Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > As for evidence, we discovered the identities of members of the terror > cell > > that was planning to carry out the second wave attacks and we thwarted > the > > plot- all because we waterboarded KSM and he broke. > > > > The

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > As for evidence, we discovered the identities of members of the terror cell > that was planning to carry out the second wave attacks and we thwarted the > plot- all because we waterboarded KSM and he broke. > The Bush admin lied to you over and over for 8 years and yet, for some

Re: dust-up at GE shareholder meeting over MSNBC leftward tilt

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > How in the world is > this guy still CEO? > They've got $50 billion in cash on hand and made $20 billion last year. And that's WITH GE capital which has $650 billion on its balance sheet. And despite the sub-prime meltdown, GE is *claiming* little exposure and they've got one

Re: In no way related to any other post

2009-04-22 Thread Yves Arsenault
That game was neat. Yves Arsenault "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend". --Martin Luther King, Jr. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > I visit this site on a fairly regular basis and sometimes they have

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
Ian was not very specific as to his purpose. it's cool that people came up with so many different ways of accomplishing the task. On 4/22/09, Michael Grant wrote: > > Though I would think the time to download, install, learn and write the > regex would go against the original request of "How wou

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Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
this just touches a nerve with me whenever I see people who use language X to do everything because all they know is language X (I'm not directing this at you)..mainly it's the VB guy that I work who really irks me in this way :) On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > T

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Though I would think the time to download, install, learn and write the regex would go against the original request of "How would you go about this quickly." I guess I just assummed he wanted it done right away vs. the best way. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox < zaph0d.b33bl3

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I remember saying Islam supports the medieval ideal of beheading and that some Muslims use their holy book to do this while the same basic text in a Christian holy book will not result in the same type of action. Islam the religion has not really changed with the times and still supports ideas and

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I didn't miss the point at all. If you would use something like grep (or astrogrep for win32) you'd get the job done as quick or quicker. You'd also have gained knowledge on how to use another tool. Next time you were presented with a similar challenge, you'd be able to pick the correct

In no way related to any other post

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I visit this site on a fairly regular basis and sometimes they have super sick games. This is a perfect example. The goal? Kill yourself in 5 minutes. Who knew death took so much effort and imagination. http://www.kongregate.com/games/AdultSwimGames/five-minutes-to-kill-yourself Insulting the Chr

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Ok Mike, I'm gonna just give up. What you define as "something negative to say about something in some way connected to Islam" I remember as much more direct statements about Muslims not advancing out of the middle ages and still using their religious texts as justification for beheading etc. So I

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
My criteria is time and interest. I literally have over 100 posts in draft that I was going to send to the list at one time or another that were interesting or relevant to what was being discussed but I never got back to. Another criteria is if something potentially impacts me in a way that I like

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Larry wrote: > > > You really ought to stop watching 24. It has little to do with reality. > I have not seen it and I know next to nothing about it. > >I take it you would rather have seen downtown LA destroyed. Or are you > >suggesting that some miracle, a deu

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Lyons
>> >> >> While the apologists claim that there were no trauma from the SERE training >> volunteers, there is now enough research out to say otherwise. > > >Irrelevant to the current question. No its very relevant, that's one of the justfications given in those memos for using torture. One of the

Re: dust-up at GE shareholder meeting over MSNBC leftward tilt

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > > > You know things are bad when your major TV news network is getting beat > up > > by the Hollywood media. Immelt is the worst CEO in the history of GE. > > Wow. On what planet does THAT comment make sense? > > What the hell

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Maureen
I'd just import into a spreadsheet as fixed width fields and use the find function. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > Michael Grant wrote: >> Ok, well this made me want to check it out so I did. I dumped one of my >> database tables with 149,517 records into a flat text fil

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Gruss G wrote: > > > Bottom line is, government has called you to service. You want to sit > on couch, that's fine, but then stop bitching about it. > What the government ought to be doing is calling people to work and produce and build the private economy. As

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Ok, Michael. Just answer me this. With all the news in the world every day, what drives you to post the things you post? What's your selection criteria? On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > This topic re: the Taliban? So was it the snarky com

Re: septoplasty

2009-04-22 Thread Maureen
It helps. I spend several hours in the MRI machine last week. Relaxed and pain free. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Vivec wrote: > > I'm wondering what would happen in all these painful and unpleasant > procedures if one were to take a puff or two before hand? ~~~

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
I don't ignore the facts. I just don't use them to give me a warm fuzzy about being a bigot. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > > Grant wrote: > > > > C'mon Mike. I was born at night, but not last night. There's no shortage > of > > previous posts for me to draw my conclusio

Re: dust-up at GE shareholder meeting over MSNBC leftward tilt

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > > You know things are bad when your major TV news network is getting beat up > by the Hollywood media. Immelt is the worst CEO in the history of GE. Wow. On what planet does THAT comment make sense? What the hell are you talking about?

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > So you would have rather seen Los Angeles destroyed as well, got it. > Wouldn't you? Or is you one o them Hollywood limousine liberals? Hollywood lover! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most importan

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > Oh, it's like that, is it? And what are you going to do, Gruss, trade down > to a smaller car to save gas? lol. > How would that fix government? But, actually I did trade down to a smaller car, but that's because we can't afford a sports car for me anymore. But my theory has a

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
This topic re: the Taliban? So was it the snarky comment about moderate Taliban that did the harm or the idea that they may one day take over Pakistan? Or was it that I posted it rather than someone else? On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > For the record: I don't seriousl

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> Grant wrote: > > C'mon Mike. I was born at night, but not last night. There's no shortage of > previous posts for me to draw my conclusions from. It's not like you ever > post a single shred of news that refers to anyone Muslim in a positive > light. Michael, you really have to back off the cri

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
For the record: I don't seriously think you'd try to kill anyone, the remote line was a gaff. However it does seem that you do more harm than good when it comes to this topic. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Wow, I never knew you had

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > That is the lamest analogy I have heard in awhile. I have already > provided > > an outline of what I would like to see the Republican Party support > > Yes, Robert we know you're a great talker but when it comes to action >

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > I am saddened by the fact that you would have rather seen Los Angeles > > destroyed. > > > > Oh for f's sake dude. > So you would have rather seen Los Angeles destroyed as well, got it. ~

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > That is the lamest analogy I have heard in awhile. I have already provided > an outline of what I would like to see the Republican Party support Yes, Robert we know you're a great talker but when it comes to action you can serve best from your couch. You've explained that befor

dust-up at GE shareholder meeting over MSNBC leftward tilt

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
You know things are bad when your major TV news network is getting beat up by the Hollywood media. Immelt is the worst CEO in the history of GE. He should be flogged and run out of town on a rail. What a shame. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i888016761f9ec824f862a5c265

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > I am saddened by the fact that you would have rather seen Los Angeles > destroyed. > Oh for f's sake dude. (1.) Torture is ethically and morally wrong. (2.) It's illegal. (3.) It's empirically proven as ineffective. That's it. Wrong, illegal, ineffective. But, with your atti

Re: Wow! This Logo RULES!

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
You anti-Christian you! On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > bwahaha. > a picture is worth a thousand words, or lawsuits, or whatever. > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important a

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Wow, I never knew you had such a wrong and biased opinion of me. Murderous even, but mistaken. If you check you'll find both positive and negative posts that have some reference to Muslims. I remember one that was specifically about the Indian Muslim community condemning the Mumbai attack and pro

Re: Wow! This Logo RULES!

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
bwahaha. a picture is worth a thousand words, or lawsuits, or whatever. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > > http://www.afrojacks.com/pics/4-pics/2840-the-most-inappropriate-logo-of-all-time > > Oddly ... this 1970s logo for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth >

Wow! This Logo RULES!

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
http://www.afrojacks.com/pics/4-pics/2840-the-most-inappropriate-logo-of-all-time Oddly ... this 1970s logo for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission my be NSFW ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most import

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
C'mon Mike. I was born at night, but not last night. There's no shortage of previous posts for me to draw my conclusions from. It's not like you ever post a single shred of news that refers to anyone Muslim in a positive light. You obviously have your own agenda and that's cool. I just feel it's t

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Ya, when I saw "gorilla army" I literally laughed out loud. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael D wrote: > > > > > Lets see. We have a country where we are in a defensive position against > a > > gorilla army. > > > > Where is this

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:47 PM, denstar wrote: > > > And I see that you feel the pros outweigh the cons. > And I'm saddened by that. > At least in this context. =] > I am saddened by the fact that you would have rather seen Los Angeles destroyed. ~~~

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I take it that anytime I mention the Taliban you assume it's just me bitching about Muslims? I know I didn't say a thing about Muslims in my post, just the Taliban. I know I didn't say anything about religious law or practices. I even know I didn't say this was Muslim on Muslim violence. I made a

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Larry wrote: > > > While the apologists claim that there were no trauma from the SERE training > volunteers, there is now enough research out to say otherwise. Irrelevant to the current question. > > Wait a second you're saying that torture is morally justifiabl

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:17 PM, denstar wrote: > Nope, that was for you, but I was talking about the Tea Party stuphs, > not you're acknowledged pre-existing condition.  =] Okay ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most i

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Well. My way: stop fear mongering = does nothing to change the outcome in Pakistan. Your way: bitch about Muslims = does nothing to change the outcome in Pakistan. I choose my way. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Fear mongering? So we sho

Re: David Kellerman found dead, alleged suicide

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
yeah, that's the latest one i heard of. crazy times. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Erika L. wrote: > > I think there was another person on the news today who did do that. His > company failed and he was almost half a million in debt. Killed his entire > family, tried to decapitate them for s

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Michael D wrote: > > Lets see. We have a country where we are in a defensive position against a > gorilla army. Where is this gorilla army you speak of? Death to the apes! // doing my best Charlton Heston impression ~~

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > The question is not getting government to work, but figuring out what > > government can do without completely f#cking it up. > > > > Translation: "I have flat feet, so I cannot serve" > > When the call came my newlywed Grand

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Gruss G wrote: > > > CamChi wrote: > > about. Government waste has existed my entire adult life, and I have > > been a proponent of eliminating it my entire adult life. > > Take your fight to K street cause that's where most of it is coming from. > Take your fi

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> CamChi wrote: > about.  Government waste has existed my entire adult life, and I have > been a proponent of eliminating it my entire adult life. Take your fight to K street cause that's where most of it is coming from. The military has a ton of blatant grift too. Everything from making an f-2

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Fear mongering? So we should ignore anti-human extremists who are slowly taking over an ally country that happens to have nuclear weapons? On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > Does anyone else get the feeling of Deja Vu? > > *yawns at the fear mongering* ~

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
> > Then why are we sending MORE troops in there? Because it's still an active battlefield and they're sending in more troops. We kicked the Taliban out and they both returned on their own and were actually invited back by the Afgani government. OK, only the moderate ones were invited back > Wh

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Oh, fixed width? heck, that probably makes it even easier. Just use Mid() to get at your value instead of list get at. In fact that even makes a better argument for the regex. the tens of thousands of records is no biggie either. My test bed was 150k. Just loop it with either a list of the filena

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
We aren't building an enterprise app here, we're dealing with a one-off that's localized. If you can whip up a quick cf process in a couple lines of code that does the trick IMO it's better than a scalable "proper" tool. Look at it this way: What's your boss going to prefer? The "right way" that

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread denstar
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM, denstar wrote: >> The real shame, is that when it's for a "war for peace" people are >> cool with spending their child's money, but if it's for >> infrastructure, "oh, we're sooo in debt now! REFORM!

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread denstar
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Larry Lyons wrote: ... > I hope to the odd sods and ghods that this is not the case. I choose to believe that the silent majority has their heads screwed on right-- but by definition, I have no solid data to back this choice (or belief, as it were). -- The liber

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread denstar
In all seriousness, when I've had to do this, I use mysql's load data infile stuff http://mysql.biz.net.id/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html Super fast, and you can do auditing stuphs pretty easy, if you need, like, a history of things, or some-such. I'm sure most other DBs of any merit have sim

Re: David Kellerman found dead, alleged suicide

2009-04-22 Thread Erika L. Walker
I think there was another person on the news today who did do that. His company failed and he was almost half a million in debt. Killed his entire family, tried to decapitate them for some reason, then killed himself, leaving behind 4 suicide notes. :( On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Robert Mun

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Lyons
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Larry Lyons > wrote: > > Actually because of the shrubbery's f*ckup the Taliban does rule a > lot of Afghanistan again. Most of the border provinces are under the > effective command of the Taliban or their allies. Kandahar, Helmund > and Paktia to name a f

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM, denstar wrote: > The real shame, is that when it's for a "war for peace" people are > cool with spending their child's money, but if it's for > infrastructure, "oh, we're sooo in debt now! REFORM! &c". This has absolutely nothing at all to do with what I was

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Lyons
>> >> Please, trying to justify it by (note, it's the people who did it >> saying it was "worth it", no bias there, right? Like, why would a CEO >> of a company lie about the state of his company?) saying it "got >> results" is just plain lame. >> > >Personally, I will take the tradeoff of havin

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread denstar
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: ... > > It's a real shame that a totally reasonable and justifiable protest > against the tax system was hijacked and turned into an anti-Obama > rally. The real shame, is that when it's for a "war for peace" people are cool with spending

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Jerry Johnson
I have actually toyed a couple of times with finding a project or information pool, and coding it up in cf. Of course, now I dream of coding it in Wordpress and php. wish i could do both. The things I have thought of: (actually, suggested by a coworker and his wife) - school system student/parent

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread denstar
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, denstar  wrote: > >> >>  Please, trying to justify it by (note, it's the people who did it >> saying it was "worth it", no bias there, right?  Like, why would a CEO >> of a company lie about the state of his

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Ian Skinner
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > IMHO, using an application server on a single user to parse text files > is in no way quick or efficient. There are much better tools > available to do this. True dat! But often the rock in the hand is a much more effective tool then the hammer you have to drive

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Ian Skinner
Michael Grant wrote: > Ok, well this made me want to check it out so I did. I dumped one of my > database tables with 149,517 records into a flat text file that was tab > delimited. The total size was 20,546KB (20MB). I want to jump in here and say that this data is *not* tab delimited. It is c

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > The question is not getting government to work, but figuring out what > government can do without completely f#cking it up. > Translation: "I have flat feet, so I cannot serve" When the call came my newlywed Grandfather and his brother drove 200 miles from their cushy lives and

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread denstar
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > IMHO, using an application server on a single user to parse text files > is in no way quick or efficient.  There are much better tools > available to do this. Lucene? =] -- Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the publi

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gruss G wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > Saying that government is broken implies that it can be fixed, but > nothing > > in history suggests that government can handle the things it is expected > to > > handle today. > > > > I'm not sure what your point is. Are y

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Judah wrote: > > > > That's the problem though. It isn't a tradeoff between torturing > people (nice use of jargon to obscure the reality of a situation right > there by the way, a sure sign that you are in the wrong) and a smoking > crater. It is a tradeoff bet

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
IMHO, using an application server on a single user to parse text files is in no way quick or efficient. There are much better tools available to do this. On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > I'm still going to disagree based on what Ian's details were: > > - Single user sy

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> gg wrote: > I mean how stupid is it that I can chair the committee who's supposed > to be policing me and I can hire the guy who's job it is to set my > pay. > > Duh. > That like letting congress vote on their own ... oh. Ok, somebody get the list. We need to fix that too. ~

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> CamChi wrote: > I do not.  But I guess you could say that most of my investment > dollars are in the company right now. > I kid, of course, but just be careful with that shiz. If you work someplace you're already invested in them so you might consider moving your money elsewhere but I'm not te

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > You work for ENRON right?  Got every penny in their stock? I do not. But I guess you could say that most of my investment dollars are in the company right now. -Camero ~| A

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > Saying that government is broken implies that it can be fixed, but nothing > in history suggests that government can handle the things it is expected to > handle today. > I'm not sure what your point is. Are you an anarchist then? All I'm saying is we make government work or w

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> CamChi wrote: > My corporation is not "totally hosed up", and I'd rather the govt keep > the fsck out of it. > You work for ENRON right? Got every penny in their stock? Yeah, they're a pretty solid company. Can't go wrong there. Heck, Anderson - one of the World's premier accounting firms -

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Judah McAuley
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > Personally, I will take the tradeoff of having submitted these people to the > modified SERE techniques (which we use on our own people in training), to > having a smoking crater in downtown LA  like the smoking crater in downtown > Manhattan

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gruss wrote: > > Right now corporate boards are totally hosed up and the solution is > NOT having the government run everything; the solution is fixing the > corporate governance. Easy to say, harder to actually do something that will make the situation better

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > Right now corporate boards are totally hosed up and the solution is > NOT having the government run everything; the solution is fixing the > corporate governance. My corporation is not "totally hosed up", and I'd rather the govt keep the fsck

Re: David Kellerman found dead, alleged suicide

2009-04-22 Thread G Money
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Erika L. Walker wrote: > > I understand that. I'm really not speculating on why he killed himself. Why > is really a moot point. He's dead. My point is that it's so sad that it had > to come to this and leave behind a little girl, etc. > > They say he hung himself

Re: David Kellerman found dead, alleged suicide

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
at least he didn't kill his family as well. sad days. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Erika L. wrote: > > I understand that. I'm really not speculating on why he killed himself. Why > is really a moot point. He's dead. My point is that it's so sad that it had > to come to this and leave behin

Re: septoplasty

2009-04-22 Thread G Money
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > yup. my plan. and i just so happens > that my best friends get clean date is 4/23 two years ago. > and it just might be a good date to make mine as well. we could > celebrate together. plus they wholly recommend ZERO inhalant smokey > thing

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunnwrote: > No, the question is why the government should be able to spend my money > instead of me. Everyone, including you, is happy to pile on corporations, But it's not an either/or Robert, that's the point. Maybe that rhetoric was needed and worked last century (like unions) but we don

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
I'm still going to disagree based on what Ian's details were: - Single user system. - Scaled to "several dozens of files" - 1K to 1MB ( I used a 20x larger file for my test so it's probably closer to 1 second to do a 1MB file) - Quick and efficient. check, check, check and check. Given, if you

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > The much larger priority is HOW MUCH you collect based on WHAT you spend it > on. Well, yes, this is also important. Though I would say it's more about HOW MUCH the government spends and WHAT it's spent on. Govt waste is huge. We can discu

Re: David Kellerman found dead, alleged suicide

2009-04-22 Thread Erika L. Walker
I understand that. I'm really not speculating on why he killed himself. Why is really a moot point. He's dead. My point is that it's so sad that it had to come to this and leave behind a little girl, etc. They say he hung himself. How about having to find that? Very selfish actually. On Wed, Apr

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > > > So 12.6 seconds to loop over a 20MB text file certainly doesn't "choke a cf > server." I _highly_ doubt you could even set up the dsn in that amount of > time. > If this is a one-time thing on a single-user system, your solution is fi

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > The much larger priority is HOW MUCH you collect based on WHAT you spend it > on. > No, the question is why the government should be able to spend my money instead of me. Everyone, including you, is happy to pile on corporations, but you seem t

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> Dino wrote: > Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad Ah, that district probably deserved to be seized. It was asking for it. All those districts are asking for it. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and

Re: septoplasty

2009-04-22 Thread Ras Tafari
yup. my plan. and i just so happens that my best friends get clean date is 4/23 two years ago. and it just might be a good date to make mine as well. we could celebrate together. plus they wholly recommend ZERO inhalant smokey things or whatever, for at LEAST A month after this surgery. thanks g

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> CamChi wrote: > It's a real shame that a totally reasonable and justifiable protest > against the tax system was hijacked and turned into an anti-Obama > rally. > Well, something like 55% of people say they're taxed the right amount, so it's probably going to be hard to find people that think t

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > If Posner was purely concerned with book sales he could've written > another defense-of-Bush book I've been told Bush is no longer president. > which, given the tea parties, people are clamoring for. It's a real shame that a totally reasonab

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > If they called swaps insurance it would have triggered regulation- that's > all I need to know. It was just a big game of semantics. Well, only in the sense that law is semantics. The law used to say, "if it ain't defined it's illegal" Then lobbyists led the charge to change

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Crap, I forgot to change the list position from 13 to 26. You'd need to do that if you decided to use this method. Good luck. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > Ok, well this made me want to check it out so I did. I dumped one of my > database tables with 149,517 records i

Re: Searching a bunch of text files

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Grant
Ok, well this made me want to check it out so I did. I dumped one of my database tables with 149,517 records into a flat text file that was tab delimited. The total size was 20,546KB (20MB). Then I ran the code I provided to evaluate the 1st letter in the 19th column (I don't have 26 in my table)

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, denstar wrote: > > Please, trying to justify it by (note, it's the people who did it > saying it was "worth it", no bias there, right? Like, why would a CEO > of a company lie about the state of his company?) saying it "got > results" is just plain lame. > Pe

Re: septoplasty

2009-04-22 Thread G Money
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > i was kidding btw. > im not that dumb. i might take this opp. > to take a break. more news @ 11 Take a break from the casual stuff, cuz you'll be on some pretty heavy dude pain meds. Best of luck Tee-dub -- His gentle means of sculptin

Re: Judge Posner's Change of Heart

2009-04-22 Thread Gruss Gott
> CamChi wrote: > Should read "This change of heart is being widely used to promote > sales of his upcoming book, 'A Failure Of Capitalism'". > Devilishly cynical! Although my take on this is that he has been sincerely shaken to the core. He's considered one of the top legal minds in the World

Re: intel memos

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Robert Munn wrote: > > And yet even Obama's team, in private, acknowledges that the techniques > > brought good information, even preventing the "second wave" attacks on > LA: > > We also got a bunch of

RE: Dead Birds

2009-04-22 Thread Jacob
Crows or ravens? West Nile Virus? -Original Message- From: Rick [mailto:cfh...@kchost.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:30 AM To: cf-community Subject: Dead Birds Anyone else noticing an unusual amount of dead birds? They don't look like they suffered any trauma (Shot, Ran over

Re: Taliban Seize District Near Islamabad

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Munn
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Jerry wrote: > > Agreed. > > But I don't think there is any question (except from Mike) that we > moved assets, resources and focus from Afghanistan and applied them to > Iraq. > no question there > I don't think there is much question that more assets, resour

Re: Dead Birds

2009-04-22 Thread Jerry Johnson
Dang, looks like the local cats have evolved the power of invisibility. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rick wrote: > > Well the one out front here is a dark bird with bluish white spots... I seen > some large black birds too... (I am not a bird man).  Really all different > kinds of them.. >

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