Then here's my question: what would you have us do? If we simply ignore Osama bin Laden, he'll just strike back again. If we change our policies in the Middle East (i.e. pull out support of Israel), he'll find another (flimsy or not) reason to kill Americans. If we strike back, as we're doing now, we obviously run the risk of igniting more anti-American sentiment, but we have a clear policy in our country *not to negotiate with terrorists.* This has been amplified doubly so with Bush's threat to treat any state sponsoring terrorism or harboring terrorists as if they had performed those acts themselves.
In essence, we have declared war on state-sponsored terrorism. To do otherwise is foolish, IMO.
At the very least, this sends a message to terrorists in Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere that if they continue, we will attempt to find them and eliminate them.
But if you have any other suggestions, please, don't hesitate to post them.
In that case, I guess MacOS X isn't an operating system either - it and Unix are pretty much the same thing, give or take a few graphics and API calls...
I live in Virginia, and I worked closely with Senator Couric during the 1998 General Session.
For the record, Emily Couric is a Democrat. She is also the sister of Katie Couric of the Today show (if you didn't know that already). You have definitely made progress if she will truly work to repeal UCITA in Virginia.
However, I must add that Senator Couric was a patron of this bill along with the majority of the Democrats in the Senate. She also voted to pass the bill along with 38 others [out of 40] in the Senate.
Because of this, I find it hard to trust what she (or any other Senator) said about UCITA. Senator Couric may indeed have had a change of heart, but I doubt it. However, only time will tell.
If the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Central Virginia's major newspaper) reports on anything regarding UCITA, especially Senator Couric's involvement (probably early next year), I'll be sure to pass it on. - Armage Bedar
The STATS Man
For the record, I wasn't at all concerned about what the President was doing. It was his business, and his business only. Of course, the media had to break in and tell the world. At that point, a few people cared, but most people (including myself) didn't. Things progressed from there, as we all know.
However, as soon as the President said the classic line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" and was later found to have lied about it, hey - THEN I was interested. Not because an interm had had sex with the President, not because Ken Starr was making a huge case out of it, no, sir.
I cared because he had lied under grand jury oath - the President of the United States of America had committed perjury in front of the American people. Now, I'm a libertarian, like many here on/. I'm very concerned with Constitutional rights and the size and influence of government on our private lives. When the President does something like that, he deserves to be sweated out of office.
Unfortunately, barely enough people in the House (mostly Republicans) had the backbone to impeach him, and too few in the Senate (again, mostly Republicans) decided to find him guilty. All the while, others (mostly Democrats) were saying how it wasn't a big deal, that the President shouldn't be impeached and tried, et cetera, et cetera.
They were wrong, and they knew it. As soon as we allow something the magnitude of what Clinton did to happen, we know that our government is trending towards a downward spiral. I don't care WHO you are, that trend will soon affect you personally, in the method of Executive Orders and semi-oppressive federal laws trying to govern you on a local or state level - something that the Constitution was written to prevent.
Oh well - I hope I'm not written off as some sort of right-wing extremist or anything. My father shares similar views (though due to his ignorance of the InterNet, he has differing opinions regarding Napster and other things like that).
Sorry for the tangent. You may now return to your regularly scheduled/.
"No, it is not intuative. Intuative means "Obvious without having to be taught" not 'what you have come to expect for no particular reason'... Users Don't care about how many hard disks, or partitions they have in their system,"
Au contraire. I DO care how many drives I have in my system, and the OS does too...
At any rate, the system WAS intuitive when it was first devised. Hard disks weren't common place, and drives were designated by letter instead of number. Eventually, people started calling floppy drives A: and B:, and leaving the other letters for other devices. Besides, how unintuitive is A:, B:, and C:, especially when they have little icons beside them?
Like I said, it IS intuitive. Check your facts (and to the moderator: check YOURS as well).
"That's what I never understood about BeOS, charging $100 for an OS that you can't really use for anything 'cept browsing the web to see if anything *really* useful has come out yet!"
...but you don't HAVE to pay for BeOS. You can get the fully operable BeOS R5 for download at free.be.com. You can easily circumvent the artificial partition limits by using instructions at BeNews.
"I think that C: isn't very intuitive," Well, it's intuitive for those who learned how to use a computer with DOS or Windows on it... "and people learned how to use Windows after all." Well, as I check My Computer (yes, I'm using Win98), I notice the following next to my main hard drive icon: Win98 (C:) Hmm...
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They've been running ads like this in Japan for several months now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro0dc4sMku4 ...mostly likely because their market share here is around 35-40%, less than Yahoo! Japan's 50%.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWY2Lt3dFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNf6HYl6r5E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oblhekZd-tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzelkn9lvF0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYE_58jNvI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJYFkkAIas
...is its wide support of languages, including Elmer Fudd, Pig Latin, and other "languages". Who needs BabelFish? ;-)
Then here's my question: what would you have us do? If we simply ignore Osama bin Laden, he'll just strike back again. If we change our policies in the Middle East (i.e. pull out support of Israel), he'll find another (flimsy or not) reason to kill Americans. If we strike back, as we're doing now, we obviously run the risk of igniting more anti-American sentiment, but we have a clear policy in our country *not to negotiate with terrorists.* This has been amplified doubly so with Bush's threat to treat any state sponsoring terrorism or harboring terrorists as if they had performed those acts themselves.
In essence, we have declared war on state-sponsored terrorism. To do otherwise is foolish, IMO.
At the very least, this sends a message to terrorists in Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere that if they continue, we will attempt to find them and eliminate them.
But if you have any other suggestions, please, don't hesitate to post them.
In that case, I guess MacOS X isn't an operating system either - it and Unix are pretty much the same thing, give or take a few graphics and API calls...
Yes, I know they're not the same. It's a JOKE.
- Armage Bedar
The STATS Man
...just replace the "www" with "partners" in the URL.
http://www.nytimes.com/200 0/09/14/technology/14GEE2.html
- Armage Bedar
The STATS Man
I live in Virginia, and I worked closely with Senator Couric during the 1998 General Session.
For the record, Emily Couric is a Democrat. She is also the sister of Katie Couric of the Today show (if you didn't know that already). You have definitely made progress if she will truly work to repeal UCITA in Virginia.
However, I must add that Senator Couric was a patron of this bill along with the majority of the Democrats in the Senate. She also voted to pass the bill along with 38 others [out of 40] in the Senate.
Because of this, I find it hard to trust what she (or any other Senator) said about UCITA. Senator Couric may indeed have had a change of heart, but I doubt it. However, only time will tell.
If the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Central Virginia's major newspaper) reports on anything regarding UCITA, especially Senator Couric's involvement (probably early next year), I'll be sure to pass it on.
- Armage Bedar
The STATS Man
For the record, I wasn't at all concerned about what the President was doing. It was his business, and his business only. Of course, the media had to break in and tell the world. At that point, a few people cared, but most people (including myself) didn't. Things progressed from there, as we all know.
/. I'm very concerned with Constitutional rights and the size and influence of government on our private lives. When the President does something like that, he deserves to be sweated out of office.
/.
However, as soon as the President said the classic line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" and was later found to have lied about it, hey - THEN I was interested. Not because an interm had had sex with the President, not because Ken Starr was making a huge case out of it, no, sir.
I cared because he had lied under grand jury oath - the President of the United States of America had committed perjury in front of the American people. Now, I'm a libertarian, like many here on
Unfortunately, barely enough people in the House (mostly Republicans) had the backbone to impeach him, and too few in the Senate (again, mostly Republicans) decided to find him guilty. All the while, others (mostly Democrats) were saying how it wasn't a big deal, that the President shouldn't be impeached and tried, et cetera, et cetera.
They were wrong, and they knew it. As soon as we allow something the magnitude of what Clinton did to happen, we know that our government is trending towards a downward spiral. I don't care WHO you are, that trend will soon affect you personally, in the method of Executive Orders and semi-oppressive federal laws trying to govern you on a local or state level - something that the Constitution was written to prevent.
Oh well - I hope I'm not written off as some sort of right-wing extremist or anything. My father shares similar views (though due to his ignorance of the InterNet, he has differing opinions regarding Napster and other things like that).
Sorry for the tangent. You may now return to your regularly scheduled
- Armage Bedar
The STATS Man
And Katie Couric's sister, Emily Couric, is a state senator for Fairfax, VA.
;-)
Democratic, of course
- Armage Bedar
The STATS Man
"No, it is not intuative. Intuative means "Obvious without having to be taught" not 'what you have come to expect for no particular reason'... Users Don't care about how many hard disks, or partitions they have in their system,"
Au contraire. I DO care how many drives I have in my system, and the OS does too...
At any rate, the system WAS intuitive when it was first devised. Hard disks weren't common place, and drives were designated by letter instead of number. Eventually, people started calling floppy drives A: and B:, and leaving the other letters for other devices. Besides, how unintuitive is A:, B:, and C:, especially when they have little icons beside them?
Like I said, it IS intuitive. Check your facts (and to the moderator: check YOURS as well).
"That's what I never understood about BeOS, charging $100 for an OS that you can't really use for anything 'cept browsing the web to see if anything *really* useful has come out yet!"
...but you don't HAVE to pay for BeOS. You can get the fully operable BeOS R5 for download at free.be.com. You can easily circumvent the artificial partition limits by using instructions at BeNews.
"I think that C: isn't very intuitive," Well, it's intuitive for those who learned how to use a computer with DOS or Windows on it... "and people learned how to use Windows after all." Well, as I check My Computer (yes, I'm using Win98), I notice the following next to my main hard drive icon: Win98 (C:) Hmm...