If by "shot at quite frequently" you mean seven times, then that's true. I don't consider seven launches against the plane during dozens of missions over Vietnam to be all that frequent, considering what B-52s went through while bombing the north.
The SR-71 had a cesium additive in its low-volatility JP-8 fuel to reduce the signature of it's exhaust plume and employed some very early stealth technology, but speed and altitude were it's main defense against radar guided missiles. No SR-71 was ever lost to hostile fire, but as a type (counting A-12s and all other derivatives) it was a finicky and dangerous jet to fly.
One SR-71 did catch a hot piece of metal from an exploding SA-2 "telephone pole" missile over Vietnam - though not part of the warhead, the fragment could have caused more damage had it impacted somewhere else on the airframe (it was lodged in the rear aileron, I think).
Whoops. Looks like they not only knew they were violating the law, but that they flouted the requirement. But....Republicans are the law and order party, right? And this is (objectively) no worse than lying about a consensual sexual affair, right?
Or are Republicans subjective? It gets so hard to keep track of what's important to these folks!
Certainly, this little white house foible is no worse than lying about the reasons to go to war - and we've got 3500 corpses and four years of backpedaling to show that progress is an abstract to the United States citizenry, right?
I don't think your post matches the challenge of "putting up or shutting up" that I set. I'll grant that absolute contests like that are no fun, but I couldn't let your counterfactual statement stand.
Hell, read it. I'm tired of trying to make Republicans believe that white is, in fact, white.
From the article:
The White House made 78 staffers available for interviews with the GAO, and clearly spent an enormous amount of energy just to try to stick another scandal to the Clintons. (Gonzales' time alone, billed by the hour, might cost more than the $9,000-plus the GAO blamed on the Clintons.)
Some conservatives. They've been doing the same trick for six years now and spending a shitload of money just to keep the lights on while 68% of people don't even want to get in the front door.
Errr... yeah:p didn't catch that. Also Kentucky didn't seced.
Yeah, well, I grew up in Louisiana and I love everyone - white, black, whatever. Never got the message that anyone was "inferior" although I heard it quite a lot.
Chalk it up to aberrance, because it sure isn't the norm down there. Black 'business leaders' in Baton Rouge and Lafayette usually have something to do with "lifting people out of poverty" instead of the upper management positions they could have if they lived in Atlanta.
ninety seconds isn't enough time to articulate any sort of monetary policy more complicated than "we print too much money".
And that's whose fault?
I am wondering when the right will startt o realize that painting the press as something it's not - left-leaning - will backfire on them. I mean, you have one network that plays to balance while repeating right-wing pablum, and three others that play lip service to "balance" by simply repeating what each side of a given issue have to say within the golden 30 seconds. You and I both know that's not enough time to inform.
The press today cares for only one thing - money. Everything derives from that.
As Jay Bulworth said, "Give them free airtime, they won't have to play!"
Clinton's staff DELETED ALL of their e-mail, and not a peep was made out of it.
OK. Put up or shut up. Cite a source that isn't connected with the Arkansas project.
This is probably what you're thinking of. Unlike the Bush white House, the Clinton White House case hinged on an incompetent third-party contractor - not the Republican National Committee's grant of free e-mail accounts to be used for political business only.
Whether Karl Rove used the RNC e-mail account exclusively for political ends is up to anyone in a large company to decide. Anyone who has responded to a work query from personal e-mail account, for instance.
The "south" is generally the states that succeeded during the American Civil War (Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentuky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas
Impeach Cheney first. There's ample evidence that he not only directed the campaign to out an under-cover CIA agent, but that he directed his staff to lie about it.
Cheney is frog-marched out of the OEOB, vice-president Pelosi causes Bush (as well as 28% or registered voters) to have an aneurysm. Problem solved.
Being by public officials normally subject to the act they should have retained enough of the records to demonstrate that they weren't a subject to the act.
DING DING DING.
So, who wants to pick the winning excuse that will let the "left wing media" ignore this scandal?
-Because the RNC can't afford enough disk to save all of Karl Rove's e-mails. -Republicans are conservatives, and they were just trying to be conservative with computing resources. Especially what with all the sacrifice the country made during the leadup and first years of the war. -Computers are complicated. -Democrats are corrupt too! -Clinton got a blowjob!!!!!!!!! And LIED about it!
It's pretty easy to disconnect the speedo cable between inspections.
That's nice if you drive a car that was built in 1989.
For those of us who drive cars built in this century - cars that more often have sensors, computers and storage for mileage* - these systems are troubling.
*I shouldn't have to point out that when mileage-keeping systems are disconnected in modern cars...the car won't start or drive.
When I was growing up - in 1978 or thereabouts, we were told that there'd be 100 launches per year within a decade.
They didn't even get off the ground until 1981.
It's the most complex machine ever made. It's not sad that we're only taking our first flight of the year, but I think we could have done better without the bureaucracy and lack of focus at NASA.
How do we get that focus back? Things don't look good to this casual observer - we're pouring a half trillion dollars and an open-ended commitment into this stupid war to preserve a strategic hold on oil fields while NASA languishes and the country's imagination stagnates. We've financed our burgeoning national debt by mortgaging our manufacturing base to the far east, and practically the only heavy industries we still have leadership in are the very industries that NASA is charged with research in - aerospace.
That's what is sad - as a country, we've let our politicians and corporations pursue their own interests for so long and to such bounds that we are in danger of losing some of the few jewels we still have left in our crown. As it is, this first flight of the year garnered so few eyeballs that it'll probably be known as the shuttle that launched the day they sent Paris Hilton back to jail.
Unfortunately, the owner and most of the staff are radical Christians with a massive persecution complex. Where they once hired good photographers to work for them, they now recruit from their local church - and the owner has threatened former clients and employees, in addition to "cost cutting techniques" like dumping used fixer into the town sewer system. He is not a nice person.
The same information and expertise is out there at other businesses. I suggest you patronize them, rather than WCI.
Okay, the example *I* know about, from back in the OS late-6.x or early-7.x era (I forget exactly which model and OS it was, but close enough):
So, you pull 16-year-old example from out of your ass that you can't name specifically, and that's supposed to be an argument against Apple?
In case you hadn't noticed, Apple is a little different place these days - and there's no problem like the one you're talking about that I can recall. The only firmware revisions people complained about Apple not shipping were the 32-bit "clean" ROMs - and software patches were made available to patch the ROMs at boot time instead.
They've got the lock on everything except the Homer Formby types in the pixel-pushing world.
And how many people build their own cabinets and other woodwork when it comes to layer-based editing, alpha channels and blending modes?
Wanna take a workshop on how to push pixels? Gotta know Photoshop. Wanna manage your digital photos? Better get to know Lightroom if you want tips from the experts.
Wanna be a technical writer...or a pixel pusher...or a layout artist...or an illustrator? Get rid of your Sun box. Then, ditch your aspirations for Linux. Next, toss your Mac. Then, get rid of the tools that have been working for you all along - Adobe has a new, Windows-based tool for you to learn!
Adobe has yet to learn that Microsoft will come calling at some point. They seem to have staved off the Redmond rollover, but trust me - it's a matter of time. Microsoft or a subsidiary will buy or crush Adobe at some point. Perhaps I'm wrong and Adobe has a stranglehold on creative apps - but whatever happened to WordPerfect and 1-2-3?
It's not enough that Adobe is pissing drivers on S.R. 87 off with those those stupid, moronic rotating beacons in the flight path of SJC. Oh, no. They've got piss in the face of the market that helped them ascend to where they are - and those same customers can't do a damned thing because there's no viable alternative anymore - Adobe already bought all the comanies that competed against them.
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If by "shot at quite frequently" you mean seven times, then that's true. I don't consider seven launches against the plane during dozens of missions over Vietnam to be all that frequent, considering what B-52s went through while bombing the north.
The SR-71 had a cesium additive in its low-volatility JP-8 fuel to reduce the signature of it's exhaust plume and employed some very early stealth technology, but speed and altitude were it's main defense against radar guided missiles. No SR-71 was ever lost to hostile fire, but as a type (counting A-12s and all other derivatives) it was a finicky and dangerous jet to fly.
One SR-71 did catch a hot piece of metal from an exploding SA-2 "telephone pole" missile over Vietnam - though not part of the warhead, the fragment could have caused more damage had it impacted somewhere else on the airframe (it was lodged in the rear aileron, I think).
"GE is full of really smart people, and if the ever get organised then they will be a force to contend with"
People used to tease us at Apple about this, back when I worked there in the nineties.
See what happened when they got organized?
Good lord, Thank you.
I canna stand it when people don't get it.
the White House counsel in early 2001 "issued clear written policies" instructing staffers "to use only the official White House e-mail system for official communications and to retain any official e-mails they received on a nongovernmental account." Recent evidence "indicates that White House officials used their RNC e-mail accounts in a manner that circumvented these requirements," the report said.
Whoops. Looks like they not only knew they were violating the law, but that they flouted the requirement.
But....Republicans are the law and order party, right? And this is (objectively) no worse than lying about a consensual sexual affair, right?
Or are Republicans subjective? It gets so hard to keep track of what's important to these folks!
Certainly, this little white house foible is no worse than lying about the reasons to go to war - and we've got 3500 corpses and four years of backpedaling to show that progress is an abstract to the United States citizenry, right?
I mean, "right" is right, right? Or is it?
Nice deflection from my original request.
I don't think your post matches the challenge of "putting up or shutting up" that I set. I'll grant that absolute contests like that are no fun, but I couldn't let your counterfactual statement stand.
Like so many manufactured scandals, the "trashing" of the White House by Clinton staffers never actually happened - it was ginned up by a Republican machine ready to deliver locker-room dick sizes to a press breathless for scandal - and a year after the story "broke", the truth came out, thanks to the non-partisan GAO.
Hell, read it. I'm tired of trying to make Republicans believe that white is, in fact, white.
From the article:
The White House made 78 staffers available for interviews with the GAO, and clearly spent an enormous amount of energy just to try to stick another scandal to the Clintons. (Gonzales' time alone, billed by the hour, might cost more than the $9,000-plus the GAO blamed on the Clintons.)
Some conservatives. They've been doing the same trick for six years now and spending a shitload of money just to keep the lights on while 68% of people don't even want to get in the front door.
Errr... yeah :p didn't catch that. Also Kentucky didn't seced.
Yeah, well, I grew up in Louisiana and I love everyone - white, black, whatever. Never got the message that anyone was "inferior" although I heard it quite a lot.
Chalk it up to aberrance, because it sure isn't the norm down there. Black 'business leaders' in Baton Rouge and Lafayette usually have something to do with "lifting people out of poverty" instead of the upper management positions they could have if they lived in Atlanta.
D'oh!
-Other
ninety seconds isn't enough time to articulate any sort of monetary policy more complicated than "we print too much money".
And that's whose fault?
I am wondering when the right will startt o realize that painting the press as something it's not - left-leaning - will backfire on them. I mean, you have one network that plays to balance while repeating right-wing pablum, and three others that play lip service to "balance" by simply repeating what each side of a given issue have to say within the golden 30 seconds. You and I both know that's not enough time to inform.
The press today cares for only one thing - money. Everything derives from that.
As Jay Bulworth said, "Give them free airtime, they won't have to play!"
Clinton's staff DELETED ALL of their e-mail, and not a peep was made out of it.
OK. Put up or shut up. Cite a source that isn't connected with the Arkansas project.
This is probably what you're thinking of. Unlike the Bush white House, the Clinton White House case hinged on an incompetent third-party contractor - not the Republican National Committee's grant of free e-mail accounts to be used for political business only.
Whether Karl Rove used the RNC e-mail account exclusively for political ends is up to anyone in a large company to decide. Anyone who has responded to a work query from personal e-mail account, for instance.
The "south" is generally the states that succeeded during the American Civil War (Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentuky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas
There's a Freudian slip if I've ever seen one.
But then what? We'd have Cheney as president.
Impeach Cheney first. There's ample evidence that he not only directed the campaign to out an under-cover CIA agent, but that he directed his staff to lie about it.
Cheney is frog-marched out of the OEOB, vice-president Pelosi causes Bush (as well as 28% or registered voters) to have an aneurysm. Problem solved.
How many people on either side of the main political line in the US simply argue points to favour their bias like they're barracking for sports teams?
Good lord, no. It's simultaneously much more serious and ridiculous than that.
Being by public officials normally subject to the act they should have retained enough of the records to demonstrate that they weren't a subject to the act.
DING DING DING.
So, who wants to pick the winning excuse that will let the "left wing media" ignore this scandal?
-Because the RNC can't afford enough disk to save all of Karl Rove's e-mails.
-Republicans are conservatives, and they were just trying to be conservative with computing resources. Especially what with all the sacrifice the country made during the leadup and first years of the war.
-Computers are complicated.
-Democrats are corrupt too!
-Clinton got a blowjob!!!!!!!!! And LIED about it!
Yes, I would have to agree. Ru Paul is definitly better than anybody else in the field
I have to say a RuPaul presidency would be fabulous.
It's pretty easy to disconnect the speedo cable between inspections.
That's nice if you drive a car that was built in 1989.
For those of us who drive cars built in this century - cars that more often have sensors, computers and storage for mileage* - these systems are troubling.
*I shouldn't have to point out that when mileage-keeping systems are disconnected in modern cars...the car won't start or drive.
When I was growing up - in 1978 or thereabouts, we were told that there'd be 100 launches per year within a decade.
They didn't even get off the ground until 1981.
It's the most complex machine ever made. It's not sad that we're only taking our first flight of the year, but I think we could have done better without the bureaucracy and lack of focus at NASA.
How do we get that focus back? Things don't look good to this casual observer - we're pouring a half trillion dollars and an open-ended commitment into this stupid war to preserve a strategic hold on oil fields while NASA languishes and the country's imagination stagnates. We've financed our burgeoning national debt by mortgaging our manufacturing base to the far east, and practically the only heavy industries we still have leadership in are the very industries that NASA is charged with research in - aerospace.
That's what is sad - as a country, we've let our politicians and corporations pursue their own interests for so long and to such bounds that we are in danger of losing some of the few jewels we still have left in our crown. As it is, this first flight of the year garnered so few eyeballs that it'll probably be known as the shuttle that launched the day they sent Paris Hilton back to jail.
Doesn't a new Gateway (or any other major OEM) also come with driver CDs, manuals, etc., that have the EULA in print?
His argument is that the "video was scrambled" so he couldn't read the click-wrap EULA.
I'd like to know how he clicked on the OK button if the video was so scrambled he couldn't read the EULA.
OK - it appears they have been backed up.
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I suggest you check out this site: http://www.westcoastimaging.com/
Unfortunately, the owner and most of the staff are radical Christians with a massive persecution complex. Where they once hired good photographers to work for them, they now recruit from their local church - and the owner has threatened former clients and employees, in addition to "cost cutting techniques" like dumping used fixer into the town sewer system. He is not a nice person.
The same information and expertise is out there at other businesses. I suggest you patronize them, rather than WCI.
Okay, the example *I* know about, from back in the OS late-6.x or early-7.x era (I forget exactly which model and OS it was, but close enough):
So, you pull 16-year-old example from out of your ass that you can't name specifically, and that's supposed to be an argument against Apple?
In case you hadn't noticed, Apple is a little different place these days - and there's no problem like the one you're talking about that I can recall. The only firmware revisions people complained about Apple not shipping were the 32-bit "clean" ROMs - and software patches were made available to patch the ROMs at boot time instead.
They've got the lock on everything except the Homer Formby types in the pixel-pushing world.
And how many people build their own cabinets and other woodwork when it comes to layer-based editing, alpha channels and blending modes?
Wanna take a workshop on how to push pixels? Gotta know Photoshop. Wanna manage your digital photos? Better get to know Lightroom if you want tips from the experts.
Wanna be a technical writer...or a pixel pusher...or a layout artist...or an illustrator? Get rid of your Sun box. Then, ditch your aspirations for Linux. Next, toss your Mac. Then, get rid of the tools that have been working for you all along - Adobe has a new, Windows-based tool for you to learn!
Adobe has yet to learn that Microsoft will come calling at some point. They seem to have staved off the Redmond rollover, but trust me - it's a matter of time. Microsoft or a subsidiary will buy or crush Adobe at some point. Perhaps I'm wrong and Adobe has a stranglehold on creative apps - but whatever happened to WordPerfect and 1-2-3?
It's not enough that Adobe is pissing drivers on S.R. 87 off with those those stupid, moronic rotating beacons in the flight path of SJC. Oh, no. They've got piss in the face of the market that helped them ascend to where they are - and those same customers can't do a damned thing because there's no viable alternative anymore - Adobe already bought all the comanies that competed against them.
YHBT. HAND.
This is either the most elaborate troll ever, or the author really, really needs to take a step back and evaluate what's important in life.
Aah, you mean cymbals?
Yeah. And vinyl.
Sorry, SueAnn - you lost me when you misspelled vinyl.
In other words, albeit without any of the reasons anyone might buy a Mac today.
Right! But it did have the System 7 GUI, which was the reason people bought a Mac back then.