Post #59,167
10/24/02 3:44:50 PM
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In case this passed under the radar...
[link|http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021024/D7MS1SSG0.html|http://apnews.excite...24/D7MS1SSG0.html]
Another fine Micropolitician... These are my tax dollars too. Letter written to my representative.
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
Living is easy with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you see,
it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me
J. Lennon - Strawberry Fields Forever
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Post #59,173
10/24/02 3:55:46 PM
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It did not
Discussed [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=58805|here].
Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
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Post #59,191
10/24/02 4:27:46 PM
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Thank you sir...
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
Living is easy with eyes closed
misunderstanding all you see,
it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me
J. Lennon - Strawberry Fields Forever
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Post #59,216
10/24/02 6:00:26 PM
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A copy of an email I sent to Mr Smith
Do to your antagonism to open source software because of your lobbying on behalf of Microsoft, could I have the name of your opponant in your next primary election? I would like to send him money when the time comes.
thank you in advance,
William
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
"Therefore, by objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy...are collectively, clinically insane."
Lyndon LaRouche
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Post #59,227
10/24/02 6:43:12 PM
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Not going to make a difference.
His opponent gets even more $$$ from Microsoft. Mr. Smith is a Washington state Democrat, and Microsoft is contributing heavily to the Republican party, as well as some token money to the state Democrats, just to make sure they don't totally alienate their representatives.
By the way, his campaign ads are so content free, they qualified for "100% fat free" labeling from the FDA.
End of world rescheduled for day after tomorrow. Something should probably be done. Please advise.
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Post #59,240
10/24/02 7:44:55 PM
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What we chiefly need.
Is for the San Andreas (sp?) fault to move north and become very, very active.
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Post #59,244
10/24/02 8:03:00 PM
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Hey, that's where I keep all my stuff!
Maybe it will miss Renton.
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Post #59,251
10/24/02 8:34:11 PM
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Other possibilities
Object 6666 (an as-yet undiscovered small asteroid) smashes Redmond - preferably while a meeting of the board is being held.
Right on top of Redmond HQ, large enough to destroy it, small enough to inflict only minimal damage to surrounding area and buildings.
I read a short story once about a meteor that wiped out Washington DC, and about the people in the bomb silo that didn't launch retaliatory strikes. Damn that would be too much luck.
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Post #59,255
10/24/02 8:41:06 PM
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Well it does extend north
And if it does go, it is predicted to be the third largest earthquake on record.
One can also hope for Mount Baker.
Apologies to people in the Pacific Northwest. I have roots there are well. But you happen to be in a geologically nasty area with people around that a lot of people dislike...
Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
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Post #59,256
10/24/02 8:44:19 PM
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Not to mention that damn nasty lava flow not so long ago
(Geologically speaking, that is.)
Isn't it Washington that was engulfed by a lava rift flow within the past million years or so?
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Post #59,286
10/24/02 10:54:09 PM
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Current predictions are for mild volcanic activity
In the Pacific [link|http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/update.html|Northwest] Cascade Range Volcanoes \ufffd Update from the Cascades Volcano Observatory
Submitted at 14:00 PDT, October 10, 2002
Volcanoes in the Cascade Range are all at normal levels of background seismicity. These include Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens in Washington State; Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Three Sisters, Newberry, and Crater Lake, in Oregon; and Medicine Lake, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak in northern California.
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington, and the USGS Northern California Seismic Network and Volcano Hazards Team in Menlo Park, California, monitor the major volcanoes in the Cascade Range of northern California, Oregon, and Washington. I think you're going to have to hope for the meteor, volcanoes semm to be a little farfetched just now. "A civilian gang of thieving lobbyists for the military industrial complex is running the White House. If to be against them is considered unpatriotic -- Hell, then call me a traitor."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
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Post #59,553
10/25/02 9:49:53 PM
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Wishful Thinking
The entire Pacific NW is a lava shield. Yellowstone is a supervolcano. The grandfathers will have their way.
-drl
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Post #59,376
10/25/02 9:05:08 AM
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FUD FUD and more FUD
The open-source movement advocates that software, such as the Linux operating system, should be distributed free and open to modification by others rather than be treated as copyright-protected, for-profit property. Horrible mis-statement of the open-source philosophy. The GPL absolutely depends on strong copyright protection. If licensing terms were not enforceable, you could incorporate GPL products into proprietary products without compensation. It works in Microsoft's favor (and others who oppose OSS) to conflate "copyright-protected" with "for-profit". They wanted the White House's national cybersecurity plan, which is set to be finished next month, to ensure that companies that develop software using federal funds are free to use the resulting products for commercial gain. Those using GPL software are free to use the resulting products for commercial gain. There is little doubt the business model would be different, but it is explicitly permitted in the GPL. ===
Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
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