Posts by Ene Uran

It's really too bad that Microsft does not have any major (or for that matter even minor) competition. You would think that there are enough smart folks out there that could dream something up that is better for the average consumer.

With 'better' I mean friendlier, less annoying, leaner, with intelligent security build in. I don't even ask for cheaper.

With an ever increasing (almost exploding) population real estate prices should icrease. If you are so inclined, you can hope for something like a bird flu pandemic, or major crop failures to reverse that trend.

The way I feel about Vista is "Let's Kill the Beast!" and get something better soon from Mr. Bill.

I like my anchovy and mustard low fat ice cream. :)

Electricity can be produced many different ways, be it fission, fusion, solar, hydro, wind, tidal, coal, bio gas, oil, geothermal and so on. Some of that fuel will never (well almost never) run out. Electricity is just a way to store, move energy, and power something more or less cleanly.

Yeah, an electric car would be a nice, stenchfree, and quiet transportation.

Congrats scru for numero 600!

I am left handed, but just looking at my science class fellow students, I fall into the usual 10% lefties in class. Actually, my art classes have more lefties.

I think we are missing financial institutions as a group of typically dishonest folks. Particularly credit card companies and payday loan offices with their well concealed fee structures.

I just read that Arizona now has more "payday loan offices" than Starbucks. Now that is hard to beat. Payday loan places will give you money ahead of your paycheck with a whopping 36% interest rate and many hidden fees that easily double this to 72%. Talk about loan sharking!

Debt reduction consultation.

Good observation scru! I think young jbennet is trying to talk his dad into buying him a car. Oh, yes I remember that period in my life. Really wasn't that long ago. Wish you good luck there jbennet!

If you drive behind a diesel car that uses recycled cooking oil, the stench smells like fries.

How about cars powered with ethanol? Coldn't that be a cause for more drunk drivers? Would you keep a jar of olives in the car?

There is no egg in eggplant.

An alarm goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.

These two strings walk into a bar and sit down.

The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"

The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdkCjfdLk jk3s d#f67howeU r89nvyowmc63Dz x.xvcu"

"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."

(may only make sense to the C folks)

I read that during one of the Isreali wars Richard Noxon was so drunk that they couldn't wake him up. Henry Kissinger simple ran the whole support operation on his own. Needless to say the war was won!

To me the Tkinter GUI toolkit is about as simple as it comes. If you really want to get into fancy widgets (html, plotting, sound), then switch to wxPython. That however is somewhat of a steep learning curve.

So exactly when, in your eyes, does the fetus jump from 'non-living' to 'living' and the transition between 'fine' and 'not fine' occur? That seems to be what you're implying here, although I acknowledge that I may be inferring a bit of that.

A woman's egg or a man's semen are living things too, but they are flushed down the drain by the billions every day. Does that mean we are all murderers?

Wow, the original funny post about burning bodily winds as possible alternate energy has turned into left and right wing issues.

Looks like our world is simply a tripartition:
1 liberal left (10%)
2 don't give a hoot (80%)
3 righteous right (10%)

http://www.lemsip.com/
I'm sick again.

Oh dear, it's chicken noodle soup for you!

I will be frying some breaded chicken slices and then serve them with a peach salsa.

If you have upper left corner coordinates (x1, y1) and lower right corner coordinates (x2, y2), then your width would simply be x2 - x1.

Jeff is right, your module directory has to exist with the module(s) you want to import already in it.

The mild way to deal with Telemarketers is to say: "Just a moment, I will get my mother."

Lay the phone on the table and let them wait, waste their time, they will eventually hang up.

Wait a minute, that could be a nice new thread.

A Kosher dill and goat milk.

I would track down my parents and make them take potency suppliments

Would that mean that there would be plenty of Scrus on the island?

Call me young and foolish, but I really like Barack Obama, even though he is called a baby murderer because of his stance on abortion. Wonder if this country will ever get past single silly issues.

Rudy cheated on his wife, so what!
McCain dumped his first wife and married a rich one, so what!
Romney is not a true Christian, so what!

Next month I celebrate forty two years--with the same wonderful wife--we've lasted this long because, among other things, our love is made of infinite forgiveness.
:)

Yeah efmesch, I hope to find a husband like you one day! In the meantime I am having fun with the plentiful jerks.

None of that Bush Light swill for me.

I will have a bucket of Buffalo Wings and Marin Ale.

That would be tough, I wasn't even born yet!

You can put them in a directory in the PYTHONPATH, so Python can find it (be careful with that one):

# show PYTHONPATH
import sys
print sys.path

Or better, add your own module directory (let's say MyModules) to PYTHONPATH. You have to add this all your programs that import one of your modules then:

import sys
sys.path.append(r'C:\Python25\MyModules')

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The difference between insanity and genius is success.

Just saw that on a bumper sticker, I like it.

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately two billion Chinese couldn't care less. -- Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

Norah O'Donell, a US TV commentator, looks like an angel and laughs like a fishwife.

Yes it was a note from Quentin Crisp.

People that trust anything written on the Internet.

Only one thing worse than a boy who hates you -- a boy who loves you.

Awww.

Now that one is out-of-the-way. Do you imply that sons should hate their parents?

Darn, now I have to come up with another weisenheimer thingy:
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again."

When the speaker told the Northern Ireland audience that she was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Love that's for fun isn't real love

Oops, must be doing something wrong! Real love is pain?

Gee, now I have to come up with something wise, well here it is:

The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"

Damn liberals. :D

... possibly to stir up another hornets nest. No hornets Dave, just the same stale old rightwinger statements.

My Virus filter gives me a warning on that site.

Let's harvest all the hot air generated by the treehuggers and use that (after filtration of course) for heating.
Gets rid of 2 problems at once: no more gas needed for heating and the greens are muzzled so we don't have to listen to them anymore.

I thought they already did this in the Netherlands? Are they using unfiltrated tuliphuggers?

Very funny Snee! You might have to explain to our friends from India that Indians over here are native Americans, at least the few that are left over.

Now I have to come up with something funny, a little dated, but here it is:
Q: What's the difference between Monica Lewinski and the rest of us?
A: When we want some dick in the White House, we just vote.

... they call President Bush "Dubya" ...

Dubya is simply Texas slang for W, but than how would you know, since you are from the Netherlands. Yeah, I am from Lichtenstein.

So if you have a limited budget you're allowed to commit crimes, allowed to steal things just because you want to have them?

Robin Hood never existed, he's a folk tale. Everyone who claimed to follow his example was a common thug who stole to get rich and paid off people in the area to not rat him out for the rewards.

There is NO excuse for piracy, none whatsoever. Open source kiddos are always screaming about how there is an open source alternative for everything... So there's no need to pay for any software as you can always get a free alternative.
And even if there were no free alternatives, not having some new game or other software isn't going to kill you.

I wouldn't mind getting rid of every student who is stupid enough to think that crime is fine. Those students are obviously NOT intelligent and civilised and should not be part of society.

As to full prisons, that's easily remedied. Implement the death penalty for more crimes, including escape attempts from prison and assaulting prison staff, and soon they're not so full anymore.
Also evict every illegal alien and lock the borders into the country, which will cause a major drop in prison population.
And you can use prisoners to build those border defenses...

There is no excuse for pircay, none whatsoever. There is also no excuse for speeding, driving through a stop sign, pestering folks in the airport men's room, homo preachers …

Strange isn't it how leftists find calling Shrillary Shrillary offensive, disgusting even, but when they call President Bush "Dubya" or worse they think that's hillarious and quite normal.

Stranger still how noone complains when they do that, right thinking people instead shrugging it off.

You still keep calling folks that disagree with you leftists. I told you that before, I am by no means a leftist, and I don't think Sneekula is either, so cut it out! That is a direct insult! You are supposed to be Moderator, so act like one or quit!

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Pirates should be at the very least locked up for a very long time, denied access to the means of their trade for life, and made to repay the damages they caused even if it means they're bankrupt until their death (labour camps could be set up for this).

Since you are from the Netherlands, lets try it there and see if it works. In the US the prisons/labor camps are already full with other folks.

There is a lot of piracy practiced among folks on a limited budget. It is a little like Robin Hood. Most software is pirated to test it out. This way you don't lose your money, there is no refund on software, much of it lousy, some of it good. If we stick all those folks into a "jwentig labor camp", we lose half of our student population.

Hollywood makes piracy look pretty romantic.

There must be lots of posters from Antarctica on Dani's Web. Strange that nobody fessed up to it yet. Don't be so darn shy. I will drink to all those frozen folks with a frozen margarita!

Happy New Year! Only the best to all of you!

I would hate sunshine all night. That's why we have Alaska in the summer. Am I the only person who thinks that fire fart was fake? It was friggin' huge.

Eat a pound of refried beans and you can do it!

Gin and tonic

I would build the world's largest bar.

Boston bean soup

I would rather prefer to carry her and walk around the puddle. Much classy and saves my coat. :-)

You are a true gentleman, but I like to see you carry some 300 pound lady. There are lots of those here in the US, but maybe not in India.