Thanks to all!

Here's an idea: someone start a citizens' action group and everybody send money to support it and then let's do this to all of the injustices that voted for this, again and again and again, no matter where they move!

a private citizen has raised enough interest and money to hire a developer, seize the judge's property, and build a hotel on it "in the best interest for the town's economy and business." There's poetic justice for you. Could use a lot more of that in this ol' world.

By the way, I have not so far found any historic evidence that the US Army or our government participated in the "smallpox eradication program," but as our own nation's laws, traditions, culture, personalities and attitudes were descended directly and primarily from the British, the French, etc., it is barely more than common sense to think that they probably did.

Sorry, History Nut, you have to give some proof of that for I've recently learned that that is a myth started in the early '90's by none other than Ward Churchill. People wanted to believe it so they did and managed to 'discover' many cases through conjecture. Google it. Why don't you Google it? "Captain Simeon Ecuyer had bought time by sending smallpox-infected blankets and handkerchiefs to the Indians surrounding the fort -- an early example of biological warfare -- which started an epidemic among them. Amherst himself had encouraged this tactic in a letter to Ecuyer." -- Carl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian [NY: Facts on File, 1985] Historian Francis Parkman, in his book The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada [Boston: Little, Brown, 1886] refers to a postscript in an earlier letter from Jeffery Amherst to Bouquet wondering whether smallpox could not be spread among the Indians: Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians? We must on this occasion use every stratagem in our power to reduce them. [Vol. II, p. 39 (6th edition)] "... we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect." -- Journal of William Trent And there appear to be plenty of other historic references supporting the contention that smallpox was considered to be a weapon against Native Americans. Further, Russell Means (an Oglala Lakota, and the first national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM)) was writing about this "myth started in the early '90's by none other than Ward Churchill" in his biography back in 1991, apparently before Ward Churchill ever suggested the same.

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet. > Status: False. Good for you, bonni. And anyone who's looked into it will tell you Gore most definitely was one of the primary movers in Washington when it came to the Internet. He was supporting the funding and the commercialization of the Internet when the majority of Americans didn't know there was such a thing. And, in fact, as we know it today, there wasn't. Gore was once the most visible, most prominent and most outspoken leader in Congress on Internet issues like data transmission and computing power, and those efforts certainly played a very important role in helping to create the Internet we know today. Now if we could just get certain unspecified folks to recognize all the other lies they're being told on a daily basis ...

Don't all of you remember ex VP Al Gore stating that he "invented the Internet"? Only thing is, he never really said that.

thanks for the succinct description, MaryK sometimes i'm a goof

i know bruce personally, and this doesn't look at all like him to me. sorry.

ah shucks. i thought this thread was going to be about god and satan, christians and pagans, and who's going to the 7th circle of hell and all that kind of seriously silly and sillily serious stuff ...

i am under the impression you still have to manually fit the clothing (using magnets or whatever) onto the desired figure before converting it with WW. is that right?

Why, exactly, should this be something I need to consider? I didn't do it. No one alive today (that I know of) did it, and the sane among us refuse to carry the guilt of the sins of our fathers. And do you also refuse to do or say anything about today's atrocities? It isn't just about doing. It's also about not doing. It isn't just about then. It's about now. (But all this free expression -- er, I mean irresponsible expression -- has got to end soon ... where's the padlock?)

i do believe 2 gig is the XP or 32-bit limit per application as for having more ram than that, anyone tried setting up a ram disk? i haven't done this in several years, but it used to be that the performance of applications that were disk i/o intensive (defiitely think Poser qualifies) benefited plenty from that kind of set up

good stuff. too bad we can't get all pc renderers and modelers to sign a petition to microsoft demanding all future versions of windows include a 'Maximum Raw Performance' button. ;*) unfortunately, not only hardware, but basic needs even among 'power posers' will vary ...

it's a 'feature' but seriously, this sounds similar to some other error report i saw somewhere. unfortunately, don't remember now.