8/25    javascript question. Is there a way to change
        window.href.location without the browser reloading?
        \_ No. This is intentional.
the long end. I really dont take a lot of serious pictures
              in the super-telephone ranges [birds, wildlife, sports], and the
              decent lenses in that area are multi-thousand dollar lenses.
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8/25    Alright guys. Nikon D80 with 18-135mm lens for only $709:
        http://www.usaphotonation.com/products.asp?product_id=13642#acc
        \- you should read the reviews of the 18-135. a 7.5x zoom
           enters the suspect range for distortion, although this may be
        \- you should read the reviews of the 18-135. a 7.5x zoom mitigated
           for a DX format lens. that being said, if that's price if the
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4/27    Anyone from the Beijing area here?  My mother-in-law is on a trip
        there.  She bought a SIM card there and put it in her cell phone.  She
        said the number is 1XXXXXXXX (total 9 digits).  What should I dial on
        my home phone in order to call that number?  I tried 011-86-1XXXXXXXX,
        but I always got a tone that sounds like a busy signal.  Thanks.
        \_ Try removing the leading 1. Many include the long distance dialing
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3/15    http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/15/national/a072741D41.DTL
        Spann's father, Gary Spann, told The Sacramento Bee in 2005 his daughter
        routinely called the girl a "devil child," and she belonged to a cult
        that worshipped the late rapper Tupac Shakur as the reincarnation of
        the 16th century political philosopher Machiavelli.
        She also was upset because her daughter kept getting out of bed and
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2/16    "Iraqi: I'm proud my WMD lies led to war in Iraq"
        http://www.csua.org/u/sl0 (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ Duh.  the best thing that could ever happen to a country is
           the US declaring war on it.  cf: japan, germany, and now iraq.
           the US winning a war with it.  cf: japan, germany, and now iraq.
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11/18   why are we completely fucking retarded in Iraq?
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/68dlo3
        \_ This is how we get people killed.
        \_ We are completely fucking retarded all over.  It just doesn't
           usually get people killed so directly.
        \_ this is consistant.  We simply don't *CARE* about Iraqi's lives.
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9/16    I'm confused on this one.  Obama's campaign denies that he pressed
        Iraqi's to delay security agreement by confirming it.  Huh?
        http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hi9TDNHvuBZpFsO8ZbiFYsnbIl3A
        \_ Isn't this what Nixon did?
           \_ I'm not sure of the history on that one. -op
           \_ Ah, I've heard this charge before.  As far as I know it's just
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7/26    http://tinyurl.com/5r456r [AP]
        Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost
        \_ So move the goalposts enough and eventually you can claim
           victory and bug the fuck out.  That's not winning.
           What exactly was won again?
           \_ Huh?  What goalposts are you talking about?
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6/23    The Iraqi security forces really had nothing better to do than spending
        all that time to set up this photo op:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/5db4nk (Yahoo! News Photos)
        \_ Unless they're cataloging all those weapons.  And of course, public
           relations has *nothing* to do with police/army work.
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6/14    Don't look now, but it looks like Iraq actually is turning a corner:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/659h5a (The Economist)
        \_ Your tinyurl is broken
   http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11540858
        \_ Insert troll here.
        \_ 10,000 US casualties, 100,000 Iraqi civilian death, hundreds of
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5/30    Clinton is winning Puerto Rico.  YES.
        \- i wouldnt dismisss the PA results but the PR results are
           totally meaningless ... Clinton is basically the Senator
           from Puerto Rico:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_migration_to_New_York#Currently
           Either you are being sarcastic or ...
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6/2     Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning
        the war.   (Editorial)
        http://csua.org/u/loo  (Washington Post)
        \_ After the 5th or 6th version of that story in the last 4 years
           I don't think I have any more faith.
           \_ Uh-huh.  You've seen this huge drop in violence and an effective
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4/8     Yes, the Iraqi army kicked Al-Sadr's ass
        http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/04/a_look_at_operation_1.php
        http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0_feLSmJcspNYz9g3tqDkkwXD2QD8VSIPN00
        \_ Nope. You have been lied to (again).
           http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080421/cockburn
           \_ Sorry, can't read the article.  And nothing in the intro
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3/22    I was wrong about the Doctrine of Pre-emptive warfare.
        I was wrong about Iraq possessing WMD.
        I was wrong about Scott Ritter and the inspections.
        I was wrong about the UN involvement in weapons inspections.
        I was wrong about the containment sanctions.
        I was wrong about the broader impact of the war on the Middle East.
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3/10    Exhaustive Pentagon review finds no Saddam/Al Qaeda link:
        http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/v-print/story/29959.html
        "An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were
        captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that
        Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin
        Laden's al Qaida terrorist network."
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