Hey, I was using Word Basic back in, oh, 1992 or so, before it became "Visual Basic for Applications". Maybe the OP meant something like that? Or maybe it just *feels* like ten years...:) Thankfully I skipped most of the Win9x era, and only really looked at Windows again when Win2k was released.
Oh come on. The Davidians certainly fired first.... and the Government should have known that the Branch Davidians were paranoid freaks (after all, that was one of the reasons they gave for choosing this mode of entry), and not gone in in the manner they did -- guaranteed to cause bloodshed and a stand-off if anything went wrong.
The government made a stupid move while trying to bring Koresh to trial.
A number of stupid moves, mainly triggered by their desire to give good media angles.
Those people had a long time to get out of there alive.
Agreed, but that doesn't excuse killing the majority of them (some (not many) did leave before the end). "All reasonable force" does not, and should not, extend to massacre. At worst it might justify assassination of people immediately engaged in terrorist acts, but you can hardly accuse the children of the Davidians of that. The Government had a duty of care for those children, even if their parents had abdicated that by their manifest stupidity/insanity in remaining in the compound so long.
Wasn't it that their tear gas/sleeping gas (not sure which) turned out to be rather flammable, and lit up after it had built up in a compressed space for a while?
They may not have used a flamethrower, but they definitely used the gas and likely provided the spark that set it off as well (bullet, gas grenade, etc.)
(Disclaimer: I'm basing this on Waco: The Rules of Engagement, and haven't kept up with how that's perceived a few years down the track...)
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Hey, I'm sure Linux can provide some equally addictive and life-destroying experiences... and I don't think I mean that in a positive sense.
Everyone throw your computers out the window and head for the hills! It's our only hope!
Bush is just a figurehead, he's a lightweight. Cheney is probably a lot closer to the real centers of power than GWB is.
That said, Iraq is an understandable (if mercenary) undertaking for the US, given that Saudi oil can't really be depended on for the indefinite future. Look to the suppressed portion of the 9/11 report, and the current political climate in Saudi Arabia...
It estimates that closing the gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 percent across-the-board income tax increase.
Yowza. That in itself would ruin the economy, especially if corporate taxes increased by a similar amount and couldn't be avoided by juggling the books...
Um, I think you'll find the debt (current account deficit) is $7 trillion. $500 billion is the amount the most recent Budget is in deficit -- i.e. spending more than it brings in.
Yeah, but the political executions and imprisonments continue. The current leadership are the ideological children of the old guard -- if it wouldn't stuff up their business interests they'd happily kill a few million to remain in power. Power moderated by greed; still, I guess it's better than it being moderated by nothing at all...
I happened to pick up an 802.11 signal from the place next door, so I used it.
I didn't harm anyone.
That's not for you to decide -- that's for the aggrieved party and the police. If you steal services, you have to be prepared to face the consequences.
If their front door had been left open overnight, and you'd walked in and made a few phone calls, would that have been OK too? What if you'd called your drug dealer?
Fraud is illegal. Assault is illegal. There are already penalties defined for these crimes.
Why criminalise an activity that is not *in and of itself* harmful to anyone other than the person choosing to indulge in it?
No matter the debate, a gambling ban won't happen soon -- similarly to cigarettes, governments these days make too much money from gamblers to want to stop the income flow.
I don't think it's wise to force everyone into a new, irrelevant (unless you own an HDTV) format just to avoid paying American royalty fees.
The rest of the (non-American) world might disagree with you there. This is the free market at work, avoiding artificial price controls; if you don't like it, don't buy an EVD machine.
Also, the acronym EVD ("enhanced versatile disc") seems extremely contrived to sound just like 'DVD'.
And 'Digital Versatile Disc' doesn't sound contrived to you? If you're going for a similar market, of course you'll try to piggyback on the success of the previous format.
I'm really enjoying "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" -- probably the best so far in this run. It's a shame that there are some episodes from back then that weren't preserved, of course...
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Hey, I was using Word Basic back in, oh, 1992 or so, before it became "Visual Basic for Applications". Maybe the OP meant something like that? Or maybe it just *feels* like ten years... :) Thankfully I skipped most of the Win9x era, and only really looked at Windows again when Win2k was released.
Oh come on. The Davidians certainly fired first. ... and the Government should have known that the Branch Davidians were paranoid freaks (after all, that was one of the reasons they gave for choosing this mode of entry), and not gone in in the manner they did -- guaranteed to cause bloodshed and a stand-off if anything went wrong.
The government made a stupid move while trying to bring Koresh to trial.
A number of stupid moves, mainly triggered by their desire to give good media angles.
Those people had a long time to get out of there alive.
Agreed, but that doesn't excuse killing the majority of them (some (not many) did leave before the end). "All reasonable force" does not, and should not, extend to massacre. At worst it might justify assassination of people immediately engaged in terrorist acts, but you can hardly accuse the children of the Davidians of that. The Government had a duty of care for those children, even if their parents had abdicated that by their manifest stupidity/insanity in remaining in the compound so long.
If someone accuses you of sexual assault, would you like a fair trial, or would you rather the police are sent in shooting?
Whether or not the court finds you guilty, I'd say that you at least deserve to reach it in one piece.
Wasn't it that their tear gas/sleeping gas (not sure which) turned out to be rather flammable, and lit up after it had built up in a compressed space for a while?
They may not have used a flamethrower, but they definitely used the gas and likely provided the spark that set it off as well (bullet, gas grenade, etc.)
(Disclaimer: I'm basing this on Waco: The Rules of Engagement, and haven't kept up with how that's perceived a few years down the track...)
Hey, I'm sure Linux can provide some equally addictive and life-destroying experiences... and I don't think I mean that in a positive sense.
Everyone throw your computers out the window and head for the hills! It's our only hope!
Bush is just a figurehead, he's a lightweight. Cheney is probably a lot closer to the real centers of power than GWB is.
That said, Iraq is an understandable (if mercenary) undertaking for the US, given that Saudi oil can't really be depended on for the indefinite future. Look to the suppressed portion of the 9/11 report, and the current political climate in Saudi Arabia...
Hey man, don't diss the Lynx. :)
It estimates that closing the gap would require the equivalent of an immediate and permanent 66 percent across-the-board income tax increase.
Yowza. That in itself would ruin the economy, especially if corporate taxes increased by a similar amount and couldn't be avoided by juggling the books...
Is that the projected CAD, or doesn't this take into account projected profits from other areas?
Still, it does make you wonder... either the debt gets repaid, or the world financial system falls over. Neither alternative seems very enticing.
I guess I did round it off... still, I'm sure I could quite happily live on my margin of error. :)
Yeah, I did wonder about that whole "on book/off book" thing. Is this the "black budget" that the radar-cloaking planes, etc. are developed with?
Um, I think you'll find the debt (current account deficit) is $7 trillion. $500 billion is the amount the most recent Budget is in deficit -- i.e. spending more than it brings in.
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Yeah, but the political executions and imprisonments continue. The current leadership are the ideological children of the old guard -- if it wouldn't stuff up their business interests they'd happily kill a few million to remain in power. Power moderated by greed; still, I guess it's better than it being moderated by nothing at all...
If China has changed, it's only been in the past few decades -- thanks largely to peace and a moderate Communist regime.
Troll.
June 4, 1989, was hardly the act of a "moderate" regime.
Subliminal imagery has been used a few times, though, The Exorcist is one example of this.
I happened to pick up an 802.11 signal from the place next door, so I used it.
I didn't harm anyone.
That's not for you to decide -- that's for the aggrieved party and the police. If you steal services, you have to be prepared to face the consequences.
If their front door had been left open overnight, and you'd walked in and made a few phone calls, would that have been OK too? What if you'd called your drug dealer?
When you're done, uh, inspecting those MP3s, you'll feel much better if you send them back.
Fraud is illegal. Assault is illegal. There are already penalties defined for these crimes.
Why criminalise an activity that is not *in and of itself* harmful to anyone other than the person choosing to indulge in it?
No matter the debate, a gambling ban won't happen soon -- similarly to cigarettes, governments these days make too much money from gamblers to want to stop the income flow.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean that they're not really out to get you...
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For a very good reason.
I don't think it's wise to force everyone into a new, irrelevant (unless you own an HDTV) format just to avoid paying American royalty fees.
The rest of the (non-American) world might disagree with you there. This is the free market at work, avoiding artificial price controls; if you don't like it, don't buy an EVD machine.
Also, the acronym EVD ("enhanced versatile disc") seems extremely contrived to sound just like 'DVD'.
And 'Digital Versatile Disc' doesn't sound contrived to you? If you're going for a similar market, of course you'll try to piggyback on the success of the previous format.
Does this constitute terrorism?
Doesn't everything these days?
... and companies never pay PR people millions to lie through their teeth about the company's activities?
I'm really enjoying "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" -- probably the best so far in this run. It's a shame that there are some episodes from back then that weren't preserved, of course...
Little-endian or big-endian?