I don't claim to be an expert, but my understanding is that these are the sort of records which in Standard Operating Procedure are sealed for 12 years after the president leaves office. So the immediate GWB order only effected Reagan's records.
Who knows. But it's exactly this sort of naming convention that will seriously embarrass the US sooner or later. Imagine a vessel named after a President who later turns out to have stolen millions, or the sort of fuss that'll be kicked up when one's sent to a country that the CinC it's named after had attacked several years earlier?
Probably no embarrassments anymore. One of the first things GWB did when he took office was to delay the release of Reagan's presidential records. He eventually moved to essentially permanently seal anything that might eventually reveal inappropriate behavior by the Reagan and GWH Bush administrations.
War on drugs ---> Bush Sr., Nancy was "Just say No to drugs." Not to mention drug use DID decline through the end of the 80's and early 90's. The war is 'lost' because we (people and government) lost focus not because it could not be won.
Simple demographics. Post baby-boom generation, there were far fewer babies born in the late 60s and early 70s. Hence, there were more McJobs availble for each teenager, and fewer teens to hang out all bored and looking for escape through chemical manipulation of their bodies.
And that assumes that you think declining drug use is necessarily a good thing, especially if the decline is due to a coercive "war". You'll find plenty of folks to dispute that notion.
Central America ---> What part? And no fair bringing up Nicaragua. You already have Iran-Contra on the list. And if you thing the Sandinistas were better than the Contras you're frikin' nuts.
Evidence? You are welcome to disagree with communism in general, but if you look at the everyday lives of average people, the Sandanistas provided relatively well for their citizens.
Iran-Contra ---> I will not make excuses for going behind congress' back to get things done. But I do understand the desire to provide continous support to allies that congress was not doing.
The short form of The Wizard of Speed and Time, which I've seen probably a hundred times, is one of the greatest triumphs of spirit and will ever created by an independent artist. Truly a great work. The longer version of the film, which I only have seen once, was also pretty darn amazing.
The contributor says "Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, sent a memo across the company basically saying [my emphasis] that with no immediate breakthroughs in technology coming, and with the Linux computer operating system and a batch of other open-source programs biting at its heels, Microsoft will have to do a better job of persuading customers it has something they need."
The actual article at MSNBC says:
HIS MESSAGE: With no immediate breakthroughs in technology coming, and with the Linux computer operating system and a batch of other open-source programs biting at its heels, Microsoft will have to do a better job of persuading customers it has something they need.
It's not kosher to lift a complex sentence like that from the article, preceded by "basically saying...."
When I read slashdot I expect journalistic integrity [insert laughtrack here]. Okay, but I at least hope that y'all can do better than the New York Times.
Well, at least I'm graduating before them... I was supposed to graduate in 1985, but I decided to become a software engineer instead. Finally took the time to finish school this year. I picked up my cap and gown today. I'll be getting my M.I.T. diploma next week.
I dunno. Will Jiang Zemin start building mines below the dam and end up pissing off the Ents? If so, I don't think his plan holds water, if you pardon the expression
My employer back in 1993 gave me an HP19C. It's still running, has had the same batteries for, jeesh, at least 5 years now, and has a wonderful solid feel to it. Can't folks find them used? I like Palms, but an emulator just doesn't compare to a Real HP Calculator.
Adam Osbourne was a well known technical writer before he decided to enter the computer business. He wrote programming guides for the Z80, 6800, and 8080 processors, among others. Also 3GL language guides for CBASIC and others. He also wrote a book called Hypergrowth, about the rise and fall of Osborne Computer.
It's sad to see him go, but I do have to say that at the height of his game he was one arrogant SOB, and proud of that too. I saw him speak on a panel discussion in 1982 with Bill Gates and a few other folks. The panel was about the future of personal computing, sponsored by the now defunct Boston Computer Society. Adam stole the show, brashly predicting that Osborne Computers would dominate the industry. I can't help thinking of that evening as my personal "Dead Zone" moment, as I got the opportunity to chat with Bill Gates for several minutes after the show. But history can't be changed post facto, so I can't dwell on missed opportunities...
The Springfield Film festival episode, a sorry network excuse for introducing us to the lame Jon Lovitz animated show "The Critic", had to be the worst Simpsons. The episode did feature Barney's brilliant adventure in film-making, but also featured Mr. Burns out of character trying to buy his way to victory in the film festival. You would think after Marge painted him naked he would want to have stayed out of the arts.
Why was this worst?
Well, first, Jon Lovitz isn't funny. He destroyed the wonderful "News Radio" when he filled in for the dearly departed Troy McClure, umm, Phil Hartmann. "Opera Man" was funny for about 3 minutes.
This was a show to introduce us to "The Critic". This falls into the "Mork and Mindy" school of spin-off artistry. Take a massively popular show (in the case of "Mork" it was "Happy Days"), and throw a new character in simply to plug a new show that has nothing to do with the original show. These shouldn't even be called "spin-offs". Legitimate spin-offs, like the troublingly-still-popular "Frasier", "Trapper John, MD", "Lou Grant", or "Joanie Loves Chachi", show full fledged characters moving on with their lives after outgrowing their role on a previous show.
Lately the Rat and his animatronic gang have been singing this annoying song that goes:
Go to Chuck E Cheese
I want to go to Chuck E Cheese
I really want to
... to the tune of the classic new wave hit "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors. "Turning Japanese" was, at the time, some sort of British slang for wanking.
On the rare occasion (twice in 5 years) we've allowed our little ones to drag us to the Kingdom of the Rat, we've left fantasizing about hacking the animatronics to have Chuck E act out the original intent of the song while he sings...
Bushnell has done nothing but stifle innovation through his ownership of patents.
My first technical job was back in 1982 at General Computer Company, creators of Super Missile Attack as well as Ms. PacMan and the Atari 7800. Atari sued the guys who founded GCC because their "Super Missile Attack" was essentially a ROM replacement for Missile Command which made the game more challenging (and more profitable for arcade owners). The suit was settled with GCC agreeing to develop a bunch of games for Atari.
I don't know whether Bushnell was still at Atari when this all went down.
Surely anyone here over the age of thirty-five remembers the theme song:
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' to bring you the Banana Split show
If police cameras watch us, shouldn't we be able to watch police stations?
Not in Portland OR, apparently. Prosecutors and politicians claimed the right to go through people's trash whenever the police wished to, without a warrant. The used the argument in court that anyone has the right to go through anyone else's trash. So two Willamette Week reporters put that claim to the test by taking and analyzing the trash from the homes of the District Attorney, the Mayor, and the Chief of Police. It looks like the reporters will get arrested soon. You can read the story here
It's perfectly reasonable to question how many people will ever read these blogs (aside from those who are already fully on board the movement). It may be preaching to the choir, but it could also be used as an effective alert system to get "the choir" quickly to the site of illegal action.
I'm sure their will also be a couple members of the more mainstream alternative media (folks like Willamette Week, or even Harper's) who will spread some of the better stuff to the general public.
Lactose intolerance is actually a survival trait in mammals; gets you independant of Mommy and her teats more quickly, which means she can be lunch for the local predators without it affecting you unduly.
Excellent point. As it turns out, lactose tolerance is a mutation, in the form of a recessive gene. This article describes the discovery of the gene. Unfortunately, the article appears to be written by the dairy lobby, saying lactose intolerance "deprives people of calcium-rich milk", and "Interestingly, the researchers believe that this "abnormal" gene is actually the original form of the gene."
Anyway, you can stay on your ass all day and sitll not be a fat ass, I've done that long enough, so I know, eh..
I had a similar experience in my 20s. That thinking usually catches up with you eventually (YMMV). Now that I'm nearly 40, I weigh a few pounds more than I ever have, but I know that I can simply increment my bicycling from the background level of, oh, 30 km / week, and before long start riding more like 200 km / week. (I'm currently at 130 km / week). Maybe its the hours away from the refrigerator and away from slashdot. Maybe it's psychosomatic. Regardless, when I ride more, I sleep more regularly, my body fat percentage improves, I can eat all the tortellini alfredo my stomach can hold (yes, both the fat AND the carbos!), my brain focuses properly, and I'm a better lover (as long as I use my protect the prostate with my Liberator saddle.
Milk would be good, if you can be sure it's not filled with fattening hormons.
This doesn't apply to most Caucasian Americans, but a good percentage of the world is lactose intolerant. You think the grain lobby got a good deal with the food pyramid? The feds got seriously lobbied by the dairy folks. What other food lobby manages to enlist every elementary school in the county in pushing their product? We need better science in researching dairy food, that's for damn sure.
Second tip: bread. Expensive bread is better.
No argument from me on that one. Yum yum yum.
Get used to toning down the sweet taste. You can do the same for salt actually; better for your heart.
Or not. If you already have a high blood pressure problem, you should consider salt reduction. If you don't, then salt reduction doesn't help your health, and increases in salt consumption won't necessarily be bad for your heart.
As Freddy Mercury once said (or was it Lance Armstrong?), "Get on your bikes and ride!"
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I don't claim to be an expert, but my understanding is that these are the sort of records which in Standard Operating Procedure are sealed for 12 years after the president leaves office. So the immediate GWB order only effected Reagan's records.
Barbara and Ronnie had kids together? Why haven't I read this in the Weekly World News?
Probably no embarrassments anymore. One of the first things GWB did when he took office was to delay the release of Reagan's presidential records. He eventually moved to essentially permanently seal anything that might eventually reveal inappropriate behavior by the Reagan and GWH Bush administrations.
Simple demographics. Post baby-boom generation, there were far fewer babies born in the late 60s and early 70s. Hence, there were more McJobs availble for each teenager, and fewer teens to hang out all bored and looking for escape through chemical manipulation of their bodies.
And that assumes that you think declining drug use is necessarily a good thing, especially if the decline is due to a coercive "war". You'll find plenty of folks to dispute that notion.
Evidence? You are welcome to disagree with communism in general, but if you look at the everyday lives of average people, the Sandanistas provided relatively well for their citizens.
With allies like the Contras, who needs enemas?
The short form of The Wizard of Speed and Time, which I've seen probably a hundred times, is one of the greatest triumphs of spirit and will ever created by an independent artist. Truly a great work. The longer version of the film, which I only have seen once, was also pretty darn amazing.
The actual article at MSNBC says:
It's not kosher to lift a complex sentence like that from the article, preceded by "basically saying...."
When I read slashdot I expect journalistic integrity [insert laughtrack here]. Okay, but I at least hope that y'all can do better than the New York Times.
Well, at least I'm graduating before them... I was supposed to graduate in 1985, but I decided to become a software engineer instead. Finally took the time to finish school this year. I picked up my cap and gown today. I'll be getting my M.I.T. diploma next week.
I dunno. Will Jiang Zemin start building mines below the dam and end up pissing off the Ents? If so, I don't think his plan holds water, if you pardon the expression
My employer back in 1993 gave me an HP19C. It's still running, has had the same batteries for, jeesh, at least 5 years now, and has a wonderful solid feel to it. Can't folks find them used? I like Palms, but an emulator just doesn't compare to a Real HP Calculator.
I would think the killer app would be running a nice quiet diskless machine in your office and stashing the noisy drives elsewhere in your home.
But then, I suppose I would need to load all of my CDs into it so that I'd never have to deal with CD drivenoise, which is way more annoying.
It's sad to see him go, but I do have to say that at the height of his game he was one arrogant SOB, and proud of that too. I saw him speak on a panel discussion in 1982 with Bill Gates and a few other folks. The panel was about the future of personal computing, sponsored by the now defunct Boston Computer Society. Adam stole the show, brashly predicting that Osborne Computers would dominate the industry. I can't help thinking of that evening as my personal "Dead Zone" moment, as I got the opportunity to chat with Bill Gates for several minutes after the show. But history can't be changed post facto, so I can't dwell on missed opportunities...
Either that, or they thought it was a high tech functional specification for a marketing initiative.
Why was this worst?
Well, first, Jon Lovitz isn't funny. He destroyed the wonderful "News Radio" when he filled in for the dearly departed Troy McClure, umm, Phil Hartmann. "Opera Man" was funny for about 3 minutes.
This was a show to introduce us to "The Critic". This falls into the "Mork and Mindy" school of spin-off artistry. Take a massively popular show (in the case of "Mork" it was "Happy Days"), and throw a new character in simply to plug a new show that has nothing to do with the original show. These shouldn't even be called "spin-offs". Legitimate spin-offs, like the troublingly-still-popular "Frasier", "Trapper John, MD", "Lou Grant", or "Joanie Loves Chachi", show full fledged characters moving on with their lives after outgrowing their role on a previous show.
Oh, but I guess they don't do clothing there, do they. Darn.
... to the tune of the classic new wave hit "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors. "Turning Japanese" was, at the time, some sort of British slang for wanking.
On the rare occasion (twice in 5 years) we've allowed our little ones to drag us to the Kingdom of the Rat, we've left fantasizing about hacking the animatronics to have Chuck E act out the original intent of the song while he sings...
My first technical job was back in 1982 at General Computer Company, creators of Super Missile Attack as well as Ms. PacMan and the Atari 7800. Atari sued the guys who founded GCC because their "Super Missile Attack" was essentially a ROM replacement for Missile Command which made the game more challenging (and more profitable for arcade owners). The suit was settled with GCC agreeing to develop a bunch of games for Atari.
I don't know whether Bushnell was still at Atari when this all went down.
Surely anyone here over the age of thirty-five remembers the theme song:
One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Comin' to bring you the Banana Split show
It's perfectly reasonable to question how many people will ever read these blogs (aside from those who are already fully on board the movement). It may be preaching to the choir, but it could also be used as an effective alert system to get "the choir" quickly to the site of illegal action.
I'm sure their will also be a couple members of the more mainstream alternative media (folks like Willamette Week, or even Harper's) who will spread some of the better stuff to the general public.
But I thought slashdot was just chock full of script kiddies.
It had to be at most a matter of minutes before this Request For Recipes would result in a creative use of RFPs (Ramen Flavor Packets).
So predictable these geeks are. Like a clone army they become.
I had a similar experience in my 20s. That thinking usually catches up with you eventually (YMMV). Now that I'm nearly 40, I weigh a few pounds more than I ever have, but I know that I can simply increment my bicycling from the background level of, oh, 30 km / week, and before long start riding more like 200 km / week. (I'm currently at 130 km / week). Maybe its the hours away from the refrigerator and away from slashdot. Maybe it's psychosomatic. Regardless, when I ride more, I sleep more regularly, my body fat percentage improves, I can eat all the tortellini alfredo my stomach can hold (yes, both the fat AND the carbos!), my brain focuses properly, and I'm a better lover (as long as I use my protect the prostate with my Liberator saddle.
This doesn't apply to most Caucasian Americans, but a good percentage of the world is lactose intolerant. You think the grain lobby got a good deal with the food pyramid? The feds got seriously lobbied by the dairy folks. What other food lobby manages to enlist every elementary school in the county in pushing their product? We need better science in researching dairy food, that's for damn sure.No argument from me on that one. Yum yum yum.
Or not. If you already have a high blood pressure problem, you should consider salt reduction. If you don't, then salt reduction doesn't help your health, and increases in salt consumption won't necessarily be bad for your heart.
As Freddy Mercury once said (or was it Lance Armstrong?), "Get on your bikes and ride!"
Damn it, man. I saw the headline and was ready with nearly the same smarmy remark.
Ever actually use one of them turtle robots? Back in high school I got to visit MIT and see one in action.
Jeesh, I just realized my children are 6 & 4 and I haven't taught them Logo yet. Where can I find a decent Logo environment for Linux or Win32?