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Who is better British SAS or American Special Forces?

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #124
- Nov 27, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Jim Carrey stepping up to the plate!

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #12
- Sep 20, 2001
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Shocking! Microsoft Anti-Semitic?

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.
- Kosugi
- Post #11
- Sep 20, 2001
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Australia to send ground troops to AFG!

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).
- Kosugi
- Post #17
- Sep 20, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Shocking! Microsoft Anti-Semitic?

Hey, I hadn't, and neither had anyone around this office. I am still in shock that Microsoft would do something like that.
- Kosugi
- Post #5
- Sep 20, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Shocking! Microsoft Anti-Semitic?

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...
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- Sep 20, 2001
- Replies: 24
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Man executed by US on bogus DNA evidence.

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #3
- Aug 30, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Man executed by US on bogus DNA evidence.

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...
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- Aug 30, 2001
- Replies: 37
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Java or Visual Basic?

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #42
- Aug 29, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Hehehe A Little Humor for the Atheists and Agnostics here

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #30
- Aug 29, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Java or Visual Basic?

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #34
- Aug 29, 2001
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China's Pollution Overlooked by the Kyoto Treaty

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #19
- Aug 28, 2001
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China's Pollution Overlooked by the Kyoto Treaty

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...
- Kosugi
- Post #18
- Aug 28, 2001
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Bushisms: "They misunderestimated me."

<center><b> Always funny, but also a repost :) </b></center>
- Kosugi
- Post #2
- Aug 28, 2001
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9 out of 10 dead people like Microsoft...

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...
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- Aug 24, 2001
- Replies: 1
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Those Whackey French!

Whoa... Just because you gave it to us, doesn't mean we will let you bungee jump off it!
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- Aug 23, 2001
- Replies: 4
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Hmmm you guys lost a nuke???

I love the Internet. Have I told anyone else that lately? I guess not. Found the story (synopsis), and a link to where you can get the book. The author, Clyde W. Burleson (burleson@hal-pc.org) , May 11, 1999 Author's Summary In February 1968, K-129, a Russian Golf class submarine, sank in...
- Kosugi
- Post #20
- Aug 23, 2001
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Hmmm you guys lost a nuke???

There are quite a few missing nuclear warheads around the world. The US has admitted to losing 4. One in the Indian Ocean that actually "rolled" off of an aircraft carrier deck. The one in the article. One lost from an fighter crash (what the hell they need to fly with real ones...
- Kosugi
- Post #18
- Aug 23, 2001
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Jesse Ventura...Boxster S?? Arf?!

Jesse all but announced his plans to run for president in 2004 last night. I bet that's enough to invert rush limbaughs nipples!
- Kosugi
- Post #9
- Aug 15, 2001
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Ah, yes, the wonderful Chinese government -- now helping to build Iraqi air defenses

Fishy101, Good point. Generally presidents do not get high tech documents put across their desks, mostly because they wouldnt understand them, or understand what was pertinant or not. It would be someone within a specific department, or head of departments. Presidents just aren't privy to...
- Kosugi
- Post #47
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Pickup Tony Banks and Drop Cade McKnown - discuss...

Oh my! And banks was the cheapest starting 1/4 back out! Some one get him some prozac quick! I don't know why they didn't take dilfer. Dilfer had his shortcomings, but he was way better than banks.
- Kosugi
- Post #2
- Aug 14, 2001
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Ah, yes, the wonderful Chinese government -- now helping to build Iraqi air defenses

Tex, And you dont see the connection? High ranking Chinese military leaders give huge amounts of money to the Clinton Campaign and just happened at the same time leap ahead in missile technology and are now selling it It is you who are living in never never land, I assure you. Investigations...
- Kosugi
- Post #44
- Aug 14, 2001
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Ah, yes, the wonderful Chinese government -- now helping to build Iraqi air defenses

Tex, Your ability to spin, and your inability to read, amazes me. Clinton used missile technology as a trade off to campaign contributions and it sickens me that some people don't see the danger in this. China most definitely wanted a favorable government in the US, and attempted to...
- Kosugi
- Post #32
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ah, yes, the wonderful Chinese government -- now helping to build Iraqi air defenses

Tex, Prove it. For the record, the bulk of spying was done during the 80s, in what became known as "the Decade of the Spy". The depth of penetration into the US was made manifest during the Clinton administration, that much is true. Clinton opted not to punish the Chinese because...
- Kosugi
- Post #26
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Press Release 1981: IBM releases the first "PC".

Not a repost, This a copy of the original article published in 1981. The repost you site is actually an article done recently in 2001. I thought it would be most amusing to see the "original" thing. CNN didn't have a link to the original press release, or else I missed it...
- Kosugi
- Post #10
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ah, yes, the wonderful Chinese government -- now helping to build Iraqi air defenses

AndrewR, May I suggest De-Caf coffee from now on? No one is attacking you, or your position. Don't take it personally. China has a few good weapons systems, but the silkworm isn't really one of them. Their AK rip off is though. During the Gulf War, numerous silkworms were fired at...
- Kosugi
- Post #24
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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LIBERAL magizine the New Republic supports drilling in alaska.

Wait... The Prospect is Liberal... The New Republic is Conservative... Isn't that Buckley's magazine?
- Kosugi
- Post #2
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Computer Science - starting salary?

Ultima, The computer science field is vast now. Much more dynamic, and that is an understatement, than when I got into back in '73. The amount of money you will start at depends on where in the US you get your job. Also, to a lesser degree, the technology you are employing. I can speak for...
- Kosugi
- Post #2
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ah, yes, the wonderful Chinese government -- now helping to build Iraqi air defenses

Chinese material, in any case, is of notoriously poor quality. Thailand bought about 600 Type-85 tanks from China in the late 80's early 90s... they received about 1/4 the order and cancelled the rest. The Type-85s, china's best at that time, were so decrepit they were mostly useless...
- Kosugi
- Post #14
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Press Release 1981: IBM releases the first "PC".

From the annals of history comes IBMs awaited announcement of its new "PC" line... check the specs... :) Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First published in Computerworld Aug. 17, 1981 NEW YORK -- The giant of the computer industry is thinking small. IBM last week announced its...
- Kosugi
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- Aug 14, 2001
- Replies: 9
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Why the Canadian military is useless...(I'm a Canadian, too)

Rumsfield is proposing a 10% across the board reduction of active personell. He has already reduced the B1 bomber fleet by 1/3. (I support this, btw. Damn cold war relic). He has proposed to eliminate either the JSF, F-22, or the F-18 upgrade program. This has been declared a non-start issue...
- Kosugi
- Post #24
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Why the Canadian military is useless...(I'm a Canadian, too)

Scouzer, Military spending is down in all western nations. Every single one I can think of. Without "credible" threats, the very nature of having a large military is in question, and usually if funds are required for expenses elsewhere in the government, it only makes sense to draw...
- Kosugi
- Post #17
- Aug 14, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Poll: are their any republicans out there who are Atheists?

Poll is even worse. Mixing political affiliations with religious faith. Bad bad bad. How would I list myself as an independant agnostic? Or a democratic christian? You can't vote twice...
- Kosugi
- Post #42
- Aug 9, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Poll: are their any republicans out there who are Atheists?

i am not the person that you originally directed this statement to, BUT: yes, democrats are against freedom. you just don't realize it. your tunnel vision is SO bad, that you can't see the damage you are doing to this country. Actually, the democrats, and liberals in general, are staunch...
- Kosugi
- Post #29
- Aug 9, 2001
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Poll: are their any republicans out there who are Atheists?

Abraham Lincoln. He may have not been a true athiest though (more of an agnostic).
- Kosugi
- Post #25
- Aug 9, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Maureen Reagan dead from skin cancer.

Yes, a sad loss. She could have been contender... Makes me nervous, I've had my share of sun in my lifetime, and now that my wife passed, I don't have anyone regularly checking the moles on my back! (not that I needed to share that with you) The "C" word makes you more nervous...
- Kosugi
- Post #2
- Aug 8, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Nuclear Fusion anyone?

About Fusion, Back in the mid 80's a good friend and ex-roomate of mine from college days (I graduated in 71!) was working for Westinghouse in Fusion related areas. They were predicting 20-50 years. I still hear 20-50 years, but I don't think Westinghouse is leading research anymore. It is...
- Kosugi
- Post #20
- Aug 8, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Possible Billy Bubba Book Titles! Submit your own!

Monica may suck great but Republican's blow hard!
- Kosugi
- Post #10
- Aug 8, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Some Interesting Quotes For CS Majors....

Semantics semantics semantics... Programmers are entry level. If after 5 years you haven't moved beyond programming to something more "analytical" in nature, then you have done something wrong, or should consider a new field. I've 29 years in IT. We hire from colleges and...
- Kosugi
- Post #6
- Aug 7, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Free Money...

MrBond, I read this as "this is not a refund or rebate, but we are giving you 300$ of your next years refund now. Therefore, regardless of how much you-make/we-tax, your refund next year will be 300$ less, or if you have to pay, you will pay 300$ more." The most important thing to...
- Kosugi
- Post #4
- Aug 6, 2001
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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