Re: LCD TV

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
If we're going to get really geeky, I don't like the onscreen menu system for the Westinghouse. I would fail them on usability. That leads to a whole line of inquiry about the transition to a digital world. When does the bar get sufficiently set by great user UI like the iPhone or Wii to make us d

Re: LCD TV

2008-12-06 Thread Maureen
I have this one: http://www.magnavox.com/index.cfm?event=main&cat_id=1&subcat_id=3&product=93# Bought it about a year ago for around 700 bucks, and I really like it. There's a 42 inch version. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Scott Raley -ITC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at to getting

Re: LCD TV

2008-12-06 Thread Ray Champagne
I second the Westinghouse. Had it for a couple years now and am pretty happy with the price and quality. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Westinghouse I got last year that I am very happy with. The main > things to look for are resolution, contras

Re: What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
wellI guess it's a good logo then :) On Dec 6, 2008, at 11:13 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: >> I keep seeing this logo for Salvation Army and can't help thinking >> it's a picture of somebody's butt with a Salvation Army Tat on it. > > Apparently the Salvation Army now lets individuals or gro

Re: What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
+1 from here. that's weird, in a child molester-weird kind of way. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:10 PM, C. Hatton wrote: > > make that 5. > > +2 from here > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic relea

Re: What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> I keep seeing this logo for Salvation Army and can't help thinking > it's a picture of somebody's butt with a Salvation Army Tat on it. Apparently the Salvation Army now lets individuals or groups sign up to sponsor their own virtual Kettle. If you go to BabyGotMac.com you'll see that logo with

Re: What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
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Re: What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread Charlie Griefer
make that 5. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Consensus here is that it is a butt. 4 people agree. > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I keep seeing this logo for Salvation Army and can't help thi

Re: What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Consensus here is that it is a butt. 4 people agree. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep seeing this logo for Salvation Army and can't help thinking > it's a picture of somebody's butt with a Salvation Army Tat on it. > > http://give.salvationar

What is this logo supposed to be?

2008-12-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I keep seeing this logo for Salvation Army and can't help thinking it's a picture of somebody's butt with a Salvation Army Tat on it. http://give.salvationarmyusa.org/site/TR?px=1415463&fr_id=1200&pg=personal -- You see I really have to tell you That it all gets so intense From my experience

Re: Juice behind bars

2008-12-06 Thread Scott Stroz
I cannot help but think he was actually convicted and sentenced for killing his wife and not really for the crime with which he was charged. I would find it hard to believe if some of the more liberal members of this list felt the same way, but are OK with it. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:35 PM, C. H

Re: Juice behind bars

2008-12-06 Thread Scott Stroz
My bad...saw it a few lines down... On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Keep reading the thread :) > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > Yeah, it's NV. No idea why I said CA. > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at

Re: Juice behind bars

2008-12-06 Thread Erika L. Walker
Keep reading the thread :) On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Yeah, it's NV. No idea why I said CA. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I thought that crime he was convicted of took place in Las Vegas? > >

Re: Juice behind bars

2008-12-06 Thread Erika L. Walker
Not that it's important, but I was curious for the straight up facts, but I can't two sources that say the same thing. Anyway.. here's the AP release: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iUNgbOr-2bnpFUX0MiII6je2CkRAD94TGPG80 ~~

Re: Juice behind bars

2008-12-06 Thread Scott Stroz
But I thought that crime he was convicted of took place in Las Vegas? On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The five could be the right number since apparently CA law requires at > least > a third of the sentence be served. > > Gosh, cant the news report the

Re: Juice behind bars

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
So what are you saying, The Juice has been squeezed? On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM, C. Hatton wrote: > OJ Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years! > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramat

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
LOL On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Scott wrote: > I agree. 8 years of Bush made a large porion of our popultion so stupid, > they feel Obama is our Savior. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramat

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Scott Stroz
I agree. 8 years of Bush made a large porion of our popultion so stupid, they feel Obama is our Savior. > > > 8 years of Bush has really either revealed or turned a large portion > of our population into fucking idiots. > > So I'm not sure, I guess. Were these people idiots first, > susceptible

Re: Amsterdam to Clean Up City

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
Yup, looks like a good thing overall. I love Amsterdam, but it's really gone through a phase of being really seedy in some areas. They seem to be copying successful drives in other cities to push out organized crime and the nastiness that goes with it. If you are a fan of historic urban architectur

Re: LCD TV

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
I have a Westinghouse I got last year that I am very happy with. The main things to look for are resolution, contrast (make sure you check black levels) and the number of inputs the system has. Mine was relatively cheap at the time because it only has a single HDMI input. One is all I need, so I'm

Re: LCD TV

2008-12-06 Thread denstar
I've been nothing but happy with our LG. Been plug'n my laptop into it and watching hi-res television... Beautiful picture-- VHSs, DVDs... everything looks fine. HD looks best, of course of course. It was about a grand, 6 months ago or so. 42", lots of inputs. No picture-in-picture, but that's

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
Which part? On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Dana wrote: > Really. Do you honestly think that is true or are you hiding behind > some sort of sophistry like he *personally* has not done that? Or not > exactly that? ~| Adobe® Col

LCD TV

2008-12-06 Thread Scott Raley -ITC
I'm looking at to getting an LCD TV for wife for xmas. I don't subscribe to consumer reports anymore so I can't see whats going on. I know a lot of people talk about Aquos and Sony.. What about Toshiba and Maganavox? Heck I've had a Sanya 32" tv for 11 years and its in the kids room now still kick

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Dana
Really. Do you honestly think that is true or are you hiding behind some sort of sophistry like he *personally* has not done that? Or not exactly that? On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, slavery is an entirely separate issue. What we are talking about

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Dana
That may be true. But Jose Padilla was supposedly plotting to detonate a dirty bomb, and that charge turned out to be based on no evidence. If what you say is true then what is the problem with trying him on criminal charges? If he gets a fair trial and is found guilty then he can be placed in the

Re: For Gruss - B'tSalem missed one (again)

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
No, I'm not defending any murder and not only was there no murder, we have no clue as to what really happened in the video. We can look at it and see that its a partial and edited so we know nothing other than a mob was threatening 2 men who pulled weapons. We're told what to think of the actions b

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Gruss wrote: > > > > > 8 years of Bush has really either revealed or turned a large portion > of our population into fucking idiots. > > So I'm not sure, I guess. Were these people idiots first, > susceptible to becoming idiots? > > What do you think? > I think

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
First, slavery is an entirely separate issue. What we are talking about here is whether the President can, when there is an existential threat to the nation, limit individual rights including habeus corpus in the interest of protecting the country. Bush has never employed this power, for instance,

Re: For Gruss - B'tSalem missed one (again)

2008-12-06 Thread Vivec
What does this have to do with the post made previously? Are you defending murder because it is a Jew murdering a Palestinian? 2008/12/6 Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wonder if the woman was waving a gun around or traveling on a road owned > by the attackers. Or maybe the attackers fe

For Gruss - B'tSalem missed one (again)

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I wonder if the woman was waving a gun around or traveling on a road owned by the attackers. Or maybe the attackers felt threatened by her. Or or or. I wonder what civil rights group is going to protest in her favor. And should I post the daily attacks like this that you don't see because they are

Re: Jewish Settler Guns Down Palestinians

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128715 (IsraelNN.com) News coverage of the violent expulsion of Jews from Peace House is also showing a video of an incident which immediately followed the expulsion, in which a Jew is seen firing a handgun at an Arab in Hevron and then is pelted by

Re: Jewish Settler Guns Down Palestinians

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JJ wrote: > > I cannot comment on what happened before or after this, but the > aggressors > > in this case definitely appear to be the guy without the gun. > > > > First off, the guy with the gun didn't seem to be threaten

Re: Jewish Settler Guns Down Palestinians

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
For shooting in the air when threatened by a mob? I guess Israel has a different law where stoning someone is not a crime while shooting in the air in self defense is. > > I'm going to. > > I'm sure of the law in Israel, but I hope that shooter is charged and > convicted of attempted murder in the

Re: Jewish Settler Guns Down Palestinians

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
A group known to forge their statistics and manipulate video shows a portion of video which looks like 2 people (not settlers, not criminals, not colonists, people with legal homes) are threatening innocent arabs. Nothing about them being attacked with rocks before. Nothing about them shooting in t

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> I don't agree with the bailouts either, but I am slightly more > outraged over the concept that it is ok to assert that someone is a > terrorist and lock him up for years on end. That could be me; it could > be you. Once you say it is ok to do that you are relying on government > officials to hav

Re: Amsterdam to Clean Up City

2008-12-06 Thread Dana
In reading the article, it seems as though they are not doing away with these things... just limiting them to where they have historically been. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:15 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> NOoooOoooo!! >> >> The HORROR! THE HORROR! >> >> WHYYyy?

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Dana
I don't agree with the bailouts either, but I am slightly more outraged over the concept that it is ok to assert that someone is a terrorist and lock him up for years on end. That could be me; it could be you. Once you say it is ok to do that you are relying on government officials to have a sense

Re: Amsterdam to Clean Up City

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> NOoooOoooo!! > > The HORROR! THE HORROR! > > WHYYyy?? > > *sob* *sob* In reading the article - it's not about morality or religion, it's about organized crime. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most impo

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> point is... do you think this should be happening? It might have been > upheld in the past but Ronald Reagan subsequently apologized for it on > behaldf of the US. *SLAVERY* was upheld in the past! Point is, it doesn't make two bits difference what I think (though for the record I think both sl

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Dana
point is... do you think this should be happening? It might have been upheld in the past but Ronald Reagan subsequently apologized for it on behaldf of the US. *SLAVERY* was upheld in the past! On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Abe Lincoln did the

Re: Amsterdam to Clean Up City

2008-12-06 Thread Vivec
NOoooOoooo!! The HORROR! THE HORROR! WHYYyy?? *sob* *sob* 2008/12/6 C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/06/world/main4651958.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4651958 > > Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and > ma

Amsterdam to Clean Up City

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/06/world/main4651958.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4651958 Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized crime out of the tourist haven. The city is targ

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Vivec
Yes, and that was a massive human rights violation which the US apologised for. That doesn't quite help the case that you're trying to make. 2008/12/6 C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment >This power was used to declare that all peop

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
>> Abe Lincoln did the same thing. > > Dude. That shit was over a hundred years ago and I sure as hell don't > give a fuck. Okay, something more recent then - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 90

Re: Jewish Settler Guns Down Palestinians

2008-12-06 Thread Gruss Gott
> JJ wrote: > My point is that without context, which I do not have even with all of the > reading I have tried to do), I cannot fault either side for their actions. > I'm going to. I'm sure of the law in Israel, but I hope that shooter is charged and convicted of attempted murder in the 1st degr

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > Abe Lincoln did the same thing. Dude. That shit was over a hundred years ago and I sure as hell don't give a fuck. ' What I do give fuck about - and you should too - is if the government can hold me indefinitely without trial or process and the President you voted for twice says

Re: Do I Lose Sleep Over Bush? Hell Yes.

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Munn
Abe Lincoln did the same thing. According to your logic, Abe Lincoln hated America, and you hate Abe Lincoln. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Gruss wrote: > Here's one of a many reasons why: > > "But in the most recent decision, the US Court of Appeals for the 4th > Circuit ruled 5-4 that the pre

Re: Jewish Settler Guns Down Palestinians

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry Johnson
It looked to me like they were _all_ on a street. Are streets not public there? was that a private road? (I don't know this answer) I would not have been waving the gun around, which is a stupid thing to do. But if I had a gun, and was accosted in such a way by these 5 guys, with more behind them