This is scaring me again now. Dick (hmm appropriate name) doesn't seem to be concerned with the general consensus that people don't want a war on Iraq and an "attack" seems more and more likely, in my opinion at least.

I so don't like the way the future of an entire country (and possibly several other countries) lies in the hands of just some guy and his colleagues. Let's face it, the White House is not some super power with unparralled intelligence and skill, it is just an organization made up of normal people like you and me (well I'm a little above average but I won't go into that now).

Nostradamus may not be as wrong as people thought. That whole thing about the world ending in 2000 may just be a little delayed :)

I think Mr Bush is confusing Saddam with Osama and thinks he can just do what they did in Afghanistan and bomb their way to success, welp that won't really work with Saddam and you'll be getting a whole load of bombs right back atcha.

If anyone wants me, I'll be on a plane to Greenland, I think I should be fairly safe there.

Stay away from the whale bubbler porridge, it will get you every time.


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bubbler?

Did you mean blubber?

Try saying blubber with a mouth full of it.


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But you were typing it

I am using via voice.


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LMAO!

Honestly?

I have Via Voice, I haven't used it for years but it was so funny (and yet embarassing).

It never spelt things right.

It used to be really bad (and funny). But it has come a long way.


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Are you using it now Paul? hehehe

"spelt" = spelled LMAO



I had to do it....

Had it for my ipaq, junked it. I used to try to tell it to read my email and I would sit in a public place talking to this PDA saying... "READ EMAIL" .... "READ EMAIL".... "READ EMAIL"... then finally... " #$%@%$@$%" - and it woud reply, "Pardon me? Please speak clearly and loudly."

Must of looked pretty silly (I wanted to walk and listen to documents but I couldn't find the manual "read button" so I had to tell it to read things)

Any better for the desktop? I heard you spend more of your time training those things than using em.

I think the software is catching up with the faster processors etc.

Its like OCR used to take more time learning that it was worth, speech recognition is coming along. Look at Apples handwritting technology now with Inkwell compared to what it was on the old Apple Newton.

The only thing they can't seem to fix is how silly you look talking to your computer!


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Are you using it now Paul? hehehe

"spelt" = spelled LMAO
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Actually spelt is fine :)

Dictionary:

Spelt: past and past part of spell

spelled isn't in the dictionary.

Yep... try using it with a Texas accent. I installed it (it came with Lotus SmartSuite many years ago) on my P133 - it didn't exactly perform to my expectations.

I am sorry....I didn't know you were talking about wheat!

Main Entry: spell
Pronunciation: 'spel
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): spelled /'speld, 'spelt/; spell·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French espeller, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English spell talk
Date: 14th century
transitive senses
1 : to read slowly and with difficulty -- often used with out
2 : to find out by study : come to understand -- often used with out <it requires some pains to spell out those decorations -- F. J. Mather>
3 a (1) : to name the letters of in order; also : to write or print the letters of in order (2) : to write or print the letters of in a particular way <you can spell it either way> <I spelled it wrong> b : to make up (a word) <what word do these letters spell> c : WRITE 1b <catnip is spelled as one word>
4 : to add up to : MEAN <crop failure was likely to spell stark famine -- Stringfellow Barr>
intransitive senses : to form words with letters <teach children to spell>; also : to spell words in a certain way <spells the way he speaks>


Main Entry: spelt
Pronunciation: 'spelt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin spelta, of Germanic origin; perhaps akin to Middle High German spelte split piece of wood, Old High German spaltan to split -- more at SPLIT
Date: before 12th century
: a wheat (Triticum aestivum spelta) with lax spikes and spikelets containing two light red kernels

Like I said, spelled isn't in my English Oxford dictionary with 1700 pages ;)

It goes from spell-checker to speller

voice recognition and ocr software all have a basic flaw.

The programmers.

Honestly, it's not even their fault.

Well, let's think a bit in Perl for a sec here.

I bet it's like a a reg-ex vs. a good reg-ex replacement.
It catches at some times and at others it don't.

The way the programs pick out the words work on some kind of complicated replacement system. It's just to bad that no matter how many grammar books they will consult these programs will always be that tad bit off.

I was discussing with a friend about this and figured that verbs (an example) normally act as images. Now if those images could be translated rather than the straight verb you'd be that much closer to a better translation.

So, yeah, it's an image ... yeah, I know it's a mental image that you form. But now, if we had linguists who would translate verb phrases and such just a tad differently I bet this would work.

ie ... hard ....

how many images did you come up with ?

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I see on the news that US/British war planes bombed 240 miles west of Bhagdad yesterday.

That was just the 35th bombing raid on Iraqi targets this year. And they are doing that since more than 10 years.

Yeah but it has more releveance at the moment. I wouldn't want to get Saddam pissed.

If a person is in power over an entire country and threatens the whole world enough where people become scared of him and what he might do (like Hittler for instance), isn't it better to take him out of power before we end up worse off then we are now? What if he gets a wild hair one day and decides to use one of his massive weapons? We can't let terror and terrorists make us scared to live our lives the way we choose to live them. Saddam should have been removed from power during the Gulf War IMO.

Sean

These 'monsters' are now haunting those who created them. I'm personally more scared of war and warmongering.


I agree, but it's obvious that there were reasons not to oust him. Check and balance in the Middle East.

Ugh don't bring Britain into this!!!

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Iraq portrayed Washington as the aggressor and said the United States and Britain were spreading lies about Iraq's capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't want my sister getting bombed in London!!


(although having said that she's in St. Lucia at the moment )

I'm afraid it's too late...

"When the shooting starts..."

- Mike
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I want to know why camp david is so popular, does he give sexual favors?

Ewww! Don't even want to picture that.

I didn't ask you to picture it, so maybe subconsciously you wanted to...bahahaha

Ack! I'm blind! I'm blind!

It depends the perspective within which Terrorism is being Viewed and interpretted.

Why is USA defending the biggest ever Corporate Terrorism where many innocent lives were lost (if thats the way terrorism and terrorist activity is defined) the Ex CEO of UCC India (Anderson if thats what his name was) despite the glaring fact that it was indeed an act of new form of Terrorism .... Corporate Terrorism.

Or probably any form of violence which is classified as Terrorist Activity on the grounds of "Color Of The Skin" of the sufferer then probably there is no way one can ever classify terrorism of US as Terrorism. Just go about mis hit bombings as an adventurous excercise and shamelesslely claim that " We Want ......."

It's surprising to find that whenever there is recession US engages in some form of so called "WAR" and all the wars have been fought on Foreign Soil. History they say is often repeated. Probably another Bitter Tasting Vietnam Eperience Is there in the embryonic stage.......

BlM

That's probably because most wars the US gets involved with are somebody else's war and are not started by the US. (North-Vietnam vs. South Vietnam / North Korea vs. South Korea / Iraq vs. Kuwait, etc.) When the US takes the initiative to help other countries from being attached, people say that the US is being a "bully", but when they wait to get involved (WWII after the Pearl Harbor attach), people say the US didn't help when they needed them. All I know is, talk down about the US all you want, but if it wasn't for the US, half the world would be speaking German right now...

Sean

Well Well... Thats a news to me.
Sad was a blue eyed boy of ummmmm?
OBL Was a state guest of ..... in his anti ussr tirade?

The problem with US is the very bad habbit of not letting anyone live in Peace and then pretend to be saviour of Peace and Humanity and EnvironMent etc etc. Why is Anderson not tried in US courts or why is he not handed over for trial for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy ?

As on the German issue.... What is world experiencing ..... coversion to Christianity in developing countries.

Its all a question of adopting double standards and the problem is that US thinks that it is sanctified by God....a self conceived one though......

Look how threatening one of the US big guns got at Doha WTO round.....WTO is another epicenter of Terrorism (Economic Terrorism) where Pepsi and Coke can coexist but all the local players are pushed out becuase they get their bottles destroyed....

Its all a question of US ambition of having 1/3 of world population rule 2/3 rd of population and then talk about Democracy......

As for on the German issue... its better to have a German (and not a pseudo dictator) soeaking world. What wrong did Hitler do? He went after Jews..... What is Bush &Co doing or so to say US &Co doing going after Muslims?

Problem is that US is one country which has failed in all Management Skills where all the Blue Eyed Boys turned into Frankenstien Monsters and who suffers.... the inocent citizens (and thats what terrorism is all about)....

BlM

Ah, I'm not even going to bother replying to those ramblings...

Sounds a little too much like Alex Jones.

But u have already replied.....

Sometimes silence can get very Loud....

Who paid the price for this Silence

BlM

Isn't silence the appropriate response to a troll?

Isn't OBL Silent for few months now? Its an erstwhile "Freindly Dwarf" turned "Mischievous Giant" And That Transformation itself was fuelled by ...?

That last post really did sound like something Osama would say :)

Would you mind letting me capture you as I could really do with the $25 million

Is that like "the sound of one hand clapping" or something, or maybe a wee bit o' Burns?

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as inthers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion;
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!

Could you translate that to American English? I got lost after the second sentance.

Philip
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