I have to ask how old you are. Do you remember what was going on at this time? 23 years ago the citizens of Britian, Australia, and Western Europe were staging massive protests against US foreign policy and urging their leaders to break treaties and close US bases. It amazes when people try to rewrite history that I lived through and suggest everything was all hunky dory prior to Bush taking office. Hey, I don't particularly care for Bush either, but it sure wasn't paradise prior to his administration.
My experience is different. I lived in Europe in the early 70s as a child and also in the early 90s as an adult. The US was not liked at all during those times. And have you forgotten the massive protest against the US throughout Europe during the 80s?
I'd say that we had a minor rise in popularity during the Clinton administration because he was so liked by people outside the US and the belligerence of the cold war was fading away.
Don't be daft. The Russians didn't trust the US in 1983 at all. They'd just told their operatives to expect a nuclear war after they'd shot down a civilian airliner and their strategic nuclear forces where on high alert. Petrov noticed that the patern of missile launches were not what would be expect in a preempive strike and concluded that it was a computer glitch. He didn't trust that his country hadn't been launched on by the US, whom I doubt he trusted at all, he used logic and determined that the data he was getting was bogus.
All propaganda to the contrary, the dislike and distrust of the US is not markedly different now than it was 23 years ago.
All your tubes are belong to us. I for one welcome our new tube surfing overlords. The Internet is a series of tubes....
Yes, everyone is aware of the lame, no longer obscure reference to the Internet-is-a-series-of-tubes statement by the esteemed gentleman from Alaska. I just wanted to take the opportunity to pretend I hadn't heard it and make a lame joke with a hint of sexual innuendo. So sue me.
I'd think that it would be obvious. A county with more Democratic voters, which then goes back and recounts the ballots and takes pains to make sure that they certify more ballots than during the standard run through, will net more over-all votes and thereby more democratic votes since the population is weighted that way. When all of the different counties have similar loss rates it isn't a big deal, it all comes out in the wash, but when only those favoring one candidate are selected for the extra screening process the results would be skewed towards that candidate. It wasn't about "making every vote count" it was about making sure that more Democratic votes got counted.
And this pretense that their would be fewer shenanigans in Democratic counties is completely and utterly laughable. The Democrats and Republicans are equally willing to pull fast ones when it suits them.
Kids these days got it easy. In my day you had to spend hours digging though dumpsters, now you just click a couple of buttons. What is the world coming to?
BS. The Dems sent in their lawyers and started their shenanigans immediately-- things like having most all the military absentee invalidated due to technical "post mark irregularities." Guess what? The military vote tends to be strongly republican.
Recounts were only called for in strongly Democratic counties and in those very liberal readings of the ballots were being used to qualify as many as possible. Now working to read as many votes as possible is not a bad thing, but when you do it only in the places where one party predominates you are skewing the results in favor of one party. To pretend that the Dems were the good guys in all of this when they were clearly up to their necks in attempts to skew the results is disingenuous at best.
And, btw, before you start accusing me of only seeing one side of the issue, I've never voted for Bush and would have been happy to see him lose in 2004, but stupid conspiracy crap and cry-baby politics are beyond annoying. If you really wanted things to change you'd vote against incumbents and support a 3rd party instead of queuing up like a good little sheep and casting your vote for the Republicrat machine.
My school did this as well-- and of course the week before finals the line to buy notes usually took an hour or more to get through. It would have been nice just to be able to be able to get on-line and d/l the lectures.
I can see it now...."Mom, had to use the emergency credit card to download an entire semester's worth of lectures for three classes because....I....um.....lost my notes...."
And just like Wikipedia, the info has to be taken with a grain of salt. I just looked up my company on Jigsaw-- the only thing that they had correct was the name and phone number. Number of employees, industry, and everything else was wrong. The info would be entirely useless to anyone using it to try and make sales contacts. I have to think that the crap factor is pretty damned high for most of the data.
I've got the pre-RC1 build installed for testing purposes, and the one thing I've found the completely eliminates the IE7 bugs is a little patch known as "Firefox 2 Beta 2."
Don't be an ass. I understood how you used the word. What I was objecting to, and what I find annoying, is the unnecessary bastardization of the language by corporate drones that think it makes them sound smarter. Keep it up and you become able to say less and less using more and longer words.
And perhaps they could dimensionalize their disruptive inovation while re-engineering their corporation through rightsizing and outplacement and synergizing their global competative advantage, by using iPods and OSX.
God I get tired of corpratespeak. leverage is a factor by which lever multiplies a force, it doesn't mean "use", damnit.
yet is surrounded by millions of dollars and beautiful women at all times. Strange how that works in almost all his novels...
Well, if you're going to have a fantasy, would it involve being broke and be lacking in nubile women? As a teen-ager I loved Heinlein's stuff (though I must admit the recurring incestous and homosexual allusions kind of weirded me out a bit). Even his older stuff had sexual undertones in it. You just KNEW that Kip and Peewee were going to hook up when she was a little older....
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alt.binaries.e-book might have content. I've heard. But don't download it.
I have to ask how old you are. Do you remember what was going on at this time? 23 years ago the citizens of Britian, Australia, and Western Europe were staging massive protests against US foreign policy and urging their leaders to break treaties and close US bases. It amazes when people try to rewrite history that I lived through and suggest everything was all hunky dory prior to Bush taking office. Hey, I don't particularly care for Bush either, but it sure wasn't paradise prior to his administration.
My experience is different. I lived in Europe in the early 70s as a child and also in the early 90s as an adult. The US was not liked at all during those times. And have you forgotten the massive protest against the US throughout Europe during the 80s? I'd say that we had a minor rise in popularity during the Clinton administration because he was so liked by people outside the US and the belligerence of the cold war was fading away.
Don't be daft. The Russians didn't trust the US in 1983 at all. They'd just told their operatives to expect a nuclear war after they'd shot down a civilian airliner and their strategic nuclear forces where on high alert. Petrov noticed that the patern of missile launches were not what would be expect in a preempive strike and concluded that it was a computer glitch. He didn't trust that his country hadn't been launched on by the US, whom I doubt he trusted at all, he used logic and determined that the data he was getting was bogus.
All propaganda to the contrary, the dislike and distrust of the US is not markedly different now than it was 23 years ago.
All your tubes are belong to us. I for one welcome our new tube surfing overlords. The Internet is a series of tubes....
Yes, everyone is aware of the lame, no longer obscure reference to the Internet-is-a-series-of-tubes statement by the esteemed gentleman from Alaska.
I just wanted to take the opportunity to pretend I hadn't heard it and make a lame joke with a hint of sexual innuendo. So sue me.
Tubes? Exactly what sort of websites do you frequent?
Yes, but if they switch from Windows to Linux like the schools are doing, my compromised data will be more secure!
I'd think that it would be obvious. A county with more Democratic voters, which then goes back and recounts the ballots and takes pains to make sure that they certify more ballots than during the standard run through, will net more over-all votes and thereby more democratic votes since the population is weighted that way. When all of the different counties have similar loss rates it isn't a big deal, it all comes out in the wash, but when only those favoring one candidate are selected for the extra screening process the results would be skewed towards that candidate. It wasn't about "making every vote count" it was about making sure that more Democratic votes got counted.
And this pretense that their would be fewer shenanigans in Democratic counties is completely and utterly laughable. The Democrats and Republicans are equally willing to pull fast ones when it suits them.
Kids these days got it easy. In my day you had to spend hours digging though dumpsters, now you just click a couple of buttons. What is the world coming to?
BS. The Dems sent in their lawyers and started their shenanigans immediately-- things like having most all the military absentee invalidated due to technical "post mark irregularities." Guess what? The military vote tends to be strongly republican.
Recounts were only called for in strongly Democratic counties and in those very liberal readings of the ballots were being used to qualify as many as possible. Now working to read as many votes as possible is not a bad thing, but when you do it only in the places where one party predominates you are skewing the results in favor of one party. To pretend that the Dems were the good guys in all of this when they were clearly up to their necks in attempts to skew the results is disingenuous at best.
And, btw, before you start accusing me of only seeing one side of the issue, I've never voted for Bush and would have been happy to see him lose in 2004, but stupid conspiracy crap and cry-baby politics are beyond annoying. If you really wanted things to change you'd vote against incumbents and support a 3rd party instead of queuing up like a good little sheep and casting your vote for the Republicrat machine.
Not for the look, the experience and the applications.
What? That's pretty much the purpose of a GUI. Why use Gnome, KDE, et al., if not for that? Stick with the shell and be done with it.
My school did this as well-- and of course the week before finals the line to buy notes usually took an hour or more to get through. It would have been nice just to be able to be able to get on-line and d/l the lectures.
I can see it now...."Mom, had to use the emergency credit card to download an entire semester's worth of lectures for three classes because....I....um.....lost my notes...."
OK fine. Next year we'll call it "Operation eStorm" instead.
Not much of an Office Space fan, are you? You do, however, appear to be an ass.
Of course, they go to Rich Man's Prison.
You're misinformed. They go to federal "pound me in the ass" prison.
And just like Wikipedia, the info has to be taken with a grain of salt. I just looked up my company on Jigsaw-- the only thing that they had correct was the name and phone number. Number of employees, industry, and everything else was wrong. The info would be entirely useless to anyone using it to try and make sales contacts. I have to think that the crap factor is pretty damned high for most of the data.
but will it play ogg files?
It would, but they haven't been able to get alsa configured correctly.
That extra time past midnight will be a real stinker.
Hell, make it longer. I'd have killed for an extra 39.5 minutes this morning.
I've got the pre-RC1 build installed for testing purposes, and the one thing I've found the completely eliminates the IE7 bugs is a little patch known as "Firefox 2 Beta 2."
No, whoever wrote TFA spelled ridiculous correctly. It's in quotes for crap's sake, she said that to the reporter, she didn't spell it out.
If you want to commit suicide, there is no reason to take 90% of the population with you.
Don't be an ass. I understood how you used the word. What I was objecting to, and what I find annoying, is the unnecessary bastardization of the language by corporate drones that think it makes them sound smarter. Keep it up and you become able to say less and less using more and longer words.
And perhaps they could dimensionalize their disruptive inovation while re-engineering their corporation through rightsizing and outplacement and synergizing their global competative advantage, by using iPods and OSX.
God I get tired of corpratespeak. leverage is a factor by which lever multiplies a force, it doesn't mean "use", damnit.
yet is surrounded by millions of dollars and beautiful women at all times. Strange how that works in almost all his novels...
Well, if you're going to have a fantasy, would it involve being broke and be lacking in nubile women? As a teen-ager I loved Heinlein's stuff (though I must admit the recurring incestous and homosexual allusions kind of weirded me out a bit).
Even his older stuff had sexual undertones in it. You just KNEW that Kip and Peewee were going to hook up when she was a little older....
http://web.archive.org/web/20050331094954/www.buys usa.com/html/faq.html
Lets you take a gander at the FAQ-- the main site isn't up any more.
Apparently, they had a special number to call to get your activation codes. Probably some minimum wage employee running a keygen.