Posts by GrimJack

Or you could just use the 'reverse directory' to look it up. Unlisted only means that the phone company does not list it - not that it is not listed somewhere. Remember that social hacking (pretending that you are someone you are not) is illegal so do NOT call the phone company and say that you forgot your address but you remember you phone # (it's a joke, son).

It would drive me to distracton if I had that clock as a desktop but maybe he could be convinced to make it a gadget??

Here is some GreenScreen fun from the Naive New Beaters.

So, what do the denizens of DaniWeb think about gay marriage in California?

The forces for both sides are gearing up for an initiative fight in November that might be more expensive than the presidential battle in the state. The LDS (Mormon), Catholics, and Baptists are contacting all their bishops (and other leaders) to try and ensure that the CA constitution to limit marriage to a man and woman -- where do you stand?

This guy is gonna be drunk by the end of a DANIWEB day!!

I can only hope so.

Here is where geek meets beauty - what could be more geek than a swan made of silver and glass that does nothing but preen and catch a fish

Well, if you like nonotech stories look here for more

Both Obama and McCain have extremely strong communist agendas. Restriction of personal freedoms, increased government power over both people and the economy, etc. etc.

Come on, duuuude - your talking Bush stuff now; all that is in the <poorly named> Patriot Act

Both are enemies of the constitution, though McCain maybe not quite to the degree that Obama is.

Pure cow pucky from you unless you can offer some support for this. So far everything you impugn to either or both are actually being done right now by the Bush administration.

Really the only difference between them is that McCain is a Christian and Obama a Muslim pretending to be a Christian.

Well, I have been wondering how you can spew this sort of stuff and I think I finally found the source of your outbursts.

There are other terms, but for simplicity (much like lumping me in with neocons or such) popular generalizations are sometimes used. And, opinions vary.

Well, Dave - other people have a different opinion (I hope that it does not surprise you that I am one of those people). Much of the information in that article is based on information from Herb Romerstein. He is not considered a neutral observer nor even a particularly believable observer. I chose my particular link from amongst many because I like the VRWC (it seems that you might have been co-opted by them) and they seem as neutral as your reference.

Dang, I should've known you would ask; I will dig that up in a bit - I ran across the stats while researching a post last week and I can't remember what I was talking about - give me about 20 minutes.

Here is something to look at until I find the specific article I saw.

Still haven't found what I was looking for but here are some actual numbers to back up the claim

I am giving up for the night (morning) - if you want more, let me know and I will dig some more info up later.

Enjoy your weekend

While researching some ideas for one of my posts I ran across this screensaver and immediately dl-ed and installed it - then bought him a pint. Check this out!.

Tales from the inbox:

It always amazes me when this old canard is dragged out; the greatest period of US economic growth was the period between the '50s up through the early 70s when the US income tax rate maxed at about 90% on the highest income brackets.

typical communist reasoning. Anyone who doesn't agree with them must be mentally ill...
Stalin would be proud of you, he locked up tens of thousands of people he didn't like in mental hospitals.

Typical running dog lackey logic - calling someone a communist just because they think you are mentally ill -- and dragging poor Joe into it, that's gotta be as bad dragging in Nazis and Adolf for a thread killer.

I think we have beat the analogy 'horse' to death; 'In Serbian, a false analogy is likened to "comparing grandmothers and frogs" - in the US, "comparing apples and oranges". Analogies are only useful when they help carry the argument forward -- much less so if we can't agree on the parameters.

I am sorry you are feeling attacked. I hope you feel better soon.

Drill Here.
Drill Now.
Pay Less.
:icon_razz:

What a lot of people west of the Mississippi are just now finding out is that when they bought their property, they did not buy the mineral rights and mineral rights trump property rights. If there is something (like oil) under your property, they (the ubiquitous 'they') can erect a well as long as they promise to restore the property when they are through. Recently, a lot of oil wells that had been shut down for 50 or 60 years are being restarted because it is now cost effective with the price of oil so high. These old well are all through southern California and east through AZ, NM, TX and so on.

MilliAmpere met MicroFarad and they fluxed all night (there was a whole long poem that I learned in USMC as a mnemonic for electronics class but this is all I can remember of it, sigh)

An octopus's testicles are in its head.

Whereas a guy's brains are in his testicles.

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life, we could simply
press Ctrl Alt Delete and start all over?

I would prefer F6 and F9 (quick save/restore).

Why do you have to "put your two cents in ... " but it's only a "penny for your thoughts"? Where does the extra penny go?

Buy low, sell high?

your bile proves my point... It takes a foreigner to see through the campaign promises and subterfuge of Osama bin Barak bin Laden ibn Hosseini.

Wow, jwenting - you talking about someone else's bile is pretty funny. I have no proof but I think you live in your mother's basement and trolling is your entertainment. You respond with unsupportable diatribes (thankfully short, but diatribes nonetheless) to any who try to reason with you. Whenever anyone points out the errors in your thought processes, you ignore it and continue on. sometimes, I think you could fall into the 'sea of wisdom' and not get a drop on you.

I have been warned before that responding thoughtfully to you is a waste of time but I will conintue to do so when you actually post something that is not vile and could construed to be thoughtful or thought provoking.

<<it is easy to imagine you sitting in a damp basement, the only light emanating from 2 or 3 monitors, feverishly typing away; chortling to yourself, pleased with your own wit and intelligence, sigh -- good luck with that>>

I don't think that C. Rice can live down the mistakes of the Bush admininistration, from her failures in security to failures in state, and diplomacy.

Wow, and you dissed AD for asking about someone about the initials in their post -- you on the other hand post a pointless (tasteless, heh,heh) joke about lawyers. I don't get it??

I can't go to sleep yet,
someone on the internet is wrong

<from xkcd - doesn't rhyme but contains universes>

heh,heh - it probably would not make much difference how I answered - sigh!

The first time I heard Dueling Tubas (Martin Mull - Fabulous Furniture;If you can find it, it is worth listening to - only 97 seconds long.), I nearly busted a gut; and, yes, I read your links and like to hear from someone other than the chorus. I am sure that the Iraqis are as far from unified on this (and other) question.

It was all very proper "Does the gentleman dress left or right?"; without knowing what I was being asked, I answered "right" - fortunately, I guessed correctly.

I am a believer that it's alright to disagree as long as neither party tries to impose its view by means of compulsion.
In fact if I wanted agreement from people, I would have gone down to the local church, instead of posting in the forum.

For all of you that feel the need to rush to aid, in the understanding for the need of government, by quickly pointing out the "wonderful" services we are receiving from it, and the "marvelous" programs WE all can benefit of, I would like to invite you to ponder about the parasitic nature that government incurs upon its citizenry.

You have not made a case for whether the government is parasitic or symbiotic. Sometimes the untrained can not tell the difference

I had always marveled at the similitude between virus and government. Both depend on the host for existence. Both will turn against the host for expansion, and propagation. Both will end killing the host if no intervention is applied to avoid expansion.

An amusing analogy but describes neither virii nor government except in the most general, out of focus way.

Furthermore, there's only two means for obtaining wealth. The method of production and voluntary exchange, the economic means or free market, and the other is the method of robbery by violence, or promise of violence.

This is called a 'false dichotomy' (sometimes 'false dilemma') leading to:

Rhetoric question:
Which of these two does government fit in?

an actual rhetorical argument - …

Here is another interesting perspective: Dualing links (do you hear banjos or tubas in the background?. Maybe the Iraqis don't really want us there for 100 years.

Yes they do...
:):):)

So here is another 1 to ponder...

Since bread is square, why is sandwich meat round?

Because intestines are tubular and set the precedent.

I dress right. <er, when I wear a suit>.

For you guys who have never had a suit fitted - the question "do you dress right or left" has to do with how you hang so the tailor know where to 'adjust' the fit of your trousers.

But you probably knew that.

You forgot some more acronyms:
Why don't you ask some more questions with these?:
FBI the messengers of the ODJ
CIA
NCS
M16 or SIS
KGB
GESTAPO
SS or Schutzstaffel

I am sure that thousand more acronyms for the same services could be found in every nation where its citizen require government to take care of them.

Do you have a point? This is your response to my questions?

I am asking what limits you place on the role of government - I did not ask if you knew more acronyms that me. You started the thread and I am following up with a request for information. I could have asked are you an anarchist (which kind)? or are you propertarian? or are you a libertarian? but those are just labels and most people pick and choose rather than follow definitions down the line.

If you are not interested in and exchange of information, fine.

The common snail crawls about 2.5 meters an hour.

Reminds me of another shoemaker cartoon -- a snail on a turtle's back shouting "wheeeeeee"!!

Growing up in Montana we called it pop when it came in a bottle but soda when it came in a cup (or am I just remembering soda fountains... it has been so long ago now).

So -- what are the limits you see for government's role in the lives of its citizens?
Do you want to keep Social Security? How about Medicare?
What do you see as the relationship between the gov. and the military?
Would you keep OSHA? Would you keep the FDA? how about the USDA?
Who should be responsible for the Interstate system? The Post Office?
Should we allow CARNIVORE? Homeland Security? TSA?
Who should watch over our food supply? Our drug supply? Our water supply? Our air supply (or our Air Supply)?

One difference between Iraq and Korea is that the Koreans have not been at war for the past 5,000 years, and the arabs have.

The Arabs have been at war for the last 5,000 years? I would hope you have some sort of documentation for this. I can find references to Persian/Arab hostilities of that age (but can only vaguely be considered these groups) but since we are talking about Iraq which is predominantly Arab/Muslim, that could only be for the last 1400 years. Muslim vs Muslim did not start until the death of the 3rd Caliph; with his death, different factions chose different 'Caliphs' (the Arabic word for faction is shi'ah - look familiar?). Persians (Iran) are predominantly Shi'a; Arabs are predominantly Sunni (Saudi Arabia, Syria and so on). Iraq can be thought of as the frontier between Sunni/Arab and Shi'a/Persian worlds. This does not include the 2 other major Muslim factions - most have heard of Sufism which is sort of where the Kurds fall. Kurds are more of an ethnolinguistic group as there are Kurdish Christians, Muslims, and Jews. They speak Aramaic as their first language and also the language of the local majority (btw, the first mention of the Kurds was about 3,000 BCE.

Er, but I digress...
Um, this is only a rough approximation, okay

There are still a few countries that conduct biological weapons research. There is always the chance of an accidental release. Good material for another bad Hollywood movie.

We don't need foreign countries conducting bio-warfare research - we have a food supply system that injects multiple forms of antibiotics into livestock: Tara Smith, an assistant professor at the University of Iowa Department of Epidemiology, and her graduate researchers found MRSA in more than 70 percent of the pigs they tested on farms in Iowa and Illinois. [...]tested 20 workers at the Iowa swine farms and found that 45 percent carried the same MRSA bacteria as the pigs.The New York Times recently reported a highly probable direct link between our unsustainable system of modern industrial agriculture and two recently emerging phenomena that threaten us all. The author makes the very logical connection between the recent epidemic of MRSA (an antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus bacteria) which is now killing more Americans each year than AIDS (100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in 2005 alone, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical Association) and the deplorable conditions that exist in the CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) in the US and other countries.
The Food and Drug Administration is clearly caught between a salmonella tainted tomato and a hard place - they said, "was that even though we are several weeks out from when the food was first consumed, new cases are still showing up." They have no idea where the …

I dress right. <er, when I wear a suit>.

I usually buy my clothes at Ross or Costco.

McCain is not like Bush, he doesn't support torture of prisoners.

I beg to differ - McCain voted against the anti-torture amendment:
Senator McCain rightly insists that the U.S. may not (i) torture; (ii) engage in cruel treatment prohibited by Common Article 3; or (iii) engage in conduct that shocks the conscience, under the McCain Amendment. He also insists that waterboarding violates each of these legal restrictions, that the Bush Administration's legal analysis has been dishonest and flatly wrong, and that we need "a good faith interpretation of the statutes that guide what is permissible in the CIA program."

The Feinstein Amendment would have accomplished all of these objectives, but Senator McCain voted against it, presumably because he wishes that the CIA be permitted to continue the use of other of its enhanced techniques, apart from waterboarding. Those techniques are reported to include stress positions, hypothermia, threats to the detainee and his family, severe sleep deprivation, and severe sensory deprivation. Senator McCain has not explained which of these he thinks are not torture and cruel treatment, nor which he would wish to preserve for use by the CIA. But if the President does as he has promised and follows Senator McCain's lead by vetoing this bill, the CIA will continue to assert the right to use all of these techniques -- and possibly waterboarding, as well.

Sounds like you want a standard mp3 player that has a mic. - most do. Then attach it to your pc and treat it like a thumb drive, renaming and reorganizing to your hearts content.

In trucking, a tractor traveling w/o a trailer is called 'bob-tail'.

There is a good reason these folks hide their women under lots of robes.

Er, what are you trying to say here sneek??

I have been trying to convince some friends that early computer geeks made music by banging the printer - well, someone finally collected some of the 'real' computer music. This is at least as geeky as that ascii movie someone posted earlier that had a Rammstien soundtrack.

Erp! Oops, I stand corrected Dave - I sometimes get so riled at some of the stuff you post, I lose perspective. Thanks! I can't promise I won't go off again but... (Maybe I conflate you with jwenting and for that I should be flagellated - so to speak)

telekinesis has been demostrated many times througout time go and see for your self there are many famous psychic out there.view all the articles in mytelekinesis.com
many of them have other powers other than telekinesis such as pyrokinesis(ability to control fire)cryokinesis(ablity to manipulate ice)and much more!i myself is a psionist and is able to do aerokinesis(ability to control wind)like storm in x-men.if in appears in tv it does not mean it is not true.i am not asking you to believe me.decide for yourself

The Great Randi has a standing offer of $1,000,000 for anyone who can demonstrate telekinesis, dowsing, teleportation, telepathy, any of that 'psychic phenomenon' pucky. No one has managed to claim the prize and very few even have the cajones to apply. Until any of these 'powers' are demonstrated in front of experts that include professional magicians, it is just pucky.

There is nothing quite like Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum for a rousing good conspiracy story. Plus it is one of the most literate reads you can find

Ooh, Secret Rulers! This is my kind of topic. The Skull and Bones are the secret rulers of the US, the French have too many secret societies to know which one is in control but here is a clue to where they party, Britain by the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Thule Society in Germany, but one society to rule them all 'the Illuminati'.

some say that in 2012 december 21 we are going to enter a new era call the golden age and other says that a new sun cycle has already started and the sun storm will be too big and somehow kill us.thats by the NASA i think but yet another says that the world will not end as we know it but will collapse politically like the government we know will fall and soon the whole world will collapsedstarting with the superpower america first....check out this site mytelekinesis.com it has many article and a few on this...many powerful psychic are there with many powers...they are now organising a society call the dark moon society and is trying to save the world by helping the mortal son of the god back to power.

Er, how do you define "powerful psychic? Do you have a link that supports your statement that NASA predicts sunstorms will destroy the world? Who is the mortal son of god? Where did he go? and Why would he want to come back?

I have read the articles you point to - most of it is disingenuous to say the least. One was surprised that Obama is Liberal (omg, who could possibly imagine a Democrat that is Liberal!!). Is anyone surprised that Bush is a conservative? Is anyone surprised that McCain is conservative?

Did it surprise you when McCain crawled on his knees to the ?Christian? minister who said that 9/11 was god's punishment for our evil ways? Did it surprise you when McCain stood on the stage with a ?Christian? minister who demonizes Catholics and Islam and blames the Holocaust on the Jews.

If you think Americans should know who they are voting for, shouldn't you post some crap about McCain?

So Dave - are you claiming those statements as support for your personal beliefs? Do you take the cow pucky that is spouted in that article so deeply to heart that you not only posted a link but quoted ad naseum? What point are you trying to make?

I was digging through the Freakonomics blog and ran into this game Budget Hero. It was fun - try as you might, you can only win by taxing the rich. I got no problem with that! How well can you run the country?

Another day, another meal - DH just fried up some falafel, I made myself a salad, and will soon make myself a bourbon and coke.

In the Marine corps we said "you can eat the apple, but you can't screw the corps" - it seemed real profound after 12 weeks of 'training'