I can't wait until the corporations see that every secretary in the office has to have 2GB of RAM - or they have to support 2000 and XP themselves after "end of life" - which will be about five minutes after Vista ships, since Gates may be an asshole, but he's not stupid.
I can't wait to see the minimum disk space, too. Forget about putting Vista on a Bart's PE flash drive...even if you have a 4GB one.
The issue is direct support for the NTFS file system.
Other than the Captive utility, Linux can not do read-write reliably on NTFS. Supposedly, even with the Captive utility, the files do not work right with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (I haven't verified this, I read this somewhere.)
The Captive utility is a great idea, but it basically just puts a wrapper around the Windows NTFS file system driver. So it's not that different in concept from Bart's PE. But having native NTFS support is very useful. You can then do things like run Windows specific AV and spyware cleaners that can access the NTFS file system.
Yes, this is exactly why I accuse said Microsoft employee (who now claims to be a FORMER employee - woop-de-do - NOW he tells the truth?), who posts a few posts above, of being a FUCKING LIAR.
Pardon me - I suspect you are a FUCKING LIAR - even if you're not currently working for Microsoft. We know everyone who IS working for Microsoft is a FUCKING LIAR, so I'm afraid you're suspect until proven otherwise.
It seems to me YOUR explanation walks a fine line between claiming Bart's PE IS Windows PE and then saying he "reverse engineered" the entire build process.
Well, if the BUILD process is not yours, then the PE is not yours, regardless of its layout. The point of the PE is to enable Windows to run before being installed. If the files are the same, but there was NO build process except "manually" doing this, what difference does it make if the PE layout is the same - whether it was built by a third party app, or manually?
The bottom line is this: a user is taking their own properly licensed files and using a third party application to construct a PE that works the same as Windows PE.
Clearly the files may be the same, but I see no evidence in your post that there is anything there against the EULA - unless the EULA says that a user may not take Windows files from a hard drive and put them on a CD. Is Microsoft's EULA that precise about allowed usage of the product? Does Microsoft claim that a properly licensed end user of Windows cannot take, for example, one of command line executables, put it on a CD, and run it from there? That's ALL that's happening here.
And since you rely on Microsoft's fucking lawyers for that opinion, it's worthless.
This is fucking ridiculous. One more reason to tell Gates to stick Windows up his ass.
Uhm, it is my understanding that Bart pulled the original PE version he had used and built one from scratch. He discusses this very issue on his site.
As for the files used by it, they come from your properly licensed Windows XP copy.
Unless Microsoft is saying their fucking EULA does not permit you to move files from a hard disk to a CD, I think said Microsoft spokesmen is yet another FUCKING LIAR from Microsoft.
I never said FEMA didn't suck before. I'm sure it did. It's job was NEVER to protect the citizenry, but to protect the state from insurrection. Everything else is window dressing for public consumption.
That doesn't excuse Bush's inept handling of the situation.
So NO received more money than other states - whoop-de-doo. Did they get enough? Not according to the Corps of Engineers. Deal with the real issue, not the irrelevancies.
Sure, the money they did get got diverted to pork. The same Congressional fuckwads that signed the budget cutting the budget made sure the budget that was there got diverted. Standard politics in this fucked up country. I don't give a shit whether it was Demos or Pubs, but you can bet the Pubs were in on it just as much as the Demos - and Bush is a Pub. Deal with it.
And the FEMA response to the rest of the disaster area seems to be in line with their NO fuckup. So what's relevant about that?
Or you could easily have this scenario, which is reportedly being considered:
The entire city is going to be destroyed, according to some reports. (Not to mention that every habitation will be searched for "hazardous chemicals" before doing this - thus resulting in the most organized looting anyone has ever seen since the fall of Baghdad.)
Then the residents will be dunned for the cost of destroying the "uninhabitable" residences and office buildings.
They won't be able to pay (or probably even know they've been dunned, since they are scattered to the four winds), so the property gets seized and auctioned off for pennies on the dollar to developers who will then rebuild the city (with generous government loans from the politicians they regularly bribe).
Except the city will be rebuilt for middle class white citizens, corporate headquarters, casinos, whatever. Blacks need not apply for housing.
Meanwhile, Halliburton and the other Bush cronies will get scores of billions to "rebuild", to "sanitize", to "upgrade", etc., etc.
This disaster is the best opportunity since Iraq for total, large-scale, mass looting by the people who run this country.
As to moving aircraft around, TODAY there are several Blackhawk choppers from Floria whose air crews are reportedly "livid" because instead of being used to drop food and supplies, they're being used to ferry CNN news crews around.
As for assets, I wonder if you saw the Shepard Smith Fox News reporter interviewed where he pointed out that there is a bridge right near the Convention Center that leads to another parish where the damage is much less and there is food, water, etc.
And if you go near that bridge, the National Guard checkpoint turns you right around back into NO.
He was unable to find anyone with FEMA or the NG who could explain this reasoning.
As for the NO cops, around twenty or thirty percent of them abandoned their jobs according to one article I saw.
I saw a list of FEMA decisions today that was just ridiculous. Right on their Web site supposedly there is a notice requesting "first responders" NOT to respond to this crisis. They have refused to use the Navy hospital ship in the Gulf, they are blocking several reverse osmosis water production units that could produce 250,000 gallons of fresh water from entering the city, they blocked the state-of-the-art mobile hospital built by DHS for exactly this situation from entering the city, they refused to let the Coast Guard deliver fuel, they blocked Wal-Mart's three trailer trucks full of bottled water, and on and on.
Yes, they have fucked up. Whoever ELSE fucked up is not the issue at this point. FEMA was in charge effective when Bush declared the city a disaster area and SINCE then they have fucked up royally according to EVERY news report and personal recounting I've seen.
AND I heard EXACTLY the same stories from people from Florida during the last big hurricanes there.
So nothing's changed in the last couple years at FEMA.
Word from somebody on Boing Boing is that as far as anyone can tell, FEMA has fucked up so badly they have been marginalized and the National Guard is in charge now.
Unfortunately, they seem to think they're still in Iraq and are behaving accordingly. An Australian paper reported they shot several people walking on a bridge who were then determined to be DOD workers (I'm NOT sure whether the shooters were Guard or local cops, as I don't remember the article details.) Also they are blocking access to aid workers of all kinds, preventing a lot of aid from entering the city.
As for why we have FEMA, it's simple: it's job is to protect the state from an "emergency" (read: civilians shooting politicians in an insurgent manner OR the Federal government shooting citizens in an oppressive manner). That's it - everything else is window dressing for public consumption.
The problem with your argument is that Bush declared NO a national disaster almost immediately.
At that point FEMA was in charge.
And SINCE that point, FEMA has fucked up in a way which is clearly the responsibility of the morons running it - who happen to be George Bush's political cronies.
Bottom line: Bush assigned incompetent political cronies to run FEMA, Bush folded FEMA into DHS where it was starved for funds (supposedly, I can't cite anything other than what I've read about that and I don't have the cites in front of me), and Bush slashed the levee budget in favor of Iraq, thus CONTINUING the errors of previous Presidents.
All in all, the buck stops at the White House.
And I am not a "partisan", because I'm an anarchist, not a Democrat. I'm sure Clinton would have fucked this up as well in favor of HIS political cronies and his pet projects.
Especially since the bucks responsible for upgrading the levee system were PERSONALLY slashed from the budget and diverted to Iraq - which in itself was a fucking moronic operation.
Not to mention the moronic folding of FEMA into DHS,as has been pointed out by every commentator in the last week. Which was no surprise to me, since FEMA's primary mandate is to secure the state, not the citizenry, in an emergency. In fact, the only "emergency" FEMA is mandated to "manage" is a threat against the state. It's no accident they're the ones with the authority to do all the things the conspiracy buffs like to cite.
Check out Kerio Personal Firewall for a firewall. I don't use the 4.x version since it's fairly intrusive, but the older 2.1.5 version can still be found on the Net. I prefer it over ZoneAlarm since it's simple and lightweight and effective.
I also add Spyware Blaster to the mix since SpyBot even recommends it in their own software.
Well, there's always Avast, which is what I'm currently running since AVG started having bizarre problems that I couldn't be bothered to debug.
I used AVG for the last couple years and it worked fine until it started turning off the email scanner for no known reason. Not that big a deal, but irritating enough for me to dump it and switch to Avast, which so far is performing admirably.
AVG isn't the top scorer in AV tests, but it works fine for home users. I always install it on my clients who don't have AVs or expired AVs. Actually I should install Avast for them since AVG occasionally has overloaded server problems with the automated updates, whereas Avast doesn't seem to.
"1) Nobody who actually planned how a nuclear war was to be fought has actually told us; 2) no nuclear was has ever been fought; and 3) wars never turn out exactly as planned, so I doubt you're in a position to make this assertion."
The assertion is based on the simple fact that if the US hit Russia first, Russia's weapons (except for submarines) would be toast. If Russia hit the US first, all of the US's SECOND-STRIKE weapons would be toast (unless our ABM defenses proved extremely effective, which is doubtful.) The US first-strike weapons would presumably be launched on sufficient warning.
In either case, MOST of the world's weapons would be destroyed in the first hour. The submarine weapons would be one-megaton at best (and the following references indicate 500 KT or less) and directed at specific targets - not spread all over the continent. Any notion of "massive indiscriminate retaliation" is nonsense.
(1) Targeting. The TTAPS paper uses a baseline case of 5000 megatonnes (MT), supplemented by a wide range of other scenarios which also lead to nuclear winter effects. Though in general terms some of the scenarios appear reasonable, no detailed strategic rationale is offered for any of them[22]. A cynic might say that the key characteristic of the scenarios is that they produce sufficient smoke or dust to produce nuclear winter. This is illustrated by the 100MT scenario, which is often misinterpreted as 100 bombs on 100 cities. Actually it involves 1000 bombs and the burning of a vast number of cities each of just the right size. It is easy to misinterpret the results for this scenario as showing that any 100MT war is enough to trigger nuclear winter, whereas any militarily realistic targeting of 100MT would cause relatively few cities to burn and probably produce little cooling according to present models.
If the scenarios had been designed to produce a spread of soot injections rather than a fairly constant soot injection for different megatonnages, the result of nuclear winter would have seemed more sensitive to variations in targeting.
Ehrlich et al. concentrate on a 10,000MT scenario which generates more severe environmental effects than either the Ambio scenario[23] or the TTAPS baseline case. They state that they take the TTAPS 10,000MT 'severe' case as their reference case because of policy implications[24]. (According to Michael MacCracken, TTAPS in their draft paper presented a 10,000MT baseline. After receiving comments, they corrected an error of a factor of 2 in the smoke density and also reset the baseline to 5000MT. These two changes counteracted each other, leaving the baseline consequences unchanged. Ehrlich et al. considered a maximum but to them plausible scenario which, after the factor of 2 adjustment, turned out to be the TTAPS 10,000MT scenario[25].)
"Non-propagandizing scientists recently have calculated that the climatic and other environmental effects of even an all-out nuclear war would be much less severe than the catastrophic effects repeatedly publicized by popular astronomer Carl Sagan and his fellow activist scientists, and by all the involved Soviet scientists. Conclusions reached from these recent, realistic calculations are summarized in an article, "Nuclear Winter Reappraised", featured in the 1986 summer issue of Foreign Affairs, the prestigious quarterly of the Council on Foreign Relations. The authors, Starley L. Thompson and Stephen H. Schneider, are atmospheric scientists with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. They showed " that
'Yates reiterated the Microsoft does not intend to natively support the OpenDocument format, which he said was very specific to the OpenOffice.org 2.0 open source productivity suite.
Microsoft has since confirmed this view.
A Microsoft executive said last week, after the report was released, that Microsoft will not support OpenDocument in its next version of Office 12 as it believed the format to be inferior and said is not compatible with older versions of Office, , according to InformationWeek.
Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's Information Worker Business Strategy, told CRN last Friday that Office 12 would not support OpenDocument because "the Office 12 formats pay special attention to compatibility with older document versions, [and] other formats do not concern themselves with this important issue."'
Anybody knows that OpenOffice is adequately compatible with older Office formats, and that Microsoft's OWN suite is NOT. Also, OpenOffice 2.0 is specifically intended to be MORE compatible with Office for the obvious reason that it needs to be.
This is their "standard" excuse now for not supporting standards such as CSS: "The standard is 'inferior'."
To WHAT? THEIR "standard" - which doesn't even exist?
This is more proof that Microsoft personnel authorized to speak to the public are unmitigated LIARS. NOTHING that comes out of the mouth of a Microsoft employee - or a/. Microsoft shill - is to be believed.
Interesting. I'm glad I only tried it in the live CD mode.
This is truly idiotic, since any Linux distro can be installed anywhere. It emphasizes what I told Robertson in my email - that his geeks need to stop doing "Not Invented Here" and do it like the other distros do it.
Naah, they'd never do that. That's for the likes of Britney, Christina, Jessica and Mariah.
The Corrs are class - not to mention good Irish Catholic girls - unfortunately.
Actually, I prefer Sharon anyway - not that I'd refuse Andrea under any circumstances - or even Caroline.
I'm referring to the lack of promo and hype for their new album. A lot of Corrs fans are pissed that the record label is virtually ignoring it as far as promo goes; with a release date three weeks away, it's only had one song played on the radio in Europe, and it won't even be released in the US until spring 2006 - if at all. The guy that discovered them, Jason Flom, has been tossed out of his CEO job at Atlanta Records, and they're no longer at Atlanta, only at Atlanta UK.
Given they're one of the top selling bands world-wide, you gotta wonder what the label is thinking. It's almost like they DON'T want to sell CDs in order to justify IP laws prohibiting downloading. A little "Reichstag Fire" principle applied to the music business, I think.
Worked for me at the Excel class I took over the summer (just to keep working at the college, as well as refresh my basic Excel knowledge).
While futzing around, I decided to try embedding a video into a spreadsheet since I had CDs full of Corrs videos in my bag and I knew Excel could do it.
After I figured it out (don't create a video object, just grab the file), I showed the teacher my genius, and she asked me to demonstrate it to the class. (Strange teacher, she kept saying she loved me because of my contributions to the class. I told her yeah, but you haven't given me any benefit from her love yet...)
So we sat and watched a Corrs video, which led to several students asking me who they were. I explained, they wrote down the name, and probably went out and downloaded or bought some more Corrs stuff.
Wallah! New fans created!
Now if only the Corrs could figure this out and start using their Web site more effectively...
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It wasn't a mistake.
It was a deliberate attempt to compromise ESR by tricking him into actually conducting some sort of "dialog" with these MS assholes.
Fortunately, his acerbity kicked in and his response was entirely correct. So their little plan didn't work.
You want to stay with Microsoft?
You pay the hardware cost.
I can't wait until the corporations see that every secretary in the office has to have 2GB of RAM - or they have to support 2000 and XP themselves after "end of life" - which will be about five minutes after Vista ships, since Gates may be an asshole, but he's not stupid.
I can't wait to see the minimum disk space, too. Forget about putting Vista on a Bart's PE flash drive...even if you have a 4GB one.
The issue is direct support for the NTFS file system.
Other than the Captive utility, Linux can not do read-write reliably on NTFS. Supposedly, even with the Captive utility, the files do not work right with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (I haven't verified this, I read this somewhere.)
The Captive utility is a great idea, but it basically just puts a wrapper around the Windows NTFS file system driver. So it's not that different in concept from Bart's PE. But having native NTFS support is very useful. You can then do things like run Windows specific AV and spyware cleaners that can access the NTFS file system.
Yes, this is exactly why I accuse said Microsoft employee (who now claims to be a FORMER employee - woop-de-do - NOW he tells the truth?), who posts a few posts above, of being a FUCKING LIAR.
Pardon me - I suspect you are a FUCKING LIAR - even if you're not currently working for Microsoft. We know everyone who IS working for Microsoft is a FUCKING LIAR, so I'm afraid you're suspect until proven otherwise.
It seems to me YOUR explanation walks a fine line between claiming Bart's PE IS Windows PE and then saying he "reverse engineered" the entire build process.
Well, if the BUILD process is not yours, then the PE is not yours, regardless of its layout. The point of the PE is to enable Windows to run before being installed. If the files are the same, but there was NO build process except "manually" doing this, what difference does it make if the PE layout is the same - whether it was built by a third party app, or manually?
The bottom line is this: a user is taking their own properly licensed files and using a third party application to construct a PE that works the same as Windows PE.
Clearly the files may be the same, but I see no evidence in your post that there is anything there against the EULA - unless the EULA says that a user may not take Windows files from a hard drive and put them on a CD. Is Microsoft's EULA that precise about allowed usage of the product? Does Microsoft claim that a properly licensed end user of Windows cannot take, for example, one of command line executables, put it on a CD, and run it from there? That's ALL that's happening here.
And since you rely on Microsoft's fucking lawyers for that opinion, it's worthless.
This is fucking ridiculous. One more reason to tell Gates to stick Windows up his ass.
Uhm, it is my understanding that Bart pulled the original PE version he had used and built one from scratch. He discusses this very issue on his site.
As for the files used by it, they come from your properly licensed Windows XP copy.
Unless Microsoft is saying their fucking EULA does not permit you to move files from a hard disk to a CD, I think said Microsoft spokesmen is yet another FUCKING LIAR from Microsoft.
I'm not sure about the rest of you morons.
I take that back.
I AM sure about the rest of you morons.
Fine - push the hurricane out another five years. Push it out twenty years.
Make you happy? Same result.
Slashed is slashed, moron. Slashed means it doesn't get fixed. We just happened to get hit this year.
What does this change to the argument?
Bush slashed the budget. What part of this can't you comprehend?
I never said FEMA didn't suck before. I'm sure it did. It's job was NEVER to protect the citizenry, but to protect the state from insurrection. Everything else is window dressing for public consumption.
That doesn't excuse Bush's inept handling of the situation.
So NO received more money than other states - whoop-de-doo. Did they get enough? Not according to the Corps of Engineers. Deal with the real issue, not the irrelevancies.
Sure, the money they did get got diverted to pork. The same Congressional fuckwads that signed the budget cutting the budget made sure the budget that was there got diverted. Standard politics in this fucked up country. I don't give a shit whether it was Demos or Pubs, but you can bet the Pubs were in on it just as much as the Demos - and Bush is a Pub. Deal with it.
And the FEMA response to the rest of the disaster area seems to be in line with their NO fuckup. So what's relevant about that?
This makes everything right with you?
BUT he continued the same policy.
The partisanship is not the issue.
His actions are.
Dragging in partisanship is just a red herring and an excuse to shift the blame from Bush for HIS actions.
Or you could easily have this scenario, which is reportedly being considered:
The entire city is going to be destroyed, according to some reports. (Not to mention that every habitation will be searched for "hazardous chemicals" before doing this - thus resulting in the most organized looting anyone has ever seen since the fall of Baghdad.)
Then the residents will be dunned for the cost of destroying the "uninhabitable" residences and office buildings.
They won't be able to pay (or probably even know they've been dunned, since they are scattered to the four winds), so the property gets seized and auctioned off for pennies on the dollar to developers who will then rebuild the city (with generous government loans from the politicians they regularly bribe).
Except the city will be rebuilt for middle class white citizens, corporate headquarters, casinos, whatever. Blacks need not apply for housing.
Meanwhile, Halliburton and the other Bush cronies will get scores of billions to "rebuild", to "sanitize", to "upgrade", etc., etc.
This disaster is the best opportunity since Iraq for total, large-scale, mass looting by the people who run this country.
As to moving aircraft around, TODAY there are several Blackhawk choppers from Floria whose air crews are reportedly "livid" because instead of being used to drop food and supplies, they're being used to ferry CNN news crews around.
As for assets, I wonder if you saw the Shepard Smith Fox News reporter interviewed where he pointed out that there is a bridge right near the Convention Center that leads to another parish where the damage is much less and there is food, water, etc.
And if you go near that bridge, the National Guard checkpoint turns you right around back into NO.
He was unable to find anyone with FEMA or the NG who could explain this reasoning.
As for the NO cops, around twenty or thirty percent of them abandoned their jobs according to one article I saw.
I saw a list of FEMA decisions today that was just ridiculous. Right on their Web site supposedly there is a notice requesting "first responders" NOT to respond to this crisis. They have refused to use the Navy hospital ship in the Gulf, they are blocking several reverse osmosis water production units that could produce 250,000 gallons of fresh water from entering the city, they blocked the state-of-the-art mobile hospital built by DHS for exactly this situation from entering the city, they refused to let the Coast Guard deliver fuel, they blocked Wal-Mart's three trailer trucks full of bottled water, and on and on.
Yes, they have fucked up. Whoever ELSE fucked up is not the issue at this point. FEMA was in charge effective when Bush declared the city a disaster area and SINCE then they have fucked up royally according to EVERY news report and personal recounting I've seen.
AND I heard EXACTLY the same stories from people from Florida during the last big hurricanes there.
So nothing's changed in the last couple years at FEMA.
Word from somebody on Boing Boing is that as far as anyone can tell, FEMA has fucked up so badly they have been marginalized and the National Guard is in charge now.
Unfortunately, they seem to think they're still in Iraq and are behaving accordingly. An Australian paper reported they shot several people walking on a bridge who were then determined to be DOD workers (I'm NOT sure whether the shooters were Guard or local cops, as I don't remember the article details.) Also they are blocking access to aid workers of all kinds, preventing a lot of aid from entering the city.
As for why we have FEMA, it's simple: it's job is to protect the state from an "emergency" (read: civilians shooting politicians in an insurgent manner OR the Federal government shooting citizens in an oppressive manner). That's it - everything else is window dressing for public consumption.
The problem with your argument is that Bush declared NO a national disaster almost immediately.
At that point FEMA was in charge.
And SINCE that point, FEMA has fucked up in a way which is clearly the responsibility of the morons running it - who happen to be George Bush's political cronies.
Bottom line: Bush assigned incompetent political cronies to run FEMA, Bush folded FEMA into DHS where it was starved for funds (supposedly, I can't cite anything other than what I've read about that and I don't have the cites in front of me), and Bush slashed the levee budget in favor of Iraq, thus CONTINUING the errors of previous Presidents.
All in all, the buck stops at the White House.
And I am not a "partisan", because I'm an anarchist, not a Democrat. I'm sure Clinton would have fucked this up as well in favor of HIS political cronies and his pet projects.
That doesn't excuse Bush.
Wrong.
When your concept of "statesmanship" is paying off your political cronies regardless of competence, that IS malice.
The hallmark of the state is ALWAYS malice AND incompetence. Heinlein was wrong as it applies to the state.
I seem to recall a phrase from a President...
Something about a buck stopping somewhere...
Especially since the bucks responsible for upgrading the levee system were PERSONALLY slashed from the budget and diverted to Iraq - which in itself was a fucking moronic operation.
Not to mention the moronic folding of FEMA into DHS,as has been pointed out by every commentator in the last week. Which was no surprise to me, since FEMA's primary mandate is to secure the state, not the citizenry, in an emergency. In fact, the only "emergency" FEMA is mandated to "manage" is a threat against the state. It's no accident they're the ones with the authority to do all the things the conspiracy buffs like to cite.
Check out Kerio Personal Firewall for a firewall. I don't use the 4.x version since it's fairly intrusive, but the older 2.1.5 version can still be found on the Net. I prefer it over ZoneAlarm since it's simple and lightweight and effective.
I also add Spyware Blaster to the mix since SpyBot even recommends it in their own software.
Well, there's always Avast, which is what I'm currently running since AVG started having bizarre problems that I couldn't be bothered to debug.
I used AVG for the last couple years and it worked fine until it started turning off the email scanner for no known reason. Not that big a deal, but irritating enough for me to dump it and switch to Avast, which so far is performing admirably.
AVG isn't the top scorer in AV tests, but it works fine for home users. I always install it on my clients who don't have AVs or expired AVs. Actually I should install Avast for them since AVG occasionally has overloaded server problems with the automated updates, whereas Avast doesn't seem to.
"1) Nobody who actually planned how a nuclear war was to be fought has actually told us; 2) no nuclear was has ever been fought; and 3) wars never turn out exactly as planned, so I doubt you're in a position to make this assertion."
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The assertion is based on the simple fact that if the US hit Russia first, Russia's weapons (except for submarines) would be toast. If Russia hit the US first, all of the US's SECOND-STRIKE weapons would be toast (unless our ABM defenses proved extremely effective, which is doubtful.) The US first-strike weapons would presumably be launched on sufficient warning.
In either case, MOST of the world's weapons would be destroyed in the first hour. The submarine weapons would be one-megaton at best (and the following references indicate 500 KT or less) and directed at specific targets - not spread all over the continent. Any notion of "massive indiscriminate retaliation" is nonsense.
A quick Google finds this paper:
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/88spp. html
Which I quote:
(1) Targeting. The TTAPS paper uses a baseline case of 5000 megatonnes (MT), supplemented by a wide range of other scenarios which also lead to nuclear winter effects. Though in general terms some of the scenarios appear reasonable, no detailed strategic rationale is offered for any of them[22]. A cynic might say that the key characteristic of the scenarios is that they produce sufficient smoke or dust to produce nuclear winter. This is illustrated by the 100MT scenario, which is often misinterpreted as 100 bombs on 100 cities. Actually it involves 1000 bombs and the burning of a vast number of cities each of just the right size. It is easy to misinterpret the results for this scenario as showing that any 100MT war is enough to trigger nuclear winter, whereas any militarily realistic targeting of 100MT would cause relatively few cities to burn and probably produce little cooling according to present models.
If the scenarios had been designed to produce a spread of soot injections rather than a fairly constant soot injection for different megatonnages, the result of nuclear winter would have seemed more sensitive to variations in targeting.
Ehrlich et al. concentrate on a 10,000MT scenario which generates more severe environmental effects than either the Ambio scenario[23] or the TTAPS baseline case. They state that they take the TTAPS 10,000MT 'severe' case as their reference case because of policy implications[24]. (According to Michael MacCracken, TTAPS in their draft paper presented a 10,000MT baseline. After receiving comments, they corrected an error of a factor of 2 in the smoke density and also reset the baseline to 5000MT. These two changes counteracted each other, leaving the baseline consequences unchanged. Ehrlich et al. considered a maximum but to them plausible scenario which, after the factor of 2 adjustment, turned out to be the TTAPS 10,000MT scenario[25].)
This survivalist Web site
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/nuclear/factsvsmyths
also refers to a number of myths about nuclear war, including the nuclear winter scenario. They cite the following:
"Non-propagandizing scientists recently have calculated that the climatic and other environmental effects of even an all-out nuclear war would be much less severe than the catastrophic effects repeatedly publicized by popular astronomer Carl Sagan and his fellow activist scientists, and by all the involved Soviet scientists. Conclusions reached from these recent, realistic calculations are summarized in an article, "Nuclear Winter Reappraised", featured in the 1986 summer issue of Foreign Affairs, the prestigious quarterly of the Council on Foreign Relations. The authors, Starley L. Thompson and Stephen H. Schneider, are atmospheric scientists with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. They showed " that
'Yates reiterated the Microsoft does not intend to natively support the OpenDocument format, which he said was very specific to the OpenOffice.org 2.0 open source productivity suite.
/. Microsoft shill - is to be believed.
Microsoft has since confirmed this view.
A Microsoft executive said last week, after the report was released, that Microsoft will not support OpenDocument in its next version of Office 12 as it believed the format to be inferior and said is not compatible with older versions of Office, , according to InformationWeek.
Alan Yates, general manager of Microsoft's Information Worker Business Strategy, told CRN last Friday that Office 12 would not support OpenDocument because "the Office 12 formats pay special attention to compatibility with older document versions, [and] other formats do not concern themselves with this important issue."'
Anybody knows that OpenOffice is adequately compatible with older Office formats, and that Microsoft's OWN suite is NOT. Also, OpenOffice 2.0 is specifically intended to be MORE compatible with Office for the obvious reason that it needs to be.
This is their "standard" excuse now for not supporting standards such as CSS: "The standard is 'inferior'."
To WHAT? THEIR "standard" - which doesn't even exist?
This is more proof that Microsoft personnel authorized to speak to the public are unmitigated LIARS. NOTHING that comes out of the mouth of a Microsoft employee - or a
Now the dupes will be prettier.
Is there such a thing as CSS for Zonk?
Interesting. I'm glad I only tried it in the live CD mode.
This is truly idiotic, since any Linux distro can be installed anywhere. It emphasizes what I told Robertson in my email - that his geeks need to stop doing "Not Invented Here" and do it like the other distros do it.
Unfortunately the Microsoft patch crashed the system.
But nobody could tell.
Naah, they'd never do that. That's for the likes of Britney, Christina, Jessica and Mariah.
The Corrs are class - not to mention good Irish Catholic girls - unfortunately.
Actually, I prefer Sharon anyway - not that I'd refuse Andrea under any circumstances - or even Caroline.
I'm referring to the lack of promo and hype for their new album. A lot of Corrs fans are pissed that the record label is virtually ignoring it as far as promo goes; with a release date three weeks away, it's only had one song played on the radio in Europe, and it won't even be released in the US until spring 2006 - if at all. The guy that discovered them, Jason Flom, has been tossed out of his CEO job at Atlanta Records, and they're no longer at Atlanta, only at Atlanta UK.
Given they're one of the top selling bands world-wide, you gotta wonder what the label is thinking. It's almost like they DON'T want to sell CDs in order to justify IP laws prohibiting downloading. A little "Reichstag Fire" principle applied to the music business, I think.
Worked for me at the Excel class I took over the summer (just to keep working at the college, as well as refresh my basic Excel knowledge).
While futzing around, I decided to try embedding a video into a spreadsheet since I had CDs full of Corrs videos in my bag and I knew Excel could do it.
After I figured it out (don't create a video object, just grab the file), I showed the teacher my genius, and she asked me to demonstrate it to the class. (Strange teacher, she kept saying she loved me because of my contributions to the class. I told her yeah, but you haven't given me any benefit from her love yet...)
So we sat and watched a Corrs video, which led to several students asking me who they were. I explained, they wrote down the name, and probably went out and downloaded or bought some more Corrs stuff.
Wallah! New fans created!
Now if only the Corrs could figure this out and start using their Web site more effectively...