I would love it if the liberals finally stopped being wimpy and started killing republicans.
Except for one small detail, Republicans have much more military experience and are about ten times better armed than you liberal doormats.
If you think it's time to suspend the normal rules of civilization and replace politics with warfare, feel free--- but expect to be wiped out in a matter of days.
In the U.S. the press went downhill after they ditched the Fairness Doctrine.
Would you mind explaining how the Fairness Doctrine (or lack thereof) affected newspapers or magazines?
According to him, everyone across the political spectrum- practically without exception- is livid about this election.
So? Tough shit.
In fact, I would submit that he who pisses off the Europeans most is automatically the best choice as President.
The French in particular can be guaranteed to be found on the wrong side of almost any question of importance, usually due to their own selfish financial interests, and projecting their own craven greed and bad faith onto the U.S. administration. Exhibit A, the Oil-for-Food program, the greatest swindle and humanitarian tragedy of our time.
Whether bien-pensant American tourists feel at ease in the coffee houses of the Left Bank is something that concerns me not in the least.
start my career at a no-paying job within my chosen industry.
In most places this is illegal, thanks to the power of featherbedding labor unions. They are responsible for the minimum-wage laws, and hence for high unemployment among young and poorly educated people. They DEFINITELY don't like competing against volunteers or unpaid apprentices.
The Democrats are so in hock to the unions for manpower and money, they ignore the fact that unions regularly shit all over the most marginalized workers in our society, and destroy the impulse for volunteer civic betterment.
I don't see it as a 1st ammendment issue as all those banned books are still available -- just no public moneies are spent on them
I agree. Public schools have limited funds and therefore have to make decisions about which books to buy.
Librarians as a group are far to the left of American society, and their most controversial selections tend to be those which people on the right see as destructive or immoral.
If the librarians were stocking the shelves with Mein Kampf and Unfit for Command and The Bell Curve, to the exclusion of Heather Has Two Mommies, you can be sure that all the pious liberals now deploring censorship would be bitching front and center at the next school board meeting.
Purchasing decisions are not true censorship. There are no "book bans" outside of school libraries; as long as parents are free to purchase any book they want, and let their kids read it, there should be no issue of First Amendment rights at stake.
We are at war to the death with radical Islam. Either Islamist radicals are exterminated without pity, by any means necessary, or we will all live under Sharia.
If every Muslim man under age 40 has to get a colonoscopy before flying, I don't care. I want racial and religious profiling and I want it yesterday.
For that matter, white skinheads ought to get the same treatment.
I'd just like to point out that Kerry has made it clear that the war in Iraq was the right thing to do, if we had had the support of the world to do it.
The rest of the world be damned. We need to do what is in our own best interest, whenever it suits us. If others want to help, great. If not, get out of the way.
When Kerry says "world opinion" he really means "left-wing French intellectuals." He and his ilk feel uncomfortable in Left Bank coffee shops nowadays, boo hoo hoo. Tough shit. Those people are NEVER going to take our side in anything.
Besides, they will soon cease to exist. In a generation or so, the Muslims will have conquered Europe by breeding like rats, and all the leftists and homosexuals and feminists in France will have had their heads chopped off.
-ccm
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if you shoot a burgler and he falls across the threshhold of your doorway, go ahead and drag him all the way inside.
NO NO NO. Do NOT do this. That is a stupid urban legend. Modern forensic science is very advanced and you WILL be caught. Now it looks like you have something to hide, and you have squandered any sympathy the DA or jury might have had for you.
If you kill someone who has burgled your house or attacked you, that is a good thing and you do not need to apologize for it. People will sometimes make statements that they were "sorry" for killing the dirtbag, or that they "regret" it. Don't do this. You have performed a public service.
To protect yourself, make sure witnesses hear you say, as soon after the shooting as possible, something like "He didn't give me any choice! I was sure he was about to kill me!" Then shut up until you talk to a lawyer.
Another thing-- Don't shoot warning shots and don't shoot to wound. Shoot to STOP the attack. You don't have the right to use deadly force unless you reasonably believe your life is in danger. (Such a threat is legally presumed any time someone breaks into an occupied building, under the laws of most US states.)
If you reasonably believe your life is in danger, you may use any force necessary to stop the attack. Therefore shoot for center of mass, as this is most likely to stop it. If you shoot to wound, a smart and vindictive prosecutor will make it look like you were not fearful enough for your life to make any use of deadly force justified.
You must never say so out loud if it happens to you, but killing the perpetrator also ensures that you will not be sued for his nursing home bills if he becomes a lifelong head-injury vegetable. Plus, let's face it, anybody who would burgle a house with people in it is a worthless piece of filth who deserves everything he gets.
Don't go looking for trouble, but if it comes to you, deal with it with sudden ruthless righteous violence. Let it be known you feared for your life, then shut up and take quiet pride in ridding the world of one more worthless waste of oxygen who preyed on decent citizens.
I was in the airport with wife and kids, working on my PB. Went to get a drink. Warned my daughter, who was dancing on the backs of the seats, to stay away from the computer lest it be damaged.
I returned to find the wife crying and a very alarming black and white text error message, which I had never seen before or since, on the screen. She had turned to scold my daughter, who was still goofing off near the machine, and in doing so had knocked her own cup of tea upside down on the Powerbook keyboard.
I shut it off, turned it upside down and drained at least half a cup of tea out of it, and stowed it away, thinking it was ruined. At home I opened it up and shook out some more tea. Took as many parts out as I could, let it dry overnight, and started it up without a hitch the next day.
I had to replace the keyboard eventually, as a few of the keys were sticky or ceased to function altogether. Otherwise, no permanent damage.
This is not any kind of proof (or disproof) of Darwinian natural selection. This walking monkey has not had any kind of mutation in the germ line cells of her body that she can pass on to her offspring. Her children cannot inherit any advantage in response to environmental stressors and there will be no selection based on reproductive success of this trait. If anything it is an argument for 'nurture' rather than 'nature.'
many foreign national guests of the military are given special 'SS' numbers...that have extra digits to identify them as special...etc.
What in the world for? Are these people working, and having money drawn out to pay for retirement? If not, isn't it just another military ID number unrelated to the SS number?
I personally doubt these Nantucket liberals voted for Bush
Oh, so do I . You misunderstand me.
I was sarcastically putting words in the mouths of the limo-libs: Take these ugly windmills away from my expensive property, and stick them somewhere in flyover country where the white trash voted Republican.
Bastards. If they're so hot to preserve the natural beauty of Nantucket Sound, maybe they'll understand my fond hope that a sudden hurricane hits Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard this summer, and sweeps the pinko parasites and their mansions out to sea.
Where are the conservatives wanting windmills taking up space on their property?
Most conservatives do not lecture everybody else about how they should properly spend their money or what they should do with their own private property. The average conservative could care less where a windmill is built, as long as he's not taxed to pay for it.
Everybody loves to see a hypocrite exposed, and it works both ways-- don't fucking lie to me and tell me you didn't laugh your ass off when Jimmy Swaggart got caught with a twenty dollar hooker.
So why not expose the commie-greenie bastards when it turns out they're more selfish than all us poor dumb schmoes who have to pay for their idiotic ideas?? John Kerry is all for oil conservation, but my goodness, he owns three Suburbans.
Barbara Streisand is as shrill as anybody when pontificating to Middle America about its selfish use of oil, but oh! for her, it's an air-conditioned 25,000 square foot mansion on one of the most scenic beaches in the country, and private jets all over the world. She uses ten times as many natural resources as I do.
Fuck her and everybody like her. Let them set an example to the rest of us, or SHUT THEIR FUCKING FAT MOUTHS. When some empty-headed celebrity harpy like Barbara Streisand moves into a normal size house, and swears off limousines and overseas travel forever, then (and only then) has she earned the right to say JACK SHIT about environmentalism.
Until then I'll spend my money as I please, and the environment be damned.
How long until wealthy waterfront property owners start howling?
Just like the pious liberal hypocrites of Nantucket Sound, where wind energy could supply immense amounts of clean energy-- but ohhh, NOoo, the windmills get in the way of the view from the deck of my yacht, put them where some poor white trash live, thank you; serves them right for voting for Bush.
Not only is the software cheaper and the support better on the Windows-based workstations, it's a lot easier to use on a day-to-day basis than the Sun system and you can use all modern hardware.
I have to disagree. As far as I am concerned, the Windows based GE Entegra and Exeleris are heaps of steaming dung. Constant crashes, memory leaks leading to glacial slowdowns, and a clumsy user interface. I reboot Entegra at least once a day.
Whoever thought Visual BASIC was robust enough for a nuclear workstation is a dipshit.
The ADAC workstations on Solaris, on the other hand, never hiccup. We run them for months between reboots.
I have to agree. There is very little going on in the medical imaging world that uses Macintoshes. Windows (especially Windows 2000) is far more common nowadays and is even supplanting Sun, especially if you are with General Electric.
The two major uses of Macs that I recall were the Siemens Icon nuclear medicine workstations from about ten years ago, and the G3 boxes that GE used four or five years ago in their first generation PACS system, I think for modality interfaces. Both satisfactory for their times, but ran OS versions 7-9 with occasional crashes.
Some researchers use OS X for their own niche applications, but that's about it, as far as I know. Which is a shame, as OS X would totally rock as a PACS workstation or 3D image reconstruction station..
Regarding health issues, there is no definitve answer.
There is a definitive answer when you are talking about non-ionizing radiation like radio waves: if there is any deleterious health effect, it is so small that it cannot be reproducibly measured even in studies involving tens of thousands of individuals.
Pampered Western worry-warts would do well to drop their concerns about non-ionizing radiation from power lines and cell phones, and worry more about things with real consequences like what they eat and drink and smoke.
For that matter, they need to get over their fixation with low levels of ionizing radiation as well. Many millions of lives could be saved if nuclear power became universal, and oil became a useless pollutant best left in the ground.
Take Dufus in the Whitehouse for example. Few people would claim that he is an original thinker or highly knowledgable.
Well, seeing as how he was able to fly a Delta Dart without killing himself, and subsequently earned an MBA from Harvard, I'd say he's got to be in the 95th percentile at least. His name may have got him into Harvard, but it sure didn't get him out.
You would think that the Left would have learned long ago that the talent for glib public speaking is not at all equivalent to intelligence. After all, aren't they continually running down things like the SAT test, with claims that the ability to play basketball or tell stories or make friends is just another kind of intelligence like the ability to do calculus?
On the other hand there are people with blistering high IQs and degrees in Nuclear Physics who can't find a job better than part time computer class instructor.
Carter was a nuclear engineer and a dismal failure. He has made a pretty good ex-President, though.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and masterful public speaker whose major initiatives either failed spectacularly or were poached directly from the Republicans. He squandered his opportunity to make a lasting impact, and will be remembered by history as an easily-distracted lightweight who had the good fortune to be elected at an exceptionally peaceful and prosperous time.
You were clearly the first one to be rude in this thread, and as I read further it turns out you are not just rude but a hypocrite as well.
Why couldn't the cultured middle class of Guanajuato restore their own landmark buildings, instead of importing a know-it-all American to do it for them?
That's a rhetorical question, of course. The fact is that Americans often DO know how to do something better than anyone else in the world. For this, we get the ingratitude of those we try to help, and the sneering contempt of so-called intellectuals.
I use ICal too, and love it. I also set up WebDAV on my machine.
I have my calendar, to which my wife subscribes. She has her calendar and a kids' calendar, to which I subscribe. Any changes she makes to her calendars show up on mine, and then on my Palm Pilot when I sync.
I just hope that the new version of iCal with 10.4 includes more robust workgroup/multi-user features that do not require editing config files to get WebDAV working, and allow simultaneous multi-user publish and subscribe.
It has an ADC-out port that goes to your Cinema display -- mine is the 22". There is an ADC-in port that comes from the video card on the G4. You plug your USB keyboard and mouse into the back of the Cinema display. Mouse and keyboard signals are passed over ADC to the Mac.
There is also a DVI-in port that accepts signal from your PC video card. Then there is a USB output port that connects to your PC's USB input. This gets mouse and keyboard signals into the PC.
It changes monitor AND mouse AND keyboard from Mac to PC and back with the push of ONE button. It works every time. I'm using my Cinema 22 monitor, swapping between a G4/Panther and a PC/Windows 2000 at 1620x1024 32-bit resolution.
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Don't get feeling too smug and superior; the Europeans are following closely behind.
I was in the deep East End of London recently, and the residents of the council estates there were as fat as any trailer-park trash in Arkansas.
The chattering classes are of course nice and trim, but that is mostly the case over here too.
-ccm
Except for one small detail, Republicans have much more military experience and are about ten times better armed than you liberal doormats.
If you think it's time to suspend the normal rules of civilization and replace politics with warfare, feel free--- but expect to be wiped out in a matter of days.
-ccm
Would you mind explaining how the Fairness Doctrine (or lack thereof) affected newspapers or magazines?
According to him, everyone across the political spectrum- practically without exception- is livid about this election.
So? Tough shit.
In fact, I would submit that he who pisses off the Europeans most is automatically the best choice as President.
The French in particular can be guaranteed to be found on the wrong side of almost any question of importance, usually due to their own selfish financial interests, and projecting their own craven greed and bad faith onto the U.S. administration. Exhibit A, the Oil-for-Food program, the greatest swindle and humanitarian tragedy of our time.
Whether bien-pensant American tourists feel at ease in the coffee houses of the Left Bank is something that concerns me not in the least.
-ccm
In most places this is illegal, thanks to the power of featherbedding labor unions. They are responsible for the minimum-wage laws, and hence for high unemployment among young and poorly educated people. They DEFINITELY don't like competing against volunteers or unpaid apprentices.
The Democrats are so in hock to the unions for manpower and money, they ignore the fact that unions regularly shit all over the most marginalized workers in our society, and destroy the impulse for volunteer civic betterment.
-ccm
I agree. Public schools have limited funds and therefore have to make decisions about which books to buy.
Librarians as a group are far to the left of American society, and their most controversial selections tend to be those which people on the right see as destructive or immoral.
If the librarians were stocking the shelves with Mein Kampf and Unfit for Command and The Bell Curve, to the exclusion of Heather Has Two Mommies, you can be sure that all the pious liberals now deploring censorship would be bitching front and center at the next school board meeting.
Purchasing decisions are not true censorship. There are no "book bans" outside of school libraries; as long as parents are free to purchase any book they want, and let their kids read it, there should be no issue of First Amendment rights at stake.
-ccm
If every Muslim man under age 40 has to get a colonoscopy before flying, I don't care. I want racial and religious profiling and I want it yesterday.
For that matter, white skinheads ought to get the same treatment.
-ccm
The rest of the world be damned. We need to do what is in our own best interest, whenever it suits us. If others want to help, great. If not, get out of the way.
When Kerry says "world opinion" he really means "left-wing French intellectuals." He and his ilk feel uncomfortable in Left Bank coffee shops nowadays, boo hoo hoo. Tough shit. Those people are NEVER going to take our side in anything.
Besides, they will soon cease to exist. In a generation or so, the Muslims will have conquered Europe by breeding like rats, and all the leftists and homosexuals and feminists in France will have had their heads chopped off.
-ccm
NO NO NO. Do NOT do this. That is a stupid urban legend. Modern forensic science is very advanced and you WILL be caught. Now it looks like you have something to hide, and you have squandered any sympathy the DA or jury might have had for you.
If you kill someone who has burgled your house or attacked you, that is a good thing and you do not need to apologize for it. People will sometimes make statements that they were "sorry" for killing the dirtbag, or that they "regret" it. Don't do this. You have performed a public service.
To protect yourself, make sure witnesses hear you say, as soon after the shooting as possible, something like "He didn't give me any choice! I was sure he was about to kill me!" Then shut up until you talk to a lawyer.
Another thing-- Don't shoot warning shots and don't shoot to wound. Shoot to STOP the attack. You don't have the right to use deadly force unless you reasonably believe your life is in danger. (Such a threat is legally presumed any time someone breaks into an occupied building, under the laws of most US states.)
If you reasonably believe your life is in danger, you may use any force necessary to stop the attack. Therefore shoot for center of mass, as this is most likely to stop it. If you shoot to wound, a smart and vindictive prosecutor will make it look like you were not fearful enough for your life to make any use of deadly force justified.
You must never say so out loud if it happens to you, but killing the perpetrator also ensures that you will not be sued for his nursing home bills if he becomes a lifelong head-injury vegetable. Plus, let's face it, anybody who would burgle a house with people in it is a worthless piece of filth who deserves everything he gets.
Don't go looking for trouble, but if it comes to you, deal with it with sudden ruthless righteous violence. Let it be known you feared for your life, then shut up and take quiet pride in ridding the world of one more worthless waste of oxygen who preyed on decent citizens.
-ccm
Stay armed - Stay free - Fuck the cowardly Europeans
-ccm
I returned to find the wife crying and a very alarming black and white text error message, which I had never seen before or since, on the screen. She had turned to scold my daughter, who was still goofing off near the machine, and in doing so had knocked her own cup of tea upside down on the Powerbook keyboard.
I shut it off, turned it upside down and drained at least half a cup of tea out of it, and stowed it away, thinking it was ruined. At home I opened it up and shook out some more tea. Took as many parts out as I could, let it dry overnight, and started it up without a hitch the next day.
I had to replace the keyboard eventually, as a few of the keys were sticky or ceased to function altogether. Otherwise, no permanent damage.
-ccm
I don't. I've had two Caviars crap out after very light use. They suck shit.
-ccm
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What in the world for? Are these people working, and having money drawn out to pay for retirement? If not, isn't it just another military ID number unrelated to the SS number?
-ccm
Oh, so do I . You misunderstand me.
I was sarcastically putting words in the mouths of the limo-libs: Take these ugly windmills away from my expensive property, and stick them somewhere in flyover country where the white trash voted Republican.
Bastards. If they're so hot to preserve the natural beauty of Nantucket Sound, maybe they'll understand my fond hope that a sudden hurricane hits Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard this summer, and sweeps the pinko parasites and their mansions out to sea.
-ccm
Most conservatives do not lecture everybody else about how they should properly spend their money or what they should do with their own private property. The average conservative could care less where a windmill is built, as long as he's not taxed to pay for it.
Everybody loves to see a hypocrite exposed, and it works both ways-- don't fucking lie to me and tell me you didn't laugh your ass off when Jimmy Swaggart got caught with a twenty dollar hooker.
So why not expose the commie-greenie bastards when it turns out they're more selfish than all us poor dumb schmoes who have to pay for their idiotic ideas?? John Kerry is all for oil conservation, but my goodness, he owns three Suburbans.
Barbara Streisand is as shrill as anybody when pontificating to Middle America about its selfish use of oil, but oh! for her, it's an air-conditioned 25,000 square foot mansion on one of the most scenic beaches in the country, and private jets all over the world. She uses ten times as many natural resources as I do.
Fuck her and everybody like her. Let them set an example to the rest of us, or SHUT THEIR FUCKING FAT MOUTHS. When some empty-headed celebrity harpy like Barbara Streisand moves into a normal size house, and swears off limousines and overseas travel forever, then (and only then) has she earned the right to say JACK SHIT about environmentalism.
Until then I'll spend my money as I please, and the environment be damned.
-ccm
Just like the pious liberal hypocrites of Nantucket Sound, where wind energy could supply immense amounts of clean energy-- but ohhh, NOoo, the windmills get in the way of the view from the deck of my yacht, put them where some poor white trash live, thank you; serves them right for voting for Bush.
Fucking hypocritical limousine-liberal scum like Teddy Kennedy make me sick. I hope the bloated swine croaks soon.
-ccm
I have to disagree. As far as I am concerned, the Windows based GE Entegra and Exeleris are heaps of steaming dung. Constant crashes, memory leaks leading to glacial slowdowns, and a clumsy user interface. I reboot Entegra at least once a day. Whoever thought Visual BASIC was robust enough for a nuclear workstation is a dipshit.
The ADAC workstations on Solaris, on the other hand, never hiccup. We run them for months between reboots.
--ccm
The two major uses of Macs that I recall were the Siemens Icon nuclear medicine workstations from about ten years ago, and the G3 boxes that GE used four or five years ago in their first generation PACS system, I think for modality interfaces. Both satisfactory for their times, but ran OS versions 7-9 with occasional crashes.
Some researchers use OS X for their own niche applications, but that's about it, as far as I know. Which is a shame, as OS X would totally rock as a PACS workstation or 3D image reconstruction station..
-ccm
There is a definitive answer when you are talking about non-ionizing radiation like radio waves: if there is any deleterious health effect, it is so small that it cannot be reproducibly measured even in studies involving tens of thousands of individuals.
Pampered Western worry-warts would do well to drop their concerns about non-ionizing radiation from power lines and cell phones, and worry more about things with real consequences like what they eat and drink and smoke.
For that matter, they need to get over their fixation with low levels of ionizing radiation as well. Many millions of lives could be saved if nuclear power became universal, and oil became a useless pollutant best left in the ground.
-ccm
Well, seeing as how he was able to fly a Delta Dart without killing himself, and subsequently earned an MBA from Harvard, I'd say he's got to be in the 95th percentile at least. His name may have got him into Harvard, but it sure didn't get him out.
You would think that the Left would have learned long ago that the talent for glib public speaking is not at all equivalent to intelligence. After all, aren't they continually running down things like the SAT test, with claims that the ability to play basketball or tell stories or make friends is just another kind of intelligence like the ability to do calculus?
On the other hand there are people with blistering high IQs and degrees in Nuclear Physics who can't find a job better than part time computer class instructor.
Carter was a nuclear engineer and a dismal failure. He has made a pretty good ex-President, though.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and masterful public speaker whose major initiatives either failed spectacularly or were poached directly from the Republicans. He squandered his opportunity to make a lasting impact, and will be remembered by history as an easily-distracted lightweight who had the good fortune to be elected at an exceptionally peaceful and prosperous time.
-ccm
Why couldn't the cultured middle class of Guanajuato restore their own landmark buildings, instead of importing a know-it-all American to do it for them?
That's a rhetorical question, of course. The fact is that Americans often DO know how to do something better than anyone else in the world. For this, we get the ingratitude of those we try to help, and the sneering contempt of so-called intellectuals.
-ccm
Yeah, but if they are not total /. lusers, they may get laid.
-ccm
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I have my calendar, to which my wife subscribes. She has her calendar and a kids' calendar, to which I subscribe. Any changes she makes to her calendars show up on mine, and then on my Palm Pilot when I sync.
I just hope that the new version of iCal with 10.4 includes more robust workgroup/multi-user features that do not require editing config files to get WebDAV working, and allow simultaneous multi-user publish and subscribe.
-ccm
There is an easy solution and I have it for you.
What you need is the CompuCable Hybrid ADC/DVI KVM switch.
It has an ADC-out port that goes to your Cinema display -- mine is the 22". There is an ADC-in port that comes from the video card on the G4. You plug your USB keyboard and mouse into the back of the Cinema display. Mouse and keyboard signals are passed over ADC to the Mac.
There is also a DVI-in port that accepts signal from your PC video card. Then there is a USB output port that connects to your PC's USB input. This gets mouse and keyboard signals into the PC.
It changes monitor AND mouse AND keyboard from Mac to PC and back with the push of ONE button. It works every time. I'm using my Cinema 22 monitor, swapping between a G4/Panther and a PC/Windows 2000 at 1620x1024 32-bit resolution.
No sweat! Five minutes to set up!
-ccm