My mother used to get all kinda of harrasing phone calls because there was a women on her street with the same first and last name. The collections people would see on in , and that was that.
And they would always assume that what she was telling them was a lie to get them off her back.
I am thinking of a larger timescale than you, I guess. The precident will wait, patiently.
I dont know what Hillary's chances are, but I imagine it also depends on what the opposition looks like. Cheney has said he would not run, and I believe him on that. Bush Jr cant run. And his approval rating, IIRC, has slipped.
But I agree that the Democratic party has done a poor job of fielding good candidates of late.
I agree. I was just thinking a while after the wiretapping story broke, wondering if President Bush realized he was potentially setting a precident, and that at some point in time, a Democrat *would* hold the presidency.
I was trying for funny, in my original post. I just had to laugh about it. In thinking about it after, I suppose there might be some who might have seen it as a dig.
What means "T(HG)SB"? I've been reading for a while, but I am still pretty clueless about some things.
I use visual studio.net, myself and another developer here have had problems where ( vb.net, winforms app ) something goes wrong with a control that we have written, the IDE removes parts of the definition of the control from the container it is in. It basically leaves the definition of the class type, and all the "wiring" that the controls needs to visually present are removed. So, the app still compiles, but the control is now missing.
Spent a lot of time trying to fix it, I got my project working by looking at all the properties and _load stuff, and making *sure* that nothing could throw at design time. That fixed my project. The other guy here took my advice, but did not manage to fix his problem with it. Microsoft's advice was to put the control into another project ( or, preferably, into another solution ). That fixed his problem, but it should *not* be nessesary.
And the whole thing sucks, because removing the control the way it does is not much different from your compiler deciding to remove lines of code that dont compile.
VS 2005 appears to fix my coworker's problem, but it is too new to move too just yet ( they are trying to release ).
Another issue I have had with this gen of tools is that after "a while" of running the IDE( days, not hours ) it will occasionally start giving error messages on stuff that has not changed in forever. Get out of the IDE, restart, recompile, everything is fine. Medium sized project.
The previous gen of tools, I was doing ASP.net stuff at a place, after "a while" of running the IDE, I would start to see "panic" messages from the compiler ( they would contain the text 'EMIT' near the beginning, then advice ( in some cases ) about how I should make my project smaller ).
Dont get me started on having to declare a variable as "decimal( 19, 8 )" rather than just "decimal" in SQL ( 2000 ), because "decimal" has zero ( 0 ) decimal points to the right ( so it is no different from "int" ).
Point? Microsoft products are not without their flaws. I am sure that you had the experience you related, but, if you do enough MSIDE work, you will likely run into "fighting the tool on insignificant issues..." type problems there also. Especially if you ( as I have, many times ) try to use the tools in ways the developers did not envision or "care" about. Microsoft != "great software", more like Microsoft == "Ok software, gets better with time, plenty of flaws, they usually push out the really bad ones with time". OSS != "sucks", more like "developed by developers, going to have a few rough edges and bugs, but by and large works pretty well at what the developers want it to do".
For instance, I have three dogs, all lab mixes. Anything that happens near my house sets them off barking. Even the postman, who comes by every day, day in and day out sets them to barking.
Bring a steak or some affection, they will bark for that! And bark at you till you give it ( to all three... )
The thing that would work for a thief would be ( pray God it does not happen ) would be to dump poisoned meat over the fence. Are they that committed? And the dogs would still bark ( and fight ) all the way to it.
We dont have our dogs for protection, but I do feel safer ( note, safER, not absolutely safe ) having them around.
What people that propound that FDR knew seem to forget is that FDR wanted us in a war with Germany, not Japan. If it had not been for Hitler declaring war on the US the day after Pearl Harbor, things would probably not have changed much on the Atlantic seaboard.
And on the Pearl Harbor attack itself, Pearl was about 40 ft deep. Air Torpedos of the day usually dived to about 75 feet or so before leveling off, and that was why there were no Torpedo nets around the ships. The Japanese put wooden breakaway fins on them to make the attack possible. Also, the bombs used were converted naval shells, which were designed to penetrate the much thicker side armour of a battle ship. And they were dropped from about 11,000 meters to gain the KE needed to do their jobs. Conventional dive bombers of the day could not penetrate battleship deck armour.
So, you can see that there were hurdles that the Japanese had to overcome in order to carry out the attack.
Which does not address that the Japanese ships did not have the range to reach Pearl Harbor unrefueled, and it was known that the Japanese did not have refueling ability ( they developed that as well in order to make the attack ).
For me, it's kinda like XML. From this side of it's development, its all "duh, of course". It wasnt so "duh, of course" on the other side ( substitute any technology you like that makes the point for XML. ). So, I can understand a bit of complaceny on the American part WRT Pearl Harbor.
One thing you may have overlooked ( and I was against the clipper chip... ) You dont know that they intended to use it without court order. ( Or if you do, please specify how you know that... )
That and you may have conflated the idea of warrentless wire taps and wire taps in general.
It's OK as long as it's a member of my party requesting.
I think it will be very funny, if in the future, some Democrat President uses Bush's action as precident for similiar un-court-authorized wiretaps.
Kinda like the Republicans voting in the term limits on presidents back in FDR's day, then the complaints about the limit when they wanted additional terms for Reagan.
You implied that either in the past or comimg soon that BellSouth would be using eminent domain to take land for running wires thru. My original post was simply saying that, however obtained, there were wires that were paid for, as in generating revenue for the owning company, in response to your comment about "your isp's isp".
I lay claim to no knowledge of bellsouth's current capacity, nor of it plans for future capacity increases ( and all I have heard is that capacity is, in general, underutilized. not that that has any nessesary bearing on bellsouth operations. ).
I was curious about weather you were claiming that bellsouth had already used eminent domain to take land for such, or weather you were predicting such an event in the future, and how you had heard about or come to the conclusion of, respectively.
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Parent post didnt seem to talk about SSN's at all.
In fact, from the amount paid to the senior ( 50 pounds,
if I read correctly ) he is not in America.
And if you are assuming that astronomical odds against
== impossible, then I would guess that it *will* happen
there, given enough time.
I wish I could take credit for that, but no.
I've just got an ugly habit of using the enter key.
Name similarity.
My mother used to get all kinda of harrasing phone calls
because there was a women on her street with the same
first and last name. The collections people would
see on in ,
and that was that.
And they would always assume that what she was telling them
was a lie to get them off her back.
Or maybe hardly anyone reads what I post. :-)
And that explains why I think I am the only one here!
Towels
I am thinking of a larger timescale than you,
I guess. The precident will wait, patiently.
I dont know what Hillary's chances are, but I
imagine it also depends on what the opposition
looks like. Cheney has said he would not run,
and I believe him on that. Bush Jr cant run.
And his approval rating, IIRC, has slipped.
But I agree that the Democratic party has done
a poor job of fielding good candidates of late.
I agree. I was just thinking a while after the wiretapping
story broke, wondering if President Bush realized he was
potentially setting a precident, and that at some point in
time, a Democrat *would* hold the presidency.
Thank you for taking the time to explain.
I was trying for funny, in my original post.
I just had to laugh about it. In thinking
about it after, I suppose there might be
some who might have seen it as a dig.
What means "T(HG)SB"? I've been reading for a
while, but I am still pretty clueless about
some things.
No, but I see I have that anyway. :-)
Perhaps someone would like to waste another mod point?
My life is now complete.
I have been moderated Troll.
ROTFLMAO.
#3 ???
#4 Profit!
More like not windows-broken.
The effect was in making them have to route your memo to /dev/null.
I thought they meant that the capital building was at a higher elevation that previously.
I propose we put politicians in a vacuum chamber
to see if they are oxygen addicts before allowing them
to take office.
RIAA/MPAA profit strategy
1. Download stuff to your hard drive,
2. Signal home office to sue you,
3. ???
4. Profit!
I use visual studio .net, myself and another developer
here have had problems where ( vb.net, winforms app )
something goes wrong with a control that we have written,
the IDE removes parts of the definition of the control
from the container it is in. It basically leaves the
definition of the class type, and all the "wiring" that
the controls needs to visually present are removed. So,
the app still compiles, but the control is now missing.
Spent a lot of time trying to fix it, I got my project
working by looking at all the properties and _load stuff,
and making *sure* that nothing could throw at design time.
That fixed my project. The other guy here took my advice,
but did not manage to fix his problem with it. Microsoft's
advice was to put the control into another project ( or,
preferably, into another solution ). That fixed his problem,
but it should *not* be nessesary.
And the whole thing sucks, because removing the control the
way it does is not much different from your compiler deciding
to remove lines of code that dont compile.
VS 2005 appears to fix my coworker's problem, but it is too
new to move too just yet ( they are trying to release ).
Another issue I have had with this gen of tools is that after
"a while" of running the IDE( days, not hours ) it will
occasionally start giving error messages on stuff that has
not changed in forever. Get out of the IDE, restart, recompile,
everything is fine. Medium sized project.
The previous gen of tools, I was doing ASP.net stuff at a place,
after "a while" of running the IDE, I would start to see "panic"
messages from the compiler ( they would contain the text 'EMIT'
near the beginning, then advice ( in some cases ) about how I
should make my project smaller ).
Dont get me started on having to declare a variable as
"decimal( 19, 8 )" rather than just "decimal" in SQL ( 2000 ),
because "decimal" has zero ( 0 ) decimal points to the right
( so it is no different from "int" ).
Point?
Microsoft products are not without their flaws. I am sure that
you had the experience you related, but, if you do enough MSIDE
work, you will likely run into "fighting the tool on insignificant
issues..." type problems there also. Especially if you ( as I have,
many times ) try to use the tools in ways the developers did not
envision or "care" about. Microsoft != "great software",
more like Microsoft == "Ok software, gets better with time, plenty
of flaws, they usually push out the really bad ones with time".
OSS != "sucks", more like "developed by developers, going to have
a few rough edges and bugs, but by and large works pretty well at
what the developers want it to do".
Depends on the dog(s).
For instance, I have three dogs, all lab mixes.
Anything that happens near my house sets them off
barking. Even the postman, who comes by every
day, day in and day out sets them to barking.
Bring a steak or some affection, they will bark
for that! And bark at you till you give it
( to all three... )
The thing that would work for a thief would be
( pray God it does not happen ) would be to
dump poisoned meat over the fence. Are they
that committed? And the dogs would still bark
( and fight ) all the way to it.
We dont have our dogs for protection, but I do
feel safer ( note, safER, not absolutely safe )
having them around.
Kripple.
What people that propound that FDR knew seem to forget is that FDR wanted
us in a war with Germany, not Japan. If it had not been for Hitler declaring
war on the US the day after Pearl Harbor, things would probably not have
changed much on the Atlantic seaboard.
And on the Pearl Harbor attack itself, Pearl was about 40 ft deep. Air Torpedos
of the day usually dived to about 75 feet or so before leveling off, and that was
why there were no Torpedo nets around the ships. The Japanese put wooden breakaway
fins on them to make the attack possible. Also, the bombs used were converted
naval shells, which were designed to penetrate the much thicker side armour of
a battle ship. And they were dropped from about 11,000 meters to gain the KE
needed to do their jobs. Conventional dive bombers of the day could not penetrate
battleship deck armour.
So, you can see that there were hurdles that the Japanese had to overcome in order
to carry out the attack.
Which does not address that the Japanese ships did not have the range to reach
Pearl Harbor unrefueled, and it was known that the Japanese did not have
refueling ability ( they developed that as well in order to make the attack ).
For me, it's kinda like XML. From this side of it's development, its all "duh, of course".
It wasnt so "duh, of course" on the other side ( substitute any technology you like
that makes the point for XML. ). So, I can understand a bit of complaceny on the
American part WRT Pearl Harbor.
One thing you may have overlooked
( and I was against the clipper chip... )
You dont know that they intended to use it without
court order. ( Or if you do, please specify how
you know that... )
That and you may have conflated the idea of warrentless
wire taps and wire taps in general.
Yes, you have to crack your own head.
Dont forget to kick yourself with a boot a couple times, too, please.
YOu forgot an option...
It's OK as long as it's a member of my party requesting.
I think it will be very funny, if in the future,
some Democrat President uses Bush's action as
precident for similiar un-court-authorized wiretaps.
Kinda like the Republicans voting in the term limits
on presidents back in FDR's day, then the
complaints about the limit when they wanted additional
terms for Reagan.
What data do you have to back that up?
I suggested nothing, I asked a question of you.
You implied that either in the past or comimg soon
that BellSouth would be using eminent domain to
take land for running wires thru. My original post
was simply saying that, however obtained, there
were wires that were paid for, as in generating
revenue for the owning company, in response to
your comment about "your isp's isp".
I lay claim to no knowledge of bellsouth's current
capacity, nor of it plans for future capacity
increases ( and all I have heard is that capacity
is, in general, underutilized. not that that has
any nessesary bearing on bellsouth operations. ).
I was curious about weather you were claiming that
bellsouth had already used eminent domain to take
land for such, or weather you were predicting such
an event in the future, and how you had heard about
or come to the conclusion of, respectively.