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Quote: Originally posted by Existence Except that the military pays squat unless you go into obscure areas .... If you're really smart, you should have scholarships. ... The military preys on minorities ... If you are trying to use the linked…
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Quote: Originally posted by segovius It's not as simple as that. Well, I'm not sure what you mean by that. My point was that the situation is not as simple as what had been proposed earlier in the thread (i.e., speaking of Sunni and Shi'a as …
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Quote: Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah The Ba'athists were a secular party. It was not an Islamic movement. Which is why Saddam's no. 2. Tariq Aziz, is a Christian. in reply to Originally posted by johnq The Ba'athists are responsible…
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Quote: Originally posted by torifile [B]It's a fukin' mess over there right now. So the US has now got the Sunnis against them - understandably so because they largely supported Hussein. And now they've got the Shiites in Karbala up in arms. Tell…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic Thanks skipjack!!! That sure was fast, good ol' AI! For future reference, I looked at my Microsoft Office CD. It looks like in order to get Equation Editor, you have to use another installer for the "Val…
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Quote: Originally posted by Aquatic I need to put equations in a Word doc for a physics lab and Word X isn't even as friendly as Word 5 with as I recall it "Equation editor" in Tools. Umm I went to Help and it said in Insert menu select Object..…
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Sounds like you have everyone figured out and categorized into little boxes. Quote: Originally posted by FaydRautha You were never rounded up and sent to death camps or used as cheap labour on plantations, because you were Christian. Well…
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Is this part of the original topic? As far as I understand, the banning of veils/headscarves in public institutions (i.e., universities) has been the practice in Turkey for quite some time, and Muslim women in that country just deal with it. It …
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Quote: Originally posted by Carol A And btw, are you saying an ice cream maker could be used to churn butter? Wow, that would be interesting. The heating part would have to be turned off though, right? You've obviously made ice cream. What fl…
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Quote: Originally posted by Carol A IIs homemade ice cream made with sugar added, or is it just plain cream? Ice cream is about 1/4 cup sugar per cup of liquid. The liquid is usually a mixture of whole milk and cream. All cream is not good…
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Quote: Originally posted by Gh0ztt Does anybody know if there is a way to connect a standard Cisco console cable (which usually attaches via a serial port adapter) to a PowerBook? I'd like to be able to use my PB for configuring routers, switches…
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Microsoft software is already practically a standard in the military. I was so upset when they made us migrate from WordPerfect to Word. The program was installed by the equivalent of the IT specialists, so I had to deal with that stupid Clippy al…
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This is another vote for MathMagic. I just use it to type homework when the TAs start complaining about small handwriting, so I won't argue its merits for submitting articles for publication. You can download a trial copy at At first glan…
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Quote: Originally posted by BRussell From what I've read, whoever wrote the Gospels borrowed liberally from the Old Testament in order to give Jesus a kind of credibility that would come from linking him to the past - in that case, David. But tha…
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I'm not running games, but running science/engineering applications with VPC on an iBook (G3, 800) is slow. However, I have a classmate who says running the same application on a PowerBook (G4, 1 GHz) is as fast as a typical Windows machine. (Keep…
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Quote: Originally posted by Scott My understanding of neutrons is that they do pretty much the same thing but with protons. Protons leaving the ionization trail which creates free radials. But I've forget some of this because it's been a long tim…
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Quote: Originally posted by GreggWSmith I want to use carbon copy and make a copy of my 15inch Al PB to my 15inch TiPB. How to I get the older PB to boot up as a spare HD? Look under the Help topic "Target Disk Mode". With your new comput…
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For the simple-minded (like me), there's Math+Magic (www.mathmagic.com), which is like the Equation Editor in MS Word and AppleWorks, but is easy to set up so that commonly used symbols/templates can be accessed with keyboard shortcuts. It doesn'…
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Quote: Originally posted by ast3r3x I don't get why frodo had to leave at the end of the movie? Among other things, part of the WitchKing's blade remained in his wound and would never heal. His life was difficult and his only relief was to l…
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Quote: Originally posted by Fangorn Okay, I have't seen anyone else mention this (maybe I read too fast?), but my favorite scene is where Eowyn takes out the Nazgul king. That whole sequence was straight from the book perfect--and awesome. …