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After using Linux all these years and seeing what a properly configured Linux system can do on good hardware as compared to...
Stronger Than Dirt! 15432
In comp.lang.java.advocacy, John Bailo wrote on Mon, 09 May 2005 11:45:28 -0700 RFC792 - ICMP header, 36 bytes RFC791 - IP header, 24+ bytes RFC793 - TCP header, 24 bytes unknown - 12 byte dual-MAC For purposes of...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15439
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 May 2005 08:34:01 +0100, Depends on what you mean really. Do you...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15440
begin oeprotect.scr I really don't know. It would depend very much on how the war in Europe went. Once Hitler had got himself bogged down in Russia, it's questionable whether there would've been...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15441
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:07:18 +0100, Pretty much my take on it. yes, and the plane's, since they couldn't land :) ISTR, that the program was mostly considered a...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15443
Oh yes, there are SO many over there it is hard to keep track of them all. But again, it took the intervention of the US to stop the fighting. Why can't...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15444
Were you doing ANYTHING about it? If so, who was the leader of the effort? What were the successful initiatives they lead? But NOT European lead...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15445
On Sun, 08 May 2005 16:52:31 -0700, ralph I'd say this is probably the biggest...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15446
On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:13:30 +0100, Mark Kent Well....there'd likely have been no real second front...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15448
On Saturday 07 May 2005 23:33 ralph I thought that you said that the U.S. "came to the rescue"? I'm aware of...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15449
begin oeprotect.scr The really funny thing, which these rabid yanks never seem to be able to grasp, is that Britain won the battle of Britain...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15450
Mark Kent But NOT without US goods. By supporting Britain, even by SELLING goods to Britain, the US was in violation of its declaration of neutrality. A case can be made that this was...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15451
On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:41:42 +0100, Mark Kent Well, before WWII, the United States was and always had been a true neutral power. Much like the Swiss...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15452
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:50:42 GMT, Well, except for going to war with spain, invading a half dozen central and...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15453
Jim Richardson Coral Sea? Try to read what I actually WROTE "Were they there helping us defend Midway like we were in Britain?" I was NOT talking about "Battle of the...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15454
Jim Richardson Forces, as in armed forces. And the US did indeed have forces IN BRITAIN at the time of the Midway Battle...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15455
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 May 2005 16:29:37 -0700, where did I say that? and we all know, that it's the...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15456
Bottom line, you can NOT discredit my version of history by using dates times and places I did not mention. As to the "help" of he British, name one place that the Americans held in...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15457
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:44:47 -0700, So they have to be involved side by side for it to matter? And British ships were guarding US shipping in...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15458
Jim Richardson That is what was happening in the European theater. My point is and has always been that the US became fully involved in every aspect...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15459
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 May 2005 14:49:19 -0700, I never made a claim that they...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15460
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent wrote on Fri, 20 May 2005 22:41:33 +0100 Yes Mark, ralph has won the following fabulous...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15461
On Wed, 11 May 2005 00:54:33 -0700, Jim Richardson Oh yeah, a statement of "we are going to...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15462
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 May 2005 13:19:36 GMT, If laim had been "neutral in Europe" you'd have a point. But your claim was one of general neutrality. You...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15463
B Gruff I did, by supplying Britain with the supplies they needed to defend themselves. Declaring war is NOT the only way to come to the rescue...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15464
It's that whole "god's own country", "we're the best in the world" overpatriotism, I think. Being a little...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15465
Mark Kent I fail to see how the statement "It's odd really... only in america is republican synonymous with far right wing utter bastard..." Is not a...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15466
I like to think myself as well. I just feel like there are way to many handouts and a lot of whining going on. I have no problem with the concept...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15467
Did I say wrong? How odd, I don't recall saying wrong. Different, odd, yes. After all, the whole republican idea is based on the rather left wing...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15468
You need to get over your close minded Anti-American prejudices to understand what you said wrong. From reality, I agree. That you would be so illinformed, yes. Let's see, the paragraph...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15468 plus 1
When did I say "wrong" then? in fact, WHAT did I say wrong? If you're not willing to point it out, then shut the...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15470
Is that what you do to anyone that challenges what you say? Call them a troll...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15471
Mark Kent No, I am confronting prejudicial commnets about "America". Nobody was saying ANYTHING about Blair until I. So, the OP that I was critical was NOT...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15472
So... you're saying that you don't see republicans (in the american context) as right wing utter bastards? That's the impression I always get whenever ANYONE mentions the republicans... And I think reagan, bush and...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15473
There are SOME that do. But I am not a prejudicial BIGOT that clbuttes ALL...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15474
Oh, and why would that be? Where in this thread have I ever said all republicans are right wing utter bastards? Or the commie...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15475
Prove that your statement applies EVERYWHERE EXCEPT America. Prove that your statement that "only in america republican synonymous with far right wing utter bastard..." ^^^^^^^^^^ Please show any authoritative document on the American English Language...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15476
B Gruff Yeah ignorant Brits making Unfounded, bigoted, prejudicial claims about the US and it's people does tick me off. But it is...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15477
On Sun, 08 May 2005 19:30:53 +0100, B Gruff That's not strictly true, during the Revolution, but before the actual formation of the federal republic (many years before the writing of...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15478
On Sun, 08 May 2005 16:22:04 -0700, ralph Indeed. Even worse. The Founding Fathers knew it. They knew damn well...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15479
Mark Kent Poor baby. Oh? I don't see it. You keep saying FALSELY that I am reacting to statements...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15480
Not too good at maths now either, I see? Let's take this simply shall we? 3 MAIN...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15481
begin oeprotect.scr And yet, one person appears to be able to declare and made war. Perhaps I'm missing something? It was about limiting the powers of the King...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15482
begin oeprotect.scr I thought they had the budgets, but not the war declaration bit. How democratic was it during WWII, as well? Do you mean the...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15483
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 May 2005 14:52:23 +0100, No, the consbreastution is quite specific, only...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15484
On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:04:30 +0100, Mark Kent Really? Then why doesn't Bush get his way...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15485
On Tue, 10 May 2005 07:35:38 +0100, Mark Kent Iraqis and Afghanis are our own people? And what tyranny? In both those places the...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15486
A legacy you had the perfect opportunity to abolish the moment you kicked us out... But as it happened *WE* abolished slavery first. Odd, that. For the land of the...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15487
On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:12:14 +0000, spike1 It was *easier* to absolish slavery for you...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15488
B Gruff Until the Brits can do better, being critical of Americans is being hypocritical. The Brits have returned a criminal PM to the office of PM by returning his party to power. Yet they...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15489
And the Brits did better? Blair was not removed from office. To look down your nose at the US when you...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15490
Oh get over it you self important little ****. We don't think about your lot unless it happens to be on the news that second. Most of us couldn't give a...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15491
Wow, all I said was the TRUTH about what you could have done in the election and you go off on a rant like THAT???? So, you would put your comfort over the lives...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15492
Wow, a 3 liner, that doesn't qualify as a rant. Compared to what? A 150 post subthread ranting and moaning...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15493
Denial! Having problems dealing with the truth on your part does not consbreastute a rant on my part But...
OT A bit of humour: Are you a Republican 15494
WRONG AGAIN!!!! According to the The Collaborative International Dictionary of English: 2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; buttertion of the untruth of a thing stated...
Windows is so much easier to use! 15496
begin KillFileMe.vbs Funny. I see mention of a hotfix for (quoting) "Damaged Registry repair and recovery in Windows XP". Now, I don't know about how you interpret words (though I know the meanings...
64Bit Linux Is Already Here 15497
On Sun, 08 May 2005 06:46:52 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch I suppose that has nothing to do with the fact that the components...
64Bit Linux Is Already Here 15498
OK poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Bullpoo. Erik brought it up. It won't go unchallenged, especially not here, OK. Thunking is only done for 32-bit applications...
Windows Wierdo Cult
Buford Well you are quite correct in your description of what happens, Buford, but you are wrong in your interpretation. People do...
OS Wars, Episide X.4 15500
The DOS version of Word Perfect was simply a joke compared to MS Word... printing was some bizzare incantation like Shift-F7-2-1 as compared to MS Word which was Control+P...
OS Wars, Episide X.4 15501
Take a look at Apple's software of today: iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iChat, iPhoto, Addressbook, Mail, Pages, Keynote, etc. The individual programs are generally quite good (with some exceptions - Pages, for example), but their strength...
OS Wars, Episide X.4 15502
TravelinMan "It shall be unlawful for any person importing or buttisting in importing any articles from any foreign country into the...
OS Wars, Episide X.4 15503
wrote on 1 Jun 2005 14:16:13 -0700 The statement is enthymemical as stated, though one can still ask some pointed questions about Windows -- and about Linux, if one's so inclined, though...
OS Wars, Episide X.4 15504
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Joe Discar wrote on Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:32:29 -0700 There are measures other than initial outlay. One occasionally sees the claim, for example, that Linux requires far more effort than Windows to...