On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:48:38AM -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> specifically compared to Hussein, do the French really think the
> probability of the US attacking or subverting their country sometime in
> the future is greater than the dangers posed by Hussein? If they do assume
Culturally, probab
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:58:54PM +0100, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> For those interested, _Israel's Secret Weapon_ will be aired tomorrow
> (Monday) on BBC Two at the ungodly hour of 23:20 GMT (which, in my
> timezone, is the even more ungodly time of 00:20 hours).
That's what videos are for.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:53:13PM -, iaamoac wrote:
> struggle, both in terms of the stakes (the survival of western
> civilization) and the costs (tremendous sacrifice by almost all
I really don't think 'western civilization' is at stake here... kind of
overdramatising.
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Paul
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:14:27PM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
> I've also a smattering of Norweigian, and am fluent in ASL. Anyone else
Du snakker norsk? Jeg tror det var bare meg. :)
(Not that I can speak it very well at all. But a few words, yes.)
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Paul
How long is a piece of (char *)
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:34:10PM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
> > (Not that I can speak it very well at all. But a few words, yes.)
> Ja hetter Jeffrey. Ja ilkee mei bile an utenfor.
That doesn't look (to me) much like Norwegian, but I don't know whether
that's because it's Nynorsk (I've been
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 04:05:48PM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
> Hmmm.. I'm probably all turned around.. I have a "smattering" of vocab :D
> "My name is Jeffrey. I like my car and the outdoors."
To be honest, it looks to me more like Swedish, or possibly Danish. I'm
definitely no expert, tho
> the other list, because I'm not going to learn my place in
> order to stay on. I'll probably write one message first.
I don't think anyone was asking you to "learn your place"; there seems to be
an agreement amongst most of the people who've been trying to debate that
you keep changing subject
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:53:06PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> Strings". Ever since then, I've been curious about this piece "Nimrod".
> Can someone help me out on it?
http://www.kazaalite.com/
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Paul
Old chemists never die, they just reach equilibrium
Old programmers never die, they jus
At 17:39 27/03/2003 -0600, rob wrote:
Its an unnerving coincidence!
See, normally I'd say it was List Co-incidence working again, but we're on
the wrong list here...
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> You know, you're about the only person I've ever talked to who preferred
the
>GUP and later stuff to the 2112-ish period. I really like GUP and Power
At least, I think I'm another person in that camp. I don't actually have any
albums earlier than power windows, but from the tracks on "Differe
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:39:43PM +, Richard Baker wrote:
> I think the primary determinant of code readability isn't the language
> but the choice of variable and function names. I think that with a wise
While you're right, some languages tend to encourage clean code more than
others. C and
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:39:45PM -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> Hi back, Paul, welcome to the list! Wow, I'm just bowled over to see the
A slightly belated cheers :)
> Overall I found their later works lacking the grand scope and musical
> dexterity of their older albums. The post Power Windows
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:30:33PM -0600, The Fool wrote:
> Richard Treitz of Greensburg, state director of the group Ten Commandments
> Kentucky, said court rulings banning display of the commandments in public
> buildings "is invoking the curses of Almighty God."
I don't know about anyone else,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:19:17PM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
> Just out of curiosity -- once these examples are both compiled, will they
> take up an equivalent amount of space and/or take an equivalent amount of
> time to run?
These days, generally the version produced by the compiler will b
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:41:53PM -0600, The Fool wrote:
> Which one do you want to work with hundreds of times in a program, a. or
> b.?
Generally neither, I'd rather use a function instead of a macro...
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That would be the 3coms with the same-day delivery on ping responses?
-- Darren
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:50:43AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> And why isn't anyone singing the praises of Python in this thread?!
I did! Kind of.
> to be finished quickly. Java makes sense for enterprise projects that need
> to be deployed widely.
And isn't too speed critical :)
> C and C++
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:33:15PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
> device. Does the macrovision encoding get added to the signal by the
> output device?
Yes.
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Code is sexy! No, wait.. someone's scribbled their notes on this issue
of Playboy. Never mind.
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:33:15PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
> >
> I always thought that the macrovision stuff was in the recording device
> (ie the VCR/DVR) and the media stream itself, not in the playback
> device. Does the macrovision encoding get added to the signal by the
> output devi
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:10:57PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> "B&D"?
> Imagining Whips And Chains In The Computer Room Maru
Mm, kind of.
http://www.jargonfile.com/jargon/html/entry/bondage-and-discipline-language.html
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Paul
I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that eve
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:27:37PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> All I was saying is that some people are always going to criticize
> whoever's at the top simply because they are on top.
Sure, but that assumes that Java's at the top, which I'm not convinced by.
Certainly it's only appeared in
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 05:15:38PM -, Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
> avail. Since I have XP on there, replacing the processor or harddrive is
> going to cause additional grief but neither of us can work out why it keeps
> on crashing. Anyway.
The answer's in the question...
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Paul
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:48:01PM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> Has Iraq turned over its anthrax? nerve agents?
As far as I know, nobody's actually shown Iraq still *has* anthrax.
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Paul
> I need some good links about ip spoffing .
So, you need some good herking sites so you can become a
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:24:59AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> boxes. Though I would have loved to have had the work, I couldn't honestly
> come up with a strategy that made sense. Neither could anyone else,
> apparently, so Sun steered it in the direction it has gone.
There's a platform - MHP,
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:35:02AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> > Certainly it's only appeared in a couple of the job descriptions I've
> > looked at recently; C, C++, and Python have appeared more often.
> Perhaps you should look for a less interesting job... ;-)
Maybe that would explain it. :-)
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 05:46:11PM -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> I agree. Fine him $100 and close the books.
At which point, every loon goes out and buys a gun, 'cause they figure the
worst they'll get is a $100 fine. Nice one.
> The real problem here is the cop that investigated the crime. W
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:57:31PM -, Andrew Crystall wrote:
> More, someone trying to buy air tickets without ID should be investigated
> as security risk.
Why?
> You CANNOT have unknowns traveling on transport where a single disruptive
> passenger can endanger others so easily. If you WANT
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:21:28PM -0500, Gary L. Nunn wrote:
> So why is the UN and countries surrounding Korea not all over that? I
> can't help but think that a nuclear exchange on the Korean peninsula
> would take a bit more priority than Iraq?
Because North Korea can actually fight back effe
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:24:56AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> You have to understand the enviromental idiom concerning weapons over
> here. Gun ownership is common. So common in fact that every loon already
> has one, and they dont have to get a permit to do so. All that is required
> is a c
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:58:35AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> The fact that of all the Americans you have known, hardly any of them have
> died from gunshot wounds, and that should tell you something about the
> actual state of things here. I rarely see a firearm, and if I do its
True. (I'l
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:14:31AM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> wonder. Since that description fits the "war protesters" - otherwise
> known as the "pro-Saddam movement" - to a T, it's hardly unfair that they
Anti-war != pro-Saddam.
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> You are now the proud recipient of the Third Ann
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:36:51AM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> I was, to some extent, baiting Jeroen to prove a point. Where were these
> people a year ago? Two years ago? Five? Where was their concern for the
Where were the people now strongly pushing towards war that time ago? Trying
to
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> advocate for the war of whom I am aware thinks that this should be done
> _solely_ because it would be good for the people of Iraq. That's not
Fair enough.
> virtually indisputable. If someone claims to be arguing against the wa
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> How about this, just for a start?
> http://www.politicalgenius.com/people/antiwar/hitler3.jpg
I think interpreting that as anti-semitism is stretching things somewhat, to
be frank. I'd be more inclined to J's interpretation. If it
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:55:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I like The Goodies take on it all:
> I love to hear a dog in pain,
> or a chicken being run down by a train.
Or Tom Lehrer, "Poisoning Pigeons"..
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Paul
"Run little fishies! Run like the wind!" -- Steve McAndrewSmith, A.
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:09:10PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
> Out of curiosity, do you believe David Dukes is not racist?
No idea. Who's David Dukes?
(For that matter, who/what is ANSWER?)
--
Paul
I've always had a penchant for a sack full of wet mice, myself.
-- D. Joseph Creighton, in a.s
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:32:44PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
> He's a man who swears he's not racist, but is one of the best know American
> racists. IIRC, he was a Republican candidate for governor in Louisiana
> that even Strom Thurman disavowed.
Ah, okay. You learn something every day. :)
>
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:03:42PM -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> > I'd like to hear an anti-war proprosal for removing Saddam from power
> > in Iraq. I would very much support such a course if it sounded like it
> > had even a fair chance of success.
> Paul? Are you going to defend your statement wi
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:07:47AM -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> this. I'm sure there are many more. The point is that Bush has a bad
> reputation as as arrogant and cowboy for a reason, and that is bad for
> America and bad for the world. Bush needs to pay more attention to
> persuading people aro
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:04:04PM -, Andrew Crystall wrote:
> The "Church of Emacs", as I recall :P
Saint IgGNUcious. Or something like that.
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In the immortal words of Socrates, who said: 'I drank what?'
- C. Knight
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:12:27PM -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
> out of work. I recall some "commie pinko"-type remarks. I don't know if
> Stallman really thinks that way, but I found the guy's venom amusing.
Yes, he does think that. It's one of the things that we don't agree on - but
I find I do
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:32:57PM +, William T Goodall wrote:
> America could become "another African continent."
Only if it's moved slightly...
> Lindner, who has a master's degree in divinity, said later that he was
?! He's a part time god? What's that about?
> ``They don't believe tha
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:53:33PM -0600, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
> Shit! That bastard on S. Congress sold me some bad PC...
> Uh, never mind.
See, you should be getting your drugs from QVC...
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Paul
"... you haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where the gravity
has failed twic
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:41:39AM -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
> He was jailed on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and
> the prohibited use of weapons.
Menacing? It's a crime to threaten your computer? Uh-oh...
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