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They might persuade them to go for a scenic jet ride

I think you mean the i860....

http://www.dvo.ru/bbc/hardware/mbc100/hard/i860.ht ml
http://www.answers.com/topic/intel-i860
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/I/In /Intel_i860.htm

Some links for your general edification. Hope they help.

Come on, this is a myth. Are you seriously worried that a tiny little hole is spontaneously going to make the plane crash? The plane exhausts air much faster than this through its normal air recirculation. You wouldn't even know anything had happened unless you could actually see the hole. Even with 1/3 of its roof torn off Aloha Airlines flight 243 remained airworthy and performed an emergency landing.

You don't seem to be a native English speaker or at least you don't seem to be aware of what the word consistent means. If your comment still applies once you've read & understood the definition of the word, please reply again.

I didn't know about the shared Ford panther platform until you mentioned it. I found some interesting stuff here:

http://www.answers.com/topic/lincoln-town-car
http://www.answers.com/topic/ford-crown-victoria

I haven't been in a NYC crown vic cab since after 1998, so it could be that recent crown vics are as cushy as the linc townies.

I can tell you that subjectively, the towncar felt like a smoother nicer ride than crown vics at the time (early 90s). It could have been that the fleet of lincs were newer than your average yellow cab, that the cars were better maintained, that their drivers were more cautious, that the interior trim gave better noise insulation, etc etc.

As for price, it's been a while, so I can't recall. But in general, it's a pre-agreed amount that they will tell you over the phone when you book the car.

Tom

I didn't know about the shared Ford panther platform until you mentioned it. I found some interesting stuff here:

http://www.answers.com/topic/lincoln-town-car
http://www.answers.com/topic/ford-crown-victoria

I haven't been in a NYC crown vic cab since after 1998, so it could be that recent crown vics are as cushy as the linc townies.

I can tell you that subjectively, the towncar felt like a smoother nicer ride than crown vics at the time (early 90s). It could have been that the fleet of lincs were newer than your average yellow cab, that the cars were better maintained, that their drivers were more cautious, that the interior trim gave better noise insulation, etc etc.

As for price, it's been a while, so I can't recall. But in general, it's a pre-agreed amount that they will tell you over the phone when you book the car.

Tom

In particular, it shoud

• not be named after the packager and his girlfriend (no offense intended, Deb and Ian)
• not have it's up-to-date release be called "unstable" or "testing"
• not be named after the end-users nor users of drugs like "user linux" (no offense Bruce)
• should not be named "humanity, caring, and harmony" in any language (no offense to the Ubuntu guys; but CEO's would probably something that implies 'unfair competitive advantage' rather than charitable sharing.
• not contain any swear words (damn small linux, etc).
• not to start with K or G just based on the packager's desktop religion-flamewar (no offense gnoppix and kubuntu)

(hence the name Robot, from "rabota", meaning "work" in russian)

You might want to contact
http://www.answers.com/topic/president-pro-tempore -of-the-senate
http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861736369/pro_t em.html
and
http://dictionary.law.com/
Since they need to be "corrected" as well.

Hardware: Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network

or is it

Your Rights Online: Florida Man Charged For Stealing Wi-Fi

so now he's charged rather than arrested...with the same article as proof? Madness!

Hardware: Man Arrested for Using Open Wireless Network

or is it

Your Rights Online: Florida Man Charged For Stealing Wi-Fi

so now he's charged rather than arrested...with the same article as proof? Madness!

Who the fuck says "in-built"?????????

The dictionary writers?

Pedantic answer: orbit == complete circuit. It didn't do even half an orbit http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/factsheet-t ext.html

To say it was orbiting around the sun when it didn't even go half-way would be like me saying I walked around the block when I just went to the corner, or that Alan Shepards sub-orbital flight was an "orbit". What it did was sub-orbital.

Definition http://www.answers.com/orbit&r=67

1. The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body.

2. One complete revolution of such a body.

You are absolutely wrong. Gasses are fluids. Fluid is a term used to describe both gasses and liquids. Surface tension is unique to liquids. It has nothing to do with being a fluid.

Definition:

fluid
n.

A continuous, amorphous substance whose molecules move freely past one another and that has the tendency to assume the shape of its container; a liquid or gas.

It appears we have someone trying to use this subthread as an advertising opportunity for "Dependency Walker". Aside from the parent post, look here and here. I don't know if this guy is a paid shill or just an over-enthusiastic fan-boy, but clearly, there is a pattern here. People would be well advised to be aware of this, and perhaps moderators should act.

This has been a public service message of the Listmaster General.

>>Except the US did not catalyze the rise of the Nazis (while, thanks to Pat Buchanan-types, the US sure sat back and watched them grow!)


You might want to read some REAL history, intead of the redneck propaganda they tout in your public schools:

http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/99/hhr99_2.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-s emitism/ford1.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holoca ust/IBM.html
http://aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com/reviews/0609607 995.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Henry_Ford _and_Nazism

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23193426
http://www.answers.com/topic/appeasement

OK, the poms are more to blame for the last two, but they had already become a puppet regime of the Americans by then and Chamberlain could not have signed the Munich pact without the discreet endorsement of your government.

Bear in mind that British appeasement of Germeny ended when the Labour party came to power, the same people you hate as "commies".


>>>While the US did engender the Mujahadeen rebels in Afghanistan, it did not engender Al-Quada

Use spellchecker, it's Al Qaeda or Al-Qa'ida (using the standard phenomes characteristic to the Semitic family of languages).

Know your enemy before trying to defeat them.

And yes, Americans did engender Al-Qaeda. They existed back then too, and were it not for stinger missiles supplied by your country to their leaders, the Russians would have crushed Afghanistan like a bug. Were it not for that western-sympathising idiot Gorbachev and his obsession with weakenening Soviet power with all that Perestroika nonsense, Iran would be a puppet government under Soviet control, Afghanistan would be broken, there'd be no 9/11 today, and all nuclear technology would be in the hands of countries run by stable SANE people, intead of mad mullahs who will paint moons and stars on warheads and USE THEM!!!

I'm sorry, for a person who speaks the English language, the phrase "operating system agnostic" makes sense. It means, in context, that the hardware is not committed to any particular operating system. There is no metaphor. You're just not familiar with the breadth of definitions available to you. Perhaps a quick look into a dictionary would help when you feel so confused.

I do find it humourous how you just assumed that your misunderstanding was due to Steve Job's lack of education when it was obviously your own lack of modern literacy that caused it. I'm not being judgemental here. We each have our own linguistic history. There will certainly be uses we've never heard. But assuming that someone is uneducated because they didn't fit into our limited mold is foolish.

They don't even mention the possibility that it has anything to do with Gypsies, nor is it flagged as offensive.

Yes, as we all know, there's only one definition for each word, right?. Oxford lists TWO definitions for the word, and that's just the compact version:

gyp1
/jip/ (also gip)
noun Brit. informal pain or discomfort.

gyp2
/jip/ informal
verb (gypped, gypping) cheat or swindle.
noun a swindle.

From UrbanDictionary.com:

Used as a term to describe when one has received less than they paid for. Most people do not realize it's a racist term that stems from nomadic 'gypsies' who are stereotyped as theiving criminals. "Man, look at your glass. You got gypped on the Coke."

Look, this wasn't intended to slight ANYONE. My intent was to educate, then let people make their own choice. Not everyone knows this, as another poster previously noted. I didn't take offense at this issue personally, as it didn't seem to be intended as a derogatory statement. I tried to make that clear in my first post. Apparently I failed. I apologize. I didn't call the poster an insensitive clod, or attack him in any way. I simply said "You might consider..." and left it at that. I'm having trouble seeing where I caused offense, but it wasn't my intention. If there is any doubt in your mind, perhaps you should check my past posts, in which I tend to score 5 once every four posts because I try to HELP PEOPLE. I'm not in the habit of intentionally alienating anyone, and I apologize if my intentions were unclear. Relax already.

This sounds a lot like:

"Dumping: selling goods at less than the normal price, usually as exports in international trade. It may be done by a producer, a group of producers, or a nation. Dumping is usually done to drive competitors off the market and secure a monopoly, or to hinder foreign competition."

Drive off competitors? Secure a monopoly? Sony? Never!

I imagine the organizers will get a bit tired before it is all over. But I think you really mean leery rather than weary.

I imagine the organizers will get a bit tired before it is all over. But I think you really mean leery rather than weary.

Why is this novel? Because it is applied to shopping? Or making a profit?

Def'n of correlation

Inciteful.

corn is used to produce ethanol, ethanol is burned and gives off carbon dioxide, and corn uses the carbon dioxide as it grows

Ixnay. Politicians know ethanol is crap. It just gives them a better story when pushing for farm subsidies. For more information, see Homeland Defense Funding

GP is again correct and you are completely wrong. Please see this note about how it is a blend of "irrespective" and "regardless" and is non-standard, blunderous speech.

Why do you bother posting at all here?

The concentration of wealth and power since the inception of public corporations has seen trully unremarkable individuals profit from the work of wage slaves and karoshi scientists. I think that so long as a society we have more executives than engineers we will suffer. Look how pathetic we look when we compare our scientist and engineer population with Japan. I have become bitter from living in America and do not consider myself an American because of the general decreptitude of Society here. Being almost done with a Robotics degree I have many nations willing to take me as a citizen. If you are in the field you know one of the major projects will be the research and development leading up to the fielding of a robotic military force from ground to air to space. I will not give my talent to such an ethically perverse nation as the "USA".

The prototypical consumer that was created through advertising and apathy is a monster we as engineers, designers and programmers cannot hide from at the liability of our professional status. Our job is to make life easier through intellectual and imho ethical rigor. The only solutions is to be found through the ability within our expertise to sate the most abject desires without engaging in any form of dehumanization like slavery or war. The responsibility for world peace is not a political or social question but very much a technological one. The world needs a 'New Deal'.

Estopped is not a spelling mistake, it's a legal term.

estop

You occasionally discharge real emails as though they were missiles?

That's exactly right. Under US law (AFAIK, IANAL), agreements are solidified as soon as an exchange of goods takes place - in this case, software for money. So if an EULA is not presented prior to the Point of Sale, it cannot be enforced.

What's more, the last I heard there was a 9th Circuit Court Ruling applying the "First Sale " doctrine to software, regardless of what the EULA says... Which is why those people at computer shows can legally sell you the OEM copies that have "Not for Resale" stamped in big, bold, (useless) letters on the package.

Downloaded software is much more insidious, because many times the EULA is presented before the download... But with Firefox's "Edit Text Box" extension (or whatever it's called), you can change the EULA to whatever you want... or if it's like Sun's EULA, just rewrite the HTML to reflect terms that are favorable to you before you hit 'submit'.

So far I just write in the box that I reserve all rights and privileges and that's all there is to it... I wonder how far one could push it, legally?

Or possibly with the Roman god of the dead and ruler of the underworld...

http://www.answers.com/topic/pluto?method=6

What's the major similarity? The three-column browser at the top of the window? That's basically just a Miller-column browser, like the Finder's 'Column View', but designed for music. Miller-column browsers have been around forever. NeXTStep had one in 1988. This is an obvious application.

"For the record, the US is NOT a democracy."

Hi, welcome to the 20th century... well, you're a bit late, but that's OK.

Here in 20th-land we call any form of government where the people elect leaders, and where any citizen (with minimal restrictions, usually based on age, nation of origin, etc.) can campaign for those offices, a "democracy".

Yes, this does NOT fit the classical definition, but since no one has founded a democracy in a VERY long time (arguably never), it's not going to be very confusing as we continue to use the new definition.

If you're going to stamp your feet and hold your breath over it, you're really going to be unhappy, since most of the world started using the new definition (also, check out Wikipedia's excellent article on the topic of the modern usage of the word "democracy") at some point last century.

I'm out of touch! However, I think I know what SG1 means as a friend of mine worked on the original movie (did the digital effects for the cool opening and closing masks).

Gives a new meaning to hack!!!

Number of persons killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the U.S. in 2002: 43,005.

"Oh no, there are cars everywhere..."

In short, you had a choice between striking a civilian target, or suffer military losses. They picked the former. What would you call that? Yes, it was easier. It was also easier to hit WTC than to take on the US military. It was more effective to nuke the Japanese. Using planes against civilian buildings were also more effective than to hit bunkers. In short, you use the ends to justify the means. If [from an Al-Quaida members point of view] you believe to have a legitimate grievance against the USA, what is to stop them from justifying it exactly the same way you justify bombing Japan?

In November 2004, a UN panel described terrorism as any act: "intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act". [2] This does not define what would count as an "intention" to cause death or injury to non-combatants. A controversy exists over whether this proposed definition would include an action like the American nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities at the end of World War II. (source)

Nope, you would be thinking of the festival celebrating that other great American contribution to warfare - napalm. Coming soon to the Harvard Napalm Festival.
Dontcha just love the smell of burnt baby flesh in the morning?

How come this guys keep stating that as there are different plates, quakes have no relatioin. I live in Chilea and we had 2 mayor earthquakes just yesterday @ northern Chile, and another much smaller 1500 miles south @ the capital, and yet thay state there is no relations as plates are diferent. Now this. I'm not specialist, but NO ONE can be that blind to just state "there is no relation between them". Seismology is not an exact nor completely understood science, so at best they can say "As of our extreemly limited knowledge, we can't find a relation, but it's clear that there IS a relation between them, we'll study what that relation can be.". I'd just like to state that all ppl leaving in what is known as the pacific ring of fire do share a relation. The point is that some studies are still in their basics, wheather, astrophysics, seismology, etc. And even though there are big advances, no one can be considered an "all knowing" expert. At most (at this moment) they can be considered as ppl who study the subject, but has a looooooong way to go yet.

Yes. Shindo and Mercalli

It's the shindo scale: http://www.answers.com/topic/japan-meteorological- agency-seismic-intensity-scale

... the preferred pronunciation sounds more like urine-us than your-anus. Listen: uranus.wav Not nearly as funny to adolescents.

Uh huh. You don't have to tell me what /. is - I've been around long enough to see what it's degenerated into.

It's a blog:

blog

(WeBLOG) A Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included.

Although some blogs invite feedback and comments from visitors, Internet newsgroup discussions, which started long before the Web, tend to be more question-and-answer oriented.

OMG? WTF?
Here's Microsoft Keyboard I've been using.

ah, I meant something like the soyuz got:
soyuz 18a and soyuz T-10-1

ah, I meant something like the soyuz got:
soyuz 18a and soyuz T-10-1

If you've mastered thermodynamics, perhaps you should tackle the English language next. I suggest you start with capital letters.

As I understand it, it's impossible to "steal" from the public domain.

Understand this.

Disney != Google at any time.

http://www.answers.com/topic/disney-animators-stri ke

''...The salary structure remained crazy-quilt, and the only general wage increase Disney granted in those years was self-serving: he brought a number of workers up over the forty-dollar-a-week level, at which point, under the Wagner Labor Relations Act, they ceased being entitled to time-and-a-half for overtime." Schickel says that Disney "responded gracelessly to the pressures of his increasingly difficult economic situation." Story conferences became brutal. "An animator working on Fantasia took piano lessons at his own expense" to increase his understanding of music, and when Disney found out about it, he snarled "What are you, some kind of fag?"

As the biggest and most successful animation studio, Disney was an obvious target for the Screen Cartoonists' Guild. There was a layoff which seemed to target members of the Guild selectively, and things reached a boiling point when Disney fired animator Art Babbitt, whom Disney regarded as a "troublemaker." Three days later, on May 29, 1941, the strike began. ...''

This item by Rei sounds like sour grapes. If you look at Wikipedia - http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-space-disaste rs - you can see a reasonable specification of space-flight related deaths, and the base data for the assertion that Soyuz has a better fatality rate than the Shuttle.

The one thing that shows up is that the Soyuz safety mechanisms seem to work.

Slang:
Language peculiar to a group; argot or jargon: thieves' slang.
...
slang

Expressions that do not belong to standard written English. For example, "flipping out" is slang for "losing one's mind" or "losing one's temper." Slang expressions are usually inappropriate in formal speech or writing. (See jargon.)