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Reply to Cruising with the PT in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Bumper sticker will of course be HMS Fearless. And the car being white is important

Cruising with the PT in Blogging JoeUser Forums

As those of you who know me personally no doubt are tired of hearing, I want to own a PT Cruiser. If it turns out I end up getting one in white, I will seriously consider getting a vanity plate RMN-CL56. Anyone want to guess why? (those of you who know my reading habits should be able to guess this one pretty easily). Hint in the comments<!-

101 spotty posts in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Just noticed, this is my 101th post to JU! Now back to your regularly scheduled semi-political tirades... (I guess I'm going to have to find something else to blog on soon)

Arafat is slipping away in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm reading through my blogs, as I do of a morning before going to work, and I see on Citizen Smash's blog a link to a Reuters' story about the failing health

The commoditization of flash memory in Gadgets & Electronics JoeUser Forums

For my Disney-loving friends. Disney USB Flash Drives

Reply to My respect for Kerry in Politics JoeUser Forums

Neither would I. But he must face Senator Clinton and DLC.

Reply to My respect for Kerry in Politics JoeUser Forums

I won't be gloating. John-boys lead-ing speech was smarmy, snarky, and proves why he wasn't going to get a second term as senator. John Kerry's speech was statesmanlike. Simply no comparison. (Likewise, I preferred Bush's speech to Cheney's immediatley afterwards.) And I am grateful that Kerry does still have a place in the US government; despite some of the things I have thought previously. I don't agree with his politics, but his de

My respect for Kerry in Politics JoeUser Forums

I plan on expanding on this later, but I just watched Kerry's consession speech, and I realized that whatever else he may be, this man deserves my respect. Possibly in another time, with another world situation, he might even deserve my vote. But he managed to be graceful in defeat; which in politics is important. <!-- Ju-Anchor-Fo

Just a thought on election fraud in Politics JoeUser Forums

It didn't occur to me when I was there, but I was ID checked at the polls (sort of); I had to sing the register. This obviously doesn't prevent people from regsitering multiple times, but it does reduce the chance of someone voting in my name

Reply to Grim's JU Community Exit Poll!! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Registered NJ (R) - voted almost straight R (I couldn't bring myself to vote for the US Rep - went Lib for that)

I voted in Politics JoeUser Forums

Just got back from my polling place - it had only one machine when in previous years it had 2... and turnout was up. Go Vote!

Schlock Advice in Humor JoeUser Forums

Don't count someone dead unjtil you've seen all the possible bodies

Reply to Browsers Browsers Browswes in Software Development JoeUser Forums

I've been using Avant - you can see my initial impression on it over at Link Still using it - it's fairly nifty.

NNTP for Outlook in Usenet Discussions JoeUser Forums

I found a tool from an outfit called MAPILab that allows you to integrate NNTP newsgroups into outlook. I've been playing with their MAPILab NNTP for a bit now, and while you have to make outlook jump through a bit of hoops to make it behave like a threaded newsreader,

Reply to I'd hate to have been this guy in Misc JoeUser Forums

No, that's "retrained out of the company". Actually, depending on how the mistake happened, and what the guy menat to be doing, I wouldn't necessarily fire the guy - I would go all kinds of drill-sergeant on him, and make sure everyone knows to be careful messing around with whatever this guy was messing around with. It's a "crappy day" mistake, not a firing mistake. Unless you are guaranteed that your machien will not crash/hang/power

I'd hate to have been this guy in Misc JoeUser Forums

A tech support story gone horribly wrong.

The Eggs. THE EGGS! in Misc JoeUser Forums

I mean it, I love EGGS1

Neal Stephenson's slashdot interview in Misc JoeUser Forums

Neal Stephenson was "interviewed" by the readership of slashdot. And It Was Good.

Reply to More thoughts on the war and the election in Politics JoeUser Forums

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Reply to More thoughts on the war and the election in Politics JoeUser Forums

Bush emphasised aspects of the threat that the CIA told him were NOT proven. For example he emphasised informatino suggesting Saddam tried to obtain nuclear material in Niger. Niger is in Africa; africa is not only Niger. Bush said Africa , not Niger. It's worhtwhile to note a) that the only debun

Reply to More thoughts on the war and the election in Politics JoeUser Forums

Iran's military being larger than Iraq's is irrelevant; it's just that many more targets to be serviced frm beyond their effective range. Iran has no more modern equipment than Iraq did, no air force to speak of, and no better chances. Militarily, it's a hands-down US victory. Might take a little longer than the conquest of Iraq, but not much more, only because Iran is a little larger physically. And the insurgency problem won't be as bad, because ther

Reply to More thoughts on the war and the election in Politics JoeUser Forums

But Bush didn't lie. At most he overemphasized a particular aspect of the threat.

Reply to More thoughts on the war and the election in Politics JoeUser Forums

Solitair, read my next-most-recent post here on more about the Iraq WMD.

Another brick in Politics JoeUser Forums

Christopher Hitchens provides yet more proof of the potential WMD threat in Iraq. Subtitle (Saddam Hussein didn't have nuclear weapons - yet)

Reply to More thoughts on the war and the election in Politics JoeUser Forums

Mr. Bremont, in 1940, there was still considerable debate as to whether the war had to be fought (at least in the general populace). Knowing what we know now about the horrors of WWII germany, US involvement in WWII is a no-brainer, in hidnsight. It wasn't so in 1940. And that's just in the West. In the pacific, Japan was angry at the US because we had invoked trade sanctions on them in exchange for their actions in China. They attacked us bec