Finally, what is it about outrage and disgust about Republicans cracking Democrats email on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to spy on them, that is "partisan"? Show me Democrats cracking and spying on Republicans' email in the Senate, and I'll be outraged. Waiting...
Sadly, you didn't learn from your error, subsequently claiming that Tom DeLay had been indicted. While DeLay was (and still is) confronting several ethical problems, he has only been subpoenaed to testify about the matter, and had not been indicted for anything.
And today, you are claiming that Clinton didn't lie under oath, conveniently mis-citing the definitions provided during his testimony to the grand jury. Even if you succeed in splitting hairs the way Clinton did, Clinton's own testimony is contradictory.
Really, I don't know what you mean by "idependent", if you say that I am not. I'm a member of no political party.
Doc, your postings on Slashdot identify you as a partisan hack. You are about as "idependent" as Karl Rove.
If you want to take the legal point of view, you have to accept that Clinton did not lie under oath. He was asked if he had "sex" with Lewinsky, was given a written definition of "sex" that required mutual gentital contact and penetration, and truthfully said "no".
The definition of "sex" provided to Clinton was:
"[A] person engages in "sexual relations" when the person knowingly engages in or causes -- contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person . . . . "Contact" means intentional touching, either directly or through clothing."
A footnote explains that the definition mirrors a federal criminal statute, 18 U.S.C. 2246(3). The ellipsis in the quotation omits two paragraphs of the definition that Judge Wright ruled inapplicable.
Clinton claimed that Lewinsky was "engaging in a sexual relations", but at the same moment, he was not. But, even if we set aside the absurdity of this claim, it contradicted his deposition in a earlier case involving Paula Jones.
In that deposition, under oath, Clinton testified that Lewinsky's affidavit denying any sexual relationship was "absolutely true". By subsequently admitting that she did actually engage in an allegedly one-side sexual relationship, he committed perjury: both statements cannot be true.
Of course, these two allegations are only two of the eleven different potential grounds for impeachment that were detailed in the Starr Report.
Realistically, if it'll make that big of an impact, why not make Daylight Savings Time a year-round proposal?
In 1974, DST was in effect for 10 months of the year. It was during the "energy crisis", and the intent was to reduce energy consumption as well. The same claim was made: 10,000 barrels of oil per day.
The problem: even where I lived (in southern Texas), it was dark during the morning trek to school. The streets were jammed with cars and trucks, filled with parents taking their kids to school (instead of walking or riding a bicycle). I had to dig up a light for my bike, but by that time I was in high school.
Whatever energy was saved by an extra hour of daylight in the evening (and probably more) was consumed by the additional vehicles on the road during those morning hours.
It would be worthwhile to examine the sunrise times across the US (at all latitudes), to determine if the lost hour of daylight in the morning would overlap the start of school during the additional month in April/March. Otherwise, this change might actually cause a net increase in energy consumption.
Skip down to the Summary Statement of Income on page 36. You'll find that for 2003, net income on revenues of $237 billion was $31 billion, or a gross profit margin of 13%. A third of that subsequently went to income taxes, leaving $21 billion, or about $3.15 per outstanding share of common stock.
So, for every dollar of revenue, ExxonMobil kept about 9 cents (after taxes). About a third of that was paid as dividends to shareholders, leaving 6 cents per dollar.
I suspect that few people would consider 6 cents to be "most" of a dollar.
"On March 30th, Slashdot reported on the FBI request for the logs of several radical-leaning sites. The Washington Post has an article about the man who was responsible for the posts which resulted in the FBI request. He claimed to have killed a cop in several forum posts."
The Washington Post article was about a murder committed in November, 2002. The subsequent postings were six days later. The FBI is likely to have been disappointed if they just now made requests for server logs, after two years have elapsed.
I remember this particular incident, because I got a call from the FBI about it. The perpetrator sent his "manifesto" to an email address associated with a website I no longer maintain, apparently from an outdated list. The address got so much spam that I was simply using incoming messages to train SpamAssassin's Bayesian filter, then dumped them into the bit-bucket.
But, someone else forwarded it to the FBI (as I would have done, if I actually received it). Since my contact info was available for my domain name, I got a call from an agent who was trying to find any link between the recipients and the sender.
In Houston, EACH AND EVERY car that has a transponder is tracked when it is on the freeway.
If you follow the link, you'll find that the purpose of the tracking is relatively benign: they are measuring the average speed of vehicles on the road to generate this map:
I just bought an Acura RL, which has a navigation system that will display the traffic flow information in a manner similar to the above web page at houstontranstar.org. The area where I live doesn't have the traffic monitoring, but I wondered how it was implemented. Thanks for the tip!
However, you do have a point: the technology enables many potential benefits and abuses.
I think you are correct about Love Field: I recently used SuperShuttle for a ride to Love Field, and they sent one of their "Executive Service" cars for me. I didn't have to share a ride with anyone, but the price was the same as the shared ride van. I suspect they aren't getting enough business to/from Love Field to justify anything but on-demand service. On the other hand, when I returned to D/FW (the different airports for departure and arrival was the reason I used SuperShuttle this trip)
The last time I used SuperShuttle, they had an in-vehicle console that was used for dispatch. But, it's gone now, replaced with a Nextel phone and text messaging. I wondered if it was a GPS phone to aid in tracking the vans, but the radio chatter seemed to preclude it.
I remember it differently, though. The oscillations didn't taper down, and the book closed at the start of an all out effort to push (not pull) the black hole into an orbit outside the perimeter of the planet's atmosphere. And it didn't involve an asteroid.
Maybe it was a different book with a similar premise?
The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."
I emailed the on-duty editor about this, but apparently it didn't get there in time.
The article actually says:
"My guess is that they will do a good job," Semel said of Microsoft's increasing emphasis on search engine technology. "I welcome that. It's good to have good competition."
Perhaps another source indicates that Yang and Filo don't regret funding Google. But, it isn't cited here.
And? What? Some chick had a male name and changed it after turning 18?
It wasn't an ambiguously male/female name, and her high school yearbook picture wasn't ambiguous either. And the driving record also noted the change in gender.
Or are you saying she's one of the few million people to get a sex change operation in the last couple of decades?
The problem in this case is that she tried to conceal it, and forgot some important details.
At the time they landed it was reported that they had enough fuel to fly most of the way across the U.S.
At the time that they landed, they thought they had enough fuel to fly most of the way across the US. I was watching the live coverage, and I remember it. It wasn't until after they drained/dipped the tanks that they realized they were running so short on fuel.
A few gallons would probably have been all that they needed to do this. At that point the thing was mostly a glider.
The Voyager flew most of the time only on the Continental IOL-200 rear engine. It's an unusual engine, so fuel flow specs aren't easily found, but the Continental O-200 from which it was derived consumes 5.5-6 gallons/hour (or 33-36 lbs/hour) at cruise. The IOL-200 is more efficient, but not enough to make a substantial difference in endurance with only 6 of fuel. That's usually over the range of 50% to 75% power, which is what aviation engines cruise at. Outside that range, they are not very efficient.
You can get some idea of Voyager's average fuel flow from:
They lifted off with 7,011 lbs of fuel. They landed with 48 lbs (8 gallons). Having flown 24,986 miles in just a bit over 216 hours, that's 3.6 miles per lb of fuel, or 32 lb/hour. Using those average numbers, they weren't going to get much further on 48 lbs of fuel.
Of course as you point out, they had burned off most of their gross weight. But the reduced weight would only reduce the induced drag. It wouldn't have reduced the parasitic drag. So, the increased fuel efficiency would not be as large as the difference in the gross weight. There's no way they could have kept the engine running for 3000+ miles on 8 gallons of gas.
And I can tell you from personal experience (I have a glider rating on my pilot certificate), even the highest performance glider won't cover any significant portion of the distance across the continental US in the absence of power or lift in the form of thermals or mountain waves. And the Voyager wasn't designed to fly any distance without power.
Rutan and Yeager completed their journey when they touched down at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:06 a.m. on December 23, 1986. The entire 24,986-mile trip had taken 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds, or a little more than 216 hours. During their trip, they had averaged around 116 miles per hour (187 kilometers per hour), and when they landed, they only had a few gallons of fuel left.
Name: Jane Q. Public Previous Names: John Q. Public
You can joke, but this actually happened to a friend of mine. The situation unraveled when she called one of their mutual friends.
This was when Caller ID was a relatively new phenomena. She left a phone message on the mutual friend's answering machine, identifying herself. The caller ID had a male name the friend had never heard of.
There was already some whispered speculation, and an inquiry about her driving record revealed the relatively recent changes to her driver's license: a legal name change from the male name on the caller ID to her new female name.
If she hadn't forgotten to change the billing name on her telephone service, it would have only have put off the inevitable. One of her friends from high school showed up at a party shortly thereafter with pictures from their high school yearbook.
Phil, I'm sure someone is going to give you a hard time about responding to a troll.
It probably is a troll. But, maybe someone will think the joke was funny enough to remember the symptoms and recognize them if they happen for real at some point in the future.
Unless I'm missing it, I don't see anywhere that it says the customer is responsible for running virus protection. Is there some reason that I'm missing as to why this very public guarantee does not apply?
This was a wire transfer, rather than typical consumer service like online bill payment.
I suspect that this customer has a commercial banking account and is using commercial banking services. For instance, see this URL:
Knock of the Rove meme campaigns. No one cared or even much knew about "red" attitudes until you collectively started weeping about how the class was laughing at you.
I'm an independent, neither red or blue.
But, I've seen how the only meaningful opposition to "red" has been decimated because the "blue" treats "red" as an unwanted stepchild. It may be a new talking point for the Republicans, but I recognized it long ago.
It started with the 1994 elections. You were probably in diapers at that point, so you missed what amounted to a revolt by what is usually disparaged as the "heartland".
The "blue" folks are losing the middle to the "red", and belittling people for doing so isn't going to convince them to join you.
You suck at being winners; even as you take over my nation, you still play the victim card. Grow up.
Frankly, you suck at being a whiner. I grew up long ago. It looks like you still have a way to go.
I really just can't understand the morons in online FPSs who go around TKing etc. I've tried talking to them sometimes, asking "why do you do this?" in as nice a way as possible, but of course never got an answer. The idea of playing an MMORPG, where the potential number of morons available to piss me off is so much higher, doesn't appeal to me much.
I play an MMOFPS occasionally: Sony's PlanetSide. We have the same problem there with TK'ing, but it isn't tolerated for long. A grief system locks a player's weapons for a period of time if he is persistent (or just incompetent:-).
Repeat offenders will get suspended or even banned if enough players complain and a review of the logs show a pattern of abusive behavior.
I have sat and watched someone spend half an hour stacking planes on an aircraft carrier deck so no one could take off (Coral sea,BF1942) before an admin joined and kicked him. What kind of mentality must a person have to waste half an hour doing something incredibly dull and repetitive (enter plane, taxi forwards, exit plane, wait for new plane to spawn, repeat) purely to piss off people he doesn't know who are trying to have fun?
Planetside offers the ability for a player to lay down high explosive mines that can be triggered remotely. Someone discovered they could lay down hundreds or even thousands of mines in one place and set them all off at one time. The ripple effect would trigger some problem in the code (stack overflow?) and crash the server. Even though it took a long time and a lot of effort to do it, it happened often enough that the code was changed to limit the number of boomers that a player could deploy at one time.
I don't understand it either. I attribute it to pre-teen and early-teen players that think it is funny to screw things up.
As for taking jobs from American workers, most of the lost jobs are in the red states. Sorry, but I would rather send my money abroad. If people can't tell the difference between the Clinton economy and the Dufus economy then they deserve everything they get.
I'm no fan of Bush, but frankly you should be ashamed of yourself.
The truth is that most of the nation is neither red nor blue, but various shades of purple:
The condescending attitude and disrespect of "blue-staters" toward the "red-staters" is one of the biggest reasons why you are losing election after election. And as the map cited above shows, you are also marginalizing people that agree with you.
And you seem to be ignoring the fact that no corporation in existence is going to start building their own computers from components. The added labour costs make this the least cost effective alternative.
I know one that did, at least four years ago. They had a PC department that constructed white-box PC's out of commodity components.
I don't know if they still do it, since desktop prices have dropped to the point that it is difficult to save much money by doing it yourself.
Then we have things such as Exchange, which at first everyone will swear that they need because it has integrated scheduling functions, despite the fact that most corporations hardly ever use the functionality, except for one or two very annoying people who are quickly ignored by everyone else (if you are one of those people, think of that statement as humor).
I think the joke is on you.
Every company that I've done consulting for in the past 5 years uses Outlook and Exchange for scheduling meetings among individuals. Several have set up a temporary account for me specifically for that capability.
I haven't tried the recent version of Evolution, but until there's a reliable replacement for Outlook that works with Exchange, Linux won't even be considered in many companies.
I'll start supporting libertarians when they start feeling like neutering the corporations that are just as bad as our government. The only check and balance left is government/corporations..
Actually, the Libertarian party advocates removal of limits on liability of corporations, and also advocates assignment of liability to corporate members and employees for corporate mis-deeds like pollution.
that's not what he said. he said, "since 9/11 the american government is growing more and more corrupt," not that it started then. this assertion is not incompatible with yours.
While the two assertions are compatible, that clearly wasn't the intent of the original poster. By stating "since 9/11", the original poster was trying to link corruption with the administration in office at that time.
your post is a spurious straw man.
Actually, the original post was a Post Hoc fallacy. The subsequent poster was simply pointing out the error.
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Doc, you know very well that the problem with your posting that I referenced was your complaint that "the Republicans resorted to the unprecedented, and grossly wrong trick of appointing the judges during a Senate recess, unopposed." I cited a Senate report that detailed a number of recess appointments by previous Democrat and Republican administrations as long ago as Eisenhower.
Sadly, you didn't learn from your error, subsequently claiming that Tom DeLay had been indicted. While DeLay was (and still is) confronting several ethical problems, he has only been subpoenaed to testify about the matter, and had not been indicted for anything.
And today, you are claiming that Clinton didn't lie under oath, conveniently mis-citing the definitions provided during his testimony to the grand jury. Even if you succeed in splitting hairs the way Clinton did, Clinton's own testimony is contradictory.
Really, I don't know what you mean by "idependent", if you say that I am not. I'm a member of no political party.
Doc, your postings on Slashdot identify you as a partisan hack. You are about as "idependent" as Karl Rove.
The definition of "sex" provided to Clinton was:
"[A] person engages in "sexual relations" when the person knowingly engages in or causes -- contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person . . . . "Contact" means intentional touching, either directly or through clothing."
http://www.time.com/time/daily/scandal/starr_repor t/files/6narrit.htm#L13
A footnote explains that the definition mirrors a federal criminal statute, 18 U.S.C. 2246(3). The ellipsis in the quotation omits two paragraphs of the definition that Judge Wright ruled inapplicable.
Clinton claimed that Lewinsky was "engaging in a sexual relations", but at the same moment, he was not. But, even if we set aside the absurdity of this claim, it contradicted his deposition in a earlier case involving Paula Jones.
In that deposition, under oath, Clinton testified that Lewinsky's affidavit denying any sexual relationship was "absolutely true". By subsequently admitting that she did actually engage in an allegedly one-side sexual relationship, he committed perjury: both statements cannot be true.
Of course, these two allegations are only two of the eleven different potential grounds for impeachment that were detailed in the Starr Report.
In 1974, DST was in effect for 10 months of the year. It was during the "energy crisis", and the intent was to reduce energy consumption as well. The same claim was made: 10,000 barrels of oil per day.
The problem: even where I lived (in southern Texas), it was dark during the morning trek to school. The streets were jammed with cars and trucks, filled with parents taking their kids to school (instead of walking or riding a bicycle). I had to dig up a light for my bike, but by that time I was in high school.
Whatever energy was saved by an extra hour of daylight in the evening (and probably more) was consumed by the additional vehicles on the road during those morning hours.
It would be worthwhile to examine the sunrise times across the US (at all latitudes), to determine if the lost hour of daylight in the morning would overlap the start of school during the additional month in April/March. Otherwise, this change might actually cause a net increase in energy consumption.
I presume you have never taken even a basic course in economics. If so, you must have flunked.
Take a look at Exxon-Mobil's latest annual report (2003), which includes data for 2002 and 2001:
http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/files/corporat e/ExxonMobilAR2003.pdf
Skip down to the Summary Statement of Income on page 36. You'll find that for 2003, net income on revenues of $237 billion was $31 billion, or a gross profit margin of 13%. A third of that subsequently went to income taxes, leaving $21 billion, or about $3.15 per outstanding share of common stock.
So, for every dollar of revenue, ExxonMobil kept about 9 cents (after taxes). About a third of that was paid as dividends to shareholders, leaving 6 cents per dollar.
I suspect that few people would consider 6 cents to be "most" of a dollar.
You obviously haven't haven't been reading postings by Timothy and the late, unlamented Michael.
And given the attitude of Slashdotters these days towards Bush, his partisan hackery is not only wrong, but unwelcome.
So, given the attitude of Slashdotters, partisan hackery from the other side is not only tolerated, but welcome?
(from another independent that recognizes partisan hacks when he sees them. But frankly, Doc, I don't think you qualify as an independent: Exhibit 1)
The Washington Post article was about a murder committed in November, 2002. The subsequent postings were six days later. The FBI is likely to have been disappointed if they just now made requests for server logs, after two years have elapsed.
I remember this particular incident, because I got a call from the FBI about it. The perpetrator sent his "manifesto" to an email address associated with a website I no longer maintain, apparently from an outdated list. The address got so much spam that I was simply using incoming messages to train SpamAssassin's Bayesian filter, then dumped them into the bit-bucket.
But, someone else forwarded it to the FBI (as I would have done, if I actually received it). Since my contact info was available for my domain name, I got a call from an agent who was trying to find any link between the recipients and the sender.
If you follow the link, you'll find that the purpose of the tracking is relatively benign: they are measuring the average speed of vehicles on the road to generate this map:
http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/
The data is also provided to other distributors, such as XM Radio:
http://www.xmradio.com/xmnavtraffic/
I just bought an Acura RL, which has a navigation system that will display the traffic flow information in a manner similar to the above web page at houstontranstar.org. The area where I live doesn't have the traffic monitoring, but I wondered how it was implemented. Thanks for the tip!
However, you do have a point: the technology enables many potential benefits and abuses.
The last time I used SuperShuttle, they had an in-vehicle console that was used for dispatch. But, it's gone now, replaced with a Nextel phone and text messaging. I wondered if it was a GPS phone to aid in tracking the vans, but the radio chatter seemed to preclude it.
http://www.thekroneexperiment.com/
I remember it differently, though. The oscillations didn't taper down, and the book closed at the start of an all out effort to push (not pull) the black hole into an orbit outside the perimeter of the planet's atmosphere. And it didn't involve an asteroid.
Maybe it was a different book with a similar premise?
I emailed the on-duty editor about this, but apparently it didn't get there in time.
The article actually says:
"My guess is that they will do a good job," Semel said of Microsoft's increasing emphasis on search engine technology. "I welcome that. It's good to have good competition."
Perhaps another source indicates that Yang and Filo don't regret funding Google. But, it isn't cited here.
It wasn't an ambiguously male/female name, and her high school yearbook picture wasn't ambiguous either. And the driving record also noted the change in gender.
Or are you saying she's one of the few million people to get a sex change operation in the last couple of decades?
The problem in this case is that she tried to conceal it, and forgot some important details.
At the time that they landed, they thought they had enough fuel to fly most of the way across the US. I was watching the live coverage, and I remember it. It wasn't until after they drained/dipped the tanks that they realized they were running so short on fuel.
A few gallons would probably have been all that they needed to do this. At that point the thing was mostly a glider.
The Voyager flew most of the time only on the Continental IOL-200 rear engine. It's an unusual engine, so fuel flow specs aren't easily found, but the Continental O-200 from which it was derived consumes 5.5-6 gallons/hour (or 33-36 lbs/hour) at cruise. The IOL-200 is more efficient, but not enough to make a substantial difference in endurance with only 6 of fuel. That's usually over the range of 50% to 75% power, which is what aviation engines cruise at. Outside that range, they are not very efficient.
You can get some idea of Voyager's average fuel flow from:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/ruta nvoy.htm
They lifted off with 7,011 lbs of fuel. They landed with 48 lbs (8 gallons). Having flown 24,986 miles in just a bit over 216 hours, that's 3.6 miles per lb of fuel, or 32 lb/hour. Using those average numbers, they weren't going to get much further on 48 lbs of fuel.
Of course as you point out, they had burned off most of their gross weight. But the reduced weight would only reduce the induced drag. It wouldn't have reduced the parasitic drag. So, the increased fuel efficiency would not be as large as the difference in the gross weight. There's no way they could have kept the engine running for 3000+ miles on 8 gallons of gas.
And I can tell you from personal experience (I have a glider rating on my pilot certificate), even the highest performance glider won't cover any significant portion of the distance across the continental US in the absence of power or lift in the form of thermals or mountain waves. And the Voyager wasn't designed to fly any distance without power.
No, he didn't. They were practically running on fumes when they landed:
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_ Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/rutan/EX32.htm
Rutan and Yeager completed their journey when they touched down at Edwards Air Force Base at 8:06 a.m. on December 23, 1986. The entire 24,986-mile trip had taken 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds, or a little more than 216 hours. During their trip, they had averaged around 116 miles per hour (187 kilometers per hour), and when they landed, they only had a few gallons of fuel left.
Previous Names: John Q. Public
You can joke, but this actually happened to a friend of mine. The situation unraveled when she called one of their mutual friends.
This was when Caller ID was a relatively new phenomena. She left a phone message on the mutual friend's answering machine, identifying herself. The caller ID had a male name the friend had never heard of.
There was already some whispered speculation, and an inquiry about her driving record revealed the relatively recent changes to her driver's license: a legal name change from the male name on the caller ID to her new female name.
If she hadn't forgotten to change the billing name on her telephone service, it would have only have put off the inevitable. One of her friends from high school showed up at a party shortly thereafter with pictures from their high school yearbook.
It probably is a troll. But, maybe someone will think the joke was funny enough to remember the symptoms and recognize them if they happen for real at some point in the future.
Nope. We have them here in Texas, at Albertson's:
http://www.albertsons.com/shopNscan
The link doesn't work at the moment (it returns a server error), but you can see the "Shop and Scan" link on this page:
http://www.albertsons.com/shared/plan/default.asp
We've had them for 6 months to a year.
This was a wire transfer, rather than typical consumer service like online bill payment.
I suspect that this customer has a commercial banking account and is using commercial banking services. For instance, see this URL:
http://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/checksave/in dex.cfm?template=lc_faq_wire#question2
There's no mention of online wire transfers.
Also, at the top of the page you cited, it says:
Online Banking Guarantee
For Consumers and Sole Proprietors
I'm an independent, neither red or blue.
But, I've seen how the only meaningful opposition to "red" has been decimated because the "blue" treats "red" as an unwanted stepchild. It may be a new talking point for the Republicans, but I recognized it long ago.
It started with the 1994 elections. You were probably in diapers at that point, so you missed what amounted to a revolt by what is usually disparaged as the "heartland".
The "blue" folks are losing the middle to the "red", and belittling people for doing so isn't going to convince them to join you.
You suck at being winners; even as you take over my nation, you still play the victim card. Grow up.
Frankly, you suck at being a whiner. I grew up long ago. It looks like you still have a way to go.
I play an MMOFPS occasionally: Sony's PlanetSide. We have the same problem there with TK'ing, but it isn't tolerated for long. A grief system locks a player's weapons for a period of time if he is persistent (or just incompetent :-).
Repeat offenders will get suspended or even banned if enough players complain and a review of the logs show a pattern of abusive behavior.
I have sat and watched someone spend half an hour stacking planes on an aircraft carrier deck so no one could take off (Coral sea,BF1942) before an admin joined and kicked him. What kind of mentality must a person have to waste half an hour doing something incredibly dull and repetitive (enter plane, taxi forwards, exit plane, wait for new plane to spawn, repeat) purely to piss off people he doesn't know who are trying to have fun?
Planetside offers the ability for a player to lay down high explosive mines that can be triggered remotely. Someone discovered they could lay down hundreds or even thousands of mines in one place and set them all off at one time. The ripple effect would trigger some problem in the code (stack overflow?) and crash the server. Even though it took a long time and a lot of effort to do it, it happened often enough that the code was changed to limit the number of boomers that a player could deploy at one time.
I don't understand it either. I attribute it to pre-teen and early-teen players that think it is funny to screw things up.
I'm no fan of Bush, but frankly you should be ashamed of yourself.
The truth is that most of the nation is neither red nor blue, but various shades of purple:
http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/
The condescending attitude and disrespect of "blue-staters" toward the "red-staters" is one of the biggest reasons why you are losing election after election. And as the map cited above shows, you are also marginalizing people that agree with you.
Thanks for the tip. I tried Evolution a while back and liked it, but the Exchange integration was still lacking.
I also found this project:
http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net/index.php
It would be nice to get rid of Outlook even on the computers where I have to run Windows.
I know one that did, at least four years ago. They had a PC department that constructed white-box PC's out of commodity components.
I don't know if they still do it, since desktop prices have dropped to the point that it is difficult to save much money by doing it yourself.
I think the joke is on you.
Every company that I've done consulting for in the past 5 years uses Outlook and Exchange for scheduling meetings among individuals. Several have set up a temporary account for me specifically for that capability.
I haven't tried the recent version of Evolution, but until there's a reliable replacement for Outlook that works with Exchange, Linux won't even be considered in many companies.
Actually, the Libertarian party advocates removal of limits on liability of corporations, and also advocates assignment of liability to corporate members and employees for corporate mis-deeds like pollution.
While the two assertions are compatible, that clearly wasn't the intent of the original poster. By stating "since 9/11", the original poster was trying to link corruption with the administration in office at that time.
your post is a spurious straw man.
Actually, the original post was a Post Hoc fallacy. The subsequent poster was simply pointing out the error.