I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
It's the struggle that makes you strong.
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My years at the computer have made me too strong.
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G'night. I can deal with the substantive fight from the previous threads but this is just too much for my womanly heart to endure.
Wasn't Justin Long rather badly killed in Jeepers Creepers??
I was hoping for a post with more substance.
I meant the fight over "substantive". Jeesh.
YOU WILL BURN IN HELL, DUNCAN
Macs rule, dammit!
I'm completely convinced you want to own a PC too.
A commerical hipster is an oxymoron.
I really, really, really hate those ads.
I want to shoot both of them in the face.
Good night everyone.
I think they went down the wrong path when they strayed from DOS.
Or OS/2, actually.
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G'night.
This (rarely) grumpy woman needs to wake up to a new dawn.
Peace.
Yeah, that's the "problem" (from Apple's perspective) with those commercials. The hilarious thing is, Apple has never figured it out.
Of course, Apple doesn't really want to be a "successful" company. It wants to be a "niche" company, with an incredibly gullible fanbase that will buy whatever new crap they come out with every year, not because they "need" it or their old crap doesn't work, but because the new crap is deemed "cool."
macs are for dorks. as an ex-apple droid I understand their needs and desires, but still, they are pretty dork dork dorky.
it's a fucking box.
I am honestly a bit puzzled about Atrios' apparent lack of understanding who's the PC and who's the Mac. Seriously, it seems pretty fucking clear to the casual observer.
PhDs.
[shakes head sadly]
Who buys computers based on the manufacturer's commercials? Jeesh.
It is similar to comparing Obama to any of the other candidates in the Democratic field. The low information voter with little knowledge of politics will choose Obama, while those with more experience and an above average knowledge will choose one of the other candidates. An above average voter, I oppose Obama, who panders to low information voters.
Macs are the computers for above average computer users. Low information computer users prefer PCs.
Dave nails it.
It wants to be a "niche" company, with an incredibly gullible fanbase that will buy whatever new crap they come out with every year, not because they "need" it or their old crap doesn't work, but because the new crap is deemed "cool."
Here, try this broader brush: I'm able to paint all the Iraqis schools with one stroke.
PC's are Republican
Apples are Democrats.
NTodd--so you've discovered we're useless. Was bound to happen sooner or later 
dave™©
i hate you
Macs rule, dammit!
Since Macs were brought up...
I successfully hacked my MacBook Pro Core Duo by installing an 802.11n wifi card from a Mac Pro into it. Rock on, I went from 25Mbit/sec to 200 Mbit/sec, w00t.
Now if the Apple TV would ship...
Despite the nearly 15 years of working in the computer bidness, I can say, without a shadow of a doubt that both PC's and Mac's suck.
The best computer system ever was the Altair.
PC's are Republican
Apples are Democrats.
Ferris
yes
PC's are Republican
Apples are Democrats.
Ferris
Blow me.
I am going to strangle KittyCunt.
I'm blogging on a PC junior.
With a chicklet keyboard.
Bill Gates is a vagina.
A friend of mine's three rules of computers, be they Macs or PCs:
1. All computers are stupid.
2. All hard drives crash.
3. Hit the save button a lot.
When I don't have to think about computers, they're fine. When I have to outwit them just to make them do what they did seventeen minutes ago, they piss me off...
I'm completely convinced I want to own a PC
You already do, right? So you're all set.
t wants to be a "niche" company, with an incredibly gullible fanbase that will buy whatever new crap they come out with every year, not because they "need" it or their old crap doesn't work, but because the new crap is deemed "cool."
Dave, you shock me. The reason I buy Mac is because I DON'T have to buy a new box all the damn time. The one on my desk is 4 years old.
You're painting with a broad brush there.
ProfWombat--I should hope this inn would have a well stocked bar, oil lamps, and a roaring fire.
the commercial is emotional reinforcement for people whose identities are oddly wrapped up in the computer they own, but it won't sell a single extra Mac.
I just got my commodore 64 upgraded.
Pong is fuckin' smokin'.
I'm blogging on a PC junior.
With a chicklet keyboard.
I'm on a Coleco Adam.
I'm playing Donkey Kong right now!
PC's are Republican
Apples are Democrats.
Ferris
Yeah. WhatEv!
I'm blogging on a PC junior.
With a chicklet keyboard.
[looks at office closet, wonders how much Jr is worth...]
well, iTunes works just fine on my HP, and on my iPod, and on my motorola phone, so why would I want to switch to a Mac?
Duncan will not leave us all night with this PC/Mac thread, is he?
what a cruel man
It's fairly obvious John Hodgeman is a Mac user. So your argument makes no sense!
I like Macs in that I don't like to be insulted when I'm on the computer that much. Using windows is like getting dick slapped every 5 minutes.
nostadumbass,
When did you predict the ensuing conflagration of this inevitable PC/Mac flame war?
Nite, all.
Well, as I sit here watching Fantasia on my Mac whilst commenting on my PC, I find that I'm tired of substance and computing, so I bid all you fuckers goodnight.
What's the Mac identity? Upper middle class grunge?
sallyh: and a wall full of books, one of which will have a poem in it of which I'm quite fond, but haven't read for years, much less out loud to a friend...
Windows are Yellow Elephants
Mac OS is Neil Young
I think people should just use the computer they like and feel comfortable with.
The best computer system ever was the Altair.
David (Austin Tx)
GEMDOS or TOS?
[looks at office closet, wonders how much Jr is worth...]
NTodd, Low Substantivist
I'm thinking I need to break out my Atari 800
Why are you PC owners so obnoxious?
You seem so angry. Perhaps you should all take a valium.
Sinclair ZX80, baby!
1K of memory and built-in BASIC! You can store thousands of recipes on a cassette recorder! Yowza!
I just want a decently priced UMPC, and I want it now.
I think people should just use the computer they like and feel comfortable with.
Yeah, me too.
I really don't care about people that prefer PCs. But it seems like they're incensed that I prefer Macs.
They should get a life.
4Legs--I'm a PC user, and I have no issue with Macs or Mac users. The reason I use PCs is because I'm more familiar with them. I'm sure you feel the same way about your Mac.
You're painting with a broad brush there.
Nope. That's their business plan and they have a great big wankfest called "Macworld" every year where they put it into practice. All the fanboys work themselves up into a sweaty froth and the tech journalists "ooh" and "aah" and the next year, all that shit from last year is uncool and the new cool is proclaimed. And a big percentage of those morons go out and drop another $1500.
It's sad. It's stupid. It's true. It's how Apple makes a profit. Deal with it.
PC's are Tom Delay.
Amigas are Spanish girlfriends.
There was a (a guess false) rumor that Apple was discontinuing that ad for that precise reason.
After all who wants a computer that acts like a hipster?
Man I gotta tell ya, that just rubbed me raw, chaffed my shorts and I give up on this place!!!! A PC advocate???
I am going, really. No more Eck to kick around. (Well no one kicks me around, but you know what I mean)
You will be sorry when I am gone. If you even notice.
Okay, don't get all hysterical, my mind is made up.
NTodd--we've got an old Onyx box in the garage. Monsieur will not permit me to dispose of it.
I think people should just use the computer they like and feel comfortable with.
Same here. I use a Mac, but I don't give a fuck what type of machine other people use. What possible difference could it make?
You seem so angry. Perhaps you should all take a valium.
fourlegsgood
i love you!
Okay, one more chance. I am give this place one more try before I say Finito, game over.
I just want a decently priced UMPC, and I want it now.
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari
I just want one that works.
And doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
EkCenTrik--wait! Don't go!
Amiga.
The first dual processor puter before most of you owned one.
It also found a prominent role in the video production and show control business.
Considered "ahead of its time" due to being built from the ground up as a multimedia and multitasking machine, it was a less-expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM-PC. Amiga also had arguably better hardware for the price than those two alternatives. The Amiga community has accused Commodore of poor marketing, resulting in the Amiga mostly being sold as a home-gaming machine, although early Commodore advertisements attempted to place the Amiga into several different markets at the same time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga
I don't want a computer to delight me. I want the sucker to stay the hell out of my way.
It's sad. It's stupid. It's true. It's how Apple makes a profit. Deal with it.
dave™©
Good job.
I enjoy being insulted. Now, kiss my centaur ass.
I like the ads...think their clever...and the new one with the security guy is spot on. Vista will ask you to the point of re-installing XP about security related settings.
For the slow, I'm mocking the ad campaign, not Macs. I haven't spent enough time on a Mac recently to have any opinion.
Same here. I use a Mac, but I don't give a fuck what type of machine other people use. What possible difference could it make?
I dunno. They seem to be in a froth over it.
I don't get it.
"I just want one that works."
And doesn't look like something from MOMA.
I have one of these.
I wonder if I can get it on the Internet.
One of my favorite Dilbert strips, the original computer snobs. Or maybe that "honor" should fall to VMS users...
ProfWombat--I expect mine to be docile, silent servants, willing to cater to my whims.
I like Macs because the cvompany advertising tells me that if I buy their brand of consumer appliance it makes me a rebel and a free thinker like John Lennon. I hear that Electrolux is going to take the same marketing approach for vaccuum cleaners.
a thursday is a beautiful day for a GUILTY verdict
Dave, you shock me. The reason I buy Mac is because I DON'T have to buy a new box all the damn time. The one on my desk is 4 years old.
Really? My Dell PC is 7 years old. Needless to say, I've not felt compelled to buy a new computer.
unless you're paying complete attention it's rarely obvious just who is supposed to be the personification of which computer.
It's just an ad aimed at reassuring the base - like the swift boats. Only a self-righteous Mac user would know who was who out w/o close attention.
(note I do not think all mac users are self righteous, but c'mon people we all know them)
For the slow, I'm mocking the ad campaign, not Macs. I haven't spent enough time on a Mac recently to have any opinion.
Well, some of us got it.
(I've been known to almost kill myself looking for the remote to turn the fuckers off.)
After all who wants a computer that acts like a hipster?
Fledermaus
"BEEP! That email to your mother is lame. BEEP! Do you, like, soak you hands in WD40 before using me? BEEP! Upgrade my RAM, lame-o, or I won't get you into the cool web sites. BEEP!"
From the current NYMagazine -- fantastic piece on Mary Weiss, lead singer of ultimate girl group the Shangri-las (Leader of the Pack), who has her first album in decades coming out next week.
And you Canadians should elsewhere in the same issue for a very nice photo spread on the very silly (I keed, I keed) Arcade Fire.
One of my favorite Dilbert strips, the original computer snobs. Or maybe that "honor" should fall to VMS users...
puppethead
Having worked for the VMS company, Unix rocks.
As we all know, the "Dude you're getting a Dell" Windows ads were so much better...
I really don't care about people that prefer PCs. But it seems like they're incensed that I prefer Macs.
They should get a life.
fourlegsgood
WTF???
It's the Mac owners that start this flamefest *almost* every single fucking time.
I
DON'T
CARE
But "get a Mac" gets pretty fucking old.
I wrangle 4 Macs at work, BTW.
Everyone must build their own computer from the MoBo up. Easier to do with a PC.
Really? My Dell PC is 7 years old. Needless to say, I've not felt compelled to buy a new computer.
Well, that's nice.
Would you like a medal? My point was that I don't feel compelled to run out and buy something new either, not that you guys do.
Sheesh.
That commercial makes me want to fence a stolen computer and go buy some rocks.
Or those fucking Microsoft butterfly commercials...
on the very silly (I keed, I keed) Arcade Fire.
steve simels
I WANT A DIVORCE!
Actually I have become convinced today that choice in computers will matter little for the day to day need.
I have spent a part of the day playing with Google Apps. Good and bad, it is pretty slick. Somebody is finally getting the right idea.
It's the Mac owners that start this flamefest *almost* every single fucking time.
Go back and see who started it this time.
Fuck.
With a chicklet keyboard.
A guy that used to work for me wrote some neat utilities for that. He made friends with lots of IBMers from that.
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Nostra: how hard is that to do? I have an old tower that stopped working one day about 4 years ago; wonder if I can put new stuff in it for not a lot of skill or coin...
4Legs--would you like a nice warm cookie?
I have spent a part of the day playing with Google Apps. Good and bad, it is pretty slick. Somebody is finally getting the right idea.
Yeah, we got a taste of that last week. Some of them are pretty slick.
i have to go to bed, au revoir
"Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wash Post: Top officials at Walter Reed knew about problems for years; GOP congressman's complaints ignored, soldier found sleeping in his own urine
by John Aravosis (DC) · 2/28/2007 11:03:00 PM ET
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A US soldier was sleeping in his own urine at Walter Reed, the wife of a Republican congressman witnessed it and complained, and nobody did a damn thing.
God bless Dana Priest. THIS is what reporting looks like. It's not about being partisan. It's about doing your job, and hopefully making the world a better place at the same time.
From the front page of tomorrow's Washington Post:
Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including the Army's surgeon general, have heard complaints about outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups and members of Congress for more than three years.
A procession of Pentagon and Walter Reed officials expressed surprise last week about the living conditions and bureaucratic nightmares faced by wounded soldiers staying at the D.C. medical facility. But as far back as 2003, the commander of Walter Reed, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, who is now the Army's top medical officer, was told that soldiers who were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were languishing and lost on the grounds, according to interviews.
GOP congressman was rebuffed when he brought problems to the attention of the authorities at Walter Reed:"
http://americablog.blogspot.com/
Nothing like an OS flame war for entertainment.
This 20 year digital content creator appreciates Apple as the standard by which all industrial design should be measured.
I'd be happy if every cellphone maker in the world threw out their clumsy, unintuitive interfaces and licensed Apple's, but I need cheap computing horsepower, not stylish packaging, to get my art done, and you don't get that from Apple.
I do find insufferable the entire self aggrandizing fashion/marketing/company philosphy surrounding Apple. For Pete's sake, we can't all be hip 20 something flmmakers, with carefully cultivated 2.5 day beard growths. Apple's marketing is not at all subtle,
the "genius bar" in the store? please. Perhaps a shiny laptop will get you some attention when you pull it out in Starbuck's, but I bet it doesn't really get you laid.
"It's the Mac owners that start this flamefest *almost* every single fucking time."
Strangely, my experience is a bit akin to what happens when someone finds out I smoke. They waste no time telling me how terrible a Mac is just like they have to tell me how nasty a habit smoking is.
sallyh: the poor dears do get their dander up about this sort of thing, don't they?
I have one of these.
I wonder if I can get it on the Internet.
David (Austin Tx)
I have one of these
4Legs--would you like a nice warm cookie?
Sure!
Good night dearie.
The first dual processor puter before most of you owned one.
I'm glad you put that "most" in their, young 'un.
Workbench was *the* best OS ever.
Not that it would do today's task's but today's OSes could use some of that design philosophy.
Lean and creative.
ProfWombat--all I want is a nice, agreeable electronic slave.
And a brandy with my favorite marsupial.
"In 2004, Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.) and his wife stopped visiting the wounded at Walter Reed out of frustration. Young said he voiced concerns to commanders over troubling incidents he witnessed but was rebuffed or ignored. "When Bev or I would bring problems to the attention of authorities of Walter Reed, we were made to feel very uncomfortable," said Young, who began visiting the wounded recuperating at other facilities.
Beverly Young said she complained to Kiley several times. She once visited a soldier who was lying in urine on his mattress pad in the hospital. When a nurse ignored her, Young said, "I went flying down to Kevin Kiley's office again, and got nowhere. He has skirted this stuff for five years and blamed everyone else."
Kiley is now the US Army's Surgeon General. What is this man still doing with a job?
Someone is going to be on the short list for a Pulitzer. http://americablog.blogspot.com/
Actually, in all fairness to Salon, they had this story on Tuesday."
Mary Weiss is coming to SXSW next month. Can't wait.
Speaking of the IBM Chicklet keyboard.
I want to mod one like this.
That turn of the century brass keyboard look is too fucking cool.
sallyh: yes, if you please, and leave the curtains open so the morning sun shines in.
"Yeah, we got a taste of that last week. Some of them are pretty slick.
fourlegsgood, kittenslave "
Well we are seriously considering moving our email front end to Google. The advantages cost and labor wise are compelling. On the other hand, I am bit nervous over letting go of the function, at least initially.
what you say of the commercials is true, but this luddite is stickin with mac. all my troubles are with Microsoft. fuckin explorer.
I WANT A DIVORCE!
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I said I was kidding!!
Seriously == very nice piece on their New York City gigs, with cool pix...
Nostra: how hard is that to do? I have an old tower that stopped working one day about 4 years ago; wonder if I can put new stuff in it for not a lot of skill or coin...
ProfWombat
PCs are pretty easy to build. Everything is pretty modular. No soldering. Do you remember Heathkit?
http://www.heathkit.ca/
This 20 year digital content creator appreciates Apple as the standard by which all industrial design should be measured.
I hear they are stil paying royalty fees to Fisher-Price and Crane.
Who watches commercials? You do, apparently. But don't shoot yourself in the foot: buy a Mac.
EkCenTrik--didn't you know? Smokers, including you and myself, are thought to be lower life forms. (/snark)
Now that they've got Intel Inside - and you can run both simultaneously, what's the dif?
"Not that it would do today's task's but today's OSes could use some of that design philosophy."
Who says? Have you looked at the stuff they port over to the Amiga still?
People used to build their own stereos, test equipment, Ham radios...
http://www.heathkit-museum.com/h...m/
hvmhifi.shtml
Nostra: I remember Heathkit very well; a high point of my career was pushing 20 watts or so of CW out of a 6dq6 tube in a pure homebrew novice rig...
First computer: TI-99/4A. First computer as a student: Wang 2200. First big computer: IBM System/370.
My current machine blows them all away. However, it's nothing special--technological advances have given us an embarassment of riches.
I have one of these.
My brother had the Atari 600 XL. It was the second computer he owned. His first was a Vic 20.
Here is the first computer I ever used on a regular basis:
http://www.bowkera.com/
north_sta...r_advantage.htm
I used to program with Turbo pascal on it.
Now that they've got Intel Inside - and you can run both simultaneously, what's the dif?
RepubAnon
Well, I generally don't use Intel, for starters...
Well we are seriously considering moving our email front end to Google. The advantages cost and labor wise are compelling. On the other hand, I am bit nervous over letting go of the function, at least initially.
EkCenTriK
I send all my email through gmail before it gets to exchange...it filters out 95+% of the junk/spam that way. And it's free...not that that's what you're probably talking about doing
"EkCenTrik--didn't you know? Smokers, including you and myself, are thought to be lower life forms"
Yeah, but you notice how upper life forms keep hanging out with us bad kids.
As everyone knows, we smoke cuz we are cooool.
EkCenTrik---and here I thought we smoked because we liked it...
an above average consumer and voter, i own an apple and i oppose obama. i imagine there are many low information voters and consumers who support obama and purchase any which computer made available to them at the local electronics warehouse. willing to take the easy route, as they refuse to be challenged, these low information voters and consumers have no respect for quality and actual use value. instead, they just want what is merely accessible. never burden these low information voters and consumers with actual substance; they just want image, and they want that image to be devoid of content. because i am an above average voter and consumer, i need the challenge of substance and content, which is why i own a mac and why i oppose obama.
i have a pc, i love my pc, i could never use a mac.
As you might have gathered, I'm not fond of the Apple aestetic. Now that is a matter of personal preference, but don't try to tell me it's the cat's ass.
'Cuz it's ugly.
KittyCunt, I am now gutting you.
Duncan, you identify with Hodgman because you are a Big Dork too.
"I send all my email through gmail before it gets to exchange...it filters out 95+% of the junk/spam that way."
Are you talking as an individual account or an entire email base?
I would be moving the entire user base over. I haven't decided on using it as a pass through that they can just happen can use on the road or making it the complete function and our in house server just soaks everything up for archive and recovery.
low information voters
Talking points, or just a limited vocabulary?
I hear that the Apple aesthetic is the cat's ass.
Live on David Letterman, here's the greatest Swedish export since Anita Ekberg
Soundtrack of Our Lives "Sister Surround"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-...h?v=-
LCI1lNQ_6U
Seriously -- this is what a rock band is supposed to sound like.
those lower information voters who support obama are OUT OF TOUCH.
LIV = OOT
low information voter or obama supporter = OUT OF TOUCH
O
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OBAMA SUPPORTERS, WHO ARE ALWAYS LOW INFORMATION VOTERS, ARE
OUT OF TOUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lance Mannion has the ultimate deconstruction of this ad, and he comes to the exact same conclusion:
http://lancemannion.typepad.com/
...hoodiewear.html
"EkCenTrik---and here I thought we smoked because we liked it..."
I wish.
Actually I wish I could go back to the day I started and walk in another direction.
Looks like fy's made a return.
I hear that low-information voters are the cat's ass.
The PC guy is on The Daily Show so that settles that.
"Looks like fy's made a return.
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere"
Oh, he must of just got back from his deployment right? What a trooper.
I would be moving the entire user base over. I haven't decided on using it as a pass through that they can just happen can use on the road or making it the complete function and our in house server just soaks everything up for archive and recovery.
EkCenTriK
just a few users on my personal SBS with exchange and BES...although I don't see why it wouldn't work on a larger group...it would just be a PITA to set up a buch of gmail accounts.
Gotta hit the hay; thanks for being there, guys...
EkCenTrik--given a chance to redo that day, I think I'd do it differently as well.
an above average consumer and v--
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I want to mod one like this.
Dynamite.
It would go well with my 5150.
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Well, a juanty computer discussion brought me back (staying on topic because DNS taught us such a valuable lesson), but I truly must go.
By the way, I suppose I could've gone the "you young whippernappers" route and lied about my first machine being the Babbage difference engine, but that would've been puerile, eh DNS?
Y'all take care of your good selves, and be careful not to stray into the hot topic of Endianness--that way madness lies!
I want to mod one like this.
UNRE and I are both working on steampunk mods.
"just a few users on my personal SBS with exchange and BES...although I don't see why it wouldn't work on a larger group...it would just be a PITA to set up a buch of gmail accounts."
We are not massive, around 70 accounts give or take.
I guess I really should not be overly worried since we can just adjust the MX record if things are no going well.
Nostra: I remember Heathkit very well; a high point of my career was pushing 20 watts or so of CW out of a 6dq6 tube in a pure homebrew novice rig...
ProfWombat
In that case, I would turn that old tower into a project, a lab experiment. You can find all the info you need on the net and in some books. It's probably easier than an old Heathkit. No cold soldered connections!
Ooh! "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" on!
wow. this is quite rare. you're just completely wrong. if you were a PC owner, you'd have to be tone deaf, dumb and blind not to get the message in those commercials. every one is a subtle but easily understood strike against the flaws of PC design. Hodgman is playing the buffoon to the Mac guy, who comes across as friendly without being condescending -- as most Mac owners are.
"It would go well with my 5150."
The PC or the Terminal?
Fresh Intelligence quotes a reviewer for Slate who wondered if the smugness of Mac Guy was a case of Apple parodying its own image. I've often thought that a lot of ads these days actually seem to be insulting or at least making fun of the people the ads are supposedly aimed at. Beer commercials in which homely, overweight, leering morons chase after impossibly beautiful women being a prime example.
Everything is pretty modular. No soldering. Do you remember Heathkit?
http://www.heathkit.ca/
Nostradumbass | 03.01.07 - 12:42 am | #
Built a Heathkit shortwave radio back in the day (by which I mean, sometime after the ivention of the steam engine but before the release of the hit recording "I Want to Hold Your Hand.")
Never worked too well, alas...
I'm a full time Mac professional who makes my living fixing/administering/servicing them, and I don't think the ads are effective either. The only positive thing about the ads are a) they're usually funny, and b) they remind you poor Windows users that Macs exist. There is an alternative.
Night, Prof. Visions of Heathkits...
5150? The CA code for 72 hour observation of the mentally unstable.
The PC or the Terminal?
PC.
I ran across the original invoice recently and was shocked.
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Yes, the ad about Vista with the security guy is funny and accurate. I spent about 6 weeks testing the integration of Vista with my company's product and grew to dispise that User Account Control stuff.
That's Microsofts solution for the security problems they have from too closely tying the web browser and the OS: they made another level of security. The user must click on a confirmation dialog to do stuff. This prevents things from coming in through the browser and silent executing themselves in the background.
Using Firefox fixes that issue without a new OS. The non-competetive business practices Microsoft used to kill Netscape keep biting them in the ass years later.
UNRE and I are both working on steampunk mods.
JR, kerosene and a match
I don't have the facilities to do the brass cutting and drilling, or I'd be doing that as well.
That keyboard looks really cool.
Never worked too well, alas...
steve simels
If you are an audiofile, you may have heard of Hafler amps... Great amps.
Based on a Heathkit.
jeebus, this is a joke right, Atrios?
In computing, endianness is the ordering used to represent some kind of data as a sequence of smaller units. Typical cases are the order in which integer values are stored as bytes in computer memory (relative to a given memory addressing scheme) and the transmission order over a network or other medium. When specifically talking about bytes, endianness is also referred to simply as byte order.
Well, sure.
Best Windows Vista UAC dialog ever. Jebus, what is wrong with Microsoft?
I disagree with Atrios--I think that the commercials do a really nice job of presenting the case for Apple's products.
That said, I also like Hodgman a lot. He was also the Deranged Millionaire in They Might Be Giants "Venue Songs" CD and DVD. The videos can be seen here:
http://www.tmbg.com/venue.html
I *really* like TMBG a lot.
It doesn't matter which guy is which computer - the point is that Apple is making funny commercials which makes Apple cool which means cool people should work on Macs.
Sheesh.
they remind you poor Windows users that Macs exist. There is an alternative.
sponson
Mac vs PC is hardware, not software.
And you claim to be involved in IT?
Hodgman is playing the buffoon to the Mac guy, who comes across as friendly without being condesc--
BZZZZZZZZZZZT! Ooooh, no, wrong, sorry.
We have some lovely parting gifts, though...
Big Roy at Don Imus says it all:
I don’t know why conservatives don’t support the troops. You would think an issue as important as this would cause people to forget about politics for a few minutes. We can disagree about the war, how we got there, and how we’re going to leave. But everyone should be doing everything they possibly can to REALLY support these wounded American troops. Supporting the war, the President, and republicans or democrats, has nothing to do with supporting the troops.
http://imusblog.com/why-dont-the...s/#comment-
4394
This is an IQ test for liberals to shut their fucking mouths and watch the very rare moment when normal people on the "right" discover their "friends" on the right actually don't give a fuck about U.S. soldiers coming home in body bags or with large pieces of titanium in their heads in place of skull bone.
Check it out.
Using Firefox fixes that issue without a new OS.
They tell you it does,
But you have to ask, how many other critical flaws are they sitting on?
Hafler modded one of these...
http://www.heathkit-museum.com/h...hvmaa-
121.shtml
Haflers are very touchy, but great power amps for audio.
http://www.hafler.com/home/
As a parting thought, the whole PC vs. Mac thing is moot to me. My bread and butter comes from workplaces where the PC is dominant, and programming for Windows is unavoidable. At home I have the same gear I make a living with.
I own the means of production, baby! I have nothing to lose but my golden handcuffs!
Vista is proving that an on-going train wreck can bounce harder and louder than you might have thought.
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jeebus, this is a joke right, Atrios?
ice weasel
The joke was on the trolls.
Atrios 1
Trolls 0
I would rather saw off my own fingers than switch to a PC. And I just bought John Hodgeman's book!
youtube.
Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie
"Every OS Sucks"
Sums everything up right there.
Ooh! "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" on!
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere | 03.01.07 - 12:53 am | #
"Yes master...I live to grovel."
(Sing): "Look at those thighs...cunning and keen...
Look at the size of those thighs like a mighty machine!!!!!"
Great point. I gotta say, as much as I love my excellent Apple Powerbook G4 and its superior Mac OS X operating system, the smugness of these ads is tiresome. Apple: Be magnanimous with your superiority!
"I ran across the original invoice recently and was shocked."
Back in the days when you did actually get a motherboard repaired and it may be a hand soldering job to boot. Twenty years later and I still remember a particular machine and a cold solder joint issue. Unit sat next to a window. It ran just fine during the summer. But when winter came, it would not come up until the sun was streaming through that window.
President Bush, Febuary 27, 2007:
"Standing next to Shaq is an awe-inspiring experience."
Shaquille O'Neal, February 25, 2007:
"I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in."
For the story of President Bush's ironic meeting with Miami Heat star Shaquille O'Neal on Tuesday, see:
"Bush's Shaq Attack."
It's not PCs that suck per se, it's Windows.
That said, if you can't use/don't have the patience for Linux, why buy ANYTHING but a Mac?
(Linux and Mac administrator here...)
Mac vs PC is hardware, not software.
And you claim to be involved in IT?
JR, kerosene and a match
that seems like a silly argument
Second guessing Apple marketing is not very useful.
The Mac ads are aimed at women who own iPods and Windows computers.
And my first computer was an IBM 1401 in junior high. 1961.
Yeah, it was a new computer.
I don't *do* the current generation of Intels, mostly because of the flops.
I work at Microsoft. You'd be surprised how many Mac users there are there. (Including me.) Wonder how many Apple employees use PCs?
That said, if you can't use/don't have the patience for Linux, why buy ANYTHING but a Mac?
Because they are ugly, lame and have Intel chips?
John Hodgman is a Mac User.
"It's not PCs that suck per se, it's Windows."
That is actually an excellent observation.
And my first computer was an IBM 1401 in junior high. 1961.
Yeah, it was a new computer.
shawk
Holy shit.
Also, the next president should *totally* be a "person of faith."
The Greatest Rock Video of All Time.
No kidding. The Replacements "Bastards of Young."
Four minutes of watching somebody's stereo play the Replacements. Warhol only wished he'd thought of something so brilliant.
It should have killed MTV, but of course it helped kill the Replacements. Part of their charm, natch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=a...w0v=ap0p7mhu4w0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac
I like them both for different things.
But my old Powermac has been sitting there for years.
Can't we all just get along?
Those commercials are insipid, really.
I find it annoying to be lied to so directly.
I work at Microsoft. You'd be surprised how many Mac users there are there. (Including me.) Wonder how many Apple employees use PCs?
Anonymous
Good question. Probably not at work... but at home... who knows?
Windows both sucks and blows, but every OS has it's own issues.
You run with what you are comfortable with.
I tend to think the Mac ads are not for the moderately to well experienced user.
They look to be trying to hook the mom or pop user with no skills. Also the person who has had too many problems with adding equipment and the like.
Basically I am saying they are not converting as much as generating the new customer.
steve simels--I'm assuming you remember what went on in Rome
Glad this is just a joke, Atrios. I just flipped over here, REAL quick, as my eyelids are barely still open, and saw your comment.
Seriously, man - lay off the BAD crack.
I've said it before, I'll say it again - Windows are only good for two things: washing and breaking. That's why I own multiple Macs. They're kind of like kids - you just keep collecting the lil' bastards, they won't die, and they're still fairly useful even after years of use and abuse.
And they don't poop their pants, or get you up at 3AM, after they've ralphed in their bed. [While Ms. Silversmith and I do NOT yet have kids, some of my siblings, some of whom I helped raise (like a parent, at times - Man I hated changing pukey bedsheets at 3AM) now have crumb-crushers of their own. I'm still glad, some days, my wife and I don't have kids. Not everyday - but today is one of those where I point and laugh at my siblings and think, "Cosmic justice is a REAL bitch, ain't it?"]
G'night pilgrims.
steve simels | 03.01.07 - 1:06 am | #
Bastards of Young is a truly great song.
"Also, the next president should *totally* be a "person of faith."
tikistitch |"
Still think they should impose a tradition of swearing their oath, hand on flag.
Apple blew it years ago when the refused to license Mac tech for cheaper clones. Eventually they did but it was too late
ON that note. I must away to my slumber.
Catch you batses on the morrow.
Oh and Happy New Year folks.
Today was the end of our Fiscal Year.
Hodgman consistently reveals the inferiority of the PC in funny ways, and that somehow helps PC sales? Hodgman's satire is also supposed to make people forget who represents PCs and who represents Macs?
Uh, Atrios, I've been confused about who's who in these commercials exactly never.
I own 2 Macs and 1 PC and the Macs are simply better machines running better OS. Perfect? No. But the world would be better if Macs were the standard and PCs were the niche. (I have the PC for compatibility reasons -- I can log in to the office network easier from it.)
I think Atrios is just provoking or else has been smoking something.
"Eventually they did but it was too late"
Same could be said of their slow entry into the ethernet world.
...They look to be trying to hook the mom or pop user with no skills. Also the person who has had too many problems with adding equipment and the like.
Basically I am saying they are not converting as much as generating the new customer.
EkCenTriK
I have no idea what the "average" user of a computer does with it, but I assume it involves mostly internet, mail, and word processing.
If you're that user, it makes no real difference which OS you use. But if you had a bad experience with a PC because of malware, viruses,etc. you're probably easily influenced by apple's marketing
I've said it before, I'll say it again - Windows are only good for two things: washing and breaking.
They also let you see through them but keep the weather out. They open and close. I don't do windows but I've been known to stare out them for hours.
Techie question:
I'm a newbie to YouTube, but what I've noticed oddly enough is that pretty much everything seems to be in mono.
I'm not talking about archival footage. I mean....
Even clips taken from like, say, Letterman or Conan in the last few weeks.
Is there some kind of digital issue, or something on my end, or what?
Anybody know? Or am I just being stupid and old?
One more quicktake - and then I'm off to bed.
Plum P. - If I wasn't married, I swear to god I'd run up to Canada and sweep you off your feet.
Not only are you incredibly sweet, and smart ("Can I get a 'Hell Yea?!'"), you speak French fluently - and you're a Mac lover!!!!
Someone again... remind me what the HELL I'm doing in this f-ed up country again?
Bon Nuit, pilgrims...
Macs rule! I see the introduction of the Intel chip as the death-knell for Mac OS, though.
I think Atrios is just provoking or else has been smoking something.
Sean
Atrios was hacked by a mad Mac person and they posted that provocation.
Mac sux because they took out the audio in jack so I can't record music anymore. Where's the anti-fascism in that? Mac = Attaturk = Mussolini = Attaturk owes me a $50 adapter so I can record audio into my mini-Mac. Or something.
As long as you run Linux on the PC, you're cool...
Not only are you incredibly sweet, and smart ("Can I get a 'Hell Yea?!'"), you speak French fluently - and you're a Mac lover!!!!
No Flirting!!!
"If you're that user, it makes no real difference which OS you use."
See my remarks about Google Apps above.
"I have no idea what the "average" user of a computer does with it"
The problem is that average user may not be anywhere near as sophisticated as people might presume. If you spend a lot of time with a computer, things sink in. If you are a low frequency user or minimal app user, then you problem are single tasking, taking things step by step as you learned the app the first time and if a problem occurs, you are lost. That is the user I think they are going for.
Steve Jobs is a much bigger bastard than Bill Gates ever was, BTW.
As a PC and Windows user (among other things) I regularly flip MS the bird. You never see any Mac user acknowledge any limitations. It's like a religion.
"
Anybody know? Or am I just being stupid and old?
steve simels "
Get a Mac.
(Running away swiftly)
Not only are you incredibly sweet, and smart ("Can I get a 'Hell Yea?!'"), you speak French fluently - and you're a Mac lover!!!!
She also, by her own admission, has large breastesses.
goodnight bats
sleep well
You never see any Mac user acknowledge any limitations. It's like a religion.
Sounds suspiciously like Conservatism/Republicanism.
Hey ... in all seriousness folks ... we dirty fucking hippies care a lot more about the people shattered and forlorn from this war now in hospitals than the war lusters do.
I'm not talking about archival footage. I mean....
Even clips taken from like, say, Letterman or Conan in the last few weeks.
Is there some kind of digital issue, or something on my end, or what?
I would imagine it is a digital issue on Youtube's end. When you upload a video, the Youtube folks convert it into their particular format. Going from stereo to mono reduces the file size, something that is no doubt appealing to a site that hosts a zillion videos.
Still think they should impose a tradition of swearing their oath, hand on flag.
When I am elected, I want to be sworn in on a stack of Spiderman comics.
From a strictly hardware PoV it is obvious that the PC is a better platform. More configurations, more powerful, and it can look like what *you* want it to look like.
BTW -- was Justin Long (the Mac kid) the funny computer star trek geek who saves the day at the end of GALAXY QUEST?
If so, he won my tiny heart forever....
I'll say this again ...
Hey ... in all seriousness folks ... we dirty fucking hippies care a lot more about the people shattered and forlorn from this war now in hospitals than the war lusters do.
Anybody know? Or am I just being stupid and old?
steve simels
I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me if that's a tradeoff for having video and keeping bandwith within reason there.
evening moonbeams. just sauntering.
When you upload a video, the Youtube folks convert it into their particular format. Going from stereo to mono reduces the file size, something that is no doubt appealing to a site that hosts a zillion videos.
do you know what format they use?
have you noticed a real hollowness on the audio beds of some of the you tube vids?
All about the ads, Steve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac
The "Crash Different" ads were pretty much the same idea.
I'm just glad that my computer wears a suit and tie. And isn't in a cult.
I would imagine it is a digital issue on Youtube's end. When you upload a video, the Youtube folks convert it into their particular format. Going from stereo to mono reduces the file size, something that is no doubt appealing to a site that hosts a zillion videos.
Richard | 03.01.07 - 1:20 am | #
Thanks -- that actually makes sense even to me.
and g'night, chiropterae.
have you noticed a real hollowness on the audio beds of some of the you tube vids?
HenryFlowerLovesHerPCs
I have noticed some real crap uploads audiowise. Keep looking for other versions. Some folks are better at getting good program material than others. Garbage in, garbage out.
Hodgman comes across as a lot more memorable, entertaining, and interesting.
The British version has the same dynamic with Mitchell and Webb, but it makes the psychology clear: you are the dorky PC guy, but you wouldn't want to share a flat with him.
One of my youtube contributions...
900 feet to oblivion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...h?
v=6eK2jBxhjFc
do you know what format they use?
FLV. Which really is a great (if horribly proprietary) format, because it means you only need one plugin instead of Real/WMV/Quicktime wars.
Keep looking for other versions.
Hate to say it, but the Google vids have better quality all the way around. IMO.
The China Syndrome is on TCM.
TCM rules!
FLV. Which really is a great (if horribly proprietary) format, because it means you only need one plugin instead of Real/WMV/Quicktime wars.
...so the vids can be more widely distributed. Makes sense.
I still have an IBM 300. What is this Googling Windows you speak of?
Mac ads you won't see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o...et%2Da%2Dmac%
2F
Morse code was easier...
All I know is SOS.
...---...
"I'm just a skin!"
Wrong. It's not unclear. It's clear. Long is the cool one, which is obviously the Mac. It's obvious. It's also obvious you're a nerd. Enjoy your PC. Nerd.
/only nerds use PCs.
All about the ads, Steve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac
Nostradumbass | 03.01.07 - 1:23 am | #
Holy crap.
I thank you, my amusingly monikered friend.
900 feet to oblivion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...h? v=6eK2jBxhjFc
Richard
Mac ad
Toss one PC one Mac
See which falls faster
You never see any Mac user acknowledge any limitations. It's like a religion.
Generalise much?
I've told my story before: I spent three or four years gradually realising that dual-booting from Windows to Linux all the time was stupid, and that all of my prejudices against Macs from the college computer room had been more or less addressed by OS X. So I bought an iBook.
More configurations, more powerful, and it can look like what *you* want it to look like.
Also, you can get flashy flashy LEDs for the case!
I believe the word is 'riceburner'.
I'm out for a bit, kids. I must catch the last quatrain to Clarksville.
I have a Compaq CDS 724 with a 486 processor running Windows 3.1. It still works fine. It's not what I'm using now right, but if everything else were to take a dump I could still go online with the Compaq and check email.
Not that anyone asked.
(Remember when Compaqs were decent computers?)
JR, tell your cryptic putdowns to the chief Windows helpdesk guy at my workplace, who has switched his own personal computer to a Mac, and recently erased the Windows "software" he initially installed on it in favor of OS X full-time. They're just tools, as someone (or was that you) said. For someone who "doesn't care," you sure spend a lot of time stoking the fire around here.
do you know what format they use?
have you noticed a real hollowness on the audio beds of some of the you tube vids?
I don't know the specifics. While the comment about "garbage in/garbage out" certainly applies, there are some issues with whatever software youtube is employing to convert from mpg/avi/quicktime etc. to their format. I've now uploaded a bunch of my own personally shot videos, and I've noticed the quality of the youtube version to be rather hit and miss. Sometimes they look pretty good, other times crappy and pixilated. The audio on my vids has been generally fine, but they were recorded in mono to begin with using a digital camera.
..so the vids can be more widely distributed. Makes sense.
Someone buy John Amato a FLV converter, please. Crooks & Liars still does the WMV/QT thing.
No time for coffee flavored kisses, Nostradumbass?
now right = right now
I am not convinced of the super fullicutty of the followers here but I AM unequivocally of the opinion that the A -man is my hero.
And that is real nice.
Why it make one fucking difference? It is that it takes one to know one, that we are all what we really are and that hearts and minds are won, they are.
(Remember when Compaqs were decent computers?)
Before HP bought them out? Or earlier: late 90s, around the time they bought DEC? DEC Alphastations were really cool and unloved.
Amd so to bed.
Evening, all you fine folks.
I'm not going to bother reading the comments you provoked here. The Mac Horde has probably already visited its wrath upon you. They like to think they know something we don't, but the truth is I'll take an enterprise full of PCs vs. an enterprise full of Macs and run it straight out of business. It has to be said.
While the comment about "garbage in/garbage out" certainly applies, there are some issues with whatever software youtube is employing to convert from mpg/avi/quicktime etc. to their format.
Before HP bought them out? Or earlier: late 90s, around the time they bought DEC?
Before they partnered with Radio Shack, in my memory.
(Remember when Radio Shacks were cool stores? Remember the TRS-80? Remember when Harmon-Kardon built all of Radio Shack's amps and receivers?)
Still have a Harmon-Kardon receiver...still works brilliantly...
While the comment about "garbage in/garbage out" certainly applies, there are some issues with whatever software youtube is employing to convert from mpg/avi/quicktime etc. to their format.
HelloScan ate my post. Short story is that you tube live sound quality seems to vary from vid to vid, even tho all the vids were shot with the same cams and edited on the same system. The vids with studio sound seem to always have the same reliable quality.
Some of that is gigo, some of it I can't explain.
I got a tivoli radio. It works well for the price, though I hung an ancient Altec sub on it. That helped the sound. It's also attached to the TV, so that when watching movies, you get to hear all the boom noises.
For the record. my current Mac is a 450 Mhz G3 "Blue and White" the first of the Mac PowerPC 'plastic towers'.
It'll be nine years old in June.
Running OS X 10.3.9.
Waiting on a pair of 256 MB RAM modules to bring it up to the full one Gigabyte it supports.
I do need to change out the G3 for a faster G4, as YouTube and other embedded video is not the best on the current hardware.
I just got home and am still chased by the dude live with a guitar who sang that Seattle sound "hearts and minds" (not quite like Vedder of course), but what the hey.
Fade Away
It was a simple place, a billiard hall on Union Street.
The owner was a GOPer and we spoke of many things, mostly his three-year old boy.
It sure isn't always about what you can sling but about what you can save.
Still have a Harmon-Kardon receiver...still works brilliantly...
Me too, but mine has a crackle in the right channel -- probably from living in a diner at the beach for too many years.
I like older things, anyway. They were generally built to last. An old world craftmanship, so to speak.
has a crackle in the right channel
If you can solder, you can replace the volume potentiometer, which is the most likely place to get the scratchy noise from.
I just finally got rid of my 8 tracks for vinyl. What are these CD's I hear so much about?
I miss grammophone records, and Gregorian chants...
What are these CD's I hear so much about?
One of the possible sources to encode to digital sound files from.
They use FLV format because of the smaller file size and the embedding and crap like that.
Also, you can download the flv files and save them by using online converters and then downloading a flv player. Also, converters for those too.
That's why I use a PC. Nobody was making new stuff for my OS9 mac and I couldn't afford the new mac and PC's are cheaper. But, ya, they are just boxes. It's the intrusiveness of windows that I don't like.
If you can solder, you can replace the volume potentiometer, which is the most likely place to get the scratchy noise from.
I can solder, and I agree with you. I think if I can get the pot out I can probably blow it out with tuner cleaner. There's no way I can do it in place, and the front end is a real piece of work. It's one of those projects I have been putting off for quite awhile.
Here's an example of variable youtube quality. These were both shot with the same camera using the same basic video settings for each.
Pretty good result:
Navy pier, Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C...h?
v=CeQZA5uPO9E
pixilated by youtube:
the Sleeping Giant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m...h?
v=mfdkwRsuxXM
I just finally got rid of my 8 tracks for vinyl.
They replaced 4-tracks with 8-tracks?
It's one of those projects I have been putting off for quite awhile.
I've got one of those, an old receiver that I'm going to give a life time sentence to being the amp for the back yard porch if I ever get the time and inclination to fix it.
Richard | 03.01.07 - 1:55 am | #
The 2nd one isn't very good. I don't like pixilation like that...
Navy Pier...haven't seen that in a while...
Tis a tortured and dated argument this. Both work fine. I would make my purchase decison on the performance of the machines instead of the performance of the actors and writers of their commercials.
Richard, I can't watch your vid of the cliff over the water. It makes me nervous.
We need a free trade agreement that swaps queers for mexicans.
Couldn't sleep. Came back. Read this:
I'm not going to bother reading the comments you provoked here. The Mac Horde has probably already visited its wrath upon you. They like to think they know something we don't, but the truth is I'll take an enterprise full of PCs vs. an enterprise full of Macs and run it straight out of business. It has to be said.
An IT guy in the real world
Anyday, anytime, anywhere - bring it on "IT" guy. Most of the REAL IT guys I know have now bought Macs - for home first, and some of them for work. Yeah, a lot of them run Linux as a primary OS - but they all say the same things to me about why they got the Mac in the first place: "After dealing with those POS PeeCee's and all the Goddamned headaches from Micro$oft's crap-assed software all day, frankly - I just wanted to get a computer that JUST WORKS." And then, they often add in that it's nice to have one machine that does it all, their Mac is faster than any similarly config-ed PC they have to deal with, and yes - people in the tech community, where they live most of the time, think they're cooler. One guy I know even thinks this girl he like actually talked to him because he got a new black MacBook.
So... truth is, Macs ARE better, for most people. Sure, there's more Windoze boxes. But it's been said before - in fact, I'm pretty sure I've even said it here before: 20 billion insects all over the world eat dung all day, and like it. If you're looking at strictly numbers and saying, "Well there's more PC's so they MUST be better...", then I entreat you: Eat Dung. After all, there's WAY more beings on Earth doing that, than, say, those eating sandwiches.
But, obviously, you choose... Now I'm shutting off the computer and going to read...
G'night - last time tonight.
People who get all psycho freako about what kind of computer they use really, really need to get a life.
"Now I'm shutting off the computer and going to read..."
Th...they turn OFF?
You are so right! I was just thinking the same thing this evening. I LOVE the PC guy!
The sound hollowness is caused by phase delayed stereo sound being converted to mono.
Many camcorders use one sound converter and switch the between right and left channels very quickly.
OK for cheap stereo because the ear will adapt but very bad if it gets turned into mono.
Some of the sound gets cancelled or delayed and this makes the sound hollow.
As I do this for a living, I could go on at length but that's the basics.
Does anyone else know about this music site called Pandora?
I'm hesitant to say anything because it's so effen cool that if everyone finds out about it it will get screwed up.
It's an obvious difference, Richard. But why?
Here's the same file on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1...h?
v=1avD4uTx5e0
and google:
http://video.google.com/
videopla...543680002317365
Richard, I can't watch your vid of the cliff over the water. It makes me nervous.
You're not the first person to make that comment!
NEW YORK (AP) - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
Pretty remarkable Richard.
here's another comparison.
This file is on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1...h?
v=1avD4uTx5e0
the same file on google:
http://video.google.com/
videopla...543680002317365
Dunno about all this mac vs pc thing. I use sidux linux currently and find sidux or ubuntu to be easy to use, and both have great support on their IRC chat lines. You can talk to the developers there, if you've got a problem.
http://www.level99comic.com/comi...ic.php?
catid=19
That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. 
Dunno about all this mac vs pc thing. I use sidux linux currently and find sidux or ubuntu to be easy to use, and both have great support on their IRC chat lines. You can talk to the developers there, if you've got a problem.
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Arthur Schlesinger down.
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Arthur Schlesinger down.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89............
Sure, there are alot of headaches that come with Microsoft, but that's mainly because every hacker in the world has them in their sights. Thing is, so does every hardware and software developer. Whatever you like is what you like, I suppose. Bottom-line wise, a competently managed PC environment is much more efficient than a similarly managed Mac environment. I have no bias other than experience.
http://www.level99comic.com/comi...ic.php?
catid=19
That about sums up my feelings on Mac vs. PC
As I do this for a living, I could go on at length but that's the basics.
Any recommendations for a fix?
NEW YORK (AP) - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
Schlesinger suffered a heart attack while dining out with family members Wednesday night in Manhattan, Stephen Schlesinger said. He was taken to New York Downtown Hospital, where he died.
Liberalism declined in his lifetime to the point where politicians feared using the word, but Schlesinger's opinions remained liberal, and influential, whether old ones on the "imperial presidency," or newer ones on the Iraq war. For both historians and Democratic officials, he was a kind of professor emeritus, valued for his professional knowledge and for his personal past.
Fuck - he was old.
Schlesinger emerged as a historian with "The Age of Jackson." Published in 1945, when he was just 27, the book offered a new, class-based interpretation of the Jackson administration, destroying the old myth that the country was once an egalitarian paradise. "The Age of Jackson" remained a major text despite eventual criticism - even by Schlesinger - for overlooking Jackson's appeasement of slavery and his harsh treatment of Indians.
LCN is back in flavour. It's that whole Catholic vibe, maybe. Could be it’s just hard headed reality.
As I do this for a living, I could go on at length but that's the basics.
Any recommendations for a fix?
HenryFlowerLovesHerPC
When you edit your video, make the audio mono and listen to it before you post.
If you have a problem, use only one audio channel and then make it mono.
Also, video quality will be greatly improved if you use a tripod.
Camera movement gets interpreted as new information that needs to be processed and this makes the video compressor work very hard.
The less camera movement, the better the final results.
Arthur Schlesinger wanted to be buried in the Bahamas.
When you edit your video, make the audio mono and listen to it before you post.
do you mean export it as a mono file from sound forge and edit with that, or export it as mono sound when exporting the final file?
how does the smartest blogger in the business not know which is the PC and which is the Mac? that's pretty unbelievable.
in any case, i dropped into a mac store again the other day - those paragons of propaganda - and this time i actually clicked around a bit. first, Apple went and got themselves a second mouse button. It's called the Mighty Mouse, and it actually doesn't have a visible 2nd mouse button - it's just when you push down on your single mouse button on that part of the mouse where the second mouse button should be. Pretty fucking idiotic, if you ask me. But, that's been my sticking point with macs forever - how would i live without a context menu. How does anyone?
tell ya what, though - the graphics were insane on that thing. just outrageous.
speaking of those commercials, didn't Apple pull them a couple of months ago because their testing revealed exactly what you just said? that people thought the Mac guy was a jerk, they felt bad for the loser PC, etc.?
i guess now we know that the smartest man in blogbusiness doesn't read tech blogs. probably a good thing.
Gil Mantera's Party Dream - Shadow Grip:
...and in a way, technology has, ruined my life.
...taken from me, every last bit, of privacy.
Good evening, bats.
I use a PC at work and a Mac at home. Both have their advantages and their dis.
I personally like the Mac better, but if you like the PC, hey, that's okay with me.
In the ads, the Mac guy is smug and humorless -- but that's cause he's the straight man in the comedy team. The PC guy is the goof that gets the laughs. (From what I hear, it's just as tough to be the straight man as the goof.)
Let us salute great comedy teams (straight men and goofs, in that order): Abbot and Costello. Rowan and Martin. Martin and Lewis. Stiller and Merra. Burns and Allen.
David St.
You forgot Bush and Cheney.
Atrios, I love your site so this is hard to say. But every time you opine about anything, literally anything, not about politics--music, movies, personal computers--you sound like an utter blathering idiot.
I mean that in the nicest way possible.
Screw it all. Go to Unbuntu.
Does anyone else know about this music site called Pandora?
Yes I do. Don't tell anybody.
Ain't it sad, LCN, the only ones left standing. Sign me up.
Silly rabbit, PeeCee's are for the uninspired, the clones. Everything about PC's from the hardware to the MacOS-inspired-wanna-be Windoze software is UNoriginal.
Ralphie,
I have no idea what you are talking about.
('Gdam, it's cool.)
('Gdam, it's cool.)
Yes, It certainly is.
FreeBSD, baby! It's OS/X without all that GUI crap.
George Bush and Tony Blair:
http://www.neave.tv/#gay_bar
Check it out!
I hear Apples get worms. And, if just one of them goes bad, they all do. I'll stick with my pee sea.
Yes, It certainly is.
Ralphie
Seriously cool. Thanks.
I'm tired of Mac and his Forever 21 outfits
They should have P.C. and Mac try to interface with each other and see what happens. Could make a cool commercial.
i own a mac, and i love it.
I use both, really, and love them both. They're just tools, and either will do exactly what you tell them to do.
Just buy a generic PC and run OS X (the hackintosh edition) on it. That's what I did when MS Vista made me realize I didn't want to run any more MS Operating Systems, but at the same time was not willing to pay Apple's bloated, "I-can-pay-more-so-i'm-better-than-you" prices for a hardware platform that amounts to (you got it) a "generic" PC.
It's too bad Apple insists on sticking with their "It worked in the 80s" business-model. If they'd dump it, they could sell a helluva lot of copies of OS X.
I guess you can say computers are similar to many people.
Hodgman is great in the ads. In my opinion, this is
the point. The viewer is not identifying with Justin,
the viewer is pulling for Hodgman to see the light and free himself from PC prison. C'mon, Duncan
this is clever marketing.
This may be the only time I've come into a thread after, what... six hours? --and it's still on-topic...?!?
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I ♥ my Commodore 64.
I use stone knives and bearskins to post to these here tubes.
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Oh -- HICA!
(btw)
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I use stone knives and bearskins to post to these here tubes.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 4:11 am | #
Stupid primitive.
I only post on papyrus.
I've never used a copmputer in my life. Right now, I'm 'typing' onto a thing I carved from five-dozen bars of prison-soap.
Over the next year, I plan to carve a spell-checker. And I'm going to make Vista from a potato-peel moonshine still I've made in the toilet.
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And don't ask what I carved my 'ipod' out of, or I'll shiv yiz.
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Seriously. I'm shorting two wires together, semaphorically, to cause all this to happen. The word "semaphorically"? Took 18 hours to code in. Twice!
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Btw, there's a really gnarly, cool t-storm happening here in the 37209...
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zut, if you tell anyone you know we'll have to kill you?
And my bloggie?
Two hits, all month!
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Space-age funeral for 'Mr Noodle'
The late inventor of instant noodles was symbolically blasted off into space at a funeral ceremony attended by thousands in Osaka, western Japan.
The event was a tribute to Momofuku Ando's creation of Space Ram, a noodle soup that works at zero gravity. Mr Ando, who died in January aged 96, created the instant noodle in 1958 and worked hard on the vacuum pack that was taken into space in 2005. His Nissin Food Products has annual sales of 300bn yen ($2.5bn).
Tuesday's ceremony attracted 6,500 people to Osaka's Kyocera Dome baseball stadium. Thirty-four monks officiated and stars adorned the walls. Delivering a eulogy, ex-prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said: "He was the creator of a culinary culture that post-war Japan can be proud of."
Fellow former premier Junichiro Koizumi also attended.
Japanese astronaut, Soichi Noguchi, in a video message from the US, recalled the noodles that he took into space on the Discovery shuttle.The man dubbed 'Mr Noodle' has been honoured by Thailand, Brazil and the US city of Los Angeles.
He was born in Taiwan in 1910 and moved to Japan in 1933, founding Nissin Food Products after World War II to provide cheap food for the masses. His most famous product, Cup Noodle, was released in 1971, with the masterstroke of providing a waterproof polystyrene container.
And by the way, what are you doing up Jefferson?
Btw, there's a really gnarly, cool t-storm happening here in the 37209...
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 4:15 am | #
Weather at my current home: Cloudy and 70 degrees.
Weather at my future home: Cloudy, windy, 32 degrees, wind chill 19 degrees.
Danny Guam: And by the way, what are you doing up Jefferson?
It's a long story, that started with beer, women and song.
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"They use FLV format because of the smaller file size and the embedding and crap like that.
Also, you can download the flv files and save them by using online converters and then downloading a flv player. Also, converters for those too.
That's why I use a PC. Nobody was making new stuff for my OS9 mac and I couldn't afford the new mac and PC's are cheaper. But, ya, they are just boxes. It's the intrusiveness of windows that I don't like."
There's a neat little utility for the Mac called "TubeSock". Simple app. Launch it, paste in the URL for thr YouTube clip, hit save, and it pulls that sucker's guts right off the YouTube servers, then saves the file to your Movies folder as a QuickTime file. Longer the clip, longer the conversion takes--a ten minute clip'll take about six minutes or so, shorter ones accordingly shorter. Free app, but the free version'll only convert up to 30 seconds of a clip. Spend $12 to get the full version that converts clips of any length.
Works beautifully...like all my vintage Macs--including the venerable old 33 mhz PowerBook 540C Blackbird I own. (As seen being used by Ving Rhames in MI:1 in the train sequence)
Ah, well carry on then.
Heh! I had a 520C, back in the day...
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The important thang is, I've had at leats four hours sleep, and am about to start some coffee.
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My last was to Jefferson by the way.
But lowermanhatenite,
The windows version that I use (a couple actually) are online and use a javascript or something to do the magic and convert a flv file of any size to a a usable form that plays in a downloadable player that works quite nicely. You can also do further conversion if needed to edit with windows media etc. That's the only reason I went to PC. I thinks macs are a more solid operating system but it's just a fuckin box.
Am I really seeing this? Eye SPRAY?
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The windows version that I use (a couple actually) are online and use a javascript or something to do the magic and convert a flv file of any size to a a usable form that plays in a downloadable player that works quite nicely. You can also do further conversion if needed to edit with windows media etc. That's the only reason I went to PC. I thinks macs are a more solid operating system but it's just a fuckin box.
Danny Guam | 03.01.07 - 4:26 am | #
Yeah, PC, Mac, whatever.
They all play the porn from the Internets.
Ya, sorry. Overthinking it.
Yeah, PC, Mac, whatever.
They all play the porn from the Internets.
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot |
Oh.... that reminds me...
What am I watching on CNN?
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So checking up on the closing numbers for the day...
after a day when the Shanghai Index was up almost 4%, today it was off 2.9% and the Shenzhen Index was off 2.3%
Hang Seng Index off by 1.55% and the Hang Seng H-Shares Index {mainland companies listed in Hong Kong} off 2.88%
and unlike yesterday in Hong Kong, the drops was a fairly continuous slide all afternoon. no late rebounds.
I mean, really -- eye spray?!? Who the hell buys this shit?
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What, too early for eye spray bamfoozlement?
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So, for about five minutes last week the stock market was a few points above where it was before 9/11. Now it's back down to where it was immediately after 9/11. Heck of a job w.
And... I have to ask: What got the A-man on the CPU Wars, this time?
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Hmmm... seeing a quick wire report on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in action along the NW Iran/Turkey border and killing 17 rebels and losing 4.
Okay, 105% cat.
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Tell me: What's so revolutionary about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
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Tell me: What's so revolutionary about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
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Jeffraham Prestonian |
Revolutionary like "Liberation" is the PLA's middle name.
Agreed 100%
This Mac guy is much more likable.
http://www.apple.com/jp/getamac/ads/
[Damn. I can't sleep.]
Tell me: What's so revolutionary about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
Jeffraham Prestonian
That's the funny thing about revolutions. For some reason, after they've happened, the folks that benefited most get it into their heads that said revolution needs protection. Before you know it, you've got things like the Alien and Sedition Acts.
"The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."
-- John Adams
See, y'all took me seriously.
Don't you realize I'm just a humble catblogger?
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But it still makes me scratch my head to see news of a skirmish by the IRG along THAT border. Especially given the commentary by dimwits like the InstaParrot on Iran.
Hey, thanks Bush! Well done, you incompetent fuck!
Innocent people across the world are now paying the price of the "Iraq effect", with the loss of hundreds of lives directly linked to the invasion and occupation by American and British forces.
An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research is said to be the first to attempt to measure the "Iraq effect" on global terrorism. It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks around the world has risen dramatically since the Iraq war began in March 2003. The study compared the period between 11 September 2001 and the invasion of Iraq with the period since the invasion. The count - excluding the Arab-Israel conflict - shows the number of deaths due to terrorism rose from 729 to 5,420.
In case neither Ror nor Tom DTL noted this:
Put Gen. Petraeus down for a Friedman.
(I'm fortunate in that I get to read the paper version of it. Ha!)
(Oh yeah: Macs rule, PCs drool, yada yada yada.)
In case neither Ror nor Tom DTL noted this:
Put Gen. Petraeus down for a Friedman.
smitty werbenmanjensen, B.S. J | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 5:18 am | #
Sigh.
Nobody reads my blog...
George W. Bush. If there is a heaven and a hell (which I personally do not believe), he's facing a real ugly surprise.
I figured you were over it hours before me, Ror.
Think of me as your redundant backup when it comes to reading the Guardian ....
Nobody reads my blog...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot
The item about using alien technologies to stem climate change was kinda' sad. It reminded me of the early Sixties when folks were hoping that the Space Brothers would come down and help us sort things out.
Update: My g'dtr started her first course of chemo last night, and I was with her today while she threw up her toenails. My baby girl was white as a sheet, with dark smudges beneath her red-rimmed eyes. She threw up again and again...dry heaves...and that, of course, sets off the pain in her back. She was up all night before throwing up off and on, so her stomach muscles ache. She's constipated, so an enema had to be administered. Didn't do any good. They'll have to work on that. Everything is such an intrusion, this is where we are w/cancer treatment in the 21st century - we punish the body in order to save it....even through it all, I was delighted that she still "tortured" me at one point inbetween bouts of nausea and pain. She knows it drives me crazy, so she'll say, "Gramma?" and when I look at her, she is rubbing her eyebrows the wrong way, against the way the eyebrow hair grows. I tell her she is a wretched chit, and sharper as a sepent's tooth. When she smiles in response, my heart soars. I've spoken to you of this before, I know. Forgive me for being tediously repetitive.
She has always been a feisty - if shy and reserved - little critter. She has peered down her nose at me disapprovingly when I have cursed. I'd say "shit!" and she'd say...."GRAMma.....you're not supposed to use that word." So then I would ask her what word would be acceptable: feces? Bowel movements? Excrement? They are all different words for the same thing, I'd point out. She'd just grin and roll
her eyes.....
One time, when she was about 9, we were at her other grandma's house for dinner and I was sitting in the dimly lit living room, getting a bit of solitude for myself in this house full of people, and I heard some to-do in the kitchen and discerned that her brother had set her up to get blamed for something he'd actually done. I heard her try to protest her innocence only to be reprimanded by busy adults. The next minute she stormed into the living room,
unaware I was sitting there, made a fist and said "JESUS! "Appropriate response," I said to her. Her head snapped up, and then she grinned at me sheepishly and came and sat next to me, her head on my shoulder. These are the movies I carry in my head and heart. The ones I play over for my own delight, and have done so long before last Tuesday when the world as we had known it changed forever.
She will be in the hospital probably through the weekend. She may be able to go home this weekend, but it depends on how well her pain management issues go. And, I also need to be with her and my son and d-in-law. They are running on fumes, both physically and emotionally.
SD
Morning all.
Thank you for the update, Sarah. You and yours are in my prayers.
Ror,
Is there a Zora update?
U.S. Concedes Uncertainty on North Korean Uranium Effort
The disclosure underscores broader questions about the ability of intelligence agencies to discern the precise status of foreign weapons programs. The original assessment about North Korea came during the same period that the administration was building its case about Iraq’s unconventional weapons programs, which turned out to be based on flawed intelligence. And the new North Korea assessment comes amid debate over intelligence about Iran’s weapons.
mice-to crytie, for all the bucks spent on intelligence and all we come up with is a 'Keystone Kops'intel results...
But it still makes me scratch my head to see news of a skirmish by the IRG along THAT border. Especially given the commentary by dimwits like the InstaParrot on Iran.
Tom - 大肚腩
Does it have something to with this and this?
Good morning, dearest moonbats.
Sarah Deere, through your writings I've come to love your granddaughter, too. Please don't feel you need to apologize for what you share here; the least we can do is to be here for you.
As for Bush, why take chances? Impeach, indict, imprison right here, right now.
mice-to crytie, for all the bucks spent on intelligence and all we come up with is a 'Keystone Kops'intel results...
Animal, Bush Roadkill |
So have you REALLY looked at Doug Feith's new website? I don't think these cretins are capable of anything beyond 'Keystone Kops', even when they are trying to play it straight.
Ror,
Is there a Zora update?
smitty werbenmanjensen, B.S. J | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 5:30 am | #
We're holding out hope that she'll come home tomorrow... The vet was optimistic today.
Oh dear Sarah, my heart is aching.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why the WH has picked now to fir so many U.S. attorneys. It's like they've become politically deaf and dumb. Did they really think nobody would notice?
Voting with their feet:
The number of soldiers turning their backs on Bush's War has grown to five a day:
Though the US Department of Defense does not keep figures on such cases, a strong indication of their frequency is the number who receive "Chapter 11" discharges through Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Knox, Kentucky, the main processing centers for those who go missing overseas and turn themselves in, or are arrested, back home. Between October 2002 and September 2005, the two made an annual average of 1,546 such discharges. Last year the number grew to 1,988, or more than five per day.
Did they really think nobody would notice?
ql in ny | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 5:38 am | #
In a word, "Yes."
Does it have something to with this and this?
Uncle Smokes |
I'd bet it has something to do with the Kurds, but that doesn't reassure about a US connection, since the Busheviks have repeatedly spoken about supporting Iranian separatists.
Okay...by the time the head was on the shoulder, I'd lost it.
I'm not a praying man, but what good there is in me I send your granddaughter's way and to you, Sarah Deere.
You know, there was someone in previous threads tut-tutting us about not staying on topic or posting anything "substantive." People have shared hell and high water here, along with all the silliness that keeps the dark away.
Save me, please, from disciplined message and earnest political trumpetry. If it ain't human, it ain't me.
"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution."
-- Emma Goldman
I don't know if it's that BushCo thinks no one will notice. I think it's more that they just don't care what anybody else thinks. They figure they're in control and there's nothing anybody, up to and including the Supreme Court, can or will do anything about it.
Torches, anyone? Pitchforks?
Save me, please, from disciplined message and earnest political trumpetry. If it ain't human, it ain't me.
"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution."
-- Emma Goldman
Uncle Smokes |
A-fuckin'-men!
And prayers to yours, SD. Hopefully the feisty spirit will help the gd make it through the chemo.
Tom, do you have Feith's website link?..and Oh, its kinda scary, that Georgetown Univ. is perpetuating more of Doug Feiht's[war on terror] philosophy..
Doug Feith's was hired by Georgetown University, to teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy in the war on terror.
Sounds like grand-daughter's a fighter. We need her.
Torches, anyone? Pitchforks?
Lindsay
Won't work...you'll be cordoned off in a "Torch & Pitchfork Liberty Park."
Doug Feith's was hired by Georgetown University, to teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy in the war on terror.
heh.
Doug Feith's was hired by Georgetown University, to teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy in the war on terror.
Animal, Bush Roadkill
Anyone who gets an "F" in that course should immediately be hired by the next administration.
Hey alright, the province is banning traditional light bulbs.
Doug Feith's was hired by Georgetown University, to teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy in the war on terror
Class meets at the local arcade and plays whack-a-mole while drinking kool-aide.
Hey alright, the province is banning traditional light bulbs.
Moe Szyslak, discouraged
Wow, I didn't realize this was going on.
Philips, Siemens, and General Electric are going to clean up (so to speak).
Heh.
Don't ya just love it when stupid, racist organizations implode?
A behind-the-scenes power struggle over control of the Minuteman Project spilled into an Orange County courtroom Monday with ousted co-founder Jim Gilchrist asking a judge to give him back control of the citizen border patrol group.
Superior Court Judge Randell L. Wilkinson said he would issue a ruling within a few days.
Gilchrist, 58, a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration, was removed as president of the Minuteman Project this month by its board of directors, which accused him of abusing his power and leaving more than $400,000 of the organization's money unaccounted for.
Gilchrist, a retired accountant from Aliso Viejo, denied the allegations but said the controversy "could very well bring an end to the entire Minuteman Project. There are groups around the country with the name, but we are the most well known and the most powerful."
Class meets at the local arcade and plays whack-a-mole while drinking kool-aide.
Falstaff
Plus an exploration of strategic analysis based on playing chess with checker pieces on a Candyland board.
Philips, Siemens, and General Electric are going to clean up (so to speak).
Uncle Smokes
Lots and lots of money to be made combating global warming. The wingnuts don't understand that basic point.
So pissed at the Democratic party, think I'll just blow my fuckin head off. The Repubs have always had the money and the devious traits, but until the last 30 years the Dems had the political intelligence.
Add the judges deal to a list of about 500 cons that the dumbass smirk gang has pulled on the dims, makes you wonder if dims even deserve support.
good morning folks
good morning folks
Oy, I am so sick of the constant dem bashing.
People were really complaining about the lack of substance on this here blog. That is to laugh at. It is a fucking blog.
Another helecopter made a 'hard landing' in Iraq not as a result of hostile fire.
Next time I am in a car accident, I am going to tell the insurance company I came to a hard stop and that the damage was not the result of another car's impact, even if the other driver claims it was.
Lack of substance = Pay attention to me and my pet issue.
Whiners.
Lack of substance = Pay attention to me and my pet issue.
yuppers.
I wouldn't want to be part of a politically oriented blog that didn't incorporate all the rest of life in it. I don't know how you can separate out some mythical "purely political" thought.
Another helecopter made a 'hard landing' in Iraq not as a result of hostile fire.
hard landing = hard rock hitting ground at a speed of (32 feet/sec) squared...
One more Friedman!
US commanders admit: we face a Vietnam-style collapse
An elite team of officers advising the US commander, General David Petraeus, in Baghdad has concluded that they have six months to win the war in Iraq - or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a hasty retreat.
Well, I'm going to fiddle with some music.
Y'all take care of your good selves.
Again, my best thoughts for health and stamina and hope to Sarah Deere, her family, and especially her incredible grandaughter.
CNN sez Bob Ney to report to prison today.
'Bout time.
McCain announced, yawn.
BackHICA!
I had to make coffee and see my guest safely back on the road home.
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Bob Ney quoted Garth Brooks' "The Dance" in his letters to friends yesterday, as he waxed all philosophical.
morning, all.
Lacking substance, I come here to put you all at ease. :-}
At the homepage, I'm pretending to add some substance with China Isn't For Dummies. Sorry, Tom b.b., I do think it's true. Still.
People were really complaining about the lack of substance on this here blog. That is to laugh at. It is a fucking blog.
ql in ny
Want substance? May I recommend the works of the lately departed Arthur Schlesinger Jr.?
Ror, that's good news about Zora. Sarah, my thoughts and prayers are with your daughter. Now, I suppose I should get to work. It's almost noon!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sarah Deere ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Words fail me.
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or face a Vietnam-style collapse in political and public support that could force the military into a hasty retreat.
prepare for the 'Vietnam-style collapse' and da 'shudda, cudda, woulda's' iffn it wern't for dat political and public [non]support....
Animal: prepare for the 'Vietnam-style collapse' and da 'shudda, cudda, woulda's' iffn it wern't for dat political and public [non]support....
Same Shit, Different Decade.
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Loving BBC on Peru's deciding to go to punctuality. It's hora englisha for everyone.
' "La Hora sin Demora," or "Time without Delay," will begin with a nationally televised ceremony in Lima on March 1 at noon. Sharp.'
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=389&sid=1068230
Gilchrist, a retired accountant from Aliso Viejo, denied the allegations but said the controversy "could very well bring an end to the entire Minuteman Project. There are groups around the country with the name, but we are the most well known and the most powerful."
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 5:55 am | #
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yeah. they are very powerful. amazingly powerful, in fact. members of other groups called "minutemen" run away screaming when gilchrist's crew shows up. because they are so powerful, you know.
It's time for the families of all those troops killed just to keep the cretin in chief from having to admit it's OVER to charge him with war crimes, and march them all to the Hague.
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All of a kitty, and then some
haloscan't is pantsed, it would seem...
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Hollowscum is threatening me, but I have stood up to it. Take that, mechanical tormentor.
If only haloscan't ran on Mac servers...
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Sounds like JP has a girlfriend. Heeehee.
Lacking in substance, I know.
A few months ago I read that when things start to go bad in Iraq, they will go very bad, very fast. I don't think we have six months.
And even if we have six months, so what? We will have lost another 180 soldiers and we will be no closer to bringing peace and stability.
Start to go bad? They've been bad since Day 1, really.
Not that Bush will ever admit it.
ql in ny: Sounds like JP has a girlfriend. Heeehee.
Eh... less so than one might think. She can't commit, even though she talks a good game. I find that less-than-desirable in a wimmins.
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Ah, but she spends the night.
Sarah, Deere, hopeful good resolution aimed your way as well as I can.
Ruth, I read your editorial, and agree that china WILL use their monetary clout, on the US, to regain their prresence in Taiwan...their cold war pronouncement, that the US was nothing more than a 'paper tiger' is STILL their motto....
I think it'll be the US, not China, that rachets up the tension. The US will eventually need an excuse to stop paying the debt to China.
Eh... less so than one might think. She can't commit, even though she talks a good game. I find that less-than-desirable in a wimmins.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
In keeping with the topic of this thread, sounds like she needs a driver upgrade.
Animal, Moe, I fear that dangerously stoopid people in power here has convinced more than just China that we're a fraud and not worthy of any regard.
Barry, I'm sure commitment is more of a software problem.
Sarah D I'm sitting here crying.
Good, healing vibes going your and you granddaughter's way.
I fucking hate cancer.
Barry, I'm sure commitment is more of a software problem.
Ruth
Could be hardwired into the firmware too. Should be flash upgradable.
I'll get Shanghai spelled correctly right now.
'Should be flash upgradable.
Barry from AK in Shangiai '
oh, a reboot is all you need, for starters.
Today's conservapedia word is mailings.
Apparently Godless liberals don't like to read their mail.
'Apparently Godless liberals don't like to read their mail.
trifecta'
The sure giveaway is when it begins with You're Going To Find Out When It's Too Late Unless You Read THIS .....
Moe Szyslak: Ah, but she spends the night.
Yeah, well... a few times a year isn't exactly what I call a foundation for a relationship.
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'Apparently Godless liberals don't like to read their mail.
trifecta'
The sure giveaway is when it begins with You're Going To Find Out When It's Too Late Unless You Read THIS .....
Ruth
Or, "Your New Mortgage has been APPROVED!
You may read and enjoy the snark. I even added a mini play at the end
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — In the span of just two weeks, the United States has agreed to hold high-level contacts with Iran and Syria, and to start down the path toward formal diplomatic recognition of North Korea.
But foreign policy experts, administration critics on Capitol Hill and former diplomats disagreed, saying the administration appeared to have recognized the extent to which it had tied its own hands by insisting on talking only to friends. Even Ms. Rice had called the opening to Tehran and Damascus a “diplomatic initiative.”
Question: What Friends?.....
Animal, did you forget Poland?
Animal, Friends is what you call them you can whup into doing what you demand of them. for the cretins.
Barry from Alaska! Where haven't you been, lately?
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Even Ms. Rice had called the opening to Tehran and Damascus a “diplomatic initiative.
The more I watch that woman demonstrate her diplomatic powers, the more I'm convinced she got her Phd and Masters on her back.
Sorry ladies.
Good morning - everyone in their places?
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GWPDA: Good morning - everyone in their places?
Is Truman driving into work?
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Barry from Alaska! Where haven't you been, lately?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Hee, been bouncing around a bit for sure. Did I make an appearance from Sydney the other day, I forget. Well, I'll fix that on Saturday.
Then off to Singapore.
And all I want to do is go home.
Morning, y'all. (That's for you, JP)
Is a shark's ass waterproof?
Does the Pope wear a funny wristwatch?
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Is Truman driving into work?
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Jeffraham Prestonian
I saw that movie.
Moe has nailed it. They're having no luck convincing Americans that we should just forget about the money they stole from the Social Security trust fund so they have to figure out another way to avoid paying the i.o.u.s. Since China has been loaning us so much they have to figure out some way to weasel out of paying.
Top o' the morn', Barndog!
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Beautiful full moon, my life is still stuttering and stopping, it's 4.54am and I haven't had nearly enough coffee.
On the other hand, there appear to be no rats in the house and who of us could ask for more than that?
I was about to take cat photos, and then I remembered that I left the camera at work, yesterdiddy.
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On the other hand, there appear to be no rats in the house and who of us could ask for more than that?
Some disabled vets in Building 18?
My cats aren't very photogenic. Or I am too lazy to take pictures. One of the two.
I hope I've had enough sleep to put in a full day, today. I don't 'spect much workload (worrisome for a temp, in of itself), but still...
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I'm sure my cat is very photogenic...if only I had a camera.
Some disabled vets in Building 18?
Barry from AK in Shanghai
There you are. So I'm going to count my blessings and hope they may be similarly blessed.
Snow, rain, sleet and thunder. This morning's off to a rousing start.
Good morning - everyone in their places?
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GWPDA, yclept Tired | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 6:57 am | #
Well, I'm in A place, at least.
So I'm going to count my blessings and hope they may be similarly blessed.
Arthur J. GWPDA
There ya go, that's a worthwhile wish.
Just so y'all know - I'm having back surgery Mar 27th @ noon. Spend the night, and come home the next day.
I gotta tell ya - it was pretty cool seeing him with the spine model, showing me exactly what he will be doing inside my spine.
I was always under the impression spinal surgeries were, at best 50/50. He tells me there is a 1 in 20 chance of the same incident reoccurring. I'll take those odds.
From Trevor's birding, this was sighted when he was without a camera, it will never happen again;
http://www.aviceda.org/abid/bird...&p=2&
pagesize=1
needless to say even in Australia you don't see these every day. snif.
Just so y'all know - I'm having back surgery Mar 27th @ noon. Spend the night, and come home the next day.
Good luck.
I'm defending my diss on the 30th.
I'm not sure who I feel more sorry for.
Such a contrarian, our Atrios! I've got an idea: what if you just test-drove the two hardware/operating sytems in the real world rather than picking a computer based on the impression its advertising mascot leaves you with?
1 in 20 chance of the same incident reoccurring.
Excellent!
I was always under the impression spinal surgeries were, at best 50/50. He tells me there is a 1 in 20 chance of the same incident reoccurring. I'll take those odds.
Barndog, pissed off Marine
My fingers will be crossed, as well as Hidey's, Zoey's, Magoo's and Arrow's. Cruiser, he dont know how to cross nothing but his eyes.
Hope it turns out well Barndog.
Barndog, so glad to hear you've got some resolution on its way. Hope you get to March 27 fit, and afterwards fitter.
I'd be happier with OSX if only I'd take the time to d/l the keyboard shortcuts cheat-sheet.
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I'm defending my diss on the 30th.
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Barndog, I hope your surgery goes as well as possible and that the surgeon was able to shed a little light on why he sent you to the neurologist.
Best Wishes!
I wonder what ever happened to that Dude you got to get a dell guy. He got fired after he got busted for pot. I don't think his career recovered.
rors, that's good, you are going to be fabulous and all is going to go well. Say it again; you are going to be fabulous and all is going to go well.
got it?
I wonder what ever happened to that Dude you got to get a dell guy. He got fired after he got busted for pot. I don't think his career recovered.
trifecta
I think he got a Gateway.
trifecta: I wonder what ever happened to that Dude you got to get a dell guy. He got fired after he got busted for pot. I don't think his career recovered.
Scheduled for a spot on a crappy reality TV show in 2009... on VH1, most likely...
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Blumenthal, Salon:
Cheney's implication that the U.S. presence in Iraq cannot possibly be an inspiration for terrorism is simply not shared at the highest levels of the senior military, including commanders on the ground in Iraq. I have learned that they are privately reading, circulating, and in agreement with a new article written by terrorism experts Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, senior fellows at the New York University Center on Law and Security. (Bergen is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. For purposes of full disclosure, I am also a senior fellow at the NYU Center.) Their article, "The Iraq Effect: War Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold Worldwide," published in Mother Jones, provides empirical evidence for careful conclusions:
"Our study yields one resounding finding: The rate of terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups and the rate of fatalities in those attacks increased dramatically after the invasion of Iraq. Globally there was a 607 percent rise in the average yearly incidence of attacks (28.3 attacks per year before and 199.8 after) and a 237 percent rise in the average fatality rate (from 501 to 1,689 deaths per year). A large part of this rise occurred in Iraq, which accounts for fully half of the global total of jihadist terrorist attacks in the post-Iraq War period. But even excluding Iraq, the average yearly number of jihadist terrorist attacks and resulting fatalities still rose sharply around the world by 265 percent and 58 percent respectively."
BD - good news indeed, and after Sarah's account of her daughter's chemo treatment, we can use it.
Good god, the neighbors are at it again. And they used to complain about my cat running in the apartment.
He's thriving on the fundy-revival circuit:
"Dude, you're goin' to hell!"
rors, that's good, you are going to be fabulous and all is going to go well. Say it again; you are going to be fabulous and all is going to go well.
got it?
Ruth | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 7:09 am | #
What's that ya say?
I just need to get the damned thing finished and out of my hair.
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar
Um, I need a contact for the 4lg painting.
damn tags
Barry from AK: I think he got a Gateway.
If we all didn't know better (well, all but strawhat, I reckon), that'd be quite funny. It is clever, however.
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If we all didn't know better (well, all but strawhat, I reckon), that'd be quite funny. It is clever, however.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Compaqs were notorious too for proprietary stuff, worse than Packard Bells if ya go back that far.
After checking the credentials of my surgeon - I decided based on his work - which is only for spinal deformity (which I have), and spinal pain control (obvious). He does no other work, and his list of credentials is quite impressive.
My Bro - sees the other surgeon in the practice who only does the same things also. He's been pretty happy so far - but his back is 2-3 yrs behind the problems I have - sans the Rheumatoid.
So we all have to pay attention to how the Plame jurors are dressed this morning. If they are dressed down it means to verdict today. However, if they come in all gussied up, they they will probably have a verdict before the day is out.
Barry from AK: Compaqs were notorious too for proprietary stuff, worse than Packard Bells if ya go back that far.
I do, I do. I didn't get my hands in the innards of either until way late in the game, though.
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We are fools, part 16a;
' Bush, in his zeal for a deal in Iraq, is either ignorant or oblivious to the fact the al Hakim (a recent visitor to the White House) is closely aligned with Iran; in contrast to al Sadr who is more independent. Notwithstanding these facts the "Decider"-in-Chief" has rolled the dice and will try to rub out Sadr's JAM. He also is betting he can do so without provoking a full scale revolt among the Shia.
Ah, but here's the rub. When you attack al Sadr you elevate his status. He becomes the face of the Iraqi opposition.'
http://noquarter.typepad.com/
my_...raq_catch2.html
They are total fools in the WH.
Barry, I'm your contact - we have a two month wait.
I'm defending my diss on the 30th.
I hope you have less than a 1 in 20 chance of that reoccuring.
And hope those odds work well for you, Barndog.
GWPDA - The package arrived and will be in DE tomorrow where I will open it and figure out how much I owe you.
Thanks muchly.
The package arrived
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Barry, I'm your contact - we have a two month wait.
GWPDA, yclept Failed Scholar
Let me know what I need to send, I can go kinda heavy on it if ya need me to.
did you forget Poland?
trifecta, believe me, I tried...
It's difficult to know on any given day just where on the dietary scourge/savior scale eggs lie. There's no question that many health practitioners now feel the cholesterol yolks bring to table is of middling significance in human blood cholesterol levels. Then, there's the fact that some practitioners advise diabetics and the up to 75% of the habitually overweight to moderate or "balance out" every serving of carbs (15g) they consume with a serving of protein (7g) every time they eat.
Conveniently, guess how many grams of protein a chicken egg happens to have? So 1 egg balances 1 slice of whole grain bread or a single serving of carbs. It's magic, kinda!
did you forget Poland?
How can I forget Poland, they built the engine in my airplane.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former special White House assistant to President Kennedy who was an influential liberal voice in American politics for decades, died Wednesday. He was 89.
Schlesinger, who chronicled the Kennedy administration in his 1965 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "A Thousand Days," suffered a heart attack Wednesday night at a New York City restaurant, according to his son Stephen C. Schlesinger. He was pronounced dead at New York Downtown Hospital.
Once described as "one of the last great figures from the Golden Age of American intellectuals," the Harvard-educated historian received early recognition for his scholarly work.
He was 21 when his first book, "Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress," was published in 1939. In a review for the New York Times, renowned historian Henry Steele Commager said the book about the 19th century American intellectual "not only rescues from underserved oblivion a striking and authentic figure in our history, but announces a new and distinguished talent in the field of historical portraiture."
At 28, Schlesinger received his first Pulitzer Prize, for the 1945 bestseller "The Age of Jackson," a reevaluation of Andrew Jackson's presidency that, as Edwin A. Miles wrote in "The Dictionary of Literary Biography," "stands as a significant landmark in the writing of the nation's history."
I do know one thing for certain - this is a 4+ month period in my life I have zero desire to repeat.
I'll take the odds, and move onward.
But, there is a week of steelheading before the surgery though. As if you'd expect less. I already lost my fall steelie fishing, from this crap.
I do, I do. I didn't get my hands in the innards of either until way late in the game, though.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Packard Bells were just the worst, even a A+++ tech rating couldn't solve them.
I got some magical eggs by trading my potatoes and a soupcon of olive oil... plantsman, glad to hear any good thing about eggs, which I love.
Barry, don't worry - I'll be in touch when it's time. Arthur's got Hidey on speed dial.
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But, there is a week of steelheading before the surgery though. As if you'd expect less. I already lost my fall steelie fishing, from this crap.
Barndog, pissed off Marine
But, but , but...
If it works, many, many more weeks of steelie fishing.
How can I forget Poland, they built the engine in my airplane.
Ya know, I spent 14 years in aviation, and don't have a clue on how an aircraft engine can be made from empty vodka bottles...
I understand that Hodgman has 700 Names for Justin Long.
Ya know, I spent 14 years in aviation, and don't have a clue on how an aircraft engine can be made from empty vodka bottles...
Barndog, pissed off Marine
Well, first, you don't use the glass. You use the twist off tops, melt them down.....
You get the drill.
How can I forget Poland, they built the engine in my airplane.
didn't they also build Snoopy's Sopwith Camel?...
For some, Schlesinger's dual roles as a historian and political activist were at odds. He saw it differently.
"I always combined academic life with what academics call 'the real world,' " the slight and bespectacled Schlesinger, dapperly sporting one of his trademark bow ties, told the Boston Globe in 1997. "Being a concerned citizen does not prevent one from being a good historian."
Maybe it's in the ties....
Repost: They're voting with their feet, to the tune of five a day now...
Though the US Department of Defense does not keep figures on such cases, a strong indication of their frequency is the number who receive "Chapter 11" discharges through Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Fort Knox, Kentucky, the main processing centers for those who go missing overseas and turn themselves in, or are arrested, back home. Between October 2002 and September 2005, the two made an annual average of 1,546 such discharges. Last year the number grew to 1,988, or more than five per day.
I like eggs too, though for some reason I'd been skimping on them at brekkies, and overdoing farina carbs. Back on the tricycle, for the moment.
I understand that Hodgman has 700 Names for Justin Long.
attaturk
And they are all 8.3 format.
mystery of cat tastes; I keep fresh new water in her bowl, and on the side have an old, unchanged cooler with funny-looking water in it, and where do you suppose she invariably goes for a drink?
Vista = Windows Me 2007
I doubt potato juice can be vaporized like JP-8 though.
mystery of cat tastes; I keep fresh new water in her bowl, and on the side have an old, unchanged cooler with funny-looking water in it, and where do you suppose she invariably goes for a drink?
Ruth
Why do you have a cooler with funny looking water around, is my question?
Ah well, off to the salt mines. At least it is my Friday. After listening to my neighbors fight again this morning, I think I will opt for the cork flooring after all. Cuts down on the noise.
Ruth, mine drinks from anything holding water in the sink, or from the toilet.
Silly kitty,
This is my favorite Hodgman Hobo Name
As things stand now, one apparently can't get too many ALA Omega-3's, so sometimes I spring for the store-brand version of "Egg-Land's Best" omega-3 fortified eggs.
'the two made an annual average of 1,546 such discharges. Last year the number grew to 1,988, or more than five per day.
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot '
I suspect it was announcing that the new plan was ..... ta da, the same as the old plan.
Barry from AK/b>: And they are all 8.3 format.
I think I just coughed up my spleen.
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Meanwhile, the fix is most definitely in. Victory!
On Monday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet in Baghdad approved the draft of the new Iraqi oil law. The government regards it as "a major national project". The key point of the law is that Iraq's immense oil wealth (115 billion barrels of proven reserves, third in the world after Saudi Arabia and Iran) will be under the iron rule of a fuzzy "Federal Oil and Gas Council" boasting "a panel of oil experts from inside and outside Iraq". That is, nothing less than predominantly US Big Oil executives.
The law represents no less than institutionalized raping and pillaging of Iraq's oil wealth. It represents the death knell of nationalized (from 1972 to 1975) Iraqi resources, now replaced by production sharing agreements (PSAs) - which translate into savage privatization and monster profit rates of up to 75% for (basically US) Big Oil. Sixty-five of Iraq's roughly 80 oilfields already known will be offered for Big Oil to exploit. As if this were not enough, the law reduces in practice the role of Baghdad to a minimum.
I think I just coughed up my spleen.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Quick, tuck it back in, no harm if less than 3 minutes.
Ruth - I had this cartoon for many years, which cat and dog brains were broken into understandable parts.
I wish to hell I could find it. There is a 'love of the putrid' factor in both cats and dogs brains.
Barry from AK/b>: And they are all 8.3 format.
I'm am officially too old.
The cooler is what I leave out when I'm away for a few days, so she always will have water. I just kept it there after the last trip, curiosity, mostly. And she keeps going to it.
A friend's cat begs him to turn on the water by curling up on the side of the sink and purring loudly.
"Being a concerned citizen does not prevent one from being a good historian."
Words to live by, Auntie BSC.
And, not having been around last night, I can't believe Dad purposely started a PC-Mac thread. What was he thinking/drinking?
I'm am officially too old.
attaturk
I was wondering how many people would get that reference.
I actually do have one major concern about my diss defense: The 15-20 minute initial presentation.
Because my job now, proofing for the Tex Lege, involved hour upon hour of reading aloud, in proofer-ese, meaning I have to say the commas and periods and such aloud.
That habit will serve me none too well when I present my ideas to the diss committee...
There is a 'love of the putrid' factor in both cats and dogs brains.
There must be one buried somewhere in the human brain as well -- how else can you explain the appeal of "ripe" cheeses?
Ruth - my cat does the same thing, it has to be in the bathroom only.
The cooler is what I leave out when I'm away for a few days, so she always will have water. I just kept it there after the last trip, curiosity, mostly. And she keeps going to it.
A friend's cat begs him to turn on the water by curling up on the side of the sink and purring loudly.
Ruth
Kitties need good fresh water. It's a kidney thing with them, so tiny.
"Being a concerned citizen does not prevent one from being a good historian."
Words to live by, Auntie BSC.
As Howard Zinn put it, in the title of a fantastic book, "You can't be neutral on a moving train."
Arthur prefers to take his beverages from the pool. Or the hose. Or the salt-ridden puddles formed by water dripping off the roof onto the bricks.
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plantsman - you mean 'ripe' as in very aged cheese?
I had some 25 yr old cheddar that was absolutely divine. The smell wasn't much for the senses, but the cheese was awesome.
I had a puddle-drinking cat years ago. Must have had a lack of mud in his diet.
Morning, rational people.
Barndog, I'm glad you have a fixed date for the surgery.
Ruth, just to start your day off with some cheery news, just check THIS out.
Do it.
Check it out right now.
Sophie has an intense vocalization routine she goes through should she need/want water. It's very frantic-sounding.
'I have to say the commas and periods and such aloud.'
You can count on a healthy giggle then.
That habit will serve me none too well when I present my ideas to the diss committee...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot
When I did my orals, we were still allowed to smoke in the room. I went thru two and a half packs.
Actually, sorta. More "ripe" as in "rotting apendages" smelling.
Conservapedia bloggingin case anybody missed.
Today we learn mail isn't for liberals.
We keep a bowl of water out, but also several human-style glasses, since all 3 of them seem to prefer that conveyance.
In the past, I have had one cat that used to love sneaking drinks from my screwdrivers...
My last knowing ANS knowledge: that dear Anna hadda be thawed before transport to the Bahamas and any viewing/funeral.
Wow, Diane, that sounds just like ........ me.
And it's a site I visited recently, too, I forget what link I was following.
Wow.
Thanks.
For anyone who may have missed it, check out a great post on my blog about the CIA and the Iraq war.
Thanks.
Ruth
I thought you might like that.
Oh, great. I'm in the moderate tornado threat zone, today.
I'd be happy to stay home and sleep, if it didn't cost $160.
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"Mac V PC Ad" thread? I thought this was the "Star Trek II is the best script out of Hollywood in the last 25 years, Damnit!" threat.
We keep a bowl of water out, but also several human-style glasses, since all 3 of them seem to prefer that conveyance.
In the past, I have had one cat that used to love sneaking drinks from my screwdrivers...
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot
We have gone from separate dog and cat bowls, to just one huge bowl of water. It gets refreshed 3 times a day, so the kitties aren't drinking up too much dog slobber.
And I think, it's actually been good for the dogs.
'I have to say the commas and periods and such aloud.'
You can count on a healthy giggle then.
Ruth | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 7:34 am | #
I can see it now: "This view of consumer capitalism com advocated by Marxist theorists such as Lukacs com Gramsci com and Jameson com yields profound insight into this narrative trend point. Why are you people laughing at me?"
When I did my orals, we were still allowed to smoke in the room. I went thru two and a half packs.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar | 03.01.07 - 7:34 am | #
Shit, I probably would've for my master's orals. The panel of three was 1 randomly chosen prof, the head of the dept, and 1 prof chosen by me.
The one chosen by me got the date wrong, and so didn't show up, so they just went and grabbed a random third... who happened to be a medievalist. So there I am, focused on 20th century lit and lit theory, doing comps with 2 medievalists and a Romantic... Passed with honors, though!
In an earlier post, the salient "75% of the habitually overweight who are insulin resistant " got lodged somewhere in my neurons and did not reach cyber-space.
In an earlier post, the salient "75% of the habitually overweight who are insulin resistant " got lodged somewhere in my neurons and did not reach cyber-space.
plantsman, lowercase
WTF is insulin resistant?
Tornadoes suck, but without lipstick.
Here in central-Iowa they keep saying "The Blizzard is coming, the Blizzard is coming"
So I'm working from home.
Meanwhile, the Blizzard has yet to come.
More. Coffee.
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Snowflakes the size of salad plates here this morning. Supposed to turn to rain and then back to snow. At least it was predicted. When I go to shovel I won't be shovelling 4 inches of "partly cloudy". Gosh, I love it here.
'focused on 20th century lit and lit theory, doing comps with 2 medievalists and a Romantic'
see, it was Refreshing.
Don't worry. Be happy.
Wow, being featured at sideshow. Diane, it gives me chills.
Lessons of the morning:
Tornadoes suck.
Blizzards take a while to come.
Insulin resistance is typified by higher than normal blood insulin levels, and higher than normal release of insulin into the bloodstream following the consumption of carbohydrates. Bottom line:
The body's making it, it's there to be used to move glucose into celss and "burn" it, but the cells "ignore" it.
Lessons of the morning:
Tornadoes suck.
Blizzards take a while to come.
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot
Someone need a weather fluffer.
rorschach -- Meat-eorology.
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WTF is insulin resistant?
The situation where the body makes insulin in adequate supply but does not use it adequately. The cells become resistant to the insulin which is inefficiently used and, not being fully used is stored, mostly as visceral fat. The process then begins to decay, as more insulin is produced in the attempt to offset normal cellular activity, more insulin is resisted and then stored. Concomittantly, the pancreas begins to be overworked by producing excess amounts of insulin and can the beta cells responsible for the insulin creation begin to break down. The process is generally regarded as 'pre-diabetes' and can take place for many, many years before the beta cells are fully exhausted and insulin production drops significantly.
don't know about you but the folks i know who can fix my puter look like the heavy guy not the one who seems ready to score some e
rorschach -- Meat-eorology.
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Jeffraham Prestonian | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 7:45 am | #
Quit trying to warm my globes.
The situation where the body makes insulin in adequate supply but does not use it adequately. The cells become resistant to the insulin which is inefficiently used and, not being fully used is stored, mostly as visceral fat. The process then begins to decay, as more insulin is produced in the attempt to offset normal cellular activity, more insulin is resisted and then stored. Concomittantly, the pancreas begins to be overworked by producing excess amounts of insulin and can the beta cells responsible for the insulin creation begin to break down. The process is generally regarded as 'pre-diabetes' and can take place for many, many years before the beta cells are fully exhausted and insulin production drops significantly.
GWPDA, yclept Irate Scholar
Trying to wrap my head around this, but like a reverse diabetes?
PC's are cute and cuddly and remind me of myself.
Mac's are the cool kids who wouldn't let me sit at their table at lunch.
Meanwhile, Ha Ha! (Nelson from the Simpsons style.)
I love it when racist orgs implode:
A behind-the-scenes power struggle over control of the Minuteman Project spilled into an Orange County courtroom Monday with ousted co-founder Jim Gilchrist asking a judge to give him back control of the citizen border patrol group.
Superior Court Judge Randell L. Wilkinson said he would issue a ruling within a few days.
Gilchrist, 58, a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration, was removed as president of the Minuteman Project this month by its board of directors, which accused him of abusing his power and leaving more than $400,000 of the organization's money unaccounted for.
Gilchrist, a retired accountant from Aliso Viejo, denied the allegations but said the controversy "could very well bring an end to the entire Minuteman Project. There are groups around the country with the name, but we are the most well known and the most powerful."
For me, the fun in having a 'puter is not needing to have either guy touch it.
Man, I fell asleep on the floor lst night with my headphones on, listening to Three Dog Night.
Woke up with the phrases "Jeremiah was a Bull Frog" repeating over and over in my head followed by "Liar Liar. "
I feel like I am in the middle of some freaky argument.
Gilchrist, a retired accountant from Aliso Viejo, denied the allegations but said the controversy "could very well bring an end to the entire Minuteman Project. There are groups around the country with the name, but we are the most well known and the most powerful."
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot
Where is Lou Dobbs on this? Because I listen only to his voice on immigration issues.
Windows has gotten more stable. I remember in the mid to late 90's, I constantly had to reformat my drive. Not at all once since I got this puter with XP about 4 years ago.
The leading edge of diabetes. Combine glucose intolerance with insulin resistance and, like me, you're there!
Tornadoes suck.
Blizzards take a while to come.
rorschach, 5th-Tier Atriot
Bob Dole thinks this is a comment on Mrs. Bob Dole and Bob Dole respectively.
PC's are cute and cuddly and remind me of myself.
Mac's are the cool kids who wouldn't let me sit at their table at lunch.
My Dell is sort of cool looking, but so is my wife's Macbook.
I have a friend, however, who was a dedicated Mac-head for about a decade. He got a part-time job as a network administrator at a local school, and about a month ago he told me this:
"You know, this (Windows) Vista is pretty slick."
I had to admonish him for slipping over to The Dark Side.
Bob Dole thinks this is a comment on Mrs. Bob Dole and Bob Dole respectively.
attaturk | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 7:49 am | #
Dude!
Retro.
plantsman: For me, the fun in having a 'puter is not needing to have either guy touch it.
Oh, it's not a matter of if, but when.
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"You know, this (Windows) Vista is pretty slick."
I had to admonish him for slipping over to The Dark Side.
Supreme Commander Thor
Still waiting for mine to arrive (bought a PC in November, was promised a Vistas upgrade, which is, like a blizzard, slow to come).
I'll let you know.
And I was referring to the commercials, btw.
Gilchrist, 58, a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration, was removed as president of the Minuteman Project this month by its board of directors, which accused him of abusing his power and leaving more than $400,000 of the organization's money unaccounted for.
Sounds like being a racist fuck was very, very good to him.
"Mac's are the cool kids who wouldn't let me sit at their table at lunch.
Rmj, Kwisatz Hierarch"
That is not so funny. My original dislike of Macs years back came about due to the treatment I received when shopping around for one back in the 80s. Sort of the "if you have to ask the price" routine.
OK, I've gotta dash.
Before the rest of you head off, do check the now-famous Ruth's post on how we got to the point where China pwned us
"Help . . . me . . . " she blinked.
Oh, it's not a matter of if, but when.
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Jeffraham Prestonian
Word
Gilchrist, 58, a national figure in the fight against illegal immigration, was removed as president of the Minuteman Project this month by its board of directors, which accused him of abusing his power and leaving more than $400,000 of the organization's money unaccounted for.
Sounds like being a racist fuck was very, very good to him.
Supreme Commander Thor
Really got to learn to lower my standards. This living a principled life is not what it's cracked up to be.
Living poor with style is a lot easier when you have some money to do it with.
Ernest Callenbach lied to me.
Gilchrist, if I'm not mistaken, has an adorable little
Asian wife.
Linux!
Ernest Callenbach lied to me.
Rmj, Kwisatz Hierarch | 03.01.07 - 7:53 am | #
Yeah. Turns out eco is no topia after all.
Ron sure looks like Nancy!
Good morning, people . . . Dreary skies here, but the coffee's good this morning.
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My Dell is sort of cool looking, but so is my wife's Macbook.
My generic white homebuilt box is not cool looking. It has worked quite well for 5 years with minimum upgrades,more memory, DVD player, larger hard drive, etc. Don't really care what it looks like. It's in my bedroom and nobody goes in there anyway.
Bob Dole thinks this is a comment on Mrs. Bob Dole and Bob Dole respectively.
The ex-Mrs. Bob Dole thinks Bob Dole needs to be reminded that Copernicus was right, and that the sun that warms Mrs. Bob Dole's bad plastic surgery and Bob Dole's flaccid member doesn't revolve around Bob Dole and Mrs. Bob Dole.
Living poor with style is a lot easier when you have some money to do it with.
Which is why I've decided to just started to stop room service, and hit the gourmet places.
Same price, and so wonderful.
""Help . . . me . . . " she blinked.
watertiger"
When you can feel a bit of sympathy for Nancy, you know that current edition is bad.
Moonbootica swoons over Ubuntu(Linux)!
Linux!
Certified Mutant Enemy
A true mutant enemy would have yelled:
IRIX.
uU sgi guys like that.
HAHAHA!
WNYC just reported on a health club that uses the energy of its members' stairmaster or treadmill workouts to power the lights in the club.
Like that ESPN commercial when the lights go out and Dan Patrick goes down to the basement to check up on Lance Armstrong on his stationary bike.
Hey, rmj-- could've used your help yesterday. A bunch of people here were giving me shit for my skeptical views of carbon offsets. I'm writing something up about it, right now, but I've gotta go to work soon, so I won't finish until this afternoon.
People have had so much fun hating Other Peoples' Computers and it's really less destructive than hating gay people or people of color!
watertiger | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 7:55 am | #
Oh not this shit again.
Bob Dole, Mrs. Bob Dole, the ex-Mrs. Bob Dole, and Bob Dole's Child Robin Dole. Bob Dole, Mrs. Bob Dole, the ex-Mrs. Bob Dole, and Bob Dole's Child Robin Dole. Bob Dole, Mrs. Bob Dole, the ex-Mrs. Bob Dole, and Bob Dole's Child Robin Dole. Bob Dole, Mrs. Bob Dole, the ex-Mrs. Bob Dole, and Bob Dole's Child Robin Dole. The ARISTOCRATS!
Paste as needed.
from Josh Marshall..
Sunni Arab guerrillas account for 90 percent of deadly attacks on US troops in Iraq, concludes Drew Brown of the McClatchy wire service. He shows, as well, that explosively formed projectiles were used with deadly effect against US Bradley fighting vehicles and Abrams tanks in al-Anbar Province, Taji, Muqdadiya, and West Baghad, all Sunni areas. This datum proves that Sunnis and not just Shiites are deploying EFPs and it shows that Sunni Arabs have workshops where they can mill the components. The US military had seemed to be arguing bass ackwards that all EFPs came from Iran. Iran is not giving them to Sunnis in Ramadi, that is ridiculous. The key components can be fashioned by people who have experience making explosives for use in the petroleum industry, which is a lot of Sunni Arab Iraqis.
mice-do cry-tie, do we REALLY have an intel network, or is it only in name?...
Morning, peeps. What have I been missing for the last couple of days?
When you can feel a bit of sympathy for Nancy, you know that current edition is bad.
wot i'm sayin'.
Oh not this shit again.
You started it! LOL!
That "3 Tigers in a Tub" picture tickles me no end!
Oh not this shit again.
You started it! LOL!
watertiger
Pronoun addict.
The intel "news" we get is the intel news the government wants us to get.
do we REALLY have an intel network
Does who have a what now?
Morning, peeps. What have I been missing for the last couple of days?
Mac vs. PC for the last 6 hours.
People have had so much fun hating Other Peoples' Computers and it's really less destructive than hating gay people or people of color!
plantsman, lowercase
What are ya gonna do, can't say the N word in NYC, F is out in 'Frisco.
Hell, the only thing you can bitch about is what computer the other guy uses.
Oh, and you use the wrong grass seed too.
Moonbootica swoons over Ubuntu(Linux)!
plantsman
most stable, easiest to use, home linux OS
i have it on a laptop - works great...the thing with linux used to be hardware support for bleeding edge - that has gotten better, but with Linux you don't need latest hardware, old computers work well
Pronoun addict.
attaturk | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 8:00 am | #
I love that song! By "The Thosecocks," if I recall correctly.
Good morning, P'Atriots! This breaking news, JUST IN!!!!!!!!
Soledad O'Brient: "Turns out the film industry is a polluter ... and a big one! That story, coming up."
Complete with graphic, "Not so green."
Thank you Soledad, this has been the Republican Talking Point of the day!
Seriously, I welcome this discussion. In a digital age, is there really any excuse for polluting while making movies? Let's embrace this and get Hollywood to cut back on its wicked ways.
Paramount Pictures first .... THEN, 3M!!! Yeeeargh!
That "3 Tigers in a Tub" picture tickles me no end!
Pronoun addict.
Makes me lafffffffff.
Extry Cuppa Cawfee!
Hey, rmj-- could've used your help yesterday. A bunch of people here were giving me shit for my skeptical views of carbon offsets. I'm writing something up about it, right now, but I've gotta go to work soon, so I won't finish until this afternoon.
Moe Szyslak, substanceless
One of my more endearing characteristics is never being around when I am truly needed.
That, and how much I resemble John Hodgman.
Oh, and you use the wrong grass seed too.
What's wrong with Pennington Shady Mix?
From This Modern World:
Tom Tomorrow:
Right wing humor
Dennis Miller, on the left-wing bias of the New York Times: “They’re so anti Bush now, they won’t even use words in the crossword puzzle that have a “w” in them.”
You’ll have to excuse me now — my sides are still aching from the uncontrollable spasms of laughter that one induced.
Oh, and you use the wrong grass seed too.
There is no wrong grass seed. If it won't grow, the birds will eat it.
What's wrong with Pennington Shady Mix?
Litz
Won'nt grow in my yard, so obviously the wrong seed.
Dennis Miller, on the left-wing bias of the New York Times: “They’re so anti Bush now, they won’t even use words in the crossword puzzle that have a “w” in them.”
Just wait until the WH Correspondents Dinner - "Bush is between Iraq and a hard place!"
ha. ha. ha.
When I was a child I was supposed to get one of these
I was going to use it to go down on Mrs. Seamonkey.
So to speak.
Soledad O'Brient: "Turns out the film industry is a polluter ... and a big one! That story, coming up."
Guess you missed the NY Times article from about, oh, three months back, Soledad.
But she did talk about the productions that have worked to be carbon neutral and recycle 95%+ of whatever they used--right? Yes?
She looked good in red, didn't she?
Seriously, I welcome this discussion. In a digital age, is there really any excuse for polluting while making movies? Let's embrace this and get Hollywood to cut back on its wicked ways.
Some kids at a local high school are claiming they're making "Canada's first carbon-neutral film." I'm skeptical, but at least they're thinking about it.
Turns out the film industry is a polluter ... and a big one! That story, coming up.
is she confusing pollution with global warming? cause everyone pollutes (garbage), global warming is gonna fry the planet
Dennis Miller, on the left-wing bias of the New York Times: “They’re so anti Bush now, they won’t even use words in the crossword puzzle that have a “w” in them.”
Just wait until the WH Correspondents Dinner - "Bush is between Iraq and a hard place!"
ha. ha. ha.
watertiger | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 8:04 am | #
Funny stuff!
Now I must away to read my Mallard Fillmore.
I was going to use it to go down on Mrs. Seamonkey.
You are seriously disturbed.
LOLOL!
Oooh, picture time! Bush is going to NOLA today.
WNYC just reported on a health club that uses the energy of its members' stairmaster or treadmill workouts to power the lights in the club.
There's a club down the road where parents send their fat kids-- the machines power video games kids play while riding them.
Most grass seed sold in the US is grown in Oregon.
Little of it is "location appropriate" indigenous grasses, but rather imported foreign "invader" species with deleterious effects on many environments. Plus, lawns typically receive the over-most water, fertilzer, and chemical intervention of all landscapes.
Ooh, we're getting thunder . . .
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Seriously, I welcome this discussion. In a digital age, is there really any excuse for polluting while making movies? Let's embrace this and get Hollywood to cut back on its wicked ways.
Lucas uses digital and pollutes less.
Until you factor in Jar Jar Binks and Jake Lloyd.
Dennis Miller, on the left-wing bias of the New York Times: “They’re so anti Bush now, they won’t even use words in the crossword puzzle that have a “w” in them.”
Ahem, I have no interest in what Dennis Miller does, except to pay the cab driver who runs over him $5000.
Seriously, I welcome this discussion. In a digital age, is there really any excuse for polluting while making movies? Let's embrace this and get Hollywood to cut back on its wicked ways.
A lot of pollution comes from the creation of sets and the mess it leaves behind. You can be carbon neutral as all hell and still leave a ton of shit behind.
Until you factor in Jar Jar Binks and Jake Lloyd.
Offset by what, Hayden Christensen?
As a carpenter/landscaper - I strongly suggest knowing which grass growns in your climate hardiness zone.
The, purchase Grade A seed. That shit on the shelves at the grocery/big box stores, is not much more than bird seed.
There's a club down the road where parents send their fat kids-- the machines power video games kids play while riding them.
So much for the Wii workout.
Offset by what, Hayden Christensen?
watertiger
I've seen Hayden Christensen actually "act" in other pictures.
Not that you'd know it with Lucas.
Come to think of it, Lucas made Samuel L. Jackson such.
Should have been more "motherfuckers" in the script.
Gotta go make the $$ to trade my carbon units for waterboards.
One of the things I love about the area where I live is that few people are lawn-proud. If it's green and grows and can be mowed occasionally, it's a lawn.
Y'know those Ortho commercials that promise how long their granular insecticides will continue to kill bugs in your lawn? Think about your kids and pets rolling on and playing in that for a while.
Should have been more "motherfuckers" in the script.
"That's IT! I'm sick of these motherfuckin' clones on this motherfuckin' volcano planet!"
(you can tell I didn't really pay attention to #3 when it was on the teebee.)
Gotta go make the $$ to trade my carbon units for waterboards.
Ruth
you found good exchange rate on that, did ya?
Most grass seed sold in the US is grown in Oregon.
when i was out there - i really enjoyed the mass-burns they do (NOT!)...if that doesn't contribute to global-warming, i don't know what does...
in my yard there are few franken-grasses...it all dies down in the winter and takes longer to be green and isn't as green as the psycho neighbors who help Scotts make billions
I've seen Hayden Christensen actually "act" in other pictures.
Not that you'd know it with Lucas.
Hayden's not that bad when he's not being Mannequin Skywalker.
Lucas did the same thing with Ewan McGregor; couldn't get anything out of him.
Lucas is like a Directing Black Hole; any talent you bring to the set he just sucks up and destroys.
Not that you'd know it with Lucas.
Yep. The three most recent SW installments were pretty much unwatchable due to Lucas' heavy hand.
And, with the first three now on rotation on one of my premium channel, those don't hold up all that well either.
As a carpenter/landscaper - I strongly suggest knowing which grass growns in your climate hardiness zone.
Good advise. I've found shopping for seed at a local Farmer's exchange is the best way to go. They'll have the best mixes for the area for sale in bulk.
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Dennis Miller would be lucky to get a guest shot on "Hollywood Squares" at this point in his career. In fact, he'd be lucky to be on one of the Z list celebrity reality shows. Maybe he can get some gigs doing standup for various wingnut groups.
What is a lawn?
Should have been more "motherfuckers" in the script.
Sam did have "BMF" written on his lightsaber. Does that count?
Boy the asexual-tension between IMUS and his wife is palpable.
And, out-of-date grass seed often "recertified" ,with new sell-by date stickers from year to year, if a certain portion of it is likely to germinate, such that the buyer won't be terribly upset with the results.
Heartland values!
Ah, Bethlehem:
A middle school principal was charged with dealing crystal methamphetamine after police found the drug in his school office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
John Acerra, 50, of Allentown was arrested in his office at Nitschmann Middle School in Bethlehem on Tuesday, where police said they found meth on his desk.
Y'know those Ortho commercials that promise how long their granular insecticides will continue to kill bugs in your lawn? Think about your kids and pets rolling on and playing in that for a while.
plantsman, lowercase
Oh come on, our parents did it, why can't we.
Heck I grew up with Bermuda Grass, when it went to seed, we always pulled them out and sucked out the juices, yummy.
Didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't .. affect me. One bit.
I only use an organic 12-12-12 fertilizer on my yard 3x per year.
Oh, that's neat - thunder and lightening - and it's snowing.
Ahhh Michigan - home of the phenomena known as thundersnow.
I'm still here, just trying to catch up on Atrios's posts for the last several days. So, are we betting the Libby jury will make a decision by tomorrow?
Dennis Miller would be lucky to get a guest shot on "Hollywood Squares" at this point in his career.
"Celebrity Cops" wouldn't have him.
A middle school principal was charged with dealing crystal methamphetamine after police found the drug in his school office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Revoltin'
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Ahhh Michigan - home of the phenomena known as thundersnow.
Barndog, pissed off Marine
I've seen it twice at home in Anchorage.
Spooky.
Boy the asexual-tension between IMUS and his wife is palpable.
I'd have to say Diedre is an attractive woman, but the look in her eyes says she's crazy as hell. And mean.
She'd have to be both to put up with Imus, but...
BTW, there is a grass that is drought resistant, doesn't need mowing and is pretty much weed free after establishment.
For those of you who actually want lawns.
I'm still here, just trying to catch up on Atrios's posts for the last several days. So, are we betting the Libby jury will make a decision by tomorrow?
Karin
I'm predicting today. For two reasons, one they left a little early yesterday and second, I'm just going to keep saying "today" each day until I'm right.
Atrios, that's the same logic people use in support of bush. reverse celebral fractation.
WRONG.
Morning, rational peoples! It is my pleasure to announce the morning owls.
I have some nerve damage from organophosphate
pesticides that were in wide use when I was young.
Hell, we used to skip down the street in the fogging-trucks DDT clouds during skeeter season in NC.
watertiger...that was the show I was trying to remember. Or the one with Gary Coleman.
"Oh come on, our parents did it, why can't we."
When I was kid on military bases, we used to play in the 'fog' when they would spray the bases for mosquitoes. Of course, now we know back then it was laced with loads of DDT. No problem, I am still here so what is the big deal?
/snark
I'm predicting today. For two reasons, one they left a little early yesterday and second, I'm just going to keep saying "today" each day until I'm right.
attaturk
What, Fitzmas is just around the corner?
I'll live with that, he's toast, let em drag him out at his lawyer fees for as long as possible.
I only use an organic 12-12-12 fertilizer on my yard 3x per year.
I've always used 10-10-10 as it's cheap and available.
Oh, that's neat - thunder and lightening - and it's snowing.
THUNDERSNOW!!!!!!!!
I was talking to my buddy in Ann Arbor last night and his power kept going off.
Boy the asexual-tension between IMUS and his wife is palpable
Look, but don't touch, you fucking old ghoul!
Morning, rational peoples! It is my pleasure to announce the morning owls.
filkertom
Cocksucker Duncan didn't email me and let me know?
Bastich.
Ahhh Michigan - home of the phenomena known as thundersnow.
Went through here about 3 hours ago. Woke me up, dammit.
BTW, there is a grass that is drought resistant, doesn't need mowing and is pretty much weed free after establishment.
What's it called? I've been keeping my lawn pesticide & herbicide free for about a decade, but it could use a good reseeding.
Few lawn types are appropriate across our contiguous lower 48 States. In Arizona, spectacularly green hybrid super-dwarf Bermuda lawns are commonplace, or were. Neither bermuda, nor its seed will survive most winters here.
Jack Welch gave his new bride 9-carat engagement ring.
It's a love match.
I've turned pretty much my entire yard into a garden. I have a small patch of greass in the back, under a big oak tree, where the kids play on a swing, and some out front, but otherwise, mostly fruits and vegetables.
Got a bick dump truck load of the city compost (we've got a pretty good green waste program here). But I need to get some quick this year, before they start adding sewage sludge to it.
I'm predicting today. For two reasons, one they left a little early yesterday and second, I'm just going to keep saying "today" each day until I'm right.
attaturk
If they come in today dressed up, that's it.
Karin, reccomend you go to the most highly-regarded independent Nursery or garden center in your area and ask a Certified Nurseryperson for exactly what you want.
SHEETS
What's it called? I've been keeping my lawn pesticide & herbicide free for about a decade, but it could use a good reseeding.
Karin
The "no-mow" part is all or nothing, but you are looking for a high rhizome tall fescue.
The high rhizome count keeps the weeds down and provides drought tolerance. The stuff is very fine leaved, when it gets tall it just "falls" over, very graceful.
No thundersnow in my part of Ann Arbor yet. And the power's just f-
Fescue grassses are known for their shade tolerance, comparatively deep roots, and clumping nature. Not to be disputatious, but
a local plant person can better advise you than an out-of-area blog commenter.
cool. Atrios is persuaded by commercials.
Atrios, you've been right on so many subjects...and yet here you are just plain wrong. Wrong I say!
I disagree. While Hodgman is easily the funnier of the 2, he is the foil, and it's quite clear. I think it's a brilliant campaign.
Feel free to base your computer usage on the personae of two characters being played by actors on TV, but that seems to me a rather childish way to make such a choice. After 25 years of using computers from the earliest Commodores to Pentium IVs, I'll take a Mac any day over a PC and, as the saying goes, twice on Sunday. Speed, reliability, and ease of use pretty clearly trump a "memorable, entertaining, and interesting" turn by an actor in a commercial - but perhaps that's just my reality-based bias...
I love my Mac.
No I don't want to fight the hardware wars...
He said, wading into the hardware wars...
I'm waiting for the commerical where John Hodgman is the PC, Justin Long is the Mac, and Eddie Izzard is Linux.
The only problem (forgive me if I repeat something elsewhere in this 700 comment thread) is that I do not want my computer/os to be memorable, entertaining or interesting. Seen but not heard applies here, as my six year old will never let it be in the home....
PC's rule!
Mac's drool!
Choice is personal.
Similar to politics and partisanship.
Mac users will forever stay loyal to their personal choice.
PC users will forever stay loyal to their personal choice.
I believe the MAC vs PC Wars was started b/c the PC world started spreading misinformation about Macs in order to gain favor in the education field. It's just the roosting chickens right now for PC's and it's painful for PC users to see their personal choices "mocked" like that on TV.
Both are viable options...it's just a matter of personal choice.
TIVO has kept me only vaguely aware of what Atrios is talking about here. I highly endorse the fast forward button on TIVO for the following:
Hardball
MTP
FOX promos during Seinfeld reruns
Bush Press Conferences
Tony Snow under any circumstances
Whenever George Will or David Brooks are seen on TV with their mouths open
Oh, for goodness sake stop worrying about who portrays what in a commercial. Macs and PCs are machines, not people.
I am reminded of the IKEA commercial featuring the poor, sad, used-up desk lamp, sitting on the curb at night in the trash in the rain. You really do want to reach out to the little thing, wrap it up in a towel and take it home, cuddle it, make it happy and warm and bright again...the the voice-over: "Many of you are feeling bad for this lamp. That is because you are crazy. This lamp has no feelings. And the new one is better."
I used to be a Wintel person, but only by accident - before OS X, Macs sucked as bad as Windows, and I had been waiting for IBM's OS/2 to become the successor to DOS. It should have, but died a slow lingering death at the hands of inept IBM marketing. Got stuck with Windows, lots of music and art software I didn't want to replace. After a few attempts at escape via Linux, I finally switched to Apple about a year and a half ago, and I'm very happy with my choice. Yes, there's more around for Windows, and it works better than it used to, but I LOVE the way Apple has made it possible to use UNIX with a human face and run niche art and music software.
I like Picard-
I can see where the ads would be confusing. Maybe this will help:
The guy who says "Hello, I'm a Mac" at the beginning? He's a Mac.
The guy who says "And I'm a PC?" He's a PC.
Just clip this comment to your remote and I think the ads will make more sense for you now. You're welcome.
If you come away from those Apple ads convinced that you want to own a PC, then you most certainly deserve the PC you get.
>C: You are attempting to insult this site's host: Cancel or Allow?
>C: Allow.
I have a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. It runs Mac OS X, and it also runs Windows XP and Vista at native speeds. Using Parallels Desktop I can run all three OSes at the same time, and drag and drop or cut and paste one from the other.
I'm connected to my brother-in-law's peecee network via an Apple Airport base station, which handles the IP addressing for the entire network. Using Mac OS X I can connect to their printers and computers, and browse through their file system with ease. They frequently can't even see their own printers, and they have never been able to connect to my Mac! My sister is now trying to figure out how to get rid of a peecee virus that is frantically mailing itself to all of the business contacts in her address book. I haven't had a virus or an exploit since Mac OS 9, and that was about 7 years ago.
Using Timbuktu Pro and Apple Remote Desktop, I manage two Mac networks for the art gallery that employs me as a "computer guy." I suppose the networks are "competently run" because they rarely ever give us any problems. Aside from having set up the networks in the first place, I get paid big bucks to make sure they are "running smoothly," which is tantamount to getting free money, if you know what I mean.
My first computers were pre-Windows peecees, and I've continued to use Windows and remain familiar with the platform. I've also run various brands of Linux on my various Macs. Those who criticize Macs over Windows, like my brother in law (who spends an inordinate amount of time just trying to get his peecees to work,) have never used a modern Mac, and really have no basis other than their own prejudice to form an opinion. If they did, they'd switch in a heartbeat.
If they did, they would switch in a heartbeat.
QuentinCompson: "I think they went down the wrong path when they strayed from DOS. Or OS/2, actually.
OS/2 indeed. Great stuff - IBM broke my heart for ten years with it, and showed the world that despite having great scientists and engineers it has no idea how to sell anything.
The most recent one I saw had something to do with putting a webcam on the PC; Long said that Macs already had built in cameras. I said to my wife, OK, so Macs have built in cameras, so you have to use the one they give you, while with a PC, you can get any camera you want and just plug it in. And this makes Macs better exactly how?
The Mac commercials pretty much convinced me to stick with my PC. Sort of like reading Slate or Salon, if you insult me for what I'm doing, I probably won't use your product.
I have to say, John Lott's comment shows remarkable insight. I'm certainly persuaded by his point.
yawn. i am so over the defensive pc user claiming that macs are all about being hip. look, you made a stupid decision to use a pc, yes, we are laughing at you. get over it. enjoy your life in your pc world. we don't care.
wow. the first time ever that i have thought atrios is completely full of shit.
"For the slow, I'm mocking the ad campaign, not Macs. I haven't spent enough time on a Mac recently to have any opinion."
Atrios
-Atrios is making a point.
Allow or deny?
Computers are at their best when you don't notice you're using them. One day desktops will be like that for everyone, I hope
Good luck. You just made Symentec happy.
Mary,
You can still buy any camera you want and plug it into a Mac and choose between the built-in or the one you bought.
That is how it is better than a peecee without one.
Just say "NO" to big business and their software. Go open-source. Go Linux!!!!
I own a mac, but I agree with many of your main points. Honestly, those ads have made me ashamed to be a mac owner. The mac character is such a smug ass who thinks he's all high and mighty. But, that's just my opinion.
Sorry Duncan, the intended audience age for those ads are 25 and under most likely.
Hey, the reason that the John Hodgman PC guy is funnier and takes all the focus is simple: it's aimed at PC guys. He's meant to embody their frustrations, and the Mac is so simple that non-business types can do it too -- you just "do it." It's not meant to sell to Mac people. They already have Macs.
Mac sales? Up 100% the most recent month. Get ready for a whole new campaign, as they just signed the Nike exec as Apple's new ad director.
la dolce vita, so with a Mac you have to pay for the camera they give you, and then you can buy an additional camera and pay for that too, where with a PC you just buy one camera, the one that you want.
This makes Macs better exactly how?
Duncan says: "unless you're paying complete attention it's rarely obvious just who is supposed to be the personification of which computer."
Each of those commercials starts with one character saying "I'm a Mac" then the other saying "I'm a PC."
Does that help?
This has to be one of the lamest posts I have ever read on this site.
Man, a computer is just a tool people. You guys are arguing over philips and flathead screwdrivers! Believe it or not there are things a PC can do better than a mac. Vice versa.
Also, no one is really addressing the price point. Look, I work for the government and with some exceptions the computer experience in government is PC because they cost a whole hell of a lot less than a mac.
And besides, either way, mac or PC, BillGates gets paid. Ever seen the kind of stock he owns in Apple?
Ah, Duncan, you're so terribly misguided on this one; I fear that your read on the commercial proceeds from your rather conservative platform bias.
Keep in mind that Macintosh has five percent of the market share, five. It's neither a safe nor conservative choice--only a smart one.
"Also, no one is really addressing the price point."
Yeah, my view has always been that you can get newer and better PC's more frequently than with Macs because PC's are so much cheaper.
And the commercials are not informative enough. In one of the commercials, Long says he does fun stuff, and Hodgman talks about various work-related things that he can do. That is contrary to my experience; my PC is full of games and music and photos and video, and this idea that it isn't good for fun stuff is contrary to my experience. If you want me to think that the Mac is better than the PC for fun stuff, tell me some stuff it can do, don't tell me stuff I know isn't true.
you're not really that stupid are you, dave?
Hodgman is playing the buffoon to the Mac guy, who comes across as friendly without being condesc--
BZZZZZZZZZZZT! Ooooh, no, wrong, sorry.
We have some lovely parting gifts, though...
dave™© | Homepage | 03.01.07 - 12:58 am | #
you're kidding right?
"More than that, unless you're paying complete attention it's rarely obvious just who is supposed to be the personification of which computer"
A sentence that follows:
"I know Long (Mac) is supposed to play the hipster and Hodgman (PC) the dork"
now, removing the names of the actors, it's pretty clear which computer is associated with which description... at first viewing; not after paying "complete attention"
LOL
Mary,
It's better, much better, because you have the built-in camera. You can't add that on later with a peecee.
Duh.
What is so great about the fact that the camera is built in?
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