From: Eeyore on


Winfield Hill wrote:

> Winfield Hill wrote:
> > Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> >> hill(a)rowland.org wrote:
> >>> hill(a)rowland.org wrote:
> >>>> hill(a)rowland.org wrote:
> >>>>> Winfield Hill wrote:
> >>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote:
> >>>>>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> 4200 postings and still going strong. Amazing.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Wow, now 7200 posts and still going strong. And most
> >>>>>>>>> of the posts were under the original subject title. This
> >>>>>>>>> must be some kind of a record. Certainly it's a stress
> >>>>>>>>> test for the Google Groups web-page display code, etc.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Never have so many, said so much, about so little! ;-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I heard of one long flame war that passed 10K posts,
> >>>>>>>> but I never found out which newsgroup.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> We passed 9000 on the 14th, and are now within 100 posts
> >>>>>>> of 10,000. Keep up the good work guys, you can do it!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Good job guys and gals, over 10,000 posts, and still
> >>>>>> going strong. And still on topic more or less. I've only
> >>>>>> read a smattering of the posts here and there, and there's
> >>>>>> a minimum of flaming SFAICS. Nice to see.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Still going strong, over 11,300 posts, no sign of slowing.
> >>>>
> >>>> Impressive, zoomed right past 12,000 without slowing, now
> >>>> at 12130 posts and climbing towards 13000, going strong.
> >>>
> >>> Hmm, we're slowing down a bit folks! We're now at 12480
> >>> posts with 12500 in sight, but not so sure about 13000.
> >>
> >> Merry Christmas, Win. :)
> >
> > Happy New Year Michael :)
> >
> > With this post we're only three away from breaking the
> > 12500 post BARRIER. I know we can do it!
>
> Now at 13950, still going strong!

Past the 14000 barrier now !

Graham


From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:45B642AB.3192B3CC(a)hotmail.com...
>
>
> T Wake wrote:
>
>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >
>> > The Police [in the UK] have powers to hold terrorist suspects for up to
>> > 30
>> days ( IIRC > ) without charge subject to regular judicial review. After
>> that
>> time they must indeed be
>> > released or charged.
>> >
>> > Any longer was rejected by Parliament.
>>
>> IMHO 30 days is too long, but I suspect I am in a minority there.
>
> It's too long for someone who's innocent for sure. Hopefully the judicial
> review
> element will prevent abuses of that possibilty.
>
> The 60 days the police were asking for was totally over the top though.

It is a difficult problem. If you are the innocent person being detained, I
suspect 30 minutes is long but if you are the SOCA officer trying to gather
evidence on some one (s)he *knows* is a criminal, 60 days may not be long
enough.


From: MassiveProng on
On Tue, 23 Jan 07 13:07:22 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us:

>>>
>> You should have "warned him" to repair the emissions issue, or the
>>FCC would do it for him.
>
>They didn't exist then.


Bwuahahahaahaha!

The FCC has been around LONGER than ANY VT terminal has.

Try again.
From: jasen on
On 2007-01-20, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> jasen wrote:
>
>> On 2007-01-15, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm talking about monitoring without interfering with the performance.
>>
>> Any additional software you run will reduce performance (by using up
>> computer cycles and ram), wether the reduction is significant is upto
>> you to decide. if your computer is upto the task monitoring needn't
>> reduce your the speed of your internet connection.
>
> She's got a 486.
>
> SX25 CPU even maybe ?

yeah but her modem is 14400 bps.


Bye.
Jasen
From: jasen on
On 2007-01-20, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:

> Please measure the miles between Israel and the Mediteranean.

0

> Note the number of miles between Israel and the Suez Canal.

about 120 at closest approach, 140 from Beersheba, 160 from Tel Aviv

> Now consider that Iran does its atomic bomb testing on
> Israel soil. How long do you think the Canal will be closed?
> You may assume that Iran doesn't "miss" and take out the
> core of Egyptian commerce with the same single attack.

at that range? a couple of months.


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Bye.
Jasen