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| 2006/9/25-27 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:44517 Activity:nil |
9/25 Does anyone know if there's a way for mail.app to use different
connection profiles for various accounts? I have 2 imaps accounts
which I need to connect to via an ssh tunnel at a client's; so
normally it'd be "host.x.com:993" but I would like to switch
quickly to "localhost:10993" without going through the "edit
account" rigmarole...thanks for any help. -John
\_ Why not just create two separate accounts and activate the
one that you need.
\_ Fair point, I didn't think of that, thanks. -John |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44518 Activity:high |
9/25 World is safer? not according to CIA and 15 other spy agencies
in USA... you know, those agencies are known for their liberal bias
\_ which leaves out other 15 spy agencies who is obviously
have "liberal bias."
http://tinyurl.com/qslue (NY Times)
\_ More danger = more funding
\_ Repeat of "Liberal CIA undermining..." post below
\_ which leaves out other 15 spy agencies who is obviously
have "liberal bias."
\_ Would the world be safer if the US had taken some other course of
action and what action would that be and how can we know?
\_ couple things. 1. it's not cool for those opium/heroine
to be exported. Neighboring countries tend to get a bit
testy when opium production is up. 2. opium production
is a good reverse indicator of how much central government
is in control. high opium production implies that
Afganistan central government is not controlling its
population. 3. opium money can be used in varity of ways,
don't get suprised when some of the extreme islamic
activities are funded by opium.
\_ err... finish up the job in Afganistan instead of take on
another country size of California. You do know that opium
production in Afganistan is at all time high and exceeding
the average world demand, right?
\_ What does opium have to do with anything?
\_ couple things. 1. it's not cool for those opium/heroine
to be exported. Neighboring countries tend to get a bit
testy when opium production is up. 2. opium production
is a good reverse indicator of how much central government
\_ so we should continue our course of action...
1 or 2 US soldiers, ~100 Iraqi death a day?
is in control. high opium production implies that
Afganistan central government is not controlling its
population. 3. opium money can be used in varity of ways,
don't get suprised when some of the extreme islamic
activities are funded by opium.
\_ You still can't know that a different course of action would
have resulted in a superior outcome today. And no I didn't
know but if they're over producting then they're desperate
for cash to pay their soldiers and likely to collapse and fall
\_ casulty rate from Iraq is actually very
high. casualty typically defined as
death + wonded / total force. You obviously,
conveniently, switch between "casualty" and
"death" as if they are the same. You are
welcome to compare the casulty rate of this
Iraq war versus WW2, Vietnam, and Korean War.
It is not as low as you think.
while you are at it, i suggest you divide the
40k+ car accident death divided by number of
total car drivers, and compare.
in line with the UN supported government. What was your
interpretation of over production?
\_ I think it's 100% safe to say that if we didn't invade
Iraq, Iraq wouldn't have become a giant clusterfuck. -tom
\_ sorry but your ultra left wing rant is getting old
\_ so we should continue our course of action...
1 or 2 US soldiers, ~100 Iraqi death a day?
\_ True. It'd be the same old clusterfuck it was before.
\_ Indeed. A contained one that our allies were willing
to help us with.
\_ It wouldn't be OUR clusterfuck. It'd be Saddam's.
\_ The same old clusterfuck minus 2500+ dead and 10,000+
severely wounded US soldiers.
\_ 40K+ people die in car accidents every year. I
don't wish to be insensitive, but I think the
casualty figures need to be put into perspective.
\_ casulty rate from Iraq is actually very
high. casualty typically defined as
death + wonded / total force. You obviously,
conveniently, switch between "casualty" and
"death" as if they are the same. You are
welcome to compare the casulty rate of this
Iraq war versus WW2, Vietnam, and Korean War.
It is not as low as you think.
while you are at it, i suggest you divide the
40k+ car accident death divided by number of
total car drivers, and compare.
\_ You disingenuous motherfucker. Setting aside
the obvious scale disparities, there is no
moral comparison between a car accident and
dying in active duty. Fuck you.
\_ I'm not sure which one you are saying is
morally superior. Both sets took risks.
The soldiers when they signed up and
the rest of us when we get behind the
wheel every day. I'm guessing you have
no family in the military like I do.
\_ Did I say anything about superiority?
I said comparison. Your apples vs.
my oranges. And yes, I have family
in the military. Again, fuck you.
\_ I am just saying that you need to
look at that 2500 number relative
to something else and not as an
absolute. I bet that many people
have been murdered in LA since 9/11.
\_ When you drive a car, the choice
is your own whether or not to take
the risk. To a bit lesser extent
where you live is also your own
choice. A servicemember is obliged
to follow the order given. As
members of a democracy, our
responsibility to those lives is
higher. Your perspective is
skewed. Fuck you.
\_ Soldiers had a choice whether
to accept risk or not when they
signed up. Also, most soldiers
actually support being in Iraq,
despite the risks.
\_ Thoroughly beside the point.
The nation decides when they
are deployed, not the soldier.
Thus, the nation bears the
responsibility for their
deaths. Most soldiers also
think that they're in Iraq
because of 9/11. You think
they came up with that idea
on their own?
\_ The problem with your point of view
is that the 40K+ dead people from
car accidents can be balanced by
the positive rewards drivers get
from the driving. In fact, if it
wasn't worth it/necessary people
would not be driving, but clearly
it is. These dead soldiers,
however are not worth it since all
the positive rewards from the Iraq
war turned out to be bogus:
Increases rather than decreases
terrorism, There was no imminent
threat, no WMDs, making Iran more
powerful, etc. WW2 killed many more
soldiers but it was worth it to
defeat the Axis.
\_ There are a lot of positive
rewards to being a soldier.
Without them, no one would enlist
\_ But whether or not being a
soldier is rewarding or not
is not the point, the point
is whether or not losing
all these soldiers was worth
it.
\_ What number of soldiers
killed makes it worth it?
2? 200? You tell me.
\_ Zero, since we're not
getting any benefit from
the war.
\_ See, I thought this
was the case. So
it is not really
relevant what
the number is
from your point
of view. If we
could overthrow
Saddam and establish
a democratic Iraq
at the loss of
2 soldiers you'd
still have an issue.
\_ No, if the war
meant getting rid
of a REAL threat,
disarming a danger
ous dictator, and
all the things
BushCo claimed
before the invas
ion AND not a
gigantic cluster
fuck civil war --
in addition to
being a recruiting
poster for global
Jihad, then yes
I would concede
it would be worth
it, just like it
would have been
worth it to take
out bin Laden
& associates if
that would have
prevented 9/11.
The problem is
that the whole
Iraq war is based
on BS and is
being horribly
managed, making
us less, not more
safe.
\_ Forgot to mention the multiple hundred Billion
dollar price tag.
\_ Yes, but people don't mention that as
often as they mention the bodycount - as
if the bodycount being zero would make it
all fine.
\_ Also forgot all the dead Iraqis and the
damage to our nation's reputation etc.
\_ Final cost will be $1-2T. We could have
saved far more then 3,000 lives per YEAR
if we invested that kind of money in our
transportation infrastructure. The Iraq
War is going to go down in history as the
biggest mistake the US ever made.
\_ Yes the world would have been safer if we had taken
almost any alternative course of action, rather than
invading Iraq. We can know this by the simple application
of common sense. It would have made more sense to send
a monkey to Mars than invade Iraq. |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Science/Space, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:44519 Activity:nil |
9/25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_earth People like Justin P Black believe in hollow earth. \_ Isn't that where trolls like you live? \_ You're just not catching on. Why don't you drop it? |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Science] UID:44520 Activity:nil |
9/25 Wartime gatchphrase generator:
http://oaktowncrack.com/war
\_ Viewing source on that's more fun than actually using it. |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:44521 Activity:nil |
9/25 Adobe Lightroom beta4 is out:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom
\_ played with it last night. enuf improvements over beta3 that
its worth taking a look at (at least the PC version). changes
to the UI and it looks like some performance too. -shac |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:44522 Activity:nil |
9/25 Huntington Beach trademarks "Surf City USA" and sues Santa Cruz
merchants:
http://tinyurl.com/jamv5 (mercurynews.com)
\_ just FYI, the Huntington Beach pier which most surfers surf is
also the location of the desposing pipe for treated waste water.
Granted that those treated waste sewage is colorless and oderless,
it's makes me laugh everytime I think about it.
\_ You are breathing my fart gas right now.
\_ Why can't Santa Cruz just accept that "Surf City USA" does not
refer to them? Dean (of Jan & Dean, who wrote the song "Surf
City" along with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys) lives in HB and
said he was thinking of HB when he wrote the song years ago. Santa
Cruz has fine surf. It's just not "Surf City USA".
\_ Interesting, there are two cities named "Surf City," one in
NC and one in NJ.
\_ And...? |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Transportation/Car] UID:44523 Activity:low |
9/25 Do people who drive on I-280 in the morning frequently get pelted
by falling crap from those gravel trucks? I think it's quite
annoying how many pitmarks and windshield cracks I have gotten
over the years from those things.
\_ Not on I-280, but yes. I have had three different cars sustain
windshield damage from crap falling off of trucks. They should
be held liable for that.
\_ Get the plate, call CHP, file suit in small claims. There are
only 2 things allowed to fall from a truck: feathers and water.
Anything else is a DMV offense.
\_ And feathers are only allowed if you're carrying live fowl.
\_ Problem is, often the truck isn't around anymore. Only
the darn gravel is and it is being kicked up by other cars.
\_ Are you serious? URL please?
\_ http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc23114.htm
first line. seriously, did no one take drivers' ed?
\_ I actually did not know what those flaps were
behind the wheels of big rigs- !ppp |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Computer/HW/IO] UID:44524 Activity:low |
9/25 I asked this last night but some oaf deleted it:
Does anyone know of a keyboard (either avilable new or easy to find
used) which has a double-height enter key?
\_ May I ask why you want the enter key to be twice as high?
\_ 2-row enter keys are easier to find and more satisfying to hit
-OP
\_ http://pckeyboards.com (from memory, sorry if thats wrong) will build you
a custom keyboard.
\_ Do you want it to be twice as high but not twice as wide? If
so, try a French-Canadian keyboard. I have one. The enter
key is really annoying. http://www.csua.org/u/h08 |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:44525 Activity:nil |
9/25 'Jihad' car commercial upsets U.S. Muslims
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14990383
\_ Jihad was a super-fun card in magic: the gathering |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:44526 Activity:nil |
9/25 "This is the price correction we've been expecting - with sales
stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next
year" -NAR Chief Economist, http://csua.org/u/h01 (realtor.org) |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:44527 Activity:kinda low |
9/25 Starting tomorrow, you can now bring terrorist liquids and gels (<= 3oz
each) in a single, 1-quart-size zip-lock bag, to be deposited in X-ray
bin along with your terrorist notebook. Doublegoodplus.
http://csua.org/u/h00 (tsa.gov)
\_ Brought to you by Johnson, a Family Company -- Ziploc, the ONLY
way to be sure.
\_ What if I just bring a match and order a lot of liquor and
light them up during the flight?
\_ Can you light alcohol lower than, say, 20% alcohol? Can
you get stronger alcohol than that on a plane?
\_ "100 proof" was originally defined as a solution of water
and alcohol that, when poured on a pinch of gunpower, would
still be flammable. Turns out to be 57% alcohol. -tom
\_ This is so freaking stupid. Can they even demonstrate how bringing
liquids on a plane is actually a threat, or is this just more "make
the public feel safer because we don't let grandmothers on with
their knitting needles" bullshit?
\_ I thought knitting needles were allowed again..
\_ Just drawing parallels with the silly not-really-secure
reactionary measures post-9/11
\_ According to this: http://tinyurl.com/h8xht
Making explosives like this would require "equipment", 12-36
hours and produce "vile fumes", not would be impossible to
hours and produce "vile fumes" --- impossible to
whip up in a little while in an airplane lavatory.
\_ What if you're carrying more than 3oz of urine in your bladder?
\_ Hey, there's a terrorism idea. Take bleach on airplane.
Combine with urine in bathroom. Instant chlorine gas!
\_ Or breed terrorists with liquid explosive blood and built
in detonators.
\_ Dude, this should totally be the next Vin Diesel movie.
\_ That was a cool Philip K. Dick short story, about
a person who is replaced with a perfect android
copy fitted with a very powerful bomb. The
android has been programmed not to know he is an
android, and the bomb is triggered to go off when
the android utters a sentence that shows he has
realized he's not the original person and has a
bomb inside of him.
\_ Impostor, starring Gary Sinise
\_ Just eat lots of beans right before boarding, and launch an in-fight
H2S gas attack to poison everyone on board. No banned substance
involved.
\_ Myth: Busted! |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Uncategorized] UID:44528 Activity:nil |
9/25 Global temperature highest in millennia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_sc/global_warming
\_ This Richard Branson guy is pretty scary looking:
http://csua.org/u/h05
\_ That's *Sir* Richard Branson, to you.
\_ Yessir!
\_ Private! On a scale of one to ten, how difficult is general
relativity?
Ten, SIR!!!
\_ That should be "Sir Ten Sir!!!" |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:44529 Activity:low |
9/25 Urgent help. I have a MacBook Pro and compared to the predecessor
G4 it is a total piece of shit and I regret getting it. At any
rate, I upgraded from itunes 6 to itunes 7, and now itunes 7
crashes every 5 minutes. I deleted it and tried to install itunes 6
again, but now the itunes 6 GUI keeps saying "Custom Install
on Mac HD, Package Name iTunes-- Skip". I can't make it install
at all. What's going on? -really frustrated
\_ I played with a MacBook Pro laptop for 2 weeks and it seemed nice
compared to my old G4-based Powerbook laptop. What problems
have you had?
\_ Gayness.
\_ That's a feature, not a bug.
\_ It's *Fabulous*!
\- apple -> lemon
FYI: i think most of the problems i had on my old
g4 powerbook titanium were due to some software
install not being atomic. i have an MBP too and
it seems pretty stable. if anything, i had trouble
with the old machine not waking up sometimes. the main
win of the MPB is the better wifi reception.
\_ Your machine should still be under warranty. Take it back. |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Transportation/Car, Computer/Companies/Ebay] UID:44530 Activity:nil |
9/25 Property for sale on eBay, great view, bit of a commute:
http://csua.org/u/h02 |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Recreation/Sports] UID:44531 Activity:kinda low |
9/25 How much will the Cal football team beat Oregon State by this Saturday?
A. 0 - 5 points
B. 6 - 10 points
C. 11 - 19 points
D. 20 or more points
Based on the 3 consecutive demolitions of PSU, Minnesota, and ASU, I say
the answer is D. OSU got killed by Boise State. We are better than
Boise State.
\_ Agreed. D is my final answer, Regis.
\_ Except that all 3 of those games were at home. We are unproven on
the road. The game will be closer than you think. I say that the
correct answer is B.
\_ C -USC fan
\_ Why is there an 'SC fan on motd? --'SC student, Cal fan.
\_ USC has been the dominant team in college football for the past
several years. Because of that, and their tradition and
\_ USC has been the dominant team in college football for the
past several years. Because of that, and their tradition and
history of winning, USC football has fans everywhere. This
motd is not immune from the pull.
\_ Voting on behalf of my friend, a former 'SC student
--pp, cal student, completely apathetic re: fooball
\_ C -Cal fan.
\_ Cal will lose, like they have to OSU 3 out of the last 4 years. |
| 2006/9/25-27 [Uncategorized] UID:44532 Activity:nil 66%like:44538 |
9/25 Can anyone recommend a good testing tool for flash applications?
Prefer open source but whatever, having trouble finding much of anything
via google.
\_ if you prefer open-source, you wouldn't choose Flash at first place. |
| 2006/9/25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack] UID:44533 Activity:nil |
9/25 sign your name jblack or else I will sign all conservative trolls
for you. -liberal nut case |
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