Cooperation between two allies against somebody who put lives in jeapordy? Don't forget Assange is just as much against the UK as he is the US.
As for the 'storming' mention, it's never going to happen because the UK is not Iran. What is going to probably happen is that Assange will be taken when he leaves that embassy. Nex
Boards back in the day were pretty-much divided into two kinds, or a mixture of them: download boards and conversation, or convo boards. I used both, but hosted a purely convo board for 8 years (Walden Commune BBS in Montreal) back in the 80's mostly. I think the first poster's nostalgia concerned boards with lively message bases, while you're talking about download boards. Most had both, but they usually ended-up being either one or the other. Nex
Then all I can tell you is: put your glasses on, throw some light and *look*. There's a wide spectrum there. Few people actually listen to the speakers in the House or Senate. They use Brian Williams, or Time, or the NYT to digest it all for them. What comes out the other end is agenda-driven pap much of the time.
Since you've used the experience card, I shall too: I've lived in several Euro Countries, for years. I've followed debates in the national assembly of France in French, and of course Parliament in the UK. News in Dutch, and so on. It's all about parties and the power plays between them. Sometimes smaller parties form alliances whereas in the US often reps will do the same thing Not under the whip of their own parties. Big difference. Spectrum of opinion? About the same as here. Less labels here though. No need to hunt for a name everytime 6 people get together for coffee and cognac. Narrow band of opinion in Congress? Pshaw! Listen to what they say, where they say they stand and how they vote.
Maxine Waters is just one example of the 'out there' wing of the democratic party (The CIA purposely seeded and maintained the 80's crack epidemic in LA to keep black folks down, the CIA invented and disseminated aids to victimize black people). The Troothers with their dark theories. The hysterical bunch at the KOS Kids. All the above views are ardently (inasmuch as a pol can be truly ardent in anything but ambition) supported in Congress by various Reps and Senators. Views that contrast sharply with those of other members of their party. Compare Harry Reid for example with another democrat, Lieberman. Too many examples to ignore. Just in the last few days, look who voted what on the recent FISA bill. Feinstein for, Clinton against. Whoosh? Where were you? The RIAA debate, and on and on and on. All the same? Methinks not.
Yet those facile, self-serving Euro stereotypes prevail *among Europeans* in the main. Look a little closer and they fall apart. Everybody's an expert, but look closer and the myths fade away. Forest, trees.
Alinabi, get specific, look closer, absorb, understand and get some perspective. Don't waste your valuable time in this country warbling sad old stereotypes while seeing.. very little. Nex
It's one of the main differences between the two systems. The Parliamentary system is - grosso modo - the interaction between parties, while in the US system you have much more of an interaction between individual mps or reps who happen to belong to parties. It's one reason why you have fewer parties in the legislative bodies in the US; less need as a wide spectrum of views is already represented by individual reps who form temporary issue-driven alliances on the fly with members of the opposing party, some of whom may *also* be at loggerheads with their own party agenda. Nex
In a Parliamentary System it's generally easier for an mp or a rep to vote the party line because in most cases they haven't any choice in the matter; there's less need to understand exactly what they're voting for because Mommy Party takes care of all.
In the US system, generally reps are freer to vote against their party and forge alliances across party lines even on major legislation, so knowledge of bills is often more important for the individual rep. Of course many reps vote the straight party line anyway, but at least there's more independence and choice. Nex
I much prefer SageTV to BeyondTV because it's more flexible. Yes it also supports dixv recording on encoder boxes like the plextor, supports transcoding, compression, commercial skips and so on. It also has a slew of alternate menu systems through the use of.stv files. Been using it for a few years now and it's always met my needs admirably. Nex
But if you have fast unlimited phone net access, why use phone-specific services that you have to pay extra for anyway? I use google maps and all the rest, and they're free. I use telnet to my shell account on my phone as well. I use slingbox to control my tivo at home and to watch movies in waiting rooms or parking lots. And to watch live tv of course. Phone I use is the ppc-6700 under evdo - I get high speeds pretty much everywhere I go with a few minor exceptions, have done for about a year now).
Special little services for the phone? That's so 2005. I remember the old sidekick with misty eyes and yeah, I used some weather and traffic services via text messaging, because the net on that beastlet was so SLOW.
No more. Now it's slingbox, and a little skype once in a while for those long distance calls.
"The primary customers and financial backers are the United States and the United Kingdom. Eight other nations are also funding the aircraft's development and will decide in 2006 whether or not to purchase it. Total program development costs, less procurement, are estimated at over US$40 billion, of which the bulk has been underwritten by the United States.[3]
There are three levels of international participation. The United Kingdom is the sole 'Level 1' partner, contributing slightly over US$2 billion, about 10% of the development costs[3]. Level 2 partners are Italy, which is contributing US$1 billion, and the Netherlands, US$800 million. At Level 3 are Canada, US$440 million; Turkey, US$175 million; Australia, US$144 million; Norway, US$122 million; and Denmark, US$110 million. The levels generally reflect the financial stake in the program, the amount of technology transfer and subcontracts open for bid by national companies, and the priority order in which countries can obtain production aircraft. Israel and Singapore have also joined as Security Cooperative Participants.[4]"
It's the most annoying thing about Opera for me. Every few weeks I kill my profile/images dir to start the favicon building anew. It's time-consuming but important, since I keep a busy personal bar up top and otheer than the dirs inhabiting that space, I keep a couple of dozen favicons there for turbo-quick navigating to my favorite sites. So I need to go to each of those sites one by one after nuking the dir to retrive their favicons.
There's Got to be a better way, especially since it's been like this over many not just builds, but versions. Nex
(If the worst thing I have to say about Opera is its favicon system, that's actually a pretty huge compliment)
Of course Danger (Sidekick 1 and 2) has been doing the server-formatting thing for years, quite successfully, albeit in GSM which is slow as molasses.
So I'm going for a PPC-6700 in Sprint Ev-Do soon, so my favorite desktop Browser since the 90's, Opera. will needless to say find itself in my PPC M5 environment in short order, and at Ev-Do speeds, and Rev A just around the corner, the phone experience should be a true Wow. Nex
No reason to, since there's a better, safer, free browser: Opera. Nex
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My ISP does lousy Usenet so I got an inexpensive outside shell account. Tin rules. Text rules. Usenet rules. No viruses possible via a character-based terminal. Binary newsgroups? Entirely different thing afaic, and heavily addressed here already. Web Forums for convos? Often much slower than text-based due to server loads. And using a keyboard isn't so bad; it's often faster than draging your mouse around interminably for the simplest of functions. Groups.google searching of course shines. But all in all, considering the wealth of info already on Usenet, what's being added every day, and the large number of active and mostly worthwhile newsgroups, what, me worry? Nex
Then apparently you never read the accounts of heroic and stoic behavior during 9-11. It's all very nice to compliment, but when you criticise, you'd better know what you're doing. Nex
But then look at the rags in Europe. They've always been slanting one way or the other; it's their way, and there's nothing wrong with it. I believe US papers have always been slanted as well, but the larger mainstream rags perhaps not to the same degree as say, The Guardian or any other left or right-leaning mainstream rag.
CBS News has been shown-up for what it is by Blogs in the first instance: hopelessly partisan. Fine, but then don't pretend to be perfectly neutral. The public took away its viewership of CBS News shows if only for a short while. Ouch!
News sites with lots of very different views on any current story - like news.google - abound and the public is beginning to notice how some of the larger US rags hide behind a pretense of neutrality. "Bogus!" and the cry gets louder every month.
It's all a Good thing, and it ain't over yet by a long shot. Repositioning continues. Nex
I use my Sidekick (original one from 2002) to communicate via ICQ and AIM. I've never reached any limit so my monthly fee covers it all amply despite the fact that I'm always connected when I'm out and do a lot of messaging.
Text messaging, a much more 'messy' solution with limitations on message lengths, flakey times for messages to be received and replies sent back (in ICQ I message daily with somebody in France almost instantaneously from SoCal - imagine how that'd work with primitive text messaging!) seems old hat to me. These days I use it 99% for tech headlines, local traffic alerts and daily weather reports that get 'pushed' to my Sideckick daily. I could just as easily get it all via email, or just shoot over to the websites via the browser, but since I get so many free TMs a month what the hell? For me, actual TM comms back and forth is mainly for communicating with folks who don't have anything better on the road. There are fewer and fewer of them as time passes. Nex
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Actually, ColdFjord's first reply was informative and unemotional, and had more worth that twenty posters hurling insults. Nex
The Mars Rover is now a She? Could it ever have been a He?
No. The Rover is an It.
In the frenzy to be politically correct, mistakes are made I guess.
Cooperation between two allies against somebody who put lives in jeapordy? Don't forget Assange is just as much against the UK as he is the US.
As for the 'storming' mention, it's never going to happen because the UK is not Iran. What is going to probably happen is that Assange will be taken when he leaves that embassy. Nex
Boards back in the day were pretty-much divided into two kinds, or a mixture of them: download boards and conversation, or convo boards. I used both, but hosted a purely convo board for 8 years (Walden Commune BBS in Montreal) back in the 80's mostly. I think the first poster's nostalgia concerned boards with lively message bases, while you're talking about download boards. Most had both, but they usually ended-up being either one or the other. Nex
Funny, it's available for sale in the US. Goodo on the American marketplace. Nex
Then all I can tell you is: put your glasses on, throw some light and *look*. There's a wide spectrum there. Few people actually listen to the speakers in the House or Senate. They use Brian Williams, or Time, or the NYT to digest it all for them. What comes out the other end is agenda-driven pap much of the time.
Since you've used the experience card, I shall too: I've lived in several Euro Countries, for years. I've followed debates in the national assembly of France in French, and of course Parliament in the UK. News in Dutch, and so on. It's all about parties and the power plays between them. Sometimes smaller parties form alliances whereas in the US often reps will do the same thing Not under the whip of their own parties. Big difference. Spectrum of opinion? About the same as here. Less labels here though. No need to hunt for a name everytime 6 people get together for coffee and cognac. Narrow band of opinion in Congress? Pshaw! Listen to what they say, where they say they stand and how they vote.
Maxine Waters is just one example of the 'out there' wing of the democratic party (The CIA purposely seeded and maintained the 80's crack epidemic in LA to keep black folks down, the CIA invented and disseminated aids to victimize black people). The Troothers with their dark theories. The hysterical bunch at the KOS Kids. All the above views are ardently (inasmuch as a pol can be truly ardent in anything but ambition) supported in Congress by various Reps and Senators. Views that contrast sharply with those of other members of their party. Compare Harry Reid for example with another democrat, Lieberman. Too many examples to ignore. Just in the last few days, look who voted what on the recent FISA bill. Feinstein for, Clinton against. Whoosh? Where were you? The RIAA debate, and on and on and on. All the same? Methinks not.
Yet those facile, self-serving Euro stereotypes prevail *among Europeans* in the main. Look a little closer and they fall apart. Everybody's an expert, but look closer and the myths fade away. Forest, trees.
Alinabi, get specific, look closer, absorb, understand and get some perspective. Don't waste your valuable time in this country warbling sad old stereotypes while seeing .. very little. Nex
It's one of the main differences between the two systems. The Parliamentary system is - grosso modo - the interaction between parties, while in the US system you have much more of an interaction between individual mps or reps who happen to belong to parties. It's one reason why you have fewer parties in the legislative bodies in the US; less need as a wide spectrum of views is already represented by individual reps who form temporary issue-driven alliances on the fly with members of the opposing party, some of whom may *also* be at loggerheads with their own party agenda. Nex
In a Parliamentary System it's generally easier for an mp or a rep to vote the party line because in most cases they haven't any choice in the matter; there's less need to understand exactly what they're voting for because Mommy Party takes care of all.
In the US system, generally reps are freer to vote against their party and forge alliances across party lines even on major legislation, so knowledge of bills is often more important for the individual rep. Of course many reps vote the straight party line anyway, but at least there's more independence and choice. Nex
I much prefer SageTV to BeyondTV because it's more flexible. Yes it also supports dixv recording on encoder boxes like the plextor, supports transcoding, compression, commercial skips and so on. It also has a slew of alternate menu systems through the use of .stv files. Been using it for a few years now and it's always met my needs admirably. Nex
But if you have fast unlimited phone net access, why use phone-specific services that you have to pay extra for anyway? I use google maps and all the rest, and they're free. I use telnet to my shell account on my phone as well. I use slingbox to control my tivo at home and to watch movies in waiting rooms or parking lots. And to watch live tv of course. Phone I use is the ppc-6700 under evdo - I get high speeds pretty much everywhere I go with a few minor exceptions, have done for about a year now).
Special little services for the phone? That's so 2005. I remember the old sidekick with misty eyes and yeah, I used some weather and traffic services via text messaging, because the net on that beastlet was so SLOW.
No more. Now it's slingbox, and a little skype once in a while for those long distance calls.
Services indeed. That's so euro.
"Zey haff besser cell fonez schtuff, ja?" NOT. Nex
And if the RCMP is corrupt, it bounces back to the FBI I presume? Nex
Nope.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II
"The primary customers and financial backers are the United States and the United Kingdom. Eight other nations are also funding the aircraft's development and will decide in 2006 whether or not to purchase it. Total program development costs, less procurement, are estimated at over US$40 billion, of which the bulk has been underwritten by the United States.[3]
There are three levels of international participation. The United Kingdom is the sole 'Level 1' partner, contributing slightly over US$2 billion, about 10% of the development costs[3]. Level 2 partners are Italy, which is contributing US$1 billion, and the Netherlands, US$800 million. At Level 3 are Canada, US$440 million; Turkey, US$175 million; Australia, US$144 million; Norway, US$122 million; and Denmark, US$110 million. The levels generally reflect the financial stake in the program, the amount of technology transfer and subcontracts open for bid by national companies, and the priority order in which countries can obtain production aircraft. Israel and Singapore have also joined as Security Cooperative Participants.[4]"
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I second that.
It's the most annoying thing about Opera for me. Every few weeks I kill my profile/images dir to start the favicon building anew. It's time-consuming but important, since I keep a busy personal bar up top and otheer than the dirs inhabiting that space, I keep a couple of dozen favicons there for turbo-quick navigating to my favorite sites. So I need to go to each of those sites one by one after nuking the dir to retrive their favicons.
There's Got to be a better way, especially since it's been like this over many not just builds, but versions. Nex
(If the worst thing I have to say about Opera is its favicon system, that's actually a pretty huge compliment)
He's not the only one. I post at minus values here all the time; it's a point of honor. Nex
Or they could put 'Free Updates for Life of Product' on the package. Nex
Of course Danger (Sidekick 1 and 2) has been doing the server-formatting thing for years, quite successfully, albeit in GSM which is slow as molasses.
So I'm going for a PPC-6700 in Sprint Ev-Do soon, so my favorite desktop Browser since the 90's, Opera. will needless to say find itself in my PPC M5 environment in short order, and at Ev-Do speeds, and Rev A just around the corner, the phone experience should be a true Wow. Nex
The EU hasn't given a damn about Opera. Many of the Euro sites I go to have no idea that the Opera browser even exists. Nex
No reason to, since there's a better, safer, free browser: Opera. Nex
My ISP does lousy Usenet so I got an inexpensive outside shell account. Tin rules. Text rules. Usenet rules. No viruses possible via a character-based terminal. Binary newsgroups? Entirely different thing afaic, and heavily addressed here already. Web Forums for convos? Often much slower than text-based due to server loads. And using a keyboard isn't so bad; it's often faster than draging your mouse around interminably for the simplest of functions. Groups.google searching of course shines. But all in all, considering the wealth of info already on Usenet, what's being added every day, and the large number of active and mostly worthwhile newsgroups, what, me worry? Nex
Boilerplate EuroCant. Nex
Then apparently you never read the accounts of heroic and stoic behavior during 9-11. It's all very nice to compliment, but when you criticise, you'd better know what you're doing. Nex
Especially as they're running "CSI, plus CSI New York and CSI Miami"
Can't have it both ways. Nex
But then look at the rags in Europe. They've always been slanting one way or the other; it's their way, and there's nothing wrong with it. I believe US papers have always been slanted as well, but the larger mainstream rags perhaps not to the same degree as say, The Guardian or any other left or right-leaning mainstream rag.
CBS News has been shown-up for what it is by Blogs in the first instance: hopelessly partisan. Fine, but then don't pretend to be perfectly neutral. The public took away its viewership of CBS News shows if only for a short while. Ouch!
News sites with lots of very different views on any current story - like news.google - abound and the public is beginning to notice how some of the larger US rags hide behind a pretense of neutrality. "Bogus!" and the cry gets louder every month.
It's all a Good thing, and it ain't over yet by a long shot. Repositioning continues. Nex
It's called freedom. Local freedom to choose what children will or will not read in school, a publicly-funded, locally supported institution.
What you see as censorship is simply an excellent quality of local freedom. Nex
I use my Sidekick (original one from 2002) to communicate via ICQ and AIM. I've never reached any limit so my monthly fee covers it all amply despite the fact that I'm always connected when I'm out and do a lot of messaging.
Text messaging, a much more 'messy' solution with limitations on message lengths, flakey times for messages to be received and replies sent back (in ICQ I message daily with somebody in France almost instantaneously from SoCal - imagine how that'd work with primitive text messaging!) seems old hat to me. These days I use it 99% for tech headlines, local traffic alerts and daily weather reports that get 'pushed' to my Sideckick daily. I could just as easily get it all via email, or just shoot over to the websites via the browser, but since I get so many free TMs a month what the hell? For me, actual TM comms back and forth is mainly for communicating with folks who don't have anything better on the road. There are fewer and fewer of them as time passes. Nex