alternate scenarios. It's WW2 and the allies have the capability to crack German and Japanese communications. Should they not do it because Gentlemen do not read each other's mail ? Personally, I think we had a moral imperative to break those communications.

But that's war. Consider a less extreme example. You're a professional sports team with a match coming up. Somehow, you've found out you have legal access to your opponents game plan against you. Do you read it or do you close your eyes and put your hands over you ears? These days, professional ball players are constantly reading scouting reports on other teams, watching game footage, doing anything to gain an advantage. Personally, I think you would be negligent to ignore such valuable intelligence.

Now, as a system administrator responsible for large amounts of data, I think a certain distinction needs to be made here. There is a difference between taking advantage of data for which you have responsibility and data which is not your responsibility. For example, even though I may have access to all employee emails and files, I would never rummage about in data that belonged to someone else.

- About 190

- Too many! No, seriously, there's Judaism (sp?), Catholicism, Prodestantism, Islam(ism?), Bhuddism, Zoerastrianism (that can't be the right spelling!), and Scientology (joke!) - that makes 6, plus or minus a couple

- 40000km ; 3/10 the total (cheat, I know!) ; 20000km^2

- 10 days ; 4 ; depends on the car, but about $200 (Cdn)

Now, with google, the answers are:

- 192 (Including East Timor)

- 22! (I knew there were too many, though that includes the serene rastafarians)

- 40,075.16 km (damn, I was close!) ; 148,300,000 km^2 (technically I was right, because the total is 510100000km^2) ; 9,161,923 km^2 (not even close! I should have known that..)

The final question is a little vague, depending on your driving habits, etc, so I won't bother googling it. Anyway, all of this goes to show you : 1. I'm not qualified to be President of the United States of America, and 2. I'm bored.

Adios,
AC

so, how far is the secret nazi base from Dome C?

1 hr away from Cedar point awesome! oh no! i hope top thrill dragster is open and not trying to kill people today

i can't think of a single thing to date the chinese have ever created that has benifited humans

• movable type
• the printing press
• paper (as well as paper money)
• meritocratic civil service
• 'gaussian' elimination
• so-called 'arabic' numerals and the base-10 number system
• gunpowder and rocketry
• the post office
• restaurants
• umbrellas
• porcelain (also called, simply, 'china' or 'china-ware')
• ketsup
• silk
• rice
• and soybean (including tofu and soy-sauce)

i can't think of a single thing to date the chinese have ever created that has benifited humans

• movable type
• the printing press
• paper (as well as paper money)
• meritocratic civil service
• 'gaussian' elimination
• so-called 'arabic' numerals and the base-10 number system
• gunpowder and rocketry
• the post office
• restaurants
• umbrellas
• porcelain (also called, simply, 'china' or 'china-ware')
• ketsup
• silk
• rice
• and soybean (including tofu and soy-sauce)

i can't think of a single thing to date the chinese have ever created that has benifited humans

• movable type
• the printing press
• paper (as well as paper money)
• meritocratic civil service
• 'gaussian' elimination
• so-called 'arabic' numerals and the base-10 number system
• gunpowder and rocketry
• the post office
• restaurants
• umbrellas
• porcelain (also called, simply, 'china' or 'china-ware')
• ketsup
• silk
• rice
• and soybean (including tofu and soy-sauce)

For example, if you asked me a week ago the origin of chopsticks I (like most people) would have responded China, or parts nearby.

And you'd have been correct.

Now this totally neglects the less-than-common knowledge that they were actually created in America in the 1800s by immigrants to mining communities as a means of differentiating their restaurants from more common fare

Crap. Chopsticks have been in use in China and Japan for around 5000 years. This page includes a brief history, and you can get more details here. Note that the second article points out that a museum in Shanghi actually has a pair from the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907). There's also more nice information on Wikipedia.

For example, if you asked me a week ago the origin of chopsticks I (like most people) would have responded China, or parts nearby. Now this totally neglects the less-than-common knowledge that they were actually created in America in the 1800s by immigrants to mining communities as a means of differentiating their restaurants from more common fare

I'd never heard of that trick. Unfortunately, it sounds just as illegal as a regular shotgun.

The second page even has a bunch about supposed Egyptian visits not just to the Americas but to Australia. Fortunately it's at least listed under paranormal.

Accordingly, the F-15 was designed with broad-chord wings supplemented with additional lift from the upper surface of the wide fuselage. This feature showed its value several years later in the Middle East, when an Israeli F-15 lost its right wing in combat and was still able to return to its base for a normal landing.

was Hermann Oberth, from Sigishoara in Romania (birthplace of Vlad the Impaler). I visited Sigishoara last year and found that the town museum had a room devoted to Oberth. The first Romanian in space (in Soviet times) was awarded the "Hermann Oberth Gold Medal".

Yes, I do have a link. I gave it to you already, but here it is again: the link. By the way, 10 thousand volunteers per year doesn't seem like a whole lot to me, considering that we've got 65 million (?) citizens, and any conflict would probably not last more than a few years. In fact, 10,000 would be 200 per state; I'd bet we're averaging more than that now!

Are you ready to be drafted to fight a couple more wars for "cowboy diplomacy?"

Time to put my asbestos boxers into good service again...

There are two congressional pieces of legislation proposing a return to the draft (and law dictates it has to come from Congress, not the President). Both were proposed by Democrats, (Charles Rangel of New York, and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina). And both will die quiet deaths by commitee (both have already been there since early 2003), because the only real purpose they serve is to allow the proposers more air time in a crucial election year, where one of the big differences between party platforms is the war.

Enlistment is very high this year. The Air Force is forced to retire people early because they already have more than their lawfully allowable quota in service, and every service is forced to make its potential recruits wait for long periods of time before a position at boot camp becomes available (for example, app. 6-8 months for the Navy at the moment). Not only this but the military has stolidly refused to support or give credence to a new peacetime draft. The US military is what it is today because it is a volunteer force, and will do everything in its power to keep things that way.

Furthermore, the number of troops in Iraq is largely a political matter: the former Chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton, is believed to have been forced into early retirement because he disagreed with the Bush administration policy of sending so few troops. National Guardsmen and Reservists have been called to duty not because of shortages of manpower at the front lines, but because of shortages in key specialties-including transportation, medical, and maintenance-which have long been relegated to the reserves because of budgetary restraints brought about by the end of the Cold War.

You have very little to worry about. Although if either of these proposers happen to be in a district you live in, why don't you write them a letter?

Further reading as per Google:

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/wars/a/draft2.htm
http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/wars/a/draft.htm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp

Time to put my asbestos boxers into good service again...

There are two congressional pieces of legislation proposing a return to the draft (and law dictates it has to come from Congress, not the President). Both were proposed by Democrats, (Charles Rangel of New York, and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina). And both will die quiet deaths by commitee (both have already been there since early 2003), because the only real purpose they serve is to allow the proposers more air time in a crucial election year, where one of the big differences between party platforms is the war.

Enlistment is very high this year. The Air Force is forced to retire people early because they already have more than their lawfully allowable quota in service, and every service is forced to make its potential recruits wait for long periods of time before a position at boot camp becomes available (for example, app. 6-8 months for the Navy at the moment). Not only this but the military has stolidly refused to support or give credence to a new peacetime draft. The US military is what it is today because it is a volunteer force, and will do everything in its power to keep things that way.

Furthermore, the number of troops in Iraq is largely a political matter: the former Chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton, is believed to have been forced into early retirement because he disagreed with the Bush administration policy of sending so few troops. National Guardsmen and Reservists have been called to duty not because of shortages of manpower at the front lines, but because of shortages in key specialties-including transportation, medical, and maintenance-which have long been relegated to the reserves because of budgetary restraints brought about by the end of the Cold War.

You have very little to worry about. Although if either of these proposers happen to be in a district you live in, why don't you write them a letter?

Further reading as per Google:

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/wars/a/draft2.htm
http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/wars/a/draft.htm
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp

You apparantly don't know Carl

You said that I was wrong for saying religion is part of what makes a person but then state: "George W. Bush and John Ashcroft in particular can't seem to keep their religious views apart from their government duties."

That seems to go with my idea. A big majority of people I know of cling to some faith. Some more then others. If they did not, then why would everyone complain about Janet Jackson's boob? Like it or not, people who do not have a specific religion are really in the minority. Just look at this web page. Christians are about 75 percent of this country. That's an aweful lot of people that claim a religion. Also, Religion forms your ideas of what is right, what is wrong and like it or not your actions. Some people claim religion is brain washing yet, like it or not, religion also had something to do with the establishment of laws and I do not think that George Washington and the rest of our founding fathers, who were all Christian were definitely of sane mind otherwise how would we have lasted this long??

Ok....you see, there's this thing called checks and balances. They are there to prevent what you have said. Noone has to say that Bush and Ashcroft were wrong for doing what they did, they just have to repeal it. Hey I like Bush and will probably vote for him because I think he has done a good job (IMHO) and I could really care less what the dems have dug up to attack him. Sure, Bush may be picking nits when he says that Kerry flip flopped, but the thing is did Kerry say he'd support a bill containing something and then changed because someone added a rider? You bet he probably did. BUT, ALL politicians are guilty of making a choice that may not have been good for America. Hence, the patriot act. Just because it is law now does not mean that it will always hold that way. If we have someone in congress or the presidency and they manage to get some sort of wacked out bill passed that says it's against the law to walk and chew gum at the same time. Moments later, a cop pics someone up because of the new law. They get prosecuted, but this person also happens to be a person who can afford lawyers and all of a sudden the courts see this wacked out case coming at them and they vote 9:1 that the law is Unconstitutional...the law is now no longer a law. They don't even have to hear a case to pass judgement on it to my knowledge. Checks and Balances is what it's about. And if enough people don't like Bush, they will vote that their states electors go to another candidate.

I am a Christian just as much as the lady I once worked with was a Muslim. She wore garb (headress and tunic) to work and I knew she was muslim. I have on occasion brought my bible to read on my lunch hour and it sat on my desk. On those days as well as many others, people can look at me and figure out hey he's a Christian. Do you know that in both of these religions have no clause that says that they are exempt from going to hell for disregarding their religions tenets at work but following them outside of work? (not for sure about Islam, but I am sure about Chrisitianity). It would be wrong for Ashcroft and Bush to just cave and go ahead and accept things like Gay marriages and to negotiate with those who have already killed our people. I ain't saying that God said it was ok to go to war in Iraq either. I don't know what god had planned for them to do. Only they know what god has revealed to them in their prayers. I only hope, in the long run, that what they have done in Iraq proves worthwhile.

We in America are very tolerant of other people religions. 76 percent of this country is Christian so therfore they do get what seems like unfair advantages. What is the use of having anyone come to work on Christmas Day if 70 percent of the people that both work and 70 percent of your own customers are not going to be there? Hence the national Christmas holiday. Is it fair? No. But do we not allow you to follow yo

I believe he meant to say "Employment at will".

So you think the terms of your job should be "protected" by the government, huh? Obviously you've never heard of the Employment at Will doctrine. The answer to your question is yes, you have rights. You have the right to quit. Don't take that right lightly....you might not miss it until it's gone.

If the government is allowed to set down terms and conditions for when your company is allowed to fire you, what's to stop them from setting down terms and conditions for when you're allowed to quit? Sorry, you can't quit this week, a Hurricane is coming we need every able bodied employee available to stack sandbags. Quitting now would cause "excessive loss of profit" to the company and the "Protect our Jobs Act of 2004" says that's illegal. Try again next week, after the flood subsides.

No thanks. Employment at will means at their will, and yours. If you don't like the job requirements, quit. Get off your ass and find a better job. The market is picking up anyway.

Every economist except those with political motivations agree that the household survey is flawed. Greenspan has testified before congress on numerous occasions to exactly this opinion.

http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/067063.htmFed Chief Alan Greenspan, however, disagrees: "I wish I could say the household survey were the more accurate,'' Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, said in his testimony at a House hearing on Feb. 11. "Everything we've looked at suggests that it's the payroll data which are the series which you have to follow.''

On a side note, a "Rejected Star Trek Title" is "10-Minute Tribble Recipes"... ewww

What, calling someone right-ring christian anti-science is the first ad-hominem name calling that has ever occured. Radio talk show hosts simply never put the vile poison incarnate into their tone when they say the word "liberal." As if the election is good god-fearing patriotic freedom-fighting Bush supporters battling the evil liberal scum.

Hey at least Slashdot posted an article to back up my position as of yesterday. Bush is formulaically retarding science in this country. But this election is about important issues anyways, isn't it? Go ahead and vote for the president who stood watch during the worst intelligence breakdown in our nation's security history. First on 9/11 then on WMD in Iraq, but oh ya the CIA took the blame on that one. Congress voted to support Bush as well. What is the saying? "Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

(#3) Bush Administration Manipulates Science and Censors Scientists
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/3 .html

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/v/bu shfoolme.htm

The first permutation I tried was: "Any optical marks indicating choice, two or more observers agree, chads detached at two corners". That came out for Gore by 105 votes.

The second permutation I tried was "Filled ovals or completed arrows, all observers agree, full punches, statewide recount". That came out for Gore by 134 votes.

The last thing I tried was (on the "What if..." tab) "Statewide recount using the standards of each county's election officials", which came out for Gore by 171 votes.

Ironically, the most important alternate standards by which Bush would have still won (you're right, and the person you replied to is wrong: Gore didn't win every recount) are "Gore's request" (an apparant attempt to increase Gore votes by only recounting some heavy Democrat-voting counties) and "Florida Supreme Court recount", the one interrupted by a partisan US Supreme Court vote.

Personally, I'm not too bothered by the Florida debacle: even if more precise counting would have led to a Gore victory, the results are clearly within the margin of error in either case. The only electoral votes that Bush/Cheney clearly should have lost are the ones coming from Texas, whose electors should have been prohibited by the 12th Amendment from voting for a President and Vice President who were both inhabitants of Texas. Granted, the 12th isn't very high on my list of "parts of the Constitution I wish the US government wasn't violating", but I still hate seeing that list get longer.

i agree with the other comments you made, but Schwarzenegger's claim is pretty believable.

Two facts: Schwarzenegger was born in 1947.

The last Soviets left Austria in 1955 - a fact that is celebrated every year in Austria, on the National celebration day. Arnold was 8 years old at the time.
These are irrefutable facts - Google for them yourself.
It's been debated in Austria as to whether he could have seen tanks because there were no tanks in his home province of Styria. He said he was driving in his uncle's VW bug to vienna and saw them there.
You may believe that last one or not, but what's for sure is that during his childhood - and the childhood of my parents, as well - fear of the Soviet union was wide-spread. Austria narrowly avoided becoming part of the east block...

NG/ANG

Ahead of schedule

CNN agrees

It's in obscure trade journals

Straight from the horse's mouth

The stop-loss orders do not imply a lack of recruitment. Rather, it's a way to retain forces-in-being and their experience, and a way to increase numbers without increasing recruitment. Plugging the drain in the bathtub doesn't mean that the faucet has turned off.

Apparently the definition of "censored" for this site are "stories that match our left-leaning biases".

Now, I personally think the media is liberal, and I've done the studies to prove it (a few nights with Lexis-Nexis is enough), but this kind of thing represents a fringe view of the world. Did the authors of this list ever consider that maybe the reasons these "stories" didn't get reported are because they have no basis in fact?

Take reinstating the draft for example. Did the authors of that list ever consider the facts that the Army has met and exceeding its recruiting goals, that the Secretary of Defense has said he doesn't want a draft and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have said the same thing repeatedly? Did they ever consider that the bill to reintroduce the draft came from a group of anti-war congressman as a way of scaring people and was swiftly killed in committee and had no chance of ever passing?

Look, this kind of stuff irks the hell out of me. Telling us that a story that doesn't even pass the smell test has somehow been "censored" is an insult to our critical thinking skills. It's the same old crap as they people who say that the government is keeping aliens on ice at Area 51 right next to the engine that runs on water and the Ark of the Covenant.

Given that Slashdot's audience is supposed to be people with critical thinking skills, I would hope that tripe like this would be seen for what it is. "Censored" my ass!

American working class

Obviously you must be thinking about a different bush! Our current presendent does not consider IT workers part of the working class, they are IT workers.

Watch President Bush school us on stupid things such as Sovereignty

Actually, it doesn't take much power at all to get to a satellite -- it depends on how much data you want to transmit. Sure, voice will take a hefty rig like an irridium phone, but small amounts, such as GPS coordinates, require very little power and can use a short whip antenna. For example, take a look at orbcomm -- Garmin already has a unit that combines this satellite with GPS.

And all normal cell phones do reach satellites... spy satellites, that is :-)

I agee on your second point ... I was disappointed to find out that the only GPS on my "gps phone" was that the base stations' positions had been determined with GPS. Yeah, I've got a GPS-enabled ham sandwich because it's in my house and I know the GPS lat/lon of my house...

Agnostics belong in a subset of atheism.

• In the Royal Assent ceremony, a representative of the sovereign, either the governor general or a Supreme Court justice, enters the Senate chamber, where the senators are in their seats. The Usher of the Black Rod summons members of the House of Commons to the Senate chamber, and members of both houses of parliament witness that Canadians wish the bill to become law.

link that up with technology such at decaying DVDs and you're sorted.

An aside on this: the military recruits color blind individuals very heavily.

They do..? After deciding to join the service, I looked through the Army MOS specifications: less than 20 out of 200 jobs the Army offers allow for red-green deficiency. Specifically, the Army doesn't allow color-blind programmers (much less infantry.) Go figure.
The Air Force, which is who I intend on going with, seems to think that black text on white backgrounds isn't a bane to us with minor red-green deficiency. w0074r.

By the way, the official MOS descriptions for the Army are located here. You can also find all of the other official descriptions for the other services at the wonderful website as well.

It looks like the U.S. was ~76 people/mi^2 in 1999

Sweden is about 51-56 people/mi^2

I just searched around on google and these documents come up
Word Order in German
Kathol's analysis of German Word Order

Yankee Group (Laura Didio)

AdTI (Kevin Brown)

Mindcraft

(Rob) Enderle Group

Forbes (Daniel Lyons)

Maybe they didn't "get away with it", maybe that did. Depends on how you define it.

Or he's Wah-Hu reincarnated


Nearly all uses up to this time were for warfare or fireworks, but there is an interesting old Chinese legend that reported the use of rockets as a means of transportation. With the help of many assistants, a lesser-known Chinese official named Wan-Hu assembled a rocket- powered flying chair. Attached to the chair were two large kites, and fixed to the kites were forty- seven fire-arrow rockets.

On the day of the flight, Wan-Hu sat himself on the chair and gave the command to light the rockets. Forty-seven rocket assistants, each armed with torches, rushed forward to light the fuses. In a moment, there was a tremendous roar accompanied by billowing clouds of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Wan-Hu and his flying chair were gone. No one knows for sure what happened to Wan-Hu, but it is probable that if the event really did take place, Wan-Hu and his chair were blown to pieces. Fire-arrows were as apt to explode as to fly.

http://thyroid.about.com/cs/toxicchemicalsan/a/flo uride.htm and seem to think Flouride is bad. I met a guy on an airplane whose life mission appeared seemed to be to get rid of Flouride forever.

I stopped using a Flouride rinse my dentist sold me because of it. Seems kinda scary. Please someone rebut this.. I can't seem to find any good rebuttals.

Of course, we also generate lots of low level radioactive waste (contaminated tools, clothing, instruments, neutron sources, etc) but much of this stuff really isn't harmful, it's just that since we know it's more radioactive on it's way out of the plant than on the way in, we have to exercise ridiculous controls.

Those controls are there for a reason.

Otherwise, disaster could strike like what happend in Japan back in 1999 on September 30th. where 'taking shortcuts' produced deadly results.

When was escalator ever a brand?

Did you even bother to try googling for it?? :) Have a look at the third hit, esp. the last paragraph ...

"Over the years, Otis dominated the escalator business, but lost the product's trademark. The word escalator lost its proprietary status and its capital "e" in 1950 when the U.S. Patent Office ruled that the word "escalator" had become just a common descriptive term for moving stairways."

NASA developed Tang? That's funny, I thought General Foods developed Tang in 1957 (original USPTO trademark registration #0670697, filed Oct 16, 1957, renewal [current?] #1974439), and NASA was signed into law in 1958.

A tiny shell was a necessity.

Nonsense. Other OS' at the time, including RT-11, RSX-11 and others were running in similar memory with greater functionality.

Face it, PCDOS/MSDOS was nothing more than a rebadged hack gotten out of the door quickly for marketing reasons. It worked, but users suffered for a decade as a result and M$ still has a who-cares-about-the-users-as-long-as-we-can-sell-i t culture.

Little, if any thought, was given to the needs and interests of non-engineers.

Since MSDOS/PCDOS functionality was a strict subset of CPM/RT-11 etc. functionality, but incompatible for no good reason, this argument is meaningless. It was a quick hack, nothing more, and M$ managed to gradually leverage that hack into the vendor lockin they have today.

That has rather a lot to do with the fact that most people would still not be using Unix even if Microsoft had never existed.

Nice ad hominem.

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It's wrong that an intellectual property creator should not be rewarded for their work.
It's equally wrong that an IP creator should be rewarded too many times for the one piece of work, for exactly the same reasons.
Reform IP law and stop the M$/RIAA abuse.

He was saying "Kali Ma" and this means The Dark Mother. Kali is the fearful and ferocious form of the mother goddess Durga. Everything else about the temple and the rituals was all Hollywood BS though.

More info on Kali: here.

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