Recent content by Kosugi

To be precise: Each branch of so-called "US Special Forces" are specialized. o Delta Force is basically a hostage rescue group. Highly trained with a decent amount of firepower. o Navy Seals are killers. Widely regarded as some very efficient Assassins. o Green Berets are a step up from Army...

NFL players are supposed to donate a game check. That would be many tens of millions. Hopefully, they will adopt the NFL recommendation. All the money sent will be used for various Red Cross efforts, so don't worry about "scraping". One way or another, the money donated will be used for a...

Windogg, I go back to CP/M and beyond. I just can't believe that if has been around for that long... that they havent removed it. Not only is it offensive, but it is insensitive. And I will try Yemen... perhaps the problem stems from an angry H1B in Microsofts history.

If the Australian army is anything like their predecessors in WWI, WWII, and the Korean war, the afghani's should be wetting themselves. The Aussies were quite rugged and fierce in war. I'd put their regular army on par with the US Marines as quality goes (during the 3 big wars).

Hey, I hadn't, and neither had anyone around this office. I am still in shock that Microsoft would do something like that.

Do the following: 1. Open Microsoft Word 2. Type in all caps: NYC 3. Make the font size 48 4. Change the font to webdings and read what it says 5. Then change the font again, this time to "Wingdings" - now it's scary. I just did this and am shocked! For those of you who dont have access to...

Different story, but same results, a man on death row conviction overturned due to Prosecutor misconduct: Prosecutor hides evidence. Registering is free for that. I haven't found it documented elsewhere. 2 "criminals" with death-penalty convictions either in doubt or overturned in two...

It Does Happen Here. Man was executed on June 6, 2000. Just released, the DNA the prosecution used to convict the man never existed. Credentials and career of DNA lab technician who provided fake DNA report in Jeopardy. This is one of the reasons I am against the death penalty. At best...

The basis for all "good" code. It makes code easier to use, debug, and re-use. If you can't do OOP, don't bother programming. I must take exception with that remark, since we (I) do assembly, primarily writing low level APIs for others in the Java/C++ world to use. Just because it ain't...

Very clever, I like it. I work with a woman who I find positively intolerable. She says the dinosaurs never existed, that God put their bones on earth to test peoples faith :confused: I'd forward this on to her, but I'd probably get fired, and I only have a couple years to go. Where'd you...

Definitely get Java, though having Java training is no gaurantee of a job anymore. The market is flooded right now with Java programmers, like one day not too long ago the market was flooded with cobol programmers. But, Java has server side potential. If you get into Java for client side...

Reitz, Actually, the US lags in one critical area of environmental control: Sprawl. Sprawl destroys more wetlands, more farmlands, more animal habitat than anything in the first and second worlds. You'd have to go to third world burning of rainforests to find anything so devastating to the...

Tex, Just because your neighbor doesn't clean his yard, it doesn't mean it's ok for you not to clean your yard. Yes, Kyoto set a global ideal for fighting climate warming, but that happens one country at a time. And it is up to the number one polluter to start first. The unfortunate thing...

<center><b> Always funny, but also a repost :) </b></center>

Oh my! As if there wasn't enough contentiousness between Microsoft and the government, now state attorneys general are wondering why they're receiving letters from Microsoft supporters who aren't even alive. The letters have been arriving for the past several months at the offices of attorneys...