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So the fact that NeXTStep releases an OS with a Dock in 1990 doesn't mean anything in your chronology?

The same Steve Jobs and NeXT that Apple 'acquired' in 1997 that becomes the core and basis of OS X in 2001?

The Taskbar was Windows, but the Dock is at least 15 years old now.

You will think this is completely off the wall. The US has a secret system to track gifted children, and many of them are intentionally brain damaged. The way US society actually works is completely different than the way most people beileve it does, and the actual arrangement of affairs in the US is not tolerant to the existence of a large number of highly perceptive, intelligent people who are not officially connected in and recognized / watched by the power structure.

What you've described, the sudden, obvious change in your child's behavior, sounds a lot like the change some parents have observed after their child received the MMR vaccination. The amount mercury in vaccines is supposed to be too small to cause cognitive damage, but then , who knows exactly what the actual cocktail in a vaccination given to their child is? It may be varied on an individual basis.

The rise in autism rates over the last decades disproportionately effected the children of parents who worked in technical fields. For example, I remember reading an article that speculated the relatively high autism rates among children of Silicon Valley parents might be due to the mating of two naturally nerdy parents who both lacked social skills, despite having high intelligence.

Besides vaccines, there are other methods for reducing the IQ in children in which a high IQ is not desired by the secret groups who actually control American society. Beamed radiation in conjunction with devices implanted in the head are being researched as a technology for secretly influencing a person's behavior, and are also capable of secretly inflicting brain damage.

This is not just in children. I have personally watched the degradation in verbal ability, over a period of weeks or months, in some people I have chatted with in internet discussion forums. I believe I have seen children being victimized in this research. I have seen cases in which consumer electronics devices secretly have this technology embedded in them. Remember the freak case in which a college student's TV was emitting the international distress signal, so powerfully it was picked up by the satellite SOS network? This was probably a test case, to gauge the public's reaction should such secret embedded "mind control" technology be discoverd, and to set a precedent that can be pointed to if such a discovery is made.

I would read up about "mind control" research, and examine your kids dental x-rays or other x-rays of the head yourself, carefully. I would install thorough electromagnetic shielding around the sleeping location of family members. (Or just leave the US to live in a country that is not secretly totalitarian in this way.)

http://www.datafilter.com/mc/
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http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko/

I have a question for you.

Have you ever heard of a gay professor of physics? How about a gay professor of chemistry? Or math? Or any hard science?

I haven't.

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I have a question for you.

Have you ever heard of a gay professor of physics? How about a gay professor of chemistry? Or math? Or any hard science?

I haven't.

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Link does not render well in FireFox.

No, I didn't reprogram sound recorder to be able to play by itself. It is not a screen-captured movie of something that actually happenned on my computer. It is a fictional depiction of one way the soundtrack could have been generated (but wasnt).

Yes, the Windows Recorder will do just fine. Muli-track? Just start a few more instances of the program.

How about if I let you read my views for free, but you need to look at some ads too? Will that work for you?

Just how are you going to ensure that I look at your ads? Like this perhaps?

If I come to your site, it's not to have things pitched at me, therefore I have no intention of paying any attention to your ads. Sending them at me is at best a waste of processor power and bandwidth.

(ie, there's no centralized adblock-blacklist server)

Perhaps I can help in doing my part with respect to this issue. One ruleset that I found not very long ago seems to work very well:

http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/

-Anonymous

Was it this airplane by any chance?

What is wrong with the adblock home page? It gets the job done. Also, what would be the rush on adblock 0.6? Adblock 0.5.x works great and I have not had one problem with it. As for Filterset.G, what problems do you have with the filters or the person who makes them? I just started using Filterset.G and it blocks a boat load of crap in a small filter set.

You don't see people going to extreme lengths to block Google text ads. Why? Because they are fairly unobtrusive, yet still visible enough for people to see them.

Actually, most of the prepackaged adblock rules such as the one at http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock do block Google text ads.

Vincent Price, is that you?

Everyone knows penguins live on Pluto.

There's a scratch for every itch...

It's been done.

By the way, I assume your account name is pronounced "fish".

Ghoti probably assumed that, too. He's in good company: this mistake is usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw, though he seems not to have been directly responsible.

The problem is that ``ghoti'' violates several rules of English orthography. The explanation for ghoti is: "gh" as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation". Unfortunately for the ``ghoti spells fish'' theory, gh==f works at the end of a word, but never[1] at the beginning, o==i is unique[1] to the spelling of women, and while ti==sh works near the end of a word, it is always[1] followed by ``on'', to make tion==shun.

English spelling isn't nearly the mess it's made out to be. It's complicated by the fact that there are two sets of rules (one for the words with Anglo-Saxon/Scadinavian roots, another for the words with Latin/romance roots), and by the fact that many words which we think of as English are actually foreign words which retain their foreign spellings[2]. Still, there are rules, and they _are_ generally followed. Yes, every rule has exceptions, but they are usually few in number, relative to the number of words which follow the rule. More importantly, the exceptions are usually common words, whose spelling you will memorize quite naturally, because you write them so often.

There is a book called The ABC's and All Their Tricks by M. Bishop which does a wonderful job of laying out and explaining the rules and exceptions of English spelling. You can read my brief review of it at my homeschooling books page.

[1] Exceptions to ``never'', ``unique'' and ``always'' are welcomed.
[2] Retaining the foreign spellings of the foreign words is a blasted nuisance, but it does seem a little more cosmopolitan and accommodating and tolerant than the German habit of changing the spelling to match their conventions (but I admire the ease of spelling German), or the French habit of coining neologisms to avoid loan-words.

Sadly true. This site explains what's going on.

Also, I have gotten into livecd distro's lately, and have had to remaster to get WvDial in, so I could connect with some of my modems. I do use a cable modem also, but that takes all of the fun out of it. Nothing to configure.

and his hot cousin She-Hulk

One could go to a trade school (or be self taught) and learn how to competently write C++ programs and yet still not really understand the principles behind programming languages or computers in general. I have met quite a few of these people before.

And employeers love them.

The focus is on the fundamentals of how computers work and how languages are constructed. With this knowledge, it is then possible to adapt to any new technologies that emerges.

Who says the other guy is less adaptable? Sounds like he is good at picking what he needs to know on his own. Software is not about NAND-gates anyhow, it is mostly about psychology.

Declaration_of_Intent to start the ball rolling.

My intent: to coach a fee newbies with my experience, its an enthusiasm for experience swap basically... Any comments would be appreciated, recruits encouraged.

Not provokative enough, basically new hires are thin on the ground, so how do students get onto the free projects, and how do I get management experience, answers on an Electro Magnetic Pulse, build an atomic bomb in your back yard if necessary. Communism just has not been tried... yet. In Soviet Russia the government owned you.

Any reference to grooming and paedophilia is intentional.

Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun.

I wish /. had a "+1 bizarre reference" mod... :-) (For those going "huh?", the answer's here.)

There's no way to just plug an LCD panel into a video card because it works on a lower level than a vga/dvi signal; there has to be something in between the two to adapt the signal to the LCD's resolution and generally do some black magic. In short, yes, you do need to get a controller, but it's still a bit cheaper than buying a whole new LCD, and on top of that it's a learning experience, and something fun to do in your spare time.

This page might be useful reading.

The solution is, of course, to use the Jesux distribution!

No. See "B1. How did the Challenger explode? And what happened to the astronauts?" at sci.space.shuttle FAQ Part B.

John Gulager to direct GOBOTs, the movie. Expect it to be a "B release."

http://www.geocities.com/planetsabretron/gobots.ht ml

And all this is moot anyway, since the hewbrew word there does not denote viriginity. It means "young woman", and nothing more.

It definitely implies virginity. There are only 7 references to 'almah' in the OT, and four of those uses (Gen 24:43, Ex 2:8, Song 1:3, Song 6:8) refer to a "young woman" in a way that implies sexual innocence - someone who may be sexually experienced, but is generally assumed to be virginal; as one reference puts it, "the word clearly denotes a young woman who is not married but is of marriageable age... It is important to remember that in the Bible, a young Jewish woman of marriageable age was presumed to be chaste."

It's worth noting that the Septuagint translates "almah" in Isaiah 7:16 using "parthenos"; so, at least in some sense, the Alexandria Jews who translated the OT scriptures into Greek thought that the proper translation of "almah" in this case was, indeed, "virgin".

http://www.geocities.com/blackbeardian/Magecraft/b wolfmain2.html

his homepage can be found here:

Intro to Blackwolf's Dossier.

The best maintained filter set I've ever seen is the Filter.G http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ Updated just about once a week. I think it's becoming too popular for geocities. When I visited just now it wasn't available (exceeding the data transfer limit).

Using AdBlock combined with a good filterset took care of the Drudge Report for me.

I just installed Filterset.G for Adblock, and the first link I clicked on to test was Slashdot, and I see this story.

Most old IBMs Model M had some problems with the serial cable signals - namely, the signals are supposed to idle at +5VDC and be "pulled down" by either end (computer or keyboard), yet they float at a lower voltage. This generates problems with some keyboard adapters and motherboards.

It can be fixed easily with a couple of pull-up resistors on both data lines. The site also mentions some motherboards & USB adapters that work fine without the mod.

"Blending the quality and style of anime with Western storytelling, IGPX will be the first instance of a U.S. cable network working directly with a Japanese animation studio to create an original series."

I have a web-site that's trying to attract the attention of a North American network, and/or a Japanese animation studio, to accomplish that EXACT goal.

My web-site contains entire scripts for so-far 24 episodes of an original anime series concept called BANANA CHAN. The web-site is at:

http://www.geocities.com/radiomovie2002/

BANANA CHAN is an epic mystery about a tightly-knit Japanese family who must come to terms with many secrets. It's got the extremes of comedy and drama, not to mention a very complicated, yet strange and easy-to-follow, uber-plot.

View my web-site, read the scripts, and learn how anyone can help get this series produced!

The ads bother you? Adblock plus This will eliminate any of his ads.

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
-- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

Looks like they are assembling this thing out in the open!
No building to put it in!

When it rains, they are going to have one Wizard-of-Oz Tin Man to oil up.

Imagine the look on the faces of some revenuers when they come up on this thing in the middle of the woods!

In the movie Fight Club? scroll down and you'll see it

Digitally Controlled Squelch using PLs
Basically a signal broadcast at the same time as the communication signal that opens the squelch up on the receievers. This is what most Police/Fire/Safety Departments use on their radios. You may also try using a (Digitally) Trunked System.

How PL Systems Work
What is Trunking?

You mixed up their lines.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/7606/pulpscri.h tm
Admittedly not the exact script used in the movie, but it wasn't changed much (less "I think"s and so on). Here's the appropriate section:

ZED: Bring out The Gimp. MAYNARD: I think The Gimp's asleep. ZED: Well, I guess you'll just wake 'em up then, won't you?

I heard on a TV show that although 666 is the number present today it was the result of a transcription error during the copy of the bible back in the early days. Some older (than what was known until a few years ago) bible have been found where the number is actually not 666. I can't remember what the exact number was, but it had another nice feature: When you took the name of the Roman emperor (which at the time was slaughtering Christians) and converted the letters to numbers. Then the sum of these numbers would add up to this number (which wasn't 666). I know this sounds like like the
Barney is evil calculations and they might be just that (Isn't math just wonderful). But anyways it does have some other implications for the number 666.

...and people who are totally innocent of any kind of theft (virtual or otherwise) are killed over *much* less money, every day. For example (quick google...), $15.

Yes, it's stupid to kill someone over a virtual sword... just like it's stupid to kill someone over practically anything. But it's *very* easy to understand why the guy might have been furious enough to do something stupid. He was stabbing someone who intentionally ripped him off, and made a lot of money out of it. It's pretty easy to understand why he was mad -- it's not a real sword, but that sure is real money, real entertainment value, and probably a huge time investment getting the sword in the first place that were lost in an instant.

Virtual worlds are not my cup of tea... but I can imagine the feeling of not having any backups of my hobby programming work for 3 months, foolishly lending my computer to a friend for a day... and finding that he'd sold it. I'm not saying I'd start stabbing... but it wouldn't be the computer value I'd care about. Are you going to tell me all that work is only "virtual" property, and I shouldn't worry about it?

Here are some links for the weapon... I believe

http://www.rpgplanet.com/mir/uber/uber7.asp/

http://www.geocities.com/ultimatemir/weapons.html/

Never played Mir before but 30-40+ Million of any game currency is a lot of farming, or botting.

yes, replication in MySQL is supported since version 3.23.15. Check this comparison to look for other open source DBs supporting Replication and Clustering. Ingress and MySQL are the only ones supporting both features.

Check Open source database comparison. It is a good starting point for your database election.

RobertB, did you notice that your beloved Dixie Chicks were in the court today, on the side of the RIAA?

That's teh suck. After all the trouble they had with Sony screwing them around, you'd think they'd know better than to kiss the hand that slaps them. The reason the music industry is losing money is because they produce crap. Artists who don't produce crap get shuffled aside in favor of the next Brittney or Shania.

The Chicks were expected to appeal to a limited number of alt.country fans, and only got big by their willingness to tell Sony to go to hell when they needed to. What are they doing now? This is the dumbest thing since the time Natalie went up against Woody Harrelson on the topic of Marijuana on Politically Incorrect.

Additional details:
Supreme Court Weighs in on File-Sharing
"The case has star power on both sides.

"Don Henley, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians are backing the major recording labels, saying their livelihoods are threatened if millions of people can obtain their songs for nothing.

"About 20 independent recording artists, including musician and producer Brian Eno, rockers Heart and rapper-activist Chuck D, support the file-sharing technology. They say it allows greater distribution of their music and limits the power of huge record companies."

For what it's worth, I'm a fan of Heart, too...

http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/2640/topic. htm#statistics

Bender: "Thanks a lot, Takei. Now everybody knows!"

http://www.geocities.com/theneutralplanet/transcri pts/season4/4ACV11.html