Mencken: Whitehouse Adorned By Moron

2004-12-04 Thread Gruss Gott
I was reminded of this tonight by someone and looked it up - kinda funny coming from Mencken! "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's de

Re: science bush style

2004-12-04 Thread dana tierney
Sam, I have been doing my best to ignore you and no doubt this makes me an asshole too. But here is one more attempt to explain things to you before I write you off again as a terminally closed mind. Discussion is great and I enjoy it. So apparently do you. But you seem to think that it suffices t

Re: feeling kinda foolish

2004-12-04 Thread dana tierney
you really can't beat that. To be fair, I should add that my own experience -- I think a four-month wait for a routine gyn appointment in London, after being told that I "shouldn't" need one, "a young girl like you"... are not at all recent. I should also note that my father, once he had had a hea

Re: currency conversion webservices

2004-12-04 Thread Critter
oh... nevermind ignore me.. i need more beer On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:26:00 -0500, Critter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone got any suggestions... am trying to run the webservice like this: > > x = > createObject("webservice","http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/CurrencyExchangeService.wsdl";); >

Re: currency conversion webservices

2004-12-04 Thread Critter
anyone got any suggestions... am trying to run the webservice like this: x = createObject("webservice","http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/CurrencyExchangeService.wsdl";); r = x.getRate("EURO","NOK"); but it's throwing a weird error... if i dump "X" i can see the getRate function... this w

Re: XBox games

2004-12-04 Thread Raymond Camden
Shrek 2 is good, but a bit quick to finish (well, for me ;) Spongebob Squarepants, Battle for Bikini Bottom is very, very highly recommended. It has an extreme amount of playtime and has simple and hard levels. On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:31:29 -0600, Phill B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to try

Re: BBC to air Springer musical

2004-12-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Never fear, it will never be broacast over here. Thanks to the FCC. sh*t larry On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:50:07 -0400, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > F***! BBC to air Springer musical > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/15099271?source=Daily%20Mail > > Jochem > > ~~~

BBC to air Springer musical

2004-12-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
F***! BBC to air Springer musical http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/15099271?source=Daily%20Mail Jochem ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: ht

Re: Japan previews robots that are 'driven' by humans.

2004-12-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Only 50 cal vulcans? They already have 20 and 40mm vulcans, why downgrade? larry On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:25:11 -0400, Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mechs with .50 caliber gatling guns and 6 inch thick armor can't be far away > ;-) > > No but seriously, these units look super cool. R

Re: currency conversion webservices

2004-12-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Any time. enjoy. larry On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:09:42 -0500, Critter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > danke sir > > > > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:53:33 -0500, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > whoops sorry, its http://www.xmethods.com/ > > > > Here's a listing of the currency exchange w

[Gaming] Sid Mier's Pirates

2004-12-04 Thread Angel Stewart
Just got Pirates! . So far, it is quite cool. An advance from the old version int erms of graphics for sure! I found the gameplay to be QUITE fast though, but that's just after about 15 minutes of playing ^_^ There certainly seems to be a lot to do, and there's also no 'tutorial'. The game just