The Hindenburg’s Smoking Lounge... Quote: The Hindenburg’s smoking room was thus a necessary concession to global travelers who could book a first-class cabin on the greatest ocean liner ever built (even to this day), the Normandie, at no more than half the price. Guillaume de Syon, author of a standard book on the zeppelins, points out that the room was extremely popular and travelers would otherwise have been oppressively bored, at least when no land was in sight. An open pack of premium cigarettes was thus a centerpiece of Hindenburg advertisements. Should the passengers have been worried? The hydrogen-buoyed airship had...
18-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Socialist Dependant Trampoline Bear DiesSocialist Dependant Trampoline Bear Dies Quote: Bears are by nature 99 percenters. They are not rich, they grab what they can where they can and they just want to get along and raise their bear families. Occasionally misfortune befalls them and a safety net is needed - as happened to our Boulder, Colorado bear, who found himself disadvantaged and stranded in a tree. Fortunately, the state had its safety net, in the form of a trampoline, standing by. When our Boulder bear finally gave up on life and dropped from the tree, he was saved by the government trampoline, albeit with a few bumps and...
18-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Images don't load completelyBefore I start explaining, here's an image: ... For some reason, Firefox doesn't load this image completely. I have tried refreshing the image many times over, clearing the cache using Tools > Clear Recent History > Clear Now - with everything tick marked, starting Firefox in safe mode, restarting my pc, but it doesn't load. This is not even the only image that has shown this problem. A few other images have done this in the past, with a common characteristic among them being a large size. Funny thing is that it doesn't work in Internet Explorer either. I've even tried using it in another pc...
16-05-2012 - mozillazine.org
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[X3AP] Teladi stock exchange doesnt count my cargo.Hi, I want to use the Teladi stock exchange in PTNI HQ to buy and sell Nividium shares. my ship has 1253 units of it and the supply number in the stock market is 1248. I thought that was odd but went and bought the shares anyway. when I ejected my Nividium (and even when out of the stock markets influence range) the supply and demand didnt change and so the index number stayed the same as it was when I bought the share while holding over 1200 units of Nividium in my cargo. Why isnt the stock exchange counting my Nividium cargo?( this only happened with Nividium for I tried the spacefuel before...
14-05-2012 - egosoft.com
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Firefox Process won't EndHello, I've been having an issue recently, where when I close Firefox, the process remains active and will only end when I physically kill the process from the task manager. I've no idea why this has started to happen. I've been reading all over the internet on how to resolve this and tried everything but it just won't end on it's own. I've also tried all different kinds of spyware scanners and my own Kaspersky suite and nothing was found at all, apart from some tracking cookies but everyone gets them... I'm at my wits end and have no idea where to go from here. I really need it to start...
16-05-2012 - mozillazine.org
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A cynical processLabor unions, like the United Nations, are all too often judged by what they are envisioned as being -- not by what they actually are or what they actually do. Quote: Many people, who do not look beyond the vision or the rhetoric to the reality, still think of labor unions as protectors of working people from their employers. And union bosses still employ that kind of rhetoric. However, someone once said, "When I speak I put on a mask, but when I act I must take it off." That mask has been coming off, more and more, especially during the Obama administration, and what is revealed underneath is...
13-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Dock Icon weirdnessLooking over in the Dock I have the blue SM icon, round and normal. If I get an email it turns into a generic OS X app icon with the little message counter superimposed on it. Been that way for a while, I keep thinking that an upgrade will normalise it, but it hasn't.
17-05-2012 - mozillazine.org
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Lost Parakeet Tells Police its AddressQuote: A pet parakeet was returned to its owner Wednesday after the lost bird told police its home address near Tokyo. The male bird had escaped early Sunday morning from its owner’s home in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, and remained at large before perching on the shoulder of a guest staying in a nearby hotel. Handed over to local police, the bird did not speak until Tuesday evening, when it blurted out the names of the city and district where its owner’s house is located, said a spokesman for the north Sagamihara police station. It then produced the home’s block and street number as...
16-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Where are XGL Updates ??? SOLVEDOk so after wondering for a week or so why there is no XGL updates, I ventured over to the HOWTO XGL page and accidently find out that there is a new overlay system "layman", that has NOT been mentioned in the forum. So i setup the "layman" structure and do an update and low and behold it is OLD XGL, xgl-coffee rev 152 and portage-xgl rev 182. So my question is. Does anyone know of an ebuild to get the latest XGL with Quinns patches? EDIT: coffee overlay is now updated _________________ Core i7 920 D0 | Asus P6T DLX | Patriot Viper 1600 6GB | Antec Quattro 850W Geforce 8800GTX OC2 768MB | Dell...
15-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Government Issues Study of a Study About StudiesThis Is Not a Joke: Government Issues Study of a Study About Studies Quote: The Pentagon was inundated with so many studies in 2010 that it commissioned a study to determined how much it cost to produce all those studies. Now the Government Accountability Office has reviewed the Pentagon’s study and concluded in a report this week that it’s a flop. The study of a study of studies began in 2010 when Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained that his department was “awash in taskings for reports and studies.” He wanted to know how much they cost. Two years later, the Pentagon review is still...
12-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Time: As Small a President as He Can BeQuote: Woodrow Wilson once said the President "is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can." In his re-election bid, President Obama is determined to be as small as he can be. He's gone from vaporous uplift in 2008 to dreary minutiae in 2012. Listening to him on the stump, you would have no idea that the economy is sunk in a subpar recovery and the nation's balance sheet is deep in the red, let alone that the welfare state is in crisis throughout the Western world. The President's approach amounts to fiddling while Athens burns, or at least defaults. There is no...
17-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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Study: CEO Pay Increased 127 Times Faster Than Worker Pay Ov... Quote: From 1978 to 2011, CEO compensation increased more than 725 percent, a rise substantially greater than stock market growth and the painfully slow 5.7 percent growth in worker compensation over the same period.
18-05-2012 - gentoo.org
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