Huh? You are kidding right? So, "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers" are part of the first book which was split in half? So was this book called "The Fellowship of the Rings who happened to go to THE Two Towers"? And does this mean that "The Return of the King" was actually called "The Anti-Hobbit"?
Good movie, good books. It's just too bad she had to steal the characters from a previous series by an American author. The first book was published in 1984 called "Legend of Rah and the Muggles". It's kind of hard to believe that Rowling had no idea about the previous books when you compare them.
Rowling's Names: Harry Potter, Muggles, Lily Potter, Neville, Nimbus 2000, Keeper of the Keys.
Stouffer's Names: Larry Potter, Muggles, Lilly Potter, Nevils, Nimbus, Keeper of the Gardens.
Hmm.... looks very similar. Maybe adding or deleting letters, changing spelling, etc. does not constitute plagarism in the U.K., but in American schools, we were taught that that is a big no no. But, the fact that Rowling has no moral or ethical bone in her body, doesn't mean her books aren't fascinating reading. They are.
You are kidding, right? Unhackablility? Ever hear of ResEdit, Super ResEdit or Resourcerer??? Please, Macs are infinitely more hackable and easier to program then x86 system. And if you don't like the MacOS, then why whine about it and not get BeOS, BSD, Linux, VMX, DOS, Windows NT 4 and run them instead? They all run natively on Apple hardware. Geez, sounds like someone likes to talk the talk, but have no clue about hacking hardware or software. I'd suggest, get an older mac like an se/30, download super resedit, a soldering gun, some wires, some wiring boards, some oak panels and 2x4's, a hacksaw, x-acto knife, dremel tool, hammer and nails, some spray paint. Then screw around with it. You can pick up the se/30 for cheap so you won't lose much money on it. Then you will have all the tools to hack the software AND the hardware. Play around with it. Trash it. Doesn't matter. Just learn. Try stuffing the contents of the se/30 into an amber monitor. I've done it, man did it look sweet. Amber.....sigh. Harkens back to the days of dos 2 and endless games of Lode Runner. Anyway, play around with it. Macs are meant to be hacked.
What? That is the most retarded thing I have heard in a while. If I have an important job to do and my company's sw can't cut it, I'm going to do anything that I can, within company policy, to get my job done. And since she was the webmaster, she has added pressure not to get flamed for sounding like a 2 year old grammarian. So, let's say I have a 40 to 100 page website. You would suggest that I submit a bug report if applixware's spellchecker doesn't work right. I see. So, then applixware will fix all problems with the spellchecker, respond in a minute, send me a fully optimized and compiled binary and a script that would auto load it into the proper directory, so I could continue on with my work of maintaining my site and not sounding like a 2 year old grammarian? Do you see the problem in your logic? Stupid.
"WWI and WWII both bolster my point. They were both viewed by most Western nations as unjust. ~300 years before, the type of rampant land and power grabbing Hitler (for example) engaged in were accepted, in the 1900's it was a "threat to freedom/democracy". That's why there was a World War."
Geez, I see you have such a thorough knowledge about the origins of WWI and WWII. I'm impressed. So, WWI was fought because, "rampant land and power grabbing..." was unacceptable. It was fought because there was a 'threat to freedom/democracy'. Now, my information may be incorrect, but I would have sworn that WWI was initiated because of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and the Alliance system. But, who am I to say. Here is an interesting college essay that was submitted that goes into further depth on this issue.
http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3413.php
"South Africa has yet to join the Western world as a premier nation. Whether or not they are "civilized" is a maatter of judgment."
What do you mean by premier nation???? So South Africa isn't the most dominant country in Africa, militarily, economically? Do you only mean western countries? Like the premier nation, Iceland? Or Belgium? Or Luxembourg? Do you mean nuclear nation? Is China a premier nation? Certainly not economically. What about Indonesia? Lots of people, worlds largest Islamic country.
"All cultures "grow" and "evolve", though it's not necessarily for the better or worse. It's just the way of the world. I realize that some day in the future, the US and it's allies will no longer be the dominant force that it is today. Every great culture (whether Egyption, Roman, Greek, etc.) falls, and other cultures take their place.
My whole point is that if we don't allow Afghanistan (once again, Afghanistan is simply an example country...) to make their own determination on thier evolution, that they will never be in a position to become a dominant culture."
lol You state a simple, but erroneous position. Great cultures don't fall. Nations and countries may fall, but cultures don't. The culture is absorbed and incorporated into other cultures. Just as the Greeks incorporated the Egyptian culture, and the Romans incorporated the Greeks. These cultures are very much still alive and their ideas, music and art is very evident today. However, these great nations and peoples did fall from power and influence. They were decimated by disease, disasters, conquests, etc. None of these nations and peoples were left alone to "flourish" and become great. They became powerful and great because they were able to fend for themselves. If Afghanistan can't fend for themselves, can't defend themselves, then they will never achieve greatness. However, this is a moot point. You make it sound as if the entire world will destroy Afghanistan. No. We will selectively target 1 man and his organization. Not the people of Afghanistan. In fact, the world is readying aid packages worth billions of US dollars, as well as having, continuing to put in thousands of tons of aid and food.
"500 years ago (1500's), we (Anglo-Saxons, Europeans, whatever you want to call it) were still very much in our conquest and conquer phase. But, since that time, probably around the 1800's or so, the "civilized" nations basically declared a moratarium on conquering other nations, and countries were expected to work with what they had already acquired."
Wow, do you seriously believe this statement? Here is a quote from the "The Oxford History of the British Empire":
"Volume III covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power."
Here is a snippet from the online text on age of imperialism from http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/s090/lloyd/imp erialism.htm.
"This 'new imperialism' occurred primarily between 1880 and 1900, when European governments scrambled frantically for territory. White people came, therefore, to rule millions of black and brown people in Africa and Asia. The causes of the new imperialism are still hotly debated. Competition for trade, superior military force, European power politics, and a racist belief in European superiority were among the most important. Some Europeans bitterly criticized imperialism as a betrayal of Western ideals of freedom and equality."
I'm sure this will enlighten you since it is from a k-12 school website and end any historical misunderstanding you may have about western history.
"Before the 1500's, England (and France, et al.) were involved in horrendous civil wars with human rights violations on both sides. Many acts of "terrorism" accompanied these wars."
Not sure where to begin on this one. Okay, got it. So, England and France and the other great powers were involved in civil wars and many acts of terrorism were committed, if I understand your position. So, does that mean that the wars among the great powers were okay as long as they attacked each other and weren't involved in any "internal conflicts" or "civil wars"? And was it okay to commit terrorist acts because they would not be considered terrorist acts if committed against other nations? Whew. Long sentence. That's just based on your wording. Also, the term "terrorism" is so misused. Any nation can claim that another group committed terrorism against them. When the Jews were killing the British, the Brits called them terrorists. To the Jews, they were Freedom Fighters. Eventually, they got their homeland. Fast forward. When the Palestinians killed Israelis, they committed terrorism. But, to the Palestinians, they are Freedom Fighters. Eventually, they got their homeland. Oh, wait, they don't have an independent state yet, do they? Well, history tends to repeat itself in that region.
"It just seems Afghanistan (and others) are still in this phase of development, and that by interfering with this, we're actually harming their growth as a culture."
So responding to an attack means we are interfering with another countries culture? And this is harmful. I see. So, I guess when Germany invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia and Britain and France declared war, that they were in the wrong somehow. I see. They were interfering in the cultural and spiritual development of the Nazi state. Well, all I can say is, "shame on the Allied Powers!". There. Make you feel better?
Here are the definitions of sport from dictionary.com.
sport (spôrt, sprt)
n.
1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.
1 a. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
Chess and Bridge would fall into the 3rd definition and would constitute a sport. But, not a physical sport.
Curling would fall into the 1st AND 2nd definition and would consitute a sport.
Here are my points.
1. It is a fact that playing a typical game with standard time controls, you end up burning more energy than if you had run 2 miles. You get hot, start to sweat, your heart starts beating faster as crucial positions arise, or you see a combination, it requires endurance to sit for 3 to 12 hours for a single game, etc.
2. Curling is very strenous. Have you ever curled? It requires dexterity, control and finesse. You must extend and hold your position as you carefully send the stone to it's intended spot while sliding on the ice. If you jerk or slip as you release, your stone will go hurtling in a different direction than intended. You must spin the stone at a certain rate to allow it to "curl" in a certain direction. You have two men who brush the ice to create a smoother surface and allow the stone to flow into the area of least resistance. It also requires mental skills because you must calculate the correct angle, spin, take into consideration the run of the ice, where you want to end up, which stone you want to displace, how much force you need to apply to get the stone you displace into position, blocking, etc. You should try it sometime, you may enjoy it, if you don't slip and crack your head open.
Now, as for including events that may not be physical to the Olympics, I have some other points to make.
The modern olympics are modeled after the real olympics. The Olympics was created to to celebrate Zeus and the triumph of man's intellect and physical skills to fulfill the will of the gods. By the end of the 6th century BC there were at least four major Greek sporting festivals, also known as the classical games. They were the Olympic Games, held at Olympia, the Pythian Games at Delphi, the Nemean Games at Nemea, and the Isthmian Games at Corinth. In the years to follow, similar festivals were held in nearly 150 cities as far apart as Antioch, Alexandria, Naples and Rome. In the ancient Greek Olympics, the pentathlon was the centerpiece of the games and included a race the length of the stadium (about 180 or 200 yards, the long jump, discus throw, javelin throw, and a wrestling match between the two athletes who performed best in the previous four events. Poetry was a major part of the event. Although not a main event, the greatest poets of the land came to create commemorative poetry for the victors. Also, no killing, conflict, wars, corporal punishment was allowed for participating states during the period of the Olympics. Anyone caught doing so would be banned and fined heavily. So, if you were in the middle of a war, it ended until the games were over.
Skipping ahead, we reach the founding of the modern olympics in 1896 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It attracted about 245 athletes (all men)in 43 events. I'm not sure, but, I believe that one of the events was poetry reading. Go figure.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Here is the first amendment. Please explain how it gives businesses the "freedom of business".
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"Earth to Willy, Earth to Willy
You can DISABLE extra mouse buttons in
software if you are too unco-ordinated to
use them."
You can also not use a mouse or any mice buttons at all and do it all by keyboard as Macs have had this option for a long time (Option or Command or Shift or Ctrl or Shift+CTRL+Command or Shift+Command+CTRL+OPTION Plus a Click; in addition to the arrow keys, of course). That is if you feel you are too visually challenged that you need things like icons and a mouse pointer to help you wipe your ass. Since we are talking also about LinuxPPC in particular and Linux in general, why have a GUI or a mouse at all? Why not do everything by command line as it was meant to be? The Mac has come with one mouse and that is fine, but it gave you a whole list of keyboard shortcuts, applescripts you can map to keys or applications, and aliases that could work around that. Plus, there used to be a 24 button glove controller that I recall using that you could get for a Mac, let alone third party mice with 2, 3, 2+1 scrollable and clickable mice. As for Unix, BSD, Linux users, Bash, Ash, Csh, etc. are fine despite the onslaught of the GUI. When I'm in Linux, I prefer using the console and when I use a Mac, I like using the one button mouse because I have learned using both OSes, both x86 and Macs, as well as the legendary Apple II and I don't necessarily care whether elements associated with one platform and OS merge or incorporate with another. What's the point? Isn't an OS defined by it's features? If you start merging and taking elements from one OS into another it destroys the special identity of that OS. MacOS is MacOS and Linux is Linux. Let's keep them separate, otherwise, why bother naming the OS. Oh, let's see, another GUI driven OS that you can customize with themes (Macs' with Kaleidoscope, *nix with themes)that can be made to look like another OS, that has wallpapers and supports a mouse. Wow, look! Dual monitor support (Macs have always had this, Windows 98 SE, now Linux with Xinerama). Hmm... how do I tell them apart without doing benchmarks? Not crashing as a method of identification? Wow, Windows 2000 AS and Whistler seem very stable. So does BSD. Linux is very stable also. I've been operating a properly optimized Mac SE/30 for 10 years now and can do pretty much everything. My newer PowerPC 200 mhz 603e based Mac is running BeOS and, wow, it's the most useable and stable of all. My Mandrake and NetBSD on my 500 Celeron has never crashed either. I've also made them all look like MacOS 8 and Windows 98. Hmm.... Please, give me a break.
"Hey maybe we should print books all on
one great big page from now on because
your 92 year old grandfather has trouble
turning the pages.
Get a grip man!"
Wow, what can you say to such a lame ass argument? Not much. Hey, your car is blue so I should paint my bike blue also because blue is obviously a better color. Or how about, "let's kill the Jews since they are obviously the cause of Germany's financial collapse because they hoard our Reichmarks!" Let's add some more ridiculous statements. Hmm..."We can't have less then 2 mice! The sky might fall down!!!! How can anyone work or function or use a computer if they aren't using 12 mice buttons?!! Apple will lose all their customers because they came out with a no button mouse! All those millions of users will have no idea how to use it and will sell their Macs and go back to something they can understand like toasters and vcrs. Get a grip man! Wait, the new mouse has silicon grips on the sides. Okay, lose your grip, man! lol Or how about this one, following his argument. Why not make toilet paper, not on rolls in one continuos sheet, but in magazine or book format? One sheet per page for those of us who need more flexibility and choices. This way, I can page to any page of the Book of Charmin and use, for example, page 233 instead of page 1. And, even better, each page could have actual print on it. How about Poe's Raven? Shall I wipe? Nevermore. Shall I come up with any more ridiculous arguments? Nevermore.
"but until they cut the shit and let me buy a machine straight up without a bunch of silly multimedia software that I have no use for..."
The multimedia "shit" is free. How does that figure into the price? As for reasonable price, what price would you deem sufficiently low for the technology you get? $1000? How about $2000? I figure that you get what you pay for.
Maybe it's just me, but I decided to test the site. I got the login and I cancelled out of it. This allowed me access to the documents. I thought , maybe, I would be limited to certain documents, so I went to Class Specification Documents without any problems and I was able to view them. I was also able to download the files as a test. So far, I haven't encountered any problems so if anyone else has had the same experience, please post what you run into. My attempt was on Tues. 1Mar00 at 2:38 pm C.S.T.
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Huh? You are kidding right? So, "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers" are part of the first book which was split in half? So was this book called "The Fellowship of the Rings who happened to go to THE Two Towers"? And does this mean that "The Return of the King" was actually called "The Anti-Hobbit"?
Here is a link to a more in depth article and analysis by the author of "Gateway to Atlantis".
Andrew Collin's Article.
Good movie, good books. It's just too bad she had to steal the characters from a previous series by an American author. The first book was published in 1984 called "Legend of Rah and the Muggles". It's kind of hard to believe that Rowling had no idea about the previous books when you compare them.
Rowling's Names: Harry Potter, Muggles, Lily Potter, Neville, Nimbus 2000, Keeper of the Keys.
Stouffer's Names: Larry Potter, Muggles, Lilly Potter, Nevils, Nimbus, Keeper of the Gardens.
Hmm.... looks very similar. Maybe adding or deleting letters, changing spelling, etc. does not constitute plagarism in the U.K., but in American schools, we were taught that that is a big no no. But, the fact that Rowling has no moral or ethical bone in her body, doesn't mean her books aren't fascinating reading. They are.
Yeah, you can do that easy. Just get a Kyocera phone. It opens to include a slightly smaller palm unit in it.
Enjoy.
You are kidding, right? Unhackablility? Ever hear of ResEdit, Super ResEdit or Resourcerer??? Please, Macs are infinitely more hackable and easier to program then x86 system. And if you don't like the MacOS, then why whine about it and not get BeOS, BSD, Linux, VMX, DOS, Windows NT 4 and run them instead? They all run natively on Apple hardware. Geez, sounds like someone likes to talk the talk, but have no clue about hacking hardware or software. I'd suggest, get an older mac like an se/30, download super resedit, a soldering gun, some wires, some wiring boards, some oak panels and 2x4's, a hacksaw, x-acto knife, dremel tool, hammer and nails, some spray paint. Then screw around with it. You can pick up the se/30 for cheap so you won't lose much money on it. Then you will have all the tools to hack the software AND the hardware. Play around with it. Trash it. Doesn't matter. Just learn. Try stuffing the contents of the se/30 into an amber monitor. I've done it, man did it look sweet. Amber.....sigh. Harkens back to the days of dos 2 and endless games of Lode Runner. Anyway, play around with it. Macs are meant to be hacked.
What? That is the most retarded thing I have heard in a while. If I have an important job to do and my company's sw can't cut it, I'm going to do anything that I can, within company policy, to get my job done. And since she was the webmaster, she has added pressure not to get flamed for sounding like a 2 year old grammarian. So, let's say I have a 40 to 100 page website. You would suggest that I submit a bug report if applixware's spellchecker doesn't work right. I see. So, then applixware will fix all problems with the spellchecker, respond in a minute, send me a fully optimized and compiled binary and a script that would auto load it into the proper directory, so I could continue on with my work of maintaining my site and not sounding like a 2 year old grammarian? Do you see the problem in your logic? Stupid.
"WWI and WWII both bolster my point. They were both viewed by most Western nations as unjust. ~300 years before, the type of rampant land and power grabbing Hitler (for example) engaged in were accepted, in the 1900's it was a "threat to freedom/democracy". That's why there was a World War."
Geez, I see you have such a thorough knowledge about the origins of WWI and WWII. I'm impressed. So, WWI was fought because, "rampant land and power grabbing..." was unacceptable. It was fought because there was a 'threat to freedom/democracy'. Now, my information may be incorrect, but I would have sworn that WWI was initiated because of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and the Alliance system. But, who am I to say. Here is an interesting college essay that was submitted that goes into further depth on this issue.
http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/3413.php
"South Africa has yet to join the Western world as a premier nation. Whether or not they are "civilized" is a maatter of judgment."
What do you mean by premier nation???? So South Africa isn't the most dominant country in Africa, militarily, economically? Do you only mean western countries? Like the premier nation, Iceland? Or Belgium? Or Luxembourg? Do you mean nuclear nation? Is China a premier nation? Certainly not economically. What about Indonesia? Lots of people, worlds largest Islamic country.
"All cultures "grow" and "evolve", though it's not necessarily for the better or worse. It's just the way of the world. I realize that some day in the future, the US and it's allies will no longer be the dominant force that it is today. Every great culture (whether Egyption, Roman, Greek, etc.) falls, and other cultures take their place.
My whole point is that if we don't allow Afghanistan (once again, Afghanistan is simply an example country...) to make their own determination on thier evolution, that they will never be in a position to become a dominant culture."
lol You state a simple, but erroneous position. Great cultures don't fall. Nations and countries may fall, but cultures don't. The culture is absorbed and incorporated into other cultures. Just as the Greeks incorporated the Egyptian culture, and the Romans incorporated the Greeks. These cultures are very much still alive and their ideas, music and art is very evident today. However, these great nations and peoples did fall from power and influence. They were decimated by disease, disasters, conquests, etc. None of these nations and peoples were left alone to "flourish" and become great. They became powerful and great because they were able to fend for themselves. If Afghanistan can't fend for themselves, can't defend themselves, then they will never achieve greatness. However, this is a moot point. You make it sound as if the entire world will destroy Afghanistan. No. We will selectively target 1 man and his organization. Not the people of Afghanistan. In fact, the world is readying aid packages worth billions of US dollars, as well as having, continuing to put in thousands of tons of aid and food.
"500 years ago (1500's), we (Anglo-Saxons, Europeans, whatever you want to call it) were still very much in our conquest and conquer phase. But, since that time, probably around the 1800's or so, the "civilized" nations basically declared a moratarium on conquering other nations, and countries were expected to work with what they had already acquired."
p erialism.htm.
Wow, do you seriously believe this statement? Here is a quote from the "The Oxford History of the British Empire":
"Volume III covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power."
Here is a snippet from the online text on age of imperialism from http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/s090/lloyd/im
"This 'new imperialism' occurred primarily between 1880 and 1900, when European governments scrambled frantically for territory. White people came, therefore, to rule millions of black and brown people in Africa and Asia. The causes of the new imperialism are still hotly debated. Competition for trade, superior military force, European power politics, and a racist belief in European superiority were among the most important. Some Europeans bitterly criticized imperialism as a betrayal of Western ideals of freedom and equality."
I'm sure this will enlighten you since it is from a k-12 school website and end any historical misunderstanding you may have about western history.
"Before the 1500's, England (and France, et al.) were involved in horrendous civil wars with human rights violations on both sides. Many acts of "terrorism" accompanied these wars."
Not sure where to begin on this one. Okay, got it. So, England and France and the other great powers were involved in civil wars and many acts of terrorism were committed, if I understand your position. So, does that mean that the wars among the great powers were okay as long as they attacked each other and weren't involved in any "internal conflicts" or "civil wars"? And was it okay to commit terrorist acts because they would not be considered terrorist acts if committed against other nations? Whew. Long sentence. That's just based on your wording. Also, the term "terrorism" is so misused. Any nation can claim that another group committed terrorism against them. When the Jews were killing the British, the Brits called them terrorists. To the Jews, they were Freedom Fighters. Eventually, they got their homeland. Fast forward. When the Palestinians killed Israelis, they committed terrorism. But, to the Palestinians, they are Freedom Fighters. Eventually, they got their homeland. Oh, wait, they don't have an independent state yet, do they? Well, history tends to repeat itself in that region.
"It just seems Afghanistan (and others) are still in this phase of development, and that by interfering with this, we're actually harming their growth as a culture."
So responding to an attack means we are interfering with another countries culture? And this is harmful. I see. So, I guess when Germany invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia and Britain and France declared war, that they were in the wrong somehow. I see. They were interfering in the cultural and spiritual development of the Nazi state. Well, all I can say is, "shame on the Allied Powers!". There. Make you feel better?
Here are the definitions of sport from dictionary.com. sport (spôrt, sprt) n. 1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. 1 a. A particular form of this activity. 2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively. 3. An active pastime; recreation. Chess and Bridge would fall into the 3rd definition and would constitute a sport. But, not a physical sport. Curling would fall into the 1st AND 2nd definition and would consitute a sport. Here are my points. 1. It is a fact that playing a typical game with standard time controls, you end up burning more energy than if you had run 2 miles. You get hot, start to sweat, your heart starts beating faster as crucial positions arise, or you see a combination, it requires endurance to sit for 3 to 12 hours for a single game, etc. 2. Curling is very strenous. Have you ever curled? It requires dexterity, control and finesse. You must extend and hold your position as you carefully send the stone to it's intended spot while sliding on the ice. If you jerk or slip as you release, your stone will go hurtling in a different direction than intended. You must spin the stone at a certain rate to allow it to "curl" in a certain direction. You have two men who brush the ice to create a smoother surface and allow the stone to flow into the area of least resistance. It also requires mental skills because you must calculate the correct angle, spin, take into consideration the run of the ice, where you want to end up, which stone you want to displace, how much force you need to apply to get the stone you displace into position, blocking, etc. You should try it sometime, you may enjoy it, if you don't slip and crack your head open. Now, as for including events that may not be physical to the Olympics, I have some other points to make. The modern olympics are modeled after the real olympics. The Olympics was created to to celebrate Zeus and the triumph of man's intellect and physical skills to fulfill the will of the gods. By the end of the 6th century BC there were at least four major Greek sporting festivals, also known as the classical games. They were the Olympic Games, held at Olympia, the Pythian Games at Delphi, the Nemean Games at Nemea, and the Isthmian Games at Corinth. In the years to follow, similar festivals were held in nearly 150 cities as far apart as Antioch, Alexandria, Naples and Rome. In the ancient Greek Olympics, the pentathlon was the centerpiece of the games and included a race the length of the stadium (about 180 or 200 yards, the long jump, discus throw, javelin throw, and a wrestling match between the two athletes who performed best in the previous four events. Poetry was a major part of the event. Although not a main event, the greatest poets of the land came to create commemorative poetry for the victors. Also, no killing, conflict, wars, corporal punishment was allowed for participating states during the period of the Olympics. Anyone caught doing so would be banned and fined heavily. So, if you were in the middle of a war, it ended until the games were over. Skipping ahead, we reach the founding of the modern olympics in 1896 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It attracted about 245 athletes (all men)in 43 events. I'm not sure, but, I believe that one of the events was poetry reading. Go figure.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Here is the first amendment. Please explain how it gives businesses the "freedom of business". "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"Earth to Willy, Earth to Willy You can DISABLE extra mouse buttons in software if you are too unco-ordinated to use them." You can also not use a mouse or any mice buttons at all and do it all by keyboard as Macs have had this option for a long time (Option or Command or Shift or Ctrl or Shift+CTRL+Command or Shift+Command+CTRL+OPTION Plus a Click; in addition to the arrow keys, of course). That is if you feel you are too visually challenged that you need things like icons and a mouse pointer to help you wipe your ass. Since we are talking also about LinuxPPC in particular and Linux in general, why have a GUI or a mouse at all? Why not do everything by command line as it was meant to be? The Mac has come with one mouse and that is fine, but it gave you a whole list of keyboard shortcuts, applescripts you can map to keys or applications, and aliases that could work around that. Plus, there used to be a 24 button glove controller that I recall using that you could get for a Mac, let alone third party mice with 2, 3, 2+1 scrollable and clickable mice. As for Unix, BSD, Linux users, Bash, Ash, Csh, etc. are fine despite the onslaught of the GUI. When I'm in Linux, I prefer using the console and when I use a Mac, I like using the one button mouse because I have learned using both OSes, both x86 and Macs, as well as the legendary Apple II and I don't necessarily care whether elements associated with one platform and OS merge or incorporate with another. What's the point? Isn't an OS defined by it's features? If you start merging and taking elements from one OS into another it destroys the special identity of that OS. MacOS is MacOS and Linux is Linux. Let's keep them separate, otherwise, why bother naming the OS. Oh, let's see, another GUI driven OS that you can customize with themes (Macs' with Kaleidoscope, *nix with themes)that can be made to look like another OS, that has wallpapers and supports a mouse. Wow, look! Dual monitor support (Macs have always had this, Windows 98 SE, now Linux with Xinerama). Hmm... how do I tell them apart without doing benchmarks? Not crashing as a method of identification? Wow, Windows 2000 AS and Whistler seem very stable. So does BSD. Linux is very stable also. I've been operating a properly optimized Mac SE/30 for 10 years now and can do pretty much everything. My newer PowerPC 200 mhz 603e based Mac is running BeOS and, wow, it's the most useable and stable of all. My Mandrake and NetBSD on my 500 Celeron has never crashed either. I've also made them all look like MacOS 8 and Windows 98. Hmm.... Please, give me a break. "Hey maybe we should print books all on one great big page from now on because your 92 year old grandfather has trouble turning the pages. Get a grip man!" Wow, what can you say to such a lame ass argument? Not much. Hey, your car is blue so I should paint my bike blue also because blue is obviously a better color. Or how about, "let's kill the Jews since they are obviously the cause of Germany's financial collapse because they hoard our Reichmarks!" Let's add some more ridiculous statements. Hmm..."We can't have less then 2 mice! The sky might fall down!!!! How can anyone work or function or use a computer if they aren't using 12 mice buttons?!! Apple will lose all their customers because they came out with a no button mouse! All those millions of users will have no idea how to use it and will sell their Macs and go back to something they can understand like toasters and vcrs. Get a grip man! Wait, the new mouse has silicon grips on the sides. Okay, lose your grip, man! lol Or how about this one, following his argument. Why not make toilet paper, not on rolls in one continuos sheet, but in magazine or book format? One sheet per page for those of us who need more flexibility and choices. This way, I can page to any page of the Book of Charmin and use, for example, page 233 instead of page 1. And, even better, each page could have actual print on it. How about Poe's Raven? Shall I wipe? Nevermore. Shall I come up with any more ridiculous arguments? Nevermore.
"but until they cut the shit and let me buy a machine straight up without a bunch of silly multimedia software that I have no use for..." The multimedia "shit" is free. How does that figure into the price? As for reasonable price, what price would you deem sufficiently low for the technology you get? $1000? How about $2000? I figure that you get what you pay for.
Maybe it's just me, but I decided to test the site. I got the login and I cancelled out of it. This allowed me access to the documents. I thought , maybe, I would be limited to certain documents, so I went to Class Specification Documents without any problems and I was able to view them. I was also able to download the files as a test. So far, I haven't encountered any problems so if anyone else has had the same experience, please post what you run into. My attempt was on Tues. 1Mar00 at 2:38 pm C.S.T.