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As America hurtles toward the next presidential race, the HBO film 'Recount' will relive the fervor of 2000's messy election. Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary take Al Gore's fight to the courts on May 25 - make your own case on the boards, where the most cogent arguments will be featured in a special poll on HBO.com. And don't worry - this time all the votes will be counted. The question: Do you believe the Supreme Court's handling of Gore v. Bush was partisan? http://boards.hbo.com/topic/Hbo-Official-Threads/Believe-Supreme-Courts/1900006032
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 8:59 PM
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some people need to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about any of these dolts being elected. I make up my mind by flipping a coin when I'm at the polls it gets about the same results.LOL
> WhiteRabbit3........
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> That is why the democrats started so early......
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> to make you and the country numb.......
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> so people will accept Obama without a fight.......
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> it is called conditioning.........
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> you really do not think the majority of people......
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> voted for Obama do you.....
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> ?.........
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> Diebold has been in control all along........
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> it is all a sham........
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> until the heads start to roll........
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> the blue bloods need their Prince........
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> sitting upon the throne.......
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> so the feast can begin......
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> ahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 8:45 PM
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WhiteRabbit3........
That is why the democrats started so early......
to make you and the country numb.......
so people will accept Obama without a fight.......
it is called conditioning.........
you really do not think the majority of people......
voted for Obama do you.....
?.........
Diebold has been in control all along........
it is all a sham........
until the heads start to roll........
the blue bloods need their Prince........
sitting upon the throne.......
so the feast can begin......
ahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 3:34 PM
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Thats hilarious
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 3:00 PM
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How It Works...The Computer 1971/1979
http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/default.html
The Computer Code
http://davidguy.brinkster.net/computer/009.html
> In high school on one of my summer jobs I helped
> people working with punch cards, not sure but I think
> that qualifies as a computer system?
>
> My first puter exposure, office, the first Apple
> which had a simple word processing system called
> WordStar.
>
> Then inputing data on a mainframe system on a TRS-80,
> lime green font on black background.
>
> Then some big company mainframes that had very
> tortuous word processing functions that required the
> typist to type in each code for capital letters,
> punctuation symbols, end of each line, new paragraph,
> bold and underline. There was no way to preview your
> work without printing out a hard copy and reviewing
> it to see which codes (invisible in hard copy) you
> might have missed. You had to walk several
> departments down, take a flight of stairs, wait in
> line for your print out, take it back to your desk,
> compare it to your input on the screen, correct the
> errors and try again. It was hideous. I would look
> longingly at my beautiful correctable IBM Selectric
> typewriter on which I could have produced perfect
> work with one tenth of the time and effort.
>
> Dozens of computers and printers later through all
> the progressions, WordStar to WordPerfect to Word,
> what a journey. I was 40 by the time I got a home
> computer and discovered it was possible to do fun
> interesting things with the beasts. Who knew?? They
> became more than an instrument of torture,
> frustration, and vexation.
>
> --
> Edited by RainyKincaid at 05/09/2008 6:36 AM PDT
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May 9, 2008 12:44 PM
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Yep.LOL
> univac.
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think abo
May 9, 2008 12:40 PM
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univac.
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think abo
May 9, 2008 10:45 AM
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make sense.LOL
> Don Asmussen...Bad Reporter...
> "3-Year Old Tot dreams Of Seeing First White
> President Elected In His Lifetime."
> "Photo Leaks Of Dems Pressuring Hillary To Bow Out Of
> Race."
> (Reader Poll: If country is at stake, should
> waterboarding
> a lesser candidate be allowed?)
> "Putin Named PM Of Russia--Clinton Still Insists She
> Has A Shot."
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think abo
May 9, 2008 10:19 AM
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Don Asmussen...Bad Reporter...
"3-Year Old Tot dreams Of Seeing First White President Elected In His Lifetime."
"Photo Leaks Of Dems Pressuring Hillary To Bow Out Of Race."
(Reader Poll: If country is at stake, should waterboarding
a lesser candidate be allowed?)
"Putin Named PM Of Russia--Clinton Still Insists She Has A Shot."
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 9:51 AM
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Yeah, I went and got a electronics degree in engineering technology in the early to mid eighties and had to do all that with DOS and Basic and Pascal. We had to write programs in machine language and that have them display characters on an oscilloscope using the Intel 8086 processor.
Now I have a lap top with a Dual Intel core processor 2 Ghz A Vista 64 bit operating system, with 2 Giga bite of Ram, a 17" 32 bit color display and 2 120 GB hard drives besides be able to have a media center that I can watch DVDs TV and music for under $2500 not to mention my Zune with it's 30GB hard drive and WIFi with a Internet download of 5 Mbps.
here is download speed by country, interesting.
http://www.speedtest.net/global.php
> In high school on one of my summer jobs I helped
> people working with punch cards, not sure but I think
> that qualifies as a computer system?
>
> My first puter exposure, office, the first Apple
> which had a simple word processing system called
> WordStar.
>
> Then inputing data on a mainframe system on a TRS-80,
> lime green font on black background.
>
> Then some big company mainframes that had very
> tortuous word processing functions that required the
> typist to type in each code for capital letters,
> punctuation symbols, end of each line, new paragraph,
> bold and underline. There was no way to preview your
> work without printing out a hard copy and reviewing
> it to see which codes (invisible in hard copy) you
> might have missed. You had to walk several
> departments down, take a flight of stairs, wait in
> line for your print out, take it back to your desk,
> compare it to your input on the screen, correct the
> errors and try again. It was hideous. I would look
> longingly at my beautiful correctable IBM Selectric
> typewriter on which I could have produced perfect
> work with one tenth of the time and effort.
>
> Dozens of computers and printers later through all
> the progressions, WordStar to WordPerfect to Word,
> what a journey. I was 40 by the time I got a home
> computer and discovered it was possible to do fun
> interesting things with the beasts. Who knew?? They
> became more than an instrument of torture,
> frustration, and vexation.
>
> --
> Edited by RainyKincaid at 05/09/2008 6:36 AM PDT
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Edited by WhiteRabbit3 at 05/09/2008 6:52 AM PDT
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Edited by WhiteRabbit3 at 05/09/2008 7:12 AM PDT
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 9:43 AM
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lol - thats awesome..
PC's can still be very frustrating.. One of my projects a few years back required me to stay up working 15-18 hours at a time, and I had spent a good 2 weeks working on it at which point I was around 80% completion on a viable product.
In hundreds of places in code I found myself writing the same routine - check to see if a file exists, and if so - delete the file. Rather than typing the same long line of code over & over & over, I decided to make a routine that would do it with only a short blurb of code.
Well I guess I was so tired that I accidentally wrote in to delete *.*, so that when the routine was called the first time - it deleted all of the source code files that were part of the current directory. Everything I had done in those 2 weeks - GONE.
I believe that was the only time my boss heard me cry. LMAO!
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 9:39 AM
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For a clerical person like me the two most delightful improvements were when we could 'print preview' so we didn't have to get a hard copy every time, and 'reveal codes' so we could easily find formatting problems.
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 9:36 AM
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In high school on one of my summer jobs I helped people working with punch cards, not sure but I think that qualifies as a computer system?
My first puter exposure, office, the first Apple which had a simple word processing system called WordStar.
Then inputing data on a mainframe system on a TRS-80, lime green font on black background.
Then some big company mainframes that had very tortuous word processing functions that required the typist to type in each code for capital letters, punctuation symbols, end of each line, new paragraph, bold and underline. There was no way to preview your work without printing out a hard copy and reviewing it to see which codes (invisible in hard copy) you might have missed. You had to walk several departments down, take a flight of stairs, wait in line for your print out, take it back to your desk, compare it to your input on the screen, correct the errors and try again. It was hideous. I would look longingly at my beautiful correctable IBM Selectric typewriter on which I could have produced perfect work with one tenth of the time and effort.
Dozens of computers and printers later through all the progressions, WordStar to WordPerfect to Word, what a journey. I was 40 by the time I got a home computer and discovered it was possible to do fun interesting things with the beasts. Who knew?? They became more than an instrument of torture, frustration, and vexation.
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 9:34 AM
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> lmao
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> Those are some great pics!
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> How about the origin of the term "your computer has a
> bug?"
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> It has a quite literal origin, as in those days when
> computers would take up entire rooms there was an
> instance where a roach had gotten zapped on one of
> the circuit boards & created a short which brought
> the system down.
>
> My first PC was an Atari 800, followed by the
> Commodore 64. And to think, at 12 years old when I
> first learned how to set up a loop to count from 1 to
> 100 - the same logic applies nearly 25 years later.
Here is a link to some more cool pics.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/12/compare-these-hard-drives.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/
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Re: I'm burned out on the election coverage, here's something else to think
May 9, 2008 9:24 AM
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lmao
Those are some great pics!
How about the origin of the term "your computer has a bug?"
It has a quite literal origin, as in those days when computers would take up entire rooms there was an instance where a roach had gotten zapped on one of the circuit boards & created a short which brought the system down.
My first PC was an Atari 800, followed by the Commodore 64. And to think, at 12 years old when I first learned how to set up a loop to count from 1 to 100 - the same logic applies nearly 25 years later.
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