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  1. Good Luck, Pete on Pete Ashdown on his Run at the Hill · · Score: 1

    I was an xmission user back in the mid 90's. Best ISP I ever had. I met you one year at the food fest at the City and County building. I wish you luck in your efforts, and I hope you can overcome the extremely biased Utah political climate. I couldn't deal with it anymore, and left the state in 97.

    DAB

  2. Re:Boot times *are* important on Boot Process Visualization · · Score: 1

    While I do not reboot my Linux box very often, I still fail to see what the issue is when my 2K laptop takes 5 minutes to boot..

  3. Re:Nuclear subs on Nuclear Rockets Moving Along · · Score: 1

    Yo Twidget,

    When I was in, I think the reason was Uncle Hymie had so much authority that there was no way anyone could make the nukes go away.

    But the real point is that accidents happen all the time. My boat, at one time or another, was:
    A) Aground outside Pearl
    B) In drydock to get the SPM replaced
    C) in drydock to get a sonar dome repaired
    D) in drydock for a hull decontam

    etc etc

    however, by cold war standards, SSNs were, pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the most effective
    fighting ship available, maybe of all time...

  4. Re:The real victim on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1

    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/09 /08/bush_fell_short_on_duty_at_guard/

    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040927&s= ba ker

  5. Re:Allow Me to Rant About This on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1

    Listen up, shithead.

    The Texas Politician "spreading rumours" is the one THAT PULLED THE STRINGS.

    I served my time, with no influential Daddy to get me out (not that it would have mattered, I enlisted anyways).

    I have a real problem with cowards. Bush is one, by definition. I have no problem with a war protester, who objects on principle, goes to Canada, whatever, at least they have the courage of their convictions.

    People died in Nam back then, and the priviledged few escaped. My friends who died were not of the privileged few. Which one died so Bushie could stay home, asshole?

    Now kids are dying in fucking Iraq, which did NOT have any WMD (they already used the ones we gave them on Iranians, when we didn't give a shit). They did NOT have any hand in 9/11. Hussein may have been a despot, but he was evidently cool when he was OUR despot. Nor was he any worse than the dozens of petty dictators we support EVERY goddam DAY.

    Yeah, I got alot to be angry about, asshole.

  6. Re:There's no libel here on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1

    Molly actually KNOWS Bush, personally. Has for years. I have met Bush (2000 campaign, at my bosses house). He was an idiot then, and is an idiot now.

  7. Re:Allow Me to Rant About This on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1

    BUSH did NOT show in Alabama. Bush did not even show up to campaign for Winton Blount. Bush is a coward.

    I am so angry that everyone is discussing documents that have nothing to do with anything. There are LOTS of other sources that show:

    1. Bush got preferential treatment
    2. Bush did NOT serve his entire enlistment
    3. Bush did not take a required physical, and lost his flight rating as a result
    4. Bush left early.

  8. Re:There's no libel here on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1

    These allegations ARE true and have been corroberated by many people. Hell, Molly Ivins new about this YEARS ago.

    Bush is a COWARD

    DAB

    former EM2(SS) US Navy

  9. The most important fact on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 2, Funny

    3 other investigations, (the Boston Globe among them) have found the charges are correct WITHOUT USING THESE DOCUMENTS. Face it, Bush is a dick ( and so is Cheney)

  10. Salt Lake CIty? on Pilgrimage 2004 American Demoparty Announced · · Score: 1

    Hope no one wants a late-nite drink!

  11. Re:OASIS TC: oBIX on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not true, we use a web server and mySQL to make all of the BACnet stuff, (both IP and MS/TP) available to the back end stuff. Its all Java up from there and I have used Python and Perl to do the same thing.

  12. Re:Followup Q on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    Lighting is easy, and usually integrated with everything else (A/C, sometimes access and CCTV)

  13. Re:Building Controls Systems on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    Metasys? Surely you jest :-)

    JC is probably the LEAST advanced BAS with regard to web standards and XML

    ALC, Alerton and Teletrol are all ahead of the "Old Guard" on this.

  14. Already doing a variant of this on Reducing Electricity Bills For Buildings With XML · · Score: 1

    http://www.teletrol.com

  15. Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess his Purple Hearts were all a fluke, and he was really in Texas in a priviledged ANG division. As an ex-Navy Submariner, It jack my jaws that all these people who were too good to goddam serve their country can slam someone who did.

  16. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    LA Times yes, one of ONLY 2 PAPERS to break the initial Watergate break-in (The other being the Washington Post). I do not read the Voice, though I have heard it is a good paper. I also read the Phoenix New Times and most importantly, the OLDEST Newspaper in America the New Hampshire Gazette LIVE FREE OR DIE, BABY!

  17. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey Bub,
    First rule of Jounalism..
    NEVER USE THE Washington Times as a REFERENCE. Or any other "unbiased" source such as the WSJ Editorial Page, the NY Post (or any other Murdoch-owned outlet).

  18. Re:Simply wrong on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chester Nimitz died in 1966, ~10 years before the Nimitz was commisioned.

  19. Re:Not bloody many. on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    Your implication is that there is a difference between govt and corporations. Not with this administration.

  20. Re:Ever Ride One?? on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    Yeah I have, I know what inertia is. I have also ridden one.. have you?

    I do not wish to engage in flame wars.. but you might show a little respect to your elders. Especially when they are more informed than you.

    Original point-automatic braking upon impact with ANYTHING taller than about 2 feet. The higher the point of impact, the stronger the braking force. ->
    impact=lean back = auto reverse.

    The guy who designed this thing is a hell of a lot more intelligent than you or I will ever be.

  21. Ever Ride One?? on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have.. and as strange as it sounds, it is NOT LIKE A VEHICLE. It is an extension of your body. If you hit any obstacle, it automatically stops, and if pressure continues it goes into reverse. It is WAY cool, and I would think a running individual would be more dangerous.

  22. Re:The Coming War... on Scientific Research Encountering More Restrictions · · Score: 1

    LOL. Be my guest, no cites required.

  23. The Coming War... on Scientific Research Encountering More Restrictions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .. will not be over "weapons of mass destruction". It will be over oil, and then ideas. This administration WILL continue to erode rights until corporate America holds ALL the cards. We can all see this. It is time to do something about it.

    Put the chimp out the door in '04.

  24. Get what you need, not every frame. on Large-Scale Video Archiving? · · Score: 1

    This is being done all the time, though usually not with so many cameras. The way this works in casinos, and other facilities in that you multiplex the video digitally using a mux. You dont get every frame. If an "event" occurs, you switch that camera off to a real-time VCR. The all digital stuff is done primarally by a company out of Durango, CO, (their name escapes me at the moment) and they stream everything real-time to hard drive arrays and back up to tape off-line as I recall. I used to do a lot of Vicon cameras, but there are many, many manufacturers to choose from.

  25. Re:When will AOL and other corps realize....? on More Trouble With AOL And GAIM · · Score: 1

    Say what? What the hell does AOL have to do wih GAIM other that a common protocol?