"...the only reason for changing video standards would be to prevent their monitor working if it detected unapproved content, or to prevent their digital video recorder working, or to prevent their HDTV card working."
Don't forget the all-important function of making everybody shell out for new equipment.
"He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death."
Is that a rule, or perhaps just a prediction and a warning? In other words, was the big G sayin' "If somebody kills somebody else I want yall to be sure and kill them for it" or was it more like "Anybody who kills somebody else better watch out, 'cause another somebody else is liable to kill them"?
"Hitler mandated that circles in the reich must have 400 degrees. That obviously, went as far as the reich did."
I'm not any kind of math whiz but scientific calculators have a button for converting between degrees, radians, and that other thing and I thought I remembered that other thing having something to do with the number 400. A little Googling reminded me that that other thing is a "grad", and apparently either the metric crazed French Revolution or the British military are to blame.
Fortunately there's no Third Reich button on modern day calculators.
"In that case, I'll just drop the SBC service, let Speakeasy have the line entirely to themselves..."
What line? The copper pair that runs to your house? I suspect that SBC owns that, and that you won't be getting anything over it they don't allow you to have. If you want VOIP you'll probably have to get a cable modem.
Earthlink may be forced out of the DSL business where you are, but here in eastern N.C. Sprint (which bought up Carolina Tel & Tel several years back and which also apparently still owns some Earthlink stock) only offers Earthlink over DSL. If they dumped Earthlink a lot of subscribers would probably switch to Earthlink over cable to keep the same email addresses. (Around here Time-Warner cable only offers Earthlink other than the two ISPs they own, AOL and RoadRunner).
Earthlink may take a hit on DSL in some markets but I think they'll survive (and considering that they bought the ISP that I wound up with after two other mergers/buyouts and now own my email addresses domain, I hope they don't evaporate. Also since if I ever have to go to cable for access I don't want to depend on TW for both the wire and the ISP'ing, having experienced having them as a cable tv provider)
California's electrical problems really only arose after a criminally stupid version of de-regulation which forced the big power companies there to separate into two parts, one being still-regulated power distributing companies (which inherited pension and other financial obligations) who had to buy electricity in bulk on the spot market instead of being able to negotiate long term contracts, and the other part being power generating companies (this is the part that the big investors moved their money into) that were free to sell to whoever they wanted to.
Just another example of privatizing gains and socializing losses.
"Where can you get a turn-table that can play one of those?"
In an old radio station's junk pile, perhaps. There used to be transcription disks (like what let Armed Forces Radio broadcast stuff like Bob Hope and Jack Benny to troops overseas during WWII) that were bigger than the standard 12" 33 1/3 rpm album. The old WMBL-Morehead City, N.C. studios on Radio Island had turntables with platters about as big around as garbage can lids.
"But one thing deserves the troll marker. The strong remarks should deal with the issue at hand, and not with who says it."
In the course of meta-modding I found your comment while looking at the context thread for Doc Ruby's comment #13165986 a few levels up.
I decided to call the troll mod unfair, but if that comment had contained the personal attacks his succeeding comments displayed I would not have done so. I've noticed he tends to attract a lot of negative mods and I wonder if sometimes in his case it isn't the comment that gets modded so much as it is the author. I fear he is his own worst enemy despite many intelligent amd insightful points he makes.
I wish it were possible (or at least feasable) for sincere moderators and meta-moderators to consult and collaborate. I frequently give positive meta-mods even if I don't agree with the moderation because I thought it reasonable that the moderator felt that way about the comment, but I often wish I could explain to a moderator why I meta-modded against them.
If you're the one who has to maintain that "Hello World" program you'll quickly learn to appreciate the difference that using a good programmer made, espcially with regard to the documentation.
"The problem at current with the democrat party..."
...is that you've used a noun to modify a noun when you should have used an adjective. It's Democratic party, regardless of the attempts of the Republicans to always say "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" so as to be able to use it as an epithet.
"The military is still composed of PEOPLE, ordinary Americans who would have to be somehow be persuaded to use that awesome weaponry against their fellow citizens."
You might want to read up on the bonus army, especially the part where Douglas MacArthur vastly exceeded orders in his zeal to attack fellow WWI veterans.
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Since somebody beat me to the father of Worf joke I'll just observe that no matter which way you pronounce it, it needs more cowbell.
Don't forget the all-important function of making everybody shell out for new equipment.
I prefer to think of our presidents serving terms too, but it's so hard to get a conviction.
...Algae?"
Since I couldn't meta-mod the "troll" mod as "didn't get the joke" I just marked it unfair.
Is that a rule, or perhaps just a prediction and a warning? In other words, was the big G sayin' "If somebody kills somebody else I want yall to be sure and kill them for it" or was it more like "Anybody who kills somebody else better watch out, 'cause another somebody else is liable to kill them"?
If things differ, they differ from one another.
In a comparison one thing may have more of a particular qualitly than the other.
Thus OpenServer is different from UnixWare and I leave it to others to decide which one is more springtime fresh and breezy than the other.
I'm not any kind of math whiz but scientific calculators have a button for converting between degrees, radians, and that other thing and I thought I remembered that other thing having something to do with the number 400. A little Googling reminded me that that other thing is a "grad", and apparently either the metric crazed French Revolution or the British military are to blame.
Fortunately there's no Third Reich button on modern day calculators.
What line? The copper pair that runs to your house? I suspect that SBC owns that, and that you won't be getting anything over it they don't allow you to have. If you want VOIP you'll probably have to get a cable modem.
Earthlink may take a hit on DSL in some markets but I think they'll survive (and considering that they bought the ISP that I wound up with after two other mergers/buyouts and now own my email addresses domain, I hope they don't evaporate. Also since if I ever have to go to cable for access I don't want to depend on TW for both the wire and the ISP'ing, having experienced having them as a cable tv provider)
Just another example of privatizing gains and socializing losses.
At $900, shouldn't those specs include DVD play and record, video record to the hard drive(s), and a couple of TV tuners?
You can also access rec.audio.pro with Google Groups.
Anyone know a newsreader client that works and looks like Google Groups did back in 2003?
In an old radio station's junk pile, perhaps. There used to be transcription disks (like what let Armed Forces Radio broadcast stuff like Bob Hope and Jack Benny to troops overseas during WWII) that were bigger than the standard 12" 33 1/3 rpm album. The old WMBL-Morehead City, N.C. studios on Radio Island had turntables with platters about as big around as garbage can lids.
So are you going to program her with a UV PROM or an EE PROM?
And you'll know for an absolute fact that they don't have back doors how, exactly?
Methinks you misspelled "Pete Townshend".
In the course of meta-modding I found your comment while looking at the context thread for Doc Ruby's comment #13165986 a few levels up.
I decided to call the troll mod unfair, but if that comment had contained the personal attacks his succeeding comments displayed I would not have done so. I've noticed he tends to attract a lot of negative mods and I wonder if sometimes in his case it isn't the comment that gets modded so much as it is the author. I fear he is his own worst enemy despite many intelligent amd insightful points he makes.
I wish it were possible (or at least feasable) for sincere moderators and meta-moderators to consult and collaborate. I frequently give positive meta-mods even if I don't agree with the moderation because I thought it reasonable that the moderator felt that way about the comment, but I often wish I could explain to a moderator why I meta-modded against them.
God wasn't engineered, He was "intellligently designed". :-)
If you're the one who has to maintain that "Hello World" program you'll quickly learn to appreciate the difference that using a good programmer made, espcially with regard to the documentation.
She didn't try to censor anything, she just wanted accurate content descriptions so that parents could make informed decisions.
So you don't appreciate America's God-given right to vote for the lesser of two weasels?
...is that you've used a noun to modify a noun when you should have used an adjective. It's Democratic party, regardless of the attempts of the Republicans to always say "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" so as to be able to use it as an epithet.
You might want to read up on the bonus army, especially the part where Douglas MacArthur vastly exceeded orders in his zeal to attack fellow WWI veterans.
d)they don't have to fight the humidity