Posts by GrimJack

Hey, I visited Fiji back when Cyclone Muni blew in (around 1984) - Stayed in Suva where the soccer fields were flooded chest deep; flew to the other side of the island and stayed at the Sea shell resort -- good times, goodtimes.

You could always try the Evolution mmorpg at http://ev5.neondragon.net.

get a newsreader and checkout alt.folklore.computer over on the UseNet; this can be found in the primeval miasma of the early internet back while it was still all text.

You might be able to find what you are looking for in TweakVI, I don't know if it has what you want but it is the only tweaker I have found for Vista.

Well, MS has TweakUI for XP and there is TweakVI for Vista - you have to scroll down a lot to find the freeware (read crippled) version. You are not very specific about what you want to see so any answer would just be shootin' in the dark.

If it doesn't fit, force it;
if it breaks, you needed a new one anyway.

Here is the most terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Getting old is not for sissies - "Do not go gentle into that good night...Rage, rage against the dying of the light"(1)

Tom, go here, they will walk you through the process of finding the correct memory. Once you know what you need, then you can shop anywhere.

I am sure McCain has experienced it all and more during his own imprisonment and torture in the Hanoi Hilton.

Yes! He even gave false confessions under torture(1) - this would lead a person to wonder why he voted to kill the Senate's anti-torture bill(2).

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I'll substitute http://clusty.com/search?query=mk-ultra

Dang! When I first went there I got right there (first one is free??). This is the quote I was going for :

SCOTT SHANE writes in the New York Times:The military trainers who came to Guantnamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and "exposure."What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners<<emphasis mine>>.The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at Guantnamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of coercion by the military. The C.I.A. is still authorized by President Bush to use a number of secret "alternative" interrogation methods.

You gotta know the rules well to break them successfully.

Put the old hard drive back in and make other hd a secondary drive - XP installations are not swappable from one pc to another. You should have no problem -- er, don't forget to change any 'master' settings to 'slave' (or whatever).

I may be dating myself,

(I use to use this line then follow up with "because no one else would ---har,har)

but anyone else care to open up to their past "like/love" of the computer erra to date?
What do I mean? I mean, what thing or things did you find most appealing in computers over the years? Was it the creation of Linux or windows, or the mouse with 3 buttons?

The Amiga! I used my Amiga from the late '80s to Christmas 1998 when my gf bought me a new 18" monitor (I was working on with 13" one at the time) for Xmas. Well, one thing led to another and I ended up buying a bunch of parts off the internet and building a pc (I felt so guilty, like being absorbed by the Borg)

Myself, I have a few things that I miss, and things that I am still glad to have.

I miss. at times, the days of online chat rooms. You had to dial in. Yes, with a huge speed demon of a 1200 Baud Modem. Made the 300's cry.

I had the acoustic coupler model

This was the time before the internet was even a big deal.

Do you remember UseNet and a.f.u. & alt... (well, most anything alt.) rec.humor.funny, rec.games.pbm, etc.

That is my rant. Thanks for reading...

Good times!...Good times...

Originally Posted by GrimJack What do you call a woman with no arms and no legs sitting on your lap??????????

Joy!
(I made it up back when these jokes were popular and I was young).

Joy (it's a guy joke - I made it up back when these jokes were all the rage - I was younger then)

Semper ubi sub ubi
The motto at a club where I hung out as a youth - "Always wear under ware" (only roughly); the place was called Grandma's and was where all the acid-heads hung out in Billings Montana, in the '70s

I tried that and get the message:
Windows can not find gpedit.msc - I am running VISTA HE on a Toshiba A215 with an AMD athlon(64bit) dual core processor tk-55. What am I missing?

This thread may give you some ideas on what to look for. They mention something about deleting 'system restore points' after the defrag. Take a look.

Your pc probably already has VISTA installed which is an operating system (it is like pulling teeth to get a new pc with XP installed). What do you want to do with the office package? If you only want to work with spreadsheets, create documents, etc. why not stop here and check out some free office software.

You can go here and check out shieldsup - Steve Gibson (he of the enormous ego and mustache) has a number of good programs that will help you keep your computer safe from MS's mistakes, and offers different tests of your firewall.

What do you call a woman with no arms and no legs sitting on your lap?

I have been affected by some really old films like
Freaks <<"we will make you one of us" - then there is the scene where the guy with no arms or legs who roles and smokes his own cigarettes>>;
Metropolis <<especially now that they discovered an almost complete version in Argentina; The missing 70 minutes can be seen here>>;
THX1138 - nuff said;
Saragosa Manuscript <<we actually counted the levels and got to 9c - level 1, me and some guys walk into the theatre and watch a movie, level 2, 2 characters start to read a book and in the book - level 3, a character starts to tell a story and so on until the movie is 9 levels deep (with a couple of Roshoman-like stories). This has gotta be the wierdest movie I have ever seen - it usually plays with Salvador Dali's Andalusian Dog (for obvious reasons). All the parts of the movie are played by the same group of actors who play ancestors of or descendents of each other.

Most of the Norther Hemisphere water is stored in the Greenland glaciers and the release into the Atlantic will take about 50 years to finally pour into the Pacific. The water rise on the east coast of US will be about 30 times greater than in the Pacific and, due to coriolis effects, 5 times greater than on the west coast of Europe. Look here for some general info on the new model.

None of this takes into account the thermal expansion of water as it heats up

I sure hope McCain changes his mind about supporting torture. We imported all our best tricks from the Chinese after the Korean War - Lookee here!

I don't go to see fireworks any more -- watch them mosquito-free on tv.

YES! Another reason I love Seattle - no bugs, we get the occasional mosquito but nothing like black flies, deer flies, etc. Heck, you can drive for hours at night and not have to clean off your windshield/bumper/hood.

Oh, yeah! Really cool pics of fireworks -- if any of mine turned out i will post a few.

my best day ever will be when Lucy Lu and I go out for drinks and wind up at her pad for a night cap only to discover that she is into the same things that I am into. :)

Ooh, I remember her roll on Ally McBeal - glad you have things in common - currently, my best nights would be with the women from Kill Bill

I was whinging about my worst day ever when I realized that one of my best days ever was in the same 24 hour period! I thought I would share it with you and hope you can share yours.

We had just climbed most of the way up Mount Rainier and were at base camp (Camp Muir, I think) making water (from snow). I was out finding 'clean' snow (half the people who climb Rainier each year stop at this base camp...) and I glanced out and there was almost the entire state of Washington laid out below me like a topo map - Mount Hood and Mount Baker stood head and shoulders above the rest of the world (or so it seemed). Then I looked over at the nearby cliff face and my shadow was surrounded by a 'glory' - the light from the setting sun warping around my body heat in the sub-zero temperature, bending into a rainbow around my shadow. To make the day even more memorable; I was one of the first ones up at 1am so I had time to lie back and look at the 'starry, starry night' - I don't know how I deserved 2 Maslow peak experiences in one day but... Hey, I turned 40 that summer!

I think my worst day was at 3:00 am trying to climb Mt. Rainier. We had made it to base camp by about 3 pm, melted snow on campfires (no running water nearby), and slept until mid-night (slept with the water in sleeping bag so it would not freeze - do not sleep with cloths in bag as they get soggy). The snow had frozen so we had to use ice axes and crampons to get up another 500 feet and then this wind came out of nowhere - I swear the smaller climbers in down-jackets started to catch air and fall up! We had to huddle in groups of 4 with at least one person in each group roped to another group (we all kept ourselves roped in groups of 4 or 5). After a couple hours, the wind died down a bit and we made our way back to base camp. From there we packed up our tents (at least 2 of the tents had not been anchored well enough and had blown down into a crevasse) and made our way back down, exhausted. I am going to start a "Best day ever" thread because earlier that evening was probably my best day ever - a true Maslow peak experience (no pun intended - hmm, or was it?).

Blizzard - did you see the rock video made completely from FOI-requested security tapes (it is just a couple posts back). What to do with lots of time on your hands and no money.

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in your mail box?

Bill.

Aw, come on guys! I thought petro-cows was brilliant - well, at least worth a chuckle! Has the high price of gas damaged your sense of humor?

If you are born poor, its not your mistake...but if you die poor, its definitely your mistake.

That means 70% of the world's population really screwed up? Grinding poverty breeds grinding poverty, not "Horatio Alger story" endings -- heck, Horatio Alger himself died broke, living on his sister's charity.

I just upgraded to ff3 - a lot of add-ons broke and I was unable to save an links (ctrl-D) until I disabled all my add-ons. I re-enabled them one at a time thinking I could catch the culprit but everything is fine now. Still many broken add-ons but I am sure the community will catch up soon.

Yeah, people are so darned gossipy - never happy with the pretty pictures 'they' feed us, we gotta go look behind the curtan.

It's the new petro-cow; back when oil was around $20 a barrel, someone got the bright idea to wean cattle off of grass and put them directly on oil (much more efficient than wasting all that fuel hauling hay and feed around) - so now the cheap oil has reached out to byte our butts again, in new and different ways.

Isn't Reagan the president who destroyed the US Public Health system, sold missiles to Iran to use the money to support the 'terrorist' Contras, fired the entire Air Traffic Control workforce (95% of the replacements are coming up for retirement soon, all pretty much at the same time), I could go on but I might be shouting into the abyss on this one.

I think this borders on spyware/keyboard logging and may shade into the 'no go' zone. Is there anything wrong with using the provided 'my computer'/properties/remote?

What came first, the fruit or the color orange?

Interesting question:The word orange is derived from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree I am pretty sure that the there was someone who said "this is a narangah" and someone who heard "this is an orange" being familiar with the color.

In case my babbling obsured the question - rephrased "Is there a flag or something to let me know when I get an addition to my (already legendary) reputation?"

I am! I happened to slip into my Control Panel and saw that I had a bunch of hits to my reputation that I did not know about -- is there a bell or flag or something that tells me when my rep has been updated? When I first thought about the 'rep' button, I worried; now I am just happy to know someone reads some of what I post even if they do not like it (to be honest - I have a lot more green than not). I just started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so I don't have as much time as I used to. I try to spend at least an hour on my laptop so Dear Wife knows I am home and not laying, bleeding in a hospital somewhere suffering from amnesia (well, I supposed the explosions and growls from the our library might be a clue). We have his 'n' hers laptops so we can share 'quality' time in the living room - we do NOT i.m. each other in the same room, though I think she might be convincable.

Sigh! I am currently wage-serfing too far from home (leave for work at 7 and return home at 7); sometimes, I get a little snarky -- thanks for not taking it too personal. And only getting only 40 hrs per week (not like the beginning of the year when I was getting 60 hours).

And a Judgment of character:Brooks is very interested in anthropology, psychology and sociology, and likes to apply the language and tools of these fields to his analysis of politics and pop culture. He wishes to be taken very seriously by scholars in these fields, and would be, if only he hadn’t been born extremely lazy.

Because of this condition, Brooks is unable to do any of the actual analysis and research that would ordinarily give a person credibility in these fields. Many have criticized the insular nature of academia. They claim that those who, like Brooks, were born lazy, or, to use the more politically correct term, “differently incentivized,” are discriminated against.

Brooks has been able to surmount these obstacles with surprising success. At an early age, he resolved that he would overcome his disability through a combination of dishonesty and smiling. This potent combination worked to a stunning degree, and Brooks has become one of the leaders in public influence, as well as serving as a role model to those all over the world who happened to have been born lazy and dishonest and have nice smiles. It is very important to Brooks that he be seen as different from those widely seen to be Republican party hacks who support the Bush administration in almost anything they do, like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

And it is true that he is, in fact, very different than Limbaugh. He is, for example, not as fat, smiles more, …

Please keep gambling out of DaniWeb, duuude - Dude, find some boundaries.

Dave, good video - I liked Dennis back when he was funny and 'intellectual', haven't had much use for him when he started getting all political (read this as expressing points of view diametrically opposed to mine). If he at least kept his humor and/or smarts when he sold out to the right, I could at least listen to him. He and Bill O. make a good couple but I can't stand to listen to either for any length of time. I did not make it past Dennis saying "Barak, you don't scare me"

I am! I happened to slip into my Control Panel and saw that I had a bunch of hits to my reputation that I did not know about -- is there a bell or flag or something that tells me when my rep has been updated? When I first thought about the 'rep' button, I worried; now I am just happy to know someone reads some of what I post even if they do not like it (to be honest - I have a lot more green than not). I just started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so I don't have as much time as I used to. I try to spend at least an hour on my laptop so Dear Wife knows I am home and not laying, bleeding in a hospital somewhere suffering from amnesia (well, I supposed the explosions and growls from the our library might be a clue). We have his 'n' hers laptops so we can share 'quality' time in the living room - we do NOT i.m. each other in the same room, though I think she might be convincable.

The amount of information now available through the Internet, if formatted into books, would fill all the world's libraries nine times over.

90% of which is pure hokum. If you removed from the internet:
anything with more than one bang per paragraph
anything with unpredictable caps
anything with garish colors
anything with unexplained graphics/typeface/fontsize

Sigh! It would only make a small dent in the cr*p - but it would be a start

John Twelve Hawks has written some very good books that do deal with this form of prison. I read them awhile back and if you enjoy reading his style of fiction I urge anyone to read them. The author himself is quite interesting.

I read the first book and made it most of the way through the 2nd but much as I liked all the people he introduced - he killed them all off. He never killed any of the people I hated, only the people I liked, I just could not take any more. sigh! such a waste.

Wow! you are soooo geeky - any chance of a recording? - I didn't think so, sigh!

Only vaguely related - when I first moved to Seattle, the trolley lines were so old that you could hear the trolley coming because the lines would begin to 'sing' - waiting for a bus at 2am on Queen Anne hill and hearing the singing would get downright creepy (consider the trolley line as a string like on a violin and the trolley shoes are the bow).

I understand where you are coming from and fully agree with you but why not ask the family of the soldiers that died in any war, what they think of the broken window fallacy???

Mainly because this is not a very good idea - it is rather intrusive and you have no idea what the answer would be Vis à Vie the attitude of the parent - some parents are proud that their child died for a good cause, some aren't. I remember quotes from parents during the VN war "I am proud to have given my child for such a good cause"

But I know where you are coming from.

I apologize, I went for the cheap shot (but, at leaste, it was not ad hominem).

It was actually 1967 when the last vestiges was finally nailed shut by the supreme court:

May 5, 2008 (may she RestInPeace) - Mildred Loving, a black woman who married a white man in 1958, when interracial unions were banned in their home state of Virginia, died last week. The couple's case made it to the Supreme Court, which overturned the Virginia ban in 1967.

They were married in the State of WA then moved back to VA where they began the process of getting to the supreme court. What are the odds that a similar thing will happen with gay marriage? Legally married in CA then move to a state where it is banned and....