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Re:Summary Info
That kinetic interceptor looks suspiciously similar to the garbage disposal I put in this weekend.
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Summary Info
Ship that took the shot:
USS Lake Erie
Missle Used:
SM-3 with kinetic interceptor
Tracking was probably provided by the SBX amongst other sensors.
Previous intercept videos of importance:
Japan Defence SM-3 test
Prior shot from USS Lake Erie
The propaganda that I find really funny is the DoD stating that it "nailed" the fuel tank. C'mon, the impact probably released over 100 megajoules of energy. Were they really aiming for the "fuel tank" or just trying to hit the damn thing? With that much energy, who cares?
Big Dick waiving, yes. Technical success, yes. Political success, TBD.
On a side note, I was reading a story written by a guy who was stationed at Thule AFB in Greenland where one of the first BMEWS (Ballistic Missle Early Warning System) Radars was deployed back in the late 50's early 60's. From a tech standpoint, it is quite fascinating what we could do back then with such limited technology and how it was accomplished. Read the intro through the epilog, I enjoyed it, so I'm passing it along... -
IFS, fractal flames
The images described in the summary (which are not really representative of most of the stuff in the gallery, just Fields's stuff) are generally known as iterated function systems, and perhaps belong to the subset known as fractal flames. The description is fairly accurate, but the images he has made are rather unimpressive compared to ones I've seen (and made myself). Probably the best known example of a fractal flame program is Electric Sheep. However, another good program for making fractal flames is called Apophysis (regretfully, it's Windows only, but does work fairly well under Wine). I've been working with Apophysis for about 3 years now, and trust me, there's a lot of more artistic stuff out there that uses fractal flames. Even some of the stuff on Wikimedia Commons is better than his stuff.
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Re:Sweet!
The spirit and feel of a piece of music is the true value.
And that is why I commented about value. We all value music, and we value it a lot more than we pay for it. But we do that because value and price are different beasts. To take a different example, we value the news, but how much are we willing to pay for it. Maybe we'll sit through some commercials be it radio or TV, maybe we will tolerate some ads on a website, maybe we'll even pay a dollar for a newspaper. Do we value the news only that much? Of course not. The news (at least some) is much more valuable than the dollar we pay for it, but it's just that there is so much of it that a news supplier can't charge more than they do. If CNN.com became a paid subscription service at $500/month tomorrow, no one would visit their site anymore. Not because we don't value the news that they might bring, but because we can get it elsewhere. And that elsewhere probably has the same information that CNN.com would have, so we've lost nothing. In music, there is a lot of value, but if you start charging a ridiculous amount, then nobody wants your music, because there is more music out there that we value and isn't costing a ridiculous amount. But that is looking at music as a whole. Each individual song, however, can be copied infinitely at negligible costs. That makes each song an infinite good. It is very difficult to make money off of infinite goods. I'm not saying that music should be free, but the market decides the price and people see that the price could come down, and they want it that way. If you don't lower your prices, but someone else does, then people will go to that someone else because they can find just as much value out of that song as they can for yours, so they take the one with the better price/value.
I see nothing wrong with making money on your music. You stated a way that you made money. You did commission work. Someone paid you to create a piece of music. That is how a lot of the old composers made money. Someone came to them and paid them explicitly to make some music. It's not a matter of what value the music has. Humans very much value music and that hasn't changed for millenia and won't change for the foreseeable future. It's just that there is so much of it that business models have to change. People would think it ridiculous to hand out the Mona Lisa to everyone if it was on some physical medium. If you had some one hand paint every copy, or if you photocopied it onto 8.5x11 inch paper. But if you put it on a website and allowed anyone in the world to right click and select "save as" then it suddenly doesn't become so ridiculous, because now it's essentially become an infinite good and Da Vinci would have to use that as an advertisement to do commissioned work or something. -
Re:Student or not...
Indeed. When you're waging war, gaining support back home is much easier if you can dehumanise those that you wish to kill. It's not a new tactic, for example the Destroy This Mad Brute poster of WW1.
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Re:I disagree, the Thinkpad is beautiful.
Ha! Those were ugly, though the iMacs are still shiny and cool.
Apple's stuff holds up much better, though. Take a look at what they were doing in 1991! How many other makes 1991 model could you take to a coffee shop today without too many stares? Now walk in with this bad boy! And that's 2 years younger!
But more to the point, who still uses a computer from 1998-99? 6 years is about the max I've ever been able to pull off. -
Re:Whose future?
This is probably more like what the house of the future looks like. Say all you want about resource utilization and carbon footprints - the eco folk aren't going to be happy until there are 200 million people living like this.
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Re: Yeah, right.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg
! is on the left side, | is on the right side.
So unless you mean 250mm, or have a 5mm wide keyboard, hes still an idiot. -
Semantic MediaWiki already exists
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
It's basically just a matter of tweaking it and putting some real data in. -
What kind of text files?ME: I'll fill it up with txt files. SVG porn?
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Re:The M are the drones.
It's worth noting that the F's, like many related species, are much larger and more dangerous than the M's.
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Re:Big deal
I don't think you quite follow. Free Software follows the 4 Freedoms http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html BSD and MIT stuff is as perfectly Free as something under the GPL - the difference is that they can be unFreed, while public GPL stuff must remain GPL. Open Source is a superset of Free Software. Everything Free is Open Source, but not vice versa; to repeat, Open Source can be less Free than Free. This is why I describe it as dubious, because a corporation can easily open source their stuff in a useless way and thereby mislead people into thinking they support Free stuff. To quote Wikipedia again in this thread: "An open source license is a copyright license for computer software that makes the source code available under terms that allow for modification and redistribution without having to pay the original author. Such licenses may have additional restrictions such as a requirement to preserve the name of the authors and the copyright statement within the code." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_source_license So, it can have all sorts of noxious terms (did you hear the one about the license which forbade military use? or the one like MAME's that "forbids commercial use and redistribution"?), and still be open source. Open Source is less Free than Free Software.
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Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
In case you're serious, this is a far easier way to download Wikipedia. Look for the one that says "enwiki". -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Why Are They Only Targeting WikipediaThese pictures aren't so bad! Here he is betting his followers that he can slide all the way down a railing without falling off. Here is his senior picture. Here he is preparing to be tossed into the air on a blanket. Here he is on fire (about to be Super Saiyan 2). Here he is full blown Super Saiyan 3 complete with human headed horse. Here he is at an Ozzy Ozborne concert (far right). Last but not least, here's what you'd have to print to be murdered in Europe.
All of that on Wikipedia? How does Jimmy Wales sleep at night?!
Oh, I am so going to end up trapped in my grave being tormented by djinns until the end of time. After that, Shaitan be kickin' me old school. Hope he likes classic rock and indie bands! The notes left on the petition site come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." Perhaps you should instead choose simply not to use the site? If you believe that to be true, you should be condemning images of him everywhere at once, not just on Wikipedia. Why aren't you petitioning against all of these sites? Why are you picking on Wikipedia? -
Re:More to it that speed
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I got a patent!
Check it out here! Microsoft will be pissed!
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Probably not...
The keyboard is not likely to be a problem. All the asian language keyboards I've ever seen still have western characters on them in the common qwerty layout.
See:
http://www.casemouse.com/kb/mini/japanese-keyboard.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Thai_Keyboard_closeup.jpg/800px-Thai_Keyboard_closeup.jpg
http://sternerson.com/images/new/china/day9/keyboard.jpg
The worst case would be that a few keys might be in different places.
And yes, it might be hard to find an English language OS in computer shops, but even that is common for normal use because in poorer countries, it is pretty easy to find english copies of windows in markets where they sell bootleg software and music. -
Re:There is nothing new under the sun
Go ahead, find me one original piece of art, something that has never, ever been done before, and which is not influenced by anything which went before.
Ask and you shall recieve
I kid. I kid. I actually agree with you. -
The Mach 5 Plane?
I found a photo of the plane's controls.
Looks like it has ample cargo space. -
The Mach 5 Plane?
I found a photo of the plane's controls.
Looks like it has ample cargo space. -
Re:This one survived the first Gulf War
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Game_boy_damaged_in_the_gulf_war.JPG
Direct link to file. Technically, it's on Commons Wiki. Wikipedia's only linking to it. -
Re:Many things would be affected
Wikimedia Foundation also has 23 servers at Yahoo's Seoul server farm in Korea.
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Re:A Totally Free Market is Best, but ...
The government being involved use to mean one had more freedom. If you haven't noticed the corporations are more powerful than the government now. The government involvement isn't to restrict your freedom, it is to save you from having the corporations define what your freedom is. Since the corporations are not elected and not accountable to you in anyway you might want to think a little bit about that stance. At least the government (in theory) is suppose to be accountable to you. The corporations are accountable to their shareholders interests.
If having the government involved was such a bad thing to do these countries would probably not have gone that route:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/WORLDHEALTH2.png
You will notice on that map Iraq and Afghanistan have Universal Government run coverage provided by the tax payers of the United States. -
Yay, another sound daemon...
...and while nobody is going to use its native interface, maybe we can use it to get rid of the Alsa Mess[tm] by burying it under a hopefully less messy stack of 5 userspace modules that may introduce 2 seconds of latency, but provide an emulated
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Re:ST:DVR"Multimedia time warping"? What's this, Captain Picard's DVR? No, it's Dr. Frank-N-Furter's.
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Re:How about silence?and about half of you are too hostile to religion in general to care.
Were you referring to Slashdot? If so, then maybe, who knows? these things aren't collected. In the wider world, atheists (or those who describe themselves as neither spiritual or religious) occupy only about two percent of the population.[1] It varies by region; in the USA it's about ten percent.[2] (Those were brief googlings)
Of those who are nonbelievers, I don't think more than half are "hostile to religion in general." I would describe myself as such, and I'm not too bothered about most of it.
Whether militant atheism (or anti-theism or whatever) is more predominant in geekdom than in the wider world is probably the subject of many awful blog posts somewhere, but would be an interesting study to undertake. I've no idea how to go about it. It would seem a very thorny task from the ten seconds of thought I've put into it, but I wouldn't mind seeing the results.
[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Worldwide_percentage_of_Adherents_by_Religion.png
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What you say!!
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Re:Just curious
You guys put fuse into every extension cord?
You have to when you have guest like these spilling tea everywhere, shorting out wires.
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Possible landing area could be in Quasi, Australia
The say the don't know where the satilite will land or if the trajectory will make it burn up in the atmosphere.
One possiblity, which I hope is not going to happen is that some Republican will aim it to flatten some successful Democrat so that some other Republican posing as a Democrat so that the New world order prevails and blame it on "having no control" over where it lands. (It's a SPY satellite. Of course they WON'T tell the truth. It's classified.) "Oops? Now what a tragic event. We didn't know about it." (Not on my watch, suckers!)
Another possiblility, it lands out in the Sea, and everyone get free tacos! (Yay! Tacos!)
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Shiver me timbers
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Re:Page specific tuning
My browser passes Acid 2. It displays the following when you visit the page: img except that an internal feature creates the blue mouseover.
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Re:Parallels and Perspective
I'm not sure what your second picture is of, but it doesn't look like a Wright flyer to me... here's a pic of the Flyer III about 2-3 years after first flight: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Wright_Flyer_III_above.jpg/225px-Wright_Flyer_III_above.jpg . The Flyer III was the first one that had reasonable enough handling that it was really "usable" by a mere mortal, and the design didn't change that much for 5 years after that.
It was Curtiss that took the Wrights' ideas and extended them into more simple-to-manufacture designs (such as aerolons instead of warping wings), and that's when you'll start seeing planes that look a lot like a modern plane. -
not surprised
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not surprised
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Re:1000 Gnomes Project?
Found them. Commenting on this article may be closed now.
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Re:Sudo, UAC, and ignorance...Nice try, but we both know that UAC does not require a password if the user is a member of the Administrators local group (which is by default the first user account created on the machine when you install it). Or maybe you can tell us where one types the password in here?
If a user is a member of the Administrators Group (which the first user gets by default since Administrator is disabled by default in Vista), he/she/it only gets the "Cancel or Allow?" prompt by default. Here - read it for yourself. (and here's a second source just in case). IOW, QED, my point stands.
OTOH, in OSX/Linux, my username may be a member of wheel, but I still have to type the password in each time, every time, if the app (or whatever else I'm doing) requires system-level privileges.
Note that in this situation -- when you're logged in as root -- Linux would not (by default) prompt at all, and would certainly not request a password.Nice strawman. If I want all-root, all-the-time, then I either have to log in directly as root (or in Windows, Administrator), or I have to use a command (such as "su root") and supply the password) to get to that state. This has bupkis to do with someone logged in as the actual root account (or again, "Administrator") - we're talking the normal default user here. And, by default, the first user created in Vista has the privs due to the fact that the Administrator account is disabled by default in Vista.
Therein lies the diff. HTH.
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Sudo, UAC, and ignorance...I take it you don't know how sudo works, do you? You have to type a password in there! I take it you don't know how UAC works, do you? Actually, I have no need to assume; since it is quite clear from your comment. You do need to type in an admin password at a UAC prompt when you're running as a standard user; just as with Linux/sudo (except an admin password rather than the current user's password). Since I assume you've never seen a UAC prompt, here's an example of one -- see the 'password' box in the middle there?
When you're running as an admin, true, you don't need to type in an admin password; since you're already logged in as an admin, so you must have typed one it at the login prompt in the first place! Again, this is the same as Linux -- you don't need to type in your password when you're logged in as root. The only difference between Vista and Linux in this sense, is that, by default, Vista prompts for user confirmation for admin tasks when you're logged in as admin; obviously not asking for a password since you're logged in as admin, but notifying you that you're performing an administrator task. Note that in this situation -- when you're logged in as root -- Linux would not (by default) prompt at all, and would certainly not request a password. -
Re:Martin Luther FILTHY BIG LIPPED NIGGER King, Jr
All joking aside, and no racism intended:
MLK, Jr. really did have some enormous smackers.
He was quite a dapper gentleman, but I mean, woah!
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Re:ONE child?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Florence-yall.jpg
The Wikipedia page associated with that image indicates it was just a cost saving measure.
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Re:ONE child?
Then, in order to do anything useful he pipes together the children.
I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most states where "y'all" is not a commonly used pronoun.
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Re:Solid Rocket Boosters
The Apollo Saturn V was all liquid: liquid oxygen + RP1 (kerosene / "jet fuel" ) for the first stage, and liquid oxygen + liquid hydrogen for the second and third stages.
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Re:Fundamentally broken
Another reason "why government can't do this" is practical. People are having the debate over just how effective foreign health systems are, usually comparing a pure socialist system to the half-socialist system we have now, but there's good reason for skepticism about whether giving our government more power over our money and other aspects of our lives is a good idea. See eg. China, Soviet Russia, North Korea, and other places where people were/are controlled allegedly for their own good.
Yes, because we all know that Belgium, Canada, Australia, and Germany are complete shitholes and throw their people to the wolves when they need medical care. *sigh* We're talking about what should be a human right coming from a first world country with a twelve trillion dollar economy. Speaking of that, does anybody know of another so-called first world country that screws its people as hard as we do with respect to health care? My friend in Chile has some coverage from the government and even Mexico looks to be giving it a shot.
Ya know, it has to be said, but if our treasonous leader-in-chief would have dumped a half trillion into health care instead of a war built on lies the average citizen might be just a bit better off. Now all we have to show for our trouble is a destabilized country and a lot of body bags with our troops in them.
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Re:Open Apple
The original Mac keyboards had only the Command symbol; adding the Open Apple to the key didn't come about until the advent of ADB, used on both the Apple IIGS and Macs from the Mac SE and Mac II until the iMac came along. I had assumed that a major reason that the Open Apple was added was since the Apple II family used it, it was needed to make things easier for users who wanted to use the same ADB keyboards on an Apple IIGS and on Macs. Though that doesn't explain why the Open Apple was kept on the keyboard once the Apple II line was no longer relevant; the OS never switched the keyboard shortcut graphic in menus from the Command symbol to the Open Apple.
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And delete Windows screenshots?Wow, this is bad. Just the other day I was wondering about IP rights in taking pictures of products, and if arguments about IP in pictures of other stuff carried over.
Now, imagine what it's like if you have to get permission to put *any* product in *any* picture. In fact, over on Wikimedia Commons, there's an active discussion about whether or not to delete screenshots that show the Windows title bar.
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