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Empires and Imperialism 2730
snip The settlers-vikings that went to Vinland were very few, and they were a third wave. The estimated numbers for a.d. 1000 are : Mainland (Norway, Denmark, parts of current...
Empires and Imperialism 2731
The culture was Norse. Iceland was a republican renegade state to the Norwegian monarchy; created as a consequence of the purges of Erik I "Bloodaxe" and the similar situation in Denmark. This schism...
Empires and Imperialism 2732
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:25:59 -0500 in alt.folklore.computers, Scots rejected absolute monarchy, feudalism, and episcopalianism when English influenced kings tried...
Empires and Imperialism 2733
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:54:56 -0500, Donald Tees It is a historical fact that in Ireland under British rule, if one member of an...
Empires and Imperialism 2734
Its also a bad thing, called vertical integration. Benneton, the Italian Clothes Line group, have been buying up sheep farms in Patagonia...
Empires and Imperialism 2735
Sure. Anything can be used for bad or for good. So far they do not allow it. One of the reasons they are successful is because...
Empires and Imperialism 2736
And good quality. Reminds me of my brother-in-law, a VERY conservative eater, in Washington, looked at the menu, saw something about a potato, `What can be wrong with...
Empires and Imperialism 2737
Bernd Felsche In the USA the quality of factory produced bread has been going down steadily for the last 50 years, to cotton batten and sawdust equivalents But...
Empires and Imperialism 2738
There are. If you work or reside in a state you must pay that state's income tax. The "work...
Empires and Imperialism 2739
John Savard KR Williams I'm *astonished* there isn't a Federal Law explicitly setting out when states may or...
XBOX 360 2740
We should be humble when we compare timelines to the Romans. 753 is the base of the roman calendar, and refers to events founding a small township. It is even iffier in...
XBOX 360 2741
Oh, we've had various kinds of clergy forbid any number of things over the centuries ;-) but it's been a while since they had...
XBOX 360 2742
But even if the corruption was an order of magnitude worse it would still be cheaper than a $1 billion a week occupation and guerilla war financed and almost entirely by the US...
XBOX 360 2743
It is to me. This difference is why you all disagree with me :-). Despite some allusions to my emotional state by somebody else, I'm not upset that people don't...
XBOX 360 2744
I meant the governments will start destroying each other more quickly, Israel included. The cost of which are the regular people underfoot. I don't know though, with a couple exceptions I think...
XBOX 360 2745
Yes, I'm serious. Why do think I'm very worried? Sigh! Let me try to explain in English ASCII (I fail...
XBOX 360 Distribution: world
Did you know that flood insurance, as reported by one of those Representatives was $200-year? Mine was $800-year...
XBOX 360 2747
I think your tinfoil hat is on too tight today. The problem is he is an idiot in way over his head. Would a non-idiot ever propose someone...
XBOX 360 2748
No, he is not. He is the executive piece of our government. This is 48% of the legislative piece of our government. The percentage...
XBOX 360 2749
Please remind Bush. I gather that he has the same grasp of the "separation of powers" as did Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Bush and Bjelke-Petersen...
XBOX 360 2750
I don't have to because we have the Consbreastution and it is still working. I don't know who that man is. We don't have that kind...
XBOX 360 2751
Be vigilant. Yours is fragile. Imagine GW Bush with charisma. Joh (and his cronies) ran the State of Queensland (Australia) for a very long time. No coalitions? Parties need absolute majorities...
XBOX 360 2752
I'd bet that 99,900 out of 100,000 wouldn't know a WMD or facilities to produce them from a bakery. The average grunt is only just sufficiently...
XBOX 360 2753
Bernd Felsche At least we know your opinion of the troops. You don't think they were...
XBOX 360 2754
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:10:53 -0600, Larry Elmore Me. After someone in this group described Syria as a `fundamentalist (sp?) Muslim state', and being in a semi-retired...
XBOX 360 2755
Yup. Since he was merely going to read the paper there wasn't any sense in spending that time doing something that could be put off for later. I'd leave, too, and go to the...
XBOX 360 2756
Fortunatly the french conferences never descended into such silliness. Some sessions had to be translated from french though. One of the sessions I am very glad I sat through was the...
XBOX 360 2757
He was quite willing to wait for all the translations because he buttumed that there people in the audience who didn't know English. However, when he found out that they did...
XBOX 360
John Savard I can't really see that as a reason. Yes, the old Xbox is almost like a standard PC, but there are still big enough differences...
ICL 1900 Software Recovery
Stan Barr I've emailed the NCC support desk and asked the question. I have never used Filetab, but ISTR that it was quite popular...
Fast action games on System360+ 2760
WM I seem to recall TV ads by General Motors in the late 1960s-early 1970s showing their engineers at work with lightpens on terminals. There would be a skeleton...
Fast action games on System360+ 2761
2250m4 ... was a 2250+1130. space wars was ported to the 2250m4-1130 at the science center (late 60s) ... my kids would periodically get to come in on weekends and play...
simpleminded historical "mips
Peter Yes, I get pop-ups when I run from the address line (eg. "javascript: timeD = timeB - timeA; print (timeD);") but the command line version doesn't do this. In case it's of any interest, I...
Channel Distances 2763
HYPERChannel was a 50mbit-sec LAN with lots of various kinds of adapters. The adapters allowed for connection of up to four (possibly parallel...
Channel Distances 2764
Peter but there is hardly a vendor out there that doesn't quote media rate ... and there can be enormous number of reasons why sustained thruput would be less the original vendor...
Channel Distances 2765
I didn't really know this (thanks for the info!), but I have experienced what I consider to be, IMHO, this kind of "snobbery" in the academic and research communities, and it's hurting American ability to...
Channel Distances 2766
David Dyer-Bennet i still have misc. nsc manuals (including hyperbus) somewhere in the basement. the nsc a720 adapters were specifically designed for a project my...
The Helsinki Code, Part II
Here's a short list of traditional Finnish names for you to use in the next installment of...
The SourceOCO wars and Florida's courts
A recent Wall Street Journal front-page article brought up lots of memories of the OCO wars of (more than) a few years ago. It seems...
The SourceOCO wars and Florida's courts
No, but still there's the chance you could discover it's a shoddy POS under the covers. You gotta keep people honest. And...
To Whome It May Concern
Hi EveryBody: For all the poeple who are intersting to protect them kids from all the loveuall based web sites they can use this...
IBM's POWER6
note, there was a group looking at this during fort knox time-frame ... 1980. there were huge number of microprocessors inside the company, used for controllers, devices, low & mid-range 370s, s38-as400...
The rise of the virtual machines
the new, new, 41yr old thing The rise of the virtual machines If there is one technology that took hold in the enterprise in 2005, it's virtualization. The software moved from test and development...
POWER6 on zSeries
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. ref: there is some indication that this (mvs performance buttist on 3033) may have been the early driving factor behind amdahl's development of...
1970s data comms UK 2780
So, an anti-Adobe sentiment seems to be an unimportant reason to avoid the pdf format. I could understand complexity as one reason to...
1970s data comms UK 2781
My problem with PDF is Adobe's grabreastuitous changes in their reader GUI. For instance, it used to be that each PDF document was in a...
1970s data comms UK 2782
David Wade That's a part of it but it's not all. DJVU is almost only a tool for storing-viewing compressed bitmaps. (for example scanned documents). PDF is much more than a format for storing...
Are these zeroes or ones pic
column it, I'd forgotten about the UNIVAC cards. Yes, 90 columns with round holes. late-model Hollerith...
Big Bertha Thing blogs 2784
Big Bertha Thing astronomy Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs Access page to 600K ZIP file Astrophysics net ring access site Newsgroup Reviews including sci.astro.amateur Postings potentially suitable for...
THE JANUARY ZX81 PROGRAM
Bonjour, For the beginning of the new year, I am proposing to you a program for the artist in you. It is breastled "ARTIST". because it requires only 2 KB of memory. It allows you...
DMV systems
as400 what you mean by mainframe? previous thread ref: i think sun talks about running on mainframe clbutt machine. original sun...
Ann SMILemu 1.0 An Emulator for SMIL, Siffermaskinen i Lund
In 1956, SMIL - Siffermaskinen i Lund, 'The Number Machine in Lund' - was deployed at the University of...
EREP , sense ... manual 2788
some of the sense bits are generic ... most sense bits are device specific. there was a ios3270 version of 360 green card done long ago and far away. ios3270 was...
EREP , sense ... manual 2789
R.S. other equipment manufactureinterface ... or something similar ... synonym for pcm ... plug compatible manufacture. somewhere along the way, there had been some litigation by pcm...
Some credible documented evidence that a MVS or later op sys has ever been hacked
Gerard 46 a little drift on the next, new, new (40 yr old) thing in security a lot of attacks on systems in the past have frequently been some sort...
Slow mac need more HD speed 2791
Morten Reistad) writes: If you're strong and know which way the axis points you can pick up the whole...
Slow mac need more HD speed 2792
it out to the field. Then the next development cycle is to cut the wire and work with nX. Yes, that's my...
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