I couldn't agree more... mine's a 1GHz 17" PB, I upgraded the HDD to a 7200RPM to compensate for the hit of the slightly slower processor. It's just the best-designed piece of electronics I've ever had the pleasure of owning.
On the car front, try driving a high-end (e class) Mercedes. Same feeling.
Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy
George Monbiot, Tuesday April 20, 2004, The Guardian
To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what is happening there, you should read the resolutions passed at the state's Republican party conventions last month. Take a look, for example, at the decisions made in Harris County, which covers much of Houston.
The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial matters: homosexuality is contrary to the truths ordained by God; "any mechanism to process, license, record, register or monitor the ownership of guns" should be repealed; income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax should be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric fences. Thus fortified, they turned to the real issue: the affairs of a small state 7,000 miles away. It was then, according to a participant, that the "screaming and near fist fights" began.
I don't know what the original motion said, but apparently it was "watered down significantly" as a result of the shouting match. The motion they adopted stated that Israel has an undivided claim to Jerusalem and the West Bank, that Arab states should be "pressured" to absorb refugees from Palestine, and that Israel should do whatever it wishes in seeking to eliminate terrorism. Good to see that the extremists didn't prevail then.
But why should all this be of such pressing interest to the people of a state which is seldom celebrated for its fascination with foreign affairs? The explanation is slowly becoming familiar to us, but we still have some difficulty in taking it seriously.
In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met. The first of these was the establishment of a state of Israel. The next involves Israel's occupation of the rest of its "biblical lands" (most of the Middle East), and the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques. The legions of the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will lead to a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews will either burn or convert to Christianity, and the Messiah will return to Earth.
What makes the story so appealing to Christian fundamentalists is that before the big battle begins, all "true believers" (ie those who believe what they believe) will be lifted out of their clothes and wafted up to heaven during an event called the Rapture. Not only do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able to watch, from the best seats, their political and religious opponents being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs, during the seven years of Tribulation which follow.
The true believers are now seeking to bring all this about. This means staging confrontations at the old temple site (in 2000, three US Christians were deported for trying to blow up the mosques there), sponsoring Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, demanding ever more US support for Israel, and seeking to provoke a final battle with the Muslim world/Axis of Evil/United Nations/ European Union/France or whoever the legions of the antichrist turn out to be.
The believers are convinced that they will soon be rewarded for their efforts. The antichrist is apparently walking among us, in the guise of Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Yasser Arafat or, more plausibly, Silvio Berlusconi. The Wal-Mart corporation is also a candidate (in my view a very good one), because it wants to radio-tag its stock, thereby exposing humankind to the Mark of the Beast.
So your protectionism extends to my thoughts? If I disagree with you, I'm narrow-minded? Let me ask, do you drive? Where was your car built? Where are your clothes made? The computers you buy? The ingredients for the food you eat? All American, I'm sure. Globalization wreaked havoc on other economies for decades as the US used its influence to force it through across the globe... what goes around comes around.
That worked for the steel and auto industries! Yeah, good idea! Yet we can expect markets for our products to remain as they are, with no retaliation... get back in your cave, troll.
Search for "refurbished" at the Apple Store for great deals. These are usually returns, got a 1GHz G4 17" with 512MB RAM, 60GB drive, superdrive, Airport Extreme, etc., for $2300 there about two months back. In perfect condition, no less.
Yeah, me too on a 17" G4 1GHz aluminum Powerbook. Battery life (naturally) sucks compared to my previous laptop, a G3/600 14" iBook. To make matters worse, I upgraded the hard drive from the supplied 4200RPM model to a 7200RPM 60GB Hitachi Travelstar... a very noticeable performance increase, an equally noticeable battery performance decrease, and it's much noisier now.
"Bumping" is the act of taking little fingernail amounts of coke and snorting them on the fly, and that certainly speeds things up. Given that the Mac community is a creative and marketing set, this might explain the use of "bump" in this context.:-)
presumably Ireland as well, that's one hell of a windy place:-)
Hey! We can't help it, that blasted Guinness causes it...;-)
Last time I checked, the Irish government had put out to tender a plan to build one of Europe's largest windfarms on the Arklow bank, off the east coast, in the Irish Sea.
Donegal is stunningly beautiful... I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Slieve League cliffs there during a visit home. I had never heard of them until recently, nor had my friends or family. Europe's highest seacliffs, just a wonderful, wonderful place. Never been to Derry, spent plenty of time in Andystown (Andersonstown) in west Belfast in the mid-80s though. Nice enough place... the whole north is weird for a southerner. Foreign signage, license plates, names, cops, military in your own country. Regardless of political opinion it's a very, very unsettling feeling. Particularly when some 18-year old squaddie from Liverpool or wherever has the fucking balls to point a weapon in your face and tell YOU to "Go home!".
Coming home from where in bodybags? My sister is a Garda, as is my brother in law, and is my first cousin. I would have heard about this, I'm sure. Unless you're referring to them coming home from Limerick in bodybags, fucking hole of a place.
Coppers, rednecks (Dublin slang for cops as they all come from "down da country", i.e., not from Dublin), the filth, pigs, guards, but no, not "bobbies". That's an English thing.
They've been deployed to places like Kosovo, Bosnia, etc., along with other western European police -- to train the locals how to be good police, not for peacekeeping. He was probably referring to that.
Irish Law is effectively a modified version of English Common Law -- after all, what's now the Republic of Ireland was part of the UK until 1921.
Since independence, of course, Irish law has evolved along a different path -- a written constitution, for example -- Bunreacht na h-Eireann (basic law of Ireland).
All laws are published somewhere in here -- a very interesting site from our Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform: http://www.justice.ie
I can assure you that racism is far more prevalent in Ireland than political correctness. You'll hear the n-word a lot more frequently than you would here (in the mid-West)... I was there last week on a visit to Cork and was astonished at how casually people tossed around deeply offensive terms. It's a shame, given that we Irish were long on the receiving end of that kind of crap.
Shagging under the sun, moon or stars, given a mild evening, is a wonderful thing to do!!! Particularly if there's a miniature golf course nearby, as the greens are soft and won't spike you or your beloved (or belusted) in the arse as make the beast with two backs.
It's spelled Czechoslovakia, and that country no longer exists. The two parted ways (amicably) in the 1990s, and are now the Czech and Slovak Republics -- sovereign nations both.
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On the car front, try driving a high-end (e class) Mercedes. Same feeling.
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy
George Monbiot, Tuesday April 20, 2004, The Guardian
To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what is happening there, you should read the resolutions passed at the state's Republican party conventions last month. Take a look, for example, at the decisions made in Harris County, which covers much of Houston.
The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial matters: homosexuality is contrary to the truths ordained by God; "any mechanism to process, license, record, register or monitor the ownership of guns" should be repealed; income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax should be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric fences. Thus fortified, they turned to the real issue: the affairs of a small state 7,000 miles away. It was then, according to a participant, that the "screaming and near fist fights" began.
I don't know what the original motion said, but apparently it was "watered down significantly" as a result of the shouting match. The motion they adopted stated that Israel has an undivided claim to Jerusalem and the West Bank, that Arab states should be "pressured" to absorb refugees from Palestine, and that Israel should do whatever it wishes in seeking to eliminate terrorism. Good to see that the extremists didn't prevail then.
But why should all this be of such pressing interest to the people of a state which is seldom celebrated for its fascination with foreign affairs? The explanation is slowly becoming familiar to us, but we still have some difficulty in taking it seriously.
In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met. The first of these was the establishment of a state of Israel. The next involves Israel's occupation of the rest of its "biblical lands" (most of the Middle East), and the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques. The legions of the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will lead to a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews will either burn or convert to Christianity, and the Messiah will return to Earth.
What makes the story so appealing to Christian fundamentalists is that before the big battle begins, all "true believers" (ie those who believe what they believe) will be lifted out of their clothes and wafted up to heaven during an event called the Rapture. Not only do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able to watch, from the best seats, their political and religious opponents being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs, during the seven years of Tribulation which follow.
The true believers are now seeking to bring all this about. This means staging confrontations at the old temple site (in 2000, three US Christians were deported for trying to blow up the mosques there), sponsoring Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, demanding ever more US support for Israel, and seeking to provoke a final battle with the Muslim world/Axis of Evil/United Nations/ European Union/France or whoever the legions of the antichrist turn out to be.
The believers are convinced that they will soon be rewarded for their efforts. The antichrist is apparently walking among us, in the guise of Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Yasser Arafat or, more plausibly, Silvio Berlusconi. The Wal-Mart corporation is also a candidate (in my view a very good one), because it wants to radio-tag its stock, thereby exposing humankind to the Mark of the Beast.
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How can I be a traitor when I'm not a US citizen? Boo! You've been talking to one us foreigners.
So your protectionism extends to my thoughts? If I disagree with you, I'm narrow-minded? Let me ask, do you drive? Where was your car built? Where are your clothes made? The computers you buy? The ingredients for the food you eat? All American, I'm sure. Globalization wreaked havoc on other economies for decades as the US used its influence to force it through across the globe... what goes around comes around.
That worked for the steel and auto industries! Yeah, good idea! Yet we can expect markets for our products to remain as they are, with no retaliation... get back in your cave, troll.
Search for "refurbished" at the Apple Store for great deals. These are usually returns, got a 1GHz G4 17" with 512MB RAM, 60GB drive, superdrive, Airport Extreme, etc., for $2300 there about two months back. In perfect condition, no less.
Yeah, me too on a 17" G4 1GHz aluminum Powerbook. Battery life (naturally) sucks compared to my previous laptop, a G3/600 14" iBook. To make matters worse, I upgraded the hard drive from the supplied 4200RPM model to a 7200RPM 60GB Hitachi Travelstar... a very noticeable performance increase, an equally noticeable battery performance decrease, and it's much noisier now.
"Bumping" is the act of taking little fingernail amounts of coke and snorting them on the fly, and that certainly speeds things up. Given that the Mac community is a creative and marketing set, this might explain the use of "bump" in this context. :-)
By depriving the fire of oxygen, I suppose?
"Open Source, yeah right -- they should call it 'Open Sores'..."
You herd me, SpongeBath.
Not any more you're not... that girl is gorgeous.
Recommendation: "Thinking In Java" by Bruce Eckel. Available for download at Mr. Eckel's website, http://www.bruceeckel.com ...
Last time I checked, the Irish government had put out to tender a plan to build one of Europe's largest windfarms on the Arklow bank, off the east coast, in the Irish Sea.
Donegal is stunningly beautiful... I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Slieve League cliffs there during a visit home. I had never heard of them until recently, nor had my friends or family. Europe's highest seacliffs, just a wonderful, wonderful place. Never been to Derry, spent plenty of time in Andystown (Andersonstown) in west Belfast in the mid-80s though. Nice enough place... the whole north is weird for a southerner. Foreign signage, license plates, names, cops, military in your own country. Regardless of political opinion it's a very, very unsettling feeling. Particularly when some 18-year old squaddie from Liverpool or wherever has the fucking balls to point a weapon in your face and tell YOU to "Go home!".
This whole administration has been in public beta since day one...
I note with pleasure your omitting the Sassanaigh prefix "London-" in front of our ancient city of Derry. Thank you.
Coming home from where in bodybags? My sister is a Garda, as is my brother in law, and is my first cousin. I would have heard about this, I'm sure. Unless you're referring to them coming home from Limerick in bodybags, fucking hole of a place.
Coppers, rednecks (Dublin slang for cops as they all come from "down da country", i.e., not from Dublin), the filth, pigs, guards, but no, not "bobbies". That's an English thing.
They've been deployed to places like Kosovo, Bosnia, etc., along with other western European police -- to train the locals how to be good police, not for peacekeeping. He was probably referring to that.
Since independence, of course, Irish law has evolved along a different path -- a written constitution, for example -- Bunreacht na h-Eireann (basic law of Ireland).
All laws are published somewhere in here -- a very interesting site from our Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform: http://www.justice.ie
I can assure you that racism is far more prevalent in Ireland than political correctness. You'll hear the n-word a lot more frequently than you would here (in the mid-West)... I was there last week on a visit to Cork and was astonished at how casually people tossed around deeply offensive terms. It's a shame, given that we Irish were long on the receiving end of that kind of crap.
Actually, from his name the admin in question sounds German or Austrian -- Steffen? Could be Irish all the same I suppose.
Shagging under the sun, moon or stars, given a mild evening, is a wonderful thing to do!!! Particularly if there's a miniature golf course nearby, as the greens are soft and won't spike you or your beloved (or belusted) in the arse as make the beast with two backs.
It's spelled Czechoslovakia, and that country no longer exists. The two parted ways (amicably) in the 1990s, and are now the Czech and Slovak Republics -- sovereign nations both.