Articles like these remind me of how Edison used to electrocute animals to show that AC electricity was dangerous.
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RE: Using Windows for a Day Cost Mac User $100,000 (and it's not related to anything else totally)
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RE: Adobe Flash Memory for the Apple IPhone
@morbiuswilters said:
@operagost said:
Morbiuswilters, it would be a lot easier to just admit that you missed the sarcasm in the OP and let this sorry thread die.
What sarcasm did I miss?
[b]Excellent analysis[/b] on how Apple and Adobe are working together on bringing flash to the IPhone
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RE: Adobe Flash Memory for the Apple IPhone
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@operagost said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@operagost said:
Morbiuswilters, it would be a lot easier to just admit that you missed the sarcasm in the OP and let this sorry thread die.
What sarcasm did I miss?
Excellent analysis on how Apple and Adobe are working together on bringing flash to the IPhone
Do you just not know how to read? Or are you just pretending to be stupid?
You and morbiuswilters form the most transparent homosexual troll team on the Internet. Ever.
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RE: Anonymous ex-Microsoft coder on what it's like to work on Windows 10
@lordofduct The telemetry that you aren't allowed to turn off, or think you can turn off but can't, is what gives me pause.
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RE: Adobe Flash Memory for the Apple IPhone
Morbiuswilters, it would be a lot easier to just admit that you missed the sarcasm in the OP and let this sorry thread die.
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RE: The biggest WTF of the last 4 years.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.4655.ENR:
Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
--H.R.4655--
H.R.4655
<center>One Hundred Fifth Congress</center>
<center>of the</center>
<center>United States of America</center>
<center>AT THE SECOND SESSION</center>
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight
An Act
<ttitle>To establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq.</ttitle>
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
- This Act may be cited as the `Iraq Liberation Act of 1998'.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
- The Congress makes the following findings:
- (1) On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, starting
an 8 year war in which Iraq employed chemical weapons against Iranian
troops and ballistic missiles against Iranian cities.
- (2) In February 1988, Iraq forcibly relocated Kurdish
civilians from their home villages in the Anfal campaign, killing an
estimated 50,000 to 180,000 Kurds.
- (3) On March 16, 1988, Iraq used chemical weapons
against Iraqi Kurdish civilian opponents in the town of Halabja,
killing an estimated 5,000 Kurds and causing numerous birth defects
that affect the town today.
- (4) On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and began a 7 month
occupation of Kuwait, killing and committing numerous abuses against
Kuwaiti civilians, and setting Kuwait's oil wells ablaze upon retreat.
- (5) Hostilities in Operation Desert Storm ended on
February 28, 1991, and Iraq subsequently accepted the ceasefire
conditions specified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 687
(April 3, 1991) requiring Iraq, among other things, to disclose fully
and permit the dismantlement of its weapons of mass destruction
programs and submit to long-term monitoring and verification of such
dismantlement.
- (6) In April 1993, Iraq orchestrated a failed plot to
assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993,
visit to Kuwait.
- (7) In October 1994, Iraq moved 80,000 troops to areas
near the border with Kuwait, posing an imminent threat of a renewed
invasion of or attack against Kuwait.
- (8) On August 31, 1996, Iraq suppressed many of its
opponents by helping one Kurdish faction capture Irbil, the seat of the
Kurdish regional government.
- (9) Since March 1996, Iraq has systematically sought to
deny weapons inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission on
Iraq (UNSCOM) access to key facilities and documents, has on several
occasions endangered the safe operation of UNSCOM helicopters
transporting UNSCOM personnel in Iraq, and has persisted in a pattern
of deception and concealment regarding the history of its weapons of
mass destruction programs.
- (10) On August 5, 1998, Iraq ceased all cooperation
with UNSCOM, and subsequently threatened to end long-term monitoring
activities by the International Atomic Energy Agency and UNSCOM.
- (11) On August 14, 1998, President Clinton signed
Public Law 105-235, which declared that `the Government of Iraq is in
material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations' and
urged the President `to take appropriate action, in accordance with the
Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into
compliance with its international obligations.'.
- (12) On May 1, 1998, President Clinton signed Public
Law 105-174, which made $5,000,000 available for assistance to the
Iraqi democratic opposition for such activities as organization,
training, communication and dissemination of information, developing
and implementing agreements among opposition groups, compiling
information to support the indictment of Iraqi officials for war
crimes, and for related purposes.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD IRAQ.
- It should be the policy of the United States to support
efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in
Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace
that regime.
SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE TO SUPPORT A TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ.
- (a) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE- The President may
provide to the Iraqi democratic opposition organizations designated in
accordance with section 5 the following assistance:
- (1) BROADCASTING ASSISTANCE- (A) Grant assistance to
such organizations for radio and television broadcasting by such
organizations to Iraq.
- (B) There is authorized to be appropriated to the
United States Information Agency $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 to
carry out this paragraph.
- (2) MILITARY ASSISTANCE- (A) The President is
authorized to direct the drawdown of defense articles from the stocks
of the Department of Defense, defense services of the Department of
Defense, and military education and training for such organizations.
- (B) The aggregate value (as defined in section 644(m)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961) of assistance provided under
this paragraph may not exceed $97,000,000.
- (b) HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE- The Congress urges the
President to use existing authorities under the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 to provide humanitarian assistance to individuals living in
areas of Iraq controlled by organizations designated in accordance with
section 5, with emphasis on addressing the needs of individuals who
have fled to such areas from areas under the control of the Saddam
Hussein regime.
- (c) RESTRICTION ON ASSISTANCE- No assistance under this
section shall be provided to any group within an organization
designated in accordance with section 5 which group is, at the time the
assistance is to be provided, engaged in military cooperation with the
Saddam Hussein regime.
- (d) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT- The President shall notify
the congressional committees specified in section 634A of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 at least 15 days in advance of each obligation
of assistance under this section in accordance with the procedures
applicable to reprogramming notifications under section 634A.
- (e) REIMBURSEMENT RELATING TO MILITARY ASSISTANCE-
- (1) IN GENERAL- Defense articles, defense services, and
military education and training provided under subsection (a)(2) shall
be made available without reimbursement to the Department of Defense
except to the extent that funds are appropriated pursuant to paragraph
(2).
- (2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS- There are
authorized to be appropriated to the President for each of the fiscal
years 1998 and 1999 such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the
applicable appropriation, fund, or account for the value (as defined in
section 644(m) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961) of defense
articles, defense services, or military education and training provided
under subsection (a)(2).
- (f) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS- (1) Amounts authorized to be
appropriated under this section are authorized to remain available
until expended.
- (2) Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this
section are in addition to amounts otherwise available for the purposes
described in this section.
- (g) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE- Activities under this
section (including activities of the nature described in subsection
(b)) may be undertaken notwithstanding any other provision of law.
SEC. 5. DESIGNATION OF IRAQI DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION ORGANIZATION.
- (a) INITIAL DESIGNATION- Not later than 90 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall designate one or
more Iraqi democratic opposition organizations that the President
determines satisfy the criteria set forth in subsection (c) as eligible
to receive assistance under section 4.
- (b) DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL ORGANIZATIONS- At any time
subsequent to the initial designation pursuant to subsection (a), the
President may designate one or more additional Iraqi democratic
opposition organizations that the President determines satisfy the
criteria set forth in subsection (c) as eligible to receive assistance
under section 4.
- (c) CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION- In designating an
organization pursuant to this section, the President shall consider
only organizations that--
- (1) include a broad spectrum of Iraqi individuals, groups, or both, opposed to the Saddam Hussein regime; and
- (2) are committed to democratic values, to respect for
human rights, to peaceful relations with Iraq's neighbors, to
maintaining Iraq's territorial integrity, and to fostering cooperation
among democratic opponents of the Saddam Hussein regime.
- (d) NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENT- At least 15 days in advance
of designating an Iraqi democratic opposition organization pursuant to
this section, the President shall notify the congressional committees
specified in section 634A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 of his
proposed designation in accordance with the procedures applicable to
reprogramming notifications under section 634A.
SEC. 6. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL FOR IRAQ.
- Consistent with section 301 of the Foreign Relations
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 102-138),
House Concurrent Resolution 137, 105th Congress (approved by the House
of Representatives on November 13, 1997), and Senate Concurrent
Resolution 78, 105th Congress (approved by the Senate on March 13,
1998), the Congress urges the President to call upon the United Nations
to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of
indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi
officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide,
and other criminal violations of international law.
SEC. 7. ASSISTANCE FOR IRAQ UPON REPLACEMENT OF SADDAM HUSSEIN REGIME.
- It is the sense of the Congress that once the Saddam
Hussein regime is removed from power in Iraq, the United States should
support Iraq's transition to democracy by providing immediate and
substantial humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, by providing
democracy transition assistance to Iraqi parties and movements with
democratic goals, and by convening Iraq's foreign creditors to develop
a multilateral response to Iraq's foreign debt incurred by Saddam
Hussein's regime.
SEC. 8. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.
- Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize or
otherwise speak to the use of United States Armed Forces (except as
provided in section 4(a)(2)) in carrying out this Act.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
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RE: At the intersection of Poweruser and Paranoia
What a moron. A two-second internet search tells you the purpose of both the i386 folder (Windows installation files) and the folders beneath it. But then, she's taken all of her machines off the network so maybe that's why she can't use Google. A supposed "expert" should know about packed files (she thought DEFAULT.CA_ was a "certificate authority") and generic terms like GDI ("GDI is a graphics rendering engine developed, I believe, for UNIX but now used on Microsoft platforms as well.") When she finds system files in i386, she assumes Microsoft moved them and doesn't bother running a search to discover that the files are present where they should be and that maybe these are copies.
Hmm... I wonder if there are any passwords on the note stuck to the monitor. That's about the intelligence I'd expect from her.
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RE: Adobe Flash Memory for the Apple IPhone
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@operagost said:
Morbiuswilters, it would be a lot easier to just admit that you missed the sarcasm in the OP and let this sorry thread die.
It would be a lot easier for you to just keep your mouth shut, but I don't see you doing that.
Predictable.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@SpectateSwamp said:
I'm going to create a list of all my URL's on YouTube then randomly select from that file.
This is going to take forever because I have over 3100 videos.
Do any of my swampies know of an easy way to get a list of the URLs
Video your home page on Youtube, then index it with SSDS with each URL manually retyped.
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RE: Anonymous ex-Microsoft coder on what it's like to work on Windows 10
@Tsaukpaetra A toad, madam? It is you who are the toad!
OK, that's quite enough. Don't want to have to strangle anyone.
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RE: Anonymous ex-Microsoft coder on what it's like to work on Windows 10
@Tsaukpaetra A toad, madam? It is you who are the toad!
OK, that's quite enough. Don't want to have to strangle anyone.
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RE: Anonymous ex-Microsoft coder on what it's like to work on Windows 10
@lordofduct The telemetry that you aren't allowed to turn off, or think you can turn off but can't, is what gives me pause.
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RE: Using Windows for a Day Cost Mac User $100,000 (and it's not related to anything else totally)
Articles like these remind me of how Edison used to electrocute animals to show that AC electricity was dangerous.
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RE: Trufuel WTF (not technology related)
Even if you forget to empty the tank, a little Gumout in the carb will clean up the mess.
I use Sta-Bil in the cans so that I keep in on hand for a while. My power backup is a gas generator, so it's not just for convenience.
I've noticed that 50:1 mix fuel seems to work fine in my chainsaw. I have gas that's over a year old, and it starts and runs fine. The oil must help stabilize it.
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RE: C:\PROGRAM
@flabdablet said:
@DrakeSmith said:
@flabdablet said:
@Adolf Hitler said:Of course your daughter is going to be thinking that liberals are stupid at 13: early teenagers are the most socially conservative people on the planet. It's when she's in her mid twenties and her brains have grown in and she's looked around at the way people actually are that will be the interesting time for you.
@Winston Churchill said:
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Hey, look, is that Hitler's jaw? - Some Russian soldier
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RE: Cash machine WTF
@Lorne Kates said:
Which came first, the bank machine or the asphalt incline that raised the ground level?
More funny would be both. They get one (or more) "complaints" about disability access.
1) "The bank machine is too high! Lower it!"
2) "The ground is too low to reach the machine. Raise it!"
Both are obliged without either project consulting the other. Result = teh funnies?
How about, "the ground is inclined, so my chair rolls away while I'm trying to use the ATM?"
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RE: A Celebration Of Windows XP: 2001-2014
@HardwareGeek said:
@boomzilla said:
I find that the translucency is distracting and makes it more difficult to focus on the stuff I actually want to focus on.
This. A million times this. I have a hard enough time keeping track of which window is active without them blending into the background and each other.I also found defined borders and overlapping windows to be distracting, which is why I've upgraded to Windows 1.x^H^H^H8.
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RE: Think before you hit Print Screen!
If you have multiple monitors and press PrintScrn, it'll cap both of them. I didn't have anything sensitive on either screen, but I'm sure the double-wide image annoyed someone.
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RE: Joke
@Chame1eon said:
Shouting to Sammy as he pulled the steering wheel, "better nate than lever,” he ran over the snake.
THE END
That snake wasn't very shaggy.