I still stand by my assertion an ANG Regiment CO/EO/Chief of Staff isn't going to have access to some rare and expensive typewriter (an the IBM Golfball typewriter is the only one of that era that can do the superscript th if reports I have read all day are true). He was "stationed in a backwater, defending the skies of Texas" to paraphrase the DNC chairtroll, he isn't going to have the best equipment
He was watching over a regiment of fighters that were being decomissioned as fast as they could because Soviet and Red Chinese SAM technology was good enough to make them drop like flies under combat conditions, not some cushy job in DC paper jockeying for the 3 star down the hall.
The thing is some pissant Lt. Col in the TXANG isn't going to have a high end typewriter at his desk (or in his secretary's pool). How about someone pulling out the Requisition orders for typewriters from the TXANG in the early 70's (or reciepts for typewriter ribbon) to figure out what equipment they had on hand.
The electoral votes/popular vote problem is a result of a 10 year census (and the congressional redistricting/electoral college rebalance that follows). I'd be all for a system that redistributes every two years, but the census bureau budget would have to be increased and there would be bitter redistricting fights every two years instead of every 10. Actually what would be best would for the census to be a headcount of all eligible voters done in the 1st half of even numbered years. Redistricting would then be done on the odd years before congress went on summer recess. This would take out the illegal (and legal) alien population, felons who haven't had their voting rights restored, etc, basically the people who don't have a vote shouldn't determine population tallys for voting purposes. This would also clean up any confusion like what was done in florida where they just had massive purges of the voter rolls based on name instead of actual felon status, which was friggin braindead.
I thought the whole point of the Politics section being created is to reduce front page clutter. Disregarding the obvious bias in the story selection, I'm tired of reading the damned stories about the election/diebold. Some of us came here for news for nerds, stuff that matters. If you feel that politics matters, you now have your own section, so quit posting this tripe to the front page.
I heard I'm getting tax cuts made permanent, entitlement reform, tax reform (hopefully fairtax), the assualt weapons ban sunsetting, private medical and retirement accounts, and anti-abortion supreme court justices if I vote for Bush, and I believe he will deliver. Kerry has promised tax increases, more socialized health care, and a pullout in Iraq if he can get the french and germans to commit troops, again, I believe he'll deliver on 2 of 3, he isn't going to get the Germans and French to go to Iraq unless they are siphoning oil under the table, but by hell he will kill this recovery with a tax increase.
Moore was very careful, no libel or slander in this work (or BfC), so legal grounds for re-editing would be nil. The 1st amendment says MM can say what he wants, truth or fiction, its up to you to figure out which he is speaking.
BTW, I hear about a republican attack machine all the time, but between Crossfire, Matthews, This Week with "George the Greek", the big three nightly newscasts and MM, I'd say the democrats have their own well oiled attack machine., funded largely by a frigging lunatic (Soros) who would just as soon bring down the world economy for a laugh. Both parties trot out spinmiesters, so figure it out for yourself.
Corporate and private censorship are protected, the First Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights) is a series of restrictions on Government (congress shall make no act...) acting against the people. The Dixie Chicks had a choice, they could have taken the "Toby Keith, GWB is teh l33t" track and sold millions of copies of their CD. They decided to voice a different opinion and people didn't buy the damned CD and/or destroyed the copies they had already bought. I (and the Dixie Chicks) have the right to freedom of expression, we both have to live with the consequences, so deal with it.
W3C's avaya project is a refernce implementation of a web browser/html editor that is written for standards compliance first, it was slow as dog shit last time I tried it though.
I seem to remember 286/16's ending up in the Chrysler K-Car back in the early pentium days, of course it could have been Popular Science blowing smoke.
As I understand it, the 1st Gen Cablecard spec is pretty crippled, straight decrypt only. For Program Guides/PPV/other, we have to wait for CableCard v2
Get a new phone number, and for future reference, don't give the company your after hours mobile phone, if they want to contact you, thay can foot the bill of a phone/pager.
So you've got windows admins who are going to have to grok enough unix to get unix applications to run in a unix emulation environment on windows, but aren't good enough to maintain a "Real" unix systems, good luck.
But that is the thing, If you wanted a 4 processor xeon box to do 3D/rendering, the EE was not MP capable and had half the cache of the equivalent Xeon core, Gallatin had 4MB L3 cache versions, EE had 2MB mx
If the GPL does foster the creation of new and innovative applications, why has the community not already brought forth an email client and an office client that are so convincingly innovative, useful and attractive that people will happily abandon the Outlook/MSOffice paradigms in order to adopt them?
OpenOffice and Evolution are fighting in product segments where Microsoft has had a virtual stranglehold for the last 10 years. Compatibility with them is absolutely necessary to drive a wedge for more F/OSS into the corporate (and home) environment. Mozilla (and other 3rd party browsers) have a decided advantage in that the bulk of their incompatabilities with IE are due to standards non-compliance in IE and the apps that depend on IE are less than 5 Years Old. At some point in the future, OpenOffice and Evolution will have to add more features or die in the inovation game, but first they have to be "feature complete" with their competiors. IIRC, excel didn't take off until it had a good Lotus 1-2-3 compatibility layer and Word had to render WordPerfect documents well prior to acceptance.
Ouch, my worst was C-5's doing "touch and go" tests back in the 80's, drop in at something close to stall speed and then throttle up to maximum as soon as the cargo fell out the back, climbing as fast as possible, never mind the fact that the each cargo drop weighed 50+ tons (M60 tanks, I found out later). Shame I didn't have a camera when they did the "missle evade" section, the C-5 starting dumping flares as soon as it started climbing. Pretty fireworks show, but given some of our enemies tastes in shoulder fired SAM's, I'm betting the training is in use today.
I was on the west end of Fort Knox (Out by the Gold Depository on 31W), about 2 miles as the crow flies and it hurt.
What's wild is camping 50 miles away in the summertime and being rattled out of your tent by Artilery tests
Okay, I'll give up government sponsored stadiums if we cut out all of the Great Society and New Deal welfare programs (short list: Social Security, AFDC/Welfare, WIC, Medicare, Medicaid, NCLB, Medicare Prescription Drug benefit, FMLA, and government unemployment insurace). Want to take a guess at to Bread or Circuses costing more?
One possible solution is using a material with a lower index of refraction than the current copper, been awhile since physics but silver meets this requirement IIRC.
Froogle, Google News, gmail, and Google Groups beg to differ. GGroups is the best of breed usenet->www gateway out there, assuming you aren't using usenet for its intended purposes (pr0n). Gmail is the smallest (not counting your homebrew squirelmail) webmail out there. Google news is good for scanning and links to more bandwith friendly AP stories than the Fox/CNN versions. I personally like Froogle as opposed to C/Net or Pricegrabber, but YMMV.
If MS Office/OpenOffice would output CSS+XHTML+SVG, then it would be useful. Right now you have to learn a third-party client (Nvu, Moz Composer, Dreamweaver) that outputs decent (Nvu) to horrible (Frontpage 2003/FPExpress) code. I have yet to find a WYSIWYG editor that isn't brain-dead, the W3C Amaya browser/editor is decent, but slower than molasses.
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I still stand by my assertion an ANG Regiment CO/EO/Chief of Staff isn't going to have access to some rare and expensive typewriter (an the IBM Golfball typewriter is the only one of that era that can do the superscript th if reports I have read all day are true). He was "stationed in a backwater, defending the skies of Texas" to paraphrase the DNC chairtroll, he isn't going to have the best equipment
He was watching over a regiment of fighters that were being decomissioned as fast as they could because Soviet and Red Chinese SAM technology was good enough to make them drop like flies under combat conditions, not some cushy job in DC paper jockeying for the 3 star down the hall.
The thing is some pissant Lt. Col in the TXANG isn't going to have a high end typewriter at his desk (or in his secretary's pool). How about someone pulling out the Requisition orders for typewriters from the TXANG in the early 70's (or reciepts for typewriter ribbon) to figure out what equipment they had on hand.
The electoral votes/popular vote problem is a result of a 10 year census (and the congressional redistricting/electoral college rebalance that follows). I'd be all for a system that redistributes every two years, but the census bureau budget would have to be increased and there would be bitter redistricting fights every two years instead of every 10. Actually what would be best would for the census to be a headcount of all eligible voters done in the 1st half of even numbered years. Redistricting would then be done on the odd years before congress went on summer recess. This would take out the illegal (and legal) alien population, felons who haven't had their voting rights restored, etc, basically the people who don't have a vote shouldn't determine population tallys for voting purposes. This would also clean up any confusion like what was done in florida where they just had massive purges of the voter rolls based on name instead of actual felon status, which was friggin braindead.
I thought the whole point of the Politics section being created is to reduce front page clutter. Disregarding the obvious bias in the story selection, I'm tired of reading the damned stories about the election/diebold. Some of us came here for news for nerds, stuff that matters. If you feel that politics matters, you now have your own section, so quit posting this tripe to the front page.
I heard I'm getting tax cuts made permanent, entitlement reform, tax reform (hopefully fairtax), the assualt weapons ban sunsetting, private medical and retirement accounts, and anti-abortion supreme court justices if I vote for Bush, and I believe he will deliver. Kerry has promised tax increases, more socialized health care, and a pullout in Iraq if he can get the french and germans to commit troops, again, I believe he'll deliver on 2 of 3, he isn't going to get the Germans and French to go to Iraq unless they are siphoning oil under the table, but by hell he will kill this recovery with a tax increase.
Moore was very careful, no libel or slander in this work (or BfC), so legal grounds for re-editing would be nil. The 1st amendment says MM can say what he wants, truth or fiction, its up to you to figure out which he is speaking.
BTW, I hear about a republican attack machine all the time, but between Crossfire, Matthews, This Week with "George the Greek", the big three nightly newscasts and MM, I'd say the democrats have their own well oiled attack machine., funded largely by a frigging lunatic (Soros) who would just as soon bring down the world economy for a laugh. Both parties trot out spinmiesters, so figure it out for yourself.
My foul mouthed and uninformed friend, corporate personhood was granted in 1896, not saying it is right or wrong, but that's where it stands today.
Corporate and private censorship are protected, the First Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights) is a series of restrictions on Government (congress shall make no act...) acting against the people. The Dixie Chicks had a choice, they could have taken the "Toby Keith, GWB is teh l33t" track and sold millions of copies of their CD. They decided to voice a different opinion and people didn't buy the damned CD and/or destroyed the copies they had already bought. I (and the Dixie Chicks) have the right to freedom of expression, we both have to live with the consequences, so deal with it.
Today yes. Tomorrow, who knows? Mr. Moore and his wacky law seem to work through problems like that, given enough time.
Grassy-Ass, one too many beam and cokes, still watching football though.
W3C's avaya project is a refernce implementation of a web browser/html editor that is written for standards compliance first, it was slow as dog shit last time I tried it though.
Can someone mod the parent down, PNG and Gif are both lossless (If you are talking about a 256 color (8 bit) palette.
I seem to remember 286/16's ending up in the Chrysler K-Car back in the early pentium days, of course it could have been Popular Science blowing smoke.
The real question is, do the brits see it as a 100 GBP barrier, or (USD/GBP)*100 barrier. That wold tell you if it was psychological
As I understand it, the 1st Gen Cablecard spec is pretty crippled, straight decrypt only. For Program Guides/PPV/other, we have to wait for CableCard v2
Get a new phone number, and for future reference, don't give the company your after hours mobile phone, if they want to contact you, thay can foot the bill of a phone/pager.
So you've got windows admins who are going to have to grok enough unix to get unix applications to run in a unix emulation environment on windows, but aren't good enough to maintain a "Real" unix systems, good luck.
But that is the thing, If you wanted a 4 processor xeon box to do 3D/rendering, the EE was not MP capable and had half the cache of the equivalent Xeon core, Gallatin had 4MB L3 cache versions, EE had 2MB mx
If the GPL does foster the creation of new and innovative applications, why has the community not already brought forth an email client and an office client that are so convincingly innovative, useful and attractive that people will happily abandon the Outlook/MSOffice paradigms in order to adopt them?
OpenOffice and Evolution are fighting in product segments where Microsoft has had a virtual stranglehold for the last 10 years. Compatibility with them is absolutely necessary to drive a wedge for more F/OSS into the corporate (and home) environment. Mozilla (and other 3rd party browsers) have a decided advantage in that the bulk of their incompatabilities with IE are due to standards non-compliance in IE and the apps that depend on IE are less than 5 Years Old. At some point in the future, OpenOffice and Evolution will have to add more features or die in the inovation game, but first they have to be "feature complete" with their competiors. IIRC, excel didn't take off until it had a good Lotus 1-2-3 compatibility layer and Word had to render WordPerfect documents well prior to acceptance.
Ouch, my worst was C-5's doing "touch and go" tests back in the 80's, drop in at something close to stall speed and then throttle up to maximum as soon as the cargo fell out the back, climbing as fast as possible, never mind the fact that the each cargo drop weighed 50+ tons (M60 tanks, I found out later). Shame I didn't have a camera when they did the "missle evade" section, the C-5 starting dumping flares as soon as it started climbing. Pretty fireworks show, but given some of our enemies tastes in shoulder fired SAM's, I'm betting the training is in use today.
I was on the west end of Fort Knox (Out by the Gold Depository on 31W), about 2 miles as the crow flies and it hurt.
What's wild is camping 50 miles away in the summertime and being rattled out of your tent by Artilery tests
Okay, I'll give up government sponsored stadiums if we cut out all of the Great Society and New Deal welfare programs (short list: Social Security, AFDC/Welfare, WIC, Medicare, Medicaid, NCLB, Medicare Prescription Drug benefit, FMLA, and government unemployment insurace). Want to take a guess at to Bread or Circuses costing more?
IIRC the electrons flowing along a copper wire encounter a resistance that is defined by an index of refraction.
One possible solution is using a material with a lower index of refraction than the current copper, been awhile since physics but silver meets this requirement IIRC.
Froogle, Google News, gmail, and Google Groups beg to differ. GGroups is the best of breed usenet->www gateway out there, assuming you aren't using usenet for its intended purposes (pr0n). Gmail is the smallest (not counting your homebrew squirelmail) webmail out there. Google news is good for scanning and links to more bandwith friendly AP stories than the Fox/CNN versions. I personally like Froogle as opposed to C/Net or Pricegrabber, but YMMV.
HTML will finally fail.....
If MS Office/OpenOffice would output CSS+XHTML+SVG, then it would be useful. Right now you have to learn a third-party client (Nvu, Moz Composer, Dreamweaver) that outputs decent (Nvu) to horrible (Frontpage 2003/FPExpress) code. I have yet to find a WYSIWYG editor that isn't brain-dead, the W3C Amaya browser/editor is decent, but slower than molasses.