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2003/8/23 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:29442 Activity:high |
8/22 Interesting Irving Kristol essay on neoconservatism: http://csua.org/u/40g And a very interesting analysis of it: http://csua.org/u/40h \_ I thought Leo Strauss was supposed to be the "godfather of neoconservatism", however inadverdently, or am I completely mixing things up? Regardless, people who make generalizations are all idiots. -John And a very interesting analysis of it: http://csua.org/u/40h \_ "People have always preferred bigger government." *sigh* \_ The analysis is definitely worth checking out. They get a real kick out of pointing out his intellectual dishonesty. \_ Well, I don't think he is intellectually dishonest, but he isn't really a consevative in any meaningful sense. No one who considers FDR a hero is a conservative. At any rate, the larger agenda is to discredit the movement as a whole by pointing to one man, the converse of trying to discredit Nietzsche by pointing to fascism. \_ If not intellectually dishonest, then intellectually lazy. He's very fond of making sweeping generalizations that cry out for justifcation (such as the one quoted above) and then moving on without any further explanation. \_ I think the neoconservative position probably needs a larger medium for proper expression than a little essay, lest people cry 'generalization'. |
2003/8/23 [Uncategorized] UID:29443 Activity:moderate |
8/22 I'm curious, what percentage of rapists use condoms? \_ why don't you go hang out at rapists anonymous and report back with results? \_ There was a case a few years ago where a rapist argued that it wasn't actually rape, because the woman had consented if he used a condom. Don't remember the exact result. -John \_ He ended up with a whole new set of friends for 10-20. |
2003/8/23 [Uncategorized] UID:29444 Activity:kinda low |
8/23 Howdy from Black Rock city. \_ HI BLACK ROCK CITY FROM THE WINDY CITY! \_ G'DAY WINDY CITY AND BLACK ROCK CITY FROM THE CITY BY THE BAY!!!! \_ WOOT! FEEL THE LOVE! |
2003/8/23 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:29445 Activity:nil |
8/22 http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,60144-2,00.html Total crap. \_ 1. Post the first page, not the second. 2. That sucks. 3. This wouldn't have happened if he were handsome. \_ yes. yes. no. \_ Look at the mug on this kid! I don't know if he should be let go out of sympathy or locked away so no one else ever has to see him again! http://www.savebrian.org/media.html |
2003/8/23 [Health] UID:29446 Activity:nil |
8/22 Anyone know if prescription pain killers can be found online w/o a prescription? \_ I would know. |
2003/8/23-24 [Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold] UID:29447 Activity:high |
8/23 Seeing Arnold speak on TV has made me curious: how hard is it for an enormously wealthy man to get rid of his thick accent? Some accents can be really cool, but not his - it makes him sound dumb. He's been living in the country for 20 years, can't he pay a speech coach to help him get rid of it? It seems that would help him both in his movies and his campaign. \_ of course it just depends on the person. Arnold has had speech coaches in the course of his acting career. The guy just is not capable of losing his accent. But actually if you look at most people, unless they had exposure to other languages while young, they usually retain some accent. Arnie's is just worse. \_ That accent is worth a hundred million bucks for him. Why would he want to lose it? I'd talk like that if it was worth $100m to me. \_ Totally agree. \_ Someone once told me his speech coaches were there to *maintain* the accent. \_ This makes sense to me: Arnold moved to the US at age 23. People under 25 usually can drop/change accents fairly easily. I would have expected him to "lose" his accent by the time he made the first Terminator movie. |
2003/8/23-24 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:29448 Activity:high |
8/23 I use my laptop at both school and home. At school, I have it configured so that it connects via DHCP, and at home I connect it to my local network, with a FreeBSD server providing IP masquerading. Is there a way to set up my laptop so that I can easily switch between being connected at home or at school? (i.e. is it possible to just have a command of some sort to switch between either configuration, as opposed to changing each setting manually every time I go between home/school?) My laptop has XP. Thanks. \_ Are you saying that at home you have a static IP? There are lots of shareware tools that let you switch settings w/ a single click. \_ Yeah, static at home and DHCP at school. What are some shareware that do that? Thanks. \_ It's a windows box? Try http://tucows.com or http://download.com or whatever and you'll find any number of these network config switching programs. They've been around for a very long time. \_ http://download.com, ip settings... first 5 links. \_ Any reason not to use DHCP at home also? \_ You could write a short script. If you wanted to be fancy you could do something like try your static gateway first and if it isn't there switch to dhcp or vice versa. \_ i used to do something like this with my laptop, and i had a bash script i would run under cygwin. the script would take different network settings dumps and reload them. this relies on a cmdline utility that comes with windows, but i forget the name, and my laptop was stolen so i don't have the script anymore. try google. \_ Dude, Windows XP already has this feature. Go to where you set the IP address. In that windows, there will be an "Alternate Configuration" tab. Enter your static IP address there. If Windows is unable to obtain dynamic after a certain period of time, it will use the static IP you configured. |
2003/8/23-25 [Computer/Networking] UID:29449 Activity:high |
8/23 Anybody know of a computer dial up number. I just want to test my modem. \_ go to a random isp's home page and look up their local access numbers. \_ Thanks, good idea. BTW, did eecs discontinue the annex modem pool numbers -op \_ a long long time ago. \_ Wow. For some reason, that makes me feel old. What about the <DEAD>hip.berkeley.edu<DEAD> accounts? (Home-IP/PPP) \_ they started charging for them this semester. i.e., they're as good as dead too. jk. actually, they're an OK deal i guess. $20/semester. \_ Can I get one as a CSUA member and Cal alumni? \_ Can I get one as a CSUA member and Cal alumnus? \_ #f \_ ? \_ I see they got rid of Scheme from the CS courses, too. -- "Wow" poster \_ I'm not CS, my major was ME. so what is the #f -- ?guy \_ false. #t means true. http://csua.org/u/40p |
2003/8/23-24 [Finance/CC] UID:29450 Activity:moderate |
8/23 I want to add credit card processing to my site. Any recommendations? Typing "credit card processing" in google returns a billion sites, but I'm looking for a few reputable places that are easy to set up and affordable. Thanks. \_ paypal! \_ this is not credit card processing... its payments to anyone with an email and requires the buyer to go through a lengthy account set-up process. I recently set something like this up using LinkPoint (parent company called "Card Services Internationl," I think). This is the company that Earthlink uses for its ecommerce stores. Its relatively cheap for a merchant account with them, and they have many simple API's to basic credit card transactions. I used their perl api. easy, good documentation. - rory \) thanks. \_ ps - it probably would have been more helpful to google for "merchant account" since this is really what the companies are offering (with some programmatic api, hopefully). if you google this, http://cardservice.com is the 8th result. good luck \_ From what I found, it seems like the basic cost of this is $20/mo. Does that sound right? If that's the case, I think I'm just better off getting webspace through a third party. I'll keep looking. tnx. |
2003/8/23-24 [Uncategorized] UID:29451 Activity:nil |
8/23 Did you not hire that tech guy you need: We're sorry! Snapfish is currently unavailable. \_ All night DB upgrade. It'll be up in a few minutes. We're going to start calling people on that job this week. Send resumes. |