If I had the funds to spare to allow me to uproot and head elsewhere, I gladly would. The past 10 or so years has really drained me of any patriotic feelings toward the US (several of those years were spent gladly putting my life on the line to defend this nation in the military) and I believe that we may have gone past the point of no return.
Having been afforded the opportunity to see how other free countries in the world operate and view their citizenship, I no longer can convince myself that we are the best. However, since I am not able to financially uproot and move eleswhere and start a new life from scratch, I do all in my power to be an active citizen and make positive changes whenever the lobbiest dollar doesn't outsound my ability to communicate with my representatives in local/state/national gov't. I'd give my eyeteeth for more US citizens to at least educate themselves on the issues that affect us all, and give enough of a damn to take 1 hour out of their busy (gotta get home to watch American Idol and Entertainment Tonight) schedules and vote when election time rolls around - that would go a long way toward putting the pull of lobbyists in check.
But that pissing contest from 30-40 years prior didn't affect the DOD decision to not sell/transfer the A-10 fleets to the Army.
Also, unlike one of the prior posters, the A-10s are not all flown by reserves, it was a plain that was being phased out when Desert Storm occurred and it proved it's worth during the conflict and was saved from the boneyards.
Having been in charge of an RMA department for a system builder I can tell you - another part of it is the cost of replacing items when customer X gives you the BS line of "I didn't OC it - I don't know why the thing melted in half."
Hard to prove that OCing a chip is the reason you have an RMA issue.
Having said all that - AMD is getting better, but I still stick with Intel because out of literally thousands of Intel Boxed Procs, I never had to do a single return but out of less than 50 Boxed AMDs I had to return seven - one after the customer sent a fax to the VP of Marketing at AMD after having problems and we were shipped a replacement boxed proc overnight along with misc. schwag (tee-shirts, extra BS to make said customer happy again) only to find out it had a bad heat sink fan. There just seems to be better quality control from Intel, and I'll gladly pay the extra $10 or so to get that.
As a six year (Ch)Air Farce errr, force vet, let me 'splain you sumthin' Lucy!
Ok, the A-10 is not operated by Army personnel. A big part of the reasoning by the DOD (not the Air Force) for not selling/transferring the A-10 to the Army in the early 90s was the fact that it would have been highly cost prohibative to train the support personnel, and purchase the proper maint. equip. for the birds, and the weapons systems.
The A-10 is an awesome bird - the only one ever built specifically around a gun. The GAU-8/A 30MM Gatling gun is quite effective at turning the enemy into "pink mist and bone chips" but is a pain in the rear to keep maintained and loaded. This is the primary reason that the Air Force, who had trained, qualified personnel and equipment, as well as bases , etc. kept the A-10. Not because of some 50 year old pissing contest (by the way the only pissing contests I can ever remember were AF/Navy or AF with Army/Dept. Navy because the AF still views the Army as more of a sister service.)
The AF provides ground based combat controllers to Army units (the reason you will occasionally see blue suiters with ranger patches etc.) to do ATC for CAS (close air support) with the Army - but the Army doesn't always have one of these ground controllers handy, so they train their people how to communicate with the pilots of the A-10 and v/v - That is why they are involved in the A-10 Training Simulator.
http://www.freemameroms.com/ is how I got my 4GBs worth of ROMs (a complete merged set) with over 3000 working roms.
Just USPSed a guy 7 discs, and a SASE about a week later I got my 7 discs back full of piping hot MAME goodness. Also, the set the guy that burned my set also sent almost all the flyers/marquee art, a bunch of wallpapers, etc. all kinds of neat stuff.
I guess it could be hit or miss on who you get to burn for you, but it worked for me, and what do you lose out if they don't return the discs, 7 CD-Rs and your address - now I provide my pals with a DVD with MAME32 and a full rom set (have to scrap some of the icons/marquees/junk to get it to fit) that is playable from a DVD-Drive.
No, not joking, I do however use my XP box as little as possible, and route through a hardware firewall anyway, I did find the XP SP2 Beta firewall laughable myself.
I have Win XP SP2 Beta running on my XP box. I do notice that the firewall is much better and easier to use (seems like a weak ZA clone,) except it does some weird things. The first time I used Windows Media Player in SP2 Beta, to view some movie trailers, I had the player maximized and after watching three or four, I minimized the player to check my e-mail.
When I minimized I saw my first experience with the new and improved firewall, it was a nice message in the center of the screen that had been obscured by the player stating "The Program: Windows Media Player is trying to access the Internet, should I: Block this program, Unblock this program, Block this program but ask again in the future" (I'm paraphrasing there) even though I hadn't told it to unblock the program, it was allowing it download content from the web.
I thought this was odd, and assumed maybe it only received stuff but wouldn't allow sending. Well, when I used Yahoo Messenger the first time, same thing popped-up, so I left the box on screen and did some IMing, and sent some files to friends - all without interacting with the firewall. So I must assume the the firewall by default lets anything go through until told otherwise. This is security? I've noticed this behavior with many programs, and telling it to block does work, but until told to block it leaves the holes open.
From the story linked above: "This fact eludes numerous media members who have been attracted to Napster's deals with Penn State and the University of Rochester. The two schools provide Napster at no cost to students, giving them unlimited access to tethered downloads or 'rented music.' (The students have to pay 99 cents per song to burn music onto a CD, put it on an MP3 player or keep it after their university time is done.)
The trick is that Napster has cut a sweet deal with Penn State and University of Rochester in order to promote the schools as models for others to follow. Both schools, because of their pilot status, receive Napster at massive discounts - close to free. And still, they warn student IT costs may go up in the future as a result of the service."
Napster is offering early adopters huge discounts and doesn't want everyone else to demand the same discounts.
Wrong - at least in it's current interation, most flash sites have selectable text, and if the designer is the least bit skilled (read: knows how to use the f^$^ing tools he's chosen) you should have little or no problems cutting and pasting.
Flash no longer is used as a big single timeline by the majority of professionals either, the advances in ActionScript allow for a lot more linking of small.swf files to allow for the back button, etc. to work - those that you find that don't have this functionality mean the author doesn't bother to keep up with standards of his tools, and probably couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag.
Yeah, and color TV is evil and sucks the soul out of everything. Flash has it's place, and has made great strides in usability - just because it's not the way you would do things doesn't mean it is evil.
If you don't like flash - DON'T VIEW OR SUPPORT SITE'S THAT USE IT - but it has it's place just like every other peice of technology on the planet.
Damn, the W3C has no control over those pesky games people play over the internet either, let's make sure we dump the entire games category from the webby's.
Slashdot users, for the most part WE ARE GEEKS! I am proud to say that I fit that description, but everytime I see a fellow/.er bemoan some peice of technology because THEY don't like it, it smacks of elitism, and intolerance, are you just trying to get back at someone in the past that made you feel inferior? Or maybe you're just challenged because something you don't use is liked by someone else?
Having said all that, yes, XHTML and CSS are excellent tools as well, and often more useful than flash, but sometimes moving images, sound, etc. go a lot farther than static images and text to create an experience, as for those that said Flash is a bastardization of all the Internet was meant to be, sorry, next time we want to create anything we'll clear it with you.
Oh yeah that's right, those of us with technical skill shouldn't be allowed to have the lower cost of hardware, the jobs created by, or the enjoyment of the majority of technical benefits of our little hobby becoming mainstream because not everyone is as skilled as us.... hmmm... what a lovely little world you want to live in DrHyde.
Uhhh.. RTFC (c for comment) he was referring to the producers of the web sites I believe, not the individuals that saw the web sites... I think you may have jumped a bit too harshly on the parent.
Forgive the lack of hyperlinks, I live in a backwater southern community that can't figure out how to archive older news stories, but I was able to find a few blurbs. Last August the Mayor of a small, (and I mean literally everyone knows everyone that lives there) community near here was convicted of child pornography because he recieved e-mails that contained the photographs, something not listed in the articles above but was covered in the news, is that the reason he was charged and the images found, was that an anonymous tip came in to the FBI at almost the exact time of the time stamps on the e-mails to his Web TV box (he didn't even own a true "computer".)
Now, this is the classic stereotypical small town that has had shootings/fueds over elections, etc, as recently as the 80s. Keep that in mind.
I personally know the attorney that defended the 63 year old mayor in court, and trust me, he isn't exactly a techno-whiz, I wouldn't be surprised if he asked me "so where do they keep the Internet?"
What is most interesting is the fact that the FBI was able to check the e-mail through the ISP so fast that some of them hadn't even been checked by the Mayor yet - and yet he was still convicted.
I know that the technically proficient/. crowd has no problem realizing that this guy was obviously set-up. I don't think he had enough skill to know how to google for something, let alone find his way into an underground kiddie porn ring, and most odd to me, no charges were ever brought against the senders of the e-mails.
I followed this case pretty close, because it was frightening to me that someone that doesn't like you can destroy your entire world by simply clicking send to your e-mail address while making an anonymous call to the FBI that you are a terrorist, kiddie pornographer, insert bad apple of the week here. What shocked me is that they were able to get a conviction in the case.
Not all that different from the case in TFA. And a scary thought that the technophobes that tend to wear the robes in the country have far too much power over that which they do not understand.
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Just like almost every state in the Union - hmmm... instead of taking more money from the citizens, perhaps states could start learning to manage the massive amounts of money that they already take in.
I for one find it a rather simple solution to simply tax more when it requires forethought, intelligence and other skills politicians seem to be lacking in to discover ways to cut costs while providing the services they provide, yet, for some reason households and businesses do it daily to survive.
Perhaps if the states learned to "live within their means" instead of taxing for more income, they wouldn't have as many upset citizens.
Just like almost every state in the Union - hmmm... instead of taking more money from the citizens, perhaps states could start learning to manage the massive amounts of money that they already take in.
I for one find it a rather simple solution to simply tax more when it requires forethought, intelligence and other skills politicians seem to be lacking in to discover ways to cut costs while providing the services they provide, yet, for some reason households and businesses do it daily to survive.
Perhaps if the states learned to "live within their means" instead of taxing for more income, they wouldn't have as many upset citizens.
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It's not hard in any of the major browsers to tell them to ignore the stylesheet of a site, or use your own - That's the beauty of CSS, even in a text-based, or non-compliant browser, you can degrade much nicer and still present content.
Something you can't do when you use stuff like javascript etc. to present your "brochur-a-fied" web site. CSS gives the designer more power and more flexability, and a good standards compliant browser allows that without taking the power to "view it your way" from the user - much better than huge nested tables.
I have sites that I rebuilt to be CSS/XHTML strict compliant after originally being built in tables, and saw file size reductions of 6KB (CSS) vs 24KB (tables/CSS hybrid) that could have a major impact of busy sites. AND, I began to get comments from those using screen readers etc. that the site was much easier to use. Plus, it is faster to recode one line of CSS than even an automated find/replace in any program I have tried.
CSS shouldn't be feared or downed because it is different, it is an useful tool, and one that is more capable of doing what we want - remember ZEALOTS different isn't bad, it's just different, but then again, this being/. I'm sure there is some here that are mad that web sites aren't delivered via punch card, because that's what they used back-in-the-day and are still happy with.
The elements in tables are items that should be tabular - not HTML hacks for layout - and some third party advertisements that are probably inserted from elsewhere.
Sorry, there is two uses of on the front page - and both are related to an ad box on said page. So, you sir are incorrect.
Gee, so it's ok that everyone that recieved kickbacks from the oil for food program who didn't want the gravy train to end to be wrong when they said that Iraq certainly had WMD, but if you were on the side supporting the war you aren't allowed to have made the same mistake. - With all do respect if you answer yes, you are a being rather two-faced.
No one knows for sure if they had them or not - everyone has theories. We may never know - but because our President believed the same thing that the great Clinton (that so many people still kiss up too) doesn't mean that he is Stupid or a Liar - it means he made a decision based on the information available.
That payment was not towards anti-American terrorism, which is the important thing in this topic.
Why is it important? is it because innocent American's and Brits that happen to be visiting Isreal and die when someone blows themselves up to get 72 virgins for eternity should be considered for the same protection as Americans and Brits at home? Does that make it OK with you? Since it wasn't on US soil afterall.
did the Iraqis come over to you on non-Iraqi soil and attack?
I'd love to be able to answer that question simply, but let's just say that all the guys that were caught several times attempting to shoot down unarmed aircraft going into and out of PSAB, in Saudi, weren't from Wyoming. And shooting at an Aircraft for simply flying over your air space enforcing a cease-fire treaty you signed, is enough to justify ending said cease-fire and starting a shooting match.
All that said, my point is WMD was never the main reason for many of us that support the war, and those that cheapen the efforts of Southern/Northern Watch by using the war in an ANYONE BUT BUSH PLEASE! campaign should consider what they are doing when they say they are supporting the troops, because they are not!
Listen! I am so sick and tired of this NO WMD shit - did you spend months of your lives in Saudi Arabia enforcing No Fly Zones under Clinton? NO!
Did you watch as daily the number of missiles fired at US and UK pilots by the Iraqi's increased to roughly 40 or 50 shots a day - the only thing keeping them from being successful shootdowns being the skill of the pilots, and effective countermeasures (including ones you can't read about at JANE's yet)? NO!
Did you bust your ass filling chaff and flare containers, and have a $80 plaque bought and paid for by those same pilots out of graditude that you were doing your job and letting them come home to fly again tomorrow hanging on the wall beside your desk? NO!
Guess what, I FUCKING DID!
THERE are a MILLION reasons we should have been in Iraq long before 9/11 - how many countries do we let try to kill our boys on a daily fucking basis before we do something - it was so commonplace that you didn't hear it on the news but I saw it with my own two eyes. I do not support Bush in the upcoming election strictly because of my stance against the PATRIOT act. BUT, and make no mistake about it - NO ONE doubted the existence of WMD's in Iraq before the war - even those opposed to it - further do you realize you could bury enough WMD's to kill the populace of the planet in an area smaller than a football feild - in the middle of nowhere - have you ever been to Iraq? There is plenty of uninhabited areas that could have millions of said areas hidden in them and no one would ever know.
Clinton is the one that called for regime change in 1998 (November 14, 1998 to be exact.) Iraq did support terrorism (paying the families of Suicide Bombers $250,000.00 as a reward, openly and overtly) and the ties to Bin Laden, while not fully 100% provable are highly likely - few debate this.
China doesn't shoot at our planes on a daily basis, and at least tries to be a productive member of the international community and is willing to come to the table and discuss issues, and occasionally make concessions.
Yes, we were the aggressor, but it put an end to the cat and mouse game of the US and UK pilots putting their ass on the line daily to enforce the NFZs in Iraq and the majority of the populace in the country is glad we are there (but that doesn't make for good news stories.) I suggest that an average of 367 attempted shootdowns of coalition planes per year for more than a decade to be plenty of reason to exert military force upon a nation. But, then again, I'm one of those that served the US Military while no one cared or gave a shit about the Military because two towers in NY hadn't been attacked successfully, I'm one that didn't have people protesting in the streets to bring my ass home while I did my stints in the sandbox, I'm one that didn't get a $700 extra rebate from the car manufacturers because I put my ass on the line - no instead I was turned down for vehicle loans BECAUSE I was in the military.
Those of us that served before 9/11 in Operation Southern/Northern Watch, are sick and tired of people who fail to look at the whole picture because it wasn't spoonfed to you by CNN - STFU or admit that it was fine and dandy with you for us to allow the Iraqis to attempt to kill me, my friends, and my coworkers, but it's not ok for my friends and my coworkers to defend themselves now.
War is shit, and there is always an arguement against it, but sometimes we have to do what we have to do. Suck it up and accept reality.
...he's set up a false dichotomy (100,000 engineers vs 284 million Americans, when it really should be 100,000 engineers vs ~100 major stockholders).
MOD PARENT UP!!!
This is one of the most insightful things I've seen regarding the whole us v them mentality of the fair use advocate v *AA.
I'd love to hear Valenti (who defends an industry that thrives because of piracy) respond to that. And since when is it wrong to have public policy aimed at the 100,000 when the 100,000 are right - and the policy they advocate does nothing to harm the 284 million.
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If I had the funds to spare to allow me to uproot and head elsewhere, I gladly would. The past 10 or so years has really drained me of any patriotic feelings toward the US (several of those years were spent gladly putting my life on the line to defend this nation in the military) and I believe that we may have gone past the point of no return.
Having been afforded the opportunity to see how other free countries in the world operate and view their citizenship, I no longer can convince myself that we are the best. However, since I am not able to financially uproot and move eleswhere and start a new life from scratch, I do all in my power to be an active citizen and make positive changes whenever the lobbiest dollar doesn't outsound my ability to communicate with my representatives in local/state/national gov't. I'd give my eyeteeth for more US citizens to at least educate themselves on the issues that affect us all, and give enough of a damn to take 1 hour out of their busy (gotta get home to watch American Idol and Entertainment Tonight) schedules and vote when election time rolls around - that would go a long way toward putting the pull of lobbyists in check.
But that pissing contest from 30-40 years prior didn't affect the DOD decision to not sell/transfer the A-10 fleets to the Army.
Also, unlike one of the prior posters, the A-10s are not all flown by reserves, it was a plain that was being phased out when Desert Storm occurred and it proved it's worth during the conflict and was saved from the boneyards.
Having been in charge of an RMA department for a system builder I can tell you - another part of it is the cost of replacing items when customer X gives you the BS line of "I didn't OC it - I don't know why the thing melted in half."
Hard to prove that OCing a chip is the reason you have an RMA issue.
Having said all that - AMD is getting better, but I still stick with Intel because out of literally thousands of Intel Boxed Procs, I never had to do a single return but out of less than 50 Boxed AMDs I had to return seven - one after the customer sent a fax to the VP of Marketing at AMD after having problems and we were shipped a replacement boxed proc overnight along with misc. schwag (tee-shirts, extra BS to make said customer happy again) only to find out it had a bad heat sink fan. There just seems to be better quality control from Intel, and I'll gladly pay the extra $10 or so to get that.
As a six year (Ch)Air Farce errr, force vet, let me 'splain you sumthin' Lucy!
Ok, the A-10 is not operated by Army personnel. A big part of the reasoning by the DOD (not the Air Force) for not selling/transferring the A-10 to the Army in the early 90s was the fact that it would have been highly cost prohibative to train the support personnel, and purchase the proper maint. equip. for the birds, and the weapons systems.
The A-10 is an awesome bird - the only one ever built specifically around a gun. The GAU-8/A 30MM Gatling gun is quite effective at turning the enemy into "pink mist and bone chips" but is a pain in the rear to keep maintained and loaded. This is the primary reason that the Air Force, who had trained, qualified personnel and equipment, as well as bases , etc. kept the A-10. Not because of some 50 year old pissing contest (by the way the only pissing contests I can ever remember were AF/Navy or AF with Army/Dept. Navy because the AF still views the Army as more of a sister service.)
The AF provides ground based combat controllers to Army units (the reason you will occasionally see blue suiters with ranger patches etc.) to do ATC for CAS (close air support) with the Army - but the Army doesn't always have one of these ground controllers handy, so they train their people how to communicate with the pilots of the A-10 and v/v - That is why they are involved in the A-10 Training Simulator.
Ok, it's getting old now - He didn't want to kill all the whales or cut down all the trees - It's called an f'n joke people:
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http://www.freemameroms.com/ is how I got my 4GBs worth of ROMs (a complete merged set) with over 3000 working roms.
Just USPSed a guy 7 discs, and a SASE about a week later I got my 7 discs back full of piping hot MAME goodness. Also, the set the guy that burned my set also sent almost all the flyers/marquee art, a bunch of wallpapers, etc. all kinds of neat stuff.
I guess it could be hit or miss on who you get to burn for you, but it worked for me, and what do you lose out if they don't return the discs, 7 CD-Rs and your address - now I provide my pals with a DVD with MAME32 and a full rom set (have to scrap some of the icons/marquees/junk to get it to fit) that is playable from a DVD-Drive.
So because we allowed our government to make a huge fsck up in the past, we have to allow it in the present and future?
I seem to remember that the vast majority of US Citizens think the internment camps of WWII were and are bad ideas.
No, not joking, I do however use my XP box as little as possible, and route through a hardware firewall anyway, I did find the XP SP2 Beta firewall laughable myself.
I have Win XP SP2 Beta running on my XP box. I do notice that the firewall is much better and easier to use (seems like a weak ZA clone,) except it does some weird things. The first time I used Windows Media Player in SP2 Beta, to view some movie trailers, I had the player maximized and after watching three or four, I minimized the player to check my e-mail.
When I minimized I saw my first experience with the new and improved firewall, it was a nice message in the center of the screen that had been obscured by the player stating "The Program: Windows Media Player is trying to access the Internet, should I: Block this program, Unblock this program, Block this program but ask again in the future" (I'm paraphrasing there) even though I hadn't told it to unblock the program, it was allowing it download content from the web.
I thought this was odd, and assumed maybe it only received stuff but wouldn't allow sending. Well, when I used Yahoo Messenger the first time, same thing popped-up, so I left the box on screen and did some IMing, and sent some files to friends - all without interacting with the firewall. So I must assume the the firewall by default lets anything go through until told otherwise. This is security? I've noticed this behavior with many programs, and telling it to block does work, but until told to block it leaves the holes open.
Mod parent UP! Let's see if the DOJ attacks /. for providing freedom of information.
Exactly - in a related story yesterday on the reg - it mentions exaclty that as the reason.
From the story linked above:
"This fact eludes numerous media members who have been attracted to Napster's deals with Penn State and the University of Rochester. The two schools provide Napster at no cost to students, giving them unlimited access to tethered downloads or 'rented music.' (The students have to pay 99 cents per song to burn music onto a CD, put it on an MP3 player or keep it after their university time is done.)
The trick is that Napster has cut a sweet deal with Penn State and University of Rochester in order to promote the schools as models for others to follow. Both schools, because of their pilot status, receive Napster at massive discounts - close to free. And still, they warn student IT costs may go up in the future as a result of the service."
Napster is offering early adopters huge discounts and doesn't want everyone else to demand the same discounts.
Wrong - at least in it's current interation, most flash sites have selectable text, and if the designer is the least bit skilled (read: knows how to use the f^$^ing tools he's chosen) you should have little or no problems cutting and pasting.
.swf files to allow for the back button, etc. to work - those that you find that don't have this functionality mean the author doesn't bother to keep up with standards of his tools, and probably couldn't code his way out of a wet paper bag.
Flash no longer is used as a big single timeline by the majority of professionals either, the advances in ActionScript allow for a lot more linking of small
Yeah, and color TV is evil and sucks the soul out of everything. Flash has it's place, and has made great strides in usability - just because it's not the way you would do things doesn't mean it is evil. If you don't like flash - DON'T VIEW OR SUPPORT SITE'S THAT USE IT - but it has it's place just like every other peice of technology on the planet. Damn, the W3C has no control over those pesky games people play over the internet either, let's make sure we dump the entire games category from the webby's. Slashdot users, for the most part WE ARE GEEKS! I am proud to say that I fit that description, but everytime I see a fellow /.er bemoan some peice of technology because THEY don't like it, it smacks of elitism, and intolerance, are you just trying to get back at someone in the past that made you feel inferior? Or maybe you're just challenged because something you don't use is liked by someone else?
Having said all that, yes, XHTML and CSS are excellent tools as well, and often more useful than flash, but sometimes moving images, sound, etc. go a lot farther than static images and text to create an experience, as for those that said Flash is a bastardization of all the Internet was meant to be, sorry, next time we want to create anything we'll clear it with you.
Oh yeah that's right, those of us with technical skill shouldn't be allowed to have the lower cost of hardware, the jobs created by, or the enjoyment of the majority of technical benefits of our little hobby becoming mainstream because not everyone is as skilled as us.... hmmm... what a lovely little world you want to live in DrHyde.
Uhhh.. RTFC (c for comment) he was referring to the producers of the web sites I believe, not the individuals that saw the web sites... I think you may have jumped a bit too harshly on the parent.
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Forgive the lack of hyperlinks, I live in a backwater southern community that can't figure out how to archive older news stories, but I was able to find a few blurbs. Last August the Mayor of a small, (and I mean literally everyone knows everyone that lives there) community near here was convicted of child pornography because he recieved e-mails that contained the photographs, something not listed in the articles above but was covered in the news, is that the reason he was charged and the images found, was that an anonymous tip came in to the FBI at almost the exact time of the time stamps on the e-mails to his Web TV box (he didn't even own a true "computer".)
Now, this is the classic stereotypical small town that has had shootings/fueds over elections, etc, as recently as the 80s. Keep that in mind.
I personally know the attorney that defended the 63 year old mayor in court, and trust me, he isn't exactly a techno-whiz, I wouldn't be surprised if he asked me "so where do they keep the Internet?"
What is most interesting is the fact that the FBI was able to check the e-mail through the ISP so fast that some of them hadn't even been checked by the Mayor yet - and yet he was still convicted.
I know that the technically proficient /. crowd has no problem realizing that this guy was obviously set-up. I don't think he had enough skill to know how to google for something, let alone find his way into an underground kiddie porn ring, and most odd to me, no charges were ever brought against the senders of the e-mails.
I followed this case pretty close, because it was frightening to me that someone that doesn't like you can destroy your entire world by simply clicking send to your e-mail address while making an anonymous call to the FBI that you are a terrorist, kiddie pornographer, insert bad apple of the week here. What shocked me is that they were able to get a conviction in the case.
Not all that different from the case in TFA. And a scary thought that the technophobes that tend to wear the robes in the country have far too much power over that which they do not understand.
Don't You hate it when you submitt without changing the "HTML FORMATTED and PLAIN OLD TEXT" menu? --
Just like almost every state in the Union - hmmm... instead of taking more money from the citizens, perhaps states could start learning to manage the massive amounts of money that they already take in.
I for one find it a rather simple solution to simply tax more when it requires forethought, intelligence and other skills politicians seem to be lacking in to discover ways to cut costs while providing the services they provide, yet, for some reason households and businesses do it daily to survive.
Perhaps if the states learned to "live within their means" instead of taxing for more income, they wouldn't have as many upset citizens.
Just like almost every state in the Union - hmmm... instead of taking more money from the citizens, perhaps states could start learning to manage the massive amounts of money that they already take in. I for one find it a rather simple solution to simply tax more when it requires forethought, intelligence and other skills politicians seem to be lacking in to discover ways to cut costs while providing the services they provide, yet, for some reason households and businesses do it daily to survive. Perhaps if the states learned to "live within their means" instead of taxing for more income, they wouldn't have as many upset citizens.
ASCII art to the extreme (Not truley but - WOW!)
It's not hard in any of the major browsers to tell them to ignore the stylesheet of a site, or use your own - That's the beauty of CSS, even in a text-based, or non-compliant browser, you can degrade much nicer and still present content.
/. I'm sure there is some here that are mad that web sites aren't delivered via punch card, because that's what they used back-in-the-day and are still happy with.
Something you can't do when you use stuff like javascript etc. to present your "brochur-a-fied" web site. CSS gives the designer more power and more flexability, and a good standards compliant browser allows that without taking the power to "view it your way" from the user - much better than huge nested tables.
I have sites that I rebuilt to be CSS/XHTML strict compliant after originally being built in tables, and saw file size reductions of 6KB (CSS) vs 24KB (tables/CSS hybrid) that could have a major impact of busy sites. AND, I began to get comments from those using screen readers etc. that the site was much easier to use. Plus, it is faster to recode one line of CSS than even an automated find/replace in any program I have tried.
CSS shouldn't be feared or downed because it is different, it is an useful tool, and one that is more capable of doing what we want - remember ZEALOTS different isn't bad, it's just different, but then again, this being
The elements in tables are items that should be tabular - not HTML hacks for layout - and some third party advertisements that are probably inserted from elsewhere. Sorry, there is two uses of on the front page - and both are related to an ad box on said page. So, you sir are incorrect.
ESPN - not big enough or commercial enough for you?
that reason better turn out to be true.
Gee, so it's ok that everyone that recieved kickbacks from the oil for food program who didn't want the gravy train to end to be wrong when they said that Iraq certainly had WMD, but if you were on the side supporting the war you aren't allowed to have made the same mistake. - With all do respect if you answer yes, you are a being rather two-faced.
No one knows for sure if they had them or not - everyone has theories. We may never know - but because our President believed the same thing that the great Clinton (that so many people still kiss up too) doesn't mean that he is Stupid or a Liar - it means he made a decision based on the information available.
That payment was not towards anti-American terrorism, which is the important thing in this topic.
Why is it important? is it because innocent American's and Brits that happen to be visiting Isreal and die when someone blows themselves up to get 72 virgins for eternity should be considered for the same protection as Americans and Brits at home? Does that make it OK with you? Since it wasn't on US soil afterall.
did the Iraqis come over to you on non-Iraqi soil and attack?
I'd love to be able to answer that question simply, but let's just say that all the guys that were caught several times attempting to shoot down unarmed aircraft going into and out of PSAB, in Saudi, weren't from Wyoming. And shooting at an Aircraft for simply flying over your air space enforcing a cease-fire treaty you signed, is enough to justify ending said cease-fire and starting a shooting match.
All that said, my point is WMD was never the main reason for many of us that support the war, and those that cheapen the efforts of Southern/Northern Watch by using the war in an ANYONE BUT BUSH PLEASE! campaign should consider what they are doing when they say they are supporting the troops, because they are not!
Listen! I am so sick and tired of this NO WMD shit - did you spend months of your lives in Saudi Arabia enforcing No Fly Zones under Clinton? NO!
Did you watch as daily the number of missiles fired at US and UK pilots by the Iraqi's increased to roughly 40 or 50 shots a day - the only thing keeping them from being successful shootdowns being the skill of the pilots, and effective countermeasures (including ones you can't read about at JANE's yet)? NO!
Did you bust your ass filling chaff and flare containers, and have a $80 plaque bought and paid for by those same pilots out of graditude that you were doing your job and letting them come home to fly again tomorrow hanging on the wall beside your desk? NO!
Guess what, I FUCKING DID!
THERE are a MILLION reasons we should have been in Iraq long before 9/11 - how many countries do we let try to kill our boys on a daily fucking basis before we do something - it was so commonplace that you didn't hear it on the news but I saw it with my own two eyes. I do not support Bush in the upcoming election strictly because of my stance against the PATRIOT act. BUT, and make no mistake about it - NO ONE doubted the existence of WMD's in Iraq before the war - even those opposed to it - further do you realize you could bury enough WMD's to kill the populace of the planet in an area smaller than a football feild - in the middle of nowhere - have you ever been to Iraq? There is plenty of uninhabited areas that could have millions of said areas hidden in them and no one would ever know.
Clinton is the one that called for regime change in 1998 (November 14, 1998 to be exact.) Iraq did support terrorism (paying the families of Suicide Bombers $250,000.00 as a reward, openly and overtly) and the ties to Bin Laden, while not fully 100% provable are highly likely - few debate this.
China doesn't shoot at our planes on a daily basis, and at least tries to be a productive member of the international community and is willing to come to the table and discuss issues, and occasionally make concessions.
Yes, we were the aggressor, but it put an end to the cat and mouse game of the US and UK pilots putting their ass on the line daily to enforce the NFZs in Iraq and the majority of the populace in the country is glad we are there (but that doesn't make for good news stories.) I suggest that an average of 367 attempted shootdowns of coalition planes per year for more than a decade to be plenty of reason to exert military force upon a nation. But, then again, I'm one of those that served the US Military while no one cared or gave a shit about the Military because two towers in NY hadn't been attacked successfully, I'm one that didn't have people protesting in the streets to bring my ass home while I did my stints in the sandbox, I'm one that didn't get a $700 extra rebate from the car manufacturers because I put my ass on the line - no instead I was turned down for vehicle loans BECAUSE I was in the military.
Those of us that served before 9/11 in Operation Southern/Northern Watch, are sick and tired of people who fail to look at the whole picture because it wasn't spoonfed to you by CNN - STFU or admit that it was fine and dandy with you for us to allow the Iraqis to attempt to kill me, my friends, and my coworkers, but it's not ok for my friends and my coworkers to defend themselves now.
War is shit, and there is always an arguement against it, but sometimes we have to do what we have to do. Suck it up and accept reality.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
This is one of the most insightful things I've seen regarding the whole us v them mentality of the fair use advocate v *AA.
I'd love to hear Valenti (who defends an industry that thrives because of piracy) respond to that. And since when is it wrong to have public policy aimed at the 100,000 when the 100,000 are right - and the policy they advocate does nothing to harm the 284 million.