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One interesting theory I heard: there were two shooters, but the second shooter might not have intended to shoot.

There were various Secret Service people around, armed with various weapons. If you are well trained, you carry a weapon with the safety applied, and with your finger off the trigger, and the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. But sometimes people do screw up.

So, according to this theory, Oswald starts shooting at JFK, and someone screws up and fires off an accidental shot from an AR-15 or something. Then the person who screwed up never admitted it, because if you fatally shot the man you were trying to protect, would you be in a hurry to admit it?

The accidental shot could have been while taking the safety off in a hurry with a finger on the trigger, for example. (One of Cooper's famous three laws of firearm safety: keep your finger outside the trigger guard until you have the sights lined up on a target you are willing to shoot.)

http://www.sportshooter.com/safety/safetyrules_ann otated.asp

I heard this theory from Massad Ayoob years ago during a lecture on safety. He felt that JFK's head wound was consistent with the small, fast bullet fired by an AR-15, while JFK's other wounds were consistent with a big, heavy, slow bullet fired by the Carcano rifle used by Oswald.

http://ourworld.cs.com/mikegriffith1/id89.htm

I have not researched this enough to have an opinion on how likely it is, but I do find it interesting.

steveha

Stimpy, don't press the red button!

That was my first thought, too: Stimpy's Invention.

"I'm so - happy! I must - go - do nice - things! Hee hee he hee hee, ha ha ha hahaaaa!"

On March 26th I enjoyed a game of Day of Defeat.

Tonight, April 06th, without having installed anything or otherwise changed my system, Steam no longer works. Intead, it displays a Windows OS message window that says:

Debug Assertion Failed
File: Src\SteamInternal.cpp
Line: 3224

pClientAccountInfo->m_pAccountEntry->m_pAccount- >I sLoggedIn()

Then I see the good ol' "Could not connect to Steam" message.

I am using a Win98 (version 4.10.1998) box, PII 500 Mghz with a RAGE128 32MB graphics card. However, I don't think it is a hardware problem as I have been playing CounterStrike for the last 3 years on this box.

Steps I have taken (all failed):

- Reset my Steam password
- Deleted ClientRegistry.blob
- Ran Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software (nothing found)
- Configured my Router firewall to allow traffic to Steam UDP/TCP ports
- Uninstalled & Reinstalled Steam
- Rebooted multiple times

Did you guys do anything between March 26th and April 6th that I should know about? :(

FYI With the Pentagon thing:

http://ourworld-top.cs.com/mikegriffith1/refute.ht m

No sense arguing over and over on this, but I think you are wrong. You cannot find any evidence to substantiate your case which isn't either wholly speculative in nature, or takes into account a subset of Florida, which is a distraction and not the truth. There are plenty of references available.

In any case, there was never a thorough audit that was officially accepted - that much is true, because the reality is after the Supreme Court made their decision, there were a lot of powers that didn't want any more digging to be done. The American people were the real losers.

I do agree with you though, that Gore screwed up in not fighting this issue more thoroughly.

It seems like that the "Robert George of Princeton Law School" mentioned in the New Jersey Ballot site (second "this") is probably Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. It seems like an understandable error to mistakenly assume the Professor of Jurisprudence is at a Law School.

In my field, the canonical example is the degree from Princeton Law School. A Google search turns up several references that are not obviously jokes or fictional -- like this or this (though those are not resumes).

The first things that you should consider to be at fault are memory, video RAM, and cache. They are a common source of problems that don't seem to have a cause. That's because they are so sensitive to electrostatic shock, that when they are put in, they could be damaged but still work. You can check those components by using hardware testing software. I must warn you that a memory test can take hours. If you have 128 MB, prepare to leave the machine on for over a day. Check out PCDiags (but that one costs money) or visit your hardware manufacturers page to get testing programs for each piece of hardware. If you don't know what hardware you have, use System Analyser to make a list.

After you have ruled those out, break down the system to the bare components that you need to run the game. Take out your sound card, modem, ethernet card, and disconnect all peripherials except mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Then play and see if it crashed. If it doesn't, then it was one of those components. Start putting them in one-by-one until the problem happens again, and you should know what is wrong.