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I just got a response from tech support and apparently they cancel the email account when you cancel the service, so you'd still be "playing roulette" in the time it takes you to sign up for the free account.

The other solution is about $10/mo.

"my only addiction is to the email address."

Solution.

send feedback to earthlink, to let them know what you think about this.

Well, lets just take a look at what Americans did when we were going to invade Iraq:

http://www.basetree.com/thumbs/theprinceofbombs.jp g
http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/d30-30/free-republic- protest-3.jpg
http://truthout.org/imgs.art_01/3.probush.082705.g rab.jpg
http://www.beyondsatire.us/files/Pro-war.jpg
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www. brumm.com/antiwar/feb16/images/032-DefeatEvilProWa r2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.brumm.com/antiwar/feb1 6/032.html&h=480&w=640&sz=103&hl=en&start=6&tbnid= Z_lFLjYPEHUHrM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq %3D%2522pro-war%2522%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3 D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG
http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/d30-30/free-republic- protest-1.jpg
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/28/xinsr c_5620802281138515300128.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~bobbyfoto1/sitebuilderc ontent/sitebuilderpictures/wegavepeace.jpg

Of course, that's not nearly as bad as what you see in Israel. There was the October 2000 riots which involved thousands of Jews chanting "Death to Arabs" while they ransacked arab property, for example. Oy, I could go on for hours about the sort of stuff you get in Israel. Tons of speeches by all sorts of politicians and army leaders referring to them as vermin, worms, cockroaches, a disease, etc. Sh'a Tova even carried a comic strip for children which said "Yes, a good Arab is a dead Arab." Here's a nice article, although it's only a start.

It takes more energy to grow the stuff than it produces.

We don't need it anyhow.

There is plenty of oil.

Ten years from now we will be using oil...

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

An artificial intelligence could maybe use these new methods to grok all human knowledge contained in all textual material all over the World Wide Web.

Technological Singularity -- -- here we come!

Those folks need food, water, medicine and lots of other things before they need a stupid laptop.

$100 is a lot of money in places like India.

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

An example of a browser quirk that apparently depends on the CONTENT inside the tags, not the tags themselves:

Description:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tabl ebug/ie5_tableborder_bug.htm

Screenshot of the original issue: http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tabl ebug/ammo_02_tablebug_comp2.gif

And in a slightly newer build of IE5, the bug was still there but affected different examples.

Aside from scratching my head over how such a bug got into the rendering engine in the first place, how the hell do you test for *content* affecting *tag behaviour*?? The possible interactions are infinite!!

An example of a browser quirk that apparently depends on the CONTENT inside the tags, not the tags themselves:

Description:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tabl ebug/ie5_tableborder_bug.htm

Screenshot of the original issue: http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/kennel/news/tabl ebug/ammo_02_tablebug_comp2.gif

And in a slightly newer build of IE5, the bug was still there but affected different examples.

Aside from scratching my head over how such a bug got into the rendering engine in the first place, how the hell do you test for *content* affecting *tag behaviour*?? The possible interactions are infinite!!

The world is awash in oil..
Abiotic unlimited oil rules..
http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html
Don't believe the scams...
Like airplanes destroyed the towers!
http://www.st911.org/

If you're in Dallas you can get away from the phone company. EarthLink offers 8MB/1MB DSL+Home phone connections via Covad there. I have the service in SF and its great. The tech support sucks but you're on slashdot so you couldn't possibly need much tech help anyways. Since COVAD is doing your lines you won't be blown off by the phone company if EarthLink decides theres an issue with your lines either. http://www.earthlink.net/voice/bundles/dslhomephon e/

ya know -- bottom line -- ya jus can't expect the other guys
to put down their guns if you're not willing to disarm yourself.

2cents
j

Let's use a handy little tool, found at http://www.westegg.com/inflation/. It calculates the value of money corrected for inflation across the years. The Empire Strikes Back, according to the IMDB's list, made $290,158,751 in 1980. Let's just plug that into our little calculator, correcting to 2005...

$736,904,249... Oh, and 53 cents. Just *slightly* more than the $380,268,258.46 that the Passion of the Christ made, corrected for the extra year.

A much more helpful list can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/movies/topadj. html. It's the top movies, ranked not by box office statistics (which are both uncorrected for inflation, and are not managed for increasing ticket prices that may or may not outstrip natural Consumer Price Index changes). We can see that Gone With the Wind (#68 in pure box office) and Star Wars (#2 in pure box office), first and second respectively by attendence, blow away every other movie by a huge margin. Your examples? Empire Strikes back ranks 15th, with 101.7 million attendees. Passion? 81st, with 53.7 million, barely more than half.

People will go see Sci-Fi - it just has to be done right.

I'm sure you're not the only redneck geek. In fact, here's a page where you can find oout if you're a redneck geek.

There is plenty of oil.. more than we can use..

Look it up... Abiotic oil rules!

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel.

Oil is not a fossil fuel and we have too much of it..

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

I forgot to mention the cleanup method for the nuclear waste. There's been some interesting work in how to get the Earth's subduction zones to take care of it for us. Here's a brief (but ugly) site that explains it pretty well.

This doesn't "delete" online predators, it "deletes" online young people who've done nothing wrong.

In reality, online predators will still flourish, young people will get around blocks, and the government will come back asking for a law that places new burdens on individual sites a la COPPA.

Why are young people who've done nothing wrong shouldering all of the burden? In terms of victimization when compared to the real world, myspace is paradise for teens. Sociologist Mike Males discusses this hysteria here http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/yt-myspa.htm

The Massachusetts AG wanted myspace to raise its age to 18 to "protect young people from predators". Given that the overwhelming majority of predators are over 21 and many are over 30, why not suggest banning people over 30 and limit people 21-30 if "protecting teens" is the goal?

Here is another explination of 'Bills of Attainder'

http://home.earthlink.net/~founders/billofa.htm

Reading the finalist listing though, I've seen that there is the damn fine novel 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' by Susanna Clarke. Very amazing book, superbly written, it even has annotations in essay style, definitely a contender which I recommend to anyone interested in reading a good novel and as a fantasy genre initiation (though I would never define it as 'fantasy').

Even though I put off my judgement until I have read Camouflage, if S. Clarke lost to Haldeman, then it must be a damn fine novel indeed.

(Speaking of runners-up, John C. Wright is also quite good, his Golden Age series give some needed fresh-air to the hard-sf speculative fiction genre.)

For more lighthearted biological names that you ever dreamed were possible, check out Curiousities of Biological Nemenclature
My personal favourite (relevent, too!) is "Tyrannasorus rex Ratcliffe and Ocampo, 2001 (Miocene hybosorid scarab from Dominican amber) The dinosaur is spelled Tyrannosaurus." Tyrant King beetle?

What I had in mind was something more than being able to find a keyboard equivalent for commands:

1. Ratpoison

2. Ion

3. larswm

4. WMII

But you're definitely right that Apple has addressed the keyboarding issue; I should have been more precise here.

Suspect email blocking--[snip]Filter all emails from senders who are not in your personal address book. You can read messages in your Suspect Email folder at any time, or EarthLink can send you a report summary of suspect messages. For maximum protection, we recommend you turn on Suspect email blocking.

hmmmm... I'm sensing a theme here... Guess who New Orleans approached to take over their wifi network....so sayeth the official EarthLink blog... the telcos can't really complain much if the private company runs the network for profit... http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/03/saving_wifi_in_ new_orleans.php

Also, GDC needs to become more stable and integrated into GCC, or at least appear in most Linux distros' package repositories. A 1.0-release with a stable ABI will also help. And the D-mangling patch for GDB should be integrated...

A stable cross-platform GUI library is also needed. WxWidgets is good on Windows and UNIX but only "OK" on MacOS X. A stable release of WxD will do. DWT (D port of Java's SWT) seems promising also but AFAIK only available as a win32-only alpha release so far. D bindings for Qt 4 would rock!

D is a really great language and I really hope it will catch on! It has a lot of potential to be the next big programming language in the areas where C and C++ rule today, and even in some of the areas where C# and Java rule. Unfortunatly I don't think it will happen because "the market" often wear blinkers but I'd love to be proven wrong. :)

Dang it. I failed to Preview AGAIN (and didn't notice that the first post to correct this didn't go through). What I meant was:

Status VOS uses < for the parent directory as does Multics apparently. I found this "OS Rosetta Stone" when trying to remember the one for VOS (since I unfortunately worked with it at my first job).

According to the official EarthLink blog (http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/03/saving_wifi_in _new_orleans.php) New Orleans has approached EarthLink about taking over the WiFi network there. Given that EarthLink is building out the networks in Philly and Anaheim as well this might be the solution to the problem. If a private company runs things the telcos can't complain.

Just A cluebyfour hit for you.. earthlink does filter port 25 trafic

http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?article=4015%22

"In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure."

Stop Propogating Myths

The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances.

He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced.

The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down.

In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.

"In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure."

Stop Propogating Myths

The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances.

He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced.

The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down.

In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.

"In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure."

Stop Propogating Myths

The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances.

He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced.

The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down.

In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.

"In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure."

Stop Propogating Myths

The first typewriter had its letters on the end of rods called "typebars." The typebars hung in a circle. The roller which held the paper sat over this circle, and when a key was pressed, a typebar would swing up to hit the paper from underneath. If two typebars were near each other in the circle, they would tend to clash into each other when typed in succession. So, Sholes figured he had to take the most common letter pairs such as "TH" and make sure their typebars hung at safe distances.

He did this using a study of letter-pair frequency prepared by educator Amos Densmore, brother of James Densmore, who was Sholes' chief financial backer. The QWERTY keyboard itself was determined by the existing mechanical linkages of the typebars inside the machine to the keys on the outside. Sholes' solution did not eliminate the problem completely, but it was greatly reduced.

The keyboard arrangement was considered important enough to be included on Sholes' patent granted in 1878 (see drawing), some years after the machine was into production. QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down.

In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.

Stop Propogating Myths

With respect to Saudi Arabia as it is today, you are correct. Their history is quite different, as the al-Saud royal family allied themselves with Wahibist extremist clerics. See Saudi holds cards to Islam's future for a brief history.

With respect to Al-Andalus, which is what the Moors called the Iberian pennensula under their rule, I would suggest you read The Islamic world of Al-Andalus, the Andalusian Umayyad dynasty and its golden age and A Brief History of Al-Andalus.

I suppose I could drone on about various other readings, mostly published books covering the rise of the Moorish state in Iberia as well as the formation and history of Saudi Arabia under Abdul Aziz Ibn Al-Saud but there is ample opportunity for you to discover these yourself if you are truly interested.

I want to see you translate this back to English:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rmwt/a.htm

still not as good as this equation.

spam test

In some states, owners of private property are allowed the choice of whether to forbid CCW holders from carrying in their buildings. This is done by posting signs on the entrance.

Thing is, in such areas, businesses that post suffer a higher crime rate than those that don't. The reason can be very simple. How many criminals are going to view the signs as anything other than 'Come on in, We're Unarmed, so we can't shoot back!'?

10 Stores that posted are robbed
New York residents place 'No guns in this House' signs, suffered robbery/burglury spree. Oh, and during a police strike in Albuquerque, armed citizens patrolled during police strike and felonies dropped sharply.
Criminals don't seem to mind No-Gun signs in Ohio
Lengthy article Texas's CCW laws, includes posting

A good reference for CCW and other gun laws in the USA
A collection of interesting statistics

Some interesting cases where the border between simulation and reality is screwed up can be found in science fiction. For example, in Forever Peace, soldiers are fighting real wars in a virtual world, by remotely controlling robots doing the actual fighting. In Enders Game, something similar takes place, made even more interesting by the fact that the soldiers doing the fighting initally aren't even aware their virtual fights are actually taking place for real somewhere else.

so true! -- why is this debate always discussed so polarically??
it is tiring to always hear of this framed as a false dichotomy.

either you're with darwin/evolution/science
OR you're with faith/belief/creationism/religion.

so often the phenomenon are mixed willy-nilly with
the theory of interpretation -- everything is seen
through the lens of one idea or another.

given the same phenomenon, is there an alternate
explanation?? -- where is option C ?

some years back, found a great book written by a scientist, JOHN DAVIDSON.
called: NATURAL CREATION OR NATURAL SELECTION? -- and he gives just such
an option --

    http://www.johndavidson.org/NaturalSelectionReview s.html

his basic premise being: 'Whatever changes or degrees of evolution
may appear are not just the result of outward causal influences,
but are caused from within... and this is because we are part of
the 'universal formative force'.

a couple years later, i found a similar idea
in goethe's 'organic and inorganic science'.

originally, kant thought that biology could not be subject to
the 'knowing' activity we have for physics. but today, many scientists
simply assume that biology must be studied from the standpointt of physics.

goethe sees another possibity -- he PRESUMES darwin's evolution,
but it requires a revision in our understanding of TIME.

goethe shares this idea of evolutionary development as
being not just a process of causal natural selection,
but rather as an INNER development -- and what leads this
development IN TIME is the TYPUS -- here's probably the
best single chapter on the subject:

    GOETHE'S ORGANIC SCIENCE:
    http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA002/English/GA002_ c16.html

regards,
j

Here in CA, judges seem to be largely handpicked by law enforcement -- if a major judicial candidate isn't endorsed by the various police departments, they've little chance of getting elected. And no one wants to be seen as the judge who is "soft on crime"... even on victimless crime ... let alone on crimes "against children". Dismissing a case of statutory rape involving a 17yo and her 18yo boyfriend could put a halt to your career in a hurry, because sure as shit someone would spin it as meaning you're "in favour of letting children be raped".

From my rant page (http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/asylum/wartime. htm):
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6.18.01 Corpus Christi Texas is now placing "DANGER" signs on the homes and vehicles of some "sex offenders" (without much regard for whether the offense was a genuinely predatory abuse or a chance encounter with a consenting but underage girl). Does anyone else hear an echo of those signs warning "JEW" in Nazi Germany??
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Another way to get out of jury duty is to cultivate lawyers as friends. They don't want anyone who might be "influenced" (or advised) by someone who actually knows the law! -- As a lawyer/judge I know puts it, "A jury consists of 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty; so what makes you think they're competent to judge your case?"

I don't think I've heard of any modern cases of jury nullification being exercised by the jurors, tho I have heard of a few cases where the judge threw out the verdict (tho mostly in civil cases with a clearly-excessive financial judgment).

"Hey look at Apple -- they just introduced machines that do not run any software from as little as 5 years ago."

Well.. This dude's game, written in 1984, still runs on absolute latest PPC machines running OS X 10.4.4, with no modification to the code whatsoever (runs on the iBook I bought one week ago). Yup, you're running a binary compiled for a machine from 20 years ago...
http://home.earthlink.net/~mrob/pub/missile20.html

NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel.

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html [earthlink.net]

Not all the numbers in 555 exchange are guaranteed bogus any more. According to the FCC, it's just the 0100-0199 range.

[eyeing your entertainment system, from a safe distance] My brain hurts just from thinking about all those connectors [g]. So do my eyes and ears, tho they're probably just jealous :) -- I make do with a few fuzzy channels off broadcast (we could get satellite, but there's not that much I care to watch), an ancient 15" TV (it has KNOBS) and whatever playback the PCs can manage. Damn, now I feel like electronic trailer trash!! ;)

You do woodworking? My granddad built cabinets where you could barely *find* the seams, let alone drive a razor blade into 'em. I don't have that skill, but I do rescue and refinish discarded real-wood furniture. *Hate* the pressboard crap!!

And as to youth vs. age [brandishes junkmail from AARP]... here's what *I* had to say about it (http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/asylum/random.h tm) some years back:

The quintessential difference between youth and old age:

Youth: Why the hell should I pay someone else to do that when I can do it myself?

Old age: Why the hell should I do that myself when I can pay someone else to do it?

Dream on global warming is a myth.

There is plenty of oil and ways to burn it cleanly.

Peak oil is a lie.

Wake up and learn about reality.

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel.

Scientists don't know a lot of things..

Some even think oil is a fossil fuel!

Read this for the truth about abiotic oil...

http://home.earthlink.net/~root.man/sci.html

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~eellbee/steam2.html

You've slightly mis-understood the idea:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html

Common misconception that the QWERTY layout was to slow down typists. It's simply not true. They were laid out this way to put commonly used letters far apart, to help reduce jams.

http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/myths.html
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html