Yeah, Apple only invented trivial things like drag n' drop and pull down menus. The Mac was far from an Alto copy. Ask two guys who worked at both PARC and Apple (OK, Raskin didn't officially work at PARC. He just hung out there while teaching at Stanford.)
I understand that a USB mouse from another manufacturer works; my point is that if it's not standard, there's less of an incentive to write for it.
Except that in OS X cntl-click and right-click are the same thing. So the functionality is standard regardless of mouse config. As far as I can tell, every app on my machine exploits this functionality.
I'm sure they, like Miller and others, picked up a few microbreweries during the boom in the 90's
That would be Red Hook. Anheuser Busch owns 25% and handles national distribution and marketing. They also made a bid for Budvar, but the Czech government wouldn't sell.
That raises interesting questions. I believe the bulk of the killing and concentration took place between 1865 and 1880. That was the period during which Sherman waged his genocidal campaign. It was also during this period that the homestead act unleashed millions of colonists into the Indian territories. Like the Nazis, they superseded a deportation policy (The Indian Removal Act and the indian territory treaties) with one of extermination and concentration camps for the purpose of creating lebensraum. This was also the period of railroad expansion and the extermination of the buffalo, with the accompanying effect on hunter gatherer economies. But I don't have historical data on the extent of killings by time period. They didn't keep as detailed records as the Germans.
BTW, the German genocide didn't really extend to Croats. Germany created the modern nation state of Croatia (previously part of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, a.k.a Yugoslavia) and installed a puppet regime. They were, allies. Croats manned the concentration camps filled with Yugoslavian Jews, Bosnians and Serbs. There was Croat resistance of course. Tito, the most important Communist partisan leader, was a Croat. However, far more Croats fought on the Axis side, both in the regular military and the paramilitary Ustase. Or were you talking about the Serbian invasion of Croatia after the (perfectly constitutional) Croatian secession? Interestingly, I believe the current Croatia adopted the flag and currency of the Nazi sponsored Independent State of Croatia.
Uncle Cecil does not say the claims are untrue, merely "controversial." From your link,
All that having been said, fears of coercion weren't just paranoia. HEW had imposed relatively stringent regulations only because of a federal court order in 1974, issued after two poor black girls were involuntarily sterilized. The judge in that case noted that 100,000 to 150,000 poor women were being sterilized each year under federally funded programs. A fair number of them were Native Americans. Were some of them coerced? Possibly. All of them? No way. Many? I'm not buying it.
The conclusion of the GAO investigation reported that IHS consent procedures lacked the basic elements of informed consent, particularly informing a patient orally of the advantages and disadvantages of sterilization. Furthermore, the consent form had only a summary of the oral presentation, and finally the form was lacking the information usually located at the top of the page notifying the patient that no federal benefits would be taken away if they did not accept sterilization (Wagner, 1977: 75).
I should probably have used the word coerced rather than involuntary, however it is not categorically untrue, as you claim. Merely controversial, as your source says.
What we lacked in pure hateful intent we made up for in patience.
Intent?
"We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children."
"The more we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians the more convinced I am that they allhave to be killed or maintained as a species of paupers. Their attempts at civilization are simply ridiculous."
"The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." -General Willliam T. Sherman
Texas maintained scalp bounties well into the 1870, reducing that state's several million natives to a few thousand by 1880. California after 1849 followed a similar script. Across the west, Indians were forced into concentration camps where their culture was systematically eradicated. Their children were adopted out into white families and shipped off to assimilating boarding schools en masse. As late as the 1970s the BIA was involuntarily sterilizing Indian women. Some researchers belive that by the time that program ended, more than 40% of Indian women of childbearing age had been sterilized.
No it would be more like the German Air force having attack aircraft called Stalingrad or Maginot.
I do not profess that the results of manifest destiny on the native American population within the US borders did not result in atrocities. However, when properly armed native Americans were a formidable foe.
When properly armed, so are Jews. Just ask the British, Syrians, Egyptians, Iraqis, Palestinians, etc. Thousands of Jews also fought the Axis during WWII, serving the armies of the Allied Powers, leftist and nationalist guerrilla organizations, and Jewish Partisan groups. There were also numerous uprisings in ghettos and even concentration camps.
If you read my post you'll see I didn't say they cooperated with UNSCOM or even UNMOVIC. I said they allowed inspections. UNSCOM did a fantastic job of aggressive inspection. In the end, they said there were a few hundred shells unaccounted for. UNMOVIC later found most of those, the 122mm rockets you mention, which did not contain any agent. OTOH, Iraq did sometimes have legitimate arguments based on sovereignty, which the UN recognized, legal technicalities or other considerations. For instance in 2002 they strongly opposed allowing UNMOVIC to restart U2 flights. Their logic was that they were still in a warm war with the US and UK. Iraqi anti-aircraft crews fired on US/UK no fly zone patrols on a regular basis. If a U2 entered these zones it was likely to take a missile. Since the no fly zones were not UN sanctioned Iraq had every right to fight for her airspace. Now if Iraq was hiding facilities, this would have been a plausible ruse. As it turns out they weren't hiding anything, certainly nothing a U2 could find, so it seems pretty likely they were just afraid the US would use a smoking U2 as a pretext for invasion. They eventually ceded the flights.
I took a class from Archie Shepp in college and he was adamant about the importance of maintaining Jazz's core connection to Blues and dance music. I once asked him some questions about Ascension (which he played on) and he said that album, and the Free revolution it unleashed, was a mistake. I nearly shit a cinderblock. We are talking about the album Bill Mathieu described as "possibly the most powerful human sound ever recorded."
That said Jazz and Blues go together like beans and cornbread. Especially minor blues. Excuse me while I go listen to a few different versions of Porgy and Bess.:-)
Saddam didn't have the weapons but wasn't 'open' to letting us look.
Iraq certainly resisted the UNSCOM/IAEA inspection regime. And they threatened to expell them after it became obvious that the CIA had infiltrated the organization and used it to gather intelligence for a failed coup attempt. But in the end it was the Clinton administration which pushed UNSCOM/IAEA into withdrawing. And by then (1998) they had dismantled the country's entire nuclear program. The only remaining questions concerned chemical and biological weapons. Then in 2002, Iraq allowed both UNMOVIC and the IAEA in country for on the ground invasive inspections, and received a clean bill of health on the nuclear side. So it is pretty difficult to argue that they didn't "let us look."
The Bush administration, notably Rumsfeld, actively lies about the specifics of UNSCOM's departure from Iraq, claiming Sadaam expelled them. The state department web site is slightly more circumspect, using the passive voice "were expelled" without subject. That is arguably accurate, so long as you claim it was Clinton who expelled them. Officially, they withdrew on their own.
Actually, we don't know that for a fact. We know that they claim to have them. We also know that they have enough plutonium to build one or two devices, and that they have a program to reprocess more. However, the regime's credibility is suspect, to say the least, and it is very much in their interests that the US and South Korea believe they have the bomb. The CIA has long felt that it is likely they built a couple devices around 1992, but we don't know anything "for a fact." Some analysts doubt their ability to develop a useful trigger. We probably won't know until they test a device.
He has very good tone as well. When I first heard him, on that floppy single he did for Guitar Player back in the 80s, I said "Damn! That's the sound I've been hearing in my head!" Unfortunately, everything came out sounding more like Joe Satriani. When I stopped pushing, I settled into my comfortable, more Zappaesque routine. But the rut got so bad I ended up quitting altogether. I just hated everything I played.:-(
Overall I'll take Sco any day. The way he plays those figures which flow between single notes, chords and intervals. It blows my mind. His playing is more three dimensional, i.e. no boundary between melody and harmony, than anyone I ever heard. Plus, his music is so diverse. Shinola is the about as punk as Jazz ever got.
Yeah, tempered scale is sort of an art. I had a friend who wouldn't use tuners for that reason. He felt they temperered too accurately, screwing up the harmonics and making everything sound out of tune. I never used a tuner enough to notice, but his views made sense to me. Here is an article on the subject.
Eric Johnson is a hell of a player, BTW, but his songwriting leaves something to be desired. Pretty impressive live.
And since they have no idea when Jesus is going to come back, they'd better not use it up to soon. You are just making a strawman argument.
Not at all. I am speaking from empirical observation. You are making a rationalist argument that these people couldn't believe this idiocy because it is illogical. But I have actually observed these people making the argument I described. For instance, when a congressional committee asked James Watt what whether he felt we had a responsibility to preserve the environment for future generations, he replied, "I do not know how many future generations we can count of before the Lord returns." Clearly, his apocalyptic faith influenced his anti-environmentalism.
The phenomenon of apocalyptic anti-environmentalism is similar to the increasingly popular Christian Zionism. These folks, including Speaker of the House Tom Delay, believe that the existence of the modern state of Israel is necessary to create appropriate conditions for their much anticipated apocalypse. Therefore they support Israel.
Now, I believe that apocalyptic anti-environmentalism is much more prevalent among the leadership and intelligentsia of the Evangelical community. The rank and file, a much more diverse group than most people realize, tend to hold more mainstream views on the environment. Likewise, most of them probably don't believe, as Falwell and Robertson (not to mention Osama Bin Laden) do, that god gave us "what we deserve" on 9/11. There is, in fact a pretty active evangelical environmentalist movement. However, it is not the rank and file Evangelicals who hold sway over the administration. So long as the leadership can deliver their vote, pretty much guaranteed by the abortion divide, the administration doesn't have to worry about them.
Well considering that only one of the examples had anything to do with christian moral issues, I don't think it is fair to jump to that conclusion.
Unless like Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton's associate James Watt and so many other fundamentalist Christians, those in question (GW Bush?) believe "the earth was put here by the Lord for his people to subdue and to use for profitable purposes." Why preserve nature when Jesus is just going to come back and desroy it anyway? Sounds like a Christianity issue to me. The guy was Secretary of the Interior!
But the first punk band to win my heart, and still my favorite rock band of all time, is Bad Brains. Best live act ever, especially on the Return To Heaven tour of 86-87. Unfortunately, their ideas on homosexuality border on Nazism.
Once, at a John Schofield gig I attended, a guy in the audience made fun of Scho for using a tuner. John snapped back nobody uses those anymore, except Bill Frisell, and he's weird. Maybe you had to be there.
For the record Schofield and Frizell are both brilliant players. I always tuned by ear.
That would be easy, I used to have a 7.5.5 boot CD and if I remember right, that stripped down System Folder took up all of about 30 MB with full network functionality.
Once we made a System 7.1 boot floppy with Appletalk and I don't remember what else so that we could dasiy-chain Performa 5xx series machines with the old LocalTalk boxes and phone cords and reformated 14 of them at a time from my G3 AIO.
Yeah, I used to make my guys OS9 bootable CDs with Apple Software Restore and disk images. They would just boot a Mac off the CD and image the drive in about five minutes. Making the images took some time, but building the CD was trivial. I managed to milk this through OS X 10.1, but when Jaguar came out I was no longer able to build a compressed image small enough to fit on the CD. Once I have the time to figure out how to make a bootable DVD, I'll resume this practice. For now we use iPods, which are nice because the guys can listen to music on their way to the users (we get great deals on iPods. I got one for $69). Panther and Jaguar have ASR built into them, so they are even better for this purpose than MacOS was. Although, it is harder to build a bootable OS X disk than it was a Mac OS one.
Back in the day, I distributed System 7.5 bootable floppies much like your 7.1 disk and we ran tools off a NetaTalk server.
I guess Fred feels his work is done now, because he is calling it quits on June 1. Anderson has been instrumental in solving Apple's financial problems from the day Gil Amelio hired him in 1996. He created the company's large cash reserves by liquidating unnecessary capital investments (plant), issuing a convertible debenture and selling some of their valuable ARM holdings. Then he managed the investment of those funds astutely enough to make the conversion of those outstanding notes to common stock a huge win for both the company and creditors. That 1999 conversion alone eliminated about two thirds of Apple's long term debt (conversely that means the issue had assumed most of Apple's debt). Really, this guy has done an outstanding job. You can thank him for their sound financials.
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Yeah, Apple only invented trivial things like drag n' drop and pull down menus. The Mac was far from an Alto copy. Ask two guys who worked at both PARC and Apple (OK, Raskin didn't officially work at PARC. He just hung out there while teaching at Stanford.)
Except that in OS X cntl-click and right-click are the same thing. So the functionality is standard regardless of mouse config. As far as I can tell, every app on my machine exploits this functionality.
So you are saying the military is like high school?
I'm sure they, like Miller and others, picked up a few microbreweries during the boom in the 90's
That would be Red Hook. Anheuser Busch owns 25% and handles national distribution and marketing. They also made a bid for Budvar, but the Czech government wouldn't sell.
That raises interesting questions. I believe the bulk of the killing and concentration took place between 1865 and 1880. That was the period during which Sherman waged his genocidal campaign. It was also during this period that the homestead act unleashed millions of colonists into the Indian territories. Like the Nazis, they superseded a deportation policy (The Indian Removal Act and the indian territory treaties) with one of extermination and concentration camps for the purpose of creating lebensraum. This was also the period of railroad expansion and the extermination of the buffalo, with the accompanying effect on hunter gatherer economies. But I don't have historical data on the extent of killings by time period. They didn't keep as detailed records as the Germans.
BTW, the German genocide didn't really extend to Croats. Germany created the modern nation state of Croatia (previously part of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, a.k.a Yugoslavia) and installed a puppet regime. They were, allies. Croats manned the concentration camps filled with Yugoslavian Jews, Bosnians and Serbs. There was Croat resistance of course. Tito, the most important Communist partisan leader, was a Croat. However, far more Croats fought on the Axis side, both in the regular military and the paramilitary Ustase. Or were you talking about the Serbian invasion of Croatia after the (perfectly constitutional) Croatian secession? Interestingly, I believe the current Croatia adopted the flag and currency of the Nazi sponsored Independent State of Croatia.
Uncle Cecil does not say the claims are untrue, merely "controversial." From your link,
All that having been said, fears of coercion weren't just paranoia. HEW had imposed relatively stringent regulations only because of a federal court order in 1974, issued after two poor black girls were involuntarily sterilized. The judge in that case noted that 100,000 to 150,000 poor women were being sterilized each year under federally funded programs. A fair number of them were Native Americans. Were some of them coerced? Possibly. All of them? No way. Many? I'm not buying it.
Other researchers differ and find flaws in the GAO report. The link above also disagrees with Cecil about the GAO's conclusions regarding consent,
The conclusion of the GAO investigation reported that IHS consent procedures lacked the basic elements of informed consent, particularly informing a patient orally of the advantages and disadvantages of sterilization. Furthermore, the consent form had only a summary of the oral presentation, and finally the form was lacking the information usually located at the top of the page notifying the patient that no federal benefits would be taken away if they did not accept sterilization (Wagner, 1977: 75).
I should probably have used the word coerced rather than involuntary, however it is not categorically untrue, as you claim. Merely controversial, as your source says.
At this point AIPAC probably employs more lobbyists than the total surviving population of the American Indian genocide.
Intent?
"We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children."
"The more we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians the more convinced I am that they allhave to be killed or maintained as a species of paupers. Their attempts at civilization are simply ridiculous."
"The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." -General Willliam T. Sherman
Texas maintained scalp bounties well into the 1870, reducing that state's several million natives to a few thousand by 1880. California after 1849 followed a similar script. Across the west, Indians were forced into concentration camps where their culture was systematically eradicated. Their children were adopted out into white families and shipped off to assimilating boarding schools en masse. As late as the 1970s the BIA was involuntarily sterilizing Indian women. Some researchers belive that by the time that program ended, more than 40% of Indian women of childbearing age had been sterilized.
Like I said, "We also know that they have enough plutonium to build one or two devices, and that they have a program to reprocess more. "
If you read my post you'll see I didn't say they cooperated with UNSCOM or even UNMOVIC. I said they allowed inspections. UNSCOM did a fantastic job of aggressive inspection. In the end, they said there were a few hundred shells unaccounted for. UNMOVIC later found most of those, the 122mm rockets you mention, which did not contain any agent. OTOH, Iraq did sometimes have legitimate arguments based on sovereignty, which the UN recognized, legal technicalities or other considerations. For instance in 2002 they strongly opposed allowing UNMOVIC to restart U2 flights. Their logic was that they were still in a warm war with the US and UK. Iraqi anti-aircraft crews fired on US/UK no fly zone patrols on a regular basis. If a U2 entered these zones it was likely to take a missile. Since the no fly zones were not UN sanctioned Iraq had every right to fight for her airspace. Now if Iraq was hiding facilities, this would have been a plausible ruse. As it turns out they weren't hiding anything, certainly nothing a U2 could find, so it seems pretty likely they were just afraid the US would use a smoking U2 as a pretext for invasion. They eventually ceded the flights.
Weekend in LA was classic album.
:-)
I took a class from Archie Shepp in college and he was adamant about the importance of maintaining Jazz's core connection to Blues and dance music. I once asked him some questions about Ascension (which he played on) and he said that album, and the Free revolution it unleashed, was a mistake. I nearly shit a cinderblock. We are talking about the album Bill Mathieu described as "possibly the most powerful human sound ever recorded."
That said Jazz and Blues go together like beans and cornbread. Especially minor blues. Excuse me while I go listen to a few different versions of Porgy and Bess.
Read the final UNMOVIC/IAEA report.
The Bush administration, notably Rumsfeld, actively lies about the specifics of UNSCOM's departure from Iraq, claiming Sadaam expelled them. The state department web site is slightly more circumspect, using the passive voice "were expelled" without subject. That is arguably accurate, so long as you claim it was Clinton who expelled them. Officially, they withdrew on their own.
Actually, we don't know that for a fact. We know that they claim to have them. We also know that they have enough plutonium to build one or two devices, and that they have a program to reprocess more. However, the regime's credibility is suspect, to say the least, and it is very much in their interests that the US and South Korea believe they have the bomb. The CIA has long felt that it is likely they built a couple devices around 1992, but we don't know anything "for a fact." Some analysts doubt their ability to develop a useful trigger. We probably won't know until they test a device.
He has very good tone as well. When I first heard him, on that floppy single he did for Guitar Player back in the 80s, I said "Damn! That's the sound I've been hearing in my head!" Unfortunately, everything came out sounding more like Joe Satriani. When I stopped pushing, I settled into my comfortable, more Zappaesque routine. But the rut got so bad I ended up quitting altogether. I just hated everything I played. :-(
Overall I'll take Sco any day. The way he plays those figures which flow between single notes, chords and intervals. It blows my mind. His playing is more three dimensional, i.e. no boundary between melody and harmony, than anyone I ever heard. Plus, his music is so diverse. Shinola is the about as punk as Jazz ever got.
Yeah, tempered scale is sort of an art. I had a friend who wouldn't use tuners for that reason. He felt they temperered too accurately, screwing up the harmonics and making everything sound out of tune. I never used a tuner enough to notice, but his views made sense to me. Here is an article on the subject.
Eric Johnson is a hell of a player, BTW, but his songwriting leaves something to be desired. Pretty impressive live.
Not at all. I am speaking from empirical observation. You are making a rationalist argument that these people couldn't believe this idiocy because it is illogical. But I have actually observed these people making the argument I described. For instance, when a congressional committee asked James Watt what whether he felt we had a responsibility to preserve the environment for future generations, he replied, "I do not know how many future generations we can count of before the Lord returns." Clearly, his apocalyptic faith influenced his anti-environmentalism.
The phenomenon of apocalyptic anti-environmentalism is similar to the increasingly popular Christian Zionism. These folks, including Speaker of the House Tom Delay, believe that the existence of the modern state of Israel is necessary to create appropriate conditions for their much anticipated apocalypse. Therefore they support Israel.
Now, I believe that apocalyptic anti-environmentalism is much more prevalent among the leadership and intelligentsia of the Evangelical community. The rank and file, a much more diverse group than most people realize, tend to hold more mainstream views on the environment. Likewise, most of them probably don't believe, as Falwell and Robertson (not to mention Osama Bin Laden) do, that god gave us "what we deserve" on 9/11. There is, in fact a pretty active evangelical environmentalist movement. However, it is not the rank and file Evangelicals who hold sway over the administration. So long as the leadership can deliver their vote, pretty much guaranteed by the abortion divide, the administration doesn't have to worry about them.
Unless like Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton's associate James Watt and so many other fundamentalist Christians, those in question (GW Bush?) believe "the earth was put here by the Lord for his people to subdue and to use for profitable purposes." Why preserve nature when Jesus is just going to come back and desroy it anyway? Sounds like a Christianity issue to me. The guy was Secretary of the Interior!
While GWB has many failings, A Yale MBA is not one of them. His daddy bought him a Harvard MBA, which is much more prestigous.
My favorite Dischord bands were Scream, Jawbox and Shudder to Think. Although, in college I really liked Rites of Spring and Beefeater, and in high school I liked Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Government Issue of course. All that Flex Your Head stuff.
But the first punk band to win my heart, and still my favorite rock band of all time, is Bad Brains. Best live act ever, especially on the Return To Heaven tour of 86-87. Unfortunately, their ideas on homosexuality border on Nazism.
Once, at a John Schofield gig I attended, a guy in the audience made fun of Scho for using a tuner. John snapped back nobody uses those anymore, except Bill Frisell, and he's weird. Maybe you had to be there.
For the record Schofield and Frizell are both brilliant players. I always tuned by ear.
IIRC from my DC days, it is pronounced it ghee pi-show-toe. At least that is how I remember Amy pronouncing it.
Yes, he was acting CEO. He was also the only member of Gil's management team to survive Steve's purge, IIRC.
Back in the day, I distributed System 7.5 bootable floppies much like your 7.1 disk and we ran tools off a NetaTalk server.
I guess Fred feels his work is done now, because he is calling it quits on June 1. Anderson has been instrumental in solving Apple's financial problems from the day Gil Amelio hired him in 1996. He created the company's large cash reserves by liquidating unnecessary capital investments (plant), issuing a convertible debenture and selling some of their valuable ARM holdings. Then he managed the investment of those funds astutely enough to make the conversion of those outstanding notes to common stock a huge win for both the company and creditors. That 1999 conversion alone eliminated about two thirds of Apple's long term debt (conversely that means the issue had assumed most of Apple's debt). Really, this guy has done an outstanding job. You can thank him for their sound financials.