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Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2095
Look, you keep making a lot of statements which are easy to check... and wrong. Inflation was typically...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2096
snip) Here's an interesting excerpt: "You don't want inflation to be built into people's planning. Once that happens, then prices increases in one sector get pbutted to another, and then into wages...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2097
No reply? The USD is supported by the economy of the United States, which is a much more reasonable thing on which to base the value of a currency than some random commodity...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2098
ZnU It does now. But then the USD floats so badly that it is hard to pin down exactly where its true value lays...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2099
Why shouldn't it? Once again, the gold standard is actually *more* contrived than the current situation. Here's an neat illustration. buttume the entire global economy was destroyed, and...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2100
ZnU It doesn't vanish. It is just your delusional thinking that gold has no value. All down thru history people have stayed with gold as a last ditch against...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2101
Snit In that POV, yes indeed they do disagree. The only thing I had when working was by doing. And that was...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2102
Um. Common sense? The only thing you have to do to get people to get subsistence farmers to stop hacking down rain forests is to give them reliable farm land (rain forrest land...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2103
Brazil has plenty of arable land, it's just held in very few hands. Something like...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2104
Snit Oh, the people that work in these cat 5 labs do know. But these people also have high level security clearances... something I'm sure...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2105
Snit Guffaw!! You've already failed. There is more to it than that tho, snit. I have...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2106
Snit That your trolling activities is proof that if you wanted one, you couldn't get one. Nor do you have any knowledge about why you need one...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2107
Timberwoof I take it you never held a security clearance then. These clearances make sure you don't talk about it...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2108
Snit Why are you involved with anxiety-panics? Steve is most likely correct then. It seems that you use as much if not more bigotry than most do, snit. But should we care about...
Why Its Pointless To Argue With Global Warming Believers 2109
Snit More importantly, did you post your problems here? I don't think Steve Jobs can solve your problems. By reading a few of your posts. No, normal people probably...
Linux Kernel For Mac OS X Opinions: Nope &A#JD1Tg!d8
Introduction: Here is a useful page covering the history of Unix through 2003. Some keywords to watch for, related to this subject, are Mach...
Al Gores Movie " An Inconvenient Truth" Just Absolutely Fabulous
Funny? yes!,.....accurate? On a PowerBook it seemed unlikely! Duarte Design helps Al Gore "go visual" "When I posted about Al Gore's one-man...
Digital video camera purchase recommendation needed
I want to replace my older digital videocam with a new one, but I don't know exactly which one to buy. Do you guys have any idea? I was thinking HD...
Digital video camera purchase recommendation needed
Since you live in Europe, model numbers are apt to not match, so instead, I will give you some guidelines. When I mention model numbers, check with the manufacturers web site for Euro equivalents. HD...
Digital video camera purchase recommendation needed
When I start a new iMovie, it asks what format and lets me choose from DV, DV widescreen, HDV...
PreMacintosh Apple Computers Stink Like Human Waste 2118
DougM No. I am talking about the non-macintosh apple computer that came before the Mac and they used those big floppy discs called "mini-floppies". These...
PreMacintosh Apple Computers Stink Like Human Waste 2119
Funny. Most Commodore and IBM owners of the day didn't particularly. Even those who really...
CSMA Observation
On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:24:43 -0700, Tom Bates wrote So you want to become a liquidate (or are you...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2121
I don't consider it malware on either platform. You are the one who keeps bringing them up as an example of "malware" on my system. And tracking cookies exist for OS...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2122
Why do you keep mentioning them when we're talking about my system being unaffected by malware? If...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2123
Then stop bringing it up as if it is. It's fact. What tracking is Alexa doing? I think that this is stretching the definition of spyware to the point where it causes the...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2124
One of the reasons is that OS X 10.4 does not have all the same APIs and applications that 10.0 did. For instance...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2125
snip The same applies to Windows. Though I would hazard a guess that not all problems...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2126
Saying this is no more helpful than saying it is "inherent to Mac OS X". You have not told us what Unix...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2127
What it tells is that advocates here (whether for Mac, Windows, or Linux) don't have the technical background and impartiality to write a fair...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2128
Daniel Johnson said the following on 16-05-2006 11:25 am: He said, "the answer is too long to post". I found...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2129
Out of respect for your.. concerns about being ignored, I will reply and not snip any content...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2130
I think I've made my case; but this is not related to it. I think the answer has not...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2131
Daniel Johnson You haven't made any case. First you better understand how the kernel gives out unique process ids first and also tied to the user id. Guffaw!!! Squirming away from the...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2132
Process *ids* aren't tied to user ids; they are buttigned sequentially. Processes themselves are identifies by ids, and buttociated with users, and much else. You don't...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2133
Daniel Johnson True, but the supposed parent does have an id. And that id is traced back to init. If there isn't a traceable route, then that fork or...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2134
There is no need to "trace" anything back to root. Unix processes form a tree...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2135
Read it again. Uh... maybe you should get someone to help you this time;) I answered your overly vague...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2136
snip- Mac OS has little malware Well, expecting advocates to be impartial is asking quite a lot, I think. You can certainly...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2137
You mean "by defining terms differently," don't you? I'm trying to get someone to come up with a reasonable definition of "unix...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2138
Daniel Johnson We aren't impressed. That would help for starters. Guffaw!!! There are many flavors of Unix out there. Even M...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2139
Perhaps so. I feared that you would try to define Unix arguments from there. I think I gave you the *right* one; Unix is a brand owned by...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2140
And they all have setuid bits. Was it? I have never used it. Have you? Yes. It's a *brand*. If Apple...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2141
Daniel Johnson Yeup. Now do you know what these are for? Yes. Very buggy. Then it is obvious then that your recent remarks...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2142
Yes. Any further questions? snip I think I am being consistent: Unix is a brand, and Apple can join in it if they wish. They haven't, and probably wont. If...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2143
Daniel Johnson Yes, now in your own words, what do they do? None with OS X. It has an excellent security track record compared to windows. It is solid and has...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2144
snip No I'm not! Yes I am! Thank you. Yes. Yes. Unix the brand does not cover every...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2145
Daniel Johnson Mostly only if you have to access its brand of X. That is where the hard part is at. A straight X...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2146
Exactly. Oh, yes, it is. It is much faster than Cygwin could hope to be because of this. And sometimes the compatibility code does seem to be 'in the codepath' for Mac apps. Apple...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2147
I think so. So does X-Open, for that matter: they have their own compatibility tests. But you are also right in...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2148
I find that astonishing. I routinely purchase Windows software, and only twice have I also gotten OS 9 software...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2149
Daniel Johnson So far it seems to pbutt the tests that I can find and run on OS X. XSI extensions also seem to work fine. There are...
New Patch Fixes 43 Flaws In OS X, Many Serious 2150
What tests have you run? snip I think it would be most remarkable were it...
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