Yes, I still use the macros in WordPerfect 5.1 to manipulate all kinds of text. While not intuitive, once you learned the controls you could write macros as fast as you could think them. When they went to WordPerfect 6 it was a Word-like (non-DOS box) like interface and they changed all the key combination shortcuts driving existing users crazy. Eventually they came out with WordPerfect 5.2 which had many of the improvements of 6 (like cutting and pasting between macro windows), but kept the 5.1 interface. I've been looking for 5.2 for years, but can't find a copy to 'update' my nearly 15 year old copy of 5.1!
This game was going strong back in mid-2001. I took a photo of some people playing the game. It's in the second row of photos here: http://japanomatic.com
There's nothing more astonishing and frustrating than when spammers try to attack back. I've been trying to stop some kind of "sex news" newsletter that's followed me from email to email address for the last three years (I suspect they are just spamming Thai-based email in general).
I get angry responses from them each time I report them for spamming. They say that I am engaged in "extortion" against them (?) and complain to my ISP and SpamCop. Nothing's ever come of it, but every 3 or 4 months I can count on a fresh newsletter and another round of invective.
The same guy also reregistered the old Cambodia Airlines website (http://www.royal-air-cambodge.net/) and turned it into a porn site (no need to check it and give him more traffic). Whoever it is is consistently snapping up many expired domains. I wrote a bit about on my website here-> http://www.angkor.com/AngkorMain.shtml#latest
I loved my b&w PB165. I bought if for cash the first day they were available in LA and snuck it back to Bangkok (computers were taxed as luxury items back them). I took it everywhere--it was incredibly rugged. It was cool to be able to play sounds whereever I was. Only last year did the screen finally dim for some reason, but other than that it works fine.
"The people behind the live video screens are zooming in on unconventional behavior in public that in fact has nothing to do with terrorism. And rather than thwarting serious crime, the cameras are being used to enforce social conformity in ways that Americans may prefer to avoid."
Strangely this articles gives only three sketchy examples of this:
1. Keeping punks out of shopping malls
2. An unnamed gay man who thinks if gets caught on camera kissing it "might be regarded as an offense against public decency.'' It seems it would be easy enough for the author to check if anyone has been hauled in for kissing in public.
3. Cameras on the backs of buses, to catch people changing lanes incorrectly (?), which seems improbable.
The panicky vision he paints is of how the technology might or could be used in the future. It appears the UK uses it wisely at present.
The author ends with an impassioned plea that the US not become a potential police state like Great Britain, which in light of the examples of "misuse" he cites, amounts to little more a plea that former shoplifters not be barred from Borders. Thank God for lawyers.
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I know the following is a satirical quote that undermines what I'm saying, but it really goes with this thread:
"You know, the courts might not work any more, but as long as everybody is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done." -Marge Simpson, from "Homer Bad Man"
This is completely wrong-> "Handing the president carte blanche in a moment of anger is exactly the mistake that led the United States into the Vietnam War."
The President was NOT handed an open-ended resolution to handle the situation. Congress rejected the White House request for a "carte blanche" resolution like the one that followed the Tonkin Gulf incident. The toned-down version is specifically written so that a repeat of the Vietnam experience, where Congress was powerless to limit the President's actions because of a previous resolution, would be impossible.
I wonder who's really got the domain. Network Solutions shows it expired in May, 2000.
Registrant: Sue Almand (HOMESTATION-DOM)
51 Ocean Breeze Drive
Atlantic Beach, FL 32233
US
Domain Name: HOMESTATION.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Almand, Sue (SA4428) scalmand@EARTHLINK.NET
51 Ocean Breeze Drive
Atlantic Beach,, FL 32233
904-246-0131
Technical Contact:
Eclipse Communications Hostmaster (EC136-ORG) hostmaster@ECLIPSE-COMM.COM
Eclipse Communications
701 W. 4th St.
South Pittsburg, TN 37380
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I'd sure like to meet the guy who wrote the proposal for this...
"Laugh Lab is part of Science Year and is the largest scientific study ever into humour... Each month we will announce the top jokes. Then, in September 2002, we will reveal which of your entries got the highest "Laughometer" ratings and crown it the Nation's funniest joke!"
Sapphire and Steel is a British show from the late-70's that is equal parts fantasy and sci-fi. It is probably the only sci-fi/fantasy show with no special effects at all. It starred Joanna Lumley & David McCallum as two "elements" dispatched to different points in time and space to correct disruptions caused by time travel.
What was unique was that there were rarely more than four characters (including S & S) in any show and the action took place on spartan, barely-lit sets.
For instance, in one episode Sapphire and Steel are on a roof trying to enter an invisible time machine to save a child inside. Another episode takes place in a few rooms of a "haunted house" with a true-believing ghost hunter. It is one of few shows I have ever seen that can be as engrossing in the same way a radio drama is...
Blackstar (http://www.blackstar.co.uk) used to carry episodes on tape, but the series has been out of print since the early 1990's. There were plans to put the whole series on video last year, but it keeps getiing cancelled.
Thye postage paid brick is supposedly an urban legend. I did find an anecdote here->http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/postage_pai d _bricks.html about someone who claims otherwise. It seems like an incident that, after the first time it happened, would immediately be addressed by postal authorities. Or maybe we can keep believing direct mailers hang their heads in despair with each brick they receive, muttering "some nerd screwed me again. They're so clever!" I assume sending the empty envelope should work, though...
"direct evidence" he says? Wickramasinghe works with a guy named Sir Fred Hoyle--their odd theories have made them favorites of the creationist crowd. They are definitely fringe thinkers.
Among their ideas->insects are smarter than humans-flu epidemics come from space-Archaeopteryx was a fake.
See
http://www.talkorigins.org/scripts/search/query.id q?Cmd=Chandra+Wickramasinghe&How=sim ple
for more info. The enthuastic tone Wickramasinghe takes in the article is not indicative of a scientist--especially when dealing with such a potentially important discovery.
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My site has been following this story since I first felt the temor in Bangkok this morning: http://2bangkok.com/quakes.shtml#quake
Something similiar is happening in Thailand: http://2bangkok.com/blocked.shtml
Yes, I still use the macros in WordPerfect 5.1 to manipulate all kinds of text. While not intuitive, once you learned the controls you could write macros as fast as you could think them.
When they went to WordPerfect 6 it was a Word-like (non-DOS box) like interface and they changed all the key combination shortcuts driving existing users crazy. Eventually they came out with WordPerfect 5.2 which had many of the improvements of 6 (like cutting and pasting between macro windows), but kept the 5.1 interface. I've been looking for 5.2 for years, but can't find a copy to 'update' my nearly 15 year old copy of 5.1!
This game was going strong back in mid-2001. I took a photo of some people playing the game. It's in the second row of photos here: http://japanomatic.com
There's nothing more astonishing and frustrating than when spammers try to attack back. I've been trying to stop some kind of "sex news" newsletter that's followed me from email to email address for the last three years (I suspect they are just spamming Thai-based email in general).
I get angry responses from them each time I report them for spamming. They say that I am engaged in "extortion" against them (?) and complain to my ISP and SpamCop. Nothing's ever come of it, but every 3 or 4 months I can count on a fresh newsletter and another round of invective.
The same guy also reregistered the old Cambodia Airlines website (http://www.royal-air-cambodge.net/) and turned it into a porn site (no need to check it and give him more traffic). Whoever it is is consistently snapping up many expired domains. I wrote a bit about on my website here-> http://www.angkor.com/AngkorMain.shtml#latest
I loved my b&w PB165. I bought if for cash the first day they were available in LA and snuck it back to Bangkok (computers were taxed as luxury items back them). I took it everywhere--it was incredibly rugged. It was cool to be able to play sounds whereever I was. Only last year did the screen finally dim for some reason, but other than that it works fine.
"The people behind the live video screens are zooming in on unconventional behavior in public that in fact has nothing to do with terrorism. And rather than thwarting serious crime, the cameras are being used to enforce social conformity in ways that Americans may prefer to avoid."
Strangely this articles gives only three sketchy examples of this:
1. Keeping punks out of shopping malls
2. An unnamed gay man who thinks if gets caught on camera kissing it "might be regarded as an offense against public decency.'' It seems it would be easy enough for the author to check if anyone has been hauled in for kissing in public.
3. Cameras on the backs of buses, to catch people changing lanes incorrectly (?), which seems improbable.
The panicky vision he paints is of how the technology might or could be used in the future. It appears the UK uses it wisely at present.
The author ends with an impassioned plea that the US not become a potential police state like Great Britain, which in light of the examples of "misuse" he cites, amounts to little more a plea that former shoplifters not be barred from Borders. Thank God for lawyers.
********
I know the following is a satirical quote that undermines what I'm saying, but it really goes with this thread:
"You know, the courts might not work any more, but as long as everybody is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done." -Marge Simpson, from "Homer Bad Man"
This is completely wrong-> "Handing the president carte blanche in a moment of anger is exactly the mistake that led the United States into the Vietnam War."
The President was NOT handed an open-ended resolution to handle the situation. Congress rejected the White House request for a "carte blanche" resolution like the one that followed the Tonkin Gulf incident. The toned-down version is specifically written so that a repeat of the Vietnam experience, where Congress was powerless to limit the President's actions because of a previous resolution, would be impossible.
The following site seems to never go down and is good for all the latest wires...
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/breaking/
From The Straight Dope: If all Chinese jumped at once, would cataclysm result?l
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_155.htm
I wonder who's really got the domain. Network Solutions shows it expired in May, 2000.
Registrant: Sue Almand (HOMESTATION-DOM)
51 Ocean Breeze Drive
Atlantic Beach, FL 32233
US
Domain Name: HOMESTATION.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Almand, Sue (SA4428) scalmand@EARTHLINK.NET
51 Ocean Breeze Drive
Atlantic Beach,, FL 32233
904-246-0131
Technical Contact:
Eclipse Communications Hostmaster (EC136-ORG) hostmaster@ECLIPSE-COMM.COM
Eclipse Communications
701 W. 4th St.
South Pittsburg, TN 37380
US
423-837-4955
Fax- - 423-629-6121
Record last updated on 26-Jul-2001.
Record expires on 23-May-2000.
Record created on 23-May-1998.
Database last updated on 6-Sep-2001 18:26:00 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ECLIPSE-COMM.COM 209.75.67.159
NS2.ECLIPSE-COMM.COM 209.75.67.160
I'd sure like to meet the guy who wrote the proposal for this...
"Laugh Lab is part of Science Year and is the largest scientific study ever into humour... Each month we will announce the top jokes. Then, in September 2002, we will reveal which of your entries got the highest "Laughometer" ratings and crown it the Nation's funniest joke!"
Sapphire and Steel is a British show from the late-70's that is equal parts fantasy and sci-fi. It is probably the only sci-fi/fantasy show with no special effects at all. It starred Joanna Lumley & David McCallum as two "elements" dispatched to different points in time and space to correct disruptions caused by time travel. What was unique was that there were rarely more than four characters (including S & S) in any show and the action took place on spartan, barely-lit sets.
For instance, in one episode Sapphire and Steel are on a roof trying to enter an invisible time machine to save a child inside. Another episode takes place in a few rooms of a "haunted house" with a true-believing ghost hunter. It is one of few shows I have ever seen that can be as engrossing in the same way a radio drama is...
Blackstar (http://www.blackstar.co.uk) used to carry episodes on tape, but the series has been out of print since the early 1990's. There were plans to put the whole series on video last year, but it keeps getiing cancelled.
>I firmly belive this scenario is far more compelling and dangerous then rogue nuclear missiles
Many disagree. The Straight Dope has a good overview of the biological weapon "threat":
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001208.html
Thye postage paid brick is supposedly an urban legend. I did find an anecdote here->http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/postage_pai d _bricks.html about someone who claims otherwise. It seems like an incident that, after the first time it happened, would immediately be addressed by postal authorities. Or maybe we can keep believing direct mailers hang their heads in despair with each brick they receive, muttering "some nerd screwed me again. They're so clever!" I assume sending the empty envelope should work, though...
Among their ideas->insects are smarter than humans-flu epidemics come from space-Archaeopteryx was a fake.
See http://www.talkorigins.org/scripts/search/query.id q?Cmd=Chandra+Wickramasinghe&How=sim ple
for more info. The enthuastic tone Wickramasinghe takes in the article is not indicative of a scientist--especially when dealing with such a potentially important discovery.