Can't take credit for it unfortunately. Someone posted it anonymously in response to some comment on the HR 1022 bill (renewal of the "assult" weapon ban) on some news site somewhere... Personally I'd love to give 'em credit too...
BOSTON - National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19th by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as "criminals," issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily." Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington's town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces overmatched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat. Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.
Right. Because the original M16 (and A1 IIRC) were true full auto, but *training* soldiers to fire only 3 round bursts just didn't work. FA is effective when you either have LARGE ammounts of ammo (suppressing fire w/ belt fed weapon like M60) or when you use it for short controlled bursts, 2 to 6 shots. Couldn't train the bursts, so they did it mechanical.
(personally I think its a shame our boys in the sandbox are stuck with the M16 when there are better calibers and platforms available... FN-FAL is my choice...)
No they should teach the basic cross application (and version) skills, not a specific application/version. That way, when bold moves from "formatting" to "font" or something, they can still make something bold.
Yup. Use them myself. Sure, they cost 2x what godaddy does, but their free service has been invaluable to me (and others) over the years, least I can do is spend $45/year supporting them *and* getting my domains....
Here's one. Working at a community college, we have 3.5 separate departments/groups of people who "know" computers. Theres ITS - including network ops, mainframe ops, all the servers, connectivity, etc. Then theres Academic Technologies - all the student labs, computers, etc. Then theres the CIS/ITE staff, teaching things like programming, networking, etc. And then the.5 group is the business degree folks, but they offer classes in F/OSS software (ITE doesn't, except a Linux admin class), etc.
FAQ is wrong then. Correct answer is "maybe. is there anyone out there with the skills to do it and desparate enough to use your particular bit of kit to do it?"
Same thing happened wiht our college presidents emails... I have a special filter for him to go into his own box, but for some reason Mozilla was marking them as junk mail...
I'm in the same boat, but we're evaluating new LMSs 'cause we use WebCT 4.1 still and it will go to level B support Jan of '08. Havent' found one that is as easy to use (with no instruction, etc) as CE 4.x yet tho... be interesting to discuss w/ you over email.
NFS turned from a game where you race unobtanium cars on spectacular tracks
Dunno about unobtainium whole cars, but if you like the NFS Porsche Unleashed, you can still buy 356s (even Carreras, but they are way expensive) for less than a new Honda, Toyota, etc. or similar. Not to mention the 912, early 911s, etc. Heck, even the waterpumpers (944 series) are dirt cheap (less than $5k)
But I'll admit that I'd never drive my 356 the way I drive in the game
Here in Fl. it is based on your date of birth and your full name without vowels. Had a program on my 8088 that would take that info and spit out the correct DL number, or allow you to enter a DL number and it would spit out the name (no vowels) and DOB.
Buy from Dell as a business not a home user, and you'll get the optiplex line which is not only better, but comes with a 3 year next day on site parts replacement warranty... they'll even send someone to install it if you don't want to. Only thing I like about Dell...
Of course, there is an Alice's Resturant in the little town I live in, and it happens to be not far from the railroad tracks. So I've seen Alice - and you probably *do not want* her - she's about 97 and her wrinkles have wrinkles. Nice lady tho, has a good cook that makes a killer breakfast and good chicken and dumplins. Biscuits need work though - too buttery.
........... And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over..........
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Can't take credit for it unfortunately. Someone posted it anonymously in response to some comment on the HR 1022 bill (renewal of the "assult" weapon ban) on some news site somewhere... Personally I'd love to give 'em credit too...
Yup. Just unplug the network cable (and don't go wireless) and post a physical guard for hte physical security.
BOSTON - National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19th by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as "criminals," issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily." Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington's town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored,
armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces overmatched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat. Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.
April 20, 1775
Right. Because the original M16 (and A1 IIRC) were true full auto, but *training* soldiers to fire only 3 round bursts just didn't work. FA is effective when you either have LARGE ammounts of ammo (suppressing fire w/ belt fed weapon like M60) or when you use it for short controlled bursts, 2 to 6 shots. Couldn't train the bursts, so they did it mechanical.
(personally I think its a shame our boys in the sandbox are stuck with the M16 when there are better calibers and platforms available... FN-FAL is my choice...)
No they should teach the basic cross application (and version) skills, not a specific application/version. That way, when bold moves from "formatting" to "font" or something, they can still make something bold.
Yup. Use them myself. Sure, they cost 2x what godaddy does, but their free service has been invaluable to me (and others) over the years, least I can do is spend $45/year supporting them *and* getting my domains....
Here's one. Working at a community college, we have 3.5 separate departments/groups of people who "know" computers. Theres ITS - including network ops, mainframe ops, all the servers, connectivity, etc. Then theres Academic Technologies - all the student labs, computers, etc. Then theres the CIS/ITE staff, teaching things like programming, networking, etc. And then the .5 group is the business degree folks, but they offer classes in F/OSS software (ITE doesn't, except a Linux admin class), etc.
Lets not forget the 2nd Amendment... and yes, there has been armed revolt against local law enforcement. http://www.jpfo.org/athens.htm
Except VLC uses (or used a few months ago) their own version of ffmpeg, etc.
FAQ is wrong then. Correct answer is "maybe. is there anyone out there with the skills to do it and desparate enough to use your particular bit of kit to do it?"
Same thing happened wiht our college presidents emails... I have a special filter for him to go into his own box, but for some reason Mozilla was marking them as junk mail...
Used to but the goatse.cx domain has expired....
I'm in the same boat, but we're evaluating new LMSs 'cause we use WebCT 4.1 still and it will go to level B support Jan of '08. Havent' found one that is as easy to use (with no instruction, etc) as CE 4.x yet tho... be interesting to discuss w/ you over email.
NFS turned from a game where you race unobtanium cars on spectacular tracks
Dunno about unobtainium whole cars, but if you like the NFS Porsche Unleashed, you can still buy 356s (even Carreras, but they are way expensive) for less than a new Honda, Toyota, etc. or similar. Not to mention the 912, early 911s, etc. Heck, even the waterpumpers (944 series) are dirt cheap (less than $5k)
But I'll admit that I'd never drive my 356 the way I drive in the game
And googling around, I found more info on how they are generated. It also has a java applet that will do name to number to name
s hared.html
http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_
Here in Fl. it is based on your date of birth and your full name without vowels. Had a program on my 8088 that would take that info and spit out the correct DL number, or allow you to enter a DL number and it would spit out the name (no vowels) and DOB.
Buy from Dell as a business not a home user, and you'll get the optiplex line which is not only better, but comes with a 3 year next day on site parts replacement warranty... they'll even send someone to install it if you don't want to. Only thing I like about Dell...
Except Alice.
Of course, there is an Alice's Resturant in the little town I live in, and it happens to be not far from the railroad tracks. So I've seen Alice - and you probably *do not want* her - she's about 97 and her wrinkles have wrinkles. Nice lady tho, has a good cook that makes a killer breakfast and good chicken and dumplins. Biscuits need work though - too buttery.
........... And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over..........
Of course it isn't a country - it doesn't have a beer, and it doesn't have an airline.
Been discussed many times before. Whole lot of nothing.
No Evolution is that outlook like email app that comes with gnome...
Oh, you mean like gunbroker.com ? No listing fees for simple listings, they make their money on sale prices. No sale, no fee to GB.
Not too suprising - the browser built into the Nokia 770 is a customized Opera, it works great...
Roadkill evolution - notice how an armadillo looks like it already has tire tracks on it?