WMDs were the issue that Blair needed. Bush didn't need that issue and only pushed it because Blair needed it.
And if one talks about policy... US policy was always massive response to any attack of any sort on the US. For those of you old enough to recall it was called MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction. For sixty years it keep the US and USSR from fighting each other on their respective lands.
According to the MAD doctrine any attack on the US mainland should be met with a massive nuclear response.
By this logic one could hold Bush at fault for not launching a massive attack after 9-11 in the general direction of the perps.
In-fact, by not following the MAD doctrine, Bush made the US nuclear deterrent effectively worthless. No nation will believe the US stance anymore and will be more likely to attack the US with nukes. Why? Because Osama has proven that the US will try and find perps and reasons instead of just blindly lash out. It makes the inconceivable attack conceivable.
Now some claim the doctrine was dropped earlier but it has never been stated to be the case.
I am not advocating this action rather pointing out that Bush took a "nicer" course of action than doctrine suggested toward the Middle East. A course of action that reduced the USA's security according to the logic of MAD.
a group Boycott CBS dot Com has filed suit to:the Federal Election Commission urging immediate action to hold CBS/Viacom in violation of federal election law.
Not a lawyer so no idea if it is important just interesting...
Best Buy is terrible on payments. I have even driven to the Post Office in Carol Stream IL where they have their payment P.O. Box and tried to get it in days early. They still claim late payment and demand late charges. Their credit department is from Hades.
So will Moore do a movie about him and he do another about Moore.... until we have a nothing but scraps of hair and film left?
But, seriously as Moore is not American... isn't this just another attack on all Americans our institutions and everything in America? Wouldn't it be much more honest if he was an American instead of the product of a foreign culture that hates America's?
Corvus had double click (Concept) and some of us used to use double clicks on old IBM vector graphics displays (sixtys and seventy's stuff)
Come to think of it TekTronics storage display scopes may have had a double click subroutine...
As an ex-employee of an infra-structure manufacturer and somebody who wore a hat for performance issues on the R&D side (dropped calls, crappy 1G/3G performance etc..). (This before being laid off and replaced by 5 units in India...)
The #1 REASON THAT YOUR CELLPHONES ARE DROPPED IS: Operating Companies that only want to hire high school educated operators.
I can back it up!
Compare the service presented to you by the Au-region KDDI services in Japan to US offerings that use the same equipment. KDDI hires post doctorates to plan and run their systems! US companies hire advertising and MBAs to plan them and high school grads to run them!
YOU NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE! That's the difference between science and bloodsucking.
My wife works with schizophrenia for our county health dept. She has run group homes and mentored those in apt. settings.
Now, having listened to her complain for years I will explain the secret of good treatment for your sister.
First I need to explain our location so you can picture the context of my statement. Do you remember the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"? Yes, of course you do. The village around that school has the most successfully treated patients in the state. Here is the secret.
#1) Be a child of an important doctor. Esp. one with major hospital to government laision.
#2) Make sure your parents take part and give lots of money to groups like NAMI (National Alliance of the Mentally Ill.). Its really surprising how great treatment ties in with key membership of a parental unit in NAMI.
#3) Give money to the leading local pols with the the bluntly stated explaination that you expect great treatment for your kid. Maybe, even make it as scholarships for their children to win for college.
#4)Be an active nagger at your county mental health department. Be sure to name drop Pols owing you favors as you nag.
#5) If you are a lawyer, volunteer to help them get their patients out of outrageous hospital bills by creative bankruptcy support.
#6) Have your sister take part in drug company studies with the provision of cheap or free medicines in exchange for taking part. Drug companies may counter offer with membership in hardship programs. You want that option as the drugs will, over time, bankrupt any insurance policy. Fight for it.
#7) The relgiously funded programs have restarted. Don't ignore them. Remember that most hospitals are associated with some religion or sect. These have joined the President's program but most people are not aware of them as funding just started. Since the hospitals are religous they can erase the bills as easily as add them. They are more willing do this if you are in their programs. So have you sister join. She can expect hosptial stays a few times with the illness. Meds quit working after awhile and if a sharp watch is not kept stuff happens.
We need to change civil law because of groups like RamBus and SCO
If you bring suits like this... failure to win the suit should be a public draw and quartering of all principles and the whole board of directors. The Budwiser horses come to mind as quality actors.
I think lawyers and law firms that persue these stupid cases should be used as feed for the gators in reptile world. Live video should be sent out over Animal Planet. Sort of funny home vids for the day.
An upgrade would give my 80 year old dad a heart attack
It was bad enough upgrading netscape to mozilla and changing his lame dial up provider to a baby bell provider that outsources customer support to India. He can't understand a word they say.
Maybe I need to look in my archives for a FVWM95 window manager... make it look like win98, put a good distro with wine and ms-office on the system and do all this while he is out of town.....
Hmm... he is out of town for a few weeks... I wonder if he would notice? Maybe I will just make a Knoppix variant to do the same thing! I would not even need to touch his install and I doubt he would notice the CD boot...
I have seen viral spam mail that forges Microsoft headers and subject lines of their security e-mail. My spam blocking in mozilla, now... after training... , properly identifies MS mail as SPAM!
Just nationalize these goons (like drafting) and send them to Iraq to help set up their taxing structures. It would be interesting to measure the time it takes these folks to learn flexiblity!
try from bioswriter-0.2-4mdk.src.rpm. I don't know if it will flash bios but it looks like it might (-f option).
/usr/sbin/bioswriter -h BIOS Writer 0.2 Copyright (c) 2000, Michael Jennings
Usage:
POSIX GNU Description
-h, --help (bool) display usage information -v, --version (bool) display version -r, --read (bool) read BIOS settings (default) -w, --write (bool) write BIOS settings -s, --start (int) starting offset into BIOS memory -e, --end (int) ending offset into BIOS memory -c, --count (int) byte count for read/write -f, --file (str) filename to read from/write to
Option types: (bool) -- Boolean option ('1', 'on', 'yes', or 'true' to activate, '0', 'off', 'no', or 'false' to deactivate) (int) -- Integer option (signed number) (str) -- String option (be sure to quote strings if needed)
NOTE: Long options can be separated from their values by an equal sign ('='), or you can pass the value as the following argument on the command line (e.g., '--file foo.bin' or '--file=foo.bin'). Short options must have their values passed after them on the command line, and in the case of boolean short options, cannot have values (they default to true) (e.g., '-f foo.bin' or '-r').
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And if one talks about policy... US policy was always massive response to any attack of any sort on the US. For those of you old enough to recall it was called MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction. For sixty years it keep the US and USSR from fighting each other on their respective lands.
According to the MAD doctrine any attack on the US mainland should be met with a massive nuclear response.
By this logic one could hold Bush at fault for not launching a massive attack after 9-11 in the general direction of the perps.
In-fact, by not following the MAD doctrine, Bush made the US nuclear deterrent effectively worthless. No nation will believe the US stance anymore and will be more likely to attack the US with nukes. Why? Because Osama has proven that the US will try and find perps and reasons instead of just blindly lash out. It makes the inconceivable attack conceivable.
Now some claim the doctrine was dropped earlier but it has never been stated to be the case.
I am not advocating this action rather pointing out that Bush took a "nicer" course of action than doctrine suggested toward the Middle East. A course of action that reduced the USA's security according to the logic of MAD.
The GPL is a copyright so does this make it illegal to download opensource software?
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a group Boycott CBS dot Com has filed suit to:the Federal Election Commission urging immediate action to hold CBS/Viacom in violation of federal election law. Not a lawyer so no idea if it is important just interesting...
This South Korean article has a better low res map showing boundaries. article here
Best Buy is terrible on payments. I have even driven to the Post Office in Carol Stream IL where they have their payment P.O. Box and tried to get it in days early. They still claim late payment and demand late charges. Their credit department is from Hades.
It is already done. Read the pre-existing stuff in the patent reference in the article above this.
This patent: 6,754,501 would help out a lot in 9-11 type disasters if the companies would just implement it.
So will Moore do a movie about him and he do another about Moore.... until we have a nothing but scraps of hair and film left?
But, seriously as Moore is not American... isn't this just another attack on all Americans our institutions and everything in America? Wouldn't it be much more honest if he was an American instead of the product of a foreign culture that hates America's?
Dean turned all the political scum on to spamming so it will be that much harder to be rid of.
At political parties and individual pols to your spammer service list.
As a Unix - Linux etc.. guy the lack of a middle button paste and the stupid control keys drive me nuts with the windows world view.
Corvus had double click (Concept) and some of us used to use double clicks on old IBM vector graphics displays (sixtys and seventy's stuff) Come to think of it TekTronics storage display scopes may have had a double click subroutine...
There were 2 armed guards by each teletype watching everything one typed.... (at least that's the way I heard it).
If you want an in-depth and exact answer.... I have the answers and need the money. Hire me!
As an ex-employee of an infra-structure manufacturer and somebody who wore a hat for performance issues on the R&D side (dropped calls, crappy 1G/3G performance etc..). (This before being laid off and replaced by 5 units in India...)
The #1 REASON THAT YOUR CELLPHONES ARE DROPPED IS: Operating Companies that only want to hire high school educated operators.
I can back it up!
Compare the service presented to you by the Au-region KDDI services in Japan to US offerings that use the same equipment. KDDI hires post doctorates to plan and run their systems! US companies hire advertising and MBAs to plan them and high school grads to run them!
YOU NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE! That's the difference between science and bloodsucking.
Palmisano is more than 27 years old!
Lay him off! See how he likes it.
Just make sure that the medical insurance costs more than the parachute.
My wife works with schizophrenia for our county health dept. She has run group homes and mentored those in apt. settings.
Now, having listened to her complain for years I will explain the secret of good treatment for your sister.
First I need to explain our location so you can picture the context of my statement. Do you remember the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?
Yes, of course you do. The village around that school has the most successfully treated patients in the state. Here is the secret.
#1) Be a child of an important doctor. Esp. one with major hospital to government laision.
#2) Make sure your parents take part and give lots of money to groups like NAMI (National Alliance of the Mentally Ill.). Its really surprising how great treatment ties in with key membership of a parental unit in NAMI.
#3) Give money to the leading local pols with the the bluntly stated explaination that you expect great treatment for your kid. Maybe, even make it as scholarships for their children to win for college.
#4)Be an active nagger at your county mental health department. Be sure to name drop Pols owing you favors as you nag.
#5) If you are a lawyer, volunteer to help them get their patients out of outrageous hospital bills by creative bankruptcy support.
#6) Have your sister take part in drug company studies with the provision of cheap or free medicines in exchange for taking part. Drug companies may counter offer with membership in hardship programs. You want that option as the drugs will, over time, bankrupt any insurance policy. Fight for it.
#7) The relgiously funded programs have restarted. Don't ignore them. Remember that most hospitals are associated with some religion or sect. These have joined the President's program but most people are not aware of them as funding just started. Since the hospitals are religous they can erase the bills as easily as add them. They are more willing do this if you are in their programs. So have you sister join. She can expect hosptial stays a few times with the illness. Meds quit working after awhile and if a sharp watch is not kept stuff happens.
We need to change civil law because of groups like RamBus and SCO
If you bring suits like this... failure to win the suit should be a public draw and quartering of all principles and the whole board of directors. The Budwiser horses come to mind as quality actors.
I think lawyers and law firms that persue these stupid cases should be used as feed for the gators in reptile world. Live video should be sent out over Animal Planet. Sort of funny home vids for the day.
An upgrade would give my 80 year old dad a heart attack
It was bad enough upgrading netscape to mozilla and changing his lame dial up provider to a baby bell provider that outsources customer support to India. He can't understand a word they say.
Maybe I need to look in my archives for a FVWM95 window manager... make it look like win98, put a good distro with wine and ms-office on the system and do all this while he is out of town.....
Hmm... he is out of town for a few weeks ... I wonder if he would notice? Maybe I will just make a Knoppix variant to do the same thing! I would not even need to touch his install and I doubt he would notice the CD boot...
I have seen viral spam mail that forges Microsoft headers and subject lines of their security e-mail. My spam blocking in mozilla, now ... after training ... , properly identifies MS mail as SPAM!
Just nationalize these goons (like drafting) and send them to Iraq to help set up their taxing structures. It would be interesting to measure the time it takes these folks to learn flexiblity!
try from bioswriter-0.2-4mdk.src.rpm.
I don't know if it will flash bios but it
looks like it might (-f option).
/usr/sbin/bioswriter -h
BIOS Writer 0.2
Copyright (c) 2000, Michael Jennings
Usage:
POSIX GNU Description
-h, --help (bool) display usage information
-v, --version (bool) display version
-r, --read (bool) read BIOS settings (default)
-w, --write (bool) write BIOS settings
-s, --start (int) starting offset into BIOS memory
-e, --end (int) ending offset into BIOS memory
-c, --count (int) byte count for read/write
-f, --file (str) filename to read from/write to
Option types:
(bool) -- Boolean option ('1', 'on', 'yes', or 'true' to activate,
'0', 'off', 'no', or 'false' to deactivate)
(int) -- Integer option (signed number)
(str) -- String option (be sure to quote strings if needed)
NOTE: Long options can be separated from their values by an
equal sign ('='), or you can pass the value as the following
argument on the command line (e.g., '--file foo.bin'
or '--file=foo.bin'). Short options must have their values
passed after them on the command line, and in the case of
boolean short options, cannot have values (they default to
true) (e.g., '-f foo.bin' or '-r').
I have a postoffice block on junk mail.
I have a do not call block on the phone.
Mozilla autodeletes my SPAM
Other than having a process server deliver it to me in person how would this NIGERIAN MORMON CRIMINAL GANG ever inform me of their illegal lien?