Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Dinowitz
> > > (I probably sound as aggressive as he does with the above.) > > Yes :) Israel's being attacked every day (literally) so any position that says peace through a strong defense sounds aggressive. I'm a firm believer in violence as a totally last resort, but if that last resort comes, you hold n

Re: Someone is trying to sue me

2007-12-25 Thread Dinner
On Dec 23, 2007 5:44 PM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll go make the popcorn. > *walks off to microwave* He cannot answer, lest his secret identity become known, thus putting his family in danger. Sheesh, that's like nom de plumb 101 or somethin'. Seriously tho, I've always sorta

Re: dvd player software

2007-12-25 Thread Dinner
On Dec 23, 2007 6:40 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it's worth Vista comes with DVD playback as do some Linux distros > (although most of those provide that via VLC). There's quite a few dvd players for Linux. Not bad, most of them. Course, the original decss-er was a *nix

Re: Early XMas at my house

2007-12-25 Thread Dinner
I spent the day before Christmas Eve filling sangwich baigs with sand and putting them in lines around the ancestrial home, so to speak (Luminarias). Got there in time on Christmas Eve to help finish sticking some candles in 'em and lighting 'em. Beautiful, as always. Family really rocks, ya kno

Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Dec 25, 2007 10:25 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not surprised in the least that they did not explain > what the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel is, how its an elected office Actually, they did. I just forgot until you mentioned it (having the specifics of 12 religious l

Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Dinowitz
These types of 'documentaries' tend to have their own destination already mapped out before they even begin. They want to show a certain side, a certain view. The way it looked to me is that they had no idea who a Jewish spiritual leader would be and just went for something that they could recogniz

Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Dec 25, 2007 2:57 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The chief Rabbi is only the chief Rabbi of Israel. It's a political > position, not a position that implies he's the chief of Rabayim or anything > of the sort. We don't have anything like that. Orthodox Judaism has no > central

Why are we still importing oil?

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Dinowitz
This story is over a year old and we have yet to hear about an American implementation of the technology. We were talking about advanced solar technology last week. What is stopping us from becoming energy independent? Are we that beholden to energy interests and countries? http://www.upi.com/Ener

Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Dinowitz
The chief Rabbi is only the chief Rabbi of Israel. It's a political position, not a position that implies he's the chief of Rabayim or anything of the sort. We don't have anything like that. Orthodox Judaism has no central 'chief' like the Pope, Dali Lama or the sort. Reform Judaism has a central b

Re: WebCam Suggestions?

2007-12-25 Thread Larry Lyons
JIm, At work we've been using these two network cameras at work to monitor lab equipment: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=365 http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=411 The second one is really interesting. It has a pan, tilt and zoom - 10X. regards, larry >I've been using the sam

Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Dec 24, 2007 9:59 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > busy busy time) I won't take my kids to it because my daughter gets > bothered by an 80's Care Bear movie and my son is 3 and wouldn't get > it. and the movie is PG-13 so I wouldn't advise taking younger children to see i

Re: free/inexpensive html editors/ftp software

2007-12-25 Thread Dana
Another random thought; here is an online version of photoshop in the works that may be enough to for you. Also, have you checked out Picasa? It will crop photos and do basic corrections. On 12/24/07, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't do anything serious in photoshop, just

Re: free/inexpensive html editors/ftp software

2007-12-25 Thread Dave l
Jim, Maybe we are talking about different ones, the only one I have tried in recent years is Corel® Painter™ X.. sorry my bad.. The article I had read that made me try it was in nov 07 issue of shutterbug, if anyone cares. I also didn't realize that the others can use ps plugins, that is pre

Re: Golden Compass

2007-12-25 Thread Larry Lyons
I'm right in the middle of the book right now. While the Magisterium is a thinly veiled version of the Catholic Church, it one that had a real serious departure from our system well before the Reformation. In fact its a very different world all together. I think those extremist religious types w

Re: free/inexpensive html editors/ftp software

2007-12-25 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
> also adobe lightroom is good for these things.. of course it can tweak > the crap out of an image but i can be simple enough for someone to > learn quickly. It's more of a pro tool but if you arent making layers > and masks and such it rocks. Well yeah, it's pretty nice too particularly if y