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Guns advocacy OT! 564
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:02:51 -0600, Liam Slider I did say you wouldn't agree with him...
Guns advocacy OT! 565
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:44:43 -0600, Liam Slider If you follow the thread all the way back up you will find that the original table has both figures, total killings and killings...
Guns advocacy OT! 566
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:48:39 -0600, Liam Slider Yes, he did cover whether easy access to guns was the reason for gun crime. The bank scene...
Guns advocacy OT! 567
I stand corrected. Tracking of that gun after the first sale is pretty loose though. In...
Guns advocacy OT! 568
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:44:40 -0500, one point, all sales via a dealer are tracked...
Guns advocacy OT! 568 plus 1
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:13:08 -0600, Liam Slider I think if Charton Heston had come in to open an account they would have brought his gun to...
Guns advocacy OT! 570
On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:56 Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez Ah - right! Now I understand "where you are coming from", as they say - and thankful that I took the trouble...
Guns advocacy OT! 571
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 03:00:30 +0000, I am not claiming that the firearms rate went down, but that the rate as a whole, went up, and it...
Guns advocacy OT! 572
Jim Richardson Probably not me or you, but it happens everyday in the USA. People kill each other...
Guns advocacy OT! 574
Jim Richardson Know what talking in third person is? Read my other post. That's not true at all...
Guns advocacy OT! 575
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:39:36 +0100, I read your post, and you are right, someone is lying to me, it's you. Not...
Guns advocacy OT! 578
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:31:55 +0100, Because you started talking about...
Guns advocacy OT! 581
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:08:58 +0100, Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez I have. rests by drowing in swimming pools are more common than *accidental* rests by guns in the US. More people every year die...
Guns advocacy OT! 585
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:41:27 +0100, Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez I have, your "facts" are poo and easily countered. In fact, they *were* countered earlier in this thread! True...
Guns advocacy OT! 586
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:58:51 +0000, Nice theory, but it doesn't wash. While it's certainly possible to shoot...
Guns advocacy OT! 587
Liam Slider The Internet it's full of facts. Learn to use google and also learn to use your brain and don't let the TV think instead of you. At least we...
Guns advocacy OT! 588
I don't think he meant that, I think he meant that it might happen because someone was angry, not because they thought that they could. I think the point is that, although you might not...
Guns advocacy OT! 589
There was a power struggle going on between the Japanese military and the government. After the Emporer recorded the surrender announcment, for broadcast the next day to order the military...
Guns advocacy OT! 590
Liam Slider But anyway you planted towns, and end thousands of civilians. I suppose that's inevitable in a...
Guns advocacy OT! 591
This is VERY disputable. This is one of those comments that clearly demonstrates the severe lack of clue of the poster. The fact...
Guns advocacy OT! 592
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:37:54 +0100, Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez The Soviets were our *ally* at the time dumbbutt. We were their *friend* then...
Guns advocacy OT! 594
Liam Slider Because they've got guns. Here in Spain (50 million people) when a criminal kill someone with a gun it it's news in the TV. You...
Linux at my Town Library.. It lasted exactly 11 days
Mark Kent poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Interestingly, there is...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS
Those who rely on Open Source software always seem to get burned. When I was a redhat RHN customer in the 7.x days, they burned me by discontinuing...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 597
Snit From "A Practical Guide to RedHat Linux 8" by Mark G. Sobell: "A desktop manager is a picture-oriented user interface to system services (commands). It...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 598
OK. I would guess that it also controls the look and feel of the close print...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 599
Multiple desktops and Expose address *different* problems, which is something most people don't seem to get whenever they come up. Multiple...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 600
begin virus.scr Snit Yes, that one is quite similar to Exposé It is. And it is really not needed. In...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 601
Fully credentialed to be teaching at a college. I also have recently taught in schools...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 602
Snit What Snit means by this is that I read his posts in a newsgroup and I've looked at his website. And if he talks about me in...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 603
I have commented on the LiveCD's I have burned... perhaps you did not know that those were burned to CD? Seems you are once again going to...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 604
Mike Cox wrote (in part): I bought the cheaper versions of Red Hat Linux; i.e., not the professional versions that contained web servers, etc., that I did not need...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 605
Mike Cox Really? Interesting. I have a completely different experience. When did they "discontinue support" in relation...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 606
Most impressive to me about OpenSource: 1) Generally high-quality, efficient code 2) Generally free of charge 3) Generally good karma...
The Reasons I hate Open Source Software and Love MS. 607
Mike Cox Good thing you went for the Linux distro that's closest to Microsoft's spirit. Bob Young once said in...
The Reasons I hate M$ and Love Open Source Software
Those who rely on M$ software always seem to get burned. When I was a M$ customer, they burned me by discontinuing to provide useful functionality which I...
Does IRS hate Linux Can't use forms in acroread in Linux Linux fails once again
Only oddballs, geeks, dweebs and weirdo's use Linux and while the IRS may have it's share of pencil...
Incompetent was Using Linux to Recover bad NTFS drive
alt bloody hell - you could do this in Windows... it's called Parbreastion Magic. You could even use DiscWizard, which runs...
I don't understand Windows users 611
Sandman Mac That spending more money is the Maccies solution to Mac shortcomings. More money than to get a PC. those...
I don't understand Windows users 612
Sandman shortcomings. PlayStation). You mean misread. The PC has no shortage of games, including most games that are on PlayStation. If the game isn't released for both the PC and PlayStation at the same time...
I don't understand Windows users 613
Sandman the PC such Baldurs party, get and Metal year for. just doesn't console keyboard (just You've managed to completely...
I don't understand Windows users
I was merely responding to your incorrect notion that many or all games on PS2 get ported to the PC. They just don't. There are literally thousands of games that...
I don't understand Windows users 615
Sandman for and the wait a games better are a games on PS2 of games console...
I don't understand Windows users
Well, you seemed to want to claim that Mac users HAVE to buy another device to play specific games, and I...
I don't understand Windows users 617
No - the straw man you propose where you suggest when someone states: I'm looking for a good computer. A Mac...
I don't understand Windows users 618
Snit 11:58 AM: more man That's not a "straw man," and you've just reaffirmed you have no idea at all what a straw man argument...
I don't understand Windows users 619
We can debate this all day - we will not agree. I have stated my case, and you have come back with, essentially, "uh uh". Below you lie about the conversation you were having. Nobody suggested...
OsX compared to Linux and BeOS 620
On 2-12-05 11:56 AM, in article I think it all depends upon how much money you are willing to shell out to keep up with...
OsX compared to Linux and BeOS 621
Kier etc-X11-XF86Config. I had to edit it because Mandrake only gave me virtual resolutions for my ATi card. I, then...
OsX compared to Linux and BeOS 622
Well, I've used Unix for 27 years, Linux for 8 or so. Macs 1984-1994, then off and...
Is Microsoft dying 623
Before or after MS put out it's two-button mouse? (and I can't be believe you stupid wintrolls...
Is Microsoft dying 624
C Lund Why do you need to ask? Because your pronouncement of the "whole industry imitating Apple" is a product of your ignorance? Some...
Is Microsoft dying 625
While Apple certainly did not invent the mouse (or the GUI), it is common knowledge that Apple popularised both - just like they did with USB. Remember the...
Is Microsoft dying 626
C Lund BSD, out with You've already amply proven your opinions, as above, are based on...
Is Microsoft dying 627
Right back at you. I see all the pointers you've been given to all the iMac...
Is Microsoft dying 628
begin C Lund Both. There were systems existing before which used more than 1 button Well, you mac-retards seem to...
Is Microsoft dying 629
begin C Lund It was idiotic, no matter how you want to explain it You do? If you want to include idiotic choices, you may have a point. Otherwise, no...
Is Microsoft dying 630
On 2-13-05 2:31 PM, in article The biggest thing threatening Microsoft right now if not...
Is Microsoft dying 631
C Lund No self-respecting Consumer Debt products company would crow about a device that sells a paltry 10 million units...
COLA Stats 13 Feb 2005
ngstats.pl version 1.8 This report covers 2116 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos...
For Launch, CMT.com, and others like them
This is not really a question but rather a statement about the regards to persons...
Thanks alot, M
Well, thanks to M$'s shoddy, insecure products, I can no longer send email directly from my system. That's right, because of all the viruses, trojans, zombie spam proxies...
C.O.L.A. Newcomer FAQ and Primer Edition: 11 1403
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Xbox Salvation of Microsoft
Hi all Much has been made about Microsoft's Os's and the cost of said software...
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