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Rule number one when dealing with any type of law enforcement in the Us: answer
no questions under any circumstances without a lawyer present. This isn't to be
a dick or to waste time. It's because A) we have the right to refuse to answer
questions here and B) there are a lot of bad cops here (
So last night we went out to eat and the restaurant had CNN going on a TV. I
just glanced up at about the same time that it was talking about rumors of
Caribou Barbie running for President it 2012. Not that she has much chance of
actually winning (I doubt she'd even get the Republican primary),
Wait, what? They made another Stargate? *Makes a note to check all his normal
TV sites for episodes*
>...
>> Then, if the stars are aligned right, Grahamnesty will lose during his next
>...
>
>Speaking of the stars, I found another space-ish show to watch.
>
>I remembered somebody mentioning St
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>BTW...the dems won the last election by a landslide, so I would say
>that gives them the right to push their agenda, just like the republicans do
>when they are in charge.
Not at the cost of doing what's right for the country. I don't like it when
Republicans do it either.
>I didn't see
>too
>Babies are easier than toddlers.
DEFINATELY.
When my oldest was 10 months old we took a 12 hour trip and only stopped twice.
Necessity dictated that and I wouldn't recomend it doing it that way if you
have a choice, but what made it possible is that we left at 11pm and drove
through the nig
Check out the specs yourself. It's an Ematic E5. 12gb of storage (including a
8gb microSD card I paid $15 for, which is half of what EMusic promo offer I got
with the player was worth), video support, recording capability, a built in 3mp
camera, video recording capability, ebook reader function
>It's the difference between the guy who drives a Civic and a guy who
>drives a Porche. They both get you where you want to go, but Porche
>has a brand behind it, a shitload of marketing, and every little
>detail has been designed to the hilt.
>
>That doesn't mean that there is anything wrong wit
"It's a Frap!"
Hehe, classic
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>What the guy did in SuperSize me was stupid and in no way indicative
>of the way ANYONE really eats.
I know someone who eats nothing but McDonalds and Wendy's.
>Doing what he did, you could go into just about any restaurant and eat
>every meal there and have the same results.
No you couldn't.
Funny ad I came across yesterday
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Not sure if they're really saying this on North Korean news or not but I found
it quite humorous. By the way who really won this game?
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>I do wonder though, who's more corrupt and/or incompetent at handing
>out money, BP or the US Federal Government. It's BP handing out money
>as they see fit, MAYBE slower than they should, maybe not to as many
>people as deserve it. The other choice is the US Federal Govt
>DEFINITELY handing it
>Palin-Beck 2012
>
>An oldie but still so funny, it would jus just make my day!
>
>*AP) * Sarah Palin has suggested Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck could be
>someone she'd consider as a running mate if she makes a bid for the White
>House in two years.
>
>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/19/po
>I do. I like them. I like the subdued backdrop they provide to the soccer
>matcheslike something important is going on. They remind me of cicadas
>in the summer, which often times provide the backdrop to my local baseball
>broadcast on the radio.
>
>Most people I know bitch about the vuvuzela
>Of course the kids wanted people to know who they were, why else would
>they do it? It was an audition tape for the declining morass of
>repugnance that qualifies as cable news in this country.
That doesn't track. If that were the case why would they blur the face and post
the video anonomously
>When you make a truly dangerous drug legal, all you do is allow the users to
>destroy themsleves without adding the further stigma of "criminal" to their
>ultimately wasted lives. And we save ourselves a few thousand dollars and
>lots of hassles by not having to deal with them. We offer them up t
>They are showing their true colors - which is to monopolise and control.
>
>Apple doesn't seem so cheery, happy, go-lucky-cool anymore.
>
>I want to see what happens when Google decides to block iPhone and iPad.
>
Normally you wouldn't catch me dead defending Apple, but they may have been
right
Historically speaking we have two foundations in America. The foundation of the
government, and by extension, the nation, is religious only insofar that it
recognizes the existance of a higher power, called God as a matter of
convenience.
Culturally we do have a Christian base. A huge percenta
>For what its worth, Intelligent Design does not necessarily even deny
>speciation. Really depends on who you ask. The discussion we were
>having involved Kris' distinction about what he termed micro-evolution
>(change within a species) versus macro-evolution (speciation) so
>that's what I address
>Just like there are town in red states that have activities that would make
>most liberals blush. There are always exceptions. I would be willing to
>bet that blues laws are more strictly enforced in red states overall than
>they are in blue states.
>
>Eric
Well, I can only speak for my own st
>google Dominionist if you want to see some examples of American Taliban.
>
OkI just did thisBelieve it or not that is the stuff of my nightmares.
I only had a vague idea of Dominionism before. If they ever manage to take over
you won't be hearing from me again.
~~
>Many states have it to be illegal to have sex outside of marriage...whether
>it's enforced or not is another story. What about all those blue laws?
>
I've never seen any such law. Even if they do exist they aren't and still
wouldn't be enforced.
As for blue laws, they're everywhere. I've hea
>Is the dogs/wolves example even an example of evolution? Isn't it
>domestication?
>
Domestication is usually a perfect example of that type of evolution. I think
that micro evolution is the one that would be wolves to dogs, but I never could
keep the two terms straight for some reason. Another
Does anyone else find it strange that we have half a dozen seperate threads of
people at each other's throats over this incident? I know emotions always tend
to run hot when Israel's involved, but that seems voer the top.
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>The red states represent that largest
>drain on Medicare and welfare funds.
That may or may not be (I don't know), but that welfare drain would go away
quickly if conservatives had their way. Meanwhile over in the blue states all
the welfare programs that get shot down now would go through un
>part of the credo of creationism is that all lifeforms are fixed and
>unchanging. Ergo no forced and guided evolution is possible.
>
>
>>
Umno it's not. It's a matter of macro evolution vs micro evolution. I
forget which is which. One is dogs evolving from wolves and the other is birds
evo
>the whole issue of evolution has been discussed so often here and the
>creationist point of view has been so roundly rejected on scientific
>grounds that I'm not going to discuss this piece of fetid manure.
Who said anything about creationism? All I said was that biotech would advance
just fine
> The red states - through lack of education, development in biotec
> (hey
> you need the theory of evolution etc to advance in it, then there's
> stem cells etc.) I give it maybe 20 years and it will be another 3rd
> world country ruled by the Christian Taliban.
Eh, wrong on several counts ther
Oh yes, by all means let's split the country in half and give each half to the
the extremists at both ends of the scale. I can tell you which side is going to
be in trouble in 15 years: both of them.
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>I have no problems with Israel's blockade, and I blame these flotilla
>assholes for most of what happened (they created the situation, plain and
>simple), but I still think Israel fucked up by initiating the raid the way
>they did. Justified or not, they didn't handle it the right way.
>
Definat
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This dog won awards for being both the ugliest and the cutest dog (in seperate
competitions) last year and died recently. The article I'm looking at doesn't
say exactly when. I'm thinking the judges who called her the cutest dog
Some of these are ridiculous, but I thought they were amusing.
Wouldn't everyone on the Enterprise be blind at speeds above warp 1 due to the
light not being able to catch up to their eyes?
How many alien STDs does Kirk have to be carrying around?
Exactly how does slingshotting around the sun
>As far as servers, I blissfully ignorant I am blessed with a job where I
>only have to program. Servers are someone else's responsibility.
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> A little more on this:
>
> I've noticed that when I get the javascript alert that says null it's
> *before* the cfdebug window actually populates with the details of the
> cfc
> calls. Almost as if the callbackfunction is being called *before*
> there's an
> actual response from the cfc.
>
>
>I usually try to use my own AJAX code for making asynchronous calls, however
>I thought I'd give cfajaxproxy a try since I've never really played with it
>much before. I've got a cfc with a few methods in it. I've tested the cfc
>thoroughly using CF code to invoke the method I'm interested in. Ea
>"Now that's just stupid. There's no nation on the planet for which the
>statement "everything they do is wrong" is true. Not Israel, not America,
>not Iran, not North Korea. Nowhere is that true."
>
>Relax.
>
>If you would have read any of my previous messages, you would have known
>this was stri
> last time I installed CentOS (probably 5.3), it only created the root
> account. I had to manually create a user.
>
Eh, OK, guess I'd better rephrase to every distro I've ever installed. Which is
pretty much just Debian and it's offspring since about 2002.
>That is true...the Vatican is just an old, outdated, feudal organization.
>The rest of the world got past that a long time agothey still have men
>in tights carrying polearms...sheesh.
Hey now don't be dissing the Swiss Guard. It takes balls to use a polearm in
this day and age :-) Seriousl
>The Ubuntu model is really pretty good. Upon install, it sets up a
>user account and that is what you use for basically everything from
>there on out. You still need to give elevated privileges for
>installing system-wide software but since that is done through a
>central repository in 99% of the
>I would argue that it is the local churches, rather than Vatican City,
>who does the good in the world. A small, but important distinction.
A valid argument. I've always viewed all Catholic churches as extensions of the
Vatican, but I can see how a lot of people wouldn't share my view there.
> Some might argue that it might be true with Vatican City :D
>
> --
> Scott Stroz
> ---
> You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can
> wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris
>
> http://xkcd.
com/386/
Nah. I have some serious issues with the Vatic
>According to reports, before they came down the ropes they were already
>dropping flash bang grenades and some have claimed that they were already
>firing (could just have been warning shots, but in the thick of things do
>you really know the difference?)...whether or not that is true, I haven't
>"My issue with the whole thing is that I can't see anything Israel did wrong
>. . ."
>
>Hatemonger.
>
>Unless you understand that everything Israel does is wrong, you are a
>hatemonger.
>
Now that's just stupid. There's no nation on the planet for which the statement
"everything they do is wron
>Check it out - you can search against Facebook's API to see how private
>people's data really is. Some default searches include "I hate my job" and
>other phrases that you are unlikely to be intentionally sharing with the
>entire world, at at least your employer.
>
>http://youropenbook.org/
>
>-
>I agree that your typical user is not going to have a clue about sudo.
>However, I would be very surprised to find that the "common user" would ever
>log in as anything but root.
>
>-Cameron
>
>...
In a home environment maybe, but in a corporate environment the common user
won't have the root p
>Gonna be an interesting century of that there can be no doubt.
>
>On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:42 -0400, Jerry Barnes wrote:
>> J
Oh it gets better. On top of nations self destructing due to screw ups by
politicians we're gonna be out of oil long before the end of this century. We
get to figure ou
Ok, so here's the story as I've managed to piece it together:
1) Israel warns that the Gaza strip is closed to maritime traffic.
2) This aid group (there seems to be some debate as to whether they were
intending to bring aid or just provoke Israel, but let's give them the benefit
of the doubt)
I know several languages. Frankly I'm of the opinion that every language I pick
up has made me a better programmer regardless of which language I'm using at
the moment. Java's not in my resume yet though. It's been on my need-to-learn
list for a while, but somehow every time I think I've got ti
>> assuming of course that the user hasn't broken the security by doing
>something stupid.
>
>Again, this is a conversation about desktop security so I would assume the
>user is eventually going to do something stupid.
>
>-Cameron
>
>...
You have to be more stupid on Linux than on Windows though.
>use CPAN:
>
>http://perl.about.com/od/packagesmodules/qt/perlcpan.htm
>
>
Most distros come with a CPAN utility in thier Perl packages. Just type cpan in
a terminal and go from there. Also a very limited selection modules are
available through apt on Debian. I'd assume the same is true of othe
>> Frankly I've always viewed desktop security as secondary to server
>> security.
>>
>
>On a different note - I hear that some banking institutions have recently
>started to assume that every customer's desktop is compromised.
>
>-Cameron
Meh, rack that one up to half assed though processes I gu
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/01/poland-releases-plane-cra_n_596523.html
>
>Apparently the control tower informed the pilot that "conditions for
>landing do not exist" and that an il76 had waved off twice and decided
>not to land.
>
>but the Polish President didn't want to be late for the
>Except that Google isn't switching their servers from windows to *nix, they
>are switching desktops. Everything you just said has to do with server
>environments, not desktops. It doesn't apply to this conversation
>
>-Cameron
>
>...
I realize they're not switching their servers. I was simply
I use kdenlive on occasion, but I don't know if it's been ported out of Linux
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>I don't think Linux is more secure than Windows at this point. It is
>merely the biggest target of opportunity. If Google has their staff
>running Mac/Linux, you can bet there will be hackers who will spend
>the time to try and exploit those platforms as well.
>
>On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM, C
>> In some ways (not all ways) anything based on Unix is massively more secure
>> than Windows.
>
>
>I am not sure I agree with this statement, particularly when you put the OS
>on the everyman's desktop.
>
>-Cameron
>
The biggest thing is that your normal user can't change anything outside of
t
>Mac and Linux aren't really all ***THAT*** much more secure, but
>(theoretically) easier to harden. I think that the OS theory is very
>valid. Microsoft is already virtually irrelevant in the mobile realm,
>attacking the OS is the next logical step.
>
>Also, I wonder how much of this is connect
>How about Ha'aretz...it's an English language newspaper form Tel Aviv if I
>remember correctly...I'd have to look it up to be sure. Do know for a fact
>that it is from Israel. That's where I get most of my info when something
>goes down in Israel.
I'm not familiar with it and I can't get to i
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/google_snubs_windows_report/
Google's dumping Windows due to security concerns. They're giving their
employees the option of running Macs or Linux instead and some people are
speculating that they're prepping for the release of their own OS. I thought it
So I take it you believe that the right thinking people of the world would have
taken the original statement by Turkey as fair? You don't think that's maybe a
little one sided? Not to mention that calling for a transparent investigation
is hardly letting Israel off. That's like saying that call
First there's more than enough of this kind of thing going on on BOTH sides of
the line in Israel. From what I understand getting news about Israel from The
Guardian or BBC is like getting news about Democrats from Fox, so I'd like to
get the full story. An unbiased source would be nice but I'm
>Never Again.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVehAAwh0gY&feature=player_embedded
Wowthat's a lot of spin and not a whole lot of objectivity.
Seriously though what's the issue with him leaving? It's not like he's actually
able to contribute to the cleanup effort. He's a politician-lawyer
>As I recall, he said he'd set a date to be out of Iraq--which he kinda-sorta
>has done maybe, but that the action in Afghanistan was going to remain a
>priority, and probably be increased--which has certainly happened.
Ah, OK. I couldn't remember for sure what it was he had said.
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home? Or was that just something people expected him to do because he was
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>Or you could do what the town I live in does:
>
>"Alameda Power and Telecom produces 84% of its energy from renewable
>sources, primarily geothermal plants located near Calistoga,
>California, and hydroelectric sources on the North Fork of the
>Stanislaus River. The utility also uses wind and sol
> I guess you could burn wood in the fireplace to keep warm during the
> winter, unless you live in San Fransisco where it's banned :)
Heh, I've done that actually. Using the fireplace was cheaper than using the
furnace in that house. It worked better to.
~~
>That's something Barnie would say. So should we never puncture the
>earths surface again?
>
I for one would love for that to be an option. Too bad the whole dang world's
addicted to oil.
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Isn't it ironic that the Republicans are blasting Obama for "being too cozy
with the oil industry" when Bush was not only cozy with the industry but an oil
tycoon himself?
Don't you just love how politician minds work?
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I blame Congress and lobby groups. If our regulations were as tight as every
other nation that does offshore drilling the spill would have been smaller by
several orders of magnitude, maybe even small enough to be a non-issue, but
thanks to our lobby groups and their campaign contributions
*co
>yeah... DC born and raised... the corruption is in Congress not with
>the people of DC or the 'burbs... so I too take some offense..
>
>
Sorry, you've both misunderstood me. When I talk about people 'in Washington'
I'm usually talking about the politicians and sometimes extend that to the
peop
Meh, let's see a list of the ten least corrupt people in Washington...Oh, wait.
Nevermind, that won't work. There aren't ten people in DC worthy of such a
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>Dear Jamaica,
>
>Everyone wants the U.S. to stop being the "world police". We've agreed.
>Therefore, fix your own fucking mess.
>
>Respectfully,
>Uncle Sam
Ehit's our mess as much as Jamaica's. The whole cause of the problem
they're having right now is that we're trying to extradite a drug
I actually gained some respect for him after the election. During his
consession speech his supporters started to boo Obama, which by the way shows
how childish they were. He basically (and nicely) told them to grow up. Prior
to that moment there was no politician in DC that I had any respect f
> I would disagree with this statement. Yes, there are some home
> schooled kids who fit this description, but I would say it is the
> exception rather than the rule.
>
> Most of the home school kids I have seen (including my own children)
> interact with other children, and adults, as well, or b
We have a huge home schooling community here. Those kids are mostly
intellectually head and shoulders above the public schooled kids of the same
age. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part the home schooled kids
are just dang smart. I've known a whole lot of them and every single one
Heh...That should be interesting. Maybe they'll get some decency knocked into
thier thick skulls by some hardcore metal fans. Unlikely, but hey one can wish
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It's not like he campaigned on a white supremisist platform. In fact I'd put
good odds on a majority of the people who voted for him not having heard that
opinion till after the fact. Americans are kinda stupid about elections that
way.
Also it seems a very odd view for a Libertarian. I know t
You do realize that we already have one of the easiest naturalization processes
in the world, right? Not that that's a bad thing. I'm just saying complaining
about how hard it is to become a citizen in the USA is kinda silly.
Your subject's a little unfair. One idiot who thinks we can have legalized
bigotry and have it qualify as free speech does not equate the whole movement
being racist.
Personally he seems more a moron than a racist to me. Denying service based on
skin is not 'free speech'. Throwing racial slurs
>And it helps couples stay together...
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjUWx_ZKPlg
>
>-Cameron
>
>...
Meh...I never liked bars...Too crowded, too noisy, too much smoke, and too many
drunks for my tastes. Besides alcohol hasn't really held any appeal for me
since college. I think I drank a lif
>You are describing couples counciling, which is a good thing.
>Learning to communicate, underatdsning each other, all good good good.
>
>Be I continue to say this has nothing to do with marriage. A couple
>can do this whether they get married or not.
>
>-Cameron
>
>...
True true. Thing to remem
>Wasn't that called a PDA? Hehehe
>
>I think the straight PDA's went the way of the dodo bird when they
>successfully merged the pda and the phone.
No, they're still around. They're just harder than snot to find. We use them
for a couple programs to help teachers track certain types of assessme
>On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, G Money wrote:
>
>How about this - let the government grant civil unions to any two
>individuals who want the legal benefits (and burdens) of being
>contractually bound to another person, heterosexual or otherwise.
>
>Then if you want to be married, go to a chur
Might just be me but Sarah Palin's not that attractive. Really. I hear people
talk about her being hot and I'm just not seeing it. Which begs the question
why are we keeping the inappropriate barker?
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Actually I think the second trumpet would be more appropriate to the situation:
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire
was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the
third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had
> Also, I don't think it is "sad" that an American citizen could be
> asked to prove their citizenship because of their skin color, I think
> that it is a violation of the Constitution which is rather more than
> mildly offputting. If a person is standing on a street corner not
> commit a crime ot
> Why is it ok now to use race as a consideration, when we applaud those
>
> who fought this type of bigotry disguised as immigration controls when
>
> the immigrants (illeagal and otherwise) where Asian, Irish, Polish, or
>
> Italian? Or do you feel that those previous imagration waves
>
> Have you seen any of the new ideas concerning how fast changes might
> occur during times of stress. I don't know the exact and correct
> terms
> off the top of my head, but it involves other information in cells
> then
> just DNA. But this external cellular features can have a dramatic
I can see where they're coming from. There is a pretty liberal bias in the
media these days. It's backlash from Bush I think. I'm not saying I agree. I,
likely like a lot of people doing the complaining, didn't see the pageant this
year so I can't tell you who I'd have said should win.
Also I
> Why? The purpose of marriage has changed as our society has changed.
> We no longer have to harness the wives and children to the plow to
> get
> in the crop any more. Nor do we need to have 15 or 20 kids to ensure
> that enough of them survive into adulthood in order to take care of
> us
> wh
>It's really time Human considerations take precedence over purely economic
>ones!
>
Forget human considerations. What about environmental ones? I've never been
accused of being a tree hugger but I do believe in being responsible in how we
use the Earth.
~~
>In general you are right, wanting to do something about illegal immigration
>is not racists. That doesn't mean that the motivation by certain parties
>isn't racist...especially when you get into racial profiling like the AZ law
>does. The problem with the AZ bandaid is that it comes with a whit
>I have a theory. As most parents do, I have often wondered where my
>sons get all their energy from. I now theorize they suck it out of us,
>their parents. Some kind of remote, wireless power tap, that if science
>could harness would probably solve the worlds energy crisis overnight!
Nah.
> Shouldn't you be looking for 6,000 year old dinosaur fossils?
Heh, right. Because I believe the Bible I must also believe there were
dinosaurs 6000 years agoget real. I realize you have a very jaded view of
me because I admitted to matching some definitions of a fundamentalist and
believ
> The Oil spill is heading for Miami.
>
> ZOMG!!
>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.
com/greens>
pace/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-meteorologist-says-oil-enters-loop-current.
> html
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That dang thing's headed everywhere. If they don't get the leak stopped soon
the whole Gulf will be fouled. What happened with the concrete hat thing they
were trying anyway? That sounded like it would work for sure.
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Am I the only one who thinks those statistics are scary?
Seriously though I don't think we can blame our politicians for the divorce
rate. That's a problem with our society in general. The only thing the
politicians could do to affect it would be to make divorces harder to get.
Frankly that wo
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