> Currently GTK is one of my favorite toolkits. The reason: Pango. I use multiple languages in my documents
I just recently discovered that GTK+ with Pango has cool monolingual uses as well, since it supports a simple markup language that lets you very easily do things to the text in your menus, buttons, etc., such as italicize, sub- or superscript, etc.
> A combination of human error (setting the machine to record a maximum of three thousand votes when eight thousand people voted) and a software malfunction (the machine kept accepting ballots after its memory was overloaded)
Sounds like the errors should cancel each other out.
> You don't think that labelling anyone who may have faith in a higher power (whether or not you agree with them) as a whacko is just a trifle intolerant?
Yep. You should only call them whacko when they maintain beliefs that have been refuted by huge piles of evidence, such as belief in a young earth or a global flood.
> NOAA will make its data and products available in internet-accessible, vendor-neutral form and will use other dissemination technologies, e.g. satellite broadcast, NOAA Weather Radio, and wireless, as appropriate.
Now if only we could get the Feds to make their porn available in internet-accessible, vendor-neutral form, and use other dissemination technologies such as satellite, radio, and wireless.
> Most of those now engaging Allied forces are mercenaries and others from other countries, not from Iraq.
The news said earlier today that only a tiny fraction of those captured in Fallujah were foreigners. About a dozen out of a thousand, IIRC.
Remember that anything the Administration says is propaganda. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have been making unsupportable statements about what's going on since before the shooting started.
For that matter, the new Iraqi prime minister is saying that no civilians have been killed in Fallujah. Looks like Comical Ali is back in new form.
> The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Sounds like Osama's rationale for killing the people who worked at the WTC.
> Are you saying we should have allowed Saddam to continue to slaughter Iraqi kurds by the tens or hundreds of thousands? Is it not better to risk killing a few to prevent not only the death but the certain torture of thousands more?
Maybe you noticed that the.gov article you linked talked about events in 1988, back when SH was still our buddy.
> If you don't believe that the US has been privatizing (i.e., selling to foreign interests) Iraq's industries, well, you're allowed to deny reality all you want. We've privatized everything from the ports at Umm Qasr to Kimadia (Iraq's pharmaceutical industry which provided the country with cheap drugs). Read Bremer's Order 39, which privatized over 200 state-run companies by selling them off to the highest bidder (most of the bidders being US firms)
>... but I thought carbon dating only worked on organic matter (since its the death of the matter that stops the carbon cycle refreshing the C14 percentage in the tissue). How does this work on stone tools?
You have to date stone by dating its context. The best way to do it is to sandwich the stones between clearly datable layers, but lots of times you have to just date stuff the stone is "associated with".
Also, as I understand things 50Kybp is just about at the limit of what you can reliably test with carbon dating.
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> how much is a corrupt, rigged election worth. More than 2.6 million, I'd weager.
Bet the execs at Haliburton could tell you.
> Currently GTK is one of my favorite toolkits. The reason: Pango. I use multiple languages in my documents
I just recently discovered that GTK+ with Pango has cool monolingual uses as well, since it supports a simple markup language that lets you very easily do things to the text in your menus, buttons, etc., such as italicize, sub- or superscript, etc.
Google for "pango markup language" for more info.
> A combination of human error (setting the machine to record a maximum of three thousand votes when eight thousand people voted) and a software malfunction (the machine kept accepting ballots after its memory was overloaded)
Sounds like the errors should cancel each other out.
> "Burgle" means exactly the same thing.
But 'burgle' sounds too much like what a baby does to your shoulder.
> You don't call a burglar a 'burglarizer', do you?
Yeah, and they almost got burglarizered.
> I'll be dead by the time any of this happens.
Given the sudden onset and continued acceleration of the Arctic meltdown, I'm not so sure about that anymore.
> Being in MENSA, one would have thought you'd have come up with a better handle than "smacktits."
Obviously you haven't heard about their secret "handshake".
> You don't think that labelling anyone who may have faith in a higher power (whether or not you agree with them) as a whacko is just a trifle intolerant?
Yep. You should only call them whacko when they maintain beliefs that have been refuted by huge piles of evidence, such as belief in a young earth or a global flood.
> Let the masturbation jokes begin!!!
OK, here's a start.
> NOAA will make its data and products available in internet-accessible, vendor-neutral form and will use other dissemination technologies, e.g. satellite broadcast, NOAA Weather Radio, and wireless, as appropriate.
Now if only we could get the Feds to make their porn available in internet-accessible, vendor-neutral form, and use other dissemination technologies such as satellite, radio, and wireless.
> "9/11" was the worst thing that had ever happened to Americans.
Surely not even in the same league as our civil war.
> You could actually write a makefile that utilizes the separate converters and outputs as wanted...
> make ogg
> make mp3
> make wma
> make rip
Don't forget the all-important -
make morediskspace
> Shouldn't cellphone companies be making people aware of the hazards of usage?
> to within 1 second in about 30 billion years!
And it's already almost half a second off!
In the USA, the risk of lawsuits will surely delay this kind of thing for a long time to come.
Sadly, that will probably mean more people get hurt in the long run.
> Most of those now engaging Allied forces are mercenaries and others from other countries, not from Iraq.
The news said earlier today that only a tiny fraction of those captured in Fallujah were foreigners. About a dozen out of a thousand, IIRC.
Remember that anything the Administration says is propaganda. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have been making unsupportable statements about what's going on since before the shooting started.
For that matter, the new Iraqi prime minister is saying that no civilians have been killed in Fallujah. Looks like Comical Ali is back in new form.
> The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Sounds like Osama's rationale for killing the people who worked at the WTC.
> Are you saying we should have allowed Saddam to continue to slaughter Iraqi kurds by the tens or hundreds of thousands? Is it not better to risk killing a few to prevent not only the death but the certain torture of thousands more?
Maybe you noticed that the
How many Kurds has he gassed since 1991?
> If you don't believe that the US has been privatizing (i.e., selling to foreign interests) Iraq's industries, well, you're allowed to deny reality all you want. We've privatized everything from the ports at Umm Qasr to Kimadia (Iraq's pharmaceutical industry which provided the country with cheap drugs). Read Bremer's Order 39, which privatized over 200 state-run companies by selling them off to the highest bidder (most of the bidders being US firms)
Here's that ever-relevant article from Harper's Magazine again.
> alternatively, as I recently saw on Nova, these first explorers came from France, the same people who painted the fameous Lascaux caves.
Actually, that's one scientist's pet hypothesis, and is not generally accepted at present.
> Go figure, just don't underestimate our ancestors.
Good advice.
>
You have to date stone by dating its context. The best way to do it is to sandwich the stones between clearly datable layers, but lots of times you have to just date stuff the stone is "associated with".
Also, as I understand things 50Kybp is just about at the limit of what you can reliably test with carbon dating.
> Being here THOUSANDS of years before they claim the nephites showed up, that's gotta hurt the ol' church.
Since when have contrary facts hurt religions?
> Better call it Puteosaurus then.
ped- is the root you're looking for, though the site you linked thinks pedere means the same thing as pedare.
> Yes, just read the docs here on how to make the switch:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
Thanks!
> So regardless if you used 2004.0 or 2004.3 to install - you ultimately have the same version after you've completely installed.
What about last time's switch to x.org ? Is there a reasonably easy to switch on an already installed system?