Information is the lifeblood of an organization. Information Integrity - ensuring that information is always secure and highly available across the enterprise - is what your company requires to manage your business with confidence.
Given this requirement, I am pleased to inform you that on December 16, 2004, VERITAS, the world leader in Storage Software and Symantec, the world leader in Information Security, announced entry into a merger agreement. The combined company will be named Symantec and will be uniquely capable of delivering measurable value to you by providing a complete suite of security, storage, availability, and performance management solutions.
After completion of the merger, we plan to offer you an enhanced way to view, secure, and manage your most valuable asset - your information - from the desktop to the data center. And because VERITAS and Symantec are each independent software companies without a hardware agenda, we will enable Information Integrity across a heterogeneous set of operating systems, hardware platforms, databases, and applications allowing you keep your options open by avoiding "vendor lock-in." This value proposition has been received as very compelling to our customers because it allows them to achieve Information Integrity while simultaneously driving cost and complexity out of their operating environments.
The proposed merger is subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals and we anticipate closing in the second quarter of 2005. Between now and the close, we will work with you to ensure that we continue as "business as usual." After the close, we are committed to continuing to deliver the high level of service and support that you are accustomed to from both organizations.
In closing, thank you for your business and we look forward to establishing an even greater partnership in the future. Our belief is that you will receive significant benefit from a company capable of providing end-to-end information security and availability solutions. If you would like more information, please visit www.veritas.com.
Best regards,
Art Matin, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Well, on a plus side, my old AIM name seems to work again.. I had the AIM name since 1996 or 1997.. Last year it was suspended for some reason, with no information available anywhere on how to get it restored.. I tried to log in with it today and it's working again..
Any hunter worth his weight will tell you in a second that you don't take a shot until you have a good, clean shot which will kill the animal quickly - thus giving them a relatively less painful death. Which do you think is more painful for a deer - 30 seconds of struggling and then dropping dead from a heart or lung shot, or months of slowly starving to death because their environment no longer contains natural predators and they are overpopulated?
Not to mention a quick kill is much more practical for a hunter - you don't have to search for the animal because it ran too far and meat tastes MUCH better when a clean shot puts the animal down quick.
Divisions of Wildlife would not EXIST if it were not for hunters. In Ohio at least, the Divison of Wildlife receives no money through taxation - all their funds come from hunting licenses and tariffs on ammunition and guns.
I for one prefer the dead trees. Much more convenient on the crapper.;)
Seriously though, I don't see electronic formats becoming ubiquitous until the problems inherent with an electronic format are fixed (such as not having a 5 lb computing device heating up your lap when you're on the crapper).
There was confusion about this in the early Church. St. Peter had a vision from God which showed him that ceremonial cleanliness (and in general the distinction between Jew and Gentile) had been mitigated through Christ. Read up on the history of the Judaizers to get a better feel for this struggle in the early Church.
America never was a democracy, and that is by design. Nor should it be. A democracy is where 2 wolves and a sheep vote for what they're having for dinner.
If you really want a good expounding on this line of arguement, read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. He gives a better presentation (although in somewhat dated language by this point) than most armchair theologians you'll hear.
Not so. I am Catholic, and fairly well-versed on apologetics.
Vatican II changed nothing of the faith. It was a pastoral council that changed only the expression of liturgy and language used to make the Faith more understandable to the modern world. Nothing of the faith changed.
The Church has always realized that Sacred Scripture is not a science textbook. The Bible is the story of how God relates to man and man's response. Many literary devices are used that seem to be non-sensical in modern English, but are in harmony and make perfect sense when you understand Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek prophetic language.
A perfect example is the whole "Left Behind" group nowadays which states that Christ will come not two times but three. (When He comes back the second, He will only be "in the clouds", so that's not a "real" coming back). What they neglect to notice is that the phraseology of "coming on clouds" in the Bible represents God's judgement. Ergo, when Christ comes back the second time it will be as Judge.
Many things in scripture use Hebrew prophetic language, and you have to understand the culture to understand the message. The Bible was not written outside of its culture as a message only for those 2,000 - 6,000 years later. It had relevance to the people each part was written to at the time, and you have to know the background to get a true sense of what Scripture is saying.
If you are really interested in this, check out a book entitled "Making Sense Out Of Scripture" by Mark Shea.
Nah, you must be mistaken! CinBell roxxorz!! I mean, their DSL is waaaaay better than RoadRunner, right? Even though I get 3x the speed from my RoadRunner at home that I do from our Zoomtown line at work, Zoomtown is waaaaaaaaay better!;)
Is anyone else experiencing problems with the Windows Update v5 site? I've tried using it on a SP1 machine and two SP2 machines, and the only one it works on is the SP2 machine that was just reloaded and had SP2 applied.
Here are a few choice quotes from Margaret Sanger, foudner of Planned Parenthood:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
"Eugenics is... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."
"The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization... the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics."
"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying... a dead weight of human waste... an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
"The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped."
"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..."
"[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer."
"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
..on my Amiga 1000 that developed a case of the "smacksies" - you had to smack it to get it it work. Apparently this was caused by a bad path on the circuitboard inside or something.
When the smacking failed to do the job, I had to get a little more creative. I found that if you bent the circuitboard on the back of the monitor at just such an angle you could get a display. This worked for a while and I just modded the case a little to push the board to that angle.
Eventually that failed as well, so I went for more extreme measures. After experimenting, I discovered that a piece of rope would hold the board at a better angle and allow the monitor to function. So I just tied a piece of rope from the top of the tube to the circuitboard and set the tension so that you could get a display.
By this time it was 1995, and my Amiga 1000 had seen better days. I sold the whole kit to a friend of mine for $30 or something (he just wanted dial-up BBS access). He finally got tired of the funky monitor and gave it the 20-gauge treatment.
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From an e-mail I just received:
Dear Valued Customer,
Information is the lifeblood of an organization. Information Integrity - ensuring that information is always secure and highly available across the enterprise - is what your company requires to manage your business with confidence.
Given this requirement, I am pleased to inform you that on December 16, 2004, VERITAS, the world leader in Storage Software and Symantec, the world leader in Information Security, announced entry into a merger agreement. The combined company will be named Symantec and will be uniquely capable of delivering measurable value to you by providing a complete suite of security, storage, availability, and performance management solutions.
After completion of the merger, we plan to offer you an enhanced way to view, secure, and manage your most valuable asset - your information - from the desktop to the data center. And because VERITAS and Symantec are each independent software companies without a hardware agenda, we will enable Information Integrity across a heterogeneous set of operating systems, hardware platforms, databases, and applications allowing you keep your options open by avoiding "vendor lock-in." This value proposition has been received as very compelling to our customers because it allows them to achieve Information Integrity while simultaneously driving cost and complexity out of their operating environments.
The proposed merger is subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals and we anticipate closing in the second quarter of 2005. Between now and the close, we will work with you to ensure that we continue as "business as usual." After the close, we are committed to continuing to deliver the high level of service and support that you are accustomed to from both organizations.
In closing, thank you for your business and we look forward to establishing an even greater partnership in the future. Our belief is that you will receive significant benefit from a company capable of providing end-to-end information security and availability solutions. If you would like more information, please visit www.veritas.com.
Best regards,
Art Matin, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
VERITAS Software
Well, on a plus side, my old AIM name seems to work again.. I had the AIM name since 1996 or 1997.. Last year it was suspended for some reason, with no information available anywhere on how to get it restored.. I tried to log in with it today and it's working again..
Yay..
Dude, you forgot the essential ones that girls like.. Like numchuck skills.. Bowhunting skills.. ;)
We call it Frisch's Big Boy up here, and they're everywhere in southwest Ohio (and the surrounding areas).
Dude, are you a Transformer? ;)
Even less.. I pay $5.95/month for dial-up with a straight PPP account and no ad bullcrap. $44.95/month just isn't worth it at home.
...comes out with a mod to run on the DS? :)
Any hunter worth his weight will tell you in a second that you don't take a shot until you have a good, clean shot which will kill the animal quickly - thus giving them a relatively less painful death. Which do you think is more painful for a deer - 30 seconds of struggling and then dropping dead from a heart or lung shot, or months of slowly starving to death because their environment no longer contains natural predators and they are overpopulated?
Not to mention a quick kill is much more practical for a hunter - you don't have to search for the animal because it ran too far and meat tastes MUCH better when a clean shot puts the animal down quick.
Divisions of Wildlife would not EXIST if it were not for hunters. In Ohio at least, the Divison of Wildlife receives no money through taxation - all their funds come from hunting licenses and tariffs on ammunition and guns.
I for one prefer the dead trees. Much more convenient on the crapper. ;)
Seriously though, I don't see electronic formats becoming ubiquitous until the problems inherent with an electronic format are fixed (such as not having a 5 lb computing device heating up your lap when you're on the crapper).
Taxes
http://www.revel.com/
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Issues/Gal ileoAffair.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08537a.htm
There was confusion about this in the early Church. St. Peter had a vision from God which showed him that ceremonial cleanliness (and in general the distinction between Jew and Gentile) had been mitigated through Christ. Read up on the history of the Judaizers to get a better feel for this struggle in the early Church.
America never was a democracy, and that is by design. Nor should it be. A democracy is where 2 wolves and a sheep vote for what they're having for dinner.
America is a constitutional Republic.
who knows ;)
If you really want a good expounding on this line of arguement, read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. He gives a better presentation (although in somewhat dated language by this point) than most armchair theologians you'll hear.
It's a short book as well.
Not so. I am Catholic, and fairly well-versed on apologetics.
Vatican II changed nothing of the faith. It was a pastoral council that changed only the expression of liturgy and language used to make the Faith more understandable to the modern world. Nothing of the faith changed.
The Church has always realized that Sacred Scripture is not a science textbook. The Bible is the story of how God relates to man and man's response. Many literary devices are used that seem to be non-sensical in modern English, but are in harmony and make perfect sense when you understand Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek prophetic language.
A perfect example is the whole "Left Behind" group nowadays which states that Christ will come not two times but three. (When He comes back the second, He will only be "in the clouds", so that's not a "real" coming back). What they neglect to notice is that the phraseology of "coming on clouds" in the Bible represents God's judgement. Ergo, when Christ comes back the second time it will be as Judge.
Many things in scripture use Hebrew prophetic language, and you have to understand the culture to understand the message. The Bible was not written outside of its culture as a message only for those 2,000 - 6,000 years later. It had relevance to the people each part was written to at the time, and you have to know the background to get a true sense of what Scripture is saying.
If you are really interested in this, check out a book entitled "Making Sense Out Of Scripture" by Mark Shea.
Nah, you must be mistaken! CinBell roxxorz!! I mean, their DSL is waaaaay better than RoadRunner, right? Even though I get 3x the speed from my RoadRunner at home that I do from our Zoomtown line at work, Zoomtown is waaaaaaaaay better! ;)
FYI, check this out. I always thought your sig was Voltaire's until I found that site.
Is anyone else experiencing problems with the Windows Update v5 site? I've tried using it on a SP1 machine and two SP2 machines, and the only one it works on is the SP2 machine that was just reloaded and had SP2 applied.
People always seem to forget this.
... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."
... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Here are a few choice quotes from Margaret Sanger, foudner of Planned Parenthood:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..."
"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need
"Eugenics is
"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."
"The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization... the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."
"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics."
"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying... a dead weight of human waste... an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
"The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped."
"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..."
"[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer."
"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."
Yeah, if they show what actually happens when an abortion is performed we may not have to lobby so hard to make it illegal.
..does anyone know how to hack the Apple CD/DVD drivers? I tried an article I found online, but the data was different in ResEdit for 1.4.
..on my Amiga 1000 that developed a case of the "smacksies" - you had to smack it to get it it work. Apparently this was caused by a bad path on the circuitboard inside or something.
When the smacking failed to do the job, I had to get a little more creative. I found that if you bent the circuitboard on the back of the monitor at just such an angle you could get a display. This worked for a while and I just modded the case a little to push the board to that angle.
Eventually that failed as well, so I went for more extreme measures. After experimenting, I discovered that a piece of rope would hold the board at a better angle and allow the monitor to function. So I just tied a piece of rope from the top of the tube to the circuitboard and set the tension so that you could get a display.
By this time it was 1995, and my Amiga 1000 had seen better days. I sold the whole kit to a friend of mine for $30 or something (he just wanted dial-up BBS access). He finally got tired of the funky monitor and gave it the 20-gauge treatment.