| Thursday,
January 6, 2000 Before I forget it:
Jerry:
If 20 people haven't mentioned it already, http://www.imdb.com
--The Internet Movie Database -- will search by title or actor among other
things and return details such as the year and most anything else about a
film.
Worth checking when a detail matters. Usually it
doesn't but somebody is always gonna come by to nitpick.
--Jim
-- Jim_Carr@compuserve.com
which is worth bookmarking. It says Green Berets was released in 1968.
From internal evidence in the picture, it was made earlier than that
because the political situation was different from what it was in 68 (the
year of the Tet Offensive, in which the Viet Cong committed suicide,
leaving the only insurgency North Vietnamese regulars and conscripts;
after Tet 1968 there was essentially no Viet Cong whatever). Hardly
matters. The key event was when John F. Kennedy allowed his Harvard
advisors to deliver a death sentence on President Diem. This sent at
least one message. It told everyone in the world that bringing the US in
as an ally might have fatal consequences to your head of state: be warned,
whoever wins a war in which the US is your ally, you, personally, probably
won't live through it unless you kowtow to the US President.
Most people don't know who Diem was. He had been the last premier of
the united Empire of Viet Nam, and it was he who sent Emperor Bao Dai into
exile. If you took a poll in Viet Nam, only two names were recognized in
the population on either side of the border: Ho Chi Minh, and Diem. After
his murder there were no recognizable leaders in South Viet Nam.
The Harvard meddlers who experimented with "nation building"
in a place they had never visited, or had seen from an airplane and the
European bar in the capital city, continue to teach government at Harvard,
and presumably to wash the blood off their hands. It will never come off,
of course.
In any event, some details don't matter a lot. At least not to me.
I have learned from the source that the "eval" editions of
Windows 2000, which expire in 120 days, are designed so that you can
upgrade to shrinkwrap when that comes out. One guesses that there will
also be a Service Pack about that time; there usually is even though 2000
has had more testing than any other product. That being the case I intend
to go with 2000 on all but the games machine here. Roland has been helping
me with the upgrade path to Windows 2000 Server: that turns out not to be
simpler, and indeed began with bringing up a new machine with NT 4 and all
its service packs. That was grim work for me although Bob Thompson says he
does it nearly weekly and finds it a lot easier. Anyway, I now have a
stable NTFS NT 4 system tied to the net, and now it will slowly move to
Windows 2000 and become a primary server here.
I also have both Palm V with OmniSky and Palm VII with its own internal
radio link modem. I expect to put in a couple of days working with both.
That all goes in the column.
There do seem to be things to do here.
If you want an irreverent history of millennialism try
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/succeed_fail1.html
which is a link in John Dvorak's Y2K commentary http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2416140,00.html
which is itself pretty good.
I should NEVER muck about with games as "tests" for the column
when there are deadlines. Sigh. But HOMEWORLD is quite good, if faster paced
than I would prefer and with no way I can see to slow it down. Ah well....
Good experiences so far with Palm V and Omnisky, but in fact you need a
Vx if you are going to do much with it and have big memory stuff as I do.
Go to
http://users.telerama.com/~rs7717/blacmail.html
but it may turn your stomach...
However, on that one, a good guy lawyer friend Tim Pleasant says:
OK, I went to the website and read it.
Notably absent are any case names, any citations to the reporters,
anything at all that would let you look up the case to verify it.
Heck, I can't even tell what state it's in.
Like most here, I hate the abuse of the legal system. In fact, I
suspect I hate it more than most. But I"m leery of anybody with
an obvious agenda that doesn't give you what you need to verify
any of the facts they cite. Heck, I'm leery of anybody who fills
up any posting anywhere on the Internet who uses CAPITAL LETTERS
like they're going out of style.
so I have a bit of a hard time with that one....especially since every
judge I know would have stomped on at least some of the abuses cited
in that web page.
And of course he's right. It is certainly not something I would have
found credible a few years ago. Of course before Waco I would have found
Waco incredible.
Then try
http://cnews.tribune.com/news/story/0,1162,sunsentinel-nation-49140,00.html
for another inanity. Will this never cease?
If you don't know about GEOCLOCK you ought to. And
then:
Jerry,
"Earth&;Sun" is a nice freeware
implementation of the same idea for the Palm at:
http://www.40-below.com/palm/
And there is a good shareware planetarium program
for the Palm at: http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets
Regards,
David C. Plunkett dcplunkt@ipa.net
In fact, in my other life with some connections to the intelligence
industry, we had mechanical versions of those clocks, and whether you had
one was a mark of how important you were. You may recall the Admiral had one
in the movie Hunt For Red October. The notion is of course that you can see
at a glance what is in sunlight. Now with the electronic as opposed to the
mechanical Earth/Sun clocks you can even put in the Keyhole and other
lookdown satellites, so you know what they can look at, and when they'll be
over daylight areas...
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