Why can't we attach mp3 files? - Page 2

Tuberski · May 9, 2002, 23:31

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Originally posted by Ethelred

Whats Canadian have to do with it? They have a Parliment not a Senate.

He is the Senator from South Carolina. The one that is in the pocket of the RIAA.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51275,00.html

Got it. Thank You for the link.

Ethelred · May 9, 2002, 23:52

Use the Web Luke. It will protect you and guide you.

Google has its uses. I was pretty sure that was who he was but I like to check. I make so many stupid mistakes when I don't.

Tuberski · May 9, 2002, 23:57

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Originally posted by Ethelred
Use the Web Luke. It will protect you and guide you.

Google has its uses. I was pretty sure that was who he was but I like to check. I make so many stupid mistakes when I don't.

Yes Obi-Wan!

Grrr · May 10, 2002, 00:24

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Originally posted by St Leo
Sometimes quality is important. FI: in a help me with graphics situation a bmp may be prefreble.

No! No! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Use PNG, the open source alternative. BMPs are an evil Windows format that should never have been introduced!

P.S. Bill Gates must die, but Senator Hollings needs to die even more.

I do use PNG, as it has some compression. I thought BMP was a Mac invention

Skanky Burns · May 10, 2002, 04:31

I wouldn't be surprised. Mac was using 'windows' way before M$ was

Scouse Gits · May 10, 2002, 04:44

Oh! That Hollings - yep he's on the Death List ...

SG[1]

KrazyHorse · May 10, 2002, 20:26

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Originally posted by Ethelred
They have a Parliment not a Senate

We have both.

Tuberski · May 10, 2002, 21:05

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Originally posted by KrazyHorse

We have both.

SO THERE ETHELRED!!!

Ethelred · May 10, 2002, 21:07

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We have both.

That sounds unique for a parlimentary system. I know England has the House of Lords as well the Commons but most parlimentary governments have just one House.

Thanks. I am no expert on Canandian goverment, I was pretty sure that Hollings was a US Senator but I had the sense to check that part out.

Buck Birdseed · May 10, 2002, 21:12

What would make the US Congress not a parlimentary system? It's not a parliamentarist system, but then neither are several other countries.

Ethelred · May 10, 2002, 21:16

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Originally posted by Tuberski

SO THERE ETHELRED!!!

Ethelred is chastened.

I do make mistakes and I appreciate having them pointed out. So that I won't say the same stupid thing again anytime soon.

You should see the dumb stunt I just did on my PC. I wrote a batch file to defrag all the drives at once. I named it Defrag. Don't do that. REALLY don't that. It called itself.

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I over 800 instances of the Command Prompt.

Even when it finally stopped by crashing I couldn't shut down as it was taking about six hours to close all the command prompts at 30 seconds each. I had to reset.

Ethelred · May 10, 2002, 21:23

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Originally posted by Snapcase
What would make the US Congress not a parlimentary system? It's not a parliamentarist system, but then neither are several other countries.

I am under the impression a parliment has a Prime Minister that is elected by the Parliment. The US has no Prime Minister. Now some countries have a Prime Minister and a President. Some of those Presidents seem to be pretty weak and others are nearly as strong or maybe even stronger than the US president.

There is no such thing as a vote of no confindence in the US because of this. The President is in till the next election barring impeachment and no President has ever been removed from office although Tricky Dicky certainly would have been if he hadn't resigned first.

Scouse Gits · May 10, 2002, 21:39

Recursion is a terrible thing ...

The SGs totally paralytic...

KrazyHorse · May 10, 2002, 23:22

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Originally posted by Ethelred
That sounds unique for a parlimentary system. I know England has the House of Lords as well the Commons but most parlimentary governments have just one House

The Senate is our House of Lords. Seats aren't hereditary, but are instead appointed by the PM to fill vacancies, plus enlarge as population grows. Our Senate has virtually no power. I believe its role is described as "advise and consent". One giant rubber stamp. If they're feeling particularly confrontational then they have the power to delay bills by 90 days.

Urban Ranger · May 11, 2002, 04:20

Hm, couldn't they do that indefinitely? That would be an interesting power.

Skanky Burns · May 11, 2002, 04:59

If its anything like the Australian Senate, its a "one-off" delay.

Solver · May 11, 2002, 07:36

Sorta off topic, but reminds me of (re: command defrag):

if (x>y) && (y>x) dostuff

As for the original topic, we should be able to attach MP3 files, because they're anyway zipped very poorly, with minimal percent, so there's no reason to force zipping of those.

Sirotnikov · May 11, 2002, 11:19

Oh, I know what ethelred is going through.

I once opened a directory with some 1500 files.

Then I selected all of them, with the intention to copy them someplace else.

Then I pressed "Enter".

That was one wasted afternoon

No, but I rebooted after a while.

Ecthy · May 11, 2002, 12:06

And I wrote whole TP programms with recursive algorithms, you beginners

Buck Birdseed · May 11, 2002, 12:13

That's parliamentarism, not a parliamentary system. As far as I'm aware.

The choice of one or two houses is really irrelevant to whether Parliamentarism applies or not. Sweden had two houses up until the seventies...

Dauphin · May 11, 2002, 12:26

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Hm, couldn't they do that indefinitely? That would be an interesting power.

The House of Lords (UK) attempted that in ~1905. They had delayed a government bill for about two years due to self-interest (something about land/money/rights and the such). So the King was asked by the PM to install a few hundred new Liberal Lords to get the required majority and pass all the bills they wanted.

Ethelred · May 11, 2002, 14:33

I think I could have gotten away with my stunt if I hadn't put the batch file in the root directory. Somewhere outside the Path and the Windows defrag command would have been executed instead of the batch file. I put it there so I could navigate to it easily from the command prompt in safe mode. The idea was to defrag with as little stuff running as possible so there would be less of the disk nailed down.

I just changed the file name. It works right now.

It would be nice to post MP3 files for one thing any copyrighted stuff tends to be to large to post anyway. I was going to post something that was allready on my disk but I could't find anything that was public domain and small enough to post. So I had to record myself for that MP3 formated .WAV.

KrazyHorse · May 12, 2002, 01:22

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Hm, couldn't they do that indefinitely? That would be an interesting power.

Can only do it once on any particular bill.

Urban Ranger · May 12, 2002, 01:38

Kat,

Too bad

BC,

Thought somebody might have tried that

Skanky Burns · May 12, 2002, 03:29

Ethelred, one thing you could do (and would be a good idea) is to explicitly call "defrag.exe" rather than just plain "defrag" inside the batch file. That way, even if you call it or any other .bat file defrag, it will not call the wrong file during execution.