A compromise might be Sigma Designs REALmagic XCard it's a 'multimedia playback card' - you can watch it on your PC if you like, but you don't have to. The point is to watch stuff on the tv. It can play DVD's, Divx, Mpeg4, Mpeg3,mpeg2, mpeg1. For outputs it has S/PDIF, S-Video, RGB, VGA and Composite. You run a player on the computer which sends the movie to the card, ie, you are not sending your computer picture, but the movie directly, so you can use your computer for something else while its playing. Included is a little infrared detector and a remote, so if you don't want to sit at the computer and control playback (using the player app), you can lounge around in your sofa and remote control it. Kinda a nifty.
This is not new, you have been able to buy them for a while. And in Denmark the copyright holders of movies are examining wether or not they are able to have the player banned. (I could provide a link, but only in Danish;)
None of the international community believes it. I think 60-some percent o the American population believes it. The only important thing to me is that the people who actually have facts about the threat believe it. I elect and pay for my government officials to be in office because I expect them to protect me. If they say that's what they are doing, do I have proof otherwise? No. Neither do you.
And that is the problem for most of the world. Without any kind of proof they invade another country, it what some feel is just the prelude to at worst world war 3, at semi worst new (occupied) american states in the middle east - because Bush and his friend are so scared that they feel the only way to be sure is essentially if the whole world is ruled by americans. The irony is if they want to be safe at home they should stay at home. Bin Laden grinds his axe because america stationed troops in the middle east, that's what Ql queda hates, if they troops haden't been all ove their regions, there would have been no reason to strike. And don't forget, America is strong - they could flatten any country - so no one can fight them in a straight war (very few anyway) the believe the only way they can fight is with hit and run attacks and bombs - what they call freedom fighters, what the west calls terrorists.
If the regime in Iraq is completely overthrown, and a new government is installed (which I hope is chosen by the Iraqi people, and has nothing to do with the US, honestly), oil prices aren't going to magically go down for Americans. I'm not an economics major, but this seems pretty simple. We're not occupying this country and shipping oil home. We are in no way interfering with OPECs ability to control oil
Except the war costs a damn fortune - they could double the taxes at home or they could say "Now that we are managing Iraq for the Iraqies, and since we did liberate them, its seems only fair we get some of the oil as payment" - don't think it will happen? I don't think its that unlikely, and they you will have created new terrorists.
Something I've said MANY TIMES that if this turns out to be for any reason OTHER than US national security, I am COMPLETELY against it.
They've run some experiments sending SMS's(Short Message System) to stolen mobile phones. One every 3 minuttes. Apparently far fewer phones are being stolen now:)
Rumour has it, its a sort of semi continuation of the TNG movie "First Contact" - in the movie the Borg and Enterprise travel back in time to earth. In this Enterprise episode (which takes place more than 100 years after the movie) a research station on the Northpole finds a crashed Borg ship, and two corpse (so they thing) of these strange cybernetic organisms - of course as soon as they thaw they start assimilating the base - then its Archer to the rescue. It might work actually... no what am i saying - its the great Turkey of the Galaxy behind this.. oh well, one can dream, right?
I'm sure most Europeans see us all as a bunch of cowboy rednecks,
I'm sure alot used to do that once, but with the advent of the internet, they've learned that you are a diverse bunch, some quite sensible.
fighting Iraq for oil
The US is using 25% of the worlds oil! When you get nervous you seem to build bigger and more slothfull cars (SUV anyone) - few believe that Oil doesn't play some a part of this.
The United States governemtn is doing what they feel is in the best interest of their national security.
Perhaps (or perhaps not) - but then you could say the same about Saddam.
And, despite what all these America-haters out there think, in a number of these cases the US government has sent troops to help (Kosovo? Kuwait?)
And that is the dangerous mindset "all thse america-haters" - just nuke the lot, we'll be a lot safer then.
And I guarantee that no honest government is going to sit by and let their country be threatened, regardless of world opinion.
If everybody tells you you are nuts, perhaps you should start to listen to them instead of the voices in your head.
Except maybe the French:)
Oh i don't know, they were threatend by a rogue nation with weapons of mass destruction, and they stuck to their guns - sounds rather brave to me.
Believe it or not, there is just as much dissention and discussion (if not more) among the American people about the war as there is between Americans and those of other nations. Indeed, America is a free country, and they're allowed to speak up against their government.
No we're not. Iraq started this war 12 years ago. It has yet to be finished. The terms of the cease fire were dependent on Iraq disarming, they have not therefore the war continues. It's that simple. Case closed.
The United States and North Korea are still technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean war was never ended with a peace treaty. So next Bush will invade them because "we are still at war", and on and on - No - you are invanding a country without any right. Keep it up if you wish the countries of the world to contemplate world war 3...
Look, I'm certainly no fan of Bush, but to compare him to Hitler is just idiocy.
Why? We are talking 33 not 43. Ie, 2003 not 2013... Bush is ignoring the majority (because he fights for democracy!) to invade another country. The why IS irelevant. And the war against terrorism (which really hasn't got much to do with Iraq) CAN NEVER be won. How can you prove there isn't a terroist around the next corner? Or the next. Before americans tended to isolate themselves over there, thinking themselves the center of the universe and damn the rest. But after the 11th of september fear suddenly set it. And the Bush doctrin is "They must be like us or we will eradicate them" - Iraq is just the first country... unless the rest of the world stop him..
or so the news say, connections in and out have been disrupted for several days...
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iirc cnn has an irc server (irc.cnn.com)? that has a bot spouting their closed caption feed.
Had. It seems to have been closed. (chat.cnn.com still opens up to a mostly barren chat with links to non exsisting web pages and email addresses which bounce)
A review of thousands of declassified government documents and interviews with former policymakers shows that U.S. intelligence and logistical support played a crucial role in shoring up Iraqi defenses against the "human wave" attacks by suicidal Iranian troops. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague.
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2. Region Codes? These units are 'all code' out of the box.
Pardon my stupidity, but I don't understand what you mean by 'code out of the box'? That they only implement region coding in software?
A compromise might be Sigma Designs REALmagic XCard it's a 'multimedia playback card' - you can watch it on your PC if you like, but you don't have to. The point is to watch stuff on the tv. It can play DVD's, Divx, Mpeg4, Mpeg3,mpeg2, mpeg1. For outputs it has S/PDIF, S-Video, RGB, VGA and Composite. You run a player on the computer which sends the movie to the card, ie, you are not sending your computer picture, but the movie directly, so you can use your computer for something else while its playing. Included is a little infrared detector and a remote, so if you don't want to sit at the computer and control playback (using the player app), you can lounge around in your sofa and remote control it. Kinda a nifty.
This is not new, you have been able to buy them for a while. And in Denmark the copyright holders of movies are examining wether or not they are able to have the player banned. (I could provide a link, but only in Danish ;)
resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this day forward, you will service us.
A friend bought the pro version of zonealarm for an NT server ... it kept crashing.. so he went back to the free version - cool...not.
"It's about US national security. "
;)
>Which nobody belives. (Well you perhaps
None of the international community believes it. I think 60-some percent o the American population believes it. The only important thing to me is that the people who actually have facts about the threat believe it. I elect and pay for my government officials to be in office because I expect them to protect me. If they say that's what they are doing, do I have proof otherwise? No. Neither do you.
And that is the problem for most of the world. Without any kind of proof they invade another country, it what some feel is just the prelude to at worst world war 3, at semi worst new (occupied) american states in the middle east - because Bush and his friend are so scared that they feel the only way to be sure is essentially if the whole world is ruled by americans. The irony is if they want to be safe at home they should stay at home. Bin Laden grinds his axe because america stationed troops in the middle east, that's what Ql queda hates, if they troops haden't been all ove their regions, there would have been no reason to strike. And don't forget, America is strong - they could flatten any country - so no one can fight them in a straight war (very few anyway) the believe the only way they can fight is with hit and run attacks and bombs - what they call freedom fighters, what the west calls terrorists.
If the regime in Iraq is completely overthrown, and a new government is installed (which I hope is chosen by the Iraqi people, and has nothing to do with the US, honestly), oil prices aren't going to magically go down for Americans. I'm not an economics major, but this seems pretty simple. We're not occupying this country and shipping oil home. We are in no way interfering with OPECs ability to control oil
Except the war costs a damn fortune - they could double the taxes at home or they could say "Now that we are managing Iraq for the Iraqies, and since we did liberate them, its seems only fair we get some of the oil as payment" - don't think it will happen? I don't think its that unlikely, and they you will have created new terrorists.
Something I've said MANY TIMES that if this turns out to be for any reason OTHER than US national security, I am COMPLETELY against it.
Ok.
The reason according to Elke Monssen-Engberding, director of the Ministry for Family Affairs: 'It portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.'"
1.That's how americans solve conflicts
2.That's OOOOOOOOOOOLD news (both things) the put it on the restricted list when it came about about 2 months ago...
They've run some experiments sending SMS's(Short Message System) to stolen mobile phones. One every 3 minuttes. Apparently far fewer phones are being stolen now :)
Slashdot had the news about this almost a year ago!
cosplayable
The what?
http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net/
What program uses those magnet links?
Rumour has it, its a sort of semi continuation of the TNG movie "First Contact" - in the movie the Borg and Enterprise travel back in time to earth. In this Enterprise episode (which takes place more than 100 years after the movie) a research station on the Northpole finds a crashed Borg ship, and two corpse (so they thing) of these strange cybernetic organisms - of course as soon as they thaw they start assimilating the base - then its Archer to the rescue. It might work actually... no what am i saying - its the great Turkey of the Galaxy behind this.. oh well, one can dream, right?
Hear hear!
Perhaps Berman is finally resigning! That would improve the show no end!
This is not about the people in Europe.
;)
:)
You are right, its about the people of the world
It's about US national security.
Which nobody belives. (Well you perhaps
I'm sure most Europeans see us all as a bunch of cowboy rednecks,
I'm sure alot used to do that once, but with the advent of the internet, they've learned that you are a diverse bunch, some quite sensible.
fighting Iraq for oil
The US is using 25% of the worlds oil! When you get nervous you seem to build bigger and more slothfull cars (SUV anyone) - few believe that Oil doesn't play some a part of this.
The United States governemtn is doing what they feel is in the best interest of their national security.
Perhaps (or perhaps not) - but then you could say the same about Saddam.
And, despite what all these America-haters out there think, in a number of these cases the US government has sent troops to help (Kosovo? Kuwait?)
And that is the dangerous mindset "all thse america-haters" - just nuke the lot, we'll be a lot safer then.
And I guarantee that no honest government is going to sit by and let their country be threatened, regardless of world opinion.
If everybody tells you you are nuts, perhaps you should start to listen to them instead of the voices in your head.
Except maybe the French
Oh i don't know, they were threatend by a rogue nation with weapons of mass destruction, and they stuck to their guns - sounds rather brave to me.
Believe it or not, there is just as much dissention and discussion (if not more) among the American people about the war as there is between Americans and those of other nations. Indeed, America is a free country, and they're allowed to speak up against their government.
For the moment..
No we're not. Iraq started this war 12 years ago. It has yet to be finished. The terms of the cease fire were dependent on Iraq disarming, they have not therefore the war continues. It's that simple. Case closed.
The United States and North Korea are still technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean war was never ended with a peace treaty. So next Bush will invade them because "we are still at war", and on and on - No - you are invanding a country without any right. Keep it up if you wish the countries of the world to contemplate world war 3...
Sorry folks, I know you hate to hear it, but the truth speaks for itself.
Except it's bullshit. People in Europe don't care what party Bush belongs to. It's the megalomanic they find disturbing.
Look, I'm certainly no fan of Bush, but to compare him to Hitler is just idiocy.
... unless the rest of the world stop him..
Why? We are talking 33 not 43. Ie, 2003 not 2013... Bush is ignoring the majority (because he fights for democracy!) to invade another country. The why IS irelevant. And the war against terrorism (which really hasn't got much to do with Iraq) CAN NEVER be won. How can you prove there isn't a terroist around the next corner? Or the next. Before americans tended to isolate themselves over there, thinking themselves the center of the universe and damn the rest. But after the 11th of september fear suddenly set it. And the Bush doctrin is "They must be like us or we will eradicate them" - Iraq is just the first country
or so the news say, connections in and out have been disrupted for several days...
iirc cnn has an irc server (irc.cnn.com)? that has a bot spouting their closed caption feed.
Had. It seems to have been closed. (chat.cnn.com still opens up to a mostly barren chat with links to non exsisting web pages and email addresses which bounce)
Sly jokes aside, where is the proof of that?
here
A review of thousands of declassified government documents and interviews with former policymakers shows that U.S. intelligence and logistical support played a crucial role in shoring up Iraqi defenses against the "human wave" attacks by suicidal Iranian troops. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague.
LEO
I am making a mental list of those who are snickering, and even as I speak I'm
preparing appropriate retribution.
TOBY
Leo, wouldn't this time be better spent plotting a war against a country that can't
possibly defend itself against us?