Hitler didn't actually give the NSDAP its name. NSDAP was a pre-existing party that he hijacked, but you're right that he kept the "socialist" part as cover.
Yep. The only machine I ever had with a turbo button read its state at boot time and then ignored it if you pressed it again before rebooting. This machine (a Pentium 90) has a mini Linux distribution on it, so booting the thing with it enabled is... boring.
I believe the goal of most turbo buttons was to approximate the speed of an 8 MHz 80286. I don't know why this was chosen instead of a 4.77 MHz 8088; maybe it was easier to simulate the speed of something faster.
Not even if you're just a Democrat. I'm not and I'm certain that letting the Republicans be in charge would be a much worse outcome. We just tried that not even ten years ago, so it's not like that's theoretical.
My alma mater has IIRC only one IT staffer (the Windows sysadmin) teaching, but he teaches photography classes.
When I was a student, the CS department head was laughably outdated. In the early '00s he taught us 8086 assembly using a non-macro MS-DOS assembler in a basic computer design course (we had the option to use DEBUG.EXE instead, heh). 8086 is/not/ the best way to get one's feet wet with assembly, to say the least.
I think the 100 didn't have a backlit display, so the display shouldn't draw much power at all.
This was possible because its display was little better than the 7-segment mono LCD you'd see in an early digital watch, and those work well with reflected light.
Except he/couldn't/ have sent it back to Congress after veto because his 60-vote majority in the senate evaporated after Ted Kennedy died and Scott Brown won the special election. Before that it was quite a while after Nov '08 that Franken got his election certified, so IIRC the Dems had 60 votes in the Senate for not even two months.
If they'd been motivated they absolutely could have gotten something passed in two! months!, certainly. It's an unfortunate side effect of the Dems being a bigger tent at the time - the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs in particular were troublesome.
The hell of it is, simply expanding Medicare to cover everyone and raising taxes to cover it would have been so much easier to pass constitutional muster, and would have been a better deal besides, but raising taxes is the eighth deadly sin in Republican America.
I have sent emails and occasionally even letters or faxes to my representative and Senators. The trouble is that they typically don't give a shit what I think unless I agree with them[1]. I'm sure it's a side effect of having liberal tendencies in an appallingly conservative area (this used to be Roy Blunt's district), but it is still difficult to make a dent.
[1] The things I generally write them about are civil liberties issues like SOPA/PIPA, the Unpatriotic Act, &c.
Why can't you give me someone I can vote for? I won't pull the lever for Batshit Crazy Reactionary (e.g. Palin, Santorum) or for Big Business Uber Alles (Romney) or for Naive Solutions to Real Problems (Paul), but I'm really disappointed in Obama.
Working in a call center sucks (I've done it too), but not having the money for rent and food sucks more, especially in a down economy when you can't be sure there/is/ another job available.
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Your logical fallacies are...
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
Stop digging.
There were a couple rocket-powered F-104s. Chuck Yeager crashed one of them, IIRC.
Should have used the Australian Gambit.
Horsecock.
Not a moron! Just mentally ill.
Hitler didn't actually give the NSDAP its name. NSDAP was a pre-existing party that he hijacked, but you're right that he kept the "socialist" part as cover.
I'm pissed at Obama for not vetoing NDAA, but how about a cite for your assertion that his admin insisted on those provisions?
All I'm hearing is "derp".
Yep. The only machine I ever had with a turbo button read its state at boot time and then ignored it if you pressed it again before rebooting. This machine (a Pentium 90) has a mini Linux distribution on it, so booting the thing with it enabled is... boring.
I believe the goal of most turbo buttons was to approximate the speed of an 8 MHz 80286. I don't know why this was chosen instead of a 4.77 MHz 8088; maybe it was easier to simulate the speed of something faster.
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Not even if you're just a Democrat. I'm not and I'm certain that letting the Republicans be in charge would be a much worse outcome. We just tried that not even ten years ago, so it's not like that's theoretical.
Whoosh!
My alma mater has IIRC only one IT staffer (the Windows sysadmin) teaching, but he teaches photography classes.
When I was a student, the CS department head was laughably outdated. In the early '00s he taught us 8086 assembly using a non-macro MS-DOS assembler in a basic computer design course (we had the option to use DEBUG.EXE instead, heh). 8086 is /not/ the best way to get one's feet wet with assembly, to say the least.
Och aye? If their athletics program makes money, then why did they need a larger budget?
I think the 100 didn't have a backlit display, so the display shouldn't draw much power at all.
This was possible because its display was little better than the 7-segment mono LCD you'd see in an early digital watch, and those work well with reflected light.
Also for government to do its job and enforce sensible regulations.
Yeah, I know.
I give your troll 2/10. Try something that's not already been done to death next time.
For all we know the guy who ran for President in the '90s was "Jr." (he's not, but you see what I mean).
Except he /couldn't/ have sent it back to Congress after veto because his 60-vote majority in the senate evaporated after Ted Kennedy died and Scott Brown won the special election. Before that it was quite a while after Nov '08 that Franken got his election certified, so IIRC the Dems had 60 votes in the Senate for not even two months.
If they'd been motivated they absolutely could have gotten something passed in two! months!, certainly. It's an unfortunate side effect of the Dems being a bigger tent at the time - the fiscally conservative Blue Dogs in particular were troublesome.
The hell of it is, simply expanding Medicare to cover everyone and raising taxes to cover it would have been so much easier to pass constitutional muster, and would have been a better deal besides, but raising taxes is the eighth deadly sin in Republican America.
Or, you know, you could look back in history for most of Bush the Lesser's term.
I'm in exactly the same place you are: Obama sucks (especially for civil liberties) but he is the least-worst alternative.
I have sent emails and occasionally even letters or faxes to my representative and Senators. The trouble is that they typically don't give a shit what I think unless I agree with them[1]. I'm sure it's a side effect of having liberal tendencies in an appallingly conservative area (this used to be Roy Blunt's district), but it is still difficult to make a dent.
[1] The things I generally write them about are civil liberties issues like SOPA/PIPA, the Unpatriotic Act, &c.
Why can't you give me someone I can vote for? I won't pull the lever for Batshit Crazy Reactionary (e.g. Palin, Santorum) or for Big Business Uber Alles (Romney) or for Naive Solutions to Real Problems (Paul), but I'm really disappointed in Obama.
Give me a sane candidate, please.
I think you're putting the cart before the horse. Couldn't it be that dark fic is more popular now because of a national malaise?
How's the code quality on gnutls?
Pity about the license being more restrictive; that'd keep it out of proprietary operating systems.
Working in a call center sucks (I've done it too), but not having the money for rent and food sucks more, especially in a down economy when you can't be sure there /is/ another job available.
Your privilege is showing.