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  1. mubs

    The Welfare State, Patronage and its Consequences

    JSF: in all fairness, I didn't fully read your post, just skimmed through it. But something to know: fully 1/3 of the population was below poverty line. Fully 1/2 of the children were below the poverty line. Those are pretty grim statistics. Granted, there are always no-gooders in every sample...
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    No you're not, Merc. Todays' L.A. Times Editorial starts off thus: Bolding mine. I like the way they skewered him on leadership.
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    Anyone done a 4 drive, Cheetah, 36 gig, raid zero boot array

    I'm afraid, sir, you've missed your true vocation in life!
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    jtr, you answered your own question, and Fushigi's post explains it as well. Fushigi, your photo op link made me sick to the stomach. I actually turned green. Don't want to puke... In it the author says "You are being lied to, and lives have been lost because of it." It wouldn't be the first...
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    Net beats Feds in hurricane response. How bloggers, ham radio operators, tech-savvy people swung into action while the powers that be fiddled. Thank you for that post, Fushigi. It's amazing what 5 years can do to the country.
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    You think so? Bush to Seek $40B in More Katrina Relief Emphasis mine. Must have already spent a fortune on the botched ops so far.
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    Exactly what I was thinking. For all the money and effort sunk into "Homeland Insecurity", the response has been utterly and totally apalling. There was enough warning of the hurricane. The levee problems were known. What would happen if the bearded-turbaned-one-that-must-not-be-named is...
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    Something Random

    :rotfl:
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    Rollcall: who is running what?

    My Antec SX 1030 is made of 1mm steel, and I stuck Dynamat (tar-based sound deadening they put in cars) all over the inside. It really weighs a lot - 50+ pounds. It's very difficult to carry from one room to another. But it's very quiet.
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    X800s are finally coming down in price

    Ben's Bargains: ZipZoomFly.com has the MSI RX800-TD128E Radeon X800 PCI Express 128MB DDR Video Card w/HDTV-Out & DVI for $149 - $30 rebate [Exp 9/30] = $119 with free shipping.
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    Welcome New Members

    Tannin, this may interest you: Power lines may provide a haven for bees.
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    Win2k restart/shutdown problem

    My W2k system shuts down and restarts properly, but has major problems with standby. Device Mangler info: ACPI Multiprocessor PC Driver Details: 5.00.2195.7006 hal.dll 5.00.2195.7006 kernel32.dll 5.00.2195.7006 ntdll.dll 5.00.2195.7045 ntkrnlpa.exe 5.00.2195.7045 ntoskrnl.exe 5.00.2195.7034...
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    SyncBack SE

    Not true. There are options to : a) produce a "mirror-image" in the destination, which means if you delete something in the source, Syncback will delete the same thing in the destination (what you're afraid of). IIRC, Syncback calls this "sync" b) make a "backup". In this mode, Syncback will...
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    SyncBack SE

    Just noticed your sig. Yeooow!
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    SyncBack SE

    Yup, pretty solid. The free stuff is adequate for me, so never tried the SE version. IIRC, you are the one that made a post about it (when you were looking for a similar tool); that's how I heard about it and started to use it.
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    Welcome New Members

    TMD - long, long ago, far, far away.... Just where are you guys seeing this nick anyway?? Did he just sign up but hasn't posted yet?
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    Is this a stupod idea, or what?

    Maybe.. But with this Feng Shui Motherboard, your system will never crash... I've lost the original link, but here are the details:
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    Can't slipstream WinXP SP2

    VLK = Greek. Will the key they stick on the machine's side work with this VLK thing? Thanks!
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    USB 2.0 cards?

    Thanks Pradeep. I had a senior moment and forgot to respond to Greg.
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    I need a color laser printer

    Tannin, now that Carly is gone, email that link to Mark Hurd here.
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    USB 2.0 cards?

    Thanks, i. That's what I figured I'd do.
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    Can't slipstream WinXP SP2

    Because I'm on W2k. This was for a Dell I inherited with a failed hdd. I made it my daughter's game machine, transferring the W98 install from the older machine she had. Wanted to install the Dell Win-XP CD (pre-SP1) so she could dual boot (Enacrta etc. on XP). Wanted to make it current first...
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    They're talking about reconstruction & rebuilding. Why can't they just let go? Most everything there is ruined anyhow. If it's that vulnerable, with a massive lake on one side and the ocean on the other, rebuilding is a disaster waiting to happen.
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    State of the Union: August 2005

    Rep. Jim McDermott: One Nation – Two Countries
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    That's awfully interesting. How do they do that? One would think that for earthquake safety, they'd use wood to build the houses. But for hurricanes, you need brick/cement/concrete. So as Handy says, are they hybrids, with the solid stuff only going up to about 8 feet, and the first ceiling...
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    USB 2.0 cards?

    Where on earth can you buy cables with ferrites on 'em? I've tried to buy such USB and Firewire cables, and could never find any. Is Granite Digital one source? Any others? Thanks, Splash.
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    Yes, Virginia, There Is A Flying Spaghetti Monster

    L.A. Times: Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat: A group of believers wants to establish Scriptures-based government one city and county at a time. It's interesting that the country is coming full circle. The founders left England to have religious freedom, now religion is being shoved down...
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    Yes, Virginia, There Is A Flying Spaghetti Monster

    Truly, the Dark Ages are being revived. I really, really don't understand what is happening to this country.
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    Holy Hurricane, Batman!

    Nasty. There was a report a few months ago that hurricanes are increasing in strength over the last few years, and will continue to do so. The blame being laid on - what else - GW. (that's global warming, not Dubya).
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    Internet service alternatives

    Sorry to hear of your problems, i. Sometimes with all the research and care you put in, things still end up being a mess. What else can you do but move on? Since the overall product quality and experience is so bad, can you not ask SpeakEasy to terminate the contract without penalty to you and...
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    Flaw may hide malicious software

    News.com
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    USB 2.0 cards?

    AFAIK, Via had always been trouble for these kinds of things; connection issues, throughput issues, whatever. NEC & TI have always been considered the gold standard for USB & Firewire. Maybe things have changed now with VIA; I don't know. Given Sanitlli's luck, I thought he'd want a...
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    Favorite Quotes

    Sechs: you forgot to clarify. IIRC, this comment was made at Clinton during the Bosnia/Serbia et al timeframe. Several other Repubs and Repub leaders made similar comments then. Now nobody, including the testicle-less Dems, is saying anything.
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    Buying a projector

    DisplayPort: New display interface standard inches closer
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    USB 2.0 cards?

    If you're not in a hurry, keep an eye on Bens Bargains. An NEC-chipset 5-port card pops up there from time to time. If you're in a hurry, buy an Adaptec, Belkin or Orange Micro; you can't go wrong. Buying a Syba / Sheba whatever is going to cause more grief than it's worth it.
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    2½" 10K SCSI anyone?

    Interesting that the SAS versions gulp more power, operating and idle. Wonder if it is because the parallel SCSI versions have been honed over the years (I didn't think they cared a whole lot about heat/power issues till now, notwithstanding their use in blade servers). Max 73GB capacity, 10k...
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    Welcome New Members

    That's good work you're doing there, Tony (I don't mean only the websites). Less wise folks like me better get involved and help the planet before it's too late.
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    Got Milk?

    Crap, it doesn't show. It's here. Can a Mod please fix my previous post? Thanks.
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    Got Milk?

    Check out Bolton in this photo: I laughed till I cried.
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    How the war happened

    ROFLMA!!!!!! I have to concede defeat, Tony!
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    Welcome New Members

    Did you get your bandwidth usage problem resolved, Tony?
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    My fun project

    Thanks for the valuable info and for being the guinea pig, Merc. You're a swell guy.
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    How the war happened

    Forgot to add: don't even think about starting a "my leader is worse than your leader" war. You'll lose the shirt you have on your back.
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    How the war happened

    Tony, does your leader take 10 weeks vacation every year, take two hours out of the working day to exercise, and go home at 5:30pm?
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    A little bit chilly

    Won't be as cold in the future. Arctic could see ice-free summers in 100 years.
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    How the war happened

    "You can fool some of the people some of the time," etc. What's surprising is that he's getting away with it. LBJ didn't. Nixon didn't. Reagan didn't. Clinon didn't. Maybe we've just become too cynical and uncaring as a people and a nation.
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    How the war happened

    Intersting read here. And something about the great leader: Selfless and Unrelenting... These days it seems like I'm living in the twilight zone. I still can't believe how far this country has fallen in so short a time. Makes me sick to the stomach.
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    Beverages

    Thanks, Buck! You'e the best!
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    Beverages

    Gee, Buck, are these things really available locally fairly easily? Where do you get yore paws on them to "test" them??
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    New Computer Money just came in

    Thanks, Bozo. Apparently after the initial rantings, nobody seems to care about impaired SCSI performance in XP 32-bit, then?
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