Gods, I hate Juno. The first computer I set my parents up with back in '96 had it on there, as I didn't actually expect it to be used, and didn't see the point in getting them talked into getting a real ISP. Then, my mother (Who IS a mensa genius, writes syndicated newspaper columns, books, paints, etc) got into the whole genealogy online thing. and mailing lists. etc. Now I have to deal with crashes of a 100MB+ Juno repository of e-mail about once every 2 months; all efforts to switch her to something actually usable have been met with "but it's not as easy". I finally settled on Win2k Pro and automated nightly ghosting; now when she calls I can just say "start>run>fixit.bat", works about 90% of the time. The sad thing is that my dad has been using computers forever, but she won't let him touch it.
Yeah, I was there also. in the gulf, mainly. even stranger, I agree with you. Not hard to. Osama was one of the U.S.'s biggest buddies at the time, and Iran was the great Evil, we looked the other way when iraq used the British supplied gas to attempt to erase the Kurds, because they were better than Iran, right? Iran-Contra? remember?
I've been wondering how long it would be until someone pointed this out. To be optimistic, I think we have a little while; they have to get a scapegoat replacement in his place, and they will have to be there a little while before whatever they have scheduled happens.
I'm pretty happy with "right-wing nut-job", personally. Of course, I'm pagan instead of christian, believe in a womans right to choose, etc. but I'm adamantly pro-gun so my liberal friends know what my TRUE nature is. And no, I didn't vote for bush. I wrote in Ron Paul.
Then don't use it. If enough people don't use it, they will probably change the way they do things. I had a similar rant happen to me about one of the websites I run; I just sort of check in on things every once in a while, and if I see something that really bugs me has been posted, i'll delete it. If you don't like me editing the things I don't like from my system, don't use it. go away. find something you like better. It's what made america great.
As you are apparently british, and therefore insane, you have no platform to stand on.
as a member of a gun loving culture, my viewpoint is perhaps a little more clear.
Families who have guns around, like for instance 95% of rural U.S. Families, aren't the ones who have kids shooting themselves; the kids KNOW what a real gun is, and only those which are mentally deficient are going to injure themselves.
Families who shouldn't have guns around, for instance Urban liberals who don't even tell their kids they have a gun hidden, let alone take the little kids out to the range to show them how loud & dangerous they are, shouldn't be surprised when little johnny stumbles across the "toy" hidden on the top shelf of the closet and blows his sisters brains out.
As for me, I think anyone who wants to give the state the sole option on protecting them and their families from violence should have that right; it improves the overall survival chances for the rest of us. BTW, biometrics for weapons will not be a problem for criminals, just law abiding citizens; won't have a weapon that has it (except possibly to hack it).
yike. I for one didn't do anything to prevent it; I couldn't handle the thought of voting for either asshole, so I wrote in a vote for Ron Paul. BTW, when I asked if there was an option for a paper ballot, I was told "no".
WHile I'm certain you are kidding, ed2k is a eDonkey/eMule/Overnet shareaza compatible link format. you know, that whole P2P thing everybody has been talking about?
I've not only put up a torrent, i've posted it in non-evil formats. tracker at (until it starts smoking) http://66.38.8.41:6969 ED2K: ed2k://|file|LunarE clipse-10-2004_DivX.avi|2077802 |8605d30fc200576a8dde819ee6d936c0|/ ed2k://|file| LunarEclipse-10-2004.mpg|5391332|533d 94a75a2e807dccd56a91d40b26cc|/ ed2k://|file|Lunar Eclipse-10-2004.mov|6930342|c712 88ac9c70e7e02b9bb7dc8bc08b44|/ ed2k://|file|Lunar Eclipse-10-2004.wmv|4731422|1840 7e7807f0f841ff0e6be84a397416|/
So you are saying that until the U.S. conquers or otherwise assimilates your country, it's safe? So it's just a matter of time, then. Darth Ashcroft will be coming for you soon.
As much as I really hate to say it, yes. I have a different personal interpretation of it, that the people described have an obligation and duty to keep and bear arms, while for people outside the range it's a personal choice thing, but thats an opinion and not specifically spelled out. So it would be up to the states to say who within the non-militia group had a right to keep and bear arms.
Ahem. Quoted from a answer to this statement on one of my sites.
"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
But that's talking about the National Guard, right? Well, no, actually it's not.
I refer you to U.S. Code, Title 10, Subtitle A, Part 1, Sec. 311
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard"
So the 2nd amendment would more accurately read "A well armed force consisting of all able-bodied civilians and female members of the national guard between ages 17 to 45 being necessary to the security of a free state...."
In the analysis, the problematic word is "regulated"; the meaning of the word in the late 1700's and the meaning of the word at present are different.
To anyone who has actually studied the situation from a neutral point of view instead of just listening to current commentary on the issue, it's really, really obvious.
Same here, but my seed machine was a Lan-Plus 386SX-33 (Tandy's and etc before that) whose case (the only surviving part)is currently in my daughters room with a K6-200 in it. my rules-of-thumb: only your monitor and your motherboard have any reason to cost more than $100.00 each, and avoid integrated components if possible.
Which is cool...freedom of choice, y'know. but a cat that doesn't clean itself? that seems pretty odd. I really expected more flames on my grandparent post, slashdot turing into a Bush loven', RIAA embracing place and all.
If you can't be bothered to let your cat LIVE instead of turning it into a life accessory/interactive toy, please do not get one. In order for a cat to be happy and whole, it MUST hunt, it must have a chance to explore. It's cat nature. Keeping one locked up it's entire life is no different than doing a bonsai kitty. Oh, and PLEASE consider cutting off your fingers to the first joint before you consider de-clawing a cat; if you can't live with a clawed cat, Kill It, it's more merciful.
Alleged Criminals. The problem is the proof they are using to establish guilt, and the punative way the cases are being brought against the alleged offenders. We won't see a lot of cases where people fought the charges in court, because its not economically feasible; most people will take the easier and cheaper route of settling rather than risk losing everything in a lengthy court battle against The Evil Empire. I personally would rather they brought criminal charges against alleged file sharers instead of civil charges, at least then the prosecution would be held to a higher standard of proof.
Wow. Germany develops incredibly efficient weapon systems because of treaty limitations. Never would have seen that coming.
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As a INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL (meaning I paid money for a piece of paper), i've seen some pretty weird things. Yeah, the people talking about their shit dieing left and right, it just sort of puzzles me; I've seen it on the job, where a whole batch of drives, for instance, that were bought at one time just failed left and right, hitting 93 RMA's out of 240 purchased. The Large Blue company involved was so freaked out over it that we got all the RMA'd drives upgraded to non-mass market level units. Then of course there is the FED, which used up until sometime this year 486DX-33 machines with 120mb drives & 9600 modems (mainly, there was some variation) to conduct the primary transactions of the largest economy in the world, without major problems (which is also about to end, with the upgrade to "modern systems"). Personally, i've had fail in the last 10 years: a 340mb samsung IDE drive, lasted 3 years first. 3 v90 modems over a 3 year period, think it was the line voltage. A IBM 8512 monitor, lasted 4 years (and it was 2nd hand). GREAT monitor, for the era. My Kensington Expert Mouse. the circuit board developed a crack right after the warranty ended, and I can't justify spending 80% of the cost of a new one to get it repaired. 2 sound blaster 16 cards in 95. weird. most stable card ever, I got 2 bad ones. some 30-pin simms. LOTS of power supplies and cooling fans. Thats about it. all my hardware back to a 486DX3-120 is still doing something within it's capabilities.
Why? Do you know for a 100% certain fact that such a thing is impossible?
I've told students "If I drop this weight, it'll probably hit the floor. However, there exist the possibility that it won't. Why? because until such a time as complete, total understanding of the workings of the universe comes along, there is no such thing as 100% certainty".
I think this is one of those situations where people see it as inherently wrong (me) or no big deal. My major complaint is that this assists in the creation of evidence to be used against ANYONE, not neccesarily tomorrow, but somewhere in the future. THEM: "We have video of you standing on the curb talking to Mr. Green, the notorious earth liberation front terrorist. Either tell us what you know about your neighbors un-american activities, or we'll make sure you loose your security clearance" You: "But, but he just asked me what time it was!" Them: "Proove it"
If they start doing this in Louisville, they are going to have an EXTREMELY high maintence bill.
With that being out of the way... I sat down and watched TOS "Bread & Circuses" day before yesterday; I saw it when it originally aired, also (I was only 6, but I remember, it was cool). It was GOOD. the costumes suck. the extra's suck. some of the acting sucked. The storyline was ridiculous. Space Opera, in it's purest form; Shatner, who in his old age is just flippin' WEIRD, was a damn good Captain Kirk. And didn't have a moments hesitation screwing the slave girl who was ordered to please him.
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Gods, I hate Juno.
The first computer I set my parents up with back in '96 had it on there, as I didn't actually expect it to be used, and didn't see the point in getting them talked into getting a real ISP.
Then, my mother (Who IS a mensa genius, writes syndicated newspaper columns, books, paints, etc) got into the whole genealogy online thing. and mailing lists. etc.
Now I have to deal with crashes of a 100MB+ Juno repository of e-mail about once every 2 months; all efforts to switch her to something actually usable have been met with "but it's not as easy".
I finally settled on Win2k Pro and automated nightly ghosting; now when she calls I can just say "start>run>fixit.bat", works about 90% of the time.
The sad thing is that my dad has been using computers forever, but she won't let him touch it.
Yeah, I was there also. in the gulf, mainly.
even stranger, I agree with you.
Not hard to. Osama was one of the U.S.'s biggest buddies at the time, and Iran was the great Evil, we looked the other way when iraq used the British supplied gas to attempt to erase the Kurds, because they were better than Iran, right?
Iran-Contra? remember?
I've been wondering how long it would be until someone pointed this out.
To be optimistic, I think we have a little while; they have to get a scapegoat replacement in his place, and they will have to be there a little while before whatever they have scheduled happens.
I'm pretty happy with "right-wing nut-job", personally.
Of course, I'm pagan instead of christian, believe in a womans right to choose, etc. but I'm adamantly pro-gun so my liberal friends know what my TRUE nature is.
And no, I didn't vote for bush. I wrote in Ron Paul.
Then don't use it.
If enough people don't use it, they will probably change the way they do things.
I had a similar rant happen to me about one of the websites I run; I just sort of check in on things every once in a while, and if I see something that really bugs me has been posted, i'll delete it. If you don't like me editing the things I don't like from my system, don't use it.
go away.
find something you like better.
It's what made america great.
As you are apparently british, and therefore insane, you have no platform to stand on.
as a member of a gun loving culture, my viewpoint is perhaps a little more clear.
Families who have guns around, like for instance 95% of rural U.S. Families, aren't the ones who have kids shooting themselves; the kids KNOW what a real gun is, and only those which are mentally deficient are going to injure themselves.
Families who shouldn't have guns around, for instance Urban liberals who don't even tell their kids they have a gun hidden, let alone take the little kids out to the range to show them how loud & dangerous they are, shouldn't be surprised when little johnny stumbles across the "toy" hidden on the top shelf of the closet and blows his sisters brains out.
As for me, I think anyone who wants to give the state the sole option on protecting them and their families from violence should have that right; it improves the overall survival chances for the rest of us.
BTW, biometrics for weapons will not be a problem for criminals, just law abiding citizens; won't have a weapon that has it (except possibly to hack it).
yike.
I for one didn't do anything to prevent it; I couldn't handle the thought of voting for either asshole, so I wrote in a vote for Ron Paul.
BTW, when I asked if there was an option for a paper ballot, I was told "no".
WHile I'm certain you are kidding, ed2k is a eDonkey/eMule/Overnet shareaza compatible link format. you know, that whole P2P thing everybody has been talking about?
I've not only put up a torrent, i've posted it in non-evil formats.E clipse-10-2004_DivX.avi|2077802 |8605d30fc200576a8dde819ee6d936c0|/| LunarEclipse-10-2004.mpg|5391332|533d 94a75a2e807dccd56a91d40b26cc|/r Eclipse-10-2004.mov|6930342|c712 88ac9c70e7e02b9bb7dc8bc08b44|/r Eclipse-10-2004.wmv|4731422|1840 7e7807f0f841ff0e6be84a397416|/
tracker at (until it starts smoking) http://66.38.8.41:6969
ED2K:
ed2k://|file|Lunar
ed2k://|file
ed2k://|file|Luna
ed2k://|file|Luna
I guess I'll just have to wait for the "not a wigger" mod before I play it.
So you are saying that until the U.S. conquers or otherwise assimilates your country, it's safe?
So it's just a matter of time, then.
Darth Ashcroft will be coming for you soon.
Gods, I loved that answer.
As much as I really hate to say it, yes. I have a different personal interpretation of it, that the people described have an obligation and duty to keep and bear arms, while for people outside the range it's a personal choice thing, but thats an opinion and not specifically spelled out.
So it would be up to the states to say who within the non-militia group had a right to keep and bear arms.
Ahem. Quoted from a answer to this statement on one of my sites.
"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
But that's talking about the National Guard, right? Well, no, actually it's not.
I refer you to U.S. Code, Title 10, Subtitle A, Part 1, Sec. 311
"The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard"
So the 2nd amendment would more accurately read "A well armed force consisting of all able-bodied civilians and female members of the national guard between ages 17 to 45 being necessary to the security of a free state...."
In the analysis, the problematic word is "regulated"; the meaning of the word in the late 1700's and the meaning of the word at present are different.
To anyone who has actually studied the situation from a neutral point of view instead of just listening to current commentary on the issue, it's really, really obvious.
Wow. a Family guy quote has come to me.
"Get out of my head"!
doesn't read as well as I would have thought.
Same here, but my seed machine was a Lan-Plus 386SX-33 (Tandy's and etc before that) whose case (the only surviving part)is currently in my daughters room with a K6-200 in it.
my rules-of-thumb: only your monitor and your motherboard have any reason to cost more than $100.00 each, and avoid integrated components if possible.
Which is cool...freedom of choice, y'know. but a cat that doesn't clean itself? that seems pretty odd.
I really expected more flames on my grandparent post, slashdot turing into a Bush loven', RIAA embracing place and all.
If you can't be bothered to let your cat LIVE instead of turning it into a life accessory/interactive toy, please do not get one.
In order for a cat to be happy and whole, it MUST hunt, it must have a chance to explore. It's cat nature.
Keeping one locked up it's entire life is no different than doing a bonsai kitty.
Oh, and PLEASE consider cutting off your fingers to the first joint before you consider de-clawing a cat; if you can't live with a clawed cat, Kill It, it's more merciful.
Alleged Criminals.
The problem is the proof they are using to establish guilt, and the punative way the cases are being brought against the alleged offenders.
We won't see a lot of cases where people fought the charges in court, because its not economically feasible; most people will take the easier and cheaper route of settling rather than risk losing everything in a lengthy court battle against The Evil Empire.
I personally would rather they brought criminal charges against alleged file sharers instead of civil charges, at least then the prosecution would be held to a higher standard of proof.
Wow.
Germany develops incredibly efficient weapon systems because of treaty limitations.
Never would have seen that coming.
As a INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL (meaning I paid money for a piece of paper), i've seen some pretty weird things.
Yeah, the people talking about their shit dieing left and right, it just sort of puzzles me; I've seen it on the job, where a whole batch of drives, for instance, that were bought at one time just failed left and right, hitting 93 RMA's out of 240 purchased. The Large Blue company involved was so freaked out over it that we got all the RMA'd drives upgraded to non-mass market level units.
Then of course there is the FED, which used up until sometime this year 486DX-33 machines with 120mb drives & 9600 modems (mainly, there was some variation) to conduct the primary transactions of the largest economy in the world, without major problems (which is also about to end, with the upgrade to "modern systems").
Personally, i've had fail in the last 10 years:
a 340mb samsung IDE drive, lasted 3 years first.
3 v90 modems over a 3 year period, think it was the line voltage.
A IBM 8512 monitor, lasted 4 years (and it was 2nd hand). GREAT monitor, for the era.
My Kensington Expert Mouse. the circuit board developed a crack right after the warranty ended, and I can't justify spending 80% of the cost of a new one to get it repaired.
2 sound blaster 16 cards in 95. weird. most stable card ever, I got 2 bad ones.
some 30-pin simms. LOTS of power supplies and cooling fans.
Thats about it. all my hardware back to a 486DX3-120 is still doing something within it's capabilities.
Took me a minute.
Ouch.
Why?
Do you know for a 100% certain fact that such a thing is impossible?
I've told students "If I drop this weight, it'll probably hit the floor. However, there exist the possibility that it won't. Why? because until such a time as complete, total understanding of the workings of the universe comes along, there is no such thing as 100% certainty".
I think this is one of those situations where people see it as inherently wrong (me) or no big deal.
My major complaint is that this assists in the creation of evidence to be used against ANYONE, not neccesarily tomorrow, but somewhere in the future.
THEM: "We have video of you standing on the curb talking to Mr. Green, the notorious earth liberation front terrorist. Either tell us what you know about your neighbors un-american activities, or we'll make sure you loose your security clearance"
You: "But, but he just asked me what time it was!"
Them: "Proove it"
If they start doing this in Louisville, they are going to have an EXTREMELY high maintence bill.
1. TOS
2. Voyager
3. TNG
4. Enterprise
5. DS9
With that being out of the way...
I sat down and watched TOS "Bread & Circuses" day before yesterday; I saw it when it originally aired, also (I was only 6, but I remember, it was cool).
It was GOOD. the costumes suck. the extra's suck. some of the acting sucked. The storyline was ridiculous.
Space Opera, in it's purest form; Shatner, who in his old age is just flippin' WEIRD, was a damn good Captain Kirk. And didn't have a moments hesitation screwing the slave girl who was ordered to please him.
If he doesn't hurry up and finish sim Mars, I'm going to pool the ladders out of the pool, also.
Or just release what you DID finish, for sims sake.