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How can things get worse for third-party candidates? Right now, no third-party candidate has a chance of even getting one electoral college vote

This is total Bunk, a third party candidate could pull out a state or two but to the third party candidate the most important thing is to get enough votes for federal election funding the next time around. Perot almost won Alaska in 1992 Sure he was off by 20,000 votes, but it's not like it's IMPOSSSIBLE for a 3rd party candidate to win. Say Hillary Clinton somehow got into the election today, you don't think she would jack enough votes from Kerry to win a state or two? A four way race such as 2000 would do it too, but the third party candidates need more mass appeal than Buchanan and Nader.

. If we had a voting system that more closely mirrored the popular vote (either by eliminating the EC or making each state's EC vote match the popular vote), then third-party candidates would at least get something.

True, but it makes no difference in the long run.

ATI mainly outsold Nvidia because of Nvidia's shoddy manufacturing of early Geforce 5 series cards - poor drivers, drivers that lied, and late to market hardware that looked distinctly weak by the time it was public. This was a direct mirror of the emergence of Nvidia over 3DFX as a major graphics card force a few years ealier, with the exception that this time around, Nvidia had a lot greater cash reserve than 3DFX ever did, so could actually afford to make the mistake.

As it is, I'd be very surprised to find out that the ATI share was more than 55/45 in their favor (remember - a LOT of people outside of hardcord gamer circles are still using early Geforce / TNT cards - I have even seen Geforce 2 *MX* cards still being sold as low cost no frills acceleration) and with the new 6600 cards coming out, this is going to be a firm kick to the nether regions of ATI. There just isn't a card on the market that can hold a candle to it, and when you combine this with Nvidia's far superior Doom 3 performance, I'd certainly not bet against Nvidia becoming a dominant 3D acceleration force over the next few years.

Why do companies these days always resort to the law to handle their problems.

the Beatles' company should hire Mr.T

TUCKER: I thought the whole point of this was to get away from the Vulcans.
ARCHER: Four days there, four days back... then she's gone. In the meantime, we're to extend her every courtesy.

ARCHER : God, she's beautiful
TUCKER: And fast. Warp four point five next Thursday.
ARCHER : Neptune and back in six minutes.

ADMIRAL FORREST: The warp five engine wouldn't be a reality without men like Doctor Cochrane and Henry Archer, who worked so hard to develop it. So it's only fitting that Henry's son, Jonathan Archer, will command the first starship powered by that engine.

What don't you like? Are you saying Wolfowitz is not Jewish? Are you saying Jews don't want the U.S. government on their side, as they kill Palestinians? (Guess who paid for those Israeli Blackhawk helicopters that shoot at Palestinians on the ground: You, if you are an American taxpayer.)

If you are saying that Christian fundamentalists don't think that all Jews will be converted during the "end time", you are very out of touch with people who are less educated than you. If you think that most Jews will actually be converted, rather than killed, you don't know Jewish or fundamentalist Christian culture.

If you think that encouraging Jews to fight Arabs and Muslims is good for Jews, you don't know how violence works.

A lot of people who plan to vote for Bush are very poorly informed about what is actually happening.

Why the Hysteria? You have nothing to worry about.

Try this link

Pellucidar...or something. Ah..new window..google an voila http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6696/p ellucidar.html (watch out for that space in the URL) At the Earth's Core. Great fun. Telepathic saurians & other weirdness. &... Really folks. It's all about thee pulp. Kill the bad guys, save the world, ride off into the sunset. You want artsy, watch Bergman. Sheesh!

One interesting thing I've noticed about the memo in question is that in some places (most obviously at "took the call" and "obviously", first line of either point) there are vertical alignment errors that occur in the middle of a word, but appear to respect character boundaries and do not skew the rest of the document.

(samples posted at http://www.geocities.com/mektronik/, with additional red alignments)

This is typical of mechanical typewriters, but difficult to imagine happening on any sort of printer (since they usually print horizontally, and also since if they did print vertically they would skew the entire document), or any sort of photocopier (for the same reasons).

My feeling is that if someone went to the effort to fake typewriter-like vertical misalignment then they wouldn't be caught using the default settings of Microsoft Word. :)

It seems plausible that the Word match could be because Word is setup to a sort of industry standard, but the "th" part is more compelling (although there do seem to be some typewriters that had such keys).

but does it run Jesux?

When I was working on clearing the pioneer-preference hurdles for the first Ka-band license from the FCC the main problem was getting people to realize that with two high gain Ka-band antennas pointed at each other, you're not talking your normal "orbital slot". With phased array antennas you can beam-switch very rapidly and, with a large dish combined with a large phased array, the spot on the ground can be very small. It actually makes sense to have a number of such satellites in a small sector of the sky. This is related to what David P. Reed has been trying to say to the guys at the higher levels of the FCC for a while. Just getting it across to the lower level technical staff was hard enough during the first license.

Basically, the origins of IP law were a method for the King to tax producers, who then could make exclusive money on their goods/products.
So in today's terms the government (king) taxes the people/consumers (alot for buying) and the producers (alot less for employeeing and producing).
So the more stringent IP laws we have, the more money corporations/government (mainly those who control it ..unfortunately the percentage of people who actually vote in elections does not constitute the majority of people and thus the government is becoming less and less by the people and of the people) earn.
Thus making it easier to enforce more draconian and assanine laws to control my rights.
Man I gotta get into industry so I can get rich and start pushing some people around!!!! Whoever wins we still lose

Whoever wins we still lose:
http://www.geocities.com/t35t0r

So who do I vote for then? Kermit The Bot?

I'd vote for Jet-Poop from Everything2.

The guy makes fucking sense, too bad (it looks like) it's a joke.

In fact, it's been done over the parallell port with no special chips by writing a driver that emulates the original signals from the system. I made a couple for my buddies at school last year with some old SNES pads and $3 connectors I got from Radio Shack. The only tricky part was getting power to the controller, most sites reccomend tapping the power supply directly but I've been running it through the parport with a few diodes and haven't blown up my motherboard... yet. You can get the pinouts and drivers from here

I have a feeling that when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt didn't read about pet goats for ten minutes.

No, because he knew the Japanese were going to attack from intelligence reports months in advance, and realized he needed to permit Japan to launch the attack in order to change US opinion about going to war with the French and Brits.

At least that's what many historians and experts have said - with more credibility than any Michael Moore film.

So what would you do if someone whispered into your ear: "A plane has just crashed into one of the the World Trade center buildings" - grab the nuclear football and cut loose? Run for cover? Tell the children they're all gonna die? Remember your history that planes have crashed into skyscrapers before, such as the B-29 bomber that went into the Empire State Building, and go about being a president while your people gather data?

Real leaders do not react, they make rational, planned, proactive decisions. Study military history: history's military leaders always chose their battleground, rather than let their opponent select it for them. In this one moment, we all had an unrehearsed opportunity to realize Bush wasn't some legislative parrot like Kerry and Edwards, but a leader of the executive branch.

The Chechnian rebels are now Islamic, but they used to be secular -

non-religious.

Totally false.

You should try reading Tolstoy's Hadji Murad some time. You will see that even back in the 1840s, the religious and political problems between Chechnya and Russia had been going on for hundreds of years. The main difference is the present and the past is that, though Putin has been inexcusably ruthless by modern Western standards, he almost looks like quite a nice guy when compared to the way that the Czars and the Soviets responded to rebellion.

PPJoy is cheaper, can be made with spare parts, and works real nice. Supports all kinds of weird joysticks/gamepads.

There are simpler ways.. like this parallel port interface (page is SNES, but the same design works for NES controllers too)

I've personally built several of these interfaces, and they work just fine, with one caveat: depending on your parallel port you might want to put a transistor in there, like in this design. I haven't had any problems with the latter design with any parallel port type, although you might need to change resistor. (or just skip it altogether)

(Yes, there are drivers for Linux, Win95/98/Me and 2000/XP)

Honestly, there is a good bit of life in the Star Wars Galaxy. Take a notice of the Jedi and Sith Wars in the Knights of the Old Republic or the rumored Spielberg Star Wars Miniseries.

The "Rise of Vader" done in HDTV format would be impressive due to Speilberg getting his directing/producing chops in made for TV movies and a wealth of experiance.

With the animation studio ready and there is plenty of Star Wars lore to be explored. The difference between the Lucas Empire and Viacom is that LucasFilm/Arts/IML/Skywalker Sound/Lucasfilm Animation is all in house and focused on Star Wars while Star Trek is nothing more than a former Desilu Production under the Viacom Empire.

I wish I still had the book, there was source code with it (maybe it's around here somewhere)...

This type of thing has already been done with the Nintendo Powerglove. In fact to the point where serial interfaces are available for purchase.

Another link:
Wireless Glove Project

I wish I still had the book, there was source code with it (maybe it's around here somewhere)...

This type of thing has already been done with the Nintendo Powerglove. In fact to the point where serial interfaces are available for purchase.

Another link:
Wireless Glove Project

I wish I still had the book, there was source code with it (maybe it's around here somewhere)...

This type of thing has already been done with the Nintendo Powerglove. In fact to the point where serial interfaces are available for purchase.

Another link:
Wireless Glove Project

Greetings Citizen, my name is Wheream-I-ATT, and this is the great and wonderful world of the computer, of Alpha Complex, of PARANOIA!

Huh? This is a game right?

Game, Citizen? What game? This is Alpha Complex, the world of the computer, and you are a citizen of it. I assume you are new to your clonedom and will forgive your almost traitorous tone.

Citizen? Computer? Troubleshooter? Clone? Traitorous tone?!? What are you talking about?

Tsk tsk, citizen. You must've been influenced by some subversive commie mutant traitor plot. Perhaps mind control. Ah well, we shall start your education from the beginning. The most important things to remember are The computer and Alpha Complex.

This is the Computer. The Computer runs Alpha Complex. Alpha Complex is where we live. It's where we die. The Computer runs every part of Alpha Complex, and every part of your life. You, and every other clone in Alpha Complex serves the Computer, and the Computer, in turn, makes sure that you are safe, happy, clean, productive, and not a commie, mutant, or traitor.

Ok, so the computer is the big boss, and this "Alpha Complex" is the big city we live in. Is there anything outside of Alpha Complex?

That's WAY above your security clearance, citizen.

My WHAT? What's a security clearance?

Security Clearances are the way the Computer makes sure that no one is exposed to information or items that doesn't concern them. Citizens start out at Infrared, which technically is black. So a citizen of infrared clearance is only allowed to touch things colored black, eat foods that are dyed black, and wear black clothes. These are the happy rabble at the bottom of the clearance list. The list then goes up from there through the color spectrum. The full list is:

• Infrared The lowest level of security, the rabble.
• Red Troubleshooters.
• Orange Advanced troubleshooters.
• Yellow Troubleshooter leaders.
• Green These guys are pre-police, but still in the troubleshooter range.
• Blue The cops, or the military. Which is sometimes the same thing.
• Indigo Police chiefs, high level briefing officers, heads of departments, Government officials.
• Violet REALLY high level whatevers. These are the big wigs of the military, police, service groups, or whatever
• UltraViolet Programmers. People who work DIRECTLY with the Computer. These are the top of the heap. You'll never be one.

Understand?

Gleefully stolen from An Introduction to Paranoia

Nooooo she wasn't!

Look at the cast. She wasn't on there!

That's why I skimp on extensions and go for *bookmarklets*. Here are my bookmarks and bookmarklets: http://www.geocities.com/jonathan_aquino/bookmarks .html. Firefox has a load-bookmark-as-sidebar feature that is perfect for this narrow page. (Some of the cooler bookmarklets here are text-to-speech on the selected text, and highlighting all occurrences of a regular expression).

Do yourself a favor. Grab a emulator, the Dragon Quest 6 Rom and the NoPrgress patch , and play one of the greates snes rpgs.

Bill Nye is a weak white-bread second-hand clone of Beakman, and does not deserve to be on any list of anything.

Note that in the link above, you'll find that by amazing coinceidence a Beakman DVD is due out tomorrow! For those of you not privledged enough to see science done with a guy in a giant rat suit for a sidekick, you owe it to yourself to spend the $10 and get a copy.

I'll still place Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in the lead though - but followed by Beakman.

What about backups though? How would a user be able to group (manually) related files together, so that the whole bunch can be backed up later, without having to search for all seeminly related (or unrelated) keywords to trace all hitherto-unrelated documents?

Defining "group" is one of the problems with hierarchical systems. What is the group you want is dependent on your needs at the moment. Relational makes it easier to create ad-hoc groups.

For example, do you want to backup by file age, file type, and/or by topic? And in the real world topics naturally overlap. Set theory has an easier time with this because it is meant to deal with overlaps; but hierarchies get messy beyond about 3 orthogonal factors. Relational is closer to set theory than trees are.

A drawback of sets is that most people are not familiar with non-tree arrangements. There will probably be a "training hump".

More about sets versus trees.

Don't know whether anyone cares or not, but I keep my adblock settings available here. My file is a bit more complex, but does an excellent job. If you find any problems or notice any ways it could be improved, let me know (email listed in the instructions file).

Perhaps a lot of salesmen use sales figures to tally the number of users of each OS out there?

Typical bistromathematics from a salesman: "Let me see... 2000 seats of Win2k3 at AUD$139 and 2000 seats of (downloaded for free) Mandrake Linux equals 2000 MS-Windows users and zero Linux users. Microsoft is steamrolling the market. Job well done." <thwack!>

Sites that require IE and then say, Napoleon-style, "what Konqueror-on-Linux users?" are another classic statistical blunder. Of course the Konqueror (Mozilla, Opera, yadda yadda) users are either going to up-stakes or set their browser ID to MSIE-in-WinXX! <thwack!> (and <thwack!> again, that was really stupid!)

This comment by Sancho is just begging for a reply, so here goes:

Of course, the copyright system itself is the reason we have book, media, etc.

I have been meaning to say this for a long time: People write books for other reasons than profit. The claim might even be made that works for hire are not art at all since profit is not a motivation for true art. Whether or not that is true, people write books for lots of reasons. Some people, on occasion (like thousands of Slashdotters, for instance) might actually have something to say to the world.

The system allows for the (supposedly limited) monopoly on ideas so that artists could make a living and produce their content.

Without such laws in the first place, it's unlikely that we'd have the variety and multitude of movies, books, television shows, etc. that are out there.

Some say it's a bad thing, some say it's a good thing, but in a free society that should be all about choice, it's pretty definitive of our ideals. Lots to choose from.

Don't get me wrong. I advocate switching to another browser on my webpages because of IE's vulnerabilities and continued "patch update" nonsense wasting my time. My only problem with Mozilla gaining in usage %age is that the virus/trojan/spyware makers will aim their slime at Mozilla browsers now. I don't use Firefox or Opera or Safari, but i'm not going to advocate everybody run to the browser I use---Why would i want the scumbags to aim their slime at my browser???? :-)

" There are other ways to contaminate an area"

Like this?

By "in space", I'm assuming you mean in orbit. Remember, "what goes up, must come down." This applies to objects in orbit due to small amounts of drag. In the long run, these orbiting reactors would end up falling to earth and disintegrating in the atmosphere. Most definately a very bad thing.

A good reference of why this is a bad idea is Cosmos 954 http://www.geocities.com/conspiracyprime/e2_cosmos 954.htm

A former head of the Atomic Energy Commission's fusion program -- indeed one of the 3 primary founders of the Tokamak program, Robert Bussard, picked up that legislation and sent it to all members of the Congressional committees on energy as well as to the various physics labs. In his cover letter he admitted that the Tokamak program had been a sham program -- promoted in the wake of the Apollo program -- to try and get funding to try out all the "hopeful ideas" out there. The Tokamak program turned into a Frankenstein monster and instead started killing all the hopeful ideas they had originally set out to fund.

It's taken quite a while for the government to lose its fixation on the Tokamak.

Maybe now they'll reconsider my legislation -- especially now that the prize award approach has been largely vindicated.

Or will it take another Viet Nam, or worse, WW III for them to wake up to the stupidity of their energy policies?

We're heading towards a global library of media. The pirates should be left alone, theres still enough capitalism left in the system to pay for movies. I hit this IN DEPTH: Chapter 6

And, yes, I do know how the game is played.

Since the national hurricane center has downgraded Francis to a category 3 (sustained winds less than 130mph), your "best" case scenario is more likely.

However, save the "no one is hurt" your "best" case scenario is, however, the worst case scenario -- and I mean that for the Earth as a whole -- not just for the American pioneering heritage.

This is supposedly the... Worst Hurricane Ever

Granted, the monetary costs will probably exceed Camille, simply because south Florida is more densely populated than south Mississippi. However, when one considers the pure destructive force, it's hard to compare to Camille. Just ask anyone from Mississippi or Alabama who was of reasonable age to remember August 17-18, 1969.

Two applications make my Clie totally worthwhile: PAdict and MegaWiki. PAdict is a Japanese-English dictionary and MegaWiki lets you take notes in a wiki-like fashion.

Apps like these are great because they're simple and get the job done. You're right, though, stuff like watching videos on this thing, or even looking at photographs, just ain't worth it. Features like that are just novelties. They wear out quick.

Maybe the problem is too many companies figured they could make these things beefier and added more features, but they forgot what made them good in the first place: they were simple easy to use.

http://www.geocities.com/orion_blastar/signs/punch coupon.html

Please feel free to read it and print it out and use it.

You're obviously a young uneducated republican. I was only a kid but I remember the 1968 riots at the Democratic Convention and Republican Convention (less well known).
Go learn before picking up the keyboard and spouting ignorance.


Better yet, try out this experiment. Put on a No More Bush t-shirt and go to one of his rallies. If you're real nice, I'l post your bond when they arrest you. I don't hate Bush. I hate the assault on the Constitution his administration is guilty of. My family has fought and died for those rights over the centuries and I'll be damned if I'll let anyone take away those rights without a fight.
Lastly infeeding this troll. I'll just add that voting for the wrong candidate because of the actions of radical liberals is utterly irresponsible and idiotic.

If you want google to paw through all your files and risk having your account yanked for violating the user agreement, feel free to use it... (heck, maybe google won't yank your account in return for the opportunity to index your files...)

Mail-based file systems are nothing new, nor are http-based file systems (or WebDAV, for that matter).

but this is where it's at..

I'm too lazy to look it up, but I think the factoid is that 80% of the Canadian poopulation is south of the 48th parallel. As if they were amassing for an invasion. (Sarcasm alert: Sarcastic website linked...Well I think it's sarcastic.)

"socialist/anarchist" evaluates to "1/0", which is an error."

They believe this has the potential to lead to a pill to turn similar genes on in humans

The biggest problem with it is the VESA feature connector required. That along with the 256 color limitation, plastic uncoated optics and the crappy color rendition makes it painfull to use for more then 15 minutes at a time.

Still its cool.

Extinsive mod info at http://www.geocities.com/mellott124/VFXLinkbox1.ht m

Which I have just rediscovered, I've got to get to work, others have been busy. Even cooler!

We have no heads!