Two of
the document experts hired by CBS News now say the network ignored concerns they raised prior to the broadcast of 60 Minutes II about the disputed National Guard records attributed to Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who died in 1984.
Emily Will, a veteran document examiner from North Carolina, told ABC News she saw problems right away with the one document CBS hired her to check the weekend before the broadcast.
"I found five significant differences in the questioned handwriting, and I found problems with the printing itself as to whether it could have been produced by a typewriter," she said.
Will says she sent the CBS producer an e-mail message about her concerns and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast not to use the documents.
"I told them that all the questions I was asking them on Tuesday night, they were going to be asked by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday if they ran that story," Will said. ...
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Why not just make yourself a GPS hat out of an old coathanger? The signal degradation isn't too bad nowadays.
"Ah, that would have made a great McGyver Episode."
Where we would mark a point in the air for california and new york and then have them point to where kansas should be. You wouldnt believe where some girls pointed.
So you've got your hands held up in front of you to illustrate geographical locations. Maybe they were trying to poke you in the eye for being such a weirdo.
Maybe we're (mac users) just sick of having to update all of our shit every other week because some dill-hole keeps breaking the DRM that keeps record co.'s from telling Apple to take the service we love and stuff it.
Maybe we're sick of idiots not realizing how easy it is to strip all rights off the purchased music by doing nothing nefarious at all, or to just go buy the friggin CD.
I'm happy with the service, but all the 'free everything' idiots are expending more energy breaking shit and whining about it than it would take them to just make it 'free'.
Great points. And the real tragedy here is the complete waste of effort. I don't even support Kerry, (hell, I almost straight-up hate him), but look at all the dollars, sweat and volunteers being expended on what amounts to an "anyone but Bush" campaign. Why not get out there with positive reasons why to vote for the candidate they support.
Granted, the right ain't keeping their mud to themselves, and sure, I personally don't think there's a whole lot of positives about Kerry's self-flaggelation of his service or his plans, but there's got to be some decent legislation in those 20 years, and we can't seem to get any of it put forth as 'a good thing' (all I've heard is the POW stuff...good stuff by the way).
At some point, and maybe it's when people are standing in the voting booth, there's got to be a consideration of whether 'tis better to vote for someone you support, or to vote against someone you hate. In the long run, I don't see the second as one that leads to good places.
but because I had to deal with being associated with misguided wierdos like these.... I just want people not to vote for him because he hasn't done a very good job.
Sorry, Pal. Tempered views like that ain't gonna fly this year. You best be picking one side of the tracks to be on or the election train is gonna trample your ass.;)
I don't even happen to agree with you, but it is so refreshing to see that at least some people in this country aren't toeing the extreme party lines until their feet bleed.
True, for sure, but can you find an example of an institution that handles secure things like banking and investments communicating with it's customers via a leased subdomain?
Not saying it doesn't happen, but just saying that's what would raise a red flag for me. If it's so dang important that my account status (or whatever) is in jeopardy, it better be coming from the top dog link.
partly to keep those incredibly dangerous objects like swiss army knives away from the fragile Statue of Liberty.
Wow. Sarcasm is such a clever device for shoehorning an opinion into an otherwise normal statement. Let me try:
"Yeah, I really bet that someone could fly a couple of planes into some buildings using box cutters as weapons to*"... oh wait.
So you get into an accident that you *know* was the other guys fault, but your little black box says you were speeding slightly at the time, and the courts could quickly decide that you really were partially at fault...
Yeah, when both people were doing something faulty, this won't help at all.
It's much better to leave it to who can afford the best attorney and fudge the facts the best. But, hey, one side's gotta lose, right?
Once you get back from driving crazy, you and your mischievous, but good-natured friend put the car up on jacks and run it in reverse for awhile to turn all the...
If the majority of population would do the same, the world would be a better place:)
Nope. If uncouth advertising stopped working, the same people with the same ad budgets pushing the same products would just switch to whatever was deemed more "couth". Aside from the improved "crap ratio" of ads, everything else would be relatively the same, I think.
Advertising, whatever you may think of it, works. It's aimed at the largest common denominator and as that group goes, so goes the advertising.
Not that I wouldn't like to see less dumb crap on TV, but it is what it is. What's really sad is to think about how much you hate a particular spot, and then realize that some rube out there LOVES it as much as you hate it.
the rest of your comments are personal opinion and you are most certainly entitled to them, but you don't have to power down my Powerbook to switch batteries. I think you have something like 20 minutes with stock RAM installed to put in the new battery, wake up and keep rockin. I don't know how specific this is to Apple, as I've never used anything else.
Of course, one can lug around extra battery packs, but it's a pain and often defeats the purpose of having a laptop in the first place, portability.
Oh, come off it. The handful of ounces a battery weighs pales in comparison to most of the other accouterments a mobile fellow or gals carries around.
Besides, for most laptops, two batteries worth will far outlast any "long-life" laptop's single charge life. I'm not saying it's the ultimate in convenience, but if long life is really, really important to you, get the machine you really want and will be productive on, and then cough up for another battery.
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No, he just lost his password for checking his email.
"Ah, that would have made a great McGyver Episode."
Would have made? I watching it right now!
Diebold?
To be followed immediately by the blind and fingerless mans version.
New Apple add:
iMac, its like a computer with a condom!
New add for Linux:
Linux: you can't get infected unless you get laid.
New ad for Ritalin:
Medicate your kids, or else they'll even misspell jokes.
"tsk, tsk...they never had a chance..."
And judging by the design of it, he hasn't updated it since then.
So you've got your hands held up in front of you to illustrate geographical locations. Maybe they were trying to poke you in the eye for being such a weirdo.
Sounds like someone just convinced their boss they have a legitimate disease. Shopping spree!
Maybe we're sick of idiots not realizing how easy it is to strip all rights off the purchased music by doing nothing nefarious at all, or to just go buy the friggin CD.
I'm happy with the service, but all the 'free everything' idiots are expending more energy breaking shit and whining about it than it would take them to just make it 'free'.
Granted, the right ain't keeping their mud to themselves, and sure, I personally don't think there's a whole lot of positives about Kerry's self-flaggelation of his service or his plans, but there's got to be some decent legislation in those 20 years, and we can't seem to get any of it put forth as 'a good thing' (all I've heard is the POW stuff...good stuff by the way).
At some point, and maybe it's when people are standing in the voting booth, there's got to be a consideration of whether 'tis better to vote for someone you support, or to vote against someone you hate. In the long run, I don't see the second as one that leads to good places.
Sorry, Pal. Tempered views like that ain't gonna fly this year. You best be picking one side of the tracks to be on or the election train is gonna trample your ass. ;)
I don't even happen to agree with you, but it is so refreshing to see that at least some people in this country aren't toeing the extreme party lines until their feet bleed.
Not saying it doesn't happen, but just saying that's what would raise a red flag for me. If it's so dang important that my account status (or whatever) is in jeopardy, it better be coming from the top dog link.
I got suckered by the earthlink one. The address looked valid, although, if I got this, I would never use the link.
My rule is to navigate to my providers website myself, log on, and see if there was anything that needed updating.
Wow. Sarcasm is such a clever device for shoehorning an opinion into an otherwise normal statement. Let me try: ... oh wait.
"Yeah, I really bet that someone could fly a couple of planes into some buildings using box cutters as weapons to*"
Yeah, when both people were doing something faulty, this won't help at all.
It's much better to leave it to who can afford the best attorney and fudge the facts the best. But, hey, one side's gotta lose, right?
Cameron, NOOOOOOO!!!!
*Screeeeee* *crashhhhhh*
Nope. If uncouth advertising stopped working, the same people with the same ad budgets pushing the same products would just switch to whatever was deemed more "couth". Aside from the improved "crap ratio" of ads, everything else would be relatively the same, I think.
Advertising, whatever you may think of it, works. It's aimed at the largest common denominator and as that group goes, so goes the advertising.
Not that I wouldn't like to see less dumb crap on TV, but it is what it is. What's really sad is to think about how much you hate a particular spot, and then realize that some rube out there LOVES it as much as you hate it.
Shoot. You offer me free food, and that'll be just about in line with how many pounds I put on!
the rest of your comments are personal opinion and you are most certainly entitled to them, but you don't have to power down my Powerbook to switch batteries. I think you have something like 20 minutes with stock RAM installed to put in the new battery, wake up and keep rockin. I don't know how specific this is to Apple, as I've never used anything else.
Oh, come off it. The handful of ounces a battery weighs pales in comparison to most of the other accouterments a mobile fellow or gals carries around.
Besides, for most laptops, two batteries worth will far outlast any "long-life" laptop's single charge life. I'm not saying it's the ultimate in convenience, but if long life is really, really important to you, get the machine you really want and will be productive on, and then cough up for another battery.