The middle button acts like CTRL-V. Selecting the text automatically places it in its own paste buffer, so you can CTRL-C some other text and have an entirely different selection and two paste options--I've actually done that before. After using Linux 20 plus years, I can tell you it's weird not to have that functionality when I happen to be at windows machine.

You are correct about it not replacing CTRL-X.

Aren't you confusing his geodesic dome homes with the "Dyson Sphere?"

I've been watching Trek for like 30 years and didn't know that about TOS transporter. Thanks. I guess I need to read more Trekkie history.

I wonder about orbit. They generally enter a moderate orbit, perhaps? A large starship streaking across the sky at regular intervals would be noticeable near sunrise/sunset. I'm nitpicking I suppose, but it reminds me of C.J. Cherryh's excellent Foreigner series, which had humans get really lost and end up finding a planet that happens to have an intelligent steam-age society. That light orbiting up there seriously got the natives thinking, "WTF?". (umm, I don't recall how much, it's been years since I read the first). But they were semi-advanced and had astronomers.

Oh, and in First Contact they *were* noticeable from orbit, and as we know at that point there were likely plenty of people around with telescopes and eyeballs and tech savvy. Nobody else noticed Enterprise up there? Well, probably I guess, but it didn't matter in that story. No more missiles to shoot it down, save Cochran's!

But I suppose the Prime Directive made an exception to being noticed as merely a light in the sky :)

Thanks for that. Much better.

Yeah, I did mention smartd in an earlier post, and I said it "can be handy" but I suppose I must agree with you based on my own life as its been lived until now. We never put a server into service without at least software raid, usually with just two disks with some exceptions. A lot of our equipment are tiny supermicro 1u's that can only hold two. But after many years we have yet to have two go at once (knock on wood) so the warning of a raid out of sync has saved us.

Linux smartmontools package has smartd, the "SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon", which will monitor SMART-capable drives and will log problems and send email alerts. Can be handy. Don't know about Windows.

Yeah. Use gnupg or something of its ilk for end-to-end encryption. It's not like a bazillion system administrators like myself can't read all of your email anyway. TLS in this regard would be handy if you're on an open wi-fi and are sending login information to the mail server... maybe.

I haven't actually seen anyone truly respond to the question. But I may have missed it.

Anyway, here in Oregon the ballot measure was written just like the legislature would draft a bill of law. Its wording becomes a part of state law. Our voter pamphlets have the full text of the measure. It's long. It starts with :

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

This Act shall be known as:

Control, Regulation, and Taxation of Marijuana and Industrial Hemp Act

Woohoo! It's about damn time. Let the dominoes roll.

You're using quotes which attribute the text to the original author and hoping bold face will suffice to highlight your differences with his/her opinion. Who is to say whether those tags will survive. And what's the point, anyway? Why not just quote the text and use your own words to express your view? I do have this off-topic opinion: I'm sick and tired of "FTFY" and wish it would end. Optimism.

Anyway I live somewhere in Oregon, and am happy with mail-in ballots. Easy. Get to ponder the thing for awhile over coffee, beer and/or whiskey. Oh, humans have to count them in the end. What else is new?

Here's to the thing finally being over. :)

An interesting point. So I checked into that.

http://sos.oregon.gov/voting/P...

I know the ballot would come with an official addressed envelope like our regular mail ballots. I suppose the issue then would be getting to the county clerk's office.

Here in Oregon all votes are cast by mail. If you can't mail it in time, then you drop it by a collection booth during a lunch break or something. Standing in line at the local school gym has become a thing of the past here. I've often wondered why more locales haven't adopted such a thing.

This really is off-topic for this discussion but I have to say:

Dude! You aren't 16, are you? Only caring about what happens in the US is like living in a surreal bubble. No interest at all in knowing what's going on in Ukraine, Hong Kong, the middle east, or Mars? And trying for balance by watching cable news? Eh, that's so weird to me. I guess it's just my opinion, but considering the nature of the world we live in these days, anyone who cares at all about the news should be caring about what's happening internationally.

Personally, I'll read the NY Times and maybe watch PBS News hour and 30 minutes of our local news (which they broadcast 1.5 hrs, but pretty much say everything in the first 30 min broadcast. Dumb). If my roommate weren't so attached to watching crappy history channel shows, I might ditch cable and watch those on rabbit ears, in HD! We won't pay our blasted cable company extra for HD.

I once lived 6 miles from the US/Canada border and we only had Canadian tv over the air. Let me tell you, watching the nightly Canadian news broadcasts is an *entirely* different news experience. I really preferred it, frankly, though I wasn't too interested in stories about the price of tea in Whitehorse :)

That's only three syllables. The original arabic is tough to phonetically spell because there are two letters not in our alphabet. For instance, the "Q" is used because the first letter is a hard K, which you use your throat to pronounce. And in the middle is the "ain" letter, which also one uses the throat. The word is prounounced *something* like "al QAA ih duh". There's actually an official government transliteration alphabet that is used when that needs to be done. But I can't remember it and it wouldn't help you :)

It always grated my ears when I heard Bush call them "Al kayda". It offended my arabic language neurons every time!

The terrorist network's name does mean "The Base". It's used a lot, such as in "miltary base", "base of operations". Heck, even a meeting place can be qaeda. Like "Al qaeda is at the store 1pm". Let's meet at the store at 1pm.

I have no idea what Al quida is supposed to mean. I suspect it's a typo, OP says it's network in Arabic, but my check says it's "shibka". I studied arabic in the army but I had to google that, it's been awhile.

We all have our talents. First and foremost that's the thing to remember. Here I go starting this thread talking about being able to do push-ups, when my brother is a ballroom dance instructor and has talent enough to take a piece of clay and turn it into Patrick Stewart. Umm, btw, even in my best years you'd have beat me in sit-ups.