Is anyone else finding this site ungodly slow. No suprise! A check with Netcraft shows it to be running IIS 5.0. Lord! Folks here have been trying all day to get in--only two of us have made it and we've both been stuck on the submission page for 30+ minutes. Probably running Moose-and-Squirrel SQLServer, too... Compared to how Apache handled the Starr Report, this is a great banner for Microsoft and it reads not ready for enterprise play.
My wife is taking an on-line physics course through the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. She's not in a degree program (she has 2 M.A.s already) but is keeping up her teaching certification (now in earth science) and qualifying as a high school physics teacher. As I look over her shoulder, it seems like a pretty good deal. They have assigned readings and a homework assignment (filled out on line) due every 2 or 3 weeks. Lectures filmed in a UVA classroom before students and are mailed on CD-ROM in RealPlayer format. Midterm and final are done online and proctored by a local teacher or other adult who has been identified by my wife to the UVA prof and whom the prof has also corresponded with via email. They have a Yahoo! group and weekly chats--every Wednesday evening from 8-9pm. Overall, I wish I could a have taken some of my courses this way.
Really? You mean Gigantor or Tobor, the Eighth Man? I ain't seen them since I was 11 years old. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any anime since I was 11 years old.
But dont stop selling them assault rifles!!
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See today's Washington Post article:
U.S. gun laws can easily be exploited by international terrorist operatives, who can obtain assault-style firearms or explosives by taking advantage of delays and loopholes in the federal gun control system, according to a Congressional Research Service report to be released today. And keep in mind that the CRS answers to a Republican Congress!
"I've removed the link while waiting for the brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to die down."
Thereby admitting that their Windows 2000 with IIS 5.0 server doesn't have the horsepower to overcome the Slashdot Effect. (While Apache managed to serve the Lewinsky papers!)
I'd love for them to come up with a quick hack for the Turtle Beach Montego II card that this Dell came with. (But why should the purchasing department listen to the employees!) The Aureal Vortex Linux driver kinda worked under RH 6.2 but it won't build for me with RH 7.3. You can bet I'm avoiding Turtle Beach from now on.
Edward Woodward shines in Breaker Morant, about the courts martial of 3 Aussie officers during the Boer War. The lawyer who taught the law of land warfare course when I went through Fort Benning's Infantry School used to use it for examples of what's permissible and what is not.
I'd love to see these guys get it, along with Orbitz. Kill them and most of my popup woes would go away. I especially hate that fact that, apparently, stuff out of ad.doubleclick.net is not checked against multiple browsers. On my Linux box, Mozilla 1.2.x can hang indefinately trying to pull in some image from those dummies at doubleclick while IE on Windoz works fine.
Actually, I thought it would get modded up as "Funny". You see, although I am a Christian, I don't see much purpose in the ravings of the mad monk John of Revelations. Afterall, my end-of-days could come on my commute home tonight.
If they were to ever reopen the Christian canon, my wish is that they would drop Revelations and substitute Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16-17, KJV
If you have every passed a Korean rice paddy or vegetable garden in the spring, you will have no doubt where they emptied the winter's "honey buckets". Asia has been doing for millenia what Thomas Jefferson discovered just over 200 years ago. And, IMHO, I never ate better strawberries, squash, corn, etc. Western stomachs beware! Wash your veggies well!! There is a special soap for it. In fact, the grocery stores used to sell a soap with plates, glasses, and vegetables on the label!
I wonder if Australia will change it's copyright limits to match the US. Currently, the Aussies permit copyrights 50 years after the death of the author while (as we know) the US is now twice that. That's why you can download the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald from Project Guttenberg's Aussie site but not from a US site.
Who cares about Anime anyway? I outgrew that when I outgrew Gigantor. For adult cartoons, what about bringing back Rocky and Bullwinkle? Then my former Bulgarian-born coworker might finally understand why I laugh when she repeats (at my request) "Moose and squirrel".
Let's face it--in an organization so badly mismanaged as NASA, almost any money spent is money down a rathole. After working two years with the NASA HQ global change group (the Earth Observing System, at the time, the 2d biggest office), I concluded that while DoD wastes more money, they cannot waste as great a percentage of their budget as NASA does. Those PhDs spend their days shoveling out money to their good buddies at various universities and NASA centers, barely looking at what comes back. Ergo my subject line: NASA is simply welfare for scientists.
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...was eliminated in the trenches of WWI. The Germans cut off their balls, the Vietnamese fried them up, and the Algerians made them eat them.
Is anyone else finding this site ungodly slow. No suprise! A check with Netcraft shows it to be running IIS 5.0. Lord! Folks here have been trying all day to get in--only two of us have made it and we've both been stuck on the submission page for 30+ minutes. Probably running Moose-and-Squirrel SQLServer, too... Compared to how Apache handled the Starr Report, this is a great banner for Microsoft and it reads not ready for enterprise play.
My wife is taking an on-line physics course through the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. She's not in a degree program (she has 2 M.A.s already) but is keeping up her teaching certification (now in earth science) and qualifying as a high school physics teacher. As I look over her shoulder, it seems like a pretty good deal. They have assigned readings and a homework assignment (filled out on line) due every 2 or 3 weeks. Lectures filmed in a UVA classroom before students and are mailed on CD-ROM in RealPlayer format. Midterm and final are done online and proctored by a local teacher or other adult who has been identified by my wife to the UVA prof and whom the prof has also corresponded with via email. They have a Yahoo! group and weekly chats--every Wednesday evening from 8-9pm. Overall, I wish I could a have taken some of my courses this way.
While friends in the US and Britain tell me that SPAM is 'SPiced hAM', I think it's really an acronym for 'Swine Parts and Artificial Meat'.
many people's favourite anime series of all time
Really? You mean Gigantor or Tobor, the Eighth Man? I ain't seen them since I was 11 years old. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any anime since I was 11 years old.
See today's Washington Post article: U.S. gun laws can easily be exploited by international terrorist operatives, who can obtain assault-style firearms or explosives by taking advantage of delays and loopholes in the federal gun control system, according to a Congressional Research Service report to be released today. And keep in mind that the CRS answers to a Republican Congress!
Yep, it tells us a lot about the market. See Gene Weingarten's method of market analysis. Good as any, I guess...
Visiting it today, you find:
"I've removed the link while waiting for the brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to die down."
Thereby admitting that their Windows 2000 with IIS 5.0 server doesn't have the horsepower to overcome the Slashdot Effect. (While Apache managed to serve the Lewinsky papers!)
I'd love for them to come up with a quick hack for the Turtle Beach Montego II card that this Dell came with. (But why should the purchasing department listen to the employees!) The Aureal Vortex Linux driver kinda worked under RH 6.2 but it won't build for me with RH 7.3. You can bet I'm avoiding Turtle Beach from now on.
The 13th Warrior was a very good adaptation of very clever but equally under appreciated Michael Crichton book. A fun flick!
Edward Woodward shines in Breaker Morant, about the courts martial of 3 Aussie officers during the Boer War. The lawyer who taught the law of land warfare course when I went through Fort Benning's Infantry School used to use it for examples of what's permissible and what is not.
Yes!! Wonderful film. I love the idea of the video game to fing the star fighter!
I'd love to see these guys get it, along with Orbitz. Kill them and most of my popup woes would go away. I especially hate that fact that, apparently, stuff out of ad.doubleclick.net is not checked against multiple browsers. On my Linux box, Mozilla 1.2.x can hang indefinately trying to pull in some image from those dummies at doubleclick while IE on Windoz works fine.
Actually, I thought it would get modded up as "Funny". You see, although I am a Christian, I don't see much purpose in the ravings of the mad monk John of Revelations. Afterall, my end-of-days could come on my commute home tonight.
If they were to ever reopen the Christian canon, my wish is that they would drop Revelations and substitute Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16-17, KJV
Does that mean you also remove the hydrogen and oxygen??
Time to dust off my copy of Michael Crichton's "The Terminal Man". Or maybe score a copy of the 1974 movie with George Segal.
If you have every passed a Korean rice paddy or vegetable garden in the spring, you will have no doubt where they emptied the winter's "honey buckets". Asia has been doing for millenia what Thomas Jefferson discovered just over 200 years ago. And, IMHO, I never ate better strawberries, squash, corn, etc. Western stomachs beware! Wash your veggies well!! There is a special soap for it. In fact, the grocery stores used to sell a soap with plates, glasses, and vegetables on the label!
Now that is what the truly prepared GI needs!
I wonder if Australia will change it's copyright limits to match the US. Currently, the Aussies permit copyrights 50 years after the death of the author while (as we know) the US is now twice that. That's why you can download the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald from Project Guttenberg's Aussie site but not from a US site.
Just because so much stuff doesn't come in MPEG. And while we're at it, how about Quicktime?
Sounds like a tax of sorts on ISPs. Serves those guys right for giving more money to Democrats!
Who cares about Anime anyway? I outgrew that when I outgrew Gigantor. For adult cartoons, what about bringing back Rocky and Bullwinkle? Then my former Bulgarian-born coworker might finally understand why I laugh when she repeats (at my request) "Moose and squirrel".
Wasn't it punishment enough just to give someone a 867MHz PowerBook G4?
Let's face it--in an organization so badly mismanaged as NASA, almost any money spent is money down a rathole. After working two years with the NASA HQ global change group (the Earth Observing System, at the time, the 2d biggest office), I concluded that while DoD wastes more money, they cannot waste as great a percentage of their budget as NASA does. Those PhDs spend their days shoveling out money to their good buddies at various universities and NASA centers, barely looking at what comes back. Ergo my subject line: NASA is simply welfare for scientists.