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2003/12/15 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:11455 Activity:low |
12/14 Sorry about this, but about alternative to the Dragon Book in the subject of Compiler. What is the name of the author for that Programming Language book again? \_ the Tiger Book by appel- a much better read. \_ Michael Scott. Here's the Amazon link if you want to read some reviews: http://tinyurl.com/z9rx \_ thanks some reviews. |
2003/12/15 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11456 Activity:kinda low |
12/14 We wage war under the ground of WMD. What happened if Iraq really didn't have WMD? Under what ground we should try Saddam? defending his homeland? \_ "we" aren't, the Iraqis are. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/politics/15PRIS.html \_ I think we can ask the relatives of the 300K dead in mass graves \_ guess what, not all of the mass grave were produced in reigm of Saddam. Some of these mass grave were dated back to the fall of Ottoman Empire. \_ oh well that makes it ok then. might as well forget about the attempted invasions of iran and kuwait also, and let this swell fellow go. \_ Didn't we support the invasion of Iran? \_ The coldwar was about the lesser of two evils. \_ Bwahahahahahahahaha! I damn near peed myself laughing at this. Nice. \_ 100+ million killed 20TH CENTURY DEMOCIDE http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM Long live MARX!!! \_ If you study these figures, you realize that this guy comes up with some truly absurd numbers. He claims that the US killed 6000 civilians during our entire 11 year war in Vietnam, including all civilians killed by bombings. This is just not believable. He plays all sorts of other tricks with numbers too, like claiming that all the Russians and Ukranians who died of starvation during WWII are the responsibility of Stalin. \_ Most of Stalin's purges occurred before WWII. He gives a detailed explanation of the numbers in Vietnam. \_ Is it really about the cold war? If so, how come Iraq's tanks were all Soviet? I think it's more about US supporting the despotic Shah to control oil in Iran, only to see him overthrown by mullahs, so US use Saddam and his chemical weapons against Iran. \_ Iran has been a monarchy for 2000 years; the Shah was the royal successor. His deposal, thanks in a large part to Carter and Congr. Dems was the inaguaration of militant Islam. Neither NATO nor the Warsaw Pack wanted a clear victor Iran-Iraq war; better to let the Muslim fanatics kill themselves off. In restrospect the only mistake was that they didn't kill enough of eachother. \_ The fact remains. Iraq invaded Iran, (just like Iraq invaded Kuwait) not the other way around, and US supported Iraq, helping Saddam in multiple ways, including chemical weapons. \_ The justification of tacit Western support was militant Islam. Based on what has transpired since it was completely justified. The US did not give Iraq chemical weapons, although transfers of chemical and biological agents were made from US universities. Furthermore, the US did not provide military hardware to Iraq. Even today Iraqs military orignates from France, Russia, China, etc... there is no US hardware whatsoever. Iran also used chemical weapons, BTW. \_ Besides assistance with chemical weapons, US provided military intelligence, logistics, food credits (which Saddam easily turned into money to buy weapons), and encouraged allies to sell weapons to Iraq. Iraq is the one who started using chemical weapons. US itself also left all options open if attacked by WMD, so Iran's response is consistent with US policy. US also impose sanctions (all forms) against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, which is started by Saddam, leading to 1 million dead. US also sold Iraq 1 billion $US worth of trucks, and changed the description on the export licenses from 'vehicles designed for military use' to 'commercial utility cargo trucks'. US also allowed Indonesia to sell attack helicopters to Iraq (made by US of course), cluster bombs from South Africa and howitzers from Austria. \_ And what is your point? This is common knowledge.. I think we should have let them overrun the Iranian mullahs. \_ We tried, but failed, and then it blew up in our face. \_ Hindsight is 20/20, there was insufficient political capital to do much else. In the end the Soviets were defeated. \_ Like I said, it has very little to do with the Soviets. It's about our control of oil in the region. That's why we are still there long after the demise of the SU. \_ Oh my god you think its about oil NO WAY not not in a million years. LOL it doesn't take a genius to realize we would have extricated ourselves long ago if not for the oil. Guess what, every country on the face of the earth wants to use oil, including China, Russia and France. come Iraq's tanks were all Soviet? \_ Look, I am about as anti-war as they come, and even I can see that this is a pathetic attempt at a troll. I think we should just hand him over to the Kurds and them do what they will. |
2003/12/15-16 [Recreation/Shopping] UID:11458 Activity:nil |
12/14 reboot the Macy's building. http://www.cs.usm.maine.edu/~mccann/macys/macy2.jpg \_ General Merchandising Fault |
2003/12/15-16 [Computer/HW, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:11459 Activity:low |
12/15 U.K. Sodans can get a free PC that comes with Adware until the sponsoring company goes bankrupt. In other news, 1999 called. They want their business plan back. http://tinyurl.com/zc3a \_ sounds like you're stealing your wit from fark. |
2003/12/15 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:11460 Activity:high |
12/15 So I figure they'll time it this way: Saddam now to throw the early Dem primaries into shambles, Osama Bin Forgotten around July just in time to prep and edit capture footage for the Republican National Convention, and then probably some WMDs in October to put the final nail in the coffin. Anyone want to lay bets? Get them in soon, I'm moving to Germany. \_ America - love it or leave it. Glad you'll pick the latter \_ Maybe I'll move to one of those industrialized countries with single-payer health care and a murder rate that's not horrid.-!op \_ Maybe we will. And maybe we'll finally wake up and make you bloodsuckers leave instead. \_ I bet you're one of those morons who parrots the phrase "real americans" to refer to yourself and the rest of your cross-burning sister-marrying illiterate family. You are the sheep. And when the liberals leave no one will protect you from us, your corporate masters. So go, liberals! I want to sell fat and plastic to fuckwits like this guy without having to settle lawsuits every five minutes. |
2003/12/15-16 [Reference/Military, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:11461 Activity:kinda low |
12/15 hey ilyas: http://www.chivalrybookshelf.com/titles/ringeck/ringeck.htm (tobler interprets the Ringeck Verses) \_ right. just in case you just finished Quicksilver and felt it wasn't nerdy enough. \_ this book is not supposed to be fiction. It's a system of movements for the art of applied geometry. \_ Agrippa is better for that. \_ Agrippa wasn't thinking of a longsword, he was thinking of rapier. \_ What about Silver? \_ Well, he had a bit of a bias vs. scherma. \_ http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~wew/fencing/agrippa/63.jpg ? \_ Agrippa was a mathematician. Basically he came up with a system of movements that let the scholar form the hypotenuse with his arm and blade to the triangle created by the opponents arm, blade, angle and point. Alot of the spanish style, the so called "magic circle" is all appications of geometry of chords tangents, etc, since they didn't have the silly limitations of strip fencing. - pst \_ For the record I don't like Stephenson. I find most of his books (after Snowcrash) long and boring. Also the above poster is right, this isn't fiction, it's a martial art manual. -- ilyas books (after Snowcrash) long and boring. -- ilyas \_ Neat! Thanks, motd Santa! -- ilyas \_ ya might also wanna ask him for a gorget. Preferably steel I took a schlager in the throat the other week and even thru \_ Neat! Thanks, motd Santa! -- ilyas a steel one it still hurt and stunned. - pst \_ Motd santa pls bring me: http://www.darkwoodarmory.com/closed.htm \_ If you like that, tell us about this: http://img.kb.dk/ha/manus/th290/kamp0205.jpg and http://img.kb.dk/ha/manus/th290/kamp0165.jpg |
2003/12/15-16 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:11462 Activity:very high |
12/15 With Saddam in custody now the '04 election is done. Stick a fork in it and vote for Green so we can end the "1 party, 2 faces" nightmare. What is this? _/ \_ In answer to "what is this?", "1 party, 2 faces" is what our political system has become. Both parties are the same. They have the same agenda, offer the same solutions, they 'steal' each other's platforms not because they believe in them but because the polls say it's a good idea to do so. This is a one party nation that uses 2 names for the same party. We need a second party in this country for those of us tired of business as usual. \_ Yeah voting for Ralph Nader surely helped Al Gore, Jr. win. \_ Why would I want the other side of the one party to win? Gore and Bush might as well be twins. Why is this so hard to understand? \_ Watch the polls dip as we lose another 500 soldiers between now and the election. \_ Nah, the economy could only add an anemic 150,000 jobs last quarter, in spite of the biggest productivity gains in twenty years. Expect things to cool off a bit next year, leading to more job losses and further wage stagnation. This economy is great for the stock market, but not so good for Joe Sixpack. \_ Hence the phrase, jobless recovery. \_ Unlike you I am Joe6 and work with a ton of other union guys and we're doing just fine, thanks. Get out of your ivory tower. \_ Yeah, support for Bush is up a whole 3%!!!! http://csua.org/u/5a2 |
2003/12/15-16 [Reference/History, Reference/History/WW2] UID:11463 Activity:nil |
12/15 I don't understand the Trojan war. After the Greeks fought for 10 years to rescue the pretty Helen of Troy, wouldn't she have already turned into a 30 year old hag making the Trojan Horse victory in vain? \_ Homeric allegory is lost on some people. \_ C'mon, it's principle of the thing. Think of it like M$ stealing your code and you finally wrangling a paltry settlement out of them a decade later.... \_ They were fighting for Agamemnon's honor as the king of the Greeks. Also, the looting and taking of all the other women. \_ you're forgetting about the Trojans' WMD. \_ women of mass destruction? \- heh. --psb \_ if yer trojan springs a leak \_ I don't understand what's the big deal about the Iliad. It bored me to tears. \- do you think this says more about you or the iliad? Xalepa ta kala. For discussion on the original question: ~psb/MOTD/Iliad.commentarii --psb \_ Did you write this while in a cafe? \- yes. why? were you watching me? --psb \_ Did you mean: Xalapa ta kala --obGoogle \_ There is no one way to transliterate Greek into English characters. "Chalepa ta kala" seems the most common. \_ I like simple books like Old Man and Sea or Of Mice and Men. Being very old, I can see why Iliad is important, but it is very boring and repetitive, and the whole plot line could be summed up in half a page. Granted, it's like a poem, but a few hundred pages of repetitions? Ugh! \_ If you think the Iliad is boring you should try a more modern adaptation: Ulysses. Heh. Let us know what you think. \_ I heard that's a very boring book too. I remember Economist saying that some think the author is just a con-artist with a very large vocabulary. \_ I read the Economist for all my ancient poetry and book reviews. Good plan. I also make all my best meals from their recipe section. \_ A cauliflower is a cauliflower no matter how you cook it. \_ for u then: http://troymovie.warnerbros.com/index_noflash.html \_ well I think it's gonna be a lame movie. They're frigging fighting for a 30 year old hag. They could've spent 10 years doing something more constructive. \_ funny thing for a 30 year old virgin to be saying... \_ Cool. I would like to see the movie since I like "historical" movies. But that doesn't change my opinion of Iliad, whose plot is just a small subplot of the whole Troy endeavor. |
2003/12/15-16 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11464 Activity:nil |
12/15 DNA Testing used to confirm Saddam's Identity: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994481 |
2003/12/15-16 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:11465 Activity:insanely high 66%like:12871 |
12/15 liberal media: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,561468,00.html \_ p.s. - the "liberal" thing was intended ironically. oh well. -op \_ excellent troll. 2 cookies for you. \_ Time is a piece of crap, but that article doesn't appear biased one way or the other. -tom \_ "We can measure the meaning of his capture by the measures we have taken -- old alliances and long traditions discarded to go to war to take him out and, in the name of democracy, a war that was opposed by vast majorities in most democracies on earth." Now, is this really true? Vast majorities opposed the war? Or is it vocal minorities? \_ Polls in many european countries rode anywhere from 70-90% against US actions. How 'bout this one: "by far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum" --scotsman \_ You're deeply confused about what democracy is all about. Just because other democratic countries may disagree with our democratic country does not lead to the conclusion that our actions were wrong. It only follows that the people in those countries have a different culture and belief system from our country. There is nothing that says all democracies have to agree with each other. It a simply a form of government, not a rating of good vs. evil or which team you belong to in the world. If 100% of people in other 100% of other democratic countries were opposed to our country's actions that carries no more \_ not biased? c'mon. 3rd paragraph? Nothing but agrandizing weight, value or meaning than if 100% of the people of 100% of totalitarian states disagree with our actions. \_ Even if this is true (how many countries?)... There are other democracies besides those in europe. Was the vast majority opposed to the war in some sort of non-changing sense? Do the polls show consistent 70-90% opposition, and still do? \_ You can look for the answers yourself. This is another thing that gets me about the o'reilly effect. They bring up questions like this that are relatively news-magazine-murdered-cheerleader special reports. please. answerable if you have the time, but people who don't have the time simply base their outrage on them.. \_ Well, the thing is ... if you don't know the answers to these questions you can't really say Time isn't full of shit. Which is the point. \_ The answer is that the vast majority of countries opposed the US war and still do. You are just too lazy to do the research yourself. \_ Look, in France, the very bastion of anti-(american unilateralism/english speaking hegemony), only 59% oppose the war. Where are the vast majorities in _most_ democracies of the world? Show me. Time is full of shit. \_ http://csua.org/u/59w http://csua.org/u/59y \_ Uh... the best this says is that majorities (far from vast) in _several_ european countries (far from most democracies in the world) opposed the war at one point. But poetic hyperbole is ok, because it's Time, right? \_ Give it up. You are just making yourself look bad. They polled 45 countries and a majority opposed the war in 2/3 of them. \_ Sure. Now let's compare what the facts say and what Time says. Facts: Simple majorities in 2/3rd of 45 nations in the world opposed the war in iraq at one point in time. Time: Vast majorities in most democracies of the world oppose the war in iraq. Time is full of shit. \_ 59%? Show me. _/ http://www.iraqcrisisbulletin.com/archives/041603/html/french_doubts_over_war_opposit.html This is from april. \_ Honestly, come on now. It's common knowledge that the war was opposed by everyone except a couple of eastern europeans desperate to suck up to the USA. As if anyone in Poland gives a shit about Iraq. \_ not biased? c'mon. 3rd paragraph? Nothing but aggrandizing and romanticizing sensationalist language. the thing of news-magazine-murdered-cheerleader special reports. please. \_ What in that paragraph do you think was aggrandizing \_ besides the whole thing? how about: "It was an antidote to the contempt expressed by Arab and European commentators who poked the American tiger: See, you can't even catch Saddam." \_ One man's "bias" is another's "perspective." Go away, dittohead. \_ I like Time. I read all the major newspapers as well. Each source has its own problems. \_ I don't like any media, yet I read them all the time. Each source has its own bits of useful information. |
2003/12/15-16 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:11466 Activity:nil |
12/15 My laptop doesn't have the "windows" key and I run WinXP. How can I lock the desktop quickly since I can't do WINKEY-L ? \_ Winkey = Ctrl-Esc \_ Not exactly. You can't chord with ctrl-esc. \_ Ctl-Alt-Del, enter. \_ this is what I was gonna suggest. the real question is how can you quickly clear the desktop (Winkey-D) or invoke the run dialog (Winkey-R) ?? \_ For Windows-D: There should be a Show Desktop icon in the Quick Launch bar. Drag a shortcut to your Start Menu. Bind shortcut to Ctrl-Alt-whatever. For Windows-R: If you can find an .exe or file that opens the Run dialog, then repeat as above. Otherwise, you're stuck with Ctrl-Escape -> Press 'R'. \_ OH MY GOD!! I NEVER KNEW THESE KEYS EXISTED!!!! THANK YOU!! \_ motd, psycho windows user. psycho windows user, motd. glad to introduce you. (heartofore pwu) aka, p-triple-u \_ hey, man! i knew that, and i don't even like windows! I am a psycho, however. \_ pu^3, not to be confused with (pu)^3 \_ Use RemapKey to map something else (e.g. right-alt) to the Windows key. http://www.dynawell.com/support/Reskit/win2k.asp \_ You do know that this 2K tool won't work for XP, right? \_ Uh, why wouldn't it? The author's web page says it works for Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, and XP. |
2003/12/15 [Politics/Domestic] UID:29717 Activity:nil |
12/15 Are foreign policy isolationists conservative or liberal? |
2003/12/15-16 [Uncategorized] UID:29718 Activity:nil |
12/15 Amit in the doghouse: http://www.pantsfactory.org/?action=comments&linkid=884 |
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