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No, it means "new"

At least I can blame Google translating services for this one, but maybe I should have just written on what I really know about... I mean, my message seems to have more errors than the one I was nit-picking on, that's some pretty humbling experience ;)

It isn't entirely uselsss. "skipping stones" was the tech behind the bouncing bombs in WWII that the Allies used to destroy German dams to deprive their industry of water. A couple weeks ago there was a great documentary about it on t.v. but i can't find a link - wuz on discovery or history channel i think - might have been one of those "dangerous jobs" shows. The bombs would bounce across the water & timed so that they would sink when they got up close to the dam and then detonate deep under water against the structure. Unfortunately, my words do not do the program justice.

political views support free trade

Bull.

They support protectionism at every opportunity. Just check out the Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute. Time after time International agencies have condemmed US actions, yet they continue imposing unilateral duties. This has dragged on for twenty-two years

Here are other disputes.

http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3660508&p 1=0

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/28/10698 25989738.html?from=storyrhs

You can see more of the original news items with this search:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- 8&q=sound+crunch+space+station+international&btnG= Google+Search&meta=

Try this search then.

The search phrase was:
"red hair" singer "tom morello"

perhaps the liscences have not been terminated.
Sasktel told me that they were terminating the liscences, but hell, they have been wrong before.

what i'm pretty sure of, is that they CAN terminate the liscense. here's something i felt lucky about (windows 98 eula)


Termination. Without prejudice to any other rights, Microsoft may terminate this EULA if you fail to comply with the terms and conditions of this EULA. In such event, you must destroy all copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT and all of its component parts. * * * 4. COPYRIGHT. All title and intellectual property rights in and to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT (including but not limited to any images, photographs, animations, video, audio, music, text, and "applets" incorporated into the SOFTWARE PRODUCT), the accompanying printed materials, and any copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT are owned by Microsoft or its suppliers. All title and intellectual property rights in and to the content which may be accessed through use of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is the property of the respective content owner and may be protected by applicable copyright or other intellectual property laws and treaties. This EULA grants you no rights to use such content. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Microsoft.
including, unless otherwise stated negativeley somewhere where i missed, the right of microsoft to cancel specific induvidual's ability to hold liscences, and if they have cancelled it, or modified the agreement , you must surely be in violation of the licence by using it, and must terminate. or something.

Top-name doesn't mean quality. Not anymore, anyway. I had an Apex 3201 that only died on me because my house was hit by lightning. Until then, it provided me with over 1 year and a half of flawless service (I watch movies, not TV, if that helps you visualize how much I used it). When it died, I couldn't buy Apex in my city anymore. So I replaced it with a Panasonic (can't remember the model, but it was a progressive). Less than 6 months later, the Panasonic was dead. This is not uncommon with Panasonic DVD players - do a google on "H07 panasonic". If you're too lazy to google, in short H07 is the error displayed on the little display on the front of the player when all of a sudden you can't watch movies. It means the motor won't spin, and Panasonic recommends a replacement DVD player (but will fix it for $75 plus shipping). Ir seems to affect every model of Panasonic DVD player.

since up until Sept 11th noone thought anyone would *willingly* crash the plane.

since up until Sept 11th noone thought anyone would *willingly* crash the plane.

Scientists say champagne taste is all in the bubbles Ah hell, here's a whole pile of Google links Cheers!

2.5 litres is not a large quantity though. Sure some 'health experts' (non-registered doctors) advocate drinking 5 litres a day (i agree this is misinformation unless there are special circumstances, like running a marathon in the Sahara everyday). 2.5 litres is around the 8 glasses avocated by your local doctor, your local hospital, your local government, your federal government, the UN.

(and where are the side-effects from drinking water?)

I would get a migrane just looking at something with caffeine in it. Building up a tolerence to caffeine took a bit of work, but now I get the headache without the coffee. There are even some benefits to caffeine, so moderation is the word. Drink tea instead of coffee or soda.

Yes, was it the crappy NEC 1100A? They released a firmware update to fix most of the problems, but they're still a terrible drive.

Go and see what Google shows you.

Yea, Bishounen are guys who are feminine. If you study any Japanese culture, you'll see that bishounen are quite popular. The same way bishoujo are popular. Women have many tastes, and women's sexaulity is a little freer in Japan -- there are more women who like to watch 2 men togther, for example. Are you a guy? Do you like watching 2 women get it on? Why?

Japan makes a lot of video games, Japan likes bishoujo and bishounen. This is why you see lots in video games (look at Guilty Gear XX sometime).

Of course, you could always take a gander at US character design. It reflects the culture just the same way -- all bulgy guys and women with impossible measurements!

I always go to the regional news sources when i'm interested in what is going on. While AP/Reuters wire copy that appears at various sites are interesting, and RSS is making syndication of articles much more common, It's always important to "go to the source" as much as possible.

I suspect this whole "unelected" thing is likely political spin created by the parody website. It sounds like he was elected at something similar to a caucus in November (gleaned from skimming this). While this may not represent the "Direct" democracy that exists in the US, that's not the system that is in use in Canada. Not everywhere is using a Presidental system similar to the US, it sounds like Afghanistan is going to end up with a Parliamentary System. Nothing wrong with the other systems as much as they are not liked by the Americans.

Another poster mentioned that someone has already built 2.6.0 .run files - that's cool, but I have no reason to change my *stable* system. Maybe next week when I'm bored.

Reading though this thread I've seen people extole the virtues of ATI and slam Nvidia. One particular poster said (s)he loves h(er/is) 9800. The first Google I get on this card shows a price of $299.00 US. I don't know about anyone else, but I think this is a *total* waste of money. I upgraded my last video card from a TNT2 (32MB) when I couldn't install Unreal Tournament 2003. Time to upgrade. Picked up a GeForce4 MX440. $99.00 CAN. I bought this card for one reason: Nvidia had drivers for Linux - and as a recent Linux convert, let me tell you, this is good news. Cudos to Nvidia - they'll get my $$ when it's time to upgrade again, and I'll get a card that's equivalent to the 299US card for 99CAN.

The name is "Ada", not ADA. It's not an acronym, and there's no need to shout.

Seems like they are trying bring MySql in direct competition with M$SQL server... ( as a spreader of worms )

Check the etymology. Niggard and Niggle have nothing to do with Nigger. By your argument, we can't use Niggle either, because it might "sound" like a racist epithet? I also find it funny that someone (you) who has a problem with the way others use language, use it so badly. Are capitals difficult? Do you know how to use it's/its?

You also have a problem with logic. You say the thought of its racial sound didn't cross your mind, yet that's what concerns you: are you assuming that all "average" black people don't know the difference between Nigger and Niggardly? Who's the racist here?

From an etymological dictionary:

niggard - 1366, nygard, the suffix suggests Fr. origin (cf. dastard), but the root word is probably related to O.N. hnoggr "stingy," from P.Gmc. *khnauwjaz; related to O.E. hneaw "stingy, niggardly," which did not survive in M.E.

nigger - 1786, earlier neger (1568, Scot. and northern England dialect), from Fr. negre, from Sp. negro (see Negro). From the earliest usage it was "the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks." But as black inferiority was at one time a near universal assumption in Eng.-speaking lands, the word in some cases could be used without insult. More sympathetic writers late 18c. and early 19c. seem to have used black (n.) and, after the American Civil War, colored person. Also applied by Eng. settlers to dark-skinned native peoples in India, Australia, Polynesia. The reclamation of the word as a neutral or positive term in black culture, often with a suggestion of "soul" or "style," is attested first in the Amer. South, later (1968) in the Northern, urban-based Black Power movement. Variant niggah attested from 1925, usually in situations where blacks use the word; without the -h it is attested from 1969. Slang phrase nigger in the woodpile attested by 1800; "A mode of accounting for the disappearance of fuel; an unsolved mystery" [R.H. Thornton, "American Glossary," 1912]. Nigger heaven, "the top gallery in a (segregated) theater" first attested 1878 in ref. to Troy, N.Y. " 'You're a fool nigger, and the worst day's work Pa ever did was to buy you,' said Scarlett slowly. ... There, she thought, I've said 'nigger' and Mother wouldn't like that at all." [Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind," 1936]

niggle - 1599, possibly from a Scand. source (cf. Norw. dial. nigla "be busy with trifles"), perhaps related to source of niggard.

Should we also tell anyone with the name Nygard that they need to change it, or at least shouldn't utter it?

Next time you're wrong, just admit it, or shut up.

Hi,

Check out http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:fPMiHUg_FyYJ:w ww.softrom.ro/11098.asp+%22Real+Alternative%22&hl= en&ie=UTF-8.

Then get the mirror at http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm. Enjoy!

Well, especially when it's been slashdotted. Here's a google cache hit to part of his writings.

I agree that it doesn't look to be easy to search around, at least when all you have is an URL to go on (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/30 /OnSearchTOC) and Google to find reachable material. I'm also not too sure about using dates as folder names but that's just a personal thing: I think Tim Berners Lee recommended it at one point in an article "Cool URI's don't Change". He does recommend using "Latest" or some such instead of the creation date in a URI, though, if "there is no reason for the persistence of the URI to outlast the magazine." It might make things easier to search for though, at least if you know when it was created: if the URIs aren't changing then you won't have tons of broken links.

420

i heard it also described as smoke at 4:20 because then you never smoke alone. its like christians praying on xmas eve

You needed another reason? Give it a week and you'll have ten more dead soldiers, all from poor families, and ten more reasons to not vote for that Miserable Failure!

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dude ! Perhaps you haven't heard of Reiki ? You don't even have to get your hands dirty. Its totally wireless.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:http://www.moc pages.com/moc.php/2

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Heerrrr ya goo!

Link Grammar. (Google Cache since their page isn't responding. )

I don't remember all the details, but it is basically a program which parses sentences and links all the parts, given a dictionary of rules. For instance, it show which noun links to which verb, hence Link Grammar.

After getting involved with this I realized how insanely complicated it is to program a computer to understand text that it reads. Machine learning is about the only way this can happen since it has to learn volumes of context surrounding language that we take for granted.

In the past, RBL-type lists worked great. These days, about 70-75% of all of our incoming spam comes from *unique dynamic hosts*, mostly from cable modems. The quantity is drastically increasing every day.

• 1) Establish LLC
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Better check webster.com - first, it's free, second it's a pretty reliable source. and it says:

The plural criteria has been used as a singular for nearly half a century

You may want to looak at google how many pretty "oficial" documents use a single criteria.

Finally, check "CiteSeer" (very "academic" computer-science article repository) for a single criteria.

I understand you attempt to keep English clean, but there is not such thing as a standard English. It's a very alive social phenomenon, varying over the time and across social groups.

And your attempt is especially loughable at /. :)

this abbreviation is giving me second thoughts, perhaps it should not be used to identify this material.

Although this entire idea sounds promissing, it is not the first time that I hear about storing gigabytes of data in a sugar-cube sized material for read only applications. Somehow they just do not materialize.

No, but there's one powered by Macs.

Boy that takes me back ...

Do-It-Yourself Hacked Billy Bass

The Source

Do-It-Yourself Hacked Billy Bass

The Source

hehe .. try this one ;)

define Google

So is a Design Pattern just a clearly defined common problem and a general, language-independent, algorithm for solving the problem?

Remove "clearly defined." Sometimes moving from the problem to the pattern is not clear, but going from the pattern to the problem should be clear.

Change "algorithm" to "model."

Definitions from Google

You mean 160.9344 kilometers....we don't have miles in Canada.

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Actually, he doesn't look like that much of a usability expert.

Just someone that liked to hang out on usenet and get into flamewars on the advocacy groups circa 1995.

Google cache of packages.debian.org

What I would like to see is tropical/salt water fish engineered to live in fresh water tanks. Salt water tanks are fricken hard to take care of. Hard and expensive to start. Salt water fish can be very nice to have, and are generally MUCH more colourfull than fresh water fish.

The pictures of these fish..kind of neet I guess, but it really still looks like a boring fish.

Google images gives you the general idea.

If you could get fish like this in a easy to maintain fresh-water tank, it would be a great jump for joe-shmoes like me wanting to have a nice fish tank without the hassle of trying get a salt-water tank going.

HEAR THAT genetic engineers! do it! :)

What could you do with 120 laser pointers?

Hmmm, not so good. It *is* a worthy Ask /. question, indeed!

"they think it is most likely to be a combination of four quarks - charm/anti-charm and up/anti-up"

Ante Up

[busta Ryhmes]
attention Please, Attention Please!!
this Shit Here Feels Like A Whole Entire World Collapsed!
motherfuckerrrrrrrrrr! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (yeah) Yeah!
yeah (yeah) Yeah (yeah) Yeah (yeah)
buck (buck) Buck (buck) Buck (buck) Buck (buck) Buck

busta Rhymes Now, M.o.p. Now
what You Want Now? (what You Want Now?)
what You Want Now? (what You Want Now?)
what You Want Now? (what You Want Now?)
what You Want Now?
(what You Want Want Want Want Want Want Buck Buck)

ante Up!! No, Cut That Fool!
they Want To Act Stupid Gun-butt That Fool
when I Cock That Tool, Nigga Run Your Damn Jewels
'fore We Fuck Around And Lay You Up In Your Own Blood Pool, Nigga
hunt You Down Nigga, Run Your Ass Down
unleash The Hounds Til Them Niggaz'll Gun Your Ass Down (stop It)
you Frontin Like This Was A Thing Of The Past
with Tattoos Over The Scars A Nigga Left On Your Ass!
my Niggaz Think Lopsided, Bust They Gat Cross-sided
in The Subways They Rob Trains Runnin Along-side It!
(buck Buck) See Motherfucker We Don't Play With That Shit
and If You Want Your Shit Back You Had To Pay For That Shit!
you Little Costume Niggaz, Romper-room Niggaz
get You In The Night Or Early In The Afternoon Niggaz
we Takin Your Whole Shit While We Pass Through
even The Shirt Off Your Back, Nigga Run That Too
the rest

I agree that 'evil' is something of an over-arching word, and we would be well served by more specific terms. People like Bush prefer 'evil' because it is so vague that it is open to repeated re-definition -- especially as each previous definition is exposed as fraudulent.

And -- no, the less psycho implementations of Islam are not hard on women and repressive. Islam was, in it's time, revolutionary in terms of giving women more rights and freedoms than they had at the time.

I dated a girl who had converted to Islam. She didn't seem very repressed by it (I'd say that she had more issues about being bi and islamic than being female).

In North America, we have a very recent history of oppressing women almost as much as the worst of Islam. My mother became an Optometrist in the late '50s, and I remember reading letters where she had to deal with the seriously mysogenic heads of the optometry association who wanted to deny her her license despite glowing reports from her examiners. It really wasn't until the last generation or so that women were expected to do anything more than raise babies and be subservient to their husbands.

It's not Islam that opresses people, it's the various cultures. There are still portions of the US bible belt, where you'd have a very hard time with your 'good christian' neighbours if they found out that you were running autopr0n. There are, in fact, states where public nudity is can still (in theory) get you life in prison.

For more on that point, drop by TERA (Topfree Equal Rights Assoc.) for more examples.

In the other direction, I have one older friend who describes secretaries being assigned to sleep with prominent customers as if it was part of their job description.

Less than a century ago, women were thrown in jail for having the temerity to demand the right to vote, and a law suit was taken to the privy council (back then above Canada's supreme court) to have women declared 'persons'. ( more on google. )