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On Thu, 13 May 2004 07:54:03 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote: Well, PNG's better than both - unencumbered by any patents and any browser newer than 3 or 4 years old ought to be able to render it fine. ....PNG has one benefit: it allows for transparency in high-res images. However, it's damn near uncompressable, and I've found that just simply doing a JPG with a border that matches the background is far better looking than either a transparent GIF or a PNG. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: "Henry Spencer" wrote in message ... I would be very surprised if TSA's airport-security screeners are truly race/color-blind. I should hope they are not. Being politically correct and searching the bloomers of retirees while going out of the way to even look at someone who fits the historical profile is hurting security. There have been some successful retiree drug smugglers. Being white, elderly,respectable looking folks, border inspectors were more likely to wave their Winnabegos on through. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2004 11:40:09 -0400, "Scott Hedrick" wrote: "Nicholas Fitzpatrick" babbled At least I have always used legitimate e-mail addresses. ...No, you changed it slightly three times, because that's how many times I have you in my killfile, you twit. I have used a valid e-mail address and my full name on every post I have made. If your killfile software can't handle minor address variations that all resolve to the same IP, that is not my problem. Personally, I don't know how to e-mail you ... it isn't obvious to me, from your e-mail address. Though if I ever meet an 8-year old who needs some new insults, I'm sure I can figure out how to contact you somehow. ... And finally, if you are going to killfile me, please do so, and shut up about it ... You have (again) proven yourself for what you are, a narrow-minded intolerant bigot. Please go somewhere else and play. Nick |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... I always wanted to see them take on the Italians; that could be hilarious. They did, or rather, the Italians, sensing blood, declared war on June 10, 1940, and invaded the French Riveria. Another reason why the Italians were actually a detriment to the Axis in WWII. (By declaring war, they accomplished nothing but getting the British involved in North Africa, which sucked away German resources and gave the British practice in actually winning.) One could argue, given that the Germans had to bail them out in the Balkans, and ended up supplying the garrisons, that the Germans would have done better with the Italians neutral. Time to break out one of my more serious wargames on the subject and see if that is indeed the case... I dunno -- the invasion of Italy cost the Allied forces many months and many tens of thousands of lives. Not to mention materiel such as fuel and ammunition. I would think that, by forcing the Allies to slog through Italy from 1942-44, Germany and the Axis countries possibly delayed the eventual invasion of Europe via France by as much as a year. (Granted, the invasion might still have had to wait until June of '44 just to assemble the mass of warmaking machinery and the vehicles to deliver it that was required for a successful invasion.) Doug |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: "Nicholas Fitzpatrick" wrote in message ... In article , Scott Hedrick wrote: Well, it sure turned out that the French were doing business there illegally, along with the Germans and the Russians. No wonder they fought against enforcing UN sanctions- they had been violating them the whole time. I haven't seen much discussion of this in the media Of course not- it supports Bush. Especially Fox. I wish Rupert would cut Bush some slack. -- Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html |
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 15:03:35 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote: However, gender-based discrimination IS acceptable if gender is a specific, justifiable job requirement - a waitress at "Hooters" for example (and yes, there has been federal court litigation about working for "Hooters"). ....Not all of it has gone in Hooter's favor. Some of those suits over gals being either fired or denied employment because their tits weren't big enough - or, in one case, Hooter's refusing to employ women whose tits were big enough because they were fake - went against Hooter's and they were forced to either hire the flat-chested ones or pay settlements. It varied from state to state, and has never gotten to the Federal court level, IIRC. ....On the other hand, it has been successfully used to keep transvestites out of posing as women in strip clubs where they're not wanted by either customers or the other dancers, but not against transsexuals who've undergone the full plumbing realignment. There's some clubs that do hire transvestites who've undergone all the surgery except for the neutering, but they're less than 1% of the total clubs in the country. However, one particular case was closed along these lines: Judge: "Er...'Ma'am', do you still have male genitalia?" Tranny: "Of course! The reason I'm stripping is to earn the money to have the surgery and convert myself into a woman! The manager claims I'm packing too much meat, and everyone can see and is supposedly getting disgusted!" Judge: "Well, I can sympathize, but in this case the discrimination isn't unjustified, as this picture of you dancing shows clearly that their concerns aren't unwarranted. I'm siding with the club owners and managers, but will make it clear that once you've completed your 'change', they need to consider hiring you back." ....The tranny appealed, and it got tossed out. Last I heard on this one, some customer got wind of what happened, and paid for the surgery, and s/he got hired back as the judge promised. Go figure. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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Doug... wrote: I would think that, by forcing the Allies to slog through Italy from 1942-44, Germany and the Axis countries possibly delayed the eventual invasion of Europe via France by as much as a year. (Granted, the invasion might still have had to wait until June of '44 just to assemble the mass of warmaking machinery and the vehicles to deliver it that was required for a successful invasion.) Italy gave us a base from which to operate B-17s and B-24s against the Axis oil fields, like Ploesti- which would have been out of range from Britain. My dad's B-24 squadron was in on some of the Ploesti strikes. Lack of oil that was one of the main things that brought Germany to it's knees in the later war period, so the Italian invasion was definitely worth it. Pat |
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In article ,
says... Doug... wrote: I would think that, by forcing the Allies to slog through Italy from 1942-44, Germany and the Axis countries possibly delayed the eventual invasion of Europe via France by as much as a year. (Granted, the invasion might still have had to wait until June of '44 just to assemble the mass of warmaking machinery and the vehicles to deliver it that was required for a successful invasion.) Italy gave us a base from which to operate B-17s and B-24s against the Axis oil fields, like Ploesti- which would have been out of range from Britain. My dad's B-24 squadron was in on some of the Ploesti strikes. Lack of oil that was one of the main things that brought Germany to it's knees in the later war period, so the Italian invasion was definitely worth it. Yeah, very true. Altough the Allies were pretty good at finding and holding the staging bases they needed as the war progressed. If they didn't have Italy to stage air strikes from, they likely would have found, taken and built air bases on some other piece(s) of real estate they could have held for long enough to get the job done. My Dad's B-17 squadron was in on a lot of the air strikes into Italy itself, during the land campaign in "the Boot" in 1943, and he flew out of England. A lot of Europe was within range of the British bases, actually... Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), my Dad was one of the many fliers who contracted pneumonia from the extreme cold encountered on the unpressurized B-17s during their high-altitude bombing missions, and ended up stateside before his tour was completed. Since they had *very* little in the way of antibiotics at the time, he was treated with sulfa drugs. The high fever and the sulfa resulted in all his hair falling out, and when it came back in, he was completely gray at the temples. At age 19. Still, at least he survived the war and lived to the ripe old age of 74. His older brother was killed at age 19 in a car accident, driving back to base after his last leave before shipping out. I never knew my uncle. So, as a general comment, I don't want anyone to think I don't know from personal experience what war can do to people. I've had a lot of exposure to what it did to my Dad. Doug |
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