When you are truly interested in a subject, you quickly learn to talk
about it in such a way that you know how to pronounce the words and use them
in an appropriate way, in a way that other people use them. For example, since
you are commenting on Slashdot, you probably don't say "Internets".
During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said viewers should go to
http://factcheck.com/. He was wrong about
two things: 1) First, the web site he meant was http://factcheck.org/, of the University of
Pennsylvania's Annenburg Public Policy Center. 2) Second, he was wrong about
thinking he would get support from Factcheck.org: Cheney Plugs FactCheck.
Instead, the web site truthfully points out the legal troubles of the company.
The problem is not that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have accents. The
problem with Cheney saying "Internets" and "go to Factcheck.com" is that he is
out of touch and uncaring.
Factcheck.org is NOT an honest web site. Instead, it is very slickly
dishonest. If you didn't know how to check Factcheck.org's facts, you would
not realize that Cheney's involvement with Halliburton is far more corrupt
than the first layer of facts cited by Factcheck.org show. Cheney, while he
was Secretary of Defense, arranged to change the rules of the Department of
Defense so that no-bid contracts would be allowed. Then he arranged that only
Halliburton would be allowed to get those contracts.
I've found that often people just don't want to know how corrupt the U.S. government has become. Instead of reading the links in the grandparent comment, and making a remark about the subject of corruption, you have changed the subject to talking about the manner of expression of my comment.
Even though the grandparent comment is supported by data from an official U.S. government web site, the comment is now marked "-1 Flamebait". That's willful denial of reality.
On Monday on the Charlie Rose
show, author Graydon Carter was talking about his book, What We've
Lost. He said something like, "I thought I knew a tenth of extent of the
corruption of the Bush administration, but I found that I knew a thousandth."
That's my experience, too. I believe that I have a reasonable overview of the
corruption, and I discover a new pocket of detail that shows that it is much
worse than I thought.
The most shocking thing I've learned in trying to tell people about my
research is that perhaps one U.S. citizen in twenty has any idea of the extent
of the corruption.
Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush
administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran. It's I-rahn. During
the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said I-ran, showing how little he knows
about the topic. President Bush said "Moo-lah", instead of mullah, the Farsi
name for religious leader. Don't underestimate their lack of interest in
things that don't make money.
More Bush administration mis-pronunciation from Cheney: "Tolleybon",
intead of Taliban, and "Internets".
"With weapon systems, it's more a matter of giving your side's stuff impressive names (Patriot, Eagle, Phantom, Aegis, etc.) and code-naming the other guy's stuff with dubious names (Fishbed, Backfire, Satan, Scud)."
It was only a Slashdot comment, posted at 6:53 in the morning. The major point is correct. Many bills before Congress are given misleading titles. I could only think of 3 that early in the morning. If you don't like the ones I picked, choose others, like this one: Congress Degrades National Parks. Here's a quote: "The National Park Enhancement and Revitalization Act, HR 4158, sponsored by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), has an appealing but deliberately misleading title."
From the story: "How is this functionally different from a national ID
card?"
It isn't different. The driver's license name is the kind of lying
with which many things are sold to U.S. citizens. Other examples are: 1) The
"Patriot"
Missile, as though you are not patriotic unless you are in favor of a
particular weapon of mass destruction. 2) The "Patriot"
Act, as though you are not patriotic unless you are in favor of laws that
most congress people passed without reading. And, 3) The "Peacekeeper"
Missile, which tries to give people the idea that a nuclear weapon keeps
the peace.
This kind of lying takes advantage of the fact that most U.S. citizens
have to trust their government because they simply don't have time
to understand what their government is doing.
Most media exists to make money. Advertisers are understandably
careful not to alienate anyone. It is not possible to develop an accurate
opinion of government activities only by listening to the carefully crafted
phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to
indicate a preference for one policy over another.
Books are the major media that are not ad-supported. Have a quick look
at the reviews of 3 movies and 35 books that try to tell you a little about
U.S. goverment corruption: Unprecedented Corruption: A
guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. If you don't read
about the subjects mentioned, you are not informed. If you don't like the
books listed, pick your own.
Even though most people simply don't have time to understand their
government, it is still amazing how much distrust U.S. citizens have of their
government, and yet they don't take control.
There is good reason not to trust
a more efficient national driver's license, because it would be used by the government to
suppress political dissent. For example, see the New York Times article, F.B.I.
Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies. Here's a quote: "Critics of the Bush
administration's Iraq policy, for instance, have sued the government to learn
how their names ended up on a "no fly" list used to stop suspected terrorists
from boarding planes." There are many people whose jobs depend on their
ability to fly. They may be forced to stop any analysis of government
activity if they are harassed when they try to fly.
That article discusses a few of the other abuses. If you didn't like
the Vietnam War, and demonstrated against it, the FBI would go to your
neighbors and friends and "investigate" you. Merely the investigation caused
enough fear to discourage most people; they could not afford to lose
friends and the support of neighbors. People would think, "If someone is being
investigated, that person must have done something wrong."
(Note that you can read that article at the New York Times web site,
but only under extremely adversarial conditions. You can pay more than the
entire cost of the newspaper in which the article was originally printed. Or,
you can get a discount under plans which cause you to lose your money in a
short time if you don't use the plans quickly enough. No one should
underestimate the self-destructive rapacity of managers of ad-supported media.)
Driver's licenses are already a national ID card. The U.S. government
is only trying to make the data gathering more efficient. The fundamental problem is
not whether or not a national ID card is a good idea, the problem is that,
although the U.S. government functions well in many ways,
the government is corrupt in many other ways.
If you truly love your country, you will not just enjoy the advantages, you
will be there for your country when there are problems.
I can't find my previous post, to the former story.
I said that there are two answers: 1) Find the ugliest backpack you can, so that you won't be the target of thieves, or 2) to distract the thieves, everywhere you go, take a supermodel.
Targus bags shout, "I have a laptop, probably an expensive one."
Acronis works perfectly when making backups from inside Windows XP. I've used it with several different motherboards (about 8 different kinds).
I don't have time to discuss the quirkiness of Ghost. However, the quirkiness was verified by Symantec technical support. I was told that many other people had discussed the same issues. If you know Ghost already, it is probably easy. I found reading the disorganized Ghost manual quite time-consuming. I find Symantec technical support very abusive and ignorant.
Acronis is very easy to use. Acronis uses a safe method of backing up, it just makes a sector backup of any file that is changed during the hard drive backup, so the backup you get is the hard drive when you started the backup.
Note that PowerQuest DriveImage is now owned by Symantec.
15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis. Many don't like the U.S. Gov. influence
on their country.
Did you see the network footage of George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi
man the Bush family knows as "Bandar Bush"? Since it was Saudis who attacked
on 9/11, why did Bush invade Iraq? Was it a smokescreen to get attention away
from the Saudis?
"Interesante (Score:0, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on 12:04 AM -- Saturday October 09 2004 (#10477597)
Wow, thats pretty neat."
How can that be a troll? É interesante, acordo. It's just a first post. Over-rated maybe, but not a troll.
It is neat. It proves the old adage, which I just invented: If it is possible, some programmer will do it.
I'm interested in the sociology of this. Is it possible that the executives at Google did not realize that they were offering a free place to put backups of encrypted files?
That's a suggestion for the Google file system shell. There should be automatic encryption, using a locally stored password. Didn't the Google executives realize that most of the data will not be useful to them, because it will be encrypted? I hope I never see a Google ad for Ö|tè&~1}¥bkä40e)ÆóG.
For many people, safe storage is much more interesting than yet another email account. Of course, everything in the entire world should be free, not just information.
"And it was supposed to debut on the Tonight Show."
It DID debut on the Tonight Show, last night, 2004-10-08. The Tonight Show paid for it to be made.
Anyone smart enough and knowledgeable enough about current events to be a comedian is smart enough to understand a few of the facts about George W. Bush's lack of analytical ability. Both David Letterman and Jay Leno joke about that, perhaps 3 times a week.
Inside the U.S., it is possible to get fired from advertising-supported media for being too obvious about thinking negatively about George W. Bush. Outside the U.S., even government leaders call George W. Bush "moron", "idiot", and other words that are not so positive. The foreign leaders are wrong, of course. He is not a moron. George W. Bush's failings are entirely consistent with the characteristics of dry alcoholics: Angry, secretive, dishonest, insensitive to the feelings of others, and, at times, extremely likable.
Most people in the U.S. have very, very little understanding of the activities of their government. But there are people who are beginning to see the hints of corruption. The Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD sold 2 million copies the first day.
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15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis. Many don't like the U.S. Gov. influence
on their country.
26 refills, $17. Color printing is a serious hassle. After having many problems, we spent a lot of time researching
it. We bought a Canon S820 and a Canon S520, and we have had good luck
refilling the cartridges using a kit from IMS,
which we bought at a Costco store. The refill kit is NOT available on the
Costco web site. Each kit allows something like 26 refills, and the kits cost
$17 at the Costco store. The second time you do a refill, it is extremely
easy. We inspected photos and font characters under a magnifying glass and
were not able to see a difference between the hugely expensive Canon ink and
the refill ink. There has been no difference in fading.
The S820 has six separate cartridges. It is very slow, but photos are much
nicer. The S520 has 4 cartridges. It's faster, and good for printing labels,
for example. We have had no problems with print heads, which are separate from
the tanks. Both use the same refill kit, which comes with 6 ink colors.
Buy low. Then buy low again. Our experience is that it is far better
to pay $50 for a printer, and
replace it often with a new $50 printer, than to pay a lot and buy a "good
one". The technology is changing so fast that the $50 printer of a few months
from now will be better than the $400 printer sold now.
HP: Ugh. In the past we have bought several HP color printers, and been badly
burned. HP is expensive, and we have encountered many quirks. (Since Carly Fiorino took
over HP, we see a lot of HP printer software seriously failing, right out of
the box. Can someone with little technical experience lead a technically
oriented company? It's like a horse that can do math. It appears to be
possible, until you realize that it is just a series of tricks.)
Canon: Canon is an extremely adversarial company, in our experience, but less
adversarial than the other printer manufacturers, at present.
Canon does product churning, and apparently deliberate product confusion.
Before, all the companies sold 6 tank printers as "photo printers". Now Canon is
selling 4 or 5 tank printers as photo printers. The Canon USA web site has liberal use of web developer resume-building technologies
like Flash and Javascript that tend to defeat use of Mozilla's tabs, and
provide for menu choice surprises. There are extremely long URIs which are
difficult to email.
The Canon i860 is not related to the S820. Note that the web page says,
"... it provides true 4 color photo printing...". One day a few months
ago, the InkJet printer companies switched from "true 6 color photo printing"
to the present "true 4 color photo printing". I don't know their motivation,
but the 6 color printers print MUCH nicer photos, in our experience, with much
better shadow detail. Tech company marketing departments take extreme advantage
of any ignorance they find in customers.
Testing in the store. At the time, Fry's was doing its insane prices thing with Canon
printers. It was possible to buy "refurbished" Canon printers for $30 and $50,
which is what ours cost. They weren't really refurbished, it seemed. We tested
them in the store and found that 1/3 taken from sealed boxes did not work. The
third time we tried opening boxes in the store and testing printers with a
laptop, we were told not to do it. The only alternative was to take printers
back to the office and find that some of them didn't work. I can understand
Fry's position; I can understand mine, too. We bought all the printers that
we opened that worked.
Rebates: Be really careful with Fry's rebates; often we have had experiences
where they use some trick. We bought Netgear products from Fry's with rebates.
All of the rebate receipts were v
Would Karl Rove, the man George W. Bush nicknamed "Turd Blossom", do something destructive
to get George W. Bush re-elected? The books say he would.
Books about those who designed
the Bush administration's deliberate dishonesty
There are many excellent people in the Republican political party in the
United States. But there is are people who say they are Republicans who might
be called "Re-money-cans". (There is no "public" in Remoneycan.) They are only
interested in money and power and they achieve them by using dishonesty as a
tool. For example, the Remoneycans have been running advertisements on U.S.
television claiming that George W. Bush is a more experienced military leader
than John Kerry, who opposes him for the 2004 presidential election. During
times when people in the U.S. feel threatened, a large percentage of them feel
that violence is the only answer, and the ads manipulate that feeling. The ads
may be very convincing if the viewer does not know the truth, that John Kerry
is much more experienced, as the Military
Service Records for Bush and Kerry show. Also see the essay Bush's
Military Records Show He Shirked.
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The brains behind the remarkable political
triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, and Carl M.
Cannon, 2003, PublicAffairs. Reviews:
Powell'sBarnes
& NobleAmazon
The secret of Karl Rove's success is that U.S. voters don't want to believe
there is widespread corruption in their government. Therefore, if lies are
extreme enough, they will be accepted.
President George W. Bush has a habit of giving disrespectful nicknames to
those with whom he works. "Boy Genius" is one of President Bush's nicknames for Karl
Rove. President Bush also calls Karl Rove, "Turd Blossom". The term refers to a
flower that grows in the feces of a cow.
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential
by James Moore and Wayne Slater, 2003, John Wiley & Sons, New York,
New York, USA. Reviews:
Powell'sBarnes
& NobleAmazon
An Amazon review about the present U.S. president, George W. Bush, quotes
the book: "Karl Rove matters to all Americans, many who have never even heard
his name. While the president chafes at the description of Rove as 'Bush's
Brain,' he can hardly deny that every policy and political decision either
goes through, or comes from, the consultant," write the authors, leading them
to pose the question, "Who really runs this country?"
Bad Boy: The life and politics of Lee Atwater by John
Brady, 1997, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts.
Reviews:
Barnes
& NobleAmazon
Lee Atwater and Karl Rove worked together, but Lee died of a brain tumor
when he was 40. Mr. Atwater also had no interest in government policy, but
only in how to get someone elected. For example, see the top of page 103 of
the hardcover edition: "Indeed, Lee had no interest in the policy loop."
Another quote, about his sexual involvement with women other than his wife,
from page 151: "He [Lee Atw
Many people just don't want to know how corrupt the U.S. government is, and they find any small reason to avoid to deny the overall picture, while still pretending to be logical.
You said, "It is rather common in Arabic culture for men to hold hands..." That's exactly right. But George W. Bush had never left the U.S. when he began running for president. Why is HE holding hands? The answer is that he has what the Bush family thinks is a close relationship with Prince "Bandar Bush". Anyone who knows the Saudi culture knows that it is highly unlikely Prince Bandar likes the Bush family. He is only using his relationship with the Bush family for his own benefit.
FactCheck.org is NOT a reputable organization. They check "facts" only one level deep. The real facts are that Cheney arranged to have no-bid contracts made legal during the time he was Secretary of Defense. He knew that the U.S. would attack Iraq, so Halliburton could be prepared in advance. That's why only Halliburton had the resources for the Iraq contract.
I agree that Michael Moore sometimes has an objectionable way of presenting material. But, as you are doing, many people talk about Michael Moore instead of talking about the huge amount of corruption he tries to document.
There is a huge, huge amount of material. Here are reviews of 35 books that say the same thing as Michael Moore. You can have the same message presented in a learned way, or a funny way, or a typically Republican way, or a journalistic way: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
Here is just a little hint of the corruption: Bush borrows money to kill Iraqis.
140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay
200 billion. When Saudis attack, invade Iraq?
Here's another hint: George W. Bush's brother was shown in a lawsuit deposition on 20/20 talking about his prostitutes and using government influence to make money. Family values?
Here's another hint: The U.S. government has engaged in
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wars since WW2: The system of violence works by creating fear so richpeople
can profit.
Here's another hint: Did you see the network footage of George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi
man the Bush family knows as "Bandar Bush"? Since it was Saudis who attacked
on 9/11, why did Bush invade Iraq. Was it partly a smokescreen to get attention away
from the Saudis?
Slashdot Mirror
Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
Google search: voter fraud.
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Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
One of my complaints about conservatives is that they are hypocritical.
One of my complaints about "conservatives" is that they are not only not honest, they are not conservative. Look at Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
Here's my answer: You probably don't say "Internets."
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Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
The quality of the programming we get from India is the same as the quality of technical support.
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Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
Here's my answer: You probably don't say "Internets."
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Government data shows Democrat and Republican spending patterns.
When you are truly interested in a subject, you quickly learn to talk about it in such a way that you know how to pronounce the words and use them in an appropriate way, in a way that other people use them. For example, since you are commenting on Slashdot, you probably don't say "Internets".
During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said viewers should go to http://factcheck.com/. He was wrong about two things: 1) First, the web site he meant was http://factcheck.org/, of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenburg Public Policy Center. 2) Second, he was wrong about thinking he would get support from Factcheck.org: Cheney Plugs FactCheck. Instead, the web site truthfully points out the legal troubles of the company.
The problem is not that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have accents. The problem with Cheney saying "Internets" and "go to Factcheck.com" is that he is out of touch and uncaring.
Factcheck.org is NOT an honest web site. Instead, it is very slickly dishonest. If you didn't know how to check Factcheck.org's facts, you would not realize that Cheney's involvement with Halliburton is far more corrupt than the first layer of facts cited by Factcheck.org show. Cheney, while he was Secretary of Defense, arranged to change the rules of the Department of Defense so that no-bid contracts would be allowed. Then he arranged that only Halliburton would be allowed to get those contracts.
I've found that often people just don't want to know how corrupt the U.S. government has become. Instead of reading the links in the grandparent comment, and making a remark about the subject of corruption, you have changed the subject to talking about the manner of expression of my comment.
Even though the grandparent comment is supported by data from an official U.S. government web site, the comment is now marked "-1 Flamebait". That's willful denial of reality.
Responding to your sig: The worst Democrat is better at jobs and growth than the best Republican.
Here's another possible sig: Government data shows Republicans are corrupt.
I've done some research and provided links to reviews of 3 movies and 35 books saying that the Bush administration is corrupt: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
On Monday on the Charlie Rose show, author Graydon Carter was talking about his book, What We've Lost. He said something like, "I thought I knew a tenth of extent of the corruption of the Bush administration, but I found that I knew a thousandth." That's my experience, too. I believe that I have a reasonable overview of the corruption, and I discover a new pocket of detail that shows that it is much worse than I thought.
The most shocking thing I've learned in trying to tell people about my research is that perhaps one U.S. citizen in twenty has any idea of the extent of the corruption.
The same story, direct from Reuters: Crackdown on Internet Journalists. More detail: New arrest of a journalist contributing to reformist websites. More about Iranian "religious" extremism: Iran cancels music concerts under hard-line pressure. There is political turmoil inside Iran: Iranian vice president quits. More about the social breakdown in Iran: Rights Group: Human Rights Violations on the Rise in Iran.
Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran. It's I-rahn. During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said I-ran, showing how little he knows about the topic. President Bush said "Moo-lah", instead of mullah, the Farsi name for religious leader. Don't underestimate their lack of interest in things that don't make money.
More Bush administration mis-pronunciation from Cheney: "Tolleybon", intead of Taliban, and "Internets".
More about U.S. government corruption: The Bush administration borrows money to give to its friends, you pay it back. Government data shows Republicans are corrupt.
"With weapon systems, it's more a matter of giving your side's stuff impressive names (Patriot, Eagle, Phantom, Aegis, etc.) and code-naming the other guy's stuff with dubious names (Fishbed, Backfire, Satan, Scud)."
Interesting.
It was only a Slashdot comment, posted at 6:53 in the morning. The major point is correct. Many bills before Congress are given misleading titles. I could only think of 3 that early in the morning. If you don't like the ones I picked, choose others, like this one: Congress Degrades National Parks. Here's a quote: "The National Park Enhancement and Revitalization Act, HR 4158, sponsored by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), has an appealing but deliberately misleading title."
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Bush borrows money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion. When Saudis attack, invade Iraq?
From the story: "How is this functionally different from a national ID card?"
It isn't different. The driver's license name is the kind of lying with which many things are sold to U.S. citizens. Other examples are: 1) The "Patriot" Missile, as though you are not patriotic unless you are in favor of a particular weapon of mass destruction. 2) The "Patriot" Act, as though you are not patriotic unless you are in favor of laws that most congress people passed without reading. And, 3) The "Peacekeeper" Missile, which tries to give people the idea that a nuclear weapon keeps the peace.
This kind of lying takes advantage of the fact that most U.S. citizens have to trust their government because they simply don't have time to understand what their government is doing.
Most media exists to make money. Advertisers are understandably careful not to alienate anyone. It is not possible to develop an accurate opinion of government activities only by listening to the carefully crafted phrases from media employees who would lose their jobs if they seemed to indicate a preference for one policy over another.
Books are the major media that are not ad-supported. Have a quick look at the reviews of 3 movies and 35 books that try to tell you a little about U.S. goverment corruption: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. If you don't read about the subjects mentioned, you are not informed. If you don't like the books listed, pick your own.
Even though most people simply don't have time to understand their government, it is still amazing how much distrust U.S. citizens have of their government, and yet they don't take control.
There is good reason not to trust a more efficient national driver's license, because it would be used by the government to suppress political dissent. For example, see the New York Times article, F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies. Here's a quote: "Critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, for instance, have sued the government to learn how their names ended up on a "no fly" list used to stop suspected terrorists from boarding planes." There are many people whose jobs depend on their ability to fly. They may be forced to stop any analysis of government activity if they are harassed when they try to fly.
That article discusses a few of the other abuses. If you didn't like the Vietnam War, and demonstrated against it, the FBI would go to your neighbors and friends and "investigate" you. Merely the investigation caused enough fear to discourage most people; they could not afford to lose friends and the support of neighbors. People would think, "If someone is being investigated, that person must have done something wrong."
(Note that you can read that article at the New York Times web site, but only under extremely adversarial conditions. You can pay more than the entire cost of the newspaper in which the article was originally printed. Or, you can get a discount under plans which cause you to lose your money in a short time if you don't use the plans quickly enough. No one should underestimate the self-destructive rapacity of managers of ad-supported media.)
Driver's licenses are already a national ID card. The U.S. government is only trying to make the data gathering more efficient. The fundamental problem is not whether or not a national ID card is a good idea, the problem is that, although the U.S. government functions well in many ways, the government is corrupt in many other ways.
If you truly love your country, you will not just enjoy the advantages, you will be there for your country when there are problems.
I can't find my previous post, to the former story.
I said that there are two answers: 1) Find the ugliest backpack you can, so that you won't be the target of thieves, or 2) to distract the thieves, everywhere you go, take a supermodel.
Targus bags shout, "I have a laptop, probably an expensive one."
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Is Bush drinking NOW?
Acronis works perfectly when making backups from inside Windows XP. I've used it with several different motherboards (about 8 different kinds).
I don't have time to discuss the quirkiness of Ghost. However, the quirkiness was verified by Symantec technical support. I was told that many other people had discussed the same issues. If you know Ghost already, it is probably easy. I found reading the disorganized Ghost manual quite time-consuming. I find Symantec technical support very abusive and ignorant.
Acronis is very easy to use. Acronis uses a safe method of backing up, it just makes a sector backup of any file that is changed during the hard drive backup, so the backup you get is the hard drive when you started the backup.
Note that PowerQuest DriveImage is now owned by Symantec.
For full image backups, try Acronis. Symantec learned customer care from Microsoft, it appears.
With Acronis, you can make a full system drive backup of Windows XP while Windows is running.
Last time I checked, Ghost was VERY quirky.
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U.S. Gov.: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion.
Did you notice? This story disappeared from the front page. Somebody complained, I guess.
Criticize George W. Bush? That's easy. Check this out: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
Or this:
U.S. Government: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion.
Or this:
15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis. Many don't like the U.S. Gov. influence on their country.
Did you see the network footage of George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi man the Bush family knows as "Bandar Bush"? Since it was Saudis who attacked on 9/11, why did Bush invade Iraq? Was it a smokescreen to get attention away from the Saudis?
"Interesante (Score:0, Troll)
by Anonymous Coward on 12:04 AM -- Saturday October 09 2004 (#10477597)
Wow, thats pretty neat."
How can that be a troll? É interesante, acordo. It's just a first post. Over-rated maybe, but not a troll.
It is neat. It proves the old adage, which I just invented: If it is possible, some programmer will do it.
I'm interested in the sociology of this. Is it possible that the executives at Google did not realize that they were offering a free place to put backups of encrypted files?
That's a suggestion for the Google file system shell. There should be automatic encryption, using a locally stored password. Didn't the Google executives realize that most of the data will not be useful to them, because it will be encrypted? I hope I never see a Google ad for Ö|tè&~1}¥bkä40e)Æó
For many people, safe storage is much more interesting than yet another email account. Of course, everything in the entire world should be free, not just information.
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U.S. Gov.: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion.
"Correct. However, having a gi-normous, constantly-growing deficit is not." (I agree with that.)
Is that word gi-normous similar in meaning to huge-gantic?
U.S. Government: Borrowing money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion.
"And it was supposed to debut on the Tonight Show."
It DID debut on the Tonight Show, last night, 2004-10-08. The Tonight Show paid for it to be made.
Anyone smart enough and knowledgeable enough about current events to be a comedian is smart enough to understand a few of the facts about George W. Bush's lack of analytical ability. Both David Letterman and Jay Leno joke about that, perhaps 3 times a week.
Inside the U.S., it is possible to get fired from advertising-supported media for being too obvious about thinking negatively about George W. Bush. Outside the U.S., even government leaders call George W. Bush "moron", "idiot", and other words that are not so positive. The foreign leaders are wrong, of course. He is not a moron. George W. Bush's failings are entirely consistent with the characteristics of dry alcoholics: Angry, secretive, dishonest, insensitive to the feelings of others, and, at times, extremely likable.
Most people in the U.S. have very, very little understanding of the activities of their government. But there are people who are beginning to see the hints of corruption. The Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD sold 2 million copies the first day.
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15 of the 19 9/11 attackers were Saudis. Many don't like the U.S. Gov. influence on their country.
26 refills, $17. Color printing is a serious hassle. After having many problems, we spent a lot of time researching it. We bought a Canon S820 and a Canon S520, and we have had good luck refilling the cartridges using a kit from IMS, which we bought at a Costco store. The refill kit is NOT available on the Costco web site. Each kit allows something like 26 refills, and the kits cost $17 at the Costco store. The second time you do a refill, it is extremely easy. We inspected photos and font characters under a magnifying glass and were not able to see a difference between the hugely expensive Canon ink and the refill ink. There has been no difference in fading.
The S820 has six separate cartridges. It is very slow, but photos are much nicer. The S520 has 4 cartridges. It's faster, and good for printing labels, for example. We have had no problems with print heads, which are separate from the tanks. Both use the same refill kit, which comes with 6 ink colors.
Buy low. Then buy low again. Our experience is that it is far better to pay $50 for a printer, and replace it often with a new $50 printer, than to pay a lot and buy a "good one". The technology is changing so fast that the $50 printer of a few months from now will be better than the $400 printer sold now.
HP: Ugh. In the past we have bought several HP color printers, and been badly burned. HP is expensive, and we have encountered many quirks. (Since Carly Fiorino took over HP, we see a lot of HP printer software seriously failing, right out of the box. Can someone with little technical experience lead a technically oriented company? It's like a horse that can do math. It appears to be possible, until you realize that it is just a series of tricks.)
Canon: Canon is an extremely adversarial company, in our experience, but less adversarial than the other printer manufacturers, at present.
Canon does product churning, and apparently deliberate product confusion. Before, all the companies sold 6 tank printers as "photo printers". Now Canon is selling 4 or 5 tank printers as photo printers. The Canon USA web site has liberal use of web developer resume-building technologies like Flash and Javascript that tend to defeat use of Mozilla's tabs, and provide for menu choice surprises. There are extremely long URIs which are difficult to email.
The Canon i860 is not related to the S820. Note that the web page says, "... it provides true 4 color photo printing...". One day a few months ago, the InkJet printer companies switched from "true 6 color photo printing" to the present "true 4 color photo printing". I don't know their motivation, but the 6 color printers print MUCH nicer photos, in our experience, with much better shadow detail. Tech company marketing departments take extreme advantage of any ignorance they find in customers.
Testing in the store. At the time, Fry's was doing its insane prices thing with Canon printers. It was possible to buy "refurbished" Canon printers for $30 and $50, which is what ours cost. They weren't really refurbished, it seemed. We tested them in the store and found that 1/3 taken from sealed boxes did not work. The third time we tried opening boxes in the store and testing printers with a laptop, we were told not to do it. The only alternative was to take printers back to the office and find that some of them didn't work. I can understand Fry's position; I can understand mine, too. We bought all the printers that we opened that worked.
Rebates: Be really careful with Fry's rebates; often we have had experiences where they use some trick. We bought Netgear products from Fry's with rebates. All of the rebate receipts were v
Would Karl Rove, the man George W. Bush nicknamed "Turd Blossom", do something destructive to get George W. Bush re-elected? The books say he would.
Books about those who designed
the Bush administration's deliberate dishonesty
There are many excellent people in the Republican political party in the United States. But there is are people who say they are Republicans who might be called "Re-money-cans". (There is no "public" in Remoneycan.) They are only interested in money and power and they achieve them by using dishonesty as a tool. For example, the Remoneycans have been running advertisements on U.S. television claiming that George W. Bush is a more experienced military leader than John Kerry, who opposes him for the 2004 presidential election. During times when people in the U.S. feel threatened, a large percentage of them feel that violence is the only answer, and the ads manipulate that feeling. The ads may be very convincing if the viewer does not know the truth, that John Kerry is much more experienced, as the Military Service Records for Bush and Kerry show. Also see the essay Bush's Military Records Show He Shirked.
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The brains behind the remarkable political triumph of George W. Bush by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, and Carl M. Cannon, 2003, PublicAffairs. Reviews: Powell's Barnes & Noble Amazon
The secret of Karl Rove's success is that U.S. voters don't want to believe there is widespread corruption in their government. Therefore, if lies are extreme enough, they will be accepted.
President George W. Bush has a habit of giving disrespectful nicknames to those with whom he works. "Boy Genius" is one of President Bush's nicknames for Karl Rove. President Bush also calls Karl Rove, "Turd Blossom". The term refers to a flower that grows in the feces of a cow.
Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential by James Moore and Wayne Slater, 2003, John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York, USA. Reviews: Powell's Barnes & Noble Amazon
An Amazon review about the present U.S. president, George W. Bush, quotes the book: "Karl Rove matters to all Americans, many who have never even heard his name. While the president chafes at the description of Rove as 'Bush's Brain,' he can hardly deny that every policy and political decision either goes through, or comes from, the consultant," write the authors, leading them to pose the question, "Who really runs this country?"
Bad Boy: The life and politics of Lee Atwater by John Brady, 1997, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts. Reviews: Barnes & Noble Amazon
Lee Atwater and Karl Rove worked together, but Lee died of a brain tumor when he was 40. Mr. Atwater also had no interest in government policy, but only in how to get someone elected. For example, see the top of page 103 of the hardcover edition: "Indeed, Lee had no interest in the policy loop." Another quote, about his sexual involvement with women other than his wife, from page 151: "He [Lee Atw
Many people just don't want to know how corrupt the U.S. government is, and they find any small reason to avoid to deny the overall picture, while still pretending to be logical.
There is no way to argue away all the material in 35 books and 5 movies! There are NOT an equal number of books arguing the opposite side. The books in the article Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government are from respected publishers. The pro-Bush books are, generally, not.
You said, "It is rather common in Arabic culture for men to hold hands..." That's exactly right. But George W. Bush had never left the U.S. when he began running for president. Why is HE holding hands? The answer is that he has what the Bush family thinks is a close relationship with Prince "Bandar Bush". Anyone who knows the Saudi culture knows that it is highly unlikely Prince Bandar likes the Bush family. He is only using his relationship with the Bush family for his own benefit.
FactCheck.org is NOT a reputable organization. They check "facts" only one level deep. The real facts are that Cheney arranged to have no-bid contracts made legal during the time he was Secretary of Defense. He knew that the U.S. would attack Iraq, so Halliburton could be prepared in advance. That's why only Halliburton had the resources for the Iraq contract.
I agree that Michael Moore sometimes has an objectionable way of presenting material. But, as you are doing, many people talk about Michael Moore instead of talking about the huge amount of corruption he tries to document.
There is a huge, huge amount of material. Here are reviews of 35 books that say the same thing as Michael Moore. You can have the same message presented in a learned way, or a funny way, or a typically Republican way, or a journalistic way: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
Here is just a little hint of the corruption: Bush borrows money to kill Iraqis. 140 billion borrowed. With interest, you pay 200 billion. When Saudis attack, invade Iraq?
Here's another hint: George W. Bush's brother was shown in a lawsuit deposition on 20/20 talking about his prostitutes and using government influence to make money. Family values?
Here's another hint: The U.S. government has engaged in 24 wars since WW2: The system of violence works by creating fear so rich people can profit.
Here's another hint: Did you see the network footage of George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi man the Bush family knows as "Bandar Bush"? Since it was Saudis who attacked on 9/11, why did Bush invade Iraq. Was it partly a smokescreen to get attention away from the Saudis?