I'm nice. I don't know about the changing accusations but this story looks like more evidence of high crimes to me. Are we following a felony here? This story really blew open in the media over the weekend. (Google news:Nacchio)
"What occurred before 9/11." You ask.
Well, as court documents (heavily redacted but showing enough to prove the time line) in the Nacchio trial state the whitehouse demanded wiretap information without court orders in violation of the FISA act. Nacchio refused and Qwest was passed over for big dollar contracts issued by the Feds. The rub is all this happened six months before 9/11. Why is that a story? Read on.
It says the NSA was demanding wiretaps without court oversight six months before 911.
But on this whitehouse.gov page. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060511-1.html it says "President Bush: After September the 11th, I vowed to the American people that our government would do everything within the law to protect them against another terrorist attack. As part of this effort, I authorized the National Security Agency to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. In other words, if al Qaeda or their associates are making calls into the United States or out of the United States, we want to know what they're saying." [White House, 5/11/06]
Not convinced? Watch this video http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/10/bush-pushes-for-telco-immunity/ "must grant liability protection to companies who are facing multi-billion-dollar lawsuits only because they are believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend our nation following the 9/11 attacks."
"On December 17th, 2005, President Bush confirmed the existence of a National Security Agency eavesdropping program. That confirmation came one day after a report in the New York Times. The President said at the news conference, "in the weeks following the terrorist attacks on our nation, I authorized the National Security Agency, consistent with U.S. law and the constitution, to intercept the international communications of people with known links to Al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations." Critics argued that Bush became the first sitting president to admit committing a felony, when he circumvented the courts by not getting a subpoena from the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court, as required by law." http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=7112345&nav=0RY5
"While I don't advocate the killing of spammers,..."
Don't so hasty ackthpt, a systematic and controlled culling of the spammer heard might just be the ticket to cleaning up the old in box. Around here we had a problem with a sudden increase in the deer population, this caused a multitude of problems. We were successful in convincing the local population that the best solution was to just go out and reduce the number of animals. If we can convince people that it is OK to kill such beautiful and heartwarming animals how hard could it be to convince people that we'd be better off with a few less spammers?
It looks like the only telcom that refused to hand over wire tap information without a FISA order is going to jail while at the same time Bush fights for immunity for the telcos that went along with the white house and committed the crimes.
No it's worse, this occurred before 9/11 which makes the white house claim of breaking the law to fight 9/11 terrorism a lie.
It's a good thing Bush has expanded the use of making things secret or else we might have enough evidence to impeach.
Saddam was a threat to the world because the US supported him.
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Saddam Hussein was our employee since 1959 when we used him to assasinate several high power individuals. Here is the rather longish UPI report. Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot
By Richard Sale UPI Intelligence Correspondent Published 4/10/2003 7:30 PM
U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. The CIA declined to comment on the report.
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed."
According to current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan.
Little attention was paid to Qasim's bloody and conspiratorial regime until his sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959, an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official.
Washington watched in marked dismay as Qasim began to buy arms from the Soviet Union and put his own domestic communists into ministry positions of "real power," according to this official. The domestic instability of the country prompted CIA Director Allan Dulles to say publicly that Iraq was "the most dangerous spot in the world."
In the mid-1980s, Miles Copeland, a veteran CIA operative, told UPI the CIA had enjoyed "close ties" with Qasim's ruling Baath Party, just as it had close connections with the intelligence service of Egyptian leader Gamel Abd Nassar. In a recent public statement, Roger Morris, a former National Security Council staffer in the 1970s, confirmed this claim, saying that the CIA had chosen the authoritarian and anti-communist Baath Party "as its instrument."
According to another former senior State Department official, Saddam, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Qasim. According to this source, Saddam was installed in an apartment in Baghdad on al-Rashid Street directly opposite Qasim's office in Iraq's Ministry of Defense, to observe Qasim's movements.
Adel Darwish, Middle East expert and author of "Unholy Babylon," said the move was done "with full knowledge of the CIA," and that Saddam's CIA handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence. U.S. officials separately confirmed Darwish's account.
The assassination was set for Oct. 7, 1959, but it was completely botched. Accounts differ. One former CIA official said that the 22-year-old Saddam lost his nerve and began firing too soon, killing Qasim's driver and only wounding Qasim in the shoulder and arm. Darwish told UPI that one of the assassins had bullets that did not fit his gun and that anoth
Well, from what I've seen of Vista in action when most users are confronted with the message "Running this program will install a keyloger that will comprimise your security and turn your banking passwords over to organized chrime" will have them slapping that "Accept" button even before all the text has time to render to the screen.
The article does not say what the compromised system was running but I guess if it weren't windows then it whould be news.
Keyloggers would become useless for passwords theives if the password entry had another question that changed and would be inserted into the password eg. "What are the first three characters of your password, day you were born, last five characters of your passwd. Or a combination of of entering characters off the keyboard and clicking on them with a mouse or both.
Thank you. I agree that copyright laws have been perverted and currently are unconstitutional until the "limited period" has been reestablished and the intent of the framers is restored to the law (protect the creator and encourage arts). Much of the obscure music that I love will never be published and will likely be lost forever thanks to the current system which only considers music valid if it makes a profit for some corporation.
I have a similar story, I'm not a musical protégée but I can now play tons of rock music. I've had guitars for forever and I always wanted to play but something was stopping me. I had stacks of Hal Lenoard books but I found the materal dead or too complex or just mind numbing, I'd only practice until I was board and put down the guitar for months. Scales and traditonal songs were not doing it for me.
It was not until I found a few simple tabs on the net that I became really interested. Tabs are simple outlines giving you only the basics of songs, not the entire song like a stack of sheet music does, some tabs show only a few notes and a part of the lyrics. This allowed me to quickly get a feel for the song and if it was simple enough I could play it, and I would. Suddenly music was fun unlike all the years before with "real" sheet music.
After a while I picked up the names of the chords, then I could tune my guitar on my own by ear! and then I could pick up songs listening to them on the radio. Now I play in a cheesy rock and roll band and I totally love it. I still have my IT career but only a few years after finding tabs I have a night job too.
Hal Leonard sells sheet music, I only want a simple song outline and a few tabs. They don't sell what I want and they are lobbying the GOV to make laws to force me to buy what they make. It is the same as if GM could get a law to prevent me from buying a hybrid Toyota because they are loosing money on big GM pickup trucks. I loose choice and I don't have what I want, what did they used to say about Soviet Russia?
And an excellent point you have. The program called "The News" is under no more obligation to present even a balanced view then it is to present total known lies. This entertainment show know as "The News" can put whatever they want on and call it news, there are no laws or standards, retractions are not mandatory. It's a F___ing free for all with supposed public airways.
How many lies has the White House been given a pass on? Nukes in Iraq is a big one, mobile chemical labs, Saddam=Bin Ladden, the troops were well equipped, It's mind numbing that I could fill a book right here and now with lies put on the news. Solution, don't watch it, educate your friends, promote truth and diversity.
Which I guess means that Nerds don't blindly swallow any lie set out from the White House. I think you'll find that Nerds encompass a wider range of thinking and not just the black and white you're used to so if by parisian you mean not susceptible to NeoCon lies you're right. But don't worry there must be a right wing blog somewhere you'd feel safer at. Perhaps you can pay your respects for Jerry while you're there.
Why "so interesting"? As nerds we do our own research and we don't fear on command, this Bush admin is crap, total crap and those of us who are living in the real world have paid a price for HIS mistakes while he has profited from them (like Haliburton stock). Have you flown anywhere or been to another country lately? Airports look like jails and the world uniformly hates Americans. Have you checked the value of the US dollar? Has poverty been reduced? Do you have any friends in the military who have died in the last four years? Have you had your research dollars reduced or eliminated? Have you needed the National Guard? Add that to all the favors done for the Saudis and now back at home it looks like the most qualified US attorneys, some who happen to have worked on felonies perpetuated by elected officials (remember The Dukester?) are fired mid-term (which is unusual since Bush appointed them in the first place) and it looks like the next election will be overseen by people who have graduated from the worst college in America and a few of the key attorneys come right from Karl Rove's office. Important enough for you?
Blue is the worst. Covering is the only option, and I cover all that are in my view. Even my new amps had bright blue LEDs and unless they were covered I was blinded from seeing the other equipment. They are too F ing bright. The narrow bandwidth might also add to the effect as I met people who can't see them, at all. Weird!
Every other OS is laughing loudly because we've never had to rebuild entire systems from a stack of CDs, a really fast connection and a long list of 25 digit codes caused frequently and frequently caused from the ravages of one or more of the tens of thousands of viruses and trojans or what have you. Right now I know a number of people who are rebuilding servers and streaming audio servers from the attack of a virus. What are those systems? All of them Windows.
Windows is the only OS that I know that mimics organized religion. The lowly parishioners blindly follow the priests. They genuflect on command and don't understand anything about the workings or its leaders. You can change them but you have to ride in on horse back and slaughter most of the village first. The Priests all have an interest in keeping things the way they are as they have invested an lifetime reading partial code or documentation only to find god is dead. The High Priests know how bad things are but have all signed NDAs and refuse to talk about it. And God? Enough about him.
--More people are forced to use Windows than any other operating system.
In the case of our comparison the larger engine = diesel not gas. Why does a Prius not use diesel? For that matter why are there so few diesel cars in North America? Every time I go to Europe I'm amazed how many cool diesel cars they get. Last time I saw a convertible Audi S4 diesel.
You are totally right about the torque statement. In '95 Hummer offered an optional gasoline engine. The big block sure sounded cool with the huge truck exhaust but because the engine needed to be revved higher to produce the same torque it really sucked gas compared to the diesel, especially off road. Also since storing gasoline is a lot more dangerous it had a smaller main fuel tank and no secondary tank. In '96 the option was removed.
I love my '93 Hummer. It has a ton of negatives for sure and I certainly would not recommend you commute to work in one but for what it is (read an off-road / work / go-anywhere / tow-anything vehicle) it is great and I'm lucky enough to be near a large supplier of Bio-Diesel which means Zero foreign oil usage. (btw I also have a VW TDi Jetta for normal getting around) Even a Prius can't say that.
I don't know why the parent is marked as insightful but anyway here goes.
If you look at the total manufacturing costs / operating life of the vehicle you get one element of the cost to the environment. Lets say that the Prius in TFA is calculated for an operational life of five years and the Hummer is calculated at 25 years (that what Hummer says), that's a 500% advantage to the Hummer. Say the Prius is one third the weight of a hummer that reduces the advantage to 167%. Now say the higher tech components in the Prius are twice as hazordus to the environment then the pig iron and steel used to make the hummer that might double the advantage. As you can see there are a lot of factors to make the Hummer appear greener if you read TFA you will notice there is no description as to what the weighting of these factors are, therefore the article is not very useful.
Personally I drive an '93 H1 Hummer, and I'd like to keep it for another ten years. It's not pretty and it's not very comfortable but it gets me and my gear where I want to go and in any kind of weather which is important around here. It is also the worst handling and slowest vehicle I've ever had at speed on the highway and at highway speed it sucks fuel at an amazing rate which is why I also have a VW TDi Jetta for around town. By the way I run both on Bio Diesel, try that in a Prius.
This is an American law served in America and only involving Americans. Sure you can't expect to police the world but we were told we had a law to protect us and now it's failed.
I usually hate to abdicate vigilantism but it looks like the law was written to protect criminals and I can see why when I look at the number of lawmakers on their way to prison. Maybe its time for real justice? Good advise might just be that if you find a spammer save yourself the trouble and just sneak up on them and blow them away like the sewer rats they are.
Is anyone really surprised that the law is broken?
I think Andy is a little more than a Apple advocate but more important he's a tech journalist that's been on the scene for over twenty years, reviewing high tech products and more, he uses them. A savvy and experienced person like him had to go to a MS help page to look up a problem he was having with a brand new unit and the answer said to go off and write a.dll as the fix. Reminds me of antique auto manuals that give instructions for rebuilding engines. I guess if you had one of the few cars around you had to learn how to fix them, like in the '70s, computer manuals often had long lessons on digital logic and pages of ttl schematics. I thought those days of bare knuckle computer experiences were gone but with the Retro Zune MS has recreated the feeling of the past. I think I know what multimedia content will be popular on a Lune. Lost and Screwed.
"Squirt?" I cringe and think of the sticky blue dress every time I hear that awful name but actually using it would even be worse because the quoted speed is slow. You'll only be able to squirt to one unit at a time and it almost takes as long to squirt a song as it does to play the song. As much as you'd like to squirt a room full of people you can't. Looking at it this way you'd be better off letting your friend plug into you player to hear the song. At least they would be able to hear the song right away. I do this all the time and it's sociable as well. "You like? I'll email it to you."
MOST IMPORTANT- MS does not believe their customers create anything. They are consumers. All the creators that MS is concerned about already have lawyers and have already been asked their opinions. Yours don't count, now get your credit card out, bend over and get back into line. This it the point you put Balmer and squirt together.
If I created my own content (which I do) and I used the Lune I could not even get my songs on it much less use the squirt to distribute my content. The squirt function is fixed not to recognize free content. Three plays and gone is not my agreement, wonder what focus group thought that one up?
This device should die as an example to manufacturers that we are not the sheep they expect us to be.
The CGA colours were awful and limited, these machines had trouble showing full color images, something like if everything looked like an Andy Worhol. There were some good RGB dispays but these were rare and limited to professional uses with special cards and software, lots of software because the PC had no idea what a good color monitor was. I found both the early bw and gs Mac display to be sharp and percise and easier on the eyes. Later on when Mac went color they came out with a kick ass system that was usualy "plug and play" or at least "plug and hobble" but never "plug and nothing" ending up in a dip switch hell that a PC used to be. even reconizing multiple cards, the mac could take a belly full of different video cards. On weekends I used to move three to five monitors around one IIfx 16Mhz and play Hornet F16. I could even mix in a full page grey scale tilt for the dashboard display. That was better than any Dos/eary win PC of the time could do. Could even play networked when just networking on a PC was a total joke.
We did not call them PCs, they were Macs, they were also kind of greenish beige.
M$ gives PC manufactures discounts for doing various things. Things like pre-installing Windoze on every PC sold gets one discount, Advertising the line "We recommend rebooting and reinstalling" er, "We recommend WinXP" gets you another discount, not advertising a competing OS and so on and so on. The more you play with M$ the cheaper your bulk per PC cost of OS becomes thus lowering your sticker price.
It's one of the many tactics a monopoly uses to maintain position and keep competitors away. By the way these agreements are secret and classified as "proprietary" so we don't really know if M$ has a discount for not allowing pre-installed linux or not.
By not providing you with an easy way to return that unused copy of Winblows (possibly another discount) it ensures that the manufactures are allowed to have their cake and eat it too. Every time you install linux on a pc without returning the unused M$ product you are contributing to the M$ fortunes and slowing the progress of linux. Sorry but to be lazy has a price too.
Three Cheers to our UK friend for sticking to his guns and encouraging others.
It was only one model of the iPod line and only those that were produced over a very limited time period. Unlike the problems with Windows which include EVERY version of Windows ever produced. What it says to me is if a major manufacturer can't maintain a clean windows machine what hope does the consumer have? Switch now.
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I'm nice. I don't know about the changing accusations but this story looks like more evidence of high crimes to me. Are we following a felony here? This story really blew open in the media over the weekend. (Google news:Nacchio)
"What occurred before 9/11." You ask.
Well, as court documents (heavily redacted but showing enough to prove the time line) in the Nacchio trial state the whitehouse demanded wiretap information without court orders in violation of the FISA act. Nacchio refused and Qwest was passed over for big dollar contracts issued by the Feds. The rub is all this happened six months before 9/11. Why is that a story? Read on.
Perhaps this is a better article then the one linked in this story. From the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202485.html?hpid=topnews
or this one. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/nsa-asked-for-p.html
It says the NSA was demanding wiretaps without court oversight six months before 911.
But on this whitehouse.gov page. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060511-1.html it says
"President Bush: After September the 11th, I vowed to the American people that our government would do everything within the law to protect them against another terrorist attack. As part of this effort, I authorized the National Security Agency to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. In other words, if al Qaeda or their associates are making calls into the United States or out of the United States, we want to know what they're saying." [White House, 5/11/06]
Not convinced? Watch this video
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/10/bush-pushes-for-telco-immunity/
"must grant liability protection to companies who are facing multi-billion-dollar lawsuits only because they are believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend our nation following the 9/11 attacks."
FOLLOWING? How about six months before!
Oh yea, Impeachment. "Bush administration was either incompetent or is guilty of malfeasance" http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_frank_j__071015_bush_administration_.htm OK he's a known Bush basher.
"On December 17th, 2005, President Bush confirmed the existence of a National Security Agency eavesdropping program. That confirmation came one day after a report in the New York Times. The President said at the news conference, "in the weeks following the terrorist attacks on our nation, I authorized the National Security Agency, consistent with U.S. law and the constitution, to intercept the international communications of people with known links to Al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations." Critics argued that Bush became the first sitting president to admit committing a felony, when he circumvented the courts by not getting a subpoena from the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court, as required by law." http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=7112345&nav=0RY5
This would be Bush bashing; "Bush is a fake cowboy" http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/vicente_fox_cowboy_bush_is_scared_of_horses.php or "Bush is lazy" http://ask.yahoo.com/20031001.html but I won't resort to that kind of low stuff.
"While I don't advocate the killing of spammers,..."
Don't so hasty ackthpt, a systematic and controlled culling of the spammer heard might just be the ticket to cleaning up the old in box.
Around here we had a problem with a sudden increase in the deer population, this caused a multitude of problems. We were successful in convincing the local population that the best solution was to just go out and reduce the number of animals. If we can convince people that it is OK to kill such beautiful and heartwarming animals how hard could it be to convince people that we'd be better off with a few less spammers?
No it's worse, this occurred before 9/11 which makes the white house claim of breaking the law to fight 9/11 terrorism a lie.
It's a good thing Bush has expanded the use of making things secret or else we might have enough evidence to impeach.
Saddam was a threat to the world because the US supported him.
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Saddam Hussein was our employee since 1959 when we used him to assasinate several high power individuals. Here is the rather longish UPI report.
Exclusive: Saddam key in early CIA plot
By Richard Sale
UPI Intelligence Correspondent
Published 4/10/2003 7:30 PM
U.S. forces in Baghdad might now be searching high and low for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but in the past Saddam was seen by U.S. intelligence services as a bulwark of anti-communism and they used him as their instrument for more than 40 years, according to former U.S. intelligence diplomats and intelligence officials.
United Press International has interviewed almost a dozen former U.S. diplomats, British scholars and former U.S. intelligence officials to piece together the following account. The CIA declined to comment on the report.
While many have thought that Saddam first became involved with U.S. intelligence agencies at the start of the September 1980 Iran-Iraq war, his first contacts with U.S. officials date back to 1959, when he was part of a CIA-authorized six-man squad tasked with assassinating then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
In July 1958, Qasim had overthrown the Iraqi monarchy in what one former U.S. diplomat, who asked not to be identified, described as "a horrible orgy of bloodshed."
According to current and former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For example, in the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan.
Little attention was paid to Qasim's bloody and conspiratorial regime until his sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959, an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official.
Washington watched in marked dismay as Qasim began to buy arms from the Soviet Union and put his own domestic communists into ministry positions of "real power," according to this official. The domestic instability of the country prompted CIA Director Allan Dulles to say publicly that Iraq was "the most dangerous spot in the world."
In the mid-1980s, Miles Copeland, a veteran CIA operative, told UPI the CIA had enjoyed "close ties" with Qasim's ruling Baath Party, just as it had close connections with the intelligence service of Egyptian leader Gamel Abd Nassar. In a recent public statement, Roger Morris, a former National Security Council staffer in the 1970s, confirmed this claim, saying that the CIA had chosen the authoritarian and anti-communist Baath Party "as its instrument."
According to another former senior State Department official, Saddam, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Qasim. According to this source, Saddam was installed in an apartment in Baghdad on al-Rashid Street directly opposite Qasim's office in Iraq's Ministry of Defense, to observe Qasim's movements.
Adel Darwish, Middle East expert and author of "Unholy Babylon," said the move was done "with full knowledge of the CIA," and that Saddam's CIA handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence. U.S. officials separately confirmed Darwish's account.
Darwish said that Saddam's paymaster was Capt. Abdel Maquid Farid, the assistant military attaché at the Egyptian Embassy who paid for the apartment from his own personal account. Three former senior U.S. officials have confirmed that this is accurate.
The assassination was set for Oct. 7, 1959, but it was completely botched. Accounts differ. One former CIA official said that the 22-year-old Saddam lost his nerve and began firing too soon, killing Qasim's driver and only wounding Qasim in the shoulder and arm. Darwish told UPI that one of the assassins had bullets that did not fit his gun and that anoth
Well, from what I've seen of Vista in action when most users are confronted with the message "Running this program will install a keyloger that will comprimise your security and turn your banking passwords over to organized chrime" will have them slapping that "Accept" button even before all the text has time to render to the screen.
The article does not say what the compromised system was running but I guess if it weren't windows then it whould be news.
Keyloggers would become useless for passwords theives if the password entry had another question that changed and would be inserted into the password eg. "What are the first three characters of your password, day you were born, last five characters of your passwd. Or a combination of of entering characters off the keyboard and clicking on them with a mouse or both.
Then you would be correct, the proof is in the Mollusk.
Well then historically speaking isn't it a good thing that Brittany Spears and Kevin Fedderline exist now. Oh, wait a second.
Thank you. I agree that copyright laws have been perverted and currently are unconstitutional until the "limited period" has been reestablished and the intent of the framers is restored to the law (protect the creator and encourage arts). Much of the obscure music that I love will never be published and will likely be lost forever thanks to the current system which only considers music valid if it makes a profit for some corporation.
I have a similar story, I'm not a musical protégée but I can now play tons of rock music. I've had guitars for forever and I always wanted to play but something was stopping me. I had stacks of Hal Lenoard books but I found the materal dead or too complex or just mind numbing, I'd only practice until I was board and put down the guitar for months. Scales and traditonal songs were not doing it for me.
It was not until I found a few simple tabs on the net that I became really interested. Tabs are simple outlines giving you only the basics of songs, not the entire song like a stack of sheet music does, some tabs show only a few notes and a part of the lyrics. This allowed me to quickly get a feel for the song and if it was simple enough I could play it, and I would. Suddenly music was fun unlike all the years before with "real" sheet music.
After a while I picked up the names of the chords, then I could tune my guitar on my own by ear! and then I could pick up songs listening to them on the radio. Now I play in a cheesy rock and roll band and I totally love it. I still have my IT career but only a few years after finding tabs I have a night job too.
Hal Leonard sells sheet music, I only want a simple song outline and a few tabs. They don't sell what I want and they are lobbying the GOV to make laws to force me to buy what they make. It is the same as if GM could get a law to prevent me from buying a hybrid Toyota because they are loosing money on big GM pickup trucks. I loose choice and I don't have what I want, what did they used to say about Soviet Russia?
And an excellent point you have. The program called "The News" is under no more obligation to present even a balanced view then it is to present total known lies. This entertainment show know as "The News" can put whatever they want on and call it news, there are no laws or standards, retractions are not mandatory. It's a F___ing free for all with supposed public airways.
How many lies has the White House been given a pass on? Nukes in Iraq is a big one, mobile chemical labs, Saddam=Bin Ladden, the troops were well equipped, It's mind numbing that I could fill a book right here and now with lies put on the news. Solution, don't watch it, educate your friends, promote truth and diversity.
Which I guess means that Nerds don't blindly swallow any lie set out from the White House. I think you'll find that Nerds encompass a wider range of thinking and not just the black and white you're used to so if by parisian you mean not susceptible to NeoCon lies you're right. But don't worry there must be a right wing blog somewhere you'd feel safer at. Perhaps you can pay your respects for Jerry while you're there.
Why "so interesting"? As nerds we do our own research and we don't fear on command, this Bush admin is crap, total crap and those of us who are living in the real world have paid a price for HIS mistakes while he has profited from them (like Haliburton stock). Have you flown anywhere or been to another country lately? Airports look like jails and the world uniformly hates Americans. Have you checked the value of the US dollar? Has poverty been reduced? Do you have any friends in the military who have died in the last four years? Have you had your research dollars reduced or eliminated? Have you needed the National Guard? Add that to all the favors done for the Saudis and now back at home it looks like the most qualified US attorneys, some who happen to have worked on felonies perpetuated by elected officials (remember The Dukester?) are fired mid-term (which is unusual since Bush appointed them in the first place) and it looks like the next election will be overseen by people who have graduated from the worst college in America and a few of the key attorneys come right from Karl Rove's office. Important enough for you?
AC? Grow a backbone.
Blue is the worst. Covering is the only option, and I cover all that are in my view. Even my new amps had bright blue LEDs and unless they were covered I was blinded from seeing the other equipment. They are too F ing bright. The narrow bandwidth might also add to the effect as I met people who can't see them, at all. Weird!
Is this a Windows only thing? The article does not say.
No, here's how the discussion goes.
Every other OS is laughing loudly because we've never had to rebuild entire systems from a stack of CDs, a really fast connection and a long list of 25 digit codes caused frequently and frequently caused from the ravages of one or more of the tens of thousands of viruses and trojans or what have you. Right now I know a number of people who are rebuilding servers and streaming audio servers from the attack of a virus. What are those systems? All of them Windows.
Windows is the only OS that I know that mimics organized religion.
The lowly parishioners blindly follow the priests. They genuflect on command and don't understand anything about the workings or its leaders. You can change them but you have to ride in on horse back and slaughter most of the village first. The Priests all have an interest in keeping things the way they are as they have invested an lifetime reading partial code or documentation only to find god is dead. The High Priests know how bad things are but have all signed NDAs and refuse to talk about it. And God? Enough about him.
--More people are forced to use Windows than any other operating system.
In the case of our comparison the larger engine = diesel not gas. Why does a Prius not use diesel? For that matter why are there so few diesel cars in North America? Every time I go to Europe I'm amazed how many cool diesel cars they get. Last time I saw a convertible Audi S4 diesel.
You are totally right about the torque statement. In '95 Hummer offered an optional gasoline engine. The big block sure sounded cool with the huge truck exhaust but because the engine needed to be revved higher to produce the same torque it really sucked gas compared to the diesel, especially off road. Also since storing gasoline is a lot more dangerous it had a smaller main fuel tank and no secondary tank. In '96 the option was removed.
I love my '93 Hummer. It has a ton of negatives for sure and I certainly would not recommend you commute to work in one but for what it is (read an off-road / work / go-anywhere / tow-anything vehicle) it is great and I'm lucky enough to be near a large supplier of Bio-Diesel which means Zero foreign oil usage. (btw I also have a VW TDi Jetta for normal getting around) Even a Prius can't say that.
I don't know why the parent is marked as insightful but anyway here goes.
If you look at the total manufacturing costs / operating life of the vehicle you get one element of the cost to the environment. Lets say that the Prius in TFA is calculated for an operational life of five years and the Hummer is calculated at 25 years (that what Hummer says), that's a 500% advantage to the Hummer. Say the Prius is one third the weight of a hummer that reduces the advantage to 167%. Now say the higher tech components in the Prius are twice as hazordus to the environment then the pig iron and steel used to make the hummer that might double the advantage. As you can see there are a lot of factors to make the Hummer appear greener if you read TFA you will notice there is no description as to what the weighting of these factors are, therefore the article is not very useful.
Personally I drive an '93 H1 Hummer, and I'd like to keep it for another ten years. It's not pretty and it's not very comfortable but it gets me and my gear where I want to go and in any kind of weather which is important around here. It is also the worst handling and slowest vehicle I've ever had at speed on the highway and at highway speed it sucks fuel at an amazing rate which is why I also have a VW TDi Jetta for around town. By the way I run both on Bio Diesel, try that in a Prius.
This is an American law served in America and only involving Americans. Sure you can't expect to police the world but we were told we had a law to protect us and now it's failed.
I usually hate to abdicate vigilantism but it looks like the law was written to protect criminals and I can see why when I look at the number of lawmakers on their way to prison. Maybe its time for real justice? Good advise might just be that if you find a spammer save yourself the trouble and just sneak up on them and blow them away like the sewer rats they are.
Is anyone really surprised that the law is broken?
I think Andy is a little more than a Apple advocate but more important he's a tech journalist that's been on the scene for over twenty years, reviewing high tech products and more, he uses them. A savvy and experienced person like him had to go to a MS help page to look up a problem he was having with a brand new unit and the answer said to go off and write a .dll as the fix. Reminds me of antique auto manuals that give instructions for rebuilding engines. I guess if you had one of the few cars around you had to learn how to fix them, like in the '70s, computer manuals often had long lessons on digital logic and pages of ttl schematics. I thought those days of bare knuckle computer experiences were gone but with the Retro Zune MS has recreated the feeling of the past. I think I know what multimedia content will be popular on a Lune. Lost and Screwed.
"Squirt?" I cringe and think of the sticky blue dress every time I hear that awful name but actually using it would even be worse because the quoted speed is slow. You'll only be able to squirt to one unit at a time and it almost takes as long to squirt a song as it does to play the song. As much as you'd like to squirt a room full of people you can't. Looking at it this way you'd be better off letting your friend plug into you player to hear the song. At least they would be able to hear the song right away. I do this all the time and it's sociable as well. "You like? I'll email it to you."
MOST IMPORTANT- MS does not believe their customers create anything. They are consumers. All the creators that MS is concerned about already have lawyers and have already been asked their opinions. Yours don't count, now get your credit card out, bend over and get back into line. This it the point you put Balmer and squirt together.
If I created my own content (which I do) and I used the Lune I could not even get my songs on it much less use the squirt to distribute my content. The squirt function is fixed not to recognize free content. Three plays and gone is not my agreement, wonder what focus group thought that one up?
This device should die as an example to manufacturers that we are not the sheep they expect us to be.
Please post the auction number ASAP.
The CGA colours were awful and limited, these machines had trouble showing full color images, something like if everything looked like an Andy Worhol. There were some good RGB dispays but these were rare and limited to professional uses with special cards and software, lots of software because the PC had no idea what a good color monitor was. I found both the early bw and gs Mac display to be sharp and percise and easier on the eyes. Later on when Mac went color they came out with a kick ass system that was usualy "plug and play" or at least "plug and hobble" but never "plug and nothing" ending up in a dip switch hell that a PC used to be. even reconizing multiple cards, the mac could take a belly full of different video cards. On weekends I used to move three to five monitors around one IIfx 16Mhz and play Hornet F16. I could even mix in a full page grey scale tilt for the dashboard display. That was better than any Dos/eary win PC of the time could do. Could even play networked when just networking on a PC was a total joke.
We did not call them PCs, they were Macs, they were also kind of greenish beige.
And you'll get rid of almost all spam targets too.
Or create a fund to short spamed stocks and use the profit to catch spammers.
This is a pretty big deal if you're right. I'd like to keep track of this, you got a blog?
Rumsfeld is an accessory to Saddam's war crimes for selling him poison gas and sat maps which allowed Saddam to kill his people. Remember this photo that was taken around the time of the offences? http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2003/02/rumsfeld-s addam.jpgpf8qfo.jpg
And Gates is a old Iran Contra criminal. How many of these old Iran Contra criminals can fit in the White House anyway?
M$ gives PC manufactures discounts for doing various things. Things like pre-installing Windoze on every PC sold gets one discount, Advertising the line "We recommend rebooting and reinstalling" er, "We recommend WinXP" gets you another discount, not advertising a competing OS and so on and so on. The more you play with M$ the cheaper your bulk per PC cost of OS becomes thus lowering your sticker price.
It's one of the many tactics a monopoly uses to maintain position and keep competitors away. By the way these agreements are secret and classified as "proprietary" so we don't really know if M$ has a discount for not allowing pre-installed linux or not.
By not providing you with an easy way to return that unused copy of Winblows (possibly another discount) it ensures that the manufactures are allowed to have their cake and eat it too. Every time you install linux on a pc without returning the unused M$ product you are contributing to the M$ fortunes and slowing the progress of linux. Sorry but to be lazy has a price too.
Three Cheers to our UK friend for sticking to his guns and encouraging others.
It was only one model of the iPod line and only those that were produced over a very limited time period. Unlike the problems with Windows which include EVERY version of Windows ever produced. What it says to me is if a major manufacturer can't maintain a clean windows machine what hope does the consumer have? Switch now.