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This step-by-step article describes how to prepare to upgrade from Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition to Microsoft Windows XP. The information in this article may be useful to help you avoid some common upgrade-related issues.
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Verify the system requirementsYour computer must meet the following hardware requirements:
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Professional
Verify program compatibilityFor information about program compatibility and about migrating from Windows Millennium Edition or Windows 98, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Verify hardware compatibilityFor information about compatible hardware for Windows XP, view the Windows Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). This list is a compilation of computers and computer hardware that have been extensively tested with Windows for stability and compatibility. Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) uses the HCL to determine if a computer is supported for use with Windows. To view the latest HCL, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Run the Windows XP Upgrade AdvisorYou can use the Microsoft Windows XP Upgrade Advisor tool to audit the current status of your computer and to receive a report of known hardware and software compatibility issues (based on Microsoft testing before release). If you are concerned about the results of the report, do not upgrade until these concerns are resolved. Contact your hardware or software manufacturer for updates that make the products run correctly on Windows XP.
If you are considering an upgrade to Windows XP Home Edition or to Windows XP Professional, and you do not have a Windows XP CD-ROM, you can download the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site, and then click Download the Upgrade Advisor:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/advisor.mspxIf you start the Windows XP Setup program to start the upgrade while you are running another operating system, Windows XP automatically runs the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor. However, in this case the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor generates a limited report that only describes the blocking issues, not the whole report. If you want to create the full report (that is saved as the Upgrade.txt file) without upgrading, run the winnt32 /checkupgradeonly command from the I386 folder on the Windows XP CD-ROM.
Note If you select Dynamic Update when you run the winnt32 /checkupgradeonly command, the appropriate drivers and fixes are downloaded. Therefore, when you run the upgrade and select Dynamic Update (recommended), you do not have to download the drivers again.
To run the winnt32 /checkupgradeonly command:
To look for software upgrades that may be available, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://update.microsoft.comAlso, contact your software manufacturers for any upgrade packs that may be available. If a program requires an upgrade pack to run with Windows XP, you must have the upgrade pack during the upgrade. If it is not available, you may have to reinstall the program after you upgrade to Windows XP.
For additional information about upgrade packs, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
231418Look in the software listing for software that may have to be reinstalled after the upgrade or for software that requires an upgrade before it can work with Windows XP. You may want to determine if there are any updates or service packs that are available for the software before you start the upgrade. If you have these updates available during the upgrade, the software may work correctly with Windows XP. Additionally, if you are not sure about the compatibility of particular software, we recommend that you remove the software before you upgrade the operating system because you may not be able to correctly remove it after you upgrade to Windows XP.
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/231418/ )Specifying additional upgrade packs when upgrading from Windows 95/98 to Windows 2000
Note If your computer has one or more compressed drives or one or more programs or services are running, the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor or a Windows XP upgrade may not work.
The Dynamic Update featureWindows XP Setup includes the Dynamic Update feature. Dynamic Update downloads and uses critical content to enhance the Windows XP Setup program. If the computer can connect to the Internet while the Windows XP Setup program is running, Dynamic Update prompts you to download critical content. You can skip Dynamic Update, but we strongly recommend that you do not skip it.
For additional information about Dynamic Update, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/311220/ )Description of the Dynamic Update feature in Windows XP Setup
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/314582/ )List of fixes that are included in the Windows XP Dynamic Update 1.2 package
Quit any programs that are runningTo remove potential problems with services and programs that are running, use of one of the following options:
For additional information about how to access your CD-ROM drive in safe mode, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/194846/ )How to make your CD-ROM drive accessible in safe mode
Back up your computerWarning Windows XP has a removal option. However, you cannot remove Windows XP after the upgrade if you upgraded from Windows 2000 Professional, or if the file system was changed to the NTFS file system.
Back up your computer contents, including all your data, before you start the upgrade. With this backup, you can easily restore your data files if you decide to reinstall your previous operating system.
For additional information about how to make a backup of your Windows 98-based or Windows Millennium Edition-based computer, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/188575/ )How to back up to removable media device using Microsoft Backup
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/182624/ )Microsoft Backup system requirements for Windows 98
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/187526/ )How to restore Windows 98 from a full system backup
Upgrade the computer BIOSBefore you start the upgrade, obtain and install the latest basic input output system (BIOS) upgrade for your computer from the computer manufacturer. If you update the BIOS after you upgrade the computer, you may have to reinstall Windows XP to take advantage of features such as Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support in the BIOS. Update the firmware in all devices before you start the upgrade if you can.
Warning If you upgrade or flash the BIOS with an incorrect version for your specific motherboard, you can severely damage the motherboard. Therefore, do not work with the BIOS of your computer unless you are very familiar with how to do this, or you have obtained thorough instructions about how to safely do so.
For information about hardware and BIOS updates, visit the following third-party Web site:
http://www.wimsbios.com/Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.
Turn off power managementMake sure that power management is turned off in Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition in the Power tool in Control Panel. To turn off Power Management:
Remove or disable antivirus softwareRemove or disable any antivirus software that is running before you start the upgrade. Also turn off any hardware antivirus features that are running. For example, the BIOS in some computers contains antivirus functionality.
In some cases, Windows XP Setup turns off antivirus software during the upgrade, but in other cases, you must turn off the software first. Most antivirus software must be updated to work correctly with Windows XP. For more information about how to disable your antivirus software, see the documentation or online help.
Uncompress any compressed drivesWindows XP works only with the compression that is included with NTFS. You must first uncompress any drives that are compressed with DoubleSpace, DriveSpace, or any other drive compression software. If you do not uncompress a drive, the data on the drive is not available in Windows XP. The data on the drive is still intact, but it is not available in Windows XP. To be able to use the data on the compressed drive, you must dual-boot with the operating system that supports the compression method. If drive C is compressed, you cannot install Windows XP. If you try to run the upgrade or the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor report, you may receive the following error message:
For additional information about how to uncompress compressed drives, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Windows is installed on a Drivespace, Doublespace, or other compressed drive. XP does not support compressed drives. You must uncompress before upgrade.
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/96250/ )How to remove DoubleSpace and preserve your files
Run ScandiskRun the Scandisk.exe tool on all your drives before you start the upgrade. Scandisk helps prevent disk errors or file-copy errors while the Setup program is running and helps prevent extra computer restarts during the upgrade that may cause the Setup program to take longer to complete. Include a surface scan to make sure that there is not a bad sector that prevents the correct reading of a part of the drive. Because a large number of files are being read from the disk, problems with file or folder damage or bad portions on the drive can cause issues while the upgrade or the Windows XP Upgrade Advisor is running.
For additional information about using the Scandisk tool, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/186365/ )Description of ScanDisk for Windows (Scandskw.exe) in Windows 98/Me
Run ScanregRun Scanreg.exe in Windows 98 to examine the registry for errors. Although the registry is scanned for errors automatically every time that Windows 98 starts, Scanreg may help clean up some registry damage that may have occurred. The Windows XP Setup program examines the registry during the upgrade. Therefore, damaged entries can cause problems.
For additional information about Scanreg.exe, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/183887/ )Description of the Windows Registry Checker tool (Scanreg.exe)
Remove temporary filesYou do not have to remove your temporary files. However, it may be helpful to do this. To remove your temporary files:
This article refers to an old version of Windows. If you need help about how to install, reinstall, or uninstall Windows, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
LinksFor more information about operating systems that you can upgrade to Windows XP, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/upgrading/matrix.mspxFor information about how upgrade to Windows XP Professional, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Microsoft Knowledge Base articlesFor additional information about a list of operating systems that you can upgrade to Windows XP, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/292607/ )Windows XP supported upgrade paths
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/283253/ )How to upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition profiles to Windows XP domain user profiles
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/310064/ )How to troubleshoot Windows XP Setup problems when you upgrade from Windows 98 or Windows Me
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/315334/ )'D:\i386\win9xupg\w95upg.dll' error message when you attempt to upgrade to Windows XP
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/308368/ )Windows XP Upgrade Advisor warning about the IrDA protocol
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/315333/ )Upgrade report about GoBack during upgrade to Windows XP
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/312368/ )Data loss may occur after reinstalling, repairing, or upgrading Windows XP
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/298427/ )How to restore the disabled startup programs after an upgrade from Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/303160/ )'Uninstall option not available' error message when you upgrade your computer to Windows XP
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/314057/ )'NTLDR is missing' error message when you upgrade or install Windows XP over Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/310562/ )Passwords are lost after upgrading to Windows XP
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This photo was taken in order to try to recreate this:
My sister Lisa, sister Michelle, my Mother and myself. Nags Head, North Carolina.
That is awesome! And what a hip mom you have!
Those are both great photos and now they'll make a whole new bunch of people smile - thanks!
So adorable! I'm always a bit jealous when I see sisters together. Mine are all in Connecticut. As is my mom. Love the photo.
That's so adorable. Your mom was skinny and stylish back then and looks like she still is today! She must have taught you girls all her tricks! Cute.
What a great idea to recreate that photo!
What a family of gorgeous women!
And that video is priceless (says the mother of a teething one year old!).
Your family is so cute!
Oh, that's wonderful!
my daughter loves that video! I love that photo of you gals when you were young, so awesome.....
that is seriously awesome!
Wow - you look so much like your mom did in that 1970s picture! That is such a great idea, recreating the photo!
Your mom is so cool! (And fit-go mom!)
That video is too cute. My daughters are always walking around going "Ouch Cha-lie, that hurts Cha-lie!"
Adorable! This really did make me smile. Have a great weekend!
Hi Leslie. Delurking here. Is that a cast on your arm in the old photo? Looks like you have some more explaining to do! Great photos - thanks for sharing
gorgeous.... what a bunch of rocking chicks you all are!!
So, how did you end up a tad taller than the other siblings & mom? You ladies are so sweet together!
The picture is even cuter now (if that's possible). All four of you are darling.
lovely reproduction!
That's really neat. I have one 4 generations photo with my mom's side of the family, but it is not nearly so cheerful looking!
(I wanted to bake bread, but first I have to figure out how to fix my oven. The baking element isn't heating!)
So cute! Great idea.
Love it...then & now. Happy, lucky you! Good family is a blessing. Enjoy yours & keep smiling!
These are wonderful photos. My Mum was the 10th child born in her family & they all would line up and stand sideways hanging on to the hips of the one ahead of them...The first photo compaired to the last photo was amazing! If you ever wonder (who am I) you can always look at this & remember!
Thanks for sharing!
Oh how sweet to take another pic like the first one, you girls are so sweet.
I saw the 'Charlie' video weeks ago, it totally cracks me up (gotta love the accent) ;-)
Have a super weekend.
You girls are and were just so cute ! Especially my good friend Michelle!!
This is absolutely priceless! Thanks so much for sharing.
What great photos! It must have been fun recreating the original:)
I love this so much -- and it's so cute that your mom is no longer the tallest girl :-)
Your mom seems like an awesome woman and she has some fabulous daughters.
Those pictures are fun. I am sure they will make you smile for many years. The Charlie video is too funny. My kids watch it all the time.
so the littlest one is now the tallest?
love the photos! so great! your mom looks fantastic then and now :)
charlie has been playing on and off at our house all summer. anna even typed "ouch charlie" on my cell screen. gotta love it!
You guys are so cute. And you have wonderful family traditions :)
How adorable - what a great looking set of girls you are! I love that you re-enacted and obviously fond memory! And Charlie - love the accent!
Those are the best photos ever! I hope you framed them together. Memories like that always make me smile.
While your Mom told me the story of the smiley face shirts, it was so sweet to see the now and then photos. Great memories!
PS: The video is priceless!
Too cute!
Wow, aren't you all gorgeous - then and now!! What a lovely family you have lucky girl!
Oh mine, this is awesome and i think it's the best photots that i have seen.
Sorry... It's the first time I make a comment :-)
You are all wonderful!!!
Your mother seems like to be one of your sisters!!
Love the story behind this! So cute!
And as for Charlie and the finger. This is Joel's favourite ever video. He can act out the whole thing perfectly too!
Loves these, Leslie!!
Best family portrait ever!
Oh Leslie!
This is absolutely the neatest update of a family photo I've ever seen - how clever - how cool - how wonderful to look back on. Such nostaliga - love it!!!!!
Smiles all around,
LOVE it!
Definitely photos to treasure. Your poor mum must feel a bit sad though that she shrunk so much.
It makes me smile, too! Gosh, I always wanted a sister. You are most fortunate.
Great photos. Very sweet!
how could you not smile when you look at those photos? you are all so cute!
I love this! What a wonderful set of memories.
Gorgous photos, your mum looks so young and full of energy. Lovely supportive looking family. Great bread making too.
what fun! we have a family photo where brother/sister/mom and i are all wearing a mom original handmade outfit cut from the same bolt of black, gray and white plaid fabric. this post gave me a huge smile trying to envision a recreation of THAT photo :) thanks.
You are four beautiful women. It's no surprise that you and your sisters are so lovely, considering what a knockout your mom is!
Wow, look at you cutie ladies. :) That is adorable, the original, and the recreation.
that is so sweet! how fun to have then and now photos.
so awesome! I love the grainy old skool shot.
Both pictures are awesome! So, you decided to forgo the pig tails & braids this time around? ;)
What great pictures!
This really does make me smile! I love how close you all are!
The photos and precious! You should put in a double frame - I'm sure you already did. SO cute! What a wonderful looking family.
Sweet photos!
Delurking to say, this is such a sweet post. I love the pictures.
That's a really sweet photo!!

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One year ago, Google acquired Slide, a company that developed third-party apps for Facebook and other social networks. At that time, Google mentioned that the goal was to "make Google services socially aware". Slide continued to operate as an independent start-up inside Google and developed photo sharing apps like Photovine and Pool Party. Slide's CEO, Max Levchin, became VP of engineering at Google.
New York Times reports that Max Levchin will leave Google and most of the Slide apps will be discontinued. A Slide blog post confirms that "in the coming months, a number of Slide's products and applications will be retired. This includes Slide's products such as Slideshow and SuperPoke! Pets, as well as more recent products such as Photovine, Video Inbox and Pool Party." Slide's team says that "many of these products are no longer as active or haven't caught on as we originally hoped".
A Google spokesperson informed the New York Times that most of the Slide team will continue to work at Google and many engineers will join YouTube. If Slide was a talent acquisition, then why Slide's team didn't work on Google+ and why popular games like SuperPoke weren't ported to Google+?
AllThingsD offers some answers: "Although Slide as an independent start-up had not matched its lofty expectations and valuations — at as much as $500 million in a 2008 funding round — its acquisition brought Google some key assets: Social Web expertise at a time when it was dearly needed, and Levchin, who famously founded PayPal. But that was last August. Since then, Google has entrusted its social efforts to two of its existing executives, Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz, who led the team that created Google+. Levchin was left on the fringes with Slide as an autonomous subsidiary, reporting to Google co-founder Sergey Brin."
August 29, 2011
Slide's Apps to Be Discontinued
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Hey Ms. Mod ~
Just curious as to why there are several sections for the 'General Discussion' topic?
Of course, I originally thought there was one for each different sub-section (logical), but it seems like all SK topics are in all 'GD' sections.
I'm never sure where, exactly, to post a "general" topic and I believe I have a few in each one. I was wondering if it wouldn't be easier to just to lump them into just one 'General Discussion / Questions' topic on the main page.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
moral equivalence and intentionality
Chait's argument rests on two common but illegitimate memes, the sin of moral equivalence and the heal-all of intentionality.
Chait here has a particularly empty application of the moral equivalence attack. If you're unfamiliar with this tactic, it's when a defender of pretty much any bad behavior by this country or one of its preferred states excuses that behavior, by way of saying that the person criticizing the behavior is drawing a comparison to the actions of an antagonist of the United States. So, here Chait criticizes Matt Yglesias for supposedly drawing a moral equivalence between Israel's actions and Hamas's actions. You see this all the time, though; following the Georgian conflict, some (such as myself) pointed out that Putin's actions amounted to a neocon's dream. This attitude was derided as being an act of moral equivalence. What makes this maneuver so aggravating, to begin with, is that those who use it see no particular reason whatsoever to actually explain why there is in fact no moral equivalence between the actions compared. So, in this post, you'll notice that Chait spends no effort or time at all describing why, exactly, the killing of civilians by Israel is fundamentally different from the killing of civilians by Hamas. Jonah Goldberg has taken this tack for a long time. He'll merely run a post alleging moral equivalence, with no notion at all about a reason why the particular moral comparison is invalid. Simply stringing the two words together seems to be taken for some sort of damning argument. I personally dislike debate performed in shorthand.
What's weird about this is that comparison between behavior is a rather essential element of any kind of moral discourse. When we talk about right and wrong, we often try to derive meaningful comparisons between behaviors as a way to illuminate what is and isn't acceptable behavior. As I will persist in saying, the comparison doesn't generate morality; most of us believe in some sort of categorical vision of morality, and indeed, those who argue against such things are commonly accused of the worst kind of moral relativism. The idea is not that Hamas or Israel are made moral in relation to each other; each one has moral content independent of the other. We can make comparisons between moral content, though, to better get a grasp on any individual situation, and hopefully to sort out judgments. These comparisons are always only as valid or meaningful as we make them. It's like the old question of whether it's ever valid to compare contemporary leaders to Hitler. How are you comparing them? Any comparison that calls two different people or actions identical is invariably wrong, but that doesn't mean that we reject outright the use of comparison or metaphor to help solve moral quandaries.
This is particularly important when we consider foreign policy because this is a realm where hypocrisy is rampant and particularly damning. We advance moral readings on countries and their actions in part out of categorical claims about what is right for any country to do. If, like me, you're a small-d democrat, you believe that the best available form of governance available to us is self-government, you articulate that point when judging totalitarian societies; but you damn well better apply that thinking equally, meaning, for example, that you have to support the rights of the Iranians to elect theocratic politicians even while you are horrified that they've done so. And when you deride acts of aggression or violence against civilians, you damn well better deride those things when perpetuated by your own country. This is why many were so strident, following the attacks of 9/11, in asking the United States to stop spreading violence and instability in the world, while at the same time condemning Al Qaeda in full voice. You must reap what you sow; to be taken seriously as a moral arbiter you've got to live up to your own moral code. Jon Chait and many others would wave their hands and banish those kinds of appraisals of American or Israeli actions simply by invoking the term moral equivalence. But most of us believe that it is a elementary aspect of morality that it be applied equally to different agents.
The common slide, in such a discussion, is to move from saying "You're saying Israel's actions and Hamas's actions are the same" to "You're saying Israel and Hamas are the same." Well, that's not actually true; it's certainly not true of Matt Yglesias, whose record will show that he has consistently criticized Hamas, and it's not true of me or of Daniel Larison or any number of other critics of the assault on Gaza. The point is not that Israel is "as bad" as Hamas or any such thing. The point is that the same moral imperatives that tell us that Hamas's actions are inexcusable equally tell us Israel must cease its behaviors that cost so many innocent people their lives. The point isn't "Hamas and Israel are the same." The point is that if we believe in a categorical vision of morality. Maybe Jon Chait or others like him are pure moral relativists, but I kind of doubt it.
As far as intentionality goes, I've written about it at length before, primarily here. I won't rehash those arguments beyond saying that intent of countries is never uniform, is unknowable, and ultimately can't be a panacea against culpability for acts of aggression, or we lose any meaningful ability to judge the behavior of nations. Intentionality, also, becomes a maneuver used to absolve our country or preferred states from sin, and it again rests on pure assertion: the United States and its favored nations never intend to kill civilians, while the antagonists of the United States always do. So the Georgians, who we favor (at least in comparison to Putin's Russia), attacked South Ossetian separatists out of a desire to fight terrorism and rebuke authoritarianism from Russia, and never intended to kill civilians. Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, is one of our designated enemies, and therefore was a cruel dictator acting aggressively without regard for the innocent lives he put at risk. That is a naive and hopelessly biased way of looking at the situation, but it has the benefit, as all appeals to intentionality do, of being nonfalsifiable: there is no referent to check, no way for anyone to independently confirm who is telling the truth. Intention has no physical referent in the world, which makes it unverifiable, which is one of several reasons why it is a lousy notion to hang foreign policy judgment on.
In the case of Israel and Hamas, at least, we get no particular claims from Hamas that they aren't trying to kill civilians. And, not coincidentally, Hamas and Hezbollah are some of the only agents in international conflicts where you can find almost no one, and certainly no one in the media or political mainstream, willing to defend their attacks. That's as it should be. The IDF, meanwhile, has the cover of not only a government that claims to minimize civilian death but a credulous Western media, which tends to take those things at face value when they come from status quo governments, and particularly those broadly aligned with American interests. You can judge the IDFs commitment to minimizing civilian deaths on your own. If pressed, I would say that I think that, indeed, the IDF has greater respect for civilian lives than Hamas, but that this is again damning with faint praise, and I have always had a hard time synthesizing three claims: first, that Israel has one of the most competent and most disciplined militaries in the world; second, that the IDF tries its utmost to minimize civilian death; and third, that the IDF has killed thousands of civilians in the past decades. Ultimately, though, as I've said, I don't find judging intent a worthwhile or meaningful activity when analyzing foreign policy.
For too many people, analysis of foreign policy and the ethics of aggressive action really boil down to one question: did we do it? Or did they?
Update: Jeff Goldberg orphans a claim of moral equivalence: "I'm not a J Street moral-equivalence sort of guy." Why? What about the comparisons J Street draws is unfair or unhelpful? Why do you think just saying the words "moral equivalence" somehow exculpates Israel from any moral judgments of its behavior whatsoever?
9 comments:
- Matoko said...
Like I said to Conor, this is a tit-for-tat game.
Tit-for-tat is the optimum strategy for both Hamas and the Israelis, but unfortunately for the Israelis, Hamas' cost/benefit ratio is much better.
So the Israelis will lose.
The morality doesn't really matter in tit-for-tat.
Once the cheat move is made, it is just iterated cheated, no matter who who cheated first.
- January 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM
- Jake said...
too long... didn't read.
- January 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- Freddie said...
As I imagine you're aware, that says more about you than it says about me, Jake.
- January 5, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- E.D. Kain said...
Well it's true that intent in state-actors is often unknowable, though one could fairly safely observe patterns, geopolitical realities, etc. and come up with a pretty good idea.
For instance, Hamas intends to create chaos and fear in Israel. That's the only reason to send rockets into towns like Ashkelon. Beyond that, they intend such fear and terror to theoretically somehow drive out the Israelis, though more likely they merely intend to hold on to power and to do this by provoking the Israelis to attack them...as they are now.
But beyond these sort of basic intentions exist all sorts of complexities that are impossible to quantify. Israel's intentions in the invasion are manifold, I think.
- January 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM
- James said...
Wow, this really got the heart of the two most annoying arguments made by the Zionists, Freddie.
I would also argue that the focus upon intention is also overly deontological, and detracts from the fact that the IDF have done a lot more killing. Indeed I do so here:
and here:
In other words even if we could reliably ascertain that Israel were acting in good faith and Hamas were not, this would still not make the scale of killing (chemical weaponry is now in use, btw) acceptable. Israel is a more worthy target for criticism and condemnation as it possesses far more power than any Palestinian organisation (at the moment, of course, there is no Palestinian embassy to protest courtesy of there being no Palestinian state).
- January 6, 2009 at 3:01 AM
- Dave Hunter said...
E.D., it sounds like your saying that Hamas' motives are knowable, while the Israeli government's are not.
But you could observe the Israeli government and come up with all sorts of similar theories as to what their "only" intentions could possibly be. And you can make all sorts of conflicting hypotheses as to what Hamas' intentions are.
Anyway, I thought it was a good post.
- January 6, 2009 at 3:35 AM
- E.D. Kain said...
James--two things.
First, I can't stand it when people refer to Israel or anyone even remotely pro-Israel as "the Zionists" if only because it displays a huge lack of understanding. Zionists vary much like Republicans or Democrats do. One of the most liberal Jews I know--lives in a big hippie house, writes for truthout, thinks the Israeli treatment of Palestinians is horrible--she considers herself to be a Zionist.
To my mind a Zionist is merely someone who believes in the continued existence of Israel. It has nothing to do with Israeli government policies.
Now, no doubt there are some hard-line Zionists who are pushing the settlements, but it might be better to refer to them as settlers or hard-liners than Zionists.
But I quibble.
To Dave's point, no I did not mean that all Hamas's intentions are knowable. For one, I'm not sure whether they mean to just go down with the ship, or if they really do seek some sort of peace and all this talk of the destruction of Israel is just sound and fury.
I do know that it's odd when an invading army is at your door, to fire not on their soldiers but over their heads randomly into civilian neighborhoods...
- January 6, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- James said...
"Some Zionists" or perhaps "Most Zionists", then. I am aware of J Street.
- January 6, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- Dave Hunter said...
E.D., I wish that your last paragraph had been a completed thought, instead of just an insinuation of...
But, anyway, the rockets being fired by militant groups cause very few casualties. Thus, when a militant presses the launch button, he knows it is unlikely that anyone will be hurt. Meanwhile, an Israeli pilot on a bombing run knows that there is a comparatively strong possibility that she will kill a civilian.
Somehow, though, we just know what's in each of these two men's heads at the time they decide to commit violence? Of course not. It's wishful thinking disguised as ethics.
But no one bats an eyelash at the assumption that the Israeli pilot, and the one who sent her, are full of remorse, while the militant is only hoping that his rocket kills somebody two days away from retirement.
Chait asserts that "If Israel lay down all its weapons, Hamas would kill as many Israelis as it could." How does he know this? What is the constant assertion that we try to minimize civilian casualties while they try and maximize them based upon? It seems to me to based on the same wishful thinking.
- January 6, 2009 at 7:49 PM


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Georgetown County, S.C. — Six local residents, including two couples, recently joined a team of 34 doctors, dentists, nurses and volunteers on a mission trip to San Pedro, Guatemala.
The locals who participated are Ed and Luciann Slomkowski, Phillip and Rita Tallmadge, and Dr. Sean Murphy, all members of Precious Blood of Christ Catholic Church in Pawleys Island; and Barbara Mathis, a member of St. Mary Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church in Georgetown.
Organized by the Catholic Diocese in Charleston, this bi-annual trip to a year-round Catholic clinic in LaLaguna in San Pedro provides basic medical and dental care for the Mayan people who live on the foothills of dormant volcanoes. The latest trip was from Sept. 22 to 29.
"It was a wonderful experience. I never thought I would be able to do something like this," said Luciann Slomkowski.
"It is a beautiful country and culture and the people are very family oriented."
She said the mission team was greeted with songs and a skit that paid tribute to the visitors.
Children dressed up and carried luggage and backpacks, mimicking the team as they arrived in San Pedro.
Phillip Tallmadge said that the community is on a mountainside, 5,500 feet above sea level.
"The mountains seem to shoot up, straight out of a beautiful lake."
He said it was a very special trip that helped a lot of people.
"It is amazing what 34 people from all different walks of life can accomplish in the highlands of Guatemala," Tallmadge said.
He and Ed Slomkowski worked together to help people find eye glasses that worked for them.
"It seemed like most of the women had trouble seeing close up and most of the men had trouble seeing at a distance," Tallmadge said.
"They all would have liked sunglasses and they all wanted drops in their eyes."
He said since the community does not have electricity, cooking on wood fired stoves causes a lot of smoke, which causes eye irritation.
Dr. Murphy of Murrells Inlet, a nephrologist who works with Waccamaw Kidney and Hypertension Specialists in Georgetown County, was one of three doctors for the mission.
"I went on this mission trip to help provide medical services, learn about the people of Guatemala, and to enrich my faith," Dr. Murphy said.
He said since people don't have access to basic healthcare, these trips are very important for them.
Rita Tallmadge, who served as a nurse on the trip, said the most common ailments were gastric problems because of parasites in the water and respiratory problems because of the wood burning stoves.
"We mostly treated people for nausea and weight loss," said Mathis of Pawleys Island, who served as a nurse for Dr. Tom Joseph of Camden, S.C., a pediatrician. "We also saw a lot of children with poor teeth."
She said this is because the children eat a lot of candy and they rarely have water with fluoride.
The doctors provided fluoride for children who had adult teeth. They also provided vitamins. Translators helped bridge the language barrier.
For more information about future mission trips through the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, visit www.sccatholic.org.
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Over 500 guests – including celebrities, politicians and all of London's mayoral candidates – attended Stonewall's annual Equality Dinner at London's Dorchester Hotel last night. The event raised a record-breaking £393,000 to support Stonewall's Education for All campaign tackling homophobic bullying in schools.
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--- Chicago has killed off 45 of its opponents' last 48 man-advantage chances since allowing three power-play goals in three chances on Oct. 14 at Milwaukee, a span of 12 games; the Wolves, who have been perfect on the penalty kill in nine of their last 12 outings, rank fourth in the AHL with a 87.3 efficiency rating on the penalty kill (55 of 63).
--- Forward Anton Rodin notched his first AHL multiple-point outing on Saturday (G, A); the 21-year-old forward has tallied 3 points (2G, A) in eight games during his North American debut this season.
--- The Wolves surrendered four goals for the first time in eight games on Saturday and it marked just the fourth time in 15 games this season the team has allowed four or more markers; Chicago is averaging 2.53 goals-against this year, which ranks fifth in the AHL.
--- Defenseman Mark Matheson paces the Wolves and shares second in the AHL with a +12 plus/minus rating; the 27-year-old blueliner has recorded a +10 rating in his last five outings and has posted a plus or even rating in 10 of his 12 games this season.
--- The Wolves have scored a power-play goal in five consecutive games (six of 24) after they failed to score on the man-advantage in their previous five outings (zero of 20); Chicago shares 21st in the AHL with an 15.3 efficiency rating on the power-play this season (11 of 72).
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--- The Wolves four-game winning streak came to an end with a 4-3 loss to the San Antonio Rampage at the Allstate Arena
--- Forwards Darren Haydar, Anton Rodin and Mike Duco registered tallies for the Wolves
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If Universal Salvation were true,Why did the prophets and apostles put their lives and their loved one's lives in jeapardy every day? It's counter-intuitive to place your family, your children and your friends lives in harms way when all shall be saved in the end regardless of their actions and beliefs. THINK.
What rebuttal? What scriptural answer? Why would they endure all that the Saints endured for the truth?WHY would they go through what Paul says they did? Why did he?Hebrews 11:36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.Sawn asunder! Remember what the rabbis say happened to Isaiah?They sawed him asunder.[Isaiah] thereupon pronounced [the Divine] Name and was swallowed up by a cedar. The cedar, however, was brought and sawn asunder. When the saw reached his month he died. [And this was his penalty] for having said, 'And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips'. (Babylonian Talmud, Yebamoth 49b, Soncino Edition).The rabbis claim that Isaiah was killed by having his own mouth sawed in half because he chastised the Israelites for their unclean lips. The rabbis have it that it was Isaiah who was wrong, not Israel.Why would the martyers of God go through this if , all children of Light, and children of Darkness will recieve salvation?There would be no point. Absolutely NO point to suffer and allow their families to suffer so much if in the end, all will have clarity and complete understanding anyhow. It would be like trying to make a difference in a dream, when in a few moments you'll wake up anyhow and understand everything crystal clear as will the others characters in your dream, therefore it's only common sense to see the fallacy in such motivation as you propose.Once again, I'm not necessarily asking you to think Seeker, for you would certainly oppose me if you could in the simple truth of 2 + 2 being 4 if you had the ability.
Edward, have you known something to be true, something that would change everything? Because it seems from your answer, you have not and therefore do not understand what is involved in standing up for the truth.Peacetroll creates a strawman, he says that we should not stand up for what is true, if what we believe is true will be revealed anyways. That is a SELF preservation, not the truth. That in fact is sin. Peacetroll makes universal salvation for all, a license to sin because he believes, "hey they are saved anyways, right?" Here is the truth. Just because everyone in the end is reconciled in Christ Jesus, does not mean everyone is given the same reward. Remember the parable of the talent? Well some people will lose what they had because they lived in selfishness. Remember the Prodical son? Some will have spent all their inheritance and have nothing to show for their lives at the end, but they are still sons. The truth is, there is no perpetual torment in hell, there is torment for those who live for self, because they would have lost everything, but whether in this life or in the resurrection, this torment only last a moment and are self-inflected pain. God's wrath will make the wicked nothing. He does not reward good for evil.The reason people are killed for the truth, is they want to remain wicked and don't like to hear that.
How do you know its true for everyone and not just made up through man trying to understand existenceCan you honestly be sure you are right, I think not
Forgiving one's enemies is what the Son's and daughters of God do.
At anyrate, if everyone's going to be saved, I just don't see much point in proselytizing myself.
but if all men are not by defacto saved, it seems to be a much bigger motivation to preach that their is Salvation in Christ to those who don't believe in him.[/b]


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Google hand-picked more than 4500 sources and used them to cluster news articles. The idea behind Google News was to display different perspectives on the same subject and to rank them algorithmically. Even the homepage is generated automatically, based on the editorial decisions of the publication included in Google News. Last year, when Google News added comments, the feature surprised many people: the comments could only come from "people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question".
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To integrate Google News with Digg, Google would have to radically change its news site and this is unlikely. Besides, Google News could easily add a voting system and user comments like in the recent Google search experiment, without needing a site like Digg. If Google does acquire Digg, I think it's for mining a big amount of votes and detecting patterns that could be used to improve features like "edit search results". Digg is also a good platform for experimenting with filtering information, news recommendations and could be helpful in Google's new social quests.
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EPA scientists conduct the first continental-scale analysis to estimate how much nitrogen is removed by wetland ecosystems across the U.S.
Duck hunters and those who fish, both recreationally and commercially, are already well acquainted with the value of wetlands. The economic benefits alone include providing essential habitat to some 75 percent of the fish and shellfish that are commercially harvested in the U.S. On top of that, wetlands absorb storm runoff, help prevent flooding, and naturally filter water.
EPA researchers are working to quantify another important value of wetlands: the ability to act as natural sinks that absorb "reactive" nitrogen (Nr). While perhaps not as obvious as providing sought-after recreational destinations or habitat for valuable fisheries, wetlands' natural ability to absorb nitrogen released into the environment can be just as important.
As one of life's "essential elements," nitrogen is required for the normal growth and maintenance of all biological tissue. The development and widespread use of nitrogen-based fertilizers helped revolutionize agriculture, dramatically increasing crop yields and food production.
But too much nitrogen can mean trouble.
Released into the environment through agricultural practices and as a byproduct from sewage treatment and the combustion of fossil fuels, reactive nitrogen can lead to complex and far-reaching environmental and human health problems. Nitrogen carried off croplands by storm water runoff can harm aquatic systems even far downstream, sparking the growth of oxygen-depleting algae and leading to harmful algal blooms and hypoxia (low oxygen). Excess nitrogen in the form of nitrate is a drinking water contaminant and an increasing health concern.
As hotspots of biological productivity, especially for plants, algae, and microorganisms that absorb nitrogen as they grow, wetlands serve as natural "sinks" for removing and storing reactive nitrogen as it cycles through the environment in one form or another.
EPA researchers are exploring innovative ways to better quantify the benefits—what they refer to as "ecosystem services"—that wetlands and other natural systems provide to society. As part of that effort, Agency scientist Stephen J. Jordan, Ph.D. and his partners recently compiled a comprehensive database on nitrogen removal from the scientific literature on wetland studies. He and his colleagues conducted an extensive search across a host of scientific publications, and then added supplemental data through strategic internet-based queries reaching as far back as 1970. "Looking at nitrogen removal across such a large geographic scale had never been done before," says Jordan.
After identifying between 400 to 500 journal articles, Jordan and his team analyzed the data through statistical and quality assurance methods, building a robust dataset based built from 190 separate studies. Using latitudes and other environmental data recorded in the studies, along with the extent of major wetland classifications from the National Wetlands Inventory, the researchers were able to base their overall analysis across the entire contiguous U.S.
Finally, the team was able to use statistical analyses to calculate the estimated total amount of reactive nitrogen removed by wetlands across the continent. "Having such a large set of data made a huge difference, allowing us to tease out differences that emerged from looking at nitrogen removal across a broad scale," explains Jordan.
The researchers estimated that the major classes of wetlands found across the contiguous U.S. removed approximately 20-21% of the total amount of reactive nitrogen added to the environment by human activities. That adds up to some 5,803,140 metric tons of nitrogen removed before it could taint drinking water or contribute "dead zones" off the coast by sparking algal blooms.
Extrapolating further, the researchers found that wetlands remove roughly 17% of worldwide human-caused nitrogen releases, at least 26 metric tons.
The team's findings were recently presented in the scientific journal Ecosystems (Jordan, S., Stoffer, J., & Nestlerode, J., 2010. Wetlands as Sinks for Reactive Nitrogen at Continental and Global Scales: A Meta-Analysis Ecosystems, 14 (1), 144-155 DOI).
The results of the research add considerable data that can be added to the "balance sheet" of ecosystem services provided by wetlands. And as some 50% of the worlds's historic wetlands have been lost to human activities, there is a growing need to quantify and understand their true value so that decision makers, land use planners, and water quality managers can better protect human health and the environment.


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excellent pair of needle nose wire splicer with this one tool i was able to aliminate two tools for one in my pouch making it lighter which really helps get through the day.only wish they would have taken crimping a wire spade in to consideration.
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This tool replaced my nose pliers cutter and wire stripper . Instead of carying 3 I Cary only this one. It is well built strong and durable . I am HVAC tech and this tool is perfect for me .
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Comments about Milwaukee 6-in-1 Combination Pliers:
as a combo needle nose and wire stripe thought they would be very usefull,how ever the locking clip broke in less then 2 weeks,the wire cutter does not cut wire properly and is week,only talking 16 and 14 awg.really.now I have to ship them back at my expense to Milwaukee.some warranty.
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what year is the this kit? how does the barrel look?
what year is the this kit? how does the barrel look?
I'm about to go to work so I won't be able to check it for a day or two, but I seem to recall that the date was sometime in the mid 80's. Can't remember if I looked down the bore when I took the paper roll out to check the headspace, but I don't remember anything out of the ordinary. I'll dig it out and check it when I get the chance. I doubt if the rifle ever got used at all based on its condition. Pretty sure it just sat in a rack until it got sold to some importer.
good deal net...I was trying to get the BIL to bite on an AK kit when I saw this.
And I can go forward with my other project. 8^) Win for everybody.


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Peak Meetings HD for iPad - app review
This week I took at look at Peak Meetings HD for iPad and so far, I like what I see. I mean, meetings, meetings, meetings. There has to be a good way to capture meeting information on iPad, right? Sure you can just type your notes out, but wouldn't be great if you could use templates for your meetings? How about have them in an organized format?
When making a meeting, you can choose what type of meeting its going to be. Informational? Update? Problem Solving? What Peak Meetings attempts to do is to help you organize, prioritize and most of all, streamline your meeting notes. Peak Meetings does this by giving you some key sections that are customizable that vary based on the type of meeting you have. Let's look at a basic meeting:
- Title
- Goals
- Agenda
- Notes
- Location
- Attendees
- Project
The Title sections allows you to simply enter the title of your meeting. You can make this as fancy or as simple as you need. The next section, Goals, I often find missing from most of the meetings I go to.... Agenda allows you to add bullet point items, just like you might list in a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation. Almost all sections in Peak Meetings are divided into smaller groups should you want to take advantage of it. For example...
With Agenda type of meeting, these bullet points are divided even further into four sub-topics:
Topic- the title of what is to be discussed
Timing- how long this topic should last
Responsible- who is presenting this (gets populated from the Attendees section; more on that later)
Details- specifics for this topic to be discussed
Problems- why/what and ideal outcome
Options- pros and cons list
Solutions- needed and hurdles
Actions- responsible person, due date, details
After you have cataloged all of the above information, you can then write even more details in the notes section. Think if it as a way to summarize your meeting at a high level; the details are accounted for above.
Next you can enter in location information such as 4th floor, meeting room B. There is even a specific area to enter the access code for a conference call. To top it off, you can enter attendees for the meeting. Attendees are pulled in from your contacts or can be entered from scratch. Finally, all of this information is great but unless you can tie to a project, it is ultimately not worth it. So, you can add multiple projects as needed to your meeting.
Once you gave taken all of your meeting notes you can easily email them. This, my friends is where it all starts to come together. Remember when you added "attended" contacts to your meeting? Well, now when you email it, your attendees emails show in the compose email window! Very nice.
The next thing that you might be thinking is, "Gee Chad, I have weekly meetings where the agenda, etc. is always the same". No worries my friends, you can easily select a meeting and duplicate it.
That sums up Peak Meetings HD for iPad. This app fits nicely in my workflow. For example, as many of you know, I love Evernote. Well, I also send a copy of the meeting via email to Evernote when I am done with the meeting. Now I have a consistent, nicely formatted meeting notes instantly searchable.
[$9.99 - iTunes Link]
- Great way to streamline you meetings!
- Customizable with types of meetings
- Universal app- bonus!
- Email your meetings from the Attendee list
- Duplicate common meetings
- Can't create your own sections, but is very flexible to suite most needs
- No built-in backup or sync tool
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Peak Meetings HD for iPad - app review
Peak Meetings HD is a universal app!
Sure. Sorry about that :-)
A Universal app means that you buy it once and it works natively on iPhone and iPad, meaning it is optimized fro both devices. You can buy iPhone apps now and run them on the iPad, but they don't take up the full size screen and are a little "fuzzy" to look at, they aren't high-resolution.
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Thanks for the review, Chad. I may have to spring for this app because I take lots of notes in meetings. The email feature could make my life a little bit easier....but I may need to get the Apple keyboard for the iPad since I'll want to touch type my notes.
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Thinking about springing the 10 for this, but one question.... Do the emailed recipients get a "viewable" document from this, or do they have to have this app also? I have had apps before that allow for publication to email from directly in the app, but when you send these to some one not using the app, windows can't find an application to open it with.
Email recipients get everything you put into the meeting file, unless you choose to delete items from the email (e.g. If there's a sensitive note you don't want someone to see). By default, anyone who is listed as an attendee, or someone who didn't attend but has been assigned an action item, gets included in the list of recipients. But the email doesn't go out until you tap Send, so you can refine the list of recipients, or the content of the email, as needed.
MyMeetingPro HD is a full featured Effective Meeting app for the iPad that includes meeting planning, conducting (time and agenda tracking), note-taking (typed or whiteboard, collected by agenda item), summarization and communication tools.


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