They should have a school for moderators. The parent comment is not off topic; it is funny, if you know the history of crazy comments on Slashdot. I appreciate how the comment tries to make the subject look scientific.
Okay, one answer is that CmdrTaco got it wrong. He said, "IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron". He should have said, "IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Atom". Huge difference.
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Bush's education improvements were partly fraud
I should add that I agree that Michael Moore is very imperfect as a filmmaker. However Fahrenheit 9/11 has already grossed $203,561,908 on a $6 million investment. It is by far the most popular documentary of all time, in the entire world.
What part of Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't you like? Didn't you like the
network footage that shows George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Prince
Bandar? No one denies that the clip is real, or that the Bush family calls him
"Bandar Bush".
Didn't you like the part of the movie that shows network footage of Bush
failing to react for 7 1/2 minutes after he had been told the nation was
attacked? No one claims that didn't happen.
Do you think that the Congress actually did read the "Patriot" Act before
passing it? Even when one Congressman in the film said they didn't?
Didn't you like the very limited coverage that discussed the connection
between Bush and the very Saudi Arabians like Prince Bandar who Osama bin
Laden, and Senator Biden of the U.S.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations both say are causing difficulty in
Saudi Arabia?
Do you deny that George W. Bush's father and a brother of Osama bin Laden
both attended a meeting held by the Carlyle Group on the September 10, 2001,
or that both were invested in arms manufacturers?
Maybe Fahrenheit 9/11 is not expressed in a way you would like, but
most of the problems it discussed are real, without question.
Disliking Michael Moore is not an answer to the problems the U.S. faces.
"If I had to pick someone to run my business I sure would not pick
someone who would screw his intern in the office..."
Engaging in inappropriate sex is one of the characteristics of ACOAs,
Adult Children of Alcoholics. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was not an
alcoholic, but his parents were violent alcoholics. The book,
The
Dysfunctional President: Inside the Mind of Bill Clinton,
discusses the fact that Bill Clinton's misuse of sexuality is typical
of the children of alcoholism-influenced families. The behavior of such
children is so typical that every U.S. city has ACOA support groups.
Clinton has a strong interest in government and government policy. He
at least has the knowledge to make informed decisions.
Alcoholics: Often likable, not good speakers.
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Your sig: "America: fast becoming a militant fascist theocracy"
Maybe this is a better understanding:
The U.S. government's militant behavior has not been fast. The U.S.
government has engaged in 24 wars
since World War II.
The violent behavior has nothing to do with religion. Bush only
discusses religion so that he can get votes. The U.S. government has been an
equal opportunity killer: 3,000,000 people killed since World War II, most of
them in Vietnam. The people killed were from many religions.
The U.S. government violence is not really fascist. It is profitist. I
don't think those who want profit care about politics, they only engage in
manipulating government because that brings easy profit. On the other hand,
caring only about money eventually causes the rigid behavior that might be
called fascism, but is really a kind of mental illness.
The system works by creating fear so that citizens will allow richpeople
to engage in secret and not-so-secret violence for profit. Cheney is doing
some of the not secret part now, by implying that a vote for Kerry is a vote
for a terrorist attack.
Alcoholics are often very likable on the surface; they are anything but
likable in reality. They have such inner conflict that they are not easily
able to be analytical. Their thoughts are so disorganized that they cannot
express complicated ideas easily.
My guess is that you don't recognize the symptoms because you are not an alcoholic and don't know any. I'm not an alcoholic, but I had a friend who is. He taught me a lot, and then I asked numerous other alcoholics.
There's a saying at AA meetings: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic". But, of course, not always a problem drinker. A person's personality does not change just because he or she stopped drinking.
Bush and Cheney are the most arrested president and vice president in history. George W. Bush was arrested once for the crime of DUI and Dick Cheney twice:
DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a
conviction for a very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on
the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that
the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was
willing to take a chance of murder.
According to his wife Laura Bush and George W. Bush himself, she threatened to leave him because of his drinking.
There is a huge problem with people working in a technological company who have no interest in or knowledge of technology. Not only do they feel pressured to lie when they don't know what they are doing, they can't always detect when they are lying. They become robot liars representing their company.
This kind of thing affects more than the technology industry. It's only natural that people who work in companies that pretend to be sane would vote for a president who pretends to be sane.
From the web site: "WordCount data currently comes from the British
National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and
spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an
accurate cross-section of current English usage."
The BNC gives British English usage, not English usage. It does not
reflect U.S. English usage. Britain has only 59
million people. The United States has 294 million people. Britain has
a small percentage of the total number of English speakers.
This is just an ad agency attempting to advertise to prospective clients. The agency is
trying to impress people who aren't very knowledgeable about advertising. A knowledgeable person would be very negative about the agency's misuse of facts.
It will be advertised as free after rebates. There will be three rebate coupons, all of which want the original UPC code. One of the coupons will ask for a form Fry's doesn't have. But you can call back on Monday and talk to a manager.
But, don't worry, the reason the price is so good is that they have determined that it doesn't work. Another customer already discovered that, that's why the box has a sticker.
True Fry's story: I did considerable research about which low-cost router to buy to protect a computer at a branch office. Then one Friday I saw in the Fry's ad the router I had chosen was free after rebate. That called into question my research. If they were good, why were they being dumped? On the other hand, how can you say no to free? So I bought three for the cost of jumping through the rebate hoops.
"Bashing" Microsoft is like "bashing" the present U.S. government
administration. Unless they have spent many hours studying them, those who
complain probably don't know one-one-hundredth of the abusiveness.
I've been trying to understand the underlying causes of organizational
abusiveness. Partly it seems that rich people often begin to think of
themselves as above everyone else. The begin to have a subtle kind of mental
breakdown. For them, continuing to think of themselves as superior is like
drugs to a crack addict.
The article Windows XP
Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going shows a little of the inability of
Microsoft to be a good world citizen. It's old now and needs updating, but it
does give a small idea of the breadth and depth of Microsoft abusiveness.
At present vice-president Dick Cheney is visiting all the states with many
undecided voters to tell them that the U.S. is constantly at war, and he and
George W. Bush are
the best people to lead a war. The U.S. government has engaged in 24 wars
since World War 2. The system works by creating fear so richpeople
can profit.
As former U.S. President and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces General Dwight
D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech, beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a
quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and
will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or
democratic processes."
Another quote:
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment,
project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely
to be regarded."
If you love the U.S. as much as I do, you will stop worrying about bashing,
and you will begin trying to understand the conflicts and begin trying to help
the world out of the mess it gets itself in when people don't think deeply.
At present, those who complain about Microsoft are often attacked by people who are uninformed.
This delays needed improvements inside Microsoft.
Title of error message: migrate.exe - Entry Point Not Found
Error message 1: The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not
be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL.
Error message 2: The procedure entry point
GetTextExtentPointI could not be located in the dynamic link library
MSDART.DLL.
Resolution: There is a new MSDART.DLL in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Apparently, SP2 sometimes tries to use MSDART.DLL before it has copied it. If you happen to have an old version of MSDART.DLL on the system you are upgrading, it crashes and destroys your entire installation of Windows XP. After the crash, one machine would still boot, but the initial boot screen said "Windows Media Center" instead of "Windows XP Professional". This particular machine has been used by a very responsible office manager for two years without problems, and has never been near Windows Media Center. Very weird.
The newest version of MSDART.DL_ is in the random folder name created when running SP2, in
the i386 sub-folder. This folder is deleted after SP2 finishes.
Run the command: EXPAND.EXE msdart.dl_ to unpack to MSDART.DLL. Then copy the new, SP2 version of MSDART.DLL to the C:\winnt\system32
or C:\windows\system32 folder, whichever is correct. (The second may be
correct if you upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 98.)
I talked to someone at MS Tech support about this, who correctly
identified that it was a problem with MSDART.DLL, but told me to download
MDAC_TYP.EXE from Microsoft and install it. This did NOT solve the problem.
MDAC_TYP.EXE has an old version of MSDART.DLL that does not contain the needed
entry points, apparently.
The MS technical support representative spoke very slowly and said a
lot of inappropriate things. I think it a big company like Microsoft could give its employees a better grade of weed.
After you have this problem with SP2, if you fix SP2 while it is running by copying the new version of MSDART.DLL, you MUST load SP2 again.
Otherwise some users may have inoperative icons. Very weirder.
If you use the words "Microsoft" and "Quality" in the same sentence,
does God strike you dead? Apparently not.
You can call Microsoft about SP2: Call 1-800-936-5700. Choose
1. Wait until the recorded message gets through trying to get you to go
elsewhere and press 5. It was free for me, at least. The two support
representatives to whom I talked did not help me. However, they were
pleasant and conceivably might help reduce a feeling of loneliness.
Other issues:
SP2 may not be able to run on an infected system. Run virus checkers and spyware checkers before trying to load Windows XP SP2. I recommend Grisoft's AVG free personal virus checker.
Virus Checkers: Disable virus checkers and non-SP2-aware software firewalls while loading SP2.
ZoneAlarm software firewall: Upgrade to the latest version of
ZoneAlarm, if you use it, before trying to install SP2. Disable the Windows
firewall; ZoneAlarm Pro provides much better security. For example, ZoneAlarm Pro renames the file name extensions of attachments that have file name extensions that signify an executable file. There are
44 of those, if I remember correctly. ZoneAlarm provides outgoing protection,
as well as incoming protection; the firewall in SP2 provides only incoming
protection.
Disable harassments. After you load SP2, there are two new
entries in Control Panel: Windows Firewall and Security Center. Go to Security
Center/ Change the Way Security Center alerts me/ to disable the messages that
haras
Ask a few alcoholics. I did.
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You don't know alcoholics, I think. Call AA and ask them if you can speak to a recovered alcoholic.
You didn't mention the real story:
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You didn't mention the real story, in the very article you linked:
Quote: Kelley "has notes to corroborate both these conversations," Herz said, and Bush "understood that anything she said could be used for publication."
And:
"Ms. Kelley met with Sharon Bush over the course of a four-hour lunch on April 1, 2003, at the Chelsea Bistro in Manhattan."
And:
The next day, Herz said, Kelley had a 90-minute phone conversation with Bush in the presence of Peter Gethers, her Doubleday editor. Gethers confirmed the accuracy of the statement yesterday.
George W. Bush has ADMITTED his alcoholism. Alcoholics use cocaine to heighten their alcohol experience. The story is at least plausible.
Another subject: An alcoholic told me that alcoholics use cocaine because that helps them drink more.
Most people in the U.S. know very, very little...
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One thing I've learned: Most people in the U.S. know very, very little about what their government is doing. There is a strong component of fantasy, and very little factual knowledge.
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They should have a school for moderators. The parent comment is not off topic; it is funny, if you know the history of crazy comments on Slashdot. I appreciate how the comment tries to make the subject look scientific.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to try to make his administration look good.
This does not answer the question. Is it possible considering the laws of Physics to do the same experiment with one electron?
A small difference in energy, but a large difference in Physics?
Maybe I overinterpreted, but I thought Heisenberg's principle prevented tinkering with the spin of an electron, and being sure of the result.
Can you explain?
Okay, one answer is that CmdrTaco got it wrong. He said, "IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron". He should have said, "IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Atom". Huge difference.
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Bush's education improvements were partly fraud
Heisenberg said you cannot know both the position and momentum. But, you can tinker with more minor attributes with complete accuracy?
I'm also hoping someone will explain this.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make his administration look good.
I should add that I agree that Michael Moore is very imperfect as a filmmaker. However Fahrenheit 9/11 has already grossed $203,561,908 on a $6 million investment. It is by far the most popular documentary of all time, in the entire world.
Even the 35 books reviewed in Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government don't discuss all the corruption. Michael Moore did a far from perfect job, but it is very difficult to present all that he did in just 2 hours.
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Bush's education improvements were partly fraud
What part of Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't you like? Didn't you like the network footage that shows George W. Bush holding hands with Saudi Prince Bandar? No one denies that the clip is real, or that the Bush family calls him "Bandar Bush".
Didn't you like the part of the movie that shows network footage of Bush failing to react for 7 1/2 minutes after he had been told the nation was attacked? No one claims that didn't happen.
Do you think that the Congress actually did read the "Patriot" Act before passing it? Even when one Congressman in the film said they didn't?
Didn't you like the very limited coverage that discussed the connection between Bush and the very Saudi Arabians like Prince Bandar who Osama bin Laden, and Senator Biden of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations both say are causing difficulty in Saudi Arabia?
Do you deny that George W. Bush's father and a brother of Osama bin Laden both attended a meeting held by the Carlyle Group on the September 10, 2001, or that both were invested in arms manufacturers?
Maybe Fahrenheit 9/11 is not expressed in a way you would like, but most of the problems it discussed are real, without question.
Disliking Michael Moore is not an answer to the problems the U.S. faces.
"If I had to pick someone to run my business I sure would not pick someone who would screw his intern in the office..."
Engaging in inappropriate sex is one of the characteristics of ACOAs, Adult Children of Alcoholics. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was not an alcoholic, but his parents were violent alcoholics. The book, The Dysfunctional President: Inside the Mind of Bill Clinton, discusses the fact that Bill Clinton's misuse of sexuality is typical of the children of alcoholism-influenced families. The behavior of such children is so typical that every U.S. city has ACOA support groups.
Clinton has a strong interest in government and government policy. He at least has the knowledge to make informed decisions.
Bush, however, is a recovered alcoholic, and acts exactly the way recovered alcoholics usually act: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration.. See points 1 through 13. Bush has never shown a strong interest in government and government policy.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make himself look good.
Your sig: "America: fast becoming a militant fascist theocracy"
Maybe this is a better understanding:
The U.S. government's militant behavior has not been fast. The U.S. government has engaged in 24 wars since World War II.
The violent behavior has nothing to do with religion. Bush only discusses religion so that he can get votes. The U.S. government has been an equal opportunity killer: 3,000,000 people killed since World War II, most of them in Vietnam. The people killed were from many religions.
The U.S. government violence is not really fascist. It is profitist. I don't think those who want profit care about politics, they only engage in manipulating government because that brings easy profit. On the other hand, caring only about money eventually causes the rigid behavior that might be called fascism, but is really a kind of mental illness.
The system works by creating fear so that citizens will allow rich people to engage in secret and not-so-secret violence for profit. Cheney is doing some of the not secret part now, by implying that a vote for Kerry is a vote for a terrorist attack.
Alcoholics are often very likable on the surface; they are anything but likable in reality. They have such inner conflict that they are not easily able to be analytical. Their thoughts are so disorganized that they cannot express complicated ideas easily.
Bush acts exactly like recovered alcoholics usually act: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration.. See points 1 through 13.
Most of what Bush says was written by someone else.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make himself look good.
It's insane to spend money we don't have.
If you don't like the word insane, what word would you apply to it?
"... Bush is now alarmingly clean and sober..."
In my opinion, Bush acts exactly like recovered alcoholics usually act: The psychological effects of alcoholism provide a framework for understanding the Bush administration.. See points 1 through 13.
My guess is that you don't recognize the symptoms because you are not an alcoholic and don't know any. I'm not an alcoholic, but I had a friend who is. He taught me a lot, and then I asked numerous other alcoholics.
There's a saying at AA meetings: "Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic". But, of course, not always a problem drinker. A person's personality does not change just because he or she stopped drinking.
"...the convicted drunk drivers' outright lies..."
Bush and Cheney are the most arrested president and vice president in history. George W. Bush was arrested once for the crime of DUI and Dick Cheney twice:
George W. Bush DUI, 1st record of arrest
George W. Bush DUI, 2nd record of arrest
George W. Bush was arrested 2 other times in his life, also.
Dick Cheney DUI, record of 1st arrest
Dick Cheney DUI, record of 2nd arrest
DUI means "Driving Under the Influence" of alcohol. A DUI is a conviction for a very serious crime, a crime that endangers everyone on the road, a crime that often kills people. A DUI conviction means that the driver felt such a strong need to be drunk that he or she was willing to take a chance of murder.
According to his wife Laura Bush and George W. Bush himself, she threatened to leave him because of his drinking.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make himself look good.
You cannot learn enough about your government by reading weblogs. Read books instead. Here are reviews of 3 movies and 35 books about the present administration of the U.S. government: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make himself look good.
There is a huge problem with people working in a technological company who have no interest in or knowledge of technology. Not only do they feel pressured to lie when they don't know what they are doing, they can't always detect when they are lying. They become robot liars representing their company.
This kind of thing affects more than the technology industry. It's only natural that people who work in companies that pretend to be sane would vote for a president who pretends to be sane.
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Bush: Spending money the U.S. doesn't have to make himself look good.
From the web site: "WordCount data currently comes from the British National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage."
The BNC gives British English usage, not English usage. It does not reflect U.S. English usage. Britain has only 59 million people. The United States has 294 million people. Britain has a small percentage of the total number of English speakers.
This is just an ad agency attempting to advertise to prospective clients. The agency is trying to impress people who aren't very knowledgeable about advertising. A knowledgeable person would be very negative about the agency's misuse of facts.
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24 wars since WW2: Creating fear so rich people can profit.
It will be advertised as free after rebates. There will be three rebate coupons, all of which want the original UPC code. One of the coupons will ask for a form Fry's doesn't have. But you can call back on Monday and talk to a manager.
But, don't worry, the reason the price is so good is that they have determined that it doesn't work. Another customer already discovered that, that's why the box has a sticker.
True Fry's story: I did considerable research about which low-cost router to buy to protect a computer at a branch office. Then one Friday I saw in the Fry's ad the router I had chosen was free after rebate. That called into question my research. If they were good, why were they being dumped? On the other hand, how can you say no to free? So I bought three for the cost of jumping through the rebate hoops.
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24 wars since WW2: Creating fear so rich people can profit.
"Bashing" Microsoft is like "bashing" the present U.S. government administration. Unless they have spent many hours studying them, those who complain probably don't know one-one-hundredth of the abusiveness.
I've been trying to understand the underlying causes of organizational abusiveness. Partly it seems that rich people often begin to think of themselves as above everyone else. The begin to have a subtle kind of mental breakdown. For them, continuing to think of themselves as superior is like drugs to a crack addict.
The article Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going shows a little of the inability of Microsoft to be a good world citizen. It's old now and needs updating, but it does give a small idea of the breadth and depth of Microsoft abusiveness.
Three movies and 35 books say that the present administration of the U.S. government is extremely corrupt. See the article Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
At present vice-president Dick Cheney is visiting all the states with many undecided voters to tell them that the U.S. is constantly at war, and he and George W. Bush are the best people to lead a war. The U.S. government has engaged in 24 wars since World War 2. The system works by creating fear so rich people can profit.
As former U.S. President and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech, beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Another quote:
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded."
If you love the U.S. as much as I do, you will stop worrying about bashing, and you will begin trying to understand the conflicts and begin trying to help the world out of the mess it gets itself in when people don't think deeply.
At present, those who complain about Microsoft are often attacked by people who are uninformed. This delays needed improvements inside Microsoft.
Really, really caring makes you strong.
Register your trademark in only one state. That is legal proof that you intend to reserve the name. In Oregon registering costs $20 for each 5 years.
If you are operating outside the state, be sure to document the use.
Are the computers mostly identical, with just a few programs loaded, or is there considerable variety?
Are the problems all with the Windows SP2 software firewall? Can they be cured by running ZoneAlarm or some other software firewall?
Were those 1,000 PCs corporate computers that are all identical, running identical software?
Error Messages received when loading SP2:
Title of error message: migrate.exe - Entry Point Not Found
Error message 1: The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL.
Error message 2: The procedure entry point GetTextExtentPointI could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL.
Resolution: There is a new MSDART.DLL in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Apparently, SP2 sometimes tries to use MSDART.DLL before it has copied it. If you happen to have an old version of MSDART.DLL on the system you are upgrading, it crashes and destroys your entire installation of Windows XP. After the crash, one machine would still boot, but the initial boot screen said "Windows Media Center" instead of "Windows XP Professional". This particular machine has been used by a very responsible office manager for two years without problems, and has never been near Windows Media Center. Very weird.
The newest version of MSDART.DL_ is in the random folder name created when running SP2, in the i386 sub-folder. This folder is deleted after SP2 finishes.
Run the command: EXPAND.EXE msdart.dl_ to unpack to MSDART.DLL. Then copy the new, SP2 version of MSDART.DLL to the C:\winnt\system32 or C:\windows\system32 folder, whichever is correct. (The second may be correct if you upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 98.)
I talked to someone at MS Tech support about this, who correctly identified that it was a problem with MSDART.DLL, but told me to download MDAC_TYP.EXE from Microsoft and install it. This did NOT solve the problem. MDAC_TYP.EXE has an old version of MSDART.DLL that does not contain the needed entry points, apparently.
The MS technical support representative spoke very slowly and said a lot of inappropriate things. I think it a big company like Microsoft could give its employees a better grade of weed.
After you have this problem with SP2, if you fix SP2 while it is running by copying the new version of MSDART.DLL, you MUST load SP2 again. Otherwise some users may have inoperative icons. Very weirder.
If you use the words "Microsoft" and "Quality" in the same sentence, does God strike you dead? Apparently not.
You can call Microsoft about SP2: Call 1-800-936-5700. Choose 1. Wait until the recorded message gets through trying to get you to go elsewhere and press 5. It was free for me, at least. The two support representatives to whom I talked did not help me. However, they were pleasant and conceivably might help reduce a feeling of loneliness.
Other issues:
SP2 may not be able to run on an infected system. Run virus checkers and spyware checkers before trying to load Windows XP SP2. I recommend Grisoft's AVG free personal virus checker.
For spyware removal, run both the free AdAware Personal and the free Spybot Search and Destroy. One may find things the other doesn't.
Virus Checkers: Disable virus checkers and non-SP2-aware software firewalls while loading SP2.
ZoneAlarm software firewall: Upgrade to the latest version of ZoneAlarm, if you use it, before trying to install SP2. Disable the Windows firewall; ZoneAlarm Pro provides much better security. For example, ZoneAlarm Pro renames the file name extensions of attachments that have file name extensions that signify an executable file. There are 44 of those, if I remember correctly. ZoneAlarm provides outgoing protection, as well as incoming protection; the firewall in SP2 provides only incoming protection.
Disable harassments. After you load SP2, there are two new entries in Control Panel: Windows Firewall and Security Center. Go to Security Center/ Change the Way Security Center alerts me/ to disable the messages that haras
You don't know alcoholics, I think. Call AA and ask them if you can speak to a recovered alcoholic.
You didn't mention the real story, in the very article you linked:
Quote: Kelley "has notes to corroborate both these conversations," Herz said, and Bush "understood that anything she said could be used for publication."
And:
"Ms. Kelley met with Sharon Bush over the course of a four-hour lunch on April 1, 2003, at the Chelsea Bistro in Manhattan."
And:
The next day, Herz said, Kelley had a 90-minute phone conversation with Bush in the presence of Peter Gethers, her Doubleday editor. Gethers confirmed the accuracy of the statement yesterday.
George W. Bush has ADMITTED his alcoholism. Alcoholics use cocaine to heighten their alcohol experience. The story is at least plausible.
Hot off the press: The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty.
Another subject: An alcoholic told me that alcoholics use cocaine because that helps them drink more.
One thing I've learned: Most people in the U.S. know very, very little about what their government is doing. There is a strong component of fantasy, and very little factual knowledge.