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Credit where it is due to Sci-Fi Channel. They did air the show as they promised. In fact, they put the first two episodes into pretty heavy rotation. Premiered last Friday, followed immediately by a rerun, then by a rerun on Sunday, Monday morning, and Thursday night. Episode 2 will get another rerun tomorrow, followed by the premiere of Episode 3, followed by a rerun of it. Initial reports are the show did well in its premiere. A little over one and a half million for Rose's premiere, and the ratings rose for The End Of The World to about 1.6 million. The reruns afterwards each got roughly the same ratings, interestingly enough, 0.78 million. The premiere time slots got roughly the same ratings as Stargate does in those slots. And, with Stargate being the #2 show on Sci-Fi, that is some promising news that people are watching!

In the interests of fair and balanced reporting of the facts I hooked up an USB DVD-RAM burner I have, one of the IOMega rebadged LG's. It managed to read in the two discs that the Lite-On couldn't.

I never thought to look on Snopes about this. I remember how my mother fell for a story being spread around. With her, though, interestingly enough, the story actually happened only because someone else was tricked before her. It was the story of how a year after 9-11, people were warned not to drink Coke products, or Pepsi, or what not. That another attack was planned then, and, someone repays a "kind soul for an act of kindness" by warning of them, cryptically, of the impending attack. My mother helped someone by providing them some change at a check out counter at the store when they were short a few pennies. Apparently, the person who she helped had fallen for the story of an impending attack and told her not to drink Coke products on the first anniversary of 9-11 because they had been told the same thing. So, yes, the story in this case really DID happen. But, only because someone else was fooled into believing it before and that drove the actual event into creation. Sadly, my mother didn't drink any Coke products, she later told me. When she told me of it, trying to warn me, I told her it was ridiculous and planned on drinking an extra Coke on the anniversary. And, I did.

And never really knowing is half the battle! G.I. JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOE!

You can find all kinds of weird relationships if you look hard enough. Ever seen the sheer volume or strange coincidences between Lincoln and John F. Kennedy? Such as, apparently, Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy a secretary named Lincoln? Or how supposedly when converted to Roman numerals, the phrase Cute purple dinosaur, with subsequence substitutes, such as V for U, which was common to begin with, and adding all the numbers together gets you 666.

But, what I took from the story, the order was for the driver to go in and remove ALL items from the company from the shelves. Nothing is going to be delivered and put on the shelves until they've been paid for by the store or the distributor for the store. You can believe that some big company ain't going to give you diddly until they know the money is in their pockets ALREADY. Which would mean by the very act of delivery, they have been paid for.

Actually, my file is tremendous... unfortunately. Contains things like manufacturer information, DIP settings, etc. Plus, with an entry for nearly every type of recordable disc I've ever used...

I find it hard to believe. How can anyone pull product from a shelf that was already bought? The company would still have to refund the sale back to the store. A pyrhic victory at best. If the store was closed down, then, that would be the only way the companies could have won. Plus, I find it hard to believe because the US has never done anything like that when they could still make a profit off the sale. Look at WW II. We only stopped selling to Germany when it became clear we could only get back at Japan if we helped end the war in Europe first to get allies on our side for when we wanted to take Japan.

Yes, I have managed to salvage CMC before. BUT, it has required in many cases reading the files that could be read in one drive, then reading the previously unreadable files from another drive.

Hey, polo? Can you make this one out? FUC... ...OU!

Let us not forget how great a friend Saddam Hussein was once of the United States. In particular, that lovely ironic photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking his hand in the early 1980;s

Because Allawi is less likely to fire buckshot in your face?

Personally, I am of the opinion that France serves a tremendous role in keeping the peace in the world. Think about it. If France didn't just surrender all the time, that would mean they'd actually fight once in a while. Imagine, then, if you should be DEFEATED by the French in combat! The ignominy and the humiliation you'd suffer would fester and boil for years. When you finally did explode in massive egotistical retaliatory attacks, it might make the Huns look like the French. France's actions asking for repirations all at once at the end of World War I are a good parallel of this idea. France didn't even do the actual beating, and ended up all but creating the conditions for the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. So, while the world ain't exactly a paradise, imagine if France had never surrendered before. I think it would be a much more violent place. So, kudos to the French! May your cowardice lead to copycats and eventual world peace!

I was thinking the other day of starting a CMC thread in the drives/media forum thing here. Copies from my TXT file of notes of CMC CD and DVD media

This is something I've wondered, too. Is there a way to determine the file a shortcut points to when Windows damn well refuses to show it to you? Like Control Panel .CPL files?

Yeah, the option only appears in Full Edit, I think. You should see a box that you can check to show the Edited by and the date.

I believe you have to have the option enabled to see if someone can see if you edited a post. As for my being hard of hearing, etc. in terms of the Accessibility Options, I don't NEED them, hence why I need them turned off. Turned by default, as usual by the Microsoft idiots, causes a lot of interference when you don't know it's on and hold down the Shift key for more than 5 seconds for the first time.

Bless me, Father, for I have a gun! This is my first confession since, well, never!

Actually, I am sometimes curious WHERE DVD Info Pro is supposed to be downloaded from. The home page's listed download site doesn't seem to be updated with the latest versions, as I found the latest one from a link on Afterdawn.com.

As for Bush being taken down because of this, let's face it, no President has ever been forced to take account for his actions, and none will. They just resign, as the closest who ever got to having to take a task for his actions, Nixon, has done.

I will using standard Quoting for the board for material in the Spam. Yeah, I figured the day I started my experiments in quantum field science, accessing alternate dimensions and things like that, would piss off my significant other. Yeah, women are never satisfied with the size of the diamond on the wedding ring they get, are they? Well, I CAN'T get anyone to fund the play I wrote in college! Don't Bogart The Diazapam, starring Larry Storch as Val E. Um and Jim Varney as the corpse of Sal Mineo. (When I created it, Varney was still very much alive, and, would, yes, still play a corpse.) No, it is I. How about u? Or, as the Spanish would ask, K? I only removed the URL in the above statement. The rest is verbatim, if you can believe it. As opposed to marrying, you, her pet wombat with waterwings, or marrying me, her wife. Again, verbatim, nothing removed. And, you, too, can send your sons to French militaries, unite the Polish and Lithuanian armies, and fight the Teuto. But only if you buy our idiotic penis enhancement product! An amazing combination of a patch and pills: you simply secure the pill to your penis with a patch and wait for the process of osmosis to absorb it directly into the flesh. Over the years, the skin will grow around the pill and it will become a part of you. As more and more pills enter into your very being, you will be empowered with the power of a more powerful penis, or at least the delusion of one in your mind. With such delusions securely firm in your subconscious, you will be able to mystically transport yourself back to the time of Napoleon. Thanks to the miracle of modern penis enlargement, you, too, can unit the Polish and Lithuanian armies! Give new meaning to the term Pole-ish! Order today! Operators are standing by! Those operators unable to stand will be slumped over their phones, dead from myxamitosis. Call them, though, as your amazing powers granted through miracle penis enlargment will raise the dead, too... in more ways than one!

Yes, as has been noted, the manufacturers KNOW that they're using when they're using and actively chose it. Because they know that, like all of us, someone else in the future will be the new sucker born every minute. Even though most will learn not to use their products in the future, they also know that in the short term, they can pocket a heafty profit. When the information finally becomes public knowledge and the profits aren't outweighed by the cost of this business practice anymore, then, the smaller companies get out of it. As we have already seen done with some companies pulling out of any optical media or drive manufacturing all together, outsourcing it.

Thanks! That's what I needed. The file name. Turns out, I had it, too. Just no shortcut in Control Panel to it. I had searched before for Accessibility, but, naturally, didn't find it. Movie Junkie, did you edit your post? Because I have it in my memory I had read only the folder name and not the file when I first read your reply earlier. I hope my memory is going THAT bad on me in my old age of the young 30's. Eh? What did ya say, sonny?

Which underscores my point. Typical Microsoft idiots can't get anything right as it's gone from my view. So, how about doing a Properties on that shortcut and see if you get a Target? If there's anything there, please copy and paste it in a reply. If not, just let me know that, too. Thanks!

Microsoft says that there should be something called an Accessibility Options shortcut under Classic View for Control Panel in Windows XP. Well, there isn't, of course; typical damn Microsoft idiots. If anyone knows what this shortcut should be, i.e. the Target contents or whatever app needs to run whatever file with whatever switches so I can run this?