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Re: carlo.log → Sep 15th 2003, 19:18 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:08:57 -0000

Indeed it is strangley addictive. And amusing to small children. My Niece, I have discovered, loves to watch uncle Ben sing it :p

Re: carlo.log → Sep 25th 2003, 18:26 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:24:34 -0000

Bootable CD-Roms work as a good replacement for floppys. On most systems you can take a floppy image and burn it onto a CD and boot / update from that.

How old is your motherboard? And who's it made by? I know at least Gigbayte and Asus provide tools for their newer models that let you update from within windows.

Re: carlo.log → Oct 15th 2003, 22:10 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:23:02 -0000

Been using both at home for some time now (Firebird since it was called Phoenix, Thunderbird since the 0.1 release) and must say they are great. There is very little that Firebird won't handle these days and Thunderbirds built Spam handling is brilliant. And I've had very few problems with either.

Good choice Gossip :)

Re: carlo.log → Oct 22nd 2003, 12:03 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:21:56 -0000

Is it the GLUE area for reporting bugs in G-Blog itself? And another account to create ~sigh~

I keep getting other peoples sidebars come up against my blog entries. I think I've had Istvan, Kay and some random lady I have never heard of before so far :p

Re: carlo.log → Oct 22nd 2003, 12:03 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:32:43 -0000

As long as you're not using us a Gophers Gossip I'm sure we'll be okay ;)

Re: carlo.log → Oct 23rd 2003, 13:48 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:39:04 -0000

[Quote] Referrer spam is almost worse than email spam, really. [Quote]

Worse even because this has actually cost you money in increased bandwidth fees :(

People should have to pass some kind of test before being allowed on the internet. That and breeding.

Re: carlo.log → Oct 24th 2003, 13:21 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:42:57 -0000

[Quote] So, do you know any Americans enlarging their penis or penises? [Quote]

They have more than one out there? Flashy Yanks :p

That said one of my (American) ex-s did once comment something along the lines of 'They make _everything_ bigger in the UK' so perhaps they need all the help they can get ;)

Re: carlo.log → Oct 24th 2003, 13:21 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:26:41 -0000

It's like something out of a Carry on Movie.

Ohhhhh Matron!

Re: carlo.log → Nov 13th 2003, 20:42 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:26:27 -0000

RE: 3, it's not a Compaq PC by any chance is it? I had exactly the same problem recently with a customer of ours except that instead of one module we had more like twenty :p

Re: carlo.log → Nov 21st 2003, 11:45 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:54:58 -0000

Is G-blog broken? I can access all of the pages but when I got to [Link] it returns a 'could not find page' error. And not a 404 either, it's like the web server doesn't exist.

Re: carlo.log → Ubisoft doesn’t get it

Xyleth — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:42:01 -0000

I'm fairly sure FB 0.7 has a UA string you can set...............oh no, it doesn't. Unless I am missing something?

Re: carlo.log → Nov 26th 2003, 19:08 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:35:30 -0000

[Quote] My desire to do quality work doesn't comply with our work environment. [Quote]

Oh, so it's not just me? :p

Re: carlo.log → Nov 28th 2003, 17:26 GMT

Xyleth — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:04:18 -0000

How the hell do you find these places Gossip? I thought I was bad. Still it's a bit like a car wreck. You know you shouldn't look but you just can't tear your eyes away.

And to quote myself from IRC a moment ago;

[Quote]
coming from someone who likes to research _everything_ new to death before he tries it I can honestly say I wish I'd found this site four years ago :p
[Quote]

Re: carlo.log → Dec 7th 2003, 01:33 GMT

Xyleth — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 12:43:35 -0000

Hrrrm, replace Evercrack with JG and it'd be even more topical / Relevant.

Re: carlo.log → Dec 22nd 2003, 14:03 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:14:34 -0000

You know as an Sys Admin myself I can understand where your guys are coming from and totally sympathise with them. There are some users I would love to unleash that kind of thing on.

On the other hand if anyone tried doing that to my system I'd kill them. So I sympathise with you too. No way to get around it?

Re: carlo.log → Dec 22nd 2003, 14:03 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:57:20 -0000

Oh hell yeah. I was thinking more along the lines of sales people who install horrible peices of spyware just because it gives them a background with 'horsies' on it :p

Developers are a different case entierly.

Re: carlo.log → 2004

Xyleth — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:27:29 -0000

The ability to add more than one friend to your friend list at once.

Other than that G-Blog is already more or less perfect IMO. Intrested in seeing V2 tho.

Re: carlo.log → Questionnaire

Xyleth — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:49:17 -0000

1) Recent entries is the page I look at most often. Some kind of side bar indicator showing if there are any new comments against my entries would be nice (kinda like a combination enitries / comments tracker in a sidebar. No details, just a flag showing that there are comments there).

2) It would help to manage it as the list grows larger certinaly. And I agree with Effendi's comment regarding vertical alphabetical listings.

3) No, I'd stick with the current fixed categories. If everyeone could divide their own it'd fragment things and make it harder to look for similar themed stuff. Maybe have fixed top level categories and user definable sub-categories?

Re: carlo.log → 2004

Xyleth — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 21:47:30 -0000

[Quote] As long as your browser is able to deal with standards [Quote]

Well that rules out IE then ;)

Re: carlo.log → Speaker of the Dead

Xyleth — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:39:22 -0000

You know people keep mentioning these books. I really must get around to reading them some day soon.

Re: carlo.log → Listen up

Xyleth — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:03:16 -0000

I must admit to being one of the people who looked, lauged but didn't mail Gossip. Until today they'd been relativly harmless if bloody annoying. Once Crawford started on his little crusade I should have hit that button :(

And Kitty and Wyxie I am glad you're not leaving. We're all enriched by your presance and would all be diminished by your leaving.

Re: carlo.log → Listen up

Xyleth — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:43:40 -0000

initally it wasn't really harassment it was just some very bad spelling and inane conversations that most of us found highly irritating. However today it degenerated into out and out harrassment when one of them (Crawford) started saying abusive things directed at first Zhaneel and then Fellblade.

Although, thinking about it, I think the lad may have had punishment enough already to last a life time. I mean who the hell names their kid 'Crawford'? His parents obviously hated him from birth :p

Re: carlo.log → Jan 12th 2004, 17:52 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:59:01 -0000

Signed up :)

Re: carlo.log → Jan 12th 2004, 17:52 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:59:09 -0000

Signed up :)

Edited on Jan 13th 2004, 09:59 by Xyleth

Re: carlo.log → Jan 17th 2004, 14:21 GMT

Xyleth — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:25:27 -0000

Ohhhhhhhhh. Looks good :)

And don't dis the hat!

Re: carlo.log → Jan 26th 2004, 18:08 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:59:24 -0000

OMG

Gossip you geek :)

Brilliant!!

Re: carlo.log → Jan 29th 2004, 09:53 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:06:25 -0000

Oh my god. Find him and shoot him now!

He's taking a Dual processor G5 (over £2ks worth of computer), ripping it's guts out and replacing it with a cheap ass Athlon XP??

He needs to be taken out and beaten, hard. I hope someone tells his parents he gave away their £2k gift and replaced it with a £700 PC.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 29th 2004, 09:53 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:50:49 -0000

[Quote] PC-like functions (gaming being the most common), you're just ass-out with a Mac [Quote]

Actually for most 'PC Like functions' there is software that is either a direct port or equally as capable avialable for the Mac. And given that MacOS X is based on a Unix core and has a X server aviable to it you can also take advantage of the HUGE libary of Unix/X/OSS applications that are out there, a lot of which either have ports for Mac OS X or can be ported with relative ease.

In fact Gaming is really the single area where there is anything you can do on a PC that a Mac can't do equally well or better. And even that is not as true as it used to be. A lot of best selling PC games these days get ported to the Mac after six months or so (Warcraft, NeverWinter Nights to name just two). Macs these days come with hardware that is every bit the equal of modern PC systems, espically since the introduction of the G5.

Now I am not a Mac user, nor do I plan on becoming one (although if I had the free cash I'd buy a 12in iBook / Powerbook in a flash), however I do recognise that for most modern computing tasks the Mac is a valid and solid platform choice. Claiming that you're out of luck with PC-Like functions is just plain wrong.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 29th 2004, 09:53 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:23:04 -0000

The vast majority of PCs on this planet do not exist for use as gaming machines. While that wait might rule out Macs as a platform of choice in your case it does not justify the blanket statement that ' For PC-like functions (gaming being the most common), you're just ass-out with a Mac'. I'd even contend that gaming is by far the least common 'PC-like function'.

I think you'll find that there are many, many more PCs out there running Spreadsheets, word processors, web browsers and other business software (and nothing else) out there than there will ever be used as gaming rigs.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 29th 2004, 09:53 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:43:37 -0000

Depends how you define gaming. Most of those webgames are flash or java applets that will run just fine regardless of the OS you're using as long as you have the plugin. You could be using Windows, OS X, Solaris, Linux or heaven knows what else for all they care. You can't really claim that constitutes the primary use of the machine. There is a difference between playing the occasional flash web-game on a work PC that is primarilary used for office tasks and playing Doom3 on a home PC that exists solely to host that kind of game.

Even among home users I'd argue that the number for whom gaming is the prime use of the PC is quite small compared to the total. While it may be common among our age / social groups most people in my experience have mid-range PCs that the mainly use for surfing the web and a bit of e-mail, maybe for telecommuting or doing the odd bit of word processing or running the home budget. This is the kind of person who uses AOL as their ISP. Like it or not those kind of people outnumber us by a fair margin these days.

Besides the reason that most 'big' games don't make it to the Mac on release is purely one of market decisions by the publishers anyway. The G5 platform is eaisly an equal of the P4 / Athlon and probably on a par with the Athlon 64 (better with the upcoming 970FX 90nm die shrink that should let IBM push the G5 towards 3Ghz + while still using less power and dissipating less heat than a P4). The OS is solid and has good OpenGL support built in from the ground up and most Macs ship with at least a Radeon 9x class GPU giving access to all the latest fancy GPU features. There is no reason that modern games cannot be ported to the Mac platform techically.

TBH there isn't much to choose between Macs and PCs in terms of applications these days. Most major packages, even in the Macs traditional homeland of Graphics and sound, have ports to the PC that are just as useable and funtional. And if you're willing to spend the cash the PC platform can provide the same level of build and component quality that you'd expect from a Mac. But it cuts the other way too. For most computing tasks you could drop in a Mac OSX box and with minimal re-training for the new interface the user could carry on as before just as productive and happy as they ever were.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 29th 2004, 09:53 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:50:20 -0000

Actually what I was defending was not the Mac per se but my critisim of FanBoys 'ass outta luck' comment. I have a ingrained dislike for sweeping generlisations that are a) wrong, b) based on incomplete, incorrect or non-exisitant data and c) Not back up by a substanstive argument. Questioning them is kinda a reflex.

[quote[You can't discount the games that people play. I didn't say you could only play those Java games on a PC. I said they were somethign tha tyou had to take into account when deciding how much time is spent on various things for computers.[/quote]

Quite true, but unless said employee is seriously slacking the main use of that PC is office applications, not games. You're argument is kinda like saying my mobile phone is a gaming machine just because I play the occasional game of snake or battleships on it. It may well allow me to play that game, but it is by no means it's primary function.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 29th 2004, 09:53 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:12:28 -0000

Ah, fair enough :) Yeah I'd agree to that, users have a habit of sneaking games in when you're not looking ;)

Re: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 11:32 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:37:05 -0000

I have one of those right infront of me here in the office. I have another one at home as well as the wireless version for my main PC. They are the best keyboards I have ever used and once you get used to the split design you can never really go back to normal style keyboards again :)

Hope yours is a bit less grubby than mine tho, they're all well used ;)

Re: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 11:32 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:20:45 -0000

Your work won't provide you with a new one? Ouch :(

Over here that would be a health and saftey issue and they'd be obliged to buy you a ergo keyboard. That's certinaly how I got mine at work.

Re: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 13:58 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:00:30 -0000

Yeah Firefox is nice :) It even seems to have fixed this intermittent renedering problem I was getting in 0.7 on G-Blog where the left most table would expand to about 100% of the screen and all the content would be squished into about two columns over on the right :/

Re: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 18:54 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:21:42 -0000

I just orderd the entire series from Amazon the other day. Figured it was about time I finally read these books everyone raves about.

Re: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 18:54 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:25:02 -0000

I just orderd the entire series from Amazon the other day. Figured it was about time I finally read these books everyone raves about.

Re: carlo.log → Feb 10th 2004, 13:58 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:06:26 -0000

usually it's a case of the sites making use of propertary Microsoft extensions such as ActiveX components in order to make themselves work.

You'll find the same is true of a lot of buisness applications that claim to be 'browser based'. What they actually mean is that you can have any browser you want as long as it's IE 5.5 or above :p

Re: carlo.log → Feb 25th 2004, 12:59 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:18:22 -0000

That might have something to do with the fact that Apple produce one of Sony's major competitors in the personal digital movie space, the iPod. And that Apple have been more succesful in getting the iPod accepted than Sony has with MD throughout its life.

Want personal digital music on an Apple, buy an iPod :)

Re: carlo.log → Feb 25th 2004, 12:59 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:45:18 -0000

Ahhhh, but Sony and Apple don't care about that do they?

~whip~

Now get out there and be a good consumer and do your part to prevent the collapse of western society!

Re: carlo.log → Mar 5th 2004, 22:31 GMT

Xyleth — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 14:15:38 -0000

I'm being very quiet about this (given some of my friends feelings about Macs) but I have a 12 inch iBook on order due to be delivered next week. I am very much looking forward to it :) You comments and pointers on MacOS X have been most helpful Gossip.

Re: carlo.log → Mar 11th 2004, 18:48 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:03:53 -0000

My German may be somewhere between 'crap' and 'none' but doesn't that say '2 Extra Large Condoms' at the bottom there? o_O I mean we all knew you were the man G, no need to brag :D

Oh and wtf are Muller doing making Condoms!!!! They make youghts and other tasty desserts FFS!

Re: carlo.log → Mar 19th 2004, 10:56 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:32:18 -0000

Will there be a Mac Client for this?

Re: carlo.log → Mar 16th 2004, 08:56 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:47:30 -0000

Do we get a page that tells us who's stalking us?

Re: carlo.log → Mar 21st 2004, 13:00 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:59:52 -0000

Komodo is neat. It does PHP and Perl, Python and few others. I use it myself for my Perl coding needs but for PHP I tend to use the Maugma studio free edition as it seems to work better with PHP to my eye.

Re: carlo.log → May 11th 2004, 11:30 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 11 May 2004 17:48:22 -0000

~hands Gossip a paper bag~

And breathe.....breathe.....that's it....calm down.....

Re: carlo.log → Jun 2nd 2004, 10:10 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:10:09 -0000

Problem with EVE, for me, is that once the shineyness and novelty has worn off it gets dull real quick.

Your screenie says you have 27k skillpoints. Want to get out of that frigate into a cruiser so you can make some real money? You're going to need 800k ~ 1 million Skill points. Want a battleship? 6 million skill points plus.

It takes months to get those kind of skill levels. Litterally months. A single skill to level five can take three weeks or more even with all the learning skills maxed out (which in itself can take a month or more the achieve). In the mean time you're stuck doing the same old mission grind or mining. You can't effectively trade because you don't have the ISK. You can't fight because you don't have the skills to use the equipment. All you can do is mine and run agent missions and after the seven hundreth time of picking up some lazy bastards shopping and running it home for them you're about ready to throw your monitor out of the window.

Re: carlo.log → Jun 2nd 2004, 10:10 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:33:45 -0000

Well you have to look at what you need just to fly a ship and what you need to be effective in it.

You could probably fly a batttle ship with maybe 2 million skill points. But if you want to be any more use than a fart in a hurricane in it then you're talking six to eight million SPs.

Still, glad to hear you're enjoying it :)

Re: carlo.log → Jul 9th 2004, 09:01 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:24:27 -0000

o_O

Oh dear :(

Re: carlo.log → Of love, hate and management blogs

Xyleth — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:12:43 -0000

Sounds like a good idea Gossip, like enid one that I'd be interested in following.

In some ways your situation sounds a bit like the one I'm leaving behind at my (soon to be ex) employer. I hope things work out for you.

Re: carlo.log → Sep 9th 2004, 11:56 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:51:48 -0000

Gossip!! I can't look at things like that at work! Why didn't you _warn_ me :P

Nice though :D

Re: carlo.log → Sep 9th 2004, 14:20 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:48:24 -0000

aww that sucks Gossip :(

You're job hunting right now, right?

Re: carlo.log → Oct 19th 2004, 10:29 GMT

Xyleth — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:25:12 -0000

This is all to the best of my knowledge as I am not a tax accountant.

Fuel tax in the UK comprises of two components, Fuel duty and VAT.

Duty is (I think, I'm not clear on this point) fixed per litre by the goverment each budget and used to go up by about 3% above the rate of inflation a year under the fuel esclator introduced by the tories. This was scrapped in 2000 by Labour and duty is now set depending on what Mr Brown calls 'due budget process'.

VAT is charged on the combined price of fuel + duty at 17.5%

A typical litre of unleaded fuel in the UK will cost, on average, about 81p ish.

Of that 59.3p is tax (duty + VAT), about 18p goes to the refinery and the rest goes to the retailer.

Looking at it in gallons the cost is 371.9p per gallon which at current prices is roughly $6.70 USD. Of that $4.86 is tax which is by no means insignificant.

Here in the UK Diesel is usually around 2-3p more expensive than petrol per litre. However Diesel cars are becomming more and more common due to the introduction of new high performance turbo diesels that still return better mileage than petrol cars. However you need to be doing around 15,000 miles p.a. for the better mileage to even out the higher cost of Diesel vs Petrol.

Re: carlo.log → Oct 19th 2004, 10:29 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:57:17 -0000

lb is only for weight Zhan. The symbol is £ and the letters are GBP.

Re: carlo.log → Oct 19th 2004, 10:29 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:59:51 -0000

We'll do what we always do. We'll keep putting it off until a crisis happens then we'll have a jolly big war over it.

Oh...wait, we've already started doing that :p

Re: carlo.log → Oct 29th 2004, 19:05 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:01:07 -0000

[Quote]
The rest of the world, however, is finally learning how to stand on their own. We don't need a single super power anymore, the world is too diverse for that.
[Quote]

I think that hits the nail on the head. For the last 50/60 years we've been living in the shadow of WW2, one result of which was that the rest of the world looked to the US for leadership and support.

With the cold war over and several generations between us and WW2 the world is starting to learn to stand on its own again.

Another sign of this is the way Israel is viewed and treated by the international community. Once upon a time the critisim that Israel faces today on a regular basis would have been unthinkable. The memory of the horrors of WW2 were too close in our minds and people were simply too afraid to say anything. Now that is no longer true and people are beginning to wake up to the fact.

It's also one of the reasons I think that a more integrated EU is not only desireable but a requirement if Europe is going to stand in the future. The only way we are going to be able to deal with emerging powers like China, Asia and the probable re-emergence of Russia is together and without the US.

I think the next 50 years are going to be interesting because we are the first generation to grow up without the shadow of the Cold war or WW2 over our heads. We haven't grown up viewing the Americans as saviours who keep us free and safe and we've made peace with out past. As we grow older and move slowly into the positions of power in the world our outlook will be radically different to that of generations before us.

Re: carlo.log → Nov 3rd 2004, 16:40 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:00:42 -0000

Amen to that Mr G.

Time to start digging those bomb shelters.

You're quite right that the very worst part of the whole thing is that to Bush and co it will look like they've just got a massive 'thumbs up' from the American people. Hell they have! Which means more of the same, probably with greater fervour that last time. If I were in Iran or N. Korea, or anywhere else on Americas shit list for that matter, I would be very, very scared right now.

Elections roll around next year in the UK. I sincerly hope that we can replace Mr Blair with someone not quite so ready to bow to Bush's every whim.

Re: carlo.log → Nov 3rd 2004, 16:40 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:49:37 -0000

I saw a quote that described watching the US from abroad at the moment as 'like watching a good friend go totally batshit crazy'. I find it to be a rather good quote all told.

Re: carlo.log → Nov 3rd 2004, 16:40 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:07:12 -0000

Oh, and another thing while I am about it.

My Grandmother is an 86 year old Italian. She lived in Italy in the years preceeding WWII and witnessed first hand Mussolini's rise to power and his closeness to Hitler.

They also thought they were doing 'the right thing'. They also thought they were doing the world a favour. And not one of the citizens of Germany or Italy seriously realised what was happening to them until it was far too late to do anything about it. IN fact a lot of them thought that what they (their leaders) were doing was a really good thing and was doing wonders for their respective countries.

A couple of weeks ago I was discussing the current war in Iraq with my grandmother, just as something to talk about really. I made the comment that while I disagreed strongly with what Mr Blair had done in Iraq he really did have a rather good domestic track record. She replied that that's exaclty what everyone said about Mussolini before WW II started.

Made me think.

I'm not claiming that the US is going to turn into Nazi Germany (there goes Godwins law again). In fact I think that is highly unlikely to happen (I personal find it more likely that the US would tear itself apart in a civil war first). However there are some lines that a country wanting to call itself civilised cannot be allowed to cross.

Invading another soverign nation that has made no direct attack on your country nor poses a crediable threat is one of them.

You see the problem is once you invade one you'll ineveitably have to invade another, and then another and another and another. It's catching. You have to keep moving forwards to show the people back home that you're keeping the momentum up and not getting mired in a local guriella war.

Iraq is not, now, a free nation. It's an occupided territory of the United States of America. It may well become a free country in the future but I strongly suspect that it will be in spite of, not because of, the US's attemtempts to free it.

Right now Iraq is the largest recruiting banner for radical muslim terrorists that the radical leaders could ever have wished for. And it will stay that way because the US patently doesn't know how to win the peace in Iraq without resorting to massive levels of violence taht will just fan the flames higher.

If you don't believe me just watch the situation in Falluigha over the next few weeks now Bush doesn't have to worry about the election.

The US cannot win in Iraq because it does not know how to win. All it knows is how to hit people with a very big stick (as a side note I don't know how to win either, but then I'm not the one with the big stick).

So the US will be forced into invading somewhere else (possibly Iran, maybe not), in order to proove that it is actually going somewhere and not just getting American soliders killed for no good reason. Then things really will start to go all to hell.

The irony here, for me at least, is that I hope, nay I very nearly pray, that I'm wrong. Nothing would make me happier than to come back here in 4 years and have to say to Terp that he was right and I was wrong.

Anyone care to take odds on that happening? Anyone?

Re: carlo.log → Dec 13th 2004, 11:03 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:27:24 -0000

Tee hee,

Surreal, but funny. Brightened my day :)

Re: carlo.log → 2004 Revisited

Xyleth — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:48:07 -0000

Some of us do that already and we're only 24 :D

Good luck on the whole job front this year Gossip, you deserve a break.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 12th 2005, 12:13 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:57:49 -0000

Mini Mac! One for every room in the house :D

Congratulations Mrs. Gossip :) Hope your job switch plans pan out as well Gossip.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 12th 2005, 12:13 GMT

Xyleth — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:19:14 -0000

That's exactly the market they are aiming for. Someone with an aging late 90's early 2000's vintage PC by the likes of Dell or Gateway who bought an iPod and are now interested in Apple.

And who want a PC that just works

I never really thought that a Mini was for you tbh (you are more of a PowerMac person) but I'm just so bouncy about the whole concept I had to throw it in :D

Question is single or dual G5s?

Re: carlo.log → Jan 17th 2005, 09:06 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:27:01 -0000

Well I think anyone with a brain knew that George would take the election results as an attaboy. But woah. That is some scary, scary shit.

Re: carlo.log → Jan 31st 2005, 09:41 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:29:07 -0000

[Quote]
I'd trust a US miltary officer being quoted by name far over any reporter's opinion or anonymous source
[Quote]

Which isn't the same as saying he's unbiased.

Although I'd tend to agree with Terps. Military Officers tend to be a darn site more straight with the truth than Journilaists with an axe to grind.

The problem with the US and UK military these days is telling the real officers from the PR reps in uniform :(

Re: carlo.log → Jan 31st 2005, 09:41 GMT

Xyleth — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:57:32 -0000

Well now you've named him and given his position I'd be inclined to trust him more than an Army man on such matters. And not just because he's from the British Museum, but because he is an expert in his field and the Army man is not.

Also the Army, any army, isn't known for hiring 'experts' who use the 'no' word a lot.

Re: carlo.log → Jul 8th 2005, 18:12 GMT

Xyleth — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:28:13 -0000

???

Everything okay Gossip?

Re: carlo.log → Jul 28th 2005, 08:23 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:59:41 -0000

OMG! That's gotta be the funniest thing I've seen in ages.

Re: carlo.log → Aug 18th 2005, 07:46 GMT

Xyleth — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:19:47 -0000

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I cant wait to see what he does with pure earthen materials.

Maybe a neoprene gopher suit.
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Shhssss. No one tell Jam.

Re: carlo.log → About the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee

Xyleth — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:45:17 -0000

I've heard that, except in the version I've heard it's a couple of beers not coffee.

Re: carlo.log → 2006

Xyleth — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:20:41 -0000

And to you Gossip.