Re: stealth conflicts

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Dinowitz
With the reaction I see from the world, I'd expect it to be the other way around. From the UN to Europe to the State Department to the media, there is not that many people showing Jews as being important, chosen, or even worth defending. Every time a Palestinian is killed, the Media declared it a

Re: stealth conflicts

2009-03-02 Thread Maureen
It's not a pretty answer. Basically the DRC conflict doesn't get mainstream media coverage because the victims are black Africans, and for the most part, people in US and Europe just don't care about what goes on in that part of the world. Israel gets more coverage because it's Israel, whose supp

Re: Misdirected Emails

2009-03-02 Thread Maureen
Yesterday, I got an email from a hosting company to a client complete with all of the login details for the guy's domain. He obviously mistyped his email address when he filled out the form. Not long ago, I got one from a women who had been out partying the night before with two guys. She desc

Re: stealth conflicts

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
The media covers what they think people will watch. Mass-murder in Africa is not really at the top of the list. The Rwandan conflict received coverage simply for the shocking brutality and quickness of it, otherwise we might never have even heard of it. The rest of the world has, in some sense, wr

stealth conflicts

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I just ran over this blog and let me warn you before hand, it mentions Israel. The goal of the blog is to highlight the number of massive conflicts going on in the world that are basically being ignored. The post that I saw used a simple, visual size comparison to show the differences in deaths be

Misdirected Emails

2009-03-02 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
How many of you have received? I seem to get at least one every odd moth or so... and some of them have been strange: * An invitation to an organizational meeting for a retirement home group. * A request for scheduled times for an executive business retreat. * An airline reservation that went to

Pink Dolphin!

2009-03-02 Thread Gruss Gott
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Re: So... convince me to keep my Xbox

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
It makes a good DVD player if nothing else. Ours has been gathering dust ever since we got the Wii. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Jim D wrote: > > The whole mess trying to downgrade my Live service just got me thinking... > why keep the thing around at all? The PS3 is making everybody happy a

So... convince me to keep my Xbox

2009-03-02 Thread Jim Davis
We're not deprived... we have all the major consoles and handhelds. But we haven't turned on the XBox in at least 9 months (ever since I finally finished "Mass Effect"). I'm on fourth unit (which is why I won't ever buy a multi-platform game on it no matter how much DLC they buy) and I just spen

Re: My tilt sucks

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
I have a tweaked Alltel ROM on mine right now, courtesy of xda-developers.com. Battery life is better but still sucks compared to Blackberry. I have a spare Blackberry World Edition sitting on a desk right now. I'm tempted to switch phones for a few days and give it a try. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at

RE: AGP video card bluescreens/reboots windows

2009-03-02 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Matthew Smith [mailto:chedders...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:20 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: AGP video card bluescreens/reboots windows > > > > Card is probably not workings *nod* *nod* Failing at a hardware level > > and causing blu

Re: My tilt sucks

2009-03-02 Thread Ray Champagne
I have that XV6800. Have you upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1? Did wonders for me with battery life. I still have to charge once a day, but I get about 50-60 text messages a day and have two email accounts on there always checking exchange. That being said, I want a damn Blackberry. A guy

Re: My tilt sucks

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
HTC Fuze or Blackberry Bold. Both are 3G. If you can stand not having a touch screen, Blackberry is an awesome phone. My wife's battery goes at least a week without a recharge. Meanwhle my poor HTC Titan (Verizon xv6800) needs a charge everyday. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:48 PM, LRS Scout wrote:

My tilt sucks

2009-03-02 Thread LRS Scout
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Re: Economic stimulus that works

2009-03-02 Thread denstar
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Robert Munn wrote: ... >> Obama set the stage?  Are you serious? =) > > > not entirely ;-) Thank goodness! =] >> You don't sweat the trashing of the 4th Amendment, habeas corpus, >> etc.. (Not that you were "down" with it, but I didn't see this >> reaction for th

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Scott Raley
At least I have power and internet.. half the county still doesn't.. ice took out a ton of tree's driving down the road... they got the roads clear but they were freezing in spots by 6:30.. -Original Message- From: Rastafari [mailto:rastaf...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:25

HA! Jindal's An Idiot

2009-03-02 Thread Gruss Gott
Saturday February 28, 2009, 8:00 AM BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's transportation department plans to request federal dollars for a New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger rail service from the same pot of railroad money in the president's economic stimulus package that Gov. Bobby Jindal criticized as un

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Dana
so this would not be the proper thread to complain about having to run the AC on the way over here? dang On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > In Minnesota, we call days like this "Tuesday". > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Rastafari wrote: >> >> YEAH we have had these on

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Rastafari
hahahha nice On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > In Minnesota, we call days like this "Tuesday". > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Rastafari wrote: >> >> YEAH we have had these on and off flurry showers and then back to cold >> and windy :) >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Ray Champagne
In Minnesota, we call days like this "Tuesday". On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Rastafari wrote: > > YEAH we have had these on and off flurry showers and then back to cold > and windy :) > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Scott Raley wrote: >> >> Its over again.. sun back out.. weather.com

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Rastafari
YEAH we have had these on and off flurry showers and then back to cold and windy :) On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > Its over again.. sun back out.. weather.com shows one more small cell to the > east going over the bay and one more just north east of Richmond that might

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Scott Raley
Its over again.. sun back out.. weather.com shows one more small cell to the east going over the bay and one more just north east of Richmond that might come close to us. -Original Message- From: Rastafari [mailto:rastaf...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:05 PM To: cf-community

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Rastafari
freshy freshy pow pow bro brahhh ;) On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > >> >> Its snowing again.. we had sun.. now its been gone for about 90 minutes and >> its snowing... where this come from.. >> > > Think I'll have to

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Scott Stroz
In the Eastern Panhandle of WV (about an hour or so Northwest of DC) we got nothing. Not even a dusting. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Larry Lyons wrote: > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/3322945542/sizes/l/ > > > >yeah baby!!! > > About 5 or 6 inches here in the western burbs. So

Re: Non-Delegation Warning - Do I need to do anything?

2009-03-02 Thread Justin Scott
Matthew Smith wrote: > I recently took over the website of a client. Part of the take over was > changing the name servers over to crystaltech where the site is hosted. We > just received this notification. Can I ignore it? What are the > ramifications of being dropped from their system? I

Re: Non-Delegation Warning - Do I need to do anything?

2009-03-02 Thread Dana
none as long as you are already set up at crystaltech. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > > I recently took over the website of a client. Part of the take over was > changing the name servers over to crystaltech where the site is hosted. We > just received this notificatio

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
Cool. My sister-in-law is coming in from New Hampshire today. Her flight to Baltimore was canceled, so she is flying through Chicago now. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Tony wrote: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/3322945542/sizes/l/ > >

Non-Delegation Warning - Do I need to do anything?

2009-03-02 Thread Matthew Smith
I recently took over the website of a client. Part of the take over was changing the name servers over to crystaltech where the site is hosted. We just received this notification. Can I ignore it? What are the ramifications of being dropped from their system? The message is from ZoneEdit,

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > Its snowing again.. we had sun.. now its been gone for about 90 minutes and > its snowing... where this come from.. > Think I'll have to go snowboarding tonight with our 1 inch + of fresh powWow Well I plan on snowboarding tonight anyway b

Re: Economic stimulus that works

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM, denstar wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > ... > > > > Obama is certainly setting the stage for it. > > > > Obama set the stage? Are you serious? =) not entirely ;-) > You don't sweat the trashing of the 4th Amendment, habeas cor

Re: Stuffing some more memory in my wife's presario laptop.

2009-03-02 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Unless the laptop is equipped with PCI-Express and even then it's questionable. Actually, there does appear to be a way to go from CardBus -> PCI Express but the cost may not be worth it http://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/ Hatton On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Ian Skinner wr

Re: Geithner Sucks.

2009-03-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > > In fairness to Obama, his options were limited and I think he was sold a > bill of goods on Geithner during a period of panic when everyone figured the > pick needed to be an insider who was up to speed on the situation. Yeah, true enough, but I gotta say I'm to the point wher

Re: Stuffing some more memory in my wife's presario laptop.

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Skinner
C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: >> Now, I wonder if it is possible to upgrade the graphics controller in a >> laptop? >> > > How's your SMT soldering skills? Non-existence. I have never soldered anything in my life. So no home graphic controller update eh. ~~

Re: Geithner Sucks.

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Munn
In fairness to Obama, his options were limited and I think he was sold a bill of goods on Geithner during a period of panic when everyone figured the pick needed to be an insider who was up to speed on the situation. Obama's job now is to figure out whether it will be more damaging to keep Geithne

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Scott Raley
Its snowing again.. we had sun.. now its been gone for about 90 minutes and its snowing... where this come from.. -Original Message- From: Rastafari [mailto:rastaf...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:14 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: snow day! no shit! hell wednesday will b

Geithner Sucks.

2009-03-02 Thread Gruss Gott
I'm trying real hard not to judge this dude 30 days in, but from his tax crap to his timid knowledge-poor press conferences to his downright scary history I can't figure out what Obama sees in this guy: Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- It was 2004 and Tim Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of

Re: Stuffing some more memory in my wife's presario laptop.

2009-03-02 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> Now, I wonder if it is possible to upgrade the graphics controller in a > laptop? How's your SMT soldering skills? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http:

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Jacob
It was 80 degrees here over the weekend. Rain on its way today. -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:tonyw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:54 AM To: cf-community Subject: snow day! http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/3322945542/sizes/l/ yeah baby!!!

Re: NOTHING is Right About This

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Grant
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Re: NOTHING is Right About This

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Grant
lol, not too sure I want to be involved in that type of battle. Here's hoping you win? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > > Grant wrote: > > > > Doing research Gruss? > > > > Knowledge. It's half the battle. > > ~~

Re: NOTHING is Right About This

2009-03-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > Knowledge.  It's half the battle. GI JOE! -Cameron PS: don't grab that down power line Mikey.. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release

Re: NOTHING is Right About This

2009-03-02 Thread Gruss Gott
> Grant wrote: > > Doing research Gruss? > Knowledge. It's half the battle. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Rastafari
no shit! hell wednesday will be slush city here, maybe thursday On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > > We had sleet too. I was out at 6:30 to run down to the school 2 miles away > and their parking lot was a sheet of ice. I went out around 8:30 this > morning since internet was

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Scott Raley
We had sleet too. I was out at 6:30 to run down to the school 2 miles away and their parking lot was a sheet of ice. I went out around 8:30 this morning since internet was out at the school and the main road was still white. 4 splows for the state passed me as they blew their horns for me to pull

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Rastafari
we are in the 6inch or so range here, some drifts are higher, but this isnt that bad... if it werent for the rainy, sleety and mucky under-snow here we'd be fine driving i think... however, we had a nice sheet of ice dropped prior to the 6 inches of snow... makes for not nice conditions, ESP. sinc

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Tony
possibly cam, some of my other ones are nearly artifact free, some arent... but i love pano's they are fun to make! tw On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > Usually using a photo stitching program.  Usually you can see the > lines where it's been stitched together.  That

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Scott Raley
How much did you get? Your over on Eastern Shore right? Our local NBC weatherwatcher reported 11.5" but the 40mph gusts are creating some nice tall drifts. -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:tonyw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:35 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: snow

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Ray Champagne
That's cool. One of my 2009 goals is to get better acquainted with camera tech. We are foregoing a regular vacation in favor of a bunch of long weekends to random cities (whatever is the best deal that particular weekend), and I really would like to get some good pics while visiting... On Mon,

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Yves Arsenault
We got snow here last night and were supposed to get alot today but there's been alot of freezing rain so far today... yuck. Yves Arsenault "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend". --Martin Luther King, Jr. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Larry Lyons wrote

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Skinner
Ray Champagne wrote: > All kidding about you no-snow-seeing bastards aside...how does one get > a panoramic shot? You have a lens on that thing to do that? > > He says, not knowing jack shit about cameras.. > Many digital cameras|image editing software allow you to take multiple shots pannin

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Cameron Childress
Usually using a photo stitching program. Usually you can see the lines where it's been stitched together. That one's pretty cleanly done. I **think** I can see the boundaries, but I'm not sure... The key to a good stitch is taking the photo in the same light/perspective and it helps if people

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Rastafari
those are the buzzards who inhabit the woods near us... i scare them off with fireworks nearly nightly, and they go away, i think after awhile they will get sick of it and stay the he away. @ray... i take multiple images and stitch them together using Photoshop CS3's Photomerge tool! its kil

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Larry Lyons
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/3322945542/sizes/l/ > >yeah baby!!! About 5 or 6 inches here in the western burbs. So I'm working from home today. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic rel

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Ray Champagne
All kidding about you no-snow-seeing bastards aside...how does one get a panoramic shot? You have a lens on that thing to do that? He says, not knowing jack shit about cameras... On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Tony wrote: > > hahaha, i know... here is another one... > > http://www.flickr.com/

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread G Money
OK dude, that's an awesome picture but.what the hell are those birds in the upper right hand corner of the pic? Maybe it's just the perspective, but they look HUGE...they look almost like the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Tony wrote: > > hahaha, i kno

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Tony
hahaha, i know... here is another one... http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/3323048780/sizes/l/ dude, they scraped my street once, and i bet we wont see another one at all... we'll have to wait for melt, like thursday and friday it will be nearly 60's hahhahaah weird weather. On Mon, Mar 2,

Re: AGP video card bluescreens/reboots windows

2009-03-02 Thread Matthew Smith
> Card is probably not workings *nod* *nod* Failing at a hardware level > and causing bluescreen. > What is the text on the bluescreen? Does it point to a driver or > something? The blue screen flashes for half a second then reboots. I didn't get a look at it. I guess I could try again to see

Re: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Tony wrote: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyweeg/3322945542/sizes/l/ > > yeah baby!!! > LOL @ Snow Day, You southerners. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dram

RE: snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Heh, amazingly enough we didn't even get a dusting at our house. Most that came down in this area came fell in ski country. -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:tonyw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:54 AM To: cf-community Subject: snow day! http://www.flickr.com/photos/t

snow day!

2009-03-02 Thread Tony
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Re: Stuffing some more memory in my wife's presario laptop.

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Skinner
Robert Munn wrote: > cfmunster at gmail. > > rob Now that I am at work and can read my email version of HOF, I can see who was talking to me. Thanks for the offer, but I was at a store yesterday and just grabbed the 1GB memory stick they had on sale for a dozen dollars. The price was wor

Re: A Technological MUST have.

2009-03-02 Thread Cameron Childress
I have three of those. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > > NSFW > > http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and drama

A Technological MUST have.

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Grant
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Re: Cheifs trade for Cassel, Vrabel

2009-03-02 Thread G Money
I'm not all that fired up about this. Vrabel has maybe a year or two left, MAYBE. He shined because he had talent around him. The Chiefs have little talent on defense. He's not the kind of talent who can transform a defense. He's an intelligent role player who wins with smarts and heart. That's k

Re: NOTHING is Right About This

2009-03-02 Thread Erika L. Walker
LOL! I was thinking something along those lines ... On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Michael Grant wrote: > > Doing research Gruss? > > > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date G

Re: NOTHING is Right About This

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Grant
Doing research Gruss? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf

Re: Economic stimulus that works

2009-03-02 Thread denstar
I honestly don't think of Rob as a faux conservative, if that wasn't clear. I do wonder sometimes about some stuff, but I like to tell myself he's just poking Gruss, tho I know it ain't so in every case. Guess one should put "conservative" in quotes anyways, as, well, it's gotten as bad as "libe