Al Qaeda Loses a Friend in Iraq

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Munn
But the US and Iraqi government don't gain an ally: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1620607,00.html I actually see this as progress. The guy still hates the Shiite government and wants US forces out, but eh actually sounds like he could see some progress. Now, his solution- put all

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Munn
this thread has gone on too long. I'm starting a new one. -- --- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~| ColdFusion MX7 by AdobeĀ® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http

Re: Good old fashioned advice from an unlikely source

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Munn
+100, LOL My idea of roughing it is the Holiday Inn. On 5/14/07, Gruss wrote: > > > Erika wrote: > > What's your "WHAT?" What's your "WHY?" You'll be surprised how easy it > is to > > satisfy your WHY, once you've figured out what it is. > > For example, when I was 20 I could sleep on a dirty fl

Sean or comparing features

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I can't decide which is funnier, Sean & crew or Dreamweaver/Breeze 'comparing' features. See it yourself in the Day 1 animation: http://webdu.nectarine.com.au/ Michael Dinowitz President: House of Fusion(http://www.houseoffusion.com) Publisher: Fusion Authority(http://www.fusionauthority.

Re: Good old fashioned advice from an unlikely source

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Erika wrote: > What's your "WHAT?" What's your "WHY?" You'll be surprised how easy it is to > satisfy your WHY, once you've figured out what it is. That is pretty good, something I could've used when I was younger. Something it doesn't address though is the lifestyle you want to have or at least

Good old fashioned advice from an unlikely source

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
Pud of f-ckedcompany.com fame: Hi Pud, I'm a single mom. I've got two kids with another on the way. I need to get back on the right track, but I've got almost no support from my family. I want to go back in school, but I don't even know where to begin. What's your advice? Anne 22 years old Ca

RE: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Adam Churvis
>>"...she swerves across the lane divider to avoid a *one inch depression* >>in the road!" >After rereading the above passage, I guess it is not true, but the first >pass through I pictured her serving over a 5"-6" curbed lane divider to >avoid the one inch depression. No, just the painted double

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:02 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: What could $456 billion buy. > > > > I don't see many American terrorists. Are you talking about the > school > > > shooting? > > > > The second largest terrori

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > Ok Homie I give, what's the foreign? > oops - "foreign policy" ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
Ok Homie I give, what's the foreign? On 5/14/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JimmyD wrote: > > So we invaded to stop a madman from getting wealthy? > > > > We've already determined that asking what the foreign is, is a > conversation killer. It's like asking Homer to talk philosoph

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
On 5/14/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check Syria? > > Okay. > > > > Done. Hate the food, no good TV and no WMDs. You're good. Quick too. > So we invaded to stop a madman from getting wealthy? > > Which argument are we on? Defense, humanitarian or social change? Cute, but y

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> JimmyD wrote: > So we invaded to stop a madman from getting wealthy? > We've already determined that asking what the foreign is, is a conversation killer. It's like asking Homer to talk philosophically about the Fibonacci Sequence. ~~

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:34 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: What could $456 billion buy. > > On 5/14/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A threat to our allies perhaps, I'll grant you that. Not to us. > > > No

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > As I have said all along, we invaded for several reasons But you also have to look at the reasons NOT to do something and weigh that against the benefits. CLEARLY, this administration didn't do that. The fact is that, no matter what the reasoning, it was appallingly flawed. No

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Dana Tierney
Bill Richardson looks like a genius? I don't know, what? >And I'm not only talking about prices, I'm talking about the overall >supply. What happens if the US if we can't even buy enough Oil >regardless of the price? ~| Create We

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Munn
As I have said all along, we invaded for several reasons, some of which were given, others of which were not given but were taken into consideration. Here are the few that come to mind: - WMD - now most everyone agrees there were no WMD, but at the time, almost everyone thought there were. When in

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
It usually happens when an alcoholic hits bottom. That might be were Iraq is now with al Qaeda being the booze. On 5/14/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Think of an alcoholic: You can give them money, support, love, > security, shelter, et al - and all of that won't do a thing until t

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
On 5/14/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A threat to our allies perhaps, I'll grant you that. Not to us. President Clinton explains Iraq strike: Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and arou

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Dana
he lives back east somewhere remember. > you've put 700 miles your truck in 2 1/2 months? That's not even a good > weekend. -- And no one knows the wheres or whys But something stirs and something tries And starts to climb toward the light ~~

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> tBone wrote: > I think we owe where we are today to the post 50's history we have of never > finishing any conflict we take part in. Where we disagree is that, for Iraq, you think we can "win" or "finish" as if there's some discrete objective that's preventing victory and we just need to kill it

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
I'm not saying we did, or that was the only reason, and I'm not only talking about Oil and profits for big Oil. And I'm not only talking about prices, I'm talking about the overall supply. What happens if the US if we can't even buy enough Oil regardless of the price? > -Original Message-

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: What could $456 billion buy. > > On 5/12/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The sad facts are that a) Iraq posed no actual threat to us, > > The

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Dana
so we invavded over oil prices after all? I am having a Dr. Phil moment here. Now, how's that working out for us? On 5/14/07, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Money, or Oil, or whatever you want to call it. > > Iraq had Oil and could have provided real money and funding. If they > were ab

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
Money, or Oil, or whatever you want to call it. Iraq had Oil and could have provided real money and funding. If they were able to get off of UN Sanctions think of the possibilities. If they were able to develop real WMD and provide them to people that did not like us, then think of what kind of po

RE: Wanna get yerself cured of "Brokeback Mountain"? $500,000, please.

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
Yeah, at 12, the teacher doesn't get the make that choice. If it were High School seniors that didn't require parental consent to see R-rated movies it would be one thing. Of course, I was traumatized seeing the movie. Not really because of the content, but it wasn't really that good. > -Orig

"It feels really strange to have a truck run over your head."

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Skinner
Now how many people do you think can say that! http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070514/D8P4CILG1.html I think the Giro company may have a new advertisement campaign! http://www.giro.com/region.html Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Dana
well, because he was secular and they are fundamentalists. An pro-choice lesbian who bikes to work to save the planet and spends her summers working for Greenpeace *might* sign up for a project of Ralph Reed's, but I personally consider that rather unlikely. Dana On 5/14/07, Robert Munn <[EMAIL P

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:59 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: What could $456 billion buy. > > You are taking an optimistic view of things, when you have no reason in > fact > to be optimistic. He had no love for I

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread Vivec
I don't think we'll ever really know what God said, or what happened way back then. So many wars, and so many different regimes. All of which seemed to pillage and burn all the books and learning of the time, keeping and then rewriting what the specific regime wanted. When the bible was put togeth

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Russ wrote: > He said inspired, not infallible. The books are still the product of humans. > Ok, then what did he inspire, when, and to whom? Adam and Eve? Cain? Abram? Not Jesus, because he specifically said you *shouldn't* write down his words. And why would God decided to inspire some p

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
I don't like your tone. This thread is done ;) > -Original Message- > From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > We've turned into weak irresponsible ninnies. > ~| ColdFusion MX7 by AdobeĀ® Dyncamically transform webc

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Man wrote books inspired by "God". The books are error prone. because... Humans are, by definition, imperfect. We know this because it says so in those error prone books inspired by "god" and written by man. Any chance that might have been a mistake and we are perfect after all? Russel Ma

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Loathe
I disagree. What makes a nation worthy of invasion and occupation is a matter of opinion, not fact. I think we owe where we are today to the post 50's history we have of never finishing any conflict we take part in. Korea, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Vietnam, Gulf War 1, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosov

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread Russel Madere
He said inspired, not infallible. The books are still the product of humans. >Yeah, but I always wonder about this part: "God inspired human authors >to compose sacred books." > >Really? Cause these books are sure aren't very clear, clearly come >from millennia of tales pre-writing, and clearly

RE: Need help setting background images in coldfusion

2007-05-14 Thread Loathe
Umm, most of that isn't coldfsuion, I don't know what it is, but it's not coldfusion. You have a custom tag call and a whole bunch of stuff in comments. -Original Message- From: Jatin H Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:04 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Need help

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread G Money
That's easy dude. God only provided the inspiration. After that, they are purely the result of human labor, which incurs all the biases and imperfections inherent in the human animal. You know, if you look at the big picture...maybe that's been the joke all along: Look at how many different interp

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
So their meetings could have been a way for Saddam to see how much of a threat they were to him or for him to focus their condemnation on common enemies like the US and its allies. On 5/14/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because of his statements on the topic and Al Qaeda's statements

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > http://www.retroactiveimpeachment.com/iraqthreat.html > http://www.zombo.com ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusi

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Larry Lyons
>You are taking an optimistic view of things, when you have no reason in fact >to be optimistic. He had no love for Iran, but how can you believe that he >would not have aligned himself with Al Qaeda? > >On 5/14/07, Dana wrote: > >-- >--- >Robert Munn >www.funkymojo.com Because of his

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> gMoney wrote: > Catholics usually get this right, to their credit. > Yeah, but I always wonder about this part: "God inspired human authors to compose sacred books." Really? Cause these books are sure aren't very clear, clearly come from millennia of tales pre-writing, and clearly were gathere

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
http://www.retroactiveimpeachment.com/iraqthreat.html On 5/14/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's tangential to the main point, but I don't agree. The > inspectors asked for 9 more months, and Bush implied that they were > idiots: He claimed that the Iraqis were moving the WMD so

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
I'm saying that he would have had a much harder time getting public support in the US if the inspectors had been there and Iraq had provided us the documentation required in the sanctions. > -Original Message- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:56 P

Re: Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread G Money
Catholics usually get this right, to their credit. On 5/14/07, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, Clarion Herald Column, May 5, 2007 > > > > First, biblical fundamentalism does not answer legitimate scientific > questions. We need to clarify what it t

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Nick wrote: > If Clinton had pressed Iraq to provide documentation and pressed Iraq to > allow the inspectors in Bush wouldn't have had any excuse to invade. > That's tangential to the main point, but I don't agree. The inspectors asked for 9 more months, and Bush implied that they were idiots:

Interesting view on science from a Catholic Bishop

2007-05-14 Thread Russel Madere
By Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, Clarion Herald Column, May 5, 2007 First, biblical fundamentalism does not answer legitimate scientific questions. We need to clarify what it truly means to accept the inspiration of Holy Scripture. God inspired human authors to compose sacred books. They pr

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Morphis
Yeah, we have multiple vehicles, for everyday travel (mainly to save on gas), I take a car. Although I did notice the truck gets pretty good gas mileage, > 20MPG (without the AC running). The truck's more for work (hauling, moving things, etc) On 5/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
If Clinton had pressed Iraq to provide documentation and pressed Iraq to allow the inspectors in Bush wouldn't have had any excuse to invade. > -Original Message- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It's the level of threat; they didn't justify invasion and occupation. > We

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bah hah ha ah .. Your joking right! you've put 700 miles your truck in 2 1/2 months? That's not even a good weekend. Take your little trip. Come home and change your oil. You may want to change your undies too. Before you leave check the following: Air Pressure in your tires. Water /

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > The Clinton admin constantly claimed they were a threat and even bombed them. > It's the level of threat; they didn't justify invasion and occupation. We know Clinton agreed with this because he didn't invade Iraq. We know Bush did invade Iraq (we'll never know why), and we know t

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Gruss Gott
> Erika wrote: > It is a legit question as far as changing the oil/fluids. you should always > have them checked before and after long trips, no matter what the mileage, > sort of a better safe than sorry thing. > Exactly. If it's new then all you're really doing is just making sure that everythi

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Sam
On 5/12/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The sad facts are that a) Iraq posed no actual threat to us, The Clinton admin constantly claimed they were a threat and even bombed them. http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272613219.shtml As Tenet told me over the phone Mond

Need help setting background images in coldfusion

2007-05-14 Thread Jatin H Patel
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Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Munn
You are taking an optimistic view of things, when you have no reason in fact to be optimistic. He had no love for Iran, but how can you believe that he would not have aligned himself with Al Qaeda? On 5/14/07, Dana wrote: > > Yes, and we have Bush to thank for this. You've heard the definition > o

RE: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Nick McClure
Oil is good for around 5k miles now, if it's been a while change it. Wal-Mart costs around $20 to change the oil. > -Original Message- > From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:08 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: question for the mechanically inclin

Re: Exchange Rates

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
Awesome! :D Good luck with it! ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoff

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
yeah yeah yeah ... come on! I'm still looking for the Milwaukee Beer can coming down ... It is a legit question as far as changing the oil/fluids. you should always have them checked before and after long trips, no matter what the mileage, sort of a better safe than sorry thing. It was the wear a

RE: Exchange Rates

2007-05-14 Thread James Smith
Actually, I just found one somewhere else that will do the job. http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html The European Central Bank provide an XML feed of the data and although it uses the Euro as the base rate it is simple to loop over them and convert it to a GBP rate. --

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Morphis
I only worry about it because I don't want to f**k up my truck. I thought it was a legit question. And I didn't want to change the oil before hand if I don't need to. I know some people who change it before and after long trips, I wasn't sure if 1200 miles constitutes a "long trip" And yeah, the 50

RE: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Skinner
"...she swerves across the lane divider to avoid a *one inch depression* in the road!" After rereading the above passage, I guess it is not true, but the first pass through I pictured her serving over a 5"-6" curbed lane divider to avoid the one inch depression. Confidentiality Notice: This me

RE: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Adam Churvis
Amen, Erika. It's like the woman in front of me driving this *enormous* SUV with giant wheels. It sits so high you could go bowling underneath it, and she swerves across the lane divider to avoid a *one inch depression* in the road! LMOA for more than a mile. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
I was thinking about the same thing Paul ... but, well ... I was thinking to myself - DAMN! Give me that truck! I know a cool 1200 mile trip I'd like to go on right now ... When I got my new truck years ago before they upped the mileage in between oil changes, I drove that sucker almost 10,000 mi

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Russel Madere
On an engine that new it should not be much. If it is all highway miles, that is easier on the engine than stop and go traffic miles. I would check the engine oil before you leave. It should have a blueish brown color with an oily sheen and have some body. Give it a sniff and it should smell

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Paul Ihrig
+DrWho slaps Greg around a bit with a large trout ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www

Re: Exchange Rates

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
You should contact them. They might do a discounted rate for only 5 currencies ... ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2

Re: question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
wow. people really worry about this? change the oil. check the tires. check the fluids. in fact just go have it all lubed. then drive and don't worry about it. The way people beat the CRAP out of their F150's around here - they'd laugh at you for this question. It's durable. It's sold to be used

question for the mechanically inclinded

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Morphis
I bought an F-150 brand new late last year (2006 model) and I plan on taking it on a 500 mile trip, probably drive a couple hundred miles over the course of a week and then drive 500 miles home 5 days after getting there. How much wear and tear will something like this cause on my truck? I don't dr

Music piracy crackdown nets college kids

2007-05-14 Thread Casey Dougall
This is a bunch of bull#$%@ on multiple levels. http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/43610153 1) The colleges didn't send a letter out to it's students stating it was handing over information about their network activity to the RIAA. Who are they going to send this information to next? 2) RIAA goes

Wierd Weekend

2007-05-14 Thread Russel Madere
I spent 41 hours babysitting a data migration from MS SQL to MySQL 5. I had some tasks that needed to be run about every 30 minutes or so, so no sleep. I did get a chance to reread most of the cyberpunk that William Gibson wrote (Burning Chrome, Neuromancer and Count Zero). Sleep deprivation,

Re: Iraqi Gov't Taking 2 Month Vacation

2007-05-14 Thread Dana
Amen to dat. On 5/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More than gladly. A request to leave absolves us of any responsibility > for what happens after we leave. > > Please request our departure. The sooner the better > > > > > > > > (2.) IS ASKING THE US TO LEAVE WITHIN 2 YEARS!

RE: Exchange Rates

2007-05-14 Thread James Smith
It appears they do, for US$540pa you can get a daily download of up to date prices of all 174 world currencies, however I need about 5 currencies and once a week would suffice as we only need a rough guide price. I will keep this one in the back of my mind for a fallback if I can't find a free one

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Dana
Yes, and we have Bush to thank for this. You've heard the definition of insanity right? Doing the same thing and expecting different results? > you are sorely mistaken. The Baathists are no longer even the big worry in > Iraq. Al Qaeda and Iran are the main players now -- And no one knows the wh

Re: 91 year-old Vet beaten, carjacked while onlookers watch and do nothing.

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is so wrong. But on the other hand, old timer, you're 91 years old. Some 22 year old a__hole is hitting you in the face. Why? because you are too stubborn to let go of the car door. Give the punk the car and save yourself 10 - 15 shots to the head. Jerry Johnson wrote: > So does anyone

Re: Iraqi Gov't Taking 2 Month Vacation

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More than gladly. A request to leave absolves us of any responsibility for what happens after we leave. Please request our departure. The sooner the better > > > (2.) IS ASKING THE US TO LEAVE WITHIN 2 YEARS! Ya know, cause things > are ok there: > > "Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Frida

RE: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:33 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: What could $456 billion buy. > > Jim Davis wrote: > > Dude put the crack pipe down. Boy I LOVE arguing both sides of an argument. ;^) > >> Sp

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread G Money
On 5/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the 1990's the USA out spent the next 10 countries combined in > military spending. Let me break that down for you. We spent more than > China, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Italy, South > Korea and Saudi Arabia com

Wanna get yerself cured of "Brokeback Mountain"? $500,000, please.

2007-05-14 Thread Jim Davis
Apparently a substitute teacher took it upon themselves to show "Brokeback Mountain" to students. One child was so traumatized that they're now suing for $500,000. http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2007/05 /13/662233.html (My position is that the teacher was wr

Re: What could $456 billion buy.

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Davis wrote: Dude put the crack pipe down. >> Spending on Iraq would still have occurred (nothing like this scale of course) but at this point (assuming our original invasion never occurred) it's very likely that we'd be militarily involved with Iraq on some level(very possibly with man

Re: Exchange Rates

2007-05-14 Thread Erika L. Walker
does xe.com have any api tools ... On 5/14/07, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a simple way to get exchange rates from anywhere, preferably > free? > I can get them from google with a query like > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%C2%A31+in+%E2%82%AC but I really need a > way t

RE: Translation Software

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Sorge
Well I found something called English Spanish Interpreter Standard from Work Magic Software. It is pretty good and I think that I figured out what the issue is. The emails I receive are from Peru and their Spanish is a little different, and the person I am talking to uses slang (as we all do). So w

RE: Translation Software

2007-05-14 Thread James Smith
What apps have you found so far? -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2007 23:13 To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Translation Software Well that would be nice except that I am translating emails and this could get pricey if I send them to a human a cou

RE: Centring stuff with CSS

2007-05-14 Thread James Smith
Assuming you mean "text-align:center" that will only work without the "float:left" and without the float there will be a gap introduced between each image. I have given up on a CSS only layout and stuck them into a table. -Original Message- From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Exchange Rates

2007-05-14 Thread James Smith
Is there a simple way to get exchange rates from anywhere, preferably free? I can get them from google with a query like http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%C2%A31+in+%E2%82%AC but I really need a way to do it where the results are returned in a simple machine readable format so I can use CF to retri