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But that's not neccessary. All that needs to happen is for President Bush to sign an executive order rescinding President Ford's executive order banning assassinations.
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Yes, I've read it and I think it's in poor taste.
It's a position statement, and at first I was looking for a similar item from Howard Phillips and other candidates from minor parties: what better time to get your word out than when everyone is looking for answers?
Upon reflection, I find this kind of thing repugnant, no matter how true it is.
I might as well say that the people on the planes got what they deserved, since as Paul wrote in Romans 3, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." I'm not going around saying that because no matter how true it is, it's insensitive, insulting and ultimately destructive, much like Brother Jed and Sister Cindy going around college campuses and calling the female students "sluts" and "whores" for wearing shorts, but on a significantly grander scale.
Brown attacks a lot of things that are water under the bridge; he doesn't have a lot of answers for the future other than a return to isolationism. Is that really where we want to go? We're going to crawl back into our shell, pre World War style, and suck our collective thumbs?
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One problem with parachutes: they have to be periodically unpacked flexed and repacked. FAR 91.307. Now this is really aimed at aircraft-based parachutes, but think about what they're trying to ensure:
PARACHUTES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN FLEXED AND PACKED RECENTLY ARE LIKELY NOT TO OPEN!
Could be a false sense of security if you don't maintain your parachute properly!
As I was thinking about recent events, another historic event crossed my mind, which you can read about here or here.
If you don't want to read Old Testament passages I linked above, here's the story:
King Hezekiah was sick, and when the king of Babylon received the news he sent envoys bearing gifts. Hezekiah then showed those visitors everything in the kingdom-- treasures, palaces, lands, defense stores. Nothing was kept hidden. Isaiah had divine knowledge of the ambassadors' visit, and came to question the king about it. Hezekiah admitted showing the Babylonians everything in the kingnom, and Isaiah pronounced sentence: the destruction of Hezekiah's kingdom, and the enslavement of his own descendants. Hezekiah's reply? "The word of the LORD you have spoken is good," Hezekiah replied. For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my lifetime."
What's the relevance? We've had eight years of weak foriegn policy, and at least two years of "legacy building" by national leaders more interested in their own skin than the good of the country. Like Hezekiah, they are willing to sell the whole nation down the river for a few more days of their own personal good luck. Just as in the days of Isaiah, the chickens do come home to roost.
I think you may be speaking of the French (just kidding).
The English were able to successfully repel the Germans during World War 2; don't you know your history? If I remember correctly, the English won the Battle of Brittain. Before the United States entered the war.
NEW YORK (AP) - Two planes crashed into the upper floors of both World
Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in what the President Bush said
was an apparent terrorist attack, blasting fiery, gaping holes in the 110-story
buildings. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries.
Within the hour, an aircraft crashed on a helicopter landing pad near the
Pentagon, and the West Wing of the White House was evacuated amid threats
of terrorism.
The president ordered a full-scale investigation to "hunt down the folks who
committed this act."
One of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center had been hijacked
after takeoff from Boston, a U.S. official said, citing a transmission from the
plane.
All planes were grounded across the country by the Federal Aviation
Administration. All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan were closed down.
The twin disaster at the World Trade Center happened shortly before 9 a.m.
and then right around 9 a.m.
Heavy black smoke billowed into the sky above the gaping holes in the side of
the 110-story twin towers, one of New York City's most famous landmarks, and
debris rained down upon the street, one of the city's busiest work areas. When
the second plane hit, a fireball of flame and smoke erupted, leaving a huge
hole in the glass and steel tower.
People ran down the stairs in panic and fled the building. Thousands of pieces
of what appeared to be office paper came drifting over Brooklyn, about three
miles away.
"Today we've had a national tragedy," Bush said in Sarasota, Fla. "Two
airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist
attack on our country." He said he would be returning immediately to
Washington.
Ira Furber, former National Transportation Safety Board spokesman,
discounted the likelihood of accident.
"I don't think this is an accident," he said on CNN. "You've got incredibly good
visibility. No pilot is going to be relying on navigational equipment."
"It's just not possible in the daytime," he added. "A second occurrence is just
beyond belief."
Terrorist bombers struck the World Trade Center in February 1993, killing six
people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
Several subway lines were immediately shut down Tuesday. Trading on Wall
Street was suspended.
"The plane was coming in low and... it looked like it hit at a slight angle," said
Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, the network reported.
"I was watching TV and heard a sonic boom," Jeanne Yurman told CNN. "The
side of the World Trade Center exploded. Debris is falling like leaflets. I hear
ambulances. The northern tower seems to be on fire."
A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
agency is pursuing reports that one or both of the planes were hijacked and
that the crashes may have been the result of a suicide mission.
"It certainly doesn't look like an accident," said a second government official,
also speaking on condition of anonymity.
In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th
floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog.
In Florida, Bush was reading to children in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. when his
chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered into his ear. The president briefly turned
somber before he resumed reading. He addressed the tragedy about a
half-hour later.
From the press release it almost sounds like they're withdrawing B2K because somebody might make a film with it and then not be able to sell it (hence the "expensive video" jibberish). Well, since when do companies care about if their customers can make money or not? There's more to filmmaking than flashy equipment: first of all there's writing, which seems to have taken a back seat to technology of late. All the flash in the world won't fix a bad story.
And where's the other players in all this? Between the Video Toaster and Personal Animation Recorder this kind of stuff was done ten years ago on Amiga. Not to mention (as already was) the Mac-based Avid. another poster mentioned the similarity between B2K and an Adobe product: why would they be afraid of Adobe? If anything, Adobe is a relative newcomer to the field, not an innovator.
That means that only sixty-four percent of the time (80% * 80%) the machine is bottlenecked by slow hardware. One third of the time it's doing something else that you admit could be made better by "tinkering with the kernel."
This whole "if it's not M$, I can't use it" mentality-- it's nuts. I have a difficult time believing that people are that rigid or unable/unwilling to think.
How much more could StarDivision (isn't that who Sun bought it from?) have done to make it easy to use? F7 is spellcheck for both M$-office and StarOffice (or as the corporate hacks here called it, "TarOffice."). The different buttons look the same: "B" for bold, "I" for italics.
I don't understand the trepidation and fear that people have. Can someone explain it to me? Productivity software are tools. Like hammers. Nobody shows fear at using a peening hammer when all they've seen before is a claw hammer. They're both hammers, and as such work about the same way. M$ Word and StarWord are both WYSIWYG word processors; they work very similarly.
The car analogy works-- do people tremble in fear at the mention of driving a Honda simply because they've only ever driven Fords? Or are Pontiacs so different from Lexus that their respective owners couldn't drive the other ones?
I disagree. He's not guilty because the law doesn't apply to him. He didn't do anything wrong in Russia, where he's from. Furthermore, he was not arrested for anything he did while in Las Vegas.
Taking your argument to its logical conclusion:
Germans vacationing here in the Land of the Mouse should be ticketed for speeding since they were obviously going faster (on the German Autobahn) than the 70 MPH speed limit on I-95.
Vacationing English would be ticketed for driving "on the wrong side of the road" while in England.
Japanese people should be jailed for partaking in the consuption of whale products.
Stupid reply time limit. Ya know, sometimes it just doesn't take much time to type out what I wanted to say. Now, I'm wasting everyones' time making them read this stuff, ensuring that it's more than twenty seconds until I click that submit button.
She complains in 1994, so the paper buys her special office furniture to help. A few years later she complains and they give her an extended leave to recouperate. A few years later she complains again and the paper decides that they can't do anything else to help her so they let her go.
This is discriminatory? It seems to me that they bent over backwards to help her do her work. About the only thing they didn't do is inject painkillers directly into her wrists.
What are they supposed to do? They publish newspapers and are not in the healthcare business. Staff writers that, after that much accomodation, can't write are a liability.
Perhaps they should have made her do weight training excercises to prevent this kind of injury. Weight training has been shown to increase bone density, muscle mass and tone, joint stability and more. Face it: the human body was not designed for desk work.
Depending on your point of view, the system either did or did not work:
Did work: The computer system took his picture, and made no match; it shouldn't match him to anything since he's not wanted for anything. It's the stupid USN&WR magazine editor that ran the picture that got him in trouble.
did not work: The computer system took his picture, and displayed it to the public (press) even though he wasn't wanted for anything. This let the stupid USN&WR magazine editor to print his picture (without his permission, I may add) and get him in trouble.
In either case, you'd think that the stupid USN&WR editor would have thought better than to print the picture of an anonymous person like this. They didn't print a crowd shot like people walking down the street. It was a picture of this guy. A portrait, as it were. A more reasonable photograph to print would be a Tampa Police operator sitting at the console watching the monitor, with the screen obscured by distance or glare. Not as titilating, but much less likely to cause people distress.
TBC = Time Base Corrector, so "TBC corrector" is redundant.
Why does it get messy? Most of the Macrovision-type signals either reduce or invert the sync signals to keep VTRs from tracking the video. TBCs digitize and buffer the incoming video signal, find the (distorted) sync signals and replace them with new, properly formed, ones. The "fixed" signal is then sent through a DAC to create the final, corrected, analog video.
TBCs are required anytime the video goes through a mechanical system that is subject to wow and flutter. Video systems are very sensitive to timing, and VTRs drift. TBCs "fix" that time drift associated with VTRs.
Most also let you play with the different component signals-- color saturation and hue, luminance (brightness) levels, black levels.
Just put the TBC where you'd normally put a TV, and the signal it will produce will be perfectly recordable. That's what it's for!
Don't forget that RMS will have to pay his ASCAP/BMI for singing his karaoke version of that song. ASCAP/BMI goes to the song writers, those that hold copyright for the music, not to the recording companies, those that hold copyright for the recordings.
Now, RMS can make up his own song that uses the same title as a Britney Spears song...
The Whatis definition you quote is more along the lines of what I would call a Trojan Horse, not a virus. Trojan Horses require active participation on the part of the victim in order to work, much like the mythic/historic horse did. All the things of late that the media have called virii I would categorize as Trojan Horses.
Would not a classic definition of "virus" be more along the lines of:
A piece of programming code that spreads itself
automatically, without cognizant human interaction, to multiple computer systems by attaching itself either to data files to be shared (MS-Word virii, etc) or system startup data of removable media (boot-block virii, etc).
True virii are more dangerous than Trojan Horses
since users are not aware of their operation. They're silent in their operation until the damage is done (payload is used).
I can imagine that auto-play home-burned CD-ROMs are a fertile ground for true virii which could attach themselves to the burning software, and become part of every bootable or auto-starting CD made from then on, for example.
I pay a tax on my automobile - why I don't know, but that's the greed of Government.
Automobile taxes are used to maintain and extend the automobile support structure: roads. Modern cars for the most part don't do very well off-road, and very few people could afford to build their own. Car tags are ways that we as a people can pay to build and maintain a system of roads. Simple as that.
Taxing satellites like cars would be silly since they use no infrastructure. Taxing them like property improvements make more sense: they're tangible assets like buildings.
On second thought, most property taxes go to pay for infrastructure support (water, sewer and the like) and schools. Again, these birds don't use these services, so perhaps again it's silly.
Americans like things called "sin taxes," taxes on things they don't like. Perhaps that's what's going on here. The LA county government is just tired of the entertainment industry and wants them to leave. The best way to do that is to make it financially attractive for them to go elsewhere.
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But that's not neccessary. All that needs to happen is for President Bush to sign an executive order rescinding President Ford's executive order banning assassinations.
Yes, I've read it and I think it's in poor taste.
It's a position statement, and at first I was looking for a similar item from Howard Phillips and other candidates from minor parties: what better time to get your word out than when everyone is looking for answers?
Upon reflection, I find this kind of thing repugnant, no matter how true it is.
I might as well say that the people on the planes got what they deserved, since as Paul wrote in Romans 3, "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." I'm not going around saying that because no matter how true it is, it's insensitive, insulting and ultimately destructive, much like Brother Jed and Sister Cindy going around college campuses and calling the female students "sluts" and "whores" for wearing shorts, but on a significantly grander scale.
Brown attacks a lot of things that are water under the bridge; he doesn't have a lot of answers for the future other than a return to isolationism. Is that really where we want to go? We're going to crawl back into our shell, pre World War style, and suck our collective thumbs?
What about ValuJet 592?
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Could be a false sense of security if you don't maintain your parachute properly!
As I was thinking about recent events, another historic event crossed my mind, which you can read about here or here.
If you don't want to read Old Testament passages I linked above, here's the story:
King Hezekiah was sick, and when the king of Babylon received the news he sent envoys bearing gifts. Hezekiah then showed those visitors everything in the kingdom-- treasures, palaces, lands, defense stores. Nothing was kept hidden. Isaiah had divine knowledge of the ambassadors' visit, and came to question the king about it. Hezekiah admitted showing the Babylonians everything in the kingnom, and Isaiah pronounced sentence: the destruction of Hezekiah's kingdom, and the enslavement of his own descendants. Hezekiah's reply? "The word of the LORD you have spoken is good," Hezekiah replied. For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my lifetime."
What's the relevance? We've had eight years of weak foriegn policy, and at least two years of "legacy building" by national leaders more interested in their own skin than the good of the country. Like Hezekiah, they are willing to sell the whole nation down the river for a few more days of their own personal good luck. Just as in the days of Isaiah, the chickens do come home to roost.
I think you may be speaking of the French (just kidding).
The English were able to successfully repel the Germans during World War 2; don't you know your history? If I remember correctly, the English won the Battle of Brittain. Before the United States entered the war.
I doubt that Anwar Sadat, the long-dead president of Egypt, expresses much of anything anymore.
Yassir Arafat, however, did say that he did not approve of the attack. Yeah, whatever.
Look inside the front of your phone book; there's normally emergency services contact information in there.
First plane had 81 passengers and 11 crewmembers. Second plane had 58 passengers and a crew of 6.
N.Y., D.C. attacked
... it looked like it hit at a slight angle," said
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Two planes crashed into the upper floors of both World
Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in what the President Bush said
was an apparent terrorist attack, blasting fiery, gaping holes in the 110-story
buildings. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries.
Within the hour, an aircraft crashed on a helicopter landing pad near the
Pentagon, and the West Wing of the White House was evacuated amid threats
of terrorism.
The president ordered a full-scale investigation to "hunt down the folks who
committed this act."
One of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center had been hijacked
after takeoff from Boston, a U.S. official said, citing a transmission from the
plane.
All planes were grounded across the country by the Federal Aviation
Administration. All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan were closed down.
The twin disaster at the World Trade Center happened shortly before 9 a.m.
and then right around 9 a.m.
Heavy black smoke billowed into the sky above the gaping holes in the side of
the 110-story twin towers, one of New York City's most famous landmarks, and
debris rained down upon the street, one of the city's busiest work areas. When
the second plane hit, a fireball of flame and smoke erupted, leaving a huge
hole in the glass and steel tower.
People ran down the stairs in panic and fled the building. Thousands of pieces
of what appeared to be office paper came drifting over Brooklyn, about three
miles away.
"Today we've had a national tragedy," Bush said in Sarasota, Fla. "Two
airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist
attack on our country." He said he would be returning immediately to
Washington.
Ira Furber, former National Transportation Safety Board spokesman,
discounted the likelihood of accident.
"I don't think this is an accident," he said on CNN. "You've got incredibly good
visibility. No pilot is going to be relying on navigational equipment."
"It's just not possible in the daytime," he added. "A second occurrence is just
beyond belief."
Terrorist bombers struck the World Trade Center in February 1993, killing six
people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
Several subway lines were immediately shut down Tuesday. Trading on Wall
Street was suspended.
"The plane was coming in low and
Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, the network reported.
"I was watching TV and heard a sonic boom," Jeanne Yurman told CNN. "The
side of the World Trade Center exploded. Debris is falling like leaflets. I hear
ambulances. The northern tower seems to be on fire."
A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
agency is pursuing reports that one or both of the planes were hijacked and
that the crashes may have been the result of a suicide mission.
"It certainly doesn't look like an accident," said a second government official,
also speaking on condition of anonymity.
In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th
floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog.
In Florida, Bush was reading to children in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. when his
chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered into his ear. The president briefly turned
somber before he resumed reading. He addressed the tragedy about a
half-hour later.
I don't often suggest them, but Florida Today has coverage.
http://www.floridatoday.com/
And where's the other players in all this? Between the Video Toaster and Personal Animation Recorder this kind of stuff was done ten years ago on Amiga. Not to mention (as already was) the Mac-based Avid. another poster mentioned the similarity between B2K and an Adobe product: why would they be afraid of Adobe? If anything, Adobe is a relative newcomer to the field, not an innovator.
There's got to be better reasons.
Ok. It's fixed. Thanks for the tip. I don't think I needed a report from WHOIS, however.
That means that only sixty-four percent of the time (80% * 80%) the machine is bottlenecked by slow hardware. One third of the time it's doing something else that you admit could be made better by "tinkering with the kernel."
This whole "if it's not M$, I can't use it" mentality-- it's nuts. I have a difficult time believing that people are that rigid or unable/unwilling to think.
How much more could StarDivision (isn't that who Sun bought it from?) have done to make it easy to use? F7 is spellcheck for both M$-office and StarOffice (or as the corporate hacks here called it, "TarOffice."). The different buttons look the same: "B" for bold, "I" for italics.
I don't understand the trepidation and fear that people have. Can someone explain it to me? Productivity software are tools. Like hammers. Nobody shows fear at using a peening hammer when all they've seen before is a claw hammer. They're both hammers, and as such work about the same way. M$ Word and StarWord are both WYSIWYG word processors; they work very similarly.
The car analogy works-- do people tremble in fear at the mention of driving a Honda simply because they've only ever driven Fords? Or are Pontiacs so different from Lexus that their respective owners couldn't drive the other ones?
Taking your argument to its logical conclusion:
Why do these things not happen?
Stupid reply time limit. Ya know, sometimes it just doesn't take much time to type out what I wanted to say. Now, I'm wasting everyones' time making them read this stuff, ensuring that it's more than twenty seconds until I click that submit button.
Blah blah blah blah blah
She complains in 1994, so the paper buys her special office furniture to help. A few years later she complains and they give her an extended leave to recouperate. A few years later she complains again and the paper decides that they can't do anything else to help her so they let her go.
This is discriminatory? It seems to me that they bent over backwards to help her do her work. About the only thing they didn't do is inject painkillers directly into her wrists.
What are they supposed to do? They publish newspapers and are not in the healthcare business. Staff writers that, after that much accomodation, can't write are a liability.
Perhaps they should have made her do weight training excercises to prevent this kind of injury. Weight training has been shown to increase bone density, muscle mass and tone, joint stability and more. Face it: the human body was not designed for desk work.
Sounds like nothing a small-value resistor or a cleverly-placed Zener diode wouldn't fix!
- Did work: The computer system took his picture, and made no match; it shouldn't match him to anything since he's not wanted for anything. It's the stupid USN&WR magazine editor that ran the picture that got him in trouble.
- did not work: The computer system took his picture, and displayed it to the public (press) even though he wasn't wanted for anything. This let the stupid USN&WR magazine editor to print his picture (without his permission, I may add) and get him in trouble.
In either case, you'd think that the stupid USN&WR editor would have thought better than to print the picture of an anonymous person like this. They didn't print a crowd shot like people walking down the street. It was a picture of this guy. A portrait, as it were. A more reasonable photograph to print would be a Tampa Police operator sitting at the console watching the monitor, with the screen obscured by distance or glare. Not as titilating, but much less likely to cause people distress.Why does it get messy? Most of the Macrovision-type signals either reduce or invert the sync signals to keep VTRs from tracking the video. TBCs digitize and buffer the incoming video signal, find the (distorted) sync signals and replace them with new, properly formed, ones. The "fixed" signal is then sent through a DAC to create the final, corrected, analog video.
TBCs are required anytime the video goes through a mechanical system that is subject to wow and flutter. Video systems are very sensitive to timing, and VTRs drift. TBCs "fix" that time drift associated with VTRs.
Most also let you play with the different component signals-- color saturation and hue, luminance (brightness) levels, black levels.
Just put the TBC where you'd normally put a TV, and the signal it will produce will be perfectly recordable. That's what it's for!
Now, RMS can make up his own song that uses the same title as a Britney Spears song...
The Whatis definition you quote is more along the lines of what I would call a Trojan Horse, not a virus. Trojan Horses require active participation on the part of the victim in order to work, much like the mythic/historic horse did. All the things of late that the media have called virii I would categorize as Trojan Horses.
Would not a classic definition of "virus" be more along the lines of:
True virii are more dangerous than Trojan Horses since users are not aware of their operation. They're silent in their operation until the damage is done (payload is used).I can imagine that auto-play home-burned CD-ROMs are a fertile ground for true virii which could attach themselves to the burning software, and become part of every bootable or auto-starting CD made from then on, for example.
Here's some evidence against your statement.
Taxing satellites like cars would be silly since they use no infrastructure. Taxing them like property improvements make more sense: they're tangible assets like buildings.
On second thought, most property taxes go to pay for infrastructure support (water, sewer and the like) and schools. Again, these birds don't use these services, so perhaps again it's silly.
Americans like things called "sin taxes," taxes on things they don't like. Perhaps that's what's going on here. The LA county government is just tired of the entertainment industry and wants them to leave. The best way to do that is to make it financially attractive for them to go elsewhere.