Except to the Dubya regime and the neo-Con(artists) in control of Congress.
What planet are you on, moron? The Democrats have always been the biggest water carriers for the entertainment industry, and have always received the lion's share of political donations from Hollywood fat cats (78% in 2002.)
Psychiatrists call it 'projection' when you accuse others of the same faults you have. I call it typical leftist ignorance and hypocrisy.
You stupid little children think George Bush is the black hole from whence all evil flows. I guess your tiny little minds can't wrap around the fact that a "progressive" politician could be as supine and venal a lackey for big business as any Republican.
The fact is that every moment of peace that you enjoy, every bite of good food and sip of good wine, every pleasant entertainment, every liberty of a humane and civilized land, was bought with the sweat and blood of men better than yourself. Men who killed and were killed by other men who wanted to take it all away from you. Men who were not particularly magnanimous, tolerant, learned or humble. You should go down on your knees in gratitude every time you think of them.
You're mistaking me for someone who gives a shit about Third World pest holes. I don't. I would have laid waste to the whole country as an example to all the other Mahometan filth. But half a loaf is better than non, and the Taliban is no more, and we have not been attacked on our soil in four years.
The official title is Her Royal Highness in the third person or Your Royal Highness in the second person.
Come now, I am a barbarous Yank and I know that is wrong. It's "Her Majesty"/"You Majesty". "Royal Highness" is for the other members of the royal family.
I have also seen "Her Britannic Majesty" but I don't know how that would be used. Maybe when she is chumming with the other useless royal sponges, like "His Hispanic Majesty" and "Her Belgic Majesty".
John Howard is the Prime Minister of Australia. He was one of the first leaders to express support for George Bush's plan to invade Afganstian.
And rightfully so. Reasonable people can disagree about the wisdom and propriety of the Iraq adventure, but practically nobody with an ounce of sense objected to the Afghanistan operation. The Taliban, through their support of Al-Qaeda, made war upon us and richly deserved their fate.
Currency is, in fact, backed by the US Economy, the total of all assets, and the banking system, and the amount of currency is balanced to all that.
Agreed. The main requirement for sound money is that it will make gun-toting tax collectors go away if you give them some, and the greenback works perfectly for that purpose.
"viewing" kiddie Pr0n can't be considered illegal.. freedom to view what you wish and all. They can only ban producing or distributing it.
You are wrong. This is now established law. Mere possession of kiddie porn is illegal and this has been affirmed by the Supreme Court.
The way the law is written, someone could send you a URL in e-mail, telling you to click it to see the pix of Britney Spears or whatever, but trick you with a link to some terrible kiddie site (maybe even a honey-pot run by law enforcement.) The instant you click on that URL, not having any idea whatsoever about what lies on the server, you have become a felon.
Courts have held that there is no need for the government to prove intent or even knowledge that there are kiddy porn pix on your computer-- if they are there, you are a felon and a pervert, period. Your only possible salvation is the discretion of the prosecuting attorney.
Of course, then the fire department would have to check everyone's credit rating before determining if saving their lives was fiscally prudent. You know, like American hospitals do.
You are posting from the UK, and therefore are presumably unaware of a U.S. Federal law called EMTALA that has been on the books for decades. Hospitals are required to provide care in any emergency, regardless of the patient's ability to pay. There are severe penalties for violations.
Apologists for the pitifully incompetent NHS would have you believe that American emergency rooms throw people out the door and let them bleed to death in the street. This is a deliberate lie. You have been deceived by your Government and media.
PowerPoint is the worst offender, I don't think this product has added a substantial feature since 1997.
I'm a Mac zealot and I hate Redmond crapware as much as anybody.
However, not adding features to useful, stable products is a trend that ought to be encouraged.
Microsoft takes a lot of flak for abominably bloated software filled with bells and whistles that nobody uses. Maybe we shouldn't criticize them for freezing the features and fixing the bugs.
Right, but is ocean water warm enough to boil water?
They use an ammonia/water mixture for their working fluid, which presumably has a significantly lower boiling point. They might also apply a vacuum, which would also lower the boiling point.
The answer is it was never about the kids, it was about protecting in-state wineries.
Actually, the wineries mostly would like to be able to ship to consumers in other states.
It's the distributors that have both the wineries and the consumers by the short hairs. They slosh buckets of money around every state legislature to stamp out direct sales. This is a huge defeat for them.
Sprint Wireless broadband connection to the Internet
DynDNS to point the outside world to my network (internal DNS handled by G5)
Miscellaneous USB & FireWire hubs to connect all the extras (external HD, digital camera, digital video, BlueTooth, iSight, label printer, joystick, etc.)
I do not keep any important data on the Windows box, except for backups of the Mac server that perform automatically to SMB partitions via RsyncX every night. Windows is for connecting to the VPN at work, and for my kids to play PC-only games. My family has accounts that authenticate and mount Windows profiles from the G5 Server, which also manages mobile accounts on the two Mac laptops. Everybody's documents are accessible from every computer, and synchronized with the portable home directories on the laptops.
I manage the laptops pretty heavily with OSX Server, and they can only connect to the Internet via a proxy connection to the G5, which is running KidsGoGoGo to filter Internet content for the kids.
When we move into our new house next year, I'll have a real electronics closet behind my office, where much of the networking apparatus will move. At that time I'll probably pick up a used XServe to be the main server for the household.
Other projects for the future include home automation, home theater, and a g5 iMac for the kitchen/family room.
Of course he took advantage of starwars' success, but who wouldn't have? That doesn't make him sleazy and unscrupulous.
No, but it's pretty comical nonetheless, to see him get holy and self-righteous about all that icky profit, then turn around and sell us Ewok dish towels and C3PO toilet brushes.
Typical empty-headed Hollywood liberal, running down free-market capitalism between bites of caviar and lobster. Fuck them.
In the end, after all the votes were counted, it was found that he actually lost the florida electoral college.
There were multiple methods that the Florida newspaper coalition used to measure the final vote counts, and Bush won most of them, including the recount methods that were requested by the Gore campaign.
Bush won fair and square twice. Even the BBC says so. Only empty-headed Chomskyite conspiracy mongers think otherwise.
Hey, good job. Please keep saying this as vehemently as you possibly can. The more the Left falls into the swamps of conspiracy mongering, the further away from the levers of power they will remain.
Since I am a right-wing fascist hyena, I will be very very happy to see the Chomskyite nitwittery repeated loud and long, until the Democrats are as dead as the Whigs and Know-Nothings.
hm, that "doofus" would be John Cage, widely hailed as one of the most innovative American musicians of the 20th century...
Yah, whatever. Doofuses like that are why the fine arts are becoming the marginalized province of society matrons, homosexuals, and incompetent but opinionated academics.
Crap like that doesn't speak to average people. It tells them that there is one kind of music for them and another that is decidedly not for them.
And guess what, some of that carries over to politics. One kind of politics for an effeminate, decadent fringe, and another for the regular guys.
I guess the primary target market for SUV's is people that don't give a shit about anyone but themselves. Which seems to be the emerging attitude among privileged americans. The rest of us drive cars.
How comical. Your smug distinction would be completely lost on the 90% of the world's population who have no car at all.
But don't let that stop you from patting yourself on the back. Knock yourself out.
Carriers would be quite happy to put up more towers around my house, and they would certainly be helpful as reception here sucks.
However, they have to contend with well-organized, wealthy home owners (most of them heavy cell phone users) who are quite vocal about "Not In My Back Yard!"
Just about the only place you wouldn't be affected would be on the far side of a barren planet
Never mind that, what about the far side of THIS planet? I have a hard time believing that gamma rays could be much of a threat with 7,000 miles of rock and molten iron for shielding. Energy transmission falls off exponentially with linear increases in the thickness of your shielding, don't forget.
Unless it's the Big Bang reprised, I don't think any organism on the "dark side" of the Earth would suffer a bit of harm. And anything like a neutrino that could pass through the Earth would also (statistically, at least) sail right through you, leaving you untouched.
IANAA-p. I am not an astro-physicicst. Anyone see any flaw in my argument?
I can't believe anybody trying to make a point would link to a Robert Novak article.
Ad hominem arguments are the mark of a feeble mind. Attack his arguments, or don't waste my time. And take note, this was discussed in many other media including Forbes and the the Chicago Tribune.
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What planet are you on, moron? The Democrats have always been the biggest water carriers for the entertainment industry, and have always received the lion's share of political donations from Hollywood fat cats (78% in 2002.)
Psychiatrists call it 'projection' when you accuse others of the same faults you have. I call it typical leftist ignorance and hypocrisy.
You stupid little children think George Bush is the black hole from whence all evil flows. I guess your tiny little minds can't wrap around the fact that a "progressive" politician could be as supine and venal a lackey for big business as any Republican.
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The fact is that every moment of peace that you enjoy, every bite of good food and sip of good wine, every pleasant entertainment, every liberty of a humane and civilized land, was bought with the sweat and blood of men better than yourself. Men who killed and were killed by other men who wanted to take it all away from you. Men who were not particularly magnanimous, tolerant, learned or humble. You should go down on your knees in gratitude every time you think of them.
Thus it always was and thus it always will be.
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Well done, George.
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Come now, I am a barbarous Yank and I know that is wrong. It's "Her Majesty"/"You Majesty". "Royal Highness" is for the other members of the royal family.
I have also seen "Her Britannic Majesty" but I don't know how that would be used. Maybe when she is chumming with the other useless royal sponges, like "His Hispanic Majesty" and "Her Belgic Majesty".
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And rightfully so. Reasonable people can disagree about the wisdom and propriety of the Iraq adventure, but practically nobody with an ounce of sense objected to the Afghanistan operation. The Taliban, through their support of Al-Qaeda, made war upon us and richly deserved their fate.
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Agreed. The main requirement for sound money is that it will make gun-toting tax collectors go away if you give them some, and the greenback works perfectly for that purpose.
-ccm
You are wrong. This is now established law. Mere possession of kiddie porn is illegal and this has been affirmed by the Supreme Court.
The way the law is written, someone could send you a URL in e-mail, telling you to click it to see the pix of Britney Spears or whatever, but trick you with a link to some terrible kiddie site (maybe even a honey-pot run by law enforcement.) The instant you click on that URL, not having any idea whatsoever about what lies on the server, you have become a felon.
Courts have held that there is no need for the government to prove intent or even knowledge that there are kiddy porn pix on your computer-- if they are there, you are a felon and a pervert, period. Your only possible salvation is the discretion of the prosecuting attorney.
-ccm
You are posting from the UK, and therefore are presumably unaware of a U.S. Federal law called EMTALA that has been on the books for decades. Hospitals are required to provide care in any emergency, regardless of the patient's ability to pay. There are severe penalties for violations.
Apologists for the pitifully incompetent NHS would have you believe that American emergency rooms throw people out the door and let them bleed to death in the street. This is a deliberate lie. You have been deceived by your Government and media.
-ccm
I'm a Mac zealot and I hate Redmond crapware as much as anybody.
However, not adding features to useful, stable products is a trend that ought to be encouraged.
Microsoft takes a lot of flak for abominably bloated software filled with bells and whistles that nobody uses. Maybe we shouldn't criticize them for freezing the features and fixing the bugs.
-ccm
They use an ammonia/water mixture for their working fluid, which presumably has a significantly lower boiling point. They might also apply a vacuum, which would also lower the boiling point.
-ccm
Actually, the wineries mostly would like to be able to ship to consumers in other states.
It's the distributors that have both the wineries and the consumers by the short hairs. They slosh buckets of money around every state legislature to stamp out direct sales. This is a huge defeat for them.
(including WinXP machine using Bonjour for Windows)
(internal DNS handled by G5)
(external HD, digital camera, digital video, BlueTooth, iSight, label printer, joystick, etc.)
I do not keep any important data on the Windows box, except for backups of the Mac server that perform automatically to SMB partitions via RsyncX every night. Windows is for connecting to the VPN at work, and for my kids to play PC-only games. My family has accounts that authenticate and mount Windows profiles from the G5 Server, which also manages mobile accounts on the two Mac laptops. Everybody's documents are accessible from every computer, and synchronized with the portable home directories on the laptops.
I manage the laptops pretty heavily with OSX Server, and they can only connect to the Internet via a proxy connection to the G5, which is running KidsGoGoGo to filter Internet content for the kids.
When we move into our new house next year, I'll have a real electronics closet behind my office, where much of the networking apparatus will move. At that time I'll probably pick up a used XServe to be the main server for the household.
Other projects for the future include home automation, home theater, and a g5 iMac for the kitchen/family room.
-ccm
No, but it's pretty comical nonetheless, to see him get holy and self-righteous about all that icky profit, then turn around and sell us Ewok dish towels and C3PO toilet brushes.
Typical empty-headed Hollywood liberal, running down free-market capitalism between bites of caviar and lobster. Fuck them.
-ccm
There were multiple methods that the Florida newspaper coalition used to measure the final vote counts, and Bush won most of them, including the recount methods that were requested by the Gore campaign.
Bush won fair and square twice. Even the BBC says so. Only empty-headed Chomskyite conspiracy mongers think otherwise.
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Yup. If it had been up to me, they'd have been shot dead on sight.
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No.
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Since I am a right-wing fascist hyena, I will be very very happy to see the Chomskyite nitwittery repeated loud and long, until the Democrats are as dead as the Whigs and Know-Nothings.
-ccm
Yah, whatever. Doofuses like that are why the fine arts are becoming the marginalized province of society matrons, homosexuals, and incompetent but opinionated academics.
Crap like that doesn't speak to average people. It tells them that there is one kind of music for them and another that is decidedly not for them.
And guess what, some of that carries over to politics. One kind of politics for an effeminate, decadent fringe, and another for the regular guys.
-ccm
How comical. Your smug distinction would be completely lost on the 90% of the world's population who have no car at all.
But don't let that stop you from patting yourself on the back. Knock yourself out.
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Actually, the problem in the Turd World is corrupt socialist government, which spreads misery always and everywhere it is tried.
The denizens of the Turd World would be better fed under the robber barons of the Gilded Age than under the collectivist commissars who rule today.
Socialism kills. Crush collectivism!
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Carriers would be quite happy to put up more towers around my house, and they would certainly be helpful as reception here sucks.
However, they have to contend with well-organized, wealthy home owners (most of them heavy cell phone users) who are quite vocal about "Not In My Back Yard!"
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Sure. Until you get Enigmo.
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Read the original posting again. It's supposed to be a ten-second burst.
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Never mind that, what about the far side of THIS planet? I have a hard time believing that gamma rays could be much of a threat with 7,000 miles of rock and molten iron for shielding. Energy transmission falls off exponentially with linear increases in the thickness of your shielding, don't forget.
Unless it's the Big Bang reprised, I don't think any organism on the "dark side" of the Earth would suffer a bit of harm. And anything like a neutrino that could pass through the Earth would also (statistically, at least) sail right through you, leaving you untouched.
IANAA-p. I am not an astro-physicicst. Anyone see any flaw in my argument?
Ad hominem arguments are the mark of a feeble mind. Attack his arguments, or don't waste my time. And take note, this was discussed in many other media including Forbes and the the Chicago Tribune.
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