> people who are obsessed with destroying our way of life i was with you up to that. Look, new york and washington were not attacked because they "hate our way of life". Not specifically. Bin Laden was pissed that the us military presence in their area had become massive. Among other things, he saw it as propping up the al-Saud dynasty. And the Israelis.
If, by "way of life", you mean allowing ourselves to be pimped to the likes of the oil, plastics, and defense industries, then sure - you're correct. But George Washington et. al were not fighting for SUVs, shopping, and "who wants to be a millionare". I imagine that Thomas Jefferson would frown mightily at the way we've collectively lost touch with what freedom, democracy, and community can be. Everyone just assumes that they did it because "they hate freedom". No, they hate all the shit we do to prop up our little racket.
> By the way, the last thing the Palistinians want > is peace. Their entire political and social > system is built on hate for the Israelis the and > goal of destruction of the State of Israel.
rubbish. Their land is being occupied and they want it back for themselves. Full-stop. Bombing pizza restaurants is but one of the methods being used to try to achieve that. There are some very good people on both sides who are trying to resolve the problem in a peaceful, rational manner. Say what you like about the hari kari business but it ain't exactly something the average Muslim would like to try nor approves of. It would also be just as false to suggest that Israel's "entire political and social system is built on hate for the Palestinians...", btw.
Since i'm way off-topic, anyway: spend a moment to ponder that all that oil we wan^H^H^Hneed is also being eyed by China. In a very big way. Like, 1.3 billion people big. India has just over a G as well. Oh, and N. Korea has major energy problems, so they're paying pretty close attention to what's going on in Iraq, etc.
dragonflys are hunters, unlike bees, which are grazers (i wonder if dfs eat those). They've been around a lot longer than a lot of other flying insects. They fly pretty well and can move in any direction at amazing speed, with very high acceleration.
There's a lab at ucla (i think) that's done some really remarkable work studying insect (and animal?) motion. I'd like to see if they've ever tracked a dragonfly's flight. Not trivial, i'm sure.
Just after "Empire Strikes Back" came out - and it was all the rage - i saw some teen magazine (or maybe one of those science fiction movie rags) which gushed about how KISS was set to play a 4-headed alien in Star Wars VII (or maybe it was VIII). I loved the idea of them (it) breaking into Dr. Love in that Tatooine (sp?) bar.
Eddie Merckx, a Belgian who was trying for his sixth Tour win, was assaulted by a French fan, who ran out and punched him in the ribs. It may not have been the sole reason he didn't finish first that year but it certainly couldn't have been shrugged off.
A lot of the interference is accidental. The Alpe d'Huez was a nightmare this year. Afterwards, Lance said that he thought it was a mistake to hold a time trial there (or at least to open the mountain to so many people). That mountain is legendary for cyclists and it would really suck for something to go *really wrong*. He said today that, of course, he's scared in situations like that, though not just because of the memory of Eddie Merckx, but of some idiot not getting out of the way. Especially in a time trial. On a freaking mountain.
That being said, last year he hooked his handlebar on some women's purse and went down. Jan Ulrich (friend and opponent) slowed down the group of 4 or 5 they'd been riding with until he could catch up. He was so pissed about what had happened that he eventually overtook another group further ahead, only to slip out of his pedal clip (which pissed him off more), and finally catch the leader (Basso? Mayo?) and finish the stage first. Oh, and that was all on the way up another mountain - the stage ended at the summit.
I saw some amazing things this year again, but i'll never forget that, with my gf & i screaming and gnashing our teeth, tears welling up. We were watching the live feed, so we thought he was done for. An absolutely stupendous performance. Outrageous it was. Simply fucking brilliant.
i think you're probably correct one way or another about the motivation on the time trial. That was pretty hairy. Some of the earlier riders were dodging trash and even a fucking camp chair! One of the US Postal riders (Landis?) actually shoved someone aside on his way up.
As to accidental interference, i saw some footage today from some of the earlier stages i missed. There was one point where some guy was way out on the roadway taking a photo and facing toward the direction of the race. As he went to move back toward the side, he turned around a bit, just in time to see a rider from about a foot away before he smacked in too him. The rider (who i think was on T-Mobile's team) had no chance, and went down hard. He was trying to sneak by him (the idiot really looked like he would have been happy to stand there all day) when the guy suddenly turned back. I hope someone in the crowd punched him in the head to be sure he'd been hurt enough.
I don't like the fact that blocked pages are replaced with a "Website not found" message rather than a message explaining why the page was blocked
This is a very good point. No matter what one thinks about this, i'm sure most of us could agree that BT should be following protocol, at least. What they're doing isn't honest and sets a bad precedent.
I was thinking about the same thing. Though i remember it as dropping the bats in a large container which would open at some altitude (think of the pods used to scatter bomblets over a wide area). I dunno about the individual parachute thing. I could be wrong, as it would mean they'd need to warm the bats up in their container before releasing them. The idea was to drop the bats at dawn, which would force them to seek shelter under the eaves of the predominantly wooden structures (think civilian homes). I believe they used acid timers.
It's funny how they misjudged how far some of the bats would travel, skipping the mock houses set up for the test and burning parts of the airbase.
This is a major power grab, going on. C'mon, people, pay attention, now. This is not about who is bigoted against whose religious beliefs. There is a very real danger with these plans. They aim to own the lower classes in just the same way that the, eg. maddras'(sp?) in Pakistan do.
I was just saying to my gf that the lie-ing-in-state that's been all over the tube is maybe a good thing right now. Respectfully, i think Reagan couldn't have chosen a better time. What, with it being all cowboys, b&w, baseball, and wwII (was that, like, before netscape 3?) i'm hoping that many will be thinking about just why they voted for the guy in the first place. Say what you want, but George W. Bush is no gipper. I didn't vote for either of them - and wouldn't have - but i know a lot of people did.
Give me James Watt* to be worried about any day. These guys are way too fucking scary.
* first Secretary of the Interior under Reagan; felt that we might as well mine and strip the parks because the apocalypse was upon us, anyway. What a sorry, fucking state.
Ron Rosenbaum, in his article "The Subterranean World of the Bomb", tells of a method a single person can use to turn both keys using a spoon.
I've just googled it. Here's a review of his book, The Secret Parts of Fortune, which has the article. I'd originally read it in another collection, Travels With Dr. Death.
"I actually found myself reassured," Rosenbaum writes. "The kind of person who'd cheerfully volunteer the spoon-and-string story is not the kind of person who'd be likely to conspire to use it to try to provoke World War III."
/. readers might also be interested in another of his articles, Secrets of the Little Blue Box, about the original phone phreaks, published ~1970. update: i just checked and found it online. read and enjoy.
I highly reccommend his books. I don't know what's in Secret Parts, but Travels also had articles about:
the true-life basis for the film Dead Ringers
moles in the CIA
the crazed psychiatrist Errol Morris was documenting before he changed tack and made the Thin Blue Line. Here's a review of that film if you're unfamiliar.
is Burt Reynolds a murderer?
Lee Harvey Oswald
I've gone way off-topic, but just had to plug that book. A fantastic read.
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It does exist. Creating maps with SVG allows for all sorts of javascript interactivity. Check this out for a cool example. Note that the map is generated on the fly, as well. You'll need an svg plugin. Adobe's works for this page. Right-click to see the menu which lets you play with the layers. Adding mouseover/popup code to it is doable.
Jane's Information Group. Jane's is more than 100 years old. I think they began with Jane's Fighting Ships - detailed info on the Navies of various countries. Lately, they've moved beyond military intel into commercial/trade info. Not surprising, really. It's all the same.
I just grabbed their sitemap link. That's probably the best overveiw of the organisation.
No. While you (and some others) may have been ok, the problem has been mainfesting itself even after an install which doesn't "mess with the partitions".
Please, if you're thinking of installing/upgrading FC2, track the bug before you make any decision. It's looking like it might not be a show-stopper, just as long as you know what to do. I won't post the fix here, as i do not yet know for certain that it is bullet-proof. Check the bugzilla link - this is ongoing and people are trying to resolve it.
In any case, not "mess[ing] with the partitions" will not guarantee your system will be ok.
Do you honestly believe that that one shell with traces of sarin (unconfirmed, last i saw) justifies invading a sovereign nation? WTF are you thinking? Bush & the neo-fascists running the whitehouse should be tossed in a hole somewhere for all the damage they've done.
ignorant AC doesn't deserve an answer, but this 'leftist' and 'liberal' bullshit is just pathetic. The 'founding fathers' would be yelling for Bush's head on a pike by now. Hey A. Coward, come hang with me for a bit and see how 'leftist' i am. Quit being such an ignorant prick.
IMNSHO, the web should be: - An easy way to access information
That is the entire point of seperating content from presentation. That is what XHTML & CSS is striving for.
- Simple, adhering to the lowest reasonable common denominator that works across all common browsers (HTML 4, limited CSS, etc.)
That is the entire point of seperating content from presentation - let the client deal with what it can deal with. Many modern authors/designers are learning how to design their css to present, ie. Nav4 with a plain, easy-to-access, no-frills page; IE with a nice look; and, for the rest, the best.
- Not filled with bloat and fluff that doesn't help me access information (such as flash intros, flash menus, Java menu crap, etc.)
If your XHTML/CSS sites are bloated compared to the same thing done with tables and *barf* font tags, you've done it wrong. Period. Tho, how you equate java menus/flash whatever with XHTML/CSS/SVG is a mystery to me. i don't know of any browser which uses a plug-in to render xhtml/css. SVG yes, but that'll be folded in soon enough. In any case, once again, the whole point is to seperate content from presentation. Yes, this really does make things more accessible. Maybe go back and have another look at what they actually are.
Many of the webmonkeys I've known in my company that complain about such things not working are the same people who couldn't do HTML by hand if they wanted to, insist that beauty should take priority over functionality, and develop IE-only pages because they never thought to test any other browser and then blame those browsers for not supporting the latest, greatest standard.
They're idiots, then. Fuck 'em.
Here's a tip: if you want people to use your stuff, you have to provide it in a format their tools can understand. You can't expect everyone to upgrade, so you have to work to your audience.
So, you side with the monkeys, then? What's the point you're trying to make here? Sorry, i didn't get your "tip". Thanks for trying though.
So I don't really concern myself with the new standards. Besides, for me, I have little to no use for them at the moment anyway.
Maybe you don't, but try doing this with gif image replacement., Oh, horrors - you need an SVG plug-in, So sorry. (just hit submit if you're not sure what you're looking at, btw). Do you think any of this would be possible without some standards?
So understand if I'm wary about any so called "improvements" to what already works pretty darn well and is just now starting to truly work the same (mostly) in most mainstream browsers.
This statement, more than any other, shows you are completely without clue here.
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> people who are obsessed with destroying our way of life
i was with you up to that. Look, new york and washington were not attacked because they "hate our way of life". Not specifically. Bin Laden was pissed that the us military presence in their area had become massive. Among other things, he saw it as propping up the al-Saud dynasty. And the Israelis.
If, by "way of life", you mean allowing ourselves to be pimped to the likes of the oil, plastics, and defense industries, then sure - you're correct. But George Washington et. al were not fighting for SUVs, shopping, and "who wants to be a millionare". I imagine that Thomas Jefferson would frown mightily at the way we've collectively lost touch with what freedom, democracy, and community can be. Everyone just assumes that they did it because "they hate freedom". No, they hate all the shit we do to prop up our little racket.
> By the way, the last thing the Palistinians want
> is peace. Their entire political and social
> system is built on hate for the Israelis the and
> goal of destruction of the State of Israel.
rubbish. Their land is being occupied and they want it back for themselves. Full-stop. Bombing pizza restaurants is but one of the methods being used to try to achieve that. There are some very good people on both sides who are trying to resolve the problem in a peaceful, rational manner. Say what you like about the hari kari business but it ain't exactly something the average Muslim would like to try nor approves of. It would also be just as false to suggest that Israel's "entire political and social system is built on hate for the Palestinians...", btw.
Since i'm way off-topic, anyway: spend a moment to ponder that all that oil we wan^H^H^Hneed is also being eyed by China. In a very big way. Like, 1.3 billion people big. India has just over a G as well. Oh, and N. Korea has major energy problems, so they're paying pretty close attention to what's going on in Iraq, etc.
dragonflys are hunters, unlike bees, which are grazers (i wonder if dfs eat those). They've been around a lot longer than a lot of other flying insects. They fly pretty well and can move in any direction at amazing speed, with very high acceleration.
There's a lab at ucla (i think) that's done some really remarkable work studying insect (and animal?) motion. I'd like to see if they've ever tracked a dragonfly's flight. Not trivial, i'm sure.
Just after "Empire Strikes Back" came out - and it was all the rage - i saw some teen magazine (or maybe one of those science fiction movie rags) which gushed about how KISS was set to play a 4-headed alien in Star Wars VII (or maybe it was VIII). I loved the idea of them (it) breaking into Dr. Love in that Tatooine (sp?) bar.
So, if Rutan's team doesn't claim the prize, you figure this would be some consolation to them? Gee, that's awful kind of you!
Eddie Merckx, a Belgian who was trying for his sixth Tour win, was assaulted by a French fan, who ran out and punched him in the ribs. It may not have been the sole reason he didn't finish first that year but it certainly couldn't have been shrugged off.
A lot of the interference is accidental. The Alpe d'Huez was a nightmare this year. Afterwards, Lance said that he thought it was a mistake to hold a time trial there (or at least to open the mountain to so many people). That mountain is legendary for cyclists and it would really suck for something to go *really wrong*. He said today that, of course, he's scared in situations like that, though not just because of the memory of Eddie Merckx, but of some idiot not getting out of the way. Especially in a time trial. On a freaking mountain.
That being said, last year he hooked his handlebar on some women's purse and went down. Jan Ulrich (friend and opponent) slowed down the group of 4 or 5 they'd been riding with until he could catch up. He was so pissed about what had happened that he eventually overtook another group further ahead, only to slip out of his pedal clip (which pissed him off more), and finally catch the leader (Basso? Mayo?) and finish the stage first. Oh, and that was all on the way up another mountain - the stage ended at the summit.
I saw some amazing things this year again, but i'll never forget that, with my gf & i screaming and gnashing our teeth, tears welling up. We were watching the live feed, so we thought he was done for. An absolutely stupendous performance. Outrageous it was. Simply fucking brilliant.
i think you're probably correct one way or another about the motivation on the time trial. That was pretty hairy. Some of the earlier riders were dodging trash and even a fucking camp chair! One of the US Postal riders (Landis?) actually shoved someone aside on his way up.
As to accidental interference, i saw some footage today from some of the earlier stages i missed. There was one point where some guy was way out on the roadway taking a photo and facing toward the direction of the race. As he went to move back toward the side, he turned around a bit, just in time to see a rider from about a foot away before he smacked in too him. The rider (who i think was on T-Mobile's team) had no chance, and went down hard. He was trying to sneak by him (the idiot really looked like he would have been happy to stand there all day) when the guy suddenly turned back. I hope someone in the crowd punched him in the head to be sure he'd been hurt enough.
I don't like the fact that blocked pages are replaced with a "Website not found" message rather than a message explaining why the page was blocked
This is a very good point. No matter what one thinks about this, i'm sure most of us could agree that BT should be following protocol, at least. What they're doing isn't honest and sets a bad precedent.
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I was thinking about the same thing. Though i remember it as dropping the bats in a large container which would open at some altitude (think of the pods used to scatter bomblets over a wide area). I dunno about the individual parachute thing. I could be wrong, as it would mean they'd need to warm the bats up in their container before releasing them. The idea was to drop the bats at dawn, which would force them to seek shelter under the eaves of the predominantly wooden structures (think civilian homes). I believe they used acid timers.
It's funny how they misjudged how far some of the bats would travel, skipping the mock houses set up for the test and burning parts of the airbase.
i know that what you say is true (un-believer, here, btw). It's just that, well, a little louder, please? A little more public solidarity, perhaps?
Sorry, that's not a flame to you nor any other Christian. They want to control you, too.
I'll second that last sentiment.
Meanwhile, here's something to start you off if you haven't read the book. hell, google bomb:
This is a major power grab, going on. C'mon, people, pay attention, now. This is not about who is bigoted against whose religious beliefs. There is a very real danger with these plans. They aim to own the lower classes in just the same way that the, eg. maddras'(sp?) in Pakistan do.
I was just saying to my gf that the lie-ing-in-state that's been all over the tube is maybe a good thing right now. Respectfully, i think Reagan couldn't have chosen a better time. What, with it being all cowboys, b&w, baseball, and wwII (was that, like, before netscape 3?) i'm hoping that many will be thinking about just why they voted for the guy in the first place. Say what you want, but George W. Bush is no gipper. I didn't vote for either of them - and wouldn't have - but i know a lot of people did.
Give me James Watt* to be worried about any day. These guys are way too fucking scary.
* first Secretary of the Interior under Reagan; felt that we might as well mine and strip the parks because the apocalypse was upon us, anyway. What a sorry, fucking state.
Ron Rosenbaum, in his article "The Subterranean World of the Bomb", tells of a method a single person can use to turn both keys using a spoon.
I've just googled it. Here's a review of his book, The Secret Parts of Fortune, which has the article. I'd originally read it in another collection, Travels With Dr. Death.
/. readers might also be interested in another of his articles, Secrets of the Little Blue Box, about the original phone phreaks, published ~1970. update: i just checked and found it online. read and enjoy.
I highly reccommend his books. I don't know what's in Secret Parts, but Travels also had articles about:
I've gone way off-topic, but just had to plug that book. A fantastic read.
It does exist. Creating maps with SVG allows for all sorts of javascript interactivity. Check this out for a cool example. Note that the map is generated on the fly, as well. You'll need an svg plugin. Adobe's works for this page. Right-click to see the menu which lets you play with the layers. Adding mouseover/popup code to it is doable.
how the fuck is that a troll?!? That was hilarious.
All the way from Japan?
Who is Janes?
Jane's Information Group. Jane's is more than 100 years old. I think they began with Jane's Fighting Ships - detailed info on the Navies of various countries. Lately, they've moved beyond military intel into commercial/trade info. Not surprising, really. It's all the same.
I just grabbed their sitemap link. That's probably the best overveiw of the organisation.
No. While you (and some others) may have been ok, the problem has been mainfesting itself even after an install which doesn't "mess with the partitions".
Please, if you're thinking of installing/upgrading FC2, track the bug before you make any decision. It's looking like it might not be a show-stopper, just as long as you know what to do. I won't post the fix here, as i do not yet know for certain that it is bullet-proof. Check the bugzilla link - this is ongoing and people are trying to resolve it.
In any case, not "mess[ing] with the partitions" will not guarantee your system will be ok.
Do you honestly believe that that one shell with traces of sarin (unconfirmed, last i saw) justifies invading a sovereign nation? WTF are you thinking? Bush & the neo-fascists running the whitehouse should be tossed in a hole somewhere for all the damage they've done.
ignorant AC doesn't deserve an answer, but this 'leftist' and 'liberal' bullshit is just pathetic. The 'founding fathers' would be yelling for Bush's head on a pike by now. Hey A. Coward, come hang with me for a bit and see how 'leftist' i am. Quit being such an ignorant prick.
A website's functionality shouldn't depend on a proprietary extension
Damn straight. And i would hate to see the same thing done with SVG. At least in the next 5 years.
So, what the hell does this have to do with XHTML/CSS/SVG/standards, again?
print it out
Plus, when you zoom in, then print, you (should) get only what the viewport is showing, at that size. Very slick.
Please post your "fix" for html. I'm sure we'll all be interested to see what you come up with.
IMNSHO, the web should be: - An easy way to access information
That is the entire point of seperating content from presentation. That is what XHTML & CSS is striving for.
- Simple, adhering to the lowest reasonable common denominator that works across all common browsers (HTML 4, limited CSS, etc.)
That is the entire point of seperating content from presentation - let the client deal with what it can deal with. Many modern authors/designers are learning how to design their css to present, ie. Nav4 with a plain, easy-to-access, no-frills page; IE with a nice look; and, for the rest, the best.
- Not filled with bloat and fluff that doesn't help me access information (such as flash intros, flash menus, Java menu crap, etc.)
If your XHTML/CSS sites are bloated compared to the same thing done with tables and *barf* font tags, you've done it wrong. Period. Tho, how you equate java menus/flash whatever with XHTML/CSS/SVG is a mystery to me. i don't know of any browser which uses a plug-in to render xhtml/css. SVG yes, but that'll be folded in soon enough. In any case, once again, the whole point is to seperate content from presentation. Yes, this really does make things more accessible. Maybe go back and have another look at what they actually are.
Many of the webmonkeys I've known in my company that complain about such things not working are the same people who couldn't do HTML by hand if they wanted to, insist that beauty should take priority over functionality, and develop IE-only pages because they never thought to test any other browser and then blame those browsers for not supporting the latest, greatest standard.
They're idiots, then. Fuck 'em.
Here's a tip: if you want people to use your stuff, you have to provide it in a format their tools can understand. You can't expect everyone to upgrade, so you have to work to your audience.
So, you side with the monkeys, then? What's the point you're trying to make here? Sorry, i didn't get your "tip". Thanks for trying though.
So I don't really concern myself with the new standards. Besides, for me, I have little to no use for them at the moment anyway.
Maybe you don't, but try doing this with gif image replacement., Oh, horrors - you need an SVG plug-in, So sorry. (just hit submit if you're not sure what you're looking at, btw). Do you think any of this would be possible without some standards?
So understand if I'm wary about any so called "improvements" to what already works pretty darn well and is just now starting to truly work the same (mostly) in most mainstream browsers.
This statement, more than any other, shows you are completely without clue here.
Hey, you're losing us here. Break up the paragraph a little. Put a little pep in it.
OWL lets you define relationships between those vocabularies and draw interferences using those relationships...
nah, that OWL.net you're thinking of, the version ms patented.