Back in our grandparents (or great-grandparents, from the sound of your vitriolic socialism) time, if you thought something was important, it was worth dying for. You'd put on your uniform and march with a bunch of other troops and enforce your nation's will.
When someone shows up in the US and starts shooting people for not cutting our emissions of greenhouse gases or signing Kyoto, then i'm sure we'll listen.
Unlike the constant leftist whinging of today, it had a certain righteousness to it. I laugh at "soft power". Make us.
There is this thing called an Executive Order he can issue as he wishes. Would you prefer he frame his thoughts in that context? Why does it make a difference?
In 1980 I had an incident where a letter that I sent was opened by postal inspectors.
The letter was a joke and had something written on it that was pro-nuclear proliferation. On the outside of the envelope. This was enough excuse for the letter opener to come out and to require the recipient to show up at the Post Office and pick up the letter directly.
If you drop something in the mail, you are exposing the item to being searched and viewed based upon arbitrary criteria. Make no mistake about it.
Mind you, that was during the Carter administration, for any of you partisan boobs out there.
Because to a certain immature mindset, Communism sounds like a great idea. And no one likes actual human misery and evil getting in the way of a good social theory.
The idea of someone on the road forgetting their pin, wiping their card somehow, or damaging the POS card readers just gives me that warm fuzzy.
The experience of hearing some numbnuts claim "I'm the head of a $2B program! Make my computer work!" when they are in the armpit of the earth...yeah, this one will be a winner.
Your definition is correct, but generally an Uncirculated coin is graded based upon Mint State designation on the 0-70 scale the ANA adopted about 30 years ago. MS-60 is a poor condition uncirculated coin while MS-70 is perfect, which not many coins are. Bag marks, poor strike, incomplete or poor luster and bad post-Mint handling (water, oxidation, etc) impact this number.
Some crappy looking coins can be MS-60 and above, and some really beautiful specimens can be AU.
And don't you forget that a lot of those marches in the late 60s were anything but nonviolent.
My grandfather had a poignant story of one that marched into Hoboken, NJ from Jersey City in 1968. The 100 member Hoboken PD (he was a sergeant) was not capable of stemming the tide. It required intervention of the entire force of dock longshoremen armed with blunt weapons to achieve that.
The damage to lower Washington St. was rather severe. And it wasn't the cops and longshoremen busting their neighbors' shops. Also, a lot of the cops were injured and out of work for a considerable time afterward.
The "history" of those times oversimplifies things greatly.
We'd probably be willing to admit that the war was a big mistake (I was against it from the start, as my journals here can testify) if the anti-American left weren't about to astroturf about it the moment we admitted it.
30% of the public is never going to admit that it isn't working because 30% of the public doesn't want to embolden a bunch of traitorous scumbags.
I almost wish we hadn't beaten the Soviets. They were such a good object lesson for foolish people.
The truth of the Soviet experience was that the work force was drunk on the job because no one gave a crap. That's the truth of communism. If the work doesn't immediately benefit you, you don't care.
All that crap about altruism is a bunch of hooey when your personal livelihood is at stake. Maslow, baby.
The Party in the Soviet Union and its satellites was called the Communist party. The party in China remains a Communist party. Every attempt at state sanctioned communism has resulted in a totalitarian government for the simple reason that people are dissatisfied with their 'fair share' and always want more. Capitalism satisfies this basic need, communism does not. Therefore, you need guns to the people's collective heads to make them live peacefully under a Marxist government.
Your attempts at word mincing fail miserably at altering that conclusion. You have the same old tired argument every leftist has had since the fall of the Soviet empire: "they didn't do it right, the next time *WE* will".
Reverse Hungarian notwithstanding, programming for Windows is far easier than understanding the classic MacOS via the "Inside Macintosh" series. It was originally designed to be programmed in Pascal.
Yes, seriously. Writing to it in C is a little obtuse.
Microsoft charged money for the SDK for Windows same as everyone else did at the time, so giving away SDKs is a red herring. It happened at certain places and times, but it's not a big reason for Windows' success.
As for developer-friendliness, this is a new concept at Microsoft also. I have to say, however, that Microsoft's extensive line of compilers and support of BASIC when no one else wanted to, pretty much guaranteed them a base of developers. Borland helped too with Turbo Pascal/C which were better than the Microsoft equivalents (most of the time with C, all of the time with Pascal), and were only ported halfheartedly to the Macintosh (TP for the Mac which wasn't very good and not very long-lasting).
The point is that Microsoft people were royal jerks in 1989, just as they are now. In case you were wondering. There was no magic friendliness. And they were no more available than IBM people were.
e-mail == IM is not an overreaching interpretation. It's technically incorrect but it's close enough for government work. It's a point to point message, which is the point...
That's because this is a bad example of judicial activism. The job of judges is to clarify what law means and apply it.
If the judge had decided that the law didn't apply, not because it specifically mentioned e-mail, but because the judge in question thought it was morally reprehensible that someone was going to jail for engaging in online sex/attempting to meet with a 13 year old. Then, cited foreign law to back him/her up, that would be judicial activism as practiced by the US Supreme Court and lesser courts.
you install SP2, in which case I hope that 500mhz system has 512MB of RAM and you have more patience than before. Most are going to fail the RAM test, as systems of that era were 128/256 equipped.
SP2 really killed running XP on slower, older systems.
Also, DPMS has lost a lot of virtue with the advent of desktop lcds. It's still worthwile but you aren't going to be seeing any 50% reductions in power utilization anymore.
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Back in our grandparents (or great-grandparents, from the sound of your vitriolic socialism) time, if you thought something was important, it was worth dying for. You'd put on your uniform and march with a bunch of other troops and enforce your nation's will.
When someone shows up in the US and starts shooting people for not cutting our emissions of greenhouse gases or signing Kyoto, then i'm sure we'll listen.
Unlike the constant leftist whinging of today, it had a certain righteousness to it. I laugh at "soft power". Make us.
but experimentally i've verified that i'm more likely to end up in a bed with a cute girl than someone with unfortunate looks.
Also, i've noted that if she grabs my package, i stop caring about looks until after the deed is done, so maybe it's a wash.
There is this thing called an Executive Order he can issue as he wishes. Would you prefer he frame his thoughts in that context? Why does it make a difference?
Warrant isn't required to open mail. See my post further along for details.
In 1980 I had an incident where a letter that I sent was opened by postal inspectors.
The letter was a joke and had something written on it that was pro-nuclear proliferation. On the outside of the envelope. This was enough excuse for the letter opener to come out and to require the recipient to show up at the Post Office and pick up the letter directly.
If you drop something in the mail, you are exposing the item to being searched and viewed based upon arbitrary criteria. Make no mistake about it.
Mind you, that was during the Carter administration, for any of you partisan boobs out there.
Because to a certain immature mindset, Communism sounds like a great idea. And no one likes actual human misery and evil getting in the way of a good social theory.
The idea of someone on the road forgetting their pin, wiping their card somehow, or damaging the POS card readers just gives me that warm fuzzy.
The experience of hearing some numbnuts claim "I'm the head of a $2B program! Make my computer work!" when they are in the armpit of the earth...yeah, this one will be a winner.
1. It's only a recommendation. Read it carefully.
2. DoD was already doing something with this but in its normal -very slow- manner. I don't expect it to be fully implemented for a couple years yet.
Your definition is correct, but generally an Uncirculated coin is graded based upon Mint State designation on the 0-70 scale the ANA adopted about 30 years ago. MS-60 is a poor condition uncirculated coin while MS-70 is perfect, which not many coins are. Bag marks, poor strike, incomplete or poor luster and bad post-Mint handling (water, oxidation, etc) impact this number.
Some crappy looking coins can be MS-60 and above, and some really beautiful specimens can be AU.
And don't you forget that a lot of those marches in the late 60s were anything but nonviolent.
My grandfather had a poignant story of one that marched into Hoboken, NJ from Jersey City in 1968. The 100 member Hoboken PD (he was a sergeant) was not capable of stemming the tide. It required intervention of the entire force of dock longshoremen armed with blunt weapons to achieve that.
The damage to lower Washington St. was rather severe. And it wasn't the cops and longshoremen busting their neighbors' shops. Also, a lot of the cops were injured and out of work for a considerable time afterward.
The "history" of those times oversimplifies things greatly.
Well I agree with you on one thing, the only thing that'll solve this is some gunplay.
I'm glad we have most all the guns.
We'd probably be willing to admit that the war was a big mistake (I was against it from the start, as my journals here can testify) if the anti-American left weren't about to astroturf about it the moment we admitted it.
30% of the public is never going to admit that it isn't working because 30% of the public doesn't want to embolden a bunch of traitorous scumbags.
I prefer "The Song Remains the Same". I throw a Gentoo LiveCD into the same case.
I almost wish we hadn't beaten the Soviets. They were such a good object lesson for foolish people.
The truth of the Soviet experience was that the work force was drunk on the job because no one gave a crap. That's the truth of communism. If the work doesn't immediately benefit you, you don't care.
All that crap about altruism is a bunch of hooey when your personal livelihood is at stake. Maslow, baby.
The Party in the Soviet Union and its satellites was called the Communist party. The party in China remains a Communist party. Every attempt at state sanctioned communism has resulted in a totalitarian government for the simple reason that people are dissatisfied with their 'fair share' and always want more. Capitalism satisfies this basic need, communism does not. Therefore, you need guns to the people's collective heads to make them live peacefully under a Marxist government.
Your attempts at word mincing fail miserably at altering that conclusion. You have the same old tired argument every leftist has had since the fall of the Soviet empire: "they didn't do it right, the next time *WE* will".
Sure.
Try earlier. Try Wilson era.
Reverse Hungarian notwithstanding, programming for Windows is far easier than understanding the classic MacOS via the "Inside Macintosh" series. It was originally designed to be programmed in Pascal.
Yes, seriously. Writing to it in C is a little obtuse.
Microsoft charged money for the SDK for Windows same as everyone else did at the time, so giving away SDKs is a red herring. It happened at certain places and times, but it's not a big reason for Windows' success.
As for developer-friendliness, this is a new concept at Microsoft also. I have to say, however, that Microsoft's extensive line of compilers and support of BASIC when no one else wanted to, pretty much guaranteed them a base of developers. Borland helped too with Turbo Pascal/C which were better than the Microsoft equivalents (most of the time with C, all of the time with Pascal), and were only ported halfheartedly to the Macintosh (TP for the Mac which wasn't very good and not very long-lasting).
The point is that Microsoft people were royal jerks in 1989, just as they are now. In case you were wondering. There was no magic friendliness. And they were no more available than IBM people were.
10%? Maybe. But never much above that after the mid-80s. 5-10% was the estimate range back in the early 90s and it has since declined.
e-mail == IM is not an overreaching interpretation. It's technically incorrect but it's close enough for government work. It's a point to point message, which is the point...
Read some of P.J. O'Rourke's disemboweling of Gore's previous works, for instance.
There IS another side, and your ad hominem convinced no one.
That's because this is a bad example of judicial activism. The job of judges is to clarify what law means and apply it.
If the judge had decided that the law didn't apply, not because it specifically mentioned e-mail, but because the judge in question thought it was morally reprehensible that someone was going to jail for engaging in online sex/attempting to meet with a 13 year old. Then, cited foreign law to back him/her up, that would be judicial activism as practiced by the US Supreme Court and lesser courts.
I think "The Collected Bowel Movements of HBI" would be a worthwile addition to any library.
you install SP2, in which case I hope that 500mhz system has 512MB of RAM and you have more patience than before. Most are going to fail the RAM test, as systems of that era were 128/256 equipped.
SP2 really killed running XP on slower, older systems.
Also, DPMS has lost a lot of virtue with the advent of desktop lcds. It's still worthwile but you aren't going to be seeing any 50% reductions in power utilization anymore.
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