What about those of us who are not running XP? Like myself at both home and work. Or my parents who are running 98? What about those people?
What you're telling me is that to get the benefits of pop-up blocking in IE I have to go and buy a whole new operating system and quite possibly a new computer system to boot.
Compare that to getting FireFox for FREE and which runs on ANY OS.
Actually, I think it was the History Channel which just proved that that was exactly what happened.
Using lots of new technological goodies unavailable to the Warren Commission, they were able to show that with Kennedy sitting higher than Connally, and Connally sitting slightly to the left, the bullet would have passed through Kennedys throat and into Connallys arm then wrist then leg. Exactly as the Warren Commission said.
They even used someone who was approximately the same height and weight as Kennedy and by putting small pieces of metal on a shirt, and then doing an x-ray, the bullet wounds were exactly as were done in real life. They even had this model sit in a position just like Kennedy had been and did the x-rays with the same result.
They even used a nearly identical rifle and fired a round into specially made recreation of the human body. A firm in Australia does it I believe. The bullet, when examined, came out almost intact. Just like in real life.
In the past I always poo-pooed the single bullet theory. However, after looking at the Zapruder film and comparing it to the model and the computer generated recreation, I have my doubts. It does look plausible that a single bullet could have done what was done.
One main complaint made by critics is that the browser cannot open sites or requires plug-ins that are already part of Internet Explorer.
As to the first issue of the above comment taken from the article, the reason FireFox can't open some sites is because the sites themselves are not coded correctly or require ActiveX *cough*SAP*cough*
Run a page through the W3C HTML Validator and you'll see how poorly those sites are coded or are hacked about to render correctly only in IE.
As far as the second issue is concerned, since when are plug-ins part of a browser? The very definition of a plug-in means they are something to added after the fact to do something.
Maybe the author meant Extensions for FireFox.
As far as I'm concerned FireFox does exactly what I want it to do right after the install. Other than making a few tweaks to turn things off and on, just like you would have to do in IE, FireFox runs as right as rain.
Its debateable whether one can call creationism a theory,
No, it's not debatable whether one can call creationism a theory because it's not. Let's start with the deifinition of a theory:
A well tested (as opposed to a hypothesis which is less well tested) explanation for observed events. A theory must allow one to make predictions which can be tested by experiment. When the results of those experiments are as predicted, it lends support to the theory as a good explanation. If the results are not as predicted, they may lead to the eventual modification of the theory, or even its replacement.
Since creationism/intelligent design relies on a supreme being to start the whole thing rolling, a being which can neither be proven nor disproven, the arguments for these concepts fall flat. Without being able to verify or deny any part of ones thoughts (I refuse to call them theories) you cannot have a theory. End of story.
One can argue until they're blue in the face about how their evidence shows they're thoughts are just as plausible as someone elses but unless/until they can offer proof of a supreme being their ideas are relegated to the same pile as Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.
Next thing you know people will want to believe that the Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old and was made by the flood during Noahs time. Oh wait, that's alreadybeing done.
Well at least the fact that humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time is still a safe subject. Er, maybe not.
What you are thinking only helps Glaucoma in the sense that the pressure on the eye is somewhat (temporarily) relieved. It does nothing to the underlying condition.
Great Futurama reference! I don't have mod points so I can't help you out but maybe someone else will be so kind.
Was a pretty good episode too. Especially the entire scene of how/why Atlanta sank into the sea. Then there was Frys reaction when he was about to get jiggy and had to be explained how the merfolk procreate.
Of course, don't forget your underwater suppository to help counteract the water pressure at those depths.
I live just over a mile from Eisenhower Boulevard (which is what you meant. close enough) and worked at the McDonalds which still exists. I sit about halfway between Hershey and Harrisburg.
The west side of the Susquehanna is sometimes called the 'White Shore' or 'The Great White Way' owing to who mainly populates that side.
Harrisburg is definitely not a city like one would think. There is really only the downtown portion and the rest is predominately residential (rowhomes and such). The downtowns big claim to fame is Second Street which now has a bunch of bars/restaurants which have sprung up in the last few years mainly catering the 'in' crowd. There is also the Broad Street Market which is a good place to go if you're looking for hard to get food items or spices.
I do have to give credit to Mayor Reed though. Compared to what Harrisburg was like 10 years ago he has made great strides in improving things. Now if only he could get the cops to actually enforce the red light laws I'd be really happy.
Read about how they beat men on the street for not having long enough beards and stoned women for getting raped.
You mean like Senator-elect Tom Coburn (R) of Oklahoma who wants the death penalty for abortion providers (and possibly the women themselves)? How about Eric Rudolph who bombed abortion clinics and even killed a few people. Or maybe you mean John Ashcroft who, as one of his first acts in office, covered up a partially nude statue of a woman. A statue which has been in place for decades and no one else ever had a problem with one breast showing.
Want some other examples of how these people are similar to the Taliban? Anti-abortion acts. Numerous incidents of attacks against abortion providers and the people in them as well as those seeking abortions.
Or did you mean people like Jerry Falwell who said the reason we got attacked on September 11th was:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
Or maybe you mean the various religious groups who want to outright ban books like Harry Potter or Heather Has Two Mommies?
Get over yourself. The religious right in this country is doing everything in its power to make sure that christianity is shoved down our throats at every step and anyone who doesn't agree with them is immediately branded as un-American or traitors (according to Ann Coulter).
What's especially troubling is that the vast majority of people who voted for Bush said morals were a higher priority than national defense or anything else. In other words, so long as you have good morals, or appear to have good morals, that is more important than being safe or having a job.
As I said in my first post, these people are not conservatives. They do not stand for what true conservatives stand for any more than the Taliban stands for what true muslims stand for.
And for the record, I am a Republican, not a Democrat. The Republicans has been hijacked by this american version of the Taliban and I refuse to support any president or other person running for office, of ANY party, who cowtows to these religious fanatics.
You should tell that to Alfie Charles of Sequoia Voting Systems. There were some issues with touch-screen voting in Florida where users would choose a candidate but the machine would not light the correct person.
You can read this article off of Excites site regarding some issues that came up and Mr. Charles' response.
No, conservatives did not vote. It was the far right-wing, hyper-religious, I-hate-anything-not-christian, anti-equal-rights, creationism-is-a-theory, neo-cons who voted.
Please stop trying to claim that the above people are conservatives. They are not. They are the American version of the Taliban.
A very good job going over each scene, describing the differences and a short opinion as to like/dislike.
His review should be the first place people go to when deciding whether to buy the 2004 release.
Of course, I still haven't seen the second prequel but then the ads didn't impress me that much so maybe I'm not missing anything.
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Then obviously the Clinton administration lied (surprise, surprise) when the list of guests was presented OR the Washington Post, CBS News and all the other news organizations who had the same information failed to include Arafat on the list.
As far as inviting a terrorist to the White House, Bush I did the same thing by inviting Yitzhak Shamir so using that as an article leader really doesn't do anything other than show the bias of the American Spectator.
Further, nowhere in anything you presented does it say that Arafat was the #1 guest during the Clinton administration. The only thing that is mentioned is that Arafat was a frequent guest who stayed there more than Netanyahu. So what? If Netanyahu stayed there for a total of 2 weeks and Arafat was there for 3 weeks that would meet the qualification of staying there more than Netanyahu.
As far as the mod system, well, we all know it's a crap shot.
Cherring him on because I had been screaming about what was happening for the past 4 years (includes the end of the Bush I admin). I was writing a letter a month to my local paper essentially calling everyone cowards because of their actions. I was the one saying to either a) lift the arms embargo and let the Bosnian government defend itself or b) go in and actually defend them. Instead we (the world) sat by and did shit while over 7K people were slaughtered in a 3 day period, sometimes in front of UN personnel who were supposed to be protecting them.
If we're going to have to continually hear about how bad the Holocaust was and have to genuflect every time the subject is brought up I don't want to hear how there is nothing we (meaning the world) can do when genocide is once again being committed. Which is essentiallly what happened.
the UN is totally responsible. It is an inept institution that is corrupt to its very core.
Why is it that people continually try to push the argument that the UN is responsible for something when in fact it is the members of the UN that are responsible for whatever goes on.
Since the US is part of the UN and refuses to work with other nations is it any wonder things don't go the way we would like them to.
For example, the UN finally got an International Court but the US didn't agree to it because it doesn't want its soldiers subject to the same rules as everyone else. How is it the fault of the UN if the Court can't do it's job effectively when the US, ostensibly it's biggest contributor, doesn't want to play by the same rules as everyone else?
How about population control? Instead of working with the UN to help control the third worlds population through both education and birth control, the US refuses to participate because condoms are given out as are some medications and even abortions may be performed. Thanks religious-right.
While it may have been the UN who oversaw the Oil for Food program, it was the individual member nations who did the backdoor dealings, not the UN itself.
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Who was the #1 overnight guest in the Clinton White House? Arafat!
That's very interesting considering the lists released by the Clinton administration don't even show Arafat as ever having stayed at the White House. For reference:
Nope, no lockstep here. As a rule, for the last several elections, I've been voting against my partys choices in the Primary election and against my party in the General election. Why? Because here in PA my party has been hijacked by a small, vocal group of ideological thinkers who are hell bent on making sure their ideas get forced down everyone elses throats even if it means taking away rights from the people.
Anyway, depending on who I'm voting for I stay with the two big parties but will vote for a third party candidate in various races depending on the office.
I vote for the person (or against in this case), not the party.
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Must be a new record for an article being rejected and then being posted.
Use a cracked game, one which you didn't pay for, and then whine when you can't play.
Awwwww.
How about putting a crowbar in your wallet and actually paying the developers/programmers/distributors for their efforts.
What about those of us who are not running XP? Like myself at both home and work. Or my parents who are running 98? What about those people?
What you're telling me is that to get the benefits of pop-up blocking in IE I have to go and buy a whole new operating system and quite possibly a new computer system to boot.
Compare that to getting FireFox for FREE and which runs on ANY OS.
Actually, I think it was the History Channel which just proved that that was exactly what happened.
Using lots of new technological goodies unavailable to the Warren Commission, they were able to show that with Kennedy sitting higher than Connally, and Connally sitting slightly to the left, the bullet would have passed through Kennedys throat and into Connallys arm then wrist then leg. Exactly as the Warren Commission said.
They even used someone who was approximately the same height and weight as Kennedy and by putting small pieces of metal on a shirt, and then doing an x-ray, the bullet wounds were exactly as were done in real life. They even had this model sit in a position just like Kennedy had been and did the x-rays with the same result.
They even used a nearly identical rifle and fired a round into specially made recreation of the human body. A firm in Australia does it I believe. The bullet, when examined, came out almost intact. Just like in real life.
In the past I always poo-pooed the single bullet theory. However, after looking at the Zapruder film and comparing it to the model and the computer generated recreation, I have my doubts. It does look plausible that a single bullet could have done what was done.
As to the first issue of the above comment taken from the article, the reason FireFox can't open some sites is because the sites themselves are not coded correctly or require ActiveX *cough*SAP*cough*
Run a page through the W3C HTML Validator and you'll see how poorly those sites are coded or are hacked about to render correctly only in IE.
As far as the second issue is concerned, since when are plug-ins part of a browser? The very definition of a plug-in means they are something to added after the fact to do something.
Maybe the author meant Extensions for FireFox.
As far as I'm concerned FireFox does exactly what I want it to do right after the install. Other than making a few tweaks to turn things off and on, just like you would have to do in IE, FireFox runs as right as rain.
No, it's not debatable whether one can call creationism a theory because it's not. Let's start with the deifinition of a theory:
Since creationism/intelligent design relies on a supreme being to start the whole thing rolling, a being which can neither be proven nor disproven, the arguments for these concepts fall flat. Without being able to verify or deny any part of ones thoughts (I refuse to call them theories) you cannot have a theory. End of story.
One can argue until they're blue in the face about how their evidence shows they're thoughts are just as plausible as someone elses but unless/until they can offer proof of a supreme being their ideas are relegated to the same pile as Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.
Next thing you know people will want to believe that the Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old and was made by the flood during Noahs time. Oh wait, that's already being done.
Well at least the fact that humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time is still a safe subject. Er, maybe not.
If not, I don't want to hear about it.
that say that there is no issue with global warming or those that say garbage isn't that big a deal, how about burying it in their backyards?
Actually, my thought is the sheep were just practicing base jumping but since none ever came back the other sheep had to go and see what was what.
But does he have sushi usb drives?
For reference:
CNN
Glaucoma Research Foundation
Canadian Opthomological Society
National Eye Institute
I realize that letting facts get in the way of things is not the norm here on /. but there's always a first time.
What brain-dead mod (is that redundant?) modded this guy Offtopic? It was a perfectly Ontopic use of sarcasm.
This just shows the inability of most people to appreciate subtle humor.
I wish I had points so I could mod you higher. Maybe someone else will be kind and do so.
Great Futurama reference! I don't have mod points so I can't help you out but maybe someone else will be so kind.
Was a pretty good episode too. Especially the entire scene of how/why Atlanta sank into the sea. Then there was Frys reaction when he was about to get jiggy and had to be explained how the merfolk procreate.
Of course, don't forget your underwater suppository to help counteract the water pressure at those depths.
Only 12 hours between the time I submitted the EXACT SAME STORY and had it rejected before it was posted.
Keep up the good work guys.
Slashdot: where you can be sure of a duplicate story every other day and where the editors don't talk to one another.
Mod me down. I don't care. Karma to burn.
I live just over a mile from Eisenhower Boulevard (which is what you meant. close enough) and worked at the McDonalds which still exists. I sit about halfway between Hershey and Harrisburg.
The west side of the Susquehanna is sometimes called the 'White Shore' or 'The Great White Way' owing to who mainly populates that side.
Harrisburg is definitely not a city like one would think. There is really only the downtown portion and the rest is predominately residential (rowhomes and such). The downtowns big claim to fame is Second Street which now has a bunch of bars/restaurants which have sprung up in the last few years mainly catering the 'in' crowd. There is also the Broad Street Market which is a good place to go if you're looking for hard to get food items or spices.
I do have to give credit to Mayor Reed though. Compared to what Harrisburg was like 10 years ago he has made great strides in improving things. Now if only he could get the cops to actually enforce the red light laws I'd be really happy.
Er, I live just outside of said place and while it may not be a radioactive wasteland it is pretty close to a general wasteland.
On the other hand it is nice not to have to turn on lights at night. Just hold your hand out at arms length and voila! Instant flashlight!
You mean like Senator-elect Tom Coburn (R) of Oklahoma who wants the death penalty for abortion providers (and possibly the women themselves)? How about Eric Rudolph who bombed abortion clinics and even killed a few people. Or maybe you mean John Ashcroft who, as one of his first acts in office, covered up a partially nude statue of a woman. A statue which has been in place for decades and no one else ever had a problem with one breast showing.
Want some other examples of how these people are similar to the Taliban? Anti-abortion acts. Numerous incidents of attacks against abortion providers and the people in them as well as those seeking abortions.
Or did you mean people like Jerry Falwell who said the reason we got attacked on September 11th was:
Or maybe you mean the various religious groups who want to outright ban books like Harry Potter or Heather Has Two Mommies?
Get over yourself. The religious right in this country is doing everything in its power to make sure that christianity is shoved down our throats at every step and anyone who doesn't agree with them is immediately branded as un-American or traitors (according to Ann Coulter).
What's especially troubling is that the vast majority of people who voted for Bush said morals were a higher priority than national defense or anything else. In other words, so long as you have good morals, or appear to have good morals, that is more important than being safe or having a job.
As I said in my first post, these people are not conservatives. They do not stand for what true conservatives stand for any more than the Taliban stands for what true muslims stand for.
And for the record, I am a Republican, not a Democrat. The Republicans has been hijacked by this american version of the Taliban and I refuse to support any president or other person running for office, of ANY party, who cowtows to these religious fanatics.
You can read this article off of Excites site regarding some issues that came up and Mr. Charles' response.
No, conservatives did not vote. It was the far right-wing, hyper-religious, I-hate-anything-not-christian, anti-equal-rights, creationism-is-a-theory, neo-cons who voted.
Please stop trying to claim that the above people are conservatives. They are not. They are the American version of the Taliban.
A very good job going over each scene, describing the differences and a short opinion as to like/dislike.
His review should be the first place people go to when deciding whether to buy the 2004 release.
Of course, I still haven't seen the second prequel but then the ads didn't impress me that much so maybe I'm not missing anything.
Then obviously the Clinton administration lied (surprise, surprise) when the list of guests was presented OR the Washington Post, CBS News and all the other news organizations who had the same information failed to include Arafat on the list.
As far as inviting a terrorist to the White House, Bush I did the same thing by inviting Yitzhak Shamir so using that as an article leader really doesn't do anything other than show the bias of the American Spectator.
Further, nowhere in anything you presented does it say that Arafat was the #1 guest during the Clinton administration. The only thing that is mentioned is that Arafat was a frequent guest who stayed there more than Netanyahu. So what? If Netanyahu stayed there for a total of 2 weeks and Arafat was there for 3 weeks that would meet the qualification of staying there more than Netanyahu.
As far as the mod system, well, we all know it's a crap shot.
Cherring him on because I had been screaming about what was happening for the past 4 years (includes the end of the Bush I admin). I was writing a letter a month to my local paper essentially calling everyone cowards because of their actions. I was the one saying to either a) lift the arms embargo and let the Bosnian government defend itself or b) go in and actually defend them. Instead we (the world) sat by and did shit while over 7K people were slaughtered in a 3 day period, sometimes in front of UN personnel who were supposed to be protecting them.
If we're going to have to continually hear about how bad the Holocaust was and have to genuflect every time the subject is brought up I don't want to hear how there is nothing we (meaning the world) can do when genocide is once again being committed. Which is essentiallly what happened.
Why is it that people continually try to push the argument that the UN is responsible for something when in fact it is the members of the UN that are responsible for whatever goes on.
Since the US is part of the UN and refuses to work with other nations is it any wonder things don't go the way we would like them to.
For example, the UN finally got an International Court but the US didn't agree to it because it doesn't want its soldiers subject to the same rules as everyone else. How is it the fault of the UN if the Court can't do it's job effectively when the US, ostensibly it's biggest contributor, doesn't want to play by the same rules as everyone else?
How about population control? Instead of working with the UN to help control the third worlds population through both education and birth control, the US refuses to participate because condoms are given out as are some medications and even abortions may be performed. Thanks religious-right.
While it may have been the UN who oversaw the Oil for Food program, it was the individual member nations who did the backdoor dealings, not the UN itself.
That's very interesting considering the lists released by the Clinton administration don't even show Arafat as ever having stayed at the White House. For reference:
First term list of guests
Guests from 1999 through August 2000 (you'll have to click the link in the article to see the list)
Your source to back your claim?
Nope, no lockstep here. As a rule, for the last several elections, I've been voting against my partys choices in the Primary election and against my party in the General election. Why? Because here in PA my party has been hijacked by a small, vocal group of ideological thinkers who are hell bent on making sure their ideas get forced down everyone elses throats even if it means taking away rights from the people.
Anyway, depending on who I'm voting for I stay with the two big parties but will vote for a third party candidate in various races depending on the office.
I vote for the person (or against in this case), not the party.