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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:09:41 -0500, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire.
dot com wrote: January 16, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, This is the issue that is important to me. But some people say the opposite. I'd like to be able to read from my screen as easily as I can from paper. I also tend to sit too close (my eyes are very sharp at close range, with no glasses). I prefer to read with no glasses. Will my fussy needs be satisfied better by LCD by the time they are cheap? This is something you're going to have to determine on your own. I usually sit about 40 ~ 50 cm from the screen and I still prefer CRT's for their smaller dot pitch. Also I prefer resolutions around 1152X864 or 1280X1024. Many LCD's have much higher optimal resolutions. Using anything but the optimal setting usually results in even worse image quality. John |
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:59:52 -0500, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire.
dot com wrote: January 16, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, I've always been confused by the ability of the right to present itself as fiscally responsible. People will believe almost anything. Especially if it is dressed up with psuedo-patriotic dogma. Here in the US we've had Ronny, Dubya & Dubya pounding the ol' war drums at every opportunity. After 18 years of Republican dominion, the paranoia that was supposed to have ended with the Cold War is back and more insidious than ever. Right wing administrations have consistently set new records in deficit spending, not only in USA but Canada (Mulroney Conservative administration before 1995), and in the UK, the Thatcher government (might be wrong on this one). Buying office by greasing the businesses that support them of course. Then the Democrats or whatever they're calling themselves have to come around and pick up the pieces, and after they've spent a decade or more balancing the books, they get portrayed in the media (owned by right wing interests hmm??) as corrupt or inept or some such and booted out, so the public can go from the skillet to the fire, again. I think you're quite right about the media. A strange dichotomy of conservative owners and liberal writers. Why do people keep falling for it? Too dumbed-down to think? Too uneducated? Certainly here in America. This is another strange dichotomy in that America has about 90% of the best coleges in the world and yet our public education system for grades k~12 is a complete shambles. (Canada keeps flirting with the secession of about a third of the country - Quebec. Talk about rolling the dice at election time.) One thing I can say from my experience with numerous Candians is that they are far more polite, reasonable and probably better education than than the majority of Americans. John |
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On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:02:04 GMT, no_name
wrote: Nicholas O. Lindan wrote: o Republicans in turn are afraid of appearing cold hearted and so pass large increases in social programs Specifics? I'm not sure about how social their pork-barrel spending is but here's a couple of links you might find enlightening. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed050202b.cfm http://www.boston.com/news/globe/edi...n_pork_barrel/ John McCain is also quoted stating if "'the combination of war, record deficits, and the largest public debt in the country's history" can't break lawmakers' addiction to spending, he asked, what can? ''It would seem that this Congress can weather any storm thrown at it, as long as we have our pork life-saver to cling to." http://www.freedomworks.org/informed...p?issue_id=925 In 2001 the Republican controlled "Congress added an all-time high of 7,803 pork-barrel earmarks worth about $15 billion to the 13 appropriations bills. Included among these nearly 8,000 earmarks were projects such as: Therapeutic Horseback Riding in Apple Valley, California ($150,000); The recovery of Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse ($500,000); and $100,000 for the Alabama Quail Trail A tattoo removal program in San Luis Obispo County, California ($50,000)" Note that all of these monies are federal subsidies from taxes collected nationally. Why the citizens of Florida would have to pay "$223 million for a mile-long bridge linking an island with 50 residents to the town of Ketchikan (Alaska) on the mainland." is beyond me. John |
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:40:49 -0500, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire.
dot com wrote: I think Nicholas really has it when he points out the problem is that some people desire the position of politician, and they are willing to lie to get there, and even more willing to lie and cheat to stay there. I think this transcends anything else about politics or public policy. IMO the sad thing about most politicians is that they believe their own lies. john |
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John wrote: IMO the sad thing about most politicians is that they believe their own lies. They are being paid to. In the early days people would have banded together pulled some of these sorry asses out of their dwellings late at night, tarred and feathered them and run them out of town on a rail. Or worse. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 greg_____photo(dot)com |
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John wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:40:49 -0500, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote: I think Nicholas really has it when he points out the problem is that some people desire the position of politician, and they are willing to lie to get there, and even more willing to lie and cheat to stay there. I think this transcends anything else about politics or public policy. IMO the sad thing about most politicians is that they believe their own lies. john It's not just sad, it's dangerous. Remember the neo-cons expected grateful Iraqis to strew flowers in the path of American "liberators". Of course the other problem there was their definition of liberation; one Lenin would have been immediately comfortable with. |
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