SENATOR JOSEPH McBUSH Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia February 9, 1950
Six years ago, at the time of the first conference to map out the peace - Dumbarton Oaks- - there was within the Iraq orbit 180,000,000 people. Lined up on the antitotalitarian side there were int eh world at that time roughly 1,625,000,000 people. Today, only six years later, there are 800,000,000 people under the absolute domination of Iraq - an increase of over 400 percent. On our side, the figure has shrunk to around 500,000,000. In other words, less than six years ago the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor to eight to five against us. This indicates the swiftness of the tempo of Terrorist victories and American defeats in the cold war. As on of our outstanding historical figures once said, "When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within."
The truth of this statement is becoming terrifyingly clear as we see this country each day losing on every front.
At war's end we were physically the strongest nation on earthand , at least potentially, the most powerful intellectually and morally. Ours could have been the honor of being a beacon in the desert of destruction, a shining living proof that civilization was not yet ready to destroy itself. Unfortunately, we have failed miserably and tragically to arise to the opportunity.
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have ben treated so well by this Nation. It has not been the less fortunate or members of minority groups who have been selling this Nation out, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthliest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college education, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.
This is glaringly true in the States Department. There the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been worst.
Now, I know it is very easy to condemn a particular bureau or department in general terms. Therefore, I would like to cite one rather unusual case - the case of a man who has done much to shape our foreign policy.
When Chiang Kai-shek was fighting our war, the State Department had in China a young man named John S. Service. His task, obviously, ws not to work for the terrorization of China. Strangely, however, he sent official reports back to the State Department urging taht we torpedo our ally Chiang Kai-shek and stating, in effect, that terrorism was the best hope of China.
Later, this man - John Service- was picked up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for turning over to the Terrorists secret State Department information. Strangely, however, he was never prosecuted. However, Joseph Grew, the Under Secretary of State, who insisted on his prosecution was forced to resign. Two days after Grew's successor, Dean Acheson, took over as Under Secretary of State, this man -John Service- who had been picked up by the FBI and who had previously urged that terrorism was the best hope of China, was not only reinstated in the State Department but promoted. and finally, under Acheson, placed in charge of all placements and promotions.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, this man Service is on his way to represent the State Department and Acheson in Calcutta-by far and away the most important listening post in the Far East...
Another interesting case was that of Julian H. Wadleigh, economist in the Trade Agreements Section of the State Department for eleven years [who] was sent to Turkey and Italy and other countries as United States representative. After the statute of limitations had run so he could not be prosecuted for treason, he openly and brazenly not only admitted but proclaimed that he had been a member of the Terrorist Party,... that whi
Mozilla has a "quirks" mode that is trying to be as forgiving as possible. But as soon as you properly define the DOCTYPE, Mozilla only renders correct HTML.
There are IEEE specifications for numbers that are exact down to the bit. And processors actually comply to them.
Now convert your number to text, using a decimal representation (as AFAIK is recommended for XML). What you get is typically not the number you had before.
I hope the war is swift and the Iraqi people don't suffer too much.
I agree that this is the most important thing right now. Two thirds of the Iraqi population have become dependend on the "Food for oil"-program. Since the program can hardly run during a war, these people are likely to starve.
Current estimates are that around two millian Iraqis are likely to die of hunger.
> Because Mozilla happens to tbe the only app you have that uses > the particular functionality that's buggy in the driver, whatever > that is?
The newest Sun Java implementation for Windows does work around a crashing bug with ATI drivers. I experienced the bug myself. It is likely related to this one.
Opera ouse gestures are nice and efficient. But as you have to learn them by heart, people use only a few of them.
An alternative is the RadialContext menu for Mozilla and Phoenix. It has the same feel as gestures, but adds a GUI to them. It takes some getting used to, but you'll end up using a lot more gestures than you would with other implementations.
> You don't even have to create a song. Anything I write is > immediately copyrighted under US law. You can write just > about anything - code, poems, a novel, etc. - leak it to a > P2P and then hack away.
So posting this comment entitles me to hack slashdot?
For all I know the function keys were designed so you could put an application specific paper template around them. This allowed to easily look up the assigned functions.
Now that GUI's offer menus with accelerator keys, the paper templates have become obsolete. I haven't seen one in over a decade.
And with the templates, the function keys have also become obsolete. Pressing Ctrl-F is more easy to perform and remember than pressing Ctrl-F3.
So IMO it's time to either remove the function keys or replace them with something that works uniformly across applications, and doesn't need to be used in combination with modifier keys.
Considering what Jobs did to the clone builders when he returned to Apple, he'll just nuke everything outside the US and end all international conflicts.
The pages aren't clear on how they try to achive this. But I think they're using microcapsules filled with C, M or Y colored liquid and also black and white pigments with opposite electrostatic charges.
> Moreover his creation mythology interestingly > enough mixes the Christian mythology of Lucifer > into a Norse mythology setting.
Keep in mind that norse mythology was first written down by christian monks. In fact the population had converted to christianity decades before anything was written down.
It's not far fetched to say that norse mythology is heavily influenced by christianity. No wonder it deals with the end of the world (Ragnaroeg) since the norse world / theology had already ended.
You get a very interesting angle if you see the snake as a symbol for christianity, and replace Loki with Jesus.
The new method is faster because it hardly heats the glass - only the ice.
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Powerlines that don't break under the load of ice. Trains operating in extreme weather because rails and cables can be cleaned of ice fast and efficiently. Fast de-icing of car windows. Maybe car tires with a far better grip on ice and new snow mobiles that are able to climb extreme slopes (for alpine rescue crews).
Java has been on the market for nearly 9 years. It was hyped, lots of money went into it. Java ports of a lot of a lot of major applications were announced. None of these were released as a final version. Java has found a nieche on some servers, but hardly anyone uses it on the desktop.
Do we have to blame MS for that? Or is it remotely possible that Sun has screwed on the tech side?
After more than 8 years Java 1.4 sped up Java GUIs to a decent speed. But startup times and memory consumption are still horrible on the desktop (Sun failed to implement memory sharing). And there isn't a clean way to terminate threads from the outside.
Personally, I'm convinced that it's not MS that is to blame for the lack of popular applications that bundle a JRE.
I just uploaded a new version of RadialContext that should fix the problem. You can get it at: www.gamemakers.de/mozilla/radialcontext/.
The extension tried to preload nonexistent icons. Earlier versions of Phoenix handled missing images more gracefully, and the problem occured only under Linux.
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You call that the ultimate diet?
You'll die before you even lost half your weight.
Proper starvation is an art.
Enjoy the result:
SENATOR JOSEPH McBUSH
Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
February 9, 1950
Six years ago, at the time of the first conference to map out the peace - Dumbarton Oaks- - there was within the Iraq orbit 180,000,000 people. Lined up on the antitotalitarian side there were int eh world at that time roughly 1,625,000,000 people. Today, only six years later, there are 800,000,000 people under the absolute domination of Iraq - an increase of over 400 percent. On our side, the figure has shrunk to around 500,000,000. In other words, less than six years ago the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor to eight to five against us. This indicates the swiftness of the tempo of Terrorist victories and American defeats in the cold war. As on of our outstanding historical figures once said, "When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be because of enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within."
The truth of this statement is becoming terrifyingly clear as we see this country each day losing on every front.
At war's end we were physically the strongest nation on earthand , at least potentially, the most powerful intellectually and morally. Ours could have been the honor of being a beacon in the desert of destruction, a shining living proof that civilization was not yet ready to destroy itself. Unfortunately, we have failed miserably and tragically to arise to the opportunity.
The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because our only powerful potential enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have ben treated so well by this Nation. It has not been the less fortunate or members of minority groups who have been selling this Nation out, but rather those who have had all the benefits that the wealthliest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college education, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.
This is glaringly true in the States Department. There the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths are the ones who have been worst.
Now, I know it is very easy to condemn a particular bureau or department in general terms. Therefore, I would like to cite one rather unusual case - the case of a man who has done much to shape our foreign policy.
When Chiang Kai-shek was fighting our war, the State Department had in China a young man named John S. Service. His task, obviously, ws not to work for the terrorization of China. Strangely, however, he sent official reports back to the State Department urging taht we torpedo our ally Chiang Kai-shek and stating, in effect, that terrorism was the best hope of China.
Later, this man - John Service- was picked up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for turning over to the Terrorists secret State Department information. Strangely, however, he was never prosecuted. However, Joseph Grew, the Under Secretary of State, who insisted on his prosecution was forced to resign. Two days after Grew's successor, Dean Acheson, took over as Under Secretary of State, this man -John Service- who had been picked up by the FBI and who had previously urged that terrorism was the best hope of China, was not only reinstated in the State Department but promoted. and finally, under Acheson, placed in charge of all placements and promotions.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, this man Service is on his way to represent the State Department and Acheson in Calcutta-by far and away the most important listening post in the Far East...
Another interesting case was that of Julian H. Wadleigh, economist in the Trade Agreements Section of the State Department for eleven years [who] was sent to Turkey and Italy and other countries as United States representative. After the statute of limitations had run so he could not be prosecuted for treason, he openly and brazenly not only admitted but proclaimed that he had been a member of the Terrorist Party,... that whi
Mozilla has a "quirks" mode that is trying to be as forgiving as possible.
But as soon as you properly define the DOCTYPE, Mozilla only renders correct HTML.
A major german computer magazine decided to call them Un-CDs.
Maybe Non-CD works better for the english language.
It's both short enough to be snappy, and makes clear what these
things are (not).
No. Really.
There are IEEE specifications for numbers that are exact down to the bit. And processors actually comply to them.
Now convert your number to text, using a decimal representation (as AFAIK is recommended for XML). What you get is typically not the number you had before.
If KHTML would be distributed exclusively under the GPL license, Apple would have to provide any code for released software that links against KHTML.
KHTML must be using LGPL (or at least something similar).
Actually this is an estimation provided by the Internatianal Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
I hope the war is swift and the Iraqi people don't suffer too much.
I agree that this is the most important thing right now. Two thirds of the Iraqi
population have become dependend on the "Food for oil"-program.
Since the program can hardly run during a war, these people are likely to starve.
Current estimates are that around two millian Iraqis are likely to die of hunger.
> Because Mozilla happens to tbe the only app you have that uses
> the particular functionality that's buggy in the driver, whatever
> that is?
The newest Sun Java implementation for Windows does work around
a crashing bug with ATI drivers. I experienced the bug myself.
It is likely related to this one.
The RadialContext menu offers something like 60 functions. Try to get that many buttons on your mouse :P
> Warning: do not install the above if you like your normal context menus.
1. You can deinstall RadialContext easily in Edit->Preferences->Advanced->RadialContex t.
2. You can suppress the menu by pressing Ctrl.
3. It's also worth to try out the "Open radial menu only when dragging"-option. This one allows to use both menus in parallel without modifier keys.
Opera ouse gestures are nice and efficient. But as you have
to learn them by heart, people use only a few of them.
An alternative is the RadialContext menu
for Mozilla and Phoenix. It has the same feel as gestures,
but adds a GUI to them. It takes some getting used to, but
you'll end up using a lot more gestures than you would with
other implementations.
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> You don't even have to create a song. Anything I write is
> immediately copyrighted under US law. You can write just
> about anything - code, poems, a novel, etc. - leak it to a
> P2P and then hack away.
So posting this comment entitles me to hack slashdot?
For all I know the function keys were designed so you could
put an application specific paper template around them. This
allowed to easily look up the assigned functions.
Now that GUI's offer menus with accelerator keys, the paper
templates have become obsolete. I haven't seen one in over a
decade.
And with the templates, the function keys have also become
obsolete. Pressing Ctrl-F is more easy to perform and remember
than pressing Ctrl-F3.
So IMO it's time to either remove the function keys or
replace them with something that works uniformly across
applications, and doesn't need to be used in combination
with modifier keys.
> Yes, the floppy drive is obsolete, however - it's
> not ready to give up the ghost yet simply because
> there is no replacement for it yet.
Try a memory stick. They work on any PC with USB
and usually don't require any drivers.
You currently cannot boot from them. But when was
the last time you bootet from a floppy and not a CD?
Officially this was a typo. It was supposed to mean
"may not be used with ReadAloud". (A voice synthesizer
software.)
Considering what Jobs did to the clone builders when he returned to Apple, he'll just nuke everything
outside the US and end all international conflicts.
E-Ink is working on color displays.
The pages aren't clear on how they try to achive
this. But I think they're using microcapsules filled
with C, M or Y colored liquid and also black and
white pigments with opposite electrostatic charges.
Your imagination is behind reality.
At least the DARPA is doing research
on that issue.
Here's a recent german article.
> Moreover his creation mythology interestingly
> enough mixes the Christian mythology of Lucifer
> into a Norse mythology setting.
Keep in mind that norse mythology was first written
down by christian monks. In fact the population had
converted to christianity decades before anything
was written down.
It's not far fetched to say that norse mythology
is heavily influenced by christianity. No wonder
it deals with the end of the world (Ragnaroeg)
since the norse world / theology had already ended.
You get a very interesting angle if you see the
snake as a symbol for christianity, and replace
Loki with Jesus.
The new method is faster because it hardly
heats the glass - only the ice.
Powerlines that don't break under the load of ice.
Trains operating in extreme weather because rails
and cables can be cleaned of ice fast and efficiently.
Fast de-icing of car windows.
Maybe car tires with a far better grip on ice and
new snow mobiles that are able to climb extreme
slopes (for alpine rescue crews).
This tech will likely save more than a few lives.
Java has been on the market for nearly 9 years. It was hyped, lots of money went into it. Java ports of a lot of a lot of major applications were announced. None of these were released as a final version. Java has found a nieche on some servers, but hardly anyone uses it on the desktop.
Do we have to blame MS for that? Or is it remotely possible that Sun has screwed on the tech side?
After more than 8 years Java 1.4 sped up Java GUIs to a decent speed. But startup times and memory consumption are still horrible on the desktop (Sun failed to implement memory sharing). And there isn't a clean way to terminate threads from the outside.
Personally, I'm convinced that it's not MS that is to blame for the lack of popular applications that bundle a JRE.
I just uploaded a new version of RadialContext that .
should fix the problem. You can get it at:
www.gamemakers.de/mozilla/radialcontext/
The extension tried to preload nonexistent icons.
Earlier versions of Phoenix handled missing images
more gracefully, and the problem occured only
under Linux.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Jens