What? You toilet doesn't hook up to a UPS? What are you some kind of Neanderthal? Really it isn't something that is insurmountable. After all you are paying for design here and that is all that counts. Does it work, not as important as is it pleasing to the eye.
The Mac Mini is a nice design, no arguing there. But to call it powerful is a joke. 2 year old Pcs have more power and it pales next to the cheapest IMac, which, except for expandabilty is a really nice design.
There is no Chicago Times, there is a Sun-Times but this story didn't come for it, it came from the Chicago Tribune. If you can't even cite your sources correctly how can anything you say be taken seriously?
And if it had been about a dead black or yellow or red or orange man or even woman would that have made the book instantly interesting? The inherent racism of the phrase "dead white man" is, in my opinion, worse that using the dreaded "N" word. But we all know that the "K" word if ok, just ask any rapper.
they didn't ask for more money they didn't wish to allow the Ports, run by the shipping companies to set up a new class of lower paid positions which might not be represented by the union.
I am mearly pointing out that it is disingenuous to write the article in such a manner as to make it seem a strike when in fact it was a lockout. In fact the Port Association head came to a public negotiating session with bodyguards openly carrying guns in an attempt to bully the union.
Mr Plummer turns the truth on its head when he fails to note that the Longshoremen didn't strike but were locked out by the shipping companies who run the ports. His disingenuousness over this issue undercuts his points. But ideologues aren't interested in truth but in making their ideas seem reasonable even when they aren't. It is clear that Mr Plummer is one of the overpaid.
And if the partner defrauds the buyer then Amazon says it has no liability and will do nothing to help you get your money back. They sell you the item, they charge your credit card but they are not involved in the sale. Just ask them.
I watched the first episode of Firefly and thought it was one of the worse shows I've seen in years. It lacked the intellegence of Babylon 5 and the richness of Star Trek. It reminded me most of Cattlecar Galaxitive.
It was just a really bad show without Johanthan Harris's inventivness.
No one is forced to work at Starbucks. They choose that path. If they don't like it there they can work to change the way the culture works or they can move on.Sabotaging equipment isn't the way to change anything but your employement status. Just quit and get a job in a 7/11 where they will allow you to listen to your music.
You want to play your music then open your own coffee shop. When you work for Starbucks and take their money then you do things their way or you leave. So if you hack thier machine and they find out and fire your friends sorry ass don't come bitching about it. He got what he asked for.
I don't know what MUA you use, but learn how to use filters. Then you would just create a kill filter for anything from Amazon or anyother spaming scum merchant.
Tom Lehar NOT Monty Python wrote that song. It has nothing to do with Monty Python and was never on the show.
Tom was a professor of Mathamatics at Harvard or MIT, I can't remember now and wrote a number of wonderful songs back in the '60s. You could look it up.
And you realize that this is NOT a python song, but one by Tom Lehar. But you may be to young to remember Tom. You missed the best and have only the lest left.;-)
BTW just because Netscape crashes it doesn't bring down my whole system I can simply xkill it and restart it.
Except for when it locks up the mouse and keyboard as it has been know to do. Netscape sucks and until Linux gets a decent browser, hoping for Opera to get out of alpha, it won't be fit for websurfing, which is the Internet to most americans. However I do find most apps run perfectly.
There is just so much to reccomend. Luckily so much has already been mentioned that I'll just try to fill in some blanks. Cordwainer Smith: Mixes Chinese story telling techniques with wonderful SF themes. He wrote the book on Military Intelligence. Norstrallia is highly recomended. Harry Turtledove: I really like the Lost Legion and other Videssos books, not as crazy with the WorldWar books and less so with the Guns of the South. But he gives good versions of Byzantine history spiced with an alternate universe. David Weber: I love the Honor Harrington books. I sure don't agree with his politics, but he is a good story teller. Honor is a female Hornblower in space, but very well done. Richard McKenna: His Sand Pebbles is a book about China or is it? I find that it is excellent Anthopological SF. Read like a SF novel this is a wonderful book of an alien in a strange society. I second those who mentioned Terry Prachett, Ursala LeGuin, Heinlien, Asimov, and Bujold, but I dislike Herbert. Dune is little more than propagana and poorly done propaganda. And the series got worse the more he wrote. but YMMV. De Gustibus. I would recomend that you head to a good second hand bookstore with high SF content and read and learn. Don't forget those who wrote in the Golden Age, or the those who changed the genere in the '60s, nor the newer writers who are changing it now. As your daughter gets older, you may want to explore Harlen Ellison, Philip Dick and Phillip Jose Farmer. do so and enjoy the different story and writting styles. I would urge you to avoid the endless fantasy series that grew from the Tolkien craze of the '60s. Read the master and leave the dross behind. Bubba
> But the number of Classical relases from the majors has been going down for years, and the majority of releases are from the back catalog and have been paid for years ago. The same goes for jazz. Meanwhile small, adventous companies, like Hyperion, Bis and Naxos are able to produce new releases and make money. Why? Because they sell what the record buyer wants, new and largely unrecorded repertorie made with smaller groups and unknown orchestras, while the majors release cds made by "Stars." The Majors continue to release the same old thing time and time again. How many Beethoven 5ths do we need when there is a vast amount of great music that will never see the light of day. There is a demand for this music as the small companies that I've mentioned fill. The giants can't see it and continue to give us the same old, same old with their new stars while leaving some of the best of their back catalog in the dust. We get more Charlotte Church, Three Tenors and Titanic soundtracks, which do make money and less of the music the public wants. Anyone who wants can read rec.music.classical-recordings and read the articles for an eyeopening view.
While this probably won't have that much affect on Popular music, it marks the death knell of EMI's great Classical back Catalog. EMI grew from HMV, English Columbia and American Capitol. It has some of the richest and best performances of Classical music in its archives. Though it has pretty much kissed off Classical, this merger will result in the futher lack of releases, the continued rehashing of the same old releases and a continued dumbing down of the catalog that exists. How many Charlotte Church cds are we to be subjected to in the name of expediency, how many "themed" collection will the giant spew out while allowing a great back catalog to languish? Oh well, that's my rant.
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>are you stupid? the first amendment is not >absolute read the article both sides used >Death threats and threats of physical violence >what would happen if the police didn't >do anything and someone got a physical beat down? then the police would have to do their real jobs. There was no crime committed, only speach, and the last time I looked it was legal to call people names. So it is ok for you to call others stupid, and it is ok for a flame war to go on in a usenet group. We may not like it, it may disgust us, it may disrupt the group to a point that it isn't usefull any more, but The State has no business being involved. Just as the State should be uninvolved in what I choose to publish in the print media, so it should keep it's little mitts out of what I choose to publish in the cyber media. Now on the positive side, we have finally found a form of moderation that will be totally effective. From now on all newsgroup posts will have to be approved by a sitting judge and be subject to appeal to the Supreme Court, unless they are posted outside of the US, in which case, Never Mind.
I believe that Abby Hoffman used to recomend pasting the reply envelope on a brick and sending that. I just fold it all up and send it back that way. Bricks cost money.
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What? You toilet doesn't hook up to a UPS? What are you some kind of Neanderthal? Really it isn't something that is insurmountable. After all you are paying for design here and that is all that counts. Does it work, not as important as is it pleasing to the eye.
The Mac Mini is a nice design, no arguing there. But to call it powerful is a joke. 2 year old Pcs have more power and it pales next to the cheapest IMac, which, except for expandabilty is a really nice design.
There is no Chicago Times, there is a Sun-Times but this story didn't come for it, it came from the Chicago Tribune. If you can't even cite your sources correctly how can anything you say be taken seriously?
And if it had been about a dead black or yellow or red or orange man or even woman would that have made the book instantly interesting?
The inherent racism of the phrase "dead white man" is, in my opinion, worse that using the dreaded "N" word. But we all know that the "K" word if ok, just ask any rapper.
they didn't ask for more money they didn't wish to allow the Ports, run by the shipping companies to set up a new class of lower paid positions which might not be represented by the union.
I am mearly pointing out that it is disingenuous to write the article in such a manner as to make it seem a strike when in fact it was a lockout. In fact the Port Association head came to a public negotiating session with bodyguards openly carrying guns in an attempt to bully the union.
Mr Plummer turns the truth on its head when he fails to note that the Longshoremen didn't strike but were locked out by the shipping companies who run the ports. His disingenuousness over this issue undercuts his points. But ideologues aren't interested in truth but in making their ideas seem reasonable even when they aren't. It is clear that Mr Plummer is one of the overpaid.
And if the partner defrauds the buyer then Amazon says it has no liability and will do nothing to help you get your money back. They sell you the item, they charge your credit card but they are not involved in the sale. Just ask them.
I watched the first episode of Firefly and thought it was one of the worse shows I've seen in years. It lacked the intellegence of Babylon 5 and the richness of Star Trek. It reminded me most of Cattlecar Galaxitive.
It was just a really bad show without Johanthan Harris's inventivness.
No one is forced to work at Starbucks. They choose that path. If they don't like it there they can work to change the way the culture works or they can move on.Sabotaging equipment isn't the way to change anything but your employement status. Just quit and get a job in a 7/11 where they will allow you to listen to your music.
You want to play your music then open your own coffee shop. When you work for Starbucks and take their money then you do things their way or you leave. So if you hack thier machine and they find out and fire your friends sorry ass don't come bitching about it. He got what he asked for.
I don't know what MUA you use, but learn how to use filters. Then you would just create a kill filter for anything from Amazon or anyother spaming scum merchant.
Tom Lehar NOT Monty Python wrote that song. It has nothing to do with Monty Python and was never on the show. Tom was a professor of Mathamatics at Harvard or MIT, I can't remember now and wrote a number of wonderful songs back in the '60s. You could look it up.
And you realize that this is NOT a python song, but one by Tom Lehar. But you may be to young to remember Tom. You missed the best and have only the lest left.;-)
BTW just because Netscape crashes it doesn't bring down my whole system I can
simply xkill it and restart it.
Except for when it locks up the mouse and keyboard as it has been know to do. Netscape sucks and until Linux gets a decent browser, hoping for Opera to get out of alpha, it won't be fit for websurfing, which is the Internet to most americans. However I do find most apps run perfectly.
There is just so much to reccomend. Luckily so much has already been mentioned that I'll just try to fill in some blanks. Cordwainer Smith: Mixes Chinese story telling techniques with wonderful SF themes. He wrote the book on Military Intelligence. Norstrallia is highly recomended. Harry Turtledove: I really like the Lost Legion and other Videssos books, not as crazy with the WorldWar books and less so with the Guns of the South. But he gives good versions of Byzantine history spiced with an alternate universe. David Weber: I love the Honor Harrington books. I sure don't agree with his politics, but he is a good story teller. Honor is a female Hornblower in space, but very well done. Richard McKenna: His Sand Pebbles is a book about China or is it? I find that it is excellent Anthopological SF. Read like a SF novel this is a wonderful book of an alien in a strange society. I second those who mentioned Terry Prachett, Ursala LeGuin, Heinlien, Asimov, and Bujold, but I dislike Herbert. Dune is little more than propagana and poorly done propaganda. And the series got worse the more he wrote. but YMMV. De Gustibus. I would recomend that you head to a good second hand bookstore with high SF content and read and learn. Don't forget those who wrote in the Golden Age, or the those who changed the genere in the '60s, nor the newer writers who are changing it now. As your daughter gets older, you may want to explore Harlen Ellison, Philip Dick and Phillip Jose Farmer. do so and enjoy the different story and writting styles. I would urge you to avoid the endless fantasy series that grew from the Tolkien craze of the '60s. Read the master and leave the dross behind. Bubba
> But the number of Classical relases from the majors has been going down for years, and the majority of releases are from the back catalog and have been paid for years ago. The same goes for jazz. Meanwhile small, adventous companies, like Hyperion, Bis and Naxos are able to produce new releases and make money. Why? Because they sell what the record buyer wants, new and largely unrecorded repertorie made with smaller groups and unknown orchestras, while the majors release cds made by "Stars." The Majors continue to release the same old thing time and time again. How many Beethoven 5ths do we need when there is a vast amount of great music that will never see the light of day. There is a demand for this music as the small companies that I've mentioned fill. The giants can't see it and continue to give us the same old, same old with their new stars while leaving some of the best of their back catalog in the dust. We get more Charlotte Church, Three Tenors and Titanic soundtracks, which do make money and less of the music the public wants. Anyone who wants can read rec.music.classical-recordings and read the articles for an eyeopening view.
While this probably won't have that much affect on Popular music, it marks the death knell of EMI's great Classical back Catalog. EMI grew from HMV, English Columbia and American Capitol. It has some of the richest and best performances of Classical music in its archives. Though it has pretty much kissed off Classical, this merger will result in the futher lack of releases, the continued rehashing of the same old releases and a continued dumbing down of the catalog that exists. How many Charlotte Church cds are we to be subjected to in the name of expediency, how many "themed" collection will the giant spew out while allowing a great back catalog to languish? Oh well, that's my rant.
>are you stupid? the first amendment is not >absolute read the article both sides used >Death threats and threats of physical violence >what would happen if the police didn't >do anything and someone got a physical beat down? then the police would have to do their real jobs. There was no crime committed, only speach, and the last time I looked it was legal to call people names. So it is ok for you to call others stupid, and it is ok for a flame war to go on in a usenet group. We may not like it, it may disgust us, it may disrupt the group to a point that it isn't usefull any more, but The State has no business being involved. Just as the State should be uninvolved in what I choose to publish in the print media, so it should keep it's little mitts out of what I choose to publish in the cyber media. Now on the positive side, we have finally found a form of moderation that will be totally effective. From now on all newsgroup posts will have to be approved by a sitting judge and be subject to appeal to the Supreme Court, unless they are posted outside of the US, in which case, Never Mind.
I believe that Abby Hoffman used to recomend pasting the reply envelope on a brick and sending that. I just fold it all up and send it back that way. Bricks cost money.