....Colin Powell is also expected to resign in the near future. So if you are celebrating the fact that Ashcroft, the biggest loonie in the Bush admin, is leaving, also be fearful that the only semi-sane dude in the building will soon be gone, too.
But like Picasso's (note I'm not really comparing Plabo to Ed) paintings, sometimes it takes a different era to appreciate them, especially when the person's dead.
Picasso was famous when he was alive.
My problem with the Ed Wood criticism is that he is so *NOT* the worst filmmaker of all time. His movies are watchable. They induce an emotion (usually laughter), and therefor they are art. Campy art, but art. "Worst filmmaker" should be a title reserved for directors who make truly boring, un-interesting films.
I just upgraded. It's still not working. I'm at 1.0 Preview Release on Windows XP. If I'm reading a message, and I middle-click the "Inbox", it shows the scroll-control. Middle-clicking on links in other websites works fine.
To open them in new tabs? It certainly doesn't work fine for me. View the Frame source on your inbox. It's just a bucket load of JavaScript. It's not working in Firefox 0.8.
...and that's that you can't open "links" in new tabs. In fact, most of what passes for "links" in GMail aren't links at all; they're just areas that listen for JavaScript mouse events.
Why can't I open my different messages in new tabs? Why can't I view a message, and then open my "inbox" in a separate tab?
As it stands now, I have to manually open a new window and then navigate to GMail. I can't believe Gmail has the same problem hotmail does.
George Bush still doesn't know if Bin Laden is alive! After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive", Osama himself decided to send George Bush a message in his own handwriting to let him know that he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message:
370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he typed it out and e-mailed it to Colin Powell. Colin and his aides had no clue either so they sent it to the CIA. No one could solve it, so it went to the NSA and then to MIT and NASA and the Secret Service.
Eventually they asked Britain's M I6 for help. They cabled the White House: "Tell the President he is looking at the message upside down."
Congress can always find clever ways to do what it wants. For example, it could offer to give the states money for election reform only if it's used for the approved systems. A state wouldn't *have* to use the preferred system, but if they didn't, they wouldn't get any money.
This "research" into popular ignorance is what political science has sunk to. "Ignorant Bush supporters more ignorant than ignorant Kerry supporters." What does this contribute to political discussion? NOTHING.
I think polls like this are effectively a report card for the media. And the media is failing miserably.
77 is horrible if you're wearing a T-Shirt, a dress-shirt, and a tie. Keep it at 70 or lower. If people are cold, too bad: they can wear more clothes. People who always bitch about it being "too cold" and try to get the temp increased are one of my big pet peeves. My dorm rooms were always scorching, even in the winter. Damn Temperature Fascists.
I was at a business training session the other day, and we watched the video version of "Who Moved My Cheese?" The essence of the story is this: the world is changing. GET USED TO IT OR SUFFER. (Although the message is delivered a little more gently than that, with cartoon characters and talking mice.)
I think there is a lot of truth to this. The notion that there was a time when you could happily work at a job for life is a LIE. There were depressions, wars, strikes, horrible labor conditions, racial tensions, etc... If you are comfortable, you are ignorant. Be prepared for change.
If anyone has the chance, check out "Cannibal: The Musical", by Trey and Matt. It's surprisingly good...VERY catchy music numbers ("Let's Build a Snowman!" and "A Schplodoinkel Day" (?) are two faves). It drags a bit in parts, but you can always turn on the drunken commentary for those sections.
Oh I agree. Any politician who takes a month-long vacation before the biggest intelligence fuck up in our nation's history, and then has the balls to campaign on his response to said fuck up, does not deserve my vote.
It would be a simple matter for election officials to garner a few more votes for their favored candidates by making sure they were first in their categories.
There is a bias for the first person listed on the ballot. It would be easy to randomly arrange the names.
I've seen suggestions that we should conduct a lottery in parallel with the election. When you go to vote, you can choose to contribute a dollar. If your number (or whatever) is chosen, you get the pot. Actually, this might be more enticing if there were 100 or 1000 winners.
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....Colin Powell is also expected to resign in the near future. So if you are celebrating the fact that Ashcroft, the biggest loonie in the Bush admin, is leaving, also be fearful that the only semi-sane dude in the building will soon be gone, too.
The official reason he's resigning is for health reasons. The un-official reason is that he's a horrible screw-up.
Before 9/11, Ashcroft's top priority was targetting pornography. Since 9/11, he has been embarassingly ineffective in capturing terrorists.
But like Picasso's (note I'm not really comparing Plabo to Ed) paintings, sometimes it takes a different era to appreciate them, especially when the person's dead.
Picasso was famous when he was alive.
My problem with the Ed Wood criticism is that he is so *NOT* the worst filmmaker of all time. His movies are watchable. They induce an emotion (usually laughter), and therefor they are art. Campy art, but art. "Worst filmmaker" should be a title reserved for directors who make truly boring, un-interesting films.
Gmail has a HUGE usability error, and that's that some old beta versions of a program they didn't write don't work properly?
No, the problem is that, for some reason, they're using JavaScript for links instead of perfectly good anchor tags.
I just upgraded. It's still not working. I'm at 1.0 Preview Release on Windows XP. If I'm reading a message, and I middle-click the "Inbox", it shows the scroll-control. Middle-clicking on links in other websites works fine.
To open them in new tabs? It certainly doesn't work fine for me. View the Frame source on your inbox. It's just a bucket load of JavaScript. It's not working in Firefox 0.8.
...and that's that you can't open "links" in new tabs. In fact, most of what passes for "links" in GMail aren't links at all; they're just areas that listen for JavaScript mouse events.
Why can't I open my different messages in new tabs? Why can't I view a message, and then open my "inbox" in a separate tab?
As it stands now, I have to manually open a new window and then navigate to GMail. I can't believe Gmail has the same problem hotmail does.
Chicks got hung on a meathook back in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that guy was actually after a PG-13 rating.
That guy (Tobe Hooper) must have been a very forward thinking individual, because the PG-13 rating wouldn't exist for another 10 years.
George Bush still doesn't know if Bin Laden is alive! After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive", Osama himself decided to send George Bush a message in his own handwriting to let him know that he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message:
370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he typed it out and e-mailed it to Colin Powell. Colin and his aides had no clue either so they sent it to the CIA. No one could solve it, so it went to the NSA and then to MIT and NASA and the Secret Service.
Eventually they asked Britain's M I6 for help. They cabled the White House: "Tell the President he is looking at the message upside down."
Congress can always find clever ways to do what it wants. For example, it could offer to give the states money for election reform only if it's used for the approved systems. A state wouldn't *have* to use the preferred system, but if they didn't, they wouldn't get any money.
But I remember the numbering schemes being even more confusing with the Mega Man and Street Fighter games.
This "research" into popular ignorance is what political science has sunk to. "Ignorant Bush supporters more ignorant than ignorant Kerry supporters." What does this contribute to political discussion? NOTHING.
I think polls like this are effectively a report card for the media. And the media is failing miserably.
It would be awesome if Spitzer gets Ashcroft's job in a Kerry administration.
77 is horrible if you're wearing a T-Shirt, a dress-shirt, and a tie. Keep it at 70 or lower. If people are cold, too bad: they can wear more clothes. People who always bitch about it being "too cold" and try to get the temp increased are one of my big pet peeves. My dorm rooms were always scorching, even in the winter. Damn Temperature Fascists.
Are you saying a person shouldn't be able to emit certain radio waves in certain situations? That sounds like a pretty un-libertarian POV to me.
Hit a button, and the TV's suddenly ramp up their volume to the max. THAT'S a hack.
I was at a business training session the other day, and we watched the video version of "Who Moved My Cheese?" The essence of the story is this: the world is changing. GET USED TO IT OR SUFFER. (Although the message is delivered a little more gently than that, with cartoon characters and talking mice.)
I think there is a lot of truth to this. The notion that there was a time when you could happily work at a job for life is a LIE. There were depressions, wars, strikes, horrible labor conditions, racial tensions, etc... If you are comfortable, you are ignorant. Be prepared for change.
If anyone has the chance, check out "Cannibal: The Musical", by Trey and Matt. It's surprisingly good...VERY catchy music numbers ("Let's Build a Snowman!" and "A Schplodoinkel Day" (?) are two faves). It drags a bit in parts, but you can always turn on the drunken commentary for those sections.
A fellow programmer once said to me, "K-Man is like a retarded daughter - she can't do much, but you love her anyway."
And that same programmer probably stays up at night wondering why he's still a virgin.
Oh I agree. Any politician who takes a month-long vacation before the biggest intelligence fuck up in our nation's history, and then has the balls to campaign on his response to said fuck up, does not deserve my vote.
Any politician who claims that his opponent "votes for terrorists" instantly loses any credibility with me.
Sweet. Works like a charm!
It would be a simple matter for election officials to garner a few more votes for their favored candidates by making sure they were first in their categories.
There is a bias for the first person listed on the ballot. It would be easy to randomly arrange the names.
I've seen suggestions that we should conduct a lottery in parallel with the election. When you go to vote, you can choose to contribute a dollar. If your number (or whatever) is chosen, you get the pot. Actually, this might be more enticing if there were 100 or 1000 winners.