and every single episode ended up with Kirk getting the hook-up with some freaky alien chick. This is exactly what makes the first series the best to me. Kirk didn't mess around with negotiations and peacful resolutions - 'BLAST them and take their women' was his moto.
I completely disagree - the second amendment is meant to protect us from our own military being used against us, not to protect us from other governments (at least that was Jefferson's intent). Since, as you stated, the National Guard is part of the U.S. military, the second amendment is there to protect us from your commander in chief (or his subordinates) from using you (as a tool) to do things that s/he shouldn't.
comparing Canadian crime data from here and population data from here vs U.S. crime and population data from here it appears that, per capita, Canada has a much higher violent crime rate than the U.S. (over double) - and it's illegal for you guys to own firearms. So why would it be safer up there?
I agree with everything you said accept the sentance about the second amendment being for our protection from the police. Actually the second amendment is there to protect us from an unjust government (which the police force is part of, but they have nowhere near the firepower or authority of the full military). This is why it is so dangerous that this right is slowly being chipped away - unfortunatly I think it is going to be too late before people realize this.
This is totally irrelevent. The action was done by an adult and the only part guns (may) have had was the ignition of the dynamite in the car (after the initial scool bombin). Also, try doing a Google search on 'Bath Bombing' and you'll find many pages on this subject - not something I would expect if nobody knew about it.
I don't want to name the app that I am using for fear of having it blocked while I'm in the middle of recording my entire CD collection, but I know that at least one XWindows program that uses CDDB (and isn't on their list of 'approved' applications) can still access CDDB.
Then you either don't have flash installed or it's the wrong version.
Site looks pretty good, much better than most government sites I've seen, though, as many people have already mentioned, because it's flash you limit the people who can view the site.
Since when is a 21" monitor comparable (in size) to a regular size family television? I've never owned a TV smaller than 27" - my current set is 42". I will agree the resolution of a monitor is better, but from 7' - 15' away (the average distance between a couch and TV) I would much rather be looking at 42" screen than a 21" screen (not to mention my TV cabinet fits with the decor a litte better than a monitor would).
First: gold is traded in TROY ounces which are quite a bit smaller than a standard ounce (not sure of the conversion factor though).
Second: You may be paying $75 an ounce for pot in your area but I'm pretty sure it's just general grade stuff. Top grade green bud sells for anywhere between $300 and $350 an ounce in CA (you can sometimes find it for less but it's usually mass produced Mexican that just 'looks' green). We can all thank Anhieser Busch and CAMP for today's prices.
It's just regular old Ti dipped in opium (or sometimes hash oil). It's usually just a couple bucks more than regular pot, but ONE hit and hold on. The drawback is that because the pot is wieghted down you get less smokable material - though you do need less.
but about a month ago I heard a rumor that M$ has already talked to the Australian government, and has even purchased property there, in preperation for a mass exodus if the US decides to split them up.
I don't know how reliable my source is but they are an ex-employee of M$.
The DVD blanks that the normal public can purchase have an area that has been pre-written with zeros. I believe this is the area where the DVD keys are stored. If you don't have the keys you can't decrypt the data on the CD when played. If you could get a blank that was not pre-written with zeros then, yes, you can make an exact duplicate of the disk - using DeCSS or very expensive direct disk-to-disk copy hardware.
I would suggest any of the RAD tools (Delphi, C++ Builder or VB [if you have to]). These tools will allow them to create basic programs with a minimum of code to start and they can then add more advanced stuff (real code) as they learn the tools. I haven't purchased Delphi 5 yet, but I do know that the C++ Builder 5 (Pro) even comes with extra 3rd party libraries and tools they can use to start playing with making their own games.
How come the only place that I see anything about these issues is online? We are never going to win this war unless we get others involved. Sure, we can contact our representitives (in the US) but why should they care when less than 33% of the population is online and probably less than 5% of those speak up. Unless Joe Public knows about these issues and what could happen as a result of passage of these laws we (and society as a whole) are going to lose.
So when you fire your email (or letter) to your representitive, send a copy to all your local newspaper editors. And anybody that might have contacts with other news groups (TV in particular), try and get them involved. Above all, do all in your power to attend any public hearings on these issues - if you get a large enough crowd together the media will follow (it's the nature of the beast).
Bands will just stick with what they can do in concert. If you told the Beatles they couldn't make money off of studio albums, would they have made Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band?
My guess is 'Yes', they would have made Sgt. Peppers anyways. That album was completely an experiment, they did it for the art of making music not making money - something I think Metallica (and probably 99% of all the other 'popular' musicians) have lost touch on =(
The Black album is what put Metallica on the 'commercial' music charts and put them in the position to do all this sh*t. IMO, Master of Puppets was their last good album - Ride the Lightning is their best!!!
I agree GNU C/C++ has been used to create alot of software but for the *nix application package I've been working on for the last 15 years it's only been the last couple years that GNU has been robust enough to even compile our apps. Even today we highly recommend that our customers purchase their HW providers compiler to save themselves alot of headaches and problems. And before you go off saying it's the way we've written our code, you should know that there has yet to be a *nix platform that our applications do not run on - including Linux (which seems to have a better implementation of gcc than most commercial *nix's).
As for your bit about the cameras - the 'professionals' use the Nikons and Hasselblads because the results are MANY times better than than what you get from a point-and-shoot camera and because the options give them greater flexibily to express what they are really after. I highly doubt that an application created, using the tools you mentioned, will produce results that much greater in quality than the ones created by Borland (or any other tool provider - in fact the opposite might be true), and I have yet to find anything that can't be done, using Borlands tools, that can be done using other tools.
One last note: Keep your EMACS - give me VI any day =)
I'm not sure how taht happened, but in a few months Borland lost all its momentum. And Microsoft got it right. And that was not only because of MS tactics, but MS got it right in several senses:
One of the biggest reasons Borland (and also the other compiler developers) got dusted by M$ is the fact that at that time M$ did not give anybody else direct access to the MFC and if they did it was usually at least 1 rev back from what M$ was currently using. That gave developers no choice but to use M$ products if they wanted all the latest and greatest features in Winblows. Borland was very instrumental in getting M$ to open up the MFC to other development tool providers.
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This is an Editorial that was done in a local Northern California trade mag called CCN. There is also a follow-up.
and every single episode ended up with Kirk getting the hook-up with some freaky alien chick.
This is exactly what makes the first series the best to me. Kirk didn't mess around with negotiations and peacful resolutions - 'BLAST them and take their women' was his moto.
LOL - too funny =)
what you want is one of these:
Coleman Powermate
I completely disagree - the second amendment is meant to protect us from our own military being used against us, not to protect us from other governments (at least that was Jefferson's intent). Since, as you stated, the National Guard is part of the U.S. military, the second amendment is there to protect us from your commander in chief (or his subordinates) from using you (as a tool) to do things that s/he shouldn't.
comparing Canadian crime data from here and population data from here vs U.S. crime and population data from here it appears that, per capita, Canada has a much higher violent crime rate than the U.S. (over double) - and it's illegal for you guys to own firearms. So why would it be safer up there?
I agree with everything you said accept the sentance about the second amendment being for our protection from the police. Actually the second amendment is there to protect us from an unjust government (which the police force is part of, but they have nowhere near the firepower or authority of the full military). This is why it is so dangerous that this right is slowly being chipped away - unfortunatly I think it is going to be too late before people realize this.
This is totally irrelevent. The action was done by an adult and the only part guns (may) have had was the ignition of the dynamite in the car (after the initial scool bombin). Also, try doing a Google search on 'Bath Bombing' and you'll find many pages on this subject - not something I would expect if nobody knew about it.
I don't want to name the app that I am using for fear of having it blocked while I'm in the middle of recording my entire CD collection, but I know that at least one XWindows program that uses CDDB (and isn't on their list of 'approved' applications) can still access CDDB.
Then you either don't have flash installed or it's the wrong version.
Site looks pretty good, much better than most government sites I've seen, though, as many people have already mentioned, because it's flash you limit the people who can view the site.
Since when is a 21" monitor comparable (in size) to a regular size family television? I've never owned a TV smaller than 27" - my current set is 42". I will agree the resolution of a monitor is better, but from 7' - 15' away (the average distance between a couch and TV) I would much rather be looking at 42" screen than a 21" screen (not to mention my TV cabinet fits with the decor a litte better than a monitor would).
And NVIDIA card's aren't expensive?
First: gold is traded in TROY ounces which are quite a bit smaller than a standard ounce (not sure of the conversion factor though).
Second: You may be paying $75 an ounce for pot in your area but I'm pretty sure it's just general grade stuff. Top grade green bud sells for anywhere between $300 and $350 an ounce in CA (you can sometimes find it for less but it's usually mass produced Mexican that just 'looks' green). We can all thank Anhieser Busch and CAMP for today's prices.
It's just regular old Ti dipped in opium (or sometimes hash oil). It's usually just a couple bucks more than regular pot, but ONE hit and hold on. The drawback is that because the pot is wieghted down you get less smokable material - though you do need less.
Dialup ISP's log the use of their IP's. If the RIAA has the IP and the time of download, they can find out from the ISP who had that IP at that time.
but about a month ago I heard a rumor that M$ has already talked to the Australian government, and has even purchased property there, in preperation for a mass exodus if the US decides to split them up.
I don't know how reliable my source is but they are an ex-employee of M$.
The DVD blanks that the normal public can purchase have an area that has been pre-written with zeros. I believe this is the area where the DVD keys are stored. If you don't have the keys you can't decrypt the data on the CD when played. If you could get a blank that was not pre-written with zeros then, yes, you can make an exact duplicate of the disk - using DeCSS or very expensive direct disk-to-disk copy hardware.
I would suggest any of the RAD tools (Delphi, C++ Builder or VB [if you have to]). These tools will allow them to create basic programs with a minimum of code to start and they can then add more advanced stuff (real code) as they learn the tools. I haven't purchased Delphi 5 yet, but I do know that the C++ Builder 5 (Pro) even comes with extra 3rd party libraries and tools they can use to start playing with making their own games.
How come the only place that I see anything about these issues is online? We are never going to win this war unless we get others involved. Sure, we can contact our representitives (in the US) but why should they care when less than 33% of the population is online and probably less than 5% of those speak up. Unless Joe Public knows about these issues and what could happen as a result of passage of these laws we (and society as a whole) are going to lose.
So when you fire your email (or letter) to your representitive, send a copy to all your local newspaper editors. And anybody that might have contacts with other news groups (TV in particular), try and get them involved. Above all, do all in your power to attend any public hearings on these issues - if you get a large enough crowd together the media will follow (it's the nature of the beast).
Just had to look at the domain it was posted on to know it was a joke =)
Bands will just stick with what they can do in concert. If you told the Beatles they couldn't make money off of studio albums, would they have made Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band?
My guess is 'Yes', they would have made Sgt. Peppers anyways. That album was completely an experiment, they did it for the art of making music not making money - something I think Metallica (and probably 99% of all the other 'popular' musicians) have lost touch on =(
The Black album is what put Metallica on the 'commercial' music charts and put them in the position to do all this sh*t. IMO, Master of Puppets was their last good album - Ride the Lightning is their best!!!
No - read the rest of this thread.
I agree GNU C/C++ has been used to create alot of software but for the *nix application package I've been working on for the last 15 years it's only been the last couple years that GNU has been robust enough to even compile our apps. Even today we highly recommend that our customers purchase their HW providers compiler to save themselves alot of headaches and problems. And before you go off saying it's the way we've written our code, you should know that there has yet to be a *nix platform that our applications do not run on - including Linux (which seems to have a better implementation of gcc than most commercial *nix's).
As for your bit about the cameras - the 'professionals' use the Nikons and Hasselblads because the results are MANY times better than than what you get from a point-and-shoot camera and because the options give them greater flexibily to express what they are really after. I highly doubt that an application created, using the tools you mentioned, will produce results that much greater in quality than the ones created by Borland (or any other tool provider - in fact the opposite might be true), and I have yet to find anything that can't be done, using Borlands tools, that can be done using other tools.
One last note: Keep your EMACS - give me VI any day =)
I'm not sure how taht happened, but in a few months Borland lost all its momentum. And Microsoft got it right. And that was not only because of MS tactics, but MS got it right in several senses:
One of the biggest reasons Borland (and also the other compiler developers) got dusted by M$ is the fact that at that time M$ did not give anybody else direct access to the MFC and if they did it was usually at least 1 rev back from what M$ was currently using. That gave developers no choice but to use M$ products if they wanted all the latest and greatest features in Winblows. Borland was very instrumental in getting M$ to open up the MFC to other development tool providers.