Comment Re:The terrorists have won! (Score 1) 206
> Our dumb (tm) drug laws are largely responsible [f]or this.
You think?
> Our dumb (tm) drug laws are largely responsible [f]or this.
You think?
I only ever used margerine on toast. One day I ran out, and had to spray olive oil on instead using a little spray bottle I got off Amazon.com. I can spray olive oil much more sparingly then spreading margerine.
I haven't bought any margerine since.
I was reading a web page about a DIY project and the author had written:
"I followed my usual rules, and bought everything online so as not to have to speak to anyone."
when it occurred to me that I do much the same thing myself. I get groceries delivered, buy clothes from http://www.rohan.co.uk/, and prefer to pay delivery fees rather than buy a tube ticket and spend a Saturday looking for an item around town.
This is more so as to maximise my free time than to avoid people, but I know how he feels.
Yes, I have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Safari
It's a great album, that I bought on CD twice before downloading.
Title - Author
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Way Station - Clifford D. Simak
Footfall - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Mission Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Saga of Pliocene Exile - Julian May
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Have Space Suit--Will Travel - Robert Heinlein
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
Needle - Hal Clement
Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
The Brentford Trilogy - Robert Rankin
The Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
Why Question 9/11?
James H. Fetzer
As the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth (http://www.st911.org/), I would observe that our members have established more than a dozen disproofs of the official government account, the truth of any one of which is enough to show that the government's account--in one or another of its guises--cannot possibly be correct. Here is an overview:
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Video presentation by Jeff King from MIT - (15 mins)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1822764959599063248
3 main problems currently. Spam coming in through the email, spyware filling up PCs with crap, and 'spivs' who plug insecure PCs into the network.
Current problem: Gaobot worm. It's out there on our network somewhere, probably brought in on a laptop like Nachia was last time.
Nowadays we have to update the Operating System patches and Antivirus Definitions offline before plugging into the network, or Gaobot disables McAfee ViruScan and you have to reimage the PC from scratch.
McAfee says it can clear this worm off if you enable scanning of compressed files, but in practise it doesn't seem to be able to. I eben tried slaving an inf
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Noelie Alito