Also, many articles you might come across in a newspaper have been carefully packaged by some PR firm. Sometimes, you might see "special to the Times" or whatever, but many other articles are just as much some PR junk.
Where do all these PR people come from? Why, many of them studied journalism but couldn't land a position working for 60 Minutes or the Washington Post. They get swallowed up by the various shillers out there.
Another benefit is that all other user-agents won't even download it. Unless you're putting all your css inline, but then that's just a huge waste. Link your styles in the head and CC out the ie.one(s). No muss - no fuss.
I lay out in FF and give it a second pass with IE (it is truly joyful to be able to continue checking in FF when i boot into the dark side). And a lot of IE's rules are pretty much obvious from the beginning, so it's not always a completeshock when checking it in that.
OT - I keep seeing these pages where the same bloody css & js stuff is on every page. I figure whoever's put it together thought they were 'templating' because they stuck it in to head.php or something, not realizing that the browser never has a chance to cache (and thus save on both bandwidth and rendering time). All they needed to do is put some link tags in.
# # send all as XHTML to those who can take it # RewriteEngine on RewriteBase/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml\+xml RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !application/xhtml\+xml\s*;\s*q=0 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.html$ RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} HTTP/1\.1 RewriteRule.* - [T=application/xhtml+xml] #RewriteRule.* - "[T=application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1]"
The last line is an alternative to illustrate how to add character set info.
No kidding. I saw the live feed when that al-Jazeera crew was hit in Baghdad. There was a tank holding a bridge and at least one warthog buzzing around overhead. There's nothing like seeing a tank swivel its turret towards you (well, maybe one-up on that would be if you're actually there). I've always wondered if the camera was mistaken for a weapon.
IMO, this guy with the bluetooth device should not use this unless it's mounted on a tripod, with all black parts painted bright orange. I'd even consider mounting one of those cyclist's orange flags to the tripod as well. Or wear an orange traffic vest. Seriously, he should make himself as obvious and non-threatening as possible. He might not notice a SWAT team arriving.
Of course, then the terrorists will just do the same thing. We can't win!
Yak yak yak... So what you're saying is that we should believe everything that McClellan and the rest of the white house says about this? They have zero credibility with me (i should say, though, that i've always thought they were a bunch of shitbags).
And the Times? They're kinda mixed up in this a bit, no? Hardly a dis-interested party. Nice try, though.
Third, every White House calls on people known to ask friendly questions.
They've been making up their own "news segments" and hiding the fact that it's just propaganda for their own agenda. Gannon is just another part of that.
Second, if you read the Coulter piece, you no doubt noticed that she "outed" a number of journalists and media figures that use aliases.
Coulter also tried to make a big thing about other people who have legally changed their name. Big deal. Christ, i can't believe i'm even responding to something that Coulter wrote...
if Gannon isn't a "journalist", and you think he shouldn't have gotten a press pass after going through the checks, then you are saying that the White House should pick and choose who it considers to be journalists.
I'm suggesting that he never would have gotten the pass. He wouldn't have passed the security check. The white house doesn't do that - the secret service does. You seem to be picking up on one your favorite "journalist" ann Coulter's tricks, bait and switch.
Umm, the guy is not a journalist, tried to get a congressional press pass and was refused, yet manages to get one for the white house. No, make that: managed to get a daily pass whenever he showed up. Because then he could get around the Secret Service background check which would *normally* be necessary. Oh, and he's using an alias. But that seems to be OK with the white house. No biggie.
The softballs he lobbed to get the admin out of tight spots in questioning is only a small part of the problem here. He also is one of the people fed the information about Valerie Plame being a CIA agent. Hmm, that seems odd, don't you think? Who does he know? What are his connections?
And don't repeat that crap that Plame was just a secretary or something. She was running foreign agents in a long-runnning operation to track the proliferation of nuclear and biological materials for the purpose arming terrorist groups. That the disclosure of her identity was a felony is one thing, but whoever did it should face a firing squad.
And i noticed you linked to an article by Ann Coulter - give me a break! She's a GOP attack dog with zero credibility. I read her article, and she's just trying to spin this as no big deal and deflect attention from the real issue. WE don't care that he's gay! If this had happened on Clinton's watch she'd be frothing at the mouth (oh, wait... that's her general demeanor) and probably mostly about his sexual preferences. The issues here are national security, administration law-breaking, and propaganda (BTW, who was paying his salary?)
So, let's re-cap:
"Gannon" is not a journalist
"Gannon" was given access to the white house briefings (and called on for "qestions") in a manner presumably to get around the required background security checks
"Gannon" was given information classified secret in a failed attempt to embarrass Joe Wilson (which, aside from being a felony has probably put the US at further risk)
That "Gannon" also apparently acted as a call-boy merely accentuates the seriousness of the fact that some person(s) in the administration got him around the background checks. Someone was using him for political dirty tricks. Who is "Gannon"? Who got him into the white house? Who gave him the information about Plame?
At a minimum, there should be a congreesional investigation about this. "Gannon" should be brought before a grand jury. And whoever leaked the information on Plame, at a minimum, should be sent to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison for life.
I know one of the shots is of it sitting in its charger, and maybe its the grass, but that particular collection of images doesn't clarify too quickly what that thing looks like:-)
Personally, i like v500. Phasers on stun, and all of that, i suppose. I've been thinking about picking up a wireless. I notice that they gush about its 30 ft. range. Can anybody give me any insight into whether this could be controlled (minimized) or not in linux/os X? 30 ft. seems a tad more than i think i'll need (cue Gates RAM joke). It might save a bit on batteries as well, i suppose.
2 years from now, it'll probably be quite normal to ask someone to please turn down their mouse (/horse).
Maybe i missed it but i didn't read that 'it has the consistency of paper'. Notice the layers marked "glass" in the illustration. They did mention that it gave "the visual effect of ink on paper ".
Take away the glass and i assume your stylus will create the same effect as writing on wet tissue, sure.
i have no connection w/ christies whatsoever. But i suggest buying the catalog if this interests you. I had a friend a few years back who lent me his catalog for a very comprehensive auction of Soviet space program stuff. Like full suits. 1:1 models of lunar landers. Some very cool stuff. The catalog was well put together, with lots of large images. Definitely worth the 30 bones.
I do not think that afarhan was suggesting that it was "someone else's fault". Rather that society has allowed itself to be divided by a small minority (who happen to profit very well while everyone else is busy looking somewhere else).
Somewhat like the situation in the US these past few years, yes?
i've had the shivers from tinyurls ever since i came across goatse*. But that, sir, is a fine idea. I was just thinking about trying to feed some hex to img_display.php to obfuscate it a bit. was just thinking about using these scripts to create narratives. tinyurl would be the way to go.
What's the googlism again? inurl:img_display.php or something. This could be this weeks online security cam finder. [hmm, maybe google' becoming a meme engine...] I was thinking of trying to spot more of these scripts loose on the web and writing some poetry. Haiku maybe, since it's tinyurl.
btw, your link just timed out.
* it only happened once. But it sure makes you look at those links twice. i had this idea once to write a moz toolbar to check tinyurls and create a very tiny png representation of any images found therein. Never did anything about it. Though i've just now thought of making a little 16pix goatse. Make a great favico for the right site.
That image burns itself so bad, i probably wouldn't even need to work from the original.
I think it would be interesting to have ads while a call is being connected (i.e. ringing). It seems like they could pipe audio ads down the wire during the inevitable pause while the system tries to track down a cell phone, or the long distance call is being routed...
Which creates a motive to make sure your call doesn't get through too quickly. I think that would get sucky real quick.
Slashdot Mirror
but it's Videotron that is going to cave on this. Shaw is just another ISP being sued along with Videotron. No need even to RTFA on that one.
Also, many articles you might come across in a newspaper have been carefully packaged by some PR firm. Sometimes, you might see "special to the Times" or whatever, but many other articles are just as much some PR junk.
Where do all these PR people come from? Why, many of them studied journalism but couldn't land a position working for 60 Minutes or the Washington Post. They get swallowed up by the various shillers out there.
He forgot Poland!
I was a tad hung over this morning when i read the original post. Just before i hit submit, i thought, oh wait ... uh, no, i'm good.
you did mean astronomy, yes?
Another benefit is that all other user-agents won't even download it. Unless you're putting all your css inline, but then that's just a huge waste. Link your styles in the head and CC out the ie.one(s). No muss - no fuss.
first, basic styles:
NS4 doesn't understand media="all":if IE, grit your teeth...I lay out in FF and give it a second pass with IE (it is truly joyful to be able to continue checking in FF when i boot into the dark side). And a lot of IE's rules are pretty much obvious from the beginning, so it's not always a complete shock when checking it in that.
OT - I keep seeing these pages where the same bloody css & js stuff is on every page. I figure whoever's put it together thought they were 'templating' because they stuck it in to head.php or something, not realizing that the browser never has a chance to cache (and thus save on both bandwidth and rendering time). All they needed to do is put some link tags in.
Alternatively, you can put this in your .htaccess:
The last line is an alternative to illustrate how to add character set info.
how many times can you rehash the real manual?
It is the real manual, written by the lead developers. Did you miss the part about how this was about PHP5? You know, the new one...
And what the fsck are you reading this thread for anyway, eh? Get back to yer sodding UML, we've got work to do, you prat.
hilarious - almost had coffee up my nose
No kidding. I saw the live feed when that al-Jazeera crew was hit in Baghdad. There was a tank holding a bridge and at least one warthog buzzing around overhead. There's nothing like seeing a tank swivel its turret towards you (well, maybe one-up on that would be if you're actually there). I've always wondered if the camera was mistaken for a weapon.
IMO, this guy with the bluetooth device should not use this unless it's mounted on a tripod, with all black parts painted bright orange. I'd even consider mounting one of those cyclist's orange flags to the tripod as well. Or wear an orange traffic vest. Seriously, he should make himself as obvious and non-threatening as possible. He might not notice a SWAT team arriving.
Of course, then the terrorists will just do the same thing. We can't win!
Yak yak yak... So what you're saying is that we should believe everything that McClellan and the rest of the white house says about this? They have zero credibility with me (i should say, though, that i've always thought they were a bunch of shitbags).
And the Times? They're kinda mixed up in this a bit, no? Hardly a dis-interested party. Nice try, though.
Third, every White House calls on people known to ask friendly questions.
They've been making up their own "news segments" and hiding the fact that it's just propaganda for their own agenda. Gannon is just another part of that.
Second, if you read the Coulter piece, you no doubt noticed that she "outed" a number of journalists and media figures that use aliases.
Coulter also tried to make a big thing about other people who have legally changed their name. Big deal. Christ, i can't believe i'm even responding to something that Coulter wrote...
if Gannon isn't a "journalist", and you think he shouldn't have gotten a press pass after going through the checks, then you are saying that the White House should pick and choose who it considers to be journalists.
I'm suggesting that he never would have gotten the pass. He wouldn't have passed the security check. The white house doesn't do that - the secret service does. You seem to be picking up on one your favorite "journalist" ann Coulter's tricks, bait and switch.
Thanks for the clues, asshat.
Umm, the guy is not a journalist, tried to get a congressional press pass and was refused, yet manages to get one for the white house. No, make that: managed to get a daily pass whenever he showed up. Because then he could get around the Secret Service background check which would *normally* be necessary. Oh, and he's using an alias. But that seems to be OK with the white house. No biggie.
The softballs he lobbed to get the admin out of tight spots in questioning is only a small part of the problem here. He also is one of the people fed the information about Valerie Plame being a CIA agent. Hmm, that seems odd, don't you think? Who does he know? What are his connections?
And don't repeat that crap that Plame was just a secretary or something. She was running foreign agents in a long-runnning operation to track the proliferation of nuclear and biological materials for the purpose arming terrorist groups. That the disclosure of her identity was a felony is one thing, but whoever did it should face a firing squad.
And i noticed you linked to an article by Ann Coulter - give me a break! She's a GOP attack dog with zero credibility. I read her article, and she's just trying to spin this as no big deal and deflect attention from the real issue. WE don't care that he's gay! If this had happened on Clinton's watch she'd be frothing at the mouth (oh, wait... that's her general demeanor) and probably mostly about his sexual preferences. The issues here are national security, administration law-breaking, and propaganda (BTW, who was paying his salary?)
So, let's re-cap:
That "Gannon" also apparently acted as a call-boy merely accentuates the seriousness of the fact that some person(s) in the administration got him around the background checks. Someone was using him for political dirty tricks. Who is "Gannon"? Who got him into the white house? Who gave him the information about Plame?
At a minimum, there should be a congreesional investigation about this. "Gannon" should be brought before a grand jury. And whoever leaked the information on Plame, at a minimum, should be sent to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison for life.
I know one of the shots is of it sitting in its charger, and maybe its the grass, but that particular collection of images doesn't clarify too quickly what that thing looks like :-)
Personally, i like v500. Phasers on stun, and all of that, i suppose. I've been thinking about picking up a wireless. I notice that they gush about its 30 ft. range. Can anybody give me any insight into whether this could be controlled (minimized) or not in linux/os X? 30 ft. seems a tad more than i think i'll need (cue Gates RAM joke). It might save a bit on batteries as well, i suppose.
2 years from now, it'll probably be quite normal to ask someone to please turn down their mouse (/horse).
FWIW, i tried to follow the link "class hierarchy" in the left frame and moz crashed. I sent a feedback msg.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
sheesh - you'd think you'd been told to do it with emacs. This is how "to do that in the GUI":
type "about:config" in the address bar. Hit enter.
scroll down to "network.IDN_show_punycode" (hint: it's alphabetical). Right-click on it and select "modify".
An input dialog will pop up saying "enter boolean value" or some such. The text field will say "true". Change that to "false". Click "OK".
All done.
i'm like, wtf? That's was bloody brilliant! Excuse me while i go blow my nose now...
Maybe i missed it but i didn't read that 'it has the consistency of paper'. Notice the layers marked "glass" in the illustration. They did mention that it gave "the visual effect of ink on paper ".
Take away the glass and i assume your stylus will create the same effect as writing on wet tissue, sure.
For a moment i thought we had a dupe right next to the original article.
You forget to post AC? Hope your boss or wife don't see that.
i have no connection w/ christies whatsoever. But i suggest buying the catalog if this interests you. I had a friend a few years back who lent me his catalog for a very comprehensive auction of Soviet space program stuff. Like full suits. 1:1 models of lunar landers. Some very cool stuff. The catalog was well put together, with lots of large images. Definitely worth the 30 bones.
why did i ever give it back to him?
I do not think that afarhan was suggesting that it was "someone else's fault". Rather that society has allowed itself to be divided by a small minority (who happen to profit very well while everyone else is busy looking somewhere else).
Somewhat like the situation in the US these past few years, yes?
i think "God Tech" would probably play on the Nature Channel.
Ha!
i've had the shivers from tinyurls ever since i came across goatse*. But that, sir, is a fine idea. I was just thinking about trying to feed some hex to img_display.php to obfuscate it a bit. was just thinking about using these scripts to create narratives. tinyurl would be the way to go.
What's the googlism again? inurl:img_display.php or something. This could be this weeks online security cam finder. [hmm, maybe google' becoming a meme engine...] I was thinking of trying to spot more of these scripts loose on the web and writing some poetry. Haiku maybe, since it's tinyurl.
btw, your link just timed out.
* it only happened once. But it sure makes you look at those links twice. i had this idea once to write a moz toolbar to check tinyurls and create a very tiny png representation of any images found therein. Never did anything about it. Though i've just now thought of making a little 16pix goatse. Make a great favico for the right site.
That image burns itself so bad, i probably wouldn't even need to work from the original.
Thank you SO much for pointing that out, this is going to be fun!
Oh? You've got some of those gloves, do you?
all that aside...
I think it would be interesting to have ads while a call is being connected (i.e. ringing). It seems like they could pipe audio ads down the wire during the inevitable pause while the system tries to track down a cell phone, or the long distance call is being routed...
Which creates a motive to make sure your call doesn't get through too quickly. I think that would get sucky real quick.