If memory serves correctly, The two towers referred to in the title of the book were the Towers of Minas Anor and Minas Ithil in Gondor. The Nazgul took Minas Ithil and it was renamed Minas Morgul. After the fall of Osgiliath, Minas Anor was renamed Minas Torith.
Now will it be Ringwraith Japanese, Chinese, French, or Italian?
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No, use of the Pause button is mandatory. Otherwise you might miss some of the advertising while you are away from the set, and we all know that that is theft.
Soon to be a feature of the Hollings Infinite Copyright Extension Act.
Actually, I'm not. I've always been more into stuff like Yes or ELP. I just remember the crap that went through this place when John Postel died (I'd link, but the story's from 1998 and the comments aren't archived anymore.) Some people have zero class, I suppose.
I didn't have any strong feelings when Lady Di died, either, but I was polite enough to keep my mouth shut.
So do you hang out at funeral homes sharing this enlightenment with those mourning the elderly and successful? You must be real fun at parties.
I'm going to say this real slowly, and use small words:
grief
is
not
a
rational
emotion
I'm not a huge Who fan, but I do know that if I don't share the grief I shut my fucking mouth and go about my business. I do not try to share my "superior" attitude with the grief stricken to stroke my own ego and brag about how "mature" I am.
If you don't like the incivility in this, maybe now you understand how your previous postings have been received by some people here.
Good liquid fueled rockets are hard to do right. Most of the propellants/oxidizers are either cryogenic (H2, LOX) or simply evil (Monomethyl Hydrazine, H202) There are some great publications available on-line over at NASA's History Office that document the development of boosters for various programs. I particularly recommend "Chariots for Apollo" which covers the boosters and the actual spacecraft engines. There's a reason why we refer to difficult projects as "rocket science!"
Damn, and I thought that the Fundie Christians had poor critical thinking skills. This takes the cake. Someone get a little upset at tax time, while driving on government paid for roads, and using the government funded Internet?
Not to mention being reasonably secure in your possesions and life compared to the rampant crime in SA, where apparently the Government does keep out of the law enforcement business.
I'm running it right now at the office and it looks no worse than any other Win XP application. The window frame and outside controls are all native widgets.
Open your eyes and see both sides. Judges and Presidential candidates have been kidnapped and assassinated. Bombs have been planted in courthouses. If families do not cooperate with the Narcos, they are killed to make an example for the others. Most of the drug lords run left-wing death squads on the side. Many government employees run right-wing death squads on the side.
Both sides do it. The CIA may not be the good guys, but that does not make the drug lords good guys. Columbia, in particular, is in the throes of a very messy civil war and the bad guys on both sides aren't wearing uniforms or badges.
Every terrorist out there believes he/she/it is a soldier in some war or another. You are confusing a situation with one of the tactics used by parties in that situation.
Coccaine - No! Coke profits go to... you guessed it! Drug lords.
Maybe you should read a little bit more about the Columbian drug lords. They aren't funding attacks in the US, but what they do to maintain control of the drug fields looks like terrorism to me. Kidnappings, assasinations, bombings, etc.
Of course, the right wing paramilitaries do some of the same things, so I guess you could say Plan Columbia funds terrorism as well. I don't have an axe to grind on this issue, but it bothers me when people ignore evidence to make a political point.
As far as pot goes, I agree 100%. But haven't some of the domestic whacko groups funded themselves through homegrown crystal meth labs?
It shouldn't be suprising that lawbreakers do illegal things to make money.
As pointed our above, you are going to need one hell of a large emitter to make this work. Home-on-jam makes being a large emitter a dangerous (if not fatal) proposition. Your choice then becomes one of jam and die, or don't jam and somebody else dies. The real question is can you produce enough jammers to handle the second or third wave of these things and are the jammers cheaper than the remotes?
Privileges are something you don't have to do anything for. Rights are something you have to pay for
Erm, what are they teaching in the schools these days? In the words of Mr. Locke, as channeled through Mr. Jefferson:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Rights are something you are born with buddy. Priviledges are something you are granted and can be taken away, like Daddy loaning the old family car to you as long as you maintain a 'B' average. You can lose rights for the commission of crimes, but that is seen as a punishment.
And what happens when someone takes away those rights? Reading a bit further in the same document:
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
Of course exercising that Right might get your sorry ass killed. Live Free or Die, as they say.
The full thing is here, in case anyone wants to accuse me of selective quotation.
Apparently the U.S. Shuttle can do one thing Buran can't: keep flying. Buran was a very expensive mistake by the Russians. From what I've heard their own engineers fought mightily against the program, but the powers that be insisted on keeping up with the Joneses in Houston.
If I remember correctly, they cancelled a follow-on to Mir to help fund Buran. Imagine where they'd be if they'd listened to their own people and done the reverse.
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GNU may be many things, but silent isn't one of them. Particularly with RMS acting as spokesman!
I prefer Unisys, The Next Generation. Reminds me of what's in store for the future HP. Anyone work for Unisys during the merger? I had a co-worker who shared with me a song the employees wrote to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" I can't remember anything but the chorus, which went something like this:
Glory, glory, Halleluiah
Glory, glory, Halleluiah
Glory, glory, Halleluiah
And the stock keeps going down!
They have to pay the sales tax, regardless of the customer, so why shouldn't they charge the state to recover their expenses?
Uhhh, no. The State has an exemption from paying taxes to itself. Every government agency I've worked for had an exemption number that deleted the sales tax. Many non-profits have this deal exteneded to them as well.
This whole deal reeks of either incompetence or fraud. Maybe a mixture of the two.
Whoah. Take a breath. The current head of the SEC was not an Enron lobbyist. He was an accounting industry lobbyist. He also did some outside counsel work for Andersen, I believe.
Please keep your bought-and-paid-for government regulators straight.
I'm not so sure. The earlier AS/400s lacked many of the features that you mentioned. If they've had the box a really long time, it could have plain worn out. This does not sound like the sort of outfit that would have gone for all of the fancy redundant options.
When we were looking at an AS/400 to replace our aging System/36 in the early nineties, the models we could afford had a backup tape system and nothing else as far as redundancy goes. We decided to replace it with a PC network.
Of course, I didn't cancel support on either the 36 or the Wang until the network had been up and running for six months or so. Doing it sooner would have been, well, stupid.
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Car bombing would be problematic, for sure. How about a hijacked transport, a la WTC? It does bear some thinking about.
A small comment on Sprint PCS "service." I am awaiting my contract termination date with baited breath so I can move to Verizon. Not only is Sprint PCS coverage in Washington, DC abyssmal, but their employees have been uniformly rude and unhelpful on service issues.
As anyone who knows me can attest, any company that I think is worse than Verizontal has to have screwed up badly.
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If memory serves correctly, The two towers referred to in the title of the book were the Towers of Minas Anor and Minas Ithil in Gondor. The Nazgul took Minas Ithil and it was renamed Minas Morgul. After the fall of Osgiliath, Minas Anor was renamed Minas Torith.
Now will it be Ringwraith Japanese, Chinese, French, or Italian?
</KAGA>
Soon to be a feature of the Hollings Infinite Copyright Extension Act.
I didn't have any strong feelings when Lady Di died, either, but I was polite enough to keep my mouth shut.
I'm going to say this real slowly, and use small words:
grief
is
not
a
rational
emotion
I'm not a huge Who fan, but I do know that if I don't share the grief I shut my fucking mouth and go about my business. I do not try to share my "superior" attitude with the grief stricken to stroke my own ego and brag about how "mature" I am.
If you don't like the incivility in this, maybe now you understand how your previous postings have been received by some people here.
Whee... That's like introducing a new laptop and saying it will be lighter than ENIAC. The Nomad is fscking huge.
Good liquid fueled rockets are hard to do right. Most of the propellants/oxidizers are either cryogenic (H2, LOX) or simply evil (Monomethyl Hydrazine, H202) There are some great publications available on-line over at NASA's History Office that document the development of boosters for various programs. I particularly recommend "Chariots for Apollo" which covers the boosters and the actual spacecraft engines. There's a reason why we refer to difficult projects as "rocket science!"
Damn, and I thought that the Fundie Christians had poor critical thinking skills. This takes the cake. Someone get a little upset at tax time, while driving on government paid for roads, and using the government funded Internet? Not to mention being reasonably secure in your possesions and life compared to the rampant crime in SA, where apparently the Government does keep out of the law enforcement business.
Now that you mention it, I see that the Search button is in fact getting themed, although the form controls (like Submit buttons) aren't.
What OS are you running it under?
Both sides do it. The CIA may not be the good guys, but that does not make the drug lords good guys. Columbia, in particular, is in the throes of a very messy civil war and the bad guys on both sides aren't wearing uniforms or badges.
Every terrorist out there believes he/she/it is a soldier in some war or another. You are confusing a situation with one of the tactics used by parties in that situation.
Maybe you should read a little bit more about the Columbian drug lords. They aren't funding attacks in the US, but what they do to maintain control of the drug fields looks like terrorism to me. Kidnappings, assasinations, bombings, etc. Of course, the right wing paramilitaries do some of the same things, so I guess you could say Plan Columbia funds terrorism as well. I don't have an axe to grind on this issue, but it bothers me when people ignore evidence to make a political point.
As far as pot goes, I agree 100%. But haven't some of the domestic whacko groups funded themselves through homegrown crystal meth labs?
It shouldn't be suprising that lawbreakers do illegal things to make money.
As pointed our above, you are going to need one hell of a large emitter to make this work. Home-on-jam makes being a large emitter a dangerous (if not fatal) proposition. Your choice then becomes one of jam and die, or don't jam and somebody else dies. The real question is can you produce enough jammers to handle the second or third wave of these things and are the jammers cheaper than the remotes?
That's GNU/Airport dammit! Get it right!
It's all about the Benjamins.
Erm, what are they teaching in the schools these days? In the words of Mr. Locke, as channeled through Mr. Jefferson:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Rights are something you are born with buddy. Priviledges are something you are granted and can be taken away, like Daddy loaning the old family car to you as long as you maintain a 'B' average. You can lose rights for the commission of crimes, but that is seen as a punishment.
And what happens when someone takes away those rights? Reading a bit further in the same document:
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
Of course exercising that Right might get your sorry ass killed. Live Free or Die, as they say.
The full thing is here, in case anyone wants to accuse me of selective quotation.
If I remember correctly, they cancelled a follow-on to Mir to help fund Buran. Imagine where they'd be if they'd listened to their own people and done the reverse.
GNU may be many things, but silent isn't one of them. Particularly with RMS acting as spokesman!
Uhhh, no. The State has an exemption from paying taxes to itself. Every government agency I've worked for had an exemption number that deleted the sales tax. Many non-profits have this deal exteneded to them as well.
This whole deal reeks of either incompetence or fraud. Maybe a mixture of the two.
Please keep your bought-and-paid-for government regulators straight.
When we were looking at an AS/400 to replace our aging System/36 in the early nineties, the models we could afford had a backup tape system and nothing else as far as redundancy goes. We decided to replace it with a PC network.
Of course, I didn't cancel support on either the 36 or the Wang until the network had been up and running for six months or so. Doing it sooner would have been, well, stupid.
Car bombing would be problematic, for sure. How about a hijacked transport, a la WTC? It does bear some thinking about.
As anyone who knows me can attest, any company that I think is worse than Verizontal has to have screwed up badly.