dbminter

Well, I figured I'd take this chance to step up on the soap box again. (What's that place in London, I think, where people just stand up and shout their grievances to the crowd? No, not Parliament! ) Especially in light of the recent Supreme Court judge nomination hearing, I would like to ask a question to those on both sides of the issue... WHEN, tell me fucking WHEN, did the procedure of running the government of the United States Of America EVER hinge on whether a woman can get an abortion or not?! Seems to me that there are more important things like providing the common defense and promote the general welfare. Or even things like providing a BUDGET or stupid, little things like preventing radicals from smuggling atomic bombs into the country?! Maybe I'm just stupid, but, it seems there are things more important to running a country than making sure your party wins a particular issue or if your particular agenda, personal or party, wins. Steps down, misses the mark, and falls right into the hands of weird men dressed in black with earphones in their ears.

All I have to say is... EEEEEEEW!

Your wife probably does have more holes than you do.

Oh, now I get it! Pie and chips, meaning savory pies and not sweet pies. It makes sense to get chips with something like chicken pot pie.

I appreciate the heartfelt feeling, Shamus! I feel all warm about it! In fact, I must be, because, there's a friend standing next to me. Keeps mumbling something about sacrificial wombats. And, of course, as is want with my life, for me, my birthday is still half a day away... but, how will I be celebrating it? Well, I'm having to have a wisdom tooth taken out before it was scheduled today.

You know? There's just a problem with government in general. Anywhere. Why? Because the minority can end up ruling the majority in a so called democratic process. But, it doesn't surprise me. The minority have always ruled the majority. Usually it's a minority in power or in wealth, e.g. those with the power and the wealth, who will always rule over everyone else.

Now, I just want to be sure here. Pie. Here in the States, pie is a dessert. Made with chocolate, fruit, etc. contained on a crust, often times topped with icing, pudding, or cream. Or creme. Is this the same kind of pie we are discussing?

Okay, the latest Geico ad has their Gecko, with yet ANOTHER new voice, one Australian now, talking about the joys of free pie and chips. What the hell are chips in this case? Last I checked, chips were: 1.) in America, potato chips, aka crisps 2.) what we in America call French Fries But, who would give any potato products free with pie? UNLESS... there's a strange euphemism for pie I'm not aware of?

You shouldn't be hitting poles. You'll break your fingers.

I think the only scam here is delusion.

Okay...

This is about the 4th time I've received this same piece of spam/virus: "From: "Jmanfredi" <jmanfredi@monmouth.net> Subject: Re: Norman Virus Control has deleted the original email because it contained the virus Bagle.AH@mm" It's always the same! From the same e-mail address, the same "virus" and the same Norman Virus Control. Now, were I not already aware of a Norman AntiVirus, I'd be suspicious... in fact, I am suspicious of where Norman AV got its name from.

Sounds like a Fox News quote to me. I fail to see how any virus can gain anyone financial gain unless there's a really weird case where some gang pays someone to write a virus to piss people and ONLY for that reason. As was discussed once before, there's no way to use a virus, et al for extortion because it's too easy to track the virus, the money, and, thus, the culprit. Because it so full of holes that they won't close to take advantage of. Hell, might as well admit it... Microsoft's Windows "operating system" (Even though it isn't.) IS the biggest virus in the wild!

Next time you're in a situation like that, tell them your name is "Taking my business elsewhere!" and you'll soon find that they're willing to accept your next "real" name of Nefertiti Fartgas for the warranty receipt.

It's like stores here that just have to have a phone number or they can't unlock the register to complete a transaction. I usually give them their OWN number.

No, DVD D didn't. I manually inserted the image file parts' folder location because I had the parts split across different drives. Having an image of 1 single large size, or 1 to 2 4 GB chunks for FAT32 severely limits your drive useage. Meaning, you must have the full image size, or 4 GB of it, free on a drive. Whereas you may only have that space on 4 separate drives.

Here's the funny thing... NProtect has always been visible on MY system... it isn't when the option to hide system files is turned on, which I always turn off as part of basic systems install.

The real problem is going to be everyone using the blanket excuse of searching for terrorists to justify the aforementioned looking for CD backups, keygens, etc.

I remember once receiving an error dialog that was entirely in Chinese or Japanese because all it had were those replacement characters for the foreign letters that couldn't be displayed. It just betrayed the fact that the software was probably bought from some Asian programmers and just translated.

I think it says something... about... wombats, waterwings, and corn cobs...

What can be used to edit an existing MDS file? Sometimes, I've found days later after creating an MDS, I will need to know what drive and folder the parts exist on. I've noticed I can "load" them in a text editor to get the information at the end, but, it made me wonder what can edit an existing MDS file?

I thought by the very "defintion" for DL, both layers were burned, even if you're only burning DVD-5 content?

I invited them in for tea... and, instead, I had them with some fava beans and a nice Chianti...

Really? The beam does just pass through the first? I would have thought that for writing, doing that would damage the already burned layer. Ya learn something new every day.