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2002/3/22-23 [Recreation/Food] UID:24184 Activity:high |
3/21 Hi, I'm looking for good vegetarian restaurants in the south bay. I prefer restaurants that don't offer fake meat items. Those are pretty nasty. Thanks. \_ http://www.dasaprakash.com --elizp \_ Zagats? Use the web. It's faster than waiting. \_ If you like Indian food, try Udupi on El Camnio, they are 100% veg. Udupi also has a Fremont branch. Fresh Choice also has mostly veg. items. \- post to or google for ba.food --psb \_ good vegetarian? No such thing. If it didn't once walk, swim or fly it doesn't count as food. At best it's plate filler. \_ on a side note, burger king is supposed to have veggie burgers now. \_ The veggie burgers grilled on the same grill as the meat burgers which defeats the whole point. \_ I hear McDonald's fries are veggie now. \_ do most vegetarians care strongly whether a particular food is cooked in pork lard or not? And is there a subcategory of vegetarians who don't mind taking beef broth. |
2002/3/22-23 [Computer/SW] UID:24185 Activity:nil |
3/21 Best place for tools: Lee Valley Tools - http://www.leevalley.com -- larson |
2002/3/22-23 [Computer/HW/IO] UID:24186 Activity:low |
3/21 In plain DOS, is there a way to programmatically stuff a key sequence into the keyboard buffer as if the user presses those keys, so that the next program that reads keyboard input will receive those keys? Any references will be helpful. Thanks. \_ Try http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/47187.html -- misha. \_ Learn VB! There's a sendkey() function. |
2002/3/22 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:24187 Activity:nil |
3/21 Updates to ~scotsman/bin/patch_{dl,in}. If you have to deal with Solaris patches, these may help make life less obnoxious. |
2002/3/22 [Recreation/Sports] UID:24188 Activity:nil |
3/21 Jamal Sampson going to the NBA. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/sports/colleges/cal/2907857.htm \_ Is anyone going to draft him? \_ yes, because he's young and athletic and has yet to prove that he completely sucks, he'll probably be a first-round pick |
2002/3/22-24 [Health/Disease/AIDS] UID:24189 Activity:insanely high |
3/21 Peter Duesberg's HIV/AIDS research web site, he's a MCB Professor here at Berkeley who isolated the first cancer gene. http://www.duesberg.com/index.html \_ it's interesting that drug needle sharing is cited by orthodox groups as being a major cause of hiv infection. this indicates to me that a lot of aids patients had a history of drug abuse, if past needle sharing shows up significantly as a cause. how many regular folks shoot up on heroin or hang out with those who do? i'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt enough to support funding the guy's research. \_ Took a class from him years ago before his ideas and reputation got stomped on by the politcally correct science crowd. He was good. \_ are you for real? what class did you take? where did you see him speak? Duesberg also thinks cancer is a myth. ok i admit i am over simplifying. his partner in kookdom David Rasnick announced in January he was going to inject himself with the AIDS virus to prove it doesn't hurt, did he follow up on that? - danh \_ Hmm, these people seem to disagree with you. Check the list then ask yourself who is more credible. http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/group.htm Oh, and BTW, the Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis who invented PCR also seems to disagree with you.. but alas, I'm SURE you know better! \_ Just because a huge list of PhD's, Nobel Laureates and others not easily written off as crackpots think there might be something worth looking into doesn't mean jack. tom already told us the way it is. Why question it? \_ gee, anonymous insults. How useful. -tom \_ Yes. It was around 1992. Something like MCB 6 or something like that. A lecture series course which he co-taught with someone else who left no impression on me at all. I don't know if the other guy injected himself or what happened to any of the others in France, etc who injected themselves with various things. \_ you mean his idea that AIDS isn't caused by the HIV virus? The guy's a crackpot, and it has nothing to do with political correctness. (He's a good example of how you can always find a professor to support any crackpot theory) -tom \_ Hmm, I was there and heard what he had to say all semester and you read the Reader's Digest, maybe? Yes, your sources are much better than mine. Excuse my error. You're entirely right. \_ A man came up to me and said I'd like to poison your mind With wrong ideas that appeal to you Though I am not unkind. -tom \_ Nice poetry. Reader's Digest Poetry Edition? \_ Nice TMBG ref. \_ The home page says he's only referring to American/European AIDS regarding that issue, not African AIDS. I haven't read the rest yet so I don't know yet what the difference is. \_ "The African AIDS epidemic fails all criteria of a microbial or viral epidemic" Oh and by the way, the Holocaust was invented by the Jewish media. -tom \_ Sorry, Tom, but tossing around the Holocaust and the Jewish media and other hot button phrases doesn't make a valid argument or support your points in any way. \_ And your argument is...what? -tom \_ That some people know more about what he has to say than you do and find his work interesting and his theories worth examining without instant dismissal from the PC crowd which is exactly what happened. 20 years later and no one can tell you how HIV turns into AIDS. They only refer to it as 'happening' as a matter of fact. He might be 100% wrong on everything he says but that can't be said currently without more intellectual honesty regarding his theories. \_ Do you really see molecular biologists as a PC crowd? Maybe his theories were dismissed because they have no basis in reality. -tom \_ They're people. People have agendas. A science degree doesn't make someone magically immune to bias and certainly doesn't make them suddenly not afraid of losing grant money by backing a theory that offends a certain segment of society. Maybe his theories have no basis in reality. It hasn't been proven either way. He was simply smeared away. Wouldn't it be dreadful if he's right or even partially right and we've lost 15+ years fighting the wrong disease? \_ ...or poisoning people by trying to cure it? \_ exactly. What if the current approach is akin to leaches? \_ The current approach demonstrably saves people's lives. If you don't believe that, there's no hope for you. -tom \_ If you believe that without considering all scientific alternative explanations then there's no hope for you. \_ Did you even read the articles on the site? His papers indicate the opposite. \_ tom doesn't need to read. he already knows everything. dont let mere facts get in his way! \_ Tom has confused the practice of some scholars to weigh in on subjectd to weigh in on subjects the dont have expertise in [something tom himself has expertise in] with a scholar weighing in on something in his area. \_ gee, more anonymous insults. You guys are incredibly manly and intelligent. -tom \_ Either that or you are too insecure to admit when you are wrong. \_ tell us about the stars, ilyas. -tom \_ You sure that was me, tom? As sure as you are about AIDS? -- ilyas \_ now *that's* a flame-war! |
2002/3/22-23 [Uncategorized] UID:24190 Activity:low |
3/21 Why are children's voices so irritating? Why do parents bring them out in public before age 18? \_ why are adults such jerks? \_ Maybe being surrounded by other people's screaming brats that the rude so-called parents refuse to control or even acknowledge need any sort of control stresses them out? \_ uhm, again, why are adults such jerks? It's the parents' fault for not raising their children better. \_ Because they're blind to their own spawn's wickedness. \_ My kid/teenage cousins are irritating, but I've seen well- behaved kids and teenages in public. I think it's just a matter of discipline from parents. |
2002/3/22-24 [Industry/Jobs] UID:24191 Activity:moderate |
3/21 I'm looking for a job. See http://flophouse.com/~dpassage/resume --dpassage \_ did you ever get a private pilot's certificate? \_ Nope. Once I didn't work a mile from the airport anymore, it got a lot less convenient. --dpassage \_ that was a test. You're a quitter, and we don't want to hire you. \_ I turned down a job at securant. How was it there? \_ There were some really great people at Securant, and some turkeys. It really helped my career but if I'd asked better questions during the interview process, I might have turned them down too. --dpassage \_ What do you want to do? Based on your resume, I would say sysadmin/networking admin is a direct fit. \_ They took almost 3 weeks to go from "We want to hire you" to "here's your offer letter". A good friend worked in HR there and told me the delay was due to the uh less than professional level of conduct (being nice) of two people who sat on the paperwork for so long HR had to start redoing paperwork because one of the geniuses lost theirs. They eventually did make a decent offer but I wasn't going to wait around for them to get it together. I signed with someone else for more money 2 days before they got me a written offer. And now they're gone. \_ font of the last line is different... looks "unprofessional" |
2002/3/22-23 [Uncategorized] UID:24192 Activity:very high |
3/22 i really really like uni-ball vision pends, but i seem to use them up fast, and no meter how mny i buy at a time, i seem to end up running out when i really need one. has anyone figured out how to refil them? or, can someone recomend a refilable pen that gives equally good results? \_ I recently got a refillable roller ball pen from Lamy. It was about $20, and writes a lot like the vision ones. I like it. I got it at Amsterdam Art, but you ought to be able to find them in other places too. \_ thanks! that looks like a great company for pen nerds like me! i had never heard of them. it kind of looks like the pens are refilled by buying another throwaway proprietary part, not by just putting some ink from a bottle in. so here's another pen nerd question: is there anywhere in the US that sells those pens they hvae in china that are fountain pens with a pumpable plastic part that sucks ink up into the pen so you can easily refill it? thanks. \_ i have a mont blanc that is filled exactly how you describe, and they aren't too hard to find |
2002/3/22-23 [Reference/Tax] UID:24193 Activity:very high |
3/22 I got this advice from a friend - is he on crack? I always thought roth iras were Always A Good Thing To Do (tm): Subject: Roth IRA v Trad IRA You can contribute up to 3k in either of these for retirement savings A Roth does not provide any tax advantages (initially). The funds are deducted "after tax" the benefit is down the road the returns the funds generate are tax free. A traditional IRA provides a significant initial tax advantage. The funds are deducted "pre tax" and thus reduce your current tax payments, and in most cases give you a very nice tax rebate. The reason why the ROTH was created was for 40-60 yr olds who already make plenty of money and aren't running into liquidity constraints and because congress wanted more money being taxed NOW. The way I see it is simple- If you have very low purchasing power and debt and are young go with a traditional regardless of what any tax advuisor or anyone says. If you make bank with no debt go with ROTH Also of note is that a traditional has some benefits if you choose to go back to school at some later point in time ( actually these benefits are huge if done properly ) \_ Note that down the road the funds have grown. Significantly. The long-term tax advantages are HUGE. So you pay a piddlingly small amount of tax now for a massive tax-savings in the future. A traditional IRA provides a significant initial tax advantage. The funds are deducted "pre tax" and thus reduce your current tax payments, and in most cases give you a very nice tax rebate. The reason why the ROTH was created was for 40-60 yr olds who already make plenty of money and aren't running into liquidity constraints and because congress wanted more money being taxed NOW. The way I see it is simple- If you have very low purchasing power and debt and are young go with a traditional regardless of what any tax advuisor or anyone says. If you make bank with no debt go with ROTH Also of note is that a traditional has some benefits if you choose to go back to school at some later point in time ( actually these benefits are huge if done properly ) \_ I would think "if you can, do both." Saving, good. Having to eat gravel so you can pay hospital bills, bad. \_ You can do both but the annual max conbribution applies to the combination of ALL IRA types. So if you have both Roth and tranditional IRA account, the max is still $3000 for tax year 2002. For op, your friend's advice makes sense if your tax bracket is very high now and you know when you retire, it is going to be really low. \_ just so you know, that was kinney's advice. (hence the formatting) - see he sorta makes sense on occasion. \_ My understanding is that the gains on Roth IRA is all yours while those on the Traditional IRA will be taxed. Is that true? Of course for traditional, you start up with a higher base, since you will have the additional money you would have paid out as taxes if you go the Roth route. This "additional" money would unfortunately be outside of any IRAs. Of course you can put them in your 401k unless you maxed that one out also. In short, if you maxed out everything, Roth essentially let you tax shelter a little more money since $3000 in Roth is worth more than $3000 in Traditional. \_ Isn't there a limit on how much you can be making and still put $3000 in a ROTH? \_ WSJ's Smartmoney magazine advice on where to put your money for most people: 1. Max out 401k portion with company match. 2. Max out Roth IRA. 3. Max out unmatched portion of 401k 4. Other stuff. |
2002/3/22-23 [Uncategorized] UID:24194 Activity:moderate |
3/22 Bid on DVDs and help make aaron less poor. <DEAD>cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=sp00nb0y<DEAD> \_ so you're keeping your asian porn collection? |
2002/3/22-23 [Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan, Health/Disease/AIDS, Recreation/Celebrity/MichaelJackson] UID:24195 Activity:insanely high |
3/22 People born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s had: madonna, michael jackson, star wars, top gun, aids, etc. \_ I didn't have AIDS \_ Very few people have it. Fewer contract it. (read urls below) \_ Winner: Unclear on the Concept Award. \_ Those things existed, but so what? They were painful then and painful now and all of them are still here so what's the difference? (Tom Cruise is still here even if his earlier movies are forgotten) \_ Technically star wars is from the 70's. Or did you mean Empire and ROTJ. How about the people born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s? What is your equivalent? I'm wondering if there's a generation gap with you young folks. \_ fuck your pop culture. i was born in '76 and grew up in the 80's and know nothing for your pansy ass micheal jackson crap. DRI, Metallica, Iron maiden, motorhead, minor threat, black flag, repo man, thrasher magazine, skateboarding, setting stuff on fire, hating ronald reagan, being an anarchist, programming the apple ][e in assembler... \_ So Reagan was in office from 81 to 88 which makes you all of about 12 when he *left* office. And you were all of about 14 when the 80s ended. So you were a Reagan hating anarchist listening to Iron Maiden all through the 80s from age 4 to 14? Sure, kid, sure. We all know the 90s sucked but trying to worm your way into the 80s with bad math won't help you any. \_ They get nothing. They are weak and easily pushed to the wall. \_ Ewe! You are so 80s! \_ How dare you call them a sheep. \_ you mean there are people born in the 80s? How weird is that? \_ VH1, Win95, High Speed Internet, AIM, PlayStation \_ You really want to lay claim to vh1, win95 and AIM? \_ I'm just saying these are things that kids growing up in the 90's had. I'm not saying that they are good. Some other things that 90s kids had: Linux, Street Fighter 2, MTV's Real World/Spring Break, Gulf War, bad scifi (TNG, DS9, VOY, B5, etc.) \_ They had fewer parents, more pregnancies and higher rates of drug use and suicide, too. |
2002/3/22-23 [Recreation/Media] UID:24196 Activity:high |
3/22 Boycott Spielberg! Boycott Lucas!!! SAY NO TO ET AND STAR WARS!!! \_ I'm not going to see either of them. --aaron \- what brought this on? ET re-release? or have they given britney a role in the SW movie or something? \_ and I presume you're going to see asian porn instead? \_ edonkey is your friend. Lucas doesn't need any of my money. \_ Why? Don't you have enough space on your hd for the divx? \_ At least Star Wars is a new production and not a touch up of the old film with walkie talkies digitally painted in over the FBI's pistols. |
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