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I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
foist
Worst.
Fillibuster, it's only Wednesday.
1,2,3, whatever...
I wonder if Jane will make Debbie Howell cry or faint today...
Oh my!
We need a Jimmy Stewart.
Too much intelligence for the WH:
'"Any suggestion by critics or anybody else to suggest that the president was doing something nefarious with Jack Abramoff is absolutely wrong, and it's absurd," presidential adviser Dan Bartlett said on NBC's "Today" show. The best way to refute such "absurd" suggestions is to get all of Mr. Abramoff's dealings with the Bush White House and the Bush administration out in the open -- now.'
Bush presidency: FIERY WRECK!
Trade secrecy
The growing intimacy between business and political leaders is leaving poor countries on the sidelines of the world trade game, writes Dominic Eagleton
This week the heads of the world's biggest companies will meet for the annual schmooze-fest known as the World Economic Forum held in Davos. During the gathering, government ministers and world leaders will hold a separate meeting to discuss the future of world trade.
The fact that this crucial meeting is taking place in the midst of some of the world's most powerful business leaders shows who has been pushing the agenda of trade talks to date.
Sorry, Sandra. Get your tight white ass back to work. Scalito won't fly...Wouldn't it be nice?
The best way to refute such "absurd" suggestions is to get all of Mr. Abramoff's dealings with the Bush White House and the Bush administration out in the open -- now.'
Ruth
What? And waive the imperial right of executive secrecy?
I don't think so.
New Curly video for those needing a pleasant start to their Humpday.
.
And I have to go to work now where my taxes will pay to violate my civil rights and murder innocents.
Whew.
Bootsy goes on tour in B'mo today to pimp his "right" to eavesdrop in American citizens.
The WH denies that Boots knew Jackemoff.
The WH is hindering an investigation into Katrina.
Everything is coming up snake eyes for the boy.
Republicans threatened retaliation against future Democratic nominees, saying Democrats had rallied party members to vote against Judge Alito's confirmation for political reasons unrelated to his qualifications. Democrats said a close vote would warn President Bush not to name such conservative judges.
Judge Alito's confirmation to the court is now all but assured, by a vote of the full Senate roughly along party lines.
In contrast, the president's previous nominee, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., was confirmed just a few months ago with the support of three of the eight Democrats on the committee and half of the 44 Democrats in the Senate.
Recalling the overwhelming and bipartisan majorities that approved President Bill Clinton's Supreme Court nominees, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, several Republican senators said their party had evaluated the qualifications of nominees on less ideological terms. They said the Democratic opposition to Judge Alito could alter the judicial confirmation process for years to come.
is it too much to ask for some Dem to beat Hatch to a bloody plup with his own book today when he starts talking about this fucking bullshit?
at least rip out the page where he talks about how he helped nominate Ginsberg/Breyer and jam it in his piehole.
CHIMPEACH!
I've got an agenda for their thug asses....
Ruth: And I have to go to work now where my taxes will pay to violate my civil rights and murder innocents.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Oh, wait...
It's really your OWN fault for not being rich enough to avoid paying taxes in the FIRST place, y'know!
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http://www.bradblog.com/archives...es/
00002327.htm
Diebold claims to privately OWN Americas votes.
Iran views Russia nuke offer positively
Iran's top nuclear negotiator has said Moscow's offer to have Tehran's uranium enriched in Russia was a positive development, but no agreement has been reached.
Ali Larijani, the chief negotiator, has also reiterated Iran's threat to renew enrichment activities if it is referred to the UN Security Council.
After talks with Russian Security Council chief Igor Ivanov, which included discussion of the plan to enrich uranium in Russia, Larijani said: "Our view of this offer is positive, and we are trying to bring the positions of the sides closer."
The Bush Administration: Using the Constitution as Toilet Paper Since 2000!
I am REALLY PISSED OFF about the baboon troupe posturing of baby Graham and his masturbating comrades yesterday.
WAAAAH! WAAAH! The opposition that dare disagree will be crushed. WTF is that about?
These are united states senators standing there threatening their colleagues like mafia bosses?
WTF???????
Updating the Republican version of the Bill of Rights
Impeach - Convict - Hand Over to the Hague.
Mr. Smith goes to Washington was the last film playing in the Paris cinema before the Nazis marched in in the spring of 1940.
Cash meant for Iraqis 'misused'
Large bundles of cash meant for Iraq's reconstruction were stashed in filing cabinets, handed over without receipts and gambled away, a report has found.
The audit, by US-appointed inspectors, paints a picture of the chaotic misuse of millions of dollars of funds.
The lack of oversight had a tragic outcome in one case, when a hospital lift, supposed to have been fixed, crashed killing three people.
The report said US post-war planning was limited by a desire for secrecy.
There was only one cinema in Paris in 1940?
"is it too much to ask for some Dem to beat Hatch to a bloody plup with his own book today when he starts talking about this fucking bullshit?"
there are so many smarmy, whiny, toady little gop fuckwits in the senate it's hard to choose who's the worst, but urine hatch has got to be amongst the top contenders...
what a dick.
An Honest To God Sensible Column By A Conservative
Recalling the overwhelming and bipartisan majorities that approved President Bill Clinton's Supreme Court nominees, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, several Republican senators said their party had evaluated the qualifications of nominees on less ideological terms.
Oh, yeah, I'm remembering now how those guys were absolute models of bipartisan cooperation for the ultimate good of our country during Clinton's presidency.
My heart glows to recall the selfless way the Republican party flatly refused to politicize every single fucking thing that ever happened during the 1990's, and moderated their oh-so-constructive criticism of the President at all times so as to avoid undermining his ability to effectively govern our country.
It's easy to see how they are mystified and appalled at the behavior of the unwashed horde of Democrats in their unbalanced crusade against George Bush for no discernable reason.
Sometimes the line between Republican hypocrisy and outright mental illness seems to be non-existent.
Here she is ...
Republican Miss America!
Impeachment: It's Not Just for Blowjobs Anymore!
that's a good one. Even conservatives are pissed off now.
Militias: Not just a buch of wackos anymore.
The Bush Legacy: Ineptitude - Indifference - Incompetence!
Last night NPR had Gonzales on defending illegal NSA spying. This morning NPR has White House advisor on defending illegal NSA spying. I sure hope my local station isn't surprised when I tell them to get bent during next week's fund drive.
Anybody know how much we are spending on Depends for Capital Hill?
I'm thinking it might be a good investment strategy.
ROTFLMAO!
ciao moonbats, me and my friends are dong some b-day shopping.
so catch you all later 
Yes, I heard that soft-balled interview with Abu Gonzo. Terry Gross was it? She was probably afraid she'd be jailed for life without recourse if she pushed too hard.
NPR has White House advisor on defending illegal NSA spying.
Dowd. I got so pissed off this morning when I heard his fucking bullshit on NPR I could see red. Thanks NPR.
Yes, I heard that soft-balled interview with Abu Gonzo. Terry Gross was it?
It was probably just some woman posing as Gonzales.
Screw Impeachment - Bring On the War Crimes Tribunal!
BTW, when I posted on my blog this morning, I discovered a warning that at 4pm PST blogger will be bloggered for about 15 minutes while a 'fix' is being made.
That should be fun.
*doing some
*some what?
Not that it matters, it's YOUR birthday...
Bernie Sanders coming up on AAR.
Diane, Don't worry. It's probably just one of those NSA-prompted "fixes."
happy birthday moonbootica! enjoy.
Whoa. Chris Penn: dead.
What speed should I expect from my broadband connection? I'm currently getting 18.0 Mbps.
Rethuglicken mafia: hanging themselves.
Diane, Don't worry. It's probably just one of those NSA-prompted "fixes."
res ipsa loquitur
Heh.
Not out of the realm of possibility, not at all.
Under a rethuglicken government, 18K is as fast as your broadband will run with all the homeland security "attachments" to the lines.
Hotsy-totsy, another Nazi?
Must be that great Comcast cable then.
18k. LMFAO
I'm running 56k on my dialup. Keep paying high prices for republican owned cable systems.
I'm currently getting 18.0 Mbps.
If that's the actual rate, and not just the rated line speed, you should be very happy with that.
However, you can go here to make absolutely certain what your "real" speed is.
Barndog: 18k. LMFAO
Um... M != k. 
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Well, time for me to head on off to tilt at windmills.
Have a better day, folks.
There's a huge freaking difference between 18 Mbps and 18K.
Just sayin'.
No shit?
lolol
cspan.org is already max hammered this morn.
.
Thanks, BlakNo1.
Off to the sto'... needin' a bagel, badly.
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On scalito: did the "liberal media" do their job?
Gallup: Public Backs Alito Almost 2-1, Not Convinced He Would Overturn Abortion Rights
This is key because, asked separately if they now became convinced that Alito WOULD overturn that decision [roe], opinions would dramatically shift: from 54% to 30% in favor of his confirmation to 56% to 34% against.
http://
www.editorandpublisher.co...t_id=1001883971
If I had an effective 18Mbps connection, I would be convinced I'd died and gone to broadband heaven.
With Alito in place, the neo-cons will doubtless rule the world.
If I had an effective 18Mbps connection, I would be convinced I'd died and gone to broadband heaven.
I just got broadband for my birthday and I do love it. But the signal strength varies from low to very low, and I'm wondering if something is not working right.
Using the link above, with a powerbook on a home wifi net, I got:
Your download speed : 1202 kbps or 150.3 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 417 kbps or 52.2 KB/sec.
Some kind of computing nirvana, I think.
Alito's probably sucked more dicks than Oral Annie.
Sometimes the line between Republican hypocrisy and outright mental illness seems to be non-existent.
Just sometimes? how about all the time.
They are delusional.
Well, take the test. If you've got cable, it should rate your connection at about 2-4 Mbps. If you have DSL, it should be a little lower.
Don't go by what your computer says your connection is rated at.
If you're getting less than say, 2Mbps, you may want to give your provider a call.
With the death toll in Iraq
under this president
Iraq deaths : 2,222
Katrina deaths : over 1,000
plus Katrina missing : over 4,000
WTC 9/11: 3,000
Under Bush 10,222 Americans have died
they're fucking insane clown posse thugs.
White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications... (NYT)
The advantage to being a dictator: you're the only one who has the right to privacy.
Under Bush 10,222 Americans have died
You're gonna need a new line entry for Medicare Part D
fucking insane clown posse thugs.
At least if they wore the make-up, I could laugh at them.
The advantage to being a dictator: you're the only one who has the right to privacy.
R. McGeddon | 01.25.06 - 8:56 am | #
There is the message that the dems should hammer maybe tempered a bit
"Iraq deaths : 2,222
Katrina deaths : over 1,000
plus Katrina missing : over 4,000
WTC 9/11: 3,000
Under Bush 10,222 Americans have died"
And those are just the Americans....
thanks, black 01. i went with the seattle server as it's the farthest one away I could try. my results:
Your download speed : 3621 kbps or 452.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 445 kbps or 55.6 KB/sec.
For example, my connection rates:
Your download speed : 5062 kbps or 632.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 343 kbps or 42.9 KB/sec.
Sweet.
I took the test. Download speed: 3973 kbps. Upload speed: 694 kbps.
zoom, zoom, zoom. jdw is flying. what machine are you using, if I might ask?
Download Speed: 6077 kbps (759.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 343 kbps (42.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Anemic upload, surprise surprise...
Great talking point R. McGeddon!
Just tried it again:
Your download speed : 3164 kbps or 395.5 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 368 kbps or 46 KB/sec.
You also have to remember, just because you've got a fast connection doesn't always mean that sites are always going to load up lightning quick.
For example, this site can often take a minute or so to load.
Interesting. I tried a CA server and got wildy different results!
Your download speed : 2343 kbps or 292.8 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 473 kbps or 59.1 KB/sec.
skunk: it's a custom made jobby with an athelon 3600 processor...i'm on cable...don't know how all the various other components would effect the rates...
It's worth remembering that Orrin Hatch was actively involved in the Breyer and Ginzberg nominations before the names were submitted. Clinton talked to Hatch, who mentioned their names as acceptable.
Go ahead and find a single instance of similar bipartisan consultation during the Bush years. Dare ya.
That's using a mac classic.
cool, rock on jdw.
Huh? kilo what? upload whicha? WTF are you guys talking about?
"You also have to remember, just because you've got a fast connection doesn't always mean that sites are always going to load up lightning quick."
what? I've got this and 17 other blogs etc tabbed on my opera browser...when i boot it up all the pages are loaded in seconds...
Good Morrow, Moonbatzies...First a
http://www.dailypuppy.com/\">BUNCHA PUPPIES
and Bob Herbert tells it like it
The clinton nominees got the rubber stamp from the fascists before their hearings.
The machine you have won't affect the speed of your connection, just how quickly you process the bandwidth.
Once more with feeling
A BUNCHA PUPPIES
"The machine you have won't affect the speed of your connection, just how quickly you process the bandwidth.
BlakNo1"
but the differences with machines have to be huge...i had to use an ancient gateway a while back thru the same connection it took forever to load pages...
Arrrr! It's a pasty!
(I'm not sure why I thought of Attaturk and Watertiger when I took that photo.)
And did I mention that it's Photoblog Wednesday at Americans Amuck?
I did? Oh.
hey Woody's: hawaya?
Aww...they're cute.
we got puppies now. link good.
"Iraq deaths : 2,222
Katrina deaths : over 1,000
plus Katrina missing : over 4,000
WTC 9/11: 3,000
Under Bush 10,222 Americans have died"
And those are just the Americans....
Do you know one thing I've realized?
The Constitution originally counted blacks as 3/5th a person.
There are 4000 dead people in New Orleans. We've counted 1000 as dead.
There were 3000 dead people at the WTC and we've counted all 3000.
Assuming that only 2000 of those 3000 missing in NO are dead (and this is very optimistic) that means we've counted about 3/5ths of them.
Here's that Bob Herbert column...
i need coffee
the differences with machines have to be huge
Sure, the pages will load up quicker if you have a faster machine, but that doesn't make your connection faster. If you stuck a Pentium II into that connection and took the test, you'd still get the same results, but it would take the machine longer to process the bandwidth.
oh, and please mark me down for the honor of being 'frist'
to have that little fairie Lindsey Graham try to 'clean my clock'...i'm getting rusty...
Sure, the pages will load up quicker if you have a faster machine, but that doesn't make your connection faster. If you stuck a Pentium II into that connection and took the test, you'd still get the same results, but it would take the machine longer to process the bandwidth.
I just upgraded to a dual core Pentium D with 2 gigs of memory and a decent video card.
It actually does make my connection seem a bit faster since it draws the screen more quickly and processes bullshit ads etc. more quickly.
Of course it's not much but it feels that way.
PUPPIES!!!!
smitty, it looks like that pasty is about to attack that pirate....
Bob Herbert's column is well worth reading (thanks, Woody's). He quotes Lawrence Tribe to what I think rather amusing effect:
"I recently got a series of e-mails from someone, quite without invitation, that got rather scary in the sense that they started saying positive things about Osama bin Laden. I asked the person in reply to stop e-mailing me, and I got an e-mail today saying, 'Your request is permanently granted.' But in the meantime, granted or not granted, that could easily put me on some kind of targeting list."
Prof. Tribe seems seriously to believe that he isn't on a list already. I'm not much of a tinfoil-hat wearer, but I'd be flabbergasted if Tribe weren't being eavesdropped upon.
"to have that little fairie Lindsey Graham try to 'clean my clock'...i'm getting rusty..."
Lindsey Graham can suck my dick. Effete little bullying shit stain. Head of a troupe of posturing mafia suck-up lackies. Mah boy Lindsey will wake up one day and realize his sins...
I just upgraded to a dual core Pentium D with 2 gigs of memory and a decent video card.
Excuse me while I drool.
clean my clock. Bring it, little beatch.
If the Dems don't filibuster Alito, they are fucking useless.
I just upgraded to a dual core Pentium D with 2 gigs of memory and a decent video card.
Excuse me while I drool.
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 01.25.06 - 9:20 am | #
I forgot to mention the twin 250 gig hard drives in Raid 0.
I need a photoshop pic of lindsey graham on a prostitute body.
twin 250 gig hard drives in Raid 0.
GAH!!
Sure, the pages will load up quicker if you have a faster machine, but that doesn't make your connection faster."
I see. Any explanation on why i got such different results in the speed tests? is it related to how many requests are being placed thru the cable provider at any given moment or something?
I just upgraded to a dual core Pentium D with 2 gigs of memory and a decent video card.
Excuse me while I drool.
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 01.25.06 - 9:20 am | #
I forgot to mention the twin 250 gig hard drives in Raid 0.
SWR
I just upgraded to a AMD 64-bit dual chip with 2 GB of memory.
And we all know the AMD dual core is faster.
So there.
AP: "As of late Tuesday, the federal appeals court judge had enough vote commitments for confirmation — a simple majority in the 100-member Senate — with 50 Senate Republicans plus Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska"
Ben Nelson? What rock did he crawl out from under?
I just upgraded to a AMD 64-bit dual chip with 2 GB of memory.
And we all know the AMD dual core is faster.
True and a bit more expensive.
The AMD X2 3800+ is a bit more than the Pentium D 2.8.
The AMD X2 4200+ has to be a monster chip.
But I was suprised at how relatively cheap the machine I bought was.
Woody,
This is one HAPPY puppy
related to how many requests are being placed thru the cable provider at any given moment or something?
Yeah, it depends how many are trying to access that particular server at any given time.
I'd be flabbergasted if Tribe weren't being eavesdropped upon.
______
I'd be flabbergasted if left leaning blogs weren't being eavesdropped upon.
me, here, you, us
I'd be flabbergasted if left leaning blogs weren't being eavesdropped upon.
The one consolation is that your right wing trolls like Toby and Cog mention terrorism and the WTC so much they're going to get caught in the net.
twin 250 gig hard drives in Raid 0.
Ah, I have 2x200GiB in RAID-1 for my music collection. I should think about RAID-0 for the app-running side, though.
I'd be flabbergasted if left leaning blogs weren't being eavesdropped upon.
Anything to get my SiteMeter hits up.
have skunk,
"Ben Nelson? What rock did he crawl out from under?"
Nelson, who withheld an announcement until the judiciary panel had finished its hearings on Alito, disclosed his intention to vote no shortly after the committee’s final meeting.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/
Co...Alito_0124.html
The "liberal media" had Nelson voting yes last week. Even though he had not said which way he would vote. His official statement is: scalito: no
Bill Press and another awsome commentary, why can't more people hear his show? http://www.billpressshow.com/?p=209
50 Senate Republicans plus Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska
Come the revolution, he's up against the wall...
The AMD X2 4200+ has to be a monster chip.
Egad. I don't do graphics or editing, so I just can't imagine needing a chip that fast.
twin 250 gig hard drives in Raid 0.
Alas, I have a mere 250 GB hard drive.
But I have that cool Lance Armstrong Laptop too.
The one consolation is that your right wing trolls like Toby and Cog mention terrorism and the WTC so much they're going to get caught in the net.
Eh, they're prolly agent provocateurs on the NSA payroll...
Ah, I have 2x200GiB in RAID-1 for my music collection. I should think about RAID-0 for the app-running side, though.
I have so many external USB drives lying around by now I can't keep track of them all.
I don't see any benefit of wasting speed for redundancy inside the machine when you can just buy a 200 gig USB drive, back your stuff up to it, and then burn DVDs of everything on it.
My favorite puppy is the black Lab with the enormous tongue. That is in the December archives.
Ah, I have 2x200GiB in RAID-1 for my music collection
Smart.
The AMD X2 4200+ has to be a monster chip.
Egad. I don't do graphics or editing, so I just can't imagine needing a chip that fast.
BlakNo1
Well I'm a geek and I didn't want a Monster Truck.
...I do a good deal of voice dictation (or plan to, ... yet again ... so it should help with that)
Congress gave Ford $250 million in "jobs creation" tax breaks. And they kept the money.
"I see. Any explanation on why i got such different results in the speed tests? is it related to how many requests are being placed thru the cable provider at any given moment or something?
jdw"
That can be part of it, but it depends on a -lot- of factors.
Think of the net as sort of the US highway system. Whenever information goes between your PC and the server you're accessing, it is usually bounced all over the place, between "routers" which act as traffic cops, sort of. If you access a server in Seattle, your data may visit Florida, Texas, Colorado, DC, New York, and then Seattle.
At each point along the way, if a router is having problems, like being overloaded with traffic, you'll get a slower speed. Basically, your speed is as fast as the slowest link in the chain between you and the server.
Servers that are physically closer to you are -on average- faster than ones that are further away, because you -usually- have to go through fewer router "hops" to reach them. This isn't always the case, however. Living in Baltimore, I will sometimes have data sent out to the west coast and back for a connection to a New York server.
Eh, they're prolly agent provocateurs on the NSA payroll...
NTodd, Bed Wetter | Email | Homepage | 01.25.06 - 9:31 am | #
Possibly but don't you think the NSA could hire a better class of provocateur than Toby. He just seems like a racist true believer who seriously thinks Islamfascists want to sell the local white girl into prostitution when she goes to Aruba.
"I'd be flabbergasted if left leaning blogs weren't being eavesdropped upon."
Just to be pedantic...it isn't really "eavesdropping" to load a publicly-accessible blog =x
Toby and Cog mention terrorism and the WTC so much they're going to get caught in the net.
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mebe that's their mission, to ratchet up the threads to noticeable, listable status. Oh well. I'm posting anyway.
Congress gave Ford $250 million in "jobs creation" tax breaks.
They employed lobbyists.
The AMD X2 4200+ has to be a monster chip.
Egad. I don't do graphics or editing, so I just can't imagine needing a chip that fast.
Well the Pentium D 2.8 really isn't that fast so much as it's stable.
It's nice to be able to burn DVDs while using iTunes.
Congress gave Ford $250 million in "jobs creation" tax breaks. And they kept the money.
Well, the execs are creating more domestic servant jobs with the money.
hadenough | 01.25.06 - 9:30 am | #
That is BILL Nelson of Fla. Ben Nelson, from everything I have read, is voting YES.
Should we tell our eavesdroppers what's encoded in all the sex and food talk that goes on here? Or what'IOKIYAR' realy means when our agents read it?
Probably not.
Ah, I have 2x200GiB in RAID-1 for my music collection
How much music?
Possibly but don't you think the NSA could hire a better class of provocateur than Toby. He just seems like a racist true believer who seriously thinks Islamfascists want to sell the local white girl into prostitution when she goes to Aruba.
That only proves just how good he is at his job!
I've got Directway (satelite). Will that link work for me?
Basically, your speed is as fast as the slowest link in the chain between you and the server.
This is the main point to remember when that site you're visiting just won't load quickly.
mebe that's their mission, to ratchet up the threads to noticeable, listable status. Oh well. I'm posting anyway.
el | Email | 01.25.06 - 9:34 am | #
You definitely see that on Indymedia sites when these types come in and post anti-semitic rants and links to Stormfront.
But that seems more like crude trolling designed to give the LGFs and FreeREpublics an excuse to get them delisted from Google News than it seems like something coming from the NSA.
Orrin Hatch is an utter twunt. He basically got a right of veto on Clinton's nominees, and now he acts all stick-up-the-arse over Suck-Up Sam.
He really does need a close encounter with a Louisville Slugger.
He really does need a close encounter with a Louisville Slugger.
pseudonymous in nc | Email | 01.25.06 - 9:37 am | #
I heard that.
/NSA
Btw, I did drop $0.35 to call the office of Lamar! when I went to the store. Left a voicemail about Alito...
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"I'd be flabbergasted if left leaning blogs weren't being eavesdropped upon."
Just to be pedantic...it isn't really "eavesdropping" to load a publicly-accessible blog =x
Nim, ham hock of liberty
True. But I love the semantic game. "It's not spying! It's eavesdropping!" Gladys Kravitz apparently works for the NSA.
The only thing I can see myself needing a chip faster than 2ghz for is re-coding video files to burn to homemade DVDs which takes hours on my current system.
That is BILL Nelson of Fla. Ben Nelson, from everything I have read, is voting YES.
Sean
They don't call him Bendover for nothing.
Jonah has just discovered that Arab Simpsons story that everyone else did 3 months ago.
"True. But I love the semantic game. "It's not spying! It's eavesdropping!" Gladys Kravitz apparently works for the NSA.
NYMary"
Yeah. It's an important distinction legally, or course, but also ethically, in my mind. If the NSA or someone in the administration wants to refresh Eschaton all day and read the threads, more power to them. As long as they're not wasting too many budgetary dollars. Maybe they'll get a few laughs and realize how witty and enlightened and fantastically physically attractive we are, while they're at it.
On the other hand, wiretapping private phone calls....not so amusing.
Hassan Bensober.
Well the Pentium D 2.8 really isn't that fast so much as it's stable.
Raw CPU speed is becoming less of an issue these days unless you're a hardcore gamer, and even then, the video card makes a bigger difference. Big drives and lotsa RAM, too.
Of course, it helps that MSFT hasn't upgraded its OS in a few years. Once Vista arrives, all our hardware will be stretched to breaking point again.
That said, now that we're doing gruntier things on our boxen -- video encoding, etc -- the CPU speed and dual core stuff comes in handy.
(I have a couple of P233 laptops that I'm trying to turn into working machines for parental units. Win2000 at a stretch...)
Sean,
Yup.
"“I have decided to vote in favor of Judge Samuel Alito to serve as the 110th Justice of the United States Supreme Court. I came to this decision after careful consideration of his impeccable judicial credentials, the American Bar Association's strong recommendation and his pledge that he would not bring a political agenda to the Court.”"
http://bennelson.senate.gov/news...cfm?id=250465&&
Oh well.
Those guys in short hair, sunglasses and bad suits that show up at public protest rallies with video cameras and those little ear thingies aren't eavesdropping by strict definition either, I guess, but neither is their presence entirely benign...
Will that link work for me?
It should work okay. It may not give you the most accurate reading depending on atmospheric onditions at the time, but it should be close enough.
Morning folks!
Okay read and despair:
'Magnum P.I.' coming to big screen
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Rawson Marshall Thurber ("Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story") has signed on to write and direct the big-screen adaptation of "Magnum P.I.," the 1980s series that made Tom Selleck a star....
Thurber is not making a spoof but rather something akin to the tone of the show, which mixed humor and danger. The story line for the Universal Pictures film sees Magnum, with the help of his former military pals, searching for a missing buddy.
Jonah has just discovered that Arab Simpsons story that everyone else did 3 months ago.
When he goes to boot camp, he might rediscover his penis.
The militias across this country have more bullets than the fascists have got balls. Just let 'em find out for themselves...
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mili..._71/
4559_71.htm
Maybe they'll get a few laughs and realize how witty and enlightened and fantastically physically attractive we are, while they're at it.
We need our gravatars back!
The only thing I can see myself needing a chip faster than 2ghz for is re-coding video files to burn to homemade DVDs which takes hours on my current system.
BlakNo1
Raw CPU speed is becoming less of an issue these days unless you're a hardcore gamer, and even then, the video card makes a bigger difference. Big drives and lotsa RAM, too.
I've got a Thinkpad G40 with a P-IV 2.4 gig chip and a gig of ram.
Theoretically it's fast but it's got an integrated video controller.
Using Nikon Capture or Photoshop is just torture with this thing. Watching the screen draw when the video card gets bogged down just makes my head feel like exploding.
Next big purchase, one of those PowerBook Dual Core Intel things witha 128 meg video card.
I have decided to vote in favor of Judge Samuel Alito to serve as the 110th Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Fuck him. I don't care about the Yellow Dog bullshit. Fuck him. Chuck Hagel is more use to the Dems than Nelson. Fucking pig-hauler.
Try Again.
The only thing I can see myself needing a chip faster than 2ghz for is re-coding video files to burn to homemade DVDs which takes hours on my current system.
BlakNo1
Have you taken a look at DVD Shrink? It works well in my opinion. And it's fast.
A 'Magnum' movie. What a creative, groundbreaking way to spend tens of millions of dollars to tell a story...
Reid should make newly minted Senator Menendez's initiation rite be making him give Bendover Nelson a good cockpunch.
Next big purchase, one of those PowerBook Dual Core Intel things witha 128 meg video card.
The biggest slower-down on my iBook is the HD speed. I've maxed out the RAM (1.2Gb) but you can't really do video capture to the local HD.
"'Magnum P.I.' coming to big screen"
Inevitable.
There are still plenty of shows left to mine for the big screen treatment too:
Knight Rider
The A-Team
The Frugal Gourmet
ALF
Diff'rent Strokes
The SIX MILLION DOLLAR Man
Fantasy Island
The O'Reilly Factor
The Love Boat
I, personally, can not wait to see each and everyone of them, and purchase the Special Edition DVDs.
"I'd be flabbergasted if left leaning blogs weren't being eavesdropped upon."
count on it. isikoff said as much on tweety's show last nite about the defense dept's monitoriing of anti-war groups -- like those wacky quakers.
Okay read and despair:
'Magnum P.I.' coming to big screen
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Rawson Marshall Thurber ("Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story") has signed on to write and direct the big-screen adaptation of "Magnum P.I.," the 1980s series that made Tom Selleck a star....
Pass the cyanide.
The worst part is they'll probably cast Paul Rudd or Will Ferrell with their comical Anchorman moustaches as Magnum.
Or wingnut Selleck himself...... (shudder)
Shorter Jon Corzine smackdown of Don Imus:
(Paraphrase)
Imus: Why can't I raise money for the fallen heroes fund?
Corzine: Because no cares what you say, Don?
We need our gravatars back!
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 01.25.06 - 9:43 am | #
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maybe a plank in the next eschacon convention. I think winter would be a nice gravatar season, something colorful to look at.
how would anyone get Atrios to sit up and take notice?
i assume Menendez is against Alito, although both are from Jersey.
actually, is Menendez even in yet, or will the switch come later?
Nim,
Did I ever tell you that I have a sibling who collects Alf memorabilia? It's fairly horrifying, a huge collection.
Hayden is a liar!
Should we tell our eavesdroppers what's encoded in all the sex and food talk
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
The biggest slower-down on my iBook is the HD speed. I've maxed out the RAM (1.2Gb) but you can't really do video capture to the local HD.
You can spend an extra 100 bucks on the Powerbooks and get a 7200 hard drive.
Those new intel Powerbooks are really making my credit cards itch.
A LAPTOP with dual processers and a 128 meg video card!!!
I think the way to go is PC for desktops and Apple for laptops.
Nim's funamentally correct. The issue is going to be really not so much a factor of geographic location _per se_, but whose networks your data is traversing. Recall the Internet is not one big network, but a collection of networks maintained by lots of different service providers. If you and the server in question are on the same network, your delay is going to be less than if you're on Provider A's network, they hand off to Provider B, and they finally hand off to Provider Z.
And from moment to moment, there could be many people accessing the same service, routers could go down and require rerouting of traffic and maybe retransmission of lost packets, etc.
Quite frankly, you should always be impressed that this shit works at all, given how many components are involved.
"Nim,
Did I ever tell you that I have a sibling who collects Alf memorabilia? It's fairly horrifying, a huge collection.
NYMary "
No, but I did hear that ALF's back...in Pog form!
actually, is Menendez even in yet, or will the switch come later?
Sworn in last week, the day after Corzine took over as Gov.
Lautenberg's comments will likely be delicious, after his non-endorsement introduction to the judciary committee. Corzine didn't even show up for that one.
Boy, when Alito runs for re-election to the Supreme Court, he'd better have done what the people want....
What's that? He's in for life?
Uh-oh.
"I just upgraded to a AMD 64-bit dual chip with 2 GB of memory.
And we all know the AMD dual core is faster.
So there.
attaturk"
question: to upgrade to the dual chip is it a simple matter of buying the chip and plugging it in?
And when I bought this machine a couple years ago there was a lot of talk about 64 bit applications, and I haven't looked into it recently, but have those panned out?
i assume Menendez is against Alito, although both are from Jersey.
actually, is Menendez even in yet, or will the switch come later?
smarty jones, deranged insanit
Isn't there some vague procedural thing where the senator from the judge's home state can just stick the nomination in his pocket and kill it that way? Blue slip or somehing, I think it's called? (High school civics was a looooong time ago, and I don't think Schoolhouse Rock ever handled this.)
Next big purchase, one of those PowerBook Dual Core Intel things witha 128 meg video card.
SWR
If space permits, you could buy a desktop system just for doing those two tasks, that would do them better than the PowerBook you're talking about for a lot less money. If you've looked at a high-end video card lately you'll understand why laptops can't compete--the case isn't big enough to hold the fan, let alone the card! You should be able to get the ultimate video editing system in a desktop for well under $2K.
Shorter Jon Corzine smackdown of Don Imus:
(Paraphrase)
Imus: Why can't I raise money for the fallen heroes fund?
Corzine: Because no cares what you say, Don?
Culture of Truth | Email | Homepage | 01.25.06 - 9:47 am | #
You really knew that Corzine smacked Forrester around during the debates (which were relatively open) when you heard Tweety express his disgust at "how rude" they were.
Too bad Corzine's just going to get swallowed up by the awfulness of NJ politics.
all you moonbats who went to eschacon have nice fat files in the fbi.
the good news is if you lose anthing on your hard drives, you can call the friendly people at the NSA help desk to get a copy.
You can spend an extra 100 bucks on the Powerbooks and get a 7200 hard drive.
iBooks are more bang/buck, though, unless you're doing stuff with the Pro apps. And they're likely to remain so once they become the MacBook Not-Pro.
Why hasn't anyone made a big deal about Dick Cheney's 433,333 stock options with Halliburton? He currently has to his benefit:
33,333 shares at @28.125
300,000 shares at @ 39.50
100,000 shares at @ 54.50
Current price is $75.95 per share, meaning that Dick Cheney's options are currently worth $14,674,151.
But at least he didn't get a blow job.
integrated video controller.
Integrated video is teh suck.
Max, I'm not usually ripping DVDs. I'm usually doing the oppposite, re-coding video to burn onto disc.
No, but I did hear that ALF's back...in Pog form!
Nim, ham hock of liberty
And after that Simpsons episode, he looked for them for six months.
Sometimes I wish I was making this shit up.
He really does need a close encounter with a Louisville Slugger.
pseudonymous in nc - 9:37 am
would you like to do the honors?
Aluminum? or wood?
Did I ever tell you that I have a sibling who collects Alf memorabilia? It's fairly horrifying, a huge collection.
NYMary
This is something that's admitted publicly?
"the good news is if you lose anthing on your hard drives, you can call the friendly people at the NSA help desk to get a copy.
smarty jones, deranged insanit "
Did I ever tell you that I have a sibling who collects Alf memorabilia? It's fairly horrifying, a huge collection.
NYMary
Better than Alf Landon memorabilia, I guess.
You should be able to get the ultimate video editing system in a desktop for well under $2K.
Well under. I did a very ungeeklike thing and bought a Precision 380 from Dell.
1380 bucks with all their discounts. But it's fast enough for anything I'll have to do in five years.
A similar Powermac would have been about 2500.
But I'm noticing that Apple's laptops are just as cheap as Windows laptops and seem nicer.
Hold, threads!
The Gilbert & Sullivan thread topics continue to amuse the heck out of me. "Now Threadrick, let your escort lion-hearted" is my favorite, so far.
Anyone who doesn't know why the G&S thread topics ("Poor threaded one", "Oh! False one, you have threaded me", etc.) are funny needs to rent the 1983 movie version of The Pirates of Penzance right now! Or ,if you can, attend a local stage performance!
Suggested next topics (if they haven't been done already):
- Hail, Threadery, thou heav'n-born maid! Thou gildest e'en the pirate's trade.
- Threadrick here, oh joy, oh rapture!
- With cat-like thread upon our prey we steal.
- Let us gaily thread the measure.
- Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted be summoned to receive a General's blessing, ere they depart upon their thread adventure.
Isn't there some vague procedural thing where the senator from the judge's home state can just stick the nomination in his pocket and kill it that way? Blue slip or somehing, I think it's called?
Used to be, but that tradition went out the window during the Bush Reich.
Max, I'm not usually ripping DVDs. I'm usually doing the oppposite, re-coding video to burn onto disc.
BlakNo1
DVD Shrink does re-authoring prior to burning. I think it can do ripping as well, but that's not what I use it for.
Reid should make newly minted Senator Menendez's initiation rite be making him give Bendover Nelson a good cockpunch.
smarty jones, deranged insanit | 01.25.06 - 9:46 am | #
I've gotten the impression that Menendez would cut out someone's heart and snack on it on the floor of the Senate if Schumer asked.
Schumer should ask.
Aluminum? or wood?
WoodyGuthrie'sGuitar
Aluminum makes an attention-getting and entertaining "plink" whereas wood yields a satisfying "thunk." It's such a tough choice. Better try both just to be sure.
all you moonbats who went to eschacon have nice fat files in the fbi.
Some of us have been at this so long our files were written out with quill pens.
Woody's: wood, always wood. The ping of the bat would never be heard in a world that valued the right things.
This is something that's admitted publicly?
It's not me!
I've gotten the impression that Menendez would cut out someone's heart and snack on it on the floor of the Senate if Schumer asked.
Say hello to my little friend.
/He says making a possibly racist comment on Menendez's Cuban background.
Quite frankly, you should always be impressed that this shit works at all, given how many components are involved.
In the last 2-2 1/2 years that I've been learning this stuff, I've become amazed at just this very thing.
wood can break. You want aluminum.
Used to be, but that tradition went out the window during the Bush Reich.
This one? Or the last one? Because I thought it had happened to a couple of Clinton's appointees.
DVD Shrink does re-authoring prior to burning
Ah, perhaps I should check it out then.
"Quite frankly, you should always be impressed that this shit works at all, given how many components are involved."
I thought this was in reference to our government...oh wait, our government DOESN'T WORK. my bad.
But I'm noticing that Apple's laptops are just as cheap as Windows laptops and seem nicer.
SWR
i'm cutting stuff for broadcast w/final cut pro on a 17" powerbook. works great. battery life on the powerbook sucks though - could be that the big screen is a power hog.
desktop would have been cheaper, but i can haul the laptop (and i do mean haul - it's heavy) on location and start cutting before i get back to the office.
ProfWombat...the affection and respect Ted Kennedy and Orin Hatch have for me was perplexing when i 1st observed it. Orin may think like a conservative...but he seems to be a reasonable man who respects others. Linsey Graham on the other hand has the lips of a sexually deviant pedaphile.
wood can break. You want aluminum.
But sharp splintery shards can also be used to great effect. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Used to be, but that tradition went out the window during the Bush Reich.
This one? Or the last one? Because I thought it had happened to a couple of Clinton's appointees.
The current regime is the only Reich that I know. Bush41 wasn't completely evil and tyrannical.
Curly is a fearless hunter.
.
Well, mine--as you might imagine--
is wood, #33, with a thick grip...
but i can haul the laptop (and i do mean haul - it's heavy) on location and start cutting before i get back to the office.
Tell me about it. Have you ever used a Thinkpad G40.
Good thing is you can drop an atomic bomb on top of it and it would probably still work.
me? i meant each other.
Yeah, the rethugs used the secret hold on Clinton nominees as often as they used toilet paper.
One excellent judge from Missouri, Ronnie White, had a secret hold from a certain ass clown named John Ashcroft.
Ashcroft doesn't like black people.
The Gilbert & Sullivan thread topics continue to amuse the heck out of me. "Now Threadrick, let your escort lion-hearted" is my favorite, so far.
back when i could sing and could pass for good looking, i played frederick.
how's that for utterly useless trivia about someone not even remotely well-known?
Quite frankly, you should always be impressed that this shit works at all, given how many components are involved.
exactly how i feel about the nyc mass transit system. actually, that's exactly how i feel about nyc in general.
I thought this was in reference to our government...oh wait, our government DOESN'T WORK. my bad.
Actually, our government DOES work, and that's the problem. It was designed to not work efficiently, but single party rule has greased the wheels. In my most recent podcast I refer to a Herbert story called The Tactful Saboteur, which is about the development of deliberate, Constitutional sabotage to slow things down.
back when i could sing and could pass for good looking, i played frederick.
how's that for utterly useless trivia about someone not even remotely well-known?
Come over here, poor wandering one.
I got back on a G&S kick when that Brit politician called Hitchens a gin-soaked popinjay. All I could think was "A peacock popinjay, bravely born."
"Linsey Graham on the other hand has the lips of a sexually deviant pedophile."
Lindsey missed his calling by being born too late for the Nazi regime. That little fucker was born to wear the black uniform of the SS.
Wood or aluminum would work fine. It's all good.
Ashcroft doesn't like black people.
smarty jones, deranged insanit
Oh, I don't think that's true. He's just always been concerned that they might get in over their heads and he wants to protect them - just as he likes to protect women, and brown and red and yellow people. You know. All those kind.
Because I thought it had happened to a couple of Clinton's appointees.
Try 60.
link
In fact, while Democratic senators used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's 229 first-term judicial nominees, the Republican-controlled Senate prevented approximately 60 Clinton nominees from even receiving a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, much less a vote on the Senate floor. And while Senate Republicans under Clinton strictly enforced a "blue slip" rule -- which allows one home-state senator to prevent a nomination from moving forward -- they greatly relaxed this rule under Bush to circumvent Democrats' objections to several nominees.
No doubt in my mind but that I'm being eavesdropped, probably mail inspected as well. Phone calls from Africa, Eschacon, Quaker. I mean I fit so many categories. Good news, they're wasting their time and money. Bad news, we're all paying for it, not just monetarily, but in opportunity costs.
i'm cutting stuff for broadcast w/final cut pro on a 17" powerbook. works great. battery life on the powerbook sucks though - could be that the big screen is a power hog.
What you're doing also makes a difference. If you're running the processor flat-out all the time (e.g., grinding out video like you probably are) the battery life will suffer. The processors are pretty good at cutting back their power consumption when they're "idle"--in other words, while you're sitting there deciding what key to hit next.
Well the Pentium D 2.8 really isn't that fast so much as it's stable.
It's nice to be able to burn DVDs while using iTunes.
SWR
"Stability" in that sense (multi-tasking) has exactly nothing to do with your processor and everything to do with the OS and sotware.
The general rule is that AMD handle fp better than Intels, and differences in architecture mean that certain kinds of things are faster on AMDs and others are faster on Intels.
Remember, Cray chose AMD Opterons for the world's latest supercomputer (Red Storm at Sandia). It wasn't because they were unstable.
In fact, while Democratic senators used the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's 229 first-term judicial nominees, the Republican-controlled Senate prevented approximately 60 Clinton nominees from even receiving a hearing
Which will doubtless be reported in the MSM as the Rethugs having been mercilessly oppressed during the Clinton admin.
ql,
I got an email from a guy in Baghdad, said he was reading my blog. (A DOD contractor who likes power pop) So I figure I'm on the hook.
more Hatch bullshit
During the six Clinton years that Republicans controlled Congress, Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch faithfully administered the "blue-slip" policy, which allowed home-state senators to effectively veto nominees by not returning their evaluation forms to the committee. In 1998, the slips carried language stating that "[n]o further proceedings on this nominee will be scheduled until both blue slips have been returned by the nominee's home state senators."
Today Hatch still reigns, but the blue-slip policy doesn't: The Utah Republican announced early in 2003 that the slips were merely advisory, claiming that that had always been the case. "He'll come up with these really contorted reasons for why [a nominee] is moving over the objection of their home-state senators," says Marcia Kuntz, director of the Judicial Selection Project at the Alliance for Justice, an association of advocacy groups. In the case of Henry Saad, Bush's 6th Circuit nominee with Federalist Society credentials and a distaste for workers' rights, Hatch argued that even though Michigan's two Democratic senators hadn't returned blue slips, Saad would have a hearing because the senators received "White House consultation." As Kuntz explains, "Consultation from the White House consists of simply telling you that 'this is what we're going to do.'"
Sean
"A couple" is, of course, a relative term.
Department of Non-Shocking News:
The White House will not release Katrina papers.
Confidentiality, you know.
NYMary: That's cool!
Someone from Tehran accessed my blog the other day. Don't know why.
Hedwig, eh?
The White House will not release Katrina papers.
Confidentiality, you know.
Government employees don't really expect confidentiality, you know.
The White House will not release Katrina papers.
Confidentiality, you know.
Culture of Truth
if we reveal all of our contingency plans, it will be tantamount to providing aid and comfor to the hurricanes.
all you moonbats who went to eschacon have nice fat files in the fbi.
Some of us have been at this so long our files were written out with quill pens.
GWPDA
Although it's a different agency, the RCMP/CSIS started my file before I had a SIN.
A letter to my house was opened, torn open, and given a disclaimer apology sticker on it yesterday.
My firewall tracked a .gov site from Brazil on it. Outsourced spying. So if they're caught it gives them a retreat tactic to continue wiretapping as the original link was from overseas.
The Brazil movie has become reality?
Meanwhile, can anoyone discuss what "compleeing" usage in legal opinions consists of? have the feeling Alito's interpretation of Executive power consists of an active tense action that compels him to consider every action to legal. The act itself is the law for the President.
Meanwhile his language to challenge abortion flies in the face of his excuse for rendering persons not considered US citizens or given varied combatant/noncombatant prisoner status.
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