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Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0
Joe Barr writes "
I found a wonderful "how-to" piece called "OpenOffice.org 1.0, ODBC and MySQL," by John McCreesh. In the introduction, McCreesh writes about OpenOffice.org 1.0's "best kept secret" -- that secret being the fact that hidden away inside, completely unknown to most OpenOffice users, is a user-friendly front end for databases that is "a Microsoft Access (and more) equivalent." That may be so, but there is a very good reason why it's a secret: it's too damn hard getting OpenOffice and ODBC wired up correctly."
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My backpack's got jets
I'm Boba the Fett
I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt
To finance my 'Vette.
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Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets red glare
the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
Oh say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave!
Your point being?
America is not, never has been perfect. Turning a blind eye to the atrocities of our past history can make Americans feel a moral superiority that leads to events like unneccesary bombings of civilian populations
Hey, if your so smart, why can't you even spell Oklahoma right?
Isn't that a good reason to use it?
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I think the difference is that the "Trail of Tears" is in direct reference to a terrible event. Using it to refer to something of such relative unimportance can be seen as inappropriate. Somewhat like referring to mass layoffs in a corporation as a Holocaust or saying that the company is working you like a plantation slave.
I'm not big on overdoses of Political Correctness, but anyone who uses a phrase like that to compare with their PC upgrades is a whiney little drama queen and should be bitch-slapped appropriately.
Whoever modded this as a Troll is an idiot. Off-topic... arguably.
Ah, a pun. How witty.
...a Beowulf Cluster of C64's running Ninnle?
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is a nation of tea-loving soap opera fans who value privacy, love their pets, gripe about the weather, refuse to admit they like reality TV and are most proud of their sense of humor. They also consider themselves hip and cosmopolitan but their habits are traditional, and prawn cocktail and steak and chips are their favorite meals, according to a nationwide survey of what it means to be British in 2003. Britons generally don't mind queuing and can be spotted abroad by their sunburned skin, football shirts, wearing socks with sandals and the distinctive pint of beer in their hand. "We are such a country of contradictions," said Sophie Daranyi, a spokeswoman for UKTV which commissioned the survey. "We're happy to give people 50 pence (80 cents) at a bus stop but very few of us go around to meet our neighbors." UKTV, which is jointly owned by the BBC and Flextech Television, a division of Telewest Communication, is a leading digital and satellite broadcaster. It commissioned the survey of 1,000 people to get a better perception of how Britons see themselves. According to the poll, 53 percent of Britons treat their pets like a member of the family, 39 percent think the weather is the most annoying aspect of living in Britain and 73 percent drink traditional tea, compared to six percent who prefer Earl Gray tea. "A lot of people think that we are this quite quirky nation. What the survey has done is confirm that, rather than contradict it," Daranyi added.