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even more ridiculous the (former) claim of the tobacco industry that cigarettes are not addictive. About 20 years when I quit I could have served as a crown witness for the anti-tobacco attonrneys: After throwing out all smoking utensils I couldn't help myself but had to roll up tea leaves in newspapers and lit them in my toaster. (It was awful - don't try it). I also don't conider my self as particularly uninhibite by any measure d, however, when the urge became too strong I simply walked into the nearest restaurant, approached a patron who was having his lunch in the smoking section and asked him for a cigarette and a light. T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

in most recent Linux distros you can play even encrypted DVDs without any further hacks right out of the box. It used to be that you had to downloadthe particular libs from those people in scandinavia that broke the codes, but somehow that doesn't seem to be necessary anymore - no idea how they got around the legal issues but it works. T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

if someone would ask me to come up with a concrete example why open source is a good thing OpenOffice, particularly, the OOCalc spreadsheet application would be the first thing that would come to my mind. As coordinator of a large course I recently made OOCalc the mandatory standard in scorekeeping for all teaching assistants. The main reasons were: - it runs on any platform: Our department runs MACs as well as Linux/Unix machines and many have Windows at home. Excel does not run Linux/Unix machines and I don't know how good the MAC support is. - It is free. I cannot expect instructors to pay big bucks to pay for M$-Office give they low pay some are already getting. There is a way for GTAs to get their hands on Office but it's a cumbersome process where you have to go throgh licensing paper work. - For me perhaps the most imporatnt reason was that OOCalc files are basically straight foward xml code. That made it possible to create online utilities with which GTA could upload their spreadsheet directly into the data base of the course management system we're using. All you needed are a bunch of perl/php scripts to parse the xml. With Excel I don't have the first clue how to extract data within scripts. - Finally, OOCalc supports the maximal about of formats. That is, it can also import/export Excel sheets - there may be a few specialized high-end features that may not go through properly though I never encoutered a problem with it. As far as I know Excel does not allow OOo import/exports. Especially since I was worried that people would complain who are used to Excel I looked around for opinions on the web where people compared the two before I instroduced my standard. It seemed for every Excel advocate there was at least one OOCalc fan. There were also many accounts of small businesses that went OOo and seemed to be happy with it. Per academic year we're recording/uploading over 50'000 scores in our course and OOCalc has worked without any major hang-ups. (The excepetion was NeoOffice/J which we eventually got rid of) T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

at least a couple of years ago Mandrake was considered fairly bleeding edge - which also means less stable. The 8.1 I used a few years back I would NOT have recommended to a novice. But I suppose things have changed and parts of French government (law enforcemtn, etc) are using Mandrake/Madriva now. I've since moved to SUSE/Novell - installation was plug and go and even the wireless worked out of the box. It manages to be pretty stable and thorough about configurations and at the same time features a large variety of the most recent application. (The other distro that seems to get a lot of praise lately is Unbuntu but I never tried it.) Some people predict that we will see a good amount of competition between distros in the near future with subsequent consolidations into just a couple of standard distros. T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

the guy may be a bit crazy and hard to deal with. But GNU Emacs etc have been my daily tools for over a decade. And without him Torvalds' Linux may have had a different start. So I'd need to give him some credit. e.g., it actually contains clear logic and good reasons why one might consider Open Source. Linux distros have become a LOT more user friendly in just the last few years. Numbers of software applications are limitless and they've also become quite good (though not 100%) dealing with M$ proprietory formats (office, wmv, dvd, etc). Plus you can still keep a small Windows partition for a few unhacked M$ applications, where you can also make biological experiments growing worms and viruses. Many businessess and especially government agencies around the world are switching to Linux (even the Chinese are going RedHat now) - which will hopefully be the death of TCG and the like. Linux is worth a try - it's not more of a headache than M$ anymore. At least, I could not imagine anymore working routinely on an OS where I cannot access every script and application by command line and editor. T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

Some of that is probably effective mass transit. People walk to and from subway and bus stops in many cities. I noticed the same thing in NYC. . I believe it was a National Geographic article a while ago where that described how obesity was becoming an issue or challenge for city planners. If you're suburbs are widely spread out and there are not even side walks on most streets everyone will have to drive. In densly populated urban areas or also smaller European style towns many things are within walking distance, parking space is scarce, there are side walks and pedestrian zones, and usually also better public transportation. The other issue is eating out - the point being that one should not worry just about fast and junk food but almost any kind of restaurant food. Reasonable home cooked food with veggie oils is almost always much less fattening. Restaurants tend to throw lumps of butter/lard on whatever they serve. The problem here is that in the US traditions and habits of home cooking are much less developed and engrained than in other cultures. T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

Mostly it's a struggle For reality. Many people don't like to deal with it and/or create their own. T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

Only those with a very weak grasp of statistics could consider 11% a meaningful "win". It must really chap the Liberal's asses that all the other "mainstream" media couldn't even pull THAT much... this is a really a trivial calculation. Here a basic illustration: if you have one aberrant choice that caters to a similarly aberrant 10% portion of a population, and you have 90 mainstream choices that cater to the other 90% mainstream portions of a population, then the abberant will be expected to get 10% of the votes and any mainstream choice will get in average 1% of the votes. Nevertheless it is 10:90 for abberant vs mainstream votes ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

that is badly phrased. A somehwat more accurate version below "if there were no people concocting notions of super natural beings and trying to impose them on others - then there would be no Atheists" Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

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from my experience in scientific writing, education and administraion I very much believe this is a serious underestimation of the powers of language. Language organizes thought and organized thought is reflected in coherent language. Language is to an amazing degree inherently logical. (amazing because languages grew naturally without being designed by professional logicians) As a result it is a hard to cast flawed or incoherent ideas into good language. Over and over it happens/ed to me that such flaws actually surface while I try to express something that is not well throught through (whether it is scientific or organizational) - when takes hours without success to contort it into something readable/sensible until I give up and question the idea itself. OTOH, if an idea makes sense and is coherent at its core the writing or speaking flows without effort. To me the garbeled speech of Bush is definitely an indicator of an impatience to think anything through and, as result, having only a superficial and garbeled understanding about the reality, execution and implementation of whatever grandious ideas he has. The fact that there is an unending list of ill conceived and badly executed plans (not matter how well meant they may have been at some time) corroborates this. It may be of no consequence in many professions if someone if a bad speaker or writer. However, if your main job is to conceive organizational structure on a large scale and you cannot even organize your throughts enough to structure your next sentence - then we have a serious problem. And, to make sure, I am not talking about speech being hip or elegant or rethorically skillful. All I want is that what comes out of someone's mouth to be logically coherent. In Bush's case it almost never is, and whatever there is are fragmented snipplets of thoughts that are wildly patched together - very often, in fact, in an obvious and ludicrous effort to make an educated and/or knowledgable impression. The efforts would be better invested into trying to make sense. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

there's something called "oath of office" that all preseidents take. i'd find it hard to believe that that is consistent with disclosing the identity of service agents for personal political gain. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

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none that are conducted by Harvard Medical School or a comparable institution, use a pool of 600 subjects, follow rigorous protocol and get published by Nature News. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

he also had several bicycle accidents in one he ran over a Scottish police officer and sent him to the hospital. Somehow all this behavior is not dissimilar from his polictics or speaking. Plunges into compulsive actions that promise gradiosity and disturbingly erratic hyperactivity without even an ounce or a second of calm reflection and planning. I'm not sure if this the reason for this is that he's suffering from a serious case of ADHD or whether he has some psycho issues about proving himself over his senior. (remember the "manos a manos" after his drunk driving ...) It might be a combination of both. In any case, it is predicatable that guy with such a personality profile is a disaster in any leadership role. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

was that Nixon or Kissinger ? Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

Clinton had approvals in the mid 60's at the same time of his presidency even after (or especially after) the impeachment attempt and kept or even raised them until the end of his presidency. That's about twice what Bush gets these days, and he didn't even have to start wars for thar or try to intimidate people with this "you're for us or against us" crap. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

Quotehttp://www.worstcasescenarios.com/scenario.htm?scenarioid=8&cache=1142192025 very funny - anyone remember nippleboy? Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

yeah - I guess that is the main functionality of cars and what they were invented for. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

what % of guns (legal or illegal) were at some point in their existence legally manufactured and sold - about 99%? Ah no - of course. Legal guns automatically self destruct and evaporate if someone tried to steal or illegally sell them. Illegal guns, on the other hand, they grow in dark holes in the ground and people from evil land harevst them at night. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

so you would go ahead an kill 123 people because there is a possibility that one of them is a crimial? Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

You have no stats or facts to back that up. If I am wrong please post. The stats I am seeing do not support your statement from W. Cukier: "Firearms Regulation: Canada in the International Context" Chronic Diseases in Canada 19 no.1 (1998) (with some additional updates from 2001) Country........Gun Homicide......Fraction of .....................(per 100,000).........US rate Australia_________0.56________11.1 Austria___________0.42_______14.9 Belgium__________0.87________7.2 Canada__________0.6________10.4 Denmark_________0.23________27.1 England/Wales____0.07________89.1 Finland__________0.87________7.2 France___________0.55_______11.3 Germany_________0.21_______29.7 Ireland___________0.3________20.8 Israel____________0.72________8.7 Italy_____________1.16_______5.4 Japan___________0.03_______208.0 Kuwait___________0.34_______18.4 Netherlands_______0.27_______23.1 New Zealand______0.22_______28.4 Northern Ireland___3.55________1.8 Norway__________0.36_______17.3 Scotland_________0.19_______32.8 Singapore________0.07_______89.1 Spain___________0.19_______32.8 Sweden__________0.18_______34.7 Switzerland_______0.46_______13.6 Taiwan__________0.15_______41.6 USA____________6.24________1.0 Note: does not include suicides. Note: "Fraction of US rate" means, for example, that the gun homocide rate in the US is 11.3 times higher than that in France, etc. Numbers may have changed some in recent years and, although "gun homicide" is a relatively unambiguous term, there may be slightly different opinoins about data collection. However, the ballparks of these drastic ratios should still be the same. (Even if some NPR prop. manufactures arguments that contort some of the 1:20 ratios down to say 1:4 or so ratios the US still fares very badly in the international comparison among these higher income countries) Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

unless you believe that massive amounts of illegal guns get smuggled in from Canada or that gun manufacturers have specific "Illegal-Series" in their sortiment every illegal gun was a legal gun at some point in its life - after which it was stolen, pawned, illegaly sold on, etc. It is hard not to conclude from that that a massive proliferation of legal guns will also imply a proportionally massive proliferation of illegal guns, and the highly positive correlation betweem illegal guns and violent crime is not disputed by anyone. The total numbers of gun related homicides, which are 10-20 times higher in the US than in most western European countries with restricive legislation, speak for themselves. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

as far as I can tell from the article they were upset about the fact that this teacher was put on leave. Cheers, T ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true

perhaps he meant azrael . ******************************************************************* Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true