how much supplies do they have on the ship? as in: so they discover a problem that wont allow them to re-enter... do they have enough food and stuff to allow them to stay up there a few more days, until possibly another shuttle could be launched with repair materiels, or at least to ferry the astronauts safely back to earth? what about the ISS? could they have docked there for a while?
I just bought a new, out of the box original XT style keyboard... (XT style because the keyboard is built the same way, except it has a PS/2 style connection instead of the original connector).
5 bucks... and I was more than happy to send my plasticky dell keyb to the closet... They are great, you can spill beer on them and they survive, and heavy enough to use as weapon if needed...
nobody used OS/2?
I briefly worked for 'fortis' a huge international company, did insurance and investing. thousands, if not tens of thousands of OS/2 seats.
and just the other day i pulled up to a wells fargo atm, and it was out of order... OS/2 in a reboot loop....
OS/2 was a major player, if not for very long...
>Neither the United States, nor any other country, has any right or duty to unilateral military intervention in the affairs of another sovereign state.
AGREED.
but again, we technically were STILL AT WAR from 1991, as I previously explained we were under conditions of a CEASE FIRE. When saddam broke his side of the conditions, such as throwing the inspectors out in 1998 (remember that one?), hostilities should have resumed.
Oh, the conflict in 1991 was UN approved, as well as the cease fire. its too bad the UN does not have the will to back up its own resolutions.
So there wasnt any 'goddamn' threat. I disagree, but lets run with that for a minute. Okay there was no goddamn threat. He still blatantly violated most if not all terms of a cease fire he willingly agreed to. Isnt that 'illegal'?
Had we been already truly at peace with Iraq, I might agree with your statements. but we were not. A cease fire does not mean peace.
***Where were you people when clinton was in kosovo and somalia i wonder???***
and just so you know, I think the US should withdraw all its troops worldwide. Put them on our borders so nobody gets in. Kick all foriegners out, and let the rest of the world go to shit without us. You think the world is so terrible WITH us, try it WITHOUT us!
I really dont understand where this 'US is the root of all evil' thinking comes from. Yeah, we should have just let germany keep france during ww2 i guess.
and let me repeat: ***Where were you people when clinton was in kosovo and somalia i wonder???***
Clinton lied under oath. I agree he should not have been in court in the first place, but he did lie under solemn oath. and he ended up lying about his wedding vows. After that, I lost all respect for the man, that I had simply because he was president.
After that, no trust.
I inherently trust bush the same way, just because he is the president. He has shown me no reason to distrust him thus far.
anyhoo.
wonder why slashdot cut that off, even tho it was in the preview correctly...
>So a bottle of Viagra and an eager intern or two might have helped to avoid a costly and generally pointless war. And that would have been wrong? According to you it would have been, apparently.marital fidelity has never been a pre-requisite for historical greatnessAlmost all healthy heterosexual men are naturally inclined to desire multiple sexual partners, with only social convention to hold their drives in check. Such as lust for revenge, or cravings for world domination.
I hardly think Bush has any cravings for world domination. Nothing I have seen leads me to believe that. We had FULL justification for going into IRAQ.
Reason 1. After the 1991 thing, IRAQ agreed to a CEASE FIRE, not a PEACE TREATY. a cease fire is where one side agrees to some conditions, under the agreement that they stop getting their ass kicked. Saddam WILLINGLY signed it, then proceeded to ignore every condition. Generally under a cease fire, if one side does not follow the cease fire, the cease fire is revoked. but clinton did not have the guts.
Reason 2. Im sick of this WMD not found stuff. He killed tens of thousands of Kurds using chemical weapons. It is well documented that he had them at one time, and used them on innocents. Now, If I was a multi billionaire, completely owning a country the size of california, and you gave me a 12 year headstart to find them, believe me- they would be really hard to find.
Reason 3. Even if he didnt have WMDs, would you tell me I am wrong if I told you that he had large, systematic torture camps, and had no problem putting as many kurds and 'political dissenters' in there as possible? Face it, getting rid of Saddam was a good thing, no matter which way you slice it.
Reason 4. Iraq under saddam would give 15,000 dollars to the families of palistinian suicide bombers. however you feel about that conflict, would you not agree that it is WRONG to board a bus full of schoolchildren and then blow it up? And this was fully supported by saddam (and saudi arabia too, im not real happy with them either). Target combatants, that is what they are there for, not CHILDREN.
I could go on.
But apparently these reasons were not enough to make Clinton or the UN do anything about it. Clinton was busy with other matters, I guess.
Do you think if saddam got his hands on a nuclear weapon, he would not use it, or give it to those that would? they had al-quada training camps in their country also...
and as far as world domination... when was the last time the US added a state to itself? 1951.
If removing people like hitler and pol pot is 'world domination', I would like to see some more of it. There are many other sick, sick, dictatorships around the world, getting rid of them is okay by me.
I dont like bush for many reasons, which im not going to discuss unless asked, cause this post is long enough already. But at least when he says something, I can trust whatever he is saying. I inherently trusted clinton, till he lied under oath and cheated on his wife. There went all his credibility with me.
I know many famous historical people have had extramarital affairs. But that only tarnishes their reputation in my eyes. not in yours too?
people like you scare me. I dont like bush much either, but to say bill clinton is truly a great man?
ummm... less corrupt and self-serving? name me one thing, just one thing that he did that was NOT corrupt and self serving. I can give you hundreds of examples of things he did do that are self-serving.
i dont care much for dubya, but at least for the right reasons, not this lock-step liberalism that you have obviously subscribed to.
Forget for a moment that you are, and have been a die-hard unthinking liberal your whole life. DEMOCRATS SUCK JUST AS MUCH. The only real parties I have any respect for these days are the libertarians and the greens (different ends of the spectrum, i know), but at least the members of each of those places are trying to do what they think is right based on objective thinking, rather than because they have been brainwashed, as you certainly have been.
clinton a great man? if he was a great man, thats quite a compliment to me, cause I have yet to cheat on my wife... i dont know how you can say clinton was a great man, and claim to not be brainwashed.
The reason the people involved in the revolution (that you hear about) drank was because they generally were proper, boozy Brits who just happened to want to pay less tax,
and what happened to the economy/standard of living with such low taxes? over the next 250 years or so? seems like a pretty good plan in hindsight, no?
while i dont care for your sig... you are completely correct in the reasons i dont want to use someone elses libraries...
> How much will this bloat my code?
yep >What if I one day want to port to a platform that these libraries work on?
I want my program doing exactly what I want, no more, no less...
I would very much like to agree with you, but look what the FCC has done with radio/TV... they can limit you however they want.
and http and port 80 are already a vast marketing wasteland...
past several years, boss has seen my massive amounts of slashdot reading.... but he figures as long as i am slacking, it may as well be semi job related...
absolutely. I have rarely felt the tension that I have in OF... and the feeling that you are part of a large battle, rather than just one person acting alone... excellent. I cant wait for the sequel, or some of the long-awaited mods to get finished...
The market is finite.
really? then explain to me the concept of inflation...
im going to go out on a limb here and say that the market is NOT finite... otherwise there would be no inflation ever...
uh huh. two people padilla and this guy. in how many months? and you are going to equate that to the nazi oppression. its really amazing how some people think. go get a history book and read it. i think you will find the so called 'unbearable oppression' we are experiencing to be trivial compared to nazi germany.
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how much supplies do they have on the ship? as in: so they discover a problem that wont allow them to re-enter... do they have enough food and stuff to allow them to stay up there a few more days, until possibly another shuttle could be launched with repair materiels, or at least to ferry the astronauts safely back to earth?
what about the ISS? could they have docked there for a while?
I just bought a new, out of the box original XT style keyboard... (XT style because the keyboard is built the same way, except it has a PS/2 style connection instead of the original connector).
5 bucks... and I was more than happy to send my plasticky dell keyb to the closet...
They are great, you can spill beer on them and they survive, and heavy enough to use as weapon if needed...
nobody used OS/2?
I briefly worked for 'fortis' a huge international company, did insurance and investing. thousands, if not tens of thousands of OS/2 seats.
and just the other day i pulled up to a wells fargo atm, and it was out of order... OS/2 in a reboot loop....
OS/2 was a major player, if not for very long...
I met Mike Tyson once. So what did I do? I smacked him upside the head...
I am still in the hospital.
yeah blackmail microsoft, GOOD IDEA GUYS...
>Neither the United States, nor any other country, has any right or duty to unilateral military intervention in the affairs of another sovereign state.
AGREED.
but again, we technically were STILL AT WAR from 1991, as I previously explained we were under conditions of a CEASE FIRE. When saddam broke his side of the conditions, such as throwing the inspectors out in 1998 (remember that one?), hostilities should have resumed.
Oh, the conflict in 1991 was UN approved, as well as the cease fire. its too bad the UN does not have the will to back up its own resolutions.
So there wasnt any 'goddamn' threat. I disagree, but lets run with that for a minute. Okay there was no goddamn threat. He still blatantly violated most if not all terms of a cease fire he willingly agreed to. Isnt that 'illegal'?
Had we been already truly at peace with Iraq, I might agree with your statements. but we were not. A cease fire does not mean peace.
***Where were you people when clinton was in kosovo and somalia i wonder???***
and just so you know, I think the US should withdraw all its troops worldwide. Put them on our borders so nobody gets in. Kick all foriegners out, and let the rest of the world go to shit without us. You think the world is so terrible WITH us, try it WITHOUT us!
I really dont understand where this 'US is the root of all evil' thinking comes from. Yeah, we should have just let germany keep france during ww2 i guess.
and let me repeat: ***Where were you people when clinton was in kosovo and somalia i wonder???***
i will make it quick.
Clinton lied under oath. I agree he should not have been in court in the first place, but he did lie under solemn oath. and he ended up lying about his wedding vows. After that, I lost all respect for the man, that I had simply because he was president.
After that, no trust.
I inherently trust bush the same way, just because he is the president. He has shown me no reason to distrust him thus far.
anyhoo.
wonder why slashdot cut that off, even tho it was in the preview correctly...
>So a bottle of Viagra and an eager intern or two might have helped to avoid a costly and generally pointless war. And that would have been wrong? According to you it would have been, apparently.marital fidelity has never been a pre-requisite for historical greatnessAlmost all healthy heterosexual men are naturally inclined to desire multiple sexual partners, with only social convention to hold their drives in check. Such as lust for revenge, or cravings for world domination.
I hardly think Bush has any cravings for world domination. Nothing I have seen leads me to believe that. We had FULL justification for going into IRAQ.
Reason 1. After the 1991 thing, IRAQ agreed to a CEASE FIRE, not a PEACE TREATY. a cease fire is where one side agrees to some conditions, under the agreement that they stop getting their ass kicked. Saddam WILLINGLY signed it, then proceeded to ignore every condition. Generally under a cease fire, if one side does not follow the cease fire, the cease fire is revoked. but clinton did not have the guts.
Reason 2. Im sick of this WMD not found stuff. He killed tens of thousands of Kurds using chemical weapons. It is well documented that he had them at one time, and used them on innocents. Now, If I was a multi billionaire, completely owning a country the size of california, and you gave me a 12 year headstart to find them, believe me- they would be really hard to find.
Reason 3. Even if he didnt have WMDs, would you tell me I am wrong if I told you that he had large, systematic torture camps, and had no problem putting as many kurds and 'political dissenters' in there as possible? Face it, getting rid of Saddam was a good thing, no matter which way you slice it.
Reason 4. Iraq under saddam would give 15,000 dollars to the families of palistinian suicide bombers. however you feel about that conflict, would you not agree that it is WRONG to board a bus full of schoolchildren and then blow it up? And this was fully supported by saddam (and saudi arabia too, im not real happy with them either). Target combatants, that is what they are there for, not CHILDREN.
I could go on.
But apparently these reasons were not enough to make Clinton or the UN do anything about it. Clinton was busy with other matters, I guess.
Do you think if saddam got his hands on a nuclear weapon, he would not use it, or give it to those that would? they had al-quada training camps in their country also...
and as far as world domination... when was the last time the US added a state to itself? 1951.
If removing people like hitler and pol pot is 'world domination', I would like to see some more of it. There are many other sick, sick, dictatorships around the world, getting rid of them is okay by me.
I dont like bush for many reasons, which im not going to discuss unless asked, cause this post is long enough already. But at least when he says something, I can trust whatever he is saying. I inherently trusted clinton, till he lied under oath and cheated on his wife. There went all his credibility with me.
I know many famous historical people have had extramarital affairs. But that only tarnishes their reputation in my eyes. not in yours too?
Thank you for your reasonable post.
people like you scare me. I dont like bush much either, but to say bill clinton is truly a great man?
ummm... less corrupt and self-serving? name me one thing, just one thing that he did that was NOT corrupt and self serving. I can give you hundreds of examples of things he did do that are self-serving.
i dont care much for dubya, but at least for the right reasons, not this lock-step liberalism that you have obviously subscribed to.
Forget for a moment that you are, and have been a die-hard unthinking liberal your whole life. DEMOCRATS SUCK JUST AS MUCH. The only real parties I have any respect for these days are the libertarians and the greens (different ends of the spectrum, i know), but at least the members of each of those places are trying to do what they think is right based on objective thinking, rather than because they have been brainwashed, as you certainly have been.
clinton a great man? if he was a great man, thats quite a compliment to me, cause I have yet to cheat on my wife... i dont know how you can say clinton was a great man, and claim to not be brainwashed.
and what happened to the economy/standard of living with such low taxes? over the next 250 years or so? seems like a pretty good plan in hindsight, no?
you are correct. Gates is smart. Bill Clinton is smart too. I dont want either of them responsible for my operating system, or my government.
being smart does not a great man make...
oops, non-crazy-left-wing post, mod me down now. and for the record, i dont like the republicans either.
while i dont care for your sig... you are completely correct in the reasons i dont want to use someone elses libraries...
> How much will this bloat my code? yep
>What if I one day want to port to a platform that these libraries work on?
I want my program doing exactly what I want, no more, no less...
YOU are correct sir... at that time i administered about 500 PCs, more than half were the DP2000 and about every bigfoot died over a year or so...
looks like it could turn into a rocket scooter with some minor modifications... oh the humanity!
I would very much like to agree with you, but look what the FCC has done with radio/TV... they can limit you however they want. and http and port 80 are already a vast marketing wasteland...
past several years, boss has seen my massive amounts of slashdot reading.... but he figures as long as i am slacking, it may as well be semi job related...
I think you meant 'meddle' and not 'mettle'
but nice limerick all the same...
absolutely. I have rarely felt the tension that I have in OF... and the feeling that you are part of a large battle, rather than just one person acting alone... excellent. I cant wait for the sequel, or some of the long-awaited mods to get finished...
is this article for real? my god man! this will inspire the most +5 funny remarks ever...
When geek cultures collide... pda's and model trains? throw in linux and its a geek paradise...
The market is finite. really? then explain to me the concept of inflation... im going to go out on a limb here and say that the market is NOT finite... otherwise there would be no inflation ever...
at age 54? truly an american icon?
wow, most people dont even rtfa... you apparently rtfa'd twice!
uh huh. two people padilla and this guy. in how many months? and you are going to equate that to the nazi oppression. its really amazing how some people think. go get a history book and read it. i think you will find the so called 'unbearable oppression' we are experiencing to be trivial compared to nazi germany.