From: Eeyore on 23 Jan 2007 12:27 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 23 Jan 2007 12:32 "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 23 Jan 2007 17:34 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 23 Jan 2007 04:33 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 23 Jan 2007 04:49
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. -- Bye. Jasen |