RE: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Maureen
At 08:04 PM 3/25/03, Andy wrote: >That was just stupidity. Why we wanted to bail the French out of that >quadmire, I'll never understand. Tin and Tungsten. All war are about economics. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.c

Re: critical thinking

2003-03-25 Thread Dana Tierney
umm or if you are walking around at night maybe. I lived all around U of MD at different times and actually I did get robbed once walking up Queen's Chapel Road, further up the hill from there though Candace Cottrell writes: > I tend to think that folks in DC know when you aren't from there. Jus

Re: Open Question: Is the fighting in Iraq moral?

2003-03-25 Thread Dana Tierney
ok, BE a literalist :) You do say "Estimates were." I am asking who estimated? Bill Wheatley writes: > I dont have the word "they" in any of the sentences :) You're seeing things > again > - Original Message - > From: "Dana Tierney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: critical thinking

2003-03-25 Thread Dana Tierney
magnolia and cherry blossoms are pretty in the springtime, if you are in the right part of town. Check out upper Mass Ave near AU. Bill Wheatley writes: > 2 places that are shitholes i wouldn't mind see get nuked, DC & Miami. > We'd be better off without those 2 cities anyway. > Once DC is gone

Re: live video/Iraq

2003-03-25 Thread Dana Tierney
It's not old people porn. Prune belly syndrome is a congenital disorder characterized by lack of abdominal miscles, kidney abnormalities and a number of resulting problems. It IS a medical site, so if you are squeamish it might not be for you. Bill Wheatley writes: > What is prunebelly i wont got

Re: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread samcfug
The main reason we didn't was because at that point in time, the US was rabidly anti-communist. It was the McCarthy era, and therefore the US could not actually recognize and establish relations with a Communist regime. Another thing is that it seems that of the enemies of this US, the most rabid

RE: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Don't make me recirculate the history of French military victories! -Original Message- From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:36 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: RE: Empire-Building The French getting butt-kicked? Since when? :P - Original Message

RE: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Nick McClure
After World War I, a number of Vietnamese students went to Versailles to request support from Wilson and America to Force the French to give the same civil and political rights the French enjoyed in that area to the Vietnamese. Wilson rejected it and actually had them thrown out, He then create

Re: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Kwang Suh
The French getting butt-kicked? Since when? :P - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:25 PM Subject: Re: RE: Empire-Building > Even before the "domino effect", you had the French butt-kicked at Dien Bien > Phu

RE: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Yup, I had read something similar. I also read that Ho Chi Minh was seeking an alliance with the US, but that we shunned his efforts. In retrospect, we were s foolish. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:26 PM To:

Re: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread bbraver
Even before the "domino effect", you had the French butt-kicked at Dien Bien Phu, and the Geneva Accords (which the U.S. did _not_ sign), which specified the _temporary_ partitioning of Vietnam into North and South, with a DMZ. There were supposed to be national free elections within a specified

RE: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Andy Ousterhout
That was just stupidity. Why we wanted to bail the French out of that quadmire, I'll never understand. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 6:18 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: RE: Empire-Building I wonder if Vietnam was an

Re: RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread ksuh
I wonder if Vietnam was an example if "hard power", as he liked to call it. That war, after all, was a result of that administration's policies on containing the "domino effect". - Original Message - From: Andy Ousterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:59 pm Subject

RE: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Thanks. I like the fuller version better. If Powell wasn't so damn smart, he'd run for President. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:40 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Empire-Building http://www.snopes.com/politic

Re: Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread ksuh
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/powell.asp - Original Message - From: Andy Ousterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:21 pm Subject: Empire-Building > When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was > asked by the > Archbishop of Canterbury if ou

Empire-Building

2003-03-25 Thread Andy Ousterhout
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peri

Anyone want to be on Saddam's death?

2003-03-25 Thread Jacob
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RE: You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread Jacob
Wouldn't be funny if our politicians and other countries stop playing childish games like this crap... No, it wont. Because I would have nothing to laugh at if they stopped... At 04:54 PM 3/25/2003 -0600, you wrote: >Wouldn't be funny if Companies like Coca-Cola just pulled there items of >thei

RE: You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread cfhelp
Wouldn't be funny if Companies like Coca-Cola just pulled there items of their shelves and refused to restock them. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 4:13 PM To: CF-Community Subject: You can leave home without it now

Re: New Darwin award winnner

2003-03-25 Thread bbraver
It's a good thing they said he was killed by a shovel. Had they said he was called by a spade, ;-) -Ben > http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0324boykilled24-On.html > ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/ind

Re: You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread bbraver
Well, if I leave home without it (AmEx card), I guess I won't be going to Germany or France ... Don't wany a "Visa" for either of them. -Ben > http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=antiwar_movement > > ~| Archives:

Re: You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread Howie Hamlin
I wonder what would happen if Congressmen were stupid enough to rename French things that aren't even French...french fries, for instance. Oh...wait... - Original Message - From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:23

RE: You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread Jacob
Is Solaris 8 a SUN systems product? a US product? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.consumers-against-war.de&submit=Examine At 05:23 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: >This stuff is pretty funny, I wonder what would happen if the US started >to boycott German and Fren

RE: Job Recommendation..

2003-03-25 Thread Eric Dawson
But I feel the same way. I personally take my referals serious and believe, with conviction, the things I say on their behalf. Its tough to force someones elses words in there. But in fairness to Andre, I have never needed to write a general recommendation letter, the referals I have made are u

RE: You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread Nick McClure
This stuff is pretty funny, I wonder what would happen if the US started to boycott German and French made items. And in the end it is OK. We'll make up the lost revenue when we start opening up things in Iraq. Next thing you know, Wal-Mart in downtown Baghdad. All in a mater of time. > -Ori

You can leave home without it now...

2003-03-25 Thread Jacob
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New Darwin award winnner

2003-03-25 Thread Howie Hamlin
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Adam Osborne - Portable computer pioneer dies

2003-03-25 Thread Jerry Johnson
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/03/25/obit.osborne.ap/index.html Darn shame. I used to love to read about the new computers in Byte and Popular Computing, and he always had something new going. Jerry Johnson ~| Archives: h

RE: Best practice? CFTHROW

2003-03-25 Thread Nick McClure
Well it depends. I am a big fan of using try/catch/throw/finally statements, but I use them together. In this case, the developer may have wanted to ensure that the code in the Catch block was run on a DB error or an empty record set. To me this is a type of error. If I get to a page where a reco

RE: Collapse Table

2003-03-25 Thread Ian Skinner
Your mixing your name's and ID's. If you want to use document.all.tableA.sytle... you need to set the name property of the table to tableA. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:03 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Collapse Table I know there is a dynamic way to do this, and

live video/iraq

2003-03-25 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Raymond Camden wrote: >Damn - that feed is _very_ good - quality wise I mean. It is quite nice, but does not compare to the available multicast feeds. Take a look at http://www.firstmiletv.nl/ to see some *really* high quality stuff. I have seen some of the previews already, but next week they wi

RE: Best practice? CFTHROW

2003-03-25 Thread Ian Skinner
I'm not sure, would need some testing, but I may have thought of a valid reason for this code, maybe. The cfcatch does not have a type parameter, it is going to catch all errors not just the throw, isn't it? In that case it is serving multiple use and could be a good thing. But the trouble with

Re: Popular Uprising in Basra (Against Saddam)

2003-03-25 Thread SMR
yes, bush and putin talked on the phone today about it according to the news and putin is looking into it. - Original Message - From: "Lon Lentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:07 PM Subject: RE: Popular Uprising in Basra (Against

RE: Popular Uprising in Basra (Against Saddam)

2003-03-25 Thread Jacob
Search google for GPS jamming.. it is pretty simple to set up. Military is a little difficult though... At 02:07 PM 3/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: > Has there been anymore on our accusation that it was Russian > equipment? > >-Original Message- >From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sen

Re: Collapse Table

2003-03-25 Thread samcfug.org
Hello Randell, This will work