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Kaiser Wilhelm

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Posted on 09-01-04 05:11 AM, in Using VB to send data to a PHP page Link
Not sure if this is applicable (you don't mention if it's .net/vb6), but in .net this is all pretty trivial.

Use the System.Diagnostics namespace to pull whatever data you need, then make a WebRequest with the data you want to push into your php script input like a form (keep the php simple, ya know).

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/default.aspx

For a free (as in beer) Visual Basic.NET, although C# would probably be better, it's the same libraries anyway.

Pretty informative first post (! ) I think. Let's hope it degenerates into toilet humour and obscure anime/music references asap eh
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Posted on 09-01-04 06:17 PM, in How long is your ... Link
Desktop (XP) takes about 15-20 seconds, laptop (Debian GNU/Linux, 2.6.8.1) takes about 30-45, and at least 10-15 of that's GDM/X starting up.

Comp's don't use so much power anyway, just the monitors. At least I tell my parents that...
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Posted on 09-01-04 08:50 PM, in Bush or Kerry Link
And how about the number of people voting for Bush because they hate Kerry? Or they think he's "wishy-washy," apparantly, for engaging in constructive debate. Or bothering to go out and learn about something, and consequently changing your mind is weak now? Obviously he's not omnipotent like Bush as some previous posts have highlighted, but I'm sure you can't begrudge him that. Those of you diligent enough may notice that I'm not American, so this is going to skip over all that domestic policy stuff, only that which affects the rest of us.

It's funny how you can think Bush is doing a good job. How many more people are dieing per day now than before? That's Iraqi's and our own. It was as much for strategy as it was for oil or Halliburton. Not to mention Bush Jr. was finishing the job daddy started. Saddam was a vicious, brutal dictator, that's for sure. But, the rule of law should rise above even those concerns. Your country claimed to be doing this to uphold international law when you don't even recognise the authority of the World Court after they ruled against you. You (and we, though we're doing our best to change that) frequently ignore or veto UN resolutions, and then expect others who aren't in such a powerful position to abide by them?

I agree with you about the protesting mind, it's not the troops fault they were sent there. But we shouldn't give them more respect than they deserve. They're still killers, they're just our killers.

Of course, even if Kerry did get in, that will make little difference to the Palestinians. Clinton's administration poured more money into Israel than any other. That money generally goes into buying weapons etc. to kill people. Or for 'defense' as you guys like to call it. That excluded, and in the absence of a miracle, Kerry is likely to be the best president for the rest of us.

Finally, if you want a resolute president like that, why don't you take Biafra's advice and go on a holiday in Cambodia? They're supposed to be your president, and you live in a democracy. If enough people (more than half ideally) kick up a fuss about something, isn't it their job to see it changes? And for anyone British, that applies to us too.
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Posted on 09-02-04 12:11 AM, in Bush or Kerry Link
On the troops issue (double 'o' for future reference, although they do act like clowns), I don't think anybody who kills for a living deserves respect.

As for the UN, you're confusing things, or completely ignoring it. What about the world court? That's not the same thing as they UN. Are they useless? 'Too much regard for the world' and not enough bias towards America? What? And what about the people killed in Nicaragua? The bombings there, mass graves. That was all American funded, and it was why the World Court ruled against you. By your standards we should be holding Reagan responsible? But I doubt you'd apply that to yourself.

The UN is _not_ a bunch of old men, they do try, they spoke out against you didn't they. They just don't think that violence is usually the best course, and would rather try the route of diplomacy. It takes a bit longer, but as we've seen in Afghanistan and Iraq, violence breeds violence.

Death is a fact of life? Why bother 'liberating' people then? They'll die anyway, right? (disclaimer: sarcasm) And of course, the days of torture and imprisonment facing Iraqi's and people from Afghanistan now is ok, because there's some kind of greater good. Yes. Of course. How silly of me.

As for Kerry, how about a common sense argument. Would you change your opinion with the wind? I admire his ability to turn around his mistakes, not to keep blindly charging on with the wrong idea because he's already started. It wouldn't make sense for him to blindly change, especially if he's got a career in politics in mind.

Edit: Tried to add this as a new post, didn't seem to work, adding it to this. In reply to post asking what we'd do if we were attacked.

We have been attacked, or have you completely forgotten about the IRA? Sure, we tried your approach first, send in the army, send in the navy, just don't let them think they've got one up on us. But you know, it didn't work. Funnily, now we've started engaging them in diplomacy, integrating them into the political process, the violence has almost ceased. Interesting, possibly, is the fact it was one of our right wing politicians that really started the process. There've not been any bombings that I know of for a long time.

We have been through it, and it's fairly obvious that violence isn't the solution to terrorism. Look at the Palestinians, the Iraqi's, Chechnya. Find an example where violence has worked against a real, not an imagined (ie cuba, vietnam, nicaragua), enemy.


(edited by Kaiser Wilhelm on 09-01-04 03:24 PM)
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Posted on 09-02-04 02:08 AM, in Bush or Kerry Link
Of course I'm not taking it personally, I live on this (you's a lot more convenient anyway) And yeah, I do have a tendency to be overly cynical. Think it comes with being English.

Unfortunately that means I can't vote in your elections (they're a lot more interesting, you know), but we're going to be doing everything we can to kick Bliar out here next year. For anyone intrigued, not sure if this has been covered on your news, the date of our elections is decided by our government, but it must be within five years. So they can try and pick a time that looks most favourable. Generally a bad idea, eh?

I'd still say the view that violence is required just keeps it going, maybe it's not so neccessary after all, people just haven't realised it yet. So I'd hope anyway...

And yeah, it is corrupt, not sure to what extent we can even call these sacred cows of ours democracy except by label. We can't intervene without being investigated, our MPs/Representatives don't even listen to the majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
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Posted on 09-02-04 02:20 AM, in Rgnarghh. Um... *cough* Link
Hey-ho, looks like I ignored some kind of custom, how crass, so hail!

I'm a Software Engineering student at Sheffield Hallam university, that's in England, you know, the other place. Generally I'm an all-round nice guy too. Honest. Apart from the ritual sacrifi.. Yeah, I'm friendly.

Invited on here by a friend, though I'm sure he'll just ignore the thread and leave it to rot in the pile of unreplied to ones Heh. Anyways, heya! *resumes pointless Common Lisp hacking and general pedantry*
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Posted on 09-02-04 03:39 AM, in Bush or Kerry Link
You still support the same system though, no? The army is the only place where murder's deemed forgettable, and at worst acceptable. As pointed out by one of your own leaders, "we don't do body counts."

You invaded their country illegally, no matter how 'right' it may have been. Even legally speaking, they're not terrorists when they're fighting you.

As for their tactics, remember the car-bomb planted outside a church that was timed to go off when people were leaving? We did that a few years earlier (joint CIA/MI5 to my knowledge, reporting was scant) outside a mosque, missing the target. Targetting civilians is morally reprehensible, whether we do it, or they do it to us.

Edit: Thinko. Accounts = Counts surely. My humblest apologies.


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Posted on 09-02-04 04:37 AM, in Official HTML Standards. Link
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

There are sooo many different specs (don't even know what version you want!), but whatever you want will definitely be a link off there somewhere.
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Posted on 09-02-04 05:25 AM, in Bush or Kerry Link
Originally posted by Lunar Depths
I also think it's a little unfair to gang up on the military man simply because you believe in "peace love and harmony". That's easy to say when you have the rights he and people like him provide for you. Enjoy it, my friends, and then think twice before harping on his choice of service.

Put it like that, and you may be right. It's a bit simplistic though. Consider, if the public were to stage a popular revolt, or some similar event, who'd be the ones fighting them? They're not even the ones in charge of preserving our rights! That's the judiciary and the government, not the army.

The army, historically, protect the interests of the rich, Because that's who they're being paid by. Currently, that's the government, may not always be (see Dyncorps). The richest already have a disproportionate hold on government. And thus we see the army acting in the interests of the rich - fighting communism, securing oil etc.

We've seen it in Chile, a popular (post-revolution) government stabbed in the back by their army (after American intervention, but that's irrelevant).

The point, and there is one, is that army's don't really care, even if lower ranking members did, the hierarchy ensures that doesn't matter. If a nation needed to defend itself or it's rights a militia would suffice. As it stands, when the army protect America, they're really protecting American interests. Tactical positions, trade routes, oil pipelines and the like. Not your rights, the profit of those luckier than you.
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Posted on 09-02-04 02:58 PM, in Bush or Kerry Link
What? Who even said it worked like that? Well done ignoring the rest of it too How about securing Iraq so all those companies can move in, which they're doing rather well, and it's mostly american operations at that? There's a prime example of securing profit for the rich.

Why wouldn't you be able to afford kit for them? Some kind of explanation other than dogma may be handy here.
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Posted on 09-02-04 07:23 PM, in Are there any Book Worms around here? Link
Keep meaning to read things like that, but it all seems a bit morbid?

Just finished a bunch of P.G. Wodehouse novels ("Summer Lightning" and the ilk, all Blandings stuff), The Odyssey (Shewrings prose translation, finally!) and George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia."

Favourite author's got to be (too weak to pin it to one!):

Albert Camus - The Plague, The Fall or The Myth of Sisyphus (the latter ones more of an essay, but it's good)

Douglas Adams - Yeah, well, everyone knows about hitchhiker's guide, but more people should read the Dirk Gently stuff!

Noam Chomsky - Top class essays. Anything from the Seven Stories Press series by him or others (Mahajan's good) should put todays news in balance.
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Posted on 09-02-04 07:50 PM, in What are you listening to? (PARAGRAPH, WITH DETAIL ABOUT THE SONG OR IT'S OVER) Link
Mr. Bungles excellent "Disco Volante" is probably my favourite album of all time. Other than that, stuff like King Crimson, Crass, Mephiskapheles, Frank Sinatra, Skinnerbox and the like

Been listening to a lot of Melt Banana lately too. Thumbs up to The Screeching Weasel's "Jeannie's Got a Problem With Her Uterus" n'all, really annoys parents
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Posted on 09-02-04 10:51 PM, in Are there any Book Worms around here? Link
Originally posted by Mileena Suck
My favorite genre of books is
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Posted on 09-03-04 02:22 AM, in Rgnarghh. Um... *cough* Link
Aww, thanks for the welcome all

And Shadic, luckily the nick's chosen mostly for its ironic benefit Although. We did used to blow up sand-dunes... *laughs awkwardly*
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Posted on 09-03-04 03:21 AM, in Rgnarghh. Um... *cough* Link
Omg tomo!!oneone!!!one!!seventeen!1! No, wait, I think I knew that already Hehe, alright Mr. Acid Squire too
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Posted on 09-03-04 03:50 AM, in Postlayout help/request thread. Link
Right, just checking this damn thing About 5 minutes work, most of which was spent in 'extract' in photoshop too, gonna give it more thought over the weekend.

Anyways, any problems with this in browsers that aren't Firefox 0.8? And yeah, I know it's old, but it's what's in Debian Sarge right now, and i'm not risking backports
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Posted on 09-03-04 04:07 AM, in Are there any Book Worms around here? Link
Originally posted by Valentine Revolution
I like a bit of Dragonlance but only the core books, and anything with Dalamar in them, because I'm a sucker for dark elves


I forgot totally about dragonlance/lotr! Anyone managed to get through the Silmarillion? Keep meaning to, but, at least the first book's too heavy going for me, and i've read quite a bit of it before in greek mythology.
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Posted on 09-03-04 04:34 AM, in Are there any Book Worms around here? Link
If you want to broaden your tastes a bit Tomo I've got a few books I could lend ya. Pretty wide ranging, you're not having any of my reference books though - Due to some unpleasentness I'm kinda banned from renting library books

And yeah, the silmarillion reads like myths of yore. I will finish it!
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Posted on 09-03-04 04:37 AM, in Postlayout help/request thread. Link
Ta - just a bit of HTML with some rather obscure formatting rules I want my whitespace back dammit! Gonna work on something with css (hah, divs, beware!) tomorrow when I should be working I think...
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Posted on 09-03-04 01:22 PM, in Good rap? (drjayphd sez: No one cares if you hate rap.) Link
If you can find it (Biscuithead records went out of business I think, and I can only find their new stuff on google) the "Porn Theatre Ushers" are pretty damn good for white rap. In fact, along with the Beastie Boys, they're the only rap band I can stand...
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