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[Read the article: Are Democrats planning still worse FISA capitulations?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the prompt DCLaw1. It may not do as much good as I'd hope but contacting Senators is not a labor intensive activity. I kept up a steady drum beat in both my Senator's inboxes going into the vote on Habeas Corpus and the Webb amendment. Costs me little to do it on FISA. I got the drill down, and one can always hope.
JohnsonJohnson, apart from noting the bloviating style of your comment, not much can be said, except I'm sorry it is so scary for you inside your head. May I recommend 5 Myths About Terrorism by Alan Krueger at WaPo; http://tinyurl.com/22uf67 As for energy concerns, imagine what our engineering and science world could have done with a cash infusion like the one Bush put in Iraq. You are being both unimaginative and defeatist. Ain't no American Can Do you.
As for tiberius, I invoke Mona from yesterday. No 12 Step Program needed.
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@ ondelette
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Re: hard drive recovery
My greatest fear is losing the postsecondary student unit record level data on my hard drive, and what to do if I had to face recovering data that sensitive (damn, damn, damn dissertation). I recalled that the NY Times Circuits column periodically has written about some national companies that seem able to do this when lots of other groups have failed. A quick search turned up this article:
E.R. for Hard Drives
By ERIC A. TAUB
Published: July 14, 2005
... "Eventually, every hard drive will fail," some even within months, said Todd Johnson, vice president for operations at OnTrack Data Recovery (www.ontrack.com), a firm specializing in recovering digital files.
The local repair shop referred Mr. Risdal to DriveSavers (www.drivesavers.com), another company offering data retrieval from hard drives, flash memory, diskettes and optical media. After several days' work, DriveSavers had recovered his entire photo library.
I sort of remember thse names from before. David Pogue was the columnist, although not of this particular piece. Can't hurt to ask 'em what they do, and who they've done it for. Maybe it's a place to start if nothing else has worked out for you. Good luck.
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Linux
[Read the article: Are Democrats planning still worse FISA capitulations?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If, and when, I ever get rid of this g_d, mthr-fkn, miserable son-of-a-female-canid, deadly existential experience of a final hurdle for a PhD, I am going Linux. I began the thing on a Unix platform, have moved it to Windoz, and only my SAS data sets (HA!) were able to make the transition. Go figure. Microsh*t will be part of my past. It ain't in my future.
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Puzzled
[Read the article: Texans turn against Bush's war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then why did Texas adopt him so thoroughly el kabong (and others), that they defend him as though he was a native son? That's the piece I don't understand. It looks very much like a blind loyalty that was neither earned, nor deserved. I would have assumed Texans to be very skeptical of an outsider from New Haven. The 'blue color' of the urban areas doesn't surprise me, and how those areas voted surprises me even less, but I'd have imagined your rural areas to be very wary of this non-native son, but they weren't, and aren't. I suppose the good news (if there is any to be had) is that once Bush-the-Lesser 'retires' to Crawford, he will stay for only a 'respectable' period of time and then high-tail it back to the northeast. I don't imagine you'll have him for long after January '09. And, it reassuring that there will be some who are thinking (if not saying), "And, don't let the door hit you...."
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@ Diana S.; Thanks
[Read the article: Texans turn against Bush's war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks Diana S. I think you answered most of my question. Bush is a sorry-assed human being, and you don't need a specific state affiliation to become one. And, I do think it's past time to deal with the electoral college - everywhere - not just in California as the Republicans are fixing to do.
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@ Expation and @ alicengerty
[Read the article: Bush's stairway to paradise]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@ Expation
Heh. Yep, you got that right. It's one of the most interesting features of this classless society. What was interesting to me about your comment is the way you can see one aspect of it play out in many different situations. Inherited 'opportunity' is visible in lots of places, and plays out about the same way. For example, I am surrounded by fairly successful agri-businesses. Where the person who built that business is still at the helm, the acquired assets perform well. But the time that farm, ranch, or dairy passes to the next generation, it begins to unravel. By the third generation, it's toast. I believe the same thing has been documented in some privately held corporations. It's the inheritance of the opportunity that prohibits successive generations from performing. They never did have to perform, and have, therefore, no sense of how to make a 'thing' work. It only works, and it has always worked, and it has never not worked, so it will continue to work well into the future. No reason to believe otherwise, right?
@ alicengerty
Damn! My mother was right. Should have studied more literature. Thank you. A parallel well drawn.
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@ emaust30
[Read the article: The art of neoconservative innuendo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why would these Democrats vote for this?
No good deed goes unpunished.